Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we want
Speaker 1: to see Ellie the Elephant crash every New York based
Speaker 1: studio show Charity checked Colbert off the list, but what
Speaker 1: ABOUTSNL the view the two The possibilities are endless. On
Speaker 1: today's show, another WNBA team is searching for a head coach,
Speaker 1: The Red Stars lose a color and a few stars,
Speaker 1: and what happens when you have to pass a test
Speaker 1: to creep? It's all coming up right after this Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today in NWSL news.
Speaker 1: The Chicago Red Stars unveiled a new name and crest
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, the first major brand transformation for the team
Speaker 1: in their nearly twenty year history.
Speaker 2: Going forward, they.
Speaker 1: Will be known as the Chicago Stars Football Club, with
Speaker 1: a logo that includes a red star at the center
Speaker 1: of a soccer ball. Per a release from the team quote,
Speaker 1: the star at the center of the crest represents the
Speaker 1: club's players, past, present and feutre Placing the players at
Speaker 1: the heart of the club has been a priority for
Speaker 1: the new Chicago Stars FC ownership group since the start
Speaker 1: of their tenure last year, and the star and the
Speaker 1: crest is a symbolic representation of.
Speaker 2: That commitment end quote.
Speaker 1: Other elements of the logo are nods to Chicago landmarks
Speaker 1: like the Chicago Theater Marquee and the Wrigley Field Marquee
Speaker 1: and the blue of Lake Michigan. Per the statement, the
Speaker 1: Chicago Stars FC will continue to dawn the Red Star's
Speaker 1: name and crest for the remainder of this season and
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, before fully transitioning.
Speaker 2: To the new crest at the beginning of next year.
Speaker 1: To the WNBA, reminder of the New York Liberties ticker
Speaker 1: tape parade is today. Can't wait to see the scenes
Speaker 1: coming out of that celebration. You know that Ellie's gonna
Speaker 1: eat just like she did Tuesday night on The Late Show.
Speaker 1: And I am a massive, super huge major Stephen Colbert
Speaker 1: fans so hearing him talk about the Liberty win and
Speaker 1: then hold Ellie's purse while she danced awesome. Here's a
Speaker 1: little snippet of his monologue.
Speaker 3: Their mascot Ellie the Elephant, all right? Why an elephant
Speaker 3: not a particularly New York animal. You could have easily
Speaker 3: have gone with Ronda the rat. You know her cashphrase,
Speaker 3: I just had one thousand babies.
Speaker 1: Okay, love you, Steven, be my friend, please best friend.
Speaker 1: Okay more WNBA. The Washington Mystics announced on Wednesday that
Speaker 1: the team is parted ways with general manager Mike Tebow
Speaker 1: and head coach Eric Tibo. Mike Eric's father was hired
Speaker 1: as Washington's head coach and general manager ahead of the
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen WNBA season and served in that role until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, a tenure that included the Mystics twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen WNBA title. Two years ago, he stepped away from coaching,
Speaker 1: but stayed on as GM, with his son and longtime
Speaker 1: assistant Eric filling the head coach role. Eric's tenure included
Speaker 1: a thirty three and forty seven record that featured lots
Speaker 1: of injuries, player turnover, and star Elena Deladon deciding to
Speaker 1: sit out for the twenty twenty four season. There are
Speaker 1: now five open head coaching positions in the w with
Speaker 1: the Dream, Sky Wings and Sparks also on the hunt
Speaker 1: for a new head coach, and it's possible we haven't
Speaker 1: even each peak vacancy status yet because Annie costable. Chicago
Speaker 1: Sun Times reported that, per multiple league sources, there will
Speaker 1: be quote more coaching vacancies before the end.
Speaker 2: Of the month. End quote. Hell of a tease. Annie
Speaker 2: some more.
Speaker 1: WNBA Diana Trossi, in an interview with the Associated Press,
Speaker 1: said she's still deciding whether she wants to play another season.
Speaker 1: She said, quote, I don't take retirement lightly. I know
Speaker 1: the minute I say it or announce it, whether it's
Speaker 1: you know, in a month or two months, I'm going
Speaker 1: to mean it.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me, there's a chance you're telling me
Speaker 1: maybe that wasn't it.
Speaker 2: Listen, I get it. Deciding when you're done as hard
Speaker 2: and whatever. She decides.
