Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're watching
Speaker 1: clips of Gotham FC at the White House yesterday and
Speaker 1: furiously writing up a script for a new Prestige television
Speaker 1: show starring President Ali Krieger and Vice President Midge Purse,
Speaker 1: who says no. On today's show, we'll be chatting with
Speaker 1: Emily Adams of the Hartford Current about the Connecticut Sun
Speaker 1: series against the Fever, our favorite WNBA power couple, and
Speaker 1: whether this is the year the Sun finally win it all.
Speaker 1: Plus trash talk takebacks, the Internet gets credit for casting
Speaker 1: our new favorite TV show, Assassin, and we reveal your
Speaker 1: guilty pleasure Internet rabbit holes. It's all coming up right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back, everybody. Here's what you need to
Speaker 1: know today. In WNBA Playoff Action, we're on to Game two.
Speaker 1: Sunday's Game one action wrapped up with the number two
Speaker 1: Minnesota Links defeating the seventh seed at Phoenix Mercury one
Speaker 1: O two ninety five and the number four Las Vegas
Speaker 1: Aces beating the fifth seeded Seattle Storm seventy eight sixty seven.
Speaker 1: In the late game on Sunday, the Aces entered the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter trailing by one point sixty four to sixty five,
Speaker 1: but managed to hold Seattle to just two points in
Speaker 1: the final twelve minutes. That ties the Storm with the
Speaker 1: now defunct Sacramento Monarchs for fewest points in a quarter
Speaker 1: in WNBA playoff history. Ouch. Despite a slow start in
Speaker 1: the first half, newly crowned MVP Asia Wilson finished the
Speaker 1: night with twenty one points, and after the game, Storm
Speaker 1: coach Noel Quinn put it simply, quote the MVP mvp'd.
Speaker 1: She's MVP for a reason. End quote. There were ten,
Speaker 1: count them, ten Olympians in that game, and Asia still
Speaker 1: stood tall among them. Uh amazing. Meanwhile, in Minnesota, Dinah
Speaker 1: Tarassi is one game closer to a potential retirement, something
Speaker 1: that links forward. Nafisa Collier, who scored thirty eight points
Speaker 1: and her team's win on Sunday, was quick to point out,
Speaker 1: saying with a laugh after the game quote, hopefully we
Speaker 1: can end her career on Wednesday. Ooh boy. Now you
Speaker 1: got to give Fee credit for the trash talk attempt
Speaker 1: in the postgame press conference, but real trash talkers know
Speaker 1: that you got to stand by what you said. No takebacks.
Speaker 1: Fee apparently doesn't live by the trash talkers code of
Speaker 1: conduct because she followed up that press conference on Twitter, writing, Okay,
Speaker 1: I just meant that I want us to win the
Speaker 1: game on Wednesday, so we don't go to a game three.
Speaker 1: Please don't hype this, clarifying your trash talk. DT would
Speaker 1: never but also we totally get it fee because we
Speaker 1: would not want to face the wrath of Tarase either.
Speaker 1: You see what she did to that door. If indeed
Speaker 1: this is it for Tarasi, she's determined to go out
Speaker 1: with a bang. She scored twenty one points on five
Speaker 1: threes in the Mercury's loss on Sunday. Meantime, her teammate
Speaker 1: Natasha Cloud had a career night, recording thirty three points
Speaker 1: and ten assists. Cloud is now the first player with
Speaker 1: thirty points and five assists in consecutive playoff games. She
Speaker 1: had thirty three and nine in her last game in
Speaker 1: a Mystics uniform last postseason. Of course, DT and Cloud
Speaker 1: don't give a shit about any of that. They need
Speaker 1: to get a win. As a reminder, Round one of
Speaker 1: the WNBA Playoffs continue with two games tonight. Both the
Speaker 1: Liberty and the Aces can secure spot in the semi
Speaker 1: finals with a win, while the Dream and Storm are
Speaker 1: looking to grab W's and force a Game three. The
Speaker 1: Fever Sun and the Mercury Link series will continue tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll link to that full WNBA playoff schedule in our
Speaker 1: show notes for you to soccer. Gotham FC became the
Speaker 1: first NWSL team in history to visit the White House
Speaker 1: for a championship celebration on Monday, with members of last
Speaker 1: year's title winning team meeting President Joe Biden. The biggest
Speaker 1: cheer of the day came when the President said this.
Speaker 2: I think it's fair to say everyone everyone watches women's sports.
Speaker 1: Got to shout out Justin Brown up together, who coined
Speaker 1: the phrase and printed the shirts. It made it all
Speaker 1: the way to the White House.
Speaker 3: Girl.
Speaker 1: And if you're wondering if Gotham is or isn't leaning
Speaker 1: into the whole Bat's nickname, here's your answer.
Speaker 3: Congratulations of the Bats of Gotham.
Speaker 1: You like being called the Bats? Goham? I like that?
Speaker 1: Did anyone else?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Really wish Biden would have said bad? I just wanted
Speaker 1: to hear it. Oh Also a little yes and moment.
Speaker 1: While it's true that Gotam is the first NWSL club
Speaker 1: to get a White House invite. It isn't the first
Speaker 1: time the White House is honored a pro women's soccer club.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty ten, then President Barack Obama invited Gotham's predecessor,
Speaker 1: sky Blue FC, which was then part of the Women's
Speaker 1: Professional Soccer League, to the White House. Kind of a
Speaker 1: neat full circle moment given that the current Gotham GM
Speaker 1: Ya l Averbush West, was a member of that Sky
Speaker 1: Blue roster and still as a Chicagoan, I have no
Speaker 1: choice but to claim East Coast bias. The only teams
Speaker 1: to visit sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue are from New York.
Speaker 4: Come on, I mean, sy Sarah, want to remind us
Speaker 4: what year the Chicago Red Stars won the title?
Speaker 1: Moving on, Remember South Korean Olympic shooter Kim Yagie who
Speaker 1: looked so cool in Paris that we wanted her to
Speaker 1: start in all of our made up movies. Well, we
Speaker 1: literally made that shit happen. That's right, We manifested that shit.
