Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, the show where
Speaker 1: We're on the road slang in melon balls with friends.
Speaker 1: On today's show, tennis reporter prim Siripa Pat will tell
Speaker 1: me what I should.
Speaker 2: Expect and eat and drink at the.
Speaker 1: US Open, as well as the one tennis debate she
Speaker 1: refuses to weigh in on plus a grin too big
Speaker 1: for words and are we seeing double or is the
Speaker 1: NWSL just NWS selling? It's all coming up right after this.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, my little slicesys. Here's what you need to
Speaker 1: know today. In the Paralympics. In paratriathlon, the US women
Speaker 1: claimed four medals across three classifications on Monday. In the
Speaker 1: PTS two classification, Wisconsin native Hayley Dan's one gold, reaching
Speaker 1: the top of the Paralympic podium for the first time
Speaker 1: after claiming silver in both Rio and Tokyo. Ahead of
Speaker 1: her race, dance posted on social media, writing quote, my
Speaker 1: belief in myself has ebbed and flowed, but one thing
Speaker 1: that's remained steadfast is all of your belief in me.
Speaker 1: My support staff, my teammates, and those of my close
Speaker 1: circle who see all the small daily battles you all
Speaker 1: have made it clear to me that you believe I'm
Speaker 1: capable of doing something spectacular in Paris tomorrow, and largely
Speaker 1: because of you, and also because of the work I've
Speaker 1: done myself, I believe it too.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting that it wasn't just Olympians who
Speaker 1: had to deal with shit, literal shit, because the Paralympic
Speaker 1: Triathlons also had to be rescheduled due to water quality
Speaker 1: concerns in the sin And in case you're wondering how
Speaker 1: elite athletes get that type of major news, shout out
Speaker 1: to you as Paralympian Melissa Stockwell, who posted a screenshot
Speaker 1: of the email tour Instagram which read quote, Dear Sir
Speaker 1: or Madam, due to weather condition, we regret to inform
Speaker 1: you that your pt R I one paratriathlon session, initially
Speaker 1: scheduled for nine oh one two O two four at
Speaker 1: eight fifteen am, has been postponed to nine o two
Speaker 1: two O two four at eight fifteen am.
Speaker 2: Wow. I hope Sir Madam got that email in time.
Speaker 1: For the first time in Paralympic or Olympic history, the
Speaker 1: US has won a medal in the sport of badminton,
Speaker 1: competing in the SH six mixed doubles competition, Nineteen year
Speaker 1: olds j C. Simon and Miles Crosskey claimed silver, falling
Speaker 1: to China in the gold medal match. In wheelchair rugby,
Speaker 1: the US felt to Japan in the gold medal match
Speaker 1: on Monday forty eight forty one. Sarah Adam, you know
Speaker 1: that woman we've been talking about, The first American woman
Speaker 1: to compete in wheelchair rugby at the Paralympics, recorded fourteen
Speaker 1: tries in the final. That tizer with teammate Chuck Aoki
Speaker 1: for the team high. In sitting volleyball, the US bounced
Speaker 1: back from a group stage loss against China to beat
Speaker 1: host nation France three sets to none. Team USA's fate
Speaker 1: in the knockout round will be determined today in their
Speaker 1: final group stage match, this one against Italy. As a reminder,
Speaker 1: the US was looking to win its third straight Paralympic
Speaker 1: gold medal in the sport. And before you read too
Speaker 1: much into that loss against China, here's a little historical context.
Speaker 1: So the US also lost to China in the group
Speaker 1: stage at both the twenty sixteen and twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: Pairs Olympics, and both times went on to defeat China
Speaker 1: in the gold medal match to the NWSL. The Orlando Pride, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guessed it. They extended their unbeaten streak to nineteen
Speaker 1: games on Sunday. They've won five straight and this one
Speaker 1: they beat Gotham FC two nil, both goals scored by
Speaker 1: Adriana in the first half. The contest was delayed a
Speaker 1: little bit by some heavy duty rain, and the Pride
Speaker 1: social media tape took the chance to poke fun at Gotham,
Speaker 1: writing quote, Listen, we know it rains a bunch here,
Speaker 1: but y'all have had so many weather delays over the
Speaker 1: past two years, so this one is on you.
Speaker 2: Gotham FC. More soccer.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, the Chicago Red Stars announced that the
Speaker 1: team traded forward Penelope Hawking to BAFC in exchange for
Speaker 1: a three hundred and fifty thousand dollars transfer fee, with
Speaker 1: Chicago receiving two hundred and fifty thousand dollars this season
Speaker 1: and one hundred thousand dollars next season. Per the Red Stars, Hawking,
Speaker 1: who grew up in southern California, requested the trade in
Speaker 1: order to be.
