Originally Posted by Valiant (Post 17547063)

Imagine if they don't win gold or even a medal. The criticism afterwards would fire almost everyone.

Better yet. Imagine if the big 3 had a game on the same time and CC played. Which is the country and world watching?

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 17547007)

It's really strange.

I mean it's fairly comparable to the PGA when Woods broke out. And the old guard players bristled when this new guy who didn't play like them (or look like them) came in and was just kicking everyone's ass.

But the difference is that the PGA - the organization - didn't. They recognized immediately that Woods was their path to national relevance and leaned hard into him. He was immediately the face of everything.

The PGA didn't respond to Tiger Woods by saying "Hey, this is our chance to make people love Jim Furyk!!" They weren't hyping Tom Lehman over Tiger. And when Fuzzy Zoeller did his thing, the PGA didn't suspend him but they didn't make it Zoeller vs. Woods and quietly seem to favor Zoeller.

The players are gonna do what they're gonna do - just as PGA golfers took some time to adjust to the realities of being nationally popular because of someone that wasn't them. But eventually they accepted it and I figure sooner or later the WNBA players will as well.

But what I don't understand is why the WNBA is almost deliberately sidelining their version of Tiger Woods. She needs to be EVERYTHING to this league and the other players can get in line or get left behind, just as guys like Mickelson and Mark O'Meara eventually did. Someone like David Duval imploded with the pressure and the Tour moved on without him.

But you can't hold yourself back like this. It's just poor leadership.

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry (Post 17546870)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The WNBA is not ready for Prime Time. Be careful what you wish for. <a href="https://t.co/qrVdUOIAIj">pic.twitter.com/qrVdUOIAIj</a></p>&mdash; Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1799974650098982957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Originally Posted by jettio (Post 17547350)

She handled that great.

Asked a stupid question and answered it according to her own personality.

It is weird that Whitlock, who got his ass booted from "prime time" gigs, would have that stupid ass comment.

Whitlock must have targeted that tweet to the demographic that just hates listening to someone black who grew up around black people talk out loud without trying to whiten up the voice.

I doubt that the SKY media relations people are going to spend any time at all coaching this player up on how to answer stupid questions that state the reporter's opinion and invite the player to knock her teammates.

Originally Posted by jettio (Post 17547350)

She handled that great.

Asked a stupid question and answered it according to her own personality.

It is weird that Whitlock, who got his ass booted from "prime time" gigs, would have that stupid ass comment.

Whitlock must have targeted that tweet to the demographic that just hates listening to someone black who grew up around black people talk out loud without trying to whiten up the voice.

I doubt that the SKY media relations people are going to spend any time at all coaching this player up on how to answer stupid questions that state the reporter's opinion and invite the player to knock her teammates.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 17547368)

If these wnba players are actually serious about money and charter flights, they can have the common decency to show up and answer the questions they’re being asked. The whole league is acting like Cleveland browns fans, getting weird jollies off of failure instead of embracing success. And they need to get out of their tiny little bubbles. Just because a small % of loudmouths are applauding you (while the other 99% are turned off) doesn’t mean the world is celebrating it. This chip on their shoulder isn’t “cute.” It’s a huge turn off to new people tuning in.

If they prefer to fly under the radar then just say that and stop griping about people not supporting the league.

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief (Post 17547364)

What? Stars in sports have to answer mundane clichéd questions all the time. Just answer it with a canned answer, it's not that hard.

Originally Posted by jettio (Post 17547405)

You honestly watch that and that makes you mad?

Let people be themselves. I hate when weak people piss and moan about what people are supposed to say when asked dumbass questions.

If you think that question was so great, then explain why you think that was a great question.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 17547421)

Most questions athletes get from reporters are very dumb. Andy Reid is a hell of a coach who lets his players be themselves. Ain’t no ****ing way he’d tolerate this kind of a response, nor would mark donovan who puts a lot of effort into marketing his team and players.

Originally Posted by jettio (Post 17547431)

So now you are going to play make-believe Andy Reid to insist that Jason Whitlock was right to snitch on this black girl to the white people?

Watch the video ten times. Maybe you will realize that only a fool follows a fool like Whitlock.

You probably could figure it out a lot sooner than the tenth viewing.

Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501 (Post 17547434)

What does Jason Whitlock have to do with this? Was he recording this with a hidden camera nobody was supposed to see?

Originally Posted by jettio (Post 17547444)

See the earlier posts in the thread. The video is in the thread because someone posted a Whitlock tweet with the video.