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John Fanta Talking Final Four, NFL Coach's Picture And Tush Push Being Banned, The Yankees Might Be Cheating, Impractical Jokers Down Bad + Monday Reading

Monday, March 31, 202511 takes

The Final Four is set and we continue to have few great games in the tournament but the 4 teams left are historically great. We figure out who is the Cinderella, what the Duke hate meter is at and Kevin Willard to Nova (-). The NFL league meetings are taking place in Orlando and the Coach's got together for their yearly picture as well as the tush push being banned (-). Yankees might be cheating but also why shouldn't we want more runs (-)? Who's back of the week including the impractical jokers being down bad and a cartoon battle between Big Cat and Hank (-). John Fanta joins the show to talk Final Four, Kevin Willard to Villanova, The Crown, Who he wants on the Browns and how we dont get chipped to death in San Antonio (-). We finish with Monday Reading (-).

Recap

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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

College basketball is a Ponzi scheme

I was gonna say it's college basketball. A Ponzi scheme. Mm. Because the tournament starts. Just wait. Did not Great Matchups round of 32. Gonna be great. Round of 32's not great, just wait. Good. So sweet 16. Sweet 16 happens. Oh, that sucked. But just wait. This is the best Elite eight you've ever seen. The Elite eight sucks. But just wait. The final four, we're kicking the can down the road.

The sentiment of a 'bad' tournament depends on game results; while ratings are up, many games were blowouts.
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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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Big CatBig Cat

Houston is the biggest 'Cinderella' of the Final Four

I have Houston one, then I had Florida two... [Houston] because they've never won a national title. They don't have any legacy in basketball outside of Charles Barkley. And obviously what Bruce Pearl's done, I think they would be the second Cinderella. Florida still has, you know, they, they back to back national titles.

It's a matter of semantics regarding what defines a Cinderella when all teams are top seeds.
Loss
Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Cooper Flagg should opt out of the Final Four to protect his draft stock

If I was Cooper Flagg, I would sit out. Yeah. And don't get hurt. You're gonna be playing against grown ass men. Sit out, opt out, and then just wait to enter the NBA draft and make money

Cooper Flagg did not opt out of the Final Four.
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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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HankHank

NIL has ruined college basketball

I just NIL ruined college basketball. I don't wanna be a hater, but it it... I just want madness. I don't care if, if the games are good, I wouldn't care. But yeah, the, I want good games.

Whether something is 'ruined' is a purely subjective aesthetic and cultural judgment.
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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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Big CatBig Cat

College basketball should implement a salary ladder to discourage transfers

A freshman gets 50 K from the school. A sophomore gets 75, a junior gets a hundred. If you transfer, you go back to freshman salary. So like, there is a, you could still transfer, you can still do whatever you want, but you don't get to climb the ladder of, of what the school can pay you.

This is a policy proposal and cannot be judged as correct or incorrect until such a rule is implemented.
Loss
Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

NFL nose-wipe celebrations are now a 15-yard penalty

There's a new thing that is now a 15 yard penalty for being a violent gesture. It's I think guns is already guns already. You can do the throat slash was a while ago. You can do the bow and arrow I think throat slash nose. Yes. Wow. The nose wipe. That's so dumb. The nose wipe. Nose wipe is now a 15 yard penalty for being a violent gesture.

The NFL has not actually banned the 'nose wipe' as a 15-yard penalty in reality; this is a PFT 'fake news' bit.
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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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MaxMax

Increased runs and homers are objectively good for baseball

Why you watch baseball? To watch homers? Yeah. Why do people want less homers? Yeah. Like everything in baseball right now is going towards the pitcher. The one time, the one time something goes towards the hitter and now everyone wants to freak out. That's what baseball's fun. You wanna watch people hit, you wanna, this is good for baseball. More runs is good for baseball

Whether high-scoring games are 'better' is an opinion, though generally correlated with viewership.

Who Is Back

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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025·Who's Back
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Impractical Jokers are 'sex creeps'

The impractical Joker suck ass... turns out two of the four creeps. Sex creeps. Allegedly. Allegedly. It was Joe and it was Myrrh. Allegedly. Okay. So Joe alleged, well I also wanna say for Joe, he has now checked himself into inpatient treatment. Smart for being a sex creep... Joe Gato is seeking treatment for, I guess being a sex creep. So he is been hitting up high school girls, hanging out with them, touching their stomachs, doing weird shit. And then Mur was allegedly deeming a bunch of underage girls too.

These allegations have circulated in various forms online, but Gatto's departure from the show was officially for personal reasons; no criminal charges were brought.

Interview

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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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HankHank

If the Celtics are healthy, they are not losing

If we're healthy, we're not losing. That's, it's really, it's just health. I, it's like the calves are a good team, good season. Sure. But... if we're healthy, we're not losing.

The Celtics did win the 2024 NBA title, but this take is in a March 2025 context.
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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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John FantaJohn Fanta

USC will win the right side of the bracket in 'The Crown'

I think Villanova, USC on the right side of the bracket would be fascinating. Must Bus has his team ready to go. I think. I think USC on the right side, they're gonna come out of this right side of the bracket. I just like the way that they're playing.

Depends on the outcome of the fictional 'The Crown' tournament mentioned in the show.
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Take Slip·Mar 31, 2025
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John FantaJohn Fanta

John Scheyer will be Mike Krzyzewski 2.0 in terms of tenure

I think he's a stud Big Cat. I don't know if you want to hear this or not, but I think he's gonna be Mike Krzyzewski 2.0 in terms of the length. Yeah, no, he is gonna coach there forever and he's gonna win a lot. So coach there for 30 years.

Requires observing Scheyer's career over several decades.