Speaker 1: The Olympic silver medalist is set to make her acting
Speaker 1: debut in a television series called Crush What's the Rule
Speaker 1: Assassin Yah. She also recently did a fire photo shoot
Speaker 1: for Vogue Korea. We'll link to it in the show notes.
Speaker 1: What should we manifest next? We got to take a
Speaker 1: quick break when we come back. We talked to Connecticut's
Speaker 1: sun Beat reporter Emily Adams about torn labraams and sexy
Speaker 1: slumber parties. She covers yukon women's basketball and the Connecticut
Speaker 1: son of the WNBA for the Hartford Current. She's a
Speaker 1: Raging Philadelphia and a winner of the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: Rising Star Award given by the US Basketball Writers Association,
Speaker 1: and she too is familiar with college town bagels and
Speaker 1: the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. It's Emily Adams.
Speaker 1: What's up, Emily?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow, that's a deep cut. Hit me right in
Speaker 3: the heart there.
Speaker 2: I haven't been back to Itpica in a while, and
Speaker 2: I missed some college town bagels.
Speaker 1: I was just back like two years ago, and I
Speaker 1: feel like CTB has even upgraded. It's better than ever before.
Speaker 2: That is the biggest thing I miss from college.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also I'm so old now that when I
Speaker 1: go back to Cornell, I'm like sad about all the
Speaker 1: bars being closed, but I'm more like, why didn't we
Speaker 1: take more walks in the waterfalls? Why didn't we hike more?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, because you were in college. You were
Speaker 1: busy drinking. You were doing dumb shit instead of enjoying
Speaker 1: the landscape. So you were covering the son who successfully
Speaker 1: won Game one of their opening round series and were
Speaker 1: the first team this season to hold the Indiana fever
Speaker 1: under seventy points in that game. So how important was
Speaker 1: their length, their defense? How big of a factor was
Speaker 1: that in them getting that game one win?
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was huge.
Speaker 2: I mean the defense has been their calling card really
Speaker 2: beyond this year for several years, even pre dating Stephanie
Speaker 2: White's time as head coach. That's sort of always been
Speaker 2: the organization's foundation. But yeah, they really kicked it into
Speaker 2: another level with Indiana last night. They gave them a
Speaker 2: lot of different looks that they hadn't in the previous
Speaker 2: games in the series. Steph White talked post game about
Speaker 2: Matchingdwana Bonner up a lot with Caitlyn Clark. Dewana Bonner
Speaker 2: is six ' four and has been in the league
Speaker 2: fifteen years and so putting her up against, you know,
Speaker 2: a rookie who's you know, six foot tall on a
Speaker 2: good day, is I thought, really smart strategy. You know,
Speaker 2: dB is someone who has had to be that lockdown
Speaker 2: defender in her career. She talked a lot about it
Speaker 2: during Phoenix's ten year anniversary of their twenty fourteen championship.
Speaker 2: That was sort of her role on that team was
Speaker 2: to be the go to defender. So seeing her kind
Speaker 2: of reassume that old role and turn into vintage dB
Speaker 2: last night was really cool. And then yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think everybody defensively really contributed. You know, Dje Carrington
Speaker 2: obviously was huge, as she always is. She did a
Speaker 2: lot of work on Kelsey Mitchell, who got held to
Speaker 2: write about her season average and below her average since
Speaker 2: the Olympic break. You know, Veronica Burton was really really
Speaker 2: good for them off the bench, coming in a point guard.
Speaker 2: She ended up with some reps on Clark and on
Speaker 2: Mitchell as well. And then bree Jones and Aliah Boston
Speaker 2: were having a war.
Speaker 3: In the bait.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't know that either of them
Speaker 2: won it, but they were both giving each other a
Speaker 2: hard time. And that's not an easy matchup for Breezy.
Speaker 2: She's like two three inches smaller than Aliah. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I was really really impressed with just sort of the
Speaker 2: complete effort that they put together.
Speaker 1: Completely agree. I have to admit I was not expecting
Speaker 1: Dewana on Caitlin Dwana Bonner, who is a miracle of physics.
Speaker 1: She's like a human wishbone. At any moment, I think
Speaker 1: she's gonna snap, and instead she pops out two babies
Speaker 1: and continues to move up the record books of all
Speaker 1: time players. She's pretty unbelievable. And what's really cool is
Speaker 1: as well as that worked, and I don't see any
Speaker 1: reason to go away from that strategy based on how
Speaker 1: much Caitlyn struggled and how much the fever in general
Speaker 1: struggled offensively. But you can switch up to Djona and
Speaker 1: put Djona on Caitlin whenever you want, and that's a
Speaker 1: completely different vibe, completely different defensive. Look what a gift
Speaker 1: that is for the Sun to be able to have
Speaker 1: two folks that you feel pretty confident about making her
Speaker 1: life difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and I think with dB, you know's she's
Speaker 2: so good from the perimeter because of that length.
Speaker 3: You know, just to get hands and faces can.
Speaker 2: Just sort of disrupt all of those lanes. And you know,
Speaker 2: the Sun are so experienced as a whole, and the
Speaker 2: Fever are so young, and I think they really were
Speaker 2: able to use that to their advantage and kind of
Speaker 2: get them out of sorts early and they never never
Speaker 2: kind of found it after that.
Speaker 1: A lot of focus on Marina Maybray twenty seven points
Speaker 1: most off the bench in a game in post season history.
Speaker 1: She came to the team via a trade from my
Speaker 1: Chicago Sky to which I said, we lost a dog
Speaker 1: just before the All Star break. What has her addition
Speaker 1: meant for the Sun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's honestly, it's been better than I even expected
Speaker 2: it would be when the trade happened. I think she
Speaker 2: has just given them such a different dimension offensively. Obviously
Speaker 2: there's some questions now with Ty Harris who got hurt yesterday,
Speaker 2: but you know, having her and Marina on the floor
Speaker 2: together has been huge for their spacing, just to have
Speaker 2: another three point threat, to have someone else who can
Speaker 2: take those shots reliably when you know Tie in dB
Speaker 2: don't have a hot hand. And I think you know
Speaker 2: you've just seen Marina get more and more comfortable as
Speaker 2: time has gone on. You know, they had some rocky
Speaker 2: patches with her just trying to figure out rotations and
Speaker 2: figure out lineups and things. Early on out of the break.
