Tracking Every Ben Mintz "I'm Sorry" Over The Last Two Years At Barstool Sports
So by now most of you have heard that Mintz fell victim to the first of the month yet again, this time it was not being able to be in Chicago by *checks notes* 12 pm NFL kickoff because he showed up with a rental car to the airport 37 minutes before boarding time on the busiest travel weekend of the year. It's important to mention he had a free $25,000 wager courtesy of winning a DraftKings contest where every Barstool employee picks a touchdown winner in survivor style and somehow Mintz has become sharp at the NFL this year. Most people would probably make some excuse about how their flight was delayed (easily disproved and zero flights were delayed from Memphis to Chicago yesterday but it's Mintz so who knows), or maybe even tell people you got in a fender bender on the way in and you're totally fine but you're going to miss the flight. But Ben, honest to his 200th fault, just said he missed it because he was surprised there were people in TSA on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
A well-travelled man might tell you that the drive from Memphis to the Chicago office is roughly a 7 and a half hour drive, which if he started at 6:30 AM for the flight he missed could have had him there by 2nd half kickoff and maybe just salvaged an opportunity to get a pick in for the second slate of games. But that's neither here nor there.
John Rich wrote a great blog about the things he would miss for a chance at a free $25,000 wager:
That had me thinking that this feels all like a big episode of deja vu. Because it is, so I did the incredibly deep research of looking up "sorry (from:stoolmintzy)" on Twitter to see how many times he's had to apologize for an error and wanted to rank them. But these won't be ranked on how sorry I think he is, or the severity of the fuckup, but rather the amount of times that Mintzy references himself in them. You can only reference yourself so many times in tweets instead of videos, so those, while an apology all the same, will be located near the bottom. Without further ado:
1)
Mintzy's latest fuckup ranks at the top, with a whopping 40 references to himself in a 3 and a half minute video for the latest mishap. I wish I could rank this a little lower, because not enough people are talking about how the Egg Bowl kicked off at 2:50 in Oxford on Friday and that just isn't enough time to head back to Chicago by Sunday. I forgive you Mintz.
2)
Had Mintz's apology for spoiling Barstool Survivor last year been a longer video, he may have been able to break Barry Bonds' record, because he hit 24 references to himself in the span of a minute and 55 second long video. Talk about throwing 100 on the black over and over again.
3)
Mintzy kept it modest by only referencing himself 6 times in a single tweet. Respect.
4)
I didn't see this tweet when it happened, but this may be the only Mintzy fuckup that we have to sit and laugh about because he does walk around the hallways with his backpack only on one strap and walks at a ridiculous speed throughout the entire office so it's no surprise he almost stopped Robbie Fox's ability to ever have kids with whatever he has placed in that Jansport.
5)
Remember when Mintzy missed a sponsored event because he was the chip leader at a $2500 poker tournament with 14 left? Well when Dave called him he only referenced himself 29 times in 4 minutes, but if you account for the fact he said he'd never miss a sponsored event ever again, this one may need to shoot up higher to the top after yesterday. He did clear it with Hank though so we have to take that into account here.
6)
Remember when Mintzy went too viral so they had to cancel the Pelicans/Mintzy Barstool Happy Hour that was going to be pushed back to 2024? No one tell me when 2025 is coming because we're 28 days out from it being pushed to 2025. Pain. And he only referenced himself 11 times here in that email so cut him some slack.
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Not many references to himself here but he did pre-record an episode of the one live show he had (little did we know that would have saved him from spoiling Surviving Barstool months later) because he was a groomsman in his friend's wedding. But he did have some big sponsors on board that he let down so this one was sad to see too:
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Speaking of being a groomsman in his friend's wedding, he was sorry when he didn't update anyone during the "Grow The Game" College World Series Mintzy era where he just missed an entire weekend of the biggest tournament in the sport because of said wedding. No one like him man.
9)
No one was more gutted that he lost Nick Turani a challenge in Surviving Barstool than himself.
10)
This doesn't really count as an apology, but Mintzy showing up to Brandon's house late to make everyone wait to eat at Thanksgiving with his mother-in-law waiting just to shit in his toilet and then immediately leave is special stuff.
11-∞:
A great artist once said that the rest is still unwritten, and that's Mintzy to a tee. Forget the non-apology to ruining a sponsored segment for Kate because 42 degree Chicago was "too cold" to stand outside for 30 minutes with weeks of notice to dress warm, but it's obvious it won't be long before we see another apology to add to this list. There may be more that I'm missing, but the glory of Mintz is that this isn't his best apology ever, it's just his latest one.
The good news? Mintz is promoting our Cyber Monday sale that is 20% off until the end of today like he's a kid doing his chores after he got in trouble like hotcakes on his Twitter today:
Buy buy buy. And if you're still in the Mintz support group, do it through his link so when they track it maybe just maybe he'll receive the holiday bonus that goes to all the hard-working employees of Barstool Sports from this sale. Or do it through here if you aren't in that group and no one gets credit: