August 15, 2025 • 28 mins
Big Citrus dives deep into the Good Game inbox to answer your questions, address your feedback and share your suggestions. Are WNBA teams missing a moment to capitalize? What’s the worst job in women’s sports? What’s lost in sports when gambling gets into the game? Plus, Cooper’s grooming appointment needs rescheduling!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we all
owe Taylor Swift money for that therapy session she gave
on New Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Think of your energy as if it's expensive, as.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
If it's a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it. Yes, girl,
that's a bar. It's Friday, August fifteenth, Happy Friday Slices.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
On today's show, We're going to be digging.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Into our inbox to answer your questions, take your suggestions,
and take a little moment for some slice appreciation. Plus,
the Cincinnati Open rolls on, a trio of players gets
booted from a WNBA game, and a new dating show
finds out what happens when you start with love Love.
It's all coming up right after this Welcome Back Slices,
(00:50):
Happy Friday. Here's what you need to know today. I'm
the hard courts Tennis is best continue their quest for
the Cincinnati Open title today, and the field is getting
smaller and smaller. At the time we're recording this world
Number one Arena Sablenka, Number two Coco Golf, number three, Egosfontec,
number seven, Jasmine Paulini and number nine Yolena Rebakana have
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all punched their tickets to the quarterfinal round. Sablenka won
the Open last year and will face Rebakkana for a
spot in the semis. We'll link to the Cincinnati Open
schedule in our show notes so you can follow along
as the tournament continues over the weekend to hoops and
the WNBA. There were some fireworks at a game between
the Chicago Sky and Connecticut Sun on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
About midway through the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Sun guard Bria Hartley and skyguard Rebecca Allen were battling
for a rebound. Hartley extended her arms and pushed Alan
to the ground, and after Alan hit the ground, she
grabbed Hartley's jersey, pulling her towards the floor but not
taking her down. Skyguard Ariel Atkins sprinted into the action,
confronting Hartley, who was being held back by a referee
and her son teammates. Atkins pushed Hartley and made contact
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with the official, who was attempting to rain in the situation.
Players were eventually separated and officials ejected Hartley, Allen, and Atkins.
Everything settled down and the Sun went on to win
the game seventy one sixty two. Now we've seen a
fair share of these type of skirmishes this season, and
though these instances can be surprising maybe a little off
putting when they happen, it's just part of the game, y'all.
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Yet another reminder these players do not have to love
each other or be best friends. The point is to
step onto the court and do your damage. Take the
other team down, maybe just not literally, and listen. When
you're the Sun and the Sky, the two very worst
teams in the league, can you blame them for getting
a little frustrated out there? If you can't win the game,
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at least win the fight elsewhere. In Wednesday night's action,
the Las Vegas Aces increase their win streak to five
straight with a dub against the defending champion New York Liberty,
taking care of business eighty three seventy seven on their
home court, and y'all, that was the Ace's first regular
season win against the Libs since August of twenty twenty three.
Sheeesh Jewelloyd the way for the Aces off the bench
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with twenty one points, including five threes. It was her
twenty sixth career game with at least five made three
pointers that tied her for third most in WNBA history.
With guess who her head coach, Becky Hammond. Asia Wilson
also did what she does, dropping seventeen points and sixteen
rebounds en route to her fifteenth double double of the season.
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More WNBA, there are five games come in our way tonight,
including three at seven thirty pm Eastern, Misha's Washington Mystics
at the Indiana Fever, the La Sparks at the Dallas Wings,
and the Golden State Valkyries visiting my Chicago Sky. Speaking
of the Valks, the other day, we mentioned their new mascot,
Violet the Raven, who wears glasses, and we asked if
she might be the first bespectacled mascot. Well shout out
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to Teal underscore puck on X, who let us know
that the Minor League Baseball Las Vegas Aviators have two
mascots who have glasses adjacent accessories, The Aviator who's got
a helmet with a built in I shield, and the
Spruce Goose who wears goggles.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Y'all, I'm kind of obsessed with the Spruce Goose.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
We'll post a link to that Qtie Patuti in its
little jumpsuit in our show notes. We've then got two
more WNBA games at ten BM Eastern Tonight. That's the
Seattle Storm at the Atlanta Dream and the Phoenix Mercury
hosting the Las Vegas Aces. All those games are on
Ion regionally, and we'll link to the full weekend schedule
in our show notes in Footy News. Two NWSL contests
on the schedule for tonight. It's the Washington Spirit and
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Racing Louisville FC on Prime Video at eight pm Eastern
and Angel City FC host in the Utah Royals on
NWSL Plus and Paramount Plus at ten pm Eastern. Then
on Saturday, battle between the league's top teams, the number
one Kansas City Current against the number two Orlando Pride.
If Casey wins, they'll extend their win streak to nine games,
which would match their league record streak from earlier this season.
