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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we are

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Speaker 1: so back for season two, and like The Dark Knight,

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Speaker 1: Terminator two and The Godfather Part two, we fully intend

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Speaker 1: for the sequel to be even better than the original.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, July fourteenth, Happy Disability Pride Month.

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Speaker 2: Slices.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, Big Citrus is going to weigh in

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Speaker 1: on a WNBA controversy, make some predictions for this season

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Speaker 1: of Good Game, and welcome a little softball and gay

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Speaker 1: shit into the mix. Plus, we'll be recapping the biggest

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Speaker 1: headlines from the last two weeks, like injuries, retirements, investigations, records,

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Speaker 1: and a whole lot of summer love.

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Speaker 2: It's all coming up right after.

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Speaker 3: This Welcome back slices.

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Speaker 2: Did you miss us, We missed you.

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today, and buckle in

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Speaker 1: because it's a lot. In WNBA news, the league officially

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Speaker 1: announced that it'll be expanding to eighteen teams by the

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Speaker 1: year twenty thirty. That's right, we took a break for

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Speaker 1: two weeks and we got three more WNBA teams. There

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Speaker 1: w The Cleveland Rockers were actually one of the league's

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Speaker 1: original eight teams. They played from ninety seven to two

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Speaker 1: thousand and three, and the Detroit Shock played from ninety

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Speaker 1: eight to two thousand and nine, bringing three championships to

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Speaker 1: and each paid a cool two hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 1: dollar expansion fee. Now that number sounds high, that's because

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Speaker 1: it is. It's roughly five times the amount the Golden

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Speaker 1: State Warriors put down for the Valkyries. To quote the

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Speaker 1: great philosopher Fat Joe, yesterday's price is not today's price.

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Speaker 1: With the Toronto Tempo and the Portland WNBA team both

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Speaker 1: Talk about exponential growth. We'll link to each new franchise's

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Speaker 1: of expansion, the aforementioned Portland WNBA team made a curious

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Speaker 1: owners RAJ Sports said that it was Sun who decided

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Speaker 1: for a new leader, they'll move forward with a launch

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Speaker 1: party at Moda Center on July fifteenth, where they'll reveal

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Speaker 2: In our show note.

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Speaker 1: We're looking forward to hearing more about this Portland team.

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Speaker 1: It seems kind of wild that they're starting at the

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Speaker 1: More w during the break, the Indiana Fever won the

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Speaker 1: seventy four to fifty nine on Minnesota's home court, and

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Speaker 1: they did it without second year guard Caitlin Clark. Five

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Speaker 1: With the win, the Fever split a five hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: amidst shotgunning beers in the locker room, Caitlin Clark was

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Speaker 1: on Instagram live jokingly referring to the Commissioner's Cup as

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Speaker 1: Ostensibly speaking to Missioner Kathy Engelbert, Clark said, quote, you

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Speaker 1: out in the upcoming CBA. Speaking of the CBA, the

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Speaker 1: end quote. We'll keep you updated as the negotiations between

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Speaker 1: some player movement while we were on our break. Remember

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Speaker 1: we told you that six time All Star Juanna Bonner

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Speaker 1: Phoenix Mercury, who drafted her fifth overall back in two

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Speaker 2: Hoops just keeps the gay shit coming, and we love it.

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Speaker 1: In her first game back with Phoenix, Bonner had seven

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Speaker 2: Look at what love can do, y'all.

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Speaker 1: But it's not all good hoops and gay shit news.

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Speaker 1: Another move broke a pair apart. The Dallas Wings traded

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Speaker 1: The move means that Smith and her boo djn A

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Speaker 1: Carrington's time as teammates is over for now. The duo

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Speaker 1: according to DJA, the move isn't all bad.

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Speaker 2: Here she is at the end of the day.

