I’d like to personally thank everybody who read our recent column, “50 Hot Takes for the Philadelphia Sports Fan: Special Guest Edition.” We had the likes of Ducis Rodgers and Bob Ford dropping some the hottest takes on this side of the Mississippi River. We’re talking ghost pepper levels of heat here.

As you know, life has come to a grinding halt in recent weeks, but we shouldn’t let a global pandemic change who we are as Americans. The takes must continue, and as such, I’ve come up with 50 more items that you’ll likely agree with. If you disagree, you’re wrong.

50 hot takes, self-isolation edition:

  1. “Should the Eagles bring back Kelly Green?” is the most overrated topic in the history of Philadelphia sports. It’s just a uniform color. It’s really not that important.
  2. Peach is a great flavor and very underrated.
  3. Volume 2 was Jay-Z’s best album
  4. If you’re over the age of 30, no cargo shorts unless you’re hiking or biking.
  5. Dr. Paul Glat, hair restoration specialist, would make a killing with a one-time discount for Philadelphia sports writers.
  6. Sports writers should be limited to one political tweet per week.
  7. One of the reasons why music was great in the 90s is because people didn’t care about genres. Woodstock had DMX and Sheryl Crow on the same stage. Y100 would play Alice in Chains and Sublime in the same block. Musical taste was more diverse back then.
  8. Nu-metal actually held up okay over the last 20 years.
  9. 50% of the radio jobs being eliminated during the Coronavirus crisis are not coming back. It’s sad, but the reality is that companies are using this as an opportunity to remove people who were already in the crosshairs.
  10. PAW Patrol sucks.
  11. You have to respect Miss Rabbit from Peppa Pig. She does every job in town.
  12. Raising one kid is hard enough. People with two, three, or four kids deserve a standing ovation and roaring round of applause.
  13. I feel really bad for high school seniors who missed out on prom, graduation, and their spring sports season. Of course there are much more important things to worry about right now, but these are experiences that you can’t get back. Imagine not getting to play your final season of baseball or track or not getting to put on the cap and gown and receive your diploma. That blows.
  14. Writing “why is this news?” in response to a story is dumb as shit. It’s news because we decided it’s news.
  15. Re-watching classic games became boring after 48 hours.
  16. Self-isolation has proven that a lot of folks need to find a hobby or two.
  17. It’s pitiful and myopic to say you’re “bored” at home. At least you’re not an ER nurse working 14-hour shifts and exposing yourself to COVID-19 while trying to save lives.
  18. I agree with the guy who suggested that news networks should temporarily pull their White House beat reporters and replace them with medical reporters.
  19. If you’re hoarding toilet paper, you’re an asshole.
  20. If you’re using this light traffic as an opportunity to drive 100 miles an hour on the highway, you are also an asshole.
  21. My takeaway from watching Tiger King was that those poor animals deserved better. Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Jeff Lowe, and Doc Antle are all assholes.
  22. FOX 29 is doing a great job with Good Day Philadelphia during the pandemic. Morning television is a beast to produce, and yet they’re doing multiple hours five times per week with relative ease.
  23. After this pandemic is over, we should try to have as many people work from home as possible. We’ll have less traffic, less burning of fossil fuels, fewer people in close proximity with each other, etc. It’s a win-win across the board that will also allow people the flexibility to live where they want without having to be attached to a train line or major highway.
  24. Saying “it’s my body” during the pandemic is the dumbest fucking thing ever. It’s not about you yourself getting sick, it’s about YOU GIVING THE VIRUS TO OTHER PEOPLE.
  25. A lot of fake tough guys think Leinenkugel’s is “girly beer,” but I’d much rather drink Summer Shandy than piss water like Coors Light.
  26. Kyle was correct with his media salary take from the last podcast. After COVID-19 goes away, you’re gonna have high earners at the very top (Angelo, Missanelli, etc), then a HUGE gap before hitting people in the 70k and 80k range. Most of those salaries in the low six figures are toast.
  27. Black coffee is disgusting.
  28. Tostitos Creamy Spinach dip is better than any of their salsa offerings.
  29. It’s not racist to point out that the Coronavirus spread from China. Unfortunately we’ve got morons in this country who then go out and abuse Asian-Americans, which brings us to the moral dilemma of withholding factual information in order to pacify idiots.
  30. Soft tacos are just burritos.
  31. It’s off-base to say that Americans are geographically and culturally limited. No, most people can’t name the capital of Moldova, but we don’t do a lot of foreign travel or language-learning because we live in a massive country on the other side of the globe. Traveling from Maine to Florida is the same as going from France to Latvia.
  32. It’s absolute nonsense that a presidential candidate can be determined before all of the states have had an opportunity to vote. Joe Biden goes through as the Democratic nominee before Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were able to go to the ballot box.
  33. The two-party system is killing this country. We badly need third party and independent politicians.
  34. Anybody who says “we’re not gonna have (this event) until 2021” gets a 48-hour Twitter ban.
  35. The Coronavirus likely saved Brett Brown’s job.
  36. Quarantine and self-isolation are two different things.
  37. Saying “America is the greatest country in the world” doesn’t carry any weight unless you’ve lived in other countries. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you literally do not have anything to compare your domestic experience to.
  38. People overuse the word “literally.”
  39. I agree with Spike Eskin’s take – “you can’t use an NBA statistic unless you can explain how it’s calculated.”
  40. If we do have NBA playoffs, the Sixers will be an incredibly tough out. That team was built for postseason basketball.
  41. Everybody said ESPN’s HORSE competition sucked, but I give them credit for at least trying.
  42. Bitching at people who move into your neighborhood is not a productive way to express your displeasure with gentrification. You are barking up the wrong tree.
  43. The XFL would have survived if the pandemic didn’t hit.
  44. Comparing the XFL to the AAF is nonsense.
  45. You can’t criticize rich people for their Coronavirus donations unless you yourself have also donated.
  46. People who say the Jim Everett vs. Jim Rome altercation was “staged for ratings” need to remove the tinfoil hat. Both guys are on record saying it was not staged. ESPN executives said it was not staged. Plus, why would Rome agree to being shoved off the set? That does nothing to advance his career unless national embarrassment was the goal.
  47. Josh Harris more than atoned for the Sixers furlough debacle by apologizing and then making multiple six-figure donations the following week.
  48. Mandy Patinkin does a fantastic job playing Saul Berenson on Homeland.
  49. The Eagles public relations staff needs to start leaking stories to a local reporter of choice, solely to prevent Josina Anderson from being first.
  50. Firehouse was a criminally underrated 1990s band.

Have a fantastic week and hang in there.