The Josh Innes Show - Caitlin Clark Is Lady Tiger Woods

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

Caitlin Clark is injured. She will miss the next few weeks. The ticket prices for games have plummeted . I don't know that any athlete has ever meant more to a particular sport than Clark means to the WNBA right now. It's crazy. I attempt to find some comparisons. Also, it's hysterical how the rest of the WNBA doesn't want to accept this reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I don't want to spend a ton of time talking about the WNBA, but I understand that we've done multiple episodes almost daily about this, but that's more about a cultural story and not the product on the court, because if we're being honest, no one gives a shit about the product on the court. They only care about the female drama in it and the WNBA's dumb investigation for the monkey noises, which is concluded, and we're just enjoying watching the WNBA eat itself. It's fascinating, and I want to be clear I'm not rooting for the demise of the WNBA because I dislike the idea of there being women's basketball or anything like that. There could be a

billion different sports. I don't give a shit. Women's lacrosse, women's tennis, men's gymnastics, whatever. I don't give a shit. It's just funny watching people who've been given this opportunity, this golden goose, an opportunity for a league that's been a money loser forever, but you're given this golden goose, you're given this opportunity with this Caitlin Clark, and you guys hate her so much that you will let it ruin your league. It's funny to me. If this were men doing this, I would find this funny. If men

in a particular sport, if there were like men's water polo and somehow there were some freakishly huge celebrity that was a water polo player, yet the other water polo players couldn't handle the fact that this new water polo player was getting all this attention, that they sabotaged water polo, I'd laugh at them too, and I would want their demise because I like when people lose when they don't understand the bigger picture. That's probably one of my great skills is understanding the bigger picture. Doesn't mean I always do the right thing and I fuck myself up a lot of the time.

You could literally sit here and say, Josh Josh you were making hundreds of thousands of dollars to talk about on 790 in Houston and all you had to do was not piss off the Houston Rockets yet you couldn't help yourself. Look I'm one of them. I totally get it. When you look back on that it's very easy to say, Josh every opportunity you've had you found some reason to fuck things up. Totally. Maybe I want other people to suffer in the ways I've suffered at my own hands so I enjoy watching these idiots in the WNBA ruin their opportunity and turn their league into a soap opera because they don't like Caitlin Clark. But I'm not going to

spend a ton of time talking about that. But Caitlin Clark is out for a couple of weeks with an injury and you want to know who's got the worst of this? People who bought tickets to see Caitlin Clark the last couple of weeks. an injury and you want to know who's got the worst of this people who bought tickets to see Caitlin Clark the last couple of weeks. Let's play for the next couple of weeks. I should say let's play a couple commercials and we'll give you the details. This is fascinating. So this headline reads Caitlin Clark injury effect ticket prices drastically fall with Indiana

fever star out. So let's I don't know. I haven't read the details of the story and I don't drastically fall with Indiana fever star out. So let's, I don't know, I haven't read the details of the story and I don't know where the Indiana fever are playing, but like let's imagine you're a road fan, like she's playing the Chicago sky on the road or playing the Phoenix Mercury on the road or the New York Liberty on the road or whatever NBA lady teams there are out there on the road and she's playing them and like some little girl has an opportunity to see Caitlin Clark and dad bought her a birthday gift and went on the secondary market and spent a shitload of money on tickets to see Caitlin Clark and then

there is no Caitlin Clark. I don't know that there's not a human in any other sport that has this effect. Not one and maybe it's because like in baseball like Otani or Aaron Judge would be the kind of guys that people want to see. Well, if they come to town, you're going to get three opportunities to see them. It's not a one-time deal and it's not an event sport like basketball where there's only you know, relatively speaking half in most instances half of

the baseball games, you know, so you it's a different world. I've been trying to think of other athletes that would truly have this kind of impact on a sport or have ever had this kind of impact on a sport like the obvious answer is like Tiger Woods. If Tiger Woods is playing in your golf tournament during Prime Tiger Woods, those tickets are going for a shit ton of money versus you know, hey, our biggest name here is is VJ Singh like okay nobody

