Chris McMonigle
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International Women's Day was started by the suffrage movement in, I think, 1919 or around there.
And then the USSR adopted it, Lenin.
enacted it so it's it's kind of a it was a socialist holiday originally but to honor women who were fighting for equal rights and so on a socialist holiday and they have equal rights well i mean started by socialists you know yeah yeah yeah i never i never thought about the origin of it so well we in i was in the women's movement in the 70s and we it was a big thing for us international women's day it was actually i'm sorry it was formalized globally as i'm reading in 1913
And they actually had everything you're talking about for the transfer portal, nail and all that.
And they interviewed a whole bunch of players.
And basically Texas Tech has these two billionaire guys.
And they interviewed the lady who basically came up with the idea for the transfer portal, not having to sit out like you used to.
And it was real interesting because she was like, that's not the intended purpose.
And they even had this basketball player, I don't know his name, but he started out at St.
John's, then he went to another team, then Kansas, and now he's at Ole Miss.
And she went from Notre Dame.
I forget where she went.
Yeah, the guy was a beast for sure.
And he played 19 years in the major leagues.
And look, he's a Hall of Famer.
So Hall of Famers get plaques and get their numbers retired.
And it's really great.
He's been a real... I think he's been one of the...
For his era of Yankee, they didn't win as much as they probably should have in terms of championships, but he was the guy that took the ball every five days.
He was a workhorse.