Ten Thousand Losses - A.O.A.B (All Owners Are Bastards)

Episode Date: March 4, 2022

In a slightly truncated 10kL (Liam had to leave early because of "provos", whatever that means) the boys talk about the news, how you shouldn't shoot kids, how the Sixers are an NBA finals lock, and Tom is sad about baseball, again.  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenklossespod Leave us a voicemail: 267-371-7218 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses

He is actually going to eject a fan. Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. The fan jumped into the penalty box area. Joy just come to Philadelphia and stand here and dodge ice balls. We, the Dallas Cowboys, had assassinated John Kennedy. Hello, and welcome to another episode of 10,000 Losses, the only Philadelphia sports podcast that exists. I'm your host, Tom Payne, and my pronouns are he, him, and with me is my handsome co-host, yay? Liam Anderson, hi. My pronouns are also he, him.

Well, how are you doing this week? I'm, I'm, I'm much better. I can't go into full details yet, but I have, uh, an offer, uh, waiting for me, just waiting for them to send over the goddamn paperwork. Do they send that in a,

in the van they use to abduct protesters in Portland? And then lie about it. Uh, I, I hope not. Okay. Um, I, you you know like whatever man i'll fight my way out i'm i'm feeling i'm feeling reckless i'm feeling reckless tom yeah um i mean

i i can't say what three-letter agency you'll be working for oh of course but um that's me cia shill yeah that's how i was trying to get it well i guess it was the fbi that was doing that shit with those like the weird dhs fucking teams those fucking twibs there was uh there was actually like on coast guard forums they were like because the coast guard has like these port security units yes and there i remember seeing guys like you know did you see these fucking orders to go to portland like i ain't fucking doing that shit fuck that like don't like that yeah so there was a lot of cosies are like fuck that i am not being part of this nonsense so uh yeah it shouts out to the only good branch of the armed forces um except with space force maybe space force uh yeah maybe uh no because they actually get

order of precedence over the coast guard unless the coast guards activate it yeah and the coast guard's older so anything's older yeah yeah so fuck the space force um well it has been a hell of a week hasn't it We were literally the last time we talked in person or over Zencaster, we were doing the bonus episode with the guys from Bring Him Young Money, where the war with the Russian war with Ukraine literally started in the middle of us recording. We had to have a very serious discussion about it in the middle, which I haven't listened the whole way through, but I assume you edited out most of us just saying fuck over and over again. Yeah, I paused the recording. I was not going to have us do like a wire moment where we just said fuck, fuck, fuck. So you can say fuck the most. Yeah.

So, I mean, it's been a hell of a week in a lot of ways. The, I guess say like, you know, just, just I, I, I've learned a lot of people to unfollow from the shitty takes. I think a point of unity for the 10K losses listenership is that we don't think it's good to invade a country, but we also hate Nazis and we don't care if Nazis get murked. But also working class people don't deserve this. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right.

Yeah. I, I will break from you. And I think there should be a full scale NATO intervention right now. Oh, good. I'm joking. Oh, God. I just, I just, I look, well, listen, our numbers drop by like 40 listeners on the day on the release day because it was the day the news came out wow so so yeah full full nato intervention uh cia liam anderson over here i'm here to juice

the numbers baby yeah let's let's get those numbers even further down i did i did want to say uh both being philly boys uh the news has been slow to sort of come out, but in Philly, the cops shot a 12-year-old named Thomas Sidario in the back as he was running away. I want to take this time to say be skeptical of the police narrative.

Supposedly, they don't know who... The police said he was holding the gun but uh uh they don't seem they don't seem to know a whole lot right at the same time he was running away and you shot him in the back yeah hey so what happens to you if someone breaks into your house and then they they turn away and run or, you know, you pull your gun out, whatever, and chase them out of your house and you shoot them. Guess what happens to you?

Uh, fucking murder. Yeah. No, this, this is, this is a death squad. Yeah.

It's no kid. I mean, obviously, you know, I can imagine like that. I'm imagining philly.com commenters like, well, what if,

what if the, what if the fucking... I got to do the right voice there. What if this fucking kid was you stabbing somebody? Would that be okay? You know, a fucking crasher wouldn't prosecute me.

