Ep 240: How Bad Owners Ruin Sports

Burn It All Down

Sports

4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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**Trigger Warning for suicide and mental health struggles** Burn It All Down offers our condolences to the family and community of Katie Meyer, a goal keeper of Stanford’s women’s soccer team. Katie was part of the Cardinal’s 2019 NCAA title winning team and wowed the country with her tenacity and her spirit. She died one week ago. We hold space and share in the heartbreak with with the Meyers family, Stanford community and all young athletes who are grieving and devastated at this time. The number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the USA is 1-800-273-TALK (8255); and in Canada is 1-833-456-4566. In this episode Shireen Ahmed, Lindsay Gibbs and Brenda Elsey talk all about owners of sports teams and leadership. But first, they share their favorite fangirl moments to celebrate International Women's Day. Then, they dive into the (mostly) bad apples of sports ownership. Sparked by the ongoing owner imposed lockout in MLB, they discuss they ways greed, capitalism and racism by owners ruin the sports we love, the different ways that owners have been held accountable by fans and alternative models to single-person ownership of teams. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Lindsay's interview with Howard Megdal on all things WNBA and women's college basketball. Next, they burn the worst of sports this week on the Burn Pile. Then, they celebrate those making sports better including Torchbearers of the Week, the first Black and Indigenous owners of a team in the Premier Hockey Federation, including Anthony Stewart, Angela James, Bernice Carnegie and Ted Nolan. They wrap up the show with What's Good in their in their lives and What We're 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	This is a trigger warring you out and I'll play with your babies to the screaming shout, oh yeah, oh yeah, to you scream.
0:11.2	This is a trigger warning for suicide and mental health struggles.
0:16.9	Burn it all down would like to take a moment to offer condolences to the family and community of Katie Meyer, a 22-year-old goalkeeper of Stanford women's soccer team.
0:27.2	Katie was a part of the Cardinals' 2019 NCAA title-winning team and wowed the country with her tenacity and her spirit.
0:36.2	She died one week ago. We are holding space and share
0:40.0	on the heartbreak with the Myers family, the Stanford community, and all young athletes who are
0:45.5	grieving and devastated at this time. The number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the USA
0:51.8	is 1-800-273-8255.
0:58.0	And in Canada, it is 1833-456-4566.
1:07.0	Welcome to Burn It All Down, the feminist sports podcast you need.
1:15.9	Shereen here, and I'm joined by Lindsay and Brenda.
1:19.0	But today I am the conductor at this beautiful orchestra of brilliance in sports discussion.
1:24.0	Today on the show, we talk about owners of sports teams, leadership, bad apples, and we dive
1:30.1	into different ways they operate within these teams.
1:33.0	Before we get started, happy international women's day.
1:37.3	Tell me a bit of time that you were starstruck upon meeting a woman you absolutely respect
1:41.6	and admire, like fan girl stories, please. Lindsay, you go first.
1:47.2	Okay, I am sure that there have been times in my life that this has happened, but I just cannot
1:54.6	think of any. I really think it's like a vast majority of my life that I've met people. It's been in a work
2:02.3	context. And I just have to put up a certain armor. Do you know what I mean? Like around that.
2:08.7	I mean, asking Venus Williams questions in a press conference very early on in my career.
2:13.0	Like I was freaking out, but I didn't totally fan girl, right? Like, I didn't, you have to put up like a
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