Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where Marina Maybrey
Speaker 1: is playing a one person game of horse while watching
Speaker 1: all of her teammates get traded away and don't ask
Speaker 1: us how she already got home. It's Tuesday, March eighteenth,
Speaker 1: and on today's show, Big Citrus will be jumping on
Speaker 1: to discuss the biggest March Madness bracket storylines, the strangest
Speaker 1: WNBA news timing we've seen in.
Speaker 2: A while, and our favorite new T shirts which could
Speaker 2: also be your favorite new T shirts.
Speaker 1: Plus a rallying call becomes a burn potatoes and corn galore,
Speaker 1: and did it just get a little cloudy in here?
Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this welcome back slices,
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the WNBA where midway through the NCAA Tourney bracket reveal
Speaker 1: and the unrivaled semifinals. On Sunday, it was announced that
Speaker 1: the Connecticut's Sun have traded Natasha Cloud to the New
Speaker 1: York Liberty in exchange for the number seven pick in
Speaker 1: this year's WNBA draft and a first round pick in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Quick reminder, Cloud, who played for the
Speaker 1: Phoenix Mercury last season, was sent to Connecticut just a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago as part of the four team deal
Speaker 1: that sent Melissa Thomas to Phoenix and Satusabili to Dallas.
Speaker 1: While Cloud is clearly psyched to be in New York,
Speaker 1: tweeting New York as soon as the news broke, we're
Speaker 1: guessing that Marina Maybrey is probably a little less thrilled.
Speaker 1: Maybury had requested a trade from the Sun earlier this
Speaker 1: year after the team lost its entire starting lineup during
Speaker 1: free agency, but that trade was denied and now she
Speaker 1: lost Hash too. Thank god she learned how to cook
Speaker 1: it Unrivaled. It's time to drown those sorrows and some pasta.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Unrivaled. By the time U slices hear this Unrivaled,
Speaker 1: we'll have its first champion. But we had to record
Speaker 1: this ahead of Monday Night's final between roseby C and
Speaker 1: Vinyl BC due to my wild travel schedule, and while
Speaker 1: we could pull out the crystal ball again, it was
Speaker 1: dead wrong last week calling game for the Lunar Owls,
Speaker 1: Hoodie who shout out to Panda with Cookie and Blue
Speaker 1: Sky for that great a burn.
Speaker 2: After the Owls went down on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We will plan to do a full unrivaled debrief with
Speaker 1: the winners and the final awards of the season later
Speaker 1: this week to the PWHL, where the Minnesota Frost and
Speaker 1: New York Sirens played in front of fourteen, two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty eight fans on Sunday night in Detroit, Michigan,
Speaker 1: setting a new US Pro Women's Hockey attendance record. Detroit's
Speaker 1: Little Caesars Arena was the eighth of nine stops on
Speaker 1: the PWHL's takeover tour, which could factor into which new
Speaker 1: cities the upstart Women's Hockey League expands to in the future.
Speaker 1: According to Zesti Lyme on Blue Sky, the whole arena
Speaker 1: was chanting, we want a team, so Detroit definitely threw
Speaker 1: their hat in the ring for expansion Sunday night. The
Speaker 1: league also announced that more than one million fans have
Speaker 1: attended a PWHL contest since the league played its inaugural
Speaker 1: game on January first, twenty twenty four. Incredible New York
Speaker 1: went on to win that game against Minnesota four to
Speaker 1: one to keep the team's playoff hopes just barely afloat
Speaker 1: heading into the final month and a half of the
Speaker 1: regular season, Sirens are currently last in the sixteen standings.
Speaker 1: The Frost, last year's tampions, are sitting and fourth. More
Speaker 1: from the World of Snow and Ice, US cross country
Speaker 1: skier and friend of the Show, Jesse Diggins clinched her
Speaker 1: third overall World.
Speaker 2: Cup title this weekend.
Speaker 1: That's the award given to the skier with the most
Speaker 1: points over the course of the grueling thirty one race
Speaker 1: November to March international season. While there are technically still
Speaker 1: three races left on the World Cup slate in the
Speaker 1: next few days, diggins lead over the rest of the
Speaker 1: field can't be beaten at this point. The three time
Speaker 1: Olympic medalist was already the only North American cross country
Speaker 1: skier of any gender to own two World Cup overall
Speaker 1: titles when she accomplished that feat last year, and now
Speaker 1: she's even more in a league of her own. We
Speaker 1: got to take a quick break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: get out the juicers. It's time for Big Citrus to reconvene.