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Shout out to the great Jen Cooper, friend of the show,
for that nugget. We'll link to the full NWSL schedule
in our show notes. All right, Slicea's I wanted to
remind you that we're eight days away from the Diana
taurass See bench reveal in Door County, Wisconsin. It's all
happening Saturday, August twenty third at twelve pm at the
observation deck at Whitefish Dune State Park, followed by postgame drinks,
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cheese curds, and hangs at the hitching Post in nearby
Sturgeon Bay. Come on through, y'all. I'd love to see
some slices there. I've got some surprises and some prizes
for folks who come.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Hang.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You could check out my Insta and Blue Sky accounts
for a graphic with all the details. And I'll tell
you the folks at Whitefish Dune State Park are super
excited about this. Ever since we made the announcement of
the bench, they've had folks coming in asking where it
is and if they could come see it. So they've
been waiting for me to give them a date when
we can actually put the bench out. So hope to
see a lot of you there. We got to take
a quick break when we come back. We dove deep
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into the good game inbox and emerged with a whole
lot of wit, wisdom and wackiness from you slices. We'll
take a look at what you've been sending us. Next
stick around.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Welcome back, y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's time for a little big citrus conversation Alex Niche.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
How are you doing well? Howdy happy frya. Let's get
into this inbox, y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
When I tell you I was behind, I literally had
to scroll all the way back to January in my
inbox to get to a spot that wasn't chock full
of unread messages. So went all the way back there
to go through all of my personal messages and all
of your slice messages, and there was some good stuff
in there from you loyal slices, Sarah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I am so impressed.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I mish.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I don't know if you're the same way, but I
kind of despise my email inbox. It gives me a
lot of anxiety, and there are a lot of emails
that I think about needing to reply to, and it
is harder to carry that with me than it is
to just reply to the DM email. And so I
really just respect your tenacity to go back all the
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way through and actually do it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I mean, I still have like thirty eight thousand on
red messages.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But don't give me that face me.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You're not one of those people that proudly proclaims how
many emails you get a day, as if it's like
a status badge.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No, it's stupid, but I also like go through and
I'm like, I should cancel that.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I don't need those. And then I get a good
one and I'm like, oh what I.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Like that they just told me about that thing, or
I just learned about this thing, or I got a
discount code here.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So yeah, it's a mess in there, but it's better now.
I cleaned it up a bit.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And over the course of my journey, I happened to
bud a whole bunch of good Slice emails that I
should have responded to several months ago. But here we are,
and I want to start with our slicest and most
loyal slices, Super Slice Amanda Vallo, she said, does a
lot of emails, but one that Cheer wrote that was
great was she wrote, I have a hot topic. I'd
love to hear Big Citrus take a minute or three.
On these days, I can't listen to a podcast, turn
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on a sports channel without a scroll of game odds
or hearing a commercial for FanDuel, sports betting, gambling, fantasyly,
et cetera seem to be the gateway drug for bringing
in the casual fan and presumably engaging the male audience.
One thing that's always drawn me to women's sports is
the relative freedom from such influences and the build of
fans through stars, stats, stakes stories. My question is basically,
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how do you feel about betting gambling on women's sports
and do you think it's necessary for the continued growth
and popularity of leagues like the WNBA and NWSL. Good game,
smart women with opinions, good game, women's voices. F you
anyone messing with the integrity of women's sports baces? All right,
mesh Alex, what you got oof?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
This one is hard. This one is hard generally speaking,
like the influx of sports betting and sports betting culture
has ground my gears to you know, no end. I
hate what it's already done to the men's side, I
really do. There's this weird sense of entitlement and control
that it gives to like the worst of the worst
fans that are like on the margins of fan bases,
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and also as like a basketball peer specifically, I think
it kind of lootes the culture of the game when
all you're worried about watching a game is your props
and not the excellence and dominance happening right in front
of your face, so that bothers me and I think
that we should figure out some of those issues first
before we try to make it such a big deal
in the women's side. I do think there could be
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benefit to it, right, and money always talks, but generally speaking,
it's just hard for me to wrap my head around.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Misha.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I love that you're like, we need to solve toxic
masculinity before bringing to women's.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Sports lofty hopes lot. I'm an idealist, man, I'm an idealist.
What can I say? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Man, I mean, I totally agree. I I'm not somebody
that's ever gotten into sports gambling or even fantasy sports
without the gambling, but I know that there can be
a way that engages casual So I remember back in
the day, there was an alpine skier who on the side,
he created a fantasy website for ski racing, and as
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an alpine skiing rep, I remember filling it out and
like the satisfaction that came with seeing my predictions come true,
and that was in such a niche sport. And I
think one of the things in women's sports a lot
of the times that people maybe don't realize is that
to build up the stuff on the back end that
takes infrastructure, it takes money, and so even talk about
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it sometimes around these NCAA tournaments where I remember back
in college, a whole group of us wanted to fill
out a bracket for the women's tournament. And I'm not
that old, but we literally had to go pen and
paper because no one offered a women's bracket online. And
we still see that for sports like volleyball in softball,
and so I see a divide between the engagement that
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the fantasy side brings to it versus the toxicity that
the betting side brings to it. And I don't know
what the answer is, but I truly feel for the
athletes that are having to deal with just abuse because
of other people's decisions.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more with some of the negative outcomes.
I think it's quite clear that it can be really
bad for athletes. We've seen all the statistics, particularly around
college sports, where the majority of the athletes getting harassed
and getting attacked are women. And I personally am a
dabbler March Madness fantasy football.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
This year is my first.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Time doing fantasy WNBA, and I worked with a gambling
company very briefly at one point that puts some money
in my account to play with and to help teach
women how to play, And for me, it felt like
there's a bit of a gate kipping situation where if
you weren't someone who knew much about gambling and you
tried to get involved, people were condescending and often rude
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about how you didn't know enough about it. And it
was another space that I felt like women were sort
of being kept out of, as like this this is
for men, and so it felt sort of empowering to
learn about it and to try to teach people about it.
But I also come from the perspective of someone who
doesn't get addicted to things. So I was able to
make a couple bets, think it was kind of fun,
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and then not do it again for four months and
then be like, oh, I still have some money in there, Okay,
I'm gonna just gonna throw something on there. I literally
the gambling site that I did that promotion with got
bought out and moved to another place and had a
different name, and like, by the time I remembered that
I might have money in there and went into place
a bet, it did not exist anymore. And then thankfully
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I found out that my money had been moved to
this other site where I had to set up a
new login to like use the like three hundred dollars
or whatever I had in there. So that's how much
I'm not thinking about it. That's a luxury. There are
people who cannot dabble, have a little fun with it
and not lose their whole fucking house and life. And
I listened to an entire podcast done by Michael Lewis,
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who you might best know for his books Moneyball, The
Big Short, The Blind Side, things like that that have
been adapted into movies. But he did a whole podcast
on sports gambling, and holy cow, is it illuminating. It's
called against the Rules. One of the things that stood
out to me most about listening to it, beyond the
specific examples of people who got caught up in it
and lost everything, was also that there are rules put
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in place that are supposed to be used to help
people find problem gamblers, and instead the companies use them
to find problem gamblers and give them things like VIP
concert experiences and other things to keep them scambuys and
not only incentivize the bad ones, but cancel the accounts
of the good gamblers, which frankly should be illegal. If
someone is succeeding at gambling and they have a system
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that works for them and they're better able to kind
of predict sports events, they shouldn't have their accounts canceled.
