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Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2019 9:16 am
by EdRomero




I was going to put these in the Deadspin thread, then I thought about making a Barstool thread, but then I thought there should be a thread for them because they're so prolific and they're really good.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 3:42 pm
by brian
Barstool is so bad. Guess you're not a real man unless you're carrying a 1970s-style Samsonite suitcase through the airport with your arms LIKE A REAL MAN!

ETA: Only reason it's really noteworthy is it seems like every Barstool post is a variation of this same theme. If you do <some ridiculously ordinary and banal thing that literally almost every single man does> then YOU'RE NOT A REAL MAN!


Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 8:54 pm
by EdRomero
I was going to make a barstool thread because it's stupid the conversation is in the Deadspin thread, but I feel PMT is better than the rest of barstool and was worth discussing without getting caught up in the barstool is awful discussion.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:40 pm
by A_B
Even the best Fox News hosts are still Fox News hosts.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 11:03 pm
by brian
Agreed. PMT are tainted by association. There’s probably half decent people working in White House too but if they’re still working there now knowing what they know then......

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Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:17 am
by Pruitt
A_B wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:40 pm Even the best Fox News hosts are still Fox News hosts.
Nicely put.

How many times did I see headlines along the lines of "Fox News Anchor Burns Trump," or "This Was Said on FOX?!" and just thought - "oh, Shep Smith."

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:08 am
by EdRomero
A news conglomerate using propaganda to brainwash half of the American public and directly working with the leadership of the United States which is affecting the environment, lives of millions, the courts and structure of US government, among other things is a great comparison to a sports blog.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:46 am
by mister d
... aimed at their sons/grandsons.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:29 am
by Joe K
I’m sort of with Romero on this one. Portnoy is truly awful but overall I find comparisons between Barstool and right-wing propaganda to be overblown. IMO there are a few incredibly irritating people there and a few legitimately talented people, but most of their contributors are fairly nondescript. Also, I can’t really fault people like PFT for choosing to work there when so many of the other big sports blogs have been notoriously bad at fairly paying their contributors.

All that being said, I do have issues with the message Barstool (and especially Portnoy) pushes that you can and should act like an asshole college student even as an adult, as I think it leads to shitty behavior by insecure young men. But Barstool is hardly the first popular website to capitalize on that type of branding.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:34 am
by L-Jam3
I don't see the problem with the very first tweet of this thead. I'm reading it as sarcasm calling out hypocrisy of one act of violence being swept under the rug while the other is (rightly) castigated. I don't even fully agree but I think the logic behind it is sound.

ETA. Unless it wasn't sarcasm. In that case, fuck him.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:59 am
by BSF21
Fuck Barstool and anyone who associates with them. There's a billion avenues to get sports content, and if you feel the need to get it from them "because they tell it like it is" or "they're unapologetic about who they are", you're part of the problem. It is an echo chamber devoid of any common courtesy or kindness, leaning on a public that loves a hot take to get social interaction on the internet. Fuck them. You have that platform to reach people and that misogynistic, boot licking, alpha male bullshit is all they can come up with? Fuck. That. Shit.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 11:47 am
by EnochRoot
Joe K wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:29 am I’m sort of with Romero on this one. Portnoy is truly awful but overall I find comparisons between Barstool and right-wing propaganda to be overblown. IMO there are a few incredibly irritating people there and a few legitimately talented people, but most of their contributors are fairly nondescript. Also, I can’t really fault people like PFT for choosing to work there when so many of the other big sports blogs have been notoriously bad at fairly paying their contributors.

All that being said, I do have issues with the message Barstool (and especially Portnoy) pushes that you can and should act like an asshole college student even as an adult, as I think it leads to shitty behavior by insecure young men. But Barstool is hardly the first popular website to capitalize on that type of branding.
I'd argue most of the writers are nondescript to prevent it from sinking into the Infowars swamp. Their banality allows for the plausible deniability necessary to peddle their shit of mocking Asian women to their faces in a comedy club.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:06 pm
by A_B
I mean, anyone is welcome to consume their content. But everyone else is also welcome to judge you because of it.

If you have to perform justification calisthenics to say why they’re better than the rest of the platform, you already know it’s an issue.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:41 pm
by sancarlos
BSF21 wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:59 am Fuck Barstool and anyone who associates with them. There's a billion avenues to get sports content, and if you feel the need to get it from them "because they tell it like it is" or "they're unapologetic about who they are", you're part of the problem. It is an echo chamber devoid of any common courtesy or kindness, leaning on a public that loves a hot take to get social interaction on the internet. Fuck them. You have that platform to reach people and that misogynistic, boot licking, alpha male bullshit is all they can come up with? Fuck. That. Shit.
All true. But Fox News is still a thousand times worse.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:27 pm
by DSafetyGuy
BSF21 wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:59 am Fuck Barstool and anyone who associates with them. There's a billion avenues to get sports content, and if you feel the need to get it from them "because they tell it like it is" or "they're unapologetic about who they are", you're part of the problem. It is an echo chamber devoid of any common courtesy or kindness, leaning on a public that loves a hot take to get social interaction on the internet. Fuck them. You have that platform to reach people and that misogynistic, boot licking, alpha male bullshit is all they can come up with? Fuck. That. Shit.
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Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:45 pm
by EdRomero
A_B wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:06 pm I mean, anyone is welcome to consume their content. But everyone else is also welcome to judge you because of it.

