Get the week's news unspun WEEK END REVIEW
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Get the week's news unspun WEEK END REVIEW
Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
2023 04 21 - SPORTS TIME OUT - Sexual appropriation is dangerous
[00:00:00]
[00:00:00] Michelle: It's the My Michelle Live podcast. My, my Michelle live. My Michelle Live sports
[00:00:06] Garrick: timeout.
[00:00:07] Michelle: The fans, the field, the faith, the fun. Here's Michelle. Yeah, I am and I am not alone. I'm here with the boys and we're ready to sports it up. These are some of my favorite people on the planet. They bless me in ways.
[00:00:25] Ugh. And they bless me in sports. And today we are gonna be taking on sports with a twist of faith. We look for the God's story cuz there always is one. Let me introduce you to the team we have with us, Brent. You have a sound bite, Brent, believe it or not, photographer Brent
[00:00:46] Brent: r
[00:00:46] Michelle: Baker.
[00:00:52] And we have with us Garrick Payne. Get ready to get[00:01:00] hey. You could have, and then of course the one and only Dell did we.
[00:01:13] Of course, Dell has an outstanding book that has to do with sports and faith. He has quite a few of them, so you can find links@mymichellelive.com. Fellas, it's good to talk with you. So let me explain if you're new and boy has our audience. Blossomed in the last few months. So for those of you who are new, each one of us has our own sports favorite.
[00:01:39] We have our own sport that we really and others, eh, we'll take it or leave it. But there are always issues that go beyond the pitch, the court, the field, that are pertinent to everyone, even if you're new to the game. Hey guys, happy Friday.
[00:01:58] Garrick: Happy Friday to [00:02:00] you and to our
[00:02:00] Michelle: one. Hello, wonderful audience.
[00:02:04] Audience, wonderful audience. Blossoming or flowering or so guys right off the bat, I did wanna talk about hockey season. We're into the, to the Stanley Cup playoffs. Brent, if you're folks, if you're watching, Brent has a nice hockey rink in the background and And I had the privilege of a couple of weeks ago, Del, you didn't hear about this, but Garrick went to his first N Hhl game ever.
[00:02:32] Oh really?
[00:02:34] Garrick: And yeah, and yell. It was awesome. Yep. Yeah. We talked about it last week about how much different an in-person hockey game is to a TV hockey game. It was amazing.
[00:02:48] Michelle: Yeah, it's pretty exciting and there's been some really fun things going on. There's been like the maple Leafs had a big bounce back in their series against against [00:03:00]Florida.
[00:03:00] And man, that's been something else. Fans had. Pitchforks out for one of the refs. And this is interesting because this comes to play in just about every sport. A ref that gets a bad rep with a team that just seems to do some bad calls against a team it seems to be uneven. How does that happen and why do they keep letting them ref for games for that, for those teams?
[00:03:27] Brent: Sometimes it's nothing. I think often it's nothing nefarious. It just
[00:03:32] Michelle: seems
[00:03:32] Brent: that way. It's a c, it feels that way. I remember in my sports writing days, there was a family that, they had three sons, I think they were like Adam, Aaron, and another, a name, and I. I, I don't know what it was, but it was like I was really good about separating brothers and sisters and all this and my sports coverage.
[00:03:53] That family, for some reason, I could not get it right. It was like every other week I'd get a call from the mom about that. [00:04:00] I got son number two mixed up with son number three, and thankfully she was really nice about it. She's yeah, it was my fault for narrating, naming 'em all with A's at the start.
[00:04:09] But it was like, and I'd get it in my head, I was like, oh no, it's them again. And I'd be really careful about writing it up and then somehow I would still blow it. So I think some of that, like psychology can come into play even with, as professionals. It's whether it be the players or even the ref, it's oh boy, this guy again.
[00:04:27] Yep. Yep. And it just becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
[00:04:30] Garrick: No, I totally agree, Brent. We have referees. So I play men's league soccer. And we have a couple players who, when we get to the game, they're like, oh no, that ref, he hates me. And sure enough, and there, there will be a tackle that will happen and.
[00:04:46] And he'll get a yellow card and then it'll pick up again from there. And then, so the player will be after the ref, and then the ref will be back. And then it's okay, you're just feeding the narrative, right? And so yeah it can be a self-fulfilling [00:05:00] prophecy. I think sometimes they just.
[00:05:01] Reschedule them just to, so that they can maybe redeem themselves, perhaps.
[00:05:06] Brent: We sometimes you actually get some actual dislike too, and that
[00:05:09] Garrick: and the challenge as a fan is that you see anything that seems out of whack and then you jump all over it.
[00:05:16] Michelle: Okay. But sometimes we do see refs that just make these crazy bad calls, and you might say it's self-fulfilling prophecy, whatever.
[00:05:26] But I see this a lot in soccer where they seem to make these stupid redeeming calls. It's That nothing happened there. And maybe he feels bad about the bad call he just made. You can't do that. It doesn't work that way. Is it just me? But I see that a lot, Dell, what do you say in the, in this regard?
[00:05:46] Del: I see that a lot too, and everybody sees it and as much as they want to. Say it. There are some bias that goes in from officials and it's just the way that's part of the game and you can pinpoint it. And it's not coincidence that the same [00:06:00]guy or gal has made a bad call on this same team five years in a row or whatever.
[00:06:06] It does happen. You go back and this is not holding a grudge. And in the Super Bowl two years ago, you had that Phantom Kamal on Logan Wilton. Then the same crew is doing the Bengals chiefs game. And then there was a couple of, questionable calls, you said that's the same crew.
[00:06:21] Okay. Okay. That makes sense now. So I don't think they have an out form, so to speak, but they do will they will make they'll be eager to throw a flag or blow a whistle. And sometimes, and they wouldn't have on any of the other team and they'd do it with players or certain players that they do watch for.
[00:06:37] And that's just, that's part of the game
[00:06:39] Brent: too. One of the really interesting things that came out, I think it was about two weeks ago, the N NBA or the N NBA didn't do it. I think the Athletic did a survey of n b players, a anonymously, and one of the things that they included in that was who are the best officials and who are the worst officials?
[00:06:55] And the same guy. Showed up. The same guy who's listened as the [00:07:00]vert, the best official on one side was like the third worst. So you can see how a lot a lot of this becomes yeah, I don't wanna say becomes personal grudges, but the hu the human error, the human aspect comes into
[00:07:11] Michelle: it. If Dell and I are playing each other and he makes all these calls in favor of Dell, then he's Dell's favorite.
[00:07:19] Re he's my
[00:07:21] Brent: And you your least favorite. Yeah. Had more to do with, I think their personality on the court and how they interacted with players more than calls. I think most of the time when you get away from the moment, the players will understand that calls are gonna come and go against 'em. But it's more oh, this guy, he was a jerk to me last time, or
[00:07:39] Michelle: he is, okay.
[00:07:40] Yep. That's fair enough. But as Dell said, and I've heard Garrick say before, guess what guys? It's kind of part of the game, the factor. I've thought about that cuz it's always bugged me. I'm like, yeah, I don't agree. I don't agree. That makes me mad. But when I think about it, guys, really, if we [00:08:00]start getting so v a r on everything, too much takes out the human factor.
[00:08:07] We might as well just have robots play. It's. Part of life And isn't sports an analogy of life? So we know that we get bad calls in life and you gotta keep playing anyway. How do you handle that? Do you let it ruin the rest of your game in life or on the field? Some news and some food for thought.
[00:08:28] But wrapping up the N H L couple of things. Kraken. Hello. Love it. They're holding their own against the cup defender and that's pretty good. They're this, their series is tied one one, but boy, the Kraken had a really good start. They were up two zero. They ended up Ty tying through the second.
[00:08:52] The second period. And then in the third period they were able to go down by one. So still they're holding their [00:09:00] own. That's really exciting and very historical because it is their first appearance as a, as the latest Inhl team. And then there was this story. I sent you guys this link. I don't know if you saw it, but the Jets had a player who got 75 stitches after a skate to the face, 75.
[00:09:24] That, that alters your face for the rest of your life.
[00:09:28] Garrick: If it's a hockey player, you'll wear it like a badge of honor. Of course.
[00:09:32] Brent: I knew he was right back out there the next game
[00:09:34] Michelle: oh, you got the Stanley Cup in the background there, Garrick. So
[00:09:38] Brent: I
[00:09:38] Michelle: did. Did you ever think what filthy that thing is after everybody kisses it?
