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The biggest story of the day was NOT what you might have thought | Angel Reese & Chennedy Carter on the Caitlin Clark shove | Is this good or bad for the WNBA?

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Talk to your pediatrician or visit YVaccines.com brought to you by Merck. You guys, it's everywhere. It's everywhere. I listen to CBS news radio driving into work. They're talking about Kaitlin Clark and Kennedy Carter. I listen to a major news network.

Same thing, same story. Every single sports radio and sports TV show in America is highlighting this incident between Carter and Clark that took place on Saturday. Lucky for them on national TV. It blows me away sometimes what happens with social media and what happens when these moments, they go viral.

They end up in the mainstream. And while I firmly believe it's well within the right of every single American TV host, radio host, not to mention American sports fan, heck, you don't have to be a sports fan to have an opinion about this moment that happened. It is just another case study in how social media, which is neither social nor actual media, it just drives so much of the conversation. I mean, there are some informed, relatively intelligent opinions out there, and it's interesting to hear them coming from various different corners, whether it's inside the WNBA, whether it's inside the Chicago Sky practice with Angel Reese and Carter herself, and she's finally willing to speak.

Although I'm not sure if what her words tell us or her social media is actually more informative, there definitely are many faces to Kennedy Carter. And so I think it's interesting that you've got the Sky perspective, you've got Christy Sides and the Fever perspective, you've got people inside the WNBA who are reacting based on their knowledge, but then you've got people who maybe have never watched a WNBA game in their entire lives, and right now this is still the biggest story going. Sorry, Justin Jefferson, but $110 million is great and all, but hey, did you see Kaitlyn Clark gets shoved to the ground on a dead ball in a really tight game between the Sky and the Fever on Saturday? I mean, that's what's happening right now.

It's pretty crazy. I think it's highly entertaining, regardless of the subject matter, because this does happen. A story like this hits the news cycle, it's salacious, it drives viewers or listeners, we pound it into submission, and then we move on.

And as much as you're going to get this undertone, this undercurrent, if you will, of, why is it such a big deal? Who cares about Kaitlyn Clark? Oh, and let me quote Carter on her own social media.

This is on threads, by the way, you ready? I guess Twix is old school with the WNBA, cool people. Carter, and I quote, besides three-point shooting, what does she bring to the table, man?

Oh, I'm sorry, who are you talking about? So yeah, there are so many different layers to this, but it is not only entertaining, but highly amusing that there are people that couldn't have named one player, forget one franchise in the WNBA three, four weeks ago. And now it's all the rage, all the rage. I wonder if Roger Goodell's a little nervous about Kaitlyn Clark and the fever and the WNBA drama stealing his spotlight. You know what happens when the NFL sees you turn a wandering eye to another sport, to another event, to another series or league? Oh man, the NFL gets very jealous, the jealous lover. Just watch out, something big is going to happen in the NFL because apparently the Justin Jefferson signing wasn't big enough to quell the talk or to, I guess, to attract people away from the Kaitlyn Clark thing. Justin Jefferson, that's good money and all.

Yay, whoo. Hey, now back to this flagrant foul. So it's going to take something bigger. Let's see, maybe we can come up with something because it wasn't enough that CJ Stroud put himself in the top five quarterbacks in the NFL right now and left Josh Allen out or that he put Dak Prescott in the top five and left Joe Burrow out or that he put Jalen Hurts in the top five and left Justin Herbert out. It's pretty interesting and all, but oh, Kaitlyn Clark, have you seen what happened? We're so weird sometimes as a society and yeah, it just underscores the fact that right now, social media, and it's been this way for a while, social media just drives the storylines.

It drives the narrative, what people are reacting to on social and it's it's not just an algorithm, it's also the mystery of the human brain and the mob mentality and the attraction to the shiny object, the rubber necking mentality. I don't know how long until it dies down, but man, it's been nearly three full days and it's still ramping up, still a lot of heat. Teresa Witherspoon is the head coach of the Chicago Sky and she is called Carter's flagrant foul, it's now a flagrant one foul, not acceptable. It was Carter and her teammate, a rookie, Angel Pierce, Pierce, sorry, Angel Reese, I don't know where I got Pierce from, Angel Reese, who were speaking to the media following their practice on Monday. So there were no games on Monday, only practices and remember Carter was not interested in talking after the game on Saturday and actually neither was Angel Reese, she got fined for blowing off her media obligations and she talked about that too. So now both Carter and Reese were speaking following practice and had some some long-winded answers, some, they were very open, honest, candid from their perspective, but there's always more to the story.

