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The Real Reason Jaylen Brown to Philly, Ohtani’s 300th Home Run, and Congress Targets the WNBA · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: To make sure you hit subscribe and follow us on
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  Speaker 1: So much going on. Seasons change, feelings.
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  Speaker 2: Change, and Boston has changed in a very interesting way.
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  Speaker 2: No longer Jaylen Brown on the roster. They moved into
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  Speaker 2: Philly for Paul George and some picks, a really decent
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  Speaker 2: haul for a team that is focused.
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  Speaker 1: On the future. But the Celtics were.
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  Speaker 2: A great team in the presence, and while that duo
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  Speaker 2: of Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown didn't always flow perfectly,
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  Speaker 2: they did produce a lot of winning. They did produce
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  Speaker 2: a championship and Jalen Brown was the Finals MVP and
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Finals MVP. It's going to be interesting to
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  Speaker 2: see how the Celtics adjusts to not having Jaylen Brown there.
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  Speaker 2: Jason Tatum talked about the whole situation, saying, to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: it's weird.
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  Speaker 1: You play on a team with a guy for nine years.
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  Speaker 2: I was fortunate enough to go to the finals with
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  Speaker 2: him twice, to win a championship and push and push
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  Speaker 2: each other to be the players that we are today.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough, but it just makes you appreciate the moments
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  Speaker 2: and times we had. Obviously, it came to an abrupt ending,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't mean it wasn't super successful, great years
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  Speaker 2: obviously that he gave to the city, into the organization.
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  Speaker 2: There's been a lot to talk about Jalen Brown and
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  Speaker 2: what his personality was like in Boston and rubbing the
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  Speaker 2: organization the wrong way, him not really fitting into what
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  Speaker 2: Boston wants to do. My opinion on organizations that get
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  Speaker 2: too caught up in that.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it usually ends up bad for them. Superstars
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  Speaker 1: are superstars.
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  Speaker 2: And they have their ways about them, and when you
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  Speaker 2: are highly successful at something that you do, you have
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  Speaker 2: your opinion about how you want to do it. Generally,
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  Speaker 2: stars do that, especially when they do it over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over again at the highest level. Now there
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  Speaker 2: are situations where it becomes untenable. But from all accounts,
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Brown is a complete professional, incredibly intelligent. He's obviously
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  Speaker 2: an unbelievable basketball player, and he did everything Boston asked
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  Speaker 2: him to do while also not being the focus of
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  Speaker 2: the team and carrying that.
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  Speaker 1: I find this move by Boston to.
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  Speaker 2: Be I don't want to say, arrogant, but it does
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  Speaker 2: feel like a really big swing. And if you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about building for the future when you are already a
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  Speaker 2: good team, what was.
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  Speaker 1: The purpose of this.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's just it really feels like they bid off
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  Speaker 2: more than they can chew, especially considering what they got
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  Speaker 2: for him.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Brad Stevens said it was about salary cap and future flexibility.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I really buy that.
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  Speaker 2: I think over time, with all of these these really
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  Speaker 2: monster trades, we start to get this story, the real story,
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  Speaker 2: different different sides of the story as there's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more separation and emotions have settled a bit, and
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  Speaker 2: the idea that people are lashing out kind of goes away.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, it seems like there's really only one side
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  Speaker 2: being told, and I'm really interested to find out what
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  Speaker 2: actually went down here. I think for a player like
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Brown, you've got to find a way to see
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  Speaker 2: eye to eye with him. So we'll we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: this ends up working out for the Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is no.
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  Speaker 2: I do think this does raise the level of attention
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  Speaker 2: for the Sixers and what the expectations for the Sixers
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  Speaker 2: will be now as well. So I think both teams
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  Speaker 2: are really in on the hot seat as far as
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  Speaker 2: what this trade means and what both of them will
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  Speaker 2: be expected.
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  Speaker 1: To produce next season.
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  Speaker 2: But I just can't wait to find out what the
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  Speaker 2: real story is here because Jalen Brown is too good
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  Speaker 2: of a player to have been constantly put into those conversations,
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  Speaker 2: and character is just not something that I'm willing to
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  Speaker 2: accept with him. He's a brilliant person and a brilliant
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  Speaker 2: player and has delivered for them time and time again.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the issue with Boston? And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I expect there to be no drop off.
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  Speaker 2: If you're making a move away from a player like this,
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  Speaker 2: you better stay consistent next year. And honestly, the way
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  Speaker 2: that the East is shaping up, I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be the case. So the US is
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  Speaker 2: out of the World Cup and the NFL Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Fame game is still a month away.
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  Speaker 1: Let's check it in on some baseball.
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  Speaker 2: How about I don't know, arguably the best player of
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  Speaker 2: all time, show hey O Tani if you haven't had
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  Speaker 2: a chance to watch him play in person, I highly suggested.
