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Scott Boras, Mt Rushmore Of "That Guy" And The Rockets Hate Each Other

Wednesday, June 19, 201912 takes

This League is in full swing with the Rockets hating each other, Carmelo back, Kyrie ghosting Danny Ainge, the Raptors parade, and the Warriors taking out newspaper ads ( - ). Mt Rushmore of "That Guy" including well actually guy and guy who tries too hard at intramural sports ( - ). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Brett Favre and Lebron's Hair ( - ). Super Agent Scott Boras joins the show to talk about his career, the Bryce Harper negotiations, arbitrations that have gotten nasty, and negotiating Kris Bryant's next contract ( - ). Segments include bachelorette talk for guys that don't watch the bachelorette, respect the biz umps, PMT sports biz minute, locker room talk, uhhh ya think, and guys on chicks.

Recap

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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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James Harden and Chris Paul hate each other because the Warriors drove them insane

These two guys are very outstanding basketball players... but they develop these little nitpicky things that they have to go at each other by because they're just not good enough to beat the Warriors. So now all of a sudden they fucking hate each other because the Warriors have just driven them insane.

The Harden-Paul rift was well-documented and eventually led to Chris Paul being traded to the Thunder later that summer.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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Big CatBig Cat

Roy Williams has been a better coach than Coach K since arriving at North Carolina

Roy Williams has won more since he's been at UNC over Coach K. So I don't know what they [Duke] do.

Since Roy Williams arrived at UNC in 2003, he won three national championships (2005, 2009, 2017) compared to Coach K's two (2010, 2015) in that same window.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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Big CatBig Cat

Kawhi Leonard is definitely leaving the Toronto Raptors

Doing a parade which looked awesome... and then continually answering questions when people say like what does this mean to Toronto and he's like 'well they it's something they can build on'... doesn't feel like he's staying.

Kawhi Leonard did leave the Raptors to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers in July 2019.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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The NBA Draft is the most anticlimactic show on television

Is there any more anticlimactic TV show than the NBA draft? ... You only have to tune in for the first five minutes of the NBA draft and then you're good to go.

This is an inherently subjective opinion about entertainment value.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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Brett Favre would be a better NFL quarterback today because defenders can't touch him

I would actually make the argument that the rules of the game have changed where Brett Favre would probably be a better quarterback right now. Can't touch the quarterback. Just throw the fuck out of the ball downfield and get pass interference.

While the rules protect QBs more, Favre's age and the speed of modern defenses make this physically impossible, though the rules certainly favor his style more than the era he played in.

Hot Seat Cool Throne

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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Mark Zuckerberg is going to run the world and we should all start bootlicking him now

The guy who just stole the world's privacy and helped rig elections is now going to control our money... I'm going to start bootlicking the shit out of Mark Zuckerberg because he's going to, like it or not, he's going to run the world. So you might as well get on his side early.

The take is satirical and about political/economic power, making it subjective.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019·Hot Seat/Cool Throne
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Big CatBig Cat

The 'Dad Bod' trend is a total lie

Dad bod is such a lie... You love Seth Rogen because he's so funny and he gets high and he makes funny movies. That's not what every other dad bod [is]. We're dad bods because we're lazy and we're grumpy and we suck. At everything.

The desirability of a body type is entirely subjective.

Interview

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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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Scott BorasScott Boras

The MLB draft system is essentially a servitude that hurts the sport

The common theme was you get what the guy got last year, and if you don't accept it, you're greedy... So it basically turned into a servitude. And I really felt that was not good for the game because I felt we're going to lose the great athletes to other sports.

This is a legal and economic philosophy of an agent, making it subjective in nature.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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Scott BorasScott Boras

MLB draft caps incentivize teams to lose on purpose

When they put that [draft] cap in, what did it do for the game? It had a horrible impact because what it created is... teams say, 'Wait a minute, I don't want to be competitive at the big league level because I want these draft picks.' So one-third of the league says, 'Why win 80 games when I want to really only win 65 and get top picks?'

The phenomenon of 'tanking' in MLB became a significant issue in the mid-to-late 2010s, which supports Boras's observation of team behavior.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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Scott BorasScott Boras

Long-term baseball contracts are actually deferment portals for the player's true value

Long-term contracts are... for the true value of the player in the short term being a deferment portal for those values that you didn't pay up front in the future years. For example, a player is worth $80 million a year... they pay him $32 million over 10 years. And then we have the public complaining that the last four years he didn't earn the $32 million when they forgot that he was worth $80 million the first four.

While mathematically sound in terms of net present value, it's an economic interpretation of value rather than a binary fact.
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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019
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Scott BorasScott Boras

Baseball should adopt an 8-team wildcard 'March Madness' playoff format

My feeling is we have to make the game more competitive... we're going to create a baseball March Madness so that you have the bottom three teams. So you have five, six, and seven. Seven... will play six, one game. Then the winner of that will play team five... Then you get into the divisional playoffs. So you're going to have three days of sudden death Major League Baseball playoffs.

In 2022, MLB expanded the playoffs to 12 teams (6 per league), including a 3-game Wild Card series, moving closer to the 'more teams' model Boras advocated for, though his specific gauntlet format wasn't used.

Uhhh Ya Think

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Take Slip·Jun 19, 2019·Uhhh Ya Think
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The awarding of the World Cup to Qatar was definitely not above board

The former president of FIFA was arrested because it turns out the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar or Qatar may not have been above board. Oh, you think? No doy.

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Widespread corruption in the Qatar 2022 bid was confirmed by numerous investigations and the US Department of Justice.