Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're taking
Speaker 1: one last ride on our favorite baby horse before she
Speaker 1: gallops off into the sunset. On today's show, we got
Speaker 1: a whole lot of news to catch you up on,
Speaker 1: plus your dream female football players, ai in sports balls, elephants,
Speaker 1: and a legend announces she's hanging them up. It's all
Speaker 1: coming up right after this welcome back. Here's what you
Speaker 1: need to know today in soccer news. It's the end
Speaker 1: of an era. US soccer legend Alex Morgan announced her
Speaker 1: retirement from professional soccer yesterday. Her final game will be
Speaker 1: this Sunday, when the San Diego Wave hosts the North
Speaker 1: Carolina Courage at Snapdragon Stadium. The club also plans to
Speaker 1: celebrate her career during its final home match of the
Speaker 1: season on Sunday, November three. Why not play the rest
Speaker 1: of the season? Why finish playing on Sunday?
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: In her video, Alex Morgan also announced she's pregnant with
Speaker 1: her second child. Congratulations to her, and here's a little
Speaker 1: bit of the heartbelt video that she posted.
Speaker 2: I have so much clarity about this decision, and I
Speaker 2: am so happy to be able to finally tell you
Speaker 2: it has been a long time coming, and this decision
Speaker 2: wasn't easy, But at the beginning of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: I felt in my heart and soul that this was
Speaker 2: the last season that I would play soccer.
Speaker 1: The impact we have on the next generation is irreversible.
Speaker 2: And I'm proud in the hand I had in making
Speaker 2: that happen, in pushing the game forward and leaving it
Speaker 2: in a place I'm so happy and proud of.
Speaker 1: The thirty five year old is going to go down
Speaker 1: as one of the best to ever do it. She's
Speaker 1: a two time World Cup, cham Bean and Olympic gold medalist.
Speaker 1: She ranks fifth in US women's national team history with
Speaker 1: one hundred twenty three goals and ninth in caps with
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty four. In addition to her incredible
Speaker 1: resume of awards and honors and all the things she's
Speaker 1: done on the field, her legacy is also built upon
Speaker 1: the work she did for player safety and gender equity.
Speaker 1: In March of twenty twenty one, she helped organize over
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty NWSL players to demand that the
Speaker 1: league create an anti harassment policy and implement other specific
Speaker 1: player safety guidelines that ultimately helped spark the NWSL's reckoning
Speaker 1: and led to the removal of multiple abusive coaches. Morgan
Speaker 1: also helped lead the US team's fight for equal pay.
Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, she was one of five players whose
Speaker 1: name was included on an equal employment opportunity complaint against
Speaker 1: US Soccer, which sparked the eventual lawsuit in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: over unequal pay. Morgan has been one of the big
Speaker 1: faces of soccer in this country and a massive part
Speaker 1: of the push for relevance, for excitement from fans, for attendance,
Speaker 1: for viewership, and she will be dearly missed. More footy news.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, France Football magazine announced the footballers nominated for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four Women's Balon d'Or, an annual award
Speaker 1: presented to the world's best player. It's also the most
Speaker 1: hilariously mispronounced award in all of soccer, with even the
Speaker 1: greats like Meghan Rappino constantly calling it the Balon Dior
Speaker 1: get your head out of the fashion world pinot door,
Speaker 1: as in of gold Ball of gold Ballon d'Or anyway.
Speaker 1: Five members of the gold medal winning US women's national
Speaker 1: team are nominated for the Award. Captain and midfielder Lindsay Horan,
Speaker 1: goalkeeper Lissenair, and forwards Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory
Speaker 1: Swanson all well deserved, But there is one notable emission
Speaker 1: that's getting a lot of buzz. Naomi Germa. US women's
Speaker 1: national team coach Emma Hayes said Germa is the best
Speaker 1: defender she's ever seen. Longtime US women's national team captain
Speaker 1: Becky Souerbrun came on this very show and said, quote,
Speaker 1: when I think of Nay, I think of dominance end quote.
Speaker 1: The newly nicknamed Secretary of Defense not making the cut
Speaker 1: feels like latant defensive player disrespect and it's not uncommon
Speaker 1: for the ballandor off to cues of prioritizing European players
Speaker 1: and offensive players. Of the thirty twenty twenty four nominees,
Speaker 1: only seven play for clubs outside of Europe, and only
Speaker 1: four defenders plus keeper Nayer made the cut. England's Lucy
Speaker 1: Brons is the only defender to make the top three
Speaker 1: in the award's five year history. Also, can we get
Speaker 1: some new photos for the ladies. We'll put a link
Speaker 1: in the show notes, but if you haven't seen them.