[00:09:43] Garrick: I know. I know. I have to polish it constantly because everybody always wants to touch it and I just hate that.
[00:09:50] Brent: Oh, when it gets passed around from team to team every year it goes, it sees a lot of action before it gets. Back to your house.
[00:09:55] Michelle: Yeah. If you're concerned about them germs, you might not wanna [00:10:00] wa watch Jacoba Bitch because he has, he's apparently regrets nothing.
[00:10:05] He's, he sits in front of these reporters and they're like, don't you regret now that you didn't get vaccinated? Don't you just really, you're talking
[00:10:14] Garrick: about OV bitch, the tennis player? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. Okay. I'm not even say anything between
[00:10:25] Michelle: don't you regret it? Shame on. That's the feeling that I get. I don't know if you get, if I'm just pulling it out because of my bias, but that's the feeling I get. Shame on you. Aren't you ashamed of what you did? Now see, it's just, it. Will this ever end?
[00:10:43] Del: Now you we mentioned people having an out, players having enough for refs and refs, having it out for players.
[00:10:47] I think the media has it out for
[00:10:48] Michelle: him. Yeah, they kinda do. And he's gotten the of the stick, but he's stayed strong and true to what he believes. So there. There you go. All right we're gonna go [00:11:00]into Dell territory as we talk about the nfl, right? There's some news stories that I wanna bring to the forefront.
[00:11:06] If you guys have some thoughts on, the draft coming up, whatever I wanna hear from you. But there's some. There's some things happening in the background. We always talk about it every year, and it's almost like a soap opera. It's the N F L soaps. But Jalen Hurt has become the highest played player in the N F L move over Russell Wilson and your 12 bathrooms because Jaylen is coming.
[00:11:36] That's a big deal. And the. L a Raiders owner, Mark Davis, is weighing in on the Oakland A's move to. Las Vegas. He does, he, there's no love loss there. Most of that, if I understand right, is because of disputes over their stadium territory and all of that. [00:12:00] But I'm never, I, it's always confusing to me.
[00:12:03] And not okay. When you have these teams that move to another city, it's really tough because that's the one thing that holds fans together. This is my team, this is my city. And now you move it to someplace like Vegas and it's just so weird, rename it don't be the a's anymore. Don't be the dodger.
[00:12:23] Okay that's long since pass.
[00:12:24] Brent: Wait a minute. Yeah. Wait a minute. Although the A's have a long history too. It is. I. I think not all. It seems like half of their, what, 50 years in Oakland, they've spent on the verge of moving. Yes. It's been, they've been through different ownership groups.
[00:12:38] Charlie Finley back in the seventies was always had one foot of out of town, even when they were winning the World Series. And there was an ownership group that's previous to this one that was between them that did really well. That was like during the, Canseco McGuire days when they were contenders. But man, there is no worse venue from what I hear than that coliseum right now. Oakland, Alameda [00:13:00] Coliseum or whatever they call it now, they're talking about possums in the press booth and sewage backing up into the locker rooms and it's been going on for years. And it seems like they've done nothing either to improve conditions for the players or make it a place that people would want to go.
[00:13:15] So they've engineered their own exit. Now you've got 15 people going to games there, so everybody's yeah, make a move. If you alienate everybody, And what do you thinks gonna happen?
[00:13:24] Garrick: And don't be mean. Ben Brent they've had 25 average recently,
[00:13:30] Michelle: I'm exaggerating, knows how to build a stadium they know how to put on the show.
[00:13:34] We'll give them that. Then there is the N NFL PA's latest data that shows that players have fewer injuries. On grass than artificial turf. Don't weigh in on that. You've been following n NFL for quite some time now. You're a game after game. What say you?
[00:13:56] Del: This doesn't surprise me.
[00:13:58] No, the, you the biggest injury I [00:14:00] we ever saw, I think on grass, on real grass was when Tim Krek was again, with the Bengals in the Super Bowl when they had that new turf down, that new sod put in. And everybody who remembers that when Quinn, when Kre Ray's leg just snapped in half and it wobbled in the air.
[00:14:17] Oh yeah. That was on grass, but that was brand new sod that they put down. And it was, and it hadn't taken yet. I think if we just let grass be grass and stop trying to be so sophisticated and then plant new. So every time there's a game, I played on grass for years and Yeah, and I played on AstroTurf, the old AstroTurf when it felt like I got hit by a truck.
[00:14:37] When I, took somebody down to the turf, it's oh, you bounced on that stuff. So I didn't like astro turf at all. Now the new turf today is okay. It looks, it's nice, but there's nothing. Nothing beats all just grass. It does give a little bit, and it is softer, especially when there's mud and that's part of football.
[00:14:54] Oh,
[00:14:54] Michelle: and it's fun. Oh, I love watching mud ball. I love it. That's glorious. But, [00:15:00]It sounds like you're saying that God knew what he was doing and if God, God invents fields of artificial turf, then maybe we should just go with what God desired.
[00:15:10] Garrick: Let me just, in defense of artificial turf, I will first of all acknowledge the fact that certainly there's gonna be more injuries.
[00:15:18] Cuz if your foot is planted on turf Yep. And someone hits your foot, it's not gonna move. Whereas if it's on grass, it'll give but as a as a weeknight warrior as an amateur athlete this new field turf is outstanding. I used to come home muddy, and because it rans a lot's, the best part.
[00:15:36] Seattle,
[00:15:37] Michelle: I love the muddy, I love mud ball. Come freaking on. I absolutely love it. But maybe
[00:15:43] Brent: 200 nights a year though, Garrick,
[00:15:45] Garrick: it's but see that? But you lose elements of the game. If you're playing in slop.
[00:15:52] Michelle: Yeah. Okay. That may be true, but much like we were talking about with the refs, that's part of the fun of it.
[00:15:58] If you have everything [00:16:00] exact same after same, it's not as exciting, man. I love watching. You
[00:16:04] Garrick: can stick to the game though, then you can play the game.
[00:16:07] Michelle: But I like watching, like Supercross, Supercross for some reason goes up to Seattle in March and they play and they ride around their track in March in Seattle.
[00:16:18] And if you, every stereotype of Seattle, it's true in March. And it's muddy and it's ridiculous and the drivers hate it, but the crowd loves it cuz there's mud splashing everywhere. I think it's part of the excitement and it keeps it from being the same game day after day. Yeah. You deal with those different environments, it's fun and it's like those refs, you can't have it both ways, my friend.
[00:16:42] Come
[00:16:43] Del: on. I think if you go back the way it was, which I think it, I would love to see that's gonna take some of the sophisticated. Did he cross the plane? Back in the day, you used to have to actually be in the end zone to be considered a legitimate touchdown.
[00:16:57] But I think when you have the mud and the [00:17:00] rain and the snow, it takes the great team and the bad team and it makes 'em equal, which makes for a much better game to watch.
[00:17:09] Michelle: That's a great point right there. I like that when we think of In again, in Seattle. And then throughout the World Cup when it comes to the US a lot of stadiums there's a stadium up in my neck of the woods that has to play both ways.
[00:17:27] It has to play football and it's gonna have to play World Cup soccer. They're going to have to, in take, take out some of that artificial turf and they're gonna have to put in grass. So that's gonna be an interesting th. Thing, but they say they can do it. I just I agree with you. Maybe we're getting so technical that we've lost some of the spontaneity of some of our games.
[00:17:51] So I wanna transition and I use that term well, purposefully. Purposefully [00:18:00] to I like
[00:18:00] Garrick: you as a lady, Michelle,
[00:18:02] Michelle: to women's sports. Yeah. So here's something interesting. Then this is in the soccer realm, women's soccer. The headline says Women's soccer is having a moment except in the boardroom, where UEFA has one token spot for women.
[00:18:20] But there was one woman who decided that she was gonna run for another role. Now, while women's soccer is truly exploding in uefa women don't have much of a voice there. And I wanted to talk about how important this is. I'm gonna bring up that Bud Light commercial. There's a reason while people are debating transgender to this transgender that I wanna talk as a woman sports reporter and why I was I felt that Bud Light commercial was not [00:19:00]only a bad move on a communications level, but it was dangerous.
[00:19:04] Dangerous. You see all the people on Facebook with a mark safe from a beer can. It's not about the beer can, it's about the fact that someone appro using gender appropriation dresses up like a woman. And perpetuates a dangerous stereotype. Oh look, I have my face on the can and it's like March Madness.
