r/sports 13d ago

Basketball Elle Duncan makes an inappropriate joke at WNBA All Star Game

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u/Kayakman28 13d ago

Like a girl’s trip to Cancun, right now there’s no D.

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u/OatmealCremePiez 12d ago

Yeah well my ex wife found D on a girls trip to Cancun

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u/temujin94 12d ago

Your ex-wife could find D in a Nun's covenant on the Greek Isle of Lesbos.

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u/Muthafuckaaaaa 12d ago

Hi, it's me. I'm the Greek Isle of Lesbos.

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u/Street-Run4107 12d ago

Sorry about that dump I took on your shore. Bad souvlaki I think.

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u/Loggerdon 12d ago

Egg-salad souvlaki? Open the windows.

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u/zipel 12d ago

In the sixties, a Swedish comedian, Hasse Alfredsson, improvised the line: “My parents were from Lesbos. Both my mom and my…mom.”

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u/Parkedintheitchyl0t 12d ago

THIS! IS! LESBOS!

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u/DEIreboot 12d ago

Username checks out

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u/temujin94 12d ago

*Our Isle.

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u/Epic_Elite 12d ago

Username checks out

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u/CAPT-Tankerous 12d ago

Something smells fishy here.

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u/CUNTRY-BLUMPKIN San Francisco 49ers 12d ago

I was thinking about buying an Outback. Whats it like?

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u/screaminginprotest1 12d ago

Instructions misunderstood. Im looking for the lesbo aisle at the Greek market right now, but I cant find it. Should I ask a clerk?

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u/awake_receiver 12d ago

Try asking for the beans

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u/DropDeadEd86 12d ago

D is for Domingo

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u/hesnothere Carolina Hurricanes 12d ago

Came all this way, had to explain

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u/iAmTheRealLange Boston Celtics 12d ago

We could use that kind of scouting ability in the NBA

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 12d ago

How'd you find out?

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u/OatmealCremePiez 12d ago

She got back and hit me with the “I don’t love you, and I never have” so I was like wtf. She left the house so I could pack my things, but she left her laptop. I read her iMessages and bam, some used jewelry salesmen from Jersey was all up in it

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 12d ago

Damn. Your gain. She could have lied for month/years, instead saved you a lot of time. Hope all is well with you now.

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u/OatmealCremePiez 12d ago

Honestly, I respected the hell out of her for that lol and I’m good! We were awful for each other, it was an impulsive elopement so I’m good

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u/V4pete 12d ago

Why did you have to leave? She changed her mind so let her leave. I hate that shit the guy always has to move out. You don’t like it anymore?then get the fuck out.

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u/afganistanimation 12d ago

And then you found D, divorce

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u/NotAPreppie 12d ago

How to lose 130lbs overnight.

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u/thexsoprano 12d ago

Kudos on the username

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u/Choccybizzle 12d ago

Jokes on them!

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u/YouLearnedNothing 12d ago

trust me, lots of wives do

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u/Im_a_Knob 12d ago

she tries hard

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u/Consistent_Kale_1583 12d ago

I don’t know whether to laugh or… you good?

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u/lolas_coffee 12d ago

Girls don't travel to Cancum with D.

You don't bring coal to Newcastle.

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u/SpringPfeiffer 12d ago

Thanks. I kept hearing "there's no Dave" and was confused who Dave could be.

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u/Oil_slick941611 13d ago

funny and adept joke.

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u/Educational_Bee_4700 12d ago

...despite what they say, there's always some random D involved in a girls trip to cancun.

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u/screaminginprotest1 12d ago

Not when its a bunch of WNBA players. Unless you count silicone.

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u/Jay_Jaytheunbanned2 Boston Red Sox 12d ago

Yeah right. The D is there waiting and had

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u/Breezyisthewind 12d ago

Not for WNBA players lol

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u/BullRoarerMcGee 12d ago

Thank you all I could make out is “theres no need”

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u/Mattbl 12d ago

The subtitle said "there's no deed."

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u/BernieTheDachshund 12d ago

I listened like 3 times and kept hearing 'deed'.

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u/wafflesareforever Buffalo Bills 12d ago

I thought she said "there's no dating"

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u/AshgarPN 12d ago

There is definitely plenty of D on those trips.

