Awful Announcing
"IF YOU ARE A KNICK FAN, THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF BEING KIDNAPPED, STORED IN A BASEMENT, BEING TORTURED AND THEY LET YOU OUT WHEN YOU ARE NO USE TO ANYBODY! IF YOU ARE NOT A KNICKS FAN, YOU MAKE ME SICK! I DON'T LIKE ANY OF YOUS, ANY OF YOUS!"
"Can you hear me? You got me now? Hello?...I'm so fucking sick of this shit." "I told you, the phone's old!" "Why is it always the fucking handset?" "It's not! It's an old battery! That phone is like 60 years old!"
"Me, I was an ignorant fool. I had to go back and watch the tapes. My bad."
"There are images of Cleveland Browns fans too, empty seats, bags on their head, and a bunch of guys from Lima, Ohio wearing masks and barking in the end zone, about nine Budweisers in."
Francesa's February take that Tony Bennett will "never win a championship with this team, though. They can't play offense" particularly stands out.
"But CONTRARY to what some of you out there may believe, it wasn't coming to do me harm! It wasn't coming at me because it was disgusted with some of my takes! It came to my office because it missed me!"
Maybe turkey vultures don't care for debate shows after all...
"If it was the 70s, everybody would be in jail. Everybody. Kids got beaten up, we got beaten up when we were kids like it was nothing. Nothing. No one even blinked an eye. ...I ain't getting in between nobody and their kids."
Barkley's claim that no woman could beat him at any sport topped the March 8-14 hot takes.
"Luka Doncic could have came over here as a 17- or 18-year old. Frank Ntilikina could have done the same thing." No, they couldn't have.
Giannis Antetokounmpo was drafted in 2013, and Phil Jackson was hired in 2014. The only way to blame Jackson is if you think he has a time machine.
"New York Knick fans were at the Barclays Center booing because we recognize that we have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amuck, and flat out deceived by Phil Jackson and the New York Knicks." Yeah, that didn't hold up.
"I still believe that when it's all said and done, and that disgruntled person who wasn't taken care of comes out and writes that book and lays it all out on the table, that Tom Brady will be looked at the same light as Lance Armstrong. He'll be Lance Armstrong without the bicycle."
First Take criticisms of Derek Carr led to Carr shooting back, and to Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman shooting back again, and to the hot take cycle continuing...
