Max murdering the word “obliged” at 2:31 into Monday’s podcast is the hardest I’ve laughed in WEEKS. “I want to uh-BLAHJ to the punishment!” https://www.instagram.com/share/_ozDVHMXL
Surviving Barstool: 1. Didn’t know the Newton, Mass origins 2. It’s not a charity event 3. Big Cat should not have been a player I actually started to dislike Big Cat watching the show. I usually listen to PMT Monday’s during football season and catch other shows if they have an interesting guest. I thought he really damaged himself acting like a weirdo during the survivor
Yea it's stupid he's so ashamed of his Massachusetts roots. Feels like they've rigged the game for ria so they can sign her to a new contract.
i only keep up with pmt now but more than a few times he has gotten weird. early on when Call Her Daddy just started they estimated the dicks of the barstool guys and Big Cat got very defensive and tilted.
i think they guessed Big Cat had an odd skinny penis and it must have been dead on because he got shaky voiced on air going after them.
Have shared it here before, but buddy met him/hung out with him late night in NOLA at a national championship a couple years ago. Basically said don’t meet your heroes. When you start to see the stuff in clips that appears to be schitck and understand that’s just who he is, he’s way less “cool”. For example, Jay Cutler was in this group down in NOLA. BC actually fan girls him, and sort of weirdly ignored everybody else to suck up to Jay. I don’t watch survivor but him getting triggered by penis jokes is cringey.
Getting triggered by mentioning where you were born is just as soft. There has to be something we’re missing, right?
I always thought it was because he wanted to keep his family and personal life private kinda give that up when you become worth 9 figures tho
It’s because he started as the chicago guy and he thinks people will think he’s a fraud when it’s discovered he’s from Massachusetts. I don’t think anyone actually cares, it’s just people trying to troll him because he’s clearly affected by it
I haven’t watched anything related to survivor but I saw on twitter what I assumed to be that loser minihane’s fans were going after big cat
I don’t think it really matters especially now, but it’s very strange. The guy doesn’t really admit he existed until he was out of college. It’s definitely a sore spot and he has lied about it previously. Someone found his yearbook and he was a theater kid. Would anyone actually care besides a few trolls? It’s unusual that a kid of that age into sports growing up around Boston isn’t about all the home town teams. I mean he was in HS during the 1st Pats SB, in college when the curse broke and he was sticking with the Chicago teams who mostly sucked around that time. Maybe just a big MJ and WGN Cubs fan.
Cutler was on a podcast and him and Big Cat was talking about how BC was invited to jay's bachelor party years ago. They didn't share all the specifics but they were good friends, then BC said some stuff about Jay's football performance and jay got mad and they stopped being friends for a few years. Then they became friends again. Not trying to defend anyone but it was clear they both have a "relationship" outside of his media portrayal since he was in his bachelor party group.
Feel like I remember both or one of his parents are from Chicago and he grew up rooting for the teams his dad rooted for or something along those lines.
Big Cat finding 2 keys and then giving them to Rico when he knew he was probably leaving kinda made the game BS
Felt like the most scripted episode yet. I doubt those were there before that day. Apparently that episode was on a Saturday morning when CFB was on. He couldn't win, so he was making up a reason other than " I wanted to watch college football" to leave the show. Favorite part of the episode was when someone voted for Mintzy, he looks at the camera and says they're always thinking of me, and the camera pans to everyone else in the room giving him zero reaction because nobody likes him.
Not sure what happened with one of his super fans that was terminally ill and wanted to assisted suicide himself at a live show. That would get national news attention.
I had always been under the impression that Big Cat grew up a Chicago sports fan just not in Chicago. Did not realize he basically adopted all of them after college. Not some huge deal, but definitely see why he never really talked about it. Certainly takes some of the "diehard live and die it's in my blood" stuff out of the Bears/Cubs stuff.
I have no idea - it's all very weird. I cannot for the life of me figure out why a guy whose entire professional life is on camera and is generally pretty good at understanding how things play is making something that isn't a big deal into a big deal solely by how he responds to it. Really frickin strange. But it clearly bothers him, and Minihane obviously knew that. Him and Dave understand how to frick with people's brains on an absolutey diabolical level.
And now discussing his kids sports days and regrets and being in theatre and stuff while telling 11 year old baseball war stories in a non-joking way while all the Yak guys sit there loving and propping him up? This is some wild shit. Very weird.
Amongst die hard sports fans? I think that's why he's freaking out, I don't think it's relatable to the barstool audience. Maybe I'm wrong.
I think it is quite lame. As someone who is a fan of a diverse array of teams based on where my parents are from or who they grew up rooting for, I can attest to rooting for all these teams since I was 4 years old. Changing after you graduate high school is fine, but it does indicate a certain lack of lifelong fandom and die hard aspect that one would expect from the guy who sat in the bleachers of the cubs games and filmed himself as they tried to defeat the curse in 2016.
Gruden is super corny, but I´m enjoying his willingness to do this type of stuff. I think he's having a lot of fun
The last part is likely the reason for the reaction, would be my guess. Partly professionally, but mostly just a bit of shame in having presented himself as a lifelong guy (mostly through passive appearance, just letting people see things and believe things based off of it) and it turns out he isn't. I mean I don't really care, but it definitely makes me see his anguish about the Bears in a much different light than say PFT and the Washington team. You don't have to have put in a certain amount of time to be a fan of some team, but when you let people believe you are long suffering and you really aren't...........yea I mean that's not a great look. And one that "sports fans" generally aren't going to take real well.
I actually never considered that the guys at barstool sports might be overplaying how much they give a shit about the teams they root for. Yall really opened my eyes
I wouldn’t put it past Portnoy to blow all his money gambling and having to declare bankruptcy against due to gambling debt. He’s betting absurd amounts of money. And yes, the number of people who go bankrupt, have relationships destroyed and die due to gambling being omnipresent during every game is going to be disgusting.
He very clearly lays out why he was afraid. He didn’t want to be accused of being a fraud and being drummed out like the two guys that came before. Then he got success and had the fear that he’d lose it by saying actually I wasn’t always a big time Chicago. Not sure what’s so hard for you to grasp, never had an irrational insecurity? The more successful he became the more important the facade was, I would guess.
Grown men being emotional about other grown men’s choice of sports teams is so weak lol. Get a fucking life. I wish he had said “I was hired to write about Chicago sports, I became fans of those teams because it was my job. I got into it, and part of being at barstool was being really into it. By the time the Cubs won the WS I had been a legit Cubs fan for 10 years. I was and am a fan, even if I got here on a route other than all you idiots whose sports teams choices are based on where you were born or your parents which, objectively, is not a better way to arrive at the decision.” Worrying even a minute what anybody who actually wants to gatekeep sports fandom couldn’t be a bigger waste of time for him. The only thing he should be embarrassed about is how much this rattled him.
Oh no, I completely get the situation. The way they addressed it just seemed a little off, but that was primarily because it seemed to rattle him so much.....which I actually kind of appreciate because it's human and real. But it makes sense - they decided up front not to "address" it, then things got huge and 15 years later it came up and there isn't really a good way to talk about it. And in the end it's all very silly and not a big deal, but you can absolutely see why it's an insecurity for him. And I'd assume Kirk knew all that and still did it over some silly game because he's truly just does not give two shits about anyones situation. Or it's just a big bit.