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SiriusXM host Mark Lye fired over WNBA comments: ‘Is there a gun in the house?’
New York Post ^ | February 7, 2022 | Ryan Glasspiegel

Posted on 02/07/2022 2:12:47 PM PST by nickcarraway

SiriusXM PGA Tour host Mark Lye made inappropriate comments about the WNBA on the air Saturday and was fired by the end of the weekend.

“You know the LPGA Tour, to me, is a completely different tour than it was 10 years ago,” Lye said Saturday on PGA Tour Radio. “You couldn’t pay me to watch. You really couldn’t, because I couldn’t relate at all. It’s kind of like, if you were a basketball player, and I’m not trashing anybody, please don’t take it the wrong way.

“I saw some highlights of ladies’ basketball. Man. Is there a gun in the house? I’ll shoot myself [before] I watch that.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; lpga; sirius; wnba
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To: nickcarraway

The vast majority of Americans could not name even one WNBA team or one WNBA player. I know I can’t.


21 posted on 02/07/2022 2:36:50 PM PST by Restless
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To: nickcarraway

Is the WNBA basket lower, with a larger hoop, than the NBA basket and hoop?
Just asking!


22 posted on 02/07/2022 2:37:52 PM PST by GOYAKLA
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To: nickcarraway

Lol. The real problem that the WNBA has is that women won’t watch it.


23 posted on 02/07/2022 2:42:18 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway
Someone probably likes watching it.

Went to a couple games with my daughter. About 20% of the crowd were parents like me. The rest lesbians.

24 posted on 02/07/2022 2:45:04 PM PST by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: nickcarraway
Quick, ask your wife or girlfriend who her favorite WNBA team is.

I guarantee you will get a blank stare each and every time.

They might also ask you "What is the WNBA?"

25 posted on 02/07/2022 2:46:25 PM PST by SamAdams76 (I am 24 days away from outliving John Hughes)
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To: Seruzawa

Should they be forced to watch it? I’d like to know how many people watch it on TV and live, and what the demographics are. I can see former female college basketball players watching it. I know you are going to laugh, but perhaps men who are attracted to those women. That’s usually a source of viewership for female sports.


26 posted on 02/07/2022 2:47:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The LPGA is more watchable today because there are a number of dollies to balance the lesbians. Also, the best women can hit it straight & far, and they have short games as good as many of the men. The downside lately has been that players from Asian countries, notably Korea, have dominated the tour. That is changing a bit with Americans Nelly Korda and Danielle Kang contending most weeks.

Women’s basketball? Forget it, a disaster. Imus was right, even though it cost him and he felt the need to make groveling apologies.


27 posted on 02/07/2022 2:47:01 PM PST by twister881
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To: nickcarraway

Watch any WNBA game. Count to 30. You will see a horrible pass, horrible shot, a dribble out of bounds, a dribble off a foot, some kind of silly high school level mistake. Its horrible


28 posted on 02/07/2022 2:48:55 PM PST by Pxzftrnqfrn
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To: nickcarraway

An inconvenient truth.


29 posted on 02/07/2022 2:54:08 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: nickcarraway

All I know from my unscientific personal survey is that I know a dozen or Jazz fans. Four are women. Not one is the least interested in the WNBA. In fact most are more dedicated Jazz fans than the men.


30 posted on 02/07/2022 3:00:04 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

Geebus, you really can’t say anything anymore. What the heck is wrong with what he said? The WNBA REALLY IS awful. Its a horrible product.


31 posted on 02/07/2022 3:05:27 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: nickcarraway

Touchy leftists. I have no desire to watch nappy-headed lesbians. Thank God there is no smell-a-vision for those that do watch.


32 posted on 02/07/2022 3:07:16 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Two weeks to slow the spread of communism.)
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To: nickcarraway

I would expect the level of play in the WNBA, and the LPGA for that matter, to improve dramatically when the trannies get into it. The money is even better at the pro level than at college and all of the trannies can’t be swimmers.


33 posted on 02/07/2022 3:09:20 PM PST by Bernard (Jeffrey Toobin may turn out to be the most ethical character at CNN because he only abused himself.)
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To: nickcarraway

The Little Sisters of the NBA would fold in a week without subsidies from the big brother league. LPGA has more of a following.


34 posted on 02/07/2022 3:11:05 PM PST by jimfree (My 19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: nickcarraway

Dang good joke.


35 posted on 02/07/2022 3:11:23 PM PST by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: cdcdawg

Women’s sports in general is not entertainment. It is simply a vanity project.


36 posted on 02/07/2022 3:19:41 PM PST by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intend to RULE.)
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To: nickcarraway

Norm MacDonald s——— on the WNBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKDa6-FuhUI


37 posted on 02/07/2022 3:23:58 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DannyTN

It was due to his diss. Never ever pissoff the giant amazonian lesbian sport watcher.


38 posted on 02/07/2022 3:34:45 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!!)
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To: cdcdawg
The WNBA is awful.

I read a while back that one player wanted the government to force the WNBA to pay them the same as the NBA players.

BTW, after their disrespect to veterans and other patriots I won't watch either one of them.

39 posted on 02/07/2022 4:01:25 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sportscasters make CNN and MSBNC seem conservative.


40 posted on 02/07/2022 4:04:00 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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