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LeBron James is actually 0-10 in NBA Finals appearances if you apply the proper asterisks

LA Fraud is actually 0 and 10 in the finals in my eyes. 2007, lost swept. 2011 lost. 2012, baby thunder doesn't count. 2013, Ray Allen also rigged. 2013, Ray Allen doesn't count. 2014 lost. 2015 lost. 2016, injured warriors doesn't count. 2017 lost. 2018, lost swept. 2020 Mickey Mouse doesn't count.

LeBron James has won four NBA championships (2012, 2013, 2016, 2020).
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Paul Rabil retiring was the best thing to happen to professional lacrosse

Is it a coincidence that the PLL had their best year ever after Paul Rabil retired? Was Paul Rabil bad for professional lacrosse? Some are saying.

Whether Rabil was 'bad' for the league is subjective, but the league continued to grow after his retirement.
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Big CatBig Cat

The 'Finger of the Year' award should be permanently named after Urban Meyer

The winner of finger of the year... it's Urban Meyer's finger at the bar. Of course it is. I knuckle deep in a butthole... I feel like this one's gonna stick around. And it might be named after Urban Meyer going forward. I think that's how impressive his performance was this year.

The show has not yet officially renamed the award, but Meyer remains the gold standard for the category.
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The LIV Tour paid Cameron Smith too much money

I think that they paid [Cameron Smith] too much. Yeah.

Smith reportedly signed for over $100 million; whether that is 'too much' is a matter of market opinion.
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Big CatBig Cat

The LIV Tour paid Cameron Smith too little money

I think they paid [Cameron Smith] too little.

The value of Smith's contract is subjective based on his talent and the tour's business model.
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Anna Lynn McCord's open letter to Vladimir Putin is the ultimate form of narcissism

It's not only the ratio of the year, but it's might be narcissism of the year to be like, 'if I was your mother, I would've stopped all war.' It's also fucked up like towards Putin's actual mom. How do you know she wasn't a nice lady?

Whether the video is 'narcissistic' is a subjective interpretation of her intent.
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Big CatBig Cat

Brian Colangelo would have kept his job if he had simply leaned into the 'big collar' narrative

If [Brian Colangelo] had just leaned into the collar narrative a little more, I think he would have gotten away with it. Been like, hey, like worn just like a Pee Wee Herman sized collar at his press conference where he gets fired.

Impossible to verify if a different PR strategy would have saved a GM outed for using burner accounts to trash his own players.
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The 2018 Washington Capitals were a dynasty and perhaps the best hockey team ever assembled

The Washington Capitals. So the Caps year wins year of the year. Truly a magical run. A dynasty. Maybe the best hockey team of all time ever assembled. Great coaching, great executing, great fans.

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The Capitals won one Stanley Cup in this era; a dynasty requires multiple championships. They are certainly not the best team ever assembled.
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Telling a woman you are a 'virgin by choice' is a top-tier dating strategy for men over 30

At some point in life, doesn't that become almost like a really good line to use, though? I think after you turn 30 and you say, like, 'I'm a virgin by choice.' I feel like there's an element that, like, the girl is like, 'I want to be the one. I want to be the one that, like, makes him switch over.'

An inherently subjective and arguably delusional dating theory.
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Big CatBig Cat

The Warriors are actually a better team without Kevin Durant

We had everyone who said that the Warriors were better without Durant for that month that Durant was out. That was me. Hand up on that one.

The Warriors were historically dominant with Durant, winning the 2017 championship with a 16-1 playoff record.
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Big CatBig Cat

Mike Zimmer's football team is more important to him than his own eyesight

Mike Zimmer had a huge year for football guys, getting his eye destroyed by a play sheet. And he came in hot, hot at the end because today, just today, he said that his football team is more important than his vision. He got like six surgeries on his cornea or whatever, and he was still watching film for 12 hours a day.

Zimmer underwent eight eye surgeries in 2016-2017 and famously missed only one game, frequently stating his commitment to the team outweighed health concerns.
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Big CatBig Cat

Coach Ed Orgeron once held a live worm in his mouth for an entire speech to fire up his team

Today, a story came out that Coach O had a live worm in his mouth for an entire speech to his team. He said it was just to fire up the team... He said, I do whatever it takes to feed my family. Whatever it takes to win, I'll do the same thing. He then, after that line, pulled out a wiggling worm from his mouth that he had had in his mouth the entire speech.

This story has been confirmed by multiple former players and is a well-known part of Orgeron's coaching lore.
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Darren Rovell being 39 proves that if you're a narc in life, everyone assumes you're 15 years older than you actually are

The story was Darren Rovell is actually 39. He's Benjamin Button. Which is fucking crazy. It just proves that if you're a narc in life, everyone will just assume you're 15 years older than you are.

The assessment of why people perceive Rovell's age differently is subjective, though his age was factually 39 at the time.
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Wikipedia should win every Pulitzer Prize because it contains every book

And the award goes to Wikipedia. How about that? The book edition. Wikipedia is basically every book. So how does Wikipedia not win every single Pulitzer Prize? I don't get it.

This is a satirical take on the nature of information and awards.
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We have the 'scoop of the year' for both breaking the Adam Morrison bunker story and then proving it was false

Adam Morrison is like an apocalypse-like guy who has – does he have like gold and cash and he's got a bunker? ... [Big Cat:] And that was the scoop of the year, but we have an extra scoop of the year. [PFT:] Right. He actually doesn't have an apocalypse bunker. So we double scooped. It doesn't matter that the first one wasn't true. We double scooped.

The claim that he had a bunker was incorrect; the claim that he doesn't was correct. The 'scoop' is the act of reporting it.
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Death is the 'dirtiest player of the year' and an old school goon you want on your team

Dirtiest player of the year. That one we're going to give to death. And it's not really that close of a race either. I mean, death is the kind of player that you hate to see on the other side, but you really like it when a guy like that's on your team. You want death to put on the same uniform that you have on. Death, you know, he's just an old school goon.

Metaphorical and satirical take.

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