I'm telling you the stuff that you're hearing out there is is fascinating, but Teresa Witherspoon said the team will learn from the incident on Saturday, physical play, intensity, and a competitive spirit are hallmarks of Chicago Sky basketball. Kennedy got caught in up in the heat of the moment in an effort to win the game. By the way, I've heard Kennedy and I've heard Kennedy and I know I keep going back and forth. I think it's Kennedy.

I've heard Kennedy. Yeah. Anyway, so Teresa Witherspoon is trying to throw water on the flames. She said that she talked about it with her player, that it was not appropriate nor is it what we do or who we are, except it actually is pretty close to who Carter is or who she's been in the past at least, but it's not appropriate. It's not appropriate. It's not appropriate.

It's not appropriate. Or who she's been in the past at least. This is the kind of stuff that happens when your league comes under a white hot spotlight. I would say it's a version of people combing social media for public figures. Maybe they have this rise to stardom or rise to the public consciousness and all of a sudden what happens? People start combing through their social media, trying to figure out if there's anything interesting, maybe anything salacious, maybe some dirt.

That's why I tell young people, if you're going to be in the public eye, make sure you go through your social media before somebody else does. Anyway, it's a little bit like that. How much publicity or public criticism did Carter ever did Carter ever get for her tenure in Atlanta or LA?

Well, here's a guess. Not much. I didn't know her past and this is past in the league. I'm not talking about her past as a human outside of basketball. I'm talking about her past in the WNBA and she's only been in for a few years but when you become catapulted into the spotlight for your actions and when it hits mainstream like it has, this incident with with Kaitlyn, well all of a sudden your past becomes fair game. So yeah, be careful what you wish for WNBA. Now everything is out there.

It's all out there. In Atlanta, she was suspended for getting into an altercation with a teammate, mostly verbal, but threatening to fight and beat up her teammate. That was in Atlanta. They suspended her and then they were happy to let her walk. In LA, she was brought on board by Derek Fisher.

Remember that very short experiment with Fisher as the head coach of the Sparks? I don't even think she lasted a season. She was let go for conduct detrimental to the team. So I think it's fair to say she's got a bit of a temper.

Sometimes her passion steers her in the wrong direction and when she tells you that she'll compete with anyone, that includes her own teammates. So Carter's got a bit of a history and when she says she's more than one little clip referring to a video or a short that's gone viral, well yeah she definitely is. There's a bit of a track record here.

I haven't heard anything new from Sides or the Fever, but I do think they're handling it as well as they possibly can. It is non-stop right now around Kaitlyn Clark. And I'm not telling you it's all positive, nor is it all negative. It's a mixed bag. It's one of those moments where everyone has an opinion.

Where the storyline and the athlete transcend the sport. In fact, I'm looking up right now at SportsCenter and there it is again. It's everywhere. I've seen it everywhere. I'm sure you have too.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence. I'm fascinated by her social media behavior and how something like this can hit the information superhighway and it just it goes insane. People have to take sides. Yeah, I just got called clueless on Twitter. See what I mean? People can't, they can't, a little bit like politics, can't talk about this situation right now in many cases without freaking out.

So yeah, it's a powder keg and it's here's the one thing I think is unfortunate. I like that women's basketball is getting more attention. I think for Kaitlyn and some of the other young players, Angel Reese, we talked about Camila Cardoso, even Aliyah Boston who's a second year player but had such a great first season with the fever. I've even seen people speculate about where Paige Becker's could get selected next year.

That's NFL level stuff. To start speculating about where a prospect is taken in the draft, that's not something we generally do in the WNBA, haven't for a long time. The league's been around nearly 30 years and so there is this great groundswell of support and interest in the league but at the same time I wish it was about the basketball, the actual basketball. Not a hard foul on Clark, why Angel Reese didn't speak to the media, why Carter wouldn't talk either, why she's posting on social media, what Teresa Witherspoon has to say, how many times Clark's been fouled, whether or not the league's treating her fairly, whether or not the league wants her to be there at all, whether or not it's just about her. I mean my goodness, I wish it was about the hoops but again social media and the narratives not something that people can control.

