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Martin ShkreliMartin Shkreli

If you ask someone if something is good or bad and they say 'it's complicated,' that means it sucks

If I ask you if something's good or bad and you say it's complicated, that means it sucks. Fine, fair enough.

A subjective interpretation of social cues.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Robert Griffin III driving a 1992 Volkswagen to practice is a major try-hard move

Robert Griffin III rolled up to practice in a 1992 Volkswagen today... I thought it would be someone who actually still owned an old car, not someone that went out and borrowed a friend's old car just so that people would write stories about him driving to practice. It makes Robert Griffin seem like a real try-hard.

An assessment of a player's public relations strategy.
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Big CatBig Cat

Nick Saban is a spiteful, vindictive, irrational baby of a man

So you're saying that Nick Saban is a spiteful, vindictive, irrational baby of a man? You think? No doy. I like that this guy actually thought like he was going to just tell Nick Saban he's quitting. And Nick would be like, you know what? Best of luck to you, man.

Opinion on Saban's character/coaching style.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You don't give Nick Saban a two-week notice; you sneak out in the middle of the night and tweet that you're leaving

You don't put in a two weeks notice at Alabama. That's a move where you slip the janitor 50 bucks to get in in the middle of the night and you just take all your shit out and then you tweet the fact that you're leaving to Nick Saban. That's how you leave.

Humorous advice on handling a transfer from a high-pressure program.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You should give homeless people gift cards instead of cash or food

Here's what you do next time. Get them a gift card. Problem solved... $5 gift card.

Opinion on personal charitable practices.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

You should never bring up anything you thought was funny online while on a date

As a general rule of thumb, you don't ever want to bring up anything that you thought was funny online on a date.

Subjective dating strategy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Jeb Bush doesn't know how to use a keyboard because he's a low energy guy

Jeb Bush has not tweeted at me. Um, that's probably cause he's just such a low energy guy. He can't figure out how to use a keyboard.

Subjective insult/joke about a politician's tech literacy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Fat is coming back as a trend and Brooklyn will lead the way

Fat is coming back. And good news for you. The first place that it's going to come back, place at the forefront of all these trends, is Brooklyn. You know, like back in the day, if you were fat, it meant that you were well fed and that you could take care of yourself.

While 'body positivity' grew, being 'fat' did not become a leading hipster trend in Brooklyn in the way PFT described.
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Big CatBig Cat

Witches are more real than the ghosts in scary movies

Witches. Big time fear... They're more real than [Hank's] scary movies.

The existence of witches is a matter of belief/superstition, not verifiable fact in this context.
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Danny BarrettDanny Barrett

LeBron James is a dickhead and I would never want him on my rugby team

Probably the last person I would want is LeBron... strictly because he's a dickhead. He's a dickhead. If I had to go with anyone, it would probably be AP, Adrian Peterson. He would be good at that.

The assessment of someone being a 'dickhead' is purely subjective.
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Danny BarrettDanny Barrett

No one on the West Coast cares about lacrosse

No one on the West Coast is lacrosse. Play lacrosse, that's about it... They're never going to.

Lacrosse has seen growth on the West Coast since 2016, but it remains heavily concentrated in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
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JC
John Costacos

Russell Wilson is almost too short to be on a sports poster

We were a little bit worried about Russell because, you know, people said you should do a poster. I thought, you know, he might be too short. You know, he's kind of a little short to be on a poster.

Subjective aesthetic judgment by an artist, though Wilson obviously became a massive star regardless of height.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Cleveland is a downgrade for anyone living in Milwaukee

You can't just take a downgrade to Cleveland like that [from Milwaukee]. You've got to know if you're in Milwaukee, that's a city of champions.

Subjective opinion on which city is better.
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Big CatBig Cat

If you do anything in life, be completely average at it to avoid public scrutiny

The moral of your story right there is if you do anything in life, just make sure you're completely average at it. Because the minute you draw attention to yourself one way or the other, that's when people start saying your nickname happens to be a little racist.

This is a satirical take on how to avoid controversy.
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Big CatBig Cat

I will not let a friend use my phone charger unless my own battery is at least 70%

I'm a hog. I'm a charge hog. I'm kind of an asshole. [I have to be at] 70% [to let someone else use it].

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HankHank

Asking a friend to get something on Barstool is the worst favor you can ask

Can you get this on Barstool? The worst. People know I haven't talked to in years will text me a little blue like, yo, put this on Barstool.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Asking someone to come on your sports podcast is a huge dick move

Can you come on my podcast? So that's a huge – I hate it. I hate when people try to get you to go on, like, your sports podcast and, like, try to joke around with them. Big time dick move if anybody out there does that.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Being asked to be a Maid of Honor is a rough favor to fulfill

Will you be my maid of honor? Like that's such a – that is a rough ask. If you're a maid of honor, you've got to plan out the entire bachelor party. You've got to plan out the wedding shower. You've got to plan out... basic bitch t-shirts.

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Big CatBig Cat

An airport pickup or drop-off is a brutal favor

Airport pickup or drop-off. Brutal. Also, a cousin of that, can you take me to the hospital? worst.

