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In the middle of the night, I wake up consistently and go to YouTube on my phone to see another hourly update from Mick Talks Hoops, Ben Daniel, or Chicks Dig Scars on all things Caitlin Clark.
I am totally confident I’ll find out who criticized her in the past 15 minutes; how many all-time records she broke in the last game; how many attendance records her team is breaking; and how many billion of sold out 22 Caitlin Clark hoops jerseys there are now.
All my serial podcasting pals do all day long every day is post YouTube videos about Miss America, Caitlin Clark Kent, racking up thousands more subscribers, and building booming businesses out of their houses purely based on the greatness of a 22-year-old female basketball player.
These guys can’t stop. And I can’t stop listening to them. Tens of thousands of people are just like us, maybe more. I got to dozens of other podcasts that talk about CC constantly.
It’s all I do with free time, really, tune in to the 24/7 hype machine like nothing we’ve ever seen all about Superwoman. Then pretend I’m Sammy Sportface and write about her.
“The monster has arrived,” said Ben today as I listened in my car to the pod he posted today on my way to write about 22.
He was referring to the text CC sent to her coach earlier this summer once she heard she wasn’t chosen for the Olympic Team: “They woke a monster,” she typed.
She is a monster.
Ben said Caitlin sent pictures during the Olympic break in her bathing suit on a boat, but in the lower part was a full court hoops court where the awoken monster practiced day and night to come back after the break unleashing her monster all over everybody trying to stop her on the court.
Mick Talks Hoops, whose man cave podcast comes at me from some dark room in Ireland, never seems to shower and wears his basketball jerseys to the pods and it appears he just came off a street pickup game. He goes all night long and all day and never ever stops posting CC videos except for some pickup ball.
The Chicks Dig Scars guy doesn’t show his face but excels at getting mad at anyone who dares to say CC isn’t superhuman. Yesterday he layed out a meticulous case like a trial attorney chock full of Excel spreadsheet stats comparing CC’s stats to A’Ja Wilson’s, making the convincing argument that 22 should be the MVP of this WNBA this season.
He predicted she’s going to be the first female athlete billionaire.
Jason Whitlock on his podcast broke down the greatest rookie seasons of all time featuring Gretzky, Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain, and Mike Tyson, and said if CC wins the title this year she’ll be the GOAT of all rookies in sports history.
What’s going on?
Last night I listened to a podcast in which Wright Thompson talked about CC who he spent months with to write a profile of her for ESPN. It got a little far out to listen to him explain how in her senior year she started to realize her entire life was about to change enormously and she would lose all control of what people said about her.
She realized she was going to have her basketball life and family, but there would be this entire societal explosion triggered by who she is, how she looks, where she’s from, and on and on. However she imagined it, it spiraled far beyond even the most wild scenarios. The world is obsessed with Caitlin Clark.
It’s the strangest superstar sports story I’ve ever seen. It has everything: race, sexuality, bitterness, confusion, cluelessness, jealousy, huge money, transformational repercussions, children thinking they could be great, money, men vs. women, women vs. women, adults vs. players, Sportface vs. Mac.
At the center of this seismic explosion is this one human being, Caitlin Clark, living through something no one could relate to except maybe Michael Jordan or Taylor Swift. It’s so strange, inspiring, and unpackable. She used to love going to Target but there’s no way she can go there now because she’ll get surrounded by autobiography seekers and picture takers.
Why the global galactically gigantic interest in this one person? She’s a basketball player.
But so much more.
To us.
She gives us hope. She makes us wonder, think, and become mystified by life. She makes us work harder. She showed us how to become superhuman. She’s a gift, a savant, a prodigy, who wants to be the greatest basketball player ever.
It’s an experiment.
We’re watching it.
We can’t turn away.
It’s too compelling.
She’s too compelling.
There’s no end in sight.
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