Sometimes stuff gets stuck in my head and I gotta get it out in order to be able to move on with my day, and this is one of those times.
A tweet (are we still calling them tweets?) contextualizing Aljamain Sterling’s recent victories led to a back-and-forth thread about how you win being tremendously important in MMA, prompting me to jump on here and share some thoughts.
In this episode, I run through the thread that turned this into my daily fixation, explain why I pushed back on the initial “grading” of Sterling’s current five-fight winning streak, and wonder why we never add context to results to lift athletes up or mete out these qualifiers consistently?
As I said in the thread and on the show: the door is always open — to anyone — to come on and have a larger, deeper conversation about this or anything else y’all wanna talk about when it comes to this sport, these athletes, and how we cover them.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
ESK
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