Ten Thousand Losses - Fropes ft. the Batting Around Podcast

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

Jane, Lauren, and Stephen from Batting Around join Tom & Liam to discuss pickleball's impact on property values, the rancid Team USA vibes at the WBC, a Gundam that disguises itself as a can of shoe polish, rank Phillies by hotness, and talk about the weird pseudoscience shit that make the Phillies the most Mormon-coded baseball team in the MLB.  Follow them all on Bluesky. Podcast  Jane Lauren Stephen Find our bonus episodes and Discord at: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses  Follow us on Bluesky:  Podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/10klosses.bsky.social Liam: https://bsky.app/profile/wtyppod.com  Tom: https://bsky.app/profile/tompain.bsky.social Shoot a message or leave us a voicemail (leave your name and pronouns): 267-371-7218

He is actually going to eject a fan. Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. Joy it is to come to Philadelphia and stand here at Dodge Ice Ball. Dallas Town Boys. Head of Smy. John Cooney. We're live. Leaves is going to fail first, then it'll stick because...

All right. Now he's going. It doesn't cause any sinking issues, which is nice, but... Yeah. I have a quick fun story for you, which is that. We recorded, well, there's a problem last night. But Roz had to do the drops because Nova's mixer died. I saw the drops.

Ross played Wayne's voicemail, the Comtown Riff noise. And the play ball drop. Yep. Oh, man. So we were trying to do safety third. And Roz is just like, how do I use soundboard? What am I doing? And it was just, it was, it was, I think it was intentional.

Yes, I hope so. But I also know that Roz is a walking tech bane, so who's to say? I think it's good that like our laziness has prevented us from ever instituting a soundboard. Because I think it would be disastrous. I don't think we would do anything else but hit soundboard buttons. We've been. It would be that always sunny in Philadelphia episode where they start a podcast and they're just putting laser noises a lot of time.

Just a child hitting, getting like the play wheel that spins and makes noise of farm animals on Christmas day. That's just us for an hour of me. We shouldn't even have a podcast. We should just have one of those like child's lawnmowers as like the popper. That makes a noise. One of you has a speak and spell too. You're just going to town on it.

Look, I may not be as up on every baseball thing as I should be for something that has a podcast, but I know what sound the cow makes. All right. One might say you're batting a thousand. I am in that regards. In farm animal noises, I definitely am.

That's not their podcast name Liam. Yeah. We got the guys and you strong letter to follow got the guys from batting a thousand and also

batting around it's like it's like when we made our podcast name 10,000 losses the 10,000 post podcast blocked us we're stealing our name

it's like god damn it no it's real it's a different thing it's a different thing it's a different thing it's non overlapping magisteria the trade Marks would be fine if we would to court.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not like you called it like the rest is Philadelphia sports or something, you know? Well, I'm mad because first time, long time was taken by some fucking barstool podcast. That's the fucking worst. They're pretty much all gone now. Pretty much any sequence of like three to six words is some kind of podcast. Yeah. It's the same problem as like Zoomers are going to have and Gen Alva's going to have getting email addresses.

They're all going to be like John Rolf 4476. at Gmail at this point. Podcasting is also just getting impossible. Yeah, don't do it. Speaking of Zoomer emails, a Zoomer parent. I'm not going to say the actual email. The parent of a Zoomer. Is that what you're saying?

Not like a teen pregnancy tragedy. No, no. How old can Azumar be at this point? They're like 20s. Yeah. All right. So this must have been like a like a like a like a a younger millennial then because they had like a teenager

sure but the it was effectively like E-girl Shirley at Gmail I was like this is your the email you're using with like your kids fucking teacher really this is the E-girl that you couldn't find

another one let's hold let's A let's hear them out I mean I just like B listen I don't I don't know but anyway I have, I have a, oh my God, where is I going with this? So I'm in a men's group therapy group.

Speaking of e-girls, shut the fuck up. And, uh, oh, is that a cat? Oh, hello. Where's cat? Jane's cat. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that's Amy. Hi, Amy.

