The Curse of Dave Portnoy and/or Johan Rojas? Phillies fans search for answers after team loses 9 of 13
Back on June 24th, Barstool Sports head honcho Dave Portnoy placed a $200,000 wager on the Philadelphia Phillies to win the 2024 World Series following his historic winning streak coming to an end with the Edmonton Oilers failing to mound a comeback from a 3-0 series deficit in the Stanley Cup Finals losing Game 7 to the Florida Panthers, 2-1.Â
Dave Portnoy bets $200K on the Philadelphia Phillies to win World Series
Portnoy announced his bet on June 25, 2024.
Since then, the Phillies have posted a miserable 13-15 record.Â
I tried to warn Dave that he needed a better representation instead of leaving it to Smitty and whatever nerds that run the Barstool Philly. No one even told him that I wrote the article? How is that possible?
We all know Barstool is constantly hawking merch designs and content ideas from The Liberty Line while they pretend to be a “Philly Company” and now all of the sudden they missed one of the rare occasions where I actually mentioned their lord and savior by name?
What a coincidence. Eventually, we’re just going to have to call a spade a spade and admit that the Barstool office is filled with a bunch of RATS.
Me to Barstool Office:
While we’re at it, during the Infamous Unboxing, Portnoy was rocking our T-Shirts on a nightly basis. Look familiar, Dave?
I do know that Dave didn’t see the post.
It was shared a day after the climate change freaks stormed the 18th green at TPC River Highlands when we were sweating out yet another Scottie Scheffler win on the PGA Tour. Portnoy (rightfully) suggested that the protestors should be shot and was removed from Twitter temporarily which is the ONLY reason why he missed it himself.
That’s what happens in 2024. The unfair censorship of the most influential people on the planet that causes missed opportunities to actually work with people who like sports, specifically Philadelphia teams.Â
Hand up. It’s hard to blame Dave Portnoy specifically. I still believe that his team of misfit toys in the New York Office should have been watching The Liberty Line for any mention of Dave or Barstool and notified him.Â
Unfortunately, it came as no surprise to see that they did not. Too busy collecting paychecks and doing absolutely nothing in a New York City office I guess. Shame.
How many times will Dave Portnoy let his team’s failures stop him from making money?
I mean hell, I know The Liberty Line is pushing 750,000 views per month and maybe we’re considered to be “too small” but we are a profitable website. I even handed Dave Portnoy a six figure deal on a silver platter during COVID that never made it across his desk.
Multiple meetings with the Barstool Marketing & Advertising team only to be told 10 minutes before the final call to finalize six figures in cash to be the exclusive sponsor of the Dave Portnoy Show that it was a “conflict of interest”.
To be clear, it wasn’t a conflict of interest to anyone who likes six figure sponsorship deals that are paid in cold hard cash in the middle of a ridiculous COVID-19 pandemic. I had plenty of questions on as to why that would be the case but of course, his team went Zero Dark Thirty on me and the result was hundreds of thousands lost without even making it across Dave’s desk. Sad.
Dave Portnoy joins Johan Rojas in jail
The Phillies have been absolutely horrible. That’s business, baby. Dog Days of Summer. Everyone is slumping. Pitching is god awful. Injuries. You name it. While people are sitting here looking for every reason to blame the best team in Major League Baseball for their recent struggles, I’m just pointing out that Portnoy’s bet was one of the many indicators that there are bad vibes circling like a hawk out on the highway looking for something that just died.
Dave is not the only one to blame. More recently, Johan Rojas – who somehow is still holding onto the starting centerfield position for the Phillies, was saying all types of wild shit after the team swept the Los Angeles Dodgers.Â
The Phillies haven’t won a series since and are 4-9 over that span. Great.
Johan Rojas talking nonsense mid-Summer
My Response to Johan Rojas
All of this is just tongue and cheek. The Philadelphia Phillies will be perfectly fine. No one with a sense of baseball and the massive highs and lows of the regular season would actually believe that Trea, Harp, and JT will just all of the sudden stay like this:
- Trea Turner is 7 for his last 42 (.167)
- Bryce Harper is 6 for his last 42 (.143)
- J.T. Realmuto is 3 for his last 21 (.143)
This is what happens every single MLB season. It’s nothing new and Portnoy will cash that World Series ticket with zero issues.
If he was smart, he’d take his winnings and immediately buy The Liberty Line. We will throw the biggest Parade Party that Philly has ever seen for the Phillies and then get back to work driving page views and preparing for the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl parade a few months later.
From there, we’ll start preparations for the Philadelphia 76ers. We all know Boston is shaking in their boots with Paul George coming to Philly to save Embiid and Maxey just like Moses Malone did when Dr. J couldn’t get it done.
“Buy, Buy, Buy” Dave! It’s now or never.
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