The 2024 Takie Awards, 28 Winners, Guest Presenters + Blake Of The Year

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Today is Wednesday, July 31st, and it is the 2024 Takeys.

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All right.

So, sports.

Sports.

If anyone is listening to their first Takeys, this is our yearly sports award that we do

in the middle of summer.

It basically goes from the back half of 2023 to 2024 at this moment.

We have 28 awards that we are giving out tonight.

It will all culminate in Podcast Listener of the Year Award.

The AWLs are going for a ninth?

Nine, Pete.

Holy shit.

Nine, Pete, would be a record.

It would be a record for most Takeys won by anybody.

This is like John Wood and UCLA.

It's Hamilton.

20 Yankees.

The pyramid of success of listening to Part of My Take.

You're part of it.

Yeah.

So, it's going to be a great award show.

We should say, too, if you're listening and you want to watch, we look good, boys.

Wearing suits.

Get all kitted up.

Boys looking nice.

Even the boys in the booth.

Yeah.

I would say the boys in the booth are looking good.

They're looking like, I would say, over three and a half DUIs between them.

Yeah, looking good.

One of them's not paying child support.

Huey definitely looks like a college kid going to court for the first time.

Yeah.

Like, you got a drunken public ticket.

Yeah, open container.

I'm going to put on a collared shirt, but I'm going to keep the undershirt on.

Probably not fully tucked in.

Yeah.

But it's a good look.

And the judge is going to give him a lenient sentence because he's going to look at him

and be like, man, this kid doesn't have a lot going on for him.

Well, he's going to look at him and be like, your father owns a business.

You seem like a good kid.

Let's learn from this.

Yeah.

Max might be the one missing out on child support.

I can't see memes.

No, Max looks like Huey's lawyer.

Yeah.

Stand up memes.

Memes kind of looks like an accountant.

Yeah.

Memes actually looks pretty appropriate.

Memes looks like a pedophile.

Now that I'm thinking about it, because he didn't have his glasses on.

He looks like he's going, yeah, he needs to catch a predator.

I was going to say he looks like an Amish kid that went on Rumspringa

and had too much fun learning how to do basic Excel operations.

Yeah.

So he's a former Amish kid that now loves computers and works at a tech firm.

Us in here, we look good.

Hank, you look like a playboy.

Yeah.

You look awesome.

Yeah.

Whenever you break out the round sunglasses, you know, Hank is either

ready to do the takeys or took way too many drugs.

He looks like a...

Fact or fiction?

Ah, fiction.

You look like a Beatles drug dealer.

Circle glasses play.

I know.

Squares are too big for my little face.

Yeah.

It's kind of like an evil scientist type look too.

Yeah.

Like you're cooking something weird up.

You look like a tech, like a tech.

I'm in tech, but I'm really just like selling drugs.

Yeah.

You look like a futurist.

Yeah.

You look like the guy that sits Elon down.

He comes in like the banana boat.

He brings in a suitcase of ketamine and then tells him what the future is going to be with robots.

Yes.

I like that.

Okay.

That's a good job.

It's a good life.

We also should have said at the start that in the past, we've done cameos this year.

We wanted to bring it back home.

Not all the time either.

Yeah.

We haven't done it every year.

We did it the last couple of years, but this time we figured let's have our friends of the program,

our good friends, recurring guests, present a couple of the awards.

So we have some guest presenters that will be great for the listeners.

See some familiar faces, some friends, and yeah, should we do it?

28 awards to give out.

Let's kick into it.

Okay.

So we're going to start with the take of the year.

We're starting off with the-

Whoa.

Yeah.

We're starting off with a bang.

Set the stage.

You would think the takies take of the year would be the finale, but-

No, that's actually the preemptive take towards the end.

Take of the year, we have a lot.

We have a lot to get through.

I want to laugh about a lot of these.

Shout out our good friend, Old Takes Exposed.

He helps us with this every single year.

Let's just dive into it.

I want to hear what you guys have to think about a lot of these.

Okay.

A lot of these are takes that were said maybe a couple of years ago, but they came true this year.

So that's when they, you know, a good take usually takes a couple of years to fully grow

and become a beautiful tree.

And then we can harvest from it.

Yeah.

You got to give it some time until it becomes flaming hot.

Yes.

Until it really reaches the truth.

Yeah.

So some of the ones that have come true this year that I loved, this one is from Neil Iyer

on SB Nation.

This was from February 11th, 2022.

The Derek White trade is a disaster.

Sorry, folks.

Brad Stevens made his first major mistake as GM.

Oh, that's a good take.

That's a good take.

That's a good take.

Disaster.

Disaster.

And was the, was the trade a disaster because Kyrie Irving was on the team?

