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Dirty Jobs Host Mike Rowe, Baseball Hall of Fame, GameStop Stock And The Origin Story Of Billy Football

Wednesday, January 27, 20219 takes

We start with baseball hall of fame writers getting their yearly moment in the sun. Tom Verducci writes a love letter to himself. Barry Bonds deserves to be in.(-) Aaron Rodgers is staying a Packer.(-) Gamestop stock has ruined hedge funds.(-) Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Mufasa the Lion.(-) Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe joins the show to talk about his new show, Six Degrees with Mike Rowe streaming now on Discovery Plus, Dirty Jobs, his broadcasting career, and being the voiceover for a million different great shows. (-) Jake swears for charity and we finish with FAQ's and Billy Fooball's origin story.(-)

Recap

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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021
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Big CatBig Cat

Barry Bonds is the greatest baseball player of all time

Tom Verducci filling out a baseball Hall of Fame ballot and leaving the greatest baseball player of all time, Barry Bonds, off of it.

Whether Bonds is the greatest is subjective, though his stats (PED-fueled or not) are arguably the most dominant in history.
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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Baseball Hall of Fame voting should be left to the fans

Leave it up to the fans. Let the fans vote. You buried it. Maybe because you've convinced yourself over the years that you're so important that everybody should look up to you because you get to check a piece of paper.

The voting structure is a matter of institutional policy, so this is a subjective opinion.
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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021
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Big CatBig Cat

Aaron Rodgers is staying with the Packers because it is his destiny to torture me for another decade

I knew deep down [Rodgers] wasn't going anywhere because I think it's destiny for Aaron Rodgers to torture my soul for another decade. I think he'll just be there forever. And every time that I start to think he's getting old, he'll be like, oh, here's another MVP.

Rodgers did stay with the Packers for the 2021 and 2022 seasons, winning another MVP in 2021 as predicted, before being traded to the Jets in 2023.
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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021
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HankHank

I am considering making the biggest bet of my life on Tom Brady in the Super Bowl

I was thinking about making the biggest bet of my life on Tom Brady before we left Detroit. But I was like, I'm going to wait two weeks and think it out. But I think that's where I'm going to end up.

Tom Brady and the Buccaneers defeated the Chiefs 31-9 in Super Bowl LV.
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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Wall Street will eventually make it illegal to talk about stocks online once they realize message boards are too powerful

What will probably happen is there's going to be one hedge fund that goes out of business like Bear Stearns or whatever and then they're going to come back, rewrite the laws so it's going to be illegal to talk about stocks online and then boom now they're fucking you again for the next hundred years.

While regulatory discussions followed, talking about stocks remains legal, though market manipulation rules are strictly monitored.
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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

In-person interviews will likely return after the Fourth of July

Would you guys say over, under, Fourth of July? [for having people back in-person] Over, probably, if I'm being realistic, yeah. I really hope that it does [happen].

While some in-person interviews happened in late 2021, the show didn't fully return to a standard 'everyone in studio' guest format until late 2021/early 2022.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Billy FootballBilly Football

The only way I lose to Jose Canseco is in some messed up swift decision

The only way I lose to Canseco is in some fucked up swift decision. Even if I lose, I'm not going to get knocked out in the first 30 seconds. No, I'm not losing.

Billy Football actually won the fight against Jose Canseco by TKO in the first round (Canseco went down in 15 seconds), so he definitely didn't lose by a swift decision.
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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Billy FootballBilly Football

I would 100% beat the shit out of Jake Paul in a boxing match

By the way, I'd 100% beat the shit out of Jake Paul. He wouldn't touch me. They'll never fight me because I actually would beat them. They only choose guys they know they can strategically win with reach.

This fight has never happened, and given Jake Paul's career progression and size/training, most analysts would consider this highly unlikely.

Interview

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Take Slip·Jan 27, 2021
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Mike RoweMike Rowe

You can pull down all the statues you want, it won't change the facts of what happened in history

I'm also looking around and seeing people today convinced they can change our present by altering the past. You can pull down all the statues you want. It's not going to change the facts of what happened. We can't improve the future by shining up the past. It is what it is.

This is a philosophical viewpoint on the nature of history and symbolism.