Speaker 2: But you know, when she's hot, there's really no stopping her.
Speaker 2: And that's what they needed. They needed a true scorer
Speaker 2: who is just going to go and get.
Speaker 1: You creator own shot. Yep, absolutely every time. Because we're
Speaker 1: focused on Marina though, which twenty seven points off the bench,
Speaker 1: and she's a huge laid addition to the team. There's
Speaker 1: a great story there. We almost didn't put enough emphasis
Speaker 1: on another Alissa Thomas triple double. So Sunday's triple double
Speaker 1: makes her the person accounting for four of the six
Speaker 1: postseason triple doubles in the history of the WNBA. There
Speaker 1: have been six, she has gotten four of them. How
Speaker 1: do you describe what Alyssa means to this team?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's unreal, truly. I mean, I just I
Speaker 2: don't I don't think I ever seen a player like her.
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone has ever seen a player like her,
Speaker 2: and the numbers reflect that. I mean, it's just the
Speaker 2: vision that she has as a passer is the most
Speaker 2: impressive thing to me. I mean, she just like sees
Speaker 2: the floor, She sees the way her teammates are moving.
Speaker 2: She has such an understanding of tendencies and preferences and
Speaker 2: who wants the ball where and then Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: she's just a beast. I think that's the best word
Speaker 2: to describe her. Like, she's so physical, she can get downhill.
Speaker 2: You know, she's can't can't shoot, but certainly like has
Speaker 2: figured out how to get those mid ranges to fall.
Speaker 2: She's been you know, floating a couple of those in
Speaker 2: the last couple of games. She is an incredible rebounder,
Speaker 2: obviously with with her physicality, she's you know, one of
Speaker 2: the best defenders in.
Speaker 3: The league year after year after year.
Speaker 2: I think this is her third straight year finishing top
Speaker 2: five and MVP voting. I mean, it's just the consistency
Speaker 2: of her career with you know, the injuries she's dealt with,
Speaker 2: and you know, having been in Connecticut, which is not
Speaker 2: a well resourced franchise relative to you know.
Speaker 3: What a lot of the league is starting to see
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: It's just it's really really incredible what she's been able
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, part of it is like her style
Speaker 1: of play, this like bold Dozery style of play doesn't
Speaker 1: always match with the kind of player we imagine putting
Speaker 1: up triple doubles. So I think it almost comes as
Speaker 1: a surprise. And then there's that god awful ugly shot
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't know that that jacked
Speaker 1: up look in Jay is the result of an injury
Speaker 1: and it is based in necessity. Can you explain to
Speaker 1: folks what a miracle it is that she's just even
Speaker 1: out there knocking down shots, no matter how ugly it
Speaker 1: might look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's absolutely fascinating to me. So Alissa has
Speaker 2: torn labrams in both shoulders. It's been like that for many,
Speaker 2: many years now, and she essentially taught herself how to
Speaker 2: shoot without putting her arms above her head and using
Speaker 2: mostly only her offhand because she she physically can't like
Speaker 2: put her her body through the typical shooting motion. So
Speaker 2: it looks crazy and it's not super consistent, but you know,
Speaker 2: she's figured out how to, you know, keep that aspect
Speaker 2: of her game at least present and at least a threat.
Speaker 3: And it works. You know, when it works, it works.
Speaker 1: I would literally spend it all day on social media,
Speaker 1: like finding people making fun of my shot and be
Speaker 1: like it it's because of Angel, Like it's just like
Speaker 1: the ego listeness of being able to go out there
Speaker 1: and be like, I'm going to get it done, however,
Speaker 1: and the ability, the ambidextriousness of being able to pull
Speaker 1: it off is it's truly incredible. You know, you mentioned
Speaker 1: the team being under resource. There was a story coming
Speaker 1: out right before that game one about them practicing on
Speaker 1: a half court at a community center. Women's sports is
Speaker 1: at a really interesting inflection point where there's an incredible
Speaker 1: amount of investment and so the halves are becoming more
Speaker 1: halves than ever before. You look at that facility, for
Speaker 1: for instance, the Mercury, you look at the new Valkyrie's
Speaker 1: facility that they've posted shots of what that's going to
Speaker 1: look like, and then the have nots. Chicago's I are one.
Speaker 1: They were literally bullied into announcing a new facility that
Speaker 1: that's supposed to come by the next couple of years
Speaker 1: and then the Sun. So how do the players feel
Speaker 1: and is there a feeling from the players about like
Speaker 1: you got to fix this or we out here, because
Speaker 1: in Chicago we've lost a number of literal MVPs because
Speaker 1: they're like, we got to play for somewhere that feels
Speaker 1: like it cares.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the center very much in the same position,
Speaker 2: and I think, you know, You started to see that
Speaker 2: movement with with the loss of John Paul Jones to
Speaker 2: the New York Liberty.
Speaker 3: I think that was sort of a really really.
Speaker 2: Tough player to lose for them, who had been so
Speaker 2: integral to that franchise, who had won an MVP with
Speaker 2: that franchise. And now I think, you know, they're starting
Speaker 2: to hit the point. You know, Bree Jones, Alyssa Thomas,
Speaker 2: and Dowana Bonner are all free agents after this season
Speaker 2: and you can only core one of them, so you know,
Speaker 2: they're in a position now where and dbn AT are
Speaker 2: not getting any younger, you know, they that is the
Speaker 2: point where you have players who who want resources and
Speaker 2: who need those kind of resource and deserve absolutely and
Speaker 2: you know, and I think we even saw it with
Speaker 2: with Tiffany Hayes who played in Connecticut last year and
Speaker 2: retired and then was willing to come out of retirement
Speaker 2: to play in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: Who are you know, the the topic has right.