[00:19:25] And I guess that has something to do with sports, but I thought it was just, it was a crazy month. That stereotype, seriously, that's the stereotype that keeps women. From breaking through glass ceilings and sports reporting, it has been a hard fought battle. And I've come across in hockey of all things in junior league hockey.
[00:19:50] I. Going to a game and having their communications director tell me I think you have a certain naivete where hockey's concerned. I'm like, really? [00:20:00]Is it because I have breasts? Because it isn't because I don't have knowledge. Then I didn't mean to be rude there, but really this I find it really.
[00:20:09] Difficult. And this is an example of why aren't more women able to be voted in, right? Yes. There's a news story that I'll put on the link that shows how many, how, just how much. Broadcasters, sports broadcasters make Now, I was hesitant to send that because I didn't want you guys looking at that and going, okay, this is how much Michelle pays.
[00:20:36] Brent: I want my pay doubled.
[00:20:37] Michelle: You right? Yeah. Okay. You got it. You got it. But it was surprising that w the women sportscasters as good as some of them are still paid a lot less than men. I, there are areas where this really does happen, guys, and I know I'm doing a lot of the talking, but I self-identify as a woman.
[00:20:59] So I [00:21:00] figured, I would weigh in on that, but, Really the last thing I wanted to talk about on this, and I, there are some other news stories and I'll let you weigh in, but Cece Tefl is a well respected sports reporter, and she was speaking out on what she was calling her devastation in the wake of a regular ch Oh, I'm sorry, not CC Effler.
[00:21:23] I. I totally buff that name. Cece Teer is not a sports reporter as a runner. Forgive me, I just got my names all mixed up as I glanced at my notes. CE is says she's, she, he is devastated because republicans in Congress have passed a sports protection of women. Proposal. Zero Democrats have weighed in on that, guys.
[00:21:52] So that really shows how divided we are in this. But I have a really, it's called the Save Women's Sports bill. And [00:22:00] I think it's really interesting how the lines are in the sand are drawn right.
[00:22:06] Brent: All I can say about this really is something that actually happened many years ago, and my sister would kill me if I shared this, but you're gonna do it.
[00:22:14] So my sis my, yeah, I'm gonna do this. My sis my sister was a really good 400 runner. She was running In high school sub, I think she got sub 60 once, so it's a pretty good 400, 400 time. She she went to the state and in, in large school competed. And and she's my younger sister. And one of those things where you're the big brother is you usually win at everything.
[00:22:37] And my sister, this was her thing, and so she decided after the track season was over, she decided she come on to challenge me to a 400. And I could tell she thought she had me. And so we went out to the track together and, I don't remember how badly, but I kicked her butt pretty bad.
[00:22:56] And we finished. [00:23:00] And she's it is so unfair, just because you're a guy. I can work all season and work my work and go to state and you can just step out here like nothing and beat me
[00:23:09] Del: like that. Yeah, that's it right there.
[00:23:13] Brent: That's it right there.
[00:23:15] Garrick: Without training, without any experience as a runner, yeah. It and this Telfer CC Telfer. He's, Jamaican born, was competing at Franklin Pierce University for two years as a male and, couldn't win anything and decided to transition. It's not right.
[00:23:31] Michelle: It's not fair. I now feeling like a victim because it's like I'm being attacked or something.
[00:23:36] I, we've always said on this program people's identity issues, whether we agree with them or not, whether the, there's. There's a, whether it's a mental health issue, whether what all of that is beside the point when it comes to, you're an athlete. Because as an athlete you may be an adulterer, you may be, you may have stolen from the drugstore, stolen a pack of gum from the D [00:24:00]drugstore.
[00:24:00] You're a. You may have all kinds of things in your background, but when you're on the field, you are a player and what you identify as, how you vote, what your spiritual background is, all of those things don't take precedence. Your play does. But that doesn't mean you get to displace someone else.
[00:24:19] There should be a place for transgender athletes and if you feel like you wanna make your own league, make your own league. Dell, did you wanna weigh in on that?
[00:24:28] Del: Yeah. That's the ultimate, that is the most common sense approach to this is if you want to do this, create your own league. And play amongst those who have the, but then that won't go overwhelming either because nobody's gonna have the.
[00:24:45] The clear advantage there. And it doesn't surprise me that vote went against win against party lines. Because Democrats probably looked at that bill and said, female, what the world's a female? I don't know what, I don't know what one is, so I [00:25:00] can't vote for this. Cause I don't know what a woman is.
[00:25:01] That, that's why it went along. Party lines, cuz Democrats have zero idea of what a
[00:25:06] Michelle: female is. But to your point, yeah. There is a world transplant games that's going to be taking place and so they have athletes, they
[00:25:15] Garrick: have transplants. Now. My plant, they have thought my plant was a gender.
[00:25:20] Michelle: Okay. They have athletes who have had heart transplants or liver transplants, and they can't compete on the same level. So they have transplant world trans, a world transplant game is going to be taking place. They have a myriad of differing sports that people will be con competing in. And you think of the transplant games or think of the Paralympics.
[00:25:42] So if you have, yeah. And this, there is a real thing of people who identify as. As amputees they feel in their he head that these legs that I have, they don't belong in my body. I don't feel comfortable with them. They seek to find medical help [00:26:00] in getting them amputated so they can compete. But let's just say as many men who.
[00:26:06] Are still fully men, but they just put on lipstick and they identify as women, they get to compete. Why does not someone who has all of their arms and limbs get to compete in the Paralympics? See the how the logic in the worldview breaks down. My friends, very quickly, I haven't had a transplant, but identify as someone who's had a transplant.
[00:26:28] Why can't they compete? Because they shouldn't be. It breaks down really quickly. One more story if you don't mind, along these lines, because this one I thought was funny. Annie Agar is the person that was in my mind when I saw the other name. She is a, she's, have you met her? Do. I haven't met her, no.
[00:26:50] Okay. She's a N F L reporter and she was invited to ride in a NASCAR vehicle, and it was just real, an indie car [00:27:00] actually. And it was booming fast. It was really excited. And she tweeted afterwards, this is how Tyre Hill feels all the time, isn't it? I've never felt faster. Thanks so much for having me out.
[00:27:11] It was an awesome experience. Tyrell. Afterwards, basically tweeted if you here's my number and a drooly face Yeah. Afterwards, which was really inappropriate. Women, I can, let me just tell you, I can't speak for every woman, but as a woman reporter and a woman reporter in sports, I'm not there to be sexy.
[00:27:34] I'm not there to be drooled over. I'm not there to be hot. I'm there because I love the sport and I love what I do. No more than I mean it, it is. Egregious and unprofessional, and it would've ticked me off, but would I have handled it like Annie? I don't know because she basically tweeted back after he had a run in, in a summer camp or a camp program, brother she basically said, [00:28:00]I don't know.
[00:28:00] It looked like that student had your number, and I just thought that was classy. Good for you. Good for you. I'm doing a lot of talking here guys. Bail me out. Your show.
[00:28:15] I'm pretty passionate about this woman thing. It
[00:28:18] Brent: just Ty Tyre kill doesn't exactly have a sterling reputation
[00:28:21] Michelle: either. Okay, but.
[00:28:24] Del: I the few female reporters that I've met as far as N F L goes has been really, they've all been classy and really and a lot of 'em are very well protected as they should be, as well as far as access to 'em.
[00:28:38] I've met a few and talked to a few of them. But You are, I've never met her. I've never met Erin Andrews, even though she's been a. At the games I've covered, she's pretty well protected with, especially with her background with what's happened to her over the years. Very, I think they've all been very classy in
[00:28:53] Michelle: it.
[00:28:54] And some are, and some will. Yes, they do have their, that background there. And sometimes you [00:29:00] get what you give. You don't want nothing, don't give nothing. However some women have had to cross that line like they have in Hollywood in order. To get a job because a lot of our work has had to be, I'm gonna sit here and be pretty while the big boys talk.
[00:29:16] And that's just gotta stop. We've gotta take that stand and now that we have to contend with you biological men deciding that you can put on lipstick and do what we do.
[00:29:28] Del: And there's also been a few occasions where they think they have to prove it too much to the extent where they're be, where a couple there's a couple of 'em that, that have reputation for being bullies within the locker room, trying to get, make sure they get that first story.
