Mikey Bets says Maserati Mike squeezed him out of ad read

The Mikey Bets squeeze-out saga has a new entry. According to OhioTate, Barstool's social media boss Maserati Mike killed an ad read Mikey Bets had already finished, calling it "not very good," and handed the redo to someone else. Mikey, per OhioTate, is not taking it well.

Ohio’s Tate

@OhioTate

Developing Story: Maserati Mike (social media guy) just asked me to redo an ad read that was previously completed by Mikey Bets, but it was “not very good” Mikey Bets is stewing. He believes this is another orchestrated attack to keep him out of content. #SqueezeOut

Context matters here. Mikey Bets already has a well-documented history of feeling shoved to the margins at Barstool, going back to when he got fired as Barstool Chicago's basketball coach and demoted to just playing on the team he used to run. That whole saga picked up enough steam to get labeled "the Mikey Bets squeeze out" by the company's own YAK show, so when a hashtag like #SqueezeOut shows up attached to a scrapped ad read, it's not coming out of nowhere — it's tapping into a running bit that Barstool fans already know.

OhioTate then posted what he claimed was the actual footage of the scrapped read, asking fans to weigh in on whether Maserati Mike was right to scrap it. The clip itself is a guy talking in a hallway with zero connection to any actual ad copy, which makes clear this is more of a bit than a leaked outtake — OhioTate needling Maserati Mike's decision rather than handing over real production footage.

Ohio’s Tate

@OhioTate

I have obtained the footage of Mikey Bets original ad read. Fair or Foul for Maserati Mike to scrap this entirely and ask someone else to do it?

Stoolies Clubhouse piled on with its own post declaring it a "TOUGH day" for Mikey Bets, pairing the line with a clip from an unrelated podcast studio segment that doesn't actually show him or anything tied to the ad read.

Stoolies Clubhouse 🏴‍☠️

@StooliesClub

TOUGH day for Mikey Bets!!

None of this rises to the level of an actual firing or credit dispute — it's an ad read getting redone, which happens constantly in-house. But given Mikey's track record of believing he's being iced out of opportunities, don't be shocked if this becomes another data point he brings up the next time the squeeze-out narrative resurfaces.