I, I don't know what exactly the trade, why it was a disaster, but Derek White was the

ultimate glue guy for the Celtics championship run.

Was it not?

And the first year too, the first year.

Yeah.

First two years.

Yeah.

Maybe it was just, he was saying like Kyrie Irving will never win a championship for the

Celtics with this Derek White trade.

It was might've been true after Kyrie because 2022 Kyrie was already on the nets.

Okay.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

True.

But a disaster experiment.

Yeah.

Uh, here's one, this will be a theme.

Colin Coward is, is featured many times in this one.

This is from 2020.

This one was beautiful to watch sprout this year.

Name the top 100 players ever hard to find many that didn't love the game.

Passion matters to me, but Hey, Anthony Edwards has great measurables.

I don't think you could think of one person that like loves the game more than Anthony

Edwards does right now.

But I love those takes, especially during NFL draft season where they're like, I, he's

a great player, but is he really in love with football?

Yeah.

Would he marry a football?

Yeah.

Uh, yeah.

Anthony Edwards, I would say he loves basketball.

He had, he had a very good year and he, he clearly cares a lot.

And sometimes you don't have to care about, you don't have to love the sport if you just

love winning so much that you just don't want to lose in anything you do.

Yes.

Yes, exactly.

Uh, here's a good one from Pierce W Huff.

This is a call that should happen.

Hey, Monty Williams, this is Brad Stevens with the Celtics.

I'm about to fire Joe Missoula.

Would you be interested in coaching our team?

That's a great call.

It would be, it was coward too.

No, that was a Pierce W Huff.

It'd be a very funny phone call.

Yeah, it would be.

Yeah.

Monty Williams, although he, he's pretty good at getting paid.

He might be just a good coach at getting paid.

That's true.

Uh, yeah, I think it worked out well.

Yeah, it worked out great.

Uh, I want, I want to do a little game called, uh, who said this quote?

You ready for this one?

I'm not leaving until I get a Superbowl.

This is about a player that was drafted to a team.

Stefan Diggs.

Nope.

Oh, drafted.

Drafted to a team.

I'm not leaving until I get a Superbowl.

I'll say this right now.

I could give you a thousand guesses.

I don't think you'd get it.

Zach Wilson.

No.

Mack Jones.

No.

Again, a thousand guesses.

I don't think you'd get it.

That way Lance.

No, that was said by Desmond Ritter after getting drafted by the Falcons.

Desmond Ritter is now on the Arizona Cardinals.

Oh, that's good to know.

I didn't know that.

That's good.

So he did in fact leave before getting a Superbowl for the Falcons.

In Atlanta.

Yeah.

You should just never say that as a Falcon.

Yeah.

These are, these are all very fun.

We addressed this one actually in February, but it's still one that needs to be revisited

because in 2019, the Athletic wrote a piece and said, in case you missed it, Patrick Mahomes

has thrown 36% of Troy Aikman's career touchdowns in about 8% of the games.

And Troy Aikman quote treated that in 2019 and said, in case you missed it,

talk to me when he has 33% of my Superbowl titles.

He now has 100% of his Superbowl titles.

That was tough.

But Troy, Troy walked that back later.

He was like, okay, he did it.

He did it.

Yeah, he did it.

He did it.

Uh, this one is from Nick, right?

This, this may, he said, by the time the Celtics adjust to playing real playoff basketball,

the Mavs are going to be up three, one Hank.

Like that one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a strong one.

That's a strong way.

It was Nick.

One of the ones leading the charge at the Lakers were actually the best team in the way.

He was one of them.

Yes.

And then he pivoted to the map.

We get any Kevin O'Connor Celtics takes.

I don't think I have any of those.

He did say the war.

Yeah.

Every team that the Celtics were playing was going to beat them.

Yeah.

Basically picked every team to win the championship, except the Celtics.

He said the Nuggets, there's no chance the Celtics could beat the Nuggets in a seven

game series.

Um, a twofer for Cal.

Cal said in February, we're built for March.

Not April, April.

They're built for March.

Forgot about Kohlke.

Yeah.

And then also, uh, the ad at Kentucky, Mitch Barnhart said, as we normally do at the end

of every season, coach Cal, and I have had a conversation about the direction of our

men's basketball program, and I can confirm that he will return for his 16th season as

our head coach.

Then something weird happened.

Then the chicken, the chicken man, the chicken man gave him a call.

Yeah.

Um, these are, these are all just fantastic.

Again, shout out our guy.

Old takes exposed.

We'll rip through a few more and then we'll, we'll give you a winner.

Uh, Mason Dodd said, hate to be the only grown-up in the room.

I like this one just because he's, he's admitting he's the only grown-up in the room.