Speaker 2: Welcome back Slices.
Speaker 1: Let's have a little Big Citrus convo about some of
Speaker 1: the biggest news of the.
Speaker 2: Week, and I want to start with the bracket takeaways.
Speaker 2: Late on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: I gave you some of my biggest thoughts on it,
Speaker 1: but I want to hear from Alex and Mesh as well.
Speaker 1: And I get the feeling Mesh's gonna want to start with.
Speaker 1: I don't know William and Mary.
Speaker 3: I don't give a piss about nothing but the tribe. Okay,
Speaker 3: my William and Mary tribe. My alma mater won the
Speaker 3: CAA Championship on Sunday. I was sick to my freaking
Speaker 3: stomach that I couldn't be there. Had a good reason,
Speaker 3: also had an annoying reason with travel and planes and
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff, but literally cried once that
Speaker 3: buzzer sounded. Coach Aronderson Davis's team has restored my faith
Speaker 3: in that program and the ability of folks who have
Speaker 3: one goal, one accord to really come together. That team
Speaker 3: was fifteen and eighteen on the season, folks, that is rough,
Speaker 3: and I had a front row seat to it. There
Speaker 3: were ups and downs, but anybody who was paying close
Speaker 3: attention new there were flashes of brilliance. Whether it was
Speaker 3: a five minute segment, in a quarter, a whole quarter,
Speaker 3: a whole half, it was just a matter of them
Speaker 3: putting it all together. The talent was there, you know,
Speaker 3: the strategy was there, the defense especially was there.
Speaker 2: In one player in.
Speaker 3: Particular, Bela Nasimento, throughout this entire season was dealing with
Speaker 3: the fact that she was now going to be the
Speaker 3: team's returning leading scorer and you know, in her last
Speaker 3: year in a college uniform, she's gonna be heading off
Speaker 3: to the pros, gonna be at the Combine in the
Speaker 3: final four. She set it off in the tournament and
Speaker 3: so many other players also stepped up during that four
Speaker 3: game stretch, y'all. They beat the reigning champs from last year, Drexel.
Speaker 3: They beat the number one seed in this tournament, North
Speaker 3: Carolina A and T, which by the way, had just
Speaker 3: blown them out the week prior, you know, in.
Speaker 4: The last game of the regular season.
Speaker 3: Then beat number three Campbell, who had also beat them
Speaker 3: the week prior in the last game of the regular season.
Speaker 3: Like you want to talk about an amazing run, that's
Speaker 3: an amazing run. And the thing that's most exciting to
Speaker 3: me for coach Aaron Dixon Davis in that team is
Speaker 3: they've got a very winnable first four game again is
Speaker 3: high point coming up on Thursday night. So I'm just
Speaker 3: over the moon. I've been crying on and off for
Speaker 3: like the last you know, thirty six hours. Never been
Speaker 3: happier to be in alone, Niche.
Speaker 5: They were the ninth Yes, they were.
Speaker 2: They were.
Speaker 3: That's why the first time, it's ninety three that they
Speaker 3: had made it to the championship, and if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 3: they were the lowest seed to make it to the
Speaker 3: championship ever in the history of the CAA.
Speaker 1: This is the first time they're going dancing, which is huge.
Speaker 1: And also, Meche, you are the color commentator for their games,
Speaker 1: and so not only did you play there, but now
Speaker 1: you've been calling the games all season. And I have
Speaker 1: to admit I haven't been watching super closely to the
Speaker 1: team because I'm kind of thinking, oh, they're you know,
Speaker 1: they're not going to be the kind of team I'm
Speaker 1: watching come March. And so when they won and they
Speaker 1: got the bid, I was like, I feel like Misha's
Speaker 1: been burying the lead.
Speaker 2: I'm William and Mary being like a tournament team. But
Speaker 2: the point is they.
Speaker 4: Were swear to you.
Speaker 3: It's not that they again, It's like you look at
Speaker 3: the eye test, you look at the record, You're not
Speaker 3: going to say a fifteen to eighteen team is going
Speaker 3: to make it to the tournament. But that's the beauty
Speaker 3: of it, right, It's all about in March and tournament time.
Speaker 4: You gotta peak at the right moment.
Speaker 3: And they have been learning, you know, So you have
Speaker 3: to learn each lesson after every loss, and I think
Speaker 3: they did that this season and that's why they were
Speaker 3: able to perform that way.