gives a shit but if Tigers play like the Houston Open if Tiger would play the Houston Open it'd be a huge deal if Tiger didn't it wouldn't have the same impact like and Tiger of course would always play the majors in the big tournaments but it's it's the same as it is in every other sport well basketball is kind of like golf in this way where like some of these dudes will choose their load management in cities that aren't as glamorous. Like Memphis fans would always feel kind of screwed because like, oh wow, LeBron, load management on the day LeBron comes to town. Like that's to me when people like, like it's one thing like to like load management, real talk, for some of these guys should happen at home. You play 41 home games every year in the NBA. LeBron's load management should happen in LA and not in Memphis. Like

people are never going to have the opportunity to see LeBron or Memphis or New Orleans or places like that. But anyway, I digress. But like a Tiger Woods, if he played the Houston Open or the St. Jude Open or whatever it's called in Memphis, that would be a huge deal for those tournaments. If he didn't, it wouldn't be a huge deal. Caitlin Clark is like that. Like maybe when McGuire and Sosa were coming to town during the home run chase, I know that that was a huge deal and like I lived in Baton Rouge

and I knew people who were driving from Baton Rouge to Houston to see Mark McGuire in Houston, but in that era, they'd probably play nine or ten games in Houston over the course of a season, right? So like you'd have multiple opportunities, but it was a huge deal to see Mark McGuire or Sammy Sosa in 1998 or Barry Bonds in 2001, but very rarely is there a player that you will spend premium dollars to see in this era that like totally changes the game and changes the ticket price. Now, if you find like if

you find out that like you've got 76ers tickets and you find out on the day of that LeBron is not going to play then those ticket prices are going to go down in value, but nobody does what this Caitlin Clark does and who knows how long that's going to last. It might be a very fleeting thing, but very few people in the history of sports have had this impact. Like I would imagine like when it was Michael Jordan's farewell tour with the Wizards, like a buddy of mine and his

dad went to see Michael in New Orleans on that final tour. I say final tour, but it basically was. I mean the team went very good. It was like a farewell tour for MJ. I bet those tickets were far more expensive then than they normally would have been to see the New Orleans Hornets. So, I mean, obviously people have had moments and farewell tours will have that impact, but nobody has the impact. Like, Caitlin Clark is Tiger Woods. Like, if you think about a sport that's kind of off-brand that the masses don't consume, the masses weren't consuming golf and the masses certainly weren't consuming

the WNBA but you bring somebody in and somebody completely changes the game. That's why it's hysterical to watch these dummies in the WNBA piss away this golden goose of an opportunity. It's called all boats rise with the tide man and they don't understand that they don't get the concept of all boats rise with the tide. Anywho, Caitlin Clark injury effect ticket prices drastically fall with Indiana Fever star out. The Caitlin Clark effect has brought a plenty of attention and high demand to see the Indiana Fever but the WNBA is seen an opposite side of

that effect, less intrigued when she's injured. Clark will be sidelined for at least two weeks as she suffered a left quad strain following Indiana's 90-88 loss to the Defendee and Champion New York Liberty on Saturday. Missing two weeks means Clark will miss at least the next four games, and it's had a drastic effect on ticket prices for those contests, particularly the two road games during that stretch at the Washington Mystics and at the Chicago Sky. Hey, good for Angel Reese. This can be her little moment. Maybe they'll get a win. Let's see. Ticket prices have drastically

fallen since Monday's news of Clark's injury. For the four games Clark will miss, the average ticket price was 71% more expensive prior to the news than Tuesday as the averages dropped from $137 to $80 according to tick pick data provided to USA Today Sports. The road games in Washington and Chicago have been heavily impacted as both removed to bigger arenas to accommodate the demand to see Clark." God, that's fantastic! That's hysterical! They're like, guys, listen, we normally play in smaller arenas, but Caitlin Clark's coming to town, so we're going to play in the big arena. And then what happens? She's hurt. You have to acknowledge it's funny because they deserve this. They deserve this because they're stupid. They deserve it. And by the way, like I can understand to a degree like living in a world

