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Title: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 03:33:55 PM
I know nothing about it or them.  Until today, I had the impression they were a twitter account that focused on drunk things happening at tailgates.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: XocolateThundarr on October 17, 2017, 03:59:45 PM
https://twitter.com/sam_ponder/status/920056799759339521/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fextra-mustard%2F2017%2F10%2F17%2Fsamantha-ponder-espn-barstool-sports-bigcat
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: XocolateThundarr on October 17, 2017, 04:00:35 PM
Lot of stuff going on in the replies.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 04:10:32 PM
I've seen that, but I'm oblivious as to how that blog (?) is in people's awareness to be mad about, let alone apparently set to be part of espn.  Like, they tweet or blog about Bills fans jumping through tables or girls showing their boobs at tailgates, right?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 17, 2017, 04:17:58 PM
I've seen that, but I'm oblivious as to how that blog (?) is in people's awareness to be mad about, let alone apparently set to be part of espn.  Like, they tweet or blog about Bills fans jumping through tables or girls showing their boobs at tailgates, right?

Sports fans love that crap.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: XocolateThundarr on October 17, 2017, 04:22:06 PM
I think it started around the Ray Rice ordeal.  From what I can gather, they told Sam that she was only on the network as eye candy.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 04:22:50 PM
Sports fans love that crap.

Sounds like it's time for another gE owners' meeting in a tropical location to discuss the future focus of this site.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 04:26:57 PM
I think it started around the Ray Rice ordeal.  From what I can gather, they told Sam that she was only on the network as eye candy.

Fitz said horrible things to Holly Rowe and remained irrelevant.  What'd these guys do to become noteworthy?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 17, 2017, 04:29:47 PM
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/espn-barstool-sports-pardon-my-take-1202589425/
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 17, 2017, 04:34:13 PM
Everything I've ever seen from barstool is trashy crap that represents boston perfectly
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 17, 2017, 04:36:34 PM
Everything I've ever seen from barstool is trashy crap that represents boston perfectly
can't speak for boston but canco that barstool is awful and very hurr hurr stuff
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 17, 2017, 04:37:23 PM
I think it started around the Ray Rice ordeal.  From what I can gather, they told Sam that she was only on the network as eye candy.

Fitz said horrible things to Holly Rowe and remained irrelevant.  What'd these guys do to become noteworthy?

Fitz said horrible things about Holly, but he didn't have the courage to say them to her.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 04:44:31 PM
I think it started around the Ray Rice ordeal.  From what I can gather, they told Sam that she was only on the network as eye candy.

Fitz said horrible things to Holly Rowe and remained irrelevant.  What'd these guys do to become noteworthy?

Fitz said horrible things about Holly, but he didn't have the courage to say them to her.

MIR fixed that, pre-@-signal.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 04:46:28 PM
Everything I've ever seen from barstool is trashy crap that represents boston perfectly
can't speak for boston but canco that barstool is awful and very hurr hurr stuff

T-Y.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Phil Titola on October 17, 2017, 04:48:52 PM
yeah I always just thought it was thechive.com of sports.  No idea they were Disney.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on October 17, 2017, 05:45:24 PM
Barstool is for people who are slightly less Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) than your average buzzfeed/gawker reader. It's a niche but relatively large market.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: IPA4Me on October 17, 2017, 07:50:32 PM
Twitter makes morons relevant daily.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Dugout DickStone on October 17, 2017, 07:56:48 PM
Sports fans love that crap.

Sounds like it's time for another gE owners' meeting in a tropical location to discuss the future focus of this site.

Second
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on October 17, 2017, 08:37:38 PM
it all depends on who you like from barstool, big cat pft and a few others are hilarious. but most of the stoolies hate 80% of their staff that really don't do crap and make ridiculous hot takes for content/clicks. the main core is great (big cat kfc and prez)
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2017, 09:00:06 PM
Everything I've ever seen from barstool is trashy crap that represents boston perfectly

eff off. Barstool is national, there's even a Barstool K-State, and that crap head Portnoy now lives in New York.

It's also worth noting that Big Cat and PFT Commenter are very different than those other scum bags that work there, there podcast is very gE'y.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 09:33:52 PM
the stoolies

:lol:

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Stoolie
A Stoolie is a person who reads or follows barstoolsports.com. The Stoolie demographic tends to consist of college aged or post-college aged males who read the site on weekdays instead of studying, going to class or working. Stoolies are active participants of the site and contribute to the site's success. Stoolie comments on blogs often highlight the website, and Stoolies email "smokes", blog ideas, and other content that bloggers share. Though Stoolies are loyal to the website, they are quick to point out grammar and spelling errors. Always brutally honest, Stoolies rate the quality of individual blogs, "wake-ups", celebrity asses, and the overall quality of bloggers themselves. In addition, Stoolies have been known to cause controversy on the site. Once, Stoolies came up with the conspiracy theory that one blogger, "neil" was actually a fictional creation of El Presidente, who wrote terrible blogs in neil's name in order to boost the liking of other bloggers (especially himself). This conspiracy theory led to the #revealneil twitter phenomenon where Stoolies demanded a video or picture of neil be posted on the site to confirm his existence.
Although Stoolies often post negative comments, they are also very charitable. After the Boston Marathon Bombings Stoolies raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in t-shirt sales going to funds to help the victims. However, Stoolies are quick to mention that though their hearts are large, nothing is quite as big as El Pres's nose.
From barstool comment section: "My boss just caught me trying to guess Rachel Bison's ass and is having barstool blocked from my computer...turns out the IT guy is a fellow Stoolie and will be blocking "barstoolsport.com". Fuckin' Stoolies everywhere man, this bitch cant hold me down."

KFC: "The Stoolies are an interesting breed."

Stoolies: "We want to wake up to Renee Portnoy!"
El Pres: "Stoolies, shut the eff up."
#barstoolsports.com#barstool#barstoolsports#sit on my face#stool
by stoolies4lyfe April 28, 2013
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 17, 2017, 09:37:56 PM
Yup
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on October 17, 2017, 09:52:50 PM
Portnoy, Big Cat and everyone involved with and who reads BS are douchebags.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on October 17, 2017, 09:59:32 PM
Fanning reads that crap all day, every day.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2017, 11:43:20 PM
http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/barstool-editor-banned-from-weei-after-posting-naked-pictures-of-bradys-2-year-old-son/89424

http://masslawyersweekly.com/2011/08/12/the-legal-fallout-from-the-barstool-sports-brady-controversy/
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2017, 11:45:48 PM
the stoolies

:lol:

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Stoolie
A Stoolie is a person who reads or follows barstoolsports.com. The Stoolie demographic tends to consist of college aged or post-college aged males who read the site on weekdays instead of studying, going to class or working. Stoolies are active participants of the site and contribute to the site's success. Stoolie comments on blogs often highlight the website, and Stoolies email "smokes", blog ideas, and other content that bloggers share. Though Stoolies are loyal to the website, they are quick to point out grammar and spelling errors. Always brutally honest, Stoolies rate the quality of individual blogs, "wake-ups", celebrity asses, and the overall quality of bloggers themselves. In addition, Stoolies have been known to cause controversy on the site. Once, Stoolies came up with the conspiracy theory that one blogger, "neil" was actually a fictional creation of El Presidente, who wrote terrible blogs in neil's name in order to boost the liking of other bloggers (especially himself). This conspiracy theory led to the #revealneil twitter phenomenon where Stoolies demanded a video or picture of neil be posted on the site to confirm his existence.
Although Stoolies often post negative comments, they are also very charitable. After the Boston Marathon Bombings Stoolies raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in t-shirt sales going to funds to help the victims. However, Stoolies are quick to mention that though their hearts are large, nothing is quite as big as El Pres's nose.
From barstool comment section: "My boss just caught me trying to guess Rachel Bison's ass and is having barstool blocked from my computer...turns out the IT guy is a fellow Stoolie and will be blocking "barstoolsport.com". Fuckin' Stoolies everywhere man, this bitch cant hold me down."

KFC: "The Stoolies are an interesting breed."

Stoolies: "We want to wake up to Renee Portnoy!"
El Pres: "Stoolies, shut the eff up."
#barstoolsports.com#barstool#barstoolsports#sit on my face#stool
by stoolies4lyfe April 28, 2013

Massive group of unconfident, cultish losers, also massive Clay Travis fans which is a bit awkward.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 17, 2017, 11:52:08 PM
I still want to enjoy Bills fans crashing through tables so please copy any of that content going forward and paste it here.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on October 18, 2017, 09:40:23 AM
Wow, these guys are terrible.

http://thespun.com/news/heres-the-barstool-audio-sam-ponder-is-referencing-on-twitter/amp
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: The Big Train on October 18, 2017, 09:45:25 AM
https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/920368360466145280
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mhkpasa on October 18, 2017, 09:48:03 AM
You might want to dig on Adam Best, ironically he is no saint
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: The Big Train on October 18, 2017, 09:52:40 AM
I was just posting a tweet.  I have no idea who he is
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 18, 2017, 09:52:53 AM
Fanning reads that crap all day, every day.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on October 18, 2017, 09:56:01 AM
I was just posting a tweet.  I have no idea who he is

the mayor of quahog
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on October 18, 2017, 09:58:50 AM
Wow, these guys are terrible.

http://thespun.com/news/heres-the-barstool-audio-sam-ponder-is-referencing-on-twitter/amp

you just don't understand boston!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 18, 2017, 10:09:00 AM
"those guys are the worst!"- Says board known for saying crazy crap to stir things up :lol:

They really are tho. I do laugh when they go after Taylor Swift, because OMG, why is she even a thing?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 18, 2017, 10:16:03 AM
Do non-stoolies hate Sam ponder too? I've never seen anything negative about her before
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 18, 2017, 10:23:06 AM
Do non-stoolies hate Sam ponder too? I've never seen anything negative about her before
I too ponder that
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: AppleJack on October 18, 2017, 10:47:43 AM
I enjoy some of their stuff. I get more enjoyment out of the people who decide to get offended by them.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: nicname on October 18, 2017, 10:48:04 AM
I appreciate sophomoric humor
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: nicname on October 18, 2017, 10:51:35 AM
I enjoy some of their stuff. I get more enjoyment out of the people who decide to get offended by them.

This.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 18, 2017, 10:53:04 AM
Yeah, like EllRII!  :love:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: nicname on October 18, 2017, 11:01:21 AM
Don't understand the Ponder hate tho.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kso_FAN on October 18, 2017, 11:02:19 AM
I listened to part of a Ponder My Take Podcast. There were some funny moments, but a lot of it is just silliness.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on October 18, 2017, 11:06:17 AM
"those guys are the worst!"- Says board known for saying crazy crap to stir things up :lol:

goEMAW has IRL defended female sideline reporters from gross media perverts in the past you idiot
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on October 18, 2017, 11:07:40 AM
I listened to part of a Ponder My Take Podcast. There were some funny moments, but a lot of it is just silliness.

 :D did you do that on purpose
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 18, 2017, 11:08:51 AM
"those guys are the worst!"- Says board known for saying crazy crap to stir things up :lol:

goEMAW has IRL defended female sideline reporters from gross media perverts in the past you idiot
They've done more than one hot take, idiot. Ppl rough ridin' hang their hats on shitty takes tho. There's been plenty of shitty takes on this board as well.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kso_FAN on October 18, 2017, 11:10:33 AM
I listened to part of a Ponder My Take Podcast. There were some funny moments, but a lot of it is just silliness.

 :D did you do that on purpose

Woe. I wish I could say that I did.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on October 18, 2017, 11:11:05 AM
i have no idea what any of that post means, but if you can find one goEMAW post calling anybody a slut (other than your tweet at kacie mcdonnell's high school sister), i would be convinced that goEMAW = bartstool
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on October 18, 2017, 11:16:19 AM
AbeFroman is the winner

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=28326.msg873437#msg873437 (http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=28326.msg873437#msg873437)
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Post by: mocat on October 18, 2017, 11:18:28 AM
fanning congrats! i forgot about that thread!
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Post by: Trim on October 18, 2017, 11:20:27 AM
I am jazzed for our impending espn deal.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 18, 2017, 11:20:50 AM
I wish I wasn't right, Mocat.  :frown:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 18, 2017, 11:24:12 AM
i have no idea what any of that post means, but if you can find one goEMAW post calling anybody a slut (other than your tweet at kacie mcdonnell's high school sister), i would be convinced that goEMAW = bartstool
Also, does jersey chaser = slut?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on October 18, 2017, 11:32:48 AM
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/920652496959291393
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 18, 2017, 11:36:19 AM
2013, what a great time for gE
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: nicname on October 18, 2017, 11:51:35 AM
2013, what a great time for gE

Just read all 9 pages. Worth it
Title: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: The Big Train on October 18, 2017, 11:53:33 AM
I had forgotten what RATM name used to be from rereading that thread
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Post by: Gooch on October 18, 2017, 12:38:12 PM
KIV is a confirmed IRL bad person.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 18, 2017, 01:16:26 PM
Whoa. I just reread that hot mess of a thread. SDK bragging about hooking up with GAT was definitely not played up enough.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on October 18, 2017, 01:18:43 PM
 
AbeFroman is the winner

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=28326.msg873437#msg873437 (http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=28326.msg873437#msg873437)
sausage king of Chicago and whatnot
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 18, 2017, 01:29:31 PM
https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/920652496959291393

 :excited:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kso_FAN on October 23, 2017, 04:01:09 PM
Welp.

https://twitter.com/pardonmytake/status/922551074594131970
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on October 23, 2017, 04:05:49 PM
Someone RT'd yesterday a barstool tweet of a Bills fan throwing another Bills fan through a table, so all is back to normal.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on October 23, 2017, 04:28:21 PM
tremendous foresight and execution by espn
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 23, 2017, 04:30:38 PM
How do the stoolies feel about this?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: yoga-like_abana on October 23, 2017, 04:31:25 PM
kinda the way of the world today.. something goes viral for 15 minutes, someone gets fired or whatever the case may be and then we forget about it and move on to the next controversy
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on October 23, 2017, 06:24:12 PM
Someone RT'd yesterday a barstool tweet of a Bills fan throwing another Bills fan through a table, so all is back to normal.
Bills fans really deliver on a consistent basis
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: The Big Train on October 23, 2017, 06:28:46 PM
https://twitter.com/brazzers/status/922557269170163712
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) on October 23, 2017, 08:57:08 PM
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/922598510364708866
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TownieCat on October 24, 2017, 09:02:26 AM
How do the stoolies feel about this?
I feel bad for Big Cat, PFT, and Hank, but ultimately this is not a big deal. The ESPN show was only going to be a watered down 22 minute version of their podcast.

They will get another shot at TV eventually and will probably work better on something like Comedy Central, one of the FOX's, Spike, etc. anyways.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Cire on October 24, 2017, 10:21:20 AM
I enjoy the buffalo fans jumping on tables each week.

Also enjoy Is this ___________________ tryin to get the pipe?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on October 24, 2017, 12:14:32 PM
How do the stoolies feel about this?
I feel bad for Big Cat, PFT, and Hank, but ultimately this is not a big deal. The ESPN show was only going to be a watered down 22 minute version of their podcast.

They will get another shot at TV eventually and will probably work better on something like Comedy Central, one of the FOX's, Spike, etc. anyways.
eff hank he is terrible, the rest i agree with. an hbo or showtime would best suit them. and eff dave for driving his agenda even after it died down to make this happen, dan patrick was the next guest
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 24, 2017, 04:39:24 PM
How do the stoolies feel about this?
I feel bad for Big Cat, PFT, and Hank, but ultimately this is not a big deal. The ESPN show was only going to be a watered down 22 minute version of their podcast.

