August 5, 2025 • 58 mins
The WNBA is WILD this week and we’ve got all the drama — from Kate Martin’s rumored breakup to Satou Sabally being benched (or is she out indefinitely?), and a blockbuster trade sending DiJonai Carrington to the Lynx. Plus: Are the Sun leaving Connecticut? And what’s going on with Aaliyah Edwards in Washington? Soccer fans — we didn’t forget you. Trinity Rodman makes an emotional comeback and Marta might have just cemented herself as the undisputed GOAT with her Copa América heroics.
💥 Also in this episode:
The mystery of the green dildo at Valkyries games
Is DeWanna Bonner the problem?
The Fever are streaking… without Caitlin Clark?
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00:00 – Quick Banter & Show Intro
06:18 – Mystery Breakup & Geen Machine Takeover
12:18 – Satou Sabally Benched: Energy or Something Else?
17:45 – DiJonai Carrington Traded: What It Means for Dallas
18:40 - Are the LYNX Unbeatable?
20:26 - Dallas Is Getting Lazy For Azzi
30:33 – Fever’s Win Streak Without Their Star Player
32:56 - Caitlin Clark's "Civil Rights are being violated" According to EX White House Staffer
38:54 – Boston Sun Sale: Relocation Rumors Heat Up
41:55 – Trinity Rodman’s Emotional Return & Game Winner
49:47 – Marta’s Legendary Copa América Performance
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, Sam, I don't know if somebody told me that
they like right as their five four three two one
ning on Riverside, that they do something to like get
everybody loose, and that was like my attempt to get
you loose.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Pause.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I really, at what point do you think? How many
episodes in do you think before you lose that joke?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Never?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I don't believe in a one time joke.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I know you're at the dead horse.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm I'm my mother's I'm my mother's daughter. You know.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
She always says, beat the horse until it's dead, and
then beat it some more and then it'll be funny again.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's see, that's not my method of comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You don't have one. It's I'm a hotter. I'm a hotter.
I get anything out wrong. This is my world. I
make big moves in my big house. Since the day
there that was too.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So this is a question that I asked Sam last night,
all right, and it was inspired by my Spotify listening
and I said, I also had an edible and I
came listening to the show, Now.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We do edibles. I didn't know you did edibles.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I had run out of of the other stuff,
of the other stuff of the Penjamin. So I had
to left you left that halftime to go to the
weed story. Okay, sorry, this was the night before then,
so can you just go with the timeline here? Sorry, sorry,
stop picking it apart. This is part of the story.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So I was taking a shower and I was listening
to music as one does you know, my my everything shower,
and I was got out of the shower and I
said to Sam, is Chapel roone the greatest vocalist of
our generation, to which Sam said, oh, sorry, but you're
our gent now, and that really went That one's stunk.
(02:02):
But oh, I wanted to ask you that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think Adele Adele is a is a slightly better
vocalist okay than Chapel, but she's very good. I think
Chapel's more pop culture y. I think she does has
much better.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Arrangements.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Like when you think about Pink Pony Club being acoustic,
at one point she was just doing it outside. They
turned that into the stud Bud's anthem an absolute banger.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I'm gonna keep on this Pink.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I also didn't realize until just this weekend that her
mom has like a big Southern accent and that she's
talking about her mom in her Southern accent.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
What you don't know that?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, I'm confused. How you don't know that from the
lyrics of Pink.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I just didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I just hadn't listened to it that deep, like because
she kind of strings.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We'll just move on. We'll move on, Okay, Welcome to
Let Her Shoot. The only podcast that makes fun of
one another.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The co hosts uh covers women's sports the way that
we want them covered. We cover it with no bullshit,
no kid gloves, a lot of comedy, respect for the athletes,
of course, respect for the fans, respect for the people
that throw onto the court and end up in jail,
all the reasons to stay locked in. We got Sarah Chovnik,
two time Emmy Award winning producer here. You can follow
(03:36):
her on whatever the fuck the ig handle is that.
I'm never gonna remember Chavy score, s Chavy underscore, s
Tristan Criek, zero time Emmy Award winning talent, zero time
Emmy Award nominated talent because they never really nominate talent.
Sarah I did true well, not for these things. That's
(03:58):
how they end up doing the little mischief where they
move things around and they try to put talent as
producers so they can get an Emmy. Yeah, the piece
of content that I basically produced, my South Korean coffee short,
got an Emmy. And guess what, I didn't get the
Emmy even though I fucking created the whole thing from
soup to nights and then somebody shot it and edit
it and they got the Emmy.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Okay, so truth typical talent complaining about there?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Am I typical talent? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
We have a loaded show today. There is drama in
the WNBA. We've got injuries, we've got breakups, we've got benchings,
we've got trades. We have the mean green toy being
thrown at players two times, plus the goat of the
pitch is back scoring game winners.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm not talking about trendy Rodman.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I am talking about Marta and that train refuses to
leave the station for good because she keeps retiring and
unretiring and it's like, yo, she should not retire anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Good morning, good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Good evening, good night. It's good. It's not morning for you,
it's one pm. I don't know where I was going
with that. I was going to tell you were going
to tell me I was going to say, you were
going to tell me about you wanted to share the
meaning of tea and where it came from.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yes, so we always get in to start, are.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No, We always get into the weekly tea before we
do the real stuff. And so I was on TikTok
obviously because I'm such a gen z or you know,
and which the world, Yeah, just a palaeolithic gen z.
And there was this guy that was talking about an
older gay man who put him on like where tea
(05:38):
comes from, which is like a part of gay lore.
And the word information. Yeah, the word information is where
it came from. And when you say the word information,
the T is silent, And so it's like, Hey, I
have the information, but what are you not saying? What
are you not telling me? What in the story is
(05:59):
Missy here that I should know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I still feel like that probably came from drag queens though,
to be honest, well like culture, I mean, but that's
the way that the origin story is, Like, what are
you not saying?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
What's the t?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The T this week is that Kate Martin is apparently
back on the market.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Kate Martin a sex symbol within the w n B
A you know, I mean, there's just a.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Lot who got Sam Listen, Kate Martin is who got
Sam In to being a basketball fan.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So I had a call just now about how you
can't cover the m NBA the same way that you
cover the w NBA, and Kate Martin is one of
the reasons why, because fans you don't have men, well
maybe you do, you don't have like, oh I love
I got into the m NBA because I just love
the way that Jokic moves.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know, you don't have that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You don't have that you have like, oh, I just
got into it through Kate Martin. Now I'm locked into
the Valkyrie. Put your visa bo.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So Kate Martin, we we kind of got a hint
of this because she deleted all the photos of her
girlfriend Claire, off of which is Instagram, which is like
the gen Z way of announcing a breakup. You know,
it's like you delete them completely.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Off your socials and then you follow each other.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So maybe there's like hope of rekindling. I don't know,
we haven't gotten the full block as of yet, but
Kate Martin, from what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Block someone that when we break up with them. I've
never done that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's what gen Z does.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
They block them or they unfollow them.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
They get their friends don't follow them. It's like a
whole big thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Wildly challenge childish to me, all my friends don't follow
x's of mine?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Do we think that that is why we've seen an
excess of green pat being thrown at Valkyrie's games.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I think you are right in the group chat and
on our call about.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
This being the news bra to the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yes, I think are the new bird like send the
bra to Ringo or to Paul McCarthy, right, because we don't.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
See braun is being thrown at a Lakers game. You know,
no one's throwing their their bra Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What I will say is that the person that has
been throwing the green machine, which by the way, shout
out to Sid Colson for just one of the funniest
people I've ever met, so I've never actually I've never
met her.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
One of the funniest people on.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The internet around the w I've ever seen who pretended
to be the green machine and just like acted out
what the green Machine was feeling and thinking and saying yeah,
great content, by the way.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And then Angel Reese Angel Reese after because the first
one happened, right, the first one happened at a Valkyrie's game.
The second one happened at a Chicago Sky game. So
obviously the mean green is traveling. Which but I think
it's two different people because they said the guy that
got did it at the first game was arrested, so
(09:05):
it's not the same guy that threw it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
To me, maybe it's a syndicate, a green machine syndicate.
Oh my god, what a laco charge on the conspiracy
to put green machines on the court.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Maybe it's like the Washington state flag that follows around,
you know college game day that you see, yes, at
every college game day game, it's like that, but it's
a green it's the green machine at every Valkyrie game.
The players, I think they thought it was funny at first.
I don't think they think it's funny now.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, and then you can kind of tell who is
uptight and who's not. You saw Sophie Cunningham, someone is
gonna get hurt, being like, we need to stop this.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Someone's getting hurt.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Someone's going I think I think she was.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I don't think she was making it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And Sid Colson made a smirky emoji after that, and
Sid's like, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And so the first thing got put in jail.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And my question, and I said this today on social
if it wasn't ad.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Would they get put in jail? Though? If it was
any other item?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Oh, if they threw I mean it is rubber.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, but that was rubber, like if it was if
it was something the same material, but not if it
was like a rubber truck, yeah, or like something with
soft edges.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Rubber trucks have sharp edged.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Like someone just like a ball on the ground, harder
little bouncy.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Ball and yeah, like a bouncy ball.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We threw a bouncy ball onto the court, which I
think is way more dangerous than a build.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I mean, I don't feel like you're tripping and falling
over a green.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
No, you see it right there, And if you are.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Then I'm sorry, But that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And that there was a camo colored then maybe I
would have a little more empathy.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
The thing is lime greens camo, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, anyway, And I think people need to take it
less seriously than they're taking it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It's it's like it's all fun in games.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Honestly, maybe if you want Kate Martin slide into her
DMS and don't throw.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I still think about this.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So we had Paige Nielsen on the pod a couple
of weeks ago, last week, whatever it was, Time's just
flying and I can't help but to continue to think
about the fact that her wife, a civilian, slid into
her DMS and it worked and they are now married.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I just think about it. I'm like, what, that's a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What have you ever slid into an athlete's DMS.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Mmm, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Maybe I feel like, if you have to think about it,
the answer is probably yes.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I think if I have to think about it, the
answer is probably.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, no, because, like I know for a fact that
I have not ever slid into the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I comment on things in message form, but is that
me being like, hey, I'm shooting my shot. I've never
been like, hey I'm shooting my shot.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Okay, fair enough, fair enough?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So you shot with somebody it would be like more memorable.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, fair enough. Satu is out indefinitely. We found out today.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Satoo Sabally the bell of the ball of the off season.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Former Dallas Wings player who moved on quite spicily from
the Dallas Wings, which we now understand. Yeah, we now
understand that Dallas and we'll talk about this a little
later is a dumpster fire from tom to bottom in
their organization.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So she moves on.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
She goes to Phoenix, which we thought was going to
be this phenomenal situation for her. She's paired with Ilica Thomas.
Another beast from the Connecticut Sun comes over. They are
building a quote unquote superteam. They move on from Djna.
Djene goes to Dallas and then Alissa Thomas's wife, do
Wanna Bonner gets picked up on this team, so only
(13:07):
team do Wanna will go to right and now Sattoo.
Her production has declined severely. She was getting like twenty
five to thirty minutes a game. She's an All Star,
didn't play in the All Star Game due to injury,
but having an All Star type year.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Do Wanna Bonner comes and the.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Head coach is like, hey, we don't have enough room
for all these bigs to play all at the same time,
and do Wanna is changing the complexion of our offense.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
YadA YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Satoo's production just plumps, her minutes decline, and now she
oh and then she was benched in the second half
of last game that she played in. He says the
head coach, she's not bringing the energy. And now she's
out indefinitely for personal reasons.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And they are rumoring.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The rumors on the streets are saying it's because she
doesn't like to play with do Wanna Bonner?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Who are the streets though in this case.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Like who are the fans, the internet.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Streets, the sand streets? Do we think? Like, because remember
this was the whole like do Wanna Bonner wanted out
of Fever of the Fever too because she didn't like Kaitlyn, Like,
I feel like there's like people that's actually.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeahcuse me, that's actually true. So I know that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I spoke with someone who is on the m NBA
side of the Indiana Pacers and so they are they
are hand in glove with the Fever, and I said, oh, yeah,
something about do wanna going to Phoenix uh to you know,
come back home be with the family.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah. I'm not making any allegations.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'm just like I'm expecting the best, do Wanna and
Alyssa And he's like, oh no, no, she didn't like
playing with Kaitlyn. So what he goes, Yeah, she didn't
like playing with Kaitlyn, and I go, well, I get it.
She's Caitlyn's a helios centric type player, meaning the whole
offense revolves around what she wants to do. She takes
time to gel with her and what her passes are like.
(15:08):
And he's like, yeah, no, she it wasn't a personal thing,
but she did not like playing with Caitlin Clark period.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So sometimes the most obvious explanation is probably the right
on the correct one.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
What's that call again? Oukham's razor, Oukham's razor? Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Little quiz.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I hate quiz time, but it's good when I know it.
So yeah, she's out, And definitely this.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Is not good. No, it's not good. It definitely isn't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We don't have she could be traded at any moment,
which we'll talk about about another player a little bit
later on the show. But trade deadline is approaching, and
if Satoo gets traded to a contender or to a team,
that's like, right there, I don't I mean, she's a
game changer.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't know if she's.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Really still injured or whether that's why her energy hasn't
been there. But she's in Madala with a lot the
CBA negotiations her being out all star, new player, being integrated,
but leaving the team unless you really have something going
on in your personal life.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
This is what we saw with Dwana Bonner before she.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Asked you where do you think she would fit the best?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Somebody wrote online which I thought was very funny, and
they said, hey, Satu, Minnesota is great this time of year.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The Lynks can't possibly add another superstar, could they?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I don't know. I mean, I know, I'm not a
cap expert. I don't know what that trade would have
to look like. But they're pretty damn stacked as they
already are. I think a team like like like a
Valkyries could use her, a team like that, that sort
of a team. I think you don't want to send
her to Connecticut. That'd be a bad spot for her.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
About the Aces send her?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, the Aces would be good. The Wings. Actually, she
could be used on the Dallas.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
There's no way should go back to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But that would be well, she's got Paige. Now, I
don't know, but it's not good. I'm just gonna say
it's sent. I may I called you immediately. I say, oh, Sarah,
we got some tea silent te.
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Speaker 3 (17:43):
Moving on to some big WNBA news. The trade deadline
is a week away. We're just talking about that. This wassatu?
Are they gonna beat the trade deadline? Where could she
be used? You mentioned Dallas? Well, djn A Carrington is
now out of Dallas as of last week. They moved
to Melissa Smith, her girlfriend out two weeks ago, and
(18:05):
now Djna's out too. The Dallas Wings traded her to
the Links. They received third year forward diamond miller Carly Samuelson,
who is I believe out right agent, and then also
Minnesota's second round pick of next year's draft, and then
(18:26):
they had You're right, twenty twenty SEVENS Draft, and then
in order to complete that trade, they also had to
wave Tierra McCowan. The Wings did, so it feels like
they gave up a lot without getting a lot in return.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
The Wings you're saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, here's the thing.
This is huge. This is huge.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Because you got the Minnesota Links, a team who are
have the shortest odds to win the title, have the
best record in the WNBA, only lost one game at
home with the MVP, who won Defensive Player of the
Year last year, multiple guards on the Wings that you
love with the stud Buds, and you pick up Djna Carrington,
(19:06):
who is most improved player last year and has an
absolute tenacity defensively to strap players.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Like Sabrina, which is that I think in.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
My mind what they were doing. We're prepping for the finals.
The Liberty go out and get who we thought we
were gonna get, which was Emma Misiman, and now we
decide to make our own big balls move.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Djna is a big balls move.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Djna's a free agent after this year, so from the Dallas.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And Dallas was not going to resign her.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Dallas had no probably reason to resign her. Things have
not gone well, and Nylyssa's gone. There's really no reason
for her to stay other than the fact that she
and Page are so close. So maybe, if you want
to be nice to Dallas, you say, well, maybe they
think that they can get Diamond Miller and keep her,
and they don't care about Carly because Carly is a
(19:57):
free agent.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
She's out for the year. And then they get a
se second round pick, and but you have to and
you wave Tierra.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
McCowan who's getting paid two hundred thousand dollars and has
been injured and not very good.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But so for me, for the Links, this is like
a really huge move for them as a title contender.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Do you think that this is the official tanking beginning?
I mean, are we seeing this now? Is clearing off
the racks in Dallas just making room Forrazy.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I feel like it has to be. I feel like
it has to be. I don't know what the fuck
Dallas is.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Thinking or doing, and they might stumble in to getting
a great pick in asy Fudd.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
They were winning way too many games.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
We have Chinese basketball accounts logging how many minutes Lee
Yuru is getting and what their record is with her
averaging more than fifteen minutes a game and less than
fifteen minutes a game.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
They're they're a like a disaster.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And I think that it has to either be reckless
incompetence or it has to be intentional, and maybe both,
maybe both.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Manbun has to be gone after this season, right.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Cannot stay.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And honestly, the leader of the pack, Kurt Miller, who
hired man Bun and is like besties with the man
Bun has to go too.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It has to go.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And and Dha, by the way, was questioning Chris Cocklaan's
man Bun and his decision making on social media and.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Really has been kind of iced out ever since. To
would agree.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So now Page is an orphan, She's got nobody on
her side but the rookies and Lee Yuru. It's it's
Jj Quinnerley, it's Azaiah James, it's her, it's Lee. And
so if I'm if I'm Dallas, what I'm thinking, this
is a smart person's thoughts, So it's.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Probably not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I would be loading up to get Lauren Betts and
asy Foot. Let's trade a future first, and let's get
Lauren Betts as our center and take and yeah, and
let's let's get the top two picks or three. You
could get Asy at three, Olivia Miles might go to
So that's a possible way.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, but you're taking a risk there. I mean, I
guess you'd be happy still, right if you got Lauren
Bett's and you got very good Yeah, No, that's what
I'm saying. You would be happy. But I feel like
you get two of the first three picks and you
don't come home with Asy for Page, I feel like that's.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Not it's a tough one. You might even take Asy first.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And there's a lot of people though, there's a lot
of people who don't want a z to go to Dallas.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Most people I think are dumb.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well no, I mean like fans of ass that, fans
of Page and as that don't want her because they
want her to be in a better situation than Alice.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, but I think that that makes it a better
situation rights.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
As long as management is different.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, man Bun will have to go.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
But if Page is suffering with man Bun, then at
least let's get her another two way wing that can
shoot the lights out from three and Arike is a
free agent after this year as well.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I wouldn't be shocked if Erik.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Got traded as well, for like, yeah, maybe maybe you
trade Arike somewhere and you try to get a draft
pick out of that, and you know you're not getting
any players of note, just based on what I think
Dallas's perspective is right now.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well, Dallas is the Mount Rushmore of horrific team owners.
So I guess we'll see what happens. But on you know,
we're talking about the links. Speaking of the Links, Fee
went down with an ankle injury. Up forty points, fifty points,
up fifty points. I'm sorry, why was she even in
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that game?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I was so upset about it the spring, and it
was like a transition bucket. I think once you're up thirty,
you should probably just sit your stars, sit them. When
you're on time, you definitely sit your story stars.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
When you're up.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Fifty, you call a time out and you put in
the girls.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
They're at the end of the bench.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Becky Hammond already said in her postgame conference, I knew
we weren't gonna win that game, and so we just
let go of the rope and we put other players in.
When you see other players come in that are not
Asia Wilson, like you gotta take your MVP off the floor.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And I know that Cheryl Reeve had other things to say.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
She Cheryl Reeve like doubled down on the decision even
after the injury, to say like, and this always reminds
me of I'm gonna take it to the m sport
real quick. But I remember in his college year, Tua
broke his hip because they were up thirty points and
Saban left him in for like the last down of
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the first half, and everyone was like, why was he in?
And Saban went up on the press like he afterwards,
and he has said many times since, like, I made
the wrong decision lead him in that game. That was
my decision. I should have taken him out. It was
my responsibility. We were up thirty points, there's no reason
for him to play. It feels crazy to me that
your star gets injured and then you double down on
the decision to leave her in the game after after
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a fifty point lead, just say, you know what, in hindsight,
I should have taken her out of the game. There
was no reason for her to be there.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And that's why I don't like Ryl Reeves. It's one
of the reasons that I'm not a huge like.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I think she's a fine coach. She don't really like
her personally. I don't know her.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Sure she's fine, Sure she's lovely. I just don't like
that that type of move.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
She said, I don't think the game was over.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean, that's insane. You're up fifty, you have fifty
freaking points. They have forty two points, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Think the game is over.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Come on, come on, are you watching the game?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Are you at the game? The game was over.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
The game was over.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Anyway, you know what else is over? Aliah Edwards time
in Washington, it's over, it seems.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh my god, I'm so bummed. This girl.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Aliah got taken sixth overall last last w NBA Draft,
sixth overall. She was fucking electric in unrivaled, a one
on one monster beat. Breonna Stewart went on, one has
post moves, has the ability to do all this good
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quality basketball stuff. She was a franchise pillar and then
the the Bombshells came on the.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Bench. Bombshells entered the.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Villa Sarah, and they were quick to just discard her.
She had some injuries and That's essentially why she didn't
play right away. But now Kiki Kiki comes in like Iris,
and all of a sudden, Aliah Edwards, who's Hannah in
this perspective, is just out inexplicably. So I don't get it.
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I really don't get it. Her minutes are down. I
think Kiki Riafin has outplayed her, and now they don't
have really a spot for Aliah. I guess why do
you even draft Kiki. It is important to note that
this is a totally new front office that did not
draft Aliah Edwards, and so they are going to value
the players that they drafted over her.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I'm trying to look up her actual minutes here.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
She played ten minutes in three minutes against Atlanta and
then she got injured, ten minutes against LA fourteen minutes.
She's averaging.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Thirteen minutes per game, and last year she averaged twenty
two minutes a game. That's a thirty significant decrease.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You know, I feel like you usually see like one
good rookie, you know, per team per year, right, that
is like the standout rookie. But to have two that
have come and really taken over this team and you
still have Georgia on Moore to come in. You know
Georgia Ward.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Well, Georgia A.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Moore has and Sonya Sitchron have nothing to do with
Alia Edwards.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
They don't play the same position.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But Lucy Olsen and Sonia you talk about like just
you ask the question in terms of like rookies don't usually.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Hit, and they have three rookies they have hit.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And I know that that Lucy isn't crazy production wise
three point six points per game, one rebound, but she's
getting given you thirteen thirteen to seventeen minutes a game
and just being the stable for shooting forty percent from
the field getting you a three or two per game.
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Like I really think that Washington needs as crazy as
this Alia Edwards stuff is Washington needs some flowers in
terms of their drafting because you never see three which
probably would have been four rookies pop with Georgia was healthy.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Imagine Georgia was healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And they need some guard play outside of Sonya. Their
their point guard play is really just not good at all.
It's it's not good. So yeah, I'm sad about Aliyah.
I don't know where she's gonna go. I don't It's
very weird.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's very niche too.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I feel like there's not a lot of people talking
about it. None of the WNBA shows are talking about it.
And play Yeah, she didn't play last game against the
Dream And the only thing that really makes sense is
that they're getting ready to ship her out.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I mean, over a month ago there were reports that
came out that they were trying to shop her around,
but it seems like no, there's been no movement in
the last month. Do you think they're unable to get
a home for her? Do you think that they're on
able to get the deal that they think they deserve
for her.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I think they probably think she's worth a lot. She's
a six overall pick in twenty twenty four. I would
feel like she would be worth a lot as well.
So we'll have to monitor that situation.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Won't keep monitoring it. What does Dallas have to give though?
At this point.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I don't know picks picks, but I wouldn't give a
pickup for it's a tough situation.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It's it's tough. Another thing we're keeping an eye on
is Indiana. The Fever are on a hot streak right now.
They're five they've won the last five in a row.
No Caitlin Clark. What does this team look like without
Caitlin Clark? I mean they've won five in a row.
Is that a fluke?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
The chemistry is good? What's going on over there?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Number one, you did?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You did you end up watching the Fever Storm game
that we were agreeing?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I watched. I want Whi's the last quarter?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
What did you see in that last quarter?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Well? I saw the storm storm back.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I like that. I like that way that you put
it storm bad.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You like that?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The thing that you're seeing is our girl, friend of literal,
friend of pod.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Aery McDonald is fucking that girl.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Really, she is the reason that they have gelled. They
needed another guard go along with Kelsey Mitchell. They had
her on a hardship, they let her go, then they
brought her back. Now she's there full time. She's getting
her masters at the same time, and she's steadying the ship.
She's had a couple of really good games. I want
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to say she had twenty seven the other night. She had, Yeah,
twenty seven against the Mercury and four assists, just an
insanely productive night for her.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
She's only averaging ten points per game, but she's playing.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Thirty plus minutes per night, and she's making it easy
for Kelsey Mitchell to get open.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
She's getting the ball, you know, in an.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Efficient way to Aliah Boston, and Aliah Boston's just continuing
her double double streak. So I think it really is
because of Airy and what she's done in transition, what
she's done as like a pure point guard, and she's
my height, she's actually probably a little smaller than me,
so for her to be really the connective tissue on
this team is super impressive. They've beaten the Mercury already
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in this five game win streak, and they're seven No,
they're eight and two in their last ten, and the
only two games that they lost we both against the Liberty.
They beat the Aces, they beat the Wings, and then
they just beat the Storm on the road. So I
think it's impressive. A lot of fans are basically putting
a lot of dirt on Kaitlin Clark's name right now,
which will not be respected, will not be allowed.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
No, no, no, not doing that.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
No, we're not doing that. No, we're not doing that
for sure. Speaking of though, did you read this or
did you read any of this article I sent you
from the.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I did not. I had some row Bible shit. I'm
not into it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
It's no, no, no, you could just tell me. I'll
tell you. So there is Wall Street Journal, the Wall
Street Journal, which is you know, it's a news source,
it's a publication. It's owned by Robert Murdock. To take
that with a granite salt, you know, take that for
what you will, owned by the same people who own
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Fox News for the people who don't know who Robert
Murdoch is. So Sean McClain, who was a previous Trump
administration something or other I don't know, wrote an op
ed that Caitlin Clark's basically this this article. I'll read
you the headline because the headline says pretty much all
you need to know about this. So the headline is
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opinion the w n b A and Caitlin Clark's civil rights.
So immediately wait, can you say that again, Kaitlin Clark's
civil rights.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Caitlin Clark's civil rights. Yes, so this is the first sentence.
What could they possibly.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
If the league won't act, If if the League won't
act to protect its superstar from a hostile work environment
the government should so then he goes on to call
for government government intervention of the apparently the hostile work
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environment that the w NBA has produced for Caitlin Clark,
and it's a danger to her and to her civil rights.
Apparently I'm not really sure what civil rights those are,
but apparently hard fouls is a violation of Kaitlin Clark's
civil rights and he wants the government to step in
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and do something about it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What I don't know, are we being trolled? This is
a Wall Street Journal article.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
This is a Wall Street Journal opinion article. Here's the thing,
and I think this is like the most important note
is are Kaitlyn Clark Like you can sit there and
take all the pieces out of it that you want, right, Like,
is Caitlin Clark? Does she get fouled more than other players?
I mean maybe are her civil rights being violated? No,
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Like those are those are two completely different things. Like
tougher players get fouled more. That is part of sport.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I think Kaitlyn Clark absolutely is targeted. I think that
is the case.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It does not rise to.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Any level where someone I think stars in general are
especially ones that have a little bit of a chip
on their shoulder and talk as much shit as Caitlyn talks.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Become like all.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Right, we'll see you know, yeah, you have Caitlyn Park
a little bit of the business, little hip check, a
little this, little that. Sure, And I do agree that
the league has been tussling with their refereeing, as we've
talked about many times in the puzzling. Yeah, and how
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much are we allowing hard fouls? And Caitlin Clark does
deserve a superstar whistle, that is facts. She currently does
not get a superstar whistle.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Page. I think it's a superstar whistle already, Okay, and
that's probably because we all like Page.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
It's decided on like in a back room somewhere that like.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Let me just tell you this, Yeah, let me just
tell you how this goes on the basketball side.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I don't know how it goes in other sports. But
the more annoying you are to work with, the less
I want to do things to help you. And Caitlyn
Clark literally motherfuck's refs. Whether she's in Jersey.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Or not, she's in street clothes and she's threatening these
refs and like calling them all kinds of crazy names
and talking about.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Their aunties and sisters and cousins.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
She's clapping in their face, She's pointing at them, I'll
see you after the game type shit.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Okay, Cattie, when you have a player talking about catch
me outside, how about that? And I'm a ref. I
am allowing you to get beat the shit out of
the period period period.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah, And that's probably like why she hates them so much.
And then then she says things and then they hate
her more. But Page doesn't do any of that, and
so I think that's what's going on. That's my take
on it.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
But let's go.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Back to this real quick, because does this not does
this off ed not just hurt Caitlin more?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Absolutely? If I see this, I'm like more of this bullshit?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, because you're just like, oh so now the government
is fighting for Kaitlin. Now we have Trump against us
because we foul Kaylin.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Like it.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Just this is just gonna put a bigger target on
her back, That's all it's gonna do. It's just gonna
put a bigger target on her back, and it's gonna
further divide her Maga fan base from the rest of
normal society.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
If I'm her, I would say at the next press conference,
I'm allowed to be in.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I do not need protecting.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
I do not need secret service on the court with me.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Anyone stepping in on my behalf saying that the league
needs to protect me.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm fine. This is basketball. Please stop.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Could you imagine if someone threw a fever game?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I need it. I need it.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
There is not gonna be a team in Boston. It
seems like at least not next year.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It's a weird thing that's going on.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
I got excited. There's been multiple games in multiple years
where the Connecticut Center played at TD Garden, which is
where the Boston Celtics play. There are there were reports
on the first on Saturday, like Friday, that the Connecticut
Sun were being sold to Celtics minority leader or minority
owner excuse me, uh, Steve pag Luca aka Pegs.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
For three hundred and twenty five million dollars right, that's great.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He wants to he has already a connection with the Celtics,
wants to bring the team. Nobody likes the fact that
the Connecticut Sun are in Connecticut. Bullshit places to go.
Mohegan Sun Arena's not great. They don't have a good
practice facility. They're practice practicing in a rec center.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
It's bad. So he's like, we're gonna bring him to Boston.
So that was like very exciting. And then the WNBA
for like.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
A couple hours, for like for like two hours, and
then the WNBA decided to reign all over that parade.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, they were like, no, we're gonna wait until until
they're gonna be an expansion team in twenty thirty three,
so we're gonna need to keep the Connecticut Sun in Connecticut,
which I think is the dumbest fucking decision.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I mean, late for half, I thought it was interesting,
like it seemed like there was like some serious beef
between the WNBA and like the city of Boston when
they released this statement, because it was like basically it
was like Boston has not earned their right to have
a team yet, that there are twelve other cities in
line first and they'll get it when we say they
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get it, which I find wild.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, that is really crazy, and we've seen teams move before.
That was like happened when a new ownership group comes in.
What I heard on the QT.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Which I'm bringing to the Costunity.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Is that they want to allow that the WNBA wants
to give this Boston Celtics new owner, which I'm forgetting
his name.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
They want to give him the team.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
So he wants to down the road have an expansion
team that's like literally connected to the Celtics versus this
minority owner who will eventually be selling his shares from
the Celtics because we have we had a new sale, right,
the Celtics just sold to a new guy.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
So Bill Chisholm ended up buying the team instead.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Of Pegs, and now Pegs is salty, wants to buy
the Connecticut son and have them play in Boston at
the Boston TV Guard Arena, which were probably still worked
out just fine.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
And the WNBA is like, hey, we want.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
To give the team to Chisholm in twenty thirty three
when he's ready to expand.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
They said no. They said no. So now and a
third of another investment group has been reportedly bit three
hundred million to keep the team in Hartford. Let's go
into some soccer. So we had two big moments really
in soccer this week. Biggest though for me, Trinity Rodman
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is officially back. She is officially back.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
You don't sound ver excited about it. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I'm not excited to be dealing with your attitude.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
You. This is Trinity Rodman on your team, the Washington Spirit.
