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Benching Pablo Sandoval for being fat is counterproductive; the team should make him play more to burn calories

Benching him is like the opposite of what you want to do. If I'm a fat guy, if you tell me like, Hey, you're too fat to do your job. So you're just not going to do it anymore. I'm like, uh, like, so what's the catch? I get to just sit and like, hang out in the clubhouse now. If you want to get Pablo Sandoval to lose weight, you make him play like a simulated game, then the real game, then like another simulated game. Like just starve him to death and make him work so hard that he has to lose the weight.

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The Saturday Final Four games will go under because players can't shoot in the NRG Stadium dome

I told everyone i think two days ago the unders are going to come in on saturday no one can shoot in the houston [NRG] something or other dome. So take the unders.

The 2016 Final Four games in Houston were Villanova vs Oklahoma (95-51) and UNC vs Syracuse (83-66). The total for Oklahoma/Villanova was ~145 (Result: 146 - Over). The total for UNC/Syracuse was ~144 (Result: 149 - Over). Both went Over.
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April Fool's jokes are only for women and corporations

I feel like April Fool's jokes are for chicks. Let's be honest. It's for chicks and also like corporations. It's really it's a holiday for girls and for brands. That's about it.

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NFL locker room drama like the D'Angelo Russell leak would stay in-house because the culprit would get beaten up

Honestly, I think the difference between basketball guys and football guys is that you would never even hear a story like this come out. And if it did come out, it would be kept in-house and somebody would get their shit kicked in. And then it would kind of be like, let's move on.

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The Spurs vs. Thunder series is the most toxic series in NBA history

The most toxic series in the NBA is going seven... the Sj discourse, Wendy's henchman, Wemby not going to do media after game five, the blowouts, the officiating. It's toxic. Everyone hates everyone. I love every second of it, but it is toxic.

Whether a series is 'the most toxic in history' is subjective and part of the show's hyperbolic sports discourse.
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Victor Wembanyama skipping the media after a bad game is a 'lame ass move' for a future face of the league

I like Wemby a lot. That's a lame ass move to not go and talk to the media, especially when you want to be the face of the league... You gotta just go and face the music when you have a bad game. We criticize Rory [McIlroy] when he does this... when you lose, you gotta just face the music.

The value of media availability is a matter of sports etiquette and opinion.
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The Vegas Golden Knights reaching three Stanley Cup Finals in nine years while only missing the playoffs once is a crazy level of success.

The Golden Knights are, it's pretty shocking the fact that they have been a franchise for nine years and this is their third trip to the Stanley Cup final. They have won one, lost one. This is their third. They have also gone to the playoffs in those nine years. They have missed the playoffs one single time. It's a crazy run by them.

The Golden Knights have indeed had unprecedented success for an expansion franchise, though the specific 2026 counts depend on the episode's fictional timeline.