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Hating opposing women players is the best way to truly support women's sports

One of the best ways to truly support women's sports is by hating women that are playing on a team that's playing against your favorite team.

Subjective philosophy on sports fandom.
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Big CatBig Cat

The NBA in-season tournament is essentially a way for LeBron James to get more rings

It was essentially the NBA was like, how can we make it so that LeBron gets more rings so he can feel like he's better than Jordan. Let's make a made up trophy in the middle of [the season].

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Lakers did win the first NBA Cup in 2023, giving LeBron the trophy Big Cat predicted, though the 'intent' is satirical.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Brooks Koepka is the hottest golfer in the world heading into the Masters

My, who's back of the week is Brook's Koepka. Yes. Brooks. Shout out Brooks. He won. He's hot. He's the hottest golfer in the world going into masters week. He's back. He won on the live tour. He battled off Patrick Reed to finish first place in Orlando.

Koepka finished T2 at the 2023 Masters, leading for much of the weekend before Jon Rahm won. He then won the PGA Championship in May 2023, validating that he was indeed 'back'.
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The Hernandez family is officially back following Dennis Hernandez's arrest at ESPN

The Hernandez family is back. Is back af at long last.

Satirical 'Who's Back' segment logic.
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Jake MarshJake Marsh

The Lakers are a legitimate threat as they climb the Western Conference standings

The Lakers... they are climbing up the west... Seeds four through 10 right now are separated by four and a half games. Damn. And Lakers are right there at eight. Are the Lakers back? They have LeBron and AD.

The Lakers reached the Western Conference Finals in the 2023 NBA Playoffs, proving they were indeed a threat.
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Bobby HurleyBobby Hurley

Forte will be the Kentucky Derby favorite and has a great chance to win

I love Forte. I've watched Forte a few times... I think he'll be the Kentucky Derby favorite, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he's gotta win today. But yeah, I got a good feeling about Forte. Yeah. That's, that's my pick.

Forte was the betting favorite but was a late scratch on race day (May 6, 2023).
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Bobby HurleyBobby Hurley

Bobby Knight once had his players stop a scripted play for the movie 'Blue Chips' because he didn't want to lose the possession

The director come in the huddle and he says, all right, we need about 15, 20 minutes to set up the last play. So Penny Hardaway is gonna throw the lob past the Shaquille O'Neill and then they win... As we're leaving the huddle to go play defense. Coach Knight says, 'Don't let him get it. Grab him.' So they run the play... We grab Shaq, the ball goes out of bound and he's yelling the director's yelling. Cut, cut, cut.

This is a firsthand account from someone on the set. It is widely accepted as a true anecdote from the filming of Blue Chips.
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Big CatBig Cat

Max will lose 20 pounds by Memorial Day

Memorial Day. Memorial Day, losing 20 pounds by Memorial Day Max. We've, we've done this before, but we're doing it for real this time... I just want it to be on the record.

Max's weight loss journeys are a recurring bit with varying degrees of success.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Christian Yelich is on pace to hit zero home runs this season

Christian Yelich is on pace to hit zero home runs this year. Love to hear it. Fraud. No power in that guy.

Yelich finished the 2023 season with 19 home runs.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The new MLB rules have made baseball watchable again

Overall, I think that what they've done is they've turned baseball into a game that more people will Congrats. We did it. We made baseball watchable again.

The 2023 season saw increased viewership and faster game times, widely considered a success.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The San Diego Padres will win the World Series

My You wanna just say who our World Series champion is? Yes. San Diego Padres.

The Padres failed to make the playoffs in 2023.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Tampa Bay Rays will win the World Series

You know what? I'll say it. This is the year. I think the Tampa Bay Rays are gonna win it all. They've been knocking at the door where like they'll have a couple years where their advanced analytics will always work... I think they're coming back up this year.

The Texas Rangers won the 2023 World Series. The Rays lost in the Wild Card round.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Chicago Cubs are 'sneaky not bad' and close to being a good team

I actually am very excited for the Cubs because I think they're gonna be, my line is sneaky not bad. Sneaky not bad is very close to good. You got young guys you can root for, you're building something. I got Mancini, Swanson... it's sneaky not bad.

The 2023 Cubs finished 83-79, which qualifies as 'sneaky not bad' as they were in the playoff hunt until the final week of the season.
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HankHank

Anthony Richardson is a better talent than Cam Newton was at the same age

Anthony Richardson is better than Cam Newton right now... When they were both this age, whatever age they were. Yeah... That SEC wasn't the same as today's SEC? No. It's much harder. It's much harder to win in today's SEC.

