HOUR 2: Are Sporting Events Getting Too Expensive to Attend?

The Valenti Show

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Sports

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico start the second hour of the show with a conversation on ticket prices and how companies and teams have nearly priced out their fans. They reference various events and other examples of this being the case before opening up the discussion to the people. Then, David and Rico lead a packed "In Football Today" to wrap the hour.

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0:00.0	Wow, it's almost as if we were at the dentist with RICO right there.
0:04.8	Um, I hate you guys.
0:06.5	Gives a whole new meaning to Mr suction.
0:09.7	All right, let's get to it.
0:12.4	We have so much to talk about. And, excuse me, we're at Saratoga. I'd like to apologize.
0:21.0	Listen, I should apologize.
0:26.0	Listen, I should be there. But actually, that's a perfect segue.
0:28.0	So let me...
0:29.0	I want to know, I want to explain something.
0:32.0	Because first of all, it doesn't matter what sport you love
0:35.2	Everyone I want you to gather round grandpa's gonna tell you a story
0:40.1	But I woke up today and it is a beautiful day life is great, but there was there was a little bit of sadness
0:47.1	That I declined going to
0:50.7	The Belmont stakes this year based on it's historical they're doing a
0:55.3	five hundred million dollar renovation to Belmont Park so Sarah Toga gets the
0:59.5	honor of taking the four-day racing festival and for the first time ever they're opening
1:04.2	the track early for four days and they'll shut it back down. Now whether you are a
1:09.6	fan of something like this or F1 or the standard core four professional sports of
1:16.4	baseball, basketball, football, hockey, maybe college scratches you where you itch.
1:26.6	I want to know if your feeling is disconnected from your sport of true passion as I am and what I mean by that is this.
1:33.0	It's not that I couldn't go this weekend.
1:36.0	I have the PTO and it's not some stupid MTV Cribs flex.
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