David Bale

Sewanee grad, avid bad golfer, commercial real estate strategist delivering cost savings to corporations.

[Tony Tsoukalas @Tony_Tsoukalas]

The state of Alabama is now 4-4 in baseball super regionals over the past two years.

Alabama -- 2-0
Troy -- 2-0
Auburn -- 0-4

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Amen Sophie 🙏🏻🎯

[Ryan C. Fowler @RyanCFowler]

The Real Reason They’re Mad at Nick Saban

🏆 6 National Championships (2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2020)
🏆 9 SEC Championships
🏆 206-29 Record
🏆 7 College Football Playoff Appearances
🏆 4 Heisman Trophy Winners Coached
🏆 76 First-Team All-Americans
🏆 47 Consensus or Unanimous All-Americans
🏆 133 NFL Draft Picks
🏆 48 First-Round NFL Draft Picks
🏆 College Football Hall of Fame

And there’s a pretty good chance he helped develop, mentor, or train your current head coach, too.

The truth is, many people aren’t upset because of what Nick Saban said.

They’re upset because of what Nick Saban did.

For 17 years, he dominated college football, beat their favorite teams, won championships, and built a standard of excellence that will never be matched again.

Whether you agree with him or not, few people have earned the right to speak on the future of college athletics more than Nick Saban.

[David Bale @dbale1]

@canefilms @kelseytsutton Weak and baseless take from a fan whose team got their ass kicked by Saban along the way. Ignored what rules?

[Cholly W @cholly_w109]

@canefilms @kelseytsutton Can you name one of those rules and provide proof? Any run-of-the-mill moron can accuse anyone of anything that’s rattling around in their empty skull, but proof? That’s another matter altogether.

[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

[Jack @jackunheard]

Tennis player Rafa Jodar SHOVES the ball girl out of the way.

He should never play another tennis match again in his life.

What a loser. https://t.co/h6a3RQ8H0a

[Land of Lowlights @LoLowlights]

Angel Reese was asked about A’ja Wilson:

“She’s obviously a great player…but I know I’m a great player too.”

A’ja Wilson proceeds to drop an efficient 20 and Reese goes 1-8 and commits 8 turnovers 😂

[David Bale @dbale1]

@Beno10_MFC D

[Kentucky Derby @KentuckyDerby]

Mood:

[Kentucky Derby @KentuckyDerby]

About that time. 🌸

[Lagertha333 @Lagertha333]

@PamelaHensley22 @brb_patriot Disgusting.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Small lips, undefined eyebrows, no exaggerated cheekbones, a smile without veneers or teeth that look like they've been washed with dish soap, no false eyelashes, natural hair color. Let's go back to basics.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

It's only okay if a Democrat says it.

[jeffonsports @jeff_on_sports]

this is the greatest 12 point 5 assist reel i’ve ever seen. none of that handoff type assists, just straight dimes

[Nick Rogue 😀 @Nick_Rogue_]

@C_3C_3 No one with any sense watches these virtue signaling, out of touch elites get on stage and wax poetic about how they're "living under a dictator" and their "free speech is being suppressed".

We have eyes! The very fact you're ON STAGE saying all of this contradicts your point!

[🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @gothamcapital1]

@PoliticalStacy https://t.co/WLPJdI8F7Y

[David Bale @dbale1]

@benonwine Ohio State marching band.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

If you hate Trump enough to defend Khamanei, who just last month murdered tens of thousands of his own people for protesting, it might be time to really think about what it is you stand for @SenAdamSchiff.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Democrat Mark Kelly says that Trump's speech was a "disappointment" that tried to "divide us as a nation."

This is coming from a Democrat who literally REFUSED to stand up when asked to put American citizens before illegal aliens.

Mark Kelly is the disappointment.