Caitlin Clark

[KevinLoveFan]

My mom knows to not talking figure skating with me...i just really dont care, lol

My kids have never been into sports, but last summer I appealed to my daughters genius level STEM mind (studying molecular cellular biology at the honors college straight A's, yes I am bragging on my daughter, deal with it, lol)

Anyways, my daughter was home from college and I told her how much baseball is stats driven. She started listening did some research with my help with the stats and fell in love with baseball.

Fast forward to a month ago when my daughter had to do a stats project for a "client" in her Data Science class (double major) and wrote computer programs for all of the Guardians 2023 stats. She ended up doing more than she needed, ofcourse got an A in the class, but I will use anything I can to get a child into a sport that I love, lol (first time it worked, wont force a kid to watch with me, they are allowed to be who they are)

Thought you would appreciate that story and while i am not into woman sports a ton, it will explain to why I am so defensive about women in sports, as a fan or athlete or coach or executive, its just that my whole sports fandom involves women.

That's really cool!

I admit, I never did get into baseball (also only marginally ever got into hockey, of the big four team sports). The closest I got was in the early 2000s when I read about Shawn Green in Sports Illustrated and decided I would try to learn and watch because he was really hot (apparently I wasn't the only gentile woman who thought so; I think he ended up marrying one). But I didn't learn much; I just ended up drooling over him and not paying attention to much else on the field.

As for son, I'll definitely encourage him in sports, but if he ends up more like Dada and doesn't care much for it, I'll be fine with that also.

I'm totally cool with men being disinterested in sports, including women's sports. I don't mind at all an objective approach where someone says they don't like to watch the women because they just can't physically achieve the same kind of strength and speed as the top men; those things are empirically true, and no one should ever take offense at empirical truth. It's when the comments become mocking or insulting rather than simply objective and matter-of-fact, that I start to roll my eyes.

 

[Lee]

That's really cool!

I admit, I never did get into baseball (also only marginally ever got into hockey, of the big four team sports). The closest I got was in the early 2000s when I read about Shawn Green in Sports Illustrated and decided I would try to learn and watch because he was really hot (apparently I wasn't the only gentile woman who thought so; I think he ended up marrying one). But I didn't learn much; I just ended up drooling over him and not paying attention to much else on the field.

As for son, I'll definitely encourage him in sports, but if he ends up more like Dada and doesn't care much for it, I'll be fine with that also.

I'm totally cool with men being disinterested in sports, including women's sports. I don't mind at all an objective approach where someone says they don't like to watch the women because they just can't physically achieve the same kind of strength and speed as the top men; those things are empirically true, and no one should ever take offense at empirical truth. It's when the comments become mocking or insulting rather than simply objective and matter-of-fact, that I start to roll my eyes.

LMAO, I was going to point out the Shawn Green was a fellow Jew

Both of my kids played sports early on, neither took to them though, both for different reasons, wont bore you with the reasons.

But yeah, i need a team to root for, and didnt feel connected to the Cleveland Rockers and Since I have been here in Phoenix, have yet to connect with the local teams although I have lived in Phoenix longer than I lived in Akron.

I got into Woman's basketball when Purdue was good and attended several games the year that Steph White (who i knew) won POTY and a National Title for us. And I watch woman's track and field about as much as the men, which is only every 4 years at the Olympics, but I do watch it...and gymnastics like I said.

But the only woman's sport I watch actively is Tennis,