Chris Murphy
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1,330 appearances
64 recordings
22 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 29 Jun
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in the East Coast has been gutted.
And so if you're a player that has any level of skill, you almost have to play in the travel leagues to be able to play with kids who are at your level.
But that's a $5,000 to $10,000 investment for many families.
And so it ends up excluding a lot of good hockey players from participating at the level that they should be playing at.
But it gets even worse.
In our league, which is owned by private equity, they just find all sorts of ways to squeeze every dollar out of the product.
One of the ways they do that is by creating a closed circuit television system.
And that's the only way that you can watch your kids play hockey.
I go to some games, my wife goes to some games, but I can't live stream the game for their mom or their grandparents.
That's illegal in our league because they want the parents and the grandparents to buy games
a subscription to the closed-circuit television system.
It can be anywhere from $25 to $50 per month to buy Black Bear TV, which is the private equity-backed company that owns the league and many of the rinks.
So, like, again, I get back to this question of, like, what is this doing to us spiritually?
Like, that's, like, one of the most important rituals as a parent to be able to share your kids' sporting events with their grandparents.
And now I can't do that unless I or my parents pay...
hundreds of dollars a year.
It's just like robbing us of the things that make parenting special, that make being a kid special as these youth sports experiences become more and more and more expensive and more monetized.
We used to have an informal understanding in this country that there were some industries where you didn't want the incentive system to be money.
You wanted the incentive system to be just what was right.
We have no recollection of this, but the health insurance industry in this country didn't start out as a for-profit business.
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