Speaker 2: Closer to home.
Speaker 1: I'm just bummed because I want to see more of
Speaker 1: Penelope Hawking and Mouse wantson speeding up the sidelines and
Speaker 1: playing together. But shouts to the Red Stars were getting
Speaker 1: it done and getting Hawking back home and good luck
Speaker 1: to her in the bay all right. The NWSL is
Speaker 1: called Chaos League for a reason, and the latest confusion
Speaker 1: is thanks to Julia Grosso and also Julia Grasso. It's
Speaker 1: spelled the same but pronounced slightly differently. So at the
Speaker 1: end of last week, the NWSL Players Association updated the
Speaker 1: list of players eligible for free agency, and it included.
Speaker 2: A surprising name, Julia Grosso.
Speaker 1: That's because back in July, the Chicago Red Stars signed
Speaker 1: Olympic gold medalist and Canadian national team player Julia Grosso
Speaker 1: to a three year contract, meaning she won't be eligible
Speaker 1: for free agency for a while. But that's not the
Speaker 1: Grasso Grosso the list was referring to. It was talking
Speaker 1: about American soccer player Julia Grasso, who had been playing
Speaker 1: with the Australian club Melbourne but was in the process
Speaker 1: of signing with a yet to be announced NWSL club,
Speaker 1: And on Sunday that club was confirmed to be the
Speaker 1: Utah Royals, which signed Grasso to a contract through the
Speaker 1: end of the twenty twenty four season. If you kept
Speaker 1: up with that, congratulations, We're going to keep scanning that
Speaker 1: free agency list for names that surprise us and make
Speaker 1: sure there aren't titty doubles out there. Meanwhile, in the WNBA,
Speaker 1: there's only one Asia Wilson, but she's basically scorn for two.
Speaker 1: Asia Wilson's in the ACES ninety seven to seventy nine
Speaker 1: winner with the Murcury on Sunday. The MVP front runner
Speaker 1: dropped forty one points and put up seventeen boards. Candae
Speaker 1: Parker's the only other player ever to put up forty
Speaker 1: and fifteen. Asia's the first to a forty seventeen game.
Speaker 1: And we've talked a lot about the Aces struggles this
Speaker 1: season and their chances of three peating, and if anyone
Speaker 1: had any doubts about how seriously Asia Wilson's taking that challenge,
Speaker 1: while she quelled those over the weekend, fans might have
Speaker 1: noticed that she's shown up to the team's last six
Speaker 1: straight games wearing baggie white T shirts. No tunnel fits
Speaker 1: for Wilson, just the same white T shirt. When she
Speaker 1: was asked about the fashion choice by Las Vegas Review Journals,
Speaker 1: Callie Lawson Freeman. Wilson said quote, I have to want
Speaker 1: to put on clothes right now where I am. I
Speaker 1: don't feel like I deserve to put on clothes right now.
Speaker 1: My main focus is just getting WINSUOT. We'll link to
Speaker 1: Kelly's full story in the show notes a lot of
Speaker 1: people having fun with Asia's white T shirts. If you remember,
Speaker 1: there was a thought that Bam Autobio, who we think
Speaker 1: she's dating but they haven't hard launched, made a comment
Speaker 1: about doesn't anybody have any irons anymore these days? Because
Speaker 1: she was showing up in the wrinkled tea. But now
Speaker 1: it's sort of a thing, and fans are showing up
Speaker 1: to games in all white T shirts in support of her.
Speaker 1: She's getting shout outs from music groups that are known
Speaker 1: for wearing all white teas. It's a thing now, like
Speaker 1: somehow Asia Wilson is so amazing that she's making a
Speaker 1: plane wrinkled white tea a thing. By the way, during
Speaker 1: that Mercury loss to the Aces that we just mentioned,
Speaker 1: both Diana Tarassi and Natasha Cloud each picked up their
Speaker 1: seventh technical foul of the season, and that adds to
Speaker 1: the Mercury's WNBA all time season record for techs. They've
Speaker 1: got thirty three in counting the fowls. Put both players
Speaker 1: in position a miss tonight's game against the Atlanta Dream.
Speaker 1: As reminder, players have to serve a one game un
Speaker 1: paid suspension upon receiving a seventh technical in a season.
Speaker 1: But if you think that Tarassi's about to punch another
Speaker 1: door over this, think again. And if you don't get
Speaker 1: that door reference, stay tuned later in the show.
Speaker 2: But back to Sunday.
Speaker 1: After the game, DT and Sophie Cunningham, we're asked about
Speaker 1: the text at the press conference podium.
Speaker 2: Let's roll on that clip.
Speaker 3: It looks like there's been a lot of eyes on
Speaker 3: us this year. I know we have a lot of
Speaker 3: fiery people. I know we've set the record for most techs.
Speaker 3: So we got to look ourselves in the mirror and
Speaker 3: see how we can do better. But you know, moving forward. Shit,
Speaker 3: we're grown women. Stop being so sensitive on both ends.
Speaker 2: Well, mine's definitely getting rescinded, so I'm good. I'll be
Speaker 2: playing the next game. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the thing, slices we hear a good game.
Speaker 1: Believe in the power of podcast, the efficacy of audio storytelling,
Speaker 1: but there are limitations to the medium, and we're really
Speaker 1: feeling that right now because when I tell you that
Speaker 1: DT had the biggest shit eating grin on her face
Speaker 1: when Cunningham mentioned leading the league in techs, I guarantee
Speaker 1: that right now you are not picturing a big enough grin.
Speaker 1: We'll link to that video in the show notes. You
Speaker 1: can see just how shit eaten it was. Oh and
Speaker 1: by the way, DT was writ in that clip. On Monday,
Speaker 1: the WNBA did announce that had overturned her tech, meaning
Speaker 1: she's back at six on the season. Natasha Cloud's TECH
Speaker 1: was confirmed, though, so she'll be absent from tonight's game
Speaker 1: serve in that suspension. More WNBA more than five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand fans have attended Indiana Fever games so far this season,
Speaker 1: breaking the WNBA full season total attendance record.
Speaker 2: Led by rookie Caitlin Clark.
Speaker 1: The Fever are also on track to break the average
Speaker 1: WNBA attendance record. As it stands right now, an average
Speaker 1: of fifteen thousand, seven hundred fans are showing up to
Speaker 1: every Fever game, both at home and on the road.
Speaker 1: The New York Liberty currently hold that record in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety eight, an average of thirteen thousand, three hundred ninety
Speaker 1: eight fans showed up for the team's thirty games on
Speaker 1: the court. The Fever also hit an important milestone over
Speaker 1: the weekend, breaking five hundred for the first time in
Speaker 1: five years. Doesn't sound like a lot, but when your
Speaker 1: team has been under five hundred for five years, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what that is worth celebrating. With a one
Speaker 1: hundred to ninety three win over the Dallas Wings on Saturday,
Speaker 1: the Fever now stand at seventeen wins and sixteen losses
Speaker 1: on the season, an incredibly impressive turnaround after the terrible
Speaker 1: start they got out to also shout out Arike Agumbuale,
Speaker 1: who had a WNBA record tying nine three pointers in
Speaker 1: the Wings loss.
Speaker 2: And it wouldn't be a.
Speaker 1: Game without another Angel rees record as well. She added
Speaker 1: another big one to her resume over the weekend. During
Speaker 1: the Chicago Sky seventy nine to seventy four loss to
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday, Angel Reaes broke the WNBA
Speaker 1: record for most rebounds in a single season. The record
Speaker 1: was previously held by the great Sylvia Fowls, who tallied
Speaker 1: four hundred four rebounds during the Lynxes twenty eighteen season.
Speaker 2: Angels sitting at four eighteen and counting.
Speaker 1: All right, y'all, good game is hitting the road New
Speaker 1: York City, my first ever New York Liberty Game at
Speaker 1: Barclays on Thursday, and a trip back to the US
Speaker 1: Open for the first time in.
Speaker 2: A couple of years the next few days.
Speaker 1: So today and tomorrow I'm going to be at the
Speaker 1: Open to a ten events hosted by Elf Cosmetics, espnW
Speaker 1: and the Women's Sports Foundation. And in honor of my
Speaker 1: little jaunt to Queens, I thought we'd do a couple
Speaker 1: quick US Open fun facts. Okay, the first US Open
Speaker 1: ever was in nineteen sixty eight, Virginuate of Great Britain
Speaker 1: upset top seeded Billy jan King for the women's title
Speaker 1: to win six thousand dollars. That's right, six thousand dollars
Speaker 1: went to the women's winner. On the men's side, the
Speaker 1: great Arthur Ashe won the first ever men's singles crowned.
Speaker 1: But he was just an amateur, so he couldn't even
Speaker 1: claim the fourteen thousand dollars men's prize. He just got
Speaker 1: his twenty dollars per diium. He was the first ever
Speaker 1: African American to win a men's singles title at a
Speaker 1: Grand Slam championship, and of course, now is a court
Speaker 1: named after him.
Speaker 2: The US Open is the fourth and final Grand Slam
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 1: And one of two Majors contested on a hard court surface,
Speaker 1: which is faster than clay but slower than grass.