Yeah.

Never a good idea.

Yeah.

Memes would love that.

Based on how he looks.

Yeah.

Hate to be the only grown-up in the room, but Puka Nakua has no upside.

Fifth round rookie wide receiver on bottom five teams.

Don't move the needle.

I love a guy having a strong take about a fifth round receiver too.

Like hate this pick.

Yeah.

I don't think this guy's going to be a superstar.

You go out on a limb and then when it gets cut out from under, you look like a dumbass.

Not only that, but just to be the hate, to be the grown-up in the room, like that really

sets you up.

Yeah.

Um, we had, you never want to be the grown-up in the room.

No, you never, nobody likes the grown-up in the room.

This one, uh, you will like Hank, uh, Dan Orlovsky said in 2021, he believes Belichick

will win another super bowl with Mack Jones at QB.

And he said, Mack Jones is the best rookie QB that I have ever seen since doing this

job when it comes to knowing where to go with the football, when to go with the football

and how to throw that football.

Ever seen.

Ever seen.

Wait, what are the criteria that he has?

Knowing where to go with football.

Where to go with the football.

Five years.

When to go with football.

Nope.

When to go with football.

How to throw the football.

How to throw, but he's short.

But he doesn't specify actually throwing the football.

No.

That's the big one.

Yeah.

So Dan Orlovsky might not be wrong about those things with when, how now there is a possibility

that, that Belichick will win a super bowl at some point with Mack Jones.

That's true.

Can't close that door.

Yep.

Uh, similar to the cow, one, uh, Terry on Arnold, Alabama cornerback said coach shaven

ain't going nowhere.

He's going to die coaching.

That one was, that one was nice.

That one was very nice.

Yeah.

Uh, Max, you'll like these next two, uh, congratulations to the 2023 NFC East

champion, Philadelphia Eagles.

That was from November 5th, 2023.

And also Colin Coward said, uh, he said, let me pull this up.

National league, just surrender to the Phillies.

Nothing to be ashamed of.

That was in 2023 fall.

Oh, that was before max.

How did those go?

Not well.

Personal favorite of mine, Chad Johnson said in September, 2023, all you fucking

doubter.

All you fuckers doubting Zach Wilson.

Don't jump on our bandwagon later.

I didn't.

And I won't.

I won't.

I'm not going to, I never did.

Not going to, not going to jump on any bandwagons.

There might've been one from the bears from training campus that Sundays are going to

be fun.

Uh, and then my last nominee is, uh, from Cade McNamara on playing QB for Iowa.

Please just keep on saying it's the shittiest offense in college football.

Please just think we are going to be so shitty next year, please.

That's a lot of pleases.

Yeah.

And they're, I mean, they had a great punning system this year.

Yeah.

Great punning system.

Great return game.

Yeah.

That's about it.

Punning.

Yeah.

Good punning.

Do you guys remember any of your takes that were notably bad?

I don't think I had a single bad one this year.

Yeah.

I don't think so either.

I think I was a hundred percent accurate.

I might've said Justin Fields is the guy a hundred times, but I also walked that back.

Might've said Sam Howell's the guy.

I might've said that there's no way the Celtics are going to lose to Luca or beat Luca.

Yeah.

Hank.

I had a good year.

Yeah.

Actually you, you did cause you just, you either won or were terrible.

Yeah.

I said the lighthouse was real.

Yeah.

Well, we'll get to that.

We have a take you for that.

All right.

So drum roll.

The winner for the 2024 take of the year takey is Dan Orlovsky.

Congratulations.

Dan Orlovsky.

Incredible saying he believes Belichick will win another Superbowl with Mack Jones at QB.

Mack Jones is the best rookie QB that I've ever seen since doing this job.

When it comes to knowing where to go with the football, when to go with the football

and how to throw that football.

Ever seen is just something you should not.

Ever seen is crazy.

That's what it was.

It was like the sixth QB draft that is class.

Yeah.

It was between that and the hate to be the adult in the room.

Uh, where the, where I think the two finalists, because it's not, uh, to win the take of the

year, you have to really like do a, say something in it that is so absolute that it's like,

come on, man.

Ever seen.

The adult in the room is a tough one because you're, you're already, you're crowning

yourself by introducing or introducing your point that way.

The Orlovsky take about Mack Jones is noteworthy just because of how badly Mack Jones flamed

out this year.

So when you're getting, you get benched multiple times for Bailey's happy.

It's tough to say, well, you know what?

Maybe he wasn't great.

Maybe, maybe we're misremembering.

Maybe we're allowing the recent history of Mack Jones to not remember how great he was.

How great he was.

Yeah.

We'll always have that season.