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Big CatBig Cat

It is fair to laugh at the President when they fall because walking is a basic human skill

Walking is one of the first things we learned to do. Someone's like, would you make fun of your grandmother if she fell? I was like, well my grandmother's dead and she's not the president. You kind of sign up to get made fun of by becoming president when you fall.

This is an inherently subjective opinion about humor and public figures.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Victor Wembanyama is a bust

Victor Wembanyama from France. The Frenchman not played in Summer League. Bust. Oh, okay. I like that take.

Wembanyama had a historic rookie season and won the NBA Rookie of the Year award, proving he is the opposite of a bust.
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MaxMax

My career at PMT will eventually become a legendary redemption hero story

I will win one and it'll be a real redemption hero story for the ages. I'm sure people are gonna be writing novels about me.

Max's teams have continued to experience high-profile collapses (Eagles late 2023, Phillies 2023 NLCS) since this take.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Once 2020 ends, everything will get back to normal and be perfect

Once 2020 ends, everything's going to get back to normal to be perfect. You think 2020 is going to run up the score on us?

PredictionLifeMediumSarcastic
The COVID-19 pandemic continued through much of 2021 and 2022, with many social and economic disruptions persisting.
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Big CatBig Cat

Dan Wolken had the worst take of the year for laughing at LSU's hire of Ed Orgeron

Dan Wolken... tweeted in 2017: yesterday a college football coaches agent called me. He said LSU hired Ed Orgeron. We laughed for a few minutes. So good job, Dan that turned out to be the worst take ever. Who's laughing now bitch? Haha.

Ed Orgeron led LSU to an undefeated season and a national title, proving the initial laughter at the hire wrong.
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Big CatBig Cat

I will inject myself with coronavirus if they cancel March Madness

Right before 24 hours before they decided there was going to be no March Madness. I said I would inject myself with coronavirus if they cancel March Madness.

They did cancel March Madness, and obviously Big Cat did not follow through.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Clay Travis had the worst prediction of the year for saying COVID-19 deaths would not reach the thousands

Clay Travis... said I'd be surprised if we get into the thousands when talking about total coronavirus deaths in the U.S. however turns out he's actually right because there's 20 times more people that have been infected than not [sarcastic delivery].

Fact ClaimPoliticsFireSarcastic
U.S. COVID-19 deaths reached over 1 million, making 'under a few thousand' an extremely incorrect prediction.
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Billy FootballBilly Football

Tom Brady's move to Tampa Bay is the only reason Rob Gronkowski returned from retirement

I think that the workload the Patriots wanted [Gronk] to do was higher than something at Tampa is going to have him do... if Tom Brady had stuck around in New England Rob Gronkowski probably still be retired.

Gronk's return coincided exactly with Brady's move, supporting this narrative.
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Big CatBig Cat

Rob Gronkowski is definitely coming back to the NFL.

Rob Gronkowski and his fake retirement because he's definitely coming back. Definitely coming back... Lindsey Vonn was like, oh, we're a bunch of old people. And he took great offense to that. Which means he's coming back.

Correct. Gronk sat out 2019 but returned to play for the Buccaneers in 2020.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Bill Simmons 'spiked the football' too early on the 2018-19 Celtics.

Attacking that little extra part at the end, [Bill Simmons said] 'they're going to be up 30 points in a lot of them.' In a lot of them. Yeah, that's just spiking the football when you haven't even scored yet.

Simmons' prediction was objectively incorrect as the Celtics struggled and were bounced early.
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Blake GriffinBlake Griffin

I'd like to thank my family for believing in me while winning 'Blake of the Year' despite the haters.

First off, I'd like to thank my family for believing me this whole time. Obviously, there's been a lot of ups and downs and a lot of naysayers, a lot of haters, but somehow we made it here. I don't know, man. I'm at a loss for words.

The 'haters' and 'ups and downs' are part of the comedic framing of the Blake of the Year contest.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Billionaires should pay for their own stadiums

It's unpopular to say it, but I think that billionaires should pay for their own fucking stadiums too, Bill [Simmons].

This is a subjective political/economic opinion regarding public policy.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

The sun is actually cold and is a big fraud

2017 is the year that we found out that the sun was a big fucking phony. The sun is not hot, and if you want any more proof, space is cold. How come it gets cold at the top of Mount Everest? ... Because there's hot magma underneath the earth as far away from the sun as possible.

Hot TakeLifeScorchingSarcastic
The sun is a star composed of hot plasma, with a surface temperature of approximately 5,500 degrees Celsius.
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Big CatBig Cat

Marlins Man claims he is the founder of All Lives Matter

Marlins Man claimed that he was the founder of All Lives Matter. He claimed he invented the phrase All Lives Matter.

The phrase 'All Lives Matter' emerged as a response to 'Black Lives Matter' and its origins are decentralized; there is no evidence Laurence Leavy (Marlins Man) invented it.
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Big CatBig Cat

I guarantee the Takie Awards will be a live show next year

Next year, it's going to be a live show. I'm actually guaranteeing that right now. I want to do it at Guy Fieri's restaurant, like in the back room.

The 2017 Takie Awards were a major video production and featured a more robust presentation, satisfying the spirit of the 'live show' guarantee.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Guy Fieri's food is the best food I've ever had

I'm a big Guy Fieri guy, so I feel like I can say this. The food was phenomenal. Best food I've ever had.

This is entirely a matter of taste, though widely considered a contrarian/ironic food take.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Media members and sports figures should physically fight to settle disputes

I think the media and sports figures should actually physically fight. That feels like something that would happen in maybe Argentina where a ref screws up and they're like, 'oh, we're going to kill you.' I'd like to see more accountability.

This is a satirical suggestion for sports media reform.
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PFT CommenterPFT Commenter

Hockey helmets have increased concussions because they evolved the human skull to be thinner

I actually think that helmets have done more to increase concussions in hockey than they've done to help because it's like evolution. It kicks in a little bit and your brain, your skull doesn't have to be as thick anymore. Like the way that we coddle these athletes, it's actually hurting them in the long term.

Evolution of the human skull does not occur over the span of a few decades of helmet usage in sports.
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Big CatBig Cat

Stephen A. Smith would have successfully prosecuted O.J. Simpson

I actually don't disagree with Stephen A. Smith here... Because I actually do think he would have been able to put O.J. Simpson in jail. He is so exhausting as an arguer, as a person, that I think that the jury would have just said, 'you know what, just have Stephen A. Smith stop talking and we'll put [Simpson] in jail.'

A purely hypothetical outcome based on a celebrity's personality.
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HankHank

The 'Car Stick' is a necessary invention for everyone who drops items between car seats

Simple, simple invention. Everyone needs it. Just a little skinny stick that you can, like, it, like, would go stick up from the side of your car. And when shit gets stuck in between your seats, just grab the stick and it fishes it right out of there.

While a stick can move items, 'everyone' needing a specifically marketed 'car stick' is an overstatement of utility for a simple object.

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