Speaker 1: You got to see the absolutely inexplicable shots used for
Speaker 1: their nomination announcements. Mal looks like she smelled bad cheese,
Speaker 1: Trinity looks like she's about to fight somebody. And Brazil's
Speaker 1: Gabby Portillo is winning a white Man's overbyte dance off.
Speaker 1: And if you don't get that reference, go watch when
Speaker 1: Harry met Sally. All right, we continue with the soccer news,
Speaker 1: and we have some unfortunate news. Washington Spirit midfielder Croy Bethune,
Speaker 1: who just yesterday was announced NWSL Rookie of the Month
Speaker 1: for August, will miss the remainder of the season with
Speaker 1: a meniscus tear, and the manner in which she got
Speaker 1: hurt is especially tough to swallow. The twenty three year
Speaker 1: old sustained the injury throat going out the ceremonial first
Speaker 1: pitch as the Washington Nationals honored the Spirits four Olympians
Speaker 1: upon their return to DC. A total freak injury and
Speaker 1: such a bummer. We're wishing Croy a speedy, thorough recovery.
Speaker 1: She has such a bright future ahead of her and
Speaker 1: she's still the front runner for NWSL Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: even though she won't play the full season. She's been
Speaker 1: the Rookie of the Month for every month this season
Speaker 1: except for July, the majority of which she spent with
Speaker 1: the national team. Tonight, we got just one NWSL game
Speaker 1: on deck Angel CITYFC in the Seattle Rain. Every game
Speaker 1: an important one for ACFC from here on out because
Speaker 1: the club's still sitting just outside of playoff contention in
Speaker 1: the ninth spot. We got seven games on the NWSL
Speaker 1: slate this weekend, and we'll link to that schedule in
Speaker 1: our show notes. Also in soccer, a quick thought on
Speaker 1: an NWSL announcement made by ESPN, The Worldwide Leader announced
Speaker 1: on Thursday that they'd be introducing NWSL game recaps yay
Speaker 1: using generative AI technology. Oh listen, I've seen AI written
Speaker 1: sports stories pop up all over the place lately, and
Speaker 1: they're bad, really bad. Do you remember when gedet media
Speaker 1: stopped using lead AI generated articles for high school sports
Speaker 1: stories after the term close encounter of the athletic kind
Speaker 1: became ubiquitous in the AI generated articles about close games.
Speaker 1: That was last year, Like every close game, it said
Speaker 1: the two teams had a close encounter of the athletic kind.
Speaker 1: Hilarious and terrifying and terrible, and in the case of
Speaker 1: women's sports stories in particular, I often see incorrect gender
Speaker 1: when referring to athletes because AI is ultimately trained by
Speaker 1: sports coverage that already exists, much of which makes men
Speaker 1: the default. I reach out to someone at ESPN who
Speaker 1: said humans will be checking the output and that it's
Speaker 1: ultimately a positive move because game recaps that wouldn't otherwise
Speaker 1: exist will be produced, and that's true, like NWSL recaps,
Speaker 1: just game recaps, not long form, not opinion have not
Speaker 1: been available on ESPN, So I'm excited about that and
Speaker 1: tentatively hopeful that they will be better than the ones
Speaker 1: we've seen so far. My real hope is that this
Speaker 1: is just a baby step that ultimately leads to staffers
Speaker 1: being hired to write those stories. I haven't seen AI
Speaker 1: get it right yet, and we always want to see
Speaker 1: more human people hired to work in women's sports. In
Speaker 1: Paralympic headlines, Oksana Masters, who had the distinct honor of
Speaker 1: carrying the Paralympic flame at the opening ceremony, won gold
Speaker 1: and the H five cycling road race yesterday. This is
Speaker 1: her seventh Paralympics, and Masters, who hails from Louisville, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: has picked up two new gold medals. She also won
Speaker 1: the paracycling H four to five individual time trial. She's
Speaker 1: now an eight time gold medalist and an eighteen time
Speaker 1: medalists across four sports. In an interview after the road race,
Speaker 1: Masters was all smiles and made sure to shout out
Speaker 1: her support system, saying quote, the ultimate gold medal is
Speaker 1: hugging my mom because without her, I would not be
Speaker 1: crossing this finish line. Meantime, legends Jessica Long and Tatiana
Speaker 1: mc fat and have also added to their career metal halls.