Speaker 1: Props to the Mercury for giving her flowers this season.
Speaker 1: It's never a mistake to celebrate greatness in the moment.
Speaker 1: And we got even more hoops news. Asia Wilson's statue
Speaker 1: already stands outside South Carolina's Colonial Life Arena, and now
Speaker 1: her jersey will hang inside. The former Gamecock women's basketball
Speaker 1: star and MVP of the twenty twenty four WNBA season
Speaker 1: will have her number twenty two retired on February second,
Speaker 1: when the team takes up on Auburn. The announcement was
Speaker 1: made Tuesday, accompanied by a heartwarming video on the team's
Speaker 1: Instagram account. It features head coach Don Staley delivering the
Speaker 1: news to Wilson via FaceTime.
Speaker 2: Here's a snippet. So I want to tell you when
Speaker 2: you come and to see us eat a day because
Speaker 2: your your jersey is going to be retired. Do you
Speaker 2: guys want me to cry today?
Speaker 1: No way, y'all know this, But Wilson's resume is legit nuts.
Speaker 1: She's the program's all time leading scorer, a Wooden Award winner,
Speaker 1: a Natesmith Trophy winner, a Wade Trophy winner, a three
Speaker 1: time SEC Player of the Year, and the star that
Speaker 1: led the squad to its first national title back in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. That's a bad motherfucker. Congrats Asia. Okay, you
Speaker 1: didn't think I was just gonna let the Red Stars
Speaker 1: name and logo change sit without editorializing, did you nah?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: For those who don't know, I'm a longtime Red Stars
Speaker 1: fan and I spent several years as a minority owner
Speaker 1: of the team.
Speaker 2: So I have some thoughts.
Speaker 1: Okay, First, I understand the desire to rebrand, to break
Speaker 1: away from previous ownership and establish a new era for
Speaker 1: the team under the new regime, but I think you
Speaker 1: could do that in a many more meaningful ways than
Speaker 1: by downgrading a strong brand. All that money for the
Speaker 1: rebrand could go to things that directly benefit the team
Speaker 1: and the players instead of symbolically centering them with the logo.
Speaker 1: And speaking of centering the A in Stars, not being
Speaker 1: centered in the logo itself is a nightmare for those
Speaker 1: of us with mild symmetry OCD, and I'm not joking,
Speaker 1: I genuinely have that.
Speaker 2: I will be thinking about that every time I look
Speaker 2: at it.
Speaker 1: Beyond that, Red Stars, which was a nod to the
Speaker 1: four stars in the Chicago city flag and the old crest,
Speaker 1: which had elements of the Chicago flags, stars and stripes,
Speaker 1: was frankly pretty fire, and there was really a ton
Speaker 1: of unmet potential there for Chicagoans or even just tourists
Speaker 1: who will snap up anything and everything with the Chicago
Speaker 1: flag on it. The Red Stars could have made bank
Speaker 1: capitalizing on that with merch something I said many times
Speaker 1: while I was there. The new chicag Iago Stars name
Speaker 1: is generic and uninspiring, and also the name of at
Speaker 1: least five other soccer teams, including the FC Stars, a
Speaker 1: club right in the Chicago suburbs. Not to mention of
Speaker 1: course hockey, the Dallas Stars and the former WNBA San
Speaker 1: Antonio Stars. I guess they wanted to make a small
Speaker 1: pivot as opposed to a full rebrand and a completely
Speaker 1: new name. The team has been around long enough. I
Speaker 1: guess that they might think longtime fans wouldn't approve. But
Speaker 1: that's sort of the problem, right, Either your rebranding to
Speaker 1: signal a new start, or you choose a different way
Speaker 1: to signal change. This half in, half out would only
Speaker 1: work if it was an improvement or a sharpening of
Speaker 1: the existing brand.
Speaker 2: Instead, it now just feels simplistic.
Speaker 1: The name and the logo and merch at least what's
Speaker 1: out right now it kind of feels like a club team,
Speaker 1: a high school level travel team, and pretty much every
Speaker 1: year the Red Stars kits were voted best in the
Speaker 1: league and the crest was iconic.
Speaker 2: Now it's a soccer ball.
Speaker 1: I hope in the future of the team takes bigger
Speaker 1: swings and tries to get more modern.
Speaker 2: This is just the first pass.