Cam Newton won the MVP and led his team to a Super Bowl; Richardson has yet to match that collegiate or professional peak.
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HankHank

Asante Samuel is just bitter because the Patriots wouldn't pay him

He's bitter. He's bitter... He signed with the Eagles. And he was mad that he said the Patriots offered him half as much as like what he was should have been getting.

Samuel has frequently criticized Belichick on social media, often citing the 'Patriot Way' and contract negotiations.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

UConn will win the National Championship with back-to-back blowouts

I feel like we're in store for two UConn blowouts back to back... I get all I really need out of this Final Four is just one close game.

UConn beat Miami by 13 in the semi-final and San Diego State by 17 in the final, fulfilling the 'back-to-back blowouts' prediction perfectly.
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The NFL will eventually have a full international division including London and Germany

The NFL is apparently exploring an international division. An entire division, so expanding. Everyone's been thinking London's gonna get at least one team. Germany might get at least one team... they're looking at a full division that's just international teams.

While the NFL continues to expand international games, a dedicated international division has not been officially announced or formed yet.
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Dusty MayDusty May

FAU's brand of basketball is a fun, unselfish 'throwback' style designed to be entertaining

We have a fun style of play to watch. From day one we've wanted to be entertaining. You need to do something other than just win... to get people into a gymnasium when it's 80 degrees and clear skies out. We're very unselfish and we're a throwback team because we have a different best player almost every single game.

Subjective assessment of a team's playing style and unselfishness.
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Dusty MayDusty May

College basketball should have one universal ball for every team to use

It seems like we should have one universal ball for college basketball for every team to use... every game we go to we have to practice a different, we have a closet full basketballs, we have to practice with a different one every week depending on where we're playing. So I would think it's time for, for all of us to come together and... have one basketball for the betterment of the game.

The rule remains unchanged, with teams still using different manufacturer balls (Nike, Spalding, Wilson) based on home team contracts.
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Kirk GoldsberryKirk Goldsberry

Kevin Durant is having the greatest mid-range season in 25 years

Kevin Durant is... arguably having the greatest mid-range season in the history since we've been tracking this for 25 years and he's breathing life into it and it's beautiful to watch... Kevin's almost 60% right now. It's incredible.

Durant's 2022-23 mid-range shooting was statistically elite, often cited as one of the best efficiency years ever from that zone.
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Kirk GoldsberryKirk Goldsberry

The Phoenix Suns could win the NBA title primarily using the mid-range game

Devin Booker on his team and Chris Paul on his team, the Phoenix Suns this year have a chance not only win the championship but doing it in the mid-range.

The Suns lost in the Western Conference Semifinals to the Nuggets.
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Kirk GoldsberryKirk Goldsberry

Nikola Jokic is giving up more points on layups than any player in the tracking era

He's giving up more points per game on layups as the closest defender of any player in the player tracking era, which is now 10 years. And so I brought that up because it's in the heat of this... chance for the Nuggets to finally get out of the Western Conference for Jokic to be a three time MVP.

Kirk verified this using Second Spectrum data at the time of the podcast.
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Kirk GoldsberryKirk Goldsberry

No team has won a title with a defense ranked 11th or worse in decades

No NBA team has won the championship with a defense that's ranked 11th or worse in the regular season in a very long time... The Denver Nuggets are not checking that box. So... you get exposed if you play Giannis in a seven game series.

Ironically, the 2022-23 Nuggets won the title with the 15th-ranked defense, breaking this long-standing trend.
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Kirk GoldsberryKirk Goldsberry

The Milwaukee Bucks are the favorites coming out of the Eastern Conference

They deserve to be the favorites. They have the best record without Chris [Middleton] a lot of the year. I think they, they deserve to be the favorites coming out of the East.

The Bucks lost in the first round to the Miami Heat.
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Kirk GoldsberryKirk Goldsberry

The NBA should bring back the 'one-and-one' free throw rule

When you make millions of dollars to shoot free throws, we, we don't need you to take one-on-one. Yeah. Like bring the one-on-one to the NBA. I think that's one thing we could do to actually increase the risk for some of these these guys.

The NBA has not adopted the one-and-one rule.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The day Dan Snyder sells the Commanders is the best day of my sports life

It is one of the best days of my life. I would say Washington Capital Stanley Cup is day number one of my sports life Nationals, nationals World Series, probably number two. And then I would put Dan Snyder selling the team. ... Fuck it. I'm, I'm gonna put this number one. Okay. I think this is better. Number one, I think this is a better day because it opens up the entire future of my football fandom.