[00:29:43] And so there's, so they have to wash that, they have to cross watch crossing that line of being perceived as pretty and just a another pretty face or as to be. Somebody that really, people don't wanna be around because they're Yeah. Overcompensating. Yeah, exactly. They're trying to make a point that they're [00:30:00] not gonna be
[00:30:00] Michelle: kicked around, that's true. I've seen that as well. And then there's women. I don't go into the men's locker room. I just don't, I don't like, A lot of them do. They do. And I've been there before, but I just feel you know what? I don't want men in my space. I'm not gonna go in men's space. I'm not gonna be a hypocrite.
[00:30:18] And if that means I don't get that story, that's perfectly okay. I'm okay with that.
[00:30:23] Brent: Yeah, you probably have a lot. Whether they say it or not, they probably appreciate that too.
[00:30:29] Del: Yeah, I remember the very first time I I was with I was in Boston at the old Boston Garden Co covering a Celtics game.
[00:30:35] And this was back when, bird and Parish and Macha played at the big three, and it was my first time. To be in a locker room where I ran into a female reporter, but this was, oh my gosh, this was back years ago. And I remember there was Robert Parish was there, was sitting there in a stall, just got outta the shower, had a towel over his leg, and that was about it.
[00:30:57] And so this female reporter [00:31:00] sitting there just talking to the chief, just Uhhuh, and very professional and left. I was the one going. Yeah. It, it was, yes, that was my first experience. Now it's very common. Players are very
[00:31:11] Michelle: used to it. They are. But for me, that's my personal choice.
[00:31:16] I'm not going to say women shouldn't be allowed in there. That's not fair. That's not right. The, A man shouldn't get the lead on a story simply because he's a male and that's where the stories are. I just don't like it. I don't feel comfortable with it. I have seen more than I wanna see, and I think out of respect for the players.
[00:31:35] I just wanna say, that's your space. I'll get the story somehow, and that's part of my faith journey too. Sports and analogy for life. I've gotta trust that if I stick to my. In the integrity that I feel comes from my walk with Christ, right? Then God's gonna give me the opportunities. I don't have to make them, I don't have to bend my ethics in order to get a story.
[00:31:59] Garrick: Eric. [00:32:00]Yeah, I was curious, do do men reporters go into US women's soccer or basketball, N B A W N B A games?
[00:32:09] Michelle: Not regularly. That's just not a thing. So apparently you guys don't matter.
[00:32:17] Garrick: I'm just saying that if there is women in men's locker rooms, then there should be an equal standard applied across the board.
[00:32:24] I would, I'm saying that I. I am in favor of it, but I'm just saying
[00:32:28] Del: What I would do in that case would be get to the, I would ask the person over the media, Hey, I'm gonna wait outside. Can you send such and such players out when they're finished? Yeah. And that would probably go over
[00:32:40] Michelle: Exactly.
[00:32:41] Sure. Two other quick stories as we're running out of time today. Time flies when you're having fun. And I have fun with these guys. Real Madrid and Barcelona are having a war of words of such over Spain's fascist past. They are literally arguing over who is, who's been [00:33:00] more fascist. Have you guys heard that story?
[00:33:03] No. Oh my gosh. It's as though you know that there's this hatred of fascism and this is another way that politics has wormed its way into. Into the sport. So they're little rivals, bitter rivals, on and off the pitch. But real Madrid and FC Barcelona have decided that they are going to argue over who was closely related or in bed with, so to speak, France with Marco the, or Fran Franco.
[00:33:38] Francisco Franco, forgive me during his 36 year rule as a dictator. And it's just another way that things have gotten crazy off the rails. And then finally, US men's national team, they had tied with rival Mexico in the, in their match this week. [00:34:00] And I was really hoping for more a continued domination of the US.
[00:34:04] But it just didn't happen. Garrick, you wanna weigh in?
[00:34:08] Garrick: It is probably one of the world's greatest rivalries currently, especially when it comes to soccer. US men's national team could never beat Mexico, 20 years ago. And and I shouldn't say never, but it was always Mexico and the level of the US men's national team has come up so significantly that we've had some great victories in the last few years and Mexico, of course, struggled in the World Cup and so Mexico really had a chip on their shoulder and something to prove and there's great footballers, soccer players coming out of Mexico.
[00:34:45] Of course. It's true. It always has been a great, do you
[00:34:47] Michelle: know what's not great coming out of Mexico? Sorry about it. The fans, they're some of the worst soccer fans on the planet. They're foul. They use [00:35:00]racial slurs. They throw frozen water bottles, they throw it. It's just like they behave horrifically.
[00:35:09] I've sat in some of those matches next to folks that have been more reasonable. It's not all of the fans and they're, they say, I'm really, I, because I was the other team, I'm the US team and they were like, I'm really sorry about that. And they've been there, Hey, just leave her alone.
[00:35:26] You know what I mean? That you have to do that. It's pretty sad. But again, guys, as we wrap, Up today. It's maybe the state of the world. We've lost the ability to be civil, to ha, to have great rivalries and to cheer and to dislike another team, venomously, but still have respect and behave like a human.
[00:35:48] We've lost that, so it's some more food for thought. Let's go to our final shot. You ate my shot, Brent r Baker. Final shot. [00:36:00]
[00:36:00] Brent: Oh, you would make me go first. So when I was on the road for a bit yesterday, which usually means that, that's usually when I start dialing up all sorts of podcasts.
[00:36:10] And most people, like around the country are probably familiar with Brock Heer from his play-by-play of college football and stuff. But he does a podcast called Above and Beyond, which is about the intersection of. Faith and sports, which we should have him on here sometime. Oh, that's familiar.
[00:36:24] Yeah. That's a good idea. He did one that just came out. Oh no, it was a year ago. I didn't know it. Anyway. So he did one with an umpire since we were talking about officiating. Mike Linsky. Just a great interview with a guy and for those of us in Washington State, he's from Alfreda Washington, which is right in the middle of the state.
[00:36:44] And I actually was like literally driving by the town yesterday as I was finding this out. I was like, how weird is that? But it's just cool to, to hear from some of these different places. You don't, you, you hear about athletes talking about their faith. So for him to have, be able to have an hour [00:37:00]long discussion about about Christ and faith with a major league umpire who and he's been good enough to umpire in a World series.
[00:37:06] That was, it was pretty
[00:37:07] Michelle: cool. I like it. Okay. Let's go with Garrick. We're gonna let you go last still.
[00:37:13] Garrick: All right. Thank you. I am giving my final shot to an actual amateur athlete. He has he was actually visiting this country for the first second time he was in New York before, but he came to the Great Pacific Northwest recently.
[00:37:30] And I'm trying to pull up a picture for us to be able to see him. But but he is actually a rugby player. He he's competed at a pretty high level for his age. And and now he's playing for his county over in England. And so this young man I'm gonna pull up the picture here if I'm able to figure out how to do that technologically.
[00:37:54] But but he I have to show you the picture first so that you can. Guess his age. [00:38:00] Okay.
[00:38:03] Share the screen. So my final shot this way this week goes to Jack Jack Bono Lerner. Can you guys see that? Yes, we can. How old do you think Jack is?
[00:38:18] Michelle: Whoops. I can't wait. I know. So I'm not gonna, I'm not playing this game. Yeah, you
[00:38:22] Brent: You let the cat outta the bag on this, yeah.
[00:38:24] Garrick: Anyway, he is 16 years old. He has, I, I could never grow a beard the way that he can, but but anyway he, we went over to Central Washington University last week to watch the Wildcats unfortunately lose to the BYU Cougars in the quarter finals of the NCAA division one rugby, but he met with the coach and and so there's a possibility that he might come out here to play.
[00:38:48] But he is just an amazing young man at 16. I took him out on the football pitch as well, the soccer field, and he's got some great skill as a soccer player as well. Yeah, that's pretty [00:39:00] awesome. But but anyway just a great. Young man and I got
[00:39:03] Michelle: to meet him as he went to the N Hhl game. That's right.
[00:39:07] So that was the
[00:39:07] Garrick: Kraken. Alright. Yeah. So my final shot goes to Jack and and it was great having you and your mom here visiting us.
[00:39:14] Michelle: Thanks. Let's go to Dell.
[00:39:17] Del: I just took a, I took a easy one, easy way out, but it, it is good. The final shot goes to the man that I've never I have talked to him, but I haven't met him really, but watched him die last year.
[00:39:28] But DeMar Hamlin and is cleared to play. By his physicians
[00:39:33] Michelle: in nfl. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yep. So that's a good final shot. My final shot goes to Brad Holmes. So I'll he's, he is a manager with the Detroit Lions and he wore a shirt. With the Lion's logo and it said, support women and girls in sports.
