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Blake Bortles on Hair Plugs and James Conner on Beating Cancer
Baseball is in a bad spot and Big Cat is not holding back on the owners. With Rob Manfred seemingly caught in a trap of his own making, the guys look at the transparent games being played regarding the season length. While the owners are worried about short-term losses, Big Cat thinks they are missing the forest for the trees by not prioritizing being the first sport back on TV.
Big CatMLB 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.
If we do get a season, it’s looking like it’ll be a 50-game sprint. Big Cat is already preparing the asterisk stamps for anyone who hoists the trophy in October, with a few notable exceptions for his own biases.
Big CatA 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.
Since MLB is currently fumbling the bag, Big Cat has a new business venture in mind. He spent three hours watching Michigan Wiffle ball and is ready to take the sport to the national stage.
Big CatI 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.
As the NBA prepares for its bubble at Disney, the summer camp vibes are off the charts. From 2K lounges to personal barbers, the players are being treated to everything—except, notably, any female company. Big Cat thinks this forced celibacy is going to turn the league back into the Bad Boys era Pistons.
Big CatThe 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.
Hot Seat/Cool Throne featured a proper re-introduction of Billy Football for the newer listeners. We revisited his resume of sprinting for remotes and accidentally tweeting PFT’s personal information. Billy is also back in the lab with some questionable bioethics involving giant frogs.
Billy FootballI 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.
PFT brought up the news that airlines are cutting back on booze, which he thinks will only lead to more degenerate behavior in the skies.
PFT CommenterBanning alcohol on flights will lead to a 'sucking and fucking' season on airplanes
It sounds like [flight attendants] are not even patrolling the aisle anymore, so it's going to be sucking and fucking and drinking season.
Old friend Blake Bortles joined the show to discuss his current free agency status and how we can get his name back in the news cycle. While he’s currently a backup in the Tennessee Coach Dogs universe, the real-life Blake is open to some drastic physical changes if it helps him get a call from a GM.
Blake BortlesI can grow an incredible ponytail to help get NFL GMs interested in me again
I'll work on it. I could probably grow a ponytail. I mean the sides of my head grow pretty rapidly... Can you imagine that ponytail hanging out of the back of the helmet?
Big Cat also pitched a revolutionary marketing strategy to help Blake find a home in a COVID-conscious league.
Big CatWe should market Blake Bortles as the 'anti-COVID' quarterback who is immune to the virus
We just market you as the quarterback who will not get COVID this year. So that way if there's a last-minute substitute needs to happen on a Saturday... pick up the Blake phone. He's cured of this and doesn't have it and he's ready to go and he's not going to affect anybody else.
Steelers RB James Conner called in to talk about his new book, *Fear is a Choice*. James shared the incredible journey of being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma while rehabbing a knee injury at Pitt and how he pushed through 12 rounds of chemo to get back on the field. He also gave us a health update on Big Ben’s elbow and his surprisingly trim physique after shaving the beard.
If Ben Roethlisberger is healthy enough to play, he will always be a beast
I know if he can play, he can go. I've seen it a couple of times and he just continued to play on. Most of the time he plays through it all. He's really a beast.
James also talked about the locker room culture in Pittsburgh, specifically highlighting guys like Marquise Pouncey who have their teammates' backs no matter what.
Marquise Pouncey is the ultimate teammate who will ride for his guys regardless of the situation
Not the only thing we know, [Pouncey] is going to ride regardless of the situation. Whatever it is, he's the ultimate teammate.
Before letting him go, James gave a massive vote of confidence to Big Cat’s favorite son, Mitch Trubisky.
Mitch Trubisky is going to come out fired up and perform well this season
I know [Trubisky's] work ethic. I know what he's about to do. So he's going to come out fired up. I'm telling you, you've got a franchise quarterback in Mitch Trubisky.
We wrapped up with a Mount Flushmore of things girls do that guys hate, submitted entirely by female listeners. While some guys complain about their partners taking too long to get ready, Big Cat has realized that the older you get, the more you appreciate that extra window of doing absolutely nothing.
Big CatA 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.
Try not to think too much about the giant mutant frogs.
