Ten Thousand Losses - Filling Holes

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

Mike & Róisín give you your weekly dose of Jimmydome drama, Columbus Bluejackass takes, and how Hosey's HOF caliber career is being wasted by the Dolans. The Coaquannock Map Find our bonus episodes and Discord on Patreon. Follow us on Bluesky:  Podcast Liam Tom Shoot a message or leave us a voicemail (leave your name and pronouns): 267-371-7218

And it's getting ugly here in Cleveland. You are a factory of sadness. And this fall, I'm going to take my towns to South Beach. We're pummled. We're live. God, dude, I banged the hell out of my good shoulder getting on the rapid at 98th today because it was one of the even more decrepit than usual Tokyo cars. You know, where the door only half opens,

and my dumbass wasn't paying attention. Luckily, it wasn't the shoulder I had two screws in. First mistake, we bought a train that not even Japanese Railo Tococchio article for. I know Toki partner with Bud. We should have just bought Bud then. Why did we go to Japan to buy licensed Bud? We had the original. And don't get me wrong, fuck Siemens.

They're an evil Nazi company on par with Tyson Krupp that used Auschwitz slave labor and should have gone the way of their wartime board chairman, Rudolph Bingle, who was captured by the Red Army and died in a camp after the Soviets won World War II. which was better than he deserved. And they're still bribing and price fixing to this day. But damn it all. I just want rapid transit trains that aren't actively falling apart. Next July can't come soon enough.

I'm done. Every one says you can chart America going to ship by Reagan. They're wrong. 1987, butt exits the rail car manufacturing business. That's the turning point. That's what people see on the charts. All right. Okay.

So we've got an absolute fuck ton of stuff to get into today. So I'll save the usual opening 20 minutes of dick jokes for later. If you're in line for the dick jokes, stay in line. Hello, and welcome to 10,000 losses. The only Cleveland Sports Podcast that exists. I'm your host, Metric Mike. My pronouns are he, him. And with me, as always, is my co-host everyone's favorite mistake on the lake.

Yay. Hi, I'm Roshin. My pronouns are she, her. Let's go. Come on. Let's go. All right, right. Announcements.

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We're filling the hole in. No guests. Fuck you. Shout out to our St. Ignatius tier patrons. Patrick, Sean, Kat, Mike, Charlie, Kyle, Wayne, Sam, Claire, Chucklebird. No G. Potawan patrons. Is that it? Sure, whatever.

Sports. Want to start with Blue Jackets? Oh, God. Well, a month ago, I was about to throw myself in the lake, like a Browns fan after that Rangers game. I maintain nobody should have gotten points. Four goal lead blown in 15 minutes and somehow the Rangers still lost. Now we're third in Metro.

Somehow. Somehow. And as usual, I miss the rematch with the Rangers that put us in playoff contention because I was driving to Lorraine County to get another library card. Then I watched the Guardians play Seattle. And, Roshin, I better not have set up this fucking radio at the hardware store just to listen to the Guardians become the Browns. Well, on that note, uh, as for the Guardians,

Oh, oh, uh, I am getting a call from an unknown number. Hold on, please. Okay, Rishin, you've had your fun. Now give us the fucking show back. No, fuck you. We hijacked this podcast, fair and square. Fair and square. FBI, open up.

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Give it back. What is it? Where'd you get it from? If it's a halogen tool, give it back. I don't, what does that mean? It's invented to the 1940s to pry, strike, and breach. Now give it back. I think that's brandishing.

Am I brandishing it? I think so. Okay. Well, I'm about to beat these two over the head until they're dead. Okay. All right. All right. Put the halogen down.

Put the down. Come on. Up and out. We're leaving. Okay. Come on. Get out. Get out.

Get out. Go. All right. I think they're out. Last time I trust a fucking Ohioan. God damn, Ohio. The inferior state. The inferior state.

They sent all of their talent in the space. Oh, yeah. Who can blame? John Glenn couldn't get out fast enough. They made Purdue to trap the talent in the state and it didn't work. Purdue is in Indiana, bud. Fuck. He is actually going to eject a fan.

His bad things happen in Philadelphia. Bad things. Man, jumped into the penalty box area. Joy, it is to come to Philadelphia and stand here in Dodge, Ice Ball. He's a Dallas Cowboys Head of Settisonate John Cooney Oh, look at it. What, right there this time?

What? Holy shit. Do you believe it? Farewell. You know, this is the first run of good luck we've had since the incident. Which incident? The one that just happened. Oh, that incident?

I thought we were memory-holing that. Oh, I mean, it just happened like 30 seconds ago. No, no, no, I'm memory-hulling it. You're still holding, you're still holding. I got to put this down. Hang up. I'm pretty sure that shit's illegal in Pennsylvania. I can't be daddy illegal.

It's got it longer than a six inch blade on it. Oh, yeah, but I'm using it for search and rescue or whatever. I'm not putting it down top. Well, now you're threatening me with it. I don't like that.

I, well, I, if you want to prime my mouth over, but you could just ask. Oh, daddy. Uh, fuck,

you want to talk about Ohio? psych ohio oh oh oh my spouse i forgot there's oh oh hawthard heights is all just oh it's all just oh hi it's all just a high it's always has that in the land the land of astronauts the land that god forgot the land of william to comes a sherman yeah that's where it's from yeah just don't ask what you did after no please don't that that's so I mean, we might want to save this for the potential bonus. No, for the bonus. But, man, that's so disappointing. It's so many of these guys, like after the Civil War, you're like, man, you fucking fought the good fight.

