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CJ McCollum, Sports Are Back, And Opting Out Is The New Rage

Monday, August 3, 202010 takes

We're back after Grit Week and sports are all the way back. Recapping a weekend with all the leagues playing ( - ). Zion's burst restrictions and the MLB hanging on by a thread ( - ). Who's back of the week including Brooks owning Bryson, opting out, and Pac 12 players reading the Art of the Deal ( - ). Blazers guard CJ McCollum joins the show to talk about the NBA Bubble, being back in action, slim Melo, his new moves and more ( - ). Segments include Trouble in Paradise for Aaron Rodgers, PR 101 for the Mets and Yoenis Cespedes.

Recap

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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020
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The Cubs should win the World Series if they are the only team without a COVID positive

I feel like every single team has had positives actually except for the Cubs. Shout out the Cubs. They should probably win it if the Cubs are the only team that don't get a Corona positive do they win the title? Yes, right.

The Cubs did not win the 2020 World Series; the Los Angeles Dodgers did.
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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020
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Rob Manfred has been a total debacle in handling MLB's return

Rob Manfred being like I'm gonna threaten you guys if you don't start following the rules, we're going to cancel the league... he just has to be Rob Manfred has to go to bed every single night... he pulls out his Roger Goodell voodoo doll and starts poking it with pins being like, please fuck this up Goodell, please fuck this up because if you fuck this up, no one will give a shit.

This is a subjective opinion on leadership performance.
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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020
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NFL players will lie about having COVID just to keep playing

The one thing that I think the NFL still has going for it is that pretty much every single player is just going to lie when they have coronavirus. I think there will be a whole team that's sick and we just won't know about it.

While it's hard to prove individual lies, there were several instances of NFL teams being fined for protocol violations and hiding contacts.
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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020
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Alex Caruso has become 'overratedly underrated'

He has become, I wrote this down when I was watching the game, he started out being underrated but then he was so underrated that he became overrated but now it's swung back and now he's like overratedly underrated. So now he's underrated again.

This is a subjective assessment of public perception.
Win
Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020
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The Pelicans not playing Zion Williamson more minutes is failing the whole reason they were invited

The Pelicans not realizing the whole reason they were invited was to get Zion in the playoffs and playing him 29 minutes over two games... we wanted to watch Zion. Yeah, he's a little heavy but we still wanted to watch him and you played him 29 minutes in two games... the Pelicans are not going to play ball.

The Pelicans did ultimately miss the playoffs in the bubble, and Zion's restricted minutes were a major talking point throughout.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020·Who's Back
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Mike Glennon is the perfect quarterback for people to use in Kaepernick comparison tweets

Every year we have to have at least one quarterback that's the perfect person for half of Twitter to quote tweet and be like Colin Kaepernick isn't on an NFL team but this person. Yes, Mike Glennon is like the perfect person to focus our attention on there.

This accurately reflects a recurring trend on sports Twitter whenever Glennon signed a contract.
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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020·Who's Back
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August is the 'Sunday of Summer'

My real who's back to the week is Seasons. Yeah dude, it's August. Yeah... August for me is always like oh, it's Sunday. Oh because back to school. Yeah, you're still in the mode where like I go to the department store with your mom and you see backpacks on sale.

Subjective feeling about the passage of time and seasons.

Trouble In Paradise

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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020·Trouble in Paradise
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Aaron Rodgers will leave the Packers in a few years just like Brett Favre

I think that if he does play this year and he plays well, it's going to be the Brett Favre thing. They're going to give him two more years... And then after a couple seasons, he'll go somewhere else.

Aaron Rodgers stayed for three more seasons (2020-2022) before being traded to the New York Jets, mirroring the Favre timeline almost perfectly.
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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020·Trouble in Paradise
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Aaron Rodgers would rather play for Mike McCarthy in Dallas right now

Aaron Rodgers right now... he would rather I think play for Mike McCarthy right now than Matt LaFleur. Yes who can say what you want about Mike McCarthy, but he never acquired a good quarterback to play behind them... Rodgers always good in Jerry world. So maybe he goes down to Dallas.

Rodgers never played for McCarthy in Dallas; he eventually went to the Jets to play for Robert Saleh and Nathaniel Hackett.

Pr 101

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Take Slip·Aug 3, 2020·PR 101
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Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen intentionally leaked that Yoenis Cespedes was missing to spite him

He knew that Cespedes packed up his shit and left because he was opting out but he used to be Cespedes's Agent and so he's pissed that Yoenis ended up signing with Roc Nation. And so now he's like feeding all this shit into the media... first thought if somebody just ditches the Mets you don't immediately suspect that they're dead.

While never explicitly proven as a malicious leak, the timeline of Van Wagenen's statement vs. Cespedes' representative notifying the team was highly contested and widely viewed as a PR disaster.