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00:00 Mike, the Caitlin Clark effect is in full swing.
00:08 How about the money they made in Brooklyn when she showed up in town?
00:13 Yeah, I had to at least give you this.
00:15 Of course, they played the Liberty at the Barclays Center over the weekend.
00:20 WNBA record $2 million in ticket revenue from that Caitlin Clark appearance against the
00:29 WNBA.
00:30 Of course, the Fever haven't won a game yet, Scotty.
00:32 They have been shut out so far, but you got to remember, they weren't any good before
00:35 they got Clark, and it's going to take her some time to get going.
00:38 And then the other story in the WNBA, they're investigating the Vegas Aces players $100,000
00:45 sponsorship with the Las Vegas Tourism Authority.
00:50 What's the problem here, Scotty?
00:51 We can't be involved with the Vegas Tourist Authority.
00:55 The women can't make some money either on the side.
00:58 What's the deal?
00:59 They're paying each player.
01:00 Every player gets $100,000 for two years.
01:04 So $200,000 and $100,000 per year each player gets for the sponsorship of Vegas Tourism.
01:12 And the league has a problem with that.
01:14 This is the same league that wouldn't charter them flights, that made them play in high
01:22 school gyms.
01:25 You know, let's just face facts.
01:27 The women that run this league have run it terribly until they started getting superstar
01:34 players.
01:35 The players are what make this league go.
01:38 Not the suits, not the front office, not the commissioner, not the president.
01:43 None of these people think they think they're so important.
01:46 The reality is this girl in three days, she's played three games.
01:51 In three days, she has made them more money than they've ever made in their entire existence.
01:56 In one day, she broke the revenue record for ticket sales.
02:00 The commissioner and all of her minions need to shut the F up and let them have their sponsorship
02:05 money.
02:06 Who gives a rat's ass if somebody gives them $100,000 each?
02:10 Who cares?
02:11 They should be so lucky that corporations are willing to spend money on the league.
02:18 Instead, they want to shoo the money away.
02:20 I mean, you have to start asking questions.
02:23 Is the commissioner actually stupid?
02:26 Is she stupid?
02:28 Because I'm starting to think she is stupid.
02:30 She comes out with her nice dress on and says the number one pick in the draft.
02:34 Oh, we're so excited about the league.
02:36 Yet what we're going to do is we're going to handcuff everyone and not let them make
02:39 money.
02:40 How stupid are you to think this way or to run your league this way?
02:46 And let me tell you something.
02:47 I don't even know her name.
02:48 And I still don't like her.
02:50 I don't care who she is.
02:52 You're an idiot if you don't let them make money.
02:54 I mean, honestly, are we not in the professional sports business here?
02:58 And what is the business at hand?
03:00 It is it's not even winning.
03:02 It's making money.
03:04 These leagues are about making money.
03:06 Ask NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell what his job is or Gary Bettman or baseball or silver.
03:14 It doesn't matter.
03:15 It's to make money for the owners.
03:17 Like what are they doing?
03:18 Like we're not going to let these girls have their money because, you know, we're going
03:21 to we're going to strangle these women.
03:23 We're going to hold them back.
03:24 We're going to put them all back in the kitchen.
03:26 Let's all have babies.
03:27 Honestly, it's embarrassing.
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