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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 166743, member: 16"] Just watching ESPN and they start showing highlight's of women's college basketball. Brittany Griner apparently got her 500th career block which is a fantastic accomplishment for the young lady. My gigantic issue is how the absolute MORONS at ESPN try to turn this into a generic "college basketball" accomplishment. They say she is just the 5th person in NCAA basketball history to accomplish that. Two of those people reside on the men's side of the ledger, two on the women's. REALLY? We're really comparing women and men's records as the same thing right now? This is the dumbest thing ESPN has started doing over the last couple of years (well second dumbest, after Outside the lines, and the as& hats who report on that show). You cannot compare the women's game and the men's. They are two completely separate things. It's like comparing women's softball to men's baseball. Just ridiculous. They then went on further to say that Dickie V. was talking about the best shot blockers in the game, and forgot to include Griner, and what a travesty that was. Seriously? If Fab Melo played women's basketball he'd have 500 blocks before half the season was over. Hell, if Dion Waiters played in the women's game he'd probably break the record. To compare the two games in any way, shape or form (especially when including all time leaders) is insane and frankly a dis-credit to the women's game. What they failed to mention on that flaming trash heap of a sports network is that young Brittany is currently 3rd ALL TIME on the women's side. The way they stated it, it made it sound like she was 5th all time on the women's side. Why do they do this? Do they think anyone is buying it, or do they just simply not give a that the public looks at these things and just rolls their eyes? Is it some uber-politically correct thing to not separate the two games as two separate things? If that's the case, they should just have women and men play together so you can give those statistics and they would actually mean something. Would it be an awful display for ESPN to say she's now third all time in women's basketball? It happened a couple of years ago when they were comparing UConn's streak to UCLA's as if they were the same thing. Yes, it's a great streak, and it was an amazing run for them. But why constantly compare them as if they're the same thing? Because of that it's obvious that it's a concerted effort by ESPN to make the records in both sports the same thing. I just don't understand for the life of me why they'd do that. /rant. [/QUOTE]

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