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Mega Dungeons & Dragons and Stephen A Smith Is Horny Again

Wednesday, July 1, 202017 takes

Happy Bobby Bonilla Day. We try to crunch the numbers on what we’d want as a payout like Bobby’s. (-) Stephen A Smith is horny again but this time he has a point. (-) Hot Seat Cool Throne including the guy who created a top 370 porn star list online. (-) We have our friend Timm Woods on the show for an hour plus of Dungeons and Dragons and the story takes quite the turn. (-) Reminder no show Friday,Takies Monday

Stephen A. Smith’s Bubble Horny Warning and Mega Dungeons & Dragons

It is officially Bobby Bonilla Day, the greatest holiday in sports where a man gets paid over a million dollars to simply exist. Big Cat and PFT spent some time crunching the numbers on how they’d structure their own deferred payouts. While PFT is worried about his own impulse control, Big Cat is looking at the long-term impact on the family tree.

Void
Jul 1, 2020
#292
Big CatBig Cat

Taking deferred money like Bobby Bonilla is a better deal than a lump sum payment.

Bobby Bonilla has an awesome contract... the more MLB TV rights deals start to come in, the more you're seeing players push off and say, 'yeah, I'll take some deferred money coming down the line.' It's a good deal. It's like when that scratch-off Millions for life or whatever it is... I would absolutely take a deal like that instead of giving me all the money straight up.

The financial wisdom of deferred money vs. lump sum depends on interest rates and investment returns, making it a matter of financial opinion.
Void
Jul 1, 2020
#293
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I would rather take $1 million a year for 25 years than $20 million upfront because I would spend the lump sum on jet skis.

If you were to say like, PFT, I'm going to give you either twenty million dollars on your 25th birthday or I'm going to give you a million dollars a year until you're 50, I'm absolutely taking the million until 50. Because if I'm 25, I'm just going to spend it like Billy Football would—just a shitload of jet skis, essentially just my own jet ski farm.

This is a subjective preference on personal financial management.
Void
Jul 1, 2020
#27094
Big CatBig Cat

Deferred generational contracts like $50k a year for 75 years would just make your grandkids lazy pieces of shit.

What if you just got like fifty thousand dollars a year for the next like however long it be 75 years... all that would be ensuring is that your grandchildren are going to be like the laziest pieces of shit ever because they'll be like, 'I get my four thousand dollars a year coming in every July 1st. I don't need to get a job.'

The impact of generational wealth on work ethic is a matter of long-standing sociological debate and cannot be definitively proven or disproven.

Stephen A. Smith and the Horny Bubble

Turning to the NBA, the guys addressed the elephant in the room regarding the Orlando bubble: the inevitable horniness. Stephen A. Smith went on First Take to warn the world that NBA players might struggle with the lack of 'activities' available at Disney, and Big Cat thinks he's the only man qualified to lead this discussion. PFT suggested that the league might need to provide some 'digital assistance' to keep players from breaking quarantine for a hookup.

Push
Jul 1, 2020
#294
Big CatBig Cat

The primary issue for NBA players in the Orlando bubble will be the lack of sex and groupies.

What's going to end up happening in my mind is... the big news today in the NBA as we finally have the elephant that's been in the room the whole time. Stephen A. Smith addresses it head-on and says it's going to be an issue with how horny everyone's getting trying to get out of the bubble to hook up... I was saying the real problem is we don't know the groupie situation.

While there were a few incidents (e.g., Danuel House), the bubble generally succeeded without major sexual scandals being the primary reason for failure.
Loss
Jul 1, 2020
#27095
Big CatBig Cat

Single NBA players in the Orlando bubble will receive letters in the showers telling them to stop masturbating because it's clogging the drains.

If you are a single NBA player and you're down inside that bubble for up to a month and a half maybe with no sort of release... there's gonna be those letters passed around like there were in every single college dorm, which ended up being fake, saying like we need you to stop masturbating because it's clogging up the showers.

While funny, there were no reported instances of these letters being distributed during the NBA bubble.

Despite the logistical hurdles and the looming threat of positive tests, PFT is standing firm on his prediction that the season will go off without a hitch. Big Cat isn't quite as optimistic about the purity of the bubble, suspecting that the league's resolve might depend entirely on which superstars are affected.

Win
Jul 1, 2020
#296
Big CatBig Cat

The NBA will power through positive COVID tests and won't cancel the season unless LeBron is impacted.

I don't think they're going to be deterred by a couple positive tests. I think it's going to be weird. I think there's going to be guys that are going to miss time... but they're going to power through it. I think... at what point does Adam Silver say, 'Okay, we're canceling this whole operation?' At that point you're going to get all the conspiracy theories coming out and saying they're just canceling it because LeBron is not going to make the finals.

The NBA did power through initial positive tests upon arrival and completed the season in the bubble.
Win
Jul 1, 2020
#295
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

There is a 100% chance the NBA season will happen exactly as scheduled in the bubble.

What percentage that there will be a full basketball like real... from exactly how they have it scheduled? A hundred percent. Because I'm not willing to doubt myself now. It's the only thing I've got pulling me forward to the end of the month. So call me delusional, call me insane, but I think it's a hundred percent going to happen.

The NBA bubble successfully completed its season with no COVID cases, ending in October 2020.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

Hot Seat/Cool Throne featured a deep dive into the most controversial ranking in internet history: a Twitter user's Top 370 porn star list. Big Cat was personally offended by the lack of respect shown to the veterans of the industry, comparing the snub to a legendary athlete being left off a Hall of Fame ballot.