I can't harness it any more than you can. A lot of times we're just along for the ride and yet I kind of feel like we take the bait a lot as a society. So here's this moment, it's viral, everybody has an opinion, it's divisive, it's passionate. I don't know if there are any right or wrong answers but there's certainly a lot of disagreements over what happened and who's right and who's not and whether or not Kaitlyn's getting treated fairly and who's jealous and who's not and if this is good for the league and if it isn't. I guess ultimately the fact that people are noticing that there's a WNBA and that people are showing up at games and advertisers are paying money to be part of a partnership with the league, all that's good. But I really hope at some point it becomes about the basketball. But see that's the thing again, we can't control it. Once it gets out there it takes on a life of its own. That's the day and age that we live in for sure. A little bit of a case study and going viral and social media and that next level type of attention that again cannot be harnessed. It just goes where it goes and goes how it goes and it'll die down. It'll die down relatively quickly and we'll be on to the next thing. But man it's everywhere you look right now. It's everywhere you look right now.

That includes Twix. So you can find me there at A Law Radio or on our Facebook page After Hours with Amy Lawrence. We like this question.

This was a great idea from producer Jay. In light of one of Angel's comments that people don't watch a league for a single athlete, we wondered what league, what game, what sport have you ever watched or got drawn into by a single athlete? Now it may not be that way anymore but I'll dare say there are people out there who started watching more hoops because of Kobe Bryant or people who started watching football because of a particular quarterback. Gosh how many college football fans out there have followed their favorite players to the NFL and there's certainly a great debate, a lively debate over whether or not this is all about Kaitlyn Clark. There's no denying the fact that there are a lot more people watching the league and watching the WNBA simply because of her. Now she won't be enough to keep people there more than likely unless she goes on some kind of a tear.

But man all this drama will keep people around. What game or sport, maybe what league have you gotten sucked into because there was one athlete that you wanted to see? Maybe one that you'd heard about you couldn't wait to watch more of.

Lindsay Jayle put up a post on our show Twitter, Twixy Twitter, had Amy after hours and then also on our Facebook page. Kyrie Irving getting honest about his time in Boston. I appreciate that he's not not going to pretend like it was all amazing. Points for Kyrie right now. I appreciate that he's not going to act like it didn't happen. Embrace it.

It's the dark side. Novak Djokovic looks like he is primed and ready despite back-to-back five set matches. This current number one player in the world who's chasing a 25th Grand Slam singles title most of all time, men or women, he appears to be closer to the form that we had come to expect of him.

Even at 37 years old playing matches till 3 30 in the morning Paris time. This looks more like Novak. We didn't get to this the last couple days just for a variety of reasons. Also we don't work on the weekend but how about the whole Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight at least for now being completely put on the shelf. Tyson's got some health issues.

Oh definitely don't want those in the ring but now Jake Paul is making a plea to reschedule. I don't know is anybody sad about that? The fun just begun.

If a tree falls in the woods and nobody's there to hear it does it actually make a noise? A major upset at the Women's College World Series too. So there's lots of good stuff. Football, football, football.

Just kidding we're not doing all football but we will do a little just because we're still having fun with CJ Stroud's top five quarterbacks from the NFL last season. But everybody's got an opinion. What's that phrase that we're not allowed to use on the radio? It just would be inappropriate for our show.

Opinions are like you know like body parts and everybody's got one. Yeah something like that. Something like that. Along those lines.

I'm paraphrasing. All right we'll hear from Angel Reese and Kennedy Carter and I'd love to hear your opinion. Our phone number is 855-212-4227. That's 855-212-4CBS.

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It's really funny. All right on Twix at Amy After Hours. Also on our Facebook page.

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This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. She is responding about the only way that you can and still be professional and not hurt your team. Now, Kaitlyn's lost her temper a couple times too. In, in both cases, well, in one case, she was yapping at a ref, which is not ever acceptable either. But as a rookie, you're probably not going to have a lot of leeway when you're, when you're jawing at a referee about a call. And then there was another situation where she and an opponent got into a little bit of a snippy conversation and they both got teed up.

And so she's had her couple of times also where she's not represented herself as well and where her emotions have gotten the best of her. She is definitely getting a lot of pushback from veterans in the league. It's no different than when a high profile savior type quarterback is drafted number one overall.

And yes, I'm being tongue in cheek. He's drafted number one overall. He's going to save the franchise. He's going to change the league.

No one's ever been as highly rated as him coming out of school, blah, blah, blah. The hype is over the top. It happens all the time. It happens all the time. It's blah.

