Mike Francesa on Woman Executives in Sports
WFAN Daily
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3.8 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A couple of teams now have hired, the Yankees just hired a female batting instructor. |
| 0:09.9 | Okay, I believe it was the, is it the Red Sox that named a young lady a coach too? |
| 0:15.0 | I think it was the Red Sox, wasn't it not? |
| 0:16.6 | I think it was. |
| 0:17.3 | There was some team recently that did again, and they said that she thinks she has a big future in baseball. |
| 0:23.2 | I think it was the Red Sox. |
| 0:24.3 | I might be wrong. |
| 0:25.1 | Who named a hired a young lady also. |
| 0:28.1 | The Yankees hired Rachel Balkevac as a full-time minor league roving hitting instructor. |
| 0:35.8 | You've seen a couple of teams in sports basketball |
| 0:40.2 | I think there's a young lady on the bills |
| 0:47.4 | I think it's the bills where she's an assistant position coach |
| 0:52.6 | I think it's the bills. |
| 0:57.5 | Someone asked me a couple of years ago, and it caused a furor because it became like a, |
| 1:02.5 | you know, like I had somehow, you know, was saying anything against women or women in sports. |
| 1:10.0 | Someone asked me, and the guy was asking me a legitimate |
| 1:12.3 | question. He asked me about his daughter and whether or not I thought there would be female |
| 1:16.5 | head coaches in professional men's sports. And I said, I don't think I'd see it my lifetime. And the reason |
| 1:22.3 | I was giving for it is unless the women get in the pipeline as assistance on a plentiful level where there's a lot |
| 1:31.1 | of them to choose from, how are you going to get them to be head coaches? Unless you go out of your |
| 1:35.0 | way and you make one one, just do it because it's the first or you want to sell tickets or |
| 1:42.0 | it's a novelty. Because unless you get, it was the same way with minorities, unless you got them into the system as assistance, |
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