Speaker 1: There's something happening in the world of sports that JB
Speaker 1: is now interested in, and he wants to know if
Speaker 1: that what's made him interested in it has made him
Speaker 1: makes him a scumbag? All right, we'll get to that,
Speaker 1: and just to say, how do you not stick around
Speaker 1: for that? How do you tune up? Yeah, I'm a loser.
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Speaker 1: Now JB is putting himself out there a little bit
Speaker 1: here when he shares with you why he has a
Speaker 1: new interest in the w NBA.
Speaker 2: Mm hm and you tell me, am I a scumbag scumba.
Speaker 2: So yesterday social media was filled with this brawl and
Speaker 2: fouling at the WNB game with the Indiana Fever and
Speaker 2: the Connecticut Sun. Because Caitlin Clark Yeah plays for the
Speaker 2: Indiana Fever. She is selling out arenas. She is the
Speaker 2: most loved and hated figure in the w NBA, loved
Speaker 2: by the fans, hated by her.
Speaker 1: Opponent, and her opponent should be kissing her ass.
Speaker 2: They're all they're all getting more TV time, they're all
Speaker 2: getting more ticket sales, their sponsors are getting the money's
Speaker 2: going to come. It's going to trickle down. Ask anyone
Speaker 2: who played golf in the Tiger Woods. Hate it Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right because that you know, you're a big golf fan.
Speaker 2: Look what that did for more TV time and viewership.
Speaker 1: Bigger purses. I mean, my buddy rich Beam says it
Speaker 1: all the time. He goes, I send Tiger a Christmas
Speaker 1: card every year and thank him for what he did
Speaker 1: for right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just everybody was elevated, and that is definitely
Speaker 2: happening in the w n B. A well, she got
Speaker 2: into it, and there's some scrappy stuff. And here's where
Speaker 2: I feel. I'm being honest here. I feel like a scumbag.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I want to watch a game now because
Speaker 2: they're going into playoffs, okay, all right, And I'm like
Speaker 2: I'm interested because they're fighting. I'm being honest here, and
Speaker 2: I love And it's also I'm maybe trying to defend
Speaker 2: myself a little bit. It's Caitlyn Clark defending herself and
Speaker 2: defending her position is the greatest thing to happen to
Speaker 2: the w NBA for you know, her opponents hate her
Speaker 2: like they've actually you know, there was the whole Britney
Speaker 2: grinder thing going around a few weeks ago. Yeah, when
Speaker 2: she said and white girl, yeah and then denied it
Speaker 2: in an interview, completely denied it, like you're making this worse, right, right,
Speaker 2: She's a great athlete, she's fun to watch play. It's
Speaker 2: she I said this the other day, like her teammates
Speaker 2: have to elevate their game just to be prepared to
Speaker 2: keep up with her.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, because the past is going to come from
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Right, She's that much better than everybody else.
Speaker 1: She is far and away better than everybody else.
Speaker 2: I'm being honest.
Speaker 1: It's the fighting dude that just makes you a dude.
Speaker 1: That just I mean, people love that. It's very awe
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But I like it that you just went through this
Speaker 3: whole list of her. She's this incredible player, she can
Speaker 3: do this and this, and before you're like, yeah, she's great,
Speaker 3: but not really watching the game. But now that you
Speaker 3: know that they're fighting, you're like, she's great and they're fighting,
Speaker 3: so I'm in Yeah.
Speaker 1: But that would be true with anything. If you were
Speaker 1: watching the French Open and there were fights happening, you
Speaker 1: would you would tune in more, right, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 2: That's always gets the TV time when those tennis players
Speaker 2: throw a hissy fit, which, yeah, John May a lot
Speaker 2: of us my hockey.
Speaker 3: I was so excited to go to our first hockey
Speaker 3: game and I was like, but I really just want
Speaker 3: to see fights, right, I mean, I don't know anything
Speaker 3: about the game.
Speaker 1: You know why that grabbed your attention, JB. That's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna and you're gravitating towards that, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: watch a game at the end of the day. The
Speaker 1: w NBA is like, Hey, more eyeballs.
Speaker 2: I've always said to you, I am shocked that there
Speaker 2: are not more fights in men's basketball because of how
Speaker 2: physical it is. It's just in all that testosterone going around.
Speaker 2: Well in WMB there's about as much testosterone going around.
Speaker 2: But it is amazing to watch her and it's like
Speaker 2: a it's like it's it's like an eighties bully movie,
Speaker 2: Like it's like karate Kid.
Speaker 1: In a way sort of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that she is getting bullied hardcore
Speaker 2: and she's just out there defending herself and the game.
Speaker 2: It's a great story. It's like an ongoing movie. She's
Speaker 2: not getting.
Speaker 3: Karate chop though, she's getting poked in the eye. It's
Speaker 3: very three stooges getting poked in the eye.
Speaker 2: But I mean they Indiana Fever needs to hire a
Speaker 2: thug bruiser to go settle the score when anyone touches
Speaker 2: their star. That is how hockey works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that guy called the enforcer an.
Speaker 2: Enforcer and if you mess with their darling scoring guy,
Speaker 2: who are usually the best skaters, right, yeah, they're just
Speaker 2: lightning fast and maybe not the biggest, and you don't
Speaker 2: want them injured or hurt. You put in a defenseman
Speaker 2: who's an enforcer, and they go, they go settle the score.
Speaker 2: If you touch the same thing, if you touch a gullie,
Speaker 2: it's unheard of. You don't do it. The girls need
Speaker 2: one in basketball, right, they need an Caitlyn needs a
Speaker 2: She may not even be the best player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's the best player.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the goon, the goon, Yeah, yeah, the goon
Speaker 2: doesn't need to be the best player. Just if you
Speaker 2: mess with if you mess with Caitlyn, I'm coming.
Speaker 1: I'll start watching this now. Chick fights. Heck, yeah, chick fights.
Speaker 1: Sandy's I'm gonna watch that. She's you know what's funny
Speaker 1: about Caitlin, And I'm sure the end of the WABA
Speaker 1: should be well aware of this. There are a thousand
Speaker 1: little Caitlin's out there right now. They're all have seen
Speaker 1: how she plays and what she does, and they all
Speaker 1: want to be just like her. It's just like to
Speaker 1: be like Mike with Mike Jordan back in the day. Right,
Speaker 1: It's only good for the WNBA. But another funny thing
Speaker 1: is like her big art ribal if there was an
Speaker 1: ur tribal to her is Angela Angel, Angela Angel Reese.
Speaker 1: And there are entire social media channels dedicated that that
Speaker 1: are dedicated to showing how awful she is, how what
Speaker 1: a bad player is. Like here's here she is missing
Speaker 1: her first five attempts on angels. Yes, missing her free
Speaker 1: throws and all that kind of stuff. So, uh, did
Speaker 1: you but you said the w n b A is
Speaker 1: getting into the playoffs right now?
Speaker 2: Maybe I guess. So she made mention of it in
Speaker 2: an interview. It's like, well, she said, oh, we made
Speaker 2: the something cut whatever it is they call it, so
Speaker 2: off hand, and I was trying to look at when
Speaker 2: the next game is. I'm sorry, I don't know that
Speaker 2: off hand. But and she do you remember she got left? Oh,
Speaker 2: they're they're in a series right now. The series is
Speaker 2: the yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Uh well you look that
Speaker 2: up if you if you were yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: You can look it up if you're really interested. But
Speaker 2: I'm yeah, I'm in. I want to watch. This is
Speaker 2: a great story. I don't think it makes you scum
Speaker 2: back exactly. It's a good story and sports need stories, right,
Speaker 2: so