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Re: US women's soccer team is incredibly hard to root for
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Ubiquitous
Aug 8, 2023, 11:15:29 AM8/8/23
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In article <2cf46a0702062f6f...@dizum.com>, ch...@abc.com wrote:
>What happened? Who started it and why? When will it end? Will it ever end?
>Or is it over when it’s over for you, when you no longer can stomach it?
>
>Why have the most influential forces in sports — TV execs, advertisers,
>the media and the top administrative authorities — determined that our
>sports be denuded of sports? Why have the conceited, vulgar and selfish —
>assorted creeps antithetical to sports — been given the keys to the
>kingdom?
>
>Even if it remains flabbergasting, it’s hardly a surprise that Fox and
>marketing geniuses seized upon the overwhelming disgust with Team
>Obnoxious, the 2019 U.S. Women’s World Cup Championship team — a literal
>turnoff among even the most willing and eager “USA! USA!” chanters — then
>repackaged it as the reason to again both watch and root for “our gals.”
>
>Again, the excessive, me-first, all-about-me antics of vulgar Megan
>Rapinoe, wildly unpopular among her country’s right-minded populace, has
>been restored as someone everyone loves and admires.
>
>How could Fox, the exclusive U.S. rights holder, have missed what America
>saw so plainly as nauseating — even if President Biden bestowed the
>country’s highest civilian medal on her for reasons unknown?
>
>Megan Rapinoe’s classless antics in the past is one reason the USWNT is a
>hard team to root for, Phil Mushnick writes.Getty Images see also
>equal time Boorish Megan Rapinoe unfit for Presidential Medal of Freedom
>Was Biden’s selection committee particularly impressed with Rapinoe’s
>full-field, rub-it-in solo victory lap after scoring to make it 9-0 over
>Thailand in a 13-0 final? Or the way she used the F-word in addressing an
>NYC crowd that was loaded with kids?
The Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro offered his thoughts on retiring
women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe and her less-than stellar performance at the
World Cup — which resulted in a loss to Sweden and an early exit from the
competition.
At particular issue for most was a penalty kick — which Rapinoe whiffed,
handing Sweden the win — and the striker’s awkward response to the loss, which
appeared to at least initially be laughter.
Conservatives mocked the outspoken player — who is best known outside of
soccer circles for her blue hair, her protest of the American national anthem,
and demands for “equal pay” despite the women’s team delivering far less
market value than the men’s.
“All righty. So Megan Rapinoe, one of most irritating people on planet Earth,”
Shapiro said by way of introduction. “She had an opportunity to push the
United States women’s national soccer team into the next round. Now, she’s
most famous for having blue hair and also for really hating America. I mean,
the national anthem is bad and America is a deeply sexist and racist place,
even though they’re paying her way too much money to play a sport no one has
ever watched, except once every four years when we all pretend to be
interested in women’s soccer and all the rest of it.”
“Well, Rapinoe apparently had a penalty shot and she missed and the United
States lost and they got booted by Sweden. And bizarrely enough, she started
kind of laughing and smiling after she missed the shot,” Shapiro continued.
“And she didn’t miss by a little, she missed by like a lot.”
Shapiro went on to note that he didn’t really fault her for having a “weird”
initial reaction, saying that people often handle horrible news in ways that
seem strange in the moment.
“So I’m not going to blame her for like laughing and then crying. People do
react in weird ways to bad situations. If you’ve ever had to tell somebody
truly horrible news, you don’t know what to do,” he said. “So I get that.”
“The part about Megan Rapinoe that is annoying is that she’s Megan Rapinoe,”
he continued, pointing to her postgame interview and the fact that after
playing and winning in international competition, the part of her career that
stood out most was scoring a point for “equal pay.”
Shapiro concluded with his final assessment of Rapinoe, saying the real
problem wasn’t what she did in her last World Cup appearance — no matter how
dismal that may have been — but who she was as a person.
“Again, the problem with Megan Rapinoe is not that she missed a penalty shot.
A lot of people miss penalty shots. The problem is not that she reacted
weirdly. When that happens, when bad stuff happens, bad stuff happens,” he
explained. “The problem with Megan Rapinoe, is that she’s kind of a terrible
person and that she’s spent her entire career pressing for the idea that
America is a terrible, horrible place that has made her extraordinarily
wealthy and famous for playing a sport that no one cares about worldwide.”
“So that’s — that’s that. And we bid a not particularly fond farewell to Megan
Rapinoe. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
https://youtu.be/Z8s2o4IxFwo
[IMHO, she missed the shot on purpose because she's tired of playing for a
country she seems to despise and was eager to retire, possibly making money as
a professional woke activist, hence the smriking and laughing.]
