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Friday, June 23, 201711 takes

JJ Watt interview update live from Wisconsin ( - ). NBA Draft recap and the Jimmy Butler trade has Big Cat Seeing Red ( - ). Winners and Losers from the draft ( - ). Chicago Bears Guard Kyle Long joins the show to talk about training after his injury last year, Jay Glazer, and Mount Rushmore of Brothers ( - ). Segments include PR 101 for Markelle Fultz and Dennis Smith's social media. Hurt or Injured Marian Hossa. Bad Visual for Trump driving his golf cart on the greens. Emergency Football Guy of the week. Explain it to Big Cat and our new segment "Higher Learning" where two guys that graduated college over a decade ago give advice to incoming Freshman and Billy Football.

Recap

Win
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017
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Bulls front office members Gar Foreman and John Paxson remain fuckheads

Gar Foreman and John Paxson remain fuckheads. [The Bulls] never even began, but yes, it is over. They're dead... You got trainers saying that they're worse than drug dealers. [Paxson], you choked out your coach, Vinny Del Negro, and punched him. Don't tell me that you have morals.

The Bulls front office was widely criticized for this trade and the subsequent failed rebuild, eventually leading to their firing in 2020.
Loss
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017
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Lauri Markkanen is a bum who is soft and sucks

I find out they drafted... Lauri Markkanen from Arizona. I am now going to sell myself on this guy, which is going to be the greatest spin zone of all time, because we went to the Pac-12 championship game, and I think we said multiple times, this guy fucking sucks. He's a bum. He's soft.

Lauri Markkanen went on to be an All-Star and won Most Improved Player in 2023, proving he does not 'suck.'
Push
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017
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Lauri Markkanen is 'Baby Dirk'

Here's my only Lauri Markkanen spin zone that I'm going to try to sell myself on. I think I'm just going to call him Baby Dirk. And just hope he grows into it. He's a white European dude. I'm just going to call him Baby Dirk and hope everyone's just like, hey, maybe he's Baby Dirk.

Markkanen's game, as a 7-foot shooter, drew many comparisons to Dirk Nowitzki, making this 'spin zone' somewhat accurate in archetype.

Winners And Losers

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Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Winners And Losers
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The Sacramento Kings actually had a good draft

Sacramento Kings. The Kings actually drafted well. So they got Fox, Justin Jackson, and Harry Giles from Duke. And I actually for a moment was like, is the world – are we still on earth right now?

De'Aaron Fox became a franchise star and All-NBA player. Justin Jackson and Harry Giles, however, had underwhelming careers. Overall, getting a star like Fox makes the draft a success.
Loss
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Winners And Losers
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Michael Jordan will mentally break Dwight Howard

Now we're going to get Jordan playing one-on-one with Dwight and just backing him down. He's going to dunk on him. Talking shit to him, beating his ass like he did to Kwame Brown. Worked out pretty well for him.

Dwight Howard only played one season in Charlotte. While there wasn't a public blowout with Jordan like the Kwame Brown incident, the team was mediocre and Howard was moved quickly.
Win
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Winners And Losers
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Phil Jackson is the Wile E. Coyote of the NBA

You could just make up a story like Phil Jackson was spotted walking around MSG with his hand in a toaster and his foot stuck in a bucket and he fell off a balcony, and his feet kept moving until he looked down, and then he fell. He's basically become the Wile E. Coyote of NBA.

Jackson was fired by the Knicks five days after this episode aired (June 28, 2017), validating the idea that his tenure was a disaster.
Void
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Winners And Losers
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The Vegas Golden Knights jerseys suck

Those jerseys suck. Bad sleeves. Suck. It's like they tried to get as many colors as they could fit on a sleeve... A fictional 2004 franchise in Madden has better jerseys than a 2017 real-life franchise. It's really bad.

Jersey preference is subjective, though many fans eventually grew to like the 'gold' aesthetic, especially as the team became immediately successful.

Explain It To Big Cat

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Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Explain It To Big Cat
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Putting your airplane seat up during landing is useless

Why the fuck do I have to put my seat up when I'm landing in an airplane? What the fuck is going on? What the fuck's going to happen if my seat doesn't go up? It's like one of those seats that creeped back even without me pressing the button... the woman asked me like four times to put my seat up.

While Big Cat finds it useless, the FAA requires upright seats for emergency evacuation safety (to clear the path for the row behind).

Higher Education

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Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Higher Education
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Incoming college freshmen should break up with their long-term girlfriends

So I've been dating my girlfriend for around a year now. [Billy Football]: Okay, dumper. Break up. Pretty easy stuff.

General consensus among upperclassmen often supports the 'Turkey Day Drop' theory, but it's inherently subjective advice.
Loss
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Higher Education
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Taking acid is dangerous; freshmen should stick to binge drinking

But I'm just going to say, for the record, taking acid is very dangerous. Stick to safe things, like binge drinking your freshman year.

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Binge drinking is medically classified as dangerous, making this advice ironically 'incorrect' despite its satirical intent.
Void
Take Slip·Jun 23, 2017·Higher Education
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Rugby is the best sport to lie about playing to pick up women

Clear answer, obvious rugby. Rugby does it. We pay money to each other and we buy equipment and beer. We have socials with other sports teams and we sing songs.

This is a subjective social strategy.