She's been out for like four hundred consecutive days.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I'm very excited. I am excited about it. Yeah, I'm
very excited about it. I'm very excited to see her
back in form. She looked like Trinity. I mean she
was doing her spin. She was doing her I mean
she was she was on top of the ball. She
even had a couple of good defensive moments where she
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cleared it out of the other side. But the highlight
of it was her game winner.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Heartbreaking. Oh that's right, I forget.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
It was exciting and lovely, and I was happy it
was her. But as a Portland life, long Portland Thorn fan.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Lifelong and my lifelong, she means that. About the sixtieth
minute of the game yesterday, she texted me and said,
I think I'm rooting for Portland.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I let the flow of the emotions come inside.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
You waited until ten minutes before Trinity came in the
game to make that decision, and you're supposed to act
like your heart broken that she came in and beat
your team.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I am happy that she came in.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I we've been tracking her, We've been hoping that she
would come back. Part of us wondered whether she would
even come back this season. She's got some decisions to
make when the season is over.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
So it was like the coach got fired. There's a
lot there.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
So the fact that she came back looking good and
then like you were saying, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
No she I mean she she scored, right, I mean
it was.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
It was a first score all season.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Is her first score in a year? Yes, she hasn't scored.
She hasn't scored in a year. I mean, so we
see the cross from Croy Trinity puts it almost through
the back of the net and immediately buckles and starts
crying like it was it was immediate, and the team
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the way that they surrounded her and were holding her,
and then she's kind of like in disbelief. She's smiling.
Washington wins, and then immediately after the game they do
an interview with her and she just starts sobbing, And
I think that that moment really showed to me just
how bad her injury must have been.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, and like you've been through very severe injuries before you, Sarah,
I've been through severe injuries. I've never been through an
injury that affected my ability to do the thing.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Then was my.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Compat additive sport right, Like you were very high level
in equestrian, she's obviously very high level in soccer. I
never had an injury that kept me out when I
was playing meaningful basketball. Never, right, So it's to me,
it's like, I think more about the mental side of
coming back from the injury and how back injuries are
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so tough, and she's been dealing with it for so long.
Part of us were wondering is she going to play
soccer again?
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Is this it? And that's what that thought went through
her head too.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. The emotion, the immediate
flood of emotion told me that at least at one
point over the last year, Trinity has thought to herself,
I may never play again, I may never score again,
I may never be with this team again. And I
think that seeing that emotion and seeing her have that win.
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You said, I think this means she won't leave Washington,
and I hope you're right.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
I think when she talked about how her team was
surrounding her and how she was like, all I wanted
to do was get back with these guys. When you
see how fun this Spirit team is, there's such a
funny how many ballers there are, just so many ballers.
Gift Monday was the best player on the field of
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for the first half Kroy, Butthune was just making move
after She was just in the mix. And you know,
Croy and her hadn't played together all season, so this
was their first game back together and.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
They've played together, They've barely played together at all.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yeah, So I think the sobbing it was more about, yes,
the journey as a whole, but also when you're that
tied to a team and you and you still haven't
really fulfilled everything that you want to do there there's
a lot of unfinished business due to injury. And her
mom lives there. We met her mom at a Washington
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Wizard's game.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Her brother lives there. Her mom lives like kind of
near your mom, Sarah.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, they're not far. I saw the first time I
met Trinity was at a home goods out out.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
In Area, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
So I think if i'm her, maybe she does play
in Europe at some point but I think she runs
this thing back and comes back to Washington.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
I hope so, because I really do think that the
NWSL needs a Trinity Rodman. I think they do. I
think they need.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
If she leaves it, I think you the league is gutted.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
I think I worry.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
I worry about the league turning into the MLS.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yeah, we were talking about this.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
You know, Sophia Smith Wilson being out, Mouse Swanson out
for this year, both to to not injury, but just
having kids, and like just there's other players who we
know in our house. Names are starting to get a
little bit more long of the tooth. They're not producing
the same way. And yes, we have Alyssa who plays
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for Angel City and some others, but we have so
many stars going overseas.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I don't think we can take another.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
No, I mean we have. If you look at, like,
you know, the top ten players in the world right now,
right there's three in the top twenty. Two of those
are mal and so that's insane. So and a third
one is Trinity. So you have Barbara Banda that plays
in the US. That's great, but she's also not an
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American and that does not keep people home. You know,
great that she's in the league. You have other Americans.
You have Marshalist, but who's also not American. But she's
also thirty nine, and we're gonna talk about that in
a second. She's thirty nine, and we keep saying she
hasn't run out of gas yet, but she will. Eventually
she will and that's just a matter of time. But
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you have all of these players right now that are
so good, that are Americans that are going and they're
leaving and they're going to the UK. And I worry
that the US will the NWSL if they continue to
not make the deals and they continue to not pay
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players and keep them and fight to keep them in
the States, that you're going to see more of these
Naomi Gurma transfers. And you know, all of a sudden,
the best players in the world are not playing in
the US, and we're the MLS, and we become the
home where you know, players people are on the quarter
last quarter of their career come to retire and get
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brand deals, and I just don't I just hope that
doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
I agree, Marta.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
We were just talking about her. Copa America happened Columbia
versus Brazil and the finals Copa America Finals Columbia versus Brazil.
There's a lot of speaking of WUSL talent. There's a
time on WSL talent. In that game, Marta in the
ninety sixth minute, in the sixth minute of extra time,
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scores three to two Columbia, and I mean they're literally
down to their last minute available. Marta puts it in
the back of the net, sends it to extra time.
It was the most Marta goal. It was. It was
a goal only Marta could score. Really is kind of
what it felt like.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Yeah, I it was absolutely remarkable. I was in the
middle of doing something else, saw the goal on social
and immediately sat my ass down and watched the rest
of the game. That's that's the type of player that
Martha is, is how far she was out to make
that goal with that much the way outside the box,
just way outside the box, like had no fucking chance, no,
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And it was just it was just lock it in
gun like a rocket and you're like, oh man, And
then she does it again, extra does it.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
Again an extra time and Lacy Santos, Washington's spirit player. Uh,
she ended up equalizing it and sending it to pks.
But I mean Marta single handedly put the country of
Brazil on her back and carried them to that to
that PK.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
The only thing that would have made it sweeter is
if Marta would have made her penalty kick to.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
End end the match.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
That was the only thing that took it from being
supremely storybook. She ended up getting the award for Best
Player in the tournament at thirty nine, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
She wasn't even supposed to be in this tournament. We
have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Remember we talking about this, Remember she was why, yeah,
what she had retired from international play and then oh,
she's gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
She's gonna come back for COPA.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
But really, is it gonna be like a like a
coach player situation, Like she's there as a mess. She
is there really for Brazil because the World Cup's gonna
be in Brazil, and so she's she really wants to
like almost be the brand identity of this team where
we don't really know anyone.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
It's like no, no, she comes in and she's a
fucking game changer.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
She'd say she wins, she wins the game for them.
I mean, she doesn't single handedly win the game for them,
but if without her, there is not a shot in
hell that they would have won that game.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
So, I mean, we were talking about this and you asked,
is Marta the undisputed goat? And I think it's a
really hard question to disagree with. I don't know how
you would disagree with the fact that MARTA's the goat.
I think she has to be the goat.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Yeah, I think she's my goat. I think she's the
best woman's player we've ever seen with our own two eyes.
I mean, I think I think you said she's like
the Pele. She's like the Pele, but also the lebron James.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
Here's the thing. I was having this conversation with Sam
and because I asked her, because you know, she's the
soccer expert, and I said, would you say that Marta
is the undisputed goat? And she said, yeah, I I
do would say that. She said, I think that there
are gonna be people in different countries who have their
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own version of a goat, right like in Canada, Christine
Sinclair is probably the goat. In the United States, I
think there's an argument for me A Ham, for Abby Wambach,
you know, in terms of like who influenced the most
girls to pick up soccer and time though no, well,
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I mean, even if you look at it in terms
of like international goals, Christine Sinclair leads.
Speaker 2 (53:46):
I mean, abb that's the that's the goat. Is consistent.
Holy shit, er, that's really it, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
At her peak that like almost no one else can
do for longer and more consistent.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
I think in terms of consistency, I think in terms
of style. I think in terms of style, I think
Marta probably really changed the NWSL around in a lot
of ways in terms of like convincing people that this
is the league, you know. So, I think that there's
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a lot of things that Marta has done in terms
like that you cannot take away from her. And I
think that, but what she is missing is this has
always been the argument Marta doesn't have a World Cup title.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
She's gonna get one.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
I think she could think in Brazil, they're gonna make
that draws as good as it could be for Brazil.
I think it's setting up for Brazil to be right there.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
I mean, it would be pretty exciting for a forty
two year old Marta to go out once and for
all forty the World Cup in her home country, what she'd.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Be forty two or forty one.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
She's thirty nine. Next World Cup is twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
Oh yeah, so that's two years to forty one.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
It would be awfully cool to see it happen for her.
I also, but I also like caution the narrative that
like if it doesn't that she can't be the goat.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
I agree. I agree with that. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (55:24):
I don't think it really matters what you see from
her if you watch the NWSL.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Like I said, she was.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
The first player that like I watched My first match
I ever watched was an Orlando Pride game and I
was like, oh man, who is that right? And she
all you need is like thirty seconds of her and
you're hooked. Not to say that that's what makes you
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the goat, but that's what she continues to do.
Speaker 3 (55:55):
I mean, she's a sixth time FIFA Player of the Year.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
That's crazy. That's six times.
Speaker 3 (56:01):
That's like, like you said, that's like, let's Lebron James level.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
That's and she's thirty nine doing this. That's what I
mean by Lebron.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Lebron is doing crazy things at an age he should
not do them at It is way more impressive for
a woman to have her body not break down at
thirty nine thirty. Menopause is coming and acl tears are coming,
all these hormonal changes, and you are still that bitch.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
She's still that one.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
She's still that bitch.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
Anyway, that was a great show, Sarah. I hope you
didn't mind me giving you a hard time. But that's
how it is everywhere.
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Sometimes think it's annoying.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
Yeah, but you'll get over you always do. Find yourself
some pringles and call it a day.
Speaker 3 (56:48):
They don't have my pringles at the store, and I'm
really upset about it.
Speaker 2 (56:52):
I get it all dressed.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
Springles need to come to the United States. If we
could get a sponsor for that, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (56:57):
That's all the time that we have for let her shoot.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
We will be back next Tuesday with more drama, more tea, uh,
more breakdowns. There's a lot of excitement happening in the
NWSL and now that we're back from international break, a
lot of things to watch. It's a very top heavy league.
But Kansas City's coming, Sarah to Portland, so I think
I'm gonna go to that game in a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (57:19):
You should be ah.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
By the way trade.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
First first round pick rich rich get Richer. So we'll
see you next week. Sarah, did you have a good
time yesterday?
Speaker 3 (57:35):
I did? What if I said no, would.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
Be a great time to close. That's fine, fine time close.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
Also question for the chat in the costunity. What more
stuff do you want us to talk about? If you
have a mail bag.
Speaker 2 (57:45):
Or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (57:47):
Questions, send them to us on YouTube and we'll try
to answer them at the end of the show.
Speaker 3 (57:52):
YouTube, Instagram, whatever, Send us your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
All right, Sarah three two one. I'm a hot girl.
