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Stingray Steve and Mike Portnoy 07/20/16

Wednesday, July 20, 201611 takes

The guys discuss the big news with the hiring of Erika Nardini as CEO and the Chicago Bulls winning the NBA summer league championship. Mt Rushmore of favorite excuses. Miss St. and SEC Superfan Stingray Steve joins the show to talk football and storm chasing. America's lawyer Mike Portnoy discusses all legal matters facing the podcast. Segments include "Not afraid to go there" for Lou Holtz, "Olympic Update", "Uhhh Ya Think", "PR 101", "Mike Greenberg's Dumb Rules", and "People Forget That"

Intro

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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016
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Jimmy Butler lacks the clutch gene

So you're saying that your boy Butler doesn't have the clutch gene? ... The witch hunt for Jimmy Butler keeps going.

Butler's subsequent career, especially in Miami, cemented him as one of the most 'clutch' playoff performers in the league, proving the 'clutch gene' doubt wrong.

Interview

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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016
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Mississippi State is going to struggle this year because Dak Prescott is gone

I'm going to say Mississippi State is going to struggle a little bit this year just simply because we don't have Dak Prescott on the field anymore for us.

Mississippi State finished the 2016 season 6-7, a step back from their 9-4 season in 2015 with Dak Prescott, though they did win the St. Petersburg Bowl.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016
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Tennessee will win the SEC East because they have the fewest question marks

Like in the SEC East, you've got to go with Tennessee just simply because they've got a lot of talent coming back and they don't have as many question marks as, say, like Georgia or Florida or anybody else.

Florida won the SEC East in 2016 with a 6-2 conference record; Tennessee finished second at 4-4 in conference play.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016
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Texas A&M is the sleeper team to contend in the SEC West

But I'm really intrigued, and this is possibly my sleeper team in the SEC West, Texas A&M. Nobody's talking about them. John Chavis is in his second year. I'm going sleeper team to possibly contend Texas A&M.

Texas A&M finished 8-5 (4-4 in SEC) in 2016, ending up 4th in the SEC West, well behind Alabama.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016
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Dan Mullen won't leave Mississippi State until he has another 10-win season

I think his window of opportunity for leaving went out the window the year that Mississippi State went to number one in 2014, and I think he's going to have to do something or have another 10-win season before he can leave Starkville.

Dan Mullen stayed at Mississippi State through the 2017 season (where he won 9 games) before leaving for Florida. He did not achieve another 10-win season before leaving.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016
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Everyone in the SEC cheats, but only the dumb ones get caught

And you know what everybody in the SEC says? Everybody cheats. It's just the dumb ones that get caught.

This is a subjective claim about systemic behavior that cannot be definitively proven true or false.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016
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Dak Prescott will be the Cowboys starting quarterback in about a year

I'm going to say about a year. Now, of course, if Romo gets hurt this year, then, of course, I think he may be done. But if he's not, then about a year or two.

Romo was injured in the 2016 preseason, and Dak Prescott started Week 1 of his rookie year, never giving the job back.

Olympic Update

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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016·Olympic Update
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The Olympics should stop providing condoms to encourage the breeding of a super race

I think that there should actually be no condoms inside the Olympic Village. These are... the top true of the top one percent genetically. It should be like a rabbit farm in there. We should be forcing them to breed with each other. No condoms.

This is a satirical suggestion for social engineering, not a verifiable prediction or fact claim.

Mike Greenbergs Dumb Rules

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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016·Greenberg's Dumb Rules
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Big CatBig Cat

MLB teams should be limited to 30 fastballs per game

I think teams should only get 30 fastballs a game. ... The art of pitching, the finesse of pitching, Greg Maddox, come on. I mean, he wasn't throwing 105 miles an hour.

MLB never implemented a pitch-type quota; this was a comedic suggestion.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016·Greenberg's Dumb Rules
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Every MLB rotation should be required to have a knuckleballer

I would go along those same lines and say that every team has to have a knuckleball pitcher in the starting lineup. ... In the rotation somewhere.

MLB has no such requirement, and knuckleballers have actually become rarer since 2016.
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Take Slip·Jul 20, 2016·Greenberg's Dumb Rules
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Big CatBig Cat

The NFL preseason should be 10 weeks long and start in July

I think preseason should start in July. Give us something more to talk about. We should have 10 weeks of NFL preseason.

The NFL eventually shortened the preseason from 4 games to 3 in 2021, the exact opposite of this suggestion.