Speaker 1: Long one gold in the S eight four hundred meter
Speaker 1: freestyle on Wednesday, a full twenty years after she won
Speaker 1: gold in that same event as a twelve year old
Speaker 1: at the two thousand and four Athens Paralympics. Long's Paralympic
Speaker 1: medal count is now up to an incredible thirty thirty medals. Wow,
Speaker 1: is that a record, you ask? Surprisingly, not even close.
Speaker 1: US Paralympic swimmer Trisha Zorn, who competed in seven Paralympics
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty to two thousand and four, won an
Speaker 1: incredible fifty five medals, including forty one golds. She is
Speaker 1: still the pardon the pun gold standard. Meanwhile, Tatiana McFadden
Speaker 1: became the winningest American track and field athlete when she
Speaker 1: won silver in the T fifty four one hundred meter
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. It's McFadden's twenty first career Paralympic medal and
Speaker 1: twentieth in track and field, tying her with Bart Dodson
Speaker 1: for most medals by a US athlete in that sport.
Speaker 1: McFadden has one more opportunity in pairs to add to
Speaker 1: her hall. She scheduled to race in the marathon on Sunday,
Speaker 1: mor bling for American paralympians. In her Paralympics debut, Tmusa
Speaker 1: shot putterer Noel Malkamaki won gold in the F forty
Speaker 1: six field event. And get this, she surpassed her own
Speaker 1: world record not once, not twice, but three times en
Speaker 1: route to victory in the field event. That's just nuts.
Speaker 1: I mean, shot putters get six attempts to make some
Speaker 1: magic happen, and she had a world record worthy throw
Speaker 1: on half of those attempts. And she's from Illinois too.
Speaker 1: Shout out Noel. In wheelchair basketball, the US competes in
Speaker 1: the semi finals today against China. Team USA looking to
Speaker 1: make it back to the Paralympic gold medal game for
Speaker 1: the first time since twenty sixteen, and in sitting volleyball,
Speaker 1: the US is onto the gold medal game after defeating
Speaker 1: Brazil three sets to one in the semi finals. Speaking
Speaker 1: of volleyball, in college volleyball, we told you to watch
Speaker 1: that great E sixty on the Nebraska volleyball team. So
Speaker 1: we assume you did right because you listened to us
Speaker 1: always right. So you were as shocked as we were
Speaker 1: that the unranked Southern Methodist University Mustangs pulled off a
Speaker 1: stunning upset against the number two corn Huskers on Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: They swept them twenty five, twenty three, twenty five, twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty five to eighteen in front of a record breaking
Speaker 1: crowd at Moody Coliseum, smutalid seven aces to Nebraska's one,
Speaker 1: and the Huskers committed eleven errors. The victory mark Nebraska's
Speaker 1: first loss of the season and their first defeat against
Speaker 1: an unranked team since twenty seventeen. Will continue to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on the top teams in the country, including
Speaker 1: the Huskers, who bounced back with the win against the
Speaker 1: Citadel on Thursday. In Hoops, Caitlin Clark continues adding accolades
Speaker 1: to a terrific rookie season. Clark was named both the
Speaker 1: KIA Rookie of the Month and the Eastern Conference Player
Speaker 1: of the Month of August. Clark leads the league in
Speaker 1: assists per game and leads all rookies in points, assists,
Speaker 1: and steals per game, as well as efficiency. Her Indiana
Speaker 1: Fever team is a lock for the playoffs now, so
Speaker 1: we'll to see how much more momentum the young star
Speaker 1: can build before the postseason hits. If you ask me,
Speaker 1: those are Rookie of the Year stats. Off the court,
Speaker 1: some fun happenings. Las Vegas Aces leader Asia Wilson took
Speaker 1: a trip down to South Beach to support her still
Speaker 1: unconfirmed bo bam audubaio On Wednesday, you remember the Aposto
Speaker 1: Bam out of Bio of the mnba's Miami Heat and
Speaker 1: USA Men's Olympic Basketball was honored with keys to Miami
Speaker 1: Dade County, and there was a little fun back and
Speaker 1: forth between the two on social after video emerged of
Speaker 1: Asia attending the ceremony. Also fun, Miami Dade County Mayor
Speaker 1: Daniella Levine Kava blowing up Asia's spot at the event,
