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The Valenti Show

HOUR 4: Have Sporting Events Become Too Expensive?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Fresh off their Kentucky Derby "By The Numbers", the guys discuss how expensive sporting events have gotten lately, wondering if it's even worth it to go anymore. They take some of your calls and read your ticket texts before wrapping up this short hour to lead you into Tigers baseball.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, five o'clock, and yes, that's one of like a handful of people in all of basketball that has the cashier to go out there and just put a bullet in a franchise player.

0:10.0

The Godfather has spoken. If you missed anything, Odyssey.com,

0:14.4

rewind. Yes, we've had the Torc conversation. Yes, we've talked Tigers.

0:18.3

Scott Harris, this offense. You can go back and listen to it but kind of this this theme it continues you see

0:26.1

articles and it's it's very hard to not bring this up and look Tiger fans are going to be

0:32.4

put to this choice a little bit, which is your baseball team is primarily

0:36.7

If you're a Comcast customer not on TV

0:39.5

You didn't see him this weekend. So if the Tigers end up being pretty good, well, do you

0:44.8

begin going to the ballpark? And I've, I'm on this this crusade of just, look, I

0:51.3

didn't go to the Derby this weekend because it's greedflation.

0:55.2

All right, that's an event I've gone to several times in my life that not, not just me, many people like me are saying this and they're just not doing it because the

1:07.0

pricing it we're in la la land and as sports fans and you're driving around

1:11.8

it's a beautiful afternoon.

1:14.0

Tigers are going to be back home this weekend.

1:16.6

I want to know if you've hit a point with sports where you want to go, but you either can't

1:22.4

afford to do it or even if you can't afford to do it or even if you can you've just gone you know what

1:26.3

F you I'm not paying this so article today one of the big events this weekend not Kentucky Derby related was the

1:34.5

F1 race in Miami now they had an F1 race in Las Vegas earlier this year they've got

1:39.6

one in Texas but I want to just read, I want to, I couldn't believe this.

1:47.0

Now I want to say full disclosure.

1:50.0

The price list here is from the Hard Rock Beach Club deck.

1:57.1

Tickets to go to this were 1700 apiece.

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