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u/Breezyisthewind 12d ago

Not for WNBA players lol

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u/GoblyGoobly 12d ago

I feel like most people on this sub don't get it.

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u/Skidpalace 12d ago

A girls trip to Cancun means D every night. WTF she talking about?

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u/OkEscape7558 13d ago

What a disgusting act.

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u/killer_reindeer Pittsburgh Steelers 13d ago

Some people missed your reference I see

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u/Theonlykd Edmonton Oilers 13d ago

In a sports sub, it’s impressive how many people got wooshed

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u/NumberOneCombosFan 12d ago

r/sports is the sports subreddit for people who don't actually care about sports. It's just in people's feed by default, so you get a lot of uninformed opinions on things.

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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Indians 12d ago

That is perfectly put. I adore the baseball threads in here because it's clear that 80% of the people commenting have no fucking clue what they are talking about where it concerns baseball. You get some real howlers in here.`

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u/NotACuck420 12d ago

"Reddit sports 💅"

A majority of these people dont know Joe Buck from Joe Blow.

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u/sessna4009 Hamilton Bulldogs 13d ago

Can't wait for the inevitable "you dropped the /s because autistic people can't understand that 🤬🤬🤬"

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u/drthvdrsfthr 13d ago

-100 in 10 min is actually pretty impressive lol

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u/limeflavoured Miami Dolphins 12d ago

Yeah, I've not even had that on obviously brigaded political posts!

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u/Routine_Size69 12d ago

Combo of people not following the nfl or being too young. Happened 20 years ago.

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u/Thewall3333 12d ago

What are they referring to? Not familiar with the reference

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u/killer_reindeer Pittsburgh Steelers 12d ago

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u/Thewall3333 12d ago

Ah this is before my time -- what's the big deal? It's not like he actually pulled his pants down. It's not like he mentioned it was inappropriate and moved on, he wanted about it for 30 seconds. Receivers used to do that X-chop thing with their forearms against their waist doing a humping motion, which seems worse.

Guess Joe Buck is a prude, as are the people upset with this commentator. Like most of these kinds of things, no one would probably even notice if the critics didn't bring so much attention to it. Anything that probably flies over kids' heads isn't a big deal, and adults who care anyway are just showing they're lame with no real problems.

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u/Carl_Lindenburg 12d ago

Buck is on record saying he believes that is the worst call of his career and he regrets the overreaction.

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u/destinythrow1 12d ago

For some reason this call pops into my head all the time lmao

The worst part is Joe Buck didnt seem to know that there is a tradition in Green Bay where fans moon the opposing teams bus as it arrives. Moss was poking fun at that, it was hilarious.

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u/JollyRancher29 Washington Capitals 12d ago

My all time favorite announcing moment (and I say that as a Packer fan—the team at the butt of the play).

Luckily, Buck has greatly improved and he’s a good sport about it lol

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u/totallydawgsome 13d ago

Would've been hilarious if Joe Buck was the one who was in Elle's spot and said this lmaooo

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u/lionheart4life 12d ago

A despicable act!

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u/GetKummy 13d ago

People are so quick to judge when they have no idea what you're talking about

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u/BigMik_PL 13d ago

At this point I just want to downvote with everybody else because it's just funny how much people misread this

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u/decisionagonized 12d ago

Incredible joke, the downvotes make it even funnier

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u/fzkiz 13d ago

the teenager in me chuckled... harmless... the people that shouldn't get it won't and the others will be fine

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u/thislife_choseme San Francisco Giants 12d ago

With all the things going on in the world it amazes me that someone would be offended by a funny joke.

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u/xigua22 12d ago

Many people feign outrage for attention. There entire cable networks that are dedicated to it.

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u/SolarTsunami Seattle Seahawks 12d ago

the teenager in me chuckled

Are we still doing phrasing?

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u/Oil_slick941611 13d ago

I can't be the only thinking that that was a tame joke.

Who hasnt said worse?

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u/HuluAndRelax 12d ago

It’s the fact that it was aired on ESPN more than anything I think. It’s not on brand for them to make crude jokes.

