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Blake Bortles, Steelers RB James Conner, And Baseball Is Screwed

Wednesday, June 17, 20209 takes

Baseball is fucked and it's insanely transparent whats going on. (-)The NBA bubble sounds like the coolest summer camp ever. (-) Hot Seat/Cool Throne including officially introducing Billy Football because we forgot some people don't even know his backstory. (-) Our good friend Blake Bortles joins the show to talk about free agency, how we can get his name back in the media, and possibly hair transplant? (-) Steelers RB James Conner joins the show to talk about his new book, beating cancer and coming back to play football for Pitt and the Steelers, and Big Ben being back. (-) We finish with Guys on Chicks Mt Flushmore of things girls do that guys hate (-)

Recap

Win
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

MLB owners should take a financial loss this season to save the sport's long-term future

The owners will be making money forever. If they had any kind of foresight, the idea here would be take a loss this season but save the baseball season and dominate the ratings. This is the Long play: lose some money this year, but keep baseball going... instead they're taking the short-term approach, the dumb approach.

The 2020 MLB season was eventually played (60 games), but the labor dispute significantly damaged the sport's reputation and lead to a lockout in 2022, suggesting the owners indeed prioritized the short-term over goodwill.
Push
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

A 50-game MLB season will result in an asterisk for whoever wins the World Series

I think we're all resigned to the fact that it's going to be 50 Game season, which will result in an asterisk on whoever wins this world series unless it's the Nationals or the Cubs or the Red Sox.

The season ended up being 60 games. While fans of rival teams often joke about the asterisk for the 2020 Dodgers, it is officially recognized as a full championship.
Push
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

I want to buy a Wiffle ball league and become the Vince McMahon of Wiffle ball

I want to buy a wiffle ball leak and I watched probably three hours of this Wiffle ball league in Michigan... I want to be the Vince McMahon and Wiffle ball and and bring them all together and make a national Wiffle ball league because you know what? I actually think Wiffle ball could just be the new sport.

While he didn't start a national professional league, Barstool did eventually host several successful Wiffle Ball tournaments/content series.
Loss
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020
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Big CatBig Cat

The lack of sex in the NBA bubble will lead to technical fouls and 1980s-style physicality

What if the just like rate of technical fouls and physicality of the game goes way way up because nobody's having sex inside the bubble? That would be great for us it be young back to real and be returned to the 80s and be a when men were men.

The NBA bubble was actually noted for high-level play and some of the best offensive shooting in history, not necessarily a surge in 80s-style brawling.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

Win
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

Chuba Hubbard's threat to sit out marks a major power shift in college football

When chubba came out and said that I'm not going to play and he's one of the best players in the country. When he came out and he said I'm not going to play unless some changes happen that to me was a major major shift in power in college football. Because people Because he said that his team was lined up behind him.

This was prescient. The following years saw a massive increase in player power via the transfer portal and NIL rights, where star players' voices became much more influential.
Loss
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Stephanie Cmar will win Top Chef Season 17 because of the judge's reaction in the trailer

In the preview for the finale, they have Padma awarding the winner and saying congratulations you are top chef, but people have gone back and rewound it and they can tell by her inflection that she's genuinely surprised to be awarding it to this person. So now the internet is thinking the betting odds have shifted that it's going to be Stephanie... my money is on Stephanie.

Melissa King won Top Chef Season 17 (All-Stars LA). Stephanie Cmar did not win, proving the trailer-based inflection theory wrong.
Void
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Tom Brady in a Buccaneers jersey makes him look like a Sith Lord villain

Me personally I think that him in the Buccaneers Jersey makes him look like a total villain because it's just the color schemes like big like Sith Lord Vibes... he went from blue and red which is like you know like I feel like Synergy good Jedi and then it's like Sith Lord but that's just me.

Subjective take on uniform aesthetics and Brady's late-career persona.
Loss
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I want to create a giant mutant species of bullfrog using CRISPR technology

So African bullfrogs really cool... he sells these Gene I think it's and it's for frogs. So he does it on like home lab frogs... we could This frog which is already giant. We could make it even bigger. if I were Jack Ewing... Can we just I am backing to make a mutant frogs Yeah, but it's totally legal with science.

While CRISPR exists, a Barstool intern creating giant legal mutant frogs in a home lab is scientifically and legally improbable.

Mount Rushmore

Void
Take Slip·Jun 17, 2020·Mt. Rushmore
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Big CatBig Cat

A girl taking forever to get ready is actually a positive for guys

Taking forever to get ready to go out... as soon as you like as you get older you realize like the timing of things and that's just free time. that's a rain delay that you get for going out that's you know what that time is that sit on the couch and refresh Twitter every two seconds right and not have to feel bad about not feel that at all.

Subjective lifestyle opinion.