The hype is over the top. It happens almost every year. Okay, maybe not every year. It happens frequently.

Couple times every five-year period. Trevor Lawrence, Caleb Williams. We could go on and on about top profile or top prospect, high profile quarterbacks. And when they get into the league, what happens? Defensive linemen, pass rushers, veteran linebackers. They want to say welcome to the NFL in a very special way.

No doubt that veterans don't want to hear about some rookie who hasn't played a snap in the NFL and how great he's going to be and how he's going to pick their defense to shreds. It's no different. Whatever you call that, well, that's the same thing that's happening in the WNBA.

And I said this recently. I kind of resist the idea that this is women being jealous of other women. It's just human beings.

It doesn't matter what gender you are. In sports, it's highly competitive. In our business, in sports radio and sports broadcasting, it's highly competitive. People get annoyed.

Fans get annoyed, for heaven's sakes, hearing about one player over and over and over and over again. It's just how it goes. As humans, a lot of times we compare ourselves to others. And in sports, these athletes are comparing themselves to others. And also, hey, well, what about me? I did something that great too.

How come I'm not getting the coverage? Again, just human nature. I mean that, again, that's what social media helps to incite among people in our society. We're constantly comparing ourselves to other people. It's a dangerous game to play. So yeah, I don't know that the way the WNBA veterans are welcoming Kaitlyn is all that different than what veteran defenders will do to a quarterback who hasn't earned his stripes yet in the NFL.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence. I do think though that, as I mentioned to start the show, it's too bad that it's not the basketball that's getting the attention. But right now, there's this viral fascination with anything to do with Kaitlyn Clark. And you can yell about it all you want, but there's nothing you can do to stop it.

At least not right now. Now Angel Reese, she's a rookie who's obviously tied to Kaitlyn forever, going back to that very first national championship game in which LSU beat Iowa. But that was really the start of this flood of attention for both players.

But Iowa got more of it. And so she is standing next to her teammate Kennedy Carter on Monday and they're both answering questions about Kaitlyn Clark. Angel, by the way, says the reason she didn't stick around post-game on Saturday is because her family was there and there was a miscommunication. She paid the fine, the team paid the fine.

But that's not really the issue. Angel is saying, hey, Kaitlyn and I came in together. We're tied together because of that national championship. And to say that the attention now being focused on the league is all about Kaitlyn, that's incorrect. It all started from the national championship game and I've been dealing with this for two years now.

And understanding negative things have probably been said about me. But honestly, I'll take that because look where women's basketball is. People are talking about women's basketball, but you never would think that we'd be talking about women's basketball. People are pulling up to games.

We got celebrities coming to games, sold out arenas, just because of one single game. And just looking at that, I'll take that role. I'll take the bad guy role and I'll continue to take that on and be that for my teammates. And if I want to be that, and I know I'll go down in history, I'll look back in 20 years and be like, yeah, the reason why we watching women's basketball is not just because of one person, it's because of me too. And I want y'all to realize that. So Angel kind of looking at the history between her and Kaitlyn and you can agree or disagree.

And I always use my mom as a gauge. She's just one person, but she does represent a human, an American who didn't know squat about the WNBA before this year, before about a month ago. And now she's wearing a fever Jersey that has Kaitlyn Clark's number on it.

I mean, that is a pretty drastic spike in interest and that's happening all over the country. I'm not saying Angel isn't popular, but there's a different level of interest that has come with Kaitlyn. And so we're using Angel's comments as a way to set up our show question, because Angel is saying people don't watch a league for a single athlete. So is there a game or a sport, maybe a league specifically that you've been drawn into because of one single athlete? I mean, I just told you, my mom would say Kaitlyn Clark right away. Is there someone you needed to see?

And I'll go first after I tell you about my mom. I never, not even one time, not even remotely interested in watching a golf tournament before Tiger Woods came along. I watched him as a junior. Then I watched pretty much every tournament that he played in. I went to golf tournaments to watch Tiger Woods and to follow the galleries around. Even as I was working in this business, I would buy tickets to golf tournaments because I wanted to be able to walk around and watch Tiger play. So that's just one example.

I've got a couple others, but I mean, that's a pretty drastic example. I probably knew a few golfers on the tour, mostly because my maternal grandmother was a big golfer and she would watch. Arnold Palmer was her favorite. So I knew about Arnie. I knew about Jack Nicholas.

I knew about some of the golfers from her era, but I didn't know anything about really anything about golf at all and never watched a tournament, not even the masters. Other than, oh gosh, the one Marco Belletti's here in studio, the one where Greg Norman had the complete and total collapse against Nick Faldo. Remember that? I don't remember what year that was, 96, 95. I think it was earlier than that, but no, I don't remember the exact year. That I'm not good with, but I do remember that, yeah. It was 96.

Ooh, nailed it. Anyway, that one I remember vividly only because I was watching it with a group of friends of mine, school friends, and we just were so blown away by it. But I never watched a golf tournament, not even a major, before Tiger Woods came along. But once he did, I was all in. So that's my example. Yeah, I'll be fair.

I was racking my brain when you were saying it. I think I'm going to be an outlier on this. I gotta be fair, I don't think there was ever an athlete that made me watch sports. It was the sport itself that drew me in. There are certain athletes that you want to watch more. As a kid, I wanted to watch Lawrence Taylor every time he played, not just being a giant fan, just because you marvel at the fact that he was all over the field and everything that he did. But would I have watched the game if he wasn't playing?

Yeah. Like, I can't think of, and I think it was just because I was wired weird as a four or five-year-old that I was drawn to every sport. You just grew up in a family that- No, I didn't because we didn't. I thought your dad was into- My father's a soccer guy. He grew up in Italy. He learned this stuff when he came to America, but he doesn't really watch.

He watches sports, he doesn't really know what he's looking at. So no, it wasn't that, it was just me. My brother was into it too, so we watched it together. But even stuff that, he didn't watch basketball, I did. So there was just stuff that I got drawn into was the sport. It was the, I don't know if it was the competition, whatever the hell it was that drew me into it, but it was never the person. It was almost like it was the laundry because if you could take that one, all right, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, great.

That's so much fun. Oh, Jordan's here now? Okay. So it was almost like, who's the next guy? That was good enough for me. So I don't really, I can't think of an example that I had that it was the person that drew me in. I think of the sport. Gotcha.

Okay. So Marco's not one of those people. Jay, do you have an example? I thought immediately Apollo Ono speed skating. Would I ever have watched any sort of speed skating or any interest in it if not for Apollo Ono? No, but I think everyone kind of was, he was must watch TV at one point in those Olympic races.

So I think he's a great example. I think Michael Phelps would be another great example. You know, just if we're talking Olympics, because how many people would sit and watch swimming until Michael Phelps came along. And remember that summer, she was at Beijing, where that summer where the races were in the middle of the daytime here. And everybody pretty much stopped watching him pursue the gold medals while he was racing that first week of the summer Olympics. I think it was Beijing, but don't quote me on that. Anyway, so that's a good one.

Just got a tweet at Amy after hours. I started watching tennis because of the Williams sisters. So there's another one too.

Yeah. I mean, it's, it's maybe different in individual sport, but even in team sports, I'm sure there are plenty of people that started watching a lot more hoops because of Kobe Bryant or because of LeBron James, or we can talk about superstars. How about people?

Yeah, certainly Michael Jordan. How about people who watch football because of Tom Brady? So that, that is a, I think that's a fairly normal, normal, that's a fairly typical type of a response for people who they fall in love with one player in a game, maybe one game, and then they're all in a hundred percent. Like I said, it's, it's common. That's the, that's usually the story that you hear and what it was one person or one game or whatever was that, that drew you in, that gravitates you to everything.

Like I said, I, I'm definitely an outlier in this. I don't know why that the sport itself at four or five years old really just drew me in. You put on the TV and you put a sport on, I was all in. And I don't know why it was never, it was almost like I learned the players afterwards.

I didn't care. And then, you know, you take it from there when you get a little older, it's a little different. So a couple other examples too, I think about following the baseball strike in the mid 90s and how a lot of people point to Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, and then home run chase that drew people back. Now, maybe they were already baseball fans to begin with, but that kind of sucked people back in.

Even Cal Ripken the next year, breaking the record with the consecutive games, that helped draw a lot of people back in because there were still a lot of contempt for the game at that point. Yeah, interesting stuff. So love to hear from you on Twitter at Amy After Hours, our Facebook page too.

Jay's put a post up. We're now taking some of your answers and sharing them, but Angel Reese says nobody watches a sport for one single athlete. Maybe you don't watch it forever.

If you become a fan, you kind of have to have a little more of an interest, but initially people start watching sports for one person all the time. You are listening to the After Hours Podcast. Man, that sunset is gorgeous. Grill, patio, sunset.

