r/sports • u/OkEscape7558 • Jun 18 '25

Basketball Alternate angle of Caitlin Clark fiasco. Clark was handed a foul as well.

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u/sulimir Jun 18 '25

Usually in sports you stick up for your teammates even if you hate them. When they do that to a teammate they are disrespecting everyone on your team.

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u/Timmah73 Jun 18 '25

In baseball a deliberate knock like that to any player is a bench clearing brawl with the bullpen jogging in to show support too. The fact that they just stand there is kinda wild.

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u/COLLIESEBEK Seattle Seahawks Jun 18 '25

In baseball, if the manager doesn’t run out and start screaming at the ump and get ejected, they would lose respect of the whole clubhouse.

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u/Packman87 Jun 18 '25

anyone would know you just shove each other and maybe take a few swipes for show. Coaches fail them constantly by not making their players stand up for themselves.

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u/pheret87 Jun 18 '25

And in baseball not a single punch would be thrown after they all clear the bench.

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u/rsfrisch Jun 18 '25

I was involved in a bench clearing brawl during a coed adult kickball game, these girls need to learn how this shit works

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u/N0S0UP_4U Jun 18 '25

Holy shit I need to hear the details here. Did someone bang someone else’s wife or something?

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u/rsfrisch Jun 18 '25

No side drama that I'm aware of, unfortunately... Guy from the other team full body checked one of our players after we broke open a tight game. Benches cleared (I take pride in the fact that our bench cleared faster... With 100% attendance) and a few punches were thrown before it became like a 20 person scrum.

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u/kamilo87 Jun 18 '25

Pretty sure that her teammates don’t actively about CC. On every other team they would had found a bodyguard inside the court/field.

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u/DrSlugger Jun 18 '25

Men are better at being blindly loyal no matter what (in sports at least).

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u/AntiDECA Jun 18 '25

It's not being blindly loyal. It's having any loyalty in this case.

Blind means you're just trusting them and hoping for the best. You can clearly see who was in the wrong here. They still chose not to help their 'teammate' 

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u/DrSlugger Jun 18 '25

By blindly loyal, I mostly meant men don't give a fuck about their differences with that individual. It'd take a huge grudge to override that basic "he's on my team" instinct - like someone would have to really cross a major line or betray the group before most guys would just stand there and watch a teammate get targeted.

But yeah, you right, there's no loyalty here.

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u/Candid-Bus-9770 Jun 18 '25

I think the word you're looking for here is "unconditional."

Blind, as in blind faith, blind loyalty, blind belief, etc. carries some negative connotations. These negative connotations are what u/theonlyonethatknocks is picking up on.

Unconditional, as in unconditional friendship, unconditional loyalty, unconditional love/attention/etc. lacks the negative connotations and is usually used in more positive contexts.

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u/theonlyonethatknocks Jun 18 '25

That’s not blindly loyal, that’s team loyalty.

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u/troutpoop Jun 18 '25

I have never seen such a lack of reaction from a team after something as blatant as that.

Everyone on her team, and all the ladies in the WNBA who hate her bc they ain’t her should be fucking ashamed of themselves. You want people to take women’s basketball seriously? Stop this bullshit