Just Another Barstool Hit-Piece

Yeah, gotcha with a nice piece of eye candy...

Barstool Sports' newly demoted, former Editor In Chief loves to brag about the hits and pageviews he racked up. Easy thing to do when you post "the Smoke-Show of the Day," twice a day KMarko. I know the book on eye candy drawing traffic Keith. I wrote that bitch back in 2007.

I don't like Barstool's KMarko because he's a douchebag. Also, for years he blew me off. I won't deny it, while I was co-owner/operator and writer at YouGabSports.com I had applied to Barstool a few times. I knew I was no journalist but wanted to get wider readership of my shit. I drew good numbers at YGS as well as when I was at the Sporting News Blogging Community. But he blew me off. I even submitted for a writing gig again in the last year. Heard nothing. I started tweeting posts at Barstool staff to try and get it in front of their eyes and maybe get lucky. Does this sound bitter? It sounds bitter. 

Yeah, it bummed me out. One of the reasons is because I feel the crap I write is better than most of the stuff they post there now. You see Barstool's best writers, don't write that often anymore. They have followed the times and do more video content, radio (Sirius/XM) and podcasts. I don't blame them, they have some of the best podcasts out there. KFC Radio, Zero Blog Thirty, Pardon My Take, The Token CEO, They're all excellent. Call Her Daddy kills it too, it's not really my thing, but I respect it. 

Barstool has expanded and dabbles in so many worlds now. In the early days it was blogs about sports, shit talking, maybe some wacky shit that happened in the news and tits and ass. Now they have radio, podcasts, people playing video games on Twitch, multiple gambling shows, a gambling app. They have a show now completely about "The Bachelor"...You can watch Barstool staff watch "The Bachelor" and then do a show about it afterwards. WTF!?!

I never expected Barstool to stay what it was, but I hate that the blogging is an after thought. Some people still like to read and use their brain as opposed to listening/watching a podcast pontificate or you know, watch people watch TV. I don't call myself a "Stoolie" and don't get on reddit and don't run my day around Barstool content. (yes there are people that do that) 

I have some merch, from the specific shows I support like KFC, ZBT and PMT...I use to check the site at least once a day. I use to watch Dave Portnoy's Pizza reviews. I don't anymore. I use to like his douchey "brick by brick," man of the people schtick. But now it's become I'm a rich douchebag schtick. Portnoy is the man that created Barstool and he really did build it "brick by brick" and worked his ass off for everything for years. I respect that. But he just seems like a douchebag now.

My growing dislike started before his Trump interview, but that pushed it over the top. Portnoy has always prided himself on Barstool not getting into politics and made it clear to the company that those are waters he did not want them going into. So much so, that Big Cat (Dan Katz, One of the top dogs there) turned down having Joe Biden on his show Pardon My Take. Then behind his back, going against what he's always said Portnoy does an Interview with Trump. 

Let's be clear, this "interview" was a campaign ad to try and grab some younger voters. It was exactly the type of interview Trump loves. No "tough questions" like 60 Minutes. Why the hell would the President of the United States have to answer tough questions?

If you missed it, I give you a quick recap. Portnoy kissed Trump's ass, then started stroking himself...Trump replied by stroking himself, then stroking Portnoy...Portnoy tongued Trump's balls while stroking him, then stroked himself some more...Trump replied by stroking himself while fingering Portnoy's ass...Eventually they blew each other, Trump finished and Portnoy had to finish himself off.

Portnoy defended himself talking about how no one would turn down interviewing the President. He acted as if he didn't toss up softballs. He didn't like the criticism that he did no follow-up questions, trying to fall back on while they are a huge media company, they aren't journalists...He denied that this was all purely a campaign ad.

This whole thing pissed me off. I now ignore all Portnoy content. Like I said it was getting annoyingly douchey anyway. But I find myself checking out less and less Barstool content, outside of KFC, ZBT and PMT. 

Why? 

I often didn't use the Barstool site to checkout some content because I'd be checking it out the next day or hours later. It was easier to find on their YouTube page. Example, The Barstool Rundown. Now, with all Barstool content on YouTube, I am getting hit with Trump ads. this isn't some dumb-ass YouTube algorithm. I've been signed-in to my YouTube account for 15 years. If they had an algorithm they were gearing towards me it would be all ads with sexy women in stockings, beer, chef knives and guitars. When Portnoy did that "Interview" with Trump, Barstool got into bed with the Trump campaign. 

I can't and won't support something or someone who supports a criminal fuck like Trump, who has now let 230,000 Americans die because of his lies. And that number keeps growing every day.

#WakeUpAmerica

 

Monday Moaning: Dementia Moved In

The image is click-bait but that's always been part of the game, and a major part of my game since I started blogging at Sporting News back in 2007...But I always found a way to tie it in with the post...I carried it on with me here and at the now defunct YouGabSports....