And it's like, no. A kid can be a fucking idiot, but they deserve a chance to be an adult and be rehabilitated. Yeah. I mean, that's sort of the end of it to me. And you can't be fucking rehabilitated with nine millimeters littering your back. Right.

That doesn't work. Also, 12 years old? 12 years old. 12 years old. Okay. I'll grant the police the narrative that the kid shot into the car. 12 years old. And if you're okay with that, I implore you to turn this podcast off. Go outside, touch grass, fuck yourself, fuck your mother, fuck your dad, fuck your siblings, and fuck your favorite color if you have one. Yeah. Punch yourself in the face, too.

Hundreds of times. If you believe in any form of justice system, at least we have something. I mean, it's incredibly flawed and punitive. But it's not for the cops to decide who the fuck lives or dies no that's their job they're not the jury or judge or any of that right they're the cops and they shouldn't exist and i i just want to specifically say like we should address it and also absolutely fucking we don't need cops no um yeah cops can't be judges because you have to be able to read oh yeah stuff yeah you got stuff being literate you know yeah yeah i mean we live in a country

where where the supreme court president has stated that you can disqualify catered it for the police force on merits of being too intelligent yes you can which is absolutely insane tremendous tremendous country we live in oh man so uh shit um yeah it fucking sucks um but yeah go a cab a cab um that's about it yeah no you don't and if you are a cop and you don't want and i and i'm saying this like i know that people will listen there's people who listen who know me now and we know a really nice guy who was a cop and the best thing he did was fuck it i'm not going to be a patrol cop anymore i'm going to be i'm going to be a detective because at least i'm trying to help people sure yeah so that's like like you know in in this real world scenario you have to like if you're a cop

listening to this for some reason just fucking quit quit stop you can do it stop being a cop like it's it's it's yeah it's you know it's scary but you can do it lots of people quit their jobs before yeah would hardly be the first nope yeah no it's it's it's i i couldn't even imagine i have students ask me like yo would you want to be a cop because they're trying to like triangulate where i am and on things i'm like no it's not for me well why not i mean no because i don't want to have that response you know i don't want to have that responsibility i don't want to have that you know seeing the worst of humanity every day like i there's so many different reasons why the job should be several different jobs and right a

big part of that job should just not exist to begin with right you know uh yeah so fuck i want to talk about sports let Let's talk about sports. Stick to sports. But yeah, so if you haven't heard our bonus episode, for $1, you can go to Patreon and you can listen to our bonus episode with two-thirds of the Brigham Young Money podcast. I thought it was a pretty fun...

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Please give us a call and leave your best dumb sports voicemail. Yeah, let's get over to sports. So I want to say we did get a nice message from Janet. She said that she appreciated us shitting on Texas. So we've been getting a judge. A judge did block the implementation of that law. Yeah. Fuck you.

And I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Biden administration and we'll see if it has any teeth. But directed HHS to protect trans kids in meaningful ways, I thought. All right. kids uh in meaningful ways i thought all right well you know um i am willing to give any shitty politician a thumbs up for when they do manage to do something right so i i will say uh the shit that uh and i'm not even gonna i'm the total bare minimum but like it is it is quite amusing when joe biden is locked in on something yeah he's just like that's right marty walsh secretary of labor what are you gonna do about it yeah yeah there's there's it's it's weird like yeah yeah um i guess he owes some guys some favors

yeah the guy sucks but like watching him like like fucking fucking Marty Walsh is his secretary of labor because we live in the dumbest timeline possible. Oh, man. I wish I could be secretary of labor. Oh, yeah. You would be terrific at it right until you started trying to fight everybody. I mean, that's the job. CIA sites are state secret. I'm not even going to read that article because it's going to make me angry.