[00:39:52] So it's a dual praise because I not only wanted to praise him, but I wanted to praise one woman who [00:40:00] is speaking out for women in sports, and that's Riley Gaines. So at a girl. At a girl, she's coming under fire, but she's not afraid to stand up for fellow. I
[00:40:10] Del: understand how she, I don't understand how she comes under fire.
[00:40:13] I just, it's ludicrous, right? And this coach, he'll probably get canceled cause he's standing up for women. All right. That's enough. And that's,
[00:40:21] Brent: That's, I don't, as long as the lions. Continue their upward trend. I think Holmes is safe.
[00:40:26] Michelle: There you go. That's funny. So I guess that's where it comes down to.
[00:40:31] I, it's an old song that I remember singing at church camp. Though NGO with me, I still will follow. Yeah. Though NGO with me, I still will follow. So think about that. Are you willing to be canceled for what's right? Are you willing to talk about it? Are you willing to take a stand because it's time in history.
[00:40:50] We really need to do that. So food for Thought again. It's been a feast for food, for thought today. And guys, I have loved. Sen with [00:41:00]you. So thank you so much. God bless you. Like us, share us and enjoy the picnic.
[00:41:10] God bless. For more fun, go to my michelle live.com.
2023 04 14 SPORTS TIME OUT - Doing the right thing
[00:00:00] Michelle: Michelle. My Michelle Lies
[00:00:03] Garrick: sports timeout.
[00:00:05] Michelle: The fans, the field, the faith, the fun. Here's Michelle. Here's Michelle. The fans, the field, the faith, the fun, and the fellas as we. Look at sports news of the week. Sports stories give our own opinions, and in the midst of it all, we look for the message of hope because there really is one out there.
[00:00:26] It's called the God story, and we're always willing to share it. Let me introduce you to the gang. Today. We have an. Maybe an unfamiliar face, but very familiar to sports. Time out. He is our sports time out photographer, so he's down there on the field having fun with the players and the photography.
[00:00:49] It's pretty cool. Thank you very much for joining us today, Carl Hector.
[00:00:58] Carl: Thanks for having me
[00:00:58] Michelle: along today. [00:01:00] And then we have with us, he just popped in. Oh my gosh. Really? He, you can't keep a good man down, man. Gar Ping will be there for you if you need him. He is on a road trip, so we see him in his car. If you're watching. Sports, time out and video. Garrick Ping is a pastor.
[00:01:20] He's a player of soccer. He is a chaplain and an all around cool guy. Get ready to get,
[00:01:30] get ready to get pinged. And then we have with us Brent r Baker. Photographer,
[00:01:38] Brent: Brent or Baker?
[00:01:45] Michelle: Indeed. A mighty good man. In fact mighty. Good men all around. We are talking sports. Time out today. Now, I do know as a matter of fact, that our sports photographer, Carl Hector, who joins us today, [00:02:00] is not a big. Bill, baseball fan will say his local Mariners. But we're gonna start off the bat with you're there.
[00:02:08] You are wearing a cracking hat and a Kraken t-shirt. I love it. But we're gonna start off with Major League baseball. Major league baseball. The bating average is up 16 points and the game is down 31 minutes. How is this new season working out for? Yeah, part. I was like, happy I haven't watched many games.
[00:02:31] It's working out. Alright. I'm a happy camper. Garrick, have you been watching many major League baseball games?
[00:02:41] I don't know if we have your audio. Can you mind? No, you can't mind because you're driving.
[00:02:47] Carl: I think the shorter game times, I think that's gonna be great for people at home. People at the games, they might miss out a little bit on some of their stand around center field, enjoying a beer, hanging with.
[00:02:58] Kind of a thing.
[00:02:58] Michelle: No. [00:03:00]Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I've gone to one, I haven't even gone to a game this year, actually. I haven't gone to a game. I guess I have to fix that. What I wanna see, what I, what my feeling is, but I, I. I don't know. I have a short attention span, so I'm thinking it might be okay. But there is some really interesting things happening this year.
[00:03:20] By the way, did you know, I didn't put this in some of the stories that I sent you guys, but I just read this morning, that there's some folks that are blaming global warming on the increased amount of home runs, and I was like, what? Did anyone hear that story?
[00:03:43] Brent: I did. And one of the funny things about that story is that, or at least the study that did that, it was, it did not include changes in the actual baseballs that Major League baseball actually admitted to causing a lot more [00:04:00] lift and carry in the balls the construction of the balls themselves.
[00:04:03] And that was not considered in this study that was like home run ball, travel to the weather. You can find a study. You can find a study to that will tell you anything you want.
[00:04:14] Michelle: I know figures lie, liars figures, so go figure. But really, it, so it's almost as though you can't trust anything anymore.
[00:04:23] And that goes beyond just sports. But what a crazy study. Garrett. Can you weigh in? Can we hear you?
[00:04:32] Garrick: I think you can hear me. I'm trying to connect it to the car that I'm driving. It's, I actually borrowed my sister's vehicle. I've got our friends visiting from England and we're headed, Hey friends from England. Yeah, they're all in the car.
[00:04:44] Michelle: Can I just, Hey Jack, can I just say that we met one of your friends there at a cracking game, and you guys have been, you have really deluged them with American sports.
[00:04:58] Good for you. Because, [00:05:00] that's what we do here.
[00:05:01] Garrick: We're we're bringing actually one of the crew so this is my, Niece and her son. And we're actually going over to Ellensburg because if people didn't know the SE Central Washington University Wildcat had made it to the Western Regional Championship game in rugby and and Jack, who you guys met at the Kraken.
[00:05:26] Is actually a rugby player he plays for his county, which is quite a high honor there.
[00:05:33] Michelle: That's, he's 16. He looks like 35. I don't know if we can hear Jack, but some, because major League rugby is fairly new in the United States. And for some of us who are big sports fans like me, I grew up playing football, playing learning, basketball, hockey, the things that are more familiar to the us but things like cricket and rugby were a little [00:06:00] less known.
[00:06:00] So I don't know. I didn't grow up knowing all the ins and outs, so I've had to learn over the last few years I've had conversations with Carl about some of the rules that we're still trying to work out. So maybe Carl, if you have any good questions for Jack. He might be the go-to guy, right?
[00:06:18] Garrick: Yep.
[00:06:19] Jack will be able to answer all your. Your rugby questions. I was educated just by looking at looking something up on rugby and I asked him, and I said, do you play fifteens or sevens? And he says, I play fifteens. And so I had no, I would've not had any idea what that meant before two days ago.
[00:06:37] That's because you know whether or not you have seven players on the team, So it's a different game. And there's actually two different types of games. There's rugby league and rugby Union. Rugby. Rugby League is more a little bit closer cousin to American football, would you say Jack? Yeah.
[00:06:57] And so anyway, going back to your [00:07:00] original question though, in terms of it's so funny. And the studies and things that are out there, and what is the craziest thing to me, which is also the most annoying thing, is the fact that a lot of these studies, probably not this one, hopefully. But they're funded by our government, which means that we are paying for them and they're
[00:07:27] Michelle: lie to me.
[00:07:28] I'll pay you. Come on. You just lied to me. I'll pay the mating habits of earthworms.
[00:07:35] Garrick: Yeah. Anyway,
[00:07:36] Michelle: but, oh,
[00:07:38] Garrick: actually that one probably has some stuff usage, some actual practical application. The mating habits of earthworms,
[00:07:46] Michelle: but maybe more so than. Affecting home runs, but I don't know, maybe the weather's affecting the rays because they set a franchise record and they tied the Major League baseball record with 13 straight winds [00:08:00] as they opened the regular season, they are on fire.
[00:08:03] There's another story. Did you hear this about the twins, Kyle Farmer? He had to. Teeth realigned. Dude should be playing for your kraken there, Carl. He had to have his teeth re realigned after taking a fastball to the jock. Whoa. That fastball was going 91.6 miles an hour, if I remember right. It was it, can you imagine getting hit with something like that?
[00:08:31] It scared Garrett.
[00:08:34] Carl: You mean like a rock hard hockey puck going and getting your teeth fixed and then coming out for the next period? Yes.
[00:08:40] Michelle: I guess that, that, that's where it's, we talked rugby. Rugby is a tough sport, man. Those guys do everything that you see on a American football field without all of the protective.