It should not be that much where the house always wins.
So taking into account all of that, there's a part
of me that feels like everything in life is choose
your own adventure. Should we ban drinking because some people
can't drink without becoming addicted, you know? Should we ban
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other things that are inherently dangerous but some people can
do safely? And so I don't want to be sort
of like paternalistic for lack of a better word, about
sports gambling, because it does bring in money, attention, interest,
There are a lot of positives.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And as much as I for.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Years now have pushed back on bringing in sports gambling,
people on the other side of the business side of
it have told me it is one of the only
things spending on content, podcasts, shows. As money is leaving journalism,
sports gambling is one of the only places that's putting
money into it. So I wish we could take the
benefits without the bad.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah, And I think that's a great summation. I also
think that goes back to what I was saying, is that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We can do it.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We could, we could do it, but we need more regulation.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
We need to get rid of what you just talked about.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
There's absolutely no reason why we should be enabling people
who don't need to be enabled and getting rid of
people who are making it, you know, kind of a
part of the culture in a way that's fun, in
a way, that's light, in a way that kind of
adds to the experience of being a sports fan. This
is coming from somebody who worked at a radio station
where it was all about fann to see everything, and
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there is there is a good side to it. Like
I know people who have whole you know, fantasy leagues
with their families and stuff like that, So there is,
I will say there is a good side to it.
I'm just precious about our women's sports.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'm just precious about it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And I really I'm like, please don't give We're already
dealing with enough shit right now, I know, please don't
give us this other shit.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Well, I think also precious about a place that athletes
are still so easily exploited. I think one of the
things I always come back to with this is if
there is all of this money in it, then why
are WNBA players still making a minimum of sixty six
thousand dollars a year? Talk about you know, when there's
big money in spaces that athletes aren't benefiting from it, right,
That is a problem.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right, especially if they're facing the negatives of it. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I guess the answer is it's complicated. It's complicated.
Give us your money and none of the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Let's talk about another email we got from Slice Ashley Flesher,
who wrote in about the WNBA dildo incidents. I'm guessing
she wrote this before it was revealed to be related
to a crypto company, but either way, she thinks the
WNBA should find a way to benefit from it. She wrote, quote,
so this mean green dildo business. I think the w
should lean in. Just like Angel Reese brilliantly ran with
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the me Bounce chatter and launched their own sex toy line,
Oh Hear Me Out a vibrator named the New York
Self Liberation. Obviously Ellie carries one in her bag, or
a dildo named Golden State's GoldenEye, release your battle cry.
The Seattle Storms toy should be waterproof, suitable for all
wet conditions. The Minnesota Let's links up, the Washington Mystical
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Mover Dallas will give you wings, Indiana beaver Fever obvious
Jesus no side note.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Not too obvious to any of us, but obvious to you.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Ashley Flesher, the Atlanta Wet Dream, Phoenix's X factor, a
Connecticut blaze for when the sun goes down. Chicagos Sky's
the Limit guaranteed to lifty to cloud nine. Honestly, some
of the teams don't even need a creative twist. The
La Spark and the Las Vegas Ace make decent product
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names as they are now. My product names might need
some punching up regardless. I think the intimate apparatuses, as
Zeno from The Athletic Is called them, will sell really well,
especially if a percentage of the proceeds benefit an adjacent cause.
Maybe some proceeds go to Planned Parenthood or to organizations
working to stop sex trafficking or helping women cope with
sexual assault. I feel like Sarah might be able to
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get this idea off the ground. You miss one hundred
percent of the shots you don't take. Love you all,
Ashley Flescher. Okay, First of all, I will never get
over your last name being Flesher. You were born for
this job, Ashley. Also, those names are too good to
go to waste, and yet I believe that they will.
I do not think it is likely that the w
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will lean in, as you say, and insert themselves into
this industry.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Pun intended.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Now, Sarah, I honestly like to say something very quickly
about this. I'm actually not mad at it because what's
one of the grips we've had with the WN with
other women's leagues. It's tailored for children. Why are we
tailoring this towards the children?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
This could be a very extreme way of bringing in.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
A demographic intentionally, so who knows. But insert insert is crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Stop with the puns, and Alex, you need to sit
on it for a lot longer. Do you have any thoughts?
My mom is gonna listen to this.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh lord, I mean I this list. It's excellent. It's
given full vulva to the velo drum.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes, yes, it's been a while since we had a
good deal. If anybody else has ideas for themed dil
Do's for the WNBA send him our way.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I don't know if you can out do Ashley though.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Speaking at dil Do's, we got a voicemail from Teresa,
who was at the very first dildo incident the Valkyrie's
Dream Game, and here's what she had to say.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Hey, it's Teresa. I've lived in the Atlanta area and
I was at that infamous game on Tuesday night, and
I just have to tell you, besides being grateful that
it did not hit a player or a trip a
player with one minute left in the game, I'm a
season ticket holder, and I got to tell you the
bag check practices at Gayway Center suck. And very every
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single game, I've gotten sent back when my little idy
ditty purse see through purse doesn't fit the requirements and
they say it's too big, so I've had to take
it back to the car and the person in front
of me got in a huge black BA pack and
they didn't even seck it right. So every single game
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there's been something different, and so anybody's questioning why in
the world that fun little object made it in the
arena and got thrown onto the court. It's because the
bagshack practices suck. Anyway, hope you have a great day.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I mean also because at least one of the dildo
carriers attached it to his person, per the police, stuff
didn't even need a bag, had it somewhere inserted himself
into the conversation. I don't know where he taped it
to or stored it or wedged it, but he didn't
need a bag, y'all. But Teresa, thank you for your
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first hand eyewitness experience. I am dying over the idea
of I know it's not funny, but if a player
tripped over.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
A dildo midplay, I just I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Just imagining the person on the call and the official
being like, travel.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Kicked, ball kicked.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeh, yeah, I agree though the bag checks. I mean,
I think in general they're frustrating. I guess there's a purpose.
