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WNBA star Brittany Griner arrested in Russia

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Not wanting to watch an inferior product is caveman? get a grip. Its boring. Almost any good boys high school team would crush a WNBA team.

Depends on how you watch the game.

If someone is watching a women's game and expecting the same athleticism as a men's game, they will be disappointed.

The fundamentals in the women's game tend to be better because they can't use crazy athleticism to make up for it.
 

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Depends on how you watch the game.

If someone is watching a women's game and expecting the same athleticism as a men's game, they will be disappointed.

The fundamentals in the women's game tend to be better because they can't use crazy athleticism to make up for it.

It's just not for me. I have enough trouble watching mens games (NCAA or NBA) for which I don't have a rooting interest.
 

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There should be a gender salary cap. The men bring in a ton of money and are the best in the world so they get paid. the women bring an inferior product so they don't get paid as much. You don't get paid based on your gender; you get paid on the basis of your value to the business you are in.

Yeah, the big issue with sports gender salary gap was soccer. The women's team is way more competitive and popular than the men's team, and they won their case rightfully so. The way the men's team has played of late, they should be making even less.
 

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Yeah, the big issue with sports gender salary gap was soccer. The women's team is way more competitive and popular than the men's team, and they won their case rightfully so. The way the men's team has played of late, they should be making even less.

They actually lost…and then settled

Their argument was also that the mens te should give them a piece of their World Cup money, Which is laughable

They also turned down the exact same cba as the men for more of a guaranteed salary and to subsidize the womens league
 

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Depends on how you watch the game.

If someone is watching a women's game and expecting the same athleticism as a men's game, they will be disappointed.

The fundamentals in the women's game tend to be better because they can't use crazy athleticism to make up for it.
“Fundamentals are a crutch for the talentless” - Kenny Powers
 

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She was busted before the hostilities in Ukraine became a problem. Sh arrived in Moscow on an international flight, to a country where cannabis is totally illegal. She was carrying a hash pipe, and the official story was that it had hash residue in it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. In the US, being gay and black and a woman and a sports figure is kind of a get out of jail free card. That's not so in Russia. Did she expect to get away with it?
 

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She was busted before the hostilities in Ukraine became a problem. Sh arrived in Moscow on an international flight, to a country where cannabis is totally illegal. She was carrying a hash pipe, and the official story was that it had hash residue in it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. In the US, being gay and black and a woman and a sports figure is kind of a get out of jail free card. That's not so in Russia. Did she expect to get away with it?
Yes.
 

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You gotta know better when the plan entails going to make a living in an authoritarian backwards nation.

Yep. End of the day, she has been living and playing there in the off-season, so she should have known the rules. If she didn't, or was unsure, she should have checked first.
 

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You gotta know better when the plan entails going to make a living in an authoritarian backwards nation.
Especially when things heat up between that authoritarian backwards nation and your home nation over an invasion. You're basically asking to be a hostage. This must be an exceptionally dumb person to risk this
 

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Especially when things heat up between that authoritarian backwards nation and your home nation over an invasion. You're basically asking to be a hostage. This must be an exceptionally dumb person to risk this
Agreed. But truth be told, I think the arrest came pre-invasion. But one could argue tensions predated invasion.
 

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Agreed. But truth be told, I think the arrest came pre-invasion. But one could argue tensions predated invasion.
Yep, pre invasion but Russia had been building up the troops for quite some time. Do we know the exact date of the arrest? The first I heard of it was the first week of March and suppossedly she had already been in jail for a bit.
 

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Yep, pre invasion but Russia had been building up the troops for quite some time. Do we know the exact date of the arrest? The first I heard of it was the first week of March and suppossedly she had already been in jail for a bit.
Not 100% sure. The timeline was she was arrested 3 weeks prior to the release of the story.
 

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Yeah, the big issue with sports gender salary gap was soccer. The women's team is way more competitive and popular than the men's team, and they won their case rightfully so. The way the men's team has played of late, they should be making even less.
Thier games bring in a ton more money than the womens' games do and that is why paying the men more is justified.
 

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Thier games bring in a ton more money than the womens' games do and that is why paying the men more is justified.

Actually, in soccer, since about 2015, the women's soccer team has brought in roughly the same amount of revenue as the men, if not slightly more.
 

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Actually, in soccer, since about 2015, the women's soccer team has brought in roughly the same amount of revenue as the men, if not slightly more.

And that’s why their claim got tossed out of court

They settled to stop all the appeals. Wasting legal fees and pr

Because humans are ignorant sheep
 

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Actually, in soccer, since about 2015, the women's soccer team has brought in roughly the same amount of revenue as the men, if not slightly more.
Hard to believe since the Men's World Cupo brings in more money than any other sporting event in the world.
 

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Hard to believe since the Men's World Cupo brings in more money than any other sporting event in the world.

Unless all of the money is going to the US, it doesn't really matter. The US Men don't even manage to qualify most years and don't tend to stick around for very long when they do.

The US Women's team, on the other, seems toqualify every year and tends to make it to the finals most years.
 
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