Speaker 1: Maybe feedback will inspire a couple more things that feel
Speaker 1: a little bit more interesting and creative.
Speaker 2: Also worth noting, when.
Speaker 1: I was with the team, we talked about needing to
Speaker 1: address the high percentage of Latin fans that attended and
Speaker 1: supported the Chicago Fire of the MLS, but how the
Speaker 1: Red Stars team struggled to attract that same support and
Speaker 1: fan base. So I think it's great that the team
Speaker 1: seems aware and is working to address that. But announcing
Speaker 1: the rebrand with the caption somos Chicago Stars FC and
Speaker 1: announcing the merch capsule collection with I'm going to get
Speaker 1: this completely wrong, by the way, because I speak French.
Speaker 1: A new capitulo, a limited drop, our exclusive capsule collection
Speaker 1: Esta Officialmente available, get your first taste of Chicago Stars FC.
Speaker 2: It just feels.
Speaker 1: Forced, awkward, like we want to attract Spanish speaking fans,
Speaker 1: so every other sentence will be in Spanish.
Speaker 2: Meh.
Speaker 1: I honestly hope to be proven wrong with future merch
Speaker 1: drops or maybe just the benefit of time, but for now,
Speaker 1: dropping a giant ball in ours and saying Tadda's hitting
Speaker 1: hard a little too soon after the whole Boss Nation
Speaker 1: Balls FC debacle.
Speaker 2: We got to pay some bills.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we say yes and to WNBA ratings,
Speaker 1: welcome back slices, some more good WNBA news. The WNBA
Speaker 1: announced that Game five of the Liberty Links Finals series
Speaker 1: averaged two point one five million viewers, making it the
Speaker 1: most watched Finals game in twenty five years, which brings
Speaker 1: us to yet another installment of Yes and The twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four WNBA season is certainly one for the record
Speaker 1: books thanks to the crowds and the big viewership numbers,
Speaker 1: But with so much focus on the current moment in
Speaker 1: women's sports, it does sometimes feel like we're overlooking the
Speaker 1: incredible history that exists, because honestly, growth in the WNBA
Speaker 1: and women's sports in general hasn't been a linear trajectory
Speaker 1: where things started out bad, slowly improved, and our final
Speaker 1: peaking now. For example, did you know that the two
Speaker 1: most watch games in WNBA history were both played on
Speaker 1: the league's inaugural weekend Back in ninety seven. The league's
Speaker 1: debut game between the Liberty and Sparks averaged five point
Speaker 1: oh four million viewers on NBC. The following day, three
Speaker 1: point five to nine million people tuned in to see
Speaker 1: the now defunct Charlotte Sting play the Mercury. As for
Speaker 1: the most watched finals game, that was just a couple
Speaker 1: years later, when Teresa Weatherspoon's Liberty stole Game two of
Speaker 1: the finals against the Houston Comets thanks to a half
Speaker 1: court shot seen by three.
Speaker 2: Point twenty five million people.
Speaker 1: Now, a lot has changed in the media space in
Speaker 1: the last three decades, so comparing ratings from then and now,
Speaker 1: when viewers have more choices than ever and sports leagues
Speaker 1: have more competition than ever, isn't exactly a fair comparison.
Speaker 2: And let's be clear, the numbers this year were huge.
Speaker 1: We love to see them, and also, this is what
Speaker 1: we've been telling you as possible for led tooral years.
Speaker 1: The WNBA Finals were up one hundred and fifteen percent
Speaker 1: over last season per ESPN, and Game five provided the
Speaker 1: WNBA with its largest audience ever on an NFL's when
Speaker 1: competition in the sports space is especially tough, and the
Speaker 1: WNBA delivered all.
Speaker 2: Season long too.
Speaker 1: A total of thirty two WNBA television windows top one
Speaker 1: million viewers this season. That's more than twice as many
Speaker 1: as a previous season, and no surprise, Caitlin Clark and
Speaker 1: the Indiana Fever played in most of those. So yes
Speaker 1: to this year's viewership wins and to the huge numbers
Speaker 1: from years past. We got to take another break when
Speaker 1: we come back Alex gets vetted.
Speaker 2: Welcome back slices. We love that you're back. We're back too.
