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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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Big CatBig Cat

The PGA Championship should be a frolf (frisbee golf) tournament to make it more interesting

You make the PGA Championship frolf instead of golf. Just switch it up on them. But all the golfers just now have to play frolf. And they have caddies... Tell me you wouldn't watch a frolf tournament.

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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Arnold Palmer was never actually a good golfer

I don't think Arnold Palmer was ever actually good. Have you seen that guy swing? Swings like my grandpa. I would kill that guy.

Hot TakeGolfScorchingSarcastic
Arnold Palmer is one of the greatest golfers of all time with 62 PGA Tour wins and 7 majors.
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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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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

In 100 years, everyone will have a voice that sounds exactly like Bruce Arians

If you look at Evolution – you know, 100 years from now, we're all going to be talking like Bruce Arians. It's just going to be a melting pot. And everybody's going to be really good at football.

A satirical prediction about the distant future.
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Big CatBig Cat

Bears rookie Daniel Braverman is a deep sleeper fantasy target

Benny Fowler, Daniel Braverman. By the way, he's going to be our new favorite. He's a Bear. And his name is literally he's braver than every other man. [Braverman] and Devontae Adams. All have been catching everything at camp. Catching everything.

Braverman had a very limited NFL career, recording only 4 catches for 33 yards total in 2016.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The veteran kicker will beat out the young leg in training camp 99 times out of 100

A lot of times you'll have a veteran kicker on a team to bring in a young leg... And the veteran kicker always wins the job, like 99 times out of 100.

Veteran kickers generally do retain their jobs against camp invites, though youth movements occasionally happen. This is a broad generalization that holds true more often than not.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Hugh Jackson is a quarterback guru who will get RG3's career back on track

This is how RG3 he's with Hugh Jackson now Jackson's going to get him on the right track he's a guru he's a quarterback guru

The RG3 experiment in Cleveland was a disaster; he played only 5 games and the team went 1-15.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Eddie Lacy might show up fat to training camp overnight

There's a good chance that [Eddie Lacy] might become fat overnight and be fat again. This is going to be an ongoing storyline throughout the entire camp.

Lacy struggled with weight issues his entire career and was eventually placed on IR later in the 2016 season, though his 'fat' status remained a constant point of debate.
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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

Carmelo Anthony winning gold medals means nothing because the USA should beat China by 90

I think it's fantastic that Melo is winning another gold medal. It means jack shit to me. Like, they're down there winning those games if it's a big deal. Like, you're supposed to beat China by 94. I'm not impressed that you did a 360 dunk on a 6'3 Asian basketball player.

The sentiment is a common criticism of Olympic basketball, though 'meaning nothing' is an exaggeration.
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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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HankHank

The NFL conspiracy to take down Tom Brady is a proven fact

Do you think that they unfairly accused [Brady] of something and it's a conspiracy just to sit down the face of the NFL? ... Yes, that's actually a proven fact. ... Yeah, they just don't like the Patriots. Too much winning.

While many fans agree the NFL was harsh, it is not a 'proven fact' that there was a coordinated conspiracy solely based on 'too much winning'.
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Michael RapaportMichael Rapaport

The New York Giants will finish the 2016 season 10-6

Giants record for the year... Ten and six.

The Giants actually finished 11-5 in 2016, so he was very close.
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Big CatBig Cat

Warren Sapp staged his shark attack to get back into the national media spotlight

Connect the dots. Warren Sapp doesn't have a job right now... Best way to get yourself back in the national media spotlight without saying, 'Hey, I want a job,' get attacked by a shark. ... I'm just saying, do we know what that shark looked like? No... That's for sure a fake shark. Truther Warren Sapp did not get bit by a shark. He rigged this whole thing.

There is no evidence the shark attack was fake; Sapp provided photos of the bite and was out lobstering at the time.
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Big CatBig Cat

LeBron James will eventually sign with the Lakers

I'm going to be really sad when it's over, when he finally signs with the Lakers and we have to stop doing [the LeBron James free agency update].

LeBron James signed with the Lakers on July 1, 2018.
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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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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Warriors won't be good for the first half of the 2016 season

With Kevin [Durant] going out there, I have a theory that they're not going to be very good for the first half of the year next year. Only one ball.

The 2016-17 Warriors started 16-2 and cruised to the best record in the NBA. They were elite from the jump.
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Rachel NicholsRachel Nichols

The Warriors will still be 'pretty good' to start the season because the team has played together for a long time

My theory is that you [PFT] don't know basketball that well then. ... unlike the Miami Heat that year, all but one of those players, they've been playing together for a long time. So it's not like the whole group is coming together the way they did in Miami. It's just really working one guy into the equation. ... they'll still be pretty good at basketball. They just might not be as good as they are by the time they hit their stride in the playoffs.

The 2016-17 Warriors dominated the league from the start, going 12-2 in their first 14 games and finishing with 67 wins.
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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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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Claiming you got a 'new phone' is a bulletproof excuse for missing an NFL drug test

The more I think about it, the more it's a bulletproof excuse for Le'Veon Bell. ... Isn't it like getting served? If you never get the call, then you don't have to pee. Unless you see the cup in front of your penis, you don't have to pee into it.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
The excuse did not prevent Le'Veon Bell from being suspended for three games for missing the tests.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Lionel Messi is bleaching his hair to hide from tax fraud investigators

So, well, he did have brown hair, and now he just bleached it totally blonde. This adds to my theory that maybe he's a relative of Nazi... that's how you get away from tax fraud or whatever he was doing with his dad.

Hot TakeSoccerHotSarcastic
The claim that he bleached it for disguise is satirical; the tax conviction was real but the hair was just a style choice.
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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

The 2016 Cubs have all the key ingredients to win the World Series

I think that everything is in place right now for them to do very well. Without a doubt, they're going to be the team to beat. I think they have the key ingredients is how well and how they can handle that stage... hopefully this is the time.

The 2016 Cubs did indeed win the World Series, breaking their 108-year drought.
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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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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The 2016 Olympics Russians got away with systematic doping

The Russians got away scot-free. So the IOC said, OK, we know your whole country had systematic doping for the last 20 years, so we're just going to ban the track and field team... they banned the track and field team, but anybody else from Russia is allowed to compete. So there you go.

This accurately reflects the controversy at the time; the IOC did not issue a total ban, leaving it to individual sport federations.
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Big CatBig Cat

Ken Griffey Jr. likely used performance enhancers given his weight gain

1989 was his debut. He weighed 195 pounds. Late 90s, he was listed at 205. 2004, I dug it up. He was listed at 215. And then when he retired, he was listed at 230. So over the course of 20 years... he gained 35 pounds. Hmm. Just saying.

There is no evidence Ken Griffey Jr. ever used PEDs, and a 35-pound weight gain over 20 years (from age 19 to 39) is considered extremely normal for an adult male.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

LeBron James will sign his 2016 contract before another Hillary Clinton email is leaked

LeBron James will sign before another [Hillary Clinton] email gets released. [Obama] is gonna fire a nuke up a horse's butt so that Putin can't leak any more of Clinton's emails.

Incorrect. WikiLeaks and other sources continued leaking emails (like the Podesta emails) through October, while LeBron signed his deal with the Cavs on August 12, 2016. The leaks continued well after his signing.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The five-year Hall of Fame wait rule is good because it humbles players

I love the five-year rule because it gives players time to taste what it's like to be kind of irrelevant, put on a little bit of weight, and then they show up at their Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and they're humbled a little bit. They've gained a few pounds in the cheek, neck area, so they're more accessible to the fans.

This is entirely an opinion on how Hall of Fame processes should work.

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