And now. Oh. Oh, genocide. Terrific. Empire. Yep. Oh, that. True believers, man.

Yeah. What do you go to go? Go ahead. No, go ahead. Because I can't remember the name. There's this old map of Philly I found. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Send it to me.

I'm going to do that. It's the Coenquonic map. Have you seen this one? I don't think so. Where is it? I have the actual link to it. Oh, I just cracked so hard. Oh.

Come on. Show the actual fucking map. Oh, here we go. Show him the actual map. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It's a map of like the actual original place names and tribes and shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they're all Lenape, but...

Right. One moment, please. Well, this takes 900 years to load. So Coaquinac would have been, I guess, Cohoquanek would have been sort of Center City, Philly. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, give it a minute to load.

I'm just... Oh, wow. Oh, this is beautiful. It's a 19th... It's in the 1930s. 1934, yeah. But... Oh, you're for it to render it.

It is... taking it sweet time. It's big. Well, it's HSP, so I mean, they actually are legit. Yeah, I'm just waiting for it to. Oh, wow. What a gorgeous map. Very well done.

And actually kind of not, I can put this in show notes. It's not like, uh, this is beautiful. It's not shitty about the natives, like in the, it's respectful in the sort of notes on the side. Right. You know. I, we used to actually deck. decorate things. I just love all the,

all the, the little decorations. This is, this is stunning. Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it beautiful? This is lovely. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm actually going to hang up and just masturbate to this. Yeah. Which part? I'm going to drag off to the chicken sink where we were robbed.

Yeah, they were. I like the rough grass. Yeah. You know what's sad to the drink? Did you hear the, what was the words that, Haminen was the

So for those who don't know Philadelphia history Penn Treaty also known as Shackamaxon is the region William Penn actually was decent to the natives and the treaty

that he signed that Shackamaxon where he purchased the land it's called the Treaty of Shackamaxon and the wording the wording in the treaty is very beautiful and it's also sad

I'm trying to find it Oh yeah The two would live in peace So long as the waters ran And the rivers and creeks And as long as the stars And the moon endured It's like fuck man

What could have been What could have been Yeah Again Go go read your history Of King Phillips War For an alternate endic Oh my God

Just imagine Just imagine like Hey no we're actually just gonna be chill And not like We're just going to be We're not gonna do genocide Yeah we're actually Gonna defend you guys

Because you are like Trade partners like we're boys now um also i were boys now it says that of the treaty what we're boys now we're boys now um we're squatting up this this is something else uh birches views of philadelphia they're copper plate engravings from 1800 oh that's sick and go if you go on the wikipedia article you can view all of them and that um you can go like on google maps and and some of them some of them some of the shit still stands, especially like where the first bank is.

Yeah. Or second, second in market. I think they call it second and high street or whatever. But it, oh man, it's like, it's,

I don't know. I get, I'm a history guy, so I get super moved by all of it. And I was down. I was down in Philly and the, I saw the Museum of the American Revolution. That's redacted.

What's redacted? How'd you like it? It was. was decent. I, I, I, I, okay. So in terms of, hey, I'm going to walk through and if I read all like the plaques, I'll have a decent understanding of the American Revolution. There's some jingoism, but it's, it is counterbalanced by mentioned, you know,

there's a relatively well contained, yeah. Yeah, there's a significant mention of Native Americans. They talk about how sort of the promise of liberty net was not extended to the entire population and that it is treated negatively right um as it should be uh with quotes from women and uh enslaved people or formerly enslaved people talking about how they thought that this was going to extend to them to and so so i did appreciate that um obviously there was only a very small mention of labor yeah um so i don't think i don't think i don't think I mean, they said the America Revolution was a poor man's war, but what war isn't?

Was it the rich man's war, poor man's fight? That's every war. Yeah, exactly. And maybe the rich in the America were just bourgeois versus instead of the aristocracy. Anyway, yeah, so I thought it was all right. I definitely think it's not being the allegations of being so big. It's definitely meant to be a venue to be rented out. And they did also rent out to the moms for liberty at one point.

I didn't know that. That's stressful. Basically every historical association, professional historical, like, group said, please don't do that. And they did it anyway. Nice. Well done, assholes. Yeah. Yeah.

So, but no. And we went to the man, a man full of trouble. Which is very nice. It's very nice. The brewery, the beer is good. It's so small, but it's kind of cool. I forget who brews it because they don't. Is succession brewery?

Out of bucks, right? Or is they a monk? Cchester. Are they? Yeah. Succession fermentery. Yeah, they're out of,

they're out of Chester. Cochranville, PA. Oh, okay. Yeah. So, the, stop by and try the Cézahn. Stella Lou Farm

in Cochranville, Pennsylvania, yep. What about, instead of Cochranville, it was... Cockville. And it was just full of cocks, just hundreds of cocks,

hundreds of penises, hundreds of erected penises. Just doing that. Just Cochville. It's doing the way. There's a Cockiesville, Maryland, which is where a good liquor store is. Cranbrook Liquors, Cocky's Zone, Maryland. Pretty good.

Yeah. All right. We're out of stuff to talk about. See you. All right. So, hello. Welcome to another episode, 10,000 losses. The only Philadelphia sports podcast that exists.

