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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
- 0:04Speaker 2: All right, well, the city is a buzz for Game
- 0:07Speaker 2: two because the watch party is a buzz. I mean,
- 0:10Speaker 2: the resale tickets are going for insane prices. I might
- 0:13Speaker 2: end up in the Bronx just to watch with my
- 0:15Speaker 2: Yankee friends, and then of course Billy's maybe gets to
- 0:18Speaker 2: the fourth quarter there. But here's my play right now
- 0:22Speaker 2: at one like up Alex Media. I've said it on
- 0:24Speaker 2: my Instagram, I've said it on my Twitter or X
- 0:27Speaker 2: whatever you wanna call it, mayor Mom, Donnie, you and
- 0:32Speaker 2: now President Trump are sculated to attend. And it's beautiful
- 0:37Speaker 2: that Garden of Dreams Foundation has helped underserved kids get
- 0:42Speaker 2: into the Garden through free tickets.
- 0:44Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's amazing.
- 0:47Speaker 2: And for everybody else that's clamoring for that ten ticket,
- 0:54Speaker 2: I'm gonna say what I wrote on Instagram and on
- 0:56Speaker 2: X on this podcast, why don't we make.
- 1:03Speaker 1: A deal.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Why don't you make a deal Marrimum Donnie with the
- 1:07Speaker 2: NBA and the Knicks and James Dolan to give us
- 1:12Speaker 2: Maybe not fifty, because I understand that's a lot cheaper
- 1:15Speaker 2: than it should be, but what about one hundred? What
- 1:18Speaker 2: about one fifty.
- 1:19Speaker 1: What about something manageable for the every day New Yorker.
- 1:27Speaker 2: The New York Knicks represent New York City, So why
- 1:31Speaker 2: is New York City residents and why are New Yorkers
- 1:35Speaker 2: being priced out of this? Ten thousand dollars is the
- 1:41Speaker 2: cheapest right now, and if they go up to nothing,
- 1:44Speaker 2: that's gonna increase to probably fifteen or more. So Maryrimum Donnie,
- 1:51Speaker 2: my plea to you, and maybe President Trump should step
- 1:56Speaker 2: in two since now he's going to the game, cut
- 2:00Speaker 2: a deal so that everyday New Yorkers could join the fun.
- 2:06Speaker 2: This is something we haven't experienced in twenty seven years.
- 2:10Speaker 2: This is in something a lot of kids haven't experience
- 2:12Speaker 2: in their lifetime. So to price us New Yorkers out,
- 2:21Speaker 2: it just doesn't make sense. To price us New Yorkers
- 2:26Speaker 2: out is wrong. And I know I've said it on
- 2:30Speaker 2: x I know what I've said it on Instagram, but
- 2:32Speaker 2: I want to say it here just in case, just
- 2:34Speaker 2: in case they're thinking about this before the ticket release.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Right now on tickpick and Vivid and elsewhere, it's over
- 2:46Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars. It's ten thousand dollars one ticket. There's
- 2:52Speaker 2: no reason that everyday New Yorkers shouldn't have a chance
- 2:57Speaker 2: to see their nixt play. This fan base is outside
- 3:01Speaker 2: the garden, not inside the garden. Okay, Ben Siller's there,
- 3:05Speaker 2: Spike Lee's. They're representing New York fans and Timothy Schallamey.
- 3:08Speaker 2: By the way, if Chalameay broke up with kay Kylie Jenner,
- 3:13Speaker 2: does that mean the Jenner curse is officially removed from
- 3:15Speaker 2: the Knicks. Is that what I'm hearing now? Is that
- 3:17Speaker 2: what I'm thinking now? Is that what we're thinking now?
- 3:23Speaker 2: But James Dolan, you say you're four New Yorkers. You
- 3:27Speaker 2: want to be four New Yorkers. You're literally making the teams.
- 3:31Speaker 1: A public offering. The Knicks arrangers are about.
- 3:34Speaker 2: To be public entities that we the fan could buy stocking.