Speaker 1: first calling her Adja Wilson before correcting herself and saying, quote,
Speaker 1: she won Golden Women's basketball. I guess that has something
Speaker 1: to do with Bam in the Heat. Huh. Those who
Speaker 1: are not going to be able to keep quiet about
Speaker 1: this love and basketball story for much longer. By the way,
Speaker 1: that was just the latest and a long line of
Speaker 1: Miami miss speaks. You gotta hear this classic. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is Dwayne Wade getting introduced by Miami Dade County Commissioner
Speaker 1: Barbara Jordan after the Heat won the two thousand and
Speaker 1: six championship. He's come collecting, has a will to win
Speaker 1: because this man, of course, is waye Joe. Okay, Now
Speaker 1: go back and listen to that again and wait for
Speaker 1: the person in the background who yells who it's so
Speaker 1: good it never gets old. It's so good. Asia Wilson's
Speaker 1: Ace's last played at home on Tuesday night, and today
Speaker 1: they face the Connecticut's Sun on the road. In case
Speaker 1: you're wondering, it's a bat a five hour NonStop flight
Speaker 1: from Vegas to Miami and a three hour flight from
Speaker 1: Miami to Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Connecticut, just saying.
Speaker 1: There are four WNBA games on the schedule tonight, including
Speaker 1: a crucial matchup between the Dallas Wings and the Atlanta
Speaker 1: dream Down at Georgia. The Dreamer tied with Chicago Sky
Speaker 1: for the eighth seed and final spot in the postseason,
Speaker 1: but the Sky owned the tiebreaker and would be in
Speaker 1: if the playoffs start today. The Wings are even further
Speaker 1: from playoff contention at eleventh in the standings, but they've
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to play spoiler. There are six games
Speaker 1: this weekend, and as always, we'll link to the schedule
Speaker 1: in our show notes. In softball news, Athletes Unlimited announced,
Speaker 1: Former US national team pitcher and Olympic gold medalist Jenny
Speaker 1: Finch is now an advisor to the AU Pro Softball League.
Speaker 1: She joins a slew of other legends like her former
Speaker 1: Team USA teammate Jessica Mendoza and Kim Eng, the first
Speaker 1: woman GM in the MLB. According to a league statement,
Speaker 1: Finch will consult with a leadership and athletes on the
Speaker 1: strategic direction of the league. That reminds me we might
Speaker 1: need to do a little good game. Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: on back of the day when Jenny Finch was striking
Speaker 1: out all the MLB players. I'm gonna go digging into that.
Speaker 1: That was some good stuff. Finally, the summer of alone
Speaker 1: O mar continues. The Team USA rugby bronze medalist has
Speaker 1: been announced as one of the celebrity contestants for season
Speaker 1: thirty three of Dancing with the Stars. She's one of
Speaker 1: two Olympians competing, joining US gymnastics breakout star Stephen Netterazig,
Speaker 1: you know, the pommel horse guy with the glasses who
Speaker 1: had one job and did it to perfection. Season thirty
Speaker 1: three of Dancing with the Star's premiere September seventeenth on ABC. Okay, Slicis,
Speaker 1: I had one last piece of news to give you,
Speaker 1: and I want to give you a warning here. What
Speaker 1: I'm about to discuss involves mentions of gender based violence
Speaker 1: and death. You may have heard the horrific headlines this
Speaker 1: week about Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegay, who competed in
Speaker 1: Paris last month at the Olympics, having been set on
Speaker 1: fire by her boyfriend. On Thursday, we got the awful
Speaker 1: update that she passed away from multi organ failure as
Speaker 1: a result of the attack. Chep de Gay, who lived
Speaker 1: in Kenya, had been in critical condition after suffering burns
Speaker 1: on seventy five percent of her body following Sunday's attack
Speaker 1: at her house. Rebecca's father, Joseph told reporters quote, I
Speaker 1: blame her death on negligence by the government because the
Speaker 1: authorities should have taken it seriously. When we first reported
Speaker 1: that this man had become problematic and he was fighting her.
Speaker 1: We reported to the police, to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations,
Speaker 1: but they didn't take any action to save her life.
