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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 409: The outrageous cost of professional sports
Description: P&C drink and review Hell or High Watermelon from 21st Amendment Brewery, then, with special guest Longinus, discuss the cost of professional sports.Â
Why are we, in the words of Pigweed, willing to spend so much money to watch grown men play children’s games? Â
But that’s not to the point. The boys are focused on the cost of a baseball or football game. Why has it increased so much? Is it worth it?Â
From 1970 to the present – in today’s dollars – the cost for a family of four to attend a baseball gam...