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Christian Yelich, An Insane Sports Weekend Recapping CBB, Fury/Paul, Russ Wilson Postmortem And More Plus Lottery Ball Drama

Monday, February 27, 202315 takes

Wild sports weekend and we talk about all of it. College Basketball Saturday was insane with a bunch of upsets and buzzer beaters. Baseballs new rules are complete chaos. Paul vs Fury, PFT and Big Cat talk about how bad their teams suck and more(-). Who's back of the week including LIV Golf and Billy almost found a bone in the East River(-). Brewers outfielder and MVP Christian Yelich joins the show to talk about the upcoming season, our lifelong bet with him, the funniest times he's been ejected and tons more(-). We finish with the lottery ball and we have a winner(-).

Who Is Back

Win
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023·Who's Back
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Big CatBig Cat

LIV Golf will never be a team sport because golf is inherently individual

My four-year-old son Chris walked in the other day and he was like, dad, can we watch the ACEs? He's a Big ACEs player. I don't know why they thought like, golf is not a team sport. No. It's never gonna be a team sport. Ryder Cup is countries, America. People are watching for America on that one.

LIV continues to use the team format, but viewership and fan engagement with the 'teams' remains much lower than individual leaderboards.
Open
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023·Who's Back
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Big CatBig Cat

I will bet on Will Zalatoris in every golf major until he finally wins one

Will Zalatoris on the leaderboard. I was like, God fucking damnit. This is the year for sure. This is, I will bet him in every major until he wins a major. That is a guarantee.

As of the 2024 season, Will Zalatoris has not yet won a major championship, though he has multiple top-10 finishes.
Push
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023·Who's Back
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Billy FootballBilly Football

The East River is full of prehistoric bison bones dumped by a developer

Dirty Water Don... he's found a bone. He found a jawbone of a steppe bison, which is just a prehistoric, gigantic bison. He found the jawbone in the East River. So that means that it is true. There were tons of bones dump there. It means that they're sniffing in the right place.

While a jawbone was reportedly found, the claim of 'tons' of prehistoric bones dumped there by a specific developer is based on unverified local legend and remains unproven.
Loss
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023·Who's Back
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Sam Hurd was released from prison early to serve as viral marketing for the movie Cocaine Bear

Sam Hurd has been released from Federal penitentiary... after serving a 10 year sentence for distributing cocaine. Timing is very suspicious with the release of Cocaine Bear. A lot of people are saying that this judge might have taken some money to do some gorilla marketing for the movie.

This is a satirical conspiracy theory.

Recap

Void
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Big CatBig Cat

The college basketball chaos on Saturday was triggered by Fran McCaffrey's stare down with the referee

I think Saturday we got the chaos all because of Fran McCaffrey's stare down. It was from that point on the day, just went off the fucking rails. There's nothing like a good old fashioned coach just staring at a referee so close and neither one of them was gonna walk away.

While nine ranked teams did lose that day, attributing it to a stare down is inherently subjective and comedic.
Loss
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

MLB pitch velocity will decrease by 0.02 mph this year due to the new shot clock rules

This guy Corky knows his shit. He is projecting right now an average decrease in pitch velocity this year of 0.02 miles per hour. Whoa. Because the new shot clock rules. So yeah, keep that in the back pocket. We're gonna see slower fastballs this year.

MLB average fastball velocity actually slightly increased in 2023 to 94.1 mph from 93.9 mph, contradicting the prediction.
Loss
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Keith Hernandez has toxoplasmosis from his cat, which is why he's messing up player names

Keith Hernandez has toxoplasmosis from living with his cat. Oh. That's why he's messing up names. But I mean, is it really a mess up? Because Chaz Chisholm [Jazz Chisholm] is just a Hall of fame name.

This is a satirical medical claim about a sports broadcaster.
Void
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Big CatBig Cat

I would rather be a grumpy, triggered sports fan after a loss than be numb to it

I absolutely let my team's success dictate my mood. I was very upset, grumpy, mad... people should be applauding the fact that I'm a grumpy triggered bitch after my teams lose. Because I could easily just remove myself... but I don't. You'd rather care way too much than be completely numb to it.

This is a philosophical stance on sports fandom.
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Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Big CatBig Cat

The Bears should consider trading both the #1 pick and Justin Fields to maximize draft capital

The Bears Trade, the number one pick. Okay. The Bears also trade Justin Fields. Then you're loaded. Just have like eight first round picks. The Eagles were able to load up because they were able to, to take advantage of a cheap contract with a quarterback. What if we just strip it all the way down and get all the picks and have all the Cap and Caleb Williams, Drake May coming up.

The Bears eventually traded the #1 pick but kept Justin Fields for the 2023 season, before trading Fields in 2024 to draft Caleb Williams.
Void
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Losing three Super Bowls in a row is better than winning one and being irrelevant for 49 years

Losing 15 Super Bowls... this is kind of a mini dynasty you get to go to. Like, just think about how fun Super Bowl week would be. If for the next 50 years I said that your team can win one Super Bowl, but the rest of the 49 years they won't go to the playoffs. Or in the next 50 years, your team can lose 15 Super Bowls. I'd take 15. That means you have 18 months of pure joy in your life.

Purely subjective hypothetical.
Win
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Big CatBig Cat

Nathaniel Hackett's biggest mistake was trying to be Russell Wilson's friend instead of his coach

His biggest crime, Nathaniel Hackett was he walked into a situation where he just wanted to please everyone and he wanted to please Russell Wilson. And he wanted to kind of be his buddy, not his dad. That's where you get first time head coach. Right? You don't come in and you're not gonna lay down the law.

The subsequent hiring of Sean Payton, who explicitly removed Wilson's private office and staff, supports this analysis of what went wrong under Hackett.
Loss
Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Jake Paul purposely lost to Tommy Fury to make the rematch more profitable

The conspiracy part of Twitter... they were saying that Jake Paul, in order to sell the next fight purposely knew that it would be bad if he won this fight. I think the storyline's better for a second fight... because no one would want to watch another one if he just beat him.

There is no evidence the fight was fixed, and Jake Paul's subsequent career move to fight Nate Diaz suggests he was genuinely looking to move on after a loss.

Interview

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Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Christian YelichChristian Yelich

Robot umpires will have unintended consequences like calling strikes on balls in the dirt

I don't want robot umps. No. Because I think there's gonna be a lot of unintended consequences with that... there are a lot of breaking balls that'll be in the dirt that'll clip the bottom of the strike zone technically. They'd have to figure out a better way to do it. I don't want robots.

The minor league testing of ABS (Automated Ball-Strike system) has indeed faced challenges regarding the '3D' nature of the zone and how it handles breaking balls that clip corners.
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Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Christian YelichChristian Yelich

Bunting to break up a no-hitter in the World Series is acceptable

If it's like seventh, eighth inning, I don't know... but in like a World Series playoff game... you kind of have to. It's the World Series. Anytime it's a playoff game. It's when it's like 10 nothing and a guy's bunting, it's like, what are you doing right then? But in that [World Series] situation, you have to.

This is an opinion on sports etiquette.
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Take Slip·Feb 27, 2023
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Christian YelichChristian Yelich

Catchers are the biggest psychos in baseball because they stop projectiles for three hours

I think there's different tiers of it... but catchers, yeah, they're crazy. Who would want to crouch for three hours every day? Just stopping projectiles. Getting hit with bats and foul tips and all kinds of things. You guys are crazy. I wouldn't wanna do that. Any catcher in the league is a different brand of psycho.

Subjective characterization of a position group.