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Yeah. We're going to do a bonus soon. Before the march is over, which is coming up. At the time you're listening, it'll probably have been recorded and put out. Because this will be our first episode of April. Do you want to actually, in all seriousness, try to do a another, NCAA stream or like Madden or something. Yeah, why not?

Yeah. And if we can't get that done Monday, we do the hangout episode or Sunday or something, maybe give us a little more time. Yeah, I think, I think. Do you like how we do this live on air? I definitely think, I think doing like riffing on some of the topics we've talked about, I think might be a good. And then maybe April we do a stream because I have Sundays already booked.

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There's a couple other things I've done something. How's that executive function treating you? You know what? It could be better, but it could be worse. Get off your phone, Tom. I'm not on my phone. Are you not? You look down.

Look at my hands. I'm fidgeting. Oh, I'm not shocked by that. My phone, my phone is over here. My phone's upstairs. I don't even know where my phone is. It's a shame phones. Phones don't do that

thing anymore. Was that 2G? Yeah. They interfered with audio equipment. That would be cool because it would be funny, but I'm not on my phone and it just makes that noise. Just you see the interference.

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the Knicks and the Rangers. He's a real piece of ship. Yeah. All the Dolans suck. Yeah. Because his uncle is Larry Dullen, who's the, who was. And then his son, so his cousins, he's cousins of the Paul Dullins. Paul Dolan. And then Matt Dullen is a asshole of some kind.

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Yeah Phillies Opening day was yesterday I went. It was fun. It was fun. Shorebom, Linda, read my section, or section to my left. I had my six drinks. You had three before first pitch.

I did. You let us all know. I did. I did. Sorry. I'm also getting texts from Mattia Flicking. Well, I saw Matt Walsh. Yeah.

Oh, the real Matt Walsh. The Civil Word. Oh, oh, good Lord. We got to counterprogram that. Matt Walsh is a guy I'd love to be a locked room with. Yeah, I figured, yeah. I mean, that makes sense. Yeah, so the Phil's 1, 5-3 against the hated and vile Texas Rangers.

We actually have a Rangers fan DM later. We do, which basically says they suck shit. Yeah, I feel bad if you are legit Rangers fan, And then this team has sort of become the bulwark of the most regressive politics in MLB. I'm just grudge shit. Yeah. Yeah. It's so hard to think I popped an eye vessel.

Did you really? No. Oh. I wish I had. I'd be kind of metal if it did. Yeah, sexy, honestly. Potting with a red eye. Red eye potting?

Yeah. Did you see Tiger Woods was in yet another rollover crash? Jesus Christ. No, I did not. And Jason Hayward. retired. Oh, okay. I actually have something I wanted to talk about.

Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to, I'm opening the ESPN article because I forgot to put it in the outline. Sorry. Yeah. This is about anti-tanking in basketball because we are on the record is saying we hate tanking. Yes.

And we reject it in all its forms, basically. I thought it was appalling when the Eagles did it. We're against the process. We, we, uh, yeah, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, on the record as being against the process. The process worked for exactly one guy. Yep. And he has no rings.

And no rings to show for it. So I have one more ring than Joel Mied does because I'm married. Isn't he married now? Or is he still? I don't care. I'm going to keep that joke. All right. So explain this.

Yeah. So there's like a bunch of different proposals. There's three different tanking concepts. So I don't know I think these all kind of conflict But might be like dovetailed together But the first proposal 18 teams the bottom 10 that missed the plan

And the 8th that qualified for Are all part of the draft lottery So the bottom 10 teams will have an equal 8% chance of moving up in the lottery With the remaining 20% of the odds Being split on the 8 play in teams So all 18 spots would be drawn As part of the lottery in that format

Which I think is really cool Because it rewards okay well at least you try right and it like and it also like makes kind of room for like if you had like an injury playing season like the six years last year we're like all right you're you're clearly at least showing effort because i we've been clear that like if you don't show effort you should be punished right i'm looking at you of Sacramento kings uh in the second proposal the bottom 10 10 teams that missed the plan the 8 the qualified for and the four playoff teams that lose in the first round will all be included in the lottery and will be ranked according to the record across two seasons. The last part, waiting teams by the record across two prior seasons is how the WMBA does it. Under that system,

each team would need to reach a minimum win total floor in each season to mitigate the need to lose every game possible. For example, if the minimum floor for an individual season was 20 wins, as a team that went 14 and 68 would be 20 and 62 for the lottery purposes. Every team wins 40 games, one season, and 20 years next season,

it would go into 30 wins for the lottery. Hmm. Sounds like a rolling average. Yeah. In this system, the top four spots will be drawn as part of the lottery as is currently. I kind of like that because the third one is absolutely

fucking insane. Five by five. Yeah. The same 18 teams for the first concept will be into the lottery. The team with the five worst records and then all have the same odds with them descending from there and there would be a lottery drawing for each of the top five picks in the draft. After those five picks are selected, there would be another lottery drawing for the remaining

13 teams. If any of this, teams of the five worst records didn't lay on one of those times. Lines Fouts like last season. The first second and fourth worst records all moved to fifth, six, and seventh. The lowest they could wind up. The second lottery would be 10th, preventing a bad team falling down too far down the draft board. I,

I actually, I've talked with something to like the five by five. That's so fucking bizarre. I love that. Yeah, man. I think at one point, like, we've done a bonus where we re-litigate the process. But yeah. Yeah, I mean, I. Do you remember the year before the Eagles, the year they fired Peterson and the year before the Devonte Smith draft, they tanked at the end of the season.

Yeah. That was the game against the, that's the like Doug Peterson's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A loss prevented them from from letting the Giants in, which is funny. Yes. But like the stated objective was like, we're going to tank. Right. Which like, you cannot fix an NFL team through tanking.

Right. You can't. Right. You can't do it. And you can't really fix any team through tanking. You can like kind of maybe like. And I saw something. If it's true, then the,

the pirates would be winning the World Series every year. Yeah. Paul Skeen's got shot to the moon last night. He almost joined the Air Force and he almost went one inning. Yeah. I forget where I saw that joke. Whoever you are. That's really good.

That's very funny. That's really good. But I think. that like the like you are not going to get fixed based on one star player because there's five guys there's only one ball but on top of that like I I respect the like hey like all our guys are hurt we're 30 and we're you know we're 25 and 35 we are not competing for a championship this year we're going to put so the way the team that I always look to sorry is the Boston Celtics because before the Jason Tatum draft and before they got,

what's this fucking? Oh my God. Jalen Brown. There we go. And before they won a chip, they like did it kind of organically and they took flyers on like weird old guys and like had jettisoned the core that wasn't winning anymore and did a rebuild. And like, yeah, part of that was through the draft.

Part of that was just like a good smart front office. And like I just, I get really mad at the like, well, like, you know LeBron James or this or that it's like yeah LeBron James is not even generational. Bron James is just the guy right like telling me Paulo Bancaro the guy the magic

tanked for is going to win me a chip with like Franz Wagner and friends fuck no or Mo Wagner and friends whoever whatever Fogner's on the team like Desmond Bain and some guys like the Utah Jazz or this perfect example or like the Sacramento Kings where it's like Brian Smith the guy who owns a shout out bring him young money the guy who owns the jazz has enough money that if you wanted

to bring a competition team around it like for an office he could absolutely do that and like he could bring in trade for et cetera guys that like would win him a title he just doesn't want to right and he's been the most vocal and like we shouldn't be punished for tanking it's like yes you fucking should dude yeah you're with 18 billion dollars you should be punished for being bad like you should be punished for it. Like, if you finish bottom 10 of the league for five or more years, your ownership should be put up to a fucking vote. Like, and not

amongst the owners. We're doing fan votes. We're doing, we're doing, we're doing plumbocytes. We're going to own the Utah Jazz. We do now. Us and Jordan and Greg. Yeah, let's do it. And Kyle now, too. I forgot Kyle.

Yeah, he's only been on once, so. Yeah. Yeah. Five, five, five, five guys, five guys on the Utah jazz and we just run it directly into the ground. Yeah. The players would not respect us at all. No. Until I bring a gun into the team

meaning. Yeah. I've got full Gilbert arenas, me. I just put it down on the fucking counter. Hey, you guys know this is a Glock, too. There's no safety, so don't fucking say shit. Yeah. So is it loaded? I don't know. Is it? Do you want to find out?

Mr. Tom Payne of Solic City, Utah was arrested on many numerous gun charges today. He stepping from an incident in which he went into as our team's locker room and tried to shoot them down. I like how your Utah news anchor

is also like a Trey Parker, Matt Stone voice. Yeah. Ew, yes. You did you use to the East Tee. I can do like three voices, man. I'm so good at it. And one you're not allowed to do on the podcast.

No, I'm not a hard to do ever. I'll get you to do it someday. It's very bad. I know. I can't do that one anymore. I won't say what it is, but I haven't been around those, the people who speak that way in a long time.

I tried the other day while I was driving in a car. I was like, oh, I can't do this anymore. Yeah, I, I, I, it's not good. No. It's very bad. It is. That's why I don't do it unless I'm like around Corinne because she's just like, she thinks it's hilarious, which is absolutely objectively awful by the way.

Yeah, very true. Because my wife is a, is a hateful, hateful woman. Just a big of it. No, the, so, just to talk about the NBA, there's too many teams at the playoffs. All right. Go back to this using the divisions. All right.

You do what, you have the top team in each division and then the, like a wild card. Yeah, that's it. Just do that. I, I kind of like. Or the top four teams at the fucking conference.

Like, my thing is like, want to like the play in because I think it's like an inch because like that's their wild card substitute but like 20 teams in the playoffs is a lot of too many teams and the season I'm actually fine with I'm actually fine with it if like basically what happens if they cut the season down to 75 games which I have been saying for years um but like MLB is what six teams hockey is eight MLB no MLB is including wild card uh Top, top, no. It used to be limited.

I mean, it used to just be the top team from each league. Right. No, MLB now is 12 teams. Right, there we go. I said six, right? I haven't six with each league. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you meant.

Do my God. Yeah. I had to mute my watch. Yeah. We're having discourse happening while we're fucking recording, souls. Especially civil war discourse.

Can't do that. Damn you, Matt. Yeah, man. I, I, like, my thing is, is basically with the plan is like, I don't think it's the worst idea. And I get it that like,

it kind of at least generates interest in teams that wouldn't, otherwise it's still like. But like, the 10th-seated team is not going anywhere. Like, in the NBA, there is such a lack of parity. Which, like,

and to their credit, like, ways to like ethically tank. Ethically tank. But there kind of are where like the Oklahoma City Thunder accumulated a bunch of draft picks and used them like on high traffic guys. But they also traded for shy guilt just Alexandria because the clippers didn't understand what he was worth.

And the clippers in the toilet now. And the clippers have like signed all these old expensive guys. And the Sixers are kind of doing the same thing with the Paul George, it's all George signing. $54 million is a lot of money. And I understand it's on our money to pay a guy who like doesn't play basketball. But, like, there are ways that, like, you can, like, at least put, like, I understand if a team says we're going to do a complete rebuild. Right.

And we're going to just field a bunch of young guys and a couple vets to keep them around. And, like, like, I respect the, like, we're just going to take a bunch of flyers and a bunch of weird cheap guys and, like, kind of hope it works out. Right. Because you're just like, all right, man. Like, if it's entertaining, like, I remember my favorite iteration of basketball, this is a very basketball of the episode. was the, oh my God, the pelicans with Anthony Davis and Boogie Cousins in the front court, where they were both just, get off your phone, where they were both just like seven footers running high screen pick and rolls just like to nothingness? It was terrific.

And they went like 45 and 37, I think got bounced in the first round of the playoffs, but they were a lot of fun. And like at the point in the NBA we are now where like every team is just playing small ball and like, and now everyone has to shoot threes. Like it's fun to watch. Like, teams be like, what if we took two seven photos? But take them together, man. What are you going to do about that?

Like, that's very fun to me. And like basketball, basketball's not fucking fun to watch. No, it's been solved. It's been solved. That's why, like, I think we've talked about that. And the last two minutes of any basketball game is the most boring. It's, it's painful to watch.

We're like football teams have to run two minute drills. Like, that's the most exciting time especially what's a close game overtime hockey overtime playoff hockey is the most exciting thing in sports because every time I watch

it I think I'm going to have a fucking heart attack hockey hockey is very good over time hashtag Sabres year by the way we're also now a Sabres podcast friend of the show Zach Hecht is a big Sabers fan because they had a guy Yankees fan and a Sabres show

let me explain how this works all his friends are Rangers or Islanders fans but the Sabers had a guy named Hecht on their team when Zach was in middle school so Zach is a Sabres fan and he is like an honest to God like he's not he's not front running people are like oh the Sabers are going to make the playoffs

Zach has been Zach has the Buffalo Sabers app on his phone I have seen it that that man loves the Sabers there for a while when I liked hockey it was nice making a creative player

because of this guy I'm not going to say yeah so they would have that in the game the only sports game where they actually had the name.

Right. I also... It's weird that your last name is redacted. Yeah. I wonder if he's a dissimulation. Because I do have a French

Canadian side. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. I just really wanted to be like like there are ways kind of like ethically tank,

whatever, but like... Ethically tanking might be the name of the episode. Yeah. Yeah, we're tanking ethically. We're doing it the right way. Yeah, man, I just, I'm so tired. I'm so tired of teams being miserable year after year after year after year after year after year.

And then acting like I owe them something for it. Fuck you. When the Sixers went 10 and 72, that was an insult to basketball. And I'm glad they made fucking, what's his name, leave. The guy I hate. The one of Adam Silver hates the fucking Sixers. Yeah. He does hate this.

He genuinely does hate the Sixers. Oh, yeah, he for sure hates the Sixers. And let's talk about a good team. The second guy's good guys. Let's talk about the troops. The only thing that could stop a bad guy with the baseball is a good guy with the baseball. Carl Schwerver. Carl Schwerver.

Yeah, man. We're going to bat 198 with an OPS of 1.025, baby. Those days are long behind us. He had a fucking MVP caliber. My guy can mash Tators. He mashed the Apotaka, which I hate saying, but. I like Apotaka. I saw it.

I was there. I know you were close to it. I was there for his four home run game, too. I feel bad for the guy whose picture where he's going like. Yeah. And the ball is like a foot and a half to his like down there to his bottom, right? Yeah. Good job catching that one, bud.

Show a little class Act like you've been there before Act like you know where the bathrooms are Oh word to the wise If you're going to Citizens Bank Oh Tiger arrested on suspicion of DUI I just saw that I just saw that

Stop letting this man drive So yeah Give us your report from CBP Oh the Sanchez sliders So I got the Sanchez sliders They're okay They come with a hot honey dipping sauce which is phenomenal.

Very good. The ghost bar, which replaced Harry the K's, is lackluster at best. I'm shocked. If you like energy drink cocktails, which I do because I'm a scumbag. Good Lord.

They're terrific. Good Lord. Yeah, well, yeah. The Sanchez Sliders, I kind of like recommend. I didn't get Freddy's. and I also tried the new so stateside took over Exfinity Live and they now have like

sports drink inspired vodka you know ready to drink vodka cocktails if you get the fruit punch one it tastes like a bomb pop It tastes like a what bomb pop pop What's a bomb pop pop like you know the the The red white blue popscles yeah yeah yeah It tastes like that Good Lord that yeah it's four and a half

It's four and a half percent. No carbonation and no carbs. No added sugar. Oh, okay. Well, that's that's amazing. Man, the new, the new world of drinks. Ready to drink cocktails? Like any of that stuff.

I'm ready to drink cocktail. It's, it's, well, I mean, there's a reason that beer, beer consumption is down. And it makes you feel horrible. side is. I like surf sides, but like, I know, I don't, I'm not,

I'm not opposed to it. I'm not opposed to it. I've had surfsides. They're good. I like, I like the lemonade. On the beach. Yeah.