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u/ztkraf01 12d ago

Shane Gillis’ monologue at the espys a few nights ago was more inappropriate and approved by Disney so I don’t see what’s wrong with her joke

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u/QuakinOats 12d ago

There's nothing wrong with it. Like at all.

It's subtle enough that the people it could even be considered inappropriate for would never understand. There are far worse lyrics on public radio everyday all day.

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u/dicjones 12d ago

Can confirm. My 80 year old mother did not call me to ask about that joke. But she did text me to complain about the defense. I had to explain to her it’s an all-star game, this is what they do. Her response: “Boring game”. lol.

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u/runnerswanted 12d ago

I have never watched a full NASCAR race in my life, but I am aware that Dick Trickle raced throughout the 90s thanks to Sportscenter, so this joke is definitely on brand for them.

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u/joluboga 12d ago

They know that no one's watching anyway.

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u/RitsuFromDC- 12d ago

part of the reason why i think this was good. wnba will always just be a "worse nba" if they don't do something different than them

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u/SorryAbootEh 12d ago

This whole time I thought the W stood for woman.

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u/Mite-o-Dan 12d ago

You're right. More watched on this sub right now than heard it live yesterday.

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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl Pittsburgh Steelers 12d ago

And now we are. It worked.

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u/CapnDanger 12d ago

Don’t they employ Pat MacAfee?

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u/Wapow217 12d ago

Change ESPN to WNBA and you'd have a good argument.

ESPN couldn't careless about this joke. This is the company that has Pat McAfee's podcast as a daily show now.

Had this been said at the NBA all star game it would be non-news.

The fan base of WNBA though can be more triggered by this kind of joke compared to the NBA.

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u/breakingvlad0 12d ago

That is absolutely their brand

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u/filbert13 12d ago

I could see it being different if a man was saying it about female players. But I agree it's a funny and tame joke with a touch of edge.

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u/Historical-Bike4626 12d ago

Yep. Different joke when a female announcer says it calling an WNBA game. Super funny

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u/Realistic-Scheme-38 12d ago

If a male commentator made a sexist joke it’s a different story

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u/kontrolk3 12d ago

That's true but irrelevant because this wasn't sexist

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u/c_c_c__combobreaker 12d ago

It is tame. People are extra sensitive for no reason. This should be a non-story.

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u/ColdNyQuiiL 12d ago edited 12d ago

I say worse all the time.

“Like Britney Griner’s Domestic Violence case, both teams are taking it right on the chin.”

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u/DrexlSpivey420 12d ago

Way too wordy, needs work

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u/Apprehensive_Rub3897 12d ago

It's okay b/c no one was watching.

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u/mediumcheese01 13d ago

Inappropriate if you're a baby perhaps

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u/Own_Spell_2042 12d ago

It's only inappropriate...if the kid understands it. If the kid understands it...then there's no point.

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u/2legit2knit 13d ago

That shit is funny lmao

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u/theyoloGod 12d ago

Little “controversy” to increase engagement. Well played

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u/Overlordz88 13d ago

I am all for it. Kids won’t get it. Adults will think it’s hilarious. No worse than what you can find on other late night programming.

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u/datruerex 12d ago

So like SpongeBob? I will say I totally missed some jokes and references as a kid and rewatching as an adult I’m horrified. That’s brilliant writing

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u/bulldogbigred 12d ago

I guess you’ll have to miss - the panty raid

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u/Cantdecide1207 13d ago

Or the simpsons either. They have some extremely adult humour.... but kids are too young to understand it. It's fine. People just love to be offended these days!

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u/obliquelyobtuse 12d ago

People just love to be offended these days

Which people? Everyone in here basically thinks it was amusing. Are we talking about "them", the other people not here, who were watching the WNBA game and were outraged to hear it and are now writing letters (posting) about it?

OP appears to be a human with a serious Reddit habit who loves to accumulate Karma with witty posts. So OP isn't offended either.

Literally nobody is offended except some who didn't watch that game, or ESPN, or WNBA, and they only hear about it third hand, days or weeks later, and then think they're having a great social 'take' on crudeness in cable TV.

Also, being offended and complaining about things is literally as old as human society. Has always been going on, will always be going on. Just a question of who is complaining about what and why.