- 3:39Speaker 1: And yet we can't go to the Garden the watch
- 3:44Speaker 1: party tonight. Yes, ten dollars tickets are great. That that's fantastic.
- 3:47Speaker 1: They sell out too fast. But but.
- 3:53Speaker 2: My plea you're at Wellingo Alex Media to Mayor mum Donnie,
- 3:58Speaker 2: to Governor Hokeel to President Trump is to work with
- 4:01Speaker 2: the NBA. Adam Silver is thrilled that President Trump is
- 4:08Speaker 2: coming to.
- 4:08Speaker 1: New York, But.
- 4:12Speaker 2: Is he thrilled that every New Yorkers can't get into
- 4:14Speaker 2: the garden. Maybe before tickets are released released for the
- 4:22Speaker 2: public through ticket Master, because I don't believe they're on
- 4:25Speaker 2: sale yet.
- 4:26Speaker 1: I could be wrong.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Maybe before they are officially released. This plea to Mayor
- 4:38Speaker 2: Mum Donnie, to President Trump, to Adam Silver is to
- 4:47Speaker 2: make available a select number of tickets for US New Yorkers.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I don't care if they queues fifty thousand people long
- 4:56Speaker 2: for US New Yorkers.
- 5:01Speaker 1: It should be the right thing to do.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Espike Lee would say, do the right thing and open
- 5:08Speaker 2: this finals up to New Yorkers, New York residents, New
- 5:15Speaker 2: York City residents, not.
- 5:19Speaker 1: All corporate.
- 5:23Speaker 2: The kids that are outside the garden, the fans that
- 5:25Speaker 2: are outside the garden, they're hungry, they're hungry for a championship,
- 5:32Speaker 2: So why not involve us too. There's eight million New Yorkers.
- 5:40Speaker 2: There's no reason why there shouldn't be a raffle like
- 5:44Speaker 2: there's for FIFA to get on that line and get
- 5:48Speaker 2: one hundred dollars tickets, two hundred dollar tickets because World
- 5:55Speaker 2: Cup's gonna be a major event. Those tickets are in
- 5:57Speaker 2: the thousands too. What makes that different. What makes it different?
- 6:08Speaker 2: And especially because the Knicks now lead, and they could
- 6:10Speaker 2: lead after two tonight, two games tonight two, oh, come back.
- 6:13Speaker 1: To the garden. Brunson is.
- 6:26Speaker 2: On fire.
- 6:27Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what I texted friends this I
- 6:32Speaker 1: said on May twentieth.
- 6:33Speaker 2: I predicted the baseballer would be sacrificed, and sure enough,
- 6:59Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is now down with the bone bruise he
- 7:03Speaker 2: got running into another right field wall, this time at
- 7:07Speaker 2: Yankee Stadium. I believe in May third is what I
- 7:14Speaker 2: was hearing. He's out four to six weeks and now
- 7:22Speaker 2: I'll be in time for the Knicks for the Yankees
- 7:25Speaker 2: playoff run July August, September. But what if this sacrifice
- 7:34Speaker 2: is is what the sports gods are balancing.
- 7:36Speaker 1: This out for the Knicks to win a ring. Maybe
- 7:40Speaker 1: this had to happen.
- 7:43Speaker 2: I think back to when the Knicks had a huge
- 7:46Speaker 2: win last playoffs, and that very night Oswalda Cabrera slid
- 7:50Speaker 2: into sahom So painfully fracturing his ankle and his season
- 7:57Speaker 2: was done. The same night, Knicks fans were you fork
- 8:00Speaker 2: about a playoff win?
- 8:02Speaker 1: That trauma is there.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Well. A year later, with the Knicks three games away
- 8:09Speaker 2: from winning the NBA Finals, Aaron Judge goes down for four.
- 8:12Speaker 1: To six weeks. If that's not the sports gods evening
- 8:15Speaker 1: this out, I don't know what is. I don't know
- 8:21Speaker 1: what is. But what I do know.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Is that this series, this NBA Finals, is so expensive.
- 8:37Speaker 1: A playment plan would it work?
