that said, wow that website is awful and what happened to Drew Magary....yikes.

Didn't he break his brain on a cocaine binge?

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I interviewed Barstool Carl yesterday on my Au Jus podcast if that interest any of yous. Some talk about his Barstool origin story, blogging, funny old Red Line Radio stories about White Sox Dave, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcb-5c9PRHo&t=364s

Eddie sitting in for Jurko today. I'm expecting lots of random shots at Bernstein today

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Big Cat: confirmed fraud

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Where you're from and where you grew up is who you are.

He's Mass Cat. No getting around it. Chicago's red headed step child who's been dying his hair.

Imagine abandoning Tom Brady in your 20s to appropriate Bear fan misery.

Real big sports guy move.

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I don't listen to PMT often, but have heard this story making the rounds recently. My initial thought was who cares but apparently Big Cat was lying about part of his fandom, like pretending to have heartbreak from the Steve Bartman Cubs year when he wasn't a Cubs fan at all at that point. That's a tough look.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Ogie tearing posters down from his bedroom wall

It’s a great story, in that it doesn’t matter at all but is incredibly, incredibly weird and changes the way a relatively famous person is perceived in an instant.

It’s kind of like the Manti Te’o story.

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PMT is great. for now this story doesnt bother me that much. i always wondered how he adopted chicago fandom. If someone is going to do the research to show there was a lot of fraudulent stuff being posted that contradicts his new version of events i'd be more interested.

While he was a blogger, he ripped into carpetbaggers. When he was hired full time, he asked Portnoy if he should come clean and Portnoy said no.

Just thought I'd drag Portnoy into this despicable sordid scandal.

Portnoy can spin this because he’s happy to be a scumbag. If it were him alone he’d already be bragging about how the most popular Chicago guy is actually a Boston guy because Boston is that much better than everybody.

Big Cat wants to be a likeable nice guy, which he seems to be, but he’s just incredibly, incredibly weird. Very odd human.

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You have to be weird, a fraud even, if you seem to be a likeable nice guy yet work for a piece of shit at a piece of shit company for pieces of shit fanbase

His partner on PMT is literally a made up character so it's not shocking that Big Cat made a business decision to fake his persona also.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Bernstein wins again!

Yup

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leave it to the minifans to find stuff

They interviewed Ben Johnson today. Ben Johnson starts the interview by asking Big Cat about the Mass Cat allegations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8w8bMpxnSA

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Didn't he also say something about, because he already has three kids, being willing to have his testicles cut off if he could win multiple super bowls?

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

He did say that

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

PMT doesnt do hard hitting interviews, but I still enjoyed the interview and found that he comes off as an intelligent normal person with a sense of humor.

Big Cat: "Are you an acronym guy"

Ben Johnson "No acronyms"

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

GTFO, OMFG, LOL, J/K.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Big Cat idolizes Dan Bernstein confirmed

Ogie, are we worried about JackMac?

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Ogie ain't from Chicago either, despite what he tells his northwest arkansas friends around the campfire when its scary story time

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.