Stacker Sports- Day 125- Stop the Madness
1138 sats \ 19 comments \ @grayruby 8 Apr Stacker_Sports
Stop the Madness
After today I can neatly pack away all my Madness related titles until next March. It has borne much fruit but also begun to wear thin.
It would have been awesome if our survivor pool had lasted and would be decided by tonight's championship game but that was not meant to be, so the next best thing will be to watch @siggy47 @Undisciplined and @Wumbo duke it out for the Final Four Bounty.
If UConn wins tonight we will have a 3 way tie and it will be decided by tiebreaker. If Purdue wins we will go to tiebreaker between wumbo and undisciplined. Exciting.
https://m.stacker.news/25797
We do have a few strikes to issue in the MLB survivor pool but overall a good first week. I will be doing the weekly recap post from @MLBofficialscorer shortly.
Sats for all, GR
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71 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 8 Apr
You definitely have PoW in all the sports-related posts you produce. Keep it up!
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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Apr
NBA Playoff Survivor Pool coming soon.
Did you see TJ McConnel absolutely torch the Heat yesterday?
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
No, but I did do 100 simulations of the draft lottery and the Raptors lost their pick 52 times. Ouch.
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Apr
If only they could have lost to the Bucks. This is such a weird season.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
What's going on with the Bucks?
Raptors 2 behind Memphis and 4 ahead of Portland. I don't think their seeding was going to change whether they won or lost the last couple games.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 8 Apr
Maybe Dame is ultimately a good-stats-bad-team guy. Or, maybe Jrue Holiday is the most underrated player of this generation.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
I guess we will see come playoff time.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Wumbo 8 Apr
You issue those strikes:
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
Fun fact: the exterior stadium shots for this scene were filmed at Angel Stadium but the interior shots were filmed at Dodgers stadium.
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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @gmd 8 Apr
Was pretty sad to see the Caitlin Clark Cinderella story come to an end. If I was her I'd stay in college another year and rake in millions in NIL deals, but it wouldn't be the classy thing to do.
Sadly I don't think anyone is going to follow her to the boring WNBA.
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
I know the WNBA isn't very popular but you don't think she will be able to get as many endorsement deals if she goes pro?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 8 Apr
She was selling out stadiums with every game in college. College WBB fans are super passionate but for whatever reason they don't show loyalty in fan viewership going into the WNBA. Unless she bucks the trend and fans follow her en masse, I think the money will drop off quickly. If she doesn't quickly dominate at the next level I worry people will forget about her quickly. They might forget about her even if she does dominate. Unfortunately the WNBA is just not an aesthetically pleasing product.
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @gmd 8 Apr freebie
Random side thought- after South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said "If you consider yourself a woman and you want to play sports or vice versa, you should be able to play"...
how long before a conservative group puts together a NIL sponsorship deal to get a "trans" athlete to wreak havoc in women's college basketball? It could be potentially be worth millions to someone who would otherwise walk on or ride the bench on a decent college men's team.
I have a friend who couldn't walk onto our school's mediocre men's team but would help on the practice squad for the championship contending women's team and would regularly thrash them.
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99 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
I saw that clip. That was painful to watch. Seemed like she didn't want to answer but felt she had to for fear of cancellation or her job maybe.
Isn't that what occurred with the swimmer? Where he wasn't good enough to compete in the men's field and then dominated the womens.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 8 Apr
Yeah Lia Thomas who was just "competitive" enough as a swimmer to make it fair-ish and didn't shatter any records.
I'm here with popcorn for the inevitable Joe Rogan brain explosion when a trans athlete starts really mopping the floor in a women's sport.
If someone played it smartly they could collect money from both the far right and far left haha. Far right could kick it off by incentivizing it under the table and if they embrace the activism they could be a hero for the far left.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
It is going to come to a head eventually.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 8 Apr
Uconn gonna win 🤣
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 8 Apr
That will make for a fun 3 way tie and decision via tiebreaker.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 8 Apr
Based on how well my Final Four Bounty predictions went, I suspect I'm damned lucky that the survivor pool ended when it did (even if that wasn't as exciting). Am looking forward to watching the game tonight, though.
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