You don't want a bunch of random stuff brought into stadiums.
But also they seem so discriminatory against women and the
things that women need, particularly mothers and buying a big
old clear bag. I mean, it's at this point we're
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so used to it. I think we all have them
and we bring them, but every once in a while
when I want to have a normal ass, cute little
clutch because I'm doing something before or after the game,
and I don't want to carry a damn clear bag
for the whole day. It is completely inconsistent whether or
not they let it in, and it'll be the same
bag every time. It'll be like, this is the same
bag I bring every time to be like sorry, man,
just and I'm like, it says size of a hand,
well not you're so I feel you, Teresa.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
We got another email from super slice and bar owner
Moe O'Donnell, who wrote us with some juicy footy and
gay shit news.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Moe writes, quote some hot gossip from the Utah Royals.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
We were all a little bummed when Mandy McGlenn dropped
her married name. Hot is a pretty awesome name to
make cheers for feeling hot. Hot Hot was a frequent
chant after she made one of her amazing saves, but
our little gay hearts have warm to it now that
appears she's dating teammate Ana te Hatta. In one of
Mandy's June Insta posts, there's a lot of sportsmanship picks
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of the two of them, and there's a lot of
vacation photos and things. Since yay for footy and gay shit.
Also please consider that for your next good game merch run,
I'd get footy and gay shit shirts for our whole
season ticket group. Keep crushing it, MO number one. It's
already been considered. Next merch run is the gay shit shirts,
so we'll let you know when those roll out. Also
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two excellent reporting on need to know gay shit kissing
and as grabs are two of our favorite ways to
show good sportsmanship. We officially name you the senior Footy
and Gay Shit correspondent for our euro.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think we're going to need to do an application process, Sarah,
I think we have a lot of people interested in
that role.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
We do, we do, but for now we'll give it
to MO. If a more deserving candidate steps up, we'll
have to have a footy and gaysh it off.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
To see who gets the official title.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
We got to take a break, y'all when we come
back a new dating show we didn't see coming.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Welcome back, Slices.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
We love that you're listening, but we want you to
get in the game every day too, So here's our
good game play of the day. This one is inspired
by super slice Amanda Vallo, who's back with another killer email.
She writes us suggesting a worst job in women's sports.
Draft Here are her top five. Number one the World
Cup stadium security person who spends the entire time standing
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with their back to the game, watching the crowd. Number
two the arena worker assigned to sweep up confetti after
a championship final. Number three the beat reporter for the
gun Get Sun hard to come up with positive, encouraging
new content. Number four Kim Moulke's fashion consultant. Someone has
to be telling her no and she's just saying it.
I'm doing it anyway. Number five the women pacers for
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Faith Kip Yegan's four minute mile attempt, lots of very
hard training only to get stuck in the back and dropped.
Those are pretty good, Amanda. So our question is, can
you beat Amanda's worst jobs in women's sports? Send us
yours and just in general, just keep sending all the
stuff in things slices. We have a blast addressing your questions,
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hot takes, and just general.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Notes about the show. So please don't be shy.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Hit us up on email, good game at wondermtaetwork dot com,
or leave us a voicemail at eight seven.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Two two four fifty seventy.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But make sure when you call you actually mean to
call us, unlike Monica, who loved us this message on Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Hi, my name is Anica. I'm calling from Simply Groomed.
In regards to your appointment, have an appointment on the
twenty third of September for Cooper with Colleen, but unfortunately
she won't be in that day. We do have other
available appointments, but Colleen will also be in on the
seventh of October. Please just give us a callback. And
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in regards to rescheduling an appointment for Cooper again, Cooper's
groomer won't be in on the twenty third at ten am,
so we are looking to reschedule. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So Monica called us back again on Thursday and left
another message. Seems Cooper's mom never got the first one,
you know, because she called us instead. So Alex took
matters into her own hands and gave them a call back.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Here's that voicemail.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Thank you for calling Simply Groomed.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
We are either with a customer in the front or
a dog in the back.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Please leave the message and we will get back to
you as soon as possible. Hi, my name's Alex. I'm
a producer actually for a podcast, and I just wanted
to let you know that I think you have the
wrong number. Trying to get in touch with Cooper's mom
for an appointment on the twenty third that got rescheduled because.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Colleen is out.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We've just gotten a voicemail from you twice, so I
just wanted to let you know so that you can
get in touch with Cooper's mom. I'm sorry that we're
not the right number. All right, hope you find your human. Bye.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Here's hoping that Monica, Cooper and company can get things
sorted out.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
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I don't know if we say this enough, but we
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Fevers you, Colleen, you get to take a day off
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Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we all
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Think of your energy as if it's expensive, as.
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If it's a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it. Yes, girl,
that's a bar. It's Friday, August fifteenth, Happy Friday Slices.
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On today's show, We're going to be digging.
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Into our inbox to answer your questions, take your suggestions,
and take a little moment for some slice appreciation. Plus,
the Cincinnati Open rolls on, a trio of players gets
booted from a WNBA game, and a new dating show
finds out what happens when you start with love Love.