Speaker 2: Since nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: The Open has been played at a stadium complex in
Speaker 1: Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. It was formerly named
Speaker 1: the USTA National Tennis Center and was rededicated as the
Speaker 1: Billy Jean King National Tennis Center in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Why you ask well, in part because of what she
Speaker 1: did for equal pay. Tennis became the first sport and
Speaker 1: the US Open became the first Grand Slam event to
Speaker 1: offer equal prize money to men and women, all thanks
Speaker 1: to Billy Jean King threatening to boycott the.
Speaker 2: Event in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: Every time I hear that, I'm just reminded of how
Speaker 1: ahead of the game Billy Jean was. Like back in
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, she was already putting her foot down
Speaker 1: and saying it was unfair to have the men and
Speaker 1: women paid unequally well. This year's Open has a record
Speaker 1: purse of seventy five million dollars total for the men's
Speaker 1: and women's side, including three point six million dollars a
Speaker 1: piece for the men's and women's singles winners. And they
Speaker 1: also get that cool trophy ten pounds eighteen inches. They've
Speaker 1: been made by Tiffany and Company since nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 2: Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: This year a record setting amount of interest in the event.
Speaker 1: Seventy four thousand, six hundred and forty one fans went
Speaker 1: through the gates on opening day. That's the biggest single
Speaker 1: day crowd in US Open history. This year's women's final
Speaker 1: is set for next Monday, September ninth, and we're not
Speaker 1: getting a defending champ. Coco GoF was bounced by fellow
Speaker 1: American and her Paris Olympics room mate Emma Navarro. Last year,
Speaker 1: Golf was the first American team to win the US
Speaker 1: Open cinnas Serena Williams did in nineteen ninety nine. All Right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, I'm gonna prep for the Open
Speaker 1: with my favorite tennis talker and my old ESPN co host,
Speaker 1: prim surrip A.
Speaker 2: Pat that's next.
Speaker 1: Joining us now She's a US Open radio reporter, tennis commentator,
Speaker 1: and former top ten under eighteen tennis player in the country.
Speaker 1: At Duker Tennis team won the indoor national championship for
Speaker 1: senior year. She's a mom of two, owner of two
Speaker 1: master's degrees. Former Puppy Mama hopefully soon to be Puppy
Speaker 1: Mama again.
Speaker 2: We worked together for years at ESPN.
Speaker 1: We used to host the show very creatively named Spain
Speaker 1: and Prim, where we faced off in an epic rap
Speaker 1: battle that likely inspired the versus battles during COVID.
Speaker 2: It's Prim, sirripa bat? What's up? Prim?
Speaker 4: It was I sastrenator.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna mention that you won the rap battle,
Speaker 1: but that was only because you you you brought in
Speaker 1: a meet to help you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was unfair, Healy said, like one mind. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I wasn't told we could have hype people.
Speaker 1: Those rules were not established, and as you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a terrible loser. So I'm just going to use a
Speaker 1: loophole and the rules to explain why I was victorious.
Speaker 1: First of all, awesome to see you, Awesome to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Shout out to all the Spain and Prim
Speaker 1: listeners from back of the Day. Yeah, prim the one
Speaker 1: time I've ever been to the US Open.
Speaker 2: You were there. We had a little reunion. It was wonderful.
Speaker 2: It was very brief, though. I'm returning and I will
Speaker 2: be at the.
Speaker 1: US Open to experience the splendor and joy of I
Speaker 1: don't even know. It's not strawberries and cream. That's Wimbledon.
Speaker 1: That's why you're here because you need to tell me
Speaker 1: what to drink, what to eat, what to see, where
Speaker 1: to go, all the secrets of the Billage and King
Speaker 1: Tennis Center, Like, what are the most important things I
Speaker 1: need to know from my US Open journey?
Speaker 4: Well, fortunately you missed the hottest day of the tournament.
Speaker 4: It was in the nineties. People were retiring, people were fainting.
Speaker 4: It was miserably high. So the good news is that
Speaker 4: you're going to be here when the weather is absolutely perfect,
Speaker 4: and you're coming during the second week, so that means
Speaker 4: that it's actually going to be less and busy. Good
Speaker 4: for you. So, first stop, everyone always talks about the
Speaker 4: lotster rolls. You gotta do the lobster rolls. Okay, they
Speaker 4: also have lobster tacos, They have lobster and panadas. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of lobster. There's also fried chicken. There's also
Speaker 4: some amazing like steak and Flag and Yon sandwiches. But
Speaker 4: the Honey Juicy Yeah, very fancy. I mean, the US
Speaker 4: Open has gotten to be a very fancy, wonderfully experiential
Speaker 4: sporting event. I mean, listen, the whole aim is to
Speaker 4: be accessible and inclusive for all tennis fans, whether you
Speaker 4: play tennis or not. But I think it's I think
Speaker 4: what's made it really special, especially since the pandemic, because
Speaker 4: the USA has done social phenomenal job just like transforming
Speaker 4: the site and creating more activations. It literally is an experience.