Speaker 2: So you know, I think, yeah, they like currently they
Speaker 2: practice at the center in an odd situation because of
Speaker 2: their ownership. They're owned by the Mohegan Tribe, so they
Speaker 2: don't function like a typical ownership group. You know, this
Speaker 2: is not you know, we have money and all of
Speaker 2: our money is dedicated to the Sun. You know, this
Speaker 2: is this is an organization that is dedicated to supporting
Speaker 2: their community first and foremost, and that like is their
Speaker 2: responsibility and that has to be their priority. Which is
Speaker 2: why the Suns practice facility is their community center because
Speaker 2: it's uh, you know, a cost effective space for them
Speaker 2: to use. Unfortunately, what that also means is if their
Speaker 2: practice runs over time, there are events booked on either
Speaker 2: end of them in those rooms. You know, they have
Speaker 2: like workout classes and kids' birthday parties, and if they're
Speaker 2: booked in that.
Speaker 3: Space, that's taking up half of the yeah, for part
Speaker 3: of the world.
Speaker 2: Just so yeah, it's it's really really crazy for a
Speaker 2: professional sports team, and it is a circumstance of their
Speaker 2: you know, weird owners having.
Speaker 1: Ever covered them, I'm curious does a representative for the
Speaker 1: ownership ever speak about the team occasionally?
Speaker 2: The tribe is very kind of close off within itself,
Speaker 2: but yeah, they have spoken about it, and Gen Rozzotti,
Speaker 2: their president, has spoken about it. Jen has has specifically
Speaker 2: said they that a practice facility is one hundred percent
Speaker 2: in the near future.
Speaker 3: That's vague.
Speaker 2: Obviously, it doesn't give you know, a timeline, but it's
Speaker 2: something they're talking about. It's something that they're aware that
Speaker 2: they need to stay competitive. I think the question is
Speaker 2: just where the money comes from for that.
Speaker 1: Wondering about that community center, Do you know what the
Speaker 1: event was that was taking up half of the court.
Speaker 3: I do so.
Speaker 2: It was a children's birthday party. They had a little
Speaker 2: inflatable bounce house going on. It seemed like they were
Speaker 2: having a really fun time when we left. But yeah,
Speaker 2: they were only and I will say they were only
Speaker 2: on that half court for about forty five minutes of
Speaker 2: their you know, three hour practice.
Speaker 3: But it's the day before a playoff game. You know.
Speaker 1: Listen, that's a story for that kid to tell. You
Speaker 1: know how much it would cost to pay all those
Speaker 1: players appearance fees to show up at your birthday?
Speaker 3: Seriously, you know.
Speaker 1: We saw that incredible crowd show up for the Sun
Speaker 1: in Boston. Chance that team might be headed to a
Speaker 1: different city or even just venue as a result of
Speaker 1: what we saw there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's a thing.
Speaker 2: It's something that gets talked about all the time, obviously
Speaker 2: for this exact reason. You know, Uncasville is not near anything,
Speaker 2: you know. I'm up in Hartford and it's an hour
Speaker 2: from Hartford event and that's you know, the nearest major city.
Speaker 2: So it's you know, they're in a tough spot. But
Speaker 2: I also think, you know, the Tribe has The Tribe
Speaker 2: was one of the very early investors in the w
Speaker 2: and NBA. You know, the Sun, you know, we're filling
Speaker 2: that arena long long before this year. The Sun, you know,
Speaker 2: have had one of the most loyal and consistent fan bases.
Speaker 3: In the league.
Speaker 2: And I think there are loyal Sun fans who are
Speaker 2: concerned that they're gonna have moving, especially after how well
Speaker 2: that Boston game went for everybody, you know Jen. I
Speaker 2: asked Jen around that Boston game if that was something
Speaker 2: they were even having discussions about right now, and she said,
Speaker 2: they're not. She said, you know, the goal is the
Speaker 2: same Mohegan. The Tribe is invested in keeping the team there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, I think, you know, especially right
Speaker 2: now with the Celtics for sale, I would be really
Speaker 2: surprised if they're not at least sort of exploring options.
Speaker 1: It's such an interesting thing for women's sports. There's this
Speaker 1: balance between when you're in a big city, you do
Speaker 1: have the draw of millions of people that live there,
Speaker 1: the resources, the space, the venues. But there's also so
Speaker 1: many women's sports teams that thrive in places that don't
Speaker 1: have the competition of other professional particularly men's teams. And
Speaker 1: you've seen Yukon Women's Basketball and the Connecticut Sun and
Speaker 1: part thrive because they're it and that's the thing that
Speaker 1: you want to do and see. And yeah, it's interesting
Speaker 1: to continue reconciling those differing kind of sides of the
Speaker 1: coin as women's sports continues to get more investment. You
Speaker 1: mentioned Ty Harris, who had to leave the game with
Speaker 1: an ankle injury ended up sitting courtside. Do we have
Speaker 1: status for her for Wednesday night's game too?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately we do not yet.
Speaker 2: Steph said postgame she didn't have an update, but what
Speaker 2: they were expecting to, I guess do some more tests
Speaker 2: last night and all that just based on how it looked.
Speaker 3: I would be surprised if she's available.
Speaker 2: I mean, if they make it to a second round,
Speaker 2: then I feel like, you know, you might see some
Speaker 2: some questionable tags.
Speaker 3: Instead of instead of a doubtful.
Speaker 2: But I would be surprised based on just how much
Speaker 2: pain it seemed like she was in.
Speaker 3: If she's if she's good to go for Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Tiffany Mitchell has been out with illness since July and
Speaker 1: just shared via Instagram that the issue was sepsis with
Speaker 1: six abdominal abscesses. Sonhead coach Stephanie White was emotional just
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when she was asked about
Speaker 1: Mitchell coming back and rejoining the team on the bench.
Speaker 1: Now we understand why she was emotional. This was really serious.