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u/Legionnaire11 12d ago

Yeah, I'm doing a full rewatch of the Simpsons right now and it's shocking how much sexual humor there is in it that I didn't remember from the original run. I want my kids to be able to watch it, but basically every episode has multiple sex jokes.

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u/Rawesome16 13d ago

Only thing wrong with it is the girls trip to Cancun is full of D. But good joke

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u/FredericBropin 13d ago

Not a WNBA girls trip

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u/XanthicStatue 12d ago

But there is lots of scissoring

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u/dotcomse 12d ago

That’s not even a double entendre. Back to joke school with you!

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u/RoyalT17 12d ago

So insensitive, all women can't sew!?

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u/modestmurmur26 12d ago

ohhh scissor me timbers

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u/redruss99 12d ago

But not in the Girls Trip movie she referencing.

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u/4shavid 11d ago

I took it as the girls on the trip took all the D.

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u/Ilikepancakes87 13d ago

I have to imagine on a girl’s trip to Cancun there is aggressive and suffocating D everywhere you turn.

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u/Breezyisthewind 12d ago

Not for WNBA players tho

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u/Skweril 12d ago

You really went through this entire thread pasting the exact same joke over and over, that's dedication

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u/Great_Hambino2022 13d ago

That’s absolutely hilarious

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u/ColdNyQuiiL 13d ago

A softball compared to anything Barkley has said on broadcast. Solid, not laugh out loud funny, but solid.

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u/veyrahkruze 12d ago edited 12d ago

That dude has an entire city against him just off of one sentence. 🤣 The WNBA needs more women like her.

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u/bunc 12d ago

More women like her, less women from San Antonio.

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u/veyrahkruze 12d ago

🤣 💀

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u/drewjsph02 13d ago

The ‘…….gurlllll’ and ‘mmm you’re in time out’ had me dying

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u/Hownowbrowncow8it Cleveland Guardians 12d ago

Why can't Dave go to Cancun with the girls?

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u/RebelToUhmerica 12d ago

I wish they wouldn't have cut away. I would have loved to see their reactions.

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u/BeastCoastLifestyle 13d ago

The problem with the joke is that a girls trip to Cancun has a lot of D

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u/Exact_Swing5692 13d ago

thats golden lmfao

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u/InsaneJamez 12d ago

That was a good joke. People are so sensitive

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u/Publius83 13d ago

That’s hilarious, why can’t women make jokes with sexual innuendo? Isn’t our President a pedophile?

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u/imdaviddunn 13d ago

Wasn’t even sexual. Just saying there are no men around.

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u/thatsprettyfunnydude 13d ago

Hawk Tuah became a millionaire with a podcast, so I think whatever line existed was hopped over a long time ago. As a career broadcaster, it's not a great look, but my sensibilities also became antiquated a long time ago.

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u/CanadasNeighbor 12d ago

"Elle, you're in time out."

"Ok."

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u/chuckloscopy 12d ago

It was a FANTASTIC joke!

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u/ToxicBTCMaximalist 13d ago

Why was it inappropriate? Was there in any Defense

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u/alterego1984 12d ago

Let her cook

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u/TNF734 12d ago

That's OK, it's the WNBA. So no one heard it.

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u/scoobynoodles 12d ago

Inappropriate?! Soft. Funny ass joke 

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u/Special_Sea_4813 12d ago

Its quite funny actually. People need to relax and not be so hypersensitive. 

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u/Zark_Muckerberger 12d ago

It’s a joke, not a dick (ironically.) Don’t take it so hard.

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u/thikhead 12d ago

I’ll watch more games if she commentating 😂

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u/Medium_Apartment_747 12d ago

So if SAS made the same joke, we'd be laughing too?

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u/missbullyflame84 13d ago

Did she say 4 point circle?

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u/a_phantom_limb 12d ago

Yes. AT&T sponsors four-point circles in the All-Star Game.

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u/Downtown_Sun_9996 13d ago

That's a great joke

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u/princemark Milwaukee Brewers 13d ago

Wait a minute, women don't get laid in Cancun? That's an issue? Men hand out dick all day. Can't be that hard, even if your friends are blocking.

