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This is, literally, insane
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This is not surprising
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May 20, 2025, 11:01 AM
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Now little Braylyyn is wearing socks on hisr hands to slide
It is the dumbest thing I've ever seen
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My 4th grader had a musical called Play Ball and they had to dress up like
May 20, 2025, 11:28 AM
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baseball players. A few wore sliding mitts for the play, some had elbow guards, etc.
I do enjoy the videos making fun of youth baseball culture. I remember getting a $50 Easton bat one year, but I had to share it with the team because Dad was an assistant coach and said it was the teams bat. We kept it at the end of the season but I think it was cracked.
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Erry Juan pays for cleats, jerseys, footballs, baseball stuff, etc.
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May 20, 2025, 11:01 AM
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for their kids to play sports. Most of those people don't have the money for NFL season tix, or whatever else. Makes sense.
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I can believe it
May 20, 2025, 11:04 AM
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My gchildren:
Gvl Aquatics Swim team(2)
AAU basketball
Various golf leagues
All star little league baseball
Dance (guess that counts, dk)
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Yeah ... NBA ahead of the soccer leagues ... never saw that one coming.***
May 20, 2025, 11:08 AM
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Is college footsball included in the Yutes dollars?
May 20, 2025, 11:11 AM
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Especially now, lots of rich alumni out there with more money than sense, if ye know whut I mean?
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I can't imagine how you could calculate that number even close to
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May 20, 2025, 11:11 AM
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accurately. The impact is huge, for sure, but I bet there's some huge assumptions behind it, too.
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look at the source of the data.
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May 20, 2025, 11:21 AM
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oh wait.
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Re: This is, literally, insane
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May 20, 2025, 11:12 AM
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I believe it. I usually book tee times behind junior golf tournaments. They normally take six hours, so I just get drunk and search for golf balls that the kids lost. I estimated that I earned $12,306 last year selling off brand new ProV1’s that those kids parents bought them just so they could lose it in the trees to the right of the third hole.
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70.8 million youth sports participants in 2023, that is $270 per
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May 20, 2025, 11:19 AM
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which aint that much
that was a google search with AI overview of ProjectPlay.org
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I'd imagine those numbers double count kids that participate in multiple sports
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May 20, 2025, 11:25 AM
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which also makes sense. Each sport participated in has a separate economic impact.
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Gambling is a gene I didn't get, and don't understand.
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May 20, 2025, 11:57 AM
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Some folks are simply addicted to gambling. I don't get it. I see it happening though, and understand how it could be that much money.
Maybe I'm too cheap to gamble. And that kinda tracks when I look at someone uber rich with a big boat or a house on an island and think "I have made a lifetime of wrong decisions..even if I didn't know I was making them."
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Same, I tried a couple times at casinos, etc and hated losing money
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May 20, 2025, 12:02 PM
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so I really can't even be tempted with a lottery ticket except maybe once a year.
I don't have enough to risk it and I have never hit on much. Someone did give me a scratch-off that won $50 though, that was cool.
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Same for me, gambling with money doesn't really push my buttons. The only thing
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May 20, 2025, 12:05 PM
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I ever really gambled a lot on was whether or not I could pull out in time.
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Did you lose as much as Greenr, or Tickle-it?***
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May 20, 2025, 1:23 PM
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Ironically, I have won every time I gambled with that, but I don't play that
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May 20, 2025, 1:28 PM
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game anymore.
#FingersCrossedTheVasStaysCrossed
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same, not something I am remotely interested in
May 20, 2025, 12:51 PM
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I'll bet a dollar or a beer playing golf or shooting pool, betting on MYSELF to beat a buddy, but that's pretty much it. And it's a $2 beer, nothing I'll miss if I lose.
As for betting on teams or other people, nah, not interested.
I've been to Las Vegas 4 times in my life. Never gambled a penny. Probably not many people can say that.
Having said that, I do believe that the stock market is a form of gambling, and I do that, so I'm not totally virtuous.
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I've been to Vegas once.
May 20, 2025, 1:23 PM
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I have no reason to ever go back.
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Never been to Vegas. Might go through there to visit some National Parks
May 20, 2025, 1:29 PM
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but that is about it.
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I went twice for work-related conventions
May 20, 2025, 1:36 PM
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the other two I had overnight stay on trip to Cali. The last one was for the Natty football game in San Jose, that was the best plane route I found to get out there.
I REALLY wanted to drop a hundy$ or so on the Tigers the night before when I was there, as they were a big underdog to Bama and I felt really good about it. Problem was, I didn't know how I could cash a winning bet ticket in as I was leaving and not coming back through. Maybe you can mail them in but I didn't look that deep into it (obviously I wasn't THAT interested in it).
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If you had simply asked: Is more money spent on youth sports or the NFL? I would
May 20, 2025, 12:18 PM
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have likely said "youth sports". There are 32 NFL teams - but there are 32 million youth sport teams.
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I'm not saying youth sports isn't huge, but that data...
May 20, 2025, 1:36 PM
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Looks highly suspect
For starters, the revenue for NFL is a lot higher than listed ($23BB in 2024). And second, revenue of the league isn't the same as economic impact. The economic impact is much higher than the revenue figure.
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KMS doing her part to inflate those numbers***
May 20, 2025, 2:34 PM
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youngest danced for 10 years and we spent billions and billions***
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