Speaker 1: End quote. Chep de Gay is the third elite female
Speaker 1: athlete to be killed in Kenya in the last three years,
Speaker 1: in both confirmed and alleged acts of domestic violence. Amnesty
Speaker 1: International Kenya made a statement that Chep Degay's death quote
Speaker 1: highlights the urgent need to address femicide in the country
Speaker 1: and demanded hashtag justice for Rebecca. Rebecca Chep Degay was
Speaker 1: thirty three. Welcome back, my little Orange Slices. It's been
Speaker 1: a big week for your girl from the US open
Speaker 1: to my first trip to the Barclays Center for a
Speaker 1: Liberty game. We're recording this Thursday night, just before I
Speaker 1: head out to the game, and I am super pumped.
Speaker 1: I got to see Ellie the Elephant at WNBA All
Speaker 1: Star Weekend, but I finally get to see her at
Speaker 1: her home court. You can count me as one of
Speaker 1: her legion of fans, and you can count Ellie as
Speaker 1: yet another way the WNBA is breaking through this season.
Speaker 1: From attendance to ratings, to sports shows to pop culture,
Speaker 1: this has truly been an incredible season for the w
Speaker 1: and Ellie's ability to spread awareness in new spaces has
Speaker 1: been truly impressive. She's on stage with Sierra, backstage at
Speaker 1: the Childish Gambino Show, a cover girl for Timeout magazine
Speaker 1: in New York, on The tamer and Hall Show on
Speaker 1: CBS News, and the latest getting shout outs on the
Speaker 1: only network late night show hosted by a woman, Taylor Tomlin,
Speaker 1: since After Midnight on CBS. Give me a final statement, Okay, my.
Speaker 2: Girl, Ellie's not in the business.
Speaker 1: She's the mascot for the New York Liberty. She can
Speaker 1: drop it, she can sewing her hair. She's been dancing
Speaker 1: a like actual pop star concerts like she is a
Speaker 1: hot ticket and you can only see in the WNBA time.
Speaker 1: That was comedian Kimmia Bapornia sharing her love for Ellie,
Speaker 1: and she did a whole bunch more shouting out the WNBA.
Speaker 1: We love that, So props to Ellie, a true game changer. Also,
Speaker 1: please teach Sky the Lion everything you know. Also, I
Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to Keia Clark, who's
Speaker 1: CEO of the Liberty. She has created a truly incredible
Speaker 1: fan atmosphere and buzz around this team. It's all I've
Speaker 1: heard about this week in New York. People raving about
Speaker 1: how amazing going to a Liberty game is. People asking
Speaker 1: are you going to be at the Libs game on Thursday.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are in town for
Speaker 1: the US Open, but it really is sort of the
Speaker 1: social event of the calendar. It's something that people are
Speaker 1: dying to get to. They're boasting a sixty four percent
Speaker 1: attendance increase at home games this year. Between last year
Speaker 1: and this year, season ticket holders have gone up one
Speaker 1: hundred and six percent year over year. And there's this
Speaker 1: so called solbrity get it, clebrity row of famous fans
Speaker 1: and it's just the Barclay centers popping. It's really cool
Speaker 1: to see and I can't wait too experience so shouts
Speaker 1: to the limbs. We got to take another break when
Speaker 1: we come back. Well, what the fact about some balls?
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Welcome back, my little slices. It's time for
Speaker 1: a What the fact US Open edition? Did you know
Speaker 1: that until last year the US Open used different balls
Speaker 1: for the women, or that there are even different kinds
Speaker 1: of tennis balls? I sure didn't, But thanks to the
Speaker 1: super bad ass Justine Brown of Together, who enlightened me
Speaker 1: over honeyduces at the Open, I'm all caught up. So
Speaker 1: here's the deal. For years, the men at the US
Speaker 1: Open use what's known as an extra duty ball, which
Speaker 1: means the felt on the outside of the ball is
Speaker 1: woven slightly more loosely than the regular duty ball that
Speaker 1: the women use, other than that they're the same size.
Speaker 1: Wait all of that. Per a twenty twenty two New
Speaker 1: York Times article, the regular duty balls the women use
Speaker 1: play faster. Quote felt that's woven more tightly, doesn't fluff
Speaker 1: up as much and can wear away, so there's not
Speaker 1: as much friction when those balls make contact with the
Speaker 1: ground or the strings of a racket. The additional friction
Speaker 1: of a fluffy ball allows players to create maximum spin.