They will get another shot at TV eventually and will probably work better on something like Comedy Central, one of the FOX's, Spike, etc. anyways.

I'm pissed I missed the first episode. I found it interesting that they never ever repeated the first episode throughout the week.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 24, 2017, 04:46:30 PM
How do the stoolies feel about this?
I feel bad for Big Cat, PFT, and Hank, but ultimately this is not a big deal. The ESPN show was only going to be a watered down 22 minute version of their podcast.

They will get another shot at TV eventually and will probably work better on something like Comedy Central, one of the FOX's, Spike, etc. anyways.
and eff dave for driving his agenda

He is a giant man baby. He's 40 years old but can never be relied upon to be the adult in the room, dude still craves to be a 21 year old college student
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 25, 2017, 06:35:27 PM
How do the stoolies feel about this?
I feel bad for Big Cat, PFT, and Hank, but ultimately this is not a big deal. The ESPN show was only going to be a watered down 22 minute version of their podcast.

They will get another shot at TV eventually and will probably work better on something like Comedy Central, one of the FOX's, Spike, etc. anyways.
eff hank he is terrible, the rest i agree with. an hbo or showtime would best suit them. and eff dave for driving his agenda even after it died down to make this happen, dan patrick was the next guest

Just listened to the newest podcast and PFT definitely harbors some resentment toward Portnoy. Straight up said the show shouldn't have had the barstool branding but Portnoy insisted on it.
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Post by: chum1 on October 25, 2017, 06:46:43 PM
I don't like the name "Portnoy."
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: CHONGS on October 25, 2017, 07:55:33 PM
I don't like the name "Portnoy."
You don't hear him complaining about it.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on October 25, 2017, 08:13:06 PM
I'd gladly take the name "Portnoy" if I'd sold 60% of my company for $10-15M.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on October 25, 2017, 08:45:48 PM
How do the stoolies feel about this?
I feel bad for Big Cat, PFT, and Hank, but ultimately this is not a big deal. The ESPN show was only going to be a watered down 22 minute version of their podcast.

They will get another shot at TV eventually and will probably work better on something like Comedy Central, one of the FOX's, Spike, etc. anyways.
eff hank he is terrible, the rest i agree with. an hbo or showtime would best suit them. and eff dave for driving his agenda even after it died down to make this happen, dan patrick was the next guest

Just listened to the newest podcast and PFT definitely harbors some resentment toward Portnoy. Straight up said the show shouldn't have had the barstool branding but Portnoy insisted on it.
yeah i agreed with pft, however i think daves head was in the right place with a different branding as well as far as a new audience. i can see these guys leaving in the next year or two. they basically are barstool now
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Post by: michigancat on October 25, 2017, 11:24:45 PM
these guys seem like douchebags, I will not consume any of their content if I can help it
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Post by: TownieCat on October 26, 2017, 09:20:20 AM
these guys seem like douchebags, I will not consume any of their content if I can help it

It's part of their shtick. But yeah, this show probably isn't for you.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TownieCat on October 26, 2017, 09:27:14 AM
I'm always amazed that PFT has kept up his anonymity for this long. The sunglasses, the alias, all of it. Everything he presents to the public via social media and podcast is obviously just a character, but at some point that all ends right? Especially as he becomes more semi-mainstream.

Kind of reminds me of Ryan Nanni from SB Nation a few years ago. He didn't stop being funny (IMO) the day he stopped being Celebrity Hot Tub.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on October 26, 2017, 09:28:34 AM
Kind of reminds me of Ryan Nanni from SB Nation a few years ago. He didn't stop being funny (IMO) the day he stopped being Celebrity Hot Tub.

he was pretty unfunny before that stopped, too. (IMO)
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mhkpasa on October 26, 2017, 10:59:34 AM
I'm always amazed that PFT has kept up his anonymity for this long.

https://www.facebook.com/eric.sollenberger
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TownieCat on October 26, 2017, 11:45:52 AM
I'm always amazed that PFT has kept up his anonymity for this long.

https://www.facebook.com/eric.sollenberger
Well I'll be damned.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on October 26, 2017, 12:03:05 PM
I'm always amazed that PFT has kept up his anonymity for this long. The sunglasses, the alias, all of it. Everything he presents to the public via social media and podcast is obviously just a character, but at some point that all ends right? Especially as he becomes more semi-mainstream.

Kind of reminds me of Ryan Nanni from SB Nation a few years ago. He didn't stop being funny (IMO) the day he stopped being Celebrity Hot Tub.
yeah so a lot of people know who he is. once he became semi famous at pro football talk reddit found out who he was fairly quickly, im not going to look it up but he is a journalist that went to texas and is married
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on October 26, 2017, 01:25:37 PM
I'm always amazed that PFT has kept up his anonymity for this long.

https://www.facebook.com/eric.sollenberger
Well I'll be damned.

that's no fun
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 28, 2017, 01:26:44 AM
Kind of reminds me of Ryan Nanni from SB Nation a few years ago. He didn't stop being funny (IMO) the day he stopped being Celebrity Hot Tub.

he was pretty unfunny before that stopped, too. (IMO)

Yeah not a fan, I feel like he just tries too hard. His podcast with Spencer Hall is unlistenable which is a shame because Hall is great.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 02, 2017, 09:13:05 AM
 :lol:

https://twitter.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/925686629188038657
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TownieCat on November 02, 2017, 09:31:06 AM
http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21260802/uconn-huskies-coach-geno-auriemma-says-hire-rick-pitino (http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/21260802/uconn-huskies-coach-geno-auriemma-says-hire-rick-pitino)

Quote
"If I had a job opening? Yes," Auriemma said on Barstool Sports' Pardon My Take podcast. "Well, I mean, everybody's got baggage. You know, what are you going to do? You know, he did his time. He's serving his sentence. He lost a great, great job. And you know what? So what. That's a life sentence? I don't know, I don't think so."

Not the first time ESPN has run a story that stems from PMT, certainly not the last.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on November 02, 2017, 11:51:49 AM
https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/925776188907417600
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on November 02, 2017, 12:16:58 PM
That's the stuff stoolies crave
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on November 02, 2017, 12:49:14 PM
That's the stuff stoolies crave
you do know that you can like an aspect of something and also dislike certain things as well, right?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 07, 2017, 05:40:23 PM
Is "saturdays are for the boys" a barstool thing?  Is Currie a stoolie?

https://twitter.com/bymikewilson/status/927999704318783488
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 07, 2017, 06:35:23 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 07, 2017, 06:44:26 PM
can actually confirm he didn't know it was a thing. was told after the story came out.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TownieCat on November 08, 2017, 08:32:07 AM
Wow. Imagine being 46 years old and completely out of touch with pop culture.  :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TownieCat on November 13, 2017, 04:32:37 PM
Wow, last week they bought a hillbilly boxing league and now they're getting their own SiriusXM channel.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on November 15, 2017, 03:23:38 PM
Listening to an interview with this portnoy dude, what a douche
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TownieCat on November 15, 2017, 04:09:01 PM
Listening to an interview with this portnoy dude, what a douche

Correct. But the fact that he is genuine about it is what many find appealing.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on February 13, 2018, 05:34:14 PM
https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/963545716663767041
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: steve dave on February 13, 2018, 09:18:40 PM
the barstool people are mostly the trump voters of sports twitter
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: bucket on February 15, 2018, 06:02:13 PM
Dude was fired  :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mhkpasa on February 15, 2018, 06:50:56 PM
i think it was his 2nd day?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on February 16, 2018, 12:14:30 PM
the guy was a co-host and dallas bradens radio show, that all you really need to know about him
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on September 25, 2018, 09:14:08 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-barstool-sports-culture-of-online-hate-they-treat-sexual-harassment-and-cyberbullying-as-a-game

eff these guys
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on September 26, 2018, 12:12:23 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-barstool-sports-culture-of-online-hate-they-treat-sexual-harassment-and-cyberbullying-as-a-game

eff these guys

Just feeding the machine, they love crap like this. Erica Nardini is the real issue here, she is one of the nation's leaders in monetizing and profiting off of the aggrieved white male.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on September 26, 2018, 02:44:44 PM
https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-barstool-sports-culture-of-online-hate-they-treat-sexual-harassment-and-cyberbullying-as-a-game

eff these guys

Just feeding the machine, they love crap like this. Erica Nardini is the real issue here, she is one of the nation's leaders in monetizing and profiting off of the aggrieved white male.
yeah the guy that wrote the article is a real stand up human being....

https://twitter.com/Kmarkobarstool/status/1044703002085478400/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1044703002085478400&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwitter.min.html%231044703002085478400

i wont be a barstool thumper here but anything that involves deadspin is the same gotcha bullshit
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on September 26, 2018, 03:25:41 PM
Are you claiming that Barry Patchesky and Robert Silverman are the same person?

Either way whatever he/they did has absolutely no bearing on the entire barstool empire being built on misogyny, harassment, racism, and bullying. At the absolute very least it's indecent people using other indecent and insecure people to make cash off of. It's really emblematic of what media and our culture has become and it's to drum up outrage and then profit off of it. In the golden era or instagram models and free internet porn, all of the scantily clad women stuff is only window dressing to keep women angry about it then that is weaponized by barstool staff and stoolies to show how these feminist libs won't let the poor white man live the life he wants to live. Deadspin's well-documented, deplorable, history isn't a defense for barstool. If anything deadspin blazed a trail for barstool, so for them to point the finger out, to no ones surprise is both self-serving and hypocritical. It's a never ending hamster wheel of self-fulfilling prophecy.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on September 26, 2018, 03:45:41 PM
Deadspin's well-documented, deplorable, history isn't a defense for barstool. If anything deadspin blazed a trail for barstool, so for them to point the finger out, to no ones surprise is both self-serving and hypocritical.

related

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/what-fresh-kind-of-hell-is-barstool-sports.html (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/09/what-fresh-kind-of-hell-is-barstool-sports.html)
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on September 26, 2018, 03:45:47 PM
Are you claiming that Barry Patchesky and Robert Silverman are the same person?

Either way whatever he/they did has absolutely no bearing on the entire barstool empire being built on misogyny, harassment, racism, and bullying. At the absolute very least it's indecent people using other indecent and insecure people to make cash off of. It's really emblematic of what media and our culture has become and it's to drum up outrage and then profit off of it. In the golden era or instagram models and free internet porn, all of the scantily clad women stuff is only window dressing to keep women angry about it then that is weaponized by barstool staff and stoolies to show how these feminist libs won't let the poor white man live the life he wants to live. Deadspin's well-documented, deplorable, history isn't a defense for barstool. If anything deadspin blazed a trail for barstool, so for them to point the finger out, to no ones surprise is both self-serving and hypocritical. It's a never ending hamster wheel of self-fulfilling prophecy.
i agree with almost everything you said, on that note and ive followed barstool for quite some time (not for the dumb petty things but more of the big cat videos and rundown stuff) deadspin has 100% been trying to get barstool in some sort of war and its never worked, they used to have good content but now like i said before they play the "gotcha" game. its pathetic and probably the main reason they are bankrupt and laying off employees left and right
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DQ12 on September 26, 2018, 04:23:48 PM
deadspin is in the toilet because barstool was the new hip kid on the block and beat them at their own game.  also gawker.

big cat and PFT are financing that company.  i assume the only reason those two are still there is because they're under some contract.  if/when those two leave, barstool will revert back to the fringe tucker max corner of the internet.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on September 26, 2018, 05:19:56 PM
deadspin is in the toilet because barstool was the new hip kid on the block and beat them at their own game.  also gawker.

big cat and PFT are financing that company.  i assume the only reason those two are still there is because they're under some contract.  if/when those two leave, barstool will revert back to the fringe tucker max corner of the internet.

I dunno man. First of all, where are Big Cat and PFT gonna go? PFTs character isn't strong enough to get a deal on his own, we're not talking Colbert here. Katz is stained by barstool, he's forever linked, he's really not done much of anything to distance himself either. I also don't think you're giving barstool's brand much credit. Their brand is much much much bigger than Pardon My Take. PMT is much bigger for, as the article pointed out, people who want to be entertained but who don't want the rest of the stench on them. The Chernin Group purchased barstool before PMT started, in fact PFT Commenter was at SB Nation. I read that article and then decided to delete PMT off of my feed. There wasn't really much new in that article but I did realize by downloading PMT, I am doing my part to normalize the awful behavior of that company. Katz is who he is, he's definitely one of the bros. Sollenberger is fully aware of how he is being used, I am not going to hate on him for cashing his checks, but he's just as complicit. He's getting paid well and has no where else to go where he can make the money he's making now. I do think Barstool can survive any individual loss, including Portnoy, I'd be willing to bet Sollenberger knows the same.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kslim on September 27, 2018, 10:25:44 AM


I am doing my part to normalize the awful behavior of that company.




lol and how are you doing that exactly?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on September 28, 2018, 01:54:47 AM


I am doing my part to normalize the awful behavior of that company.




lol and how are you doing that exactly?

I listened to every episode of PMT and Spitting Chicklets ever made until Tuesday. I had the app and used it until sometime in the spring until Portnoy did something I objected to, don't remember what, there's been so much crap. I'm not going to protest or anything, people can do whatever the eff they want, I don't care. However, I can't keep acting like I'm offended/insulted/angry and keep giving that dude downloads and clicks.

Portnoy is a legitimately shitty human. He could absolutely have his brand without being every -ist that exists he can have his brand without turning his sycophants on adults trying to earn a living and live their lives. He could keep his stoolies on their slice of the internet and look at all the college bobbies, irreverent league previews and recaps, and videos of NFL fans puking on kids, and make an absolute killing. None of this is good enough for him though. Dave Portnoy is an insecure, aggrieved, incel using the power of his website to own the bitches that didn't have the time for him when he was just an ugly ass mr. potato head looking common dude. The fact that whenever he fucks up it's never ever ever his fault, let's me know that despite attempts by people like PMT and Liz Gonzalez to lessen the bull crap Portnoy brings with him, the company will always have these issues until Chernin decides to buy him out. When that happens, I'll gladly return to listening to barstool programming 2-4 hours a week.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 06:18:09 PM
 :love:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 06:23:27 PM
Imagine being a rebel of a rebel sports forum/board who hates/is offended by other rebel sports forums. Jesus! :lol:
Title: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: steve dave on September 28, 2018, 06:37:47 PM
Being a rough ridin' downgrade to people doesn’t make you a rebel. It just makes you a low quality human being.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 06:43:52 PM
I don’t listen to their show, but some of their Twitter content is hilarious. I can’t imagine going out of your way to listen to people you hate.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 07:01:45 PM
I’m just saying, following MIR’s posting style through the years, you either agree with his takes or you’re a major rough ridin' idiot and he’ll make sure to tell you about it. Imagine being disgusted by guys who do the same thing but are making millions doing it. They’re funny. :dunno:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 8manpick on September 28, 2018, 07:14:14 PM
I’m just saying, following MIR’s posting style through the years, you either agree with his takes or you’re a major rough ridin' idiot and he’ll make sure to tell you about it. Imagine being disgusted by guys who do the same thing but are making millions doing it. They’re funny. :dunno:
Negating entirely the content of the takes, sure it's the same thing
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on September 28, 2018, 07:49:19 PM
I don’t listen to these guys, what do they say that’s downgrade’y? Is it like ok_cat 24/7?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: CHONGS on September 28, 2018, 08:01:10 PM
Oh boy I am surprised wackycat is a stollie.  So shocking!!!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 09:05:15 PM
I’m just shocked that chings can’t laugh at funny things ppl say online. Totally, absolutely, shocked!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 09:12:48 PM
Ugh.... jokes! :curse:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on September 28, 2018, 09:39:10 PM
These are the guys who just want politics out of sports (sick of it!!) and then tweet out a bunch of trumpbro stuff, right?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on September 28, 2018, 09:46:23 PM
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1045859457010257923?s=21

Is this the stuff people are mad at?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 11:02:47 PM
These are the guys who just want politics out of sports (sick of it!!) and then tweet out a bunch of trumpbro stuff, right?
Nah. Guys being guys making guy jokes and are super successful, but it’s 2018 so eff’em. Those guys. That’s who they are and where they are.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 11:20:33 PM
That Dave guy also does a bit where he tries a new pizza everyday wherever he’s at and rates it. Sometimes with super famous ppl too. Just drives ppl nuts tho. :curse:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on September 28, 2018, 11:22:51 PM
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1045859457010257923?s=21

Is this the stuff people are mad at?