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Speaker 4: You know, I do believe that this is the best

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Speaker 4: We've had all these emotions all day, but this is

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Speaker 1: And who knows, maybe they'll reunite like Bonner and Thomas

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the Aces, they were worried for a bit

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Speaker 1: during our hiatus as their superstar and three time league

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Speaker 1: And a loss to New York early last week. Strass

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Speaker 1: Golden State Valkyries. It was her nineteenth career thirty point

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Speaker 1: also been fun keeping up with her latest fashion choices.

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Speaker 1: Last year it was the white T shirt, and this

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Speaker 1: year she's just stealing her boyfriend bam Autobio's stuff.

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Speaker 2: First it was his warm up shirt.

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Speaker 1: Now it's the do rag and those two going back

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Speaker 1: Sticking with the w A few players are getting their flowers.

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Speaker 1: First up, the legendary Candae Parker. Her number three Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Sparks jersey was raised to the rafters of Crypto

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Speaker 1: Sky on June twenty ninth. The thirty nine year old

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Speaker 1: eight WNBA draft, and she spent thirteen of her sixteen

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Speaker 2: Path to LA. Take a listen.

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Speaker 5: As a kid from the Chicago land, my idea of

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Speaker 5: Hollywood was through basketball. It wasn't the glitz or the

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Speaker 5: Kareem imagine the Showtime Lakers. It was the early two thousands,

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Speaker 2: Lisa Leslie, Delicia.

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Speaker 2: It was the Kobe and Shaq.

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Speaker 5: Era of the Three Pete In the early two thousands,

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Speaker 5: it was loving basketball because who didn't want to be

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Speaker 5: Monica Wright. LA was about ball and so in two

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Speaker 5: I wanted the balls to fall in LA's court.

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Speaker 5: I wanted to be here where all the eyeballs, all

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Speaker 5: the lights, where there's ginormous shoes to fill. When I

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Speaker 5: landed here, Michael Cooper he said to me, he said, Silk.

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Speaker 2: That was my nickname.

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Speaker 5: If you win here, you're a champion forever.

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Speaker 2: So there's one thing on my mind, and we got that.

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Speaker 2: We got that championship.

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Speaker 1: When Parker's jersey is lifted to the rafters in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: it won't be the first because last week the Sky

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Speaker 1: honored recently retired Ali Quigley by making her number fourteen,

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Speaker 1: ten seasons with the Sky, helping them to their first

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Speaker 1: Star three point contests. She retired as the Sky's all

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Speaker 1: time leader in points and field goals, records broken this

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Speaker 1: season by her wife, Courtney vander Slut, and we dare

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Speaker 1: you not to tear up watching Slute try to make

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Speaker 1: it through Alley's congratulatory video without breaking down. We'll link

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Speaker 2: Some more Sky News.

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Speaker 1: Second year star Angel Reese has been named the cover

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Speaker 1: We hope you're feeling is rested and relaxed as we

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Speaker 1: At the beginning of the hiatus, I was like, it's

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Speaker 1: going too fast, and then by the end, I was like,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm good. I'm ready to get.

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Speaker 2: Back to work.

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Speaker 8: As I was preparing for today's show, I was like,

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Speaker 8: do I have to wear my back to school clothes? Like,

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Speaker 8: whip out my freshly sharpened pencils, get.

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Speaker 1: To your binder on your notebook for each category of

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Speaker 1: each class.

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Speaker 9: Were you a big backpack kid too?

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Speaker 4: Ol?

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Speaker 8: I loved my backpack and stationary school supplies.

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Speaker 2: School supplies the best meish not you.

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Speaker 10: Oh, definitely a thousand percent trapper keeper forward to I don't.

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Speaker 9: I don't know that I was giving trapper keeper.

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Speaker 10: I definitely had a backpack that was way too big

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Speaker 10: for my body for you know, stretch there until I

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Speaker 10: started to grow. And then, of course, as you probably felt,

451
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Speaker 10: was the tallest person in all my classes, forever.

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Speaker 2: There you go. But love supplies.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about this Caitlin Clark thing, because

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Speaker 1: people were in a fizzy about it.

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Speaker 2: Alex, what do you make of it?