I do like the, the big surfside can. So like 24 ounces that Citizens Bank Park will charge you $29 for. We're at $29 for. Yeah. You got to be fucking kidding. For a tall boy surfside. Yeah,

it's like $29. I definitely didn't $1 at dinner the year or night. Don't bleak that. bleep that we spent all of your Patreon money on a Middle Eastern restaurant. Nine months,

Patreon money. What are you going to do, right? Yeah, you only turn. She wants to go there for her birthday. How old did you turn once? 38, I think. I said 38.

It's fine. I don't care. Oh, my God. Did you hear John Kruk talking about muscles? No, I missed that. So here, I'll put the link in the chat. So John Krug, we're watching the broadcast.

And Adalz Garcia comes up and he's like, I'd like to see him and Tyler O'Neill will beled to flexing up after a good workout. Okay, man. I might have to drop that one into the episode. But yeah. I'd like to see him and Garcia on a oiled up and flexing after a good workout. Garcia might have him this year. Boy, he's a big man.

I love Kruk making. it making it weird day one Kruck Kruck is my favorite It's also like the picture of like Tom McCarthy just sitting on the lawn Like drinking a beer Yeah

Where the Phillies are just like Absolute freewheeling nihilism He They're all up and flexing after a good workout They're a great booth They really do pair They riff well off each other Yeah

And like Tom I really like the Tom like Not indulges but kind of like Like plays a long long, I guess. He knows how to be the straight guy. He's straight, right? He knows when he's not just like, okay, man, like get back on top of he's like, yeah, man, I have no idea the guy who

went to the clock. Let's fucking, let's get someone to figure this out for us. Yeah. Yeah, no, they're a good riffing machine. I like it when they're together. I hate that it's not crook every game. I know he's got a life. Well, he shouldn't. His life should be talking to be on television. Yeah.

Oh, I have that will be TV now. Oh, congrats. So I will send you that login at some point. Great. Can't watch, can't wait to watch Pirates,

Pirates, Pirates, Pirates, Pirates, Pirates of White Sox. Yeah. Absolutely heinous, unwatchable baseball. Yeah, absolutely just embismal, NL Central. Shit, no one has any

business watching at like two in the afternoon on Wednesday. No, no. This is, yeah, business has been special. by business special means they stay away yeah they get it I want to see Paul Skeen's pitch

you're gonna give them a good salute yeah because I too almost ended out of one of the big ones yeah I almost got into the Coast Guard too but I got 100 on the as VAB they really wanted me but medical did not work

I want to punch the drill sergeant in the face now I would have been good as shit man fuck that I would have great. They wanted me for intelligence. They're like, oh my God, you scored the high. You scored a high score. Let's get you in intelligence. Oh, wait. You don't have a knee.

Yeah. You don't have a knee. And those back issues by Nilela. And the ADHD too. This is I say poopie? This is pooty. Oh. And then this one says Kiss, butts. Kiss butts. What? Is that just a napkin?

Yeah. I get bored sometimes. Okay. Well, that's what you're, that's your way of fidgeting. Did you just write that now or is that like been weight sitting there? You're born. Which podcast were you drawing that with? I think, well, there's your problem.

Okay. Oh, my God. All right. You want to do listener feedback? Yeah. We got some DMs. We got some DMs.

All right. So even though she's dead, she's somehow messaged us. From beyond the grave. Hey, Tom, yay, Liam.

Sorry for that regrettable incident earlier. That's what I fucking thought, Roshade. Yeah, but I do have some Guardians news. The 26-man roster was finalized, still not enthused about our pitching. They decided to forgo,

a proven decent long reliever, and Colby Allard for the noodle arm of Colin Holderman. Noodle arm, that's me. Who supported a nine ERA this spring. That's, okay. Our so-called ace and opening day starter, Tanner Bibi, gave up a boatload of home runs and seems to be continuing his regression that started the second the ink dried on his extension a year ago.

Our actual ace, Gavin Williams, would be a more solid number three guy in the rotation of a team with a front office that would give a damn about anything about cost cutting. Haslums have announced that they're increasing their financial contribution to $1.755 billion for the building of the Jimmy Dome. Still expecting the $600 million handout from the state taxpayers and $245 million of bonded project revenue from the city of Brook Park instead of poning up that $8.45 million themselves, which, as previous stated, they can absolutely afford with their $8 billion plus net worth. build transit with that money build trains and trams and fucking street cars and subways and buses. Fuck it buses in a pinch.

Something. Caves are caving with a 4528 record as a writing fourth in the east. Go guards. Go calves. Go fills. Go birds. Go Robert Mueller in the rule of lawn. in strike through, I believe. Fuck Paul Dolan,

fuck Jimmy Hasl, fuck West Coast Night Games. Start at a normal time for fuck's sake and not 10.05 Eastern on a Thursday night. Fuck ICE. Fuck the IOC for banning trans women and just fuck the Olympics in general. Fuck Ohio State. Fuck Penn State

and death to America. Not wrong. Yeah, fuck the IOSC. 1.7755 billion. Jesus. Still expecting the 600 minutes. That's crazy. Bill,

could you not build a trial line for that? Just, you could. That's insane. Yeah, build a trial line. Yeah. Maybe too. Yeah. Hey, Tom.

Hey, Liam. I'm posting on Wookie with an arena ball update. This week, I'm focusing on the eternal shit show that is the AIF now in its third, question mark, fourth, fifth question mark iteration.

This time I said the 2024 reincarnation. Merged at the NAL and previously booted team owner Dominic Montero decided to run his own AIF with blackjack This is, we're now, we're now the official AIF, the provisional AIF, the continuity. Real IIF.

