I don’t even
know how I saw it, given my general disinterest in tweets, but I did. This one said the Pennsylvania Rebellion
women’s pro softball team had ceased operations. Clare was wondering why there were so many
recent transactions involving Rebellion players.
As the saying
goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and the Rebellion had
managed a 42-104 record in its three seasons of existence. Life is rarely fair, especially in women’s
athletics. In men’s pro sports, a bad
team doesn’t bring down a league; if it did, the ’62 Mets would’ve been the
death knell of the National League.
Ditto the ’70 White Sox and AL.
But if hardly anyone comes out to see the best teams, who bothers with
the Rebellion?
Here’s an
accurate gauge as to the health of women’s pro softball—the NYT, in many ways
the biggest media champion of women athletics, didn’t report on the Rebellion’s
demise. If your friends don’t know you’re
dead, it’s not a good thing.
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