Speaker 1: I don't want to deprive the slices of the good
Speaker 1: and bad reason that you missed the game, So can
Speaker 1: you quickly tell them what you were up to and
Speaker 1: why you didn't make it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta give a shout out to my girl,
Speaker 3: one of my best friends, one of my favorite humans
Speaker 3: on this planet, Chandler, my bestI.
Speaker 4: Yea, I won't give you her full government because you know.
Speaker 3: She does important things, but it was her bachelorette this weekend,
Speaker 3: so I was going to try to make it back
Speaker 3: in time for that.
Speaker 4: Game, hopefully even to call it.
Speaker 3: But Tampa, Florida, folks, we were down there with the
Speaker 3: weather and the storms and the rain, and so my
Speaker 3: flight got delayed, he got canceled, I got.
Speaker 4: All that kind of stuff. But I was able to
Speaker 4: watch and celebrate so hey.
Speaker 5: And maybe William and Mary will be back in Tampa.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: Hey, you never missed the dulcin tones of one Jones
Speaker 1: on the air for that game on the radio call.
Speaker 1: But she at least got to nurse a little hangover
Speaker 1: and watched the game, maybe having some hair at the
Speaker 1: dog to get you pickle. And you made it back
Speaker 1: in time for the show. Too awesome. Super excited about
Speaker 1: that and excited for you.
Speaker 2: Let's talk a.
Speaker 1: Couple other things. Does don Staley have a point? South
Speaker 1: Carolina the overall number one seed? Every year since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, it goes to UCLA.
Speaker 4: This year.
Speaker 1: Dawn was not super demonstrative and said it wasn't bulletin
Speaker 1: board material, but made it clear that she thought that
Speaker 1: they should have been the number one overall.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think she made a great point, right,
Speaker 3: and she even said it in the post selection show
Speaker 3: interview she did with Holly Rowe. This is a team
Speaker 3: that played nineteen quad one opponents and for folks who
Speaker 3: don't know what that means, basically, the cream of the crop,
Speaker 3: the teams with the most value if you beat them.
Speaker 3: Like those teams they went sixteen and three in nineteen
Speaker 3: games against Quad one opponents.
Speaker 1: And a lot of them early in the season when
Speaker 1: we want to watch those games. We want to see
Speaker 1: the big games. We don't want you to wait until
Speaker 1: late season, so you're still figuring things out. Maybe folks
Speaker 1: are hurt, maybe they're new, maybe they're fresh, and you're
Speaker 1: willing to give up an l in order to learn
Speaker 1: about your team and for the better of all of
Speaker 1: college basketball, exactly.
Speaker 3: For the entertainment value and also for your team to
Speaker 3: get better. And so I agree with her that you
Speaker 3: shouldn't penalize teams, you know what I mean, You want
Speaker 3: to incentivize them to continue playing those games early on
Speaker 3: in the season. So she's definitely got an argument there,
Speaker 3: and then Lizzie.
Speaker 4: Goppolie does as well.
Speaker 3: For USC to me, I test wise, at this point
Speaker 3: in the season, I worry about their consistency. I worry
Speaker 3: about the fact that so much is on Juju's shoulders.
Speaker 3: It's always a little scary when any team.
Speaker 4: Puts a lot of eggs in one basket. But also
Speaker 4: Juju shown she can do it. And let's be real.
Speaker 3: They handed UCLA the only two losses they face this season,
Speaker 3: and it's always hard to beat a team three times,
Speaker 3: regardless of the situation.
Speaker 4: So I do think she's got a point as well.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, in my opinion,
Speaker 3: you got a great point, that's fine, but you gotta
Speaker 3: win the game.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter period.
Speaker 5: Okay, So here's a question. Do you think Lindsay is
Speaker 5: most upset about being the fourth number one seed or
Speaker 5: the fact that Yukon is eight, thus hutting them against
Speaker 5: each other potentially in the Elite A.
Speaker 1: You know, well, I think it's about who's in her region.
Speaker 1: As a result of being the fourth number one, you
Speaker 1: get less respect as the fourth in terms of who
Speaker 1: they're going to put as your twos and threes in
Speaker 1: your region.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean that's why she's pissed.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think part of the reason down is
Speaker 1: like I'm pissed, but it's cool, is because their paths
Speaker 1: of the final.
Speaker 2: Four is oh, yes, it is, yeah, whereas Lindsay's like,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 3: Man, you gotta go through Oklahoma, which is the number three.