[00:08:55] That's crazy. And then you see in hockey, these guys, yeah, you get hit [00:09:00]in a puck in the face with a puck, and then you're out, you're out for two minutes maybe, and then you're back on the ice. It's cra it's crazy. And hockey is one of those. One of those leagues that actually allows people to beat the crap out of each other and they sit back and say, okay, that's cool.
[00:09:17] All right. All right. Now it's been enough. So I guess my question to you, and maybe Brent, you can weigh in. Who, what do you think is the toughest sport out there?
[00:09:28] Brent: Yeah, actually I think my vote is Australian rules.
[00:09:34] Michelle: Oh, excuse me. Geez. Yeah. Yeah, that's
[00:09:36] Brent: pretty tough. It's it's a combination of American football and rugby.
[00:09:42] The lord of guys like going up, up after the ball and getting impacted in mid-air and they've got no protection. They've got no pads no helmets. It's entertaining to watch. Once you underst. Kinda like rugby can be. Yes. But I, especially in the early days of espn n when [00:10:00] they didn't have a lot of American programming I watched a lot of late night Ossie Rules football cuz it was that fun to watch.
[00:10:07] That's crazy. And I was really glad I was not out there playing it.
[00:10:11] Michelle: Garrick, we were, yeah. Garrick is driving and yet he's still, he will not miss his sports. Time out. Man. This guy is faithful. We were just asking what we think the toughest sport is. Rugby, hockey, American Australian rules, football.
[00:10:26] What say you.
[00:10:29] Garrick: Jack's given his vote for rugby.
[00:10:31] Michelle: Yeah, like I said, you're doing everything that all these other sports are doing, but you're doing it without any protection at all. Although hockey, dude, you're doing all of that. You're doing it on these little thin ice skates. That's cray.
[00:10:46] I
[00:10:46] Brent: think hockey a hundred years ago, before the helmets and the masks, when guys were just taken full.
[00:10:55] Michelle: somebody you know knocking you into you.
[00:10:57] And if someone knocks into you [00:11:00] and your tendency, I'm sorry, soccer player is to fall on the ground and call for your mommy, then are you really. I know that was bad. Carl's soccer,
[00:11:12] Garrick: and that's coming from the big soccer fans. Just so that for the record. For the record, not all soccer players flop and dive.
[00:11:21] Okay. Okay. Just the
[00:11:22] Carl: professionals. Just the professionals.
[00:11:25] Michelle: Carl, what's your vote?
[00:11:27] Carl: What's your vote? I'm gonna give, I'm gonna give ho or rugby alls do. I've been on the field. I've seen those guys hit each other. They also have some gentlemanly rules, so I love that it's a little less violent in some ways than American football where they're allowed to just hit people about as hard as they can, any way they can.
[00:11:46] But yeah, those guys are tough. But I'm gonna give my vote to hockey. Woo. Those guys are skating. They're going 20, 30 miles an hour at a time. They're hitting each other. They do have some pads. They're not as, as robust as American football pads.[00:12:00] They're hitting the boards, they're getting hit with sticks, they're getting slashed with sticks.
[00:12:04] They're getting a puck moving 80 miles an hour at them blocking shots with parts of their body that don't have any pads. And these guys will go to the locker room after an injury. They'll get things taken care of and they'll come. The next shift or they'll come out the next period with birthday
[00:12:22] Michelle: noses.
[00:12:23] Carl: Yeah. The other sports, LeBron James, getting helped off the court because he can't hop on one leg, because the other foot got hurt. So I'm gonna go with hockey.
[00:12:31] Michelle: Ouch. Okay. Okay. I like it. You guys know my, my, and. Introduction into rugby, right? Where I was first covering it and there's some things that I just didn't know about Rugby Jack, you might appreciate it.
[00:12:43] So I'm sitting on the sideline as a reporter, observing, watching, learning, and these two rugby players, one guy stands in front of me, maybe I dunno five feet in front of me, and then another player walks behind him. Gently caresses the [00:13:00] sides of his thighs. And I'm like, sh, should I be seeing this?
[00:13:05] This is awkward. What he was doing is he was getting ready to do a line in where, you're practicing lifting a guy to catch the ball as it's thrown in. And that was my introduction. I'm like, what kind of sport is this? Oh my gosh. Come. Yeah, there's that. One more thing I wanted to give to you guys as you are watching, listening or viewing today is my, as we wrap up, major League baseball is my f.
[00:13:35] Favorite play of the week. The Major League Play of the Week for me came from the San Francisco Giants. Bryce Johnson made this crazy catch. There was a do, they were playing the Dodgers, and this catch would if it would've gone over the fence. If he wouldn't have gotten it, probably would've given the Dodgers the lead.
[00:13:57] Take a look and listen at [00:14:00] this. As my internet does the slow thing. There you go. Centerfield
[00:14:07] Garrick: back here
[00:14:09] Michelle: makes the catch. Did you guys see that? He just slams his body like a hockey player against the glass, makes this incredible catch and then lays there on the ground. That was the catch of the week for me.
[00:14:24] That was something else. There we go. Let's transition, shall we? I'm doing a lot of talking. I need you guys to come in here. Drink your coffee for crying out loud. Some thanks for the invitation. Yeah, there you go. Awesome. You guys got,
[00:14:43] so I wanted to get to some news stories today. In sports, it's a case of no good deed goes unpunished and no bad deed is bad enough. And that's where. There was a counter suit that was filed [00:15:00] against a teenager who alleged that pro basketball player slandered and assaulted him. I'll see if I can pull up.
[00:15:08] I don't know if you guys heard this story. John Mor. Filed a lawsuit, a counter lawsuit because he would have this come to my house, play on the court, and a mentoring thing for young players. Apparently this player, according to Morant, had gotten angry on the court, threw a ball at Warren's face.
[00:15:34] And then, was just angry and claimed he was gonna go out and get a gun. Now this kid filed a lawsuit and said he assaulted me. And he, and it's crazy because I don't know what went down. I don't know the real truth, but I do know that this guy was trying to be a mentor.
[00:15:50] To younger kids, inviting people to his place, and it's no good deed goes unpunished. Then there's the other story that no bad deed is bad [00:16:00]enough. The Women's Tennis Association has ended the che boycott without resolution when they had said, now this was a sexual assault that was supposedly took place by a Chinese government official in 2021 against.
[00:16:18] Against a woman's tennis player. And so they said, you know what we're not going to China anymore until this is taken care of. It wasn't taken care of because of course, China doesn't take care of anything, but the money is so great there and the possibilities of s. Spreading tennis and doing good and showing democracy is so great that they said, oh we'll, we, it's time for us to move on.
[00:16:42] So I wanted to get your impression on either of these stories. Guys, let's weigh in. Carl Brent, who wants to weigh in.
[00:16:52] Brent: I think with the Morans thing he, I have mixed feelings about. Like you said, we don't really know what happened cuz we [00:17:00] weren't there. But he may have been in a position where he is trying to mentor this kid and he's got this initiative in Memphis to try to help kids.
[00:17:06] But he also has had a very checkered short career in the N B A so far, as far as his off court activities. There was brandishing a gun at a strip club not too long ago that earned him a suspension. Yeah, so I, I think. I think there's some significant maturity issues with Marant there more than anything.
[00:17:28] And he just needs to be more careful with who he surrounds himself with and how he sets up these things. Cuz if you're,
[00:17:35] Michelle: But we go back there and the official looks at me. There we go. Sorry about that. Lots
[00:17:40] Brent: of things. Lots of things can be accused and lots of things can happen. So hopefully.
[00:17:45] He's taking his lumps and learning some hard lessons from some of these things, although turning around and suing the kid, I don't know. But at the same time, if he. If his version of the story is more true than the kids and [00:18:00] he's standing to lose in court. Yeah, I don't know. It's just hard to say where to go with it other than maturity is a significant issue with Moran.
[00:18:07] He needs to, that's right. To start figuring some things out here.
[00:18:10] Michelle: That's right. Garrick, you're back online. We'll get to you in just a moment. Carl, did you wanna weigh in on these?
[00:18:17] Carl: Not overly familiar with either one, but it sounds like the, the basketball guy, if he's already had a off court issues of brandishing a gun, there's obviously something going on in his head.
[00:18:26] Maybe the kid was out of line. That can happen. I had a youth where I played soccer out on the, Community field with a bench against men. And sometimes they were rough with us, we chose to step on the field as, 13, 14, 16 year old kids and play against the men.