where like you think you're a big deal and then someone else comes in here and you feel you're better than that person and this person gets all the attention and I can see where it would kind of piss you off. I understand that world. But you also have to understand the world you've been living in. Like you have to be delusional to think that three years ago anyone gave a shit about the WNBA. So you may have been the best player in the WNBA three years ago and now this other person comes in and you're jelly

and you're like this bitch is coming in here trying to steal my sunshine and steal my moment. Well guess what? I guarantee you weren't moving to bigger arenas because of something that someone in the league three years ago was doing but now you are. So maybe you should kiss this chick's ass. You can play up the role of hating her all you want but you might want to understand that you're all potentially going to make more money because of this person but you don't

understand the bottom line because you guys are stupid because you're not used to being in a situation where anybody gives a shit about what you're doing. The Washington game moved from Care First Arena to CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, which has more than 6,000 extra capacity. Prior to the injury news, the cheapest ticket sold for the game was $41 per tick pick. Now the get-in price is $14 as of Tuesday night. The average purchase price went from $115 to $83. This person is the star and you guys

refuse to acknowledge it. Again, I'm not asking you to bend over and kiss someone's ass, you know, like publicly, but man, you guys seem to to really really hate this chick and be super duper resentful of this chick and she is the reason that people are paying attention to your shit. The Sky vs. The Fever game was even more affected as it was supposed to be another edition of Clark vs. Angel Reese, which by the way is not a thing. A forward that can't shoot versus someone who can hit from the logo is not a true rivalry. This is not Bird versus Magic here. This would be like if you were like, hey look, it's Magic versus Robert Parrish. It ain't a rivalry. The contest was moved to United Center, the

first time WNBA games would be played in the 20,000 plus seat arena. On Sunday. The cheapest ticket was $86 on Tick Pick as of Tuesday night. It's now $25. So Angel Reese look, I just want you to know that people are watching the games for me too, and I want y'all to understand that respect that yes ma'am. So when they thought that Caitlin Clark was coming to town, they moved the game to United Center and the tickets were at cheapest $86 to get in and now they are $25, $60 cheaper for the get in price. The average purchase price was $210. The average ticket price for Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese at the United Center was $210. Now the average is 95.

That is a 121% change, a drop in 121% over a day when they found out Caitlin Clark wasn't there. Honey, they're not there for you. They are there for her. Yes, I give you credit for talking shit to her and building this racial thing with these dipshits on on on I don't know out kick but they are not there to watch you miss layups and rebound them. They were there to see her in your town. That's got to just rattle you to some degree. For the home games, May 30th against the Connecticut Sun and June 3rd versus the Mystics, the cheapest ticket option on TickPick are $13 and $11 respectively.

Freaking wild, man. So the first game she might be available to return is June 10th at the Atlanta Dream. Didn't know that was a team. The cheapest ticket for the contest at Gateway Center Arena is $147. The next four road games after that against the Golden State Valkyries, the Las Vegas Aces, the Seattle Storm, and Dallas Wings all have get-in prices of at least $100, and the game against Paige Becker's in Dallas starts at $141. Like look if you have any self-awareness, if you're Angel Reese you're like, fuck.

You mean to tell me the lowest ticket price to get into this game at United Center was $86 when they thought old girl was here. Old girl isn't here and it drops 121%. That's got to be a little bit of a shot to the psyche, right? It's it's hysterical and it's just hysterical that these gals in this league and the internet don't seem to grasp that this is the moment and the moment's happening because of this person. She is the **** Beatles right now. She's Kendrick Lamar playing a like giant football. Kendrick

Lamar is coming to St. Louis and playing the football stadium. We still have a football stadium even though we don't have a team. They're going to play in the football stadium. She is Kendrick Lamar. She is the Beatles. She's filling up stadiums. They moved your game to United Center because of her because she's not there. They quite literally could move your game to DePaul and you wouldn't fill it up. It's wild.