Speaker 3: You gotta go through Kentucky, which is the number four.
Speaker 3: Both teams that are not pushovers, right, and then yeah,
Speaker 3: if Yukon ends up at the end of that at
Speaker 3: the end in that region, that's tough. Right, You already
Speaker 3: know that they've got your number. Being a team two
Speaker 3: times is a little easier than being the team.
Speaker 1: Three times, so right, Yeah, I mean I think there's
Speaker 1: that's why the committee's job is so tough, because you
Speaker 1: can potentially argue that any of the number one seeds
Speaker 1: could have been the overall number one, depending on which
Speaker 1: kind of metric you want to look at, which makes
Speaker 1: it so difficult.
Speaker 2: I want to talk Notre Dame at number three a
Speaker 2: couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1: If you had said this, we would have been gobsmacked
Speaker 1: based on Hannah Hidalgo and Olivia Miles and how that
Speaker 1: team looked. But not only did they lose a handful
Speaker 1: of games down the stretch, they lost two teams that
Speaker 1: then picked up a lot of momentum as a result
Speaker 1: of those wins, and that's how you end up being
Speaker 1: a three. But man, does it suck for.
Speaker 2: Anyone in a region where Notre Dame is the three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nuts, But it's exactly what you said. When
Speaker 3: you're a top team, you have to take care of
Speaker 3: business against team you're supposed to take care of business against,
Speaker 3: and I also think though, it makes them that much
Speaker 3: more dangerous because they had a taste of what it
Speaker 3: was like to be at the top, to be a
Speaker 3: potential number one, and had it ripped out from underneath them.
Speaker 3: They're coming back with a vengeance.
Speaker 4: If you've ever seen it before.
Speaker 2: Okay, I want to know your announcement reaction. Go to move?
Speaker 1: Are you dancing? Are you screaming? Are you I've been
Speaker 1: here before? Playing it cool? Alex, The camera just switched
Speaker 1: to you. You hear your name, and you see that
Speaker 1: you are now live on ESPN.
Speaker 2: Don't think what are you doing?
Speaker 5: I'm digging back to when my field hockey team made
Speaker 5: the NC DOUBLEA tournament, and I was the one who
Speaker 5: We won our conference tournament both times, so we knew
Speaker 5: we were in. But I was refreshing the NC DOUBLEA
Speaker 5: site and doing like slash field Hockey D three and
Speaker 5: like possible combos, like trying to hack the website to
Speaker 5: see who we were seated against first, and so the
Speaker 5: idea of having a camera in the room to capture
Speaker 5: my reaction totally foreign and alien to me. I would
Speaker 5: probably be smiling and not wanting the attention to be
Speaker 5: on myself in my normal go to.
Speaker 2: Way heard you love that mesh go to move oof.
Speaker 3: My go to is immediately crying. As I just said,
Speaker 3: I would probably be. I would probably be really excited
Speaker 3: up until they actually said our names and then head
Speaker 3: everything is just involved with the crying. But there's a
Speaker 3: meme on Twitter. I think it's a video a gift.
Speaker 3: What are we even calling things anyway? Yeah, and there's
Speaker 3: a video of a girl on Twitter. She's like crying
Speaker 3: over to the side and that she turns herund and smirks.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, we did that. That would probably be me.
Speaker 4: That would probably be you.
Speaker 1: Would be crying and then you'd be like, oh damn,
Speaker 1: I gotta make some sort of move on this.
Speaker 2: So let me let me turn to camera.
Speaker 1: There was a gal I can't remember which team now,
Speaker 1: who was in front, like on her knees, and it
Speaker 1: looked like there was a deep prayer happening.
Speaker 4: Hey, I get it.
Speaker 2: I can't remember which team it was.
Speaker 1: I would like to be able to say that I
Speaker 1: would have like one of those choreographed TikTok moves that
Speaker 1: the people had out front looking all likes fly absolutely not.
Speaker 1: I would just be like the weirdo that runs straight
Speaker 1: up to the camera and puts my whole face into it,
Speaker 1: like and then I just start picking up all my
Speaker 1: smaller teammates. That feels the zone brand potentially chest bumps.
Speaker 1: I used to do those a lot back in my
Speaker 1: sporting days. It's always fun. Uh yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: would just be Yeah, But I don't get the people
Speaker 1: who are too cool for school.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: You knew you were going you're mad about Seed.