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Speaker 8: I want to just start by providing some context, because

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Speaker 8: this is not the first time that we have seen

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Speaker 8: a huge division between how players are being ranked. So

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Speaker 8: I'm going to bring us back two years to twenty

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Speaker 8: twenty three, when Sabrina Unescu was ranked sixth by fans,

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Speaker 8: sixth by the media, and noteenth by her fellow players.

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Speaker 8: So Caitlin looking pretty good with the ranking that she

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Speaker 8: got there in comparison. And then last year, here's a

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Speaker 8: fun fact, folks, the WNBA didn't release a breakdown.

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Speaker 2: And remember that.

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Speaker 8: I have a theory as to why it is because

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Speaker 8: I think that the divide was probably even wider between

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Speaker 8: how fans and media and players voted for Kaitlin, and

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Speaker 8: they probably just didn't want to deal with the ensuing drama,

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Speaker 8: and this year they were like, oh, it's pretty close,

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Speaker 8: let's just release.

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Speaker 1: It right right, Or maybe because like the general discourse

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Speaker 1: around Caitlin versus everybody is not as insane this year,

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Speaker 1: it's not gone. But maybe they're like we can handle

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Speaker 1: it this year.

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Speaker 2: Last year, we can't. We do not trust the people

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Speaker 2: with this information.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it could have been a I mean we already

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Speaker 10: had enough inflection points, but it could have set fire

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Speaker 10: for Yeah. Out, that's that's a great fine, And I

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Speaker 10: appreciate you you going to find that because this breakdown

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Speaker 10: makes totals sense to me, Like, I don't I think

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Speaker 10: we're at this point with the w where every little

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Speaker 10: thing that has to do with Caitlin, Oh, immediately we

485
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Speaker 10: have to be up in arms. We don't know, We

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Speaker 10: really really don't, y'all. Like she had a good year

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Speaker 10: to this point, but she's been out, she's been hurt,

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Speaker 10: she's been off the court. Yes, she's second in assist

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Speaker 10: per game. That's never not gonna be magical. But they're

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Speaker 10: supposed to rank her off Aura, Like she's not even

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Speaker 10: you know what I mean, she's not even. She doesn't

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Speaker 10: even have an opportunity to play in the games. And

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Speaker 10: then if you look at the players who were voted

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Speaker 10: ahead of her, that makes it make even more sense.

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Speaker 10: Alisha Gray ranked first, having the best year of her

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Speaker 10: entire career, the most point.

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Speaker 9: She's ever averaged. Right, you got Sabrinni and Escu.

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Speaker 10: You just talked about her, Alex and I think it's

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Speaker 10: so funny how quickly people are forgotten that Sabrina was

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Speaker 10: the golden child when she can Yeah, right, but.

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Speaker 9: Now it feels like she's getting hurt.

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Speaker 10: Her second win, she's ranked second, and the player voting

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Speaker 10: her team's in third place. She's top five in points

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Speaker 10: per game, Like, there's a lot of reasons these other

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Speaker 10: guards were ranked above Caitlyn Clark and then just look

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Speaker 10: at the standings Indies in eighth place. They've struggled even

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Speaker 10: when Caitlyn has been on the court. There have been

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Speaker 10: games where they've played seamlessly, and there've been games where

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Speaker 10: they just don't look like the Feber team we expect

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Speaker 10: them to look like. So I just don't think this

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Speaker 10: is a thing. It's not a slight, it's not a disrespect.

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Speaker 10: It's not evidence of some ulterior motive that people have,

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Speaker 10: though I will say I would understand if there were

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Speaker 10: some rough, tough feelings towards Kaitlin because of some of

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Speaker 10: the little scuffles we've seen throughout the first half of

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Speaker 10: the year, But I don't think that's what's being reflected

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Speaker 10: in this ranking at all.