Jesus, how many Irish gags are there? Yeah. Well, year two into his version, it's still a shit show. He entered the season owning three teams, the Wyoming Calvary, North Michigan, muskies, and the Odessian dealers. What I said. Calvary, which is the hill in which Christ was crucified. What I say? You said Calvary.

Cavalry. Cavalry. Cavalry. What I say. Calvary. This will be borne out in the editing. I'm going to be completely wrong. But he's since sold off Odessa to go along

with his previously sold off Cedar Rapids River King. So we've read it this year to the Titans showing him are the Western Michigan Iron Men. The Midland frack attack, Tyler Crude. And travel over. Frack attack? Like fracking? The Midland frack attack, bro. And the travel only Pennsylvania Union out of Harrisburg.

Before the season, the Cruz folded after the arena, the oil palace owned by the Mansell family, went out of business. The muskies were kicked after one game for housing their players in Roachotel, stop paying them and not have equipment such as turf in their arena. Wyoming hosts the game

with zero pads on the walls and middle crowd fencing for the end zone walls. West Michigan has refused to travel to Wyoming for these very safety areas. Olintero's fat asses play his linebacker for the cavalry to top it all off. Oh, hell yes. Playing on the team you own.

Yeah, it's a yam or yager shit. Hell yes. Central New York Blue Devils have been given league status midseason due to all the filling games we were playing for the league. But this last weekend,

a game between Cedar Rapids and Wyoming was canceled in the second quarter to the team's fighting and a coach of Miami walk around the field with beers in hand. It's a fucking mess in an arena and an embarrassment to arena ball. There are a good orgs here, such as a Dessa, Westmess, Westmach, again, Midland and CNY. The rest is a fucking shit show. Anyways, fuck landlords as I uproot my family this weekend

to a new rental postman, Wookiee out. I would like you to look in the chat for the frack attack logo. I need to see this. Oh, boy. Is this going to be AI? Oh, yes. I'm waiting I'm waiting

I think by my all my things are Winga Hawking a favorite spot for planting oh yes I like that oh wow looks like something

on a bio shack like he's holding the drill wrong yeah this is like anti the antifa drill core um power and pressure sure man

you know it's not supposed to explode when you go fracking no it's bad when it does that oh speaking of which wasn't there another explosion of Port Arthur probably that town they can't just not have explosions can it they just fucking love to explode God how miserable must it be on the Gulf Coast yeah I don't want to live there Texas

Galveston and all that yeah oh my this is oil ports all they have is that that dredged out like for the tank Ooh, just 105 degrees. 200% committed. I'm moist. I'm very moist.

God. Who will the fuck with live there? Anyway. Speaking of Texas. Yeah. How to Tom and yay Liam. This is Sam from Texas. Pronouns he they.

Here to chime in about the Texas Ranger Shatoo shit show. In short, it sucks. She sells seashells by the seashore. I love to tell you what. It's another situation. It's another situation where a team's ownership is a massive piece of shit for several previous reasons to. And I end up having to confront your failings about a team

had been found for a long time. See also the Mavs. The option I set alone is to passively support the players while rooting against the owners. That might make me a hypocritical piece of shit. I like how Virginia is coming out. I do say it is my failings to Walt Distate. I'll declare.

In this country, I wanted to be a better place because it's my home. Should it succeed, I will follow her. No, wait, no, no. Sorry. Fuck.

Jesus, what the fuck was that? I just saw stars of birds. Um, do it again, Uncle Billy. 18, 1865, 1865,

please. where are we at? I wanted to be a better place because it's my home and I love the land it's people despite the fascist assholes are ruining things for everyone. All right, fuck. Yeah, I like that. Why should I leave? They're the ones who suck. Fuck yeah.

Fuck yeah. I like that attitude. I don't think I'm articulating this well. My brain's not cooperating today. Feel free to call me an asshole for all this or being from Dallas in general. Yeah, but you're from, well, I mean, yeah. But you're from there and those are your teams. Okay, that's fine.

That's fine. We don't like it when you pick the teams when you're from like, like he said, it says a million times before. I got a Yankee sticker, a Duke sticker, a Cowboy sticker, or Chiefs now, you know, on my car because I only like the winning teams. Like that's when it's annoying. If it's like the teams you're from. There are people trying their best down here, but the overall reputation of the city is

undeserved. Fuck Ray Davis. Fuck Mary Madelson. Fuck Jerry Jones. Fuck Penn State. Fuck that racist statue. Yeah. There's a ton.

The people of Texas. are disenfranchised. True. They should rise up and overthrow their illegitimate government. Ted Cruz. I was going to make a joke about their governor. I'm not going to do that. Yeah, no.

We take the high road on this podcast. You know, you know, you know, that scene in The Exorcist? Yeah, I do. Yeah. Those stairs in D.C.? Okay. All right. All right.

I might have to cut that out The exit steps, yeah, Georgetown. Yeah, that's fun. Fuck, anyway, voicemails. Voice spells, are you going to read the voice spells, Liam? All right. I haven't pre-screened any of these, so let's listen to Kyle. Hey, Tom, Lee, Liam.