Speaker 1: I just for me, it's like any chance in life
Speaker 1: to celebrate, I'm taking it, even if i'm you know,
Speaker 1: just every moment is an opportunity to be excited.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's move on.
Speaker 1: While we're watching the bracket selection show, m hm, we
Speaker 1: just get a random announcement that Natasha Cloud is headed
Speaker 1: from the Sun to the Liberty. I love the move
Speaker 1: for all the reasons that are not you know, because
Speaker 1: I'm a Liberty or sunfan, just because Tasha is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite players and in New York is a
Speaker 1: fun place for her to be with a great team,
Speaker 1: her style, her vibes everything.
Speaker 2: What are the Sun doing?
Speaker 1: And do we have even more sympathy for Marina Maybury,
Speaker 1: whether or not we think she should be allowed to
Speaker 1: get traded again after demanding out multiple times, but just
Speaker 1: she's like all alone there, like the Fresh Prince meme.
Speaker 3: Honestly, you just gotta talk this season up for Connecticut.
Speaker 3: I you just got those one in the trash can.
Speaker 3: It's it's straight rebuild mode. I don't know what to think.
Speaker 4: If I'm Marina Maybury, I'm like, do I need to
Speaker 4: just sit out?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: What what's going on? Is this injury a little bit
Speaker 3: more than I think it is?
Speaker 4: Wink wink. No, I don't know what's going on over there.
Speaker 4: I have no clue.
Speaker 3: But as far as New York goes, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: excited you buried the lead. I'm excited because they made
Speaker 3: the gayest move possible.
Speaker 1: They sent how to put it through my hoops engas
Speaker 1: ship filter.
Speaker 3: Because they said, Tash to New York where her girlfriend
Speaker 3: Isabella Harrison just signed a trading camp contract on February
Speaker 3: twenty first, I missed everything.
Speaker 2: To me, I missed it. Yes, okay, I am behind that.
Speaker 2: This is why we go to you. This is why
Speaker 2: is your account.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, okay, yeah, because we don't you know
Speaker 1: what we saw some couples broken up in the name
Speaker 1: of basketball this offseason, so we like a good love
Speaker 1: story where we're getting reunited and it feels so good.
Speaker 3: But it does It does make sense on the court
Speaker 3: as well, though, right because what's been the criticism of Sabrinian.
Speaker 4: School all the time.
Speaker 3: It's the defense in Natasha Cloud brings all that in
Speaker 3: a bag of chips on the defensive end, and then
Speaker 3: you've got the possibility of her taking some of that
Speaker 3: facilitation pressure off of Sabs so she can just hitk
Speaker 3: some threes, throw some domes when she needs to please.
Speaker 1: There. I mean, as far as Marina goes, I will say, like,
Speaker 1: even if it's tempting to chalk this up to a loss,
Speaker 1: with the way the CBA and contracts are going, like,
Speaker 1: she has a reason to.
Speaker 2: Ball out and do her best. She does so she
Speaker 2: might have to all alone.
Speaker 4: Playing horse in the gym.
Speaker 2: I'll get yourself by yourself. Oh man.
Speaker 5: Before we move on from Tosh, can we spend just
Speaker 5: one moment talking about the timing, because it wasn't just
Speaker 5: the bracket reveal show at the same time, it was
Speaker 5: the unrivaled semi finals and I'm not sure why they
Speaker 5: decided to announce then, And I think it's notable that
Speaker 5: it was an announcement and not somebody leaking the news.
Speaker 5: And I think the reason why it was nobody leaking
Speaker 5: the news was because literally all of the women's basketball
Speaker 5: reporters were busy. And I don't know what's to blame, ineptitude, stupidity,
Speaker 5: or like the idea of like, oh, we can like
Speaker 5: make news during a big women's basketball moment, but like
Speaker 5: that's not how these things work, and uh yeah, just strange.
Speaker 2: So true, Alex.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I don't even know that we would know
Speaker 1: if it got leaked because none of us were looking
Speaker 1: for that. We were watching unrivaled playoffs and looking at
Speaker 1: the bracket show. Whether it was leaked and then they
Speaker 1: announced it or they announced it anyway, you would think
Speaker 1: that they would want that official post to come at
Speaker 1: a different time, and they didn't, And it's anyone's guess
Speaker 1: as to why. I mean, I would think the Liberty
Speaker 1: would want to soak up a little more attention.
