posted by SportsAndLady

What am I missing with him? Again, I don't think i've watched anything from his or barstool before this quarantine, so not sure what you're referring to

Misogynistic, cyber bully. Openly mocks sexual harassment. Rips people for hot takes, yet got famous by purposely taking the “dumb” side of arguments — to the point he had 2 guys start a podcast around this premise. So bad ESPN had to fire them for shit they were doing after like 3 weeks after the partnership started (despite tons of media calling for ESPN to stand against Barstool)
 

This is the first article that popped up, but it only scratches the surface. https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-barstool-sports-culture-of-online-hate-they-treat-sexual-harassment-and-cyberbullying-as-a-game

The worst part is he isn’t the worst. It’s the rest of his employees that he stands behind. I think it’s the DC guy who is the worst.

posted by Laley23

Portnoy is a tool. The absolute worst kind of human. 

He’s pretty funny though. As are Big Cat and PFT. If you have kids, their Podfathers podcast is pretty good too. 

He is definitely an asshole, but a hilarious asshole.  

Yeah I mean if you’re saying he’s an asshole, then I would say about 97% of media or podcast type people who are super famous are. Don’t really care about that much. He’s been cracking me up these last few weeks. He was getting traders soooo mad, they were freaking out. Pretty funny 

the only thing wrong with portnoy he’s a pats fan 

Never hear of any of those guys, but will side with opposite of sportlady as he is usually wrong.

posted by gerb131

the only thing wrong with portnoy he’s a pats fan 

Only? Lol no. But it is one of the many things wrong with him.

Laley outlined it all, but I don't find misogyny or sexual harassment funny at all. I would not expect many on this website to care about that, so I'm not surprised he has fans here. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 

posted by Fab4Runner

Only? Lol no. But it is one of the many things wrong with him.

Laley outlined it all, but I don't find misogyny or sexual harassment funny at all. I would not expect many on this website to care about that, so I'm not surprised he has fans here. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 

They’re just words. I read laley’s article. If you want to get offended over words than by all means, but I’m sure we could look back at your words and find something wrong that you’ve said. Everyone gets so damn butthurt these days over people saying things that hurt their feelz. 

I'm not walking around crying because of some words a man on the internet said. I think he's a shitty person, so I'm not going to consume his content. It's really that simple. 

With him it’s not just words. Makes employees sign an NDA before working for them about the fact they will be exposed to sexual harassment, racial jokes, etc. 

I think some of his bits are funny, but he’s just scum, so I try to avoid anything Barstool I can. His employees can’t unionize because he threatened to fire them all (thank God department of labor stepped in).

I also despise Michael Rappaport, so the fact I sided with him in his lawsuit against Barstool is wild. 
 

I’m not sure why he is the way he is. I kinda get it starting out, since his target audience was 18-25 males. But once he made it, he should’ve fixed his image, except it wasn’t an act. And that’s the problem. He is a creative mind who doesn’t need to be a POS to anyone and everyone, but that’s the route he has taken.

posted by Laley23

With him it’s not just words. Makes employees sign an NDA before working for them about the fact they will be exposed to sexual harassment, racial jokes, etc. 

I think some of his bits are funny, but he’s just scum, so I try to avoid anything Barstool I can. His employees can’t unionize because he threatened to fire them all (thank God department of labor stepped in).

I also despise Michael Rappaport, so the fact I sided with him in his lawsuit against Barstool is wild. 
 

I’m not sure why he is the way he is. I kinda get it starting out, since his target audience was 18-25 males. But once he made it, he should’ve fixed his image, except it wasn’t an act. And that’s the problem. He is a creative mind who doesn’t need to be a POS to anyone and everyone, but that’s the route he has taken.

I’d say he made the right decision professionally, buddy. He is very rich, and it’s all because of his professional decisions. 

posted by Laley23

With him it’s not just words. Makes employees sign an NDA before working for them about the fact they will be exposed to sexual harassment, racial jokes, etc. 

I think some of his bits are funny, but he’s just scum, so I try to avoid anything Barstool I can. His employees can’t unionize because he threatened to fire them all (thank God department of labor stepped in).

I also despise Michael Rappaport, so the fact I sided with him in his lawsuit against Barstool is wild. 
 

I’m not sure why he is the way he is. I kinda get it starting out, since his target audience was 18-25 males. But once he made it, he should’ve fixed his image, except it wasn’t an act. And that’s the problem. He is a creative mind who doesn’t need to be a POS to anyone and everyone, but that’s the route he has taken.

He’s an asshole, but no different than a shock jockey or a comedian. You’re going to get people who love him and people who hate him.  Meanwhile he takes both the love/hate all the way to the bank.

I’ve been following Barstool well before they got big, and before you elaborated on your post I already knew where you were going with it. It’s the same criticism most people have of Barstool and Portnoy, while also never really following their content. 
 