All right. Yeah, let's get. Yeah. All to make me angry. Anyway, we're interrupting Janet's nice message. She wanted to say we're mixing up our Nippon professional baseball stories. Oh, are we? The all-time hits leader? I think you said the all-time home run leader. He's the all-time professional baseball world career leader i think that's how you say it i don't know um and so we were mixing up i was saying like they were walking guys and apparently no there was this american baseball player named randy bass

who was at 54 home runs and that single season record was 55. And they walked him and he was the manager of the team that issued the intentional walks so that he couldn't beat the record. And then we were also talking about the Colonel Sanders curse, which is also related to Randy Bass. Because when the Hanshin Tigers, I guess they won something, and they were throwing themselves into the canal outside the stadium because they're kind of like the Buffalo Bills fans. Good for them. Yeah.

No, they fucking rock. They sound awesome. Hanshin Tigers fans, it sounds like you're pretty cool. And because they were throwing their fans who looked like players, so the closest person they could find in their group that looked like Randy Bass was a statue of Colonel Sanders. That's that's horrific. So I fucking love these guys. I feel like I'm like, maybe you should become fans of this team, especially since since baseball here is not fucking going anywhere.

So maybe I have to become a Hanshin Tigers fan. I love to wake up at like just ungodly hours just like go tigers go tigers yeah and then and then you go you're wearing the shirt you go over there and they're like oh randy bass or like oh like colonel um also he's go ahead he's an oklahoma senator he's an oklahoma senator and if you look at him he looks like a 90s baseball player. Like he's got the goatee. I already know. I know what this man is going to. Yep.

90s baseball player. Yep. That's. Yep. I mean, he I mean, he's a Democratic senator. He looks like he'd be recording videos in his truck talking about, you know, some dumb shit. But all right. Yeah.

Democratic senator. so marginally better than the other side um well he won the triple crown twice yeah he's their single season um uh batting average leader i think yeah this wow won the japan series in 85 dude oh wow i just i love i love that uh they intentionally walked him that's yeah it's and and then there was like controversy if he if like the uh sadaro told them to walk or that the pitchers did it on purpose out of like deference that's where i was getting the respect stories mixed up right yeah but i it's just one of these cool baseball stories that you know don't happen too much these days um yeah over here in the States.

You don't get any good stories, do you? No. No. No. We'll get to that. How are you holding up, buddy? Yeah. We're not doing baseball yet, but I'll tell you this.

I woke up on Tuesday thinking that something was going to happen. And I was. Oh, no. Yeah. I had I had I was like, oh, man, I'm going to wear my jersey to work. If it gets signed, I'm going to be. I started playing like best of clips from like Phillies. Like I was like, oh, yeah, you were all in.

That's a shame. Oh, yeah. And then I stopped myself before I hit play because I was going to play center field by John Fogerty. And I stopped myself there. But yeah. Fuck. No. So before we get into that, why don't we talk about football for a bit? Sure. Yeah. All right. bit sure yeah all right uh so jalen hurts is uh sirianni gave a press conference uh where he established that the team has confidence in jalen hurts and it's expected to be the guy whether or not that means howie roseman drafts uh can he pick it out of pit uh anyway is anybody's

guess what a waste of a draft pick that would be but you know how it's done that before yeah yeah i wouldn't bet you can't put it past him yeah uh they do expect jason kelsey to be back in 2022 okay uh and they want to upgrade the pass rush uh so we're kind of sitting on just waiting you know for the draft to sort of settle yeah uh but i did want to i have i have something briefly which is that uh apparently sirianni and the Philly, the Eagles scouting department, asks prospects to play on a mini basketball hoop, which has a Villanova backboard as opposed to a temple one. Last year, they asked prospects to play rock, paper, scissors, and people laughed at Sirianni. But he got us into the playoffs.

So I guess I have to, I i don't know go along with this yeah what the fuck is that about is this is it like team building i dude like they ask at a like nfl prospects to do so much weird shit just weird shit that like i don't know what it's for i can't imagine like i mean i guess like to test dexterity super up close it's probably like more useful than rock paper scissors but like by that logic you should ask a kid to put a pc together yeah i'm i i wonder if these are like how's your cable management yeah um oh fuck he put the pci in the wrong slot it's fucking busted oh no it's running at x4 speed instead of x16 speed and there's an electrical fire yeah oh he put ddr3 to ddr4

don't do that um yeah he put the thermal paste on the pins oh god um welcome yeah well uh oh man we gotta do a ball someone for this is this is now this is now uh computer talk i'm uh with uh kata that's me that's my brother this is now computer talk with uh ram and cpu the computer brothers click and clack yeah that works because you sometimes makes a click anyway yeah yeah so I wonder so part of me

wonders is like are these tests like weird personality tests so that they can like ask questions that are illegal like they can't be like do you believe in God? They do ask that, though. Do they actually ask them if they are?

