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Grit is the ability to not care what happens to you and just keep going.

Grit is, I would say, you know it when you see it. It's the ability basically to not care what happens to you and just keep going... What doesn't kill me doesn't bother me. Like think about it—I'm not dead. You can't bother me. You can't get to me. I think that's the definition of grit.

Lamar Jackson is getting better in every way and is still only 28

He's getting better in every way. I like to think we all do throughout the course of our life. But as an athlete, at some point in time you do hit that point and starts going the other direction... Lamar is still getting better. He's only 28 years old.

The Ravens are invincible when they wear all-black uniforms at night.

Do you have like on the sheet like, 'Hey, we're wearing our all-black uniform, so that's probably worth like a point or two.' Because that's what I think. When I see you guys come out a night game all blacks, it's like yeah, the Ravens are gonna win tonight. It feels like there's an invincibility of you guys when you come out and [wear] that.

The Baltimore Orioles have the best color scheme and logo in all of baseball

Orioles sneaky have like the best color scheme in baseball... and logo.

Shara Magomedov is the greatest looking UFC fighter of all time

Shara Magomedov is the greatest UFC looking fighter of all time. He looks like an angry leprechaun.

Happy Gilmore 1 is the funniest movie of all time

I'm just gonna get mad. I wanna just enjoy a movie and Happy Gilmore 1 is the funniest movie of all time.

TJ McConnell is the literal definition of grit

When I see grit, I think about TJ McConnell, like, just like that dude gives you everything he's got. And that's all you can ask for any player.

Bill Belichick and the media had a business relationship he only liked when he was winning

You can treat the media how you want to when you win. But you got to understand when you're a loser, they gonna come for you... If you don't understand the business relationship, you need to get another real job.

Moses Malone is the most important person in my career

Moses Malone's the most important person in my career. 'cause he made me lose 50 pounds. I didn't realize I was fat and lazy until he told me... if it wasn't for him constructively criticizing me... I wouldn't have had the career I had.

The only way to win at gambling is to bet money lines on favorites

Gambling on sports is the only way to win. But you have to bet the money line... where you only gonna win cents on the dollar. Because teams always win. They just never cover.

Toronto is the best city in the world

Toronto's the best city in the world easily. Chicago summers are the second best. Those are my two favorite places in the world.

Happy Gilmore 2 was just a nostalgia blast rather than a good movie

I thought it was exactly what I expected going in and that it wasn't the best movie. It was nostalgia. There was a shitload of cameos. I laughed a few times and I went away being like, okay, that was fun.

Happy Gilmore 2 would be the worst movie ever if you hadn't seen the first one

Now if you haven't seen Happy Gilmore and you just watch Happy Gilmore 2, it's probably the worst movie of all time. If you've never seen the first one... they didn't try to make a brand new movie. They were just like, we're gonna make a funny, silly movie that is basically all head nods to the first one.

Bad Bunny was incredible and the funniest part of Happy Gilmore 2

I laughed out loud multiple times at Bad Bunny's parts [in Happy Gilmore 2]. He was really good. Very funny. Very funny.

Hulk Hogan was a significantly better professional wrestler than he was a person

Listen, we'll, we'll say it right now. Hulk Hogan. Significantly better professional wrestler than person.

Darren Rovell makes every celebrity death about himself

I do think our eSports correspondent Darren Rovell is starting to maybe learn from his mistakes because Hulk Hogan passed and he actually had a couple funny, fun tidbits on his Twitter. Unlike when Ozzy Osborne passed... everyone was like, so you just made his death about you. I think he deleted it. Hulk Hogan... you know, he has a lot of Hulk Hogan memorabilia.

Hulk Hogan is one of the top American exports of all time

Maybe Top American export. The world knew who Hulk Hogan was.

It is crazy that Time Magazine left Joe Rogan off their list of the 100 most influential podcasts

Joe Rogan not on the List, kind of crazy. Like Joe Rogan is the biggest podcast in the world. And he's like, he's in the news all the time... think about how many careers he started. It's fucking nuts.

