Poker participant Ben “Mintzy” Mintz was fired Wednesday from “Cracking Aces,” the poker podcast he ceaselessly co-hosts on the Barstool Sports activities community, after he rapped alongside to a Bone Thugz-N-Concord tune throughout a stay broadcast on Monday, Could 1. The lyrics to “1st of Tha Month” embody the n-word.
Ben Mintz, seen above, has greater than $620K in stay event wins and no present podcasting job. (Picture: Poker Information)
Mintz instantly and profusely apologized on Twitter, saying he “made an unforgivable mistake” and “by no means felt worse about something.” He obtained assist from Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy, who denounced what he referred to as the corporate’s “unsuitable determination” in a Twitter video.
I believe anyone who watched the clip was like, ‘There’s no method he meant to try this,’” Portnoy stated within the video. “He’s simply not the brightest bulb to ever come down the pipe. And he simply screwed up. And he knew he screwed up. And there was no hatred behind it. No nothing.”
Portnoy, who, in response to the New York Submit, has courted controversy by dropping his personal n-bombs throughout podcasts, admitted he has no authority to reverse the choice since his sale of the rest of Barstool to PENN Leisure closed earlier this 12 months.
No Phrases Mintzed
Portnoy has confronted his personal criticism for the sale. In a separate Twitter video, he responded emotionally to critics: “I bought out. You’re simply figuring that out? … Made a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands, made hundreds of thousands for everyone … Yeah, we bought the f*** out. And that’s what you do once you’re an entrepreneur.”
Mintz. a preferred and expert poker participant with over $620K in stay event wins, joined Barstool in 2020.
After his firing, he tweeted that he was “in good spirits” and that he’s “def an fool, however I’m additionally a resilient one.”
Fast Replace
I’m in good spirits. I’m def an fool however I’m additionally a resilient one. May have a protracted video tomorrow thanking everybody. Method method too grateful to be too down.
— Mintzy (@BarstoolMintzy) May 3, 2023
The decision to fireside Mintz was reportedly made by Penn CEO Jay Snowden himself.
Emergency Press Convention – Ben Mintz Has Left the Constructing pic.twitter.com/31faJrI6Op
— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) May 3, 2023
PENN’s Takeover
Portnoy initially bought 36% of Barstool to PENN in 2020 for $163 million, then the remaining in February for $388 million.
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