Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸

Devout Christian, devoted husband, dedicated community bank executive, & die hard sports fan

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

Caitlin Clark gets the worst officiating in the league, and by a country mile.

It’s laughably bad, @WNBA.

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[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

Matt Quatraro, why do you continue to run Lucas Erceg out there in save situations? The guy just isn’t right & has now blown 6 saves. Noah Cameron goes 7 strong giving up just one hit & the bullpen blows it.

Send Erceg down & let Daniel Lynch close.

[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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[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@Royals If the manager is too stubborn to change closers, then it’s time to change the manager.

Erceg threw a ton of pitches yesterday, gave up 3 runs, yet Q trots him out there again the next day? That’s simply awful.

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

When is enough going to be enough? Erceg isn’t getting it done in the closer role.

Q isn’t getting it done in the manager role either, for that matter.

[Royals Weekly @RoyalsWeekly]

Not a huge fan of taking Lynch out to go to Erceg who threw 30+ pitches last night (and struggled).

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@faithwillsaveu Not amen? Amen!

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@HuesmannKyle I can’t disagree with you strongly enough.

Go Jackrabbits, Go Sun Devils. Go Rebels. No Big Red.

The results of one isolated regional will do absolutely nothing to change the national narrative in this sport as it relates to the B10, SEC, or any other conference.

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

We’re going to be eating like royalty in a few hours on the eve of this special holiday. A pork butt nearly finished in the smoker, sweet corn, watermelon, & homemade vanilla ice cream with homemade hot fudge sauce.

Bring on the official start to summertime in Iowa!

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

Keith Jackson, by a country mile. Lundquist & Musburger get honorable mention.

[The Next Round @NextRoundLive]

Who would you pick if you had to listen to one CFB Play-By-Play Announcer the rest of your life?

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@realdanieltitus Yes!

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@JesusSavesUs777 I do!

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@wnba officials going old school giving Golden State the ���three to make two” at the foul line. Problem is, that’s not in the rule book.

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@WNBA Can you please find just a few competent officials?

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@JesusSavesUs777 Amen!

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@PolitiBunny Saw them, and a few others, at the great Iowa State Fair as a kid.

Kind of an eclectic list.

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

1. The Eagles
2. Jimmy Buffett
3. Billy Joel
4. Genesis
5. Harry Connick, Jr.
6. Alabama
7. New Kids on The Block
8. The Beach Boys
9. The Oak Ridge Boys
10. Don Henley

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live:

1: Tori Amos
2: Lords of Acid
3: KISS
4: Motley Crue
5: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
6: Reel Big Fish
7: Mustard Plug
8: Sick Puppies
9: Andrew WK
10: Dave Matthew’s Band

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

Caitlin!!!

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

The 15 minutes of fame for hot honey should have ended about a half hour ago.

Good grief, make it stop already.

[Tim Kluender ✝️ 🙏 🇺🇸 @TimKluender]

@JesusSavesUs777 Amen!