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00:02 - I didn't realize, now I knew they played a lot of games
00:08 and they've played, I guess it's 11 over the first few.
00:11 I didn't realize that like Vegas had played like seven,
00:14 other teams have played like eight.
00:16 Like I didn't realize that the gap was that wide.
00:19 And it's specifically for what you said.
00:20 They tried to right out of the gate,
00:23 hammer home as many Caitlin Clark games
00:26 as they possibly could to catch the wave.
00:28 And boy, Mike, if they caught it.
00:31 - Well, they allowed the wave to subsume her.
00:35 She fell off the board
00:36 and went head over heels into the surf.
00:40 And it shouldn't have been that way.
00:42 She should have been allowed to move into her rookie year
00:46 with the same pace as every other rookie in the league.
00:49 75% of the league has played eight or fewer games.
00:53 They've already played 11.
00:56 This is as of Sunday.
00:57 They had already 11 games in the first 20 days of the season
01:01 and that included a road trip that went to Seattle
01:05 from Indianapolis, then to LA and then to Vegas,
01:08 a 4,500 mile road trip that was three games in four days.
01:13 How do you like that?
01:14 That's great stuff.
01:15 That's really treating your prize rookie
01:19 of the player who electrified college basketball
01:22 over the last two years,
01:23 that completely changed the dynamics
01:26 of the viewing patterns for women's college basketball
01:29 and promised to do the same for you based on television,
01:33 excuse me, on ticket sales
01:34 for the first several weeks of the season,
01:37 promised to do the same for you.
01:38 And all you could do was grab everything you could.
01:42 Not let's do this strategically,
01:44 but let's grab as much as we can early
01:47 and who the heck cares if it wrecks her rookie season.
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