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Take Slip·Apr 6, 2016
#PMT-2016-0406-18242
Big CatBig Cat

Villanova would beat the Philadelphia 76ers

So yeah, I Villanova, I'd take Villanova over the Sixers.

Professional NBA teams do not lose to college teams under normal circumstances.
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Take Slip·Apr 4, 2016
#PMT-2016-0404-18616
Big CatBig Cat

I deserve 75% credit for Villanova's NCAA tournament run

I would say I'm going to give myself like 75 percent credit for Nova's run. I don't know if you want to throw, like, 15 to Raleigh Massimino, another 10 to maybe Jay Wright's, like, suits, but 75% is about right for me.

Hot TakeCBBScorchingSarcastic
He didn't actually play or coach; it's a joke.
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Take Slip·Apr 4, 2016·PR 101
#PMT-2016-0404-18619
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

J.J. Watt should commit a small crime like animal abuse to fix his bad boy image

J.J. needs to kind of break out of this goody two shoes, like vibe that he's putting out... I think he just needs to go out and commit a small crime, like animal abuse, you know, a crime. Nobody really cares about something like that. Maybe start a small fire. That would kind of give him that little bit of a bad boy edge.

This is a satirical suggestion.
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Take Slip·Mar 30, 2016
#PMT-2016-0330-12828
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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Take Slip·Mar 30, 2016
#PMT-2016-0330-12830
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Matt Harvey's bladder infection story will lead to an uptick in SAT scores

What are the long-term ramifications of a big news story about a major league pitcher that doesn't pee enough? And I thought, well, this upcoming SAT season, you're probably going to see a big uptick in the overall scores on SATs because there are going to be a lot more guys that are going to be like, hey, I have to go pee and then go cheat in the bathroom.

There is no evidence that Matt Harvey's urinary health influenced national SAT averages.
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#PMT-2016-0330-12853
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

White people need to take back the word 'thug'

I think that white people need to take back the word thug. There we go. That's something that we got to start hating Tom Izzo and take back the word thug.

This is a satirical commentary on linguistics and race relations in sports and cannot be 'correct' or 'incorrect'.
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Take Slip·Mar 23, 2016
#PMT-2016-0323-3703
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Birthdays are only for girls once you turn 20 years old

Birthdays are for chicks now, right? Like after you turn 20 years old, birthdays are for chicks. Hand over your man card, JJ [Watt]. Birthdays aren't men's stuff anymore.

This is a purely subjective lifestyle/masculinity take.
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#PMT-2016-0323-3708
Big CatBig Cat

Matthew Dellavedova is a better player than Kyrie Irving

Deli is better than Kyrie. How does your starting point guard only have four assists when the team scores 124? Kyrie is more worried about his brand than actually winning.

Kyrie Irving is an 8-time All-Star and NBA Champion; Dellavedova was a role player. This is widely considered a hilariously bad take in hindsight.
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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2016
#PMT-2016-0318-2737
Big CatBig Cat

Ivy League schools shouldn't be allowed to participate in March Madness

All these rich pricks that think they're better than everyone they shouldn't get this experience. No, it's a state school experience only... You fucking Ivy League kids should not get to participate in March Madness.

The Ivy League is a full Division I conference and eligible for the tournament. Big Cat's take is a purely biased opinion.
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Take Slip·Mar 18, 2016·PR 101
#PMT-2016-0318-2741
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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Take Slip·Mar 16, 2016
#PMT-2016-0316-1142
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Woodpeckers prove that concussions aren't real

It always brings to mind the simple fact of nature that if concussions were real, don't you think that woodpeckers would have a lot of concussions? Don't you think woodpeckers have CTE? All they do is just like headbutt trees all day long.

Woodpeckers actually have specialized brain anatomy (thick skulls, spongy bone, and long tongues) that protects them from brain injury.
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Take Slip·Mar 16, 2016
#PMT-2016-0316-1150
Big CatBig Cat

Marshall Plumlee only joined the military to stop people from making fun of him

I don't know if you guys saw, but Plumlee is joining the military after he graduates, which is total bullshit. He's basically saying we can't make fun of him anymore. It's like someone saying they have a disease and you can't make fun of him. I'm pissed that Plumlee took that away from us.

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Take Slip·Mar 11, 2016
#PMT-2016-0311-16086
Big CatBig Cat

Brock Osweiler is the perfect fit to continue the Houston Texans' lineage of awful quarterbacks

Brock Osweiler to the Texans, there has never been a better fit in the entire world. And I'm not talking about fit like, oh, the Texans need a quarterback and they just got Brock Osweiler. I'm talking about Brock Osweiler is the perfect guy to continue the Houston Texans mantle of awful quarterbacks. He just went to a party where everyone was wearing the same white guy J. Crew shirt. And he's like, oh, here are my dudes. I know all these guys. That's Brock Osweiler walking to the Houston Texans.

