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The Washington Redskins locker room is less safe than a WWI trench

You'd have better luck getting injured at the bottom of a trench in World War One than in that Redskins locker room right now with all the shit that's like creeping around.

Hyperbolic comparison for comedic effect.
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Big CatBig Cat

Clay Matthews might be over the hill because of his slow reaction time

I think Clay Matthews might be over the hill because his reaction time was really bad. It was pretty slow. Really slow. This was a softball... You should be able to get your glove up.

Clay Matthews had only 3.5 sacks in 2018, his lowest total to that point, and was released by the Packers after the season, suggesting Big Cat was somewhat prescient about his decline.
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Kevin Love is faking his broken hand just like he faked his mysterious flu

I think Kevin Love is actually better at defense with a broken hand. Why do you have to sit out with a broken hand?... He essentially has the flu for his hand right now, and he's milking it. Yeah, I'd say that you're just hurt.

Hot TakeBasketballHotSarcastic
Love actually had a fractured left hand that required surgery; he wasn't faking.
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A groggy Aaron Rodgers post-surgery would be a better quarterback than Brett Hundley

I honestly do believe that Aaron Rodgers, still groggy from surgery, would be a better option at quarterback than Brett Hundley. [Hundley] was so bad. [The Packers] look like a shell of themselves.

Hundley struggled significantly, finishing the season with 9 TDs and 12 INTs, failing to keep the Packers in the playoff hunt.
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Big CatBig Cat

Coach K uses surgery as an excuse to take a break when his team is struggling

Coach K. He just gets a surgery every fucking day. ... Usually when his team's like, oh, maybe the number one recruiting class isn't so good. ... he's had every part operated on, so he doesn't really have any other excuses.

This is a subjective conspiracy theory common among Duke haters.
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Big CatBig Cat

Getting a nipple ring is a clear signal that a man wants to get down and do weird stuff

I think he's actually happy this happened so that he could tweet it out, I lost my nipple ring during practice, because that's basically saying, hey, ladies, I fuck, and I do weird shit. A dude doesn't get a nipple ring unless he wants to get down.

The interpretation of a piercing's social meaning is entirely subjective.
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Pitchers must bean the next batter after giving up three or four consecutive home runs to show they have pride

I put that on the Brewers pitching staff because if you give up four home runs in a row and you don't bean the next guy up, that's a real problem. That means that you don't have pride in your craft. After three batters in a row, you've got to hit the next guy in the head.

Hot TakeBaseballHotSarcastic
The take is a satirical endorsement of dangerous behavior (intentional head-hunting) which is against MLB rules and widely condemned.
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Tom Brady is revealing he has concussions as a way to avoid sex with Gisele

Or it could be Tom Brady just revealing that he uses the headache excuse to get out of having sex with Gisele. She's like, no, we never have sex anymore, so he always has head hurt.

Purely speculative and satirical theory.
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Big CatBig Cat

Turf toe is the worst injury you can ever have

I'll say this turf toe is the worst injury you can ever have in your life.

This is an obvious hyperbolic opinion; many injuries are medically more severe than turf toe.
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Any lower-body injury for a person over 251 pounds is life-threatening

If you weigh more than 251 pounds, any injury that you have below your waist is a severe issue. It's life-threatening.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
This is a satirical claim not based on medical fact.
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The Chicago Bulls should give everyone on the team a contract extension because they were up 2-0 against the Celtics

I say stay the course. Maybe a contract extension. Give everybody an extension. They were going to beat the No. 1 seed.

This is a sarcastic recommendation mocking the team's management style.
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Big CatBig Cat

Tony Romo is the biggest sucker alive for believing Jerry Jones would be loyal to him.

Is Tony Romo the last person in the world to realize this was what was going to happen? He's like a high schooler in this situation. He actually thought that Jerry Jones was going to be like, hey, Tony, don't worry. We'll take care of you, man. We're not going to do what's in the best interest of the Dallas Cowboys.

The Cowboys did ultimately release Romo shortly after this episode, and he retired to join the CBS broadcast booth.
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HankHank

Kevin Durant is a front-running coward and a baby back bitch

Kevin Durant, pros. He's probably top three NBA player, probably best scorer, pure scorer in the NBA. Cons, skinny knees, slouches, and is a coward, front-running coward, and a baby back bitch.

Entirely a subjective character judgment common in sports media at the time.
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Big CatBig Cat

Coach K took a leave of absence just to create 'adversity' as an excuse for Duke potentially failing

I figured it out. Duke was the favorite to win the national title. ... Coach K just added his own little adversity, so when he ultimately fails this season and doesn't coach them to a national title, he said, well, I dealt with a lot of outside things this year.

Duke did not win the national title in 2017 (they lost in the Round of 32 to South Carolina), but the surgery was real.
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Losing an eye is actually a performance-enhancing drug for basketball players

I'm going to go with hurt, not injured on this one. So if you lose an eye, you don't have to worry about depth perception. It's like when you're shooting a rifle, you close one eye... Losing an eye is a performance-enhancing drug.

Losing an eye severely inhibits depth perception, which is critical for basketball shooting and movement.
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Ben Roethlisberger doesn't know what emotions are and interprets all feelings as physical pain

Ben, he thinks that any emotion is pain. He doesn't know what emotions are, but he knows that when he feels something, he's like, that is pain, and I feel it in my deep soul... When Ben learned something new, he's like, ow, my head, it's pain. It's headache. I hurt my brain learning, but I will play through it.