It's all coming up right after this Welcome Back Slices,
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Happy Friday. Here's what you need to know today. I'm
the hard courts Tennis is best continue their quest for
the Cincinnati Open title today, and the field is getting
smaller and smaller. At the time we're recording this world
Number one Arena Sablenka, Number two Coco Golf, number three, Egosfontec,
number seven, Jasmine Paulini and number nine Yolena Rebakana have
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all punched their tickets to the quarterfinal round. Sablenka won
the Open last year and will face Rebakkana for a
spot in the semis. We'll link to the Cincinnati Open
schedule in our show notes so you can follow along
as the tournament continues over the weekend to hoops and
the WNBA. There were some fireworks at a game between
the Chicago Sky and Connecticut Sun on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
About midway through the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Sun guard Bria Hartley and skyguard Rebecca Allen were battling
for a rebound. Hartley extended her arms and pushed Alan
to the ground, and after Alan hit the ground, she
grabbed Hartley's jersey, pulling her towards the floor but not
taking her down. Skyguard Ariel Atkins sprinted into the action,
confronting Hartley, who was being held back by a referee
and her son teammates. Atkins pushed Hartley and made contact
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with the official, who was attempting to rain in the situation.
Players were eventually separated and officials ejected Hartley, Allen, and Atkins.
Everything settled down and the Sun went on to win
the game seventy one sixty two. Now we've seen a
fair share of these type of skirmishes this season, and
though these instances can be surprising maybe a little off
putting when they happen, it's just part of the game, y'all.
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Yet another reminder these players do not have to love
each other or be best friends. The point is to
step onto the court and do your damage. Take the
other team down, maybe just not literally, and listen. When
you're the Sun and the Sky, the two very worst
teams in the league, can you blame them for getting
a little frustrated out there? If you can't win the game,
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at least win the fight elsewhere. In Wednesday night's action,
the Las Vegas Aces increase their win streak to five
straight with a dub against the defending champion New York Liberty,
taking care of business eighty three seventy seven on their
home court, and y'all, that was the Ace's first regular
season win against the Libs since August of twenty twenty three.
Sheeesh Jewelloyd the way for the Aces off the bench
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with twenty one points, including five threes. It was her
twenty sixth career game with at least five made three
pointers that tied her for third most in WNBA history.
With guess who her head coach, Becky Hammond. Asia Wilson
also did what she does, dropping seventeen points and sixteen
rebounds en route to her fifteenth double double of the season.
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More WNBA, there are five games come in our way tonight,
including three at seven thirty pm Eastern, Misha's Washington Mystics
at the Indiana Fever, the La Sparks at the Dallas Wings,
and the Golden State Valkyries visiting my Chicago Sky. Speaking
of the Valks, the other day, we mentioned their new mascot,
Violet the Raven, who wears glasses, and we asked if
she might be the first bespectacled mascot. Well shout out
(03:44):
to Teal underscore puck on X, who let us know
that the Minor League Baseball Las Vegas Aviators have two
mascots who have glasses adjacent accessories, The Aviator who's got
a helmet with a built in I shield, and the
Spruce Goose who wears goggles.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Y'all, I'm kind of obsessed with the Spruce Goose.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
We'll post a link to that Qtie Patuti in its
little jumpsuit in our show notes. We've then got two
more WNBA games at ten BM Eastern Tonight. That's the
Seattle Storm at the Atlanta Dream and the Phoenix Mercury
hosting the Las Vegas Aces. All those games are on
Ion regionally, and we'll link to the full weekend schedule
in our show notes in Footy News. Two NWSL contests
on the schedule for tonight. It's the Washington Spirit and
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Racing Louisville FC on Prime Video at eight pm Eastern
and Angel City FC host in the Utah Royals on
NWSL Plus and Paramount Plus at ten pm Eastern. Then
on Saturday, battle between the league's top teams, the number
one Kansas City Current against the number two Orlando Pride.
If Casey wins, they'll extend their win streak to nine games,
which would match their league record streak from earlier this season.
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Shout out to the great Jen Cooper, friend of the show,
for that nugget. We'll link to the full NWSL schedule
in our show notes. All right, Slicea's I wanted to
remind you that we're eight days away from the Diana
taurass See bench reveal in Door County, Wisconsin. It's all
happening Saturday, August twenty third at twelve pm at the
observation deck at Whitefish Dune State Park, followed by postgame drinks,
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cheese curds, and hangs at the hitching Post in nearby
Sturgeon Bay. Come on through, y'all. I'd love to see
some slices there. I've got some surprises and some prizes
for folks who come.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Hang.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You could check out my Insta and Blue Sky accounts
for a graphic with all the details. And I'll tell
you the folks at Whitefish Dune State Park are super
excited about this. Ever since we made the announcement of
the bench, they've had folks coming in asking where it
is and if they could come see it. So they've
been waiting for me to give them a date when
we can actually put the bench out. So hope to
see a lot of you there. We got to take
a quick break when we come back. We dove deep
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into the good game inbox and emerged with a whole
lot of wit, wisdom and wackiness from you slices. We'll
take a look at what you've been sending us. Next
stick around.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Welcome back, y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It's time for a little big citrus conversation Alex Niche.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
How are you doing well? Howdy happy frya. Let's get
into this inbox, y'all.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
When I tell you I was behind, I literally had
to scroll all the way back to January in my
inbox to get to a spot that wasn't chock full
of unread messages. So went all the way back there
to go through all of my personal messages and all
of your slice messages, and there was some good stuff
in there from you loyal slices, Sarah.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I am so impressed.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I mish.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I don't know if you're the same way, but I
kind of despise my email inbox. It gives me a
lot of anxiety, and there are a lot of emails
that I think about needing to reply to, and it
is harder to carry that with me than it is
to just reply to the DM email. And so I
really just respect your tenacity to go back all the
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way through and actually do it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I mean, I still have like thirty eight thousand on
red messages.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But don't give me that face me.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You're not one of those people that proudly proclaims how
many emails you get a day, as if it's like
a status badge.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No, it's stupid, but I also like go through and
I'm like, I should cancel that.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I don't need those. And then I get a good
one and I'm like, oh what I.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Like that they just told me about that thing, or
I just learned about this thing, or I got a
discount code here.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So yeah, it's a mess in there, but it's better now.