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  Speaker 2: I was at the DOT game the other day and
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  Speaker 2: got to see him. I've gotten to see him play
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  Speaker 2: several times, which is just such a blessing. He's either
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  Speaker 2: throwing past the batter for a strikeout or launching it
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  Speaker 2: deep into the night sky. And on Tuesday he did
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  Speaker 2: the ladder for the three hundredth time in his major
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  Speaker 2: league career. He's the first Japanese player to reach that
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  Speaker 2: number in the fifth fastest player of any nationality to
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  Speaker 2: reach three hundred home runs one hundred and one games.
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  Speaker 2: None of those other four guys, though, were throwing a
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  Speaker 2: single pitch in. Atani has pitched one hundred and fourteen times,
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  Speaker 2: with ninety five of those being ones he hits in
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Just a remarkable player. I mean, arguably.
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  Speaker 2: Is he the best athletes on the planet right now,
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  Speaker 2: He's in the conversation, just unbelievable to watch. This season
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  Speaker 2: is shaping up to be another all timer for him.
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  Speaker 2: Overwhelming favorite to win an NL MVP for a third
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  Speaker 2: straight year and a dark horse candidate to in his
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  Speaker 2: first cy Young Award, only thirty two years old and
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  Speaker 2: just putting up unbelievable numbers and absolute showstopper of a
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  Speaker 2: performer every single night. All right, so this story is remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: So really when it comes to politics and sports social
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  Speaker 2: issues in sports, I always maintain that there's never there
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  Speaker 2: has never been a separation. They have always gone hand
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  Speaker 2: in hand throughout history. Sports have shaped policy, they have
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  Speaker 2: shaped cultural issues, social issues. They have played huge roles
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  Speaker 2: in conversations about equality and movements in freedom, civil rights.
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  Speaker 2: Can go on and on and on, and so when
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  Speaker 2: the whole shut up and dribble thing happened, I found
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  Speaker 2: it to be embarrassingly ignorant because obviously it's based in
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  Speaker 2: no historical facts whatsoever or historical president But it also
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  Speaker 2: was so quickly going to become a mockery because people
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  Speaker 2: from that side of the aisle were inevitably going to
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  Speaker 2: step in it and across that don't miss mix sports
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  Speaker 2: with politics space And here.
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  Speaker 1: We are, so Caitlin Clark.
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  Speaker 2: This echo chamber of conversation and concern about Kaitlin Clark's
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  Speaker 2: safety during WNBA games has reached a new unthinkable height
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  Speaker 2: or low, depending on how you want to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: The US Congress, eleven members of the House of Representatives
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  Speaker 2: signed a strongly worded letter to the WNBA Commissioner, Kathy Engelbert,
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  Speaker 2: and I will share some of those strong words with
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  Speaker 2: the class. Now, Dear Commissioner Engelbert, Kaitlin Clark is transforming
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  Speaker 2: women's sports. She's inspired generation of young girls to participate
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  Speaker 2: in athletics and has become one of the most influential
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  Speaker 2: figures in the history of women's basketball. She unfortunately I'm
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  Speaker 2: skipping some Obviously, what they too often witnesses not simply
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  Speaker 2: aggressive competition, but repeated acts of physical hostility and violence
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  Speaker 2: when fans tune in to watch her play. Clark has
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  Speaker 2: been hip checked, poking the eye, and struck in the
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  Speaker 2: throat during games. These incidents go far beyond routine physical play,
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  Speaker 2: Yet the NBA is officiating have too often failed to
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  Speaker 2: address these unacceptable incidents and hold players accountable. In addition,
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  Speaker 2: concerning reports suggests that many of these SITS acts against
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  Speaker 2: Kaitlyn Clark may be racially motivated.
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  Speaker 1: Kayln Clark is a white woman, if you don't know that.
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  Speaker 2: So it goes on to say, we request answers to
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  Speaker 2: the following questions by July twenty fourth. What is your
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  Speaker 2: review mechanism for physical hostility and violence on the court?
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  Speaker 2: How will you hold players accountable for overly aggressive actions
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  Speaker 2: on the court, including towards Caitlyn Clark. What steps are
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  Speaker 2: you taking to protect WNBA players from online harassment and
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  Speaker 2: off the court threats? So this is signed by eleven
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  Speaker 2: members of Congress. This is obviously made things on the
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  Speaker 2: players an organization in the league more difficult. The FEVER
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  Speaker 2: had to release a statement saying, our organization nor Caitlin
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  Speaker 2: have had any interaction with anyone in this congressional group,
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  Speaker 2: and we are unaware of their letter. We've made a
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  Speaker 2: clear in our public comments in our ongoing dialogue that
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  Speaker 2: with the league about the priority of our player safety.
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  Speaker 2: Our players and our fans know where we stand on
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  Speaker 2: those issues, and we will continue to stick up for
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  Speaker 2: our team and a standard of excellence across the league.
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  Speaker 2: One of the representatives said, I led my colleagues in
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  Speaker 2: demanding accountability from the WNBA commissioner after multiple attacks against
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  Speaker 2: Kaitlyn Clark, a player who is transforming women's sports and
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  Speaker 2: inspiring a new generation of young girls to participate in athletics.
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  Speaker 2: Three of them are Indiana congress people. The rest of
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  Speaker 2: these folks are just you know, wasting tax dollars. Six
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  Speaker 2: of them represent states that don't even have WNBA teams.
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  Speaker 2: Gino Arima spoke about this recently in an interview, and
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  Speaker 2: he said that, you know, what's happening with Kaitlin Clark
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  Speaker 2: is not happening to Paige Becker's, which I can spend
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  Speaker 2: hours breaking down why that's not happening, but he said,
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  Speaker 2: so instead of Kaitlin Clark gets fouled, no bleep, every
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  Speaker 2: first round draft pick gets fouled hard. Not every foul
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  Speaker 2: is a good foul, and not every foule is bad foul.
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  Speaker 2: But there are fouls that are flagrant. That's all they are.
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  Speaker 2: They're not a referendum on America, which is what the
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  Speaker 2: whole whole goddamn thing has become.
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  Speaker 1: A foul is a foul, right, So.
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  Speaker 2: The whole bleepstorm of this is Jesus coming down to
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  Speaker 2: say the WNBA. Now, I hope people listening can differentiate here.
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  Speaker 2: She never stood up and said I'm Jesus and I'm coming.
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  Speaker 2: This is something It is not something created by her,
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  Speaker 2: was created by all the people in America who are
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  Speaker 2: delusional to think that one player who's not Wemby is
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  Speaker 2: going to come and transform the league.
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  Speaker 1: So go read the whole letter yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And look into what Congress could be doing instead of
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  Speaker 2: spending time writing letters to the WNBA, a league which
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  Speaker 2: they couldn't could not have even pretended to care about
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  Speaker 2: before this particular conversation happened. What I find exhausting about
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  Speaker 2: everything that has to do with this story is time
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  Speaker 2: and time again these people.
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  Speaker 1: Step in it. Just hypocrisy is not a big enough
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  Speaker 1: or strong enough word to describe it.
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  Speaker 2: You are spending tax dollars, You are spending time and
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  Speaker 2: energy putting this together on behalf of a woman who
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  Speaker 2: did not ask you to do this. Quite frankly, it's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: It is embarrassing to have Congress people signing a letter
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  Speaker 2: and sending a letter on your behalf to the league
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  Speaker 2: in which you play. For now, do I think Caitlin
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  Speaker 2: Clark should be embarrassed? No, because she had nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with this. The people who support this, the people
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  Speaker 2: who wrote this, the people whose the constituents who these
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  Speaker 2: people in Congress represent, should be furious and embarrassed. This
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  Speaker 2: is a ridiculous thing to do, and once again it
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  Speaker 2: diminishes the competition and the value and the purpose the
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  Speaker 2: professionalism of the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: Does the WNBA need to have better officiating? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Can we please cut it out with the coddling and
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  Speaker 2: the ridiculous notion that Caitlin Clark is being targeted and
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  Speaker 2: attacks on her are racially motivated white people. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to be oppressed so bad, trade places with black people.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: Trade places with black people in if you feel so
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  Speaker 2: oppressed that you can have the audacity to write that
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  Speaker 2: something is racially motivated against a white woman, trade places.
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  Speaker 1: With black people. Let's do it. Enough.
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  Speaker 2: Already enough, this has completely gone off the rails, Congress, Congress.
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  Speaker 2: It's a basketball game. There are hard fouls. Are they
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  Speaker 2: called incorrectly?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Where was Congress when guys were punching each other in
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  Speaker 2: the face in the NBA?
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  Speaker 1: What are we talking about?
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually running out of words to describe how embarrassing,
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  Speaker 2: how ridiculous, how over the top, homsogynistic, how racist, how absurd.
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  Speaker 1: This conversation is. Stop. You want to write in a
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  Speaker 1: letter to the.
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner of the WNBA about what she's doing to protect
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  Speaker 2: the athletes from online harassments.
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  Speaker 1: Alyssa Thomas is getting.
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  Speaker 2: Death threats, death threats, death threats, death threats, death threats
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  Speaker 2: about a foul during a WNBA game. Are you writing
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  Speaker 2: on her behalf? You didn't write a letter on her behalf.
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  Speaker 2: You wrote a letter for Caitlyn Clark. Guys, Caitlin will
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  Speaker 2: be fine. She's a grown woman. She's incredibly talented, she's
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  Speaker 2: very smart, she has a great team around her, she
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  Speaker 2: has a great future. She will be fine. Basketball is
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  Speaker 2: a physical game. Despite what you people on their couch
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  Speaker 2: are talking about, this is a physical game. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: get fat, sometimes it's a flagrant, and then sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: They miss it.
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  Speaker 2: There is no conspiracy to take Caitlin Clark out of
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  Speaker 2: the NBA, the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: There's no conspiracy. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Players are playing hard, and by the way, Caitlyn also
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  Speaker 2: plays hard. Caitlyn also fouls hard. Caitlyn also talks trash.
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  Speaker 2: Caitlyn's also in people's faces. She's also complaining to the refs.
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  Speaker 2: She's doing all the things that all of the athletes
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  Speaker 2: do that play all of these sports. Can we please
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  Speaker 2: stop using taxpayer dollars to write letters to the WNBA commissioner?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what are we doing?
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