Speaker 4: So you got to go for the food. You got
Speaker 4: to go for the drinks, which is the Honey Juice.
Speaker 4: That's their signature cocktail. It's got a little gray goose.
Speaker 4: I think it's got some grapefruit in it, whatever it is.
Speaker 2: There's a little greyhound and spy okay something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But the cup is free, so that's good. And
Speaker 4: there's three melon balls that look like a tennis ball,
Speaker 4: so they're cute. You're gonna see a lot of people
Speaker 4: walking around, and then there's also they they brought in
Speaker 4: Dobelle tequila, so they have the ace Paloma I A.
Speaker 4: Caine last year made its debut last year, and that's good.
Speaker 4: It's main Sassinator. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 2: Ready, I love it. I'm ready. I'm ready prim Reaper. Okay.
Speaker 1: So what am I supposed to wear? I mean, gonna
Speaker 1: be in some fancy suites? Do I need to wear
Speaker 1: like a cute dress? Do I need to dress like
Speaker 1: Zendaya in Contenders or Competitors or whatever?
Speaker 2: I still haven't watched that movie.
Speaker 1: Do I wear a full tennis outfit like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be playing?
Speaker 2: Is it all white like Wimbledon? What's the deal?
Speaker 4: I mean, Sassinator, you can wear whatever you want.
Speaker 2: You're the Sassinator. You can call them in.
Speaker 4: You're sweats and you're still gonna be cool. You're you're
Speaker 4: still be the queen Bee. Like, honestly, you could come casual.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna be in a suite? Did you say
Speaker 4: you're gonna be in a sweet yes?
Speaker 2: The Sweet Life of course.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right right, Well you're not at the status yet
Speaker 4: where you can walk in and like total sweats and
Speaker 4: like disheveled and say that would love us. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's funny, like you see a lot of people. You
Speaker 4: have the recreational tennis fan that love to calm and
Speaker 4: they're tennis outfit's as if they're going to play. How
Speaker 4: casual are we on this podcast?
Speaker 2: We're very casual. You could say, what do you want? Oh? Nice? Nice?
Speaker 4: Okay, I would advise not to do that. And then
Speaker 4: you have the people. There's a lot of social media
Speaker 4: inflor influencers dot com. So you they are dressed to
Speaker 4: the nine, full makeup, hair done, all dressed in white.
Speaker 4: You could do that. That doesn't seem like you.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I think the only time I've ever been full hair
Speaker 1: and makeup and in white was on my wedding day.
Speaker 2: That's about the hardest I've ever drived. Or the garing
Speaker 2: degrees of success or you to the.
Speaker 4: Gala, the red carpet, gallon, I dot yellow nails that
Speaker 4: look like I saw that tennis balls.
Speaker 1: So that's a start, okay, So let's get to some
Speaker 1: more important stuff. You have been covering tennis forever, and
Speaker 1: you've been specifically covering the US Open a bunch. What
Speaker 1: can you tell us about the specifics around this venue.
Speaker 1: It's like the most attended that makes the most money,
Speaker 1: it's like so special, But what is it about the
Speaker 1: space and maybe covering it? Do you are there any
Speaker 1: like tricks to getting around or to getting to the
Speaker 1: athletes or anything like that that we wouldn't know as
Speaker 1: just regular pleaps.
Speaker 4: Well, by the time you get here, I always tell
Speaker 4: people like, don't be starry eyed by the Arthur Ashe Stadium,
Speaker 4: the Louis Armstrong, like the big stadiums. There's four big stadiums,
Speaker 4: Arthur ash, Louis Armstrong, Grandstan, and Stadium seventeen. Like go
Speaker 4: to the outer course. But because by the time you
Speaker 4: get here, there's going to be the juniors that are
Speaker 4: starting to play, and the juniors are kind of your
Speaker 4: glimpse to the future generation. But if you come back
Speaker 4: next year, the fan week is like it is becoming
Speaker 4: like the new Hottis thing. They started the fan Week
Speaker 4: two days earlier and it's just a great way you
Speaker 4: can watch qualifying. You get a lot of most of
Speaker 4: the top tier players are just out here roaming around
Speaker 4: practicing and it's such a phenomenal experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked to Taylor Townsend who got to play
Speaker 1: in the fan week with Boris Kojo, So there's some
Speaker 1: celebs playing, and also there's a lot of the US
Speaker 1: open activations around different communities and supporting the concept of
Speaker 1: being open and that, like you said, during COVID, when
Speaker 1: they really committed themselves to making tennis not just about
Speaker 1: their traditions and the things that have potentially held it
Speaker 1: back from certain communities, but expanding beyond that too.
