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Gern Blansten
Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,178
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Anyone follow this?  I came across the pizza reviews and got hooked.  I saw Portnoy a few months back and thought he seemed like a douche but I think I like him now.

Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited July 2019
    If misogyny, homophobia and racism (barely) disguised as jokes are your thing, it’s great. 
    Post edited by dankind on
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,776
    dankind said:
    If misogyny, homophobia and racism (barely) disguised as jokes are your thing, it’s great. 
    Always felt like the racism claim was a stretch, as I’ve yet to see any examples. I’m no fan of the site, I think most, if not all of them are dbags, but I’ve yet to see anyone present evidence of the racism. 
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 Posts: 10,825
    Saw a Real Sports segment on them

    nothing new

    its amazing these days, just be a vulgar prick you can be president or a millionaire like Portnoy


  • mookieblalock
    mookieblalock Posts: 3,570
    CROJAM95 said:
    Saw a Real Sports segment on them

    nothing new

    its amazing these days, just be a vulgar prick you can be president or a millionaire like Portnoy


    It’s comforting for people to think becoming a millionaire is that easy. 
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,302
    I used to flip back and forth between Barstool and Deadspin for some humor takes on sports.  Barstool is heavily influenced by east coast attitude and frat boy humor and are huge (HUGE) homers for the Pats and Celtics.  Deadspin used to have humor but ever since The Hulkster pile-drived Gawker into the mat their mission seems to be focused on taking things we enjoy in sports and finding anger and outrage in them.  As result Deadspin is obsessed with taking down Barstool as they find their ability to find humor and joy in sports infuriating.
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  • drakeheuer14
    drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,619
    edited July 2019
    dankind said:
    If misogyny, homophobia and racism (barely) disguised as jokes are your thing, it’s great. 
    Horrible platform and equally annoying employees. Top that with the clickbait and it may be one of the worst things on the internet 
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,026
    edited July 2019
    Barstool fucking sucks. I hope portney falls on his face and knocks his teeth out. There is nothing redeeming about it and it is a bunch of turds who think they are a lot cooler than they are.

    Deadspin is worthless these days. I was in on deadspin from the beginning but it hasn’t been a go to for a while. Drew magary’s stuff is still worthwhile. This did just bring me back and it looks like aj daulerio is writing again, so that’s awesome
  • JK_Livin
    JK_Livin South Jersey Posts: 7,365
    Bunch of douchers. Any site can post a funny video that they had no involvement in so sometimes I'll watch one through them but I try not to. Their core is rotten.
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    People need to stop giving their damn videos to them and make them pay for them.  Sure, you want the funny thing I caught on video to repost on your page?  It's gonna take more than just crediting me in the caption.  You can have it, for a cool $10,000. 
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,178
    dankind said:
    If misogyny, homophobia and racism (barely) disguised as jokes are your thing, it’s great. 
    That was what I had originally heard about Barstool but I haven't seen it yet.  I mostly watch pizza reviews though :)
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

    1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,178
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMwism07PGA

    These are fun to binge watch....there is a ton of them
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

    1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • Vitalogensia
    Vitalogensia Posts: 2,197
    I thought this article was interesting: https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/female-ceo-polarizing-sports-media-giant-barstool-sports/story?id=55919642

    My brother got me into Barstool.  To me it's like a sports version of Maxim, which is mostly annoying, but I do tend to laugh from time to time.  They have some talented people, but a lot of the writing sucks in my opinion. 

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Vitalogensia said:
    I thought this article was interesting: https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/female-ceo-polarizing-sports-media-giant-barstool-sports/story?id=55919642

    My brother got me into Barstool.  To me it's like a sports version of Maxim, which is mostly annoying, but I do tend to laugh from time to time.  They have some talented people, but a lot of the writing sucks in my opinion. 

    Maxim, lol.

    I loved that magazine.

    Maxim was a "guy's" mag so if barstool is like that then it might be fun to get into.
  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,910
    While Portnoy is a complete d-bag, there are some funny people that work there.  But since a lot of their fanbase are high school/college kids who act like complete assholes on twitter, instagram, etc.. they get painted with a broad brush that everyone associated with them is a homophobic, misogynist racist bro.  While there unfortunately is some of that, there's a lot of normal, funny stuff.  Pardon My Take is the funniest sports podcast out there and Spittin' Chiclets is a great hockey podcast....I listen to both of those regularly.  But since it's the internet outrage era, if you tell someone you enjoy anything associated with Barstool you're automatically some meathead bro who hates women.
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,491
    Indifference71 said:
    While Portnoy is a complete d-bag, there are some funny people that work there.  But since a lot of their fanbase are high school/college kids who act like complete assholes on twitter, instagram, etc.. they get painted with a broad brush that everyone associated with them is a homophobic, misogynist racist bro.  While there unfortunately is some of that, there's a lot of normal, funny stuff.  Pardon My Take is the funniest sports podcast out there and Spittin' Chiclets is a great hockey podcast....I listen to both of those regularly.  But since it's the internet outrage era, if you tell someone you enjoy anything associated with Barstool you're automatically some meathead bro who hates women.
    This is about what it all boils down to.  Yeah, I've seen in the comments sections of some of their posts that their followers do contain a high volume of d-bags and maga hats, but I'm not there for them.  I'm there for the content and some of it is pretty damn good.
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  • Vitalogensia
    Vitalogensia Posts: 2,197
    Spittin' Chiclets is awesome. That's what got me to start paying attention to Barstool.
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,776
    I like PMT, and Chiclets isn’t bad, (except the accents are painful). The John Scott SC interview was awesome, and totally changed my opinion of him. 
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,335
    The only thing I watched was the pizza review.  Still do from time to time but it's pretty much the same thing.
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,912
    Just saw the hbo real sports story on barstool. Portmoy is a giant douche that could use a beatdown
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Contact bar stool sports are the most entertaining

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