• @phoneymouse
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    1048 months ago

    Bill Burr had a good take on this one. Basically, how many of the people complaining about the pay disparity in women’s basketball actually watch women’s basketball? If you want them to get paid more, you need to watch their sport so they will bring in higher ticket sales and ad revenues. His take is a lot women are complaining about this pay disparity and few of them actually even watch the WNBA, so it’s kind of hypocritical since they’re not doing the very thing that would help increase their salaries.

      • @[email protected]
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        68 months ago

        Closest thing to a sport that I watch is pro wrestling, and I greatly enjoy women’s wrestling, so…

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        Same. I’d rather participate than be a spectator.

        But participation doesn’t make rich people more money, so we know what all the useful idiots are going to prefer.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      Except WNBA players don’t get revenue shares like NBA players do. That’s what they’re asking for.

      • @phoneymouse
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        38 months ago

        Well, they should get it. I imagine some of the things NBA players have now were won through bargaining and negotiations.

    • @SeabassDan
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      18 months ago

      And I love that he says that as someone who watches many sports regularly and spends money on everything from going to games to merchandise to even giving them air time in announcing specific events that he’s interestend in during his podcast.

    • @Daft_ish
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      I don’t know what the finances of the WNBA are but people should be paid by their talent and expertise. Someone preforming at a high enough level to make it into the WNBA is exceptionally rare and their salary should reflect that. Else, soon enough there won’t be any WNBA players.