Oh, hell yeah. Hell yeah. I know the scouts figure out if they're like, oh, do you attend church or shit like that? But I wonder... I wonder... If they straight up fucking...

You can't... I mean, they can't ask you that at most jobs. I guess they have an exemption because I don't know if the antitrust exemption extends to them. But well, I suppose it's not part of the like, I don't know, because it's part of the hiring process. Like, are you not considered an employee until presumably you signed your contract? Like, that's interesting. That's interesting that's interesting uh yeah i had someone asked me

if i was married when i was interviewing for a job once that's like yes please leave me alone yeah and he's like oh don't answer that i can't ask you i can't ask you that i was like okay yeah all right so fucking weirdo thanks guy yeah fucking now that job sucked ass um willow grove yet again another place that doesn't that shouldn't exist burn into the earth burn it burn into the ashes yeah yeah well you can't do that because it will release uh pcbs into the atmosphere oh that's right um i think that's what it is i will say that uh there's a good song by the guy from intuit over it about uh destroying willow grove with a honda accord okay well then i'm gonna i'm gonna have

to find that maybe i'll play that in the background i'll link it to you uh do you we don't we really don't have much about uh i know temple offered a couple uh put forward a couple offers uh but i'm not sure i don't know if any of them committed. Okay. I'm just not sure. Yeah. The last temple story I saw had nothing to do with football, but had to do with some dumb ass piece in the inquirer about how a student

paid for paid for my, my child has to we had to pay for private security so he could be safe no you didn't temple so you know you shut the hell up no you're fucking i went to temple no you didn't you went to temple no you didn't yeah yeah do you know what do you know how i was safe at temple i wasn't an asshole i wasn't an asshole right no i wasn't an asshole that that there you go yeah i was not an asshole and that's No, I wasn't an asshole. There you go. Yeah, I was not an asshole. And that's how I never. Can you believe? Maybe this might be astounding.

I lived a fucking good 22nd in Oxford, and I was totally fine. I have never been robbed or mugged. I haven't either. Yeah. Well, I mean, I think so. We're both pretty good at putting off the. Yeah, probably don't fuck with this guy. Right, right, right.

This is worth more trouble. This is more trouble than it's worth um but yeah also we're not assholes i mean we're assholes but in the philly way but not in like not to our neighbors right like assholes in the field well we were talking about this so we were texting about this assholes in the philly way is like you're a lovable at like like you bust your friends balls but you would you would literally like dump a body in the river for them you know not that anyone could tell but sure yeah i'll probably prove it yeah i have never dumped a body in the river me either i have picked bodies up out of the river though but that's a fun stuff dude oh yeah yeah uh so all right so so no commits to no not they've announced i know offers have been extended but i didn't having an offer does not make one a a commit so correct we will we will see again i am

hoping this team can make noise. Yeah. I don't know how realistic that is. I'm excited to see what Temple's new football coach, Stan Drayton, can do. I, you know, Cincinnati got to, you know, Cincinnati got to the playoff. So it is possible for a G5 team. It's just, you know, anything over the last few years is an improvement so yeah yeah so i'm absolutely yeah i remain hopeful uh you want to talk speaking of hope speaking of hope yeah you want to talk about jimmy hart dude holy shit it's been electric all right let me tell you this all right let me tell you this sports fans

the sixers are going to the finals yeah uh so here's the thing no all the way i have 20 bucks on them not doing that all right yeah well friendly friendly bet with corinne about them not doing that uh i'm being crushed underfoot by my beloved boss in Celtics in four. Probably not going to happen, but I feel you should have like a Celtics gear sort of thing.

Wager like you like if you if the Sixers make the playoffs, you have to burn your favorite jersey or something like that. My favorite jersey is a Kemba Walker jersey, which I will not be burning. I love Kemba. No, everyone a Kemba Walker jersey, which I will not be burning. I love Kemba. Coward. No.

Everyone loves Kemba. Everyone loves Kemba Walker. But yeah, James Harden. Holy shit. Holy shit. Everything we were promised and more, dude. The entry passes. Embiid has never had entry passes.

Dude, I forget who said it, and I forgot to write it down. But in the press conference after the first game, I think it was Embiid goes, I have never been this open in my entire life. No, this is what we've needed this entire fucking time. Dude, it's electric. It's electric. He can shoot, and he's bringing the team up with him. He's like a leader.

All this, like, ball hog shit. Man, he's a triple-double machine, man. What fucking ball hog shit? He's gone 26-9-9, I want to say, in both of his first couple games. He may have had a true blue triple-double. I'm just not sure. He did have a triple-double, I think, in the second game. Okay.

But last night, he was almost there because he was, like, what? 26-99 or something like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's had something like 86, 87 points in his three games. Tyrese has had 78, I think. Holy shit, man. I really want to talk about how Harden is... Like, Tyrese already looks special.

Yes. The addition of Ty... Tyrese already looks special. The addition of Harden uh tyree started to look special the addition of harden is making him look like and i can't believe it so he makes him look like like an all-timer already yeah that that turnaround jumper last night oh hell yeah was was that that thank you yeah yeah uh how do you like like he's so athletic and and then we had like that tease alley-oop like it was it was man this game this team is fun to watch now like they were they were getting there like like but there was so much frustration and you know you saw them like you know you'd score 30 points in the first quarter then it was like slow slow slow they're

getting tired right right right and and now you know they're coming back from behind they're they're just energized they looked they look genuinely like i one of the things karen was commenting on was that harden looks genuinely thrilled to be a sixer oh yeah oh yeah which like i wasn't really expecting like i haven't really seen the dude be happy before like yeah i don't mean like i'm not expecting like i'm not doing the hey baby smile thing but like right like he was he was laughing like like a kid and like him and maxie like genuine like unprotected joy on their faces like and after all the like just like the what we talked about like how tired the simmons thing was and how grim the city felt yeah like it's fucking exciting uh again uh this team also lost 48 points to the boston celtics so

uh right but james harden wasn't on the team yeah i know but even so uh 48 points to the boston celtics so uh right but james harden wasn't on the team yeah i know but even so uh 48 points to the boston celtics hey you you fuck up everyone fucks up sometimes everyone fucks up sometimes as we know uh i did want to talk about so uh my hatred for the new york knicks all right yeah that has blossomed uh the mets of basketball i so i genuinely am indifferent to most teams fan bases because like yeah you know i it's just you know where you grew up or or whatever and it's not to me really worth the uh to be really worth the like hassle i guess you'd say right i mean it but like yeah go ahead but like uh a friend of a friend is a nix fan uh i will not identify them on this phone and was like well it's only because the sixers went to the free throw line so many times and like that's

dude in the in the first game that's a very specific voice you just did it's it's the know-it-all voice and it was like yeah but when the celtics won by 48 the sixers still went to the line more times right and it's like that's that's that's a problem you have with the refereeing not with like sixers fans or whatever and it's just like yeah it sucks what happens to your team but it happens to all of us so i don't know what you want to hear yeah um yeah nick's fans are annoying it's it's yeah so i don't really have a problem with people being fans of other teams and i think i think a good bar like barometric a good metric is you know if you grew up in the area or you have a family connection it's understandable but there are fan bases that are fucking annoying nicks are one of them bets are another one boys cowboys is a cowboys commanders yankees yankees uh

sometimes i i will say that there's different kinds of yankees fans i think part of it is that i i i have this very specific feeling about New York fans in general, which is that they feel super entitled. Right. Like, they feel like they're owed something. That's like this. They're just they don't they don't know shit. Like, I don't know how to tell you.

Yeah. Like, there's like Jets fans aren't really that annoying. But no. Giants fans are. Yes. annoying but no giants fans are yes um i hate mets fans more than i hate yankees fans because the yankees at least have the history to back it up right and there are different kinds of yankee like i said there's different kinds of yankees fans um rangers fans are annoying um rangers fans are annoying yeah i guess it must be like a New York thing.

But like there's other like I'm trying to think of other other sports teams fans who are fucking obnoxious that like we would actually have a sort of. Like I have nothing against Pittsburgh fans like like they're fine. Right. Like even like, yeah, I don't know. I like the Red Sox. Red Sox fans can be asshole sometimes, but.'t know. I like the Red Sox. Red Sox fans can be assholes sometimes. Oh, hell yeah. They seem to have a thing that they hate Philly.

I've never understood that. Which doesn't make any sense because we don't really have any antipathy towards each other. And we both hate New York. But anyway, back to basketball. I mean, like I said, this is such a fun team to watch. We are definitely going to have to get tickets now. Oh, yeah. And you know what it's like?

It's like they look like just boys having fun. Yeah, exactly. Enjoy us. Yeah, and that's what I mean. It's like just kids having fun. No matter how old they are, they're all grown-ass men, but just a joy of playing the game. Yeah, that's really special, and that's hard, man. Yeah, and I hope that carries through to the finals,

to the East Coast finals when we... Are crushed underfoot by my beloved Boston Celtics. But when the Nets somehow make it there. Don't talk to me about the fucking Nets. And then Embiid does the dunk on top of Ben Simmons. Oh, he does. You know what? Fine.

You can have this scenario. Yeah, because you want that scenario to happen. Yeah, absolutely. Embiid sends Kevin Durant into hell. Yes, I'd like that. As he ascends into hell, he ascends into hell. I actually don't have anything against Kevin Durant into hell. Yes, I'd like that. As he ascends into hell, he ascends into hell. I actually don't have anything against Kevin Durant. I don't really either,

but I'm tired of him. He's special to watch, but in this sort of very grinding, like the way Harden could be on the Rockets, where it's this very methodical sort of shitty way to play. Well, isn't he due to blow one of his ligaments out?

Yeah. Yeah. It'd be out for two years. Um, that's, that's gotta suck. Um, so have we,

have we officially signed the Andre Jordan? Uh, not yet, but it's, uh, the Sixers have claimed him, uh, to sign,

uh, Sixers for remainder of season. Okay. Man, Philly, not Philly's Sixers and washed up L.A. Lakers backup centers. Could you name him a classic duo? Yeah, right. I mean, we need someone.

We need someone. I mean, he's old. I don't think he's washed the way people are sort of claiming he is oh well don't go to reddit then yeah i also like i'm asking him to be a fucking backup center i'm not asking for the moon you need 10 minutes yeah i need 10 15 minutes tonight i think he can do that like no i i i don't i stay away from fucking Reddit. That is always the right option. Yeah. So, I mean, I'm very optimistic. And right now, honestly, we need this optimism.

Because with baseball not happening and the Ukraine thing and shit in the city, this is a good thing. This is like a unifier. And I just have to say right now, basketball, there's so much just cool young talent that is so athletic. Like John Morant.

I was thinking of Morant. Someone tweeted, someone I follow tweeted that it feels like every day now, the young kids are doing shit that didn't feel physically possible. Yeah. If you don't know, just look up John Morant. It'll probably be the first thing you see. The fucking donks, dude. catching the the across the court pass and like a mid-air throw buzzer beater and the entire arena

erupts in a way that looks like a how like like a like a high school basketball arena when a kid hits a half court shot like like that kind of just like holy how the fuck did you do that? Yep, absolutely. So, fuck that, man. Like, that is fucking insane. Like I said, just watch that play. It's so sick. It's fucking sick. The dude is so athletic.