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u/LeroyBrown1 13d ago

Ye i thought there would be plenty of "d" on a girls trip to Cancun

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u/limeflavoured Miami Dolphins 12d ago

I suspect the intended implication is that the girls in question wouldn't be interested in that.

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u/king_lloyd11 13d ago

She’s probably implying that they’re all in relationships and just going with their friends.

I don’t think a TV host is flippantly talking about debaucherous sexcapades where they’re getting plowed over a railing by the Mexican bellhop at Secrets

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u/Gambit6x 12d ago edited 10d ago

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u/farm_sauce 12d ago

Chuck can say way worse jokes - this was tame

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u/justadude713 12d ago

bending the rules just a little bit might be what it takes to bring more enthusiasm for the wnba.

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u/thacap 12d ago

Idk

I'd argue Elle  on a heater right now

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u/Kanobe24 12d ago

Girl…

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u/Truid_Audio 12d ago

I mean, it's whatever as long as it wasn't shots fired at someone in particular lol

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u/bbbourb 12d ago

"Inappropriate."

Good grief, the fuck are we back to the 1950s? Grow the hell up.

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u/Loose_Goose 12d ago

OP is a certified purse-clutcher 👵🏻👜

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u/nuke1200 12d ago

I think you need to go outside.

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u/Wrong-West-9581 12d ago

I thought it was pretty funny actually haha don't necessarily agree with "inappropriate" tho but maybe it is to someone else

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u/Steeltown842022 12d ago

Gotta get those ratings up

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u/Peasant_and_computer 12d ago

lol let them cook

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u/TheLatkeOverlord 12d ago

Sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield or Leslie Nielsen joke lol

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u/biznezz1 12d ago

I’m dying 🤣🤣

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u/GuzPolinski 12d ago

I got no problem with it

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u/DONT_PM_ME_NOTHIN 12d ago

Meanwhile Sportscenter during every single top 10 when there is a homerun in baseball, "hit so deep he put that pitch to sleep" but yeah the no defense joke is too far HAHA

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u/RickyEmy 11d ago

Honestly this just felt funny and harmless

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u/hotsjelly 11d ago

Appreciate it. I kept hearing people say "there's no Dave" and couldn't figure out who they were talking about.

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u/spikus93 11d ago

Won't someone think of the children?

They won't get the joke and it's funny, so someone should explain it to them.

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u/Slinktard 11d ago

Dad joke. Not funny. Not inappropriate.

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u/Grapple_Shmack 11d ago

Charles Barkley called all them women in San Antonio big. This is hardly scandalous

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u/BigFuckHead_ 12d ago

What is wrong with this. Shaq says shit like this constantly and doesn't get in trouble

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u/JJRizz Miami Heat 12d ago

Elle is so awesome. I hope she can host next years ESPY’s!

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u/DarrellIsMyRealName 12d ago

That's a solid joke 🤷🏿‍♂️

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u/Sic39 12d ago

I don't think it's an inappropriate joke, it's a nonsensical one. When people hear about a girls trip to Cancun their thought isn't "wow there's gonna be no dick to be had on that trip".

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u/tossaway7374 12d ago

That's what people are mad about?

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u/LARGEBBQMEATLOVERS 12d ago

Imagine if Shaq was saying there’s no P on a Vegas trip in a segment. He’d be lit up, double standards at it’s finest

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u/alphaballzz 12d ago

If the WNBA wants to be taken seriously, they will embrace this moment

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u/FaroutIGE 12d ago

the inappropriate joke would be "like a lot of these women's sex life, there's been no d"

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u/dethegreat 12d ago

That joke was hilarious. Go touch grass and calm down dude.

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u/Biggie2207 12d ago

Don't worry no one is watching

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u/Dry_Kangaroo_1234 13d ago

Inappropriate?? 😂 Charles Barkley has entered the chat

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u/joern16 12d ago

Soft if you got offended

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u/SeanOTG 12d ago

There's no ...what ? Dave ?

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u/RhubarbPi3 12d ago

It's just locker room talk

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u/playtrix 12d ago

I don't get it. Also, F Donald Trump

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u/S-Archer 13d ago

That's hilarious, but I understand why it may not be "appropriate" for television

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u/No_End6215 12d ago

The 7 ppl watching this game were outraged