ctxbear said:
Adriacus Peratuun said:
ctxbear said:
Adriacus Peratuun said:
BUVA said:
Why is this even news? When first saw the headline, thought it involved throwing games, not personal vendetta off-court.
If you are the WNBA marketing team, do you emphasize weird opposing player social drama or an All Star game that looked worse than a 3rd Grader pickup game?
Politics and social drama is the WNBA brand.
Actually, what you have described is what the Fox News-owned Outkick Sports would do, and did with this story. Carrington posted it and she shouldn't escape critique for childish online behavior. But it isn't the WNBA that eats that **** up and amplifies it. It's the racist, homophobic followers of Fox "News" and Outkick who want nothing more than for the WNBA to be seen as a joke.
The WNBA bathes deeply in any media coverage…..positive or negative…..in hopes of forcing relevancy.
Neither you nor the WNBA are victims. Your victim mentality is your downfall, not people who disagree with you.
I certainly am not a victim, and I'm not saying that the WNBA doesn't benefit from this sort of story. I'm just saying there's a reason why the most prominent Fox "News" owned Outkick Sports stories about the WNBA focus on culture war issues, and it isn't because they love women's sports and want to see them succeed.
It's because it's fun to say absurd things about an absurd league.
The league wanted to be political so they get politics thrown back at them.
The league wanted to be sexually woke so that wokeness is thrown back at them
The league is racist so racism is thrown back at them
The league claims equality of athletes so that athleticism is challenged and thrown back at them.
MLB embraced the claim of America's pastime until it was thrown back at them
. So what did they do, they juiced the ball, they juiced they players, they deadened the ball, they hid the juicing of players, they sped up the game. The point is, they listened to the accusations and made changes to hopefully improve the product.
Now, some dudes claim to be trans and want to play. Any other time, better players mean a better product. But not this time. The joke of a league is having their absurd political/social stances thrown back at them.
If people want to watch chick ball then have chick ball with a quality product and not political theater/ victimization.
And, before you accuse me of being a hater of women's hoops, know that I had season tickets to WBB for 9 or 10 years.