[00:18:42] We knew we were gonna get roughed up a little bit. But it's it sounds like both parties probably maturity did something wrong and they just didn't handle it correctly. The fact that it's gotta get the lawsuits, who knows, maybe there's some ambulance chasing going on there by the. Yeah, I think somebody needs to mentor that that pro basketball [00:19:00] player and teach him how to be a, better community
[00:19:02] Michelle: example.
[00:19:03] Yeah. There you go. And with the W t a ending, the boycott of China I'd like for folks to go to my Michelle Live. We did a pretty interesting show for Thursday's news and views about the danger. Of what China is doing in their influence attacks and of America of really insightful and how we've had this thought that giving China all of this all of this platform in the us we have such an influence on them.
[00:19:35] It really hasn't been working. That's something interesting. You may wanna go to my Michelle live for more information. Yeah,
[00:19:42] Garrick: I'd love to weigh in on that because I just had a, an image come to mind. Okay. Double right. Two lines. Double standard. All right. There's a little s And what does that do?
[00:19:56] It makes a dollar sign. Whoa. Where money is involved. Oh,
[00:19:59] Michelle: [00:20:00]it totally sps up odd.
[00:20:03] Garrick: It is just a falling to me. And as a person of Chinese descent I am and I, you're kind. I just feel so ashamed. I think
[00:20:22] Michelle: you're coming in and out, Derek, so I'm gonna step in here, but I understand that. Yeah. But to be fair, it isn't necessarily a China thing. It really is that dollar sign thing. And as the Bible teaches us the love of money is the. Of all evil money itself.
[00:20:41] No, it's no crime to have it, but the love of money, the root of all evil. Garrick I, let's see if we can get you back in. You had, you went to your first NHL game. We met there, you had Jack with you, your very. First N H L game, which was the one that brought the Kraken officially into [00:21:00]the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, as the local paper said that it's been a long dry spell waiting for playoffs.
[00:21:09] I'm like, dude, it's only their second year of existence. What the heck? But what was your impression of your. First Hockey pro, pro hockey game.
[00:21:19] Garrick: I'm gonna thank the Kraken. They sent me a note afterwards and said, Hey, thanks for coming to your first game because of you we're in the playoffs now. And so it was, I have, I'm a soccer player and so hockey there, there's been comparisons drawn to indoor soccer and hockey cause there's similar sides to field and things like that.
[00:21:40] And I, I. Really tried to watch hockey on television and haven't, I've struggled to really stick with the games and watch them, but when you go live to a hockey game, it's nothing[00:22:00]
[00:22:00] Michelle: You're cutting now.
[00:22:00] Brent: I can step in with that, say there live hockey. There, there is I think amongst at least the major American sports, the difference between TV and live is the largest in hockey. Yeah. Because there's so much that happens with coming on and off the ice shift changes even just watching how the offense sets up during a power play or whatever.
[00:22:23] So many of those things are going on at once over the expanse of the whole ice. It's hard to catch that on television and be able to see the puck and when you're seeing it live from a different angle. There's just so much going on with hockey. It's just. It makes it a different experience and it does make it easier to like, understand the game when you're watching it on television once you've experienced it live.
[00:22:44] So hopefully Garrick will get more enjoyment out of his TV enjoyment of the Kraken in the playoffs now that he's seen them
[00:22:52] Michelle: live. Yeah, no kidding. It is. There's, there is absolutely nothing like it. And as we're talking hockey again [00:23:00] Brent, you brought this story to the forefront this week in in our kind of group chat because as folks may not know Yeah.
[00:23:08] We get together on Friday and part of it. Is because of you. We wanna give you a good program. We wanna underspend news, give you the God story. The other part is that we're all friends. And so when we're watching sports or fun things happen in the world or we come across stories, we have a group chat that goes on and you can see the camaraderie that comes out in this program.
[00:23:29] But you sent this story. Concerning the NHLs controversy, what to do with their pride night. I don't know if you know this and I don't. I, hockey really can be a family sport. Like most sports, you bring your family too to the games. It's maybe cost prohibitive because hockey games are expensive, but they do market to children.
[00:23:53] They have special nights for children, special giveaways for children, little toys that you can buy for children. [00:24:00] Vancouver Connects before their Pride Night had a drag performance. And is that really appropriate? Now, drag tends to be a little sexualized, obviously, because it's hyper sexualization of the of what femininity really is or what being a woman really is, in my opinion.
[00:24:24] It's not really that different. From blackface because it's just pretending to be something you're not. You're dressed like a clown. You're dressed like a woman. You're dressed like an Indian or some other race. That it may be a cultural appropriation or it may be the sincerest form of flattery.
[00:24:43] You may have to decide, but really was that, that, was that really appropriate before a, an NHL game to have a, a drag perform?
[00:24:55] Brent: I would say no, but I think the bigger thing about the story I found the [00:25:00]story was about an ex NHL player and actually he was one of the studio guys during the Kraken King's game last night.
[00:25:07] PK. I think you say his name, Soen. He was talking about in relation to the pride nights and stuff how the n Hhl and other leagues have done this. Basically his quote is something that we've been. We've talked about what he says. We cannot push everyone to be an activist. We need to be very careful.
[00:25:27] People pick and choose what they want to talk about. And I don't like it when we put the onus on athletes to be activists. By the way, this is one of the the few black former NHL players. It's not been, you could say it's not been a very diverse sport as far. Skin color goes, it's very international.
[00:25:45] That's
[00:25:45] Michelle: not, but can I say that's not necessarily because of racism? You could say,
[00:25:49] Brent: oh, I don't think it is. People will
[00:25:51] Michelle: say it's systemic, but I'm saying, But I think it Brent, it's important to, to note here because a lot of people don't know that or they don't know why. It's really [00:26:00]geographics where hockey comes from.
[00:26:02] The background of hockey, the geographics of where there's ice and what color. People tend to live in those areas. Or had until maybe Absolutely. Now we're that, we're in the 21st century. Go ahead.
[00:26:15] Brent: I, the only reason I brought that up though is because the spotlight is gonna be on him for saying something like that because of his ancestry, frankly.
[00:26:25] But we've talked about it a lot. It's like when these leagues and these teams force all of their players to promote and celebrate a specific ideology, regardless of whether they believe that or not. That's the problem. That's the problem. It's. Again, you know what he said. I'm not saying it's right or wrong to wear the pride jersey.
[00:26:46] We just have to be careful how we push players to do things. You can support that community without having to wear a hat, a t-shirt, or a jersey. And especially when you're doing it in your team uniform as a team and basically being [00:27:00] forced to promote something, whether you agree with it or not.
[00:27:03] Garrick: There's a direct correlation and a direct. To one of our earlier stories when we talked about the Chinese communism. That's true. And you told a party line or else, and that's exactly what we see happening in this country.
[00:27:21] Michelle: Another drop in light moment. All right. Another Drop the mic moment by Garrick Ping right there.
[00:27:31] Right on. It really is. You tow the line or else, and that's a problem. Carl, do you wanna weigh in?
[00:27:38] Carl: Yeah. A couple weeks ago when most of the teams were having their Pride nights Gary Bettman, the Commissioner of n Hhl, did come out and say that they were gonna revisit the whole corporate NHL policy on this.
[00:27:51] And he recognized that it is possible for people to. Want to lend their support to all of these people, individuals[00:28:00] some people call 'em the alphabet gang. Yes, people wanna lend their support but they don't necessarily wanna have to, be demonstrative about it, have to put on the jersey.
[00:28:08] It doesn't mean that they don't care about these individual. But he did see that there was a problem with maybe forcing, everybody to, like you said, tow the line. So they, I think they're gonna revisit what the N H L does and how they approach this, in the coming years.
[00:28:22] Michelle: And they should, because I can say, and we've said on sports, time out, if you are an athlete and you deserve a place on the team, no matter what you identify as or what, who you sleep with, who you vote for. Feel about different political issues. You deserve a place on the team. I can support you as an individual, but that doesn't mean that I have to support everything that your agenda comes with.
[00:28:48] If it means transitioning toddlers because you want to make them a different sex, if it comes with a sexualization of children, some things that [00:29:00] are controversial and they should be talked about, but we've had. Love it or leave kind of mentality like Garrick was pointing out and that truly is a problem as we get to the end of the show.
[00:29:15] Couple other things I wanted to hit. One is the N F L is always a so opera off season. I think you guys will agree off season. You always get to hear what's going on. Aaron Rodgers admitted he wanted to be a New York jet and hopes to be traded there. Are actually saying that they are searching for a second round pick in the upcoming NFL draft in and 2024 first round pick.