I cleaned it up a bit.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And over the course of my journey, I happened to
bud a whole bunch of good Slice emails that I
should have responded to several months ago. But here we are,
and I want to start with our slicest and most
loyal slices, Super Slice Amanda Vallo, she said, does a
lot of emails, but one that Cheer wrote that was
great was she wrote, I have a hot topic. I'd
love to hear Big Citrus take a minute or three.
On these days, I can't listen to a podcast, turn
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on a sports channel without a scroll of game odds
or hearing a commercial for FanDuel, sports betting, gambling, fantasyly,
et cetera seem to be the gateway drug for bringing
in the casual fan and presumably engaging the male audience.
One thing that's always drawn me to women's sports is
the relative freedom from such influences and the build of
fans through stars, stats, stakes stories. My question is basically,
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how do you feel about betting gambling on women's sports
and do you think it's necessary for the continued growth
and popularity of leagues like the WNBA and NWSL. Good game,
smart women with opinions, good game, women's voices. F you
anyone messing with the integrity of women's sports baces? All right,
mesh Alex, what you got oof?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
This one is hard. This one is hard generally speaking,
like the influx of sports betting and sports betting culture
has ground my gears to you know, no end. I
hate what it's already done to the men's side, I
really do. There's this weird sense of entitlement and control
that it gives to like the worst of the worst
fans that are like on the margins of fan bases,
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and also as like a basketball peer specifically, I think
it kind of lootes the culture of the game when
all you're worried about watching a game is your props
and not the excellence and dominance happening right in front
of your face, so that bothers me and I think
that we should figure out some of those issues first
before we try to make it such a big deal
in the women's side. I do think there could be
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benefit to it, right, and money always talks, but generally speaking,
it's just hard for me to wrap my head around.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Misha.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I love that you're like, we need to solve toxic
masculinity before bringing to women's.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Sports lofty hopes lot. I'm an idealist, man, I'm an idealist.
What can I say? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Man, I mean, I totally agree. I I'm not somebody
that's ever gotten into sports gambling or even fantasy sports
without the gambling, but I know that there can be
a way that engages casual So I remember back in
the day, there was an alpine skier who on the side,
he created a fantasy website for ski racing, and as
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an alpine skiing rep, I remember filling it out and
like the satisfaction that came with seeing my predictions come true,
and that was in such a niche sport. And I
think one of the things in women's sports a lot
of the times that people maybe don't realize is that
to build up the stuff on the back end that
takes infrastructure, it takes money, and so even talk about
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it sometimes around these NCAA tournaments where I remember back
in college, a whole group of us wanted to fill
out a bracket for the women's tournament. And I'm not
that old, but we literally had to go pen and
paper because no one offered a women's bracket online. And
we still see that for sports like volleyball in softball,
and so I see a divide between the engagement that
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the fantasy side brings to it versus the toxicity that
the betting side brings to it. And I don't know
what the answer is, but I truly feel for the
athletes that are having to deal with just abuse because
of other people's decisions.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more with some of the negative outcomes.
I think it's quite clear that it can be really
bad for athletes. We've seen all the statistics, particularly around
college sports, where the majority of the athletes getting harassed
and getting attacked are women. And I personally am a
dabbler March Madness fantasy football.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
This year is my first.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Time doing fantasy WNBA, and I worked with a gambling
company very briefly at one point that puts some money
in my account to play with and to help teach
women how to play, And for me, it felt like
there's a bit of a gate kipping situation where if
you weren't someone who knew much about gambling and you
tried to get involved, people were condescending and often rude
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about how you didn't know enough about it. And it
was another space that I felt like women were sort
of being kept out of, as like this this is
for men, and so it felt sort of empowering to
learn about it and to try to teach people about it.
But I also come from the perspective of someone who
doesn't get addicted to things. So I was able to
make a couple bets, think it was kind of fun,
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and then not do it again for four months and
then be like, oh, I still have some money in there, Okay,
I'm gonna just gonna throw something on there. I literally
the gambling site that I did that promotion with got
bought out and moved to another place and had a
different name, and like, by the time I remembered that
I might have money in there and went into place
a bet, it did not exist anymore. And then thankfully
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I found out that my money had been moved to
this other site where I had to set up a
new login to like use the like three hundred dollars
or whatever I had in there. So that's how much
I'm not thinking about it. That's a luxury. There are
people who cannot dabble, have a little fun with it
and not lose their whole fucking house and life. And
I listened to an entire podcast done by Michael Lewis,
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who you might best know for his books Moneyball, The
Big Short, The Blind Side, things like that that have
been adapted into movies. But he did a whole podcast
on sports gambling, and holy cow, is it illuminating. It's
called against the Rules. One of the things that stood
out to me most about listening to it, beyond the
specific examples of people who got caught up in it
and lost everything, was also that there are rules put
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in place that are supposed to be used to help
people find problem gamblers, and instead the companies use them
to find problem gamblers and give them things like VIP
concert experiences and other things to keep them scambuys and
not only incentivize the bad ones, but cancel the accounts
of the good gamblers, which frankly should be illegal. If
someone is succeeding at gambling and they have a system
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that works for them and they're better able to kind
of predict sports events, they shouldn't have their accounts canceled.
It should not be that much where the house always wins.
