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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Bill Belichick is a baller for skipping a subpoena to study film

He was subpoenaed during the Aaron Hernandez double murder trial, and he just didn't show up in court... That's Belichick just being a baller... He treated it like he had a late movie to Blockbuster, not a fucking murder trial subpoena.

Subjective opinion on Belichick's 'baller' status regarding legal matters.
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Big CatBig Cat

Jordan Spieth is a classier person than Cam Newton because he handled his loss like a professional

Something about Jordan Spieth makes him more likable to me and classier of a person than Cam Newton. ... To be a true professional, you have to be able to face the music. How long do you think postgame press conferences after a loss get compared to Cam Newton?

Whether one athlete is 'classier' than another is entirely a matter of opinion, though the hosts are using it here for comedic effect.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

If a coach gets their own player pregnant, they have to marry them.

If I were to tell [Tyler Summit] how to handle this, this kind of no brainer. You got to marry the player, right? ... I think it's probably in bounds as long as you're getting married. If you have an intention to get married, then like, yeah, if you're 25 and the girl is above the age of 20, then I say go for it.

Moral and PR advice that is subjective.
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Big CatBig Cat

Johnny Manziel going to the Denver Broncos makes sense

We're the first people that we heard say Johnny Manziel would make sense in Denver. And I think we're now proving it. Von Miller and Johnny Manziel getting their act together together.

Manziel never signed with the Broncos and his NFL career ended shortly after.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Pimento cheese sandwiches taste like microwaved Dunkaroos

You could get the same effect from microwaved Dunkaroos for 30 minutes in your microwave and then making a ball out of it. That's what the pimento cheese sandwich tastes like.

This is a highly subjective and absurd culinary comparison.
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Big CatBig Cat

Golf is not a major sport

I don't care if someone shoots the wrong club or if I said the wrong terminology with golf. Golf is not a major sport. It's not one of the four major sports for a reason. If it were a major sport, everyone would watch it.

While golf is a major global sport, it is traditionally excluded from the 'Big Four' North American professional leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL).
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Eric KellyEric Kelly

Dada 5000 is a martyr because he died fighting for what he believed in

I love him. He's a martyr. I love him. He's a martyr. He died fighting for what he believed in.

Whether someone is a martyr is a matter of personal opinion, though Dada 5000 did technically survive the encounter.
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Big CatBig Cat

Tony La Russa is the ultimate 'Baseball Man' for falling asleep at a red light while drunk

I mean, Tony La Russa, classic baseball man, falling asleep at a red light because he's too drunk. That's just baseball man life.

References a real 2007 incident where La Russa was arrested for DUI in Jupiter, FL.
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Big CatBig Cat

Hammer the Reds as underdogs this year and you will become a millionaire

Hammer the Reds this year. Hammer the Reds. They will be underdogs many, many times. You throw it on the Reds. You take that $10, put it right there. Probably make yourself $20, $17. Then you keep doing it. And hopefully the Reds never lose and you become a millionaire.

PredictionBaseballHotSarcastic
The 2016 Reds went 68-94. If you hammered them every game, you would have lost a significant amount of money.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Greg Hardy's best possible legacy move is to be completely forgotten

The best thing that Greg Hardy could do is be forgotten. That's as good as it's going to get for his legacy. Why don't you get a horse and go live in the mountains someplace and don't bother anybody for a while?

Hardy never successfully rehabilitated his image and eventually left the NFL for MMA, remaining a pariah.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Old milk is at its best in coffee once it has been turning for two days and is right on the line of being drinkable.

I like to use old milk in my coffee because it's got a little extra kick to it. No, it's a fine line between being like rancid and being drinkable. And so like when it first starts to turn those first two days, that's when it's best in coffee.

The culinary appeal of spoiled milk is entirely subjective, though medically inadvisable.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Reds will finish in second place in the NL Central

Out of the NL Central, I've got the Reds followed up by the Cubs. I don't know. I think the Cubs are going to be a good wildcard team this year... If they come in second place in the division, I'm going to look like the smartest guy in baseball.

The Reds finished last (5th) in the NL Central in 2016, while the Cubs won the division.
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Brandon McCarthyBrandon McCarthy

Brett Anderson getting a base hit is nearly as impressive as Doc Ellis throwing a no-hitter on LSD.

Brett getting a base hit is pretty miraculous because when you see him on a day-to-day basis in the clubhouse and you see his athleticism by that, I mean, his almost near inability to walk. You're like, how is he getting a hit at the major league level? ... I'll still say Doc Ellis is a perfect game, but it's a pretty good comparison between the two.

