Scott Parsons

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[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

The vibes all night

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

How did your team do in the month of May? 🤔

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

The Miz is on a special, special run

Jacob Misiorowski is your NL Player of the Week ‼️

[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.

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[Scott Parsons @ScottParsonsWI]

@bdmy @GoMFGators One time sending this would be enough. ..just stop

[Valpo Basketball @ValpoBasketball]

Congratulations @petersalec 🎉🔥

@EuroLeague Champions ‼️

#ValPRO #SeeTheLight #EverydayGrit

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This team is en fuego 🔥

#ThisIsMyCrew x @UWCreditUnion

[⚾️⚾️ @3BallAmigos]

The 🦅Warhawks🦅 wrapped up a PERFECT 🏆16-0 GMC🏆season with a 6-0 W vs Hamilton tonight. Landon Hagland shoved w/a CG shut piece!! 3H, 0 BB, 14 K’s⚡️ Murk, Gordo & Vinny all had multi-hit games to lead the O! @BaseballWis @WIBallCentral @AndySrokaPBR
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Brooms made the trip down I-94 🧹🧹🧹

[Scott Parsons @ScottParsonsWI]

@JeffWestkowski @JasonSobelGolf Stricker was also Ryder Cup Captain in 2021 when they blew Europe out

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Yeli is ready to roll ‼️

[Scott Parsons @ScottParsonsWI]

@eyyankees It was hit 411...so it would have been out at Yankee Stadium...score more than 6 runs for the series

[Scott Parsons @ScottParsonsWI]

@swan2swan87 @Jdchosen77 @PlatinumKey13 They scored 6 runs all weekend

[Scott Parsons @ScottParsonsWI]

@ClayTravis Let's not forget @Brewers

[Scott Parsons @ScottParsonsWI]

@hunterbonair the Brewers remain really good....Yankees would be just another team if they were in the NL

[Hunter Baumgardt @hunterbonair]

The Milwaukee Brewers have just swept the New York Yankees on a walk-off home run by Brice Turang.

Bill Hall, you have company.

Quite a Mother’s Day moment for Turang.

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

Someone let the Milwaukee Brewers get hot

#ThisIsMyCrew x @AmFam

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

A superstar in the making

@Jmisiorowski9

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Jacob Misiorowski threw the FIVE FASTEST PITCHES EVER RECORDED by a starting pitcher...

...ALL in tonight's first inning 🥵

[Paul Oren @TVBOren]

Kai Yu had 12 points and 13 rebounds in three games against Valparaiso this year. Belief around Valpo that Yu is just scratching the surface of his potential. #MVCHoops