This is a satirical characterization of a player's personality.
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Coach K isn't actually hurt because you coach with your spine, not your back

Hurt or injured, Coach K? I'd say neither. You don't coach with your back. You coach with your spine. And I know that sounds counterintuitive. It's like you coach with your spine, bro. Do you really need to have a functional back to coach? He could just lay down. Larry Bird did it.

Subjective/anatomically nonsensical.
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Ryan Tannehill's ACL injury is a 'good thing' because it secures his job for two more years

I'm going to go with actually this is a good thing for him because that means that Tannehill gets another year. You can't judge him at the end of next year because it takes two years to come back from an ACL. And then the year after next, Tannehill is going to take that next step.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
Incorrect. While Tannehill stayed with the Dolphins through 2018, he never took 'the next step' in Miami and was traded to the Titans in 2019.
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Dez Bryant did not actually cut his finger making soup

I have a feeling he wasn't making soup. I have a feeling he cut his finger doing something else. Are we staying woke on this one? This seems a little sus, as Hank would say.

No concrete proof ever emerged that the soup story was a lie, but it remains a weird injury.
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Big CatBig Cat

Dak Prescott is a speedster who will redefine the quarterback position

I've done a little scouting on Dak Prescott... Athletic, mobile. He's going to redefine the quarterback position. He's a speedster. I don't know if we've ever seen an athlete like Dak Prescott back there. He's instinctive. He's not a thinker.

Hot TakeFootballHotSarcastic
Dak Prescott became a franchise QB but as a pocket passer with mobility, not a position-redefining speedster or Mike Vick clone.
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Tony Romo's injury is actually a good thing for the Cowboys

I actually think that this is a good thing for the Cowboys. I do too. Because God bless him, Tony Romo... I don't know if there's been a quarterback that's gone from utter laughing stock... you want a guy who's lucky to be your quarterback more than anything.

Dak Prescott went on a 13-3 tear as a rookie, and the Cowboys moved on from Romo permanently, making the injury the catalyst for a successful new era.
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Tom Brady is injury-prone because he spent 12 years on the injury report

Is Tom Brady injury-prone? That's what it sounds like to me. It sounds like he's a China doll. Yeah, been on the injury report more than any other player. Got bit by the injury bug.

While technically listed on the report more than most, Brady was famously durable, playing until age 45 with very few games missed due to injury.
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Big CatBig Cat

Cyborg Santos is only 'hurt' despite a fractured skull because Russell Westbrook played with a similar injury

So hurt or injured. I'm saying hurt. simply because Russell Westbrook had this same injury. He dented his face, and I think he scored like a billion points after that.

The injury was life-threatening and required surgery with a metal plate; Santos never fought again, meaning he was definitively 'injured'.
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Portugal was a better soccer team without Cristiano Ronaldo in the Euro 2016 Final

I'm going to go with hurt because he actually made the team better. I think the question has to be asked now, like, was Cristiano Ronaldo actually holding Portugal back? So better team without him. Kind of like the whole Steph Curry situation where the boys, the lads on the pitch just really opened up the game and the spacing was better.

Portugal did win the final after Ronaldo went off injured, but most experts would disagree that they were better without him.
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America should join the EU as a senior prank by Barack Obama

This would be a boss move. If on his last day in office, Barack Obama just said, like, hey, guess what? USA, we just joined the EU... Spot opened up, we're in the EU.

Hot TakePoliticsHotSarcastic
This obviously did not happen and is legally/geographically impossible.
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Human evolution is not real because our testicles aren't protected by a rib cage

I think this really proves, though, is that evolution is not real. Because if you think about it, if evolution was real, like the most sensitive part of the male body, what is it doing just like hanging out there in the open? It should be like horses. It should be like inside. There should be a rib cage around your balls protecting you. A ball shield.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
Scientific fact clearly contradicts this comedic assertion.
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Horse racing is actually the most humane and best possible life for a horse

If these horses weren't racing, they would be obese and they would die much earlier of heart conditions and things like that. Or they'd be wild. They'd fight each other and kill each other. So horse racing is probably the best thing for a horse's life. [It is] most humane.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The claim is scientifically and ethically dubious, as racehorses face significant physical stress and injury risk not present in natural settings.
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You can pitch for two weeks on a torn ACL

I feel like you could pitch for, like, at least two weeks on a torn ACL... Philip Rivers played a playoff game. People forget that a lot of times. He had a torn ACL... So, like, you're a pitcher. I feel like you should be able to pitch.

Hot TakeBaseballHotSarcastic
While Rivers did it, pitching involves heavy leg drive and torque that would be physically impossible or extremely dangerous with a fresh tear, making this a classic satirical 'grit' take.
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J.J. Watt's illness is only a hurt — having the flu is an advantage

If you're sick enough to tell your coach that you can't play, in my book, then you're healthy enough to get out there, strap it up, and play. In fact, I'd say having the flu would technically be an advantage. If I'm a coach, I tell my running back, I say, son, you get that ball, you grab onto it, you cough directly onto the ball every time and let the defense see you cough. That way, if you fumble it, they're going to be a little freaked out and they're not going to want to recover it straight up.

Satirical take from the 'Hurt or Injured' segment. The coughing-on-the-football strategic advice is deliberately absurd.
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Kids should preemptively tear their ACLs like a Tommy John procedure

If a running back was born without two knee ligaments, then they wouldn't have had their entire life to become over-reliant on their knee ligaments, and they'd actually be fine. So what I'm advocating is almost like a Tommy John type deal. It's an operation for the young kids. You preemptively tear both your ACLs, and so then that way they have more time to unlearn the bad habits that you get from playing on healthy knees before you become a pro.

Deliberately absurd medical advice satirizing the 'tough it out' mentality. Compares preemptive ACL tears to Tommy John surgery as a development tool.

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