Comparing athletic feats is inherently subjective, but the comedic hyperbole is the point.
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Big CatBig Cat

J.J. Watt is rattled because he tweeted at me out of nowhere

Here's why I think and I know that J.J. Watt is rattled. This was a totally unsolicited tweet from him... He just tweets me out of nowhere and he says, I thought we were friends now, man... You don't tell someone to have a great day unless you're, like, rattled.

Subjective interpretation of social media interaction, though Watt famously didn't get the joke for years.
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Big CatBig Cat

I am officially walking around inside J.J. Watt's brain right now.

I'm, I'm, I'm walking around in J.J. Watt's brain right now. I'm drinking the beers, but that's in J.J. Watt's brain. [I] clogged his brain's toilet right now.

Psychological 'rent-free' living is a metaphorical state, not a verifiable fact.
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Kyle LongKyle Long

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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Kyle LongKyle Long

If you are going to cheat on someone, you should cheat on Iggy Azalea

If you're going to cheat on somebody, you should cheat on Iggy. But I think that that's one of those relationships that's probably in the public eye. It benefits both of them. It's a symbiotic relationship. I wouldn't think that it's one that's really, like, organic.

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Johnny BenchJohnny Bench

If a player bat flips in your face, the pitcher should knock him down next time

He's going to go down on his butt. You're gonna oh you're gonna call for the inside heat you didn't even have to you know the pitcher already knows it. The thing you know he's standing out there and you show him up i can understand if it's a game-ending situation where the guy gets excited but you know in the old days you know everybody had a memory you don't show me up.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Quentin Tarantino thinks he isn't racist because he uses the N-word so frequently in his films

I feel like Tarantino is going down that route where he's like he's used the N word so many times that he's not racist. Like he's one of the good white guys because he's not afraid to use the N word in his like period pieces because he's technically making fun of the racist from those periods.

This is PFT's interpretation of Tarantino's artistic intent and mindset.
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Big CatBig Cat

Landon Donovan is officially not sexist because he has a twin sister

Some of my best siblings that were born at the exact same time of me are women, in fact, so I cannot be sexist. I love this reasoning from Landon Donovan... I'm taking this from Landon Donovan, and I'm saying he is, in fact, not sexist. He has a twin sister.

This is a satirical take using flawed logic as a joke; it cannot be 'correct' or 'incorrect'.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

It's my constitutional duty to be drunk when attending presidential debates

I feel like it's my constitutional duty to be drunk when I'm attending these things like presidential debates. If I'm interviewing Ben Carson about baby Hitler, if I'm talking to Donald Trump about whether or not he's a Muslim because he doesn't drink, I'm very serious about that.

OpinionPoliticsHotSarcastic
The US Constitution does not actually mandate public intoxication for the press at debates.
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Big CatBig Cat

I'm taking Matt Harvey's man card for getting a bladder infection

Apparently he had a bladder infection, which right off the bat, I'm taking his man card for that because I did not know that guys could get bladder infections. I thought that was only a woman thing. I know that sounds ignorant. But that's kind of what the man cards for is like when you feel scared by your own ignorance, you just got to take the man card.

While meant as a joke, men can and do get bladder infections, and the concept of a 'man card' is subjective.
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Big CatBig Cat

Duke basketball players are the type of guys who get cheated on

Kyrie Irving, if you go to Duke, you're a guy who gets cheated on. That just kind of – that feels like a Duke thing that happens. If Kyrie Irving had gone to North Carolina or Kentucky or Kansas, I don't think he gets cheated on. I just think that Duke is a very – guys who go to Duke get cheated on.

Inherently subjective and rooted in sports rivalry logic rather than fact.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Dating an Instagram model with over 20,000 followers is asking to get cheated on

I also say that if you, if you date somebody who on Instagram has over like 20,000 followers, you're pretty much asking to get cheated on too. Because, because in her mind, the only thing that matters to her is taking a picture of something that's going to get a lot of likes.

Broad generalization about a specific follower count's impact on relationship fidelity is subjective.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Oklahoma fans will forget they even played in the National Championship game two weeks after it ends

I got the Sooners and the Tar Heels in the finals, and I got UNC winning, and like Oklahoma, their fans just really don't—forget about it like two weeks later that they were ever in the national championship game because they don't really give a shit about basketball.

Subjective opinion about fan passion, though Oklahoma remains a heavy football-first school.
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Big CatBig Cat

Grayson Allen has the potential to be the most hated Duke player of all time

He absolutely has the chance to be the most hated Duke player of all time. I know that's crazy to say because of Christian Laettner, but I'm talking about with internet culture, with winning a national title, with the tripping, with his face, the fact he looks like Ted Cruz.

Grayson Allen became a multi-year national villain for his repeated tripping incidents and is frequently cited alongside Laettner and Redick as the most hated Duke players.
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Big CatBig Cat

Coach K is the ultimate sore loser

He basically told a kid [Dylan Brooks], don't showboat. And, like, don't show up the other team while showing up the other coach by coaching a kid that's not his kid. And that's Coach K to a T. Like, he's the sore loser.