This is Kyle from Cleveland, pronouncing him. There's really not a whole lot to talk about when it comes to Cleveland sports, so that Rachine hasn't already covered. Except for one. last year around the same time of year actually I called in about the Cleveland Monsters of the AHA

The HL The HLJB Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Usually around the first week of April To celebrate Dingist Day

And basically like You know It's like Polish Patrick's Day right Oh Change your name To something Polish Last year was a pierogi

That shit was First But I still got the hat And this year's no different uh fuck me uh they're gonna be the the cleveland polish boys which um yeah if you're not head to it the polish boy is like this weird kibasa sandwich atrocity um let's see it's not some people make it really good some people make it like ass uh oh god that picture is disgusting but um i know god damn well and getting the merch for that because i've only seen a little bit of it it looks

fucking great um on april the fourth is gonna drop on merch and you god damn well i'm gonna take up one of those and it's it's it's either gonna look really fucking cursed or oh yes yes and i can't wait to see which one it is um aside from that the only thing i could think of is uh the viking oh that's what that looks like that looks like you're your fucking choice but um the only other people that got is j jiv of a carven Carson Wentz, so they'll take anybody. And the weird thing is, like, Kyle Moore, despite being a Texan boy, it's actually a huge Vikings fan, so he's actually going to like being there. Maybe not, you know, maybe not, you probably like, you know,

the actual D-line of, you know, just constantly getting your shit rock like seven or eight times in one game. But, you know, a little CT-built character. Just ask Carson Wentz or, um... Oh, yeah. I was trying to think of anybody else, except for Chris, that wall. That's the only CTE joke I have, and it's not even a good one. I mean, instead of let you go, usually I would say, you know, the grievances is actually like, fuck this team, fuck that team.

But, God damn, the way the world's going right now, it would be like as long as I diss track, and you guys do not do that in your life. So I guess fuck Penn State. Yeah, you got it. whatever you want to after that. Have it a boys. Thoughts later. Thanks, Kyle. A, Kyle ends up calling back anyway.

He never calls once. There's always the initial call and then the second call, which sometimes I have to not play. So Carson Wentz fact. Okay, hold on. So Wenz's half-brother graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University, which would be impressive

if it wasn't from Arizona State. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of Arizona State, we never mentioned Cam Skateboe believes that CTE isn't real? Yeah. Oh, buddy, buddy, you're going to be, you're headed for it, man.

You make contact with every player. Yeah, he, well, yeah, for sure. He already has it. What a dumb ass. Oh, Asma's not real? Talk to all. My mom has As well. I've seen her have an asthma attack where she can't breathe.

Exactly. So, fuck you. Fuck you. I used to like it. too, but yeah, I remember. Yeah. White running backs, what are you going to get? That's pretty much it. All right. All right. So, Kyle.

Victoria's calling me. I got to, so we got a wrap. Do we have enough time to do the last two? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Hey, Tommy, Liam. Kyle from Cleveland again. Don't worry. I've only, I've only had my third beer the night, so this won't get too crazy. There you go. I forgot to mention, you guys nerding out over beer in the last. episode was fucking great. I don't know anything about

like the Philadelphia craft brewing scene, but like Cleveland in like North Eastern Highland General. Yeah, thank you like a lot of brewers. We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to like craft beer and you'll find pretty much anything over here. For example,

we get a lot of here too. With a few weeks, with a dingus state coming up, a lot of breweries, they start making Polish beers like this one called Gridsky, which is, uh, it's basically like a smoked wheat beer that's like very highly carbonated, but it's like only like 3.2% so you guys like a lot of it.

It's table beer. But it's so good. Like it's not having a problem. Um, it's like a century's old recipe and it's known as like Polish champagne. Yes. Except for that, like we got, I think Napoleon liked it. We got to have like 30 or 40 breweries just within like Cuyahoga County alone.

So if you guys want to nerd out about beer, I'm fucking here for it. I love listening about beer. If you guys were just starting to start like a separate beer channel or like one little area of the podcast about beer, I'm fucking here for it. You should have known me 10 years ago. I think of as the Minnesota Wilde are doing surprisingly well,

but they're probably going to do the classic Minnesota team of just barely eking into the playoffs and just getting like her dicks pounded into the dirt by. Oh. I guess the stars There's still like nine games to go So who knows But fuck me

This is gonna be It's gonna be a brutal like two weeks But I mean baseball is like Literally 24 hours away So I got that going I got that to look forward to And I haven't paying too much attention To the Guardians

But thankfully I have her sheen as a horse So I know too much about that team so hey i'm feeling pretty optimistic about this year uh i rarely ever get in say it at but yeah uh this suffice uh i love you guys i love when you guys like nerd about beer so keep it up thank you and uh fuck pen state and i don't know just like rattle some shit off about like fuck this fuck that fuck ohio state that's your state god damn i did the same thing i did last time all right it's okay god all right thanks

you're calling in. All right. We got one last voicemail from Mark, very short. How's it going? It's Mark from Jersey pronouncing him. It's about two hours to the opening day for the Phillies.

I don't care for all the dumb engagement-day concession sale bullshit that you see around opening day. Go and enjoy the game if you're out the ballpark for opening day, but I will be at home attempting the 9-99 challenge with my friends and a bunch of cocktail hot dogs and beers

watching the game on Rabidoo. I will try to report back with our results. Post games. Please do so. Fuck the Mets. Fuck the Braves. Fuck the penguins. Fuck the cowboys.

Fuck the giants. Go birds. Go birds. Manford gets his dick stuck in a bear trap. Solidarity forever. That was terrific. I love to short short short seconds. A song of pain and glory.

There we go. I love it. All right. Well, Liam has got a bounce. So we're going to minimize our talking. But wow, that was what a segue. I'm a master. Shout out.

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