-I had a couple of masterpiece blogs in the bullpen...They were going to get me noticed by Barstool Sports who would offer me a job...(yeah, right!)But with the murder of George Floyd, the ensuing protests, the hate spewed by the President and his ignorant supporters who hold the Confederate Traitors in such high regard, I scrapped those...I didn't blog...I just carpet bombed social media facts, truth, reality, history, and quick rants...I got flagged on Facebook for things that were factually correct but Anti-Trump and Anti-Racism...I got unfollowed by plenty of people, which is fine...If you're a racist...If you are ok with people flying Nazi and Confederate flags, I don't want to know you and don't want you around....I got suspended on Twitter twice...A week for tweeting at Drew Brees that he "is a fucking idiot"....My first tweet back was at Twitter and their owners, pointing out the hypocritical bullshit standards they have...And then I retweeted porn clips that are allowed on twitter at them...

-One blog shredding MLB for being a bunch of greedy fucks who are killing their game and are about to lose the dog days of Summer to the NHL...The NHL is planning to have their playoffs (the best playoffs of all sports) in July, August and September...Pushing the start of next season back, and if they stick with it that way they can continue starting their season later, and having their playoffs in the Summer, sports dead zone, when many people get extra casual with Baseball until it gets closer to September....But with Billionaire owners and millionaire players fighting over money, more and more people are going to care less and less about a sport who's core fanbase is dying...


-I had done  series of "COVID Blogs"...Those stopped This next section was going to be one in the series...A month into the COVID shutdown, we moved my Mother-in-Law in with us...My wife, three kids, two dogs, myself and my dementia riddled Mother-in-Law...She was in assisted living and was locked down, stuck in her room for over month...No visitors allowed, no activities, no dining room...It scrambled her already fragile brain even more...When we saw her outside of the place on her birthday, my wife and I knew we had to get her out...So she's here with us...My Father-in-Law went down this same road so we knew to some extent what we were getting into...But it's bad...It's hard...

The kids were doing school from home...The wife works from home...there's limited separation people can get...We get bombarded with the same questions over and over again...The last 20 years don't exist...She doesn't know who I am, except that I cook for her and answer questions...There are times she doesn't know my wife...

We made a answer sheet for her to keep...When she starts asking questions we tell her to look at it...She would ask a question, you would answer and she would ask it again immediately...She looked at the sheet and said, "This is my daughters house?" I said yes...She then said "Is she still alive?"...Which was when the most blunt thing I could say fell out of my face..."If she was dead you wouldn't live here."  I felt awful, but she forgot it within seconds...

My day often starts with making her Tea and toast or an English muffin with orange marmalade...Once she is sitting down eating and working on a puzzle I go and check to see if I have to mop the floor in her bedroom, the hallway and the bathroom, as she likes to take her diapers off during the night and often leaves a trail of pee.... 

It's hard seeing someone fall apart in front of you...It's hard on my wife, as her mother often seems ungrateful for what we do for her...At night she becomes child-like, wants to "break rules" and gets pissy with my wife...We had to put up a baby gate to try and prevent her from roaming around the house at night while everyone is asleep...She loves to search for cookies between 11:00 PM and 4:00 AM...We have signs on doors to help her and prevent her taking a header down the basement steps....

The one thing makes my wife nuts...Her mother will go to the bathroom door wide open, doing her business, everything hanging out...But then when she's done, she pulls the door shut behind her...WTF!?!

If 2020 didn't suck bad enough, especially for the kids, my oldest having her senior year of high school kicked in the balls...She gave up her room for her Grandmother and moved into her little sister's room...And Grandma has no idea who our kids are...She had lived everyday for over two months with them and looks at them like strangers...We spent so many weekends visiting...Personal time and vacation time spent with my in-laws...Moved to fucking Erie to take care of things for them....and she has no memory of them or any of it...There are moments when I talk to her and she looks at me like 'Who the fuck are you and what are you doing here.?'

As frustrated and annoyed as I get, I have to remind myself that my wife is watching her mother's brain turn to pudding right in front of her everyday...I don't know how my wife deals with it so calmly...Well, she does like to hit the bottle like the piece of click-bait at the top of this post! 

That's what's been going on in my world...

Have a drink...Stay safe...Stay strong...Don't be a racist...Help fight for positive change in this country and world...And love...Love your family...No matter what, love your family.

Tampa Brady/Tompa Bay Whatever, Leave the G.O.A.T. Alone

Last week, sports talk and the Internet were buzzing about Tom Brady accidentally walking into the wrong house...He was going to see Tampa Bay Offensive Coordinator, Byron Leftwich's house and was going to get his Playbook...Brady, new to the area entered the next door neighbor's house...The neighbor was fine and thought it was cool and funny...

But then the haters started coming out...Making comments that this happened because of old age, maybe CTE...Then people started crying and saying Brady wasn't allowed to do this, that he was breaking rules...

Even Barstool Sports founder, Patriots fan and guy who went to jail fighting for Brady's innocence during "Deflate-gate," Dave Portnoy went on saying that Brady should be punished, as Portnoy has made it clear he is on Team Belichick...Now he's shitting on the Greatest QB...

