Pardon My Take
NHL Playoffs With Paul Bissonnette, Chris Berman, Thunder Take Game 1, Jordon Is Engaged To Be Married, RG3 vs Ryan Clark + FAQ's
Wed, 21 May 2025
The Thunder take Game 1 and it was a tough watch with SGA fouls (00:00:00-00:15:15). Panthers are a wagon and Hank got duped bad by AI (00:15:15-00:27:25). Jordon claims to be engaged to be married to Bill Belichick and Hank is going to the wedding (00:27:25-00:37:59). Ryan Clark vs RG3 got very personal in a feud over a basketball foul (00:37:59-00:55:19). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including the Suns being the Suns again, NFL rule changes and more (00:55:19--01:20:47). Paul Bissonnette joins the show to talk Stanley Cup playoffs, the Leafs losing and where do they go from here, who's going to win the Cup, glass banger is back and his time with Oldie (01:20:47-01:59:28). Chris Berman joins the show to talk about his new contract with ESPN which will get him to 50 years at the company, golf, Scottie Scheffler, and some NFL talk to get us fired up for the fall (01:59:28-02:44:07). We finish with listener submitted FAQ's (02:44:07-02:58:27).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What happened in Game 1 of the NBA playoffs?
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On today's part of my take, we've got a twofer for the people. We're talking hockey with our guy, Biz, Paul Bissonnette, after his Leafs lose in Game 7, previewing the conference finals. We're going to talk some Panthers who look real good. We also have our good friend Chris Berman, the Schwamm, on the show.
Check in with him because he just signed his new deal at ESPN, and he's going to be there for 50 years. So we talk to him. We talk a little football with him, a little golf. Great catching up with him. We're going to talk about the conference finals in both hockey and basketball on Tuesday night. Then when we get back into studio, We might have an engagement.
Jordan has maybe said that she's engaged to Bill Belichick. We get Hank's thoughts on that. We talk about some beefs in the media world. Ryan Clark versus RG3 all because of a foul. Hot seat, cool throne. FAQs, great show coming your way, and it's brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. It's the best time of year for hoops fans, playoff drama, buzzer beaters, all the chaos we live for.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of the Ryan Clark vs RG3 feud?
He was breaking moves.
Breaking Moose. SGA. Go ahead, Hank. SGA is cousins with Nikhil Alexander Walker. I don't know if you heard that. I don't know if you heard that. I don't know if you heard that. Here's the other thing, PFT. So they brought that up a million times. It was the Kershaw Stafford thing. I have a take on the – because I agree with everything you said about SGA.
And it's – again, it's just the extreme foul baiting is just not fun basketball to watch. That's just what it comes down to. And everyone knows it when they see it. And it goes game to game. It can be one game on, one game off. But when it happens, it sucks. Here's what also – I was thinking about it because I don't know if you noticed like –
It didn't feel like the Thunder crowd had a lot of juice, but I think they did. I think the ESPN just turns down their mics so much that they do them disservice because you could see moments when it was like popping and you're like, oh, they are loud. This is a loud crowd, so I'm not going to – I think OKC was loud.
I think the ESPN, for some reason, they do this with hockey too where they turn down the crowd. It's like I want to hear the crowd. I also – the, the booth, the Richard Jefferson, Doris Burke, there's not a lot of aura. I'm sorry.
I'm just smashing the aura button on everything.
But I'm smashing it. Don't we like RJ. I like Doris Burke. As a team, it just doesn't feel big game-ish. It just, I don't know. Let Mike Breen just do it himself. It just didn't feel, something was off and it was like all the pieces, the crowd being low, SGA foul baiting, that booth just didn't, it didn't feel what I needed to feel for a Western Conference final game one.
Yeah, and I agree. I've watched maybe five or six Thunder games in the regular season before the playoffs started. And for some reason, I don't have a problem with SGA when he does this in the regular season. It's fine. But in the playoffs, it's like, come on, man, this really pissed me off.
It's James Harden used to do it. I mean, there's a lot of guys have done this. This is in a lot of guys get criticized for it. It just is what it is. Like guys have that in their game where they just they go to the hoop and they try to get their initial. They're not trying to score as much as they're trying to get contact.
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Chapter 3: What did Paul Bissonnette say about the Stanley Cup playoffs?
That's how. Yeah, that's how that's how hot playoff hockey should be. Absolutely. Hank. Yes. So we're going to kick it back to ourselves in the studio. We're going to talk some Jordan and some Bill Belichick. Oh, do we want to do predictions for the next Pacers? Do we already do them? Yeah, we did. We did. I think I just said game seven.
I'd like to change my pick, though, before it starts. I can do that, right? Yeah. I think I said Pacers in seven. I'm going to say Knicks in seven now. Oh. Because I just found out that the Pacers are changing their uniforms. They're getting off the City Connects. That was NBA League mandate. Yeah.
The NBA said you can't do that. You have to go to your core colors.
So we've been demanding that they get off the City Connect jerseys. But now that they actually did it, I'm like, wait, they won a lot of playoff games wearing those alternate uniforms.