Speaker 1: Those who rely heavily on that spin could struggle to
Speaker 1: make a regular duty ball travel the way they wanted to,
Speaker 1: especially after a few games when the ball begins to
Speaker 1: lose whatever fluff it had right out of the can
Speaker 1: and get smaller end quote. So I guess that difference
Speaker 1: was enough to rankle some players. In twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: world number one Egas Fontech called the balls that the
Speaker 1: US Open horrible during a news conference questioning why the
Speaker 1: tennis major required women and men to use different balls.
Speaker 1: It was the only Grand Slam tournament not to use
Speaker 1: the same balls for all players. Spontek pointed out that
Speaker 1: she felt unable to prepare adequately because the US Open
Speaker 1: balls weren't available at home in Europe, where she trained.
Speaker 1: She and then number four Paula Badosa spoke to women
Speaker 1: SENUS Association CEO and chairman Steve Simon in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one and asked if they could switch to use the
Speaker 1: same balls as the men. Well, it turns out the
Speaker 1: type of ball that they use was up to the
Speaker 1: players themselves and their Women's Tennis Association Tour leadership. US
Speaker 1: Open Tournament director Stacy Allister told The Times that sports
Speaker 1: science experts on the women's tour felt that the faster,
Speaker 1: more aerodynamic ball helped limit arm and shoulder injuries, and
Speaker 1: that the WTA always requested the regular duty balls, so
Speaker 1: they just kept it that way. But after the complaints
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, the players in the WTA elected
Speaker 1: to ditch the regular duty balls in favor of the
Speaker 1: extra duty ones. So beginning last year, the men and
Speaker 1: women have been handling the same balls all week long
Speaker 1: at Flushing Meadows. Love to learn new things like that.
Speaker 1: I just had no idea there were different tennis balls. Also,
Speaker 1: one last tenis note we are thrilled to learn that
Speaker 1: ESPN Films has greenlighted a Billy Jean King thirty for
Speaker 1: thirty cannot come soon enough. We got some Slice submissions
Speaker 1: to highlight after yesterday's Fight Me when we asked you
Speaker 1: to pick the top four pro female athletes you'd like
Speaker 1: to see play women's tackle football. First, the great Sam
Speaker 1: Rappaport of the NFL, who we talked about on the show.
Speaker 1: She came through with some good ones. Billy Jean King
Speaker 1: at quarterback, Angel Reese, Candace Parker, and Ri Kogumbawallee at
Speaker 1: wide receiver Kelly O'Hara and sid Colson at dB and
Speaker 1: she Carrie Richardson at Rusher. This is a just tremendous
Speaker 1: O'Hara and Colson at DBE is inspired. We also heard
Speaker 1: from at J Moore eleven twenty three, who said, how
Speaker 1: can you leave Sidney McLaughlin Lavarroni off? Your team can
Speaker 1: hurdle opposing tacklers and has the endurance to last all
Speaker 1: four quarters. That is a great call. That is an
Speaker 1: excellent call. Someone also chied at us for forgetting Asia Wilson, which,
Speaker 1: to be fair, she could play every single position for sure.
Speaker 1: We also got a great email from DP that reads,
Speaker 1: in part the tight end everybody was looking for was
Speaker 1: Candace Parker hands down Kelsey at quarterback obviously, and speaking
Speaker 1: of Diana TARRASSI, how could we leave out Alyssa Thomas
Speaker 1: on defense? Yeah, we'll probably get a load of penalties,
Speaker 1: but it might force the other team to make business decisions.
Speaker 1: Trinity Rodman has to play. I don't even care what position.
Speaker 1: Any new nawse on gum like that will make a
Speaker 1: great football player. The Secretary of Defense aka Naomi Germa
Speaker 1: is obviously going to be the lockdown corner. Lastly, Shakerri
Speaker 1: Richardson at wide receiver because I can only imagine the
Speaker 1: celebrations if you put Kennedy Carter at running back. We
Speaker 1: may break a record for penalty yards, but we will
Speaker 1: be thoroughly entertaining while doing it. Damn D that's more
Speaker 1: than four players. But I do think we'd win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl with that squad. So I appreciate you, and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you writing in. We love that you're listening,
Speaker 1: but we want you to get in the game every day,
Speaker 1: just like D. So here's our good game play at
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