If you thought the PMT crew was going to play a charity-adjacent softball game against Lane Kiffin's LSU staff and then quietly move on, you have not been paying attention. The vlog dropped, the clips followed, and now everyone with a keyboard at Barstool is either bragging, deflecting, or roasting a teammate. The pile-on is the content.
The full game vlog hit Wednesday, with security guard Mike somehow stealing the show on the basepaths.
The breakout star, by all accounts, was security guard Mike — the guy who, by job title alone, should not have been the offensive engine. Big Cat lasered in on a slide that apparently bordered on unhinged commitment, the kind of effort you do not expect from the security detail at a podcast softball game.
Big Cat singled out Mike's slide as pure heart on the way to plugging the Grit Week vlog.
Just an outrageous slide by security guard Mike. All heart. New Grit Week Vlog out now —> https://t.co/uPa4GsgX5m https://t.co/ftAtMRiTNP
Meanwhile, the actual on-air talent is running damage control. Big Cat copped to a rough day at the dish, blaming the pitcher he never quite figured out — the closest thing to a hitter's confession you will get from a guy who hosts a podcast for a living. Self-scout, posted publicly, no notes.
Big Cat's own postgame take on his at-bats was not exactly glowing.
@VivaLaStool @barstoolsports @hen_ease @Philly_Mays @PFTCommenter Terrible game at the plate. Couldn’t get a read on the pitcher.
Zac, on the other hand, is getting the hero edit. PMT's main account is crediting him with starting the rally that tied things up, and PFT chimed in with a glasses-lost-in-Vegas bit to explain the eye discipline. Standard PMT operating procedure — once one guy gets credit, the rest of the crew immediately invents a reason it was actually weirder than it looked.
The clip the PMT account is using to anoint Zac as the rally-starter.
And then there is PFT, who got tagged in a Pardon My Meme clip suggesting he botched a tag and responded with the only defense available to him: he was playing for the other team anyway. The Knicks-in-the-Finals deflection is a bonus. Days after the final out, the bit is somehow still finding new angles, which is exactly how PMT content is supposed to work.
PMT cosigning the theory that PFT's defense was, charitably, on LSU's side.