Speaker 3 (58:03):
I'm a hot girl. I get anything I'm want.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
This is my world. I make big moves in my
big us. Since I day you think I was born,
I've been a biglill
Yeah, Sam, I don't know if somebody told me that
they like right as their five four three two one
ning on Riverside, that they do something to like get
everybody loose, and that was like my attempt to get
you loose.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Pause.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I really, at what point do you think? How many
episodes in do you think before you lose that joke?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Never?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Oh, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I don't believe in a one time joke.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I know you're at the dead horse.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm I'm my mother's I'm my mother's daughter. You know.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
She always says, beat the horse until it's dead, and
then beat it some more and then it'll be funny again.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
That's see, that's not my method of comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You don't have one. It's I'm a hotter. I'm a hotter.
I get anything out wrong. This is my world. I
make big moves in my big house. Since the day
there that was too.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So this is a question that I asked Sam last night,
all right, and it was inspired by my Spotify listening
and I said, I also had an edible and I
came listening to the show, Now.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We do edibles. I didn't know you did edibles.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, I had run out of of the other stuff,
of the other stuff of the Penjamin. So I had
to left you left that halftime to go to the
weed story. Okay, sorry, this was the night before then,
so can you just go with the timeline here? Sorry, sorry,
stop picking it apart. This is part of the story.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
So I was taking a shower and I was listening
to music as one does you know, my my everything shower,
and I was got out of the shower and I
said to Sam, is Chapel roone the greatest vocalist of
our generation, to which Sam said, oh, sorry, but you're
our gent now, and that really went That one's stunk.
(02:02):
But oh, I wanted to ask you that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I think Adele Adele is a is a slightly better
vocalist okay than Chapel, but she's very good. I think
Chapel's more pop culture y. I think she does has
much better.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Arrangements.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Like when you think about Pink Pony Club being acoustic,
at one point she was just doing it outside. They
turned that into the stud Bud's anthem an absolute banger.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I'm gonna keep on this Pink.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I also didn't realize until just this weekend that her
mom has like a big Southern accent and that she's
talking about her mom in her Southern accent.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
What you don't know that?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, I'm confused. How you don't know that from the
lyrics of Pink.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I just didn't.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I just hadn't listened to it that deep, like because
she kind of strings.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
We'll just move on. We'll move on, Okay, Welcome to
Let Her Shoot. The only podcast that makes fun of
one another.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
The co hosts uh covers women's sports the way that
we want them covered. We cover it with no bullshit,
no kid gloves, a lot of comedy, respect for the athletes,
of course, respect for the fans, respect for the people
that throw onto the court and end up in jail,
all the reasons to stay locked in. We got Sarah Chovnik,
two time Emmy Award winning producer here. You can follow
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her on whatever the fuck the ig handle is that.
I'm never gonna remember Chavy score, s Chavy underscore, s
Tristan Criek, zero time Emmy Award winning talent, zero time
Emmy Award nominated talent because they never really nominate talent.
Sarah I did true well, not for these things. That's
(03:58):
how they end up doing the little mischief where they
move things around and they try to put talent as
producers so they can get an Emmy. Yeah, the piece
of content that I basically produced, my South Korean coffee short,
got an Emmy. And guess what, I didn't get the
Emmy even though I fucking created the whole thing from
soup to nights and then somebody shot it and edit
it and they got the Emmy.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Okay, so truth typical talent complaining about there?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Am I typical talent? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
We have a loaded show today. There is drama in
the WNBA. We've got injuries, we've got breakups, we've got benchings,
we've got trades. We have the mean green toy being
thrown at players two times, plus the goat of the
pitch is back scoring game winners.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I'm not talking about trendy Rodman.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I am talking about Marta and that train refuses to
leave the station for good because she keeps retiring and
unretiring and it's like, yo, she should not retire anyway.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Good morning, good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Good evening, good night. It's good. It's not morning for you,
it's one pm. I don't know where I was going
with that. I was going to tell you were going
to tell me I was going to say, you were
going to tell me about you wanted to share the
meaning of tea and where it came from.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yes, so we always get in to start, are.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
No, We always get into the weekly tea before we
do the real stuff. And so I was on TikTok
obviously because I'm such a gen z or you know,
and which the world, Yeah, just a palaeolithic gen z.
And there was this guy that was talking about an
older gay man who put him on like where tea
(05:38):
comes from, which is like a part of gay lore.
And the word information. Yeah, the word information is where
it came from. And when you say the word information,
the T is silent, And so it's like, Hey, I
have the information, but what are you not saying? What
are you not telling me? What in the story is
(05:59):
Missy here that I should know.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I still feel like that probably came from drag queens though,
to be honest, well like culture, I mean, but that's
the way that the origin story is, Like, what are
you not saying?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
What's the t?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The T this week is that Kate Martin is apparently
back on the market.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Kate Martin a sex symbol within the w n B
A you know, I mean, there's just a.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Lot who got Sam Listen, Kate Martin is who got
Sam In to being a basketball fan.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
So I had a call just now about how you
can't cover the m NBA the same way that you
cover the w NBA, and Kate Martin is one of
the reasons why, because fans you don't have men, well
maybe you do, you don't have like, oh I love
I got into the m NBA because I just love
the way that Jokic moves.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know, you don't have that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
You don't have that you have like, oh, I just
got into it through Kate Martin. Now I'm locked into
the Valkyrie. Put your visa bo.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So Kate Martin, we we kind of got a hint
of this because she deleted all the photos of her
girlfriend Claire, off of which is Instagram, which is like
the gen Z way of announcing a breakup. You know,
it's like you delete them completely.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Off your socials and then you follow each other.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So maybe there's like hope of rekindling. I don't know,
we haven't gotten the full block as of yet, but
Kate Martin, from what it looks like.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Block someone that when we break up with them. I've
never done that.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's what gen Z does.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
They block them or they unfollow them.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
They get their friends don't follow them. It's like a
whole big thing, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Okay, got it?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Wildly challenge childish to me, all my friends don't follow
x's of mine?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Do we think that that is why we've seen an
excess of green pat being thrown at Valkyrie's games.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I think you are right in the group chat and
on our call about.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
This being the news bra to the Beatles.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yes, I think are the new bird like send the
bra to Ringo or to Paul McCarthy, right, because we don't.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
See braun is being thrown at a Lakers game. You know,
no one's throwing their their bra Lebron James.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
What I will say is that the person that has
been throwing the green machine, which by the way, shout
out to Sid Colson for just one of the funniest
people I've ever met, so I've never actually I've never
met her.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
One of the funniest people on.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
The internet around the w I've ever seen who pretended
to be the green machine and just like acted out
what the green Machine was feeling and thinking and saying yeah,
great content, by the way.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And then Angel Reese Angel Reese after because the first
one happened, right, the first one happened at a Valkyrie's game.
The second one happened at a Chicago Sky game. So
obviously the mean green is traveling. Which but I think
it's two different people because they said the guy that
got did it at the first game was arrested, so
(09:05):
it's not the same guy that threw it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
To me, maybe it's a syndicate, a green machine syndicate.
Oh my god, what a laco charge on the conspiracy
to put green machines on the court.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Maybe it's like the Washington state flag that follows around,
you know college game day that you see, yes, at
every college game day game, it's like that, but it's
a green it's the green machine at every Valkyrie game.
The players, I think they thought it was funny at first.
I don't think they think it's funny now.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, and then you can kind of tell who is
uptight and who's not. You saw Sophie Cunningham, someone is
gonna get hurt, being like, we need to stop this.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Someone's getting hurt.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Someone's going I think I think she was.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I don't think she was making it.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
And Sid Colson made a smirky emoji after that, and
Sid's like, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And so the first thing got put in jail.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
And my question, and I said this today on social
if it wasn't ad.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Would they get put in jail? Though? If it was
any other item?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Oh, if they threw I mean it is rubber.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Yeah, but that was rubber, like if it was if
it was something the same material, but not if it
was like a rubber truck, yeah, or like something with
soft edges.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Rubber trucks have sharp edged.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Like someone just like a ball on the ground, harder
little bouncy.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Ball and yeah, like a bouncy ball.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
We threw a bouncy ball onto the court, which I
think is way more dangerous than a build.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I mean, I don't feel like you're tripping and falling
over a green.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
No, you see it right there, And if you are.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Then I'm sorry, But that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And that there was a camo colored then maybe I
would have a little more empathy.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
The thing is lime greens camo, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, anyway, And I think people need to take it
less seriously than they're taking it.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It's it's like it's all fun in games.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Honestly, maybe if you want Kate Martin slide into her
DMS and don't throw.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I still think about this.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
So we had Paige Nielsen on the pod a couple
of weeks ago, last week, whatever it was, Time's just
flying and I can't help but to continue to think
about the fact that her wife, a civilian, slid into
her DMS and it worked and they are now married.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I just think about it. I'm like, what, that's a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
What have you ever slid into an athlete's DMS.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Mmm, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Maybe I feel like, if you have to think about it,
the answer is probably yes.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I think if I have to think about it, the
answer is probably.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No, no, because, like I know for a fact that
I have not ever slid into the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I comment on things in message form, but is that
me being like, hey, I'm shooting my shot. I've never
been like, hey I'm shooting my shot.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Okay, fair enough, fair enough?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
So you shot with somebody it would be like more memorable.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yeah, fair enough. Satu is out indefinitely. We found out today.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Satoo Sabally the bell of the ball of the off season.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Former Dallas Wings player who moved on quite spicily from
the Dallas Wings, which we now understand. Yeah, we now
understand that Dallas and we'll talk about this a little
later is a dumpster fire from tom to bottom in
their organization.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So she moves on.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
She goes to Phoenix, which we thought was going to
be this phenomenal situation for her. She's paired with Ilica Thomas.
Another beast from the Connecticut Sun comes over. They are
building a quote unquote superteam. They move on from Djna.
Djene goes to Dallas and then Alissa Thomas's wife, do
Wanna Bonner gets picked up on this team, so only
(13:07):
team do Wanna will go to right and now Sattoo.
Her production has declined severely. She was getting like twenty
five to thirty minutes a game. She's an All Star,
didn't play in the All Star Game due to injury,
but having an All Star type year.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Do Wanna Bonner comes and the.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Head coach is like, hey, we don't have enough room
for all these bigs to play all at the same time,
and do Wanna is changing the complexion of our offense.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
YadA YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Satoo's production just plumps, her minutes decline, and now she
oh and then she was benched in the second half
of last game that she played in. He says the
head coach, she's not bringing the energy. And now she's
out indefinitely for personal reasons.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And they are rumoring.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
The rumors on the streets are saying it's because she
doesn't like to play with do Wanna Bonner?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Who are the streets though in this case.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Like who are the fans, the internet.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Streets, the sand streets? Do we think? Like, because remember
this was the whole like do Wanna Bonner wanted out
of Fever of the Fever too because she didn't like Kaitlyn, Like,
I feel like there's like people that's actually.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Yeahcuse me, that's actually true. So I know that. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I spoke with someone who is on the m NBA
side of the Indiana Pacers and so they are they
are hand in glove with the Fever, and I said, oh, yeah,
something about do wanna going to Phoenix uh to you know,
come back home be with the family.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah. I'm not making any allegations.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'm just like I'm expecting the best, do Wanna and
Alyssa And he's like, oh no, no, she didn't like
playing with Kaitlyn. So what he goes, Yeah, she didn't
like playing with Kaitlyn, and I go, well, I get it.