The 'AWL's are the best podcast listeners of all time

If you were to make a list of the 100 best podcast listeners of all time, the AWL is number one easy.

A toe is the best body part to injure if you have to pick one

I would say though that if you were to pick one body part on your body to be injured, it's probably your toe.

Tiger Woods stands alone as the best golfer the world will ever see

Tiger stands alone in the game of golf... He was by far the best player that I think we'll ever see in our lifetimes.

Scottie Scheffler's son Bennett might be a 'Boss Baby' mastermind giving him golf tips

Is there a chance Bennett is a boss baby and he's actually giving you all the tips of the golf game? ... I saw the one where he was like, what? This is impressive. We do this every Sunday. He might be boss baby.

I would trade one major championship for a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl

Gosh, I don't know. I would, I would trade one [major] for sure for a Super Bowl. Okay. I mean I've, I've been root for a Super Bowl for a long time as well.

Kirk Cousins is a significantly better quarterback than Justin Fields

Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback than Justin Fields, Memes. I'm just telling you like, that is a, your season might end up turning. That's where I'm trying to come from. Like that's a guy who you could maybe go a little bit further in the season.

Jim Harbaugh's first day of training camp is comparable to the feeling of being born

We know what he feels like in the first day of training camp. He says the first day of training camp is like being born. Ooh. And so that is, I think he's simulating his own birth.

Trey Hendrickson leaving the state of Ohio during his holdout is an all-time power move

Power moved by Trey Hendrickson. He said that he's not only not playing on his current contract, but he's leaving the state. He left, he left the state of Ohio... To just be like, I'm not only not going to be showing up, but I'm leaving the state.

Jerry Jones' public comments about Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons are the worst possible way to start training camp

The Cowboys are like, this is not the way you wanna start camp to have Micah Parsons seemingly upset in a shot at Dak Prescott from your owner and general manager... Anytime you can publicly take a dig at your star quarterback and your star pass rusher simultaneously right before the season begins... you just gotta take it.

The walk-off catcher's interference rule is a stupid rule

I mean there's no, there's not much Hot Seat. It's just a stupid rule... Lost on walk off catcher's interference. Second time it's ever happened in MLB history. First time since 1971. The problem was the catcher just stuck it... It was technically letter of the law catcher's interference.

I have no confidence in the Phillies right now

I, I, I'm, I'm tuned in. I watch every game. It's just, I, it's, I don't know. They're frustrating squad... Dude, I just don't have a lot of confidence in this, in this team right now.

The idea of the Ravens and Commanders sharing a stadium in Maryland is one of the dumbest ideas ever

Stephen A. Smith's idea was to build one stadium in Maryland and then have the Ravens and the commanders share it, which is maybe the dumbest thing that Stephen A. Smith has ever said... just maybe the dumbest idea ever.

Scottie Scheffler must stay ranked number one in the world for 10 years to equal Tiger Woods' reign

I think Scotty has to stay ranked number one in the world for the next 10 years to equal Tiger's reign. Tiger Woods was just unreal. It's not going to be the same.

WNBA team salary caps should be increased to $3 million

I happen to agree with the shirt because I went gut check 1.5 million feels too low. It does feel like we've been talking about them more in the past 18 months. I feel like that should be like 3 million. I don't know that, that sounds like a good deal.

The Dodgers are low-key a bad team right now

The Dodgers kind of low key stink maybe. They are right now. They're losing games right now.

Signing David Robertson at 40 years old after he hasn't pitched all year is a terrible move for the Phillies

This is the third time that he'll be on the Phillies and he's David Robertson. He's 40. Oh, he's 40. He's 40 and he hasn't pitched all year. He's like the dinosaur.

Justin Herbert wearing red contact lenses for intimidation or visibility is soft

It sounds bad. Sounds soft If you're, if you're wearing red contact lenses to try to be more intimidating. Yeah. Like he could just wear normal contact.

The Chargers need a playoff win for this season to be a success

We need a playoff win. You need a playoff win. We need one bad but last year we had like the easiest schedule in the league and this year it's pretty difficult.