Speaker 3: I don't know that that's the point I disagree on,
Speaker 3: because the Liberty in terms of you remember the super
Speaker 3: team narrative that started with Vegas that first year they
Speaker 3: won the championship in the second one. New York was
Speaker 3: so like, don't give that to us, please, we don't
Speaker 3: want to keep us out of We just want to
Speaker 3: have our book club and get on the court and play.
Speaker 3: And then because they've got a lot of soft spoken
Speaker 3: kind of people, and it also feels like that carries
Speaker 3: over into the front office as well. So I think
Speaker 3: maybe the Liberty are just like hustlers, move in silence, like.
Speaker 4: We're the Sun. I can't speak for them, but New.
Speaker 1: York, right, I think we all understand why the Sun
Speaker 1: might not want it to be heavily publicized that they
Speaker 1: have sent away yet to another player. But yeah, for
Speaker 1: the Liberty, it's possible that they're just like, don't talk
Speaker 1: about how much talent we're getting.
Speaker 2: Just speak quiet, we don't We'll fly under the radar here,
Speaker 2: look at Ellie.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, y'all, we got to talk merch because
Speaker 1: yesterday's show we made the big reveal that we finally
Speaker 1: have the merch that fans have been clamoring for all.
Speaker 2: The slices in our men cheese. When's the merch?
Speaker 1: Shraps, It's here, and it's on Breakingtea dot Com. Slash
Speaker 1: Spain is where you can go. I also posted it
Speaker 1: on my social with links. We'll put it in the
Speaker 1: show notes again. But yeah, I'm excited. I'm like Jenu,
Speaker 1: I think I might scream when I'm walking down the
Speaker 1: street if I see someone wearing one of our shirts.
Speaker 5: Sure, I haven't even thought about that possibility.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I went to one of the NWSL games I
Speaker 1: went to, I want to say, it might have been
Speaker 1: the championship game of the Red Stars and the Spirit
Speaker 1: at the in Louisville in twenty twenty one. But there
Speaker 1: was a girl wearing a shirt that said Mina and Sarah,
Speaker 1: I want to say, and Katie and somebody else, and
Speaker 1: it was all women from ESPN that she was a
Speaker 1: fan of.
Speaker 2: And I was like, that's me. She was like it
Speaker 2: is you, Oh my god. And I was like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, this is the coolest thing. Did you have that, Maide?
Speaker 2: And she was like I did, And I'm like.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Wait it was a custom shirt, yes, Like it.
Speaker 1: Was like those shirts that have like the name and
Speaker 1: her sand and you know, and she had it custom made,
Speaker 1: and like I was more excited to take a.
Speaker 2: Picture with her that she was to take a picture with.
Speaker 1: That's so funny it was Mina and Katie and Sarah
Speaker 1: and Alison. This was Katie Nolan, Mina Chimes, and then
Speaker 1: Allison was on The Levatar Show, and yeah, I was
Speaker 1: like losing my mind. So I feel like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that feeling when we like are walking down the
Speaker 1: street and we.
Speaker 2: See a good game, good game for you, just strolling
Speaker 2: towards us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be so wild because the one I've never
Speaker 3: had anybody obviously wear my merch because I've never had
Speaker 3: any merch. But I remember being at the end of
Speaker 3: USLE Championship in Kansas City and running into certified sly
Speaker 3: Stacy in her being like, oh my.
Speaker 4: God, are you producer me? And I was like, girl, yes,
Speaker 4: what it's going on? Is everything okay? So that's gonna
Speaker 4: be wild.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: Uh. And also I love that somebody already blue skied,
Speaker 1: so I guess skeated as we're calling it, even though
Speaker 1: don't google that or not look it up, please, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to have my twelve year old walking around
Speaker 1: in a good game, good game you shirt.
Speaker 2: And I was like, scent picks.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 5: Also, the shirts are so comfortable. Yeah, somebody that is
Speaker 5: kind of a snob about comfy t shirts, you know,
Speaker 5: like when bars hand up free tea shirts, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 5: if it's a Guilden that's like part polyester, no thank you,
Speaker 5: I won't take.
Speaker 2: It unless you want to sponsor skild In.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 2: No, they're comfortable, they fit awesome, They're super high quality.
Speaker 1: They come in sweatshirts. You can get a V neck,
Speaker 1: so yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to wear my asking me about women's
Speaker 5: sports shirt to like the hardware store, just like see
Speaker 5: what comes up, like anyone come out of the woodwork here.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want you to wear it to your trivia
Speaker 1: night that you always tell us they don't ask enough
Speaker 1: women's sports questions. They always include just men's men's sports.