Speaker 2: Which we really love.
Speaker 1: Yes, Producer Alex has some important tennis questions. Number one,
Speaker 1: she wants to know what color is the tennis ball?
Speaker 4: I want to go with a grease yellow, yellowish green.
Speaker 2: That's the problem.
Speaker 1: That's not an answer. That is two colors. What color
Speaker 1: is the tennis ball?
Speaker 4: I'm not going to get drawn into this kind of
Speaker 4: dichotomous kind of conversation where you got to have a
Speaker 4: hot take and pick a side. We did all. We
Speaker 4: did that back in the day when when you are
Speaker 4: you and I were on Radis influenced by the culture.
Speaker 4: Just have a hot take just to have a hot
Speaker 4: Take'm not going to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. We're not doing it. Here's greenish
Speaker 2: yellow and yellowish screen. That's right.
Speaker 4: I'm here representing the gray. Great because it's not black
Speaker 4: and white.
Speaker 2: Gray.
Speaker 1: Perfect if I were Tony reality, I would mute the
Speaker 1: out of you right now. But this is a different place,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to tell you that greenish yellow and.
Speaker 2: Yellow screen is the correct answer. Oh. In fact, I
Speaker 2: had to consider that.
Speaker 1: When I was getting my nails done because I was like,
Speaker 1: do I go green or yellow?
Speaker 2: Or do I go greenish yellow or yellow screen? Nobody knows?
Speaker 2: That's nobody knows.
Speaker 1: Okay, Why does tennis require spectators to be silent but
Speaker 1: other sports don't, Like would it actually be more difficult
Speaker 1: to serve if people were like talking or yelling.
Speaker 4: I think it's a fantastic question. I think that's like
Speaker 4: a cultural thing, right, because every sport has its own
Speaker 4: cultural cultural components and norms, Like golf has always been
Speaker 4: kind of one of those like higher socioeconomic experience.
Speaker 2: A gentleman's game.
Speaker 4: It's a gentleman's game. Tennis, yes, it was kind of
Speaker 4: like catered toward the social lights and everything. But the USTA,
Speaker 4: which is the sports governing body of all of tennis,
Speaker 4: they're doing their best to make it more inclusive and
Speaker 4: more accessible and just like more casual, more fun. So yeah,
Speaker 4: so like one thing that they did change, they changed
Speaker 4: the rules before bands would only be able to get
Speaker 4: to their seats and like come down or through the
Speaker 4: stadiums on the changeover, which is every two games this year,
Speaker 4: it only after the game, so they act can actually
Speaker 4: go up and down. See you go to any of
Speaker 4: the stadiums, there's actually a lot more movement that you
Speaker 4: would see in years past. But from a personality perspective, Spain,
Speaker 4: I think that US Open is like great for you
Speaker 4: because it is by far like the most fun, energetic, colorful,
Speaker 4: dynamic Grand Slam and arguably like tennis sermon throughout the year.
Speaker 1: Imagine in tennis though, if it was like soccer chants
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh there are full on, but
Speaker 1: like during the play, if it was just as loud
Speaker 1: and yeah, like in soccer when you're living, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: like vouvuzelas when someone's trying to serve, which reminds me actually,
Speaker 1: so do you think there will ever be a time
Speaker 1: when there will be coaching allowed during games in tennis?
Speaker 2: Because I also think that's a stupid.
Speaker 1: Rule if you are in the middle of a game
Speaker 1: and the coach can see something like why do we
Speaker 1: make it such a solo endeavor where you're alone out there,
Speaker 1: and in theory you can't be, even though they sometimes
Speaker 1: are alleged to it be sending signs to each other
Speaker 1: and things in the crowd.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have losing the rules. They are allowing coaching.
Speaker 4: I would have to review like how some things have changed,
Speaker 4: but they've actually become more lenient with it. So coaching
Speaker 4: is Yeah, coaching is now allowed. I would have to
Speaker 4: try to like review which tournaments in certain circumstances, but
Speaker 4: they have now they are now like the US Open.
Speaker 1: You you still can't have your coach like sitting court
Speaker 1: side and telling you what's going on.
Speaker 4: No, not not quart syte, but like that's the whole
Speaker 4: I suppose as a whole. You know what makes tennis
Speaker 4: so unique is that you don't have fifty two teammates
Speaker 4: or four other teammates like you're it's just monoly mono.
Speaker 2: They're all alone out there.