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Uncle ChapsUncle Chaps

Commando week is bad because of the drips

Commando week was, whoa, that was bad, dude. Yeah, because there's nothing to stop the drips. And it's the drip sweat that comes off your butt, butthole, taint area that really causes the stink. The underwear keeps that real tight.

Subjective personal experience.
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Uncle ChapsUncle Chaps

It is impossible to satirize Donald Trump because he is already too over the top

I really think that Trump is not – you don't have the ability to satire Trump. Like he says shit that's way over the top of what I would even think of and it's real.

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Big CatBig Cat

If you claim you were hacked after a scandal, you must lean into it with more fake hacks

If you are going to go the hacked route, you have to go farther down the rabbit hole of hacked. So you accidentally snap a picture of your penis, then you accidentally snap a picture of a swastika, then you accidentally snap a picture of like you throwing a rock at a pigeon and then you're like shit I got hacked.

Satirical PR strategy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Draymond Green should sue Snapchat for entrapment

If I'm Draymond, I would consider suing Snapchat. They made an app that makes it really easy to send dick pics that disappear afterwards. So it's like entrapment.

Legal satire.
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Big CatBig Cat

If a fire alarm goes off in a hotel, you don't have to leave unless you actually smell smoke or see someone on fire

Either way, if a fire alarm goes off in a hotel, you don't have to leave. That's like a rule. Everyone knows that... Until people start running or you smell smoke, you don't have to go anywhere until I see somebody on fire.

This is dangerous and incorrect advice, though meant as a joke about hotel laziness.
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Big CatBig Cat

Nyquist the horse is officially finished

I'm going to say that Nyquist is finished. That horse is done. He's so finished that he's done.

Nyquist never won another race after the Kentucky Derby, eventually retiring later in 2016 due to injury.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

LeBron James not signing with the Cavs yet is the biggest act of devastation to a city since Aaron Hernandez

If LeBron ends up not signing, I think this would be the biggest act of devastation that one player could ever cause to a franchise. And a city. Except for Aaron Hernandez.

He eventually signed, rendering the point moot, but the comparison remains a subjective joke.
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Big CatBig Cat

Free agent signings coming from Super Bowl teams won't be as good on their new shitty teams

The free agent signing who's maybe coming from a Super Bowl team and he's bringing a winning culture... [is] probably not going to be anywhere near as good as he was with the Super Bowl team because he was surrounded by really good players. And now he's on your shitty team, surrounded by trash.

This is a general observation that is frequently proven correct in sports, as individual performance is often a product of the surrounding system.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia is trash

Number one, Pat's. Number two, South Philly. Number three, Geno's. Geno's is trash. I hate Geno's.

Cheesesteak rankings are entirely subjective.
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Michael RapaportMichael Rapaport

All roads in the NBA super team era lead back to LeBron James

All roads lead to LeBron James with this super team friends and family shit. Just know that. There's always a way back to LeBron James. He started this shit and now it's corroding and polluting the NBA.

While many credit the 2008 Celtics or the 2010 Heat (LeBron), the 'friends and family' player-movement era is widely attributed to LeBron's 'The Decision'.
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Michael RapaportMichael Rapaport

NBA players are garbage for dunking on kids at summer camps for social media

Why do these players keep shitting all over these little guys that play $2,500 to go up to their camp and they dunk on them, they humiliate them, and then they post it all over Snapchat? All of them. It's out of control.

This is a moral/cultural opinion about sportsmanship.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tony Montana is a top-tier bad guy, even though I've never seen 'Scarface'

My bad guys are, number one, Tony Montana. Now, I've never actually seen Scarface, but I'm told he's like the bad guy. I've seen the clip where he says, 'you need to point as a bad guy, and I'm the bad guy.'

This is a subjective evaluation of a fictional character's quality as a 'bad guy.'
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

God from the Old Testament is a top-tier bad guy

So I'll segue right from there into my number three which is God, God from the Old Testament. Kind of a bad guy. Threw a lot of stuff at people. People forget that. That God was kind of a hard ass.

This is a purely subjective interpretation of literature/theology used for a joke.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tom Brady is a bad guy

Number four on my Mount Rushmore of bad guys. Tom Brady. [Belichick] never got suspended. True. He only got fined.

The concept of a 'bad guy' in sports is subjective.
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HankHank

Lord Voldemort is a top-tier bad guy

My number one bad guy, Lord Voldemort. I ain't going with the Harry Potter stuff. ... if you're going to be a bad guy, like an old Russian mobster with an accent, it doesn't get much worse than that.

This is a subjective ranking of a fictional villain.
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Big CatBig Cat

Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) is the baddest bad guy in wrestling

I will go off movies now, Scott Hall, Razor Ramon. Maybe the baddest. ... Razor Ramon is the baddest of the bad then? Yeah, exactly.

This is a subjective ranking of a wrestling character.
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Rachel NicholsRachel Nichols

NBA players should have the right to choose their super teams

I do believe that grownups should have the right to decide where they work. Kevin Durant was in Oklahoma City for almost 10 years. And if he wants to go play somewhere else, it doesn't really feel good for me as some random person sitting at home and saying, you know where I think you should live your life and work every day. I'm not a big fan of like the franchise tag.