Speaker 5: So no, they don't ask any sports questions, which is
Speaker 5: why I go to it because I do not want
Speaker 5: them asking sports questions that I can't answer.
Speaker 2: On the men's side.
Speaker 1: Got it, Well, I still think ask me about women's
Speaker 1: sports at your trivia.
Speaker 2: Night is a good one.
Speaker 1: I feel like that shirt in particular for all of
Speaker 1: March madness. If you order it right now and it
Speaker 1: comes in time for you to be at the bars
Speaker 1: and you're like, yeah, let me tell you about Juju,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about Page, let me tell you
Speaker 1: about South Carolina. Right already said, I'm just gonna wear
Speaker 1: that at work every day at the register. So if
Speaker 1: people don't already know how I feel, they'll ask me,
Speaker 1: and then I'll tell them about how much I love
Speaker 1: women's sports. So shout out to Breaking Tea, thank you
Speaker 1: for that collab. We're so excited about it. And then
Speaker 1: the last thing, starch Madness. We are about to make
Speaker 1: this bracket, so get your recipes in. It's like the
Speaker 1: last day I would say to send us submissions for this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make the bracket, and then I'm going to
Speaker 1: cook the final four.
Speaker 2: So far i've gotten some really to cook the final four. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know me cross them up.
Speaker 1: Uh No. So one of them that we got was
Speaker 1: funeral potatoes, which I've heard about a million times that
Speaker 1: haven't eaten. So I'm very excited, very Midwestern dish. And
Speaker 1: there's actually like a restaurant slash catering thing here in
Speaker 1: Chicago that went kind of viral called funeral Potatoes. And
Speaker 1: I've always been like I gotta I gotta.
Speaker 2: Make that so that one's in there.
Speaker 1: Obviously, potato corn chowder is going to be my jam
Speaker 1: Greek potatoes, So send the recipes, even the quirky ones.
Speaker 1: Because Panda with Cookie, who I mentioned earlier in the
Speaker 1: show on Blue Guy, they sent me a mildly unhinged
Speaker 1: recipe that involves a potato and a power drill. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I need details, please, it, I believe originally as a
Speaker 1: regular hot dog, but thankfully they amended that and made
Speaker 1: it a veggie dog. But somehow you're supposed to get
Speaker 1: a veggie dog into the core of a potato and
Speaker 1: then put it over the campfire. But pandawith Cookie basically
Speaker 1: explains that, like, even the power drill didn't really work
Speaker 1: and it's hard to do so, Connie, you have to
Speaker 1: just make the potato separately and then add the dog
Speaker 1: and the chili and the other stuff later.
Speaker 2: But they closed with this.
Speaker 1: After listening to Friday's episode of My Walk this morning,
Speaker 1: I realized that this might be an underdog entry.
Speaker 2: Is the potato the star in this dish? Perhaps not?
Speaker 2: Is this even a recipe?
Speaker 1: Not really, I didn't even tell you how to make
Speaker 1: the chili because I was regularly on potato duty. But
Speaker 1: does anyone remember that Kansas won the men's tournament in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two?
Speaker 2: No, and them, I bleed Carolina blue.
Speaker 1: People remember Saint Peter's Cinderella run in twenty twenty three?
Speaker 2: You know FD you believe it not Yukon.
Speaker 1: This reference, by the way, to everyone is to men's
Speaker 1: hoops sixteen seeds after you fairly Dickinson taking out number
Speaker 1: one perdue will allow it. Anyway back to pandit with cookie.
Speaker 1: Tater pigs are not the star. They are a fourteen
Speaker 1: seed upset experience my drop. Okay, So honestly, we might
Speaker 1: just allow the tater pigs into the bracket.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna neat to find a drill.
Speaker 4: The committee can take liberties.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Honestly, as somebody that hates cooking but loves woodworking
Speaker 5: and other types of DIY projects like this is my
Speaker 5: kind of recipe.
Speaker 2: Here you go. If tater pigs make it.
Speaker 1: Potentially, I will read the rest of the email because
Speaker 1: I was laughing throughout about the drill and being in
Speaker 1: the middle of camping and attempting to cook everything like
Speaker 1: it's good stuff. But send your recipes. Time is running out. Meiche, Alex.
Speaker 1: If you have a tremendous darch based recipe you're hiding, Alex,
Speaker 1: sounds more like you're hiding how to make a table.
