Caitlin Clark’s WNBA Debut Sparks $2M Ticket Sales Surge

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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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