Something is seriously wrong with @WNBA officiating when Caitlin Clark plays 36 minutes and earns no free throw attempts.

I’ll take Twitter posts that aged poorly for $800, Alex.

This is pretty much spot on in my view. Very well written & thought out.

That’s one of the scariest things I’ve seen on a baseball field. Amazing to see him get up so quickly.

Caitlin Clark wins it with a logo three!! Take that, haters. @WNBA

The Liberty are getting unbelievable home cooking tonight. A ridiculous whistle against the Fever. Nothing new, unfortunately. @WNBA

Caitlin Clark gets the worst officiating in the league, and by a country mile. It’s laughably bad, @WNBA.

Jesus is the only way to Heaven. RT if you agree!

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

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible: Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach. Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great. It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big. And that is insane. This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her. She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude. No. Her attitude is not the story. The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance. This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.” That is what this looks like. The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it. And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped. Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd. You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room. Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing. Fans are not stupid. They see the fouls. They see the double standards. They see the jealousy. They see the media resentment. They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her. And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly: People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled. They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great. If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid: Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark. At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question: How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her? Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse. It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care. x.com/i/status/2060921884666…

When is enough going to be enough? Erceg isn’t getting it done in the closer role. Q isn’t getting it done in the manager role either, for that matter.

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

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

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Caitlin!!!

The 15 minutes of fame for hot honey should have ended about a half hour ago. Good grief, make it stop already.

I have two. 1987 men’s basketball Elite Eight, Iowa vs. UNLV. The Hawks had a 22 point first half lead before losing. 2012 AFC Divisional Playoff, Ravens @ Broncos. Joe Flacco’s “Mike High Miracle” was a heartbreaker.

Mark Rypien, get on with it. We don’t have all night to wait on pick #71.

One strike away, and a blown save. Seth Lugo deserves so much better than this continued nonsense. Two 9th inning walks by the closer. Ridiculous.

Gunnar was really cocky with a big bat toss after a walk, & is promptly picked off. Poetic justice.