Dave Portnoy sticks up for Robby Berger vs. Bob Does Sports

The funny part is who Dave is defending. Robby Berger isn't a Barstool guy. He's the Bob in Bob Does Sports, and Dave says his own crew hung him out to dry.

Dave Portnoy

@stoolpresidente

Sad to see the Bob Does crew putting their guy out there for slaughter at the @Internetinvite t.co/kbpc3zYfhC

Read 'slaughter' as Dave trash talk, not a scorecard. Nothing on file says how the round actually went, and the event still hasn't fully aired, so nobody outside the production knows the ending yet. What Dave is selling is the setup: the Bob Does guys put their own co-founder out there knowing what was coming, and Dave is acting like the only adult in the room. Coming from the guy who usually lights the match, that's a pretty good bit.

Berger also isn't walking into this as a ringer. Before the first episode dropped, Yahoo Sports put his handicap index at 12.9 and filed him with the 'weekend warriors', the players who lack raw skill but make up for it as elite entertainers. In a 64-player field full of YouTube golfers who can actually play, that's exactly the kind of guy who gets 'thrown to the wolves'.

Barstool Sports

@barstoolsports

The Bob Does Sports guys threw Bob to the wolves

The clip went straight around the Barstool ecosystem, and the fan accounts loved it: Dave sticking up for the Bob Does namesake against the Bob Does crew. It's the kind of crossover moment the event exists to make. The Internet Invitational is a joint production between Bob Does Sports and Barstool. It was filmed at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri, back in August, and now it's being released episode by episode on both companies' YouTube channels.

Dave beefing with somebody at this event isn't new, either. Fore Play spent a whole episode this week on Big John's run-in with him, and one voice on that show summed up the general rule pretty well.

Fore Play Podcast

@ForePlayPodcast

“You're a well-documented Viva guy. So you got to know, going against Dave Portnoy is usually a huge mistake.”

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This time Dave picked the opposite fight. Instead of going after the Bob Does side, he's standing next to their guy and pointing at everyone else. With $4 million on the line for the winning team and episodes still dropping Mondays and Thursdays through November 12, we'll find out soon whether Berger actually got fed to the wolves or turns this into a redemption story. Either way, Dave already has his angle.