Chris Murphy

Yeah, and listen, I'll take responsibility in both my roles, right?

I mean, I definitely could, as a parent, have just said, you know what, you're just going to play rec-level hockey, right?

We're not spending the thousands of dollars.

We're not spending our weekends in Philadelphia and Buffalo.

And so, you know, every parent and every individual can decide to not enter that rat race as willingly, at least when it comes to youth sports.

But yes, the ultimate solution here is for Congress to step in and do something about this.

And I do think, and I'll just tease this because it's a longer conversation, I do think that there's a real bipartisan consensus out there in America around how much profit matters in our entire economy.

But let's just take youth sports.

I don't think people on the right or the left

are excited about how professionalized youth sports has become.

And I think that there could be an opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to work together.

Now, Congress is especially impotent right now because of what Trump has done to our entire federal government.

And there's not an ability to take on private equity in sports because private equity right now is so integrated into this administration.

But I do think that there's a political realignment there for the taking out in America around people's frustration

with the lionization of profit and efficiency and the commoditization of everything not nailed down, including Little League baseball.

That's there.

It's probably not going to be able to be capitalized upon until after Trump is gone.

Yeah, and I think, you know, maybe it is true that you're not going to put this genie back in the bottle when it comes to the amount of betting that's happening.

And if that's the case, then yes, people are going to feel the impact of government's absence.

If these prediction markets increasingly become where sports betting happens and you have no protection on these markets from bets that are inherently rigged, I do think that you're seeing the impact of government inaction.