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Speaker 1: I think it's possible that a couple players did think. Listen,

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Speaker 1: she's gonna get all the fan votes. I don't need

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Speaker 1: to boost her. I'm going to pick some other players

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Speaker 1: that I think I want to give a bump. That

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Speaker 1: is very possible, right, Or it might even be some

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Speaker 1: players who flat out resent the fact that there are

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Speaker 1: so many that cape for Caitlin, regardless of what the

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Speaker 1: context of anything is, and that they're just.

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Speaker 2: Frustrated with that.

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Speaker 1: But what I want to point to is what you

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Speaker 1: said me, which is the numbers as of July second,

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Speaker 1: which is I believe, the date that this came out.

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Speaker 1: She had only played in nine games. She had the

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Speaker 1: quad strain, she had the groin injury, so she's already

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Speaker 1: not putting up very much of a body of work

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Speaker 1: to be voted upon.

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Speaker 2: And at the time, she was.

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Speaker 1: Twelfth in the league in points per game, thirteenth in

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Speaker 1: field goals, made, eighty eighth in three point percentage, Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's the accurate number. Eighty eighth in three point percentage,

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Speaker 1: third in three pointers made, thirty fifth in rebounds, second

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Speaker 1: in assist first in turnovers, and fourteenth in steals. Those

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Speaker 1: are good numbers, there's some good ones in there, and

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Speaker 1: then you look at the actual numbers, you say, she's

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Speaker 1: not having a great season. And yes, the injuries are

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Speaker 1: a huge part of that. But if you're the player's voting,

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Speaker 1: you're not voting off of like hype like you said

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Speaker 1: or Aura, You're voting off of.

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Speaker 2: How people are playing, and.

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Speaker 3: She hasn't been playing that well when she is playing.

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Speaker 2: So it actually makes sense.

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Speaker 1: And the problem is is that every conversation we have

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Speaker 1: around Caitlin, and often the w in general, is so

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Speaker 1: infused with ignorance that it's very hard to even have

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Speaker 1: the conversation, Like you have to get people caught up

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Speaker 1: on a million things before they can even have an

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Speaker 1: accurate response to something like this. And so when it

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Speaker 1: came out, it was not surprised at all that people

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Speaker 1: lost their goddamn minds.

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Speaker 2: And I was also like, how about just go look

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Speaker 2: at some statistics watch them games.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I was fascinated by Kelsey Plumb though getting ranked

560
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Speaker 8: sixth by fans, sixth by the media, in sixteenth by players,

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Speaker 8: because I think one of the things that really stands

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Speaker 8: out to me looking through these and we'll link to

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Speaker 8: them in the show notes, but the media and players

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Speaker 8: are actually pretty well aligned hm, which says a lot

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Speaker 8: to me that at least the media members that are

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Speaker 8: voting on this are pretty clued in to like what

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Speaker 8: actual good basketball looks like and the types of stats

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Speaker 8: that you should be keeping tabs on. And so I'm

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Speaker 8: super curious about that one though, Like is it just

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Speaker 8: the media over ranking her or is there something going

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Speaker 8: on where the players are like, mmm, Kelsey, I don't

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Speaker 8: know about you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The other one that stands out to me, especially based

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Speaker 1: on what we just talked about with Sabrina as well,

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Speaker 1: is pagebackers. Yes, pagebackers number two, fan rank number five,

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Speaker 1: media rank number four, player rank.

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Speaker 2: Like when we.

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Speaker 1: Talk about rookies, rookie treatment, rookie expectations, all the other stuff,

580
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Speaker 1: the golden child is their resentment.

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Speaker 2: Page is immune.

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Speaker 1: Page is so beloved by everyone, and that's not a

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Speaker 1: knock on her game because she is insanely efficient. I

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Speaker 1: just had someone text me today that was like, is

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Speaker 1: it crazy to think that Page might be better than

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Speaker 1: like Clark and Reeese And I'm like, bruh, she could

587
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Speaker 1: be better than everybody, and like, you're not going to

588
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Speaker 1: see the highlights as much because it is so efficient

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Speaker 1: and she makes it look easy, and then she's putting

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Speaker 1: up numbers that we just haven't seen. So I do

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Speaker 1: have to say I enjoy the fact that, you know,

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Speaker 1: Page wins people over and seems to be popular with

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Speaker 1: everybody involved. Okay, the other thing I mentioned earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show is that Clark and the FISA Collier are

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Speaker 1: captains of the teams, and they switched coaches for the game.

