PMT DB
PMT DB
Jemele Hill and Michael Smith on the New SportsCenter and Kentucky Fans
Big Cat and Hank are currently recording from a listener's kitchen in Nashville, narrowly avoiding carbon monoxide poisoning in the RV on their way to Houston. The Super Bowl hype is building, but the focus remains on the host city and whether or not they actually deserve a ring. Big Cat isn't exactly buying the hype around the Falcons' home turf.
Big CatAtlanta is a bad sports town
Atlanta's getting dragged as we say on the internet. Everyone knows it, it's a bad sports town. It's a good sex town, but it's a bad, bad sports town. I feel like everyone's talking about how Atlanta doesn't really deserve a championship because they're a bad sports town.
Before getting to the guests, the guys break down Coach K's latest masterclass in drama. While rehabbing his back, he’s apparently found the strength to ban his players from wearing Duke logos or using the locker room. It’s classic Coach K: cucking his interim coach Jeff Capel while making sure the media knows he's still the one pulling the strings. Meanwhile, Rick Pitino is trying a bold new strategy to get leniency from the NCAA regarding his program's scandals.
Big CatRick Pitino's NCAA defense that recruits didn't like the prostitutes is absurd
He's pleading that a lot of the recruits didn't even like the prostitutes they hired. It says at least one prospect reported that this experience resulted in his disliking the university. That guy is a fucking weirdo. Rick Pitino actually got me a stripper with 36 D's so I really didn't even want to commit to Louisville.
Jemele Hill and Michael Smith join the show to talk about their upcoming move to the 6 PM SportsCenter slot. They aren't planning on doing a traditional highlight show because, as they point out, everyone has already seen the clips on their phones by the time dinner rolls around.
Michael SmithThe new 6 PM SportsCenter will be 90% conversation and only 10% traditional highlights
We have producers who enjoy and appreciate what we do... In fact, we had to give it a percentage. The six is going to be 85% to 90% of what you've seen on His and Hers and 10% some SportsCenter. And that 10% is going to feel like His and Hers. It's just going to be something that SportsCenter would have done anyway.
The conversation turns to some of Jemele’s most famous past takes, including her legendary comparison between John Calipari and a certain cult leader. She stood by the logic that winning cures everything in Lexington.
Jemele HillKentucky basketball fans wouldn't care if Charles Manson were their coach as long as he won titles
I was like, look, let's be real about what [John Calipari's] job is, is to win basketball games and compete for national titles. And I was like, given how the Kentucky fan base is so rabid, they wouldn't care if Charles Manson was their coach as long as he won a title.
PFT tries to find common ground by explaining how he and Big Cat are actually underrepresented minorities in the current sports media landscape. He even offered a scientific breakdown of why the guys should be considered "people of colors" based on the light spectrum.
PFT CommenterWhite people are technically 'people of colors' because white is a combination of all colors
White is a combination of all the colors. So we are people of colors. We're people of colors. Why y'all always got to have advantages? More privilege. There you go. You got colors.
The interview wraps up with a quick-fire round of food and music takes that nearly tore the room apart. While Michael Smith is a Waffle House defender, Big Cat remains a staunch hater of the establishment.
Big CatWaffle House is garbage
I think Waffle House is garbage. It's just people go there when they're drunk, and they're like, man, Waffle House is really good.
Jemele HillThe song 'Bad and Boujee' is overrated
That's another trash opinion, overrated movie... Speaking of bougie, she said 'Bad and Boujee' is overrated. It is. It's overrated. Just because Donald Glover thinks it's hot, all of a sudden it's become the song of a generation. Like, no.
In the segments, the guys look at the crumbling Chicago Bulls locker room. With Rajon Rondo taking his grievances to Instagram to praise his "real vets" from the Boston days, PFT thinks it’s only a matter of time before a certain Laker legend makes his comeback.
PFT CommenterKobe Bryant will return to play for an NBA team this season
It also brings back one of my favorite segments that we haven't done in a while. And that's which team is Kobe Bryant going to play for this year? So right now, I think the Bulls, they jumped to the top of the list. Kobe to the Bulls. Let's get that topic swirling out there. If not the Bulls, then you got to think about maybe the Knicks, too. We all know that Kobe's going to play this year.
Finally, for Kings Stay Kings, the guys marvel at Jim Harbaugh’s latest folk tale. Harbaugh claimed he tracked down a mail truck driver who hit him when he was seven years old just to share a glass of milk with him fifty years later. It’s so perfectly Harbaugh that Big Cat is calling foul.
Big CatJim Harbaugh's story about being hit by a mail truck as a kid is probably fake
Jim Harbaugh was Hit by a mail truck driver When he was 7 years old And he found the mail truck driver Nearly 50 years later In Iowa... This is a fake story. This is a fake story by Jim Harbaugh because this is... you can't come up with a story that's more Jim Harbaugh than this.
If you see a man in a Looney Tunes jacket wandering through Nashville, please point him toward the nearest RV with working ventilation.