She's Caitlyn's a helios centric type player, meaning the whole
offense revolves around what she wants to do. She takes
time to gel with her and what her passes are like.
(15:08):
And he's like, yeah, no, she it wasn't a personal thing,
but she did not like playing with Caitlin Clark period.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So sometimes the most obvious explanation is probably the right
on the correct one.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
What's that call again? Oukham's razor, Oukham's razor? Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Little quiz.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I hate quiz time, but it's good when I know it.
So yeah, she's out, And definitely this.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Is not good. No, it's not good. It definitely isn't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
We don't have she could be traded at any moment,
which we'll talk about about another player a little bit
later on the show. But trade deadline is approaching, and
if Satoo gets traded to a contender or to a team,
that's like, right there, I don't I mean, she's a
game changer.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't know if she's.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Really still injured or whether that's why her energy hasn't
been there. But she's in Madala with a lot the
CBA negotiations her being out all star, new player, being integrated,
but leaving the team unless you really have something going
on in your personal life.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
This is what we saw with Dwana Bonner before she.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Asked you where do you think she would fit the best?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Somebody wrote online which I thought was very funny, and
they said, hey, Satu, Minnesota is great this time of year.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The Lynks can't possibly add another superstar, could they?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I don't know. I mean, I know, I'm not a
cap expert. I don't know what that trade would have
to look like. But they're pretty damn stacked as they
already are. I think a team like like like a
Valkyries could use her, a team like that, that sort
of a team. I think you don't want to send
her to Connecticut. That'd be a bad spot for her.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
About the Aces send her?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, the Aces would be good. The Wings. Actually, she
could be used on the Dallas.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
There's no way should go back to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
But that would be well, she's got Paige. Now, I
don't know, but it's not good. I'm just gonna say
it's sent. I may I called you immediately. I say, oh, Sarah,
we got some tea silent te.
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Speaker 3 (17:43):
Moving on to some big WNBA news. The trade deadline
is a week away. We're just talking about that. This wassatu?
Are they gonna beat the trade deadline? Where could she
be used? You mentioned Dallas? Well, djn A Carrington is
now out of Dallas as of last week. They moved
to Melissa Smith, her girlfriend out two weeks ago, and
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now Djna's out too. The Dallas Wings traded her to
the Links. They received third year forward diamond miller Carly Samuelson,
who is I believe out right agent, and then also
Minnesota's second round pick of next year's draft, and then
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they had You're right, twenty twenty SEVENS Draft, and then
in order to complete that trade, they also had to
wave Tierra McCowan. The Wings did, so it feels like
they gave up a lot without getting a lot in return.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
The Wings you're saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, here's the thing.
This is huge. This is huge.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Because you got the Minnesota Links, a team who are
have the shortest odds to win the title, have the
best record in the WNBA, only lost one game at
home with the MVP, who won Defensive Player of the
Year last year, multiple guards on the Wings that you
love with the stud Buds, and you pick up Djna Carrington,
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who is most improved player last year and has an
absolute tenacity defensively to strap players.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Like Sabrina, which is that I think in.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
My mind what they were doing. We're prepping for the finals.
The Liberty go out and get who we thought we
were gonna get, which was Emma Misiman, and now we
decide to make our own big balls move.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Djna is a big balls move.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Djna's a free agent after this year, so from the Dallas.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
And Dallas was not going to resign her.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Dallas had no probably reason to resign her. Things have
not gone well, and Nylyssa's gone. There's really no reason
for her to stay other than the fact that she
and Page are so close. So maybe, if you want
to be nice to Dallas, you say, well, maybe they
think that they can get Diamond Miller and keep her,
and they don't care about Carly because Carly is a
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free agent.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
She's out for the year. And then they get a
se second round pick, and but you have to and
you wave Tierra.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
McCowan who's getting paid two hundred thousand dollars and has
been injured and not very good.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But so for me, for the Links, this is like
a really huge move for them as a title contender.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Do you think that this is the official tanking beginning?
I mean, are we seeing this now? Is clearing off
the racks in Dallas just making room Forrazy.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I feel like it has to be. I feel like
it has to be. I don't know what the fuck
Dallas is.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Thinking or doing, and they might stumble in to getting
a great pick in asy Fudd.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
They were winning way too many games.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
We have Chinese basketball accounts logging how many minutes Lee
Yuru is getting and what their record is with her
averaging more than fifteen minutes a game and less than
fifteen minutes a game.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
They're they're a like a disaster.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And I think that it has to either be reckless
incompetence or it has to be intentional, and maybe both,
maybe both.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Manbun has to be gone after this season, right.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Cannot stay.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
And honestly, the leader of the pack, Kurt Miller, who
hired man Bun and is like besties with the man
Bun has to go too.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
It has to go.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And and Dha, by the way, was questioning Chris Cocklaan's
man Bun and his decision making on social media and.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Really has been kind of iced out ever since. To
would agree.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So now Page is an orphan, She's got nobody on
her side but the rookies and Lee Yuru. It's it's
Jj Quinnerley, it's Azaiah James, it's her, it's Lee. And
so if I'm if I'm Dallas, what I'm thinking, this
is a smart person's thoughts, So it's.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Probably not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I would be loading up to get Lauren Betts and
asy Foot. Let's trade a future first, and let's get
Lauren Betts as our center and take and yeah, and
let's let's get the top two picks or three. You
could get Asy at three, Olivia Miles might go to
So that's a possible way.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, but you're taking a risk there. I mean, I
guess you'd be happy still, right if you got Lauren
Bett's and you got very good Yeah, No, that's what
I'm saying. You would be happy. But I feel like
you get two of the first three picks and you
don't come home with Asy for Page, I feel like that's.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Not it's a tough one. You might even take Asy first.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And there's a lot of people though, there's a lot
of people who don't want a z to go to Dallas.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Most people I think are dumb.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Well no, I mean like fans of ass that, fans
of Page and as that don't want her because they
want her to be in a better situation than Alice.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, but I think that that makes it a better
situation rights.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
As long as management is different.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah, man Bun will have to go.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
But if Page is suffering with man Bun, then at
least let's get her another two way wing that can
shoot the lights out from three and Arike is a
free agent after this year as well.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I wouldn't be shocked if Erik.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Got traded as well, for like, yeah, maybe maybe you
trade Arike somewhere and you try to get a draft
pick out of that, and you know you're not getting
any players of note, just based on what I think
Dallas's perspective is right now.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well, Dallas is the Mount Rushmore of horrific team owners.
So I guess we'll see what happens. But on you know,
we're talking about the links. Speaking of the Links, Fee
went down with an ankle injury. Up forty points, fifty points,
up fifty points. I'm sorry, why was she even in
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that game?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I was so upset about it the spring, and it
was like a transition bucket. I think once you're up thirty,
you should probably just sit your stars, sit them. When
you're on time, you definitely sit your story stars.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
When you're up.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Fifty, you call a time out and you put in
the girls.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
They're at the end of the bench.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Becky Hammond already said in her postgame conference, I knew
we weren't gonna win that game, and so we just
let go of the rope and we put other players in.
When you see other players come in that are not
Asia Wilson, like you gotta take your MVP off the floor.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And I know that Cheryl Reeve had other things to say.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
She Cheryl Reeve like doubled down on the decision even
after the injury, to say like, and this always reminds
me of I'm gonna take it to the m sport
real quick. But I remember in his college year, Tua
broke his hip because they were up thirty points and
Saban left him in for like the last down of
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the first half, and everyone was like, why was he in?
And Saban went up on the press like he afterwards,
and he has said many times since, like, I made
the wrong decision lead him in that game. That was
my decision. I should have taken him out. It was
my responsibility. We were up thirty points, there's no reason
for him to play. It feels crazy to me that
your star gets injured and then you double down on
the decision to leave her in the game after after
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a fifty point lead, just say, you know what, in hindsight,
I should have taken her out of the game. There
was no reason for her to be there.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And that's why I don't like Ryl Reeves. It's one
of the reasons that I'm not a huge like.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I think she's a fine coach. She don't really like
her personally. I don't know her.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Sure she's fine, Sure she's lovely. I just don't like
that that type of move.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
She said, I don't think the game was over.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean, that's insane. You're up fifty, you have fifty
freaking points. They have forty two points, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Think the game is over.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Come on, come on, are you watching the game?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Are you at the game? The game was over.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
The game was over.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Anyway, you know what else is over? Aliah Edwards time
in Washington, it's over, it seems.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh my god, I'm so bummed. This girl.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Aliah got taken sixth overall last last w NBA Draft,
sixth overall. She was fucking electric in unrivaled, a one
on one monster beat. Breonna Stewart went on, one has
post moves, has the ability to do all this good
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quality basketball stuff. She was a franchise pillar and then
the the Bombshells came on the.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Bench. Bombshells entered the.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Villa Sarah, and they were quick to just discard her.
She had some injuries and That's essentially why she didn't
play right away. But now Kiki Kiki comes in like Iris,
and all of a sudden, Aliah Edwards, who's Hannah in
this perspective, is just out inexplicably. So I don't get it.
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I really don't get it. Her minutes are down. I
think Kiki Riafin has outplayed her, and now they don't
have really a spot for Aliah. I guess why do
you even draft Kiki. It is important to note that
this is a totally new front office that did not
draft Aliah Edwards, and so they are going to value
the players that they drafted over her.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I'm trying to look up her actual minutes here.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
She played ten minutes in three minutes against Atlanta and
then she got injured, ten minutes against LA fourteen minutes.
She's averaging.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Thirteen minutes per game, and last year she averaged twenty
two minutes a game. That's a thirty significant decrease.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
You know, I feel like you usually see like one
good rookie, you know, per team per year, right, that
is like the standout rookie. But to have two that
have come and really taken over this team and you
still have Georgia on Moore to come in. You know
Georgia Ward.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Well, Georgia A.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Moore has and Sonya Sitchron have nothing to do with
Alia Edwards.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
They don't play the same position.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
But Lucy Olsen and Sonia you talk about like just
you ask the question in terms of like rookies don't usually.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Hit, and they have three rookies they have hit.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And I know that that Lucy isn't crazy production wise
three point six points per game, one rebound, but she's
getting given you thirteen thirteen to seventeen minutes a game
and just being the stable for shooting forty percent from
the field getting you a three or two per game.
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Like I really think that Washington needs as crazy as
this Alia Edwards stuff is Washington needs some flowers in
terms of their drafting because you never see three which
probably would have been four rookies pop with Georgia was healthy.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Imagine Georgia was healthy.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And they need some guard play outside of Sonya. Their
their point guard play is really just not good at all.
It's it's not good. So yeah, I'm sad about Aliyah.
I don't know where she's gonna go. I don't It's
very weird.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's very niche too.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I feel like there's not a lot of people talking
about it. None of the WNBA shows are talking about it.
And play Yeah, she didn't play last game against the
Dream And the only thing that really makes sense is
that they're getting ready to ship her out.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
I mean, over a month ago there were reports that
came out that they were trying to shop her around,
but it seems like no, there's been no movement in
the last month. Do you think they're unable to get
a home for her? Do you think that they're on
able to get the deal that they think they deserve
for her.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
I think they probably think she's worth a lot. She's
a six overall pick in twenty twenty four. I would
feel like she would be worth a lot as well.
So we'll have to monitor that situation.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Won't keep monitoring it. What does Dallas have to give though?
At this point.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
That's a great question.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I don't know picks picks, but I wouldn't give a
pickup for it's a tough situation.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It's it's tough. Another thing we're keeping an eye on
is Indiana. The Fever are on a hot streak right now.
They're five they've won the last five in a row.
No Caitlin Clark. What does this team look like without
Caitlin Clark? I mean they've won five in a row.
Is that a fluke?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (30:50):
The chemistry is good? What's going on over there?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Number one, you did?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
You did you end up watching the Fever Storm game
that we were agreeing?
Speaker 3 (30:58):
I watched. I want Whi's the last quarter?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
What did you see in that last quarter?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Well? I saw the storm storm back.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I like that. I like that way that you put
it storm bad.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
You like that?
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
The thing that you're seeing is our girl, friend of literal,
friend of pod.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Aery McDonald is fucking that girl.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Really, she is the reason that they have gelled. They
needed another guard go along with Kelsey Mitchell. They had
her on a hardship, they let her go, then they
brought her back. Now she's there full time. She's getting
her masters at the same time, and she's steadying the ship.
She's had a couple of really good games. I want
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to say she had twenty seven the other night. She had, Yeah,
twenty seven against the Mercury and four assists, just an
insanely productive night for her.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
She's only averaging ten points per game, but she's playing.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Thirty plus minutes per night, and she's making it easy
for Kelsey Mitchell to get open.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
She's getting the ball, you know, in an.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Efficient way to Aliah Boston, and Aliah Boston's just continuing
her double double streak. So I think it really is
because of Airy and what she's done in transition, what
she's done as like a pure point guard, and she's
my height, she's actually probably a little smaller than me,
so for her to be really the connective tissue on
this team is super impressive. They've beaten the Mercury already
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in this five game win streak, and they're seven No,
they're eight and two in their last ten, and the
only two games that they lost we both against the Liberty.
They beat the Aces, they beat the Wings, and then
they just beat the Storm on the road. So I
think it's impressive. A lot of fans are basically putting
a lot of dirt on Kaitlin Clark's name right now,
which will not be respected, will not be allowed.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
No, no, no, not doing that.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
No, we're not doing that. No, we're not doing that
for sure. Speaking of though, did you read this or
did you read any of this article I sent you
from the.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
I did not. I had some row Bible shit. I'm
not into it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
It's no, no, no, you could just tell me. I'll
tell you. So there is Wall Street Journal, the Wall
Street Journal, which is you know, it's a news source,
it's a publication. It's owned by Robert Murdock. To take
that with a granite salt, you know, take that for
what you will, owned by the same people who own
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Fox News for the people who don't know who Robert
Murdoch is. So Sean McClain, who was a previous Trump
administration something or other I don't know, wrote an op
ed that Caitlin Clark's basically this this article. I'll read
you the headline because the headline says pretty much all
you need to know about this. So the headline is
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opinion the w n b A and Caitlin Clark's civil rights.
So immediately wait, can you say that again, Kaitlin Clark's
civil rights.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Caitlin Clark's civil rights. Yes, so this is the first sentence.
What could they possibly.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
If the league won't act, If if the League won't
act to protect its superstar from a hostile work environment
the government should so then he goes on to call
for government government intervention of the apparently the hostile work
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environment that the w NBA has produced for Caitlin Clark,
and it's a danger to her and to her civil rights.
Apparently I'm not really sure what civil rights those are,
but apparently hard fouls is a violation of Kaitlin Clark's
civil rights and he wants the government to step in
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and do something about it.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What I don't know, are we being trolled? This is
a Wall Street Journal article.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
This is a Wall Street Journal opinion article. Here's the thing,
and I think this is like the most important note
is are Kaitlyn Clark Like you can sit there and
take all the pieces out of it that you want, right, Like,
is Caitlin Clark? Does she get fouled more than other players?
I mean maybe are her civil rights being violated? No,
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Like those are those are two completely different things. Like
tougher players get fouled more. That is part of sport.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I think Kaitlyn Clark absolutely is targeted. I think that
is the case.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
It does not rise to.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Any level where someone I think stars in general are
especially ones that have a little bit of a chip
on their shoulder and talk as much shit as Caitlyn talks.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Become like all.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Right, we'll see you know, yeah, you have Caitlyn Park
a little bit of the business, little hip check, a
little this, little that. Sure, And I do agree that
the league has been tussling with their refereeing, as we've
talked about many times in the puzzling. Yeah, and how
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much are we allowing hard fouls? And Caitlin Clark does
deserve a superstar whistle, that is facts. She currently does
not get a superstar whistle.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Page. I think it's a superstar whistle already, Okay, and
that's probably because we all like Page.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
It's decided on like in a back room somewhere that like.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Let me just tell you this, Yeah, let me just
tell you how this goes on the basketball side.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I don't know how it goes in other sports. But
the more annoying you are to work with, the less
I want to do things to help you. And Caitlyn
Clark literally motherfuck's refs. Whether she's in Jersey.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Or not, she's in street clothes and she's threatening these
refs and like calling them all kinds of crazy names
and talking about.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Their aunties and sisters and cousins.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
She's clapping in their face, She's pointing at them, I'll
see you after the game type shit.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Okay, Cattie, when you have a player talking about catch
me outside, how about that? And I'm a ref. I
am allowing you to get beat the shit out of
the period period period.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah, And that's probably like why she hates them so much.
And then then she says things and then they hate
her more. But Page doesn't do any of that, and
so I think that's what's going on. That's my take
on it.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
But let's go.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Back to this real quick, because does this not does
this off ed not just hurt Caitlin more?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Absolutely? If I see this, I'm like more of this bullshit?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Yeah, because you're just like, oh so now the government
is fighting for Kaitlin. Now we have Trump against us
because we foul Kaylin.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Like it.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
Just this is just gonna put a bigger target on
her back, That's all it's gonna do. It's just gonna
put a bigger target on her back, and it's gonna
further divide her Maga fan base from the rest of
normal society.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
If I'm her, I would say at the next press conference,
I'm allowed to be in.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I do not need protecting.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
I do not need secret service on the court with me.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Anyone stepping in on my behalf saying that the league
needs to protect me.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm fine. This is basketball. Please stop.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Could you imagine if someone threw a fever game?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I need it. I need it.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
There is not gonna be a team in Boston. It
seems like at least not next year.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
It's a weird thing that's going on.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
So.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
I got excited. There's been multiple games in multiple years
where the Connecticut Center played at TD Garden, which is
where the Boston Celtics play. There are there were reports
on the first on Saturday, like Friday, that the Connecticut
Sun were being sold to Celtics minority leader or minority
owner excuse me, uh, Steve pag Luca aka Pegs.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
For three hundred and twenty five million dollars right, that's great.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
He wants to he has already a connection with the Celtics,
wants to bring the team. Nobody likes the fact that
the Connecticut Sun are in Connecticut. Bullshit places to go.
Mohegan Sun Arena's not great. They don't have a good
practice facility. They're practice practicing in a rec center.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
It's bad. So he's like, we're gonna bring him to Boston.
So that was like very exciting. And then the WNBA
for like.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
A couple hours, for like for like two hours, and
then the WNBA decided to reign all over that parade.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Yeah, they were like, no, we're gonna wait until until
they're gonna be an expansion team in twenty thirty three,
so we're gonna need to keep the Connecticut Sun in Connecticut,
which I think is the dumbest fucking decision.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
I mean, late for half, I thought it was interesting,
like it seemed like there was like some serious beef
between the WNBA and like the city of Boston when
they released this statement, because it was like basically it
was like Boston has not earned their right to have
a team yet, that there are twelve other cities in
line first and they'll get it when we say they
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get it, which I find wild.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, that is really crazy, and we've seen teams move before.
That was like happened when a new ownership group comes in.
What I heard on the QT.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Which I'm bringing to the Costunity.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Is that they want to allow that the WNBA wants
to give this Boston Celtics new owner, which I'm forgetting
his name.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
They want to give him the team.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
So he wants to down the road have an expansion
team that's like literally connected to the Celtics versus this
minority owner who will eventually be selling his shares from
the Celtics because we have we had a new sale, right,
the Celtics just sold to a new guy.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
So Bill Chisholm ended up buying the team instead.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Of Pegs, and now Pegs is salty, wants to buy
the Connecticut son and have them play in Boston at
the Boston TV Guard Arena, which were probably still worked
out just fine.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
And the WNBA is like, hey, we want.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
To give the team to Chisholm in twenty thirty three
when he's ready to expand.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
They said no. They said no. So now and a
third of another investment group has been reportedly bit three
hundred million to keep the team in Hartford. Let's go
into some soccer. So we had two big moments really
in soccer this week. Biggest though for me, Trinity Rodman
(42:04):
is officially back. She is officially back.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
You don't sound ver excited about it. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
I'm not excited to be dealing with your attitude.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
You. This is Trinity Rodman on your team, the Washington Spirit.
She's been out for like four hundred consecutive days.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I'm very excited. I am excited about it. Yeah, I'm
very excited about it. I'm very excited to see her
back in form. She looked like Trinity. I mean she
was doing her spin. She was doing her I mean
she was she was on top of the ball. She
even had a couple of good defensive moments where she
(42:44):
cleared it out of the other side. But the highlight
of it was her game winner.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Heartbreaking. Oh that's right, I forget.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
It was exciting and lovely, and I was happy it
was her. But as a Portland life, long Portland Thorn fan.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Lifelong and my lifelong, she means that. About the sixtieth
minute of the game yesterday, she texted me and said,
I think I'm rooting for Portland.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
I let the flow of the emotions come inside.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
You waited until ten minutes before Trinity came in the
game to make that decision, and you're supposed to act
like your heart broken that she came in and beat
your team.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
I am happy that she came in.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
I we've been tracking her, We've been hoping that she
would come back. Part of us wondered whether she would
even come back this season. She's got some decisions to
make when the season is over.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
So it was like the coach got fired. There's a
lot there.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
So the fact that she came back looking good and
then like you were saying, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
No she I mean she she scored, right, I mean
it was.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
It was a first score all season.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
Is her first score in a year? Yes, she hasn't scored.
She hasn't scored in a year. I mean, so we
see the cross from Croy Trinity puts it almost through
the back of the net and immediately buckles and starts
crying like it was it was immediate, and the team
(44:19):
the way that they surrounded her and were holding her,
and then she's kind of like in disbelief. She's smiling.