Subjective opinion on Coach K's character.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

There is 'no chance' Coach K's program at Duke has been run as squeaky clean as people believe

There's got to be dozens of Coach K scandals that have been covered up over the past 20 years, right? There's no chance that his program has been run as squeaky clean as we've been led to believe that it has.

No major scandals ever took down Coach K before his retirement, though people often debated things like Zion Williamson's recruitment.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You can pitch for two weeks on a torn ACL

I feel like you could pitch for, like, at least two weeks on a torn ACL... Philip Rivers played a playoff game. People forget that a lot of times. He had a torn ACL... So, like, you're a pitcher. I feel like you should be able to pitch.

Hot TakeBaseballHotSarcastic
While Rivers did it, pitching involves heavy leg drive and torque that would be physically impossible or extremely dangerous with a fresh tear, making this a classic satirical 'grit' take.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Robert Griffin III's career will eventually be ended by a massive staph infection in the Browns' locker room

That is probably the last locker room that you want to be in if you're recovering from like a knee surgery... I could see this going very poorly for [Griffin]. Like he has some minor surgery in the off season and then his career is ended by a massive staph infection.

While Griffin's career was ultimately derailed by injuries (including a shoulder injury in his first Browns start), it was not ended by a staph infection.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The NFL told the Rams they wouldn't have to do 'Hard Knocks' if they drafted Michael Sam

What came out yesterday was that the Rams, when they were drafting him [Michael Sam], they got a call from the NFL league office and the NFL said, hey, if you draft Michael Sam, we won't make you do Hard Knocks because they were one of like three or four teams that could possibly do Hard Knocks that year. And so they drafted Michael Sam. This report says to avoid having the HBO cameras in their locker room the whole time.

Both Jeff Fisher and the NFL vehemently denied this report. Howard Balzer, who reported it, stood by it, but it remains a disputed conspiracy rather than a proven fact.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Jeff Fisher helped move the Rams to LA specifically to have excuses for poor coaching performance

I am absolutely convinced that Jeff Fisher was instrumental in like moving the entire franchise of the Rams to LA because Jeff knew that once he gets to Los Angeles, he's coming off a big move. He's got some excuses. If things don't go well, he's like, I'm still unpacking my shit... you can't fire him if he just has the cable guy at his house all the time.

OpinionFootballHotSarcastic
While funny, Fisher was actually fired mid-season in the very first year in LA, proving the move didn't buy him much time.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Syracuse's zone defense is essentially cheating and violates the gentleman's agreement of college basketball

I feel like playing the zone defense is something that any team could do in the tournament, but nobody does it because it's cheating, basically. Like, it's a gentleman's agreement that, yeah, we could all play zone and be pretty good at defense. It's like playing against your friend in GoldenEye and they play as Oddjob.

This is a subjective opinion on defensive strategy and 'sportsmanship'.
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Kyle WiltjerKyle Wiltjer

Adam Morrison is an apocalypse prepper with a bunker and guns in Spokane

The guy is fully equipped. If there was an apocalypse, he's got food stashed in the way, everything. So he could survive anything. Yeah, he's got guns, everything. He's got a bunker, everything. He's a pro... He thinks something's going down with politics or something. Because if you ever ask him a political question, you will get a great answer. I'd probably say he just thinks there's basically, he thinks everyone is corrupt.

This story has been corroborated by multiple people close to Morrison over the years, including other former Gonzaga players.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The NCAA banning the slam dunk for nine years was the most racist rule in sports history

So people forget that college basketball banned the slam dunk for nine years. And they banned it because of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar because he was dunking on all these white guys. I think that's probably the most racist rule to ever be enacted—like blatantly racist rule to ever be enacted in sports is that you're not allowed to dunk the ball anymore in basketball.

The rule was indeed enacted from 1967-1976 and is widely cited by historians as a reaction to Lew Alcindor's (Kareem's) dominance. Whether it is the 'most racist' is subjective, but it is a widely held historical view.
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Big CatBig Cat

J.J. Watt is the most basic white bitch in the world

J.J. Watt is the most basic white bitch in the world now. It's official. This is birthday week. [He] wants you to think that he's Rocky training for Ivan Drago and pushing logs up a snowy hill all winter [but] he's got a mansion in Wisconsin with a Starbucks five miles away.

This is a subjective character assessment based on Watt's public persona at the time.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am officially done with Bill Murray

I've reached the point where, like, I'm sick of Bill Murray just showing up to stuff. It used to be for the last five years he would just, like, show up somewhere and you'd be expected to laugh... now it's to the point where, okay, Bill, we get it. Like, you show up places where you're not invited sometimes. I don't think it's fun anymore.

