Respectfully Disagreeing With the L.A. Sparks Co-Owner

The opinion of stupidity transferred onto the LA Times blog graced by Los Angeles Sparks co-owner, Kathy Goodman, brings several concerns to mind. Goodman attempted to give her opinion of yesterday's Sparks match up against the Atlanta Dream. The Sparks had the lead for 95% of the game until that 4th quarter came into play where the Dream came back on their own turf to get the win, 89-81. While being in touch with the fans via Twitter and posting an "in depth" insight to a 'co-owners' take of their own organzation using a new media platform is refreshing, there still needs to be tact.

Of course, blogs were meant to share your thoughts and give you an unconventional outlook to whatever the subject matter may be. However, if you're a co-owner of an organization, tact still needs to be involved on some level. Maybe that missing tact was to start some kind of drama around the WNBA to promote it or market it some more?

Whatever the senseless cluster of wording was for, the translation was clear, you don't believe in your team.

If you're an athlete that trains, day in and day out, you watch what you do, you watch what you eat.. and then your 'boss' blatantly shares with 'X' amount of individuals that:
I took some time on Saturday to get a little perspective and inspiration by visiting the Martin Luther King Center and the Carter Center in downtown Atlanta. By game time, I was fairly philosophical and just wanted us to play some good basketball, win or lose. So why is it the Sparks had to start so strong and get my hopes up all over again?....

As the fourth quarter began, I was wondering whether I would have preferred it if I thought we had never had a chance in the game. Atlanta was first in the East; the Dream had scored over 100 points when we played them in Staples earlier in the season; I didn’t have a real reason to be hopeful. Except that first half. When we played the kind of basketball I knew our team could play. ....

We just couldn’t hold on through the fourth quarter. The Dream won, 89-81. I wanted those three minutes back at the beginning of the third quarter, but I thought the tradeoff might be that Atlanta would have the chance to retake some of their free throws (they made only 19 of 35.) In the end, though, I just can’t help remembering those first-half Sparks. We are still just a game out of fourth, two games out of second in the West. We play New York on Tuesday night at Staples Center. Hope springs eternal. I think we can win that one.

Honestly, I'd probably be livid my boss is sharing the news with the world that she hopes we can win, and why did we have to get her hopes up.

Yes, the Sparks record isn't the greatest, but there truly is talent or they wouldn't be in the WNBA. The players have talent, passion, heart and faith to get through it. When speaking via Twitter to fellow Sparks and WNBA fans, I always mention, it's about figuring out the right type of glue to make this team stick and play as the powerful unit they can be.

Besides the fact that there are Olympians on the team (even if one is done for the season - Candace Parker due to a dislocated shoulder that underwent surgery today), there is some amazing talent such as Kristi Toliver with her clutch shots and ability to recover even if it's a bad game or bad shot. Of course it's going to take some time to find that glue, whether it's Super Glue or Elmer's, it's going to take some time to dry and work together. This is the first year without Coach Michael Cooper and Lisa Leslie. The team still has leaders in Tina Thompson and even from the soon to undergo surgery, Betty Lennox.

The team is truly capable of winning games without their other troops, it's just about coming together...and staying together until the end of the game.