Osweiler was one of the biggest free agent busts in NFL history, being traded away with a second-round pick just one year into his four-year deal.
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Take Slip·Mar 11, 2016
#PMT-2016-0311-16091
Big CatBig Cat

Hating bat flips is the ultimate litmus test for being a bad person

Is there a better litmus test in the world than people who hate bat flips being like just shitty people. Like if you hate a bat flip, it's basically like people who like kill like puppies and people who hate bat flips. That's the quickest way to figure out if you're a bad person. If you don't like bat flips, I don't even know where I would love to hear someone explain to me how they got to the point where they're like, goddamn backflips.

Inherently subjective moral judgment used for comedic effect.
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#PMT-2016-0311-16094
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The band 311 is one of the top five most overrated bands of all time

In honor of 311, I'm going to talk about overrated bands. And number one on my list is the band 311. ... 311 is the band that your friend in middle school that started smoking weed before everybody got really into. ... The fact is that 311 just sucks. And they have maybe one or two songs that I will not change the radio station to. But overall, I would say that 311 is, even when you're high, 311 is one of the top five most overrated bands of all time.

Music preference is subjective.
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#PMT-2016-0311-16095
Big CatBig Cat

Oasis is an overrated band because they were just confusing the marketplace by ripping off the Beatles

My one overrated band, I'm going with Oasis because I honestly – you want to talk about copyright infringement? I thought Oasis were the Beatles for a really long time. So I'm saying Oasis. They clearly were trying to rip off the Beatles and make everyone – they were confusing the marketplace. And I don't appreciate that.

Subjective musical opinion.
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Take Slip·Mar 10, 2016
#PMT-2016-0310-2099
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

ESPN definitely picked the wrong people to mess with because we have nothing to lose

I think they definitely picked the wrong people to fuck with on this one. Like we got nothing to lose.

The podcast went on to become the most successful sports podcast in the world despite the legal pressure.
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Take Slip·Mar 10, 2016
#PMT-2016-0310-2101
Big CatBig Cat

Barstool and Disney/ESPN are closer in value than people think

I'm not saying that Disney and Barstool are, like, maybe equal in terms of stock, but we're closer than people think.

Disney is a massive global corporation with a market cap in the hundreds of billions, whereas Barstool was valued in the tens of millions at this time.
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Take Slip·Mar 9, 2016
#PMT-2016-0309-9747
Big CatBig Cat

Sam Bradford is basically Philly's Holocaust Museum

This is going to be called a hot take. But Sam Bradford is basically Philly's Holocaust Museum... They kept Sam Bradford as a living reminder to not go back to the Chip Kelly era. So every time they look at him, every time they see him walking to the facility, they're like, oh, boy, we can't go back to that place. That was a dark spot.

This is an extreme metaphorical opinion and cannot be verified as 'correct'.
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#PMT-2016-0309-9752
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Meth Johnny Manziel would be better than weed Johnny Manziel because you want him on edge

I would put meth Johnny Manziel over weed Johnny Manziel because weed would mellow him out too much... you want Johnny like on edge, right? You want him to be running around a little bit. The best plays that he had when he was in college were like, he was tweaking almost like he was just panicked.

This is a satirical ranking of drug effects on athletic performance and is not a verifiable claim.
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Take Slip·Mar 9, 2016
#PMT-2016-0309-9753
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Washington Redskins are exactly like Nazi Germany because they win the offseason but get bent over once the actual war starts

I would compare the Redskins to Nazi Germany because the Redskins like to win the offseason every year. And Nazi Germany was also very good about taking over countries when there wasn't an actual war going on. And then once the war started, they got bent over by the Russians and the United States. So I would characterize the Washington Redskins as being very Hitler like in their approach to football.

This is a satirical comparison used for comedic effect.
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Take Slip·Mar 4, 2016
#PMT-2016-0304-849
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Roger Goodell is the best commissioner the NFL has ever seen

I actually wanna do the opposite of killed Goodell. I want to make sure Goodell stays in power forever. 'cause I love what he's done to the Patriots and he's just like a personal hero of mine. I think that he's, he's the best commissioner of the league's ever seen.

Goodell is widely disliked and this praise is entirely satirical for comedic effect.
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Take Slip·Mar 4, 2016
#PMT-2016-0304-852
PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The Colts should have fired Chuck Pagano and kept Bruce Arians as head coach in 2012

My application to Bleacher Report was saying that the coach should fire Chuck Pagano and keep Bruce Arians as their head coach. And this was a season that he had cancer... And I was like, this is a results league and Arians is, is carrying the team and Chuck Pagano is costing them a fortune in medical bills.

Pagano was not fired then, and suggesting he should be due to medical bills is intentionally heartless satire.
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