Did you read the most recent article I shared?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 28, 2018, 11:39:19 PM
They’re basically professional PI’rs to randoms on the internet which use to be celebrated here if it was aimed at the right poster and laughed at in the same realm. It’s just that they do it way better.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on September 29, 2018, 07:26:18 AM
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1045859457010257923?s=21

Is this the stuff people are mad at?

Did you read the most recent article I shared?


As a matter of principal I don’t read copy and pasted links but I made an exception and read it just now, I didn’t realize this Portnoy guy was going after people personally and posting addresses and phone numbers on twitter. Hard to believe he is still around given all of the things he has done according to that article.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on September 29, 2018, 04:17:42 PM
These are the guys who just want politics out of sports (sick of it!!) and then tweet out a bunch of trumpbro stuff, right?
Nah. Guys being guys making guy jokes and are super successful, but it’s 2018 so eff’em. Those guys. That’s who they are and where they are.

Oh ok
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on September 30, 2018, 07:09:22 PM
I’m just saying, following MIR’s posting style through the years, you either agree with his takes or you’re a major rough ridin' idiot and he’ll make sure to tell you about it. Imagine being disgusted by guys who do the same thing but are making millions doing it. They’re funny. :dunno:

It's amazing that you think this crap is deep.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on October 03, 2018, 10:20:49 PM
https://twitter.com/natalieweiner/status/1047662391364866048
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 03, 2018, 10:33:06 PM
Lol
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 04, 2018, 12:32:49 AM
Radar ears and the thinnest of skin. Kinda reminds me of a regular poster here.

https://thebiglead.com/2018/10/02/dave-portnoy-peter-king-death-wish/
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: hemmy on October 04, 2018, 12:56:16 AM
I enjoy the barstool pizza reviews on youtube
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 04, 2018, 09:23:21 AM
Radar ears and the thinnest of skin. Kinda reminds me of a regular poster here.

https://thebiglead.com/2018/10/02/dave-portnoy-peter-king-death-wish/
You gonna @ someone?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 04, 2018, 09:24:12 AM
I enjoy the barstool pizza reviews on youtube
Yeah, they're fun.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: XocolateThundarr on October 04, 2018, 09:49:08 AM
ICAT
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 04, 2018, 02:18:33 PM
Radar ears and the thinnest of skin. Kinda reminds me of a regular poster here.

https://thebiglead.com/2018/10/02/dave-portnoy-peter-king-death-wish/
You gonna @ someone?

@WackyCat08
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 04, 2018, 02:23:08 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on October 04, 2018, 02:56:16 PM
What’s the deal with rappaport? They brought him in for a hot second and then canned him and now he’s suing them for saying he had herpes :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 04, 2018, 02:58:36 PM
Really glad that didn't work out, Rappaport is way too good for those losers
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 8manpick on October 04, 2018, 06:01:57 PM
Really glad that didn't work out, Rappaport is way too good for those losers
Yes
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on October 09, 2018, 03:21:58 AM
I run hot and cold with that dude, sometimes he says some foul crap. Anyway they fired him because he was talking crap about "stoolies" on twitter, called them losers. Being ever conscious to their brand and knowing a predominance of their target audience is comprised of a bunch of rough ridin' aggrieved crybabies who spend most of their existence calling other people snowflakes, Portnoy had to stand up for these pussies to protect that coin.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 09, 2018, 08:24:34 AM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 11:21:16 AM
 :lol:

Their reviews went from a 4.7 to like a 3.1 in hours and then somehow they contacted yelp to make the reviews stop and to go back to a 4.7.  :lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbQHPcMORQs
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 10, 2018, 12:06:45 PM
What a douche. Good grief
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 12:13:52 PM
The guy on the patio? I agree.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 12:22:24 PM
gE and Barstool (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181010/9df213472f3813d96707acc49fe0132e.jpg)


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on October 10, 2018, 12:25:42 PM
Any gE member who behaves that way in public is also a douche. No-brainer there. Not a good look for you here man, not gEing at all.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 12:29:11 PM
It’s funny. I don’t care how it looks. Members/Owners of this site, MIR, etc. treated me like this IRL when they first recruited me here to lol at me. It’s not different at all. That Dave guy is practically Trim.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 12:30:08 PM
And it’s funny because he is a douche


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on October 10, 2018, 01:08:38 PM
seems this is in fact a hill fanman is willing to die on
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 01:11:10 PM
One of your favorite people in the world punts footballs into stands, flips off fans, cusses out his coaches, etc. It really is amazing the hypocrisy some of you guys have. SteveDave is like BigCat. He's the fun lovable one. I'm just here for the laughs of ppl being angry at these guys on here.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DQ12 on October 10, 2018, 01:14:48 PM
It’s funny. I don’t care how it looks. Members of this site, MIR, etc. treated me like this IRL when they first recruited me here to lol at me. It’s not different at all. That Dave guy is practically Trim.


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That was like, 7 years ago, man.  Get over it.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 01:15:54 PM
I can't laugh at the irony of those same ppl shitting on Barstool?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DQ12 on October 10, 2018, 01:20:55 PM
I can't laugh at the irony of those same ppl shitting on Barstool?
You can do whatever you want.  Going to bat for some shitty outlet like barstool and some lowlife like portnoy on the grounds that MIR may have been an bad person to you back in 2011 seems strange.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 10, 2018, 01:34:09 PM
I mean it started in 2011 and continued on further than that, but OK. Some of their content is funny. That's all i'm saying.
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Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2018, 12:42:31 PM
It’s funny. I don’t care how it looks. Members/Owners of this site, MIR, etc. treated me like this IRL when they first recruited me here to lol at me. It’s not different at all. That Dave guy is practically Trim.


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WTF? You're a goddamned liar, kid. I always treated you, and frankly everyone else, with respect. Also, "recruited here" what the eff are you talking about? Trim nearly fought half a bar of strangers while sticking up for you. This bullshit has gone on for so long you've completely bastardized what your grievance is. rough ridin' grow up, Heath.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 17, 2018, 01:07:38 PM
Trim legit recruited me here and you have IRL PI'd me as well early on (cat game in Wichita). You guys have also done some great, kind things. I have legit recorded/posted some of the crap Trim has done here. Calls at 2 AM acting like a bitch on my voicemail, live tweeting his interaction with Mrs. Wacky, getting involved with the janeybird crap, Filly, etc. If wanna be ignorant to some of the crap, then fine, but don't call BS either. You've been fine with me 95% of the time, besides some of your meltdowns on this board with ppl who disagree with you. Point was, similar encounters have happened to me, so the comparison isn't that crazy.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 17, 2018, 01:13:34 PM
Those Barstool guys have also hired on a lot of less fortunate ppl and done a lot of good, so again, ppl trying to say they're all shitty is wrong
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Post by: star seed 7 on October 17, 2018, 01:18:29 PM
We could probably squash all this nonsense with a silly drinking contest at ff.
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Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2018, 01:20:10 PM
Trim legit recruited me here and you have IRL PI'd me as well early on (cat game in Wichita). You guys have also done some great, kind things. I have legit recorded/posted some of the crap Trim has done here. Calls at 2 AM acting like a bitch on my voicemail, live tweeting his interaction with Mrs. Wacky, getting involved with the janeybird crap, Filly, etc. If wanna be ignorant to some of the crap, then fine, but don't call BS either. I you've been fine with me 95% of the time, besides some of your meltdowns on this board with ppl who disagree with you.

No, I didn't p.i. you at the Wichita game. emawgeddon, miss her btw, did and she was unrelenting. I did not. Your date "filly" got incredibly mad that you were getting your balls busted and wouldn't talk to anyone but my wife because we were the only two people not giving you crap. This was covered on here at the time and several times since. You ate it up though, if you wanted them to stop they would have, maybe not emawgeddon, but everyone else, yes. For you to bring this up and hold misguided grudges for so long after this is compete bullshit. You comparing trim busting your balls to some other dude influencing thousands to try to ruin someone's business is unhinged. I presume you are now married and happy, move on, everyone else has. The only person talking about my interactions with others on here is you. I don't have a problem with anyone else on here and no one on this board has a problem with me. If you can't stop being a victim, then rough ridin' leave, all you are good for is for people to be entertained/amazed when you pull this bullshit on a quarterly basis.
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Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2018, 01:22:02 PM
We could probably squash all this nonsense with a silly drinking contest at ff.

There is no nonsense for us to squash and the only person that has the power to stop this from happening is the only person who is always involved in this crap.
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Post by: ChiComCat on October 17, 2018, 01:23:38 PM
The comparison is absolutely crazy
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 17, 2018, 01:24:18 PM
I stopped posting about this crap a week ago, so.... Ok. Continue your ignorance is bliss lifestyle.
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Post by: mocat on October 17, 2018, 01:35:14 PM
If you can't stop being a victim

 :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 17, 2018, 01:49:31 PM
Everything I've ever seen from barstool is trashy crap that represents boston perfectly

eff off. Barstool is national, there's even a Barstool K-State, and that crap head Portnoy now lives in New York.

It's also worth noting that Big Cat and PFT Commenter are very different than those other scum bags that work there, there podcast is very gE'y.
:dunno:
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Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2018, 03:49:10 PM
What are you shrugging your shoulders for?
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 17, 2018, 03:50:19 PM
My entire point was that barstool is gE'y all along. Jesus.
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Post by: MakeItRain on October 17, 2018, 03:52:29 PM
This rough ridin' guy, I swear. I'm out.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on October 17, 2018, 03:53:07 PM
lol. Wtf.  :lol:
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Post by: michigancat on October 17, 2018, 03:59:26 PM
I mean, you can definitely be a trashy boston shithead while living in NYC
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Post by: wetwillie on October 17, 2018, 04:04:27 PM
I’m trying hard to think of some people I admire from Boston and I’m not coming up with any. 
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Post by: Dugout DickStone on October 17, 2018, 04:18:48 PM
I’m trying hard to think of some people I admire from Boston and I’m not coming up with any.

Matt Damon
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Post by: Shooter Jones on October 17, 2018, 05:03:04 PM
I’m trying hard to think of some people I admire from Boston and I’m not coming up with any.

I was going to say Barbara Bush.. but I guess she's kind of from New York
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Post by: Pete on October 17, 2018, 07:12:59 PM
I’m trying hard to think of some people I admire from Boston and I’m not coming up with any.

Every single person at MIT.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: steve dave on December 13, 2018, 01:48:02 PM
https://twitter.com/samer/status/1073300499997356035?s=21


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Post by: Cire on December 13, 2018, 07:34:12 PM
LoL


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on March 06, 2019, 12:05:45 PM
 :love:

Quote
you deserve to be criticized if you support Barstool and/or treat them as anything other than the corporate equivalent of the MAGA hat teen

https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1103312926566428672
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 8manpick on March 06, 2019, 12:40:39 PM
I don't like barstool at all but after reading that I think I like Drew Magary less
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on March 06, 2019, 01:12:36 PM
I don't like barstool at all but after reading that I think I like Drew Magary less

that was your reaction? geez
Title: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 8manpick on March 06, 2019, 01:17:56 PM
I don't like barstool at all but after reading that I think I like Drew Magary less

that was your reaction? geez
That's an exaggeration.  On the other hand, he took 10000 words to say what 500 could have. It was little more than a self-serving hit piece. The stolen content portion is a real grievance, the rest is nothing revelatory if you've heard of Barstool.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 06, 2019, 01:19:49 PM
Consider me shocked, that barstool sports competitor continues to write butthurt columns about them, while they ignore them. I didn't read past the first paragraph, but Jesus, sounds like MSN doing a spin piece on Fox news. Both sites can suck ass at times.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 8manpick on March 06, 2019, 01:30:38 PM
the william sonoma thing lost it's headwind after the first year and became forced and stupid and boring, like all of magary's other hit pieces
he's a molding king's hawaiian roll that sat on your counter for 2 weeks.  get lost magary
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Post by: michigancat on March 06, 2019, 01:33:14 PM
worth it for the maga teen line
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Post by: michigancat on March 06, 2019, 01:33:34 PM
no way barstool has created anything as funny
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: pissclams on March 06, 2019, 03:40:48 PM
the william sonoma thing lost it's headwind after the first year and became forced and stupid and boring, like all of magary's other hit pieces
he's a molding king's hawaiian roll that sat on your counter for 2 weeks.  get lost magary

i have no recollection of this post but my molding king's hawaiian roll analogy is spot on
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Post by: DQ12 on March 07, 2019, 01:55:02 PM
i got tired of magary, but i do like him.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on March 07, 2019, 05:25:56 PM
https://twitter.com/BobSaietta/status/1103431383412862976
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Post by: star seed 7 on March 07, 2019, 05:29:11 PM
Haha
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Post by: chum1 on June 01, 2019, 11:38:28 AM
https://twitter.com/ToLey88/status/1134636272335691778
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on June 02, 2019, 07:39:02 PM
https://twitter.com/ToLey88/status/1134636272335691778

We're really watering down "PC" if hating the crap out of barstool is being chalked up to political correctness.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DaBigTrain on June 20, 2019, 09:24:35 PM
https://twitter.com/barstoolbigcat/status/1141691089319014402
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Post by: chum1 on August 13, 2019, 09:34:31 AM
https://twitter.com/hamiltonnolan/status/1161278738836926465
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 13, 2019, 09:55:29 AM
Because they're all rough ridin' around.  My word! :lol:
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Post by: Shooter Jones on August 14, 2019, 11:23:46 AM
Because they're all rough ridin' around.  My word! :lol:

The Hillary Clinton advisor and AOC taking it seriously has been entertaining as well.