--
Let's go Brandon!
>What happened? Who started it and why? When will it end? Will it ever end?
>Or is it over when it’s over for you, when you no longer can stomach it?
>
>Why have the most influential forces in sports — TV execs, advertisers,
>the media and the top administrative authorities — determined that our
>sports be denuded of sports? Why have the conceited, vulgar and selfish —
>assorted creeps antithetical to sports — been given the keys to the
>kingdom?
>
>Even if it remains flabbergasting, it’s hardly a surprise that Fox and
>marketing geniuses seized upon the overwhelming disgust with Team
>Obnoxious, the 2019 U.S. Women’s World Cup Championship team — a literal
>turnoff among even the most willing and eager “USA! USA!” chanters — then
>repackaged it as the reason to again both watch and root for “our gals.”
>
>Again, the excessive, me-first, all-about-me antics of vulgar Megan
>Rapinoe, wildly unpopular among her country’s right-minded populace, has
>been restored as someone everyone loves and admires.
>
>How could Fox, the exclusive U.S. rights holder, have missed what America
>saw so plainly as nauseating — even if President Biden bestowed the
>country’s highest civilian medal on her for reasons unknown?
>
>Megan Rapinoe’s classless antics in the past is one reason the USWNT is a
>hard team to root for, Phil Mushnick writes.Getty Images see also
>equal time Boorish Megan Rapinoe unfit for Presidential Medal of Freedom
>Was Biden’s selection committee particularly impressed with Rapinoe’s
>full-field, rub-it-in solo victory lap after scoring to make it 9-0 over
>Thailand in a 13-0 final? Or the way she used the F-word in addressing an
>NYC crowd that was loaded with kids?
The Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro offered his thoughts on retiring
women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe and her less-than stellar performance at the
World Cup — which resulted in a loss to Sweden and an early exit from the
competition.
At particular issue for most was a penalty kick — which Rapinoe whiffed,
handing Sweden the win — and the striker’s awkward response to the loss, which
appeared to at least initially be laughter.
Conservatives mocked the outspoken player — who is best known outside of
soccer circles for her blue hair, her protest of the American national anthem,
and demands for “equal pay” despite the women’s team delivering far less
market value than the men’s.
“All righty. So Megan Rapinoe, one of most irritating people on planet Earth,”
Shapiro said by way of introduction. “She had an opportunity to push the
United States women’s national soccer team into the next round. Now, she’s
most famous for having blue hair and also for really hating America. I mean,
the national anthem is bad and America is a deeply sexist and racist place,
even though they’re paying her way too much money to play a sport no one has
ever watched, except once every four years when we all pretend to be
interested in women’s soccer and all the rest of it.”
“Well, Rapinoe apparently had a penalty shot and she missed and the United
States lost and they got booted by Sweden. And bizarrely enough, she started
kind of laughing and smiling after she missed the shot,” Shapiro continued.
“And she didn’t miss by a little, she missed by like a lot.”
Shapiro went on to note that he didn’t really fault her for having a “weird”
initial reaction, saying that people often handle horrible news in ways that
seem strange in the moment.
“So I’m not going to blame her for like laughing and then crying. People do
react in weird ways to bad situations. If you’ve ever had to tell somebody
truly horrible news, you don’t know what to do,” he said. “So I get that.”
“The part about Megan Rapinoe that is annoying is that she’s Megan Rapinoe,”
he continued, pointing to her postgame interview and the fact that after
playing and winning in international competition, the part of her career that
stood out most was scoring a point for “equal pay.”
Shapiro concluded with his final assessment of Rapinoe, saying the real
problem wasn’t what she did in her last World Cup appearance — no matter how
dismal that may have been — but who she was as a person.
“Again, the problem with Megan Rapinoe is not that she missed a penalty shot.
A lot of people miss penalty shots. The problem is not that she reacted
weirdly. When that happens, when bad stuff happens, bad stuff happens,” he
explained. “The problem with Megan Rapinoe, is that she’s kind of a terrible
person and that she’s spent her entire career pressing for the idea that
America is a terrible, horrible place that has made her extraordinarily
wealthy and famous for playing a sport that no one cares about worldwide.”
“So that’s — that’s that. And we bid a not particularly fond farewell to Megan
Rapinoe. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
https://youtu.be/Z8s2o4IxFwo
[IMHO, she missed the shot on purpose because she's tired of playing for a
country she seems to despise and was eager to retire, possibly making money as
a professional woke activist, hence the smriking and laughing.]
--
Let's go Brandon!
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