So we really will be around. We do Google Meet for group therapy. It's, you know, on Tuesdays, which is all I can't record on Tuesdays. Stop asking me. and I had to create an anonymous email address and Google was like, are you sure you don't want to use more identifying language? And I was like, no, this is anonymous. Fucker.

Suck my butt, Sergey Brin at gmail.com. How are they going to know it's you if you don't have your name in it? It's not like there's a ton of other identifiable information that they're tracking all the time when you're doing this. It just says Liam in brackets, like anonymous. Yeah. Liam bracket sad. Liam, you know the one. Yeah.

Well, speaking of being sad, I'm a little disappointed. I ordered a shirt from the Sinn Féin Bookstop. Oh, you're, Oh, the ones that look like they were designed with MS. Pate in about 30 seconds by rods. Oh, yeah. Yes, Stephen, go, please look these up.

They are. Oh, I think I have it. Yeah, the bookshop store. I bought the Starry Plow one. Yeah, yeah. And it is not what an Excel beefy T is in the United States. It's European. Oh, it's a European accent.

Oh, yeah. That's an American, that's an American generous medium. Yeah. So I'm not wearing that to the St. Patrick's Daylam because it looks like I'm wearing a body suit. Fucking, dude, show them off. Sinn Féin body suit. Show it off, Tom. Yeah, Stephen, I present to you my favorite thing.

Generally, like, Sinn Féin support for Palestine is noble and excellent, but I need you to see the free Palestine sports jersey. Yes. Sports jersey. Please check the link in the Zencaster below. Oh, man. That's, that's okay. Does this not.

The thing is, yeah, it fucks, but also like, isn't this just, isn't there a soccer team in Dublin that did one of these but better? Yeah, I mean, I assume so. Sinn Faints, I do like the Sinn Féin Teddy Bear. I have the, it's beginning to look a lot like a United Ireland Christmas sweater. And I do. People, people come, but it's, and the snowman's in the shape of Ireland. But I also have, that rocks. I have a crew neck from them.

It says long cash. Obviously, the prison where many of the hunger strikers died and were martyred in the beautiful cause of Irish reunification. But I wear it to the Irish bar down the street from my house. No one is. Oh, no, sir. That is not the goddamn issue. The issue is that, as the owner says to me, it looks like you're advertising the prison. And I was like, I got this from, I got this from.

James Post on. Well, like this Longcash University of Freedom shirt, which looks like what a... It looks like I paid this. It looks like if the provos survived into the, really survived into the Facebook targeted shirt era as like, you know, University of Hard Docs and like my education. No, University of Freedom at Longcash. And then bafflingly, some of these are actually not half bad. And then you get the still Unrepented Fennian Basterd shirt

Which is done I don't know what font this is We're gonna have to drop the links in the description But I need you to Look at that That's Okay Look at the font

Do you know what font is that? I don't know I'm sure someone I'm sure there's like a font Reddit These are these are This is a fascinating gift shop Totally

It has two and a half stars on Yelp reviews. And I posted one on Blue Sky where the guy's like, well, they're a little biased here in their head. Yeah, it's Sinn Féin, you dog. Yeah, man. What are you expecting? We're a literal political party.

Protestant's frowny face. Leaving reviews is inherently Protestant behavior, I think. Totally. Proper Catholics don't, don't rate things on a five. star scale. Yeah, what was Martin Luther doing if not, like, posting a Yelp review at the cathedral doors? The world's first, I would give zero

stars if I could. 95 things you're going to change about this restaurant before I change by review to five stars. Oh, yeah, we had Martin Luther inventing BuzzFeed listicles as well as Yelp reviews all in one go.

and somehow less anti-Semitic. Oh, my God. So it was the Dublin. I am laughing. It was a Dublin Bohemians. And I thought they had a specific Palestine one, but they don't. They have a kneecap one that has the Palestine, like, accoutrements. It also has a Fontaine's DC one, an Oasis one, a fuck it.

There's a refugee. G's welcome one, and there's also a Dublin bus one. Oh, yeah, the Dublin bus one. I was on the Dublin bus going to a friend's house. This is like a couple trips to Ireland to go. And we're on the top. And the guy overhears me, and he's like, oh, you're from Philadelphia. He's fucking tell our accent.