Speaker 1: We love it for us. Shout out to a friend
Speaker 1: of mine from college, Joe Graham. Joe, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: He heard the episode where Alex admitted to creeping on
Speaker 1: a Facebook page called dorm Room Mama's, where she likes
Speaker 1: to eavesdrop on the trials and tribulations of moms just
Speaker 1: trying to parent their college age kids from AFAR, and
Speaker 1: Joe helpfully suggested another Facebook group that Alex might be into,
Speaker 1: called After the Drop Off Slash Parenting through the College Years. Alex,
Speaker 1: naturally intrigued, checked it out. So tell everyone how that
Speaker 1: worked out, Alex.
Speaker 4: Well, I just have to say, dorm Room Mamas there
Speaker 4: was no barrier for entry. You just click join and
Speaker 4: they accept you. And that is because I have come
Speaker 4: to learn dorm room Mamas I believe is a front. Well,
Speaker 4: no one in Dormy Mamas except for the admin, is
Speaker 4: allowed to post links.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, but the admin posts a bunch of links.
Speaker 4: Yes, constantly like oh by your child this Halloween snack pack.
Speaker 2: Probably getting like affiliate money.
Speaker 4: Yes exactly. Yes, I've discovered a scam.
Speaker 2: Wow, dorm room mama's affront.
Speaker 4: After the drop off parenting through the college years different vibe.
Speaker 4: There is a survey you have to answer in order
Speaker 4: to be admitted, which I was not expecting.
Speaker 2: What did it ask you?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 4: The first question was how many college age children do
Speaker 4: you currently have?
Speaker 2: Question? Did you answer honestly?
Speaker 4: How many K through twelve children do you currently have?
Speaker 4: And then question for you was what is the sum
Speaker 4: of those two numbers? I assumed to get rid of robots.
Speaker 4: I did answer honestly. I said zero, although I did
Speaker 4: mention that I, you know, sometimes will mentor students who
Speaker 4: are looking forward to college, which is true. It's true,
Speaker 4: I know people in high school and college.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll call that mentorship knowing people in high school
Speaker 1: and college.
Speaker 2: Wait, okay, so you were honest and they admitted you
Speaker 2: to the girl admitted me.
Speaker 4: Yes, I was fully expecting not to get admitted, but
Speaker 4: I was admitted despite having no college age children.
Speaker 1: So Alex with zero children but knows people in high
Speaker 1: school and college enters the group.
Speaker 2: Do you have any good takeaways so far?
Speaker 1: Is it giving you the same good goss as you
Speaker 1: were getting from dormer mamas?
Speaker 4: Okay, I have to say, in order to get pleasure
Speaker 4: from goss, I see it the same way I see comedy.
Speaker 4: I want to punch up, not down, Like I don't
Speaker 4: want to be like laughing at people's misery. Right, and honestly,
Speaker 4: so much of the stuff on both of these groups,
Speaker 4: I just feel so much for both the parents and
Speaker 4: the kids. I just want them to have the resources
Speaker 4: that they need to succeed at this time in their
Speaker 4: life that is so pivotal to whatever comes next. Right,
Speaker 4: And so yeah, a lot of times I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is not fulfilling the funny gossip need that I
Speaker 4: have in my life. But I did come across a
Speaker 4: very fun one recently on after the drop off. Okay,
Speaker 4: so this anonymous member begins. My son told me on
Speaker 4: Tuesday that he and his girlfriend of the past year
Speaker 4: and a half got married on Sunday. What I am dumbfounded.
Speaker 4: We are a close family, and we live in the
Speaker 4: same city that he goes to college, and oh my god,
Speaker 4: and so do her parents. They go to the same school.
Speaker 4: They practically live in each other's dorms. She is not pregnant,
Speaker 4: he is not going after war, and they have no
Speaker 4: explanation as to why now they wanted to get married?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yep.
Speaker 4: Honestly, though my favorite was a wait.
Speaker 1: Wait, we're not moving on from that yet. I have
Speaker 1: so many questions. Did they just get fed up and
Speaker 1: go get married? Is the school in Vegas? Did they
Speaker 1: Did they do the little White Chapel thing?
Speaker 4: Does it not have a three day waiting period like
Speaker 4: they do up north to make sure you're not cousins first?
Speaker 1: Do they hate their family members? Why wouldn't they invite them?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they tell them? Why would they get married
Speaker 1: for no reason?
Speaker 2: Also?