Void
Big CatBig Cat

Ranking Lisa Ann at #94 on an all-time porn star list is disrespectful to her legacy as a game-changer.

Shyla Stylez at 354 and Lisa Ann at 94 is absolutely atrocious... Lisa Ann at 94, like the committee got that one wrong. That's awful. Even if you missed her heyday, you got to know that she meant something to the game, right? She changed the game, a hundred percent. I thought that was a little bit disrespectful.

This is a subjective ranking of adult film stars.

Meanwhile, PFT put the national debt on the hot seat, offering a unique perspective on how the U.S. economy actually functions in relation to our 'bookies' overseas.

Void
Jul 1, 2020
#27096
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The US national debt is essentially just a Bobby Bonilla contract that we have with China.

How the national debt works is that... whatever we owe to China's like our bookie and they basically are saying we'd rather you just keep playing then try to collect all this money... We have a Bobby Bonilla contract with the nation of China right now. We owe them a certain amount of money... every single year, as long as we keep those it's going then we can keep betting against the spread.

This is a humorous metaphor and cannot be evaluated as an actual economic fact.

Other highlights included Hank’s excitement for Larry David tackling the pandemic in the next season of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* and Big Cat’s warning to legendary players about the dangers of taking front-office jobs.

Win
HankHank

Larry David navigating the COVID-19 pandemic in Curb Your Enthusiasm will be amazing television.

Curb Your Enthusiasm got greenlit for an 11th season... I think Larry David—Corona is going to be amazing. The corona Larry David, like there's no better wheelhouse for that guy.

Season 11 of Curb did indeed feature a pandemic storyline and was generally well-received for how Larry David handled it.
Void
Big CatBig Cat

Retired sports legends should never take GM or front office jobs because they risk ruining their legacy.

If the Broncos are never good again under his [Elway's] watch, does he lose—that's why he never should take that type of job. I know he won one in the front office, but you could basically ruin it. You got to just kind of ride off into the sunset and be the legend and never take any risks with the organization again.

Elway's tenure as GM ended with mixed reviews; he won a Super Bowl as GM but struggled significantly to find a QB afterward, arguably tarnishing his executive reputation.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Betrayal of Berserker Billy

Our good friend Timm Woods returned for an extra-long chapter of Dungeons & Dragons that saw the party level up and the stakes get even higher. The campaign took a cinematic turn as the guys encountered a new ally, Sir Orgirton (expertly voiced by Timm as Coach O), and faced off against a dragon-like champion named Langdedrosa.

Wayne the Bard (PFT) used his 'unseen servant' to pull off a classic banana peel trip, while Norm the Barbarian (Big Cat) went on a reckless rampage. However, the real drama involved Berserker Billy (Billy Football), who spent the entire session cozying up to a dragon and eventually trying to turn on his own teammates.

After Billy attempted to use his dragon girlfriend to intimidate the party, Big Cat had seen enough. In a climactic roll, Norm leaped into the air and tackled Billy off the dragon’s back, leaving him grounded and at the mercy of the party while the dragon flew away in disappointment.

Loss
Big CatBig Cat

I am 100% going to kill Billy Football's character in Dungeons and Dragons.

Get the wizard ready just in case we decide to kill [Berserker] Billy... when I say 'just in case' we are 100% going to kill Billy Football.

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While Big Cat expressed 100% certainty, Billy's character 'Berserker Billy' survived this session and was eventually phased out later rather than being 'killed' immediately by Big Cat.

Big Cat and PFT are already planning the execution of Billy's character for the next session, proving that in D&D, just like in life, you never choose a dragon over the squad.

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More Takes

Loss
Jul 1, 2020
#297
Big CatBig Cat

Gambling on which celebrities or athletes will test positive for coronavirus should be a new sport.

They should let us start betting on these things. They should let us start betting on who tested positive and that will be its own sport... It's basically like watching reality television like Big Brother with celebrities and then the gamble is who will stay coronavirus free.

Prop bets on COVID tests were largely banned by reputable sportsbooks, though some offshore markets flirted with similar concepts.
Loss
Jul 1, 2020
#298
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tom Brady would never admit to having coronavirus because he drinks so much water it wouldn't affect him.

I'm putting all my money on Tom Brady because even if he gets it, he's not going to admit that he has it. And if he gets it, he's going to just—he drinks so much water that it's just not going to affect him. He wouldn't admit that he had it... and he'd be like, 'I'm fine, I'm totally fine... I drank six gallons of water today... there's no chance I have it.'

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Brady did eventually contract COVID (post-Super Bowl 2021) and admitted it, though he remained famously healthy throughout the pandemic.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

New York City will have an eerie and calm Fourth of July because people used up all the fireworks in June.

Right now people have bought up so many fireworks and used enough of them already that there's not going to be enough left over for the fourth, at least in New York City. First, it'll be like a calm-ish, calmer than normal Fourth of July in New York City, which should be—that'll be kind of eerie.

While there were rumors of shortages, official displays and illegal fireworks remained very prevalent on July 4th in NYC.
Loss
HankHank

The Patriots will win 12 games this season with Cam Newton at quarterback.

I mean, we have Cam Newton now... how many wins do you think the Patriots will have this year? 12.

The 2020 Patriots finished the season with a 7-9 record, failing to reach 12 wins.
Loss
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Patriots re-signing Antonio Brown would be hilarious and incredible.

You think that they would re-sign Antonio Brown? That would be hilarious. [Patriots] re-signed Antonio Brown and was like, 'you know what, enough time's passed.' They should resign him and then trade him to the Bills again.

The Patriots did not re-sign Antonio Brown in 2020; he eventually signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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