Speaker 1: This was a life threatening situation for Mitchell. Now that
Speaker 1: we know the truth of what was behind her absence,
Speaker 1: are you able to look back and kind of look
Speaker 1: at how the team handled this both privately but also
Speaker 1: while trying to stay focused on the task at hand
Speaker 1: and trying to win a title.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, I mean really like jaw dropping. I
Speaker 2: think this morning, I think we all sort of anticipated
Speaker 2: that it was something pretty serious because the team had
Speaker 2: been really emotional about it, talking about it and talking
Speaker 2: about her being back and everything like it felt like,
Speaker 2: you know, something something serious had gone on.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Really grateful that she shared all of that and shared
Speaker 2: so much of the journey that she's been through because
Speaker 2: it really is like terrifying, and she was a huge
Speaker 2: contributor for them before the Olympic break. You know, she
Speaker 2: was really starting to hit a stride, had kind of
Speaker 2: established herself as that, you know, top guard off the
Speaker 2: bench before Marina came in, and so yeah, like losing
Speaker 2: her from a basketball standpoint was was really hard for them.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, I think also just sort of from
Speaker 2: like a leadership standpoint, you know, Tiff is a veteran
Speaker 2: TIF has been around the league for a long time,
Speaker 2: has played for you know a handful of different franchises,
Speaker 2: and was just somebody who I feel like was a
Speaker 2: real sort of rock for them and a stabilizer. And
Speaker 2: so I think it was really impressive the way that
Speaker 2: they kind of were able to adapt without her, And
Speaker 2: I think adding Marina obviously helped with that and gave
Speaker 2: them a little bit more depth off the bench in
Speaker 2: that exact moment when they needed it. But yeah, just
Speaker 2: I mean sending her all of the healing and love
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's I mean it's really amazing that she's
Speaker 2: even back with them right now. And Steph said lastly,
Speaker 2: she's she's working out, she's training with their strength and
Speaker 2: conditioning staff and she's shooting again.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's just amazing.
Speaker 1: That's great. I want to zoom out quickly speaking of
Speaker 1: their focus and their sort of goal of when a title.
Speaker 1: This is their eighth straight season making the playoffs. They've
Speaker 1: had two finals appearances in that stretch. They're still looking
Speaker 1: for that first w NBA championship. What will it take
Speaker 1: for the Connecticut Sun to finally get over the hump?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting, and they don't have an easy path
Speaker 2: this year with you know, it'll be Minnesota or Phoenix
Speaker 2: in the second round if they get through Indiana, and
Speaker 2: even that I think is a really tall task. You know,
Speaker 2: obviously they looked good on Sunday, but you know, Indiana's
Speaker 2: not going to shoot that poorly twice in a row.
Speaker 3: I would be very surprised. So I think we're going
Speaker 3: to see a much closer game.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think for them, a lot of it
Speaker 2: is is a mindset thing. You know, their biggest issue
Speaker 2: this year has been consistency. They kind of just can't
Speaker 2: they can't put four full quarters together. They can't put
Speaker 2: you know, games back to back to back together, and
Speaker 2: a lot you know, they've kind of managed to eke
Speaker 2: out of a lot of these really close games and
Speaker 2: just kind of, you know, by experience and by talent,
Speaker 2: have just an to kind of get over the edge.
Speaker 2: And so I think now it's just sort of can
Speaker 2: they really lock in and put together four quarters and
Speaker 2: put together complete series and not sort of have the
Speaker 2: lapses that you know, cost them games like the one
Speaker 2: they lost to Minnesota down the stretch and cost them
Speaker 2: games like the one they lost to Indiana a.
Speaker 3: Couple of weeks ago. You know, it's so many of.
Speaker 2: Those issues were still there at the end of the season,
Speaker 2: and so many of them looked so much better in
Speaker 2: that Indiana game on Sunday, so that that made me
Speaker 2: really optimistic for them. But I think, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: just whether whether this group is capable of sort of
Speaker 2: overcoming themselves.
Speaker 3: I think that's their biggest riddle.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, there's a lot of pressure right
Speaker 1: now because this could be the last opportunity to make
Speaker 1: it happen with this particular core of players. Is there
Speaker 1: any talk about that or is it sort of the
Speaker 1: unspoken reality that everyone knows is hanging over this end
Speaker 1: of season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think we're all talking about it
Speaker 2: as sort of the media and the fans and even
Speaker 2: like stuff a little bit. But I think they're they're
Speaker 2: trying so hard to sort of be focused in the
Speaker 2: now and you know, focused on the mission and all
Speaker 2: of that. But I think it's it's impossible not to
Speaker 2: think about that. You know, this core has been together,
Speaker 2: you know, a AT, Breezy and and dB have been
Speaker 2: a group eight and eight and Breezy have played together
Speaker 2: for seven years. Yeah, now dB and AT and Breezy
Speaker 2: together for five.
Speaker 1: Melyssa Thomas, Dwana Bonner, Brianna Jones. Just for those who
Speaker 1: are uh sorry stories, we always try to make sure
Speaker 1: we're keeping the newbies up up to date.
Speaker 2: Two Yeah, but I mean those those three have been
Speaker 2: so iconic for for the franchise, for the fan base.
Speaker 2: They're so beloved, you know in Connecticut, and so yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's the end of an era if if that
Speaker 2: trio ends up getting blown up at the end of
Speaker 2: the year. Yeah, and with the expansion draft and all
Speaker 2: of that too, I mean you just you're not going
Speaker 2: to see this group together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I forgot about that too. Yeah, over the
Speaker 1: next couple of years, we're going to see some real.
Speaker 3: You know movement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, you know you mentioned that trio. But two
Speaker 1: of those players in particular very special, not just because
Speaker 1: of what they've done for the team, but their own relationships.
Speaker 1: So there are some pretty sweet, silly, sometimes messy love
Speaker 1: stories around the w We love talking about them here.
Speaker 1: We call it hoops and gay shit and the two
Speaker 1: engaged superstars with the Sun, Alyssa Thomas and Dowana Bonner.
Speaker 1: You're around the team all the time. I wonder how
Speaker 1: they handle the sort of excitement and also challenge of
Speaker 1: playing together. What do you see from them in practice
Speaker 1: and games off the court.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2: They're both like at especially is so reserved, so she's
Speaker 2: very like it's funny to me, she's very effusive with
Speaker 2: Doanna in a way that I feel like she's not
Speaker 2: in any other aspect of you know, talking about basketball,
Speaker 2: talking about anything else, but you know, just on social
Speaker 2: media and things like, the way that she is with
Speaker 2: ev is very very different from the way that she
Speaker 2: is just sort of in the world, which is really
Speaker 2: cool to see. Yeah, I just I love watching them
Speaker 2: interact with each other. It's very funny on the court
Speaker 2: just because they they will bicker at each other on
Speaker 2: the court, like they will argue on the court, and
Speaker 2: but they also have such a chemistry, like you can
Speaker 2: tell there's just sort of an understanding of where each
Speaker 2: other are going to be.
