I know a lot of people are mad at me right now, but hear me out. I was going to let this go well before I saw Smitty’s blog this morning, but now I can’t. Because I can’t just sit here and let him lie and lie and lie. All he does is lie and it’s just not right.

So he does this blog this morning saying he’s retiring from the “Smitty vs Nate Feud”. Which is nice and all, but complete horse shit. What he’s not telling you is I stopped talking to him after the World Series of Poker LAST YEAR. I cut all ties. Why? Because he was a complete piece of shit to me, the entire time. He lied multiple times, directly to my face. For example, he took creeper video of me, against my knowledge, and then told me multiple times he deleted it. What did he do instead? He texted it to Dave to try and embarrass me to the max. He puts on this act of being this nice guy who treats people with respect, but he’s not even close to that. He’s a fucking fraud whose word means nothing.

So after last year’s WSOP I stopped talking to him. There’s just no winning in hitching your wagon to anything he does, because everything he does stinks. It’s frustrating and tiring. Since I stopped talking to him, interacting with him, doing anything with him, my life has been great. My blogging career sky rocketed, my personal life sky rocketed, everything was great.

Smitty, not so much.

He fell off the face of the Earth. He had to fight at Rough n Rowdy to try and cling on to any sort of relevance. He claims he did it “for the company” but there’s an exact quote from Dave saying “you aren’t doing the company any favors by fighting”. Smitty’s football team then went to the Super Bowl, and he refused to blog it, to the point Gaz and Dave, yes, our boss, told ME to blog the Eagles because blogs had to fucking get up onto the site. I knew it would ruffle feathers, obviously, but it’s what was best for business. Tap into the Nate/Smitty feud, plus get Eagles blogs up on the site. Gaz told Smitty many, many times to play along, that it was best for business, but Smitty’s brain couldn’t comprehend it. There’s a clip in Stool Scenes from the Super Bowl where Gaz explains everything, but people still vilify me for doing what my boss told me to do. Sorry to break kayfabe, but it’s crazy how Smitty still doesn’t understand it.

What else does Smitty lie about? How about the thing he “body bagged” me with on radio yesterday. The video games thing. How he claimed to have built it up all by himself. “It’s the one thing I’ve been able to do by myself” he said on radio yesterday. “That’s what I did, I built it up”.

Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Devlin built it up. Devlin did all the work. Devlin did everything. He built the Twitch channel. He built the Instagram. Why do you think there’s only been 4 posts on the Instagram since September 7th?? Because Smitty doesn’t do SHIT. Devlin built up the IG to over 300,000 followers, isn’t allowed on it anymore, and so now it just ceases to exist. Great work, Smitty! Oh, and Devlin did all of Smitty’s fucking blogs for him too. Smitty couldn’t even do those by himself. Devlin went above and beyond for the Gametime brand, and Smitty has multiple times taken all the credit in the world. Also, the fucking Spider Man game came out almost 2 weeks ago and he hasn’t played it yet. He’s so far behind the curve it’s unreal. There are people in the office who know more about gaming, who stream more on Twitch, and who are way more likable that he doesn’t allow on the Gametime channel. He claims to be this “company guy” but of course that’s just a front.

The fact of the matter is, Dave keeps Smitty around because he’s loyal, not because he’s good at anything.

Smitty constantly plays the victim card. CONSTANTLY. To the point of exhaustion. He thinks everyone is always out to get him, but in reality he just has no work ethic, takes short cuts any way he can, and doesn’t have the passion or heart for this job. In fact, earlier this year he pulled me into a room, tears in his eyes, saying he was about to quit and move back to Philly. I convinced him to stay the course and that things would work out. I could have been like “yeah, it’s not working out, maybe it’s for the best you find something you’re actually passionate about”, but I couldn’t do it. It was too sad. If Dave was going to keep him around to do literally nothing, who was I to stop him? It’s my biggest regret in my life. Bar none. People literally can’t believe I stopped Smitty from quitting.

And look. He’ll probably find someone else to run social. He’ll probably keep playing video games. And since Twitch is such a gold mine, advertisers will spend money there because we are Barstool and Twitch is hot in the streets. But just know he is lying to you guys. Nothing about him is genuine. There’s a reason nobody hitches their wagon to him, why he always feels he’s “on an island”. I respect his finesse, though. There are so many people who if in his position, would actually work. He realized he doesn’t have to and he still will cash a paycheck every 2 weeks. Good for him, I suppose.

Hate me if you must for exposing the truth. But just think about it- whose stock rises when we interact? His. And whose sinks? Mine. So why do you think I haven’t talked to him in 2 years? Because talking to him is like getting on the Titanic if you already know it’s sinking. And I refuse to get on that boat, no matter how many times he begs me, because he knows he needs me to give him value. So I’m glad he “retired”. He retired from the last thing that gives him relevance around here. Bold idea.

So if you think he “body bagged” me yesterday on radio, and then in his blog this morning, that’s your prerogative. It’s an incorrect opinion, however. I’m actually shocked by people who think that. It has to be out of pity, right? Just feeling bad for the guy? And if he thinks he is retiring from the “feud” that I retired from 2 years ago, that’s his prerogative. But now you know the truth. Smitty isn’t a stand up guy. He isn’t a grinder. And he doesn’t even care about working for Barstool. I mean Dave sent an email saying “blog more” and Smitty responded by blogging less. He sits at his computer day in and day out and does quite literally nothing. His entire job is to stream 3 days a week. That’s it. It’s mind blowing. He found his “niche”, and made someone else do all the work for him. Finesse level on a billion trillion. And to that I tip my cap. But for him to sit there and lie, time after time, it’s infuriating to people who see what’s actually happening. And now you guys know too.