People are really rough ridin' stupid.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 14, 2019, 01:28:22 PM
OMG Yes! AOC is so rough ridin' stupid!  :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 14, 2019, 04:44:53 PM
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1161752266090668032?s=21
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 14, 2019, 04:57:09 PM
https://twitter.com/stoolsalesguy/status/1161631406872760323?s=21
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Post by: mocat on August 15, 2019, 08:49:37 AM
what a world
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Post by: TheHamburglar on August 15, 2019, 08:53:20 AM
So crap bag does crap bag things and a politician does politician things.  :dunno:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on January 21, 2020, 02:55:27 PM
https://twitter.com/hamiltonnolan/status/1161278738836926465

Whoops.

https://twitter.com/IWWFJU/status/1219713656369418245
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on January 21, 2020, 02:59:02 PM
not team barstool but not sure how that equates to "getting fuuuuucked"
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 29, 2020, 11:02:27 AM
Company is now worth half a Billion after today’s move. WOW!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on January 29, 2020, 11:07:51 AM
Lots of douchebags in the world
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Kat Kid on January 29, 2020, 11:34:18 AM
really a mystery to me why anyone would celebrate someone else making a bunch of money while threatening their workers for wanting to unionize.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 29, 2020, 12:53:59 PM
really a mystery to me why anyone would celebrate someone else making a bunch of money while threatening their workers for wanting to unionize.
Is that what you think is happening here?  :confused:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 16, 2020, 07:17:34 PM
https://twitter.com/coachhuggs/status/1261723295461904384?s=21
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Spracne on May 16, 2020, 07:32:42 PM
https://twitter.com/coachhuggs/status/1261723295461904384?s=21

Context, please?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: ben ji on May 16, 2020, 08:08:18 PM
https://twitter.com/coachhuggs/status/1261723295461904384?s=21

Context, please?
I think its referencing that "El presidente" the founder of barstool paid 250k in a charity auction to watch a sunday of football in goodells basement with him.

These two people do not like each other
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 16, 2020, 08:10:21 PM
And former K-State basketball coaches are tweeting about it.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 16, 2020, 08:13:51 PM
And most pro hug and Frank supporters on here hate Barstool. It’s a beautiful mix.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on May 16, 2020, 09:03:06 PM
Amazing how the human mind works.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 16, 2020, 09:04:39 PM
What did I do wrong here?


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Post by: meow meow on May 18, 2020, 08:40:45 AM
and some people on this board like stoole pres more than frank
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on May 18, 2020, 10:02:55 AM
and some people on this board like stoole pres more than frank
OMG, let’s @ those dorks. I can’t wait to laugh in their dumb faces together. :love: :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on June 05, 2020, 02:23:13 PM
I hate barstool, but this is an all-time great troll
https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1268941275392356356
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Post by: steve dave on June 05, 2020, 02:33:00 PM
Yes, enjoyed it


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on June 05, 2020, 03:05:45 PM
There's no fewer than 15 jokes on there, and I'm having a hard time saying which troll is the best one. I'd lean towards Skyline Chili for WV, but on twitter the Massachusetts people have lost their minds.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on June 05, 2020, 03:42:08 PM
I started in Kansas and thought,  hmmm ok.   Scanned the Midwest saw Timmy’s in Oklahoma and died laughing.
Title: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 8manpick on June 05, 2020, 03:44:13 PM
KFC in Georgia is funny too. Similarly CFA in Kentucky
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 05, 2020, 03:50:28 PM
The Coach Duggs thing has been fun to follow.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: meow meow on June 05, 2020, 05:29:53 PM
duggs is played out now, but seeing some college twitter accounts and coaches play along has been fun, and then the idiots that are like "don't you understand this is a video game and not real" when their team loses is pretty lol.
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on June 05, 2020, 08:45:40 PM
Definitely.
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Post by: IPA4Me on June 06, 2020, 01:41:51 PM
KFC in Georgia is funny too. Similarly CFA in Kentucky
Spot on in Kentucky. Lines wrap around the damn buildings two wide.

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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on July 24, 2020, 12:18:43 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshEberley/status/1286504495845740544
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on July 24, 2020, 07:39:56 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshEberley/status/1286504495845740544
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1286788021774426118?s=21


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on July 25, 2020, 01:24:10 AM
The interview not withstanding, I mean who really cares. The world knows he's a trump supporter as are most barstool followers, but the dude is a child in his mid 40's. That reply to whoever David Nakamura was completely childish and unnecessary. I would have thought that after his biggest talent in the company did this today, the little boy would lay low. Guess he can't help himself.

https://twitter.com/BarstoolRadio/status/1286700009589739521
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Post by: IPA4Me on July 25, 2020, 07:00:40 AM
Peaked in college bros.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on September 06, 2020, 08:00:25 PM
https://twitter.com/deionsanders/status/1302612189518454785?s=21

Don’t do it Deion
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on September 06, 2020, 08:01:24 PM
Lol. Awesome!


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 30, 2020, 03:56:42 PM
Can't believe what these guys are doing for small businesses right now. Pretty badass. They're killing it and big time people are getting involved.  :love:

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1344278159676633096?s=20
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Institutional Control on December 30, 2020, 06:29:50 PM
That’s awesome. Harvey Weinstein was huge philanthropist too.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Kat Kid on December 30, 2020, 06:33:38 PM
that is good. I also saw someone reply and say "no one has done more than Dave Portnoy for small biz this year" and had to lol. The guy is a world class self-promoter, his fans are loyal as hell.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 30, 2020, 06:35:36 PM
That’s awesome. Harvey Weinstein was huge philanthropist too.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 30, 2020, 06:47:51 PM
that is good. I also saw someone reply and say "no one has done more than Dave Portnoy for small biz this year" and had to lol. The guy is a world class self-promoter, his fans are loyal as hell.
Yeah, that is definitely a joke of a statement, but I’m happy they’re helping ppl out during this time. The comment section is definitely entertaining. Especially from the Anti-Barstool peeps trying to crap on what they’re doing.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on December 30, 2020, 09:20:42 PM
that is good. I also saw someone reply and say "no one has done more than Dave Portnoy for small biz this year" and had to lol. The guy is a world class self-promoter, his fans are loyal as hell.
Yeah, that is definitely a joke of a statement, but I’m happy they’re helping ppl out during this time. The comment section is definitely entertaining. Especially from the Anti-Barstool peeps trying to crap on what they’re doing.


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There isn't a single person in the world "trying to crap on what they're doing" literally not a single one. Why are you and other stoolies so sensitive about some dudes who run a sports website?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: IPA4Me on December 30, 2020, 09:33:15 PM
Well actually, MIR, click the tweet I quoted.

https://twitter.com/Rob_in_KY/status/1344073565516275713?s=19

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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on December 30, 2020, 09:48:54 PM
Well actually, MIR, click the tweet I quoted.

https://twitter.com/Rob_in_KY/status/1344073565516275713?s=19

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Deleted.

I hadn't heard a single thing about this before wacky mentioned it yesterday, it's very cool. The partnership with the 30 Day Fund is key here. I don't know what it takes to get a 30 Day Fund but neither Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, or Texas has one. All of those states have emergency COVID funds but they are ran by the states instead of these seemingly very capable other entities. I'd certainly like to see more black owned business rewarded, but that doesn't take away from the fanatic gesture by all involved with this.

When I was researching the 30 Day Fund I found this which is amazing
https://twitter.com/marcuslemonis/status/1343641756311691267
I'm done being mad at him for picking flood aggie last year because there are like 70 camping world stores here.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: IPA4Me on December 30, 2020, 09:55:09 PM
Haha. Little crap couldn't take the heat he was getting. Made a few posts about Dave needing to do all the donating. He was catching it from non-stoolies like me as well.



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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on December 30, 2020, 10:06:58 PM
Haha. Little crap couldn't take the heat he was getting. Made a few posts about Dave needing to do all the donating. He was catching it from non-stoolies like me

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Yeah, that isn't great but I don't take that as someone who has a problem with the fund, only that Dave isn't giving money to it, which I have no idea how true that is. I'm never going to get in someone else's pockets, but if that's the extent of the criticism then he's doing all right, especially given who he's been historically.

There's no doubt that this is an amazing gesture. There is also no doubt that there is a public relations component to it, that's why his Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon sized head is right at the top of the site and the branding is all over everything. I also think the money raised is likely more because he's the face of this instead of the guys running the 30 Day Fund, or Big Cat, or Erika Nardini. However, he's going to get some tiny bit of criticism, he's earned it.
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Post by: IPA4Me on December 30, 2020, 10:09:46 PM


Haha. Little crap couldn't take the heat he was getting. Made a few posts about Dave needing to do all the donating. He was catching it from non-stoolies like me

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Yeah, that isn't great but I don't take that as someone who has a problem with the fund, only that Dave isn't giving money to it, which I have no idea how true that is. I'm never going to get in someone else's pockets, but if that's the extent of the criticism then he's doing all right, especially given who he's been historically.

There's no doubt that this is an amazing gesture. There is also no doubt that there is a public relations component to it, that's why his Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon sized head is right at the top of the site and the branding is all over everything. I also think the money raised is likely more because he's the face of this instead of the guys running the 30 Day Fund, or Big Cat, or Erika Nardini. However, he's going to get some tiny bit of criticism, he's earned it.

Dave out up the first $500K. Then challenged his rich buds. It's a good thing and I'm far from a Barstool fan. I have most of their accounts blocked or muted. Dislike their peaked in college bro humor.

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Post by: MakeItRain on December 30, 2020, 10:17:57 PM

Dave out up the first $500K. Then challenged his rich buds.

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That's fantastic. I think his worth is definitely overstated, but if every person in America worth more than $25 million did what he and Marcus Lemonis did, donated $500,000 tax deductible dollars, that's 175,000 Americans by the way, there would be $87 billion available to small businesses.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: IPA4Me on December 30, 2020, 10:19:20 PM
Compassionate capitalism. Nice to see it in action.

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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 06, 2021, 08:07:40 AM
Comment section is pretty gross here.

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1346810307231035393?s=20

Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 06, 2021, 12:49:35 PM
Comment section is pretty gross here.

https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1346810307231035393?s=20

What? Was this just a ploy to get us to click the link? The only tweets I saw that weren't positive were a couple of people telling Today to vet their interview subjects and one guy who called Portnoy a fox news trumper.

Your sensitivity to the slightest bit of portnoy criticism is intriguing to me. Isn't the dude supposed to be polarizing, like isn't that the point?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 06, 2021, 01:00:27 PM
I'm not a stoolie like you've suggested in this thread. The most content I've seen from them is the pizza challenge and twitter content. I just think it's embarrassing how divided we are these days. Most people hate prez because he interviewed that orange dude and won't allow any positive news coming from his medium. That's all i'm getting at here. Many of the ppl who've criticized him in this thread, also lean a certain way. Most of their content is meant to be fun. That's all. People shove politics into everything these days.  :dunno:
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Post by: star seed 7 on January 06, 2021, 01:07:03 PM
Ah yes, people don't like a massive douchebag because he interviewed the president. That must be the reason.
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Post by: star seed 7 on January 06, 2021, 01:11:04 PM
Anyway, 420seriouscat69, have you seen the videos of him trashing kelce? Calls him a try-hard  :curse:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 06, 2021, 01:12:41 PM
Anyway, 420seriouscat69, have you seen the videos of him trashing kelce? Calls him a try-hard  :curse:
He's a Patriots fan.  :dunno: I wouldn't take them too seriously. The K-State account is terrible tho. CanCo that.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 06, 2021, 02:26:15 PM
I'm not a stoolie like you've suggested in this thread. The most content I've seen from them is the pizza challenge and twitter content. I just think it's embarrassing how divided we are these days. Most people hate prez because he interviewed that orange dude and won't allow any positive news coming from his medium. That's all i'm getting at here. Many of the ppl who've criticized him in this thread, also lean a certain way. Most of their content is meant to be fun. That's all. People shove politics into everything these days.  :dunno:

Is a stoolie something more that someone who consumes and enjoys barstool? Because if that's all it is I'd hope you like barstool as much as you defend portnoy without anyone on here criticizing him, you and I really the only people who bump this thread.

I don't know if this was intentionally disingenuous, but Portnoy's polarization had literally nothing to do with that trump interview, literally nothing. This very thread was created before the trump interview. I don't even think the trump interview comes up if you Google Dave Portnoy controversies.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 06, 2021, 02:38:44 PM
I'm not a stoolie like you've suggested in this thread. The most content I've seen from them is the pizza challenge and twitter content. I just think it's embarrassing how divided we are these days. Most people hate prez because he interviewed that orange dude and won't allow any positive news coming from his medium. That's all i'm getting at here. Many of the ppl who've criticized him in this thread, also lean a certain way. Most of their content is meant to be fun. That's all. People shove politics into everything these days.  :dunno:

Is a stoolie something more that someone who consumes and enjoys barstool? Because if that's all it is I'd hope you like barstool as much as you defend portnoy without anyone on here criticizing him, you and I really the only people who bump this thread.

I don't know if this was intentionally disingenuous, but Portnoy's polarization had literally nothing to do with that trump interview, literally nothing. This very thread was created before the trump interview. I don't even think the trump interview comes up if you Google Dave Portnoy controversies.
TBT and Mocat brought them up as a slam in the movie thread over break. Only reason why I bumped this thread. It went down a short path. It's all good.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 06, 2021, 06:40:25 PM
Long story short, Dave Portnoy is a shitty dude doing a great thing for everyday Americans and that's great. There are Americans with a lot more money and time than Portnoy that aren't doing a damn thing to help anyone.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: IPA4Me on January 07, 2021, 09:31:42 AM
Well said, MIR.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on January 07, 2021, 10:29:24 AM
TBT and Mocat brought them up as a slam in the movie thread over break. Only reason why I bumped this thread. It went down a short path. It's all good.

say what now
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on January 07, 2021, 10:42:46 AM
I'm never one to get into others pockets, but I feel Bezos is generally a terrible person and he's one to push for a large donation in movements like this? Could possibly gain some good will, even if it's with such a small percentage of small businesses?

Probably for another thread, but does he do good things? I don't know much about him but I have a decent amount of hate for him for some reason (without knowing any facts or knowledge of how he treats employees, or any philanthropic work he does).
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 07, 2021, 12:59:07 PM
I'm never one to get into others pockets, but I feel Bezos is generally a terrible person and he's one to push for a large donation in movements like this? Could possibly gain some good will, even if it's with such a small percentage of small businesses?

Probably for another thread, but does he do good things? I don't know much about him but I have a decent amount of hate for him for some reason (without knowing any facts or knowledge of how he treats employees, or any philanthropic work he does).

I don't know how he treats his immediate employees at the Amazon offices who interact with him regularly, I do know he treats his thousands of rank and file workers very poorly and unnecessarily so.

As for not knowing what he does philanthropically, that's very problematic as well. The genius of what Portnoy is doing is that he uses his influence to get others to donate as well, same concept with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has the power to make substantive changes by giving and by using his influence to shine the light on organizations and other endeavors. His ex-wife is unintentionally, maybe intentionally embarrassing him, at the same time she's shining light on and causing people to have conversations about HCBUs.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Cire on January 07, 2021, 03:06:50 PM
How much of that fund is Portnoy going to grift away?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 07, 2021, 05:06:32 PM
How much of that fund is Portnoy going to grift away?

It's not managed by him, it's managed by The 30 Day Fund. He's using the popularity of barstool to raise money for the 30 Day Fund.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Cire on January 07, 2021, 05:11:42 PM
Gotcha.


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Institutional Control on January 07, 2021, 05:33:54 PM
eff this guy.

https://twitter.com/barstoolradio/status/915311832457531392?s=21


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 07, 2021, 08:40:52 PM
Uh oh! paging @420seriouscat69
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on January 07, 2021, 08:54:04 PM
eff this guy.

https://twitter.com/barstoolradio/status/915311832457531392?s=21


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That's what did it?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Institutional Control on January 07, 2021, 09:48:32 PM
Did what?


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 07, 2021, 10:29:10 PM
Uh oh! paging @420seriouscat69
It’s on this page... 2017 pats/gronk dude. Nothing to see here. Horrible, irrational sports guy take. Love it. Means he’s got to him because of winning. Kinda how you feel about Iowa State these days.



Anyway, 420seriouscat69, have you seen the videos of him trashing kelce? Calls him a try-hard  :curse:
He's a Patriots fan.  :dunno: I wouldn't take them too seriously. The K-State account is terrible tho. CanCo that.

Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 07, 2021, 10:35:13 PM
Also, to be fair, Kelce was a giant douche, with no direction, before Reid told him to grow the eff up. He was producing, but going down a Marcus Peters path where everyone wanted to give him away, because of the locker room. He was doing a bunch of dumb crap back then. He finally put his head down and outplayed that shadow of his frat boy antics. Now it’s just endearing.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 08, 2021, 12:24:09 AM
Uh oh! paging @420seriouscat69
It’s on this page... 2017 pats/gronk dude. Nothing to see here. Horrible, irrational sports guy take. Love it. Means he’s got to him because of winning. Kinda how you feel about Iowa State these days.



Anyway, 420seriouscat69, have you seen the videos of him trashing kelce? Calls him a try-hard  :curse:
He's a Patriots fan.  :dunno: I wouldn't take them too seriously. The K-State account is terrible tho. CanCo that.

I hated them when they were crap and I'll hate them in 2022 when they're crap again.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 08, 2021, 08:00:23 AM
 :cheers:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on January 11, 2021, 09:49:55 AM
some local flavor

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1348657819361435655?s=20
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on January 11, 2021, 10:01:11 AM
SF got some love too

https://twitter.com/BitterAfterDark/status/1347434149477421056

https://twitter.com/KermitStocks/status/1347679405737435137

Does he make a video of all his donations? Gross
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: GregKSU1027 on January 11, 2021, 10:11:36 AM
some local flavor

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1348657819361435655?s=20
I hate this because i want to love it but I can’t


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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 11, 2021, 10:33:12 AM
 :love:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 11, 2021, 12:45:14 PM
some local flavor

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1348657819361435655?s=20

Ugh. I'm so conflicted about this. Of course I'm glad that the NLBM is getting a donation. I love Bob Kendrick. However, I think that this money would be much better for actual small black owned businesses like Bayou on the Vine, that had to close. Bob Kendrick can get into damn near any corporate boardroom he wants to get into and every single year he gets to appear on dozens of MLB broadcasts.

Dave 100% did this for clout, and I don't know how I feel about that. I know I'd feel much better about it if seemingly the only two black owned businesses that has gotten this money are two high profile non profits instead of the traditional mom & pop shops who need help the most, people who traditionally have a harder time getting business loans.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on January 11, 2021, 02:02:59 PM
Portnoy is very smart and knows his fans don't give a crap about mom-and-pop black-owned businesses but they will be able to use the NLBM as an example of supporting black businesses that really can't be criticized too strongly.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 8manpick on January 11, 2021, 02:32:51 PM
I do really like Bob Kendrick
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Cire on January 11, 2021, 02:52:53 PM
Bob Kendrick is a treasure.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 15, 2021, 04:16:48 PM
Lol

https://twitter.com/alexandracooper/status/1350124065533562882?s=21
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 15, 2021, 05:18:56 PM
lol, how exactly did he foresee that turning out
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 15, 2021, 05:27:22 PM
lol, how exactly did he foresee that turning out
As the cool kids would say: “He played himself!”
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: pissclams on January 15, 2021, 06:28:25 PM
jose is a great twitter follow
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on February 23, 2021, 02:35:29 PM
Paging wacky! Paging wacky! WOOF!
https://twitter.com/Carl_NYG/status/1364297653224407042
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on February 23, 2021, 02:37:20 PM
Not a good look. Isn't that the guy who cheated on his pregnant wife?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on February 23, 2021, 03:01:44 PM
Paging wacky! Paging wacky! WOOF!
https://twitter.com/Carl_NYG/status/1364297653224407042
I don't understand what he thought was a hoax
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on February 23, 2021, 03:43:16 PM
Not a good look. Isn't that the guy who cheated on his pregnant wife?

I do believe so, yes.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Stupid Fitz on February 23, 2021, 04:28:28 PM
Paging wacky! Paging wacky! WOOF!
https://twitter.com/Carl_NYG/status/1364297653224407042
I don't understand what he thought was a hoax

Same, but as the last few years have shown us, dumb people really really like to believe real things are fake and that fake things are real even when its pretty easy to find the truth.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on February 23, 2021, 08:35:08 PM
Paging wacky! Paging wacky! WOOF!
https://twitter.com/Carl_NYG/status/1364297653224407042
I don't get it
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Jobu on February 24, 2021, 10:59:48 AM
Paging wacky! Paging wacky! WOOF!
https://twitter.com/Carl_NYG/status/1364297653224407042
I don't get it


This dude is pretty much a horrible dipshit.  It's one of those things where no publicity is bad publicity.

Looking through his twitter, apparently, there have been multiple celebrity hoaxes linked with broken legs.  So, when Tiger's news came across, he figured he would get in front of it and call it out as a hoax, and look like some kind of genius.  I guess.  Even though it was easily verifiable that it in fact was a real freaking car accident.

He seems like a real piece of crap.  And he preys on dipshits like him to lap it all up.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on August 10, 2021, 02:08:31 PM
There are a lot of people super pissed off about Barstool possibly broadcasting random midweek MLB games.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on August 10, 2021, 02:19:00 PM
Are they a serious threat to start broadcasting real sporting events? I saw they are doing a bowl game now. 
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on August 10, 2021, 07:24:40 PM
Are they a serious threat to start broadcasting real sporting events? I saw they are doing a bowl game now.

It definitely sounds like it.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on August 10, 2021, 08:46:45 PM
Pretty toxic brand for people to want to deal with.

https://twitter.com/TheWildcaster/status/1425236549730406402
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Post by: 420seriouscat69 on August 10, 2021, 08:53:01 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on August 10, 2021, 11:24:28 PM
Pretty toxic brand for people to want to deal with.

https://twitter.com/TheWildcaster/status/1425236549730406402

This is stupid.

Portnoy could solve all of this by just stop being such an active face of the company. He built the company to be a fantastic business success story. However, now he isn't close to the most visible or popular personality there. No one is taking in barstool content because of him but people are definitely staying away because of him. He should just run the business with whatever parent company is the controlling interest these days, Penn Gaming, I think, count his money, and gtfo of the front of the camera. It's simple vanity at this point.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on August 10, 2021, 11:47:26 PM
I'm not a barstool aficionado by any means, but am under the impression that reveling in the offensive is still kinda on brand for them.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on August 11, 2021, 12:43:44 AM
I'm not a barstool aficionado by any means, but am under the impression that reveling in the offensive is still kinda on brand for them.

yeah I don't think the culture changes if Portnoy's no longer the face.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on August 11, 2021, 05:50:11 AM
From what I can gather from watching and listening to Dave, he isn’t capable of taking a backseat and counting his money.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on August 12, 2021, 09:54:59 AM
I'm not a barstool aficionado by any means, but am under the impression that reveling in the offensive is still kinda on brand for them.

I'm not a barstool aficionado by any means, but am under the impression that reveling in the offensive is still kinda on brand for them.

yeah I don't think the culture changes if Portnoy's no longer the face.

I do dabble in barstool quite a bit, I knew them when they were just a little newsletter in Boston and I know @Dugout DickStone did too. They are very different now, incredibly different and the young stoolies don't like it because even they are unaware at how much they've cleaned up their act since going corporate and they are expecting the same non pc stuff the detractors of the company do.

The only controversies they have now is when Portony does something with the express purpose of drumming up controversy so the twitter libs get triggered and he can still seem like an iconoclast. They still do stuff that will make some people  :curse: but this isn't 2015 Barstool.

-They got rid of the column where they rate the hotness of teachers that get caught sleeping with students.

-They got rid of comments then brought them back but they are now heavily moderated.

-They still have the smokeshow of the day, but it isn't pinned to the top of the page and on the banner of the site.

They produce more content like this and the reaction of the commenters is hilarious to me

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1400461089100361734

Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on August 12, 2021, 09:55:43 AM
From what I can gather from watching and listening to Dave, he isn’t capable of taking a backseat and counting his money.

Not for a solitary second
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on August 18, 2021, 04:29:37 PM
here's another summary

https://www.mediamatters.org/barstool-sports/barstool-sports-cesspool-misogyny-and-bigotry (https://www.mediamatters.org/barstool-sports/barstool-sports-cesspool-misogyny-and-bigotry)
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 04, 2021, 10:55:10 AM
Insider did a piece

tl;dr- he's gross and preys on young women and does weird/bad sex things. this article will have no tangible impact on anything.

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In the summer of 2020, Madison sent Barstool Sports' founder, Dave Portnoy, a direct message on Instagram complimenting his famous "one bite" pizza reviews.

"Sick pizza reviews," she wrote. "Thanks fly bitch," Portnoy responded. She was a 20-year-old college student at the time, Portnoy a 43-year-old multimillionaire. The conversation soon moved to Snapchat and text, where it quickly turned to the topic of sex. He sent her graphic videos of other women he'd slept with, according to Madison, and in messages reviewed by Insider, he pressed her to tell him about her sexual fantasies.

"I mean actually this ones kind of common," she wrote. "Like a rape fantasy, where I don't have any control of what's going on."

"You and I are going to get along so well," he responded.

"But I will say, in order to do that one I have to be pretty comfortable with you," Madison said.

"Of course," Portnoy said, and he bought her a first-class plane ticket to visit him at his $2.2 million Nantucket home.

The trip was a "traumatic experience," Madison told Insider.

She arrived at Portnoy's four-bedroom home about 3 p.m., tired enough from her travels that she didn't mind when Portnoy told her they would order in pizza instead of going out. Still, she was surprised to find him nothing like his charismatic online persona. "He was very rude. He wasn't funny at all. He just reminded me of a boring, grumpy old man," Madison said.

After dinner, they started kissing. Madison said she first became uncomfortable when Portnoy pulled out his phone and started filming her — without asking permission — as she performed oral sex on him. "I never said anything. I was scared. He was just so mean," she said.

Dave Portnoy text
Madison texted a friend two days after having sex with Portnoy. Courtesy Madison
From there, things escalated until, as Madison put it, "I felt like I was just a human sex doll."

Two days later, Madison texted a close friend. "It was so rough I felt like I was being raped he video taped me and spit in my mouth and choked me so hard I couldn't breathe," she wrote in messages viewed by Insider. "And it hurt and I was literally screaming in pain."

She recalled crying and shouting, "Too much! Too much!" and "It hurts!"

"It was so painful," Madison said. "I kept trying to get away and he was like, 'Stop running away from me. Stop running away from me.'"

But Portnoy, she said, "just went harder."

Madison's flight home wasn't until two days later, so she slept on Portnoy's couch both nights. They did not have sex again.

Dave Portnoy makes no secret of the fact that he likes to have sex with young women, and to push the boundaries of what is considered socially acceptable. In many ways, that image is at the core of the brand that has made him one of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in digital media. There are the rape jokes, his repeated use of the N-word on camera, and his harassment of female journalists.

Last July, he released a viral TikTok video that offered women three tips for how to slide into a celebrity's DMs: "Be very hot. Don't be ugly. And say this, two words: I eff." Since 2019, he has appeared in three sex tapes that have leaked online. The stock price of Barstool's parent company plunged after the most recent leaked video, in which he violently chokes a woman using a collar and a leash. Both Portnoy and the woman said the encounter was consensual.

"I used to sling it," Portnoy responded at the time, "I've gotten better."

For years, Portnoy has managed to escape scrutiny. His behavior and comments weren't just accepted; they were expected. And commoditized. A 2020 Barstool documentary series produced by the media company features Portnoy forcefully digitally penetrating a sex doll while donning a tuxedo, later declaring himself "the finger king."

Young men, who call Portnoy "El Presidente," follow the mogul's every move, buying up Barstool merchandise printed with logos like "Team Portnoy" and "Portnoy/Musk 2024." Young women tag him in provocative videos and photos in an attempt to get his attention. The woman who appeared in his third leaked sex tape even went on a publicity blitz this past May to defend him. In October, when Portnoy visited the campus of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for a college football game, Barstool's official Instagram page posted a picture of a house whose front porch had a huge sign that said "Dave, come on in. We have pizza and pussy. 10/10"


For many, Dave Portnoy is a hero. But some in his orbit, particularly women, have told Insider they felt as though he abused his fame and power and put them in compromising positions.

Insider spoke with more than two dozen people with direct experience with Portnoy and Barstool, including eight current or former employees. Some women, as young as 19 who had no professional connection to Portnoy, recounted having sexually explicit online exchanges with him. Three of these women said they had sex with Portnoy, now 44, and that the encounters turned into frightening and humiliating experiences that have taken a toll on their mental health. Two, including Madison, said Portnoy both choked and filmed them without advance permission; another, who has had
depression
, said she was suicidal after the two had sex. And all three were afraid to speak out, fearing retaliation from the media mogul and his rabid fan base. This article uses pseudonyms chosen by Insider, which is aware of the women's real identities.

"I know how he is when someone goes after him," said the second woman, who said she was both choked and filmed without advance permission. She asked not to have the specific details of her experience publicly revealed, fearing harassment from Portnoy or his fans. Insider spoke to someone with whom the woman shared details of her rough sex with Portnoy. "I thought he would say something in public, or share videos of me."

In an email, Barstool Sports' attorney said many of the accusations in the article "embody half-truths, are highly misleading, lack appropriate context, and appear to have been provided to you by individuals whose motivations and trustworthiness should at least have been fully vetted." The attorney asked for more time for further comment. Insider provided an additional two days, but Barstool's attorney did not provide additional comment or communication.

Perpetually tan and bearded, Portnoy has built a half-a-billion-dollar digital-media empire off of sports gambling, crude humor, and barely clothed women. Barstool Sports — whose slogan is "By The Common Man, For The Common Man" — does for digital media what Donald Trump did for politics. It speaks to the masses: no pretension, no highfalutin language, and, notably, no apologies. The company says it reaches an estimated 54 million monthly unique visitors. In 2020, Barstool was valued at $450 million; Portnoy has an estimated net worth of $100 million.

Portnoy founded Barstool in 2003 in his hometown of Swampscott, Massachusetts. The free four-page newspaper offered betting tips alongside rambling sports rants. Portnoy hit the streets every day to distribute the paper to Boston-area commuters, writing all the articles under various pseudonyms. To drum up more interest, Portnoy started hiring young local models to hand out the paper in skimpy outfits (one of whom, Renee Satterthwaite, became his wife; they separated in 2017).

By 2007, Barstool had taken its operations online. In the heyday of stream-of-consciousness blogging, Barstool featured early columns like "Smokeshow of the day," in which employees scoured Facebook for photos of attractive local women, and "Guess that Ass," which invited readers to guess which female celebrity was pictured in each meticulously cropped image.

A 2013 profile in Entrepreneur magazine described Barstool's original Milton, Massachusetts, offices as "the unholy union of a fraternity house and a crime scene: Beer advertisements featuring half-naked women adorn the walls, towers of junk wobble in every corner, and the carpet is soiled with a panoply of dark dribbles and stains."

The environment reflected their company's irreverent attitude. Portnoy didn't just court controversy; he relished in it. As he became increasingly known for going against the grain, fans who felt alienated by modern-day "woke" culture turned to him as the antidote.

Take a 2017 episode of the podcast "Barstool Radio," during which Portnoy seemed to defend a hypothetical casting-couch scenario in which Harvey Weinstein says to a struggling actress, "Hey, if you sleep with me, I'm going to put you in a starring role."

"No force, just a question," the Barstool founder said. "Do you have a problem with that trade?"

He's ignited feuds with female journalists, like the ESPN sportscaster Sam Ponder, whom he told to stop posting pictures of her "ugly kid" and to "sex it up and be slutty" while she hosted the college football pregame show "College GameDay."