So taking into account all of that, there's a part
of me that feels like everything in life is choose
your own adventure. Should we ban drinking because some people
can't drink without becoming addicted, you know? Should we ban
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other things that are inherently dangerous but some people can
do safely? And so I don't want to be sort
of like paternalistic for lack of a better word, about
sports gambling, because it does bring in money, attention, interest,
There are a lot of positives.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
And as much as I for.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Years now have pushed back on bringing in sports gambling,
people on the other side of the business side of
it have told me it is one of the only
things spending on content, podcasts, shows. As money is leaving journalism,
sports gambling is one of the only places that's putting
money into it. So I wish we could take the
benefits without the bad.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yeah, And I think that's a great summation. I also
think that goes back to what I was saying, is that.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
We can do it.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
We could, we could do it, but we need more regulation.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
We need to get rid of what you just talked about.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
There's absolutely no reason why we should be enabling people
who don't need to be enabled and getting rid of
people who are making it, you know, kind of a
part of the culture in a way that's fun, in
a way, that's light, in a way that kind of
adds to the experience of being a sports fan. This
is coming from somebody who worked at a radio station
where it was all about fann to see everything, and
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there is there is a good side to it. Like
I know people who have whole you know, fantasy leagues
with their families and stuff like that, So there is,
I will say there is a good side to it.
I'm just precious about our women's sports.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I'm just precious about it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And I really I'm like, please don't give We're already
dealing with enough shit right now, I know, please don't
give us this other shit.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Well, I think also precious about a place that athletes
are still so easily exploited. I think one of the
things I always come back to with this is if
there is all of this money in it, then why
are WNBA players still making a minimum of sixty six
thousand dollars a year? Talk about you know, when there's
big money in spaces that athletes aren't benefiting from it, right,
That is a problem.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Right, especially if they're facing the negatives of it. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I guess the answer is it's complicated. It's complicated.
Give us your money and none of the other stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Let's talk about another email we got from Slice Ashley Flesher,
who wrote in about the WNBA dildo incidents. I'm guessing
she wrote this before it was revealed to be related
to a crypto company, but either way, she thinks the
WNBA should find a way to benefit from it. She wrote, quote,
so this mean green dildo business. I think the w
should lean in. Just like Angel Reese brilliantly ran with
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the me Bounce chatter and launched their own sex toy line,
Oh Hear Me Out a vibrator named the New York
Self Liberation. Obviously Ellie carries one in her bag, or
a dildo named Golden State's GoldenEye, release your battle cry.
The Seattle Storms toy should be waterproof, suitable for all
wet conditions. The Minnesota Let's links up, the Washington Mystical
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Mover Dallas will give you wings, Indiana beaver Fever obvious
Jesus no side note.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Not too obvious to any of us, but obvious to you.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Ashley Flesher, the Atlanta Wet Dream, Phoenix's X factor, a
Connecticut blaze for when the sun goes down. Chicagos Sky's
the Limit guaranteed to lifty to cloud nine. Honestly, some
of the teams don't even need a creative twist. The
La Spark and the Las Vegas Ace make decent product
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names as they are now. My product names might need
some punching up regardless. I think the intimate apparatuses, as
Zeno from The Athletic Is called them, will sell really well,
especially if a percentage of the proceeds benefit an adjacent cause.
Maybe some proceeds go to Planned Parenthood or to organizations
working to stop sex trafficking or helping women cope with
sexual assault. I feel like Sarah might be able to
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get this idea off the ground. You miss one hundred
percent of the shots you don't take. Love you all,
Ashley Flescher. Okay, First of all, I will never get
over your last name being Flesher. You were born for
this job, Ashley. Also, those names are too good to
go to waste, and yet I believe that they will.
I do not think it is likely that the w
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will lean in, as you say, and insert themselves into
this industry.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Pun intended.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Now, Sarah, I honestly like to say something very quickly
about this. I'm actually not mad at it because what's
one of the grips we've had with the WN with
other women's leagues. It's tailored for children. Why are we
tailoring this towards the children?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
This could be a very extreme way of bringing in.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
A demographic intentionally, so who knows. But insert insert is crazy.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Stop with the puns, and Alex, you need to sit
on it for a lot longer. Do you have any thoughts?
My mom is gonna listen to this.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Sorry?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Oh lord, I mean I this list. It's excellent. It's
given full vulva to the velo drum.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes, yes, it's been a while since we had a
good deal. If anybody else has ideas for themed dil
Do's for the WNBA send him our way.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I don't know if you can out do Ashley though.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Speaking at dil Do's, we got a voicemail from Teresa,
who was at the very first dildo incident the Valkyrie's
Dream Game, and here's what she had to say.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Hey, it's Teresa. I've lived in the Atlanta area and
I was at that infamous game on Tuesday night, and
I just have to tell you, besides being grateful that
it did not hit a player or a trip a
player with one minute left in the game, I'm a
season ticket holder, and I got to tell you the
bag check practices at Gayway Center suck. And very every
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single game, I've gotten sent back when my little idy
ditty purse see through purse doesn't fit the requirements and
they say it's too big, so I've had to take
it back to the car and the person in front
of me got in a huge black BA pack and
they didn't even seck it right. So every single game
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there's been something different, and so anybody's questioning why in
the world that fun little object made it in the
arena and got thrown onto the court. It's because the
bagshack practices suck. Anyway, hope you have a great day.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I mean also because at least one of the dildo
carriers attached it to his person, per the police, stuff
didn't even need a bag, had it somewhere inserted himself
into the conversation. I don't know where he taped it
to or stored it or wedged it, but he didn't
need a bag, y'all. But Teresa, thank you for your
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first hand eyewitness experience. I am dying over the idea
of I know it's not funny, but if a player
tripped over.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
A dildo midplay, I just I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Just imagining the person on the call and the official
being like, travel.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Kicked, ball kicked.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeh, yeah, I agree though the bag checks. I mean,
I think in general they're frustrating. I guess there's a purpose.
You don't want a bunch of random stuff brought into stadiums.
