All right, I'm going to say something that's not too big of a surprise, but it still might offend some people. The WNBA is pretty lame compared to the NBA. There, I said it, and those of you being completely honest with yourselves know that I'm right. Most people would rather watch LeBron James warm-up than sit through a WNBA game. Does this make me sexist? I don't think so.
In my opinion, other than the NBA/WNBA thing, men and women stack up evenly in all shared sports and competitions. Take tennis, for example. A great Wimbledon match is still a great Wimbledon match whether it features female players (Serena Williams vs. Justine Henin) or male players (Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal). The same goes for other shared events like the Olympics and the World Cup. Guys, if you can't respect Annika Sorenstam's golf game just as much as Tiger's, you're crazy (don't believe me, listen to what Woods says about her).
So, why even bring up this topic when most of my other blogs deal with things like salsa-chugging prop bets and being the first wrestler in the Royal Rumble? Because lately female poker players have been getting unfairly dissed.
Here's the deal. Two weeks ago, Internet whiz Sorel "Imper1um" Mizzi compared the WSOP ladies event to the Special Olympics. Since then, it has been made known that the comment was a humorous one-liner taken out of context (Mizzi seems like a good kid, we had him on PokerWire Radio, and I tend to believe that he was making a harmless joke). Well, that information didn't stop the idea from perpetuating. Apparently some people thought the Mizzi comment gave them license to diss the ladies event and it's participants.
The truth is, there are just as many male donkeys in the game as female ones. The 2006 main event field featured over 8,770 players, and women participants made up like 1% of that number. That leaves a lot of dead money on the other side of the gender line. Plus, many of the game's top women players compete and succeed on a regular basis against the men's poker superstars.
That's no NBA to WNBA comparison.