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Speaker 1: Cheryl Reeve coaches the league leading Links, so she was

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Speaker 1: assigned to Clark's team because Clark was the top vote getter.

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Speaker 1: But then they swapped so that Cheryl's going to coach

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Speaker 1: the team led by Hurst our player Collier, and Clark

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Speaker 1: will be led by the Liberty of Sandy Brondelo. Now,

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Speaker 1: on its face, this is really no big deal, and

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Speaker 1: it was kind of funny. Even in the live show

603
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Speaker 1: where they revealed their drafted players, Caitlin was like, I

604
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: don't know if we're allowed to do this, but whatever,

605
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Speaker 1: try to stop us.

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Speaker 2: There's no rule.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of funny, and you know, you're, oh, yeah,

608
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Speaker 1: of course reeven Caller want to stick together. But on

609
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Speaker 1: the other hand, some of the fun of this game

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Speaker 1: is that you see players and coaches together that we

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Speaker 1: don't normally see. And the added little twist here is

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Speaker 1: that there is controversy that's been built around Cheryl Reeve

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Speaker 1: and her role as head coach of the Olympic basketball team.

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Speaker 1: Even though she didn't get to decide which players were

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Speaker 1: on the roster, she was thrown into the mess and

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Speaker 1: accused of like being critical because she tweeted out once

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Speaker 1: about how her team's preseason game wasn't being played on

618
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Speaker 1: TV and you couldn't watch it and there's more things

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Speaker 1: to watch than just Caitlin Clark. So combined, certain people,

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Speaker 1: Stine Brennan among them, have sort of made her an

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Speaker 1: enemy of Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 3: This doesn't help.

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Speaker 9: So I was watching it, I was like, no.

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Speaker 3: Don't add to this.

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Speaker 9: I wanted to see.

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Speaker 1: Y'all on a sideline together, just being fine, and instead

627
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Speaker 1: it's like, I'm sorry, I can't be expected to play

628
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: for her. And I'm not saying that that's what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: but that's how it reads.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't love that move, and I thought it

632
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 8: was interesting for anyone that didn't see the live show.

633
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 8: But Caitlyn even starts off by being like, I don't

634
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Speaker 8: know if this is in the rules, I don't care,

635
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 8: and she made it sound like she had discussed it

636
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 8: with Fia ahead of time, like she wasn't like it

637
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 8: was clearly already decided, but.

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Speaker 1: Fee's face didn't look enthusiastic and like, yeah, this is fun.

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00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 8: Yeah, And then also, why didn't Fee bring it up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Perhaps yeah again, Yeah, Why wouldn't phoeb be like,

641
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Speaker 1: I can't let my coach be working with y'all, I

642
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 1: can't let me steal my coach.

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Speaker 2: Then it would seem more fun. Instead it was like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is allowed, but I'm not

645
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Speaker 2: gonna play for her.

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 10: I really don't know what to make of that piece

648
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 10: of it, because that did kind of throw me for

649
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 10: a loop. I was like, and I was also as

650
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 10: a producer and somebody who you know knows you, and

651
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 10: folks who work in broadcast at TV, I'm like, babe,

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Speaker 10: don't go off script, don't off script.

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Speaker 9: Don't tell these people some shit that they weren't ready for.

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Speaker 10: But that aside, when it comes to the actual like gameplay,

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Speaker 10: I'm really not mad at it, honestly, because if you

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Speaker 10: think about what just happened with Minnesota losing to Indiana

657
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Speaker 10: and the Commissioner's Cup. It would make sense to me

658
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Speaker 10: if he specifically had a little chip on her shoulder.

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Speaker 10: She's like, all Star is gonna be on your home court.