But also they seem so discriminatory against women and the
things that women need, particularly mothers and buying a big
old clear bag. I mean, it's at this point we're
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so used to it. I think we all have them
and we bring them, but every once in a while
when I want to have a normal ass, cute little
clutch because I'm doing something before or after the game,
and I don't want to carry a damn clear bag
for the whole day. It is completely inconsistent whether or
not they let it in, and it'll be the same
bag every time. It'll be like, this is the same
bag I bring every time to be like sorry, man,
just and I'm like, it says size of a hand,
well not you're so I feel you, Teresa.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
All right.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
We got another email from super slice and bar owner
Moe O'Donnell, who wrote us with some juicy footy and
gay shit news.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Moe writes, quote some hot gossip from the Utah Royals.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
We were all a little bummed when Mandy McGlenn dropped
her married name. Hot is a pretty awesome name to
make cheers for feeling hot. Hot Hot was a frequent
chant after she made one of her amazing saves, but
our little gay hearts have warm to it now that
appears she's dating teammate Ana te Hatta. In one of
Mandy's June Insta posts, there's a lot of sportsmanship picks
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of the two of them, and there's a lot of
vacation photos and things. Since yay for footy and gay shit.
Also please consider that for your next good game merch run,
I'd get footy and gay shit shirts for our whole
season ticket group. Keep crushing it, MO number one. It's
already been considered. Next merch run is the gay shit shirts,
so we'll let you know when those roll out. Also
(22:48):
two excellent reporting on need to know gay shit kissing
and as grabs are two of our favorite ways to
show good sportsmanship. We officially name you the senior Footy
and Gay Shit correspondent for our euro.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I think we're going to need to do an application process, Sarah,
I think we have a lot of people interested in
that role.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
We do, we do, but for now we'll give it
to MO. If a more deserving candidate steps up, we'll
have to have a footy and gaysh it off.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
To see who gets the official title.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
We got to take a break, y'all when we come
back a new dating show we didn't see coming.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Welcome back, Slices.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
We love that you're listening, but we want you to
get in the game every day too, So here's our
good game play of the day. This one is inspired
by super slice Amanda Vallo, who's back with another killer email.
She writes us suggesting a worst job in women's sports.
Draft Here are her top five. Number one the World
Cup stadium security person who spends the entire time standing
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with their back to the game, watching the crowd. Number
two the arena worker assigned to sweep up confetti after
a championship final. Number three the beat reporter for the
gun Get Sun hard to come up with positive, encouraging
new content. Number four Kim Moulke's fashion consultant. Someone has
to be telling her no and she's just saying it.
I'm doing it anyway. Number five the women pacers for
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Faith Kip Yegan's four minute mile attempt, lots of very
hard training only to get stuck in the back and dropped.
Those are pretty good, Amanda. So our question is, can
you beat Amanda's worst jobs in women's sports? Send us
yours and just in general, just keep sending all the
stuff in things slices. We have a blast addressing your questions,
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hot takes, and just general.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Notes about the show. So please don't be shy.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Hit us up on email, good game at wondermtaetwork dot com,
or leave us a voicemail at eight seven.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Two two four fifty seventy.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
But make sure when you call you actually mean to
call us, unlike Monica, who loved us this message on Tuesday.
Speaker 5 (24:52):
Hi, my name is Anica. I'm calling from Simply Groomed.
In regards to your appointment, have an appointment on the
twenty third of September for Cooper with Colleen, but unfortunately
she won't be in that day. We do have other
available appointments, but Colleen will also be in on the
seventh of October. Please just give us a callback. And
(25:16):
in regards to rescheduling an appointment for Cooper again, Cooper's
groomer won't be in on the twenty third at ten am,
so we are looking to reschedule. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So Monica called us back again on Thursday and left
another message. Seems Cooper's mom never got the first one,
you know, because she called us instead. So Alex took
matters into her own hands and gave them a call back.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Here's that voicemail.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Thank you for calling Simply Groomed.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
We are either with a customer in the front or
a dog in the back.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Please leave the message and we will get back to
you as soon as possible. Hi, my name's Alex. I'm
a producer actually for a podcast, and I just wanted
to let you know that I think you have the
wrong number. Trying to get in touch with Cooper's mom
for an appointment on the twenty third that got rescheduled because.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Colleen is out.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We've just gotten a voicemail from you twice, so I
just wanted to let you know so that you can
get in touch with Cooper's mom. I'm sorry that we're
not the right number. All right, hope you find your human. Bye.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Here's hoping that Monica, Cooper and company can get things
sorted out.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Don't forget to subscribe, Rate and review, y'all.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's easy watch game set Matchmaker rating seven out of
seven Hopeful bachelor's review. There's a new tennis themed reality
show coming soon. During the upcoming US Open Fan Week,
a tennis savvy bachelorette named Alana Sudaka, who's a former
figure skater and pilates teacher, will go on dates with
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seven men. The men are unquote influencers and tennis super fans,
and all the dates and content will be filmed on
site at the USDA Billy Jean King National Tennis Center
episodes are set to be released on the us Opens
YouTube channel during the main draw starting August twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Oh, this isn't a bad idea.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Folks will watch pretty much any reality dating show and
you can sell the fund activations and all the cool
vibes around the Open.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
It really is an awesome space out at the event.
Plus you can get the.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Daters to loosen up with two or three or twenty
honey deuces.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yum.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
They are going to need to establish a hook pretty
early on, though, because I feel like likes tennis can't
really compete with married at first site, date my Mom
or boy Island. Now it's your turn, y'all rate and review.
Thanks for listening, See you next week. Good game, Slices.
I don't know if we say this enough, but we
really appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Good game, Indiana, Beaver.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Fevers you, Colleen, you get to take a day off
when Cooper needs to get groomed. Good Game with Sarah
Spain is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with
Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on
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Production by Wonder Media Network. Our producers are Alex Azzie
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and Misha Jones. Our executive producers are Christina Everett, Jesse Katz,
Jenny Kaplan and Emily Rudder. Our editors are Emily Rutter,
Britney Martinez, Grace Lynch and Gianna Palmer. Our associate producer
is Lucy Jones. Production assistance from Avery Loftus and I'm
Your Host Sarah Spain
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