Speaker 1: PSA for me, nobody should get married before the age
Speaker 1: of I don't know twenty eight what. I feel so
Speaker 1: bad for this mom all No, probably she sucks, though,
Speaker 1: because why would you not tell your mom you're getting
Speaker 1: married unless she sucked?
Speaker 4: One commenter though, I love this. This says so much
Speaker 4: about student loans and where we are in that she
Speaker 4: writes call financial aid and report the change of circumstances.
Speaker 4: They may now qualify for eight if they may not
Speaker 4: have before.
Speaker 2: Amazing, so helpful.
Speaker 4: I really hope that they get some additional financial lay
Speaker 4: out of this huge life decision.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you that I once went to a
Speaker 1: wedding that was all the invitations sent were for an
Speaker 1: engagement party.
Speaker 2: So it was a surprise.
Speaker 1: He was going to propose, right, and so we were
Speaker 1: all going to be there for the proposal. And to
Speaker 1: be honest, not a super close friend, so I was surprised.
Speaker 2: That we would get invited.
Speaker 1: But it was at this beautiful Terzo Piano modern wing
Speaker 1: of the Art Institute, and it was going to be
Speaker 1: a beautiful night. We were like, all right, we'll show up.
Speaker 1: It ended up being their wedding. They had not even
Speaker 1: told their family that it was their wedding, and so
Speaker 1: when I asked, like, oh, why the surprise, they were like,
Speaker 1: we just really wanted to do it for ourselves and
Speaker 1: not have a ton of input from like family members
Speaker 1: about where we.
Speaker 2: Should do it and how we should do it. And
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: Happy for them because it was beautiful and wonderful. Weirdly enough,
Speaker 1: Jason Derulo performed at it, but I okay, hilarious side
Speaker 1: note on that. So the whole thing's like a surprise,
Speaker 1: and then the husband gets up on stage during the
Speaker 1: reception and he's like, I have one surprise that even
Speaker 1: my wife doesn't know about and she's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what and he's like, we have a very special performance,
Speaker 1: and she.
Speaker 2: Goes, is it Beyonce. Now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you ask is it Beyonce, there is no answer
Speaker 1: other than yes, that will not.
Speaker 2: Be a disappointment.
Speaker 1: There's almost nobody that you could say after that, like no,
Speaker 1: it's Jason Derulo, which like cool if.
Speaker 2: You didn't just ask if it's Beyonce.
Speaker 4: Did he sing marry Me?
Speaker 2: No, he didn't. Is that a Jason Derulo song?
Speaker 4: I just googled it. I don't want to make it
Speaker 4: sound like I come off just knowing all of Jason
Speaker 4: Drouola's songs off the top of my head.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that was a Jason Drulo song.
Speaker 1: The only thing I remember him singing because it was
Speaker 1: like the hit song at the time, so obviously this
Speaker 1: was like I think twenty thirteen or something was talk
Speaker 1: Dirty to Me. Arguably good song, but hilarious, hilarious that
Speaker 1: there's this like fancy ass wedding and he's like, talk
Speaker 1: dirty to me. Anyway, it was a good time, and
Speaker 1: also I was happy for them that they got to
Speaker 1: do it the way they wanted, but it also told
Speaker 1: me like instantly everything I needed to know about their
Speaker 1: relationship with their families that they were like, we're even
Speaker 1: gonna surprise our mothers.
Speaker 2: We just want to do this ourselves.
Speaker 1: So I guess maybe that young man and his girlfriend
Speaker 1: just wanted to do it for themselves.
Speaker 2: Although again, wait a couple of years, kids, please, I
Speaker 2: beg of you.
Speaker 1: Please, You're not even a fully formed human yet at
Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty two, twenty one.
Speaker 2: Aren't anything else Alex from after the drop off?
Speaker 4: Nothing to report. But if anyone else knows of any
Speaker 4: good gossipy Facebook groups that aren't a front for as
Speaker 4: on affiliate links like, I would love to hear about it.
Speaker 2: Thank you again, Joe Graham for sending us that. We
Speaker 2: got a lot of joy out of that.
Speaker 1: We love that you're listening, but we want you to
Speaker 1: get in the game every day too, and not just
Speaker 1: by sending us Facebook groups that Alex can creep on.
Speaker 1: We have other good game plays of the day. Today
Speaker 1: is a big one. Early voting now open in about
Speaker 1: half of states, including here in Illinois and in Virginia
Speaker 1: where Misha lives.
