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#PMT-2025-0721-4389
ShaneShane

The Chargers need a playoff win for this season to be a success

We need a playoff win. You need a playoff win. We need one bad but last year we had like the easiest schedule in the league and this year it's pretty difficult.

The Chargers' postseason performance is pending.
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#PMT-2020-0320-8096
Big CatBig Cat

Chris Sale's Tommy John surgery timing is actually good for the Red Sox

I feel like it's a good thing because the MLB season probably never going to happen. So he's going to be able to basically get a free year. He's going to get all the rest and recovery he needs.

Sale missed the entire 2020 season, but he only returned for 9 games in 2021. The 'recovery' time didn't lead to a healthy return as implied.
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#PMT-2019-0812-11724
Big CatBig Cat

Tim Tebow should retire from all sports

Tim Tebow is out for the year and he should probably just retire from all sports... It's over. PFT, it's over. I've firmly been in the Tim Tebow is not a baseball player. This is all a gimmick in a carnival act. And he should probably just stick to doing TV.

Tebow retired from professional baseball in February 2021 after another injury-stunted attempt.
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#PMT-2019-0805-11289
Big CatBig Cat

Antonio Brown's foot injury is likely serious because the reports say it isn't

Every report about Antonio Brown's feet says, couches it with, they don't think it's going to be serious. That means it's probably going to be serious.

The foot injury (caused by cryotherapy frostbite) became a massive storyline that contributed to Brown never playing a regular-season game for the Raiders.
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#PMT-2018-1031-8708
Big CatBig Cat

You have to bet on the Steelers when Ben Roethlisberger thinks he is injured

This actually, if you are a betting man, and we are, you have to take the Steelers this weekend. Because an injured Big Ben, or even a Big Ben who thinks he's injured... always is dangerous.

The Steelers beat the Ravens 23-16 on November 4, 2018. Roethlisberger threw for 270 yards and 2 TDs while playing with a broken finger on his non-throwing hand.
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#PMT-2018-0506-19754
Big CatBig Cat

Matt Harvey will regain his form and have a good season now that he's left the Mets

Matt Harvey's going to still have a good year in his career left simply because it's the Mets... If you're a team looking for a pitcher, you should probably take a flyer on Matt Harvey because it would just be so perfect Mets for Matt Harvey to regain his form.

Matt Harvey never truly regained his 'Dark Knight' form. He struggled with the Reds, Angels, Royals, and Orioles, finishing his career with a very high ERA post-Mets.
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#PMT-2018-0506-19755
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The new Monday Night Football booth will be Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten, and Booger McFarland

Booger, he got the gig as first reported by me. The Monday Night Football gig. So it's going to be Booger, Jason Witten, and then [Joe Tessitore]... as far as I know, the first to say it was me.

This was the exact MNF booth for the 2018 season.
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#PMT-2018-0326-19407
HankHank

Kyrie Irving will be back and fine for the first round of the playoffs

He'll be back in three weeks, first round of the playoffs, no problem... Once [the debris is] out, he's completely fine.

Kyrie Irving underwent a second surgery in April 2018 and missed the entire 2018 postseason.
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#PMT-2018-0314-17672
Big CatBig Cat

The Warriors' greatness allows them to openly disrespect the rest of the league

I love any team that reaches that level of greatness where they can blatantly just spit in your face and say, you're not going to beat us... We get drunk. We can skip games. We skip practices. This is all just a formality for us because when it comes to the playoffs, we're going to kick your ass.

The Warriors won the 2018 NBA Championship, confirming it was indeed just a 'formality' for them.
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#PMT-2017-0918-18070
Big CatBig Cat

Sam Bradford is the first player who isn't 'injured', he is just always hurt

He's [Bradford] not injured. He he's just, injured all the time. He's just always hurt. Yeah, so then you come home after a day of darting and you're like, I'm not drunk. I'm fine... That's what Sam Bradford's knee is. It's the new normal.

Bradford's career was essentially ended by chronic knee issues shortly after this, reinforcing the 'always hurt' label.
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#PMT-2017-0213-15783
Big CatBig Cat

Joel Embiid will stop being funny on Twitter when he starts playing poorly or getting hurt more

I predicted like a month ago how Joel would not be so funny on Twitter when he starts fucking up. So this is the first one. He's injured like every other day. He's got a lot of time to go back and forth. Take away his umlaut over the Joel. You're just Joel now.

Fans and media have frequently turned on Embiid's online antics during his many injury absences in the playoffs and regular season.
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#PMT-2016-1209-1344
Big CatBig Cat

Winning a game with the Browns would be the biggest moment of RG3's career

If he won the last game of the season and the Browns were winless going into it, that is the biggest moment in RG3's career.

The Browns did win a game (Week 16 vs Chargers), though RG3 left that game with a concussion and didn't finish. Most would still rank his Rookie of the Year season or Heisman as bigger moments.
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#PMT-2016-1202-1268
HankHank

Rob Gronkowski might retire at 69 touchdowns just for the joke

Rob Gronkowski might retire just for the joke... No, but it's like a destiny thing. It really is a destiny thing. I don't think he wants to retire, but it's written in the stars.

Gronkowski did not retire on 69 touchdowns; he finished his career with 92 regular-season touchdowns.
Void
#PMT-2016-1021-7072
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Dez Bryant did not actually cut his finger making soup

I have a feeling he wasn't making soup. I have a feeling he cut his finger doing something else. Are we staying woke on this one? This seems a little sus, as Hank would say.

No concrete proof ever emerged that the soup story was a lie, but it remains a weird injury.
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#PMT-2016-0923-10924
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Terrelle Pryor is the Cleveland Browns' best quarterback option because everyone else will get injured

So they asked him if he was going to be willing to play quarterback because obviously if you're a Cleveland Browns quarterback, it's like being in the movie Final Destination. They've already lost two. They've got [Cody] Kessler. So Kessler is going to get hurt this weekend, too. And they said, Terrell, would you play? And he goes, I cut my finger off for the team.

Cody Kessler did get hurt (specifically in Week 5) and Pryor famously played multiple positions including QB for the Browns in 2016.
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#PMT-2016-0318-2742
Big CatBig Cat

Adam LaRoche's retirement over his son being in the clubhouse was just 'hurt feelings'

Adam LaRoche quit because his feelings were hurt. He got his feelings hurt... your feelings are hurt because the White Sox basically said, hey, Adam, you're a 14 year old best friend. You can't bring him around anymore.

The dispute was indeed about personal preference and team policy, not a physical injury.
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#PMT-2016-0318-2743
Big CatBig Cat

Adam LaRoche's son will grow up to be the greatest hot take writer in history

Adam LaRoche's kid... he is going to be the best hot take writer of all time. Could you imagine him fighting with like sabermetric nerds? Adam LaRoche's kid, his entire existence is towel whips, pranks... His entire life is a locker room.

Drake LaRoche did not become a professional hot take writer; as of the mid-2020s, he has remained largely out of the sports media spotlight.
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#PMT-2016-0304-856
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Derrick Rose is in a permanent state of being so hurt that he's actually injured

With Derrick Rose. I, I say he is injured by a thousand hertz. Like he's gotten hurt so many times that it's all like just one big injury for him right now at this point. His body is just in a permanent state of being so hurt that it's injured... His mind, body and soul.

While hyperbolically stated, Rose's career was indeed defined by a cycle of nagging and major injuries.