In 2010, Portnoy infamously wrote a blog post defending an Australian man who had been acquitted of raping a 24-year-old woman on the so-called skinny-jeans defense.

"I never condone rape, but if you're a size six and you're wearing skinny jeans, you kind of deserve to be raped," Portnoy wrote. The post has since been removed from Barstool's site, but just this May, Portnoy told the Fox News host Tucker Carlson there was only one part of that statement that he regretted. "I thought size 6 was like size 20," he said. "I had my, I had my measurements screwed up. I wasn't on top of that."

Portnoy's brashness is exactly what fans and some colleagues say they love most about him.

Dave Portnoy talking to Seth Meyers.
Portnoy has become a celebrity in his own right. In 2017, he appeared on Seth Meyers' show. Lloyd Bishop/NBC/Getty Images
"The big thing about him is he's very truthful," Portnoy's longtime friend and Barstool podcast host Elio Imbornone said. "You might not want to hear exactly what he wants to say, but he says what he believes and you've got to respect that."

Still, not everyone at Barstool is free to broadcast their opinions. In 2018, Portnoy removed two posts that cast a sympathetic light on Brett Kavanaugh's sexual-assault accuser Christine Blasey Ford, citing Barstool's "no politics" policy, but left other posts on the hearings in place. Two years later, amid Black Lives Matter protests, Portnoy told his content team, in an email reviewed by Insider: "If anybody wants to write about politics or mentions white privilege or BLM on either side of the fence it must be approved by me and only me. Nobody else has the authority to publish anything." He told them "not to bother" asking Barstool's editor in chief, Keith Markovich. "Ask me."

It's even written into Barstool contracts that employees need to check their political correctness at the door.

In 2017, the sportscaster Elika Sadeghi leaked the terms of the Barstool contract she was offered after the company pursued her for an on-camera position.

"I understand and acknowledge that as part of my job I may be exposed to speech and conduct that explicitly relates to sex, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, religion, disability and age," it said. "I expressly agree and represent that I do not object to being exposed to such speech and conduct and do not find it otherwise offensive or objectionable, and that I am willing to work in such an environment."

Sadeghi did not accept the job.

Critics of Barstool, both within and outside the company, told Insider there's a real risk to speaking out.

The online community of Stoolies, as Barstool's fans call themselves, have waged harassment campaigns against detractors. These have included death threats, doxing, online harassment, and targeting of people's families, friends, and workplaces.

Bob Murchison, a private-equity investor with no professional connection to Barstool, first began tracking Barstool's content in 2019 after it hired a radio host with a history of transphobic comments. Murchison, who has a transgender son, has taken it upon himself to privately warn advertisers of what he perceives to be the company's transphobic, misogynist, and racist content.

In 2019, a Barstool employee shared a tweet containing Murchison's cellphone number and email address; his home address was posted on fan-run message boards. In response, Stoolies sent Murchison death threats and packages (including one with an object meant to look like a bomb and another containing feces), staged a "prayer vigil" in his hometown that was also attended by Barstool employees, contacted organizations with which he was affiliated to make false claims of criminal activity against him, and showed up to his house, where they filmed videos of their trespassing, which they later posted online.

"I reached out to Erika Nardini" — Barstool's CEO — "and Barstool counsel several times asking them to address this horrific behavior," Murchison told Insider. "Their responses left me with the impression that the harassment would only be stopped if I agreed to stop my criticism of their content. I believe the harassment was intended to intimidate and silence me." Nardini did not respond to our request for comment.

Portnoy declined to get involved, saying on "Barstool Radio" in 2019: "This Murchison guy, he sounds like a crazy person. I'm not going to war with someone I've literally never said a word to."

But Portnoy doesn't always stay silent.

The online community of Stoolies, as Barstool's fans call themselves, has waged harassment campaigns against detractors. Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images
This spring, Nantucket magazine featured a glowing profile of Portnoy, including a cover shot with Portnoy lounging in the ocean atop a rosé floatie. After readers complained about being offended by Portnoy's inclusion given his history of misogynistic and racist comments, the magazine issued an apology. Portnoy went on the attack, telling Page Six that the Nantucket magazine editors were "spineless jellyfish who are held hostage by the whims of the vocal minority." He added that anyone who didn't like him "can go eff themselves."

Since 2020, Portnoy has issued commands on Twitter for his fans to "ATTACK!!!!" people who criticize him or Barstool, tagging an employee who was hired expressly for the purpose of harassing Portnoy's enemies.

In 2017, Portnoy publicly accused his ex-girlfriend Jordyn Hamilton of cheating on him with a SoulCycle instructor. Stoolies responded en masse, waging a harassment campaign not only against Hamilton but against SoulCycle. When Portnoy saw a message from SoulCycle's corporate office advising studio managers on how to deal with harassment from Stoolies, he tweeted: "Best way to avoid calling 911? Don't have your instructors eff the girlfriend of the head of major media company."

"It was really, really tough for me and my family, everything being put online," Hamilton told Insider.

Despite Hamilton's personal experience, she said she continued to be on good terms with Portnoy. "Dating him, you kind of have to go into it with a thick skin," she said, adding: "I think that today a lot of people are kind of soft."

Not everyone is as forgiving.

The podcaster Ali Weiss told Insider she was on the receiving end of Stoolie harassment for several months in 2016 and 2017 following an appearance on "Barstool Idol." The commentary, she said, included calls to kill her and jabs about "my shitty sense of humor, my shitty eyebrows, the fact that I looked like a man."

While Portnoy was not a perpetrator in her harassment, Weiss believes he has created a culture in which the Stoolies run wild and Portnoy rarely tries to stop them.

Weiss described the Stoolies as "h?ordes of basically crazed superfans of Dave who were trying from afar to impress him."

"And Dave was hyperaware of this," she said. "Everything that Dave Portnoy does is to incite the Stoolies to do his dirty work for him."

Last July, a young woman, Allison, was at her family's home on Nantucket. She had just graduated from high school. According to several people on the island, Portnoy was a celebrity on Nantucket. Recent high-school graduates from wealthy New England towns would try to land an invitation to Portnoy's house while summering on the island.

"The reputation on the island is that he is a God and a king and kind of untouchable," Allison said. "And everyone wants to get into his house for parties."

Allison's sister, Olivia, who had recently graduated from college, told Insider that some of her friends were sending Portnoy direct messages attempting to get the mogul's attention but he "wasn't giving them the time of day." Then they realized that her 19-year-old sister, Allison, might be more his type.

"They said: 'You should reach out to him, he likes younger girls.' And he completely took the bait," Olivia said. "He was much more interested in her than any of my 22-year-old friends."

Allison sent Portnoy a message telling him she was on the island and would love to see him. He invited her over to his house, and she asked him whether she could come by with a couple of friends.

"While we eff? Seems weird," Portnoy wrote in a message viewed by Insider. Allison responded, "Nah they don't mind."

Nantucket village
On the island of Nantucket, where Portnoy owns a $2 million home, "he is a God and a king and kind of untouchable," Allison said. "And everyone wants to get into his house for parties." Corbis Documentary/Getty Images
Portnoy told Allison he didn't like her friends messaging him, then wrote: "I'm not cool with your friends coming. Sorry." Allison called off the meetup, unwilling to go alone.

About a week later, though, she messaged him again. This time, the two agreed to meet up in the afternoon. "I was definitely pushed by my friends," Allison said.

Allison recalled sitting by the pool. Portnoy offered her watermelon and water. He asked her which school she went to and which grade she was in, Allison recalled. Then, she said: "He got up to go inside and I was like, 'OK, I'll go in with you.' And he was like, 'I didn't know it would be that easy.'"

"He leaned in and started kissing me and I didn't know what to do at that point," she added. "And we went upstairs and he was really aggressive and I didn't know what to do and we had sex and that was it and he kicked me out."

Allison said her memories were fuzzy because of her emotional distress surrounding the event, but, like Madison, she said Portnoy choked her.

"??He kept spitting in my mouth, which was really gross," Allison said. "I was kind of scared. I didn't want to disappoint him."

A little over an hour later, Allison's friends picked her up. One of the young women who was in the car told Insider that Allison was uncharacteristically quiet. "She was clearly almost in shock," she said.

"She basically couldn't talk the next day," Allison's mother told Insider.

Allison does not describe what happened to her as sexual assault but said she was still deeply disturbed by the experience. "I just felt very preyed on," she said.

Soon after Allison's encounter with Portnoy, two photos — a selfie Allison had taken with Portnoy and a photo her friend took of her leaving his house — began to circulate the island. Both were posted on private Snapchats by Allison's friends but were then screenshotted and shared widely. Before long, it felt as though the entire island knew what had transpired between Allison and Portnoy, Olivia said.

Allison, who has had depression, said she felt stressed and overwhelmed following her sexual encounter with Portnoy and the subsequent attention it got. "I guess it was kind of my breaking point," Allison said.

Three nights after having sex with Portnoy, Allison was suicidal and was hospitalized.

While she was in the hospital, her mother began going through her phone trying to understand what had happened. After finding Portnoy's messages, Allison's mother called the Nantucket Police Department.

She told the police, "Go put somebody outside his door because you're going to see every day there's some young girl being dropped off." Insider viewed police documents confirming this call.

Her mother wanted to pursue some sort of legal action against Portnoy, but Allison refused.

"I knew he would drag me through the mud," Allison said.

For years, Dave Portnoy has been untouchable. In 2020, following the controversy surrounding his use of the N-word, Portnoy declared himself "uncancellable." Throughout all the scandals and controversies, Barstool has attracted advertisers like Dunkin' Donuts and Coors, partnered with Walmart on a line of frozen pizzas, and nabbed the rights to broadcast the Arizona Bowl from CBS Sports.

But insiders say Barstool has been slowly distancing itself from its founder in an attempt to reshape its image.

In 2016, Erika Nardini beat out 74 men to become Barstool's new CEO, and she brought with her an influx of high-level female executives. The company began to branch out in its content, as well, launching five female-lifestyle podcasts including "Chicks in the Office," "Call Her Daddy," and Nardini's own "Token CEO."

Barstool CEO Erika Nardini and Former shortstop and third baseman for the New York Yankees Alex Rodriguez "A-Rod" visit "Mornings With Maria" at Fox Business Network Studios on August 08, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)
Insiders say the appointment of Erika Nardini as Barstool CEO in 2016 was part of the company's attempt to rebrand itself. John Lamparski/Getty Images
Then, in 2020, Penn National Gaming purchased a 36% stake in Barstool. The next year, Penn National's stock joined the S&P 500 index. Portnoy suddenly was newly accountable as part of a publicly traded company.

Eric Schippers, Penn National's senior vice president, told the local news site Billy Penn in an email that the company was confident Barstool "has the right guardrails in place to ensure that their comments won't negatively reflect on PENN or the gaming industry in general." He said this included "comments that might be deemed as harassment or discrimination of women or minorities." (Penn National did not respond to our request for comment.)

Following the Penn National acquisition, Portnoy convened his staff for a meeting. According to numerous former employees who attended, he told them he was contractually obligated to stay at the company for five years but planned to leave afterward to pursue other ambitions like sports team ownership.

Portnoy's celebrity status and professional success should open many doors should he choose to leave Barstool. But some who have worked with Portnoy can't help being concerned by his past behavior, particularly his sexual exploits with young women, some recently graduated from high school.

In the popular r/barstoolsports Reddit thread, Stoolies regularly discuss Portnoy's conquests.

"Playing a dangerous game here Davey," is the title of one thread, referring to a since-deleted TikTok posted by a 19-year-old who said Portnoy began pursuing her on Instagram shortly after her high-school graduation.

Several additional TikTok videos, many of which have since been made private or taken down, purported to show private messages from Portnoy sent to women soliciting sex. When the poster of one of these videos — who was 19 at the time of posting — was reached for verification, she forwarded a screenshot of the message to Portnoy. He tweeted it out to his followers with the caption "Hard hitting research from @BusinessInsider dm'ing girls who follow me on insta asking if they've Dm'd with me."

Portnoy later acknowledged on his podcast that he'd sent messages to this woman, though he said they never met up.

The Instagram influencer Ava Louise recalls messaging with Portnoy in August 2017. At the time, she had just turned 19, and he was 40.


"I never reach out," he texted her in August 2017, in messages viewed by Insider. "I noticed you 2 weeks ago and was interested." Later he wrote, "I thought about you a bunch last night. Not all wholesome all the time."

"I wanna be famous so bad I'd be so good at it," she wrote later.

"I'm a good start then 😏," he replied.

Though she responded willingly at the time, Louise said she had come to see an inherent problem with "a man in power knowing he could take advantage of a younger girl."

"It's predatory," she said.

Louise said it's not just a problem with Dave Portnoy.

"It's every man that has followers or status of any sort, and it's kind of, like, terrifying in a way," she said.

She says her parents were "really freaked out by it" when they found out she was thinking of meeting up with him and threatened to stop paying for her college if she followed through. Today, she's grateful for their intervention.

"I probably would have let Dave Portnoy do whatever the hell he wanted to me," she told Insider.

"Because I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's Dave Portnoy,'" she added. "I'm glad I didn't have that experience."
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on November 04, 2021, 12:16:54 PM
gross
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 12:46:50 PM
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1456304390566993922?s=20
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on November 04, 2021, 12:50:38 PM
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1456304390566993922?s=20
I'm not watching that
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 04, 2021, 12:57:02 PM
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1456304390566993922?s=20
I'm not watching that

I don't know Rusty. He seems believable.  He says so himself.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 01:10:36 PM
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1456304390566993922?s=20
I'm not watching that
ok
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: kstate4life on November 04, 2021, 01:43:47 PM
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1456304390566993922?s=20

How bout just don't go around using your fame to eff 19 year olds.  You put the target on your back yourself, idiot. I guess he is the victim though.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 04, 2021, 08:26:52 PM
Problem with the dude is with all issues he has, great or small, he has never once, not a single time, said yeah, I messed that up and ill be better. So when something like this happens, something outside of the public eye, it's impossible to believe his victimization when he always plays this card, even when we see him eff up publicly. Behaving the way he is accused of behaving in this article is textbook behavior for someone who thinks he can do whatever the eff he wants and never has to account for anything.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 08:36:48 PM
That was a hit piece with a narrative behind it. Lot’s of screenshots of former and current employees showed DM’s of their responses to the author with positive quotes about him when asked for the article, that she chose to ignore, because she wanted to go after him. The main girls story, has a background of making stories up for “attention” ala a Kanye West encounter. I think anti barstoolers got what they wanted and the fan base that likes them, read between the lines on 8 months of digging, for an encounter with a girl who’s admitted to lying for attention.  :dunno:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 08:44:33 PM
I do think it’s creepy he seeks out 20 year olds tho, but that doesn’t surprise me at all.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on November 04, 2021, 08:55:10 PM
Taking advantage of much younger women isn't why several (3?) decided they wanted to speak on the record about him. They spoke because of things like choking and taking video without permission and feeling like they had mental health issues afterward.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 04, 2021, 09:00:23 PM
His employees having good things to say about him doesn't make the things in the article less true.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Tobias on November 04, 2021, 09:02:39 PM
https://twitter.com/nathanfrancisiq/status/1456386294213455876
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 09:04:47 PM
His employees having good things to say about him doesn't make the things in the article less true.
Mostly *Former

And lol, Chum. Do some research into that crap show article. You won’t, you got what you needed from it. She was blasting him after her visit via DM’s “OMG’ing about her visit and thanking him for everything”, like a giddy little school girl and he finally stopped responding, because she got weird.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 09:07:01 PM
https://twitter.com/nathanfrancisiq/status/1456386294213455876
Hard hitting stuff, Tobias!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DaBigTrain on November 04, 2021, 09:11:51 PM
Dude is a degen, always has been a degen and everyone who has even seen 1 min of video knows he is a degen.  Not sure what the reason is for defending him IMO.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on November 04, 2021, 09:13:59 PM
His employees having good things to say about him doesn't make the things in the article less true.
And lol, Chum. Do some research into that crap show article. You won’t, you got what you needed from it. She was blasting him after her visit via DM’s “OMG’ing about her visit and thanking him for everything”, like a giddy little school girl and he finally stopped responding, because she got weird.

You keep talking about one person. Weren't several quoted in the story? I'm not sure why you're so interested in defending him and downplaying their stories. You might ask yourself that question.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: steve dave on November 04, 2021, 09:16:45 PM
I could only read the beginning of that piece but, I mean, he is who everyone assumed he was already right? both sides? obviously there is an unfortunate number of people that both already assumed he was that and also still like him and defend him or even appreciate him for those exact things. like 27% of the voting eligible population voted for donald trump as another point of reference.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 04, 2021, 09:19:42 PM
His being mad or defensive about that article is weird to me.
Title: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DaBigTrain on November 04, 2021, 09:22:14 PM
His being mad or defensive about that article is weird to me.
Agreeing with you is weird to me.

Most pedos/womanizers/barstool people don’t see anything they are doing as wrong.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 09:26:16 PM
His employees having good things to say about him doesn't make the things in the article less true.
And lol, Chum. Do some research into that crap show article. You won’t, you got what you needed from it. She was blasting him after her visit via DM’s “OMG’ing about her visit and thanking him for everything”, like a giddy little school girl and he finally stopped responding, because she got weird.

You keep talking about one person. Weren't several quoted in the story? I'm not sure why you're so interested in defending him and downplaying their stories. You might ask yourself that question.
If you’d like to look more into her story, be my guest. She’s done crap like this before and admitted  doing it for “attention”. It’s honestly whatever.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 09:34:22 PM
Ive Literally never listened to their show either. Author was looking for some action and she got it from a known liar who sought after him in his DM’s. Author also ignored all the good stories about him. But hey, that’s just me, not assuming some BS story. I’m probably a monster. Go cats!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Katpappy on November 04, 2021, 10:16:11 PM
This guy is proof an old ugly rough rider can get hot young chicks as long as he has a fat wallet.  :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on November 04, 2021, 10:41:56 PM
I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 04, 2021, 11:57:43 PM
I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.
It literally accomplished nothing.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 05, 2021, 12:20:20 AM
His being mad or defensive about that article is weird to me.

Ah, now I get why he’s mad and defensive.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-04/penn-national-tumbles-after-business-insider-report-on-portnoy

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/penn-national-sheds-more-than-2-5-billion-in-valuation-after-earnings-miss-allegations-against-barstool-founder-11636052914
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 05, 2021, 03:09:49 AM
I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.
It literally accomplished nothing.

Yet, you're on here defending him against things in that article that he's publicly done. As the article states him rough ridin' young women is something he brags about on his show. Him being an abusive but consensual sex partner and his proclivity to film his escapades is something that has been known given he's leaked three videos.

As trim pointed out his hypocritical outrage is simply about Penn National stock. His followers outrage is the usual lemming like behavior of doing whatever they're led to do because they idolize that dude.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on November 05, 2021, 05:40:43 AM
I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.
I didn't know about the non-consensual spitting and choking and filming on like first encounters. Even if I knew he was a dirtbag in general, that's still pretty jarring to read in detail.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on November 05, 2021, 06:43:36 AM
If the article gets the word out that he is like this and one fewer 19 year-old is taken advantage of and ends up hurt as a result, is that not worthwhile?

Also, isn't some of it possibly criminal if someone is telling him to stop and he does not stop?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 05, 2021, 08:13:11 AM
If the article gets the word out that he is like this and one fewer 19 year-old is taken advantage of and ends up hurt as a result, is that not worthwhile?

Also, isn't some of it possibly criminal if someone is telling him to stop and he does not stop?

Yes.

As to the second point, I'm no DA but the given what the women said, it doesn't seem like he committed a criminal act and even if he did they didn't seem too excited to participate in a prosecution. That being said, it sure seems likely that there are women out there that feel like they were assaulted.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: chum1 on November 05, 2021, 08:29:56 AM
it sure seems likely that there are women out there that feel like they were assaulted.

Yeah, if three women spoke out, it stands to reason that more with similar experiences have not.

This part seems dicey to me.

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She recalled crying and shouting, "Too much! Too much!" and "It hurts!"

"It was so painful," Madison said. "I kept trying to get away and he was like, 'Stop running away from me. Stop running away from me.'"

But Portnoy, she said, "just went harder."
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 05, 2021, 08:57:23 AM
I don’t get what this piece was hoping to accomplish. Maybe it was their first exposure to Portnoy and they thought nobody knew.
It literally accomplished nothing.

Yet, you're on here defending him against things in that article that he's publicly done. As the article states him rough ridin' young women is something he brags about on his show. Him being an abusive but consensual sex partner and his proclivity to film his escapades is something that has been known given he's leaked three videos.

As trim pointed out his hypocritical outrage is simply about Penn National stock. His followers outrage is the usual lemming like behavior of doing whatever they're led to do because they idolize that dude.

Bootlickers are a weird bunch
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: yoga-like_abana on November 05, 2021, 09:37:19 AM
more than likely a dude that could never get those chicks back when he was in college and is taking out that sexual frustration on them. sad
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 05, 2021, 10:07:08 AM
I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 05, 2021, 10:58:52 AM
I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

lol
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 05, 2021, 11:12:58 AM
I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

lol
Wassup?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 05, 2021, 11:28:37 AM
I'm not going to go back and read it again, but didn't the article say "the main girl in question" was one of the women he leaked a video of? Like this is on camera, no?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 05, 2021, 11:29:40 AM
Why would we do the research for you, if you're too lazy to do it yourself?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 05, 2021, 08:17:59 PM
I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

lol
https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1456791020998381572?s=21
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: passranch on November 05, 2021, 08:28:51 PM
Portnoy's really shook.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 05, 2021, 09:25:35 PM
Portnoy's really shook.
I would be too. Thirsty traps playing victim.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on November 06, 2021, 12:15:04 AM
Given the accusations, wouldn't the police be able to get a warrant to go get the tapes? Seems like it would be pretty easy to prove or disprove with the video evidence.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: TheHamburglar on November 06, 2021, 07:47:34 AM
Portnoy's really shook.
I would be too. Thirsty traps playing victim.
Guy whose entire persona is treating women like crap pays for young women to fly to his house for rape fantasies & tries to play the victim.

As played out as the saying is, at best this is a perfect example of play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: ben ji on November 06, 2021, 10:28:12 AM
If it wasn't for Barstool we would never have this glorious headline


https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2017/11/07/john-currie-tennessee-fans-came-out-saturday-for-boys/840561001/
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As John Currie walked through Neyland Stadium on Saturday night, the first-year Tennessee athletic director found a common refrain presented to him by fans in attendance.

And he found the words inspiring in the wake of the football program’s struggles.

“I had so many people coming up to me saying they were there for the players,” Currie said to the Rotary Club of Knoxville on Tuesday. “They came for the boys. That’s what one of them said, ‘Saturdays are for the boys.’ That was inspiring to me.
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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 11, 2021, 08:23:23 AM
Dave has proof the sources were lying and will be EXPOSING business insider at 1 pm today
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 08:26:22 AM
Good news.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 11, 2021, 01:55:02 PM
yeah Portnoy wins this one. Business Insider did a bad job.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 11, 2021, 01:55:52 PM
yeah Portnoy wins this one. Business Insider did a bad job.

Glad that guy finally caught a break.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 01:56:11 PM
Shocking!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on November 11, 2021, 02:01:40 PM
yeah Portnoy wins this one. Business Insider did a bad job.

Deets?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 02:02:14 PM
I think it's fair to think he's a douche bag and the main girl in question is a thirsty fraud, who has a history of doing stuff like this before, for attention. Maybe not tho.

lol
lol
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Spracne on November 11, 2021, 02:08:54 PM
Can someone link me to this savage takedown by Portnoy?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 11, 2021, 02:11:08 PM
yeah Portnoy wins this one. Business Insider did a bad job.

Deets?

my take is that the story revolved around 3 sources, 2 of which were anonymous, and Portnoy provided some pretty compelling evidence that Business Insider's portrayal of their experience was misleading at best. he's an bad person but sloppy hit pieces accusing that he sexually assaults women helps nobody.

Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 11, 2021, 02:12:11 PM
Can someone link me to this savage takedown by Portnoy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UW85j-7MAow&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Spracne on November 11, 2021, 02:14:54 PM
Yeah, I'm not going to watch an hour of that. Guess I'll wait for the leftist media to get their summaries out so I know what to think.

Did you guys actually sit through an hour of that live??
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 11, 2021, 02:20:28 PM
Yeah, I'm not going to watch an hour of that. Guess I'll wait for the leftist media to get their summaries out so I know what to think.

Did you guys actually sit through an hour of that live??
Bootlickers are a weird bunch
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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 02:21:52 PM
Yeah, I'm not going to watch an hour of that. Guess I'll wait for the leftist media to get their summaries out so I know what to think.

Did you guys actually sit through an hour of that live??
Bootlickers are a weird bunch
[/quote]Quoting is hard
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 02:22:36 PM
Lol
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 11, 2021, 06:31:32 PM
I didn't have 'blast as an unabashed stoolie.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: wetwillie on November 11, 2021, 06:49:15 PM
I think Dave is a pretty mumped up individual but I don’t like trying people in the court of Public opinion.  If he committed crimes then the authorities can file charges and he can have his day in court.  I’m not sure how people could have watched the call me daddy stuff unfold and think it was wise to engage in a mud slinging campaign with him, he will clearly go scorched earth.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 06:52:51 PM
Really sad day for all the guys who wanted to see him burn for nothing he’s done, just because they hate him, but pretty calculated too.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 11, 2021, 07:01:34 PM
What’s the factual dispute in all of this?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 11, 2021, 08:33:49 PM
What’s the factual dispute in all of this?

Exactly. The article reported things he's bragged about. He wasn't accused of breaking the law. The author of that piece illustrated him or people close to him talking about his proclivities for young women and leaking him having sex on video. He wasn't accused of breaking the law.

I get the two reasons he's fighting this, the Penn National stock price, and him being the victim of a made up mob has now become part of the brand. What I don't, but really do, understand is why people want to defend him against things he's admitted to doing or things we've seen him do on camera.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 08:42:49 PM
 :facepalm:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 08:46:24 PM
Just admit you hate him and move on and you don’t care for real justice if he’s someone you dislike

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1458916844136509447?s=21

Dude is Trim, but way more successful at it.

Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 08:53:18 PM
@MIR, remember when you met Janey Bird in Wichita to talk crap about my character with @Trim before the Fiesta bowl trip? Yeah, stop acting like you're leading this new activist move. You love watching crap burn.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 09:17:43 PM
If you’ve ever met Trim prior to Seattle, He did crap like this all the time. Made videos of gE encounters with intent to shame the new guy on the blog. He scared off many posters with many, doxing them. That was his thing.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 09:24:06 PM
We actually have a part owner on this board with the name of @lifeofmamafitz on Twitter who keeps tweeting under the handle, while the dude (Fitz) is dying from cancer. But yes, Barstool! Go get him, clan!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: steve dave on November 11, 2021, 09:40:34 PM
Wacky, nobody on this planet needs to go this hard defending the honor of the barstool guy.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 11, 2021, 09:43:10 PM
What’s the factual dispute in all of this?

Exactly. The article reported things he's bragged about. He wasn't accused of breaking the law. The author of that piece illustrated him or people close to him talking about his proclivities for young women and leaking him having sex on video. He wasn't accused of breaking the law.

I get the two reasons he's fighting this, the Penn National stock price, and him being the victim of a made up mob has now become part of the brand. What I don't, but really do, understand is why people want to defend him against things he's admitted to doing or things we've seen him do on camera.

I'm curious about the stock price drop, at least the part alleged to relate to the article.  Maybe the article was the first time some Penn National investors even realized Penn had bought a bunch of Barstool.  It's impossible that those who already knew that could then suddenly be surprised and scared off by an article about rough ridin'. 
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 09:47:17 PM
Wacky, nobody on this planet needs to go this hard defending the honor of the barstool guy.
I question the character of the ppl questioning the character. Not you, obviously.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 09:52:35 PM
Barstool guy = Trim

Sorry
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Brock Landers on November 11, 2021, 10:00:29 PM
Wacky, man, find something on this blog that makes you happy. This thread ain't it.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 10:05:38 PM
Wacky, man, find something on this blog that makes you happy. This thread ain't it.
lol
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DaBigTrain on November 11, 2021, 10:16:31 PM
Can I get a tldnr of what is going on?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 10:20:27 PM
Lol.

Just say when!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DaBigTrain on November 11, 2021, 10:23:01 PM
Lol.

Just say when!
Now preferable so I am up to date. I legit haven’t read anything or know what is being argued about.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 11, 2021, 10:41:26 PM
Lol.

Just say when!
Now preferable so I am up to date. I legit haven’t read anything or know what is being argued about.
The board is trying to cover Trim like he’s not Portnoy. Abusing ppl via internet and daxing them at the same time. Another part owner goes under mama Fitz as a part owner/attorney acting like mama Fitz as a shitty alliance (while Fitz is dying from cancer, but eff him because he got the future hire wrong) as an attorney as well, but they’re cool, because it’s apparently different.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: DaBigTrain on November 11, 2021, 10:53:07 PM
Lol.

Just say when!
Now preferable so I am up to date. I legit haven’t read anything or know what is being argued about.
The board is trying to cover Trim like he’s not Portnoy. Abusing ppl via internet and daxing them at the same time. Another part owner goes under mama Fitz as a part owner/attorney acting like mama Fitz as an alliance (while Fitz is doing from cancer, but eff him because he got the future hire wrong) as an attorney as well, but they’re cool, because it’s apparently different.
Got it. Thanks. :thumbs:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 12, 2021, 01:46:52 AM
@MIR, remember when you met Janey Bird in Wichita to talk crap about my character with @Trim before the Fiesta bowl trip? Yeah, stop acting like you're leading this new activist move. You love watching crap burn.

Yo, drunky mcdrunkersons, we went over this like a decade ago, but the one solitary time I met that woman, I didn't say a damn word about you. I barely even talked to her.

What any of this has to do with Dave Portnoy is beyond my level of comprehension.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 'taterblast on November 12, 2021, 08:01:56 AM
I didn't have 'blast as an unabashed stoolie.

i'm not, i'm pretty neutral on Barstool as a whole. i really really like Big Cat and PFT. i was fascinated by this episode from the start. when the article came out i was ready to share it with my more stoolie-aligned friends and say "see? he's a rapist and you support him" .. or some crap like that, because i've always thought Portnoy was a complete dickhead but finally we had a legitimate reason to cancel him. paid business insider for a trial membership to read the article. but the article didn't really do that, and it seemed... off.  and i think portnoy has exposed some legitimate flaws in their side of the story (this assumes the screenshots he has provided are from actual conversations/posts from the sources of the story). with what he has provided i straight up don't believe his accusers, and i think if someone is out to prove that Dave Portnoy is a bad person this is the absolute worst thing you could do because you've given all the stoolies all the ammo you need for any future accusation of any kind.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: ChiComCat on November 12, 2021, 08:17:45 AM
You want to accuse everyone of being hypocritical in attacking Portnoy and not Trim, while you're on the other side of both of those arguments which makes far less sense, imo.  If you feel as though your situations are similar to the women that Portnoy attacks, why on earth would you keep defending him?



Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 12, 2021, 08:32:26 AM
You want to accuse everyone of being hypocritical in attacking Portnoy and not Trim, while you're on the other side of both of those arguments which makes far less sense, imo.  If you feel as though your situations are similar to the women that Portnoy attacks, why on earth would you keep defending him?
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Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on November 12, 2021, 08:47:00 AM
like does portnoy claim anything was actually false in the article?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Cire on November 12, 2021, 08:49:55 AM
like does portnoy claim anything was actually false in the article?

no, just that it's a "hit piece"  and the woke mob is after him.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Stupid Fitz on November 12, 2021, 08:56:43 AM
This all amazing. I made the bootlicker joke, but this stuff really does fascinate me. I apparently have way less shits to give about people I will never meet than some people.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 12, 2021, 09:04:12 AM
lol. obviously
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 12, 2021, 09:19:52 AM
like does portnoy claim anything was actually false in the article?

no, just that it's a "hit piece"  and the woke mob is after him.

The article is about him hooking up with young girls, you can take that many different ways. Portnoy does not claim that is false.

The article also says things like one of the girls kept telling him no, and he made her his "sex slave". That's rape.

Portnoy is obviously working to prove everything was consensual. And from all accounts, it appears it was.

Mix in stock crap, and that Business Insider basically pushed their subscriptions that day to read the article, and you can absolutely tell it's a hit piece and money grab.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 12, 2021, 09:33:23 AM
like does portnoy claim anything was actually false in the article?

no, just that it's a "hit piece"  and the woke mob is after him.

The article is about him hooking up with young girls, you can take that many different ways. Portnoy does not claim that is false.

The article also says things like one of the girls kept telling him no, and he made her his "sex slave". That's rape.

Portnoy is obviously working to prove everything was consensual. And from all accounts, it appears it was.

Mix in stock crap, and that Business Insider basically pushed their subscriptions that day to read the article, and you can absolutely tell it's a hit piece and money grab.

Even accepting your last line as true, this is all nothing.  Barstool can create indignant content knowing this is all ultimately to their benefit and do what they do in these instances and ultimately be more popular among their target audience.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/11/08/media-barstool-sports-portnoy-insider/

There's nothing in the article for Barstool to be legitimately mad about, but it now makes sense why they're trying to keep fighting about it.  Might even be an opportunity for them/fans to take advantage of a stock price dip.

BI and BS can both make money on this, probably much more on BS's side.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 12, 2021, 10:09:02 AM
like does portnoy claim anything was actually false in the article?

no, just that it's a "hit piece"  and the woke mob is after him.

The article is about him hooking up with young girls, you can take that many different ways. Portnoy does not claim that is false.

The article also says things like one of the girls kept telling him no, and he made her his "sex slave". That's rape.

Portnoy is obviously working to prove everything was consensual. And from all accounts, it appears it was.

Mix in stock crap, and that Business Insider basically pushed their subscriptions that day to read the article, and you can absolutely tell it's a hit piece and money grab.

While no one should be accused of rape if they haven't committed rape. Are we just going to pretend that his documented actions have nothing to do with the position he's currently in?

If you're willing to point out flaws in the accusers but ignore Portnoy's sexual issues, you need to ask yourself why. You don't think someone in their 40's who only wants to have sex with 18 & 19 year olds, then film them having rough sex, then leak that video publicly, isn't capable of crossing a consent line? Why would anyone feel the need to blindly defend a person who has unabashedly and undisputedly done these things?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 12, 2021, 10:17:21 AM
I'm not meaning to point out flaws w/ the "accusers", that's my bad, I make my comments because it sounds like they may not have even accused him and the words were twisted to make it sound that way for the article (but maybe I'm missing that). Obviously the issues Portnoy has leads to this area, but if it's consensual, what they do sexually is none of my business.

My main concern is with the direction of the story from BI and the rape. If it's rape, there are victims and it should be taken very seriously. Not pushing for subscriptions to read about girls being raped. I'm sorry, there are just some serious red flags for me in trying to profit off of a rape story.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 12, 2021, 10:21:22 AM
My main concern is with the direction of the story from BI and the rape. If it's rape, there are victims and it should be taken very seriously. Not pushing for subscriptions to read about girls being raped. I'm sorry, there are just some serious red flags for me in trying to profit off of a rape story.

If it's rape, BI isn't the entity to take issue with.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 12, 2021, 10:35:23 AM
I'm not meaning to point out flaws w/ the "accusers", that's my bad, I make my comments because it sounds like they may not have even accused him and the words were twisted to make it sound that way for the article (but maybe I'm missing that). Obviously the issues Portnoy has leads to this area, but if it's consensual, what they do sexually is none of my business.

My main concern is with the direction of the story from BI and the rape. If it's rape, there are victims and it should be taken very seriously. Not pushing for subscriptions to read about girls being raped. I'm sorry, there are just some serious red flags for me in trying to profit off of a rape story.

Is it your thought that these accounts shouldn't be published unless the accusers pursue charges?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 12, 2021, 10:40:05 AM
My main concern is with the direction of the story from BI and the rape. If it's rape, there are victims and it should be taken very seriously. Not pushing for subscriptions to read about girls being raped. I'm sorry, there are just some serious red flags for me in trying to profit off of a rape story.

If it's rape, BI isn't the entity to take issue with.

I'm sure damn near every girl that's hooked up with Portnoy regrets it immeidately. If there was rape, I think/hope they would report it. And if that BI writer felt it happned when she started to sniff around, I genuinely hope she would've gotten actual authorities involved immediately.

But, from almost all accounts it's not and never was rape, yet BI is writing a story suggesting it/accusing him of it, to make a profit.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 12, 2021, 10:44:21 AM
I'm not meaning to point out flaws w/ the "accusers", that's my bad, I make my comments because it sounds like they may not have even accused him and the words were twisted to make it sound that way for the article (but maybe I'm missing that). Obviously the issues Portnoy has leads to this area, but if it's consensual, what they do sexually is none of my business.

My main concern is with the direction of the story from BI and the rape. If it's rape, there are victims and it should be taken very seriously. Not pushing for subscriptions to read about girls being raped. I'm sorry, there are just some serious red flags for me in trying to profit off of a rape story.

Is it your thought that these accounts shouldn't be published unless the accusers pursue charges?

I think stories like this can be fair with facts, but why put it behind a paywall and literally post all day about subscribing to read it?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 12, 2021, 10:49:57 AM
My main concern is with the direction of the story from BI and the rape. If it's rape, there are victims and it should be taken very seriously. Not pushing for subscriptions to read about girls being raped. I'm sorry, there are just some serious red flags for me in trying to profit off of a rape story.

If it's rape, BI isn't the entity to take issue with.

I'm sure damn near every girl that's hooked up with Portnoy regrets it immeidately. If there was rape, I think/hope they would report it. And if that BI writer felt it happned when she started to sniff around, I genuinely hope she would've gotten actual authorities involved immediately.

But, from almost all accounts it's not and never was rape, yet BI is writing a story suggesting it/accusing him of it, to make a profit.

BI sucked at their nefarious plan, given how we all read it for free.  And at least to me, I didn't come away from reading it with any sense of a credible rape allegation, just more confirmation that the guy fucks willing albeit-naïve 18-year-olds that he connects with online.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Shooter Jones on November 12, 2021, 11:08:57 AM
I didn't come away from reading it with any sense of a credible rape allegation, just more confirmation that the guy fucks willing albeit-naïve 18-year-olds that he connects with online.

Plot twist: (what if) someone at Barstool was behind it to try to push creepy old Dave out.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Trim on November 12, 2021, 11:15:24 AM
I didn't come away from reading it with any sense of a credible rape allegation, just more confirmation that the guy fucks willing albeit-naïve 18-year-olds that he connects with online.

Plot twist: (what if) someone at Barstool was behind it to try to push creepy old Dave out.

That would also be a short-sighted plan.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on November 12, 2021, 06:33:57 PM
I'm not meaning to point out flaws w/ the "accusers", that's my bad, I make my comments because it sounds like they may not have even accused him and the words were twisted to make it sound that way for the article (but maybe I'm missing that). Obviously the issues Portnoy has leads to this area, but if it's consensual, what they do sexually is none of my business.

My main concern is with the direction of the story from BI and the rape. If it's rape, there are victims and it should be taken very seriously. Not pushing for subscriptions to read about girls being raped. I'm sorry, there are just some serious red flags for me in trying to profit off of a rape story.

Is it your thought that these accounts shouldn't be published unless the accusers pursue charges?

I think stories like this can be fair with facts, but why put it behind a paywall and literally post all day about subscribing to read it?

Yeah, that's fair. There's an ongoing debate about paywalling stories like this. Presumably the news value of this is to tell these women's stories and protect the public interests from a creep. There is a thought from some that this shouldn't be behind a pay wall. I don't really have strong opinions either way.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 12, 2021, 11:59:14 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: nicname on November 13, 2021, 12:14:38 AM
:lol:

Awwww crap!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: ben ji on December 20, 2021, 08:34:16 PM
Not a stoolie and don't care about el presidente but I follow bar stool sports for amazing content like this.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXts0t8g1Ba/?utm_medium=share_sheet

Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: steve dave on December 20, 2021, 08:40:23 PM
HURHURHURHURHURHUR!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: michigancat on December 20, 2021, 08:41:17 PM
Did not watch
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Tobias on December 20, 2021, 11:59:40 PM
Can not watch
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on January 24, 2022, 10:12:06 AM
 :Keke:

https://twitter.com/stoolpresidente/status/1485442820639006721
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Cire on January 24, 2022, 11:59:10 AM
Man, Dave Portnoy absolutely HATES the chiefs.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 24, 2022, 12:01:01 PM
Man, Dave Portnoy absolutely HATES the chiefs.
Most patriots fans are pretty psychotic about the Chiefs. It's really weird.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Pete on January 24, 2022, 12:12:37 PM
Man, Dave Portnoy absolutely HATES the chiefs.
Most patriots fans are pretty psychotic about the Chiefs. It's really weird.

Is Portnoy a Patriots fan?  Either way, it's weird seeing any team's fans outside of the AFC West cheer against KC.   
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 24, 2022, 12:15:16 PM
Man, Dave Portnoy absolutely HATES the chiefs.
Most patriots fans are pretty psychotic about the Chiefs. It's really weird.

Is Portnoy a Patriots fan?  Either way, it's weird seeing any team's fans outside of the AFC West cheer against KC.
Yes. He's a super annoying Boston guy.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Pete on January 24, 2022, 12:18:42 PM
Boston fans do not know how to handle winning.  For years and years they were the adorable "we don't win at stuff" town, which was charming.  Then, they go on to just completely whip ass NYC style at everything.  However, instead of being like NYC and just having that winning swagger and ignoring everyone else, they still act like they never whipped ass.  It's very frustrating to watch.  I just want to take Boston aside and say "look man, you don't have to carry that chip anymore...you MADE IT, you are good enough to let that crap go."  VERY SAD!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: meow meow on January 24, 2022, 12:19:32 PM
Man, Dave Portnoy absolutely HATES the chiefs.
Most patriots fans are pretty psychotic about the Chiefs. It's really weird.

Is Portnoy a Patriots fan?  Either way, it's weird seeing any team's fans outside of the AFC West cheer against KC.

I mean we're about to go to our 3rd straight Super Bowl and everyone hates Pat's brother and wife, so it makes sense that no one likes KC.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on January 24, 2022, 12:21:39 PM
Boston fans do not know how to handle winning.  For years and years they were the adorable "we don't win at stuff" town, which was charming.  Then, they go on to just completely whip ass NYC style at everything.  However, instead of being like NYC and just having that winning swagger and ignoring everyone else, they still act like they never whipped ass.  It's very frustrating to watch.  I just want to take Boston aside and say "look man, you don't have to carry that chip anymore...you MADE IT, you are good enough to let that crap go."  VERY SAD!
This 100%!
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on January 24, 2022, 03:22:32 PM
It's going to be great passing Buffalo's record for consecutive super bowl appearances while beating them in the playoffs on the way there a few times, plus also being able to point out that we didn't even lose all of the super bowls that we played in.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: ChiComCat on January 24, 2022, 03:46:50 PM
I think Boston fans are concerned the Chiefs will match Tom/Patriots accomplishments.  Perhaps the Chiefs could do it but, my god, it's a lot of rings and a long way off.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: passranch on January 24, 2022, 03:52:30 PM
Boston fans do not know how to handle winning.  For years and years they were the adorable "we don't win at stuff" town, which was charming.  Then, they go on to just completely whip ass NYC style at everything.  However, instead of being like NYC and just having that winning swagger and ignoring everyone else, they still act like they never whipped ass.  It's very frustrating to watch.  I just want to take Boston aside and say "look man, you don't have to carry that chip anymore...you MADE IT, you are good enough to let that crap go."  VERY SAD!

As someone who lived in Boston during the start of this amazing run, can confirm this is 100% true.  It has a lot to do with this puritan self-deprecating vibe going on in the entirety of New England and also everything has to do with how they measure up with NYC (which, no matter how awesome things are in Boston they WILL never and CAN never be NYC - also weird because Bostonians have this weird obsessive hate for NYC at the same time)

Boston...it's awesome, but also they hate themselves because they aren't NYC.  So they aren't happy until everyone else is miserable too.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 24, 2022, 04:37:59 PM
 :dubious:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Institutional Control on January 24, 2022, 04:41:51 PM
The worst part about Boston are Bostonians.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on January 24, 2022, 04:42:49 PM
 :dubious:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on January 24, 2022, 05:06:48 PM
The worst part about Boston are Bostonians.

Horrible
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: pissclams on January 24, 2022, 08:03:22 PM
who wants some boston baked beans!?!?!?
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on January 24, 2022, 09:55:52 PM
Why are they so weird

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1485458605566566401?s=19
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Katpappy on January 24, 2022, 10:10:28 PM
Why are they so weird

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1485458605566566401?s=19

This IRL made me  :ROFL:
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: nicname on December 12, 2022, 10:41:05 PM
I have no idea what's going on here, but this must be the thread.

https://twitter.com/alexstein99/status/1602442492887982080
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: CNS on December 13, 2022, 11:42:33 AM
Jackass 2 of politics. 
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: MakeItRain on December 13, 2022, 12:10:10 PM
I'm not going to tell anyone what to do, but haven't we've seen enough Alex Stein to last a lifetime? Is there a bigger grandstanding jackass? I think he's legit a worst granstander than Jason Ruckus.
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: star seed 7 on December 13, 2022, 12:21:35 PM
All because someone at barstool said some bad things about fox news on a hot mic
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: mocat on November 10, 2023, 03:56:46 PM
somehow this is the first I'm seeing this, lmao

https://twitter.com/MattfromKC/status/1723051903007801751?t=tLSQSC2iSzRDuxHv5YmE4w&s=19
Title: Re: Explain the "barstool sports" espn controversy to me
Post by: Pete on November 11, 2023, 10:26:17 PM
somehow this is the first I'm seeing this, lmao

https://twitter.com/MattfromKC/status/1723051903007801751?t=tLSQSC2iSzRDuxHv5YmE4w&s=19
Yikes