Speaker 3: AT facilitates obviously so well to dB And Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it's such a unique situation.
Speaker 2: You know, you've we've had you know, engaged teammates, married
Speaker 2: teammates before in the W. But I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: just there's especially I think because they aren't you know,
Speaker 2: they've always been sort of underrated superstars, both of them.
Speaker 2: You know, dB was was a six Woman of the
Speaker 2: Year for you know, the first several years of her
Speaker 2: career in Phoenix, and At has sort of always been
Speaker 2: under the radar compared to the Brianna Stewarts and the
Speaker 2: Asian Wilson's and and the names. So I think for
Speaker 2: the two of them, to see them this year, you know,
Speaker 2: get so much attention because of that has also been
Speaker 2: really cool just to see the support from even like
Speaker 2: the new w fans just kind of gauging in their
Speaker 2: story and coming to know and love them, you know,
Speaker 2: through knowing them together.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So yeah, it's it's really cool.
Speaker 1: We've got another love story of opposing sides in this series.
Speaker 1: We've got djn A Carrington playing against her love Melyssa
Speaker 1: Smith of the Fever. What have you heard from Djna
Speaker 1: about facing off in this first round series?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately I missed Indiana's practice on Saturday, so I
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to ask Melissa about it. But
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're just there's so much fun
Speaker 2: the two of them, and they also are so you know,
Speaker 2: one of the things I like about both of them,
Speaker 2: but especially Djna is she's just so sort of unapologetic
Speaker 2: about everything that she does. You know, she says how
Speaker 2: she feels, and she says what she means, and she
Speaker 2: stands on it. And I think that that's one of
Speaker 2: the things as a reporter that I absolutely.
Speaker 3: Love about her.
Speaker 1: Good content, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's been really really fun to see them
Speaker 2: kind of I mean, we had you know, they have
Speaker 2: been such you know, the drama of the season, you know,
Speaker 2: because we had that that first game was where sort
Speaker 2: of everything reignited for them. So yeah, it's it's been
Speaker 2: really funny just to kind of watch all of that
Speaker 2: unfold over the.
Speaker 3: Course of the year.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they had they had their little handshake on
Speaker 2: the court before the game, and you know both of
Speaker 2: them were, you know, grinning ear to ear about it,
Speaker 2: and you can tell there's just they're very like they're
Speaker 2: definitely competitive with each other, like you'll see them go
Speaker 2: at each other in games. Neither of them shies away
Speaker 2: from that, especially not DJA. But I think you know
Speaker 2: they also, you know, they were together after the game,
Speaker 2: like they're they're pretty good. I think about compartmentalizing it,
Speaker 2: and I think you have to be.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the question we had because we hear a
Speaker 1: good game, are problematically competitive, and we can't really wrap
Speaker 1: our heads around going home with our opponent either the
Speaker 1: night before a game or after a game when we've
Speaker 1: just been battling it out. So during the regular sea
Speaker 1: and we were trying to figure out and we had
Speaker 1: a listener question about whether we thought that you know,
Speaker 1: DJ would be shocking up at Melyssa's house and Indie
Speaker 1: during the regular season. We saw get Ready with Me
Speaker 1: video that proved that, yes, the two of them were
Speaker 1: staying together at Melyssa's house when they were playing in
Speaker 1: the regular season. Have you asked, and if not, can
Speaker 1: you find out for us whether they've decided that separate
Speaker 1: quarters is the move now that we're in postseason mode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have not I have not asked, but I
Speaker 2: can certainly find out that that is a question that
Speaker 2: I have as well. I think it is. It's so
Speaker 2: fascinating to me. I just yeah, I cannot imagine. And
Speaker 2: I've covered, you know, teammates who were together playing each
Speaker 2: other before. When I was covering South Carolina women's basketball, like,
Speaker 2: what was this the twenty three final four? We thought
Speaker 2: that they were maybe going to play Virginia Tech And
Speaker 2: at the time, South Carolina starting point guard was dating
Speaker 2: one of Virginia Tech guards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so.
Speaker 2: I talked to them about just kind of the playing
Speaker 2: against each other of it all. And yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's so different for us as like normal people. I
Speaker 2: think when they get to that level, it is so
Speaker 2: compartmentalized of like, yeah, this is work and this is life.
Speaker 1: I think it happens in general when I watch people
Speaker 1: be like kind after a game and like shake hands
Speaker 1: immediately after a heartbreaking loss, and I would be just
Speaker 1: like throwing shit and acting like an asshole. And I
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, that's part of what being a professional
Speaker 1: is is that you learn how to like.
Speaker 3: Not act like that, be normal about it.
Speaker 1: But Okay, your task, and we're going to hold you
Speaker 1: to this, is to ask about the living situation during
Speaker 1: the postseason for those two. We need to find that out.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that you covered the South Carolina game cock.
Speaker 1: You were a beat reporter for them, so you spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time watching Aleah Boston over the years.
Speaker 1: What have you seen in her development from when you
Speaker 1: covered her back then and what you're seeing from her
Speaker 1: now with the fever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I covered a Leah's mostly her senior year at
Speaker 2: South Carolina, and obviously that was such a special season
Speaker 2: for them. They went unefeeded up until the final four.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean I thought a Leah should have
Speaker 2: been the National Player of the Year that season. I've
Speaker 2: always been a big fan of the way that she plays.
Speaker 2: I just think she's so smart, she knows the game
Speaker 2: so well. She has such a high basketball IQ, and
Speaker 2: you know, she has super super elite footwork for someone
Speaker 2: of her size. Her post moves are really really impressive
Speaker 2: for someone who's been in the league for not even
Speaker 2: two full years. But yeah, it's been really fun this
Speaker 2: year to see the connection with Caitlin develop with her
Speaker 2: because it's the first time really since since she had
Speaker 2: Ty Harris in twenty nineteen and then Destiny Henderson a
Speaker 2: little bit in twenty twenty two had sort of a true, true,
Speaker 2: you know, passing point guard like that, because you know,
Speaker 2: it was a little different that senior year. They were
Speaker 2: kind of rotating between point guards trying to figure that out.
