This is how the recent Facebook post read:

“The New London Girls’ Basketball team has a record of 70 wins and 9 losses in the past 4 years. They don't get the love they deserve. The Day streams the boys’ games and the girls would be lucky to even have 1 game streamed a season.”

Sigh.

Not exactly how I wanted to start my day.

Worse, I betrayed the wisdom a friend of mine has been teaching me over the last few months. The lesson is about being more measured. React, but don’t overreact. It works, too. My friend, a paragon of restraint as a parent, has turned me into a better dad and much less of a yeller. And my ever-present stutter isn’t so ever-present anymore, reduced by a good 80 percent, just by staying calmer.

But, alas, I responded with the Italian temper, essentially telling the author of the Facebook post that his method of complaint probably wouldn’t produce the desired result. Only with more direct language.

Time’s passage in recent weeks, however, has encouraged some reflection. What if the guy makes a point, thus turning me into the unfortunate clod that was both loud and wrong at the same time?

Fact is, we don’t stream as much girls’ basketball as boys’ basketball. There are reasons. But are they justified?

So we begin here: What we’re doing here at The Day is unique. No other newspaper in the country — and I’m dead serious here — streams live high school basketball with comparable tenor and detail. I’m not sure there’s another newspaper streaming live games at all. Hence, it’s probably more of a compliment than a criticism that more people want in.

Remember, too, that we are here in Connecticut, center of the women’s sports revolution. I’ve spent the past 25 years around girls’ and women’s sports. The UConn women. The Connecticut Sun. I get the nuances that make being a female athlete challenging.

I understand the perceptions. That the athletic accomplishments of girls and women are quickly dismissed, simply because they’re not guys. That sports are still a male domain. That there’s always the disturbing undertone of it being about how they look, not what they do. I get it.

It’s not that the gang at “GameDay” treats girls’ sports unfairly. The New London girls will be streamed live against NFA on Jan. 31. The ECC championship will be streamed live in February, making it likely the Whalers will be on theday.com more than most boys’ teams in the ECC this season.

And there’s this: girls’ games aren’t streamed as frequently because games and video features about boys generally generate more “clicks.” More people watch. Except that by such rationale, we should be streaming the ECC cheerleading championships, too. There is no other indoor event that draws a bigger crowd, not even the boys’ basketball championship game. I’d guess the crowd at cheerleading, usually at Waterford High every year, dwarfs attendance at most football games, too.

And so it would appear that the Facebook author makes a point. I’d prefer the point would be made via an actual conversation next time rather than over social media. But it has certainly given us pause and more reasons than ever to consider more video features and streaming more girls’ games.

The Day’s Vickie Fulkerson has spent more than 25 years here trumpeting girls’ sports. Her work has ensured quite balanced newspaper coverage between boys’ and girls’ sports. (If you read us every day, this is not up for debate.) But I can’t say the same for “GameDay,” which, still in its relative infancy, has drifted toward the male gland.

We have a very valuable resource here in “GameDay,” providing everyone in Day Nation a visual medium for high school sports that heretofore hadn’t existed. It’s fun. And also a responsibility. One we don’t take lightly. So the point about the Whalers and girls’ sports in general has been made. And understood. Stay tuned for improvements.

Just next time … keep it off social media.

Deal?

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro