Ep. 214: Gratitude, Loyalty and Do Athletes Owe Anything to Anyone?

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Sparked by the conversation around football legend Lionel Messi leaving FC Barcelona after 21 years, Brenda Elsey, Shireen Ahmed and Lindsay Gibbs talk about gratitude, loyalty and the idea that athletes should owe anything to coaches, teams, organizations or fans. They discuss how the media demonizes athletes who leave teams and how often these stories are gendered and racialized. They also discuss player unions and labor organizing, how loyalty between an athlete and a team is not a two-way street and their favorite sports "fairytales" about loyalty. Then, Shireen previews her interview with Diana Matheson, Canadian Women’s National Soccer Team stalwart. They discuss her recent retirement, the building of this program and a possible Canadian league and if, in fact, history was made right at the Olympics. Next, they burn all the garbage in sports this week on the Burn Pile. Then they celebrate those shining light and changing sports for the good, including Torchbearer's of the Week: Jewell Loyd, Sue Bird, and Breanna Stewart who won gold with Team USA in Tokyo on Saturday night, and then just 4 days later helped lead the Seattle Storm win the first-ever WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Championship. They wrap up the show with what's good in their lives and what they are watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode you up and I'm joined you out.
0:04.4	And I'm playing with your babies to the screaming shout.
0:08.4	Oh, yeah.
0:09.5	Welcome to this episode of Bird It All Down.
0:12.4	It's the feminist sports podcast you need.
0:14.8	I'm Brenda Elsie and I'm joined by my fabulous co-host, Shereena Ahmed and Lindsay Gibbs.
0:20.0	We are going to talk about what athletes owe to their teams and to their fans.
0:25.3	We're going to take out the collective garbage in sports this week and burn it,
0:29.4	and we're going to celebrate the people trying to change all that.
0:33.1	But before we do, this week, Major League Baseball organized a White Sox versus Yankee game in Iowa that they dubbed the Field of Dreams game.
0:46.2	C.C. Sabathia responded this way.
0:48.6	What are your thoughts on it?
0:49.8	I don't know no much about it. I ain't seen the movie or nothing.
0:52.4	That's what I keep telling this motherfucking. Black people don't give a fuck about Field. I ain't seen the movie or nothing. That's what I keep telling this, my fucking.
0:54.5	Black people don't give a fuck about Field of Dreams,
0:56.9	planting no fucking corn.
0:58.6	We don't care about none of that shit, bro.
1:01.1	Like, that at all.
1:02.8	Dots?
1:04.4	Shereen.
1:05.7	Okay, so I saw Field of Dreams but wasn't really into the baseball.
1:10.3	Like right now we care about the baseball because of the Boutre's,
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