The Announcement: Dan Rapaport Joins Barstool Sports
Fore Play
Barstool Sports
4.6 • 10.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
Dan Rapaport joins Fore Play full-time. Huge day. Huge show. We’ve got Riggs, Trent, Frankie, Lurch, and, yes, Barstool’s newest hire, Dan Rapaport on the show. We discuss Dan’s move from Golf Digest to Barstool, going from Big J to the Pirate Ship, and how the process unfolded. We also discuss Lurch’s role moving forward. In golf news, Rory wins the Tour Championship, LIV movements are upon us, House of the Dragon episode 2 is out, the Manti Te’o documentary blew us all away, and Riggs believes waiting in line simply shouldn’t be a thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, for play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple podcast Spotify or YouTube |
| 0:06.6 | Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music. This is why I joined for play |
| 0:22.0 | For play is under my bar stool sports big show monumental show huge moment |
| 0:26.4 | Really in the history of the podcast we are joined by the usual crew. We have myself Trent Ryan who's the OG |
| 0:33.6 | We got Frankie Borrell we got Lurch and we have added Dan rap apart the announcement came out just |
| 0:40.2 | 30 minutes ago, so I think it's still pretty fresh obviously we've known about it |
| 0:43.9 | There's a whole fucking process the whole deal will get into it. We're gonna talk about all of it |
| 0:48.1 | It's a very big decision for Danny for his career to sort of pivot over to the pirate ship from a traditional media |
| 0:55.7 | A massive curve ball. I would imagine to everyone out there that we went out and hired someone that is essentially viewed as a young golf journalist and writer |
| 1:04.3 | To join our operation. So again, we're gonna get into all of it |
| 1:07.5 | I have all my opinions and excitement everyone on the show does I do feel like we should start by throwing it to Danny |
| 1:14.1 | Who from your vantage point? I would love to hear about what your last |
| 1:18.7 | 30 minutes has been like what your last |
| 1:20.7 | 30 days has been like it just kind of where your mindset's at now that you are officially a part of |
| 1:27.3 | For play and bar stool sports. Yeah, I was just telling you guys before we started recording that I feel like I'm at the part of the party |
| 1:34.3 | Where you just kind of need to go out and have a cigarette by yourself |
| 1:37.7 | So to go straight from the announcement video |
| 1:41.1 | Right into this podcast definitely a lot. I'm definitely yearning for some alone time. No, it's it's amazing |
| 1:46.9 | It's great my my future mother-in-law staying here this week, and she's like, well, what's your schedule this morning? |
| 1:52.1 | I'm like you need to be out of the apartment by 10 a.m. She's like, oh, what time are you recording? |
| 1:56.1 | I'm like 10 30. She's like, well, what do you mean? I'm like you don't understand like my phone's about to be complete blow up |
| 2:01.5 | I'm not gonna be able to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you |
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