J'accuse (I accuse you), WNBA/NBA. You know darn well that fining WNBA players who play overseas for every day they are late for training camp is going to hurt a lot of the women's ability to increase their annual earnings. The Euroleague teams pay far more than the WNBA. Euroleage woemen's teams that extend their seasons into playoff rounds do not complete their seasons until after the WNBA training camp begins. You know that. This places your players in a unfair position, of having to chose to leave theiir international sisters during their crucial playoffs in order to return home and avoid the fine. It's wrong of you to do this to your women players. It is also gender discrimination. Let me know if you'd fine Steph Curry if the table were turned and he showed up late for training camp were he playing in some Euroleague playoffs. Okay, the ansewre is yes. I get it. The Warriors are paying Steph BIG BUCKS. So, why not pay the WNBA women BETTER BUCKS. Your WNBA salary scale presently SUCKS. ChecK it out readers. Pretty damn shameful at a time when the WNBA women are gettting more and more skilled, more athletic, faster and quicker. Their game is evolving. It will never be as high flying circus act as that the NBA is, but it will be equally attractive to watch. I never used to watch the WNBA much. I do now. I will in the future. If you truly believe women have the right to excel, owners and league, get out your pocketbooks! AND, how about some of the NBA superstars ponying up. I'd bet you the bank, Kobe would have to watch his daughter play in his footsteps. Good subject for a Draymond Green podcast.
Another not so good subject for Darymond Green's podcast: the Dallas Cowboys signing a contract supporting a coffee cmpany that advertises its blends of coffee in terms of firearms. That can't be true, you say. Given the terrible numbers of shooting deaths in our country, no one would be that frigging STUPID. Well, Jerry Jones' Cowboy organization sure as hell is. They support coffee blends called AK -47 espresso and Silencer Smoothies. Really! I couldn't make this kind of insanity up. In the future, let's rename the COWBOYs NRABOYS. "Welcome to NFL Sunday. This afternoon's game will be the Dalles NRABOYS vs. . .
We shouldn't give cows a bad name.
Here's a lovely little poem about baseball
THEEXTRA INNING BALLGAME by Halvard Johnson
Yet craving the apocalypse
Reading the last few pages at one word a minute
Wanting to teeter forever on the brink of the abyss,
And loving evey minute of it.
The solid single over second.
A shortstop's arm, just long enough to catch it.