[00:29:42] If somebody wants to pick up Aaron and Rogers, I don't know it. Should he be retiring? We see these quarterback. That just wanna linger on and on Tom Brady and never know when to quit. Just wondering. And another n nfl. News story is the [00:30:00] commanders are now up for sale. So if you have, what is it, 6 billion?
[00:30:04] I don't remember the price tag on them, but there's a group that includes Magic Johnson that has an agreement in principle to buy the Commander. So there you go. Any thoughts on. The N F L or any other story that we didn't bring up today, guys, before we go to our final shot?
[00:30:23] Brent: I think getting Dan Snyder out of the N F L will only be good.
[00:30:28] There's been, there's been constant scandal, all sorts of just horrendous things you hear about coming out of the behavior of people within the front office. Just, they're constantly in court trying to defend themselves and bottom line what was one
[00:30:47] Purple Contender, was winning 60, 65% of their games since Snyder bought them in 1999 has pretty much face planted. Just about every year, except maybe occasionally sneaking into the [00:31:00] playoffs. Their front office is a disaster. They make bad move after bad move, and they've just been a bad team.
[00:31:07] And then really an embarrassment. Now, I was reading something this morning, it was really insightful about why with all of this have the rest of the NFL owners not done more to push him out. And the answer is you don't get rid of someone in your group that sucks, that you can beat all
[00:31:24] Michelle: the time.
[00:31:26] Ooh. Yeah. And so maybe the moral, and
[00:31:30] Brent: You might have some stuff going on in your own house that you don't want out there, but as long as Dan Snyder was out there, you knew he'd be a bigger story. I love that, Garrett. So I think it's good for a lot of good, for a
[00:31:41] Michelle: lot of reasons. I love that Garrett, he's giving this a view of where he is headed.
[00:31:45] Yeah.
[00:31:46] Garrick: I actually, Oh, go ahead. So you comment on Brent,
[00:31:50] Brent: he changing his clothes
[00:31:51] Michelle: while he is driving. Brent, really, truly we need to take into consideration the moral of the story of our program today. Maybe where is your morality? [00:32:00]What is the basis of your worldview and what drives you? We've talked about money and power and even winning games, but what really makes.
[00:32:11] Phenomenal to me is the purity of it, the sportsmanship of it, the doing the right thing, the struggling against odds. That's what makes sports awesome. Garrick, did you wanna win in before we take our final shot?
[00:32:24] Garrick: Yeah I think I dropped out before I finished what I was. Saying about my first cracking game and I put the camera on just as a visual image of what I'm talking about because what I'm seeing through my eyes right now is different from what you're seeing through the camera.
[00:32:41] And I've tried to watch hockey on television and it's different from the live experience because it's completely sensory and your eye can see so much. Than what you can see through the camera when the game's on television.
[00:32:56] Michelle: Oh. And you hear the ish swish, you hear the crack on the bones. You [00:33:00]really hear it when someone's body checks, it's just what?
[00:33:03] There's nothing
[00:33:05] Garrick: like it. You feel it. You literally can feel, that, that impact that happens. So it was a great experience. I'm, my wife asked me the same question afterwards and I said, honey, I'm gonna take you to games sometime. Cause I think you'll really. Watching it even though she knows nothing, absolutely nothing about hockey.
[00:33:22] Carl: But but anyway,
[00:33:23] Michelle: nothing wrong with that. I think it's time for us to take our final shot. Final shot,
[00:33:31] final shot. Brent final shot us
[00:33:35] Brent: I'm gonna go back to baseball and I hope this isn't Prema. I think I would be competing with our wiki, Josh on this one. But people in the Seattle area have been all too familiar with the struggles of Jared Cheick, who is an outfielder. He is highly touted prospect.
[00:33:52] He's still only 23 years old, but his first two seasons have been a struggle. Both on the field and I'd say off the field, not [00:34:00]because of behavior, but just dealing with the stresses of high expectations. Never having failed at any level of baseball before and then finding out the major leagues are a whole different deal.
[00:34:10] Yeah. And he, the first couple weeks of the season has just, has been everything. People had hoped he might be. He's just had a great approach. He's been very even keeled at the plate. The last three games in Chicago, Wrigley Field, he hit home runs in each of them. Every one of them was impressive.
[00:34:27] One of them was a pinch hit game tying home run in the ninth inning. The last one went into the centerfield bleachers in Wrigley Field, measured at 482. Which is wow. Like a hundred feet beyond the wall. Into an area where even like the Cubs broadcasters I heard a clip of their. They're accounting of it and they'd been there 15 years probably, and one of the guys had played there before that.
[00:34:53] And yeah,
[00:34:53] Michelle: there's someone in the parking lot that's gonna be like calling their insurance company for a new windshield on that one. [00:35:00]
[00:35:00] Brent: They, nobody had seen one hit up there before. That has been around for 20, 25 years. Dang. And it was, if you watch it, this swing must be global warming. Yeah. Yeah, it must be, but it's just, I wanna give my shout out to Jared Killick cuz he's stuck with it, endured a lot of failure, a lot of criticism, and right now is it's paying off for him.
[00:35:19] So hopefully that continues. Like
[00:35:21] Michelle: it Garrick, if we have connection with you, we're gonna get your final shot while we can.
[00:35:27] Garrick: I'm gonna go with the easy button on this one. Just because I experienced my first Kraken game last week, and they made it into the playoffs for the first time in franchise history their second year.
[00:35:38] And so my final shot goes to Seattle Kraken, although there's disappointing lost to. Las Vegas Golden Knights. But but they have everything to be really pleased about and proud of because and I was hurt and I'm not a real huge hockey fan, but I know it enough to understand the fact that the Kraken actually had a [00:36:00] style of.
[00:36:01] And it wasn't just a random fact that they won, as many games as they did, and they've really developed a reputation and are a team to be reckoned with in the future. So my final shot goes to our own
[00:36:14] Michelle: Seattle Kraken. Yeah, they were close last night in beating the Knight, who clearly are a better team, but they have really put together some great lines.
[00:36:25] So good for them. You're right. Let's go with Carl Hiker.
[00:36:32] Carl: A couple of quick ones are Seattle Seaho. I'm sorry, Seattle Dragons. They actually have put together a halfway decent season so far. I think they start off with a couple early losses, but then they, got four or five wins in a row.
[00:36:43] Kudos to them for having a good season. The seawalls were five and oh until they ran into a second best team in the league in San Diego. So I think I now they're like six and one or something like that. Hopefully they can get themselves back to another championship. And of course the Kraken, I'm a season ticket holder.[00:37:00]
[00:37:00] I love going to games, obviously half the gear. That team has been fun to watch this year. Last year it was a lot of this, and this year it's a lot of this setting records, seven straight wins on the road set. An N H L record gave Boston their first home loss of the season game, a bagel three to zero.
[00:37:19] And they've only lost, maybe half a dozen games at home. All. Set other records looking forward to what they can do in the playoffs. And let's go. Kraken, let's
[00:37:27] Michelle: go. So my final shot is a little bit sad. Craig Breen drove with W R C and he was 33 years old, an Irish driver. He became the first W r C driver to die in an accident in Croatia.
[00:37:43] And it's, it was founded in 2006 and I just wanted to. To his friends and family. I do believe in thoughts and prayers because when something serious happens, you really think about your eternal destiny and what life is really all about. [00:38:00] And what our show is really all about is not just sports.
[00:38:03] There's a struggle in life. That is like sports, but sometimes you win, sometimes you lose in life. But in faith there is always a reward at the end and there is something, the it factor that sees you through the wins, through the losses, through the injuries. Through the successes, through the failures, and that is Christ.
[00:38:24] And I just pray my thoughts and prayers that for their family, for those of you who are listening, that you'll realize that God is good. And I think Carl is getting ready for the biggest. The biggest rivalry in Major League Soccer in the United States. That's the Seattle Sounders and the Portland Timbers, which will be taking place this weekend for the first time in this season.
[00:38:52] And I'm just gonna say, I know there's people in Oregon that watch, but I'm gonna say ghost Sounders. Guys, thanks for joining [00:39:00]us today. God bless you and listen, share, and thanks Carl for joining in. It's nice to see your face. For more fun, go to my michelle live.com.
Copyright © 2021 Michelle Mendoza - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by GoDaddy Website Builder