Washington wins, and then immediately after the game they do
an interview with her and she just starts sobbing, And
I think that that moment really showed to me just
how bad her injury must have been.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Yeah, and like you've been through very severe injuries before you, Sarah,
I've been through severe injuries. I've never been through an
injury that affected my ability to do the thing.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Then was my.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Compat additive sport right, Like you were very high level
in equestrian, she's obviously very high level in soccer. I
never had an injury that kept me out when I
was playing meaningful basketball. Never, right, So it's to me,
it's like, I think more about the mental side of
coming back from the injury and how back injuries are
(45:22):
so tough, and she's been dealing with it for so long.
Part of us were wondering is she going to play
soccer again?
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Is this it? And that's what that thought went through
her head too.
Speaker 3 (45:35):
Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. The emotion, the immediate
flood of emotion told me that at least at one
point over the last year, Trinity has thought to herself,
I may never play again, I may never score again,
I may never be with this team again. And I
think that seeing that emotion and seeing her have that win.
(45:58):
You said, I think this means she won't leave Washington,
and I hope you're right.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
I think when she talked about how her team was
surrounding her and how she was like, all I wanted
to do was get back with these guys. When you
see how fun this Spirit team is, there's such a
funny how many ballers there are, just so many ballers.
Gift Monday was the best player on the field of
(46:23):
for the first half Kroy, Butthune was just making move
after She was just in the mix. And you know,
Croy and her hadn't played together all season, so this
was their first game back together and.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
They've played together, They've barely played together at all.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yeah, So I think the sobbing it was more about, yes,
the journey as a whole, but also when you're that
tied to a team and you and you still haven't
really fulfilled everything that you want to do there there's
a lot of unfinished business due to injury. And her
mom lives there. We met her mom at a Washington
(47:03):
Wizard's game.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
Her brother lives there. Her mom lives like kind of
near your mom, Sarah.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Yeah, they're not far. I saw the first time I
met Trinity was at a home goods out out.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
In Area, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
So I think if i'm her, maybe she does play
in Europe at some point but I think she runs
this thing back and comes back to Washington.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
I hope so, because I really do think that the
NWSL needs a Trinity Rodman. I think they do. I
think they need.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
If she leaves it, I think you the league is gutted.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
I think I worry.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
I worry about the league turning into the MLS.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yeah, we were talking about this.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
You know, Sophia Smith Wilson being out, Mouse Swanson out
for this year, both to to not injury, but just
having kids, and like just there's other players who we
know in our house. Names are starting to get a
little bit more long of the tooth. They're not producing
the same way. And yes, we have Alyssa who plays
(48:06):
for Angel City and some others, but we have so
many stars going overseas.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I don't think we can take another.
Speaker 3 (48:14):
No, I mean we have. If you look at, like,
you know, the top ten players in the world right now,
right there's three in the top twenty. Two of those
are mal and so that's insane. So and a third
one is Trinity. So you have Barbara Banda that plays
in the US. That's great, but she's also not an
(48:37):
American and that does not keep people home. You know,
great that she's in the league. You have other Americans.
You have Marshalist, but who's also not American. But she's
also thirty nine, and we're gonna talk about that in
a second. She's thirty nine, and we keep saying she
hasn't run out of gas yet, but she will. Eventually
she will and that's just a matter of time. But
(48:58):
you have all of these players right now that are
so good, that are Americans that are going and they're
leaving and they're going to the UK. And I worry
that the US will the NWSL if they continue to
not make the deals and they continue to not pay
(49:19):
players and keep them and fight to keep them in
the States, that you're going to see more of these
Naomi Gurma transfers. And you know, all of a sudden,
the best players in the world are not playing in
the US, and we're the MLS, and we become the
home where you know, players people are on the quarter
last quarter of their career come to retire and get
(49:41):
brand deals, and I just don't I just hope that
doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
I agree, Marta.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
We were just talking about her. Copa America happened Columbia
versus Brazil and the finals Copa America Finals Columbia versus Brazil.
There's a lot of speaking of WUSL talent. There's a
time on WSL talent. In that game, Marta in the
ninety sixth minute, in the sixth minute of extra time,
(50:09):
scores three to two Columbia, and I mean they're literally
down to their last minute available. Marta puts it in
the back of the net, sends it to extra time.
It was the most Marta goal. It was. It was
a goal only Marta could score. Really is kind of
what it felt like.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Yeah, I it was absolutely remarkable. I was in the
middle of doing something else, saw the goal on social
and immediately sat my ass down and watched the rest
of the game. That's that's the type of player that
Martha is, is how far she was out to make
that goal with that much the way outside the box,
just way outside the box, like had no fucking chance, no,
(50:48):
And it was just it was just lock it in
gun like a rocket and you're like, oh man, And
then she does it again, extra does it.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
Again an extra time and Lacy Santos, Washington's spirit player. Uh,
she ended up equalizing it and sending it to pks.
But I mean Marta single handedly put the country of
Brazil on her back and carried them to that to
that PK.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
The only thing that would have made it sweeter is
if Marta would have made her penalty kick to.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
End end the match.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
That was the only thing that took it from being
supremely storybook. She ended up getting the award for Best
Player in the tournament at thirty nine, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (51:36):
She wasn't even supposed to be in this tournament. We
have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Remember we talking about this, Remember she was why, yeah,
what she had retired from international play and then oh,
she's gonna come back.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
She's gonna come back for COPA.
Speaker 1 (51:52):
But really, is it gonna be like a like a
coach player situation, Like she's there as a mess. She
is there really for Brazil because the World Cup's gonna
be in Brazil, and so she's she really wants to
like almost be the brand identity of this team where
we don't really know anyone.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
It's like no, no, she comes in and she's a
fucking game changer.
Speaker 3 (52:14):
She'd say she wins, she wins the game for them.
I mean, she doesn't single handedly win the game for them,
but if without her, there is not a shot in
hell that they would have won that game.
Speaker 1 (52:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
So, I mean, we were talking about this and you asked,
is Marta the undisputed goat? And I think it's a
really hard question to disagree with. I don't know how
you would disagree with the fact that MARTA's the goat.
I think she has to be the goat.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Yeah, I think she's my goat. I think she's the
best woman's player we've ever seen with our own two eyes.
I mean, I think I think you said she's like
the Pele. She's like the Pele, but also the lebron James.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
Here's the thing. I was having this conversation with Sam
and because I asked her, because you know, she's the
soccer expert, and I said, would you say that Marta
is the undisputed goat? And she said, yeah, I I
do would say that. She said, I think that there
are gonna be people in different countries who have their
(53:20):
own version of a goat, right like in Canada, Christine
Sinclair is probably the goat. In the United States, I
think there's an argument for me A Ham, for Abby Wambach,
you know, in terms of like who influenced the most
girls to pick up soccer and time though no, well,
(53:41):
I mean, even if you look at it in terms
of like international goals, Christine Sinclair leads.
Speaker 2 (53:46):
I mean, abb that's the that's the goat. Is consistent.
Holy shit, er, that's really it, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (53:58):
At her peak that like almost no one else can
do for longer and more consistent.
Speaker 3 (54:05):
I think in terms of consistency, I think in terms
of style. I think in terms of style, I think
Marta probably really changed the NWSL around in a lot
of ways in terms of like convincing people that this
is the league, you know. So, I think that there's
(54:25):
a lot of things that Marta has done in terms
like that you cannot take away from her. And I
think that, but what she is missing is this has
always been the argument Marta doesn't have a World Cup title.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
She's gonna get one.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
I think she could think in Brazil, they're gonna make
that draws as good as it could be for Brazil.
I think it's setting up for Brazil to be right there.
Speaker 3 (54:51):
I mean, it would be pretty exciting for a forty
two year old Marta to go out once and for
all forty the World Cup in her home country, what she'd.
Speaker 2 (55:03):
Be forty two or forty one.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
She's thirty nine. Next World Cup is twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
Oh yeah, so that's two years to forty one.
Speaker 3 (55:12):
It would be awfully cool to see it happen for her.
I also, but I also like caution the narrative that
like if it doesn't that she can't be the goat.
Speaker 2 (55:22):
I agree. I agree with that. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (55:24):
I don't think it really matters what you see from
her if you watch the NWSL.
Speaker 2 (55:30):
Like I said, she was.
Speaker 1 (55:32):
The first player that like I watched My first match
I ever watched was an Orlando Pride game and I
was like, oh man, who is that right? And she
all you need is like thirty seconds of her and
you're hooked. Not to say that that's what makes you
(55:52):
the goat, but that's what she continues to do.
Speaker 3 (55:55):
I mean, she's a sixth time FIFA Player of the Year.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
That's crazy. That's six times.
Speaker 3 (56:01):
That's like, like you said, that's like, let's Lebron James level.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
That's and she's thirty nine doing this. That's what I
mean by Lebron.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Lebron is doing crazy things at an age he should
not do them at It is way more impressive for
a woman to have her body not break down at
thirty nine thirty. Menopause is coming and acl tears are coming,
all these hormonal changes, and you are still that bitch.
Speaker 2 (56:33):
She's still that one.
Speaker 3 (56:34):
She's still that bitch.
Speaker 1 (56:35):
Anyway, that was a great show, Sarah. I hope you
didn't mind me giving you a hard time. But that's
how it is everywhere.
Speaker 3 (56:42):
Sometimes think it's annoying.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
Yeah, but you'll get over you always do. Find yourself
some pringles and call it a day.
Speaker 3 (56:48):
They don't have my pringles at the store, and I'm
really upset about it.
Speaker 2 (56:52):
I get it all dressed.
Speaker 3 (56:53):
Springles need to come to the United States. If we
could get a sponsor for that, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (56:57):
That's all the time that we have for let her shoot.
Speaker 1 (57:00):
We will be back next Tuesday with more drama, more tea, uh,
more breakdowns. There's a lot of excitement happening in the
NWSL and now that we're back from international break, a
lot of things to watch. It's a very top heavy league.
But Kansas City's coming, Sarah to Portland, so I think
I'm gonna go to that game in a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (57:19):
You should be ah.
Speaker 1 (57:22):
By the way trade.
Speaker 2 (57:26):
First first round pick rich rich get Richer. So we'll
see you next week. Sarah, did you have a good
time yesterday?
Speaker 3 (57:35):
I did? What if I said no, would.
Speaker 2 (57:37):
Be a great time to close. That's fine, fine time close.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
Also question for the chat in the costunity. What more
stuff do you want us to talk about? If you
have a mail bag.
Speaker 2 (57:45):
Or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (57:47):
Questions, send them to us on YouTube and we'll try
to answer them at the end of the show.
Speaker 3 (57:52):
YouTube, Instagram, whatever, Send us your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (57:57):
All right, Sarah three two one. I'm a hot girl.
Speaker 3 (58:03):
I'm a hot girl. I get anything I'm want.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
This is my world. I make big moves in my
big us. Since I day you think I was born,
I've been a biglill
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