Speaker 4: Bar, it's a lonely sport.
Speaker 2: Girl, No wonder you went to get your master's in
Speaker 2: its college.
Speaker 4: We'll traumatize.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: I got all sorts of like social issues and you
Speaker 4: know that, like weird man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I am so excited to see you.
Speaker 1: I'm so excited to experience the magic of the US
Speaker 1: Open Virtual hug now.
Speaker 2: But I will see you at.
Speaker 1: The Billy Jean King Tentis Tentis Billy Jean King Tennis Center,
Speaker 1: and we will, perhaps when you're off the clock, we
Speaker 1: will share a US Open Paloma.
Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, and a honey deuce.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Prim for taking some time in
Speaker 1: the bowels of Billy Jean King Tennis Center. You can
Speaker 1: bet if you're listening to this right now, I'm already
Speaker 1: knee deep in honey deuces.
Speaker 2: I'm just letting you know, knee deep.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: We got to take another break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, a new entry into the Good
Speaker 1: Game Hall of Fame stick around.
Speaker 2: Welcome back slices.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the show, we told you about Diana Tarassi
Speaker 1: avoiding suspension after her latest technical fowl was rescinded. But
Speaker 1: she's still sitting on six and perilously close to missing
Speaker 1: a game, And to be honest, we're not surprised. DT is,
Speaker 1: after all, the all time leader in personal fouls in
Speaker 1: the WNBA with seventeen hundred and twenty four and the
Speaker 1: all time leader in technical fouls in the WNBA with
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty second place, half as many sixty
Speaker 1: two for retired seventeen year WNBA vet Delicia Milton Jones.
Speaker 2: So if you thought it was just because DT's been.
Speaker 1: At it for a while, that's part of it. But
Speaker 1: she's also doubling up the person in second place. And listen,
Speaker 1: some of you new fans might understand now why us
Speaker 1: old heads weren't surprised by DT's welcome message for the
Speaker 1: rookies like Caitlin Clark. If you remember, her quote was
Speaker 1: reality is coming. It was very brash, it was honest,
Speaker 1: it was competitive, it was spicy, and that's Diana. That's
Speaker 1: always been Diana. You gotta love it or if you
Speaker 1: hate it, it doesn't matter. That's always going to be her.
Speaker 1: And by the way, she was right because Kitlyn Clark
Speaker 1: stumbled in the early games. She has since worked her
Speaker 1: way into understanding the size, the speed, the strength of
Speaker 1: the league. And along the way, Tarassi has praised Caitlin
Speaker 1: Clark's improvement and her quote remarkable rookie season. So she
Speaker 1: can talk to smack and she can also tell you
Speaker 1: when you're doing a good job too. So in honor
Speaker 1: of DT making news ug in for another tech even
Speaker 1: if it was rescinded making news for that fiery temper
Speaker 1: hug in, Let's take a walk down memory lane and
Speaker 1: induct another great moment in women's sports lore into the
Speaker 1: Good Game Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Good Game Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: It's the place where we try to give you the
Speaker 1: stories you should already know about women's sports. We are
Speaker 1: chock full of lore. On the men's side, we know
Speaker 1: all the stories, we repeat them all the time. But
Speaker 1: on the women's side, there are stories we should all know,
Speaker 1: and this is one of them.
Speaker 2: It was twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Sky had just defeated the Phoenix Mercury to
Speaker 1: win their first WNBA championship, led by hometown hero Candace Parker,
Speaker 1: Finals MVP Colia Copper, and point guard extraordinary Courtney Van
Speaker 1: der Slut. Yes, none of them are on the Sky anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it. After the loss,
Speaker 1: Dina Tarassi was reportedly so pissed she slammed a door
Speaker 1: in the visiting locker room over and over again until
Speaker 1: it cracked like a big, fat, can't miss it crack,
Speaker 1: a huge crack. Tarasi and the Mercury notoriously skipped the
Speaker 1: postgame interviews that day, but a few days later, she
Speaker 1: neither confirmed nor denied her duel with the door, telling
Speaker 1: reporters quote, there were a lot of doors in there.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The story could have ended there, but news of the
Speaker 1: broken door had made it out to the public and
Speaker 1: it became a prime trolling opportunity for the Sky players
Speaker 1: and the team's social media because a few days later
Speaker 1: at the sky Championship parade and rally, what was on
Speaker 1: stage with them celebrating the big win that brokeass door?
Speaker 1: And the Sky Twitter account even posted a photo of
Speaker 1: the door on stage with the absolutely savage caption just
Speaker 1: in we have a special guest appearance at the Skytown
Speaker 1: Championship Rally, and you guys thought it was going to
Speaker 1: be Chance the Rapper.
