Robert from Wisconsin

Ham Cannon Fan since 2023.

Known as WisconsinRob where the sky is blue

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

@lcm1986 Yes, but what is the overall record with total Luis Medinas in attendance or in the dugout?

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

Are the Cubs just letting Shots wear one or something?

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

@FirstDerivative These are the ones I like, because now I'm imagining 80s Wayne playing with Orr and Breadman

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

This was harder than 82-0, but I was also surprised these wingers got it done 🤷‍♂️

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

@FirstDerivative What was the record?

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

This is true, and also I would love confirmation on whether everything the Packers own around the Titletown District is counted in their football related revenue as well.

[Rational Yankees Fan @rationalyankee]

“Tie the cap to league revenue” sounds fair until you realize owners spent 30 years engineering what counts as league revenue.

The Braves don’t just sell tickets. They own The Battery. Mixed-use development. Hotels. Restaurants. Parking. None of it counts as baseball related revenue.

Cubs own the rooftops across from Wrigley. Rangers built Globe Life District. Cardinals own Ballpark Village. The Mets are building a casino.

The players fill those seats and attract the fans. The players make that real estate valuable. The players are the product that turns a parking lot into a $500M development.

But Freddie Freeman’s contract counts against the cap. The Battery’s hotel revenue doesn’t count toward the pool.

The NFL cap works because owners can’t spin gate revenue into a shell LLC and hide it from the players. MLB owners can and do.

A cap tied to “league revenue” in baseball is a ceiling built on a rigged floor.

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

I have two thoughts, but this post is long but correct.

The issue didn't start with just the WNBA, but USA Basketball's clique contributed as well.

And Stephanie White should probably watch Winning Time and realize White is Paul Westhead.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

Missed the obligatory "None of which were his best sport"

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

During Jim Brown’s senior year at Manhasset high school, he averaged 14.9 yards per carry, 39.6 PPG in basketball and pitched 2 no hitters in baseball

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

I guess Lukas Van Ness and a 2028 #1 wasn't enough to get a phone call from Cleveland.

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

@JoshEberley If we're going talking NBA only, I'm curious where the overlap on Best Player is between Kareem, Dr J, and Moses (who you don't list but probably has an argument in 79-83) then to Bird/Magic

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

Did... Did no one have a Kyle Busch flag to hand to Denny for a victory lap since The 7 couldn't do it last week?

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

Prime committed to 80 laps commercial free to the checkers is so refreshing compared to Fox

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

@btownmoose I think IMS is too hard to light properly because of the short chutes

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

@YourManDevine This is super helpful! Thank you for sharing this.

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

Rocky III.

Special shout-out to Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid though.

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

Cheese juggler does sound like a Canadian insult

[No Dunks @NoDunksInc]

No one does a livestream like No Dunks.

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

I think they consolidate and run it back with their 2 picks.

But they'll see what the cost for Giannis is too. I think Chet played himself out of being untouchable while the Spurs certainly moved the goalposts for OKC as well.

[Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 @JoshEberley]

Thunder reaction temp check.

What should they do this summer…

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

I would love to hear what Mitch Johnson thought about this play because he had Wemby back in the game almost right after this.

[NBA @NBA]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME LUKE KORNET???

WILD CHASEDOWN BLOCK IN TRANSITION 🤯

THE TYPE OF PLAYS YOU NEED TO WIN A GAME 7.

[Robert from Wisconsin @Rob_In_WI]

You certainly have a decision to make on Chet and that might be part of it.

[Brendan Stiles @thebstiles]

If you're OKC, do you go all in for Giannis after tonight like the Warriors once did with KD? I know it's a different circumstance, but still...

[Janet 🇲🇽✨ @Slimjaneyyy]

If he don’t hold me like that, I don’t want it