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Speaker 10: You just beat us on our home court for more

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Speaker 10: money than you would earn the finals. As Kaitlyn Clark

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Speaker 10: pointed out, why not, I'm gonna go out here and

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Speaker 10: see if we can make a statement. And on the

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Speaker 10: flip side, you know you got Kaitlyn Clark, Kelsey Mitchell,

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Speaker 10: Jackie young Sonya Citron, Sabrinian Escut, some of the most

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Speaker 10: prolific shooters in the game. Under Sandy Brondelo in her

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Speaker 10: kind of offense, that's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 9: And you either way you look at that.

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Speaker 10: The more involved and engaged I feel like the players are,

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Speaker 10: the more they're about it, the more they're excited about it,

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Speaker 10: the better the quality of the actual game will be.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I agree with all that. I just

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Speaker 2: don't want to give ammunition to conspiracy theories.

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Speaker 8: For Sarah, you already listed facts in this episode, and

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Speaker 8: that was against their entire identity.

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Speaker 2: They're already gone, They're not even here.

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Speaker 8: Before we move on, one more thing I want to

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Speaker 8: mention from that draft selection show with Fee, but I

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Speaker 8: don't know if you guys noticed she was wearing an

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Speaker 8: Unrivaled shirt and Caitlin was wearing an Indiana Fever shirt. Also,

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Speaker 8: every single player that Fee selected has an association with Unrivaled,

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Speaker 8: with the exception of Neka, who of course is in

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Speaker 8: charge of the players Association. And so to me, that

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Speaker 8: whole thing also felt a little bit like a slight

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Speaker 8: middle finger to the WNBA.

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Speaker 2: Oooh, I did not notice that.

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Speaker 8: To me, it felt like a subtle statement from Fee

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Speaker 8: of hey, I'm representing Unrivaled right now, not the league,

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Speaker 8: which for people that don't know, there are a lot

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Speaker 8: of rules about media appearances and what you can and

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Speaker 8: cannot wear to them. Usually you are mandated to wear

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Speaker 8: team gear. I'm not sure if he was breaking a

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Speaker 8: rule by not wearing team gear to that, or maybe

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Speaker 8: it fell in these gray lines of like whose jurisdiction

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Speaker 8: is this, But the fact that she was wearing an

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Speaker 8: Unrivaled thing did send a message. I thought about how

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Speaker 8: she currently feels about the CBA negotiations.

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Speaker 1: And also worth noting that she actually came out feeded

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Speaker 1: and denied any conflict of interest that she might have

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Speaker 1: in terms of her roles as both a co founder

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Speaker 1: of Unrivaled and vice president of the WNBAPA. So somebody

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Speaker 1: on X basically said that there was no way that

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Speaker 1: Kyllier and Stewart could negotiate the upcoming CBA in good

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Speaker 1: faith because of the financial benefits that they would get

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Speaker 1: if the WNBA were to go into a lockout and

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Speaker 1: how that might help their Unrivaled league. So then NEFISA

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Speaker 1: wrote back on ex and was like, so, let me

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Speaker 1: get this straight. While everyone else was enjoying fireworks, you

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Speaker 1: were thinking about how me and Stewie of all people,

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Speaker 1: are conspiring to force a lockout that would result in

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Speaker 1: less money year round for WNBA players.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, makes sense.

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Speaker 1: They weren't working with a lot of information, but they

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Speaker 1: were ready and willing to send out those conspiracies, which

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Speaker 1: brings us.

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Speaker 2: Back to what we just talked about.

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Speaker 1: But it is interesting that maybe it was a wink

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Speaker 1: from her, you know, like I'm going to wear this

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Speaker 1: Unrivaled shirt since people think that I'm you know, negotiating

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Speaker 1: against the league.

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Speaker 8: But she should have shut up In the New York

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Speaker 8: Skyline Dress's Kathy Anger.