Speaker 2: Oh it was so funny, so good.
Speaker 1: I'm still holding out hope for some behind the scenes
Speaker 1: footage of whoever was in charge of dragging the door
Speaker 1: out of the arena, onto the bus onto the stage.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen it, but I know it's out there.
Speaker 1: So in honor of Tarasi's absolutely legendary competitiveness and bowing
Speaker 1: down to the epic drama and pageantry provided by the
Speaker 1: Sky on that day, dragging that damn door all the
Speaker 1: way to Grant Park. We proudly induct the Diana Tarassi
Speaker 1: door incident into the Good Game Hall of Fame. Also
Speaker 1: remember earlier in the show when we told you about
Speaker 1: that Julia Grosso Grosso tail. Well, the two Julia's. The
Speaker 1: Julia's aren't alone. There are all sorts of name twins
Speaker 1: across sports. In fact, in the old early days of
Speaker 1: Google in MySpace, there was a holy Cross tennis player
Speaker 1: named Sarah Spain, and she and I found each other online.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, she'd search her name, she'd
Speaker 1: find Sarah Spain Cornell Track, and I would find Sarah Spain,
Speaker 1: holy Cross Tennis. Shout out up wherever you are, Sarah Spain.
Speaker 1: And there are so many more. There's so many more
Speaker 1: name twins, and you will not be shocked to learn
Speaker 1: that producer Alex even has a list of them.
Speaker 2: Alex hit us with a couple good ones.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna skip the time that I almost didn't get
Speaker 5: a free massage because the place I went to thought
Speaker 5: that I was my cousin alex Azzi, who had already
Speaker 5: cashed in on the free massage.
Speaker 2: All right, Women's.
Speaker 5: Sports name twins. Let's get to it.
Speaker 4: First.
Speaker 5: Up is the case of the two carly Lloyd's. Both
Speaker 5: competed for Team USA at the twenty sixteen Rio Olympics.
Speaker 5: And I'm kind of guessing that all of our listeners
Speaker 5: are familiar with soccer Carly Lloyd, but there was also
Speaker 5: a Carly Lloyd on the US volleyball team and she
Speaker 5: went on to win bronze. And while I know for
Speaker 5: a fact that volleyball carly Lloyd has always had to
Speaker 5: deal with questions about soccer Carly Lloyd, I feel like
Speaker 5: it could occasionally go the other way too. Next up
Speaker 5: an example that you'd likely only know about if you've
Speaker 5: been tasked with chasing down and interviewing the world's best canoists,
Speaker 5: and that's Teresa Portella, one from Portugal and one from Spain,
Speaker 5: and they both compete in canoeing. I was in Milan
Speaker 5: for the twenty fifteen World Champs in that sport and
Speaker 5: was trying to figure out the difference between canoeing and
Speaker 5: kayaking and having to keep tabs on which Teresa Portella
Speaker 5: was competing in, which event most certainly only added to
Speaker 5: the confusion. All Right, Finally, the last example I know
Speaker 5: of is Yangyang and Yangyang, two short track speed skaters.
Speaker 5: They overlapped on the Chinese national team in the early
Speaker 5: two thousands, even sharing a podium at the two thousand
Speaker 5: and two Salt Lake Olympics. And interesting about them, their
Speaker 5: names are actually different in Chinese, but when it is
Speaker 5: transliterated to Latin script, they become the same, and so
Speaker 5: as a result, they were dubbed Yangyang a in parentheses
Speaker 5: and Yangyang s in parentheses.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I keep coming back to Bachelor and Bachelorette references,
Speaker 1: which really tells you what kind of hold that show
Speaker 1: has in my brain.
Speaker 2: But that reminds me of when there's always like a
Speaker 2: Brad b Brad d Brads Brad. Al.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yanyong and Yangyong on the same team in the
Speaker 1: same podium. That's an impressive one. Al, I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are some more out there. And so that's when it
Speaker 1: comes to y'all. We love that you're listening, but we
Speaker 1: always love it when you get in the game every
Speaker 1: day too. So our good gameplay of the day is
Speaker 1: to tell us about some name twins, preferably there in
Speaker 1: women's sports. But if you've got a doozy about a
Speaker 1: case of mistaken identity or something. We want to hear
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Speaker 1: at eight seven two two oh four fifty seventy if
Speaker 1: you've got you know, one of those mistaken identity good
Speaker 1: ones where like someone stole all your money out of
Speaker 1: the bank, that's actually more stolen identity. But anyway, you
Speaker 1: get my point. If you got a good one, maybe
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Speaker 1: And we get to work on the whole four day
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Speaker 2: I do not think you'll be shocked to hear that.
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