Mark Chinelli

GO BILLS ! #billsmafia. Italian - Irish. Small business owner. Conservative. Loves Animals. My dad and both older brothers are Marines.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

The same left-wing media saying tonight's USMNT game is "tainted" and "unfair" because the red card was reversed are the same outlets who celebrate men dominating in women's sports.

Spare me, please.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Attention everyone in Flower Mound, Texas area

The Hive Bakery apparently hates Conservatives and our country. This was their message for the 4th of July:

“We refuse to observe this holiday. F*** this fascist regime”

Would be a shame if everyone in the area saw this!

[American Values 🇺🇸 @AVGirl4Life]

Did AOC really post this?

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

No

[Alpha America 🇺�� @nature_viewss]

🏀 POLL: If Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham left the WNBA, would you still watch the league?

👍 Yes, I'd keep watching.
👎 No, I'd only follow Caitlin and Sophie through highlights and clips.
🤔 Undecided

Cast your vote below. ⬇️

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

@JaniceDean There’s only one Janice Dean for us. ❤️❤️❤️

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

But yet people in New York keep voting these psychopaths into office. I left Rochester 20 years ago and moved to Florida. Best move ever. Go Bills !

[Mike Sperrazza @MikeASperrazza]

I am a Buffalo native. We do not want this woman here and we do not support this woman.

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

F@CKING SCUM !

[Spitfire @RealSpitfire]

Why did @PhoenixMercury delete this?!?!

[Hoosier Enquirer @HoosierEnquirer]

Hoosier Enquirer Statement: We Are DONE Covering the WNBA

Effective immediately, Hoosier Enquirer is dropping all WNBA coverage.

The league’s pathetic, weak-kneed response — and outright tolerance — of the targeting, cheap shots, and resentment aimed at Caitlin Clark has crossed a line. Clark is the single biggest reason anyone pays attention to the WNBA, yet she’s been met with silence, excuses, and soft defenses while the league cashes her checks. Enough.

Flip the script: If this hostility, rhetoric, and physical nonsense were directed at a Black star player, we all know exactly what would happen. Cities would burn. Businesses would be looted. Murders and chaos would once again be excused as “mostly peaceful” protests.

That’s the toxic double standard staring us in the face. Blanket words and selective outrage do have consequences — they destroy credibility, fuel division, and prove the game was never about fairness.

Hoosier Enquirer refuses to play along. We’ll keep covering real Indiana stories with honesty and accountability. The WNBA can chase its declining relevance without us. We stand with Caitlin Clark.

-Hoosier Enquirer Team

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

This is madness

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Who'd have thought that electing a drag queen to the school board could go wrong? Cazenovia NY school board Vice President Travis Barr-Longo was arrested last week on state charges of having sexually explicit communications with a child under 12, and on federal charges of possessing pornography "depicting the sexual abuse of infants." Barr-Longo is also the founder of the annual Cazenovia Pride Fest.

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Who'd have thought that electing a drag queen to the school board could go wrong? Cazenovia NY school board Vice President Travis Barr-Longo was arrested last week on state charges of having sexually explicit communications with a child under 12, and on federal charges of possessing pornography "depicting the sexual abuse of infants." Barr-Longo is also the founder of the annual Cazenovia Pride Fest.

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

@TulsiGabbard @ODNIgov @DNIGabbard Thank you for everything 🍺

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Hey, @MLB, if you're got a problem with the Bible, you've got a problem with America.

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Awarding the girls Class A1 shot put state championship to a boy instead of a girl pushed Carly Giebel of Brighton from second to third, and Haleigh McGraw of Shenendehowa out of the medals, from third to fourth.

[Blunt_Betty @Blunt_Betty_]

@BobLonsberry

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

Absolutely

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

Depriving a female athlete a state championship in the shot put because she was beaten by a male is fundamentally and forever unfair. This is Kathy Hochul's New York.
https://t.co/SUrOZL6GFC

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

@sophaller Fantastic win last night 😊

[Bob Lonsberry @BobLonsberry]

The operating principles of the Democratic Party are hatred of your neighbor and love of your neighbor's money.

[Mark Chinelli @ChinelliMark]

@MassieNation19 I ask this everyday

[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