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Speaker 1: All right, we don't have enough time for all the

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Speaker 1: questions that we asked ourselves over break, Like you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know which crimes get you deported to a

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Speaker 1: foreign gulag and which ones get you elected president? Or

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many books do you need to

728
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Speaker 1: sell to offset the cost of selling your soul? Or

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Speaker 1: maybe you know why did HBO cancel Somebody Somewhere great show.

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to get to those another time,

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Speaker 1: because we got a lot of work to do putting

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Speaker 1: together a brand spankin new season of amazing good game

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Speaker 1: episodes for all y'all, And we already have some really

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Speaker 1: great guests lined up for the first few weeks, so

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Speaker 1: get excited for that. And I just have some goals

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Speaker 1: for this season that I would like to share.

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Speaker 2: I would like to do.

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Speaker 1: Some more fun group chat episodes with like comedians and

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Speaker 1: content creators and people who know game, just shooting the

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Speaker 1: shit and talking about issues and topics that are top

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Speaker 1: of mind for women's sports fans. I think those are

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Speaker 1: really fun. I love listening to shows where people are

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Speaker 1: laughing a lot and like having fun, and I want

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Speaker 1: to give that to our listeners sometimes as well.

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Speaker 2: And I also want to get more w players on

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 1: Their schedules make it tough to book them at times,

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Speaker 1: but I really want to hear more from the women themselves.

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Speaker 1: Since so much of W chatter tends to be dominated

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Speaker 1: by talking heads and TikTokers and Twitter loud mouse and

751
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Speaker 1: headline writers that are trying to get clicks, I find

752
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Speaker 1: it harder and harder to find good information now because

753
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Speaker 1: the top of every search is like the garbage AI

754
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: generated shit where they're like speaks out break silence and

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Speaker 1: like they didn't say or do anything.

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Speaker 2: So I want to get more players and hear it

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Speaker 2: from them. Meish, what about you? What do you want

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Speaker 2: to do this season?

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Speaker 10: Everything you just said like to with THEI of course,

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Speaker 10: of course I want every w NBA player in the

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Speaker 10: league to come on our show. Actually, can we just

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Speaker 10: block out the next one hundred and fifty episode? That

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Speaker 10: would be a lot, But I'm a thousand percent there with.

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Speaker 1: You on that.

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Speaker 10: I also want to get some celebrity fans on, like,

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Speaker 10: that's that's an area I really want to tap into.

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Speaker 10: I'm talking like Leslie Jones her crazy self. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 10: make that make that connection, Sarah Spain connection, vivocate a Fox,

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Speaker 10: Wanda Sykes, all top of my personal list.

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Speaker 2: Love it.

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Speaker 10: But specifically, there's one person in particular that I really

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Speaker 10: really really really really want to get to come on

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Speaker 10: the show, and that's Isa Ray. Y'all, yes, lady, I

774
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Speaker 10: know she's busy, I know, I know you heard her name.

775
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 10: Were like, there's no way, And there is a way

776
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Speaker 10: because she's an investor in San Diego FC of the

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Speaker 10: MLS uh And I think with the right poking and prodding,

778
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Speaker 10: we can bring her over to the NWSL side show

779
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 10: her how much more fun she would have investing in

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Speaker 10: the San Diego Wave.

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Speaker 9: Or pork and if you got it, girl, you got it.

782
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Speaker 10: But I'm just saying it feels like there's a clear

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Speaker 10: cut connection there and we can make that happen here.

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Speaker 2: I love it. I'm here for it, Alex, what about you?

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Speaker 8: I want to see us book some opposing athletes in

786
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 8: a head to head interview kind of actually inspired a

787
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Speaker 8: little bit by what we saw with Caitlin Clark and

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Speaker 8: the FISA Collier doing their pre All Star draft. I

789
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Speaker 8: remember seeing I think I'm going to give MMA credit

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Speaker 8: for this. I don't remember if it was the PFL

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Speaker 8: or some other organizations, but I know seriously, but I

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Speaker 8: remember seeing a joint interview before or FI. I literally

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Speaker 8: do not remember the athletes, but it was two athletes

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Speaker 8: that were going to fight each other in two days

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Speaker 8: doing a sit down interview together, and it was so engaging,

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Speaker 8: and I was like, I can understand why athletes don't

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Speaker 8: do more of this, but I feel like, if there's

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Speaker 8: anywhere to have those types of conversations, it's women's sports, right,

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Speaker 8: and so I want to see athletes come on and

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Speaker 8: you know, have a little bit of trash talk and

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Speaker 8: throw some shade.