Speaker 5: I hide potatoes in my garden.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet you do. Is that a euphemism? We
Speaker 2: don't have to get into it, please, Okay, we gotta
Speaker 2: take a break when we come back.
Speaker 1: The Goat parade continues welcome backslices. Yesterday we revealed Slice
Speaker 1: Amanda Valos the Good Game Goat Team bracket challenge, and
Speaker 1: we shared the left side of the bracket, so today
Speaker 1: the right side, top right of the bracket. Number one,
Speaker 1: the Magnificent seven ninety six US Olympic Gymnastics team Kerry
Speaker 1: Strug nailed the vault on a badly injured ankle, sacrificing
Speaker 1: the individual for team's success, and then got cradle carried
Speaker 1: off the mat, leading to important conversations about athletes advocating
Speaker 1: for their own bodies and safety. Perhaps this set the
Speaker 1: foundation for Simone Biles speaking up about the Twisties versus
Speaker 1: number four, the Trifecta. This was an ESPN radio show
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't remember, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: that Amanda is boldly kissing up to me in making
Speaker 1: this an entry in the bracket. Sarah Spain, Kate Fagan,
Speaker 1: Jane McManus taking on and taking out Ryan Rossillo and
Speaker 1: other ill prepared men trying to have no takes on
Speaker 1: women's sports topics.
Speaker 2: Ah the hellcy on Days of the Trifecta.
Speaker 1: Number two US Women's Hockey twenty eighteen, who won gold
Speaker 1: defeating Canada in a three to two shootout, sending their
Speaker 1: fiercest rival home as first losers. That is one of
Speaker 1: my all time favorite teams and games that I have
Speaker 1: ever watched. They take on Number three Misty May trainer
Speaker 1: and Carrie Walsh Jennings the Beach Vib's partnership for the Ages,
Speaker 1: the only team male or female to win three Olympic
Speaker 1: gold medals. Their partnership lasted ten plus years, which is
Speaker 1: longer than most marriages. And the bottom right of the bracket.
Speaker 1: Number one Houston Comets. They won the first four WNBA
Speaker 1: championships and are credited as the first dynasty of the league.
Speaker 1: Teresa Edwards, Cheryl Swoops, Lisa Leslie, Don Staley, Mike Drop.
Speaker 1: They take on Number four Alana Meyers, Taylor, and all
Speaker 1: of for bob sled pushers. In addition to crushing a
Speaker 1: good game interview Natch, notable highlights include rocketing the Olympic
Speaker 1: bobs led across the finish line for a metal while
Speaker 1: pregnant and again shortly after giving birth. Number two Yukon
Speaker 1: Stewie Era had a dominance so strong the topic of
Speaker 1: conversation was are they so good they're bad for competitive basketball?
Speaker 1: Versus number three US women's wheelchair basketball team Rio twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen gold medal winners, winning the final by seventeen points
Speaker 1: and boasting a roster with a two sport paralympian.
Speaker 2: That's a flex all right.
Speaker 1: Now you got the full bracket, some of the greatest
Speaker 1: teams of all time in the women's sports space, and
Speaker 1: one crazed moose.
Speaker 2: If you don't get that, listen to yesterday's show.
Speaker 1: I'll post the bracket to my socials and a link
Speaker 1: to that post in our show notes so you can
Speaker 1: make your selections. Snap a pick, send it to us
Speaker 1: a good game at wondermedianetwork dot com, letting us know
Speaker 1: which goat team takes top honors in your book.
Speaker 2: And that's not.
Speaker 1: The only good game play of the day, because you
Speaker 1: know we love that you listen, but we always want
Speaker 1: to get you in the game every day too.
Speaker 2: So first, pick up some good game merch.
Speaker 1: You know you need a shirt that says ask me
Speaker 1: about women's sports or maybe I'm a slice. We've linked
Speaker 1: to the Breaking Tea shop in our show notes. Also,
Speaker 1: not only Amandavalo's Goat bracket, which I said linked in
Speaker 1: the show notes take a pick, send us that one,
Speaker 1: but also the Good Game Women's NC DOUBLEA Hoops tournament bracket.
Speaker 2: We want you to fill that out.
Speaker 1: Two brackets will lock when the first first round game
Speaker 1: tips this Friday at eleven thirty am Eastern, so you
Speaker 1: got to get your bracket in before then.
Speaker 2: And there will be a prize for the winner.
Speaker 1: I just decided that right in this moment, right now,
Speaker 1: I have some good merch sitting around, I'll send it
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Speaker 2: Can you not?
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