Yeah, but again, I feel like it's different that the NBA mandated it versus the Pacers doing it in free will.
So they're going to be upset that they're not playing in the City Connect.
Right, there's nothing they can do. Their hands are tied. The NBA, correct move by the NBA to be like, you have to wear the real jerseys. Yeah. All right, before we kick it to ourselves, Hank, great stream tonight. Thank you. Why are you nervous?
Because you called me and were like, I have a question. I was like, what is it? You're like, I can't tell you. Yeah. So I've been thinking about what the question could be for 20 minutes.
Okay. But why didn't I just... I could have just asked you on the... Well, yeah.
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Chapter 4: What news did Chris Berman share about his ESPN contract?
Again, this was trust-free. I posted on my story. I was like, just for the follow-up, obviously it was AI. I share cool whale videos, and this fell into that category. Maybe it's not real now. Maybe it helps start. I just feel bad for the whales with barnacles stuck on. You're just ahead of your time.
Maybe your post is going to give somebody a great idea for an invention, and they can actually do this for real to the whales.
Yeah, think about what Hank is spreading the message in. Hey, guys, we have the technology now. Let's start cleaning whales with tractors.
I love it.
It's good AI, man.
It's not that good. It's not good at all. But I also didn't hear the whales saying thank you. I didn't hear how accurate the whale sounds were.
The whales – yeah, power washing.
Have you guys seen – the other one that almost got me that I had to literally do research on was the – These guys are sliding on the back of the whale with a freaking – with a Zamboni.
He's doing like Tokyo Drift on the back of the whale.
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Chapter 5: Why is Jordon claiming to be engaged to Bill Belichick?
Chapter 6: What are the latest NBA rule changes being discussed?
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Speaking of games, there are series that are not going to change. The Panthers are so good. They're so good. And we're going to talk to Biz about all hockey, but they're so good. And this... I don't think – because it's similar. Like the Panthers go from a game seven. They go from Toronto to Carolina. This is where you can get them. And it wasn't even – it wasn't a doubt.
Like the – what was the final score? I turned it off. Yeah, it was 5-1 or 5-2, and the first goal that Carolina scored was the kick that he kicked it in. He did like a back kick. This just reminds me. Remember, this is from last year, the series, when their coach said after getting swept by the Panthers. I believe it was last year, right, Memes? I think they swept them last year.
I'm going to look it up.
Is Hank here? I'm looking at a stat that matters here, Big Cat. If you want to talk about shots on goal, if you're a Carolina Hurricanes fan, the Carolina Hurricanes had 33 shots on goal, and the Florida Panthers had 20 shots on goal. So you guys won the shots on goal.
Yeah, shots on goal is huge. Shots on goal is huge. Here, filibuster real quick. Hank, are you here? How you doing, Hank?
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Chapter 7: How does the All-American Rejects backyard tour work?
That's the thing. It's like there's one play where he didn't run as hard as he possibly could to first base. I personally don't give a fuck. He's on the team for however many years. It doesn't matter. You were met. Guess what means he's awesome at baseball.
I got a bad take that I'm going to say out loud. If someone paid me $700 million to play baseball, I would sometimes not run to first base. Because I would probably just be distracted and be like, shit, why am I running the first base? I have $700 million. That was an out.
That's the thing is, like, if you reach that point where you get that massive contract, you won. Yeah, right. You won. Be hard to get motivated. I'll just be totally honest. It's human nature. You're 1-0 lifetime. Right. And you're going to retire with that record.
Like, imagine striking out with a $700 million contract. Can you be that bummed? No. I don't think.
Yeah, but have you seen his projected numbers for his 15 years on that? Tell me about the projected numbers. .050 average. This is in the whole 15 years. 34 home runs, 120 RBIs, and 2,087 double plays.
Wow.
Would that be a record?
Was this baseball reference?
This was Frank the Tank Fleming.
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Chapter 8: What is the current status of the Tush Push rule in the NFL?
Oh, sick. Yeah. He just said out of jail. Okay. Well, that's going to affect how I bet on that series. Yeah. Sure. Absolutely.
Absolutely. Okay, sorry. Tush push.
So the Packers proposed the rule change. We know that. That way there's no owner that everybody can get mad at. You just get mad at the entire city of Green Bay. And Matt LaFleur has to go on podcast and take the bullets when it's not him that's proposing the rule change.
And be called a pussy.
Yeah, it does sound like... Sorry about that, Matt. It does sound like it might get banned this year. And again... I'm opposed to banning the Tush Push. Just figure out a way to stop it. But also, if they do ban it, I'll be pumped because I was on the side saying, don't ban it, but now I don't have to deal with it anymore. Correct. So I'm playing both sides.
As a podcast, we do not want the Tush Push banned. It's very unfair. But if it got banned... I will not get in front of him.
It's very unfair to ban it. You can't ban a play because one team is way better at it than every other team. But if it does get banned, that's awesome.
Congrats, by the way, on Nick Sirianni's new contract, Max. You wanted him fired how many times in his tenure with the Philadelphia Eagles? Zero times. That's a lie.
I don't know what you're talking about.
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