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Speaker 2: That would be really fun.

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Speaker 1: Let's just call the WNBA in advance and say that

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Speaker 1: we would like access to the top four players from

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Speaker 1: each of the finals teams to chat with us directly

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Speaker 1: before they meet in the WNBA finals.

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Speaker 3: So you think that will work? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: The questions they include what trash talk name would you

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Speaker 8: give your opponents?

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Speaker 5: Dog?

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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't think Marina and the Sun are going

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Speaker 2: to be in the finals.

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Speaker 8: That doesn't mean Rina's trash talk won't be though.

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Speaker 2: I love all that. I love all that.

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Speaker 1: All right, we got to take another break obviously send

817
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Speaker 1: us what you'd like to see in this season as well.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, one sport officially enters it's good game,

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Speaker 1: Gay Shit Era.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, slices.

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Speaker 1: It's time for another edition of good Game, Good Game

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Speaker 1: fact you. All right, here's a fun fact you could

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Speaker 1: share with the haters who insist on continuing to spread

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Speaker 1: the lie that most of Angel Reese's rebounds come off

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Speaker 1: her own offensive missus. Heading into game action on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Angel Reese led the WNBA in rebounds with two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty five, but if you just took her defensive rebounds,

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Speaker 1: she'd still lead the league. Her one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: six defensive rebounds tops second place Azare Stevens one hundred

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Speaker 1: and seventy two total offensive and defensive rebounds combined. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: take that stat to certain folks you know who, and

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Speaker 1: ask them if they can identify and articulate why they're

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Speaker 1: so committed to spreading a lie.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to have a good answer.

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Speaker 1: All right, folks, this is a big day for the show.

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Speaker 1: We've got our first entry into the Annals of Softball

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Speaker 1: and gay Shit. Okay, so get this at the start

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Speaker 1: of the Athletes Unlimited Softball Season AUSL, Kayla Kowalick was

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Speaker 1: playing for the Blaze while her girlfriend Mackenzie Clark was

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Speaker 1: on the Volts, but after the first ten games of

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Speaker 1: the season, Clark was traded to the Blaze to join Kualik.

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Speaker 1: It was part of the first trade in AUA sell history,

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Speaker 1: and per Unusual Softball, koali stats got a big boost

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Speaker 1: once her girlfriend arrived. In the ten games before Clark

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Speaker 1: was traded, Kowalik had a one ninety two batting average,

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Speaker 1: three hundred on base percentage, and three to eight slugging percentage,

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Speaker 1: But after Clark joined her team, Qualk posted a five

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Speaker 1: hundred batting average, six twenty five on base percentage, and

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Speaker 1: seven to fifty slugging percentage. The power of love, y'all

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Speaker 1: sports are obviously physical and psychological, so it makes sense

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Speaker 1: that play with her crush would help Koalik crush some dingers.

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Speaker 1: We love that. We also love that you're listening, but

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Speaker 1: we want you to get in the game every day too.

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Speaker 1: So here's our good game play of the day. It's

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Speaker 1: an easy one, but we're really hoping that all of

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Speaker 2: our community. And for extra credit, if you're listening to

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Speaker 2: the and you happen to be an.

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Speaker 1: Agent, player, coach, media, somebody else in the mix, and

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Speaker 1: holler at him and tell them to come on. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, you know, like Venus and Serena Williams, Caitlin Clark,

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Speaker 1: Angel Reese, Don Staley, Emma Hayes, Simone Biles, Jordan Giles,

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