So this is just like a great, like basketball right now is just humming like edits of sport where the owners know it kind of had a, to, to run the league a little bit, a little bit, just a little bit. I mean,

they don't, you don't need the owners, but they know, they know that the product that they put out is driven by the players. Right. It's a star driven league and they know how much, at least are on some level are aware of how much power the players possess oh yeah yeah

because the players can break the league if they really wanted to yeah they could yeah um okay uh so owls owls basketball uh play 14 ranked temple or temple jesus houston tonight

uh hoping uh hoping for a miracle here not expecting one yeah but yeah we'll see man uh be on the watch uh rutgers is still out here doing damage uh a team that has no business uh being where it is don't even care uh go skylight knights uh and temple finishes on saturday i want to say on sunday against south florida all right and temple or uh rectors finishes against pitiful penn state uh on sunday as well at noon. All right. So, um, so yeah, that's, that sounds cool. Uh,

I'm excited for Rutgers to make it into the tournament and then do, uh, I assume nothing good, but I'm hoping. Hey, Hey, Hey, root,

root for root for Tom safety school. Oh, and the one that Liam graduated from. Yeah. Thank you. Asshole. And that would do, shit all right you want to talk about hockey no no okay you know what uh here's a hypothetical should the flyers keep mike yo who gives a shit i'm sorry there's nothing what the fuck can say

there's nothing to fucking say uh trade deadline is coming up in a couple weeks. Here's hoping for Drew's sake they move him. I will say this team plays hard under Mike Yeo. The team has so many problems that I feel like coaching is not even really one of them at this point. I don't really have much to say about that. You want to talk about baseball? I don't want to talk about baseball either but i guess we have to and we kind of hinted at this at the beginning and those of you who care about baseball um i'll just say it's fuck um they really fucking got me like i said i really thought this was going

to happen but the fucking owners just could not could not just shitting in their own pants and thinking they were going to pull one over. These dumb jocks were going to pull one over. I guess the MLB owner voice would probably be like the Boston Brahmin kind of like, oh, I think we're going to pull

one over on these roofs. Yeah, fuck these guys. The worst owners in any sport. Fuck my God. So this lockout is not necessary. We could have baseball right now. And I love that people like Jeff Passan and Ken Rosenthal are actually on the,

like the, the, the mainstream sports media and saying, this is the owner's fault. They did not need to lock out the league. They, they saying this is the owner's fault. They did not need to lock out the league. They could have been negotiating in good faith the entire winter and had a CBA by now. It's only been eight days of negotiations.

There was no reason for this. This is like a fucking idiotic, I wouldn't say half-hearted, because they probably think this is some sneaky, cool shit. Just a fucking idiotic, ill-fated guide. Ill-fated attempt to fuck with the players and to make more money in a sport where you only ever make money. People will say shit like baseball's dying.

You're fucking wrong. It's not true. It's not dying. I mean, viewership numbers might be going down, but the sport's worth more than ever. Right. That says something. But it's an investment for these fucks.

And so they're negotiating with the players. Basically, what happened is Monday was this self-decided this self-imposed, not self-imposed, was an owner-imposed deadline. All right, we have to be able to decide this by Monday or else we're going to cancel regular season games. And what ended up happening was they negotiated in the two in the morning. And that's why I woke up on Tuesday morning really fucking happy because I thought, man, they were negotiating so late in the night, they must be getting close, which is, I think, a reasonable thing to feel. And I let myself get hope.

What a fucking mistake on my part for feeling any positive goddamn emotion attached to the sport of fucking baseball. Because the owners kept offering they kept throwing shit so on tuesday kept throwing weird shit and they and they made their first offer late and they're not serious about it they're not serious so they kept like oh this is the final offer and they made their final offer at four with this uh deadline looming at 5 p.m again Again, an arbitrary deadline. There's nothing there.

Spring training could be happening now. It's an owner lockout. The players are not on strike. Right. So the last best offer that the MLB put out threw a bunch of random shit in there. And there was a Blue Jays pitcher, his name escapes me right now, who basically said they think that we're rubes. Right. And that we just wanted to throw the ball real hard and get back to our sport or something like that.

And snuck in something about international drafts which hadn't really been negotiated yet and yeah just weird offers they will not budge on this competitive

balance tax which is the de facto salary cap they they won a 14 team playoff which is like that's half the league

what's the fucking point of the regular season? What's the point of 162 games if you're going to that? Yeah. The Phillies would have made the playoffs in a 14-team playoff, I believe. So, with a losing record. So, who knows when this is going to happen?

