Cuban: Kukral Knows I Won't Call

Posted on April 17, 2006

Here is a follow-up to the story about Jim Kukral, the blogger and ReveNews publisher, who is trying to get Mark Cuban's attention with a press release and a website called "Mark Cuban Pleease Call Me." The Dallas News reports that Cuban says Kukral has sent him many emails and that Kukral knows Cuban is not going to call him.

But Mr. Kukral made two mistakes. For one thing, Mr. Cuban almost always prefers e-mail to the telephone. For another, there are lots of people vying for his attention.

"He has sent me so many e-mails, he knows I won't call," Mr. Cuban said Thursday in an e-mail.

Kukral says he did not send lots of email to Cuban and that the whole thing was worth it because now Cuban knows his name.

Mr. Kukral denied bombarding Mr. Cuban with e-mail. "I think he has me confused with somebody else."

And he's not defeated, even though he spent money on a press release. "Right now, just by the fact that since I put a press release out, I've gotten a reporter from The Dallas Morning News to call me, who has in turn talked to Mark about me," he said.

"For $80, Mark Cuban knows my name."

Was it worth it? The Dallas Morning News article is a big deal but it doesn't sound like he will be getting the phone call he wanted from Mark Cuban.

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