Given this tumultuous history, how heart-warming it is to see Harbhajan and Symonds laughing heartily together as they turn out for the same franchise, or the inspirational freeze-frame of Harbhajan and Ponting in the warm throes of embrace as they congratulate each other after a wicket, while playing for the Mumbai Indians?
As the use and valuation of support services varies across unit actors within the same franchise system as a consequence of the variation in age, performance, attitudes and skills, so does the perceived reasonableness of contractual payments.
Now Belfast has signed up for the same franchise.
Even though he officially has spent his retirement years as an executive for the same Braves franchise he helped to make famous, he unofficially has ranked as a leading advocate for social justice.
At the same time, franchise networks need to be able to collaborate with franchise owners to adopt innovative ideas.
Jabhat al-Nusra is a franchise of al-Qaeda but people don't see them as the same as IS.
The Virginia Charter of 1606, which was largely drafted by Sir Edward Coke, stated that the colonists would have the same "liberties, franchises and immunities" as people born in England.
Twenty-three years later, he still owns the same three franchises.
In 1950, the AAFC folded, and three teams from that league were absorbed into the NFL: the Cleveland Browns (who had won the AAFC Championship every year of the league's existence), the San Francisco 49ers, and the Baltimore Colts (not the same as the modern franchise, this version folded after one year).
So we wind up with craftsmanship as branding exercise, much the same way coffee franchises drone on about the arcane percolating skills being practised by their sad-eyed and underpaid "baristas".
