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Fever Report with John & Michelle (Guest: Mike Hutsell; Podcast 347.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_03]: What you are listening to now is the Central Indian Esports Report podcast number, three hundred and forty seven point two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fever report with our fever guide John Robertson and Tipped in Tribune and I would call either sports editor Michelle Garmin.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We were joined once again by our resident WNBA insider, my cuttle.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Who helped us break down Thursdays lost to the LA sparks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They just can't seem to beat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Also, a little Caitlyn Clark news.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I look ahead in the schedule as the road trip comes to an end this weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we're all disappointed in the continued Toys Road.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just stop, but it's not funny.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Menkels.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome, fever fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report and the fever report with the fever on the West Coast.
1:09
[SPEAKER_03]: I've decided what we're going to do is just talk the next day because I am not staying up late.
1:14
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even stay up late for the Pacers when they're on the West Coast.
1:18
[SPEAKER_03]: So we'll talk about the fever the next day, maybe a couple of days after
1:22
[SPEAKER_03]: depending on what happens and what happened yesterday, John was they lost to the Los Angeles sparks who are the fever's kryptonite.
1:31
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I pretty much called this one a couple days ago.
1:34
[SPEAKER_06]: I told you I do not.
1:37
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's a matchup issue.
1:38
[SPEAKER_06]: I think the size the LA has gives us a lot of trouble.
1:41
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that's just it really is a problem, because we have AB and Tosh, but you've got so much length on the sparks that it just really gives the, gives, and let's talk about Kelsey Plum just going off, like she would.
1:56
[SPEAKER_06]: But really, for the most part, I think it's a matchup problem on size, but then when you've got that combined with the sparks just hitting everything, you're not going to beat that team.
2:04
[SPEAKER_00]: They're a good team in the,
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[SPEAKER_00]: they do give the fever mash up with that link then everything and you know the play of Raquel Jackson is really she had a really good game and she's a tough guard because she she can do so much with the basketball I mean it I think that's it they don't just have link but they have link their players can go outside and play beyond the three point line some of their base can drive to the whole it's just a
2:32
[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to find to be able to guard them.
2:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I think man to man to match that link, then stuff.
2:38
[SPEAKER_06]: Raquia Jackson, who we wanted Miles Turner to be.
2:42
[SPEAKER_06]: She's literally who we wanted him to be as far as like comparison wise, because she's big, complaining the pain, but she can really play well and drive all over.
2:50
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, she's, she's had a good night to you.
2:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Similar to Atlanta, I think, a matchup difficulty that probably shouldn't be for the fever.
3:01
[SPEAKER_03]: They're more talented than those teams, but they can't seem to beat them.
3:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and Hudson, you're your favorite Cameron Brink.
3:10
[SPEAKER_00]: She's struggling on the offensive end coming back in, but her defense is still really, really good.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Defense was really good last night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She can do a lot of things then back to game without
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[SPEAKER_04]: scoring.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'll be, you guys hit it on head.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She is just a force.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, she's six, three, six, four, and she's all arms and legs.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And just that type of presence inside her minutes are only going to go up.
3:37
[SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, talent wise, you guys talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The sparks have
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think Brink was the number two or three pick in the draft for key adjacent was the fourth pick in the draft.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Kelsey Plum is obviously one of the great players.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Collegiate leave all time and is carry that over into the pros.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Giving that mic, but the first two times they played Brink did not play and the sparks still beat him twice.
4:00
[SPEAKER_03]: And once they were without someone, somebody else and they still beat him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But that team is, I mean, Hambi, dear to Hambi, she's a three on three gold medalist in the Olympic Games.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, there's no lack of talent on this park's roster.
4:17
[SPEAKER_04]: Good boy.
4:18
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and I thought it was really fun.
4:19
[SPEAKER_06]: I watched, I looked at the WMBAs, they put out an article with power rankings, like, you know, and they said all positive things, and they said that the sparks were on a four game win four out of five win streak or whatever, and they dropped them a point, or they dropped them as ranking down to, like, eleven or twelve, and I'm like, that doesn't even make sense.