Speaker 2: So yeah, to see the two of them build that
Speaker 2: connection into Celia sort of getting quality post entry passes
Speaker 2: and things. This year, it's just been I feel like
Speaker 2: it's unlocked her a little bit. It's made her game
Speaker 2: so much more kind of complex and has allowed her
Speaker 2: to impact things in different ways. So yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: really exciting to watch her progression, even just over these
Speaker 2: last you know, year and a half since since I
Speaker 2: was seeing her in college.
Speaker 1: It's also this very like buddy cop dynamic between her
Speaker 1: and Caitlin because Aliah is so sweet, like her just
Speaker 1: demeanor and her general vibe is very like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna play basketball and be real kind and sweet, and
Speaker 1: Caitlyn's like I will murder anyone that gets between me
Speaker 1: and the thing that I want, right, So it's very like, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm like lethal weapons style of like
Speaker 1: one of them is like sweet cracking jokes and the
Speaker 1: other ones like I'm getting too old for this shit.
Speaker 1: Let's just fucking go. It's been fun to watch, and
Speaker 1: their little pep talks on the on the sideline together
Speaker 1: are are really sweet too. Okay, we gotta let you go,
Speaker 1: but before we do, I know you also covered the
Speaker 1: Connecticut UH women's basketball team Yukon. So on a scale
Speaker 1: of one to like a billion, t how excited are
Speaker 1: you for this upcoming season? You know, as a professional journalist,
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, might be pretty close.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's a pretty accurate number. I mean, I I
Speaker 2: came in mid season last year, so I started right
Speaker 2: in the middle of January, and the first game that
Speaker 2: I was working was the game where Aubrey Griffin tour
Speaker 2: acl and so that was I think that was the
Speaker 2: fifth season ending injury at the time, and at sixth
Speaker 2: by the end of the year.
Speaker 1: Are you counting the mascot or no, because the mascot
Speaker 1: also suffered a season ending in I really like that
Speaker 1: was like so cursed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean it was actually just just spoke
Speaker 2: to Azy a couple of days ago, which is why
Speaker 2: I missed Indiana's practice on Saturday. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it just seeing them back in the gym is so cool.
Speaker 2: Just to see them have everybody working out, you know,
Speaker 2: everybody at least somewhat available, everybody putting up shots. It
Speaker 2: just you know, it feels good from the outside looking in,
Speaker 2: and I can't imagine, like in that building, how much
Speaker 2: of a difference it makes to just like Gino has
Speaker 2: talked about that they can run full practices now, you know,
Speaker 2: in the winter, they really like they had seven players
Speaker 2: that they could work with the practs, so they couldn't
Speaker 2: even play five on five with each other. So it's
Speaker 2: I mean, I just they have so much talent, They're
Speaker 2: so experienced. I think their young players are really really talented.
Speaker 2: Sarah Strong I think has the potential to be like
Speaker 2: elite elite. So yeah, I'm super excited to see them
Speaker 2: start and just kind of see how how everything comes together.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think also like this offseason, there is so
Speaker 1: much excitement ramping up to this year, which is the
Speaker 1: perfect follow up to losing Caitlin Clark, Angel Ree some
Speaker 1: of these players like there isn't this massive drop off,
Speaker 1: but rather, there's this incredible enthusiasm for the set of
Speaker 1: really young superstars that established themselves last year and then
Speaker 1: during this incredible summer of women's sports growth have become.
Speaker 1: I mean, Paige Beckers is like basically the forest gump
Speaker 1: of like cool events this summer, like the crossovers with
Speaker 1: the women's soccer team and the pro like everything. So
Speaker 1: funny how the Yukon players all had differferent signs on
Speaker 1: their back about getting them to practice and to focus
Speaker 1: on basketball because they were doing all their own things
Speaker 1: over the summer. But yeah, I'm just I'm thrilled for
Speaker 1: that coverage from you and for so many other great
Speaker 1: storylines for women's college hoops. But first game two of
Speaker 1: the Connecticut Sun Indiana Fever series that'll be on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to it. Emily, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for the time. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much to Emily for taking the time to
Speaker 1: come on now. If you were listening there, Emily mentioned
Speaker 1: that tiff Hayes, a former Son player, came out of
Speaker 1: retirement to play for the Aces this year and that
Speaker 1: she suspected the whole have and have nots element of
Speaker 1: the w had something to do with it. It sure
Speaker 1: sounds like Ace's head coach Becky Hammond agreed with her
Speaker 1: because after Sunday's game one, a reporter asked him and
Speaker 1: how she managed to get the former son out of retirement.
Speaker 1: Take a listen, And I thought her wording when she
Speaker 1: said she was going to retirement was very specific and
Speaker 1: it told me a lot of her statement said a lot.
Speaker 4: And I'll keep that to myself, but wish she said
Speaker 4: how she was retiring and she said from basketball.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know what, she's still probably
Speaker 1: a great shams. She's over and playing, so I was like,
Speaker 1: let's go. Very interesting by the way, tiff Hayes went
Speaker 1: off in that game. She went eight of twelve from
Speaker 1: the field, including two of three from beyond the arc,
Speaker 1: to contribute twenty points off the bench. Asia Wilson talked
Speaker 1: about how much it meant to Hayes to have her
Speaker 1: mom at the game, saying, quote, I remember her saying
Speaker 1: that her mom's never flown and she was just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out when she could be able to come
Speaker 1: out here. I'm so glad that she was able to
Speaker 1: come out here. To see her daughter really shined bright
Speaker 1: under these bright lights, because that's what it's truly all about.
