Bernsiestein - what are we allowed to call him? - ruining WYC was the turning point for me. It was a bit that would have run its course and probably had but to make it the suck-up to Dansie segment by parroting his thoughts with all the verbal dexterity of a faux érudit (Hey! Dan! Look at me!! We're the same!! That's French - suck on that 815!! Mouth-breathers!!) and no PASHUN! always just made me angry.

And, for fuck's sake, I go on a semi-hiatus and you put good dolphin in charge!?! Get the fuck out of here.

Sincerely,

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
DOB: 12/25/1904
Mother's Maiden Name - Roosevelt-Rockefeller

Was Dan still holding to the “I’m cool with you letting your kids get brain damage playing football but I’m not going to let mine” stance on CTE?

Not criticizing. Just curious.

The Cheryl Scott stuff is probably worse than anything Barstool has ever done. He's just a very strident hypocrite, people hate that.

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

Yes to the second part, but didn't that spat between Barstool and Sam Ponder turn pretty ugly?

it's time you all are hauled out to the public square and shot in the face

Idk, I don't think she was ever accused of being passed around a locker room but I don't really remember specifics other than she got the Van Talk show cancelled or was vocal about wanting it cancelled

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

Which makes no sense because his son played hockey.

I hate the entertainer so much that I not only want to behave like him, but I want to harm his partner and his family. That makes sense.

It's fucked up, sure. But it's also like the crocodile hunter. You can only dodge so many bullets and then a jellyfish gets you. Oh Croiky, I bet he didn't see that coming.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

FWIW, Portnoy directed addressed Nas’ concern today on the podcast. He stressed only professional attacks, call in line and live remotes, and specifically no family spillover.

"Only harass him on phone calls and at remotes," he says about the guy whose show no longer takes phone calls or does remotes.

Excuse my ignorance, but does Portnoy host/comment on sports or did he just assemble the "talent" and formed Barstool?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

If memory serves, the “spat” was that Portnoy told her she needs to slut it up on the sidelines to give him something to look at because nobody gives a shit about what she’s saying.

Or something along those lines.

it's time you all are hauled out to the public square and shot in the face

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Who are these people that are standing by waiting for marching orders from some hothead meatball, anyway? I can't even imagine the ego needed to seriously sit there and yell at your fans that they have "permission" to go after someone that you've deemed is now the enemy....incredible.....then to have some amount of guys ready and waiting to be assigned/assign themselves tasks to do as fearless leader says?

Excuse my ignorance, but does Portnoy host/comment on sports or did he just assemble the "talent" and formed Barstool?

Ogie can answer this better than I can, but I believe Portnoy started Barstool as a newsletter in college and did a lot of it himself. Then it grew into a website, then it was Portnoy, Big Cat, and KFC who were kind of the big names of the podcast, then once all the associated shows got going, he sort of became an impresario figure and moved away from most of the everyday stuff.

I've always said there's an alternate universe where Portnoy is at Deadspin and Drew Magary presides over a sports/crassness empire.

it's time you all are hauled out to the public square and shot in the face

Rico Bosco has been tasked with getting on air. But yeah hard to do if they shut it all down.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

Yeah, if anything, Portnoy's comment was closer to Mac's comment about Maria Taylor, who I guess did successfully slut it up on the sidelines, if you think about it.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

I think in the beginning it was more like a newspaper he passed out to commuters in Boston, like the Redeye used to be here but specifically sports/gambling/lad mag sort of stuff

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

"Only harass him on phone calls and at remotes," he says about the guy whose show no longer takes phone calls or does remotes.

It was fun to reminisce these last few days about Bernstein (YDKHLT) and how good/weird the show used to be.

Has BERNSTEIN threatened a restraining order or legal action yet?

It’s the rare occasion where I think it genuinely would do the world a lot of good for somebody to be physically assaulted for speech. Christian Ponder would have been fully justified had he beat the shit out of Portnoy for insulting his wife and child.

it's time you all are hauled out to the public square and shot in the face

That's pretty accurate, I looked it up. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/10/christian-ponder-wife-sam-ponder-espn-barstool-sports-audio-rundown

Still think Bernstein is worse, Portnoy never implied Ponder was a mistress to multiple married men

That would have been justified and also a total bloodbath

That's pretty accurate, I looked it up. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/10/christian-ponder-wife-sam-ponder-espn-barstool-sports-audio-rundown

Still think Bernstein is worse, Portnoy never implied Ponder was a mistress to multiple married men

Ponder and Portnoy ran into each other outside of a NYC restaurant a few years ago and hashed it out. Portnoy said he left the convo with a level of respect towards Sam Ponder

I was the caretaker. I've ALWAYS been the caretaker