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Kennedy, Carter, Kaitlin, Clark. It's a cool alliteration. Just it fits perfectly.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. Well, she now is speaking out and wants you to know why she wasn't answering questions about that incident or about Kaitlin on Saturday. I'm a person that when something happens, I need time to get my thoughts together. Heat of the moment answering is not probably the best answer. So for those who wanted a heat of the moment answer, I'm actually glad I didn't give you one. I'm glad you guys came today and actually asked me and just asked me how I felt and here I am. I'm letting you know.

So if you don't mind then, what about that moment where you gave her a shoulder shivvy, a shoulder shiv, a shoulder shimmy and she hit the ground? I think at the end of the day, I'm a competitor. Now that it's another day, I've had an off day.

Now I can answer and I can let you know how I really feel about things. But I'm a competitor and I'm going to compete no matter who you are and no matter who's in front of me. So that's just what it was. Heat of the moment play. We're getting at it. We're going back and forth. It's basketball. It's all hoops. After we finish the game, it's all love. Eh, I'm not sure I believe that.

Maybe in some cases, not in this one. Quote, beside three point shooting, what does she bring to the table, man? Oh, I do like that. That was the second social media post. There were some from before that when she wouldn't answer questions, she did take to social media.

But this was on threads more recently. Beside three point shooting, what does she bring to the table, man? Also, Carter would respectfully ask that you don't judge her based on that two-second clip. I'm just seeing a lot of things of players, not of fans, just not understanding who I am as a player. You have to understand me as a person too. And don't just look at one tape and form an opinion about me. I'm a, I'm truly a passionate person about the game and I'm genuine. You can ask all my teammates. They've got to know me.

They know the real Kennedy Carter. So I'm just saying, don't form an opinion off of one little clip and you didn't even see the whole game and or the play that led to that. I mean, there was some verbal interaction between the two before that and Kaitlyn had a foul on, or had a hard contact, wasn't called a foul, but had a hard, I'll call it a foul, hard foul on Carter earlier. And so there was a back and forth and that's, you know, that to me, that's basketball. I'm much more in the school of basketball as a contact sport and they should be allowed to bang around. However, that was just dumb. Running into her when play is stopped, it's a dead ball foul and nothing's happening. That's not how you get your shots in.

Otherwise you just get the whistle blown. But there is history with Carter. So when she says, don't judge me by one little clip and one piece of tape without watching the game, I will allow, and I will readily admit that human beings grow up, they change, they mature, they make smarter decisions, they get more professional, but she's got a history, not just with opponents, but with her own teammates. She wore out her welcome in both Atlanta and LA for conduct detrimental to the team.

Now again, she may be a completely different person now, but it's not like she doesn't have a track record of wanting to fight people. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence. What's one sport or league or event that you watch solely because of a single athlete? Steve is in Boston. Steve, what do you think? Hey, I first wanted to say I'm a huge fan of yours.

I usually am not up to listen to your show live, but I listened on some of the Odyssey show apps. Sweet. I grew up in New England. I'm a huge New England kid, grow up like baseball, football, soccer, basketball, football, the big four in soccer, I would say. So for me, um, something that was a little bit out of the norm would have been men's tennis.

I've been a sports fan from like the late sixties to now. And I would say like when, when McEnroe, Connor and board playing tennis all at the same time, and you had that little edge between, um, Connor was a slight bad boy. McEnroe was a big bad boy. So the controversy with that, which I think is a little bit similar to what you're seeing now, I liked your, um, your reference to Tiger Woods. And I would also say like, obviously the Williams sisters were influential, but that was what I, that was the thing for me that would draw me into something that I didn't usually watch.

I agree. And when you've got a rivalry too, it's even a stronger reaction too. So I loved John McEnroe. Uh, he was terrific. And while I wasn't so much into the rivalry with him, I did love Agassi and Sampras. So that was one that I really enjoyed watching.

And then the peak of my interest in men's tennis, certainly with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. So I miss them too. Yeah.

So it helps when you've got two. So I appreciate that, Steve. Thanks so much. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Good to hear from Steve and glad to know that he takes advantage of the podcast option, the on-demand option when he's not usually awake at this hour in Boston, we have our show airing on WEI, our Boston affiliate since about year three of the network coming up, our friend, Michael Duarte of NBC LA. We'll have him weigh in.

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