Who knows? I don't know. College baseball, you can watch. That's right. I guess watch. It feels like this is like the pandemic. And it's bad for the sport. But it's not. This is this.

If you're one of these idiots making these fucking harebrained takes. To quote Mike Missanelli, you fucking dopes. Well, he doesn't say fucking, but he means it. You dopes. You, he doesn't say fucking, but he means it. You dopes. Can't relate. I'm blocked by him. Oh, yeah.

I have to check to see if I was blocked. There was a guy who called him Mike Missanelli, and I was like, fucking yeah, I got his ass. Fucking let him know. So I got to check to see if I'm blocked by him. I'm such a fucking idiot. Yeah. So who the fuck knows when?

Go watch the Hanshin Tigers. Right. Go Tigers. Yeah, go Tigers. And honestly, I'll say this. Even though that some of this money makes its way back to the owners, go support minor league baseball. Go see the Iron Bears. Yeah, they need the help go yeah go go see the iron yeah go see the lake with blue claws go see uh or the jersey

sort of blue claws now um go see the redding phillies the redding phillies are actually directly owned by the phillies maybe but maybe skip them but that's yeah but but go there and tip really well like just tip the employees like fucking just insane. Tip them that half... Because it's $11 ticket or whatever. So tip... Yeah, exactly. You can afford it.

It's fine. Just this... It's a $2 hot dog. Well, you tip 200%. So go take care of those. If you want to see baseball, I mean... And there's... It's...

Mountain League games are fun. Mountain League games are fun. And most of the teams are not are affiliated they're not owned by the the the club they're like i said there's there's there is some money that makes its way back but not a lot um you know go do that sure yeah right now no okay right right now turn on the podcast and go yeah just, just, yeah. Fuck, yeah. I'm probably going to see some Iron Pigs games. I might just do that regardless because it's kind of equidistant to me from the city.

Right. Fuck, but yeah. So that's, welcome to Tom's Baseball Rant. Yep. I got nothing more. Yeah. I got to get out of here and go see a guy who hates his brother. Well, that's about half the city of Philadelphia I know that's why I kept it vague yeah

they're gonna be passing around the plate for the cause won't they yeah they probably will yeah widows and orphans of course yeah absolutely wow what does the average father judge grad get on his diploma drool oh i i i'm gonna have to buy a book of bad jokes yeah please do it's it's i'm really running like i'm scouring the web uh for these um yeah. It's a short one this week.

If you really, really want more content, go listen to our bonus episode on Patreon. If you're one of the fucking weirdos who for some reason craves more Tom, I'm going to be on the new england beer reviews podcast so i yeah so i don't know how long that's going to be i'm recording this well the day this comes out i'll be recording it so i don't know when it'll come out but if you want to listen to me i don't know what that's going to be like it's very fun it's fun it's fun yeah it's a free-form

discussion i'll talk about beer um i'll probably do bad impressions that liam won't yell at me for that yeah yeah can't yell at me uh and if you if you are a normal person i want more liam content go find him on well there's your problem um which which is this is where's the where's the where's the pen central too where's the Penn Central 2? Where's the Penn Central 2, Liam? So here's the fucking thing, alright? Shut up. We, our guest

basically fucked up his schedule and we should be recording that on Sunday the 6th. I mean oh wow but you know it should be nice out that day too that sucks fuck you man uh and uh yeah uh shit uh listen to lions by donkeys uh joe and i recorded what i think is uh our most delirious episode ever. I can't say best or funniest because it gets pretty dark in the middle, as do all Lions,

one of my donkeys episodes. Of course. And listen to when it comes out, see it or screw it, which is a movie podcast I'm on with the hosts from New England Beer Reviews. Yeah, do that too. Listen to Trash too. Listen to Trash Future, listen to Kill James Bond. Don't listen to 10,000

posts. Don't listen to the Bottle Men. Riley smells his own poops. Oh boy, you betcha. Canadian. Whoa, great Canadian podcast. Edit that out. We're going to lose half our Patreon. And I think that's it uh yeah so um be good to each other and uh death to the owners yeah death to the owners um yeah all right be good

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