Speaker 2: So, Misha, have you voted yet?
Speaker 1: Hell?
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at you? Would you do? I went in
Speaker 2: person right around the corner. Here, easy breezy, beautiful cover girl,
Speaker 2: all that, so handle your business people. I love that.
Speaker 1: So I highly recommend early voting for the majority of people.
Speaker 1: It helps cut through a lot of the bs, It
Speaker 1: makes the returns come in faster, YadA YadA, all the
Speaker 1: good stuff anyway, So I tell other people to do that,
Speaker 1: and then I always reserve the right to, like go
Speaker 1: on election day morning and march over there. In my
Speaker 1: I always wear my bird Repino twenty twenty sweatshirt and
Speaker 1: my shoes that they sent me that say vote, and
Speaker 1: like all my paraphernalia, and I get my little sticker
Speaker 1: and I feel really good about it until sometimes I
Speaker 1: don't when the results come back. But in Chicago it
Speaker 1: is very clearly Democrat. In Illinois it's very clearly Democrats.
Speaker 1: So like, there's no waiting to last minute to count votes,
Speaker 1: knock on wood. And so I reserve the right to
Speaker 1: do that because it feels good to do it on
Speaker 1: the day of. But everybody else because of voter suppression,
Speaker 1: because of voter intimidation, because of whatever bullshit, you know,
Speaker 1: who's going to maybe try to pull the last minute
Speaker 1: if you can early.
Speaker 2: Vote do it.
Speaker 1: We'll link to a full list estates that offer early
Speaker 1: voting in the show notes, so check it out see
Speaker 1: if you're one of them. Get out and vote now
Speaker 1: if you can, and if you can't do early voting,
Speaker 1: make sure you have your voting plan for November fifth
Speaker 1: figured out. I was actually just listening to Megan Repino
Speaker 1: and Sue Bird's show and they realize that they're both
Speaker 1: registered in Washington, and in Washington they mail you a
Speaker 1: ballot and that's how you do it. You cannot go
Speaker 1: in person, so they need to get people to forward
Speaker 1: their mail. They have to do this whole thing, and
Speaker 1: those are two of the most on top of it
Speaker 1: people you will ever find when it comes to voting.
Speaker 2: So make sure you have your shit figured out.
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Speaker 2: Rate and review slices. It's easy.
Speaker 1: Watch Darius Rutgers WNBA and Indiana Fever Appreciation.
Speaker 2: Post rating five out of five.
Speaker 1: Wagonwheels review it has been a while since I have
Speaker 1: seen something this wholesome meal. Darius Rucker literally poured his
Speaker 1: whole heart into a tweet after the end of the
Speaker 1: WNBA Finals. It is so sweet. It's super long, so
Speaker 1: we're going to link to the whole thing in our
Speaker 1: show notes, but here's part of it.
Speaker 2: Quote. Dear Indiana Fever and the WNBA, I want to
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: For an awesome summer of joy, agony, screams of happiness,
Speaker 1: cries of despair, and countless hours of armchair coaching and
Speaker 1: saying we know exactly why we lost my girlfriend. And
Speaker 1: I watched every Fever game and got to see how
Speaker 1: truly great the basketball play in your league really is.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Rucker then went on to name a slew of his
Speaker 1: favorite Fever players and hoopers from other teams, plus a
Speaker 1: bunch of excellent nicknames that he clearly has made up
Speaker 1: for them, and he ended with this quote. And now,
Speaker 1: watching the finals with the microwave Sabrina Nescu, Stewie, Brianna Stewart,
Speaker 1: and Zeppelin John Quell Jones go five games and overtime
Speaker 1: against the Assassin Court Williams and Feezy Nafisa Kallier was
Speaker 1: icing on the cake. Just want to thank all of
Speaker 1: you for being great. Now I get to watch my
Speaker 1: game Cox women basketball and then go right into the
Speaker 1: next season.
Speaker 2: Man, I am so.
Speaker 1: In end quote, We're so glad you're in, Darius, and
Speaker 1: we're so glad you gave us some completely made up nicknames.
Speaker 1: I have never heard anyone called Jokewell Jones, Zeppelin or
Speaker 1: Zabrina the microwave.
Speaker 2: But I'm here for it. I am here for it, Darius.
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