The fact you cited the labor union “controversy” tells me you hardly actually have taken in their content and read one side of the story from publications that make a living being butt hurt. Just for the record the whole labor union thing was a bit. Anyone who follows Barstool or works there knew this and were laughing the whole time. The fact AOC and the DOL got involved made it even more hilarious. Barstool managed to get over a billion media impressions and gained more Twitter followers in one day out of it. This was during the dog days of summer too. The end result was he “settled” with the DOL by taking down his tweet. Like I  said, he takes the love/hate and laughs all the way to the bank.  

posted by SportsAndLady

I’d say he made the right decision professionally, buddy. He is very rich, and it’s all because of his professional decisions. 

He’s smart enough to have gotten that rich anyway. He could stop now and be worth over $100M. Instead, keeps it up and lost a huge contract with ESPN.

posted by Laley23

He’s smart enough to have gotten that rich anyway. He could stop now and be worth over $100M. Instead, keeps it up and lost a huge contract with ESPN.

Lost a huge contract with ESPN, but got acquired by Penn Gaming. He’s a very rich man, with or without the espn contract. 

posted by Laley23

He’s smart enough to have gotten that rich anyway. He could stop now and be worth over $100M. Instead, keeps it up and lost a huge contract with ESPN.

Yea, he got like $400m from Penn gaming. ESPN was never going to work, bc no one wants censored takes. And unless you pulled a sleeper, since when would you care about unionization of workers?

WTF? A tiger at the Bronx Zoo just tested positive for this shit. Maybe Justin was right about Joe Exotic having it.

posted by BR1986FB

WTF? A tiger at the Bronx Zoo just tested positive for this shit. Maybe Justin was right about Joe Exotic having it.

Animals can test positive if around a carrying human but can’t pass it on to a human.....or so I read

posted by like_that

He’s an asshole, but no different than a shock jockey or a comedian. You’re going to get people who love him and people who hate him.  Meanwhile he takes both the love/hate all the way to the bank.

I’ve been following Barstool well before they got big, and before you elaborated on your post I already knew where you were going with it. It’s the same criticism most people have of Barstool and Portnoy, while also never really following their content. 
 

The fact you cited the labor union “controversy” tells me you hardly actually have taken in their content and read one side of the story from publications that make a living being butt hurt. Just for the record the whole labor union thing was a bit. Anyone who follows Barstool or works there knew this and were laughing the whole time. The fact AOC and the DOL got involved made it even more hilarious. Barstool managed to get over a billion media impressions and gained more Twitter followers in one day out of it. This was during the dog days of summer too. The end result was he “settled” with the DOL by taking down his tweet. Like I  said, he takes the love/hate and laughs all the way to the bank.  

Glad that was a bit. I stopped following (directly, still get the retweeted stuff) anything they did in like 2013 or whatever when he ripped Erin Andrews (and now just makes sexual comments to her, for whatever reason) about the settlement she received. So, yeah, all I saw on that was the headline. 

And I haven’t gone sleeper, don’t care about employees unionizing. But they should have the right.

I just can’t get behind attacking people’s kids, looks, etc.

But the worst kinda human? 

Re: Barstool/Portnoy -- been a huge fan of PFT since whenever I discovered him, so with him at Barstool, I've spent some degree of time there. A percent is funny, a percent is annoying/assholeish and A LOT is boring-ass filler with a couple pics of hot chicks attached to give it some site value.

Portnoy is definitely an ass, but a lot of the sites/people that put the most energy into attacking him (such as the Daily Beast that was posted here or Deadspin before they self-terminated because they couldn't stand that thought that the people WHO OWNED THE SITE actually wanted some degree of editorial control) also are asses. Deadspin, in particular, loved to personally attack him and other writers and then would cry "harassment" when he struck back.

Either/or, PFT and Big Cat are cool, Portnoy's a dick and a lot of the blog-media folk going after him also are dicks, so it's mostly a wash to me.

Also: Pat Robertson showed how badly he wishes to be relevant to anyone other than mostly-senile god-squaders today by rambling about how CV is a result of young people and their oral sexing. It would be nice if, just once, we could get through something big like this without every fucking moron in the world with an audience trying to one-up each other with pure stupidity.

Big Cat is the man. He’s definitely my favorite of the barstool people. 

posted by SportsAndLady

But the worst kinda human? 

Sorry you took that comment by me as equating him to child rapists, serial killers and terrorists???

10,000 new cases a day in Ohio around 4/25

Hope not

https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/when-will-coronavirus-cases-peak-in-ohio-models-say-it-could-be-weeks/

posted by Laley23

Sorry you took that comment by me as equating him to child rapists, serial killers and terrorists???

How should I take a word for word “he is the worst kind of human” lol?

And even not comparing him to those people, is what you posted in that article THAT bad? I mean for someone who clearly says those things to get an uproar out of people? 
You’re acting like he’s this terrible human being, when all I took from this is other people in sports media are jealous of his success lol