If you have to perform justification calisthenics to say why they’re better than the rest of the platform, you already know it’s an issue.
I read PFT Commenter before he went to Barstool, which led me Big Cat. Their Celtics and Red Sox writers are better than just about everything else available -- these calisthenics are exhausting.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:08 pm
by A_B
I do suppose Boston fans probably deserve a bit of a pass. But still they suck.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:11 pm
by brian
A_B wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:08 pm I do suppose Boston fans probably deserve a bit of a pass. But still they suck.
It's kind of the opposite. Barstool wouldn't exist without Boston being the way it is.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:11 pm
by Ryan
Does this dumb shit work both ways? If Stephen Miller started legit working for UNICEF, can I still hate him?

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:19 pm
by Joe K
Also, does the “anyone who associates with Barstool is reprehensible” rule also apply to athletes and journalists who give interviews on their podcasts? Because Sidney Crosby, Patrick Mahomes, Chris Long, Blake Griffin, George Brett, SVP and Rachel Nichols have all done that. And I like all of them and have listened to their interviews.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:14 pm
by mister d
Ryan wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:11 pm Does this dumb shit work both ways? If Stephen Miller started legit working for UNICEF, can I still hate him?
I imagine a fan of an org that covered up child sex abuse would be ok with Miller.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 8:48 pm
by brian
Joe K wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:19 pm Also, does the “anyone who associates with Barstool is reprehensible” rule also apply to athletes and journalists who give interviews on their podcasts? Because Sidney Crosby, Patrick Mahomes, Chris Long, Blake Griffin, George Brett, SVP and Rachel Nichols have all done that. And I like all of them and have listened to their interviews.
I would certainly like an athlete or celebrity more if they told Barstool to fuck off but the vast majority are publicity whores.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:25 pm
by Johnnie
Yea, so just like with watching Dave Chappelle's latest stand up or going to see Joker in theaters, I'm gonna, gasp, not let folks on the board decide how guilty I should feel for liking things that are questionable to them. I stopped being Catholic for this reason.

I'll keep "associating" with Barstool Sports and I guess I'll just have to live with myself despite my moral failings. Darn.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:28 pm
by rass
I’ve followed PFC for years on Twitter (and at KSK back in the day but that isn’t relevant to what I’m about to type) and I don’t know what changed but it’s only been the last couple of weeks that I’ve noticed other barstool accounts pushed into my feed. Maybe an increase in showing accounts followed by people I follow?

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:33 am
by DSafetyGuy
rass wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:28 pm I’ve followed PFC for years on Twitter (and at KSK back in the day but that isn’t relevant to what I’m about to type) and I don’t know what changed but it’s only been the last couple of weeks that I’ve noticed other barstool accounts pushed into my feed. Maybe an increase in showing accounts followed by people I follow?
One of the things I noticed on Twitter a couple years ago is that, if I clicked on a tweet someone retweeted into my feed, I would eventually start to see tweets liked by the same user even though I "shouldn't" have been seeing them. It (along with other things like constant ads and the feeling that I wasn't seeing tweets of people I follow - I don't follow that many people where I'm just scrolling) eventually became very annoying. After seeing a recommendation for Tweetlogix, I downloaded it and it cleans up everything. No ads other than from people I follow, no polls, no promoted tweets, no tweets someone else liked, everything in chronological order. It's worlds better.

Whenever I've used the twitter account for the website I write for, it is a disorganized shitshow of a mess with things in slapdash, haphazard order. I don't understand how people can use the actual twitter app and all the liked tweets that show up in their timeline make me want to delete their followers.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:35 pm
by Johnnie
Closest we have to a Barstool thread.

A casino company is buying Barstool Sports in a $450 million deal

The Ringer has to be worth more than $200 million now, right?

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:46 pm
by mister d
Unironically, shit like this is probably very important.


Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:32 am
by EdRomero
I took a break from them after the Patriots lost, but listening to them has helped.


Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 5:36 pm
by DaveInSeattle


And yes, the white board behind him says 'Fuck that midge fuck Anthony Fauci'

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 5:53 pm
by Johnnie
*Fauchi

What a difference 2 months makes. Mike Pence's office specifically targeted popular podcasts (like PMT) to get the word out when COVID first came in the scene and now this?

Big Cat and PFT need to get traded to The Ringer, ASAP.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 8:55 pm
by Pruitt
Your country is so fucked up.

(Sorry)

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 8:57 pm
by govmentchedda
Yup

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 9:11 pm
by DaveInSeattle
Pruitt wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 8:55 pm Your country is so fucked up.

(Sorry)
Pretty much...

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 9:16 pm
by EdRomero
Damn. When I saw this thread pop up again, I was hoping it was about Big Cat playing NCAA 2014 Football on Twitch. Coach Duggs!

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 10:31 am
by DaveInSeattle
Douchebag Portnoy's reward for calling Dr. Fauci a 'fucking midget'?

An appearance on Fox News with Tucker Carlson! Along with noted epidemiologist, Adam Carolla!


Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:49 pm
by DSafetyGuy


There is a thread which includes another clip.

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2020 8:54 pm
by DSafetyGuy

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:22 pm
by DSafetyGuy

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:55 pm
by brian
I'm almost OK with it because seems like a decent chance for both Trump and Portnoy to embarrass themselves

Re: Pardon my Take Stuff

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2020 1:40 am
by DaveInSeattle
brian wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:55 pm I'm almost OK with it because seems like a decent chance for both Trump and Portnoy to embarrass themselves
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