So here's my question...Why were none of these crybabies...These haters, who are always looking for an excuse to try and hang Brady, why the fuck were none of them screaming from the rooftops that the presumptive #1 pick in the draft, LSU's Joe Burrow had been studying the Cincinnati Bengals playbook for WEEKS before being drafted...WEEKS before he was actually in the NFL and on a roster, he was studying a teams playbook...So how is this legal? But going to your coach's house to get your playbook, you know, because you're actually under contract with that team, is illegal...

Well, you fucking children, it isn't! The NFL had to formally come out and make a statement and let everyone know, Tom Brady, didn't not violate any rules by picking up his playbook from his Offensive Coordinator...

I paid attention to who the Buccaneers drafted...and the Patriots...I've looked at both rosters...and as a fan who like player, has been playing the free agent card, for the next NFL season, (I will continue rooting for the Seahawks who I have been onboard with for awhile now) but I will be a full throated Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan...Fuck all you haters!  #TeamBrady Fuck you Portnoy! (ps:hire me)

Have a drink

Have a day

Monday Moaning

Well hello there Buffalo Jills...Yes, the Bills lost Sunday to the Patriots, but thers seems to be something special with those Bills fans...Last week our friend Jeff wrote about a Craigslist ad, written by a female, looking for a guy, a stranger, that she never even looked at, that she jacked-off at a Bills game while her boyfriend was off getting her food and drink...Then Sunday, Barstool Sports shared this via Instgram...

Undefeated at tailgates #BillsMafia @jamesone4

A video posted by Barstool Sports (@barstool_sports) on Sep 20, 2015 at 3:01pm PDT

One guy shooting snot rockets and puking, and another giving some chick the ole Patrick Kane treatment!

I don't know, but with us moving about an hour and change away from Buffalo, when my NFL fandom contract is up and I'm a free agent again, I may have to sign with the Bills...They're a horny, boozing bunch!


-The Fighting Irish  defense stepped up, and was dominate for 3 and a half quarters Saturday...They got a bit lax late in the game, but the way they handled Georgia Tech's option attack was excellent...Sophomore QB DeShone Kizer played well, and it seems C.J. Prosise has found his true calling at Running Back...

-In my Pick'em POST Friday, I had a solid week again...winning 3, losing 1 and having a push on 1 game...And I said it, Northern Illinois being a 35 point underdog was crazy...Even against Ohio State...The Buckeyes rarely cover against MAC schools...But for Ohio State fans, it was worse then that...NIU brought everything they had, and normally with them, that means offense...But Saturday the D showed up...And the Ohio State QB situation got shakier, as neither guy played very well...

Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has talked about what a great situation they are in with their depth and talent, and having two starting QB's...You know what my Dad said to me many years ago about situations like this..."If you have two starting QB's, you don't have a starting QB."

And from what I saw, flipping between this game and the ND game, Ohio State has one of the country's best running backs, in Zeke Elliot, and they did not use him enough....(plus I predicted him to win the Heisman, so damn it Meyer, ride that fucking horse into the ground!)

-Alabama fell to Ole Miss for the second year in a row...I said I wasn't touching this game ('Bama was a 7 point favorite)...I didn't know what to expect from the Tide, and Ole miss has looked solid...Well, now I know what to expect from Alabama this year....Fucking confusion...From the head coach, to the OC, to the players...Another team unsettled at QB...Honestly, most the team looked like teir heads were up their asses...5 turnovers...And every bounce started going Ole Miss' way...Good...I fucking hate Alabama!


-Now we are moving onto a totally different subject...A chick named Nicole Arbour, who is a comic, also does videos ripping on shit that she posts on YouTube...If you didn't know, there are people know as "YouTubers"...The post videos babbling about whatever...The crybaby ones post response videos every time their vagina hurts...Arbour did one recently titles "Dear Fat People"....Before you watch, she has an annoying quality to her...Which of course, I like...Also, I'm fat...And I wasn't offended...I laughed...She's a comic!






So, all kinds of fatties starting crying....Screaming that she is "Fat-shaming" and "bullying"....

Fuck you, grow up!  The terms "Shaming" and "bullying" have become two of the most overused terms in the English Language....Why has this country become so fucking soft!?!  When I grew up do you know what bullying was?  An asshole 8th grader (often a big fat fuck) who beat the shit out of a 5th grader and stole his shit...The next day my two older brothers turn his face into what looked like ashed potatoes with ketchup....

Nut the fuck up people...And these crybaby fatties weren't giving Arbour shit when weeks earlier she did a video, humorously trashing "Insta-models"....those are the chicks that post sexy pics on Instagram in the hopes of landing a modeling career...Then those gashes at "the View" had Arbour on...She told all about it on Opie and Jim Norton's show...How they kept cutting out her mic when she made jokes, trying to make it seem like she was swearing...How these gashes gave her shit...Two who were comedians, so they looked like twats...Oh, and this nice bit about how they really feel about nurses...




Fuck "The View"....Fuck all these pussified twats that cry about everything and stand for nothing...And fuck everyone attacking comedy and freedom of speech...No one made you click on Nicole Arbour's YouTube channel...We have free will....You don't have to watch you crybaby cunts!


With that I say....

Have a week!