To the people wondering if my school is upset that I am leaving mid-year:
As I walked in today, my Principal tossed me a 100 Grand candy bar and said “Welcome to the Club. Barstool hasn’t seen half your talent yet”
And here’s the kids unnecessarily kind gifts through 2 periods:
Great News:
@BarstoolBigCat
has green lit our Billy Madison idea for me to teach a lesson / give Mintzy a test until he passes from K-12th grade.
Also, shoutout to
@clubtrillion
for the idea of "50 First Tates" to go to dinner with a coworker each week and blog it the next day.
Last Day Update:
A student in 5th Period handed me a card as he walked out with an extremely thoughtful note and a $200 cash offer to please stay.
Obviously I called his parents immediately and gave it all back, but the idea of a 12 yr old cutting grass all summer to do that 🥹
Life Update:
After quitting my job at 10 pm on Monday night, my principal has asked me to teach one more day tomorrow to say goodbye to the kids, clean out my room, help prepare the sub, and turn in my things.
My response, although it will be a Friday:
Everyone keeps asking me if I’m going to stay in Chicago today and maybe Yak?
No, I am a part-time employee until March 11th. I came here to help the boys make 41 straight FTs, and we did just that ✅
To my team: practice is still on for 3:30…and I haven’t slept in 32 hours.
Iowa: 30 free throws shot, 11 fouls committed
West Virginia: 5 free throws shot, 27 fouls called on them
The refs understood the assignment to advance Caitlin Clark at all costs ✅
The Blue Aces season came to an end tonight with a 40-26 loss to a very good 26-1 Bryan team. Thank you to the fans that joined our bandwagon, and thank you to our Seniors for taking us all on this incredible ride.
See you on Monday in Chicago,
@barstoolsports
.
No-show paychecks? Since August 2018, when Dave and I agreed I would blog remotely about Ohio sports…
Part-time Ohio’s Tate blogs (unpaid for the first year): 1,212
@Return_Of_RB
blog: 49
I’ve never met you. Go take a nap.
@stoolpresidente
@BarstoolBigCat
I want to clear up the nasty rumor that I quit on my 19-1
#1
seeded basketball team just days before the state tournament begins. I did not and would never.
I have simply quit my teaching job.
The Guardians hotel was overbooked last night and no hotel in New York could (or would) accommodate the whole team, so they had to split up across the city.
Hey
@Roosters
our bus is 15 minutes from home.
Please have 3 Coors Lights and 10 hot wings ready for the Coaching Staff.
And then 7.5 minutes later, 3 more beers & 10 more hot wings. And then bring out 3 more beers and 10 more wings every 5 minutes until one of us passes out.
Ugh. You hate to see this! Especially when I’m ready to move on to bigger and more intelligent things.
….but then she tweeted a Grinch smirking gif within 3 minutes of my basketball team losing in the tournament.
#karma
The Yankees paid $265 million for 99 wins.
The Guardians paid $82 million for 92 wins.
If the Guardians had the Yankees payroll, they would have won 236 games this season.
If you don’t think the NCAA is orchestrating an LSU vs. Iowa rematch then you don’t know anything about life, much less basketball.
LSU shot 37 free throws yesterday to MTSU’s 9.
Today Iowa shot 30 free throws to West Virginia’s 5.
It’s fixed (and it should be)
Current job offers for Caitlin Clark after college:
- WNBA ($76,000 a year to play a 40 game season)
- Ice Cube ($5 million to play 10 games in the Big 3 league)
- Dave Portnoy ($10 million to play on the Barstool Intramural Team)
I don’t understand how Ohio State has 1 loss in a 1 score game on the road against the
#1
team in the country…..and they’re not even in the conversation?
Breaking News:
I have been asked to host the
@BarstoolRundown
today, and I have been given free rein to select my co-hosts.
My first two choices
@BFW
and
@clubtrillion
have accepted.
If I was obsessed with
@kellykeegs
, I would’ve published this blog last week instead of letting my mentor
@kirkmin
talk me out of it.
Kelly Keegs: Will You Be My Valentine?
Blog:
Thank you to all the well wishes. I will respond to all texts and DMs tonight.
I must now put the phone down to teach this 8th period class and then head off to basketball practice. We’re playing for our 4th straight League Championship on Saturday!
alright I’ve worked my 12…changing into my walking home shoes and punching the time clock for the day.
Need to go to make my MTV Cribs blog so you guys can tell me if I got fleeced on my $2661 monthly rent
Plus I need to pick my outfit for my dinner date tomorrow with Mintzy!
Thank you for the warm up shirts,
@stoolpresidente
!
The
#1
seeded Blue Aces are looking forward to our first game of the State Tournament tomorrow night vs. the
#20
seeded Red Devils
Game preview blog and livestream link dropping in the morning 👀
5 Years Ago Today:
Dave saw me say that my Dad was 17-0 at Indians home games in the last 2 years, so he put $20,000 on them.
Indians scored 4 runs in the 8th to beat the White Sox 5-3 that day.
#ThankYouDad
You nailed it. He's getting so much love from anonymous folk on Twitter bc he's trolling from afar and picking the low hanging fruit and that's what Twitter loves. He told me that was his plan during our call. He'd never go at Frank, Kirk, etc. It's coward behavior.
Round Two Final:
#1
Granville (23-1): 66
#17
Linden McKinley: 25
I want to shout out the senior class of Harper, Aliyah, Taylor, Haley, and Hanah for completing their careers a perfect 52-0 in their home gym.
When you come play the Aces at The Casino, you go home BROKE! ♠️
Because some of you apparently cannot read and have complained that my blog was too long, I created a TikTok account to tell my story of my dinner date with Mintzy.
Follow
@BarstoolTate
and be kind….this was my first one.
CLEVELAND! I’M COMING HOME!
I will see you at the Final Four tonight,
@CaitlinClark22
. Thank you so much to
@BarstoolBigCat
.
Mom and Dad: I’ll be home for dinner — **if I make this flight in 25 minutes
Update from my dinner date with Mintzy:
The man is either the smartest person alive or the biggest moron on the planet. And I’m really not sure which.
Tomorrow’s blog might be my Mona Lisa.
@franciscellis
Thanks Francis. True story: I polled the entire English department (no Harvard grads) on the issue, and Mr. Starkey ultimately made the call. Fuck you, Mr. Starkey, you dumbass!
Breaking News:
@MeganMakinMoney
is looking for people to participate in a Chicken Wing Eating Contest coming up in April.
I have accepted because I am a team player. And this will not be my first rodeo.
Thought we found something in our film session where the bottom of their zone ball watched and was susceptible to flares and back screens.
Had to go with the alley-oop on the first play of the game
interesting comment section as The Yak discusses Titus needing a co-host that knows ball for the Final Four since Brandon is heading to Wrestlemania.
Would just need a good name for the show that week…
🚨REPORT: Michigan is currently in possession of documents that could link the private investigators behind the sign-stealing scandal back to Ohio State, per
@Balas_Wolverine
.
Story:
I am giving out $500 of my own money to a random follower if Caitlin Clark scores more points today than the amount of Dave and Busters chicken wings I eat at the game
(One problem: there’s no Dave and Busters in the arena)
I am willing to be the next Head Coach of
@OhioStateHoops
. Resume includes a 158-36 career record with 6 conference championships in 8 seasons.
I cannot start full-time until March 11th though.
District Championship tonight.
Our locker room is fired up after reading some interesting comments from the opposing Head Coach in the local newspaper.