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Rachel NicholsRachel Nichols

Aroldis Chapman should have issued a stronger public apology after his domestic violence incident

I would have liked him to make a stronger statement of apology publicly because I think that not only is that important in sort of the evolution of him and how fans might want to feel about him, it's important for kids who put those little Cubs uniforms and caps on every day and come to the park. ... I would have liked to have seen more of that from him personally.

This is a subjective moral and PR judgment.
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Rachel NicholsRachel Nichols

LeBron James' subtweets didn't matter during the season because the Cavaliers ultimately won the championship

I'm saying that I have so many more important things in my day to care about than like what for. ... Here's how we know [it's not a big deal]. They fucking won the NBA title. Like, that's how you know it wasn't a big deal. ... It clearly didn't matter.

While subjective, the outcome of the season supports the idea that the 'drama' did not derail the team's championship aspirations.
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Rachel NicholsRachel Nichols

LeBron James is playing a leverage game with his free agency

I think LeBron's playing a leverage game. And wouldn't you? Dude, I mean, that letter in Comic Sans, you can forgive, babe, but you don't forget.

LeBron famously signed one-year deals to keep pressure on the Cavs front office to spend.
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Rachel NicholsRachel Nichols

Women in sports media should know 'No' is a complete sentence

I always say like, here's my advice. No is a complete sentence. Like you don't have to justify to anybody why you're saying no to anything because I think young women sometimes feel like they have to.

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Big CatBig Cat

Pat Riley is building his next super team by 'hoodwinking' Dion Waiters

Pat Riley, he just took a step back down towards Earth on the stairway to heaven because this is how you build your empire back up. You hoodwink Dion Waiters a little bit. And the next thing you know, you got your next super team in place.

The Waiters/Whiteside/Johnson era in Miami was famously mediocre and did not lead to a super team.
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Big CatBig Cat

The White Sox are an embarrassing organization run like a mom-and-pop shop

I think White Sox fans have a level of embarrassment because I think if your organization is having uniform issues and your star pitcher is cutting up uniforms because he doesn't want to wear them, that's embarrassing. It's called Jerry Reinsdorf runs organizations like a mom-and-pop shop, and incompetent people get pay raises and promotions, and no one ever gets fired.

The White Sox leadership and Jerry Reinsdorf's management style remain a frequent point of criticism for sports analysts and fans as the team has struggled significantly in recent years.
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Big CatBig Cat

Chris Sale is a psycho, partly because his best friend is 13 years old

And also Chris Sale is kind of a psycho. Yeah. He's a little bit of a psycho. I think the biggest story out of all this is Chris Sale is kind of a psycho because it's not just the jerseys. It's that he also has a best friend that's 13 [Drake LaRoche].

Whether Sale is a 'psycho' is subjective, though his actions (cutting jerseys) are documented fact.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Players should be nicknamed 'Big Country' to improve their public image

Just give yourself the nickname Big Country because everybody loves Big Country no matter what sport you're in. Just be like, 'Hey, that's just Big Country, you know, having some fun before the game, y'all.' And people will be like, 'All right, that's good.'

This is a subjective PR strategy suggested for comedic effect.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The 'Mystery Team' in MLB trades is always just a fabrication by agents

The mystery team... could be anybody. It's a made-up team from the mouth of your agent just trying to work you up. The mystery team never gets their guy.

It's difficult to prove every 'mystery team' is a lie, but it is a known negotiation tactic used by agents to drive up prices.
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HankHank

Jumping off a bridge into water is the best hangover cure

First one, jumping off a bridge. Like jumping off a bridge into water. You get an adrenaline rush, and then you get the water, and then once you're in the ocean, then you're unhungover.

A matter of personal preference, though not medically recommended as a standard cure.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

A big bowl of Pho is the best hangover food

My fourth is going to be my favorite hangover food, and that's a big bowl of Pho, the Vietnamese soup. Really good for a hangover, yeah. If you get all the weird shit in there too, like the intestine stuff.

Food preferences for hangovers are subjective.
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Big CatBig Cat

A 'Hollywood executive workout' (steam, sauna, hot tub) is the best way to cure a hangover

My last one is the good old-fashioned Hollywood slash executive workout. Little steam, sauna, hot tub, shower, nothing better. That's my favorite type of workout.

Subjective lifestyle preference.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Drinking a mix of Pedialyte and vodka all night prevents hangovers

If you want to not have a hangover, here's what you do. You take Pedialyte and then you mix it with vodka or rum and then you just drink that all night so you don't get hungover to begin with. That's a pro's move.

While Pedialyte provides hydration, mixing it with alcohol doesn't negate the physiological effects of ethanol, making this 'partially' helpful but flawed advice.
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Andre DawsonAndre Dawson

I can't believe Joe West is still an active MLB umpire

I can't believe that [Joe West] is still an umpire. You know, I know at some point you retire, everybody retires. I'm still amazed that he can still see the ball... because your legs go and then your eyes go.

Joe West eventually retired in 2021, holding the record for most games umpired, so Dawson's disbelief in 2016 was shared by many.

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