4:35
[SPEAKER_06]: So, I think the sparks are stronger than people are giving them credit for.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I do think there are specifically a matchup problem for the fever, but I think that they're a soldier team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The most people are given them credit for right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we're walking five shots a night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to be awfully tough.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But five shots unlimited minutes.
4:52
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's be realistic here.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, they played really, really well without her since the break.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But at some point, not having Caitlin is going to catch up with Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And last night, they needed offense of firepower and
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[SPEAKER_04]: Again, that was very high scoring and, you know, not having her wasn't impact.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I don't think it's a long season.
5:14
[SPEAKER_04]: You're not going to win every game.
5:15
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think that was a necessarily bad boss.
5:18
[SPEAKER_06]: We don't want, I will say that we don't want to see LA in the playoffs though.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Like I will go and record say, we do not want to see LA in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can see that.
5:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the sparks, what they do this year is just a positive because I think they're one more guard away from being a dangerous team next season.
5:40
[SPEAKER_06]: I think their danger is now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Danger is being titled contender dangerous.
5:44
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think their title contenders right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Speaking of offensive firepower, Kelsey Mitchell, thirty four points last night on just nineteen field goal attempts because she was seven for twelve from behind the three point line and five for five from the line also six assists.
6:03
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, the fever loss, but twenty three assists on thirty four field goals and when you throw Caitlin Clark back into the equation, that's probably going to be an answer that you like.
6:16
[SPEAKER_06]: The first quarter was basically just an offensive exposition.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Everybody was making everything.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Second quarter fever got down by about ten or eleven.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then third quarter they would just let themselves get even farther and all they were down by like nineteen or more at one point.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then fourth quarter they played really well.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So when teams are playing that while you can't give up to quarters of just barely hang it in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fever were playing great towards the over that final four minutes of the game.
6:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I got it within six at one point.
6:44
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they got it within six and they had a shot.
6:47
[SPEAKER_06]: There's a couple of people said that some silly calls, but I'm not even going to discuss it because, you know, you shouldn't even be in that position where you're down that far.
6:54
[SPEAKER_06]: So like the fever had a shot, but like they let themselves get way too far out of it.
6:59
[SPEAKER_06]: They really do remind me of the Pacers.
7:01
[SPEAKER_06]: The fever and the Pacers just remind me of each other so much.
7:04
[SPEAKER_03]: It's just the way they play a lot of that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's for sure.
7:06
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, they just let themselves get in the hole.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Then you play great, but you're not going to get out of it.
7:12
[SPEAKER_06]: What's up with Chloe Bibby only playing for two fifty seven last night?
7:16
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys got thoughts on that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I find that strange.
7:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw a tweet today that somebody said, you sign Chloe Bibi for the rest of the season.
7:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Only to take her out of your rotation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's up with that?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because I thought she might be one of the answers against the sparks.
7:33
[SPEAKER_00]: She's another player that's outside.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's got some size.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you draw, she would take a defender out there, which maybe then creates allows airy, airy or coalsin or, you know, or so if you're somebody just to drive, probably less Sophie, but to drive to the ram.
7:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, so I was kind of shocked you then not play more.
7:56
[SPEAKER_00]: I just kind of shocked the bench as a whole didn't really play.
8:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't lock some more minutes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the bench was a non-factor.
8:04
[SPEAKER_04]: Why is that Lexi didn't add anything offensively?
8:07
[SPEAKER_06]: She didn't really add a whole lot.
8:09
[SPEAKER_06]: You guys know I love her, but she didn't add a whole lot of defense.
8:11
[SPEAKER_06]: She got beat pretty bad last night on a lot of, on a lot of plays.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Uncharacteristically, but you know, if we're going to shout her out when she does well, we have to admit when she didn't play great.
8:22
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So real view mirror on the, on the sparks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: until August twenty ninth when they play him for a fourth time, but last game of the road trip later today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's in a clock prime video in Phoenix.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They just beat Phoenix less than two weeks ago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But that was a home pretty good team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Another big challenge before coming home for three straight games against Chicago Dallas and Washington three games they should win with or without.
8:54
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I think the Phoenix game will be interesting to see what happens.
8:57
[SPEAKER_06]: I think there's emotions on both sides of that game.
9:00
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, I think match-up wise might be worth staying up late for.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'll stay up and watch it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I stayed up and watched all the sparks game, but I went to bed right as soon as it was over.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'll watch the Phoenix game.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think they're an evenly match team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It could go either way.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You might give a slight nod to Phoenix just because they're at home and they're not on a long road trip.
9:21
[SPEAKER_03]: John, give us the latest that you know on Caitlyn Clark.
9:24
[SPEAKER_06]: nothing specific or like hard news other than I've seen her in some videos actually working out with the team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So in fact, I don't know how much she's working out, but if you see a little watch the teams videos, you can see her on the court doing a little bit of practicing.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I say two more weeks.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's my guess.
9:42
[SPEAKER_06]: Indivogous is my guess.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a big deal, not just for the fever, but for the WNBA.
9:49
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, the conspiracy theories are out there that she's done for the season and the WMBA just won't let them say it because they want to keep selling tickets to keep people watching.
9:56
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's a reasonable conspiracy theory if you're going to have one, but I do think she plays in August.
10:02
[SPEAKER_00]: I think she comes back and I think she plays.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, you know, you just wonder if they just aren't, you know, they're going to be extra cautious with her because what you don't want is her to come back and enter it because, you know, that's a major thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If she would tear
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[SPEAKER_00]: and up a quad or hamstring that she's like Tyre's Albert and she's she's out for a year and so I think that I think that they're thinking well let's condense her let's get her ready condense her season down for the playoffs you know maybe the last week or two the regular season have already for the playoffs and it's a short season and then you know and I do hope I do it great you are right my sister and I were talking about this other day
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they need to make sure I know they spent a lot of time getting her in the white room and strengthening her, blocking her up a little bit.
10:52
[SPEAKER_00]: But they really need to get her on our stretching program and a core stretching program.
10:59
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, every player needs to.
11:01
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not just a Caitlin thing.
11:03
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's move to a little bit of WNBA news and it seems like if there is a player who might be out long term.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It might be Nefisa Collier from Minnesota.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like that injury might be pretty bad John.
11:16
[SPEAKER_03]: She's not how long and what do we know?
11:18
[SPEAKER_06]: The report that I saw today said a minimum of two weeks.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So she's out for a minimum of two weeks.
11:24
[SPEAKER_06]: I didn't line that up to see if that affects the fever's games versus the.
11:30
[SPEAKER_06]: That's a huge huge impact for that team.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, she probably is the MVP candidate up to this point.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Two weeks from tomorrow is the first game they play against Minnesota and then the following two days later.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So best case scenario that she could play both likely scenarios.
11:48
[SPEAKER_06]: She plays one of the two likely scenarios.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's not playing that game.
11:52
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, none of them.
11:54
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't think either one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Modem of two weeks means at least three.
11:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
11:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing.
12:00
[SPEAKER_00]: They have that, but they have that five game lead over the liberty for number one seed.
12:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that as long as that doesn't become in jeopardy, they are not going to rush her back because they're going to want to win the title and rushing her back could lead to a setback.
12:15
[SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of think it's kind of like Clark a little bit.
12:20
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to rush the fees to call your back just for the regular season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: call your list.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Links team makes the fever schedule down the stretch.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty manageable.
12:36
[SPEAKER_06]: I picked up D. J. N. K. Ten supposedly to help us, but she's not she's no fee.
12:41
[SPEAKER_06]: Nobody is really.
12:44
[SPEAKER_06]: long-term I'm sure there's yeah there's still a decent squad but I definitely think it improves Indiana's chances by a lot along the same lines angel recess missed like five games now for back do you think that the Chicago is shutting it down and taking for a good draft position yes I think the lottery just like the NBA right so
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they can.
13:11
[SPEAKER_06]: No, I think that if you have the worst schedule record, you get the first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
13:39
[SPEAKER_06]: I absolutely agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I agree and even if it's not true, I love the fact that we can just accuse them of it.
13:45
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they're two and they're two and eight and they're laugh.
13:47
[SPEAKER_06]: That's Dallas.
13:48
[SPEAKER_06]: They're well, they're souls two and eight and they're last ten games.
13:51
[SPEAKER_06]: And Reese is not playing for five.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Chicago's horrible.
13:55
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
13:56
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's bad.
13:57
[SPEAKER_06]: I have tickets to the sky fever game because I bought it with the beginning of the season thinking it was going to be a hot ticket and I'm still going to go and enjoy the game.
14:06
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't I just you can you can get in the door for eight dollars everybody well the reason I bought that like that one in September it's on my birthday and I was gonna go regardless of who they were playing
14:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're definitely not going to see.
14:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think either one of them on Saturday, but the game that you are going to on September.
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[SPEAKER_03]: September fifth, who knows, you might see both of them, and it might be a hot ticket.
14:28
[SPEAKER_06]: It's whatever.
14:29
[SPEAKER_06]: Just real quick before we get to other stuff as far as team WMBA team news.
14:33
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know if you guys heard that the Connecticut sun are trying to sell to a boss or owner's group in Boston and the WMBA is kind of blocking it.
14:44
[SPEAKER_06]: Have you guys heard that about that at all?
14:46
[SPEAKER_06]: That's right.
14:46
[SPEAKER_04]: I have and the whoever the second buyer is is committed to keeping them and to nine of it.
14:52
[SPEAKER_04]: That's and I think that's from what I understand the reasoning the WNBA is what's I don't understand.
14:58
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know why you wouldn't want a team in Boston if you're the WNBA but
15:03
[SPEAKER_06]: But it's the most WMBA thing of all time.
15:05
[SPEAKER_06]: Like the reasoning behind it is so stupid to me, but it's very much is part for the course for the way the WMBA manages things.
15:13
[SPEAKER_03]: But they just chose cities that failed over Knoxville or Nashville because it's not connected to a team
15:24
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, do you want to do what the reason they said was the reason WMBA said they may not approve it is because other teams put in bids for expansions Boston did not therefore they would rather that they would not let a team go to Boston before those other cities.
15:39
[SPEAKER_06]: WMBA just mismanages stuff because they they're worried about people's feelings as opposed to good business.
15:46
[SPEAKER_06]: Like that if you want me to break it down by the way, I feel but that's truly how I think they do things like well.
15:51
[SPEAKER_04]: I think you're worth it, right?
15:53
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, and I understand Connecticut say hotbed for women's basketball.
16:00
[SPEAKER_04]: It always has been.
16:00
[SPEAKER_04]: It's, you know, the most elite college program of the last, you know, thirty years of this Connecticut, but you have a chance to break into one of the biggest media markets in the country.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The most important is a market.
16:16
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't get it.
16:17
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, and if you can, if you can use Boston Garden or TD Ameritrade garden or whatever we're calling it, like you've got a big facility that you can use over, you know, just silly.
16:27
[SPEAKER_06]: Because he can sense just a glorified high school gym.
16:32
[SPEAKER_06]: I just think the WMBA corporate mismanage is so many things because of just silly reasons and just believe it at that.
16:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I think it's one reason.
16:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So we just have a kick kick in themselves in the foot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't make
16:46
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll make money.
16:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you know, they still haven't even really broken even yet.
16:51
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's because of things like this, because of some of the other stuff that they do.
16:56
[SPEAKER_01]: They, you know, they're not very business oriented.
17:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's just put it in this way.
17:02
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they run their league like a business.
17:04
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's not, you know, that's not good for say.
17:09
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think they, like you said, they let feelings.
17:11
[SPEAKER_01]: They let other things in and they don't sit there and look at it.
17:20
[SPEAKER_06]: I do think there's one point to extract from this before we get off the subject though that if a team is going from however it was sold for like however many million when they bought it to Boston's offering like three hundred something million for when it was like fifty million three years ago that does that buzzbowd well for the players deserving more pay
17:40
[SPEAKER_06]: If the value of the teams has gone up that much more, like I understand the arguments that they're not making money and all that.
17:46
[SPEAKER_06]: But if the value of the team's gone up that much, it wouldn't go up that much if it weren't for the players.
17:50
[SPEAKER_06]: So the players do deserve more.
17:52
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think anyone disagrees with that.
17:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we disagree.
17:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, no, I agree.
17:57
[SPEAKER_06]: I agree.
17:57
[SPEAKER_06]: That was that one hundred percent.
17:58
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm just making that point for those people that don't that want to argue against paying the women basketball players.
18:04
[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to have to be paid more.
18:05
[SPEAKER_03]: They've brought in more money the last year by ten times what they were making before.
18:10
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's one of the reasons I'm surprised that they didn't take the ownership, but they did not, but a team in Nashville to not see what that ownership group, because from some of the preliminary things I saw, the number, you know, buying in.
18:25
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they were, I mean, they did not bulk at the price tag.
18:32
[SPEAKER_03]: That's disappointing.
18:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Nashville and Boston makes way much more sense than retreads.
18:40
[SPEAKER_03]: But Mike, you are disappointed in WNBA fans in their performance.
18:45
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, listen, I know I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but to cool with the great basketball, nine Norman Dale.
18:54
[SPEAKER_04]: We got to go back to something here.
18:56
[SPEAKER_04]: And if a guy gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, you just kind of can ignore that.
19:02
[SPEAKER_04]: But when it happens in your living room, you kind of got to address it.
19:06
[SPEAKER_04]: And last night, the green dildo band
19:08
[SPEAKER_04]: has returned and it is now impacting the the fever themselves and we can't afford it.
19:17
[SPEAKER_04]: Sophie could have been injured.
19:20
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I will not stand for Sophie County and being in danger, but this has become.
19:25
[SPEAKER_04]: It was hilarious.
19:28
[SPEAKER_04]: It was funny the first time.
19:30
[SPEAKER_04]: It was the second time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
19:32
[SPEAKER_04]: And there's a copycat.
19:34
[SPEAKER_04]: Now you can now, they're getting more wagers off dildo futures and online wagering than the actual outcome of W&D against.
19:43
[SPEAKER_04]: How do you combat this?
19:45
[SPEAKER_04]: This is stupid.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And it's such a W&D a story because.
19:50
[SPEAKER_03]: And Mike, the lack of creativity from the fans, has got to be disappointing to you.
19:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
19:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Take a different color at least.
19:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Didn't like the way that Kelsey Plum just took her foot and kicked it.
20:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Now what I would like is just so if you're coming here, I want to
20:04
[SPEAKER_01]: taking our heel and squished on it, and then plunge kicked it out.
20:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Because, you can't tell me, especially with a guy that threw that out there that the scares, you just did not, it didn't hurt as a loaf of it.
20:18
[SPEAKER_01]: If they would have done that, I mean, you know, there's no creativity, you know, I don't find it, I don't find it funny, you know, the first time, but you're right, there's no creativity, it's the same,
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just terrible, but how do they keep getting this in?
20:37
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, those these aren't even have clear back policies.
20:43
[SPEAKER_04]: Greg, you seem to be the expert on the actual device itself.
20:47
[SPEAKER_04]: The last time we discussed this, but I'm guessing metal detectors aren't going to pick it up.
20:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to.
20:52
[SPEAKER_04]: But yeah, I've read some, I think some arenas are now going to not allow you to bring bags in, but I don't know that that's going to change anything.
21:04
[SPEAKER_04]: It's the, it's stupid.
21:09
[SPEAKER_04]: It is stupid.
21:11
[SPEAKER_04]: It was funny.
21:12
[SPEAKER_04]: Like I said, I don't even like the actual first event was funny.
21:15
[SPEAKER_04]: It was the reaction of the announcers and everything that you might know how to address it.
21:21
[SPEAKER_04]: But now all and yes, right the hazmat crew that came out to clean it up that everything but this is just such a I mean this league it's just weird like the stuff that happens in this league is just so bizarre and here we are down again talking about a green phalanx that's thrown out on the court
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it kind of overshadowed the outcome of what was a pretty entertaining game in and and as we proved first twenty minutes of this podcast, there's lost the talk about the WNBA and here we are talking about this because once again, they have no sense of humor and listen I don't want to quote a person who's who's rather toxic, but
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[SPEAKER_04]: play Travis has been contacted by anonymous people saying it's going to happen again tonight somewhere and if if it does one thing tonight.
22:22
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, okay, there you go.
22:24
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a Valkyrie's game.
22:27
[SPEAKER_06]: But the first two were Valkyrie's games.
22:30
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, didn't he was a huge on that mentioned that it might be tied to some crypto or something?
22:36
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that was a story I saw early on because I mean, there is a crypto with a similar name.
22:40
[SPEAKER_06]: So if you're just looking up if you're googling what the object was, you can end up with that popping up.
22:48
[SPEAKER_03]: So another conspiracy, we're full of them tonight.
22:52
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, here's what I think.
22:53
[SPEAKER_06]: Honestly, I think the first couple were maybe part of an orchestrated thing or even just, you know, whatever.
23:00
[SPEAKER_06]: Then it became a copycat because like, like, it or not, there are going to be people that hate the WMBA just because they hate the WMBA.
23:07
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, they haven't paid attention to it.
23:09
[SPEAKER_06]: So they're going to like, to them, it's more fun to try and market by doing something stupid like this.
23:13
[SPEAKER_06]: So I think that's what the more recent ones have been.
23:15
[SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of like the stri-zand effect at this point.
23:17
[SPEAKER_06]: We've drawn so much it's not Wii, but people have drawn so much attention to it now that it's become a bigger thing than it had to be in the first place.
23:25
[SPEAKER_06]: If they just never show the first one on the screen at all.
23:29
[SPEAKER_03]: Michael, so anyone who throws one on the court again is a giant douche or a turd sandwich.
23:39
[SPEAKER_02]: They're both.
23:40
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, they did arrest somebody for the Atlanta one day.
23:42
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, did you see, I mean, his name is Delbert.
23:44
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm pretty sure like when you name your kid.
23:47
[SPEAKER_04]: When you're dead.
23:48
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm the center.
23:49
[SPEAKER_04]: When you name your kid, Delbert.
23:52
[SPEAKER_04]: It's like naming him geez.
23:53
[SPEAKER_04]: He's going to be a Butler.
23:54
[SPEAKER_04]: You name your kid, Delbert.
23:56
[SPEAKER_04]: He's going to throw a Dildo on a WNBA game.
23:59
[SPEAKER_04]: It was pre-test.
24:01
[SPEAKER_04]: I hate to typecast, but Delbert, the Dildo, but a toaster, is going to be a popular Halloween toaster in this year.
24:11
[SPEAKER_06]: I just hope they catch enough of these people and do enough punishment and make the punishment known.
24:15
[SPEAKER_06]: That's the only way to stop it at this point.
24:18
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, you got to have cameras set up watching the crowd and as soon as you see it figure out who did it and then make it known that they were punished and then we move on from this hopefully.
24:29
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it goes back to like in the Major League Baseball when they were streakers.
24:32
[SPEAKER_06]: They were just not showing the streakers on the camera and they wouldn't draw attention.
24:35
[SPEAKER_06]: They would just say, you know, all there's a pause for the game for whatever reason.
24:39
[SPEAKER_06]: And only the people do that anymore.
24:41
[SPEAKER_03]: You can't do that with this situation.
24:42
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone has a camera.
24:45
[SPEAKER_03]: Not happening.
24:49
[SPEAKER_03]: So it is what it is and let's hope that it ends, but we'll see.
24:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks everybody.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hopefully we don't have to talk about it off the next time where we could win.
25:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, seriously, let's get back to talking about basketball.
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