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Big CatBig Cat

The controversy between Raymond Moore and Serena Williams was a staged 'work'

I'm thinking that this guy [Raymond Moore] and Serena were in cahoots. And this was like, let's just get a little buzz going... I think this is all – I think it's a work.

There is no evidence the comments were staged; Moore resigned shortly after due to the backlash.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Chive is responsible for making Bill Murray annoying

The Chive is to blame for like all the stuff that i hate about bill murray... They just wrote, they did tits and ass and then they said, Bill Murray, comma, get it. Now i'm more confident than ever in my Bill Murray take.

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Big CatBig Cat

Coaches collapse during games for motivation or to avoid accountability

Tony Bennett made the mistake of doing it when his team's up. You're supposed to do it when it's down so that even if you lose, people can't be like, oh, that coach sucks... I think that every single time my team got down big in a big game, I just collapsed... and then if you lose, everyone's like, wow, man, I can't believe like he just collapsed and he kept on coaching.

OpinionBasketballHotSarcastic
The idea that these are staged is satirical, though Bennett's collapse was attributed to dehydration.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Yale vs Duke Under is my lock of the century

That's my lock of the century. Put the money in the bank right now. It's done... if you start a good place to start is by betting the under on two teams that you hate. [Yale vs Duke]

The Yale vs Duke game on March 19, 2016, finished 71-64 (135 total points). The closing total was around 145.5, meaning the under hit easily.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Chris Jones should be immune to traffic tickets because of his Combine incident

I feel like if you're the guy whose dick broke through his shorts just because he's running too fast you got to get a carte blanche on driving with a suspended license... I've got to side with Chris Jones on this and not the Police Lives Matter crew.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
Having a wardrobe malfunction at the combine does not legally grant immunity for driving with a suspended license.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Quitting your job before March Madness is the best feeling in the world

It is the best two days of the year to call in sick for work, bar none. I had some friends, and back like six or seven years ago, we would all quit our jobs in anticipation of March Madness so that we just wouldn't have to worry about going into work... it feels like you're on heroin because it's such a reckless thing to do for like this little bit of endorphin payout.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Synthetic turf fields are cancer hotbeds for kids

There have been like five or six goalies that dive too much and get tires up their nose... and they come down with childhood cancer. And like that's, that would affect a lot of people across the United States. If that's true, because we've completely gotten rid of all of our grass fields. And now we've just got these cancer hotbeds.

While there were public health investigations into crumb rubber, major studies (like from the EPA and Dutch researchers) have found no definitive link between turf and increased cancer risk.
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Big CatBig Cat

Duke stinks and could easily lose in the first round

And Duke stinks. This could be a year that Duke loses in the first round, which is my favorite year when that happens... No, they have five guys, and only one guy can rebound, and they don't have a bench.

Duke reached the Sweet Sixteen in 2016, so they did not lose in the first round.
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Big CatBig Cat

Rick Pitino definitely hired Andre McGee specifically to arrange prostitutes for recruits

Rick Pitino is an egomaniac who runs an entire program, who knows everything that's going on. And then, oh, whoops, he somehow didn't know the time that the prostitutes showed up and started fucking all his recruits. ... He knew in the fact that he was like, Andre McGee, I'm hiring you to make sure all of my recruits get properly fucked.

While Pitino was sanctioned by the NCAA, he maintained he had no knowledge, making this a matter of opinion/interpretation of evidence.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Chris Long would catch 85 passes in a season from Tom Brady

I think you're selling yourself short because you're extremely humble... I'd put you upwards of like 80, 85.

PredictionFootballHotSarcastic
He never switched to receiver and never caught a pass from Brady.
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Chris LongChris Long

Pardon My Take is more professional than Scott Van Pelt's show

[PMT is more professional]... A lot. I always did that [SVP's] show on my cell phone.

This is purely satirical; PMT was an independent podcast and SVP had a flagship ESPN show.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Cincinnati is always a 'dangerous' team because their coach Bob Huggins might stab you

I think danger in general is you want to be the dangerous team... It implies that like they could either beat you in basketball or maybe stab you... Any Bob Huggins team is going to be dangerous.

The take is a joke based on the word 'dangerous' and can't be factually proven.
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Big CatBig Cat

Colin Kaepernick wanting to play for the Browns is the second biggest kidnapping story behind Richard Simmons

The whole story about Richard Simmons being kidnapped in his own house, that's only second to Colin Kaepernick saying out loud he wants to go to the Browns. Someone's kidnapped Colin Kaepernick. There's no way his brain got to the point where that's such rock bottom to say, 'oh, yeah, please trade me to the Cleveland Browns.'

Kaepernick was never traded to the Browns; he remained with the 49ers for the 2016 season.

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