- 8:40Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe for the MLB, but that that's different for
- 8:45Speaker 2: this it doesn't work. It doesn't work. So once official
- 8:59Speaker 2: take it's are released, what if there's a raffle or
- 9:04Speaker 2: not even a raffle, but what if there's a sweepstakes.
- 9:08Speaker 2: I don't know, limited time entry for people to get
- 9:16Speaker 2: tickets to the finals.
- 9:20Speaker 1: At a reasonable rate.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Pricing us out makes no sense, especially because of the
- 9:28Speaker 2: New York City fans are the lifeblood of this damn city.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Let me say that again, Pricing New York City fans.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Out does not make sense when we are the lifeblood
- 9:41Speaker 2: of New York City. Everyday New Yorkers run New York City.
- 9:49Speaker 2: They open up the shops in the morning, they clean
- 9:53Speaker 2: the subways, they run the subways, they run the buses.
- 9:56Speaker 2: Those are the everyday New Yorkers. They're the commuters that
- 10:00Speaker 2: roll all over the city and do what they need
- 10:01Speaker 2: to do to get life going and get life things happening.
- 10:12Speaker 2: But to be priced out of something that's literally unified
- 10:15Speaker 2: Yankees and Mets fans and all kinds of sports fans
- 10:22Speaker 2: is bull crap.
- 10:27Speaker 1: We should be unified together, and.
- 10:39Speaker 2: Hell if the Yankee, if the Mets and the Garden
- 10:43Speaker 2: can post up, congrats to and good luck to Saint
- 10:46Speaker 2: John's Baseball, who's in the Super Regional this weekend against Alabama.
- 10:54Speaker 2: There's no reason New York fans should be in that
- 10:56Speaker 2: Garden shouldn't be in that garden.
- 11:00Speaker 1: For Games three and four.
- 11:07Speaker 2: Look, I, like everybody else, would love a sweep. I'd
- 11:11Speaker 2: love a sweep, But I'd also love to get a
- 11:13Speaker 2: picture of the Larry O'Brien logo trophy logo on the
- 11:18Speaker 2: court and the NBA Finals on the Garden court.
- 11:25Speaker 1: And I'm afraid a watch.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Party is the only way to do that, and to
- 11:28Speaker 2: do that that also costs hundreds of dollars. But we
- 11:33Speaker 2: shouldn't have to weep on a watch party to get
- 11:35Speaker 2: in the garden. We the fans should be able to go.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Right now.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Vividc's one hundred and thirty seven dollars.
- 11:49Speaker 1: I saw the other day tickpic. Someone was offering one.
- 11:52Speaker 2: Thousand dollars for game one watch party, Like, I get it.
- 12:00Speaker 2: People that are literally profiting off this.
- 12:04Speaker 1: One forty.
- 12:07Speaker 2: By the way, this is the on a screen. Okay,
- 12:10Speaker 2: this is the on a screen. It's time to make
- 12:18Speaker 2: it affordable. Dang it, Mayor, mum donnie, President Trump, you've
- 12:22Speaker 2: been trying to collaborate on making everything affordable. You're trying
- 12:27Speaker 2: to claim the victory on affordability. You want to claim
- 12:31Speaker 2: the victory and affordability for all New Yorkers. You make
- 12:33Speaker 2: the finals affordable. It makes sense, it's common sense. You
- 12:39Speaker 2: both want to champion affordability, right, Well, then collaborate, work
- 12:44Speaker 2: with the NBA, work with the governor, get a deal done,
- 12:47Speaker 2: and make it affordable. Maum Donnie's about the everyday New
- 12:53Speaker 2: Yorker supposedly, so he should fight for the everyday New
- 12:57Speaker 2: Yorkers chance to get to the garden to watch an
- 13:01Speaker 2: NBA Finals game. If affordability was his campaign promise, what
- 13:08Speaker 2: an early way to live up to that promise that
- 13:12Speaker 2: all New Yorkers could support making the NBA Finals, making
- 13:18Speaker 2: the Knicks affordable again.
- 13:23Speaker 1: And that's my message at one leg a Ballex Media