Speaker 1: And now Asia's got demands for Mom and Hayes after
Speaker 1: the Aces one game one saying quote, I mean she
Speaker 1: needs to come and sit in our locker room every
Speaker 1: single day. We got to pay the bills. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we reveal your favorite pages to creep on,
Speaker 1: Come on back, Welcome back slices. Last week we told
Speaker 1: you about producer Alex's new favorite hobby, although I don't
Speaker 1: know should we really call creeping out a face group
Speaker 1: called dorm room Mama's a hobby more like a guilty pleasure.
Speaker 1: Speaking of you, Gottaus Hook. So any juicy updates? Al?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, we are entering the roommate drama phase of
Speaker 4: the college experience, and so there are a lot of
Speaker 4: posts about roommates just not getting along together having drama
Speaker 4: and this one, honestly heart goes out to the kiddo.
Speaker 4: Someone writes, My daughter shares a bathroom with her sweet mates.
Speaker 4: The one sweet mate takes our long showers and then
Speaker 4: blow dries her hair for another thirty minutes in the
Speaker 4: bathroom while keeping my daughter's side of the door locked.
Speaker 4: She leaves the door locked and then leaves the dorm,
Speaker 4: leaving my daughter without access to the bathroom for hours
Speaker 4: at a time. My daughter tried to go to the
Speaker 4: RA and she has done nothing. We are at a
Speaker 4: point where my daughter is walking across campus to use
Speaker 4: the bathroom at the dining hall, but that doesn't help
Speaker 4: when she needs a shower before work. She has asked
Speaker 4: politely numerous times for this to stop. This time she
Speaker 4: left a dicky note. It was locked for six hours before.
Speaker 1: She had access to time Wow.
Speaker 4: Wondering what the next step should be. I mean, oh,
Speaker 4: I don't even know what the answer there is.
Speaker 1: I don't even either, other than you got to go
Speaker 1: higher than the RA. If the RA isn't doing shit,
Speaker 1: you got to take it to the top. There's got
Speaker 1: to be you could probably, I mean, the way that
Speaker 1: people are litigious these days, you could probably find some
Speaker 1: sort of legal loophole that allows you to sue the
Speaker 1: shit out of that girl for preventing you from access
Speaker 1: to like the release of bodily fluids and functions.
Speaker 4: It also just makes me so mad. Who designs a
Speaker 4: bathroom like that?
Speaker 1: Have a single I mean, I get it.
Speaker 4: Every point make it impossible to lock your roommate out.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. At the same time, I think
Speaker 1: they have those they call them Jack and Jill bathrooms
Speaker 1: because then you don't have to go through someone else's
Speaker 1: room to get to the bathroom. So I get that right,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to walk through You don't want
Speaker 1: your roommate walking through your room every time they have
Speaker 1: to take a shower, take a dump. At the same time,
Speaker 1: that also requires then for that other roommate to not
Speaker 1: be a raging bitch. Anyway, I think she should sue,
Speaker 1: because why not. Everyone's soon college these days. Anyway, we
Speaker 1: asked you, if you have any go to creep pages
Speaker 1: like Alex does, the ones that you stalk and read
Speaker 1: and maybe even share content from, but you would never
Speaker 1: ever ever like or comment on. And here's what you
Speaker 1: told us. One of our favor slices, Chicago based reporter
Speaker 1: Maggie Hendrix said, reddits am I the asshole? Maggie wrote quote,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be involved in messy situations, but
Speaker 1: I love reading other people's That's a pretty common sentiment.
Speaker 1: Twitter user Ladarius Brown said anything with pimple popping videos
Speaker 1: and I want you all to know that these two
Speaker 1: sickos that work with me said ooh ooh yeah, me too,
Speaker 1: me too. Disgusting all of you. Pamela Mudway our go
Speaker 1: to Slice. She's more my speed, she wrote. I'm obsessed
Speaker 1: with this Instagram page that follows a three legged raccoon
Speaker 1: named Dan who actually is a girl. Dan comes to
Speaker 1: the porch every night and has intricate feeding system, including
Speaker 1: a camera with audio so you can hear the crunchies
Speaker 1: when she eats. Yes, Pamela, Yes, this is the way.
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with raccoons. Also, Dan allegedly had babies, so
Speaker 1: now there's baby raccoons in the mix. Here for it.
Speaker 1: Twitter user solo Flow seven eighty six wrote, does anyone
Speaker 1: remember John Tighter, the alleged time traveler from the future,
Speaker 1: even though there's no way he could be real? I
Speaker 1: always thought the lowres pictures of his time machine were
Speaker 1: weird as hell. No, I did not remember, solo Flow,
Speaker 1: but you just sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole,
Speaker 1: and for that I thank you, because my favorite part
Speaker 1: of this alleged time traveler's time machine was quote. According
Speaker 1: to posts, the device was installed in the rear of
Speaker 1: a nineteen sixty six Chevrolet Corvette convertible. Later post mentioned
Speaker 1: a nineteen eighty seven truck with four wheel drive. Also,
Speaker 1: the guy behind this hoaks Florida man. Obviously. Finally, Twitter
Speaker 1: user badger Maniac told us they quote used to periodically
Speaker 1: check Aubrey Huff's Twitter page simply because he's so batshit
Speaker 1: crazy that it was always worth a laugh to see
Speaker 1: people making fun of him and him shooting back with
Speaker 1: uber machismo nonsense. So for those of you who aren't
Speaker 1: looking at you, Alex, I don't watch men's sports. Asi.
Speaker 1: Huff was a former MLB player. He retired about a
Speaker 1: decade ago, and Twitter actually suspended him back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one for spreading disinformation about COVID nineteen, which honestly
Speaker 1: was a real disappointment for those of us who enjoyed
Speaker 1: his well reasoned thoughts on things like divorce, like this
Speaker 1: gem from twenty nineteen quote, Divorce rates amongst athletes will
Speaker 1: continue to rise until the justice system is rightfully fixed.
Speaker 1: No way, women who have never threw a touchdown pass,
Speaker 1: hit a game winning three, or hit a two oho
Speaker 1: slider deserve half a man's hard earned money just for
Speaker 1: having his babies. It's good stuff, really good. Anyway, Huff
Speaker 1: got his account back after Elon Musk bought X and
Speaker 1: we're all clearly worse off for it. Thanks for sending
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