Coldplay staged the viral Kiss Cam moment for publicity

I feel like Coldplay might have set this whole thing up because we're talking about Coldplay online. Coldplay's getting talked about more than they've ever been talked about so much.

Jerry O'Connell is using his separate finances as an excuse to avoid paying for the PMT fantasy league

He's throwing us a song and dance about how he only could pay for a third of the leak. He's, he's saying a lot of things about how he has to explain things to his wife. No, I I it's more I'm disappointed. Yeah. Like he, he's taken us for a ride.

Con Air is a bad movie because the plot is ridiculous

Our first pick is going to be Conair. Mm. I feel like that's a good movie. It's a really, but you think about the plot of the movie. It's bad.

Alex Caruso officially has two championships because the NBA Bubble title counts

One's the lowest. That's the baseline one's the lowest. Yeah. He's got two. Oh yeah. Bubble two is two. Hell yeah. I count the bubble.

The Buccaneers' season is a failure if they do not win the Super Bowl

I mean, no. I mean, the goal's always Super Bowl or nothing. It was, I mean, you check off the boxes on your way to try and get to the Super Bowl division playoffs, but then after that, if you don't, if you don't do anything in the playoffs, it really doesn't matter.

An elite athlete from the NFL could play 12 minutes in the NBA based on size and dunks alone

There's certain athletes Yeah. That could just find minutes in the NBA. 'cause like there's guys in the league that can't shoot or like can't do stuff, but they can rebound the hell outta the ball and they like dunk and put it like, you can play 12 minutes in the NBA if you're a good enough athlete.

Oklahoma will struggle in the SEC because the defensive lines are full of 'man-childs'

The difference, like from what I can see is Oline D-line. Yeah. The D-line. SEC is just a bunch of apps. Like man Childs. And then Oline, Oklahoma hadn't had a, they're all fast as good of an oline is what used to have.

The worst team in the league should always get the #1 overall pick

The team that was the worst last year should get the best player in the draft and there should be nothing that interferes with that correlation. The lottery thing, I'm not sure that it really affects behavior of teams in any meaningful way.

The Barstool Sports partnership with Fox Sports will not change the content of Pardon My Take

I'll say right now, [the Fox deal] is not gonna change this show at all. We made sure of that. We, we it's gonna be a great, like, this is very different than the ESPN partnership back in 2017. Fox is a very willing partner. They're very excited. We're very excited. They believe in us. We believe in them a lot different than what we went through with ESPN.

The new FS1 show featuring Barstool Chicago will not cannibalize Pardon My Take

It's gonna be a mix of everybody in this office and people that might not be in this office right now that might stop in. I don't expect to be spending a full-time jobs worth of time going on the show, but I'll go to try to make it on like once a week is what we discussed. That way it's not gonna cannibalize Pardon My Take.

Hockey is on the rise and the Four Nations tournament will be a high-stakes precursor to the Olympics

Hockey's on the rise man. On the rise. Hockey's on a heater as we always say on the podcast, the last two years. And on top of that, boys we're heading into an Olympic year. With all that Four Nations... precursor to the Olympics coming up. It ain't the Olympics. We all know that. But don't act like they weren't playing for something. They were playing for pride.

Damian Lillard's new contract with the Blazers is essentially a retirement deal where he won't be expected to do much

This feels like [Damian Lillard] is retiring. Like he's gonna, he's gonna get paid for three years to not really do all that much. [The money] is basically nothing. Ashtray money.

Pardon My Take listeners (AWLs) are mean to the hosts online but are always polite and friendly in person

Love you guys love seeing you guys out there supportive, you know, say mean stuff online, but they're always nice in person. I've never had a bad interaction with an AWL in person. And that is all that matters.

I am officially retiring from participating in physical sports challenges

My fire fest is pretty simple. My body is broken. I'm, I'm too old for some of this shit. I did tweet that I was thinking about retirement, like not retirement from like this show, but retirement from our physical challenges. We played, we did six hour stream on Tuesday night... softball on Wednesday... oh my god, I can't walk right now. I think I need to retire from sports. I need to be a walking guy.