Subjective ranking of personal sports highlights.
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The Washington Commanders should temporarily revert to 'Washington Football Team' before rebranding as the 'Hogs'

I hope that Josh Harris... they buy the team. And I hope they're like, you know what? This name sucks. The commander sucks. Nobody cares about it. Hogs. And then I hope they say, okay, we need a year to figure out what the end name of the team's gonna be. So we're gonna go back to the football team for a year. And then the year after that, they announced the new team name. Hogs would be great.

As of late 2024, the team is still the Commanders, though the new ownership has not ruled out a future name change.
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Big CatBig Cat

If a sports owner has two teams, they will always have a favorite child

No. Because like, this will get into a situation where if you own two teams, like which one does [the owner] care about more? ... it's kinda like a Jerry Reinsdorf situation with the White Sox and Bulls. Like we, you gotta have a favorite child.

Subjective opinion on ownership psychology, though often cited by fans of the 'neglected' team.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Lamar Jackson will not play on the transition tag

[Lamar Jackson] is not going to play on the transition tag. So we could end up being a situation where Lamar comes back to the Ravens and just doesn't play at all next year. Which would suck for everybody.

Lamar Jackson did not play on the tag; he signed a 5-year, $260 million extension on April 27, 2023.
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Dan Campbell could beat the fuck out of every other NFL head coach

Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell could beat the fuck out of anybody in this picture [the NFL coaches photo].

Highly subjective, though Campbell's physique and background make him the consensus favorite in such a hypothetical.
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Big CatBig Cat

Brandon Staley looks like a creepy youth church leader

Brandon Staley looks like a, I think I said he looked like a youth church leader who kind of creepy shout because he's gotta a look that like, dude, just figure out Justin Herbert.

Subjective roast based on personal vibes.
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Big CatBig Cat

Mike McCarthy's body is composed of 90% fart

I said that he [Mike McCarthy] he's 90% fart in that picture. Yeah. His body's just composed the fart. ... if you took, if you did the 23 and me test, it'd be like 10% Irish, 90% fart.

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This is a biological impossibility and clearly a joke.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I am fading the Oakland A's every single game this year

I think I'm gonna fade the As. Okay. All year long. So it's gonna be a combo, a parlay be of the under and taking the as. I think it's either to lose money line or, or lose by one and a half.

The 2023 A's were historically awful, losing 112 games. Fading them was a winning strategy.
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HankHank

The Philadelphia 76ers are currently in a complete free fall

My hot seat is the Philadelphia 76ERs. They're in a complete, complete free fall. Lost four outta the last five they played. Yoic. Everyone's talking about Embiid versus Yoic for mvp. MBI wasn't even man enough to play. James Harden also didn't play kind of a bullshit excuse like calf soreness.

The Sixers ended the season as the 3-seed and won their first-round series, but they eventually flamed out in the second round.
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The Timberwolves are a solid bet to win the NBA championship at +15,000

I put a future on the Timberwolves. Ooh. 15 plus 15,000 Whoa. On these guys and they beat the Kings. ... No, I'm saying they win two series, then you can hedge out and make a shitload of money. ... All of a sudden I'm sitting on a gold mine over here.

The Timberwolves lost in the first round of the 2023 playoffs to the Denver Nuggets.
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MaxMax

It's more fun to root for the worst team in the NBA than a middling team

There's something about being a fan for the worst team in the NBA that is like even more, it's more fun than being a middling team because you have like a couple young guys that that's all you care about is them playing well. ... Being in the no man's land of like making the play-in and stuff sucks.

A classic 'fan philosophy' debate that cannot be definitively proven right or wrong.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Professional golf needs to bring back visors

Visors are a good look. I think we need to bring back visors. ... Gulf Digest had a study and they say for the first time in like 40 years, nobody in professional golf that's in the top 20 is a visor guy. ... we need one guy.

A matter of fashion preference.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

I would never tell my son I was on steroids because I'd want to keep dunking on him

If you're LeBron James and hypothetically if you had been taking HGH steroids... do you tell your son that... or does the dad instinct to always be able to beat your son in basketball supersede that? ... I would not tell Chris ever that I was on steroids cuz I'd just love Dunking on [him].

Subjective hypothetical parenting strategy.
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Stavros HalkiasStavros Halkias

The Ravens management has completely disrespected and mishandled Lamar Jackson

Steve Bisciotti and Eric DeCosta have fucked the city of Baltimore in its ass. That's where I would like to start. The fucking treatment of Lamar Jackson is inexcusable. How the fuck are we gonna lose Lamar over Nothing. ... It's like a fucking fat guy with a little ass dick who's got a hot girlfriend. We lucked into Lamar... and then we just fucking have taken him for granted.

Jackson eventually re-signed for a then-record $260 million, suggesting the relationship was reparable despite Stavros's doom.
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Stavros HalkiasStavros Halkias

Lamar Jackson deserves the same fully guaranteed contract as Bradley Beal

The most valuable position, in the most valuable fucking league. And they're like, oh, because of an accounting issue, we can't pay these guys guaranteed money. ... A fucking MVP quarterback should be able to get the same contract as fucking Bradley Beal. He literally wants Bradley Beal's contract. Five for two 50. That's, are you kidding me? What the fuck are we talking about?

Lamar eventually got $185M guaranteed at signing, not the full $260M guarantee he was allegedly seeking.
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Stavros HalkiasStavros Halkias

If Bill Belichick gets Lamar Jackson, the Patriots will win a Super Bowl

If he goes to the fucking Patriots, they will win his Super Bowl. They win. ... You take a guy who's been completely underutilized... and you put him with the Patriots, who now fucking Bill Belichick has something to prove. ... Belichick has that horse cock. That's why the Broncos wanted it.

Lamar never went to the Patriots; he stayed with Baltimore.
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Stavros HalkiasStavros Halkias

The Celtics will not win a championship because Joe Mazzulla is too religious

The Celtics can suck my dick. I think ever since Joe Mazzulla... do you see where he, when the fucking, the Queen of England or whatever, or the prince came to visit? They asked about that and he was like, I, I thought the only royal family was Jesus, Mary and Joseph. And I was like, all right, they're gonna lose. No fucking bitch ass nerd who says something like that is winning a fucking championship.

The Celtics did not win in 2023 (they lost in the ECF), but Mazzulla went on to win the championship in 2024.
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Big CatBig Cat

Most remote workers only do about five to six hours of actual hard work per week

The working from home is like you only do half the work. You just basically fuck around all day and then... you can get your job done in like five to six hours of really hard work. That's just a fact. That's how America was built. ... You spent four hours on browsers, you played a bunch of SNES and Yeah. You just dicked around and looked at your fantasy team for 50% of the work week.

This is subjective, but productivity studies on remote work are highly debated and varied.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Most remote workers could finish their entire week's work on a Monday morning

If anyone figured out the fact that I could do my entire week's worth of work on a Monday morning, probably wouldn't be getting paid as much. Probably wouldn't have that job.

An unprovable but widely shared sentiment among office workers.
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Big CatBig Cat

UConn will cement themselves as the best program of the last 25 years if they win this title

Going up against the team that will further cement themselves as the best team in the last 25 years. So in terms of multiple winners in the last 25 years, UConn has four. Duke and UNC both have three apiece. This would be UConn's fifth if they could finish the deal.

UConn did win the 2023 title, giving them 5 since 1999, more than any other program in that span.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Nate Oats is officially on the hot seat

I'm officially putting Nate Oats on my hot seat. It's got to turn into go at least one year without a murder to get off this hot seat.

Nate Oats was not actually fired, nor did he ever enter a true 'hot seat' for performance reasons, making this a failed humorous prediction.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Players who play in Europe for 15 years often have a better life than fringe NBA players

I would actually say that a lot of players that end up doing the thing where they go to Europe and they play for 12, 15 years and they bounce around Europe all the time, they might have a better life than a guy that makes it to the NBA. Gets paid a shitload of money and maybe doesn't get, you know, doesn't sniff a championship. Maybe you're coming off the bench... going over and playing overseas in Europe or in New Zealand or Australia. That's probably a pretty good life.

This is entirely subjective lifestyle preference.
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Big CatBig Cat

Jerome Tang going into the FAU locker room was the classiest move a coach could make

Jerome Tang stole my heart going into the FAU locker room after the game and coaching him up and telling 'em how proud of him that he was. I just think that's the classiest move a coach could ever make.

Subjective opinion on sportsmanship.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Tall basketball players are actually at a disadvantage against normal-sized people

I've always been to the mindset that tall players are actually at a disadvantage against a normal size player like myself. Because it does take longer for their brain signal to go from their brain to their extremities than it would for me.

The biological claim about signal speed being a competitive disadvantage for tall people is medically nonsensical.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Luka Doncic should think about leaving the Mavericks

If I was Luca, I would think about leaving Dallas.

As of early 2024, Luka is still with Dallas and reached the NBA Finals in 2024, though trade rumors persist.

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