I was like, yeah, he's like, oh, fair play to it. And he just turned around. It's like, all right. I guess you got things. information you wanted, did not want to start the conversation. Yeah. It's like, it's like I, I hear this and I want to verify, but I do not want to actually engage with this person in any way.

Yeah. I actually, actually, with my Philly accent at one point, I was in, I was in the, I was in the, I was in the, I was in the, no, was it doing? Yeah, it was dueling at a bar. And the guy couldn't understand me saying water, but I was a little drunk. And that was like the first time my accent wasn't understood. in Ireland. It's very confusing

because usually it's the other way around. Yeah, being on this, being on this podcast is going to thicken my accent in real time from proximity to you. All right, let's just get fucking dirty with it right now. Let's go. Let's go on.

That's fucking do it, dude. All right, it's Thursday. Thursday. Thanks to our sponsor, peanut shoes. Let's go to set here. Live from Broadd Street, here's the 10,000 losses

podcast. Yeah. Do you like peanut cheese? Do you like Sweet Lucy's barbecues? Well, them shits were made right where the fucking I-95s fell down and that guy died. You were briefly Australian. Yeah, I don't understand that. What was that?

I came off mute to yell at you. That was the world baseball classic influence. We're all being. Yeah. Yeah. That's why we're all drinking tiny little espresso's too. Philarini. Filarini.

A peanut chewedino? We're making great Liam. Our job is to make Liam mad. Yeah, yeah. And more accents, the better. Yeah. Camera comes on to flip us off. Back off.

So, hello and welcome to another episode of 10,000 losses. The only Philadelphia podcast that exists. I'm your host, Tom Paine. My pronouns are he, him. And with me is by co-host, yay. Stalled for time. I'm still eating. Yay.

Who the fuck is stall for time? Where's Liam? All right. All right. Yay, guests. We have a couple people who you may have heard of before on our podcast. You can introduce yourselves before Liam because he's rude. All right.

I'll go. We're the batting around podcast. It's a baseball podcast. I am Jane. pronouns she her and we'll go in the order that we do in our podcast I'm Lauren pronouns are she and her

yo dick I'm Stephen pronouns are he him sorry back toward dickhead I'm McAnderson my pronouns are he and him I got to do that the other day

I love it's been a minute pronouns no I got to a backdoor dickhead. Backdoor dickhead. Wait, wait, wait. One way. I'm not sure what you meant by that.

Back or dick hit, dickhead positive. Hey, look. Unfortunately, unfortunately, I can't call a bus driver dickhead. They are pillars of our community, but I did have to yell for the back door like three times. I pushed the button. I pushed the button. I pushed the button. So we were,

my wife thought we were into Amsterdam over like Christmas and their trams have like a kiosk in the back where they like yell at you if you come in through the back door. And it was very surreal experience having. They have like a fuck. It looks like a like a bar like in the back where just the conductor could just chill. Which I guess is like cool for like, their comfort

but it's just very amusing watching people come in the back and get yelled at you know for going in the wrong direction otherwise otherwise not too bad but anyway we talked about our guests fuck you no announcements call in 267373717172218 you nailed it give us your name and pronouns tell us did we met tell us what you would do with the Sinn Féin bookstores a penis. Patreon.com

slash 10,000 losses. You get all of our bonus episodes and access to our Discord. I didn't realize they were selling the they were selling the Triceller Kaffia's Yeah. In there. Yeah, it's kind of tight.

I don't need I don't need another one. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. You can get the Christmas you can get the Time for Irish Unity Christmas ornament. Oh shit. This isn't USD.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. We wish you. Oh, they know they know their fucking audience. They have another one that says we wish you. We wish you a, hey, you leave my dad out of this. We wish you a United Ireland.

And the snowman. I'm looking at the Christmas stuff category right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had to, I had to spend a gazillion dollars on the rugby shit that I bought over there because it was in euros. and you got tariffs. Yeah.

It's funny is the the shirt shipped from north of Ireland via royal mail which I found ironic. Oh yeah, I got a print. Actually,

you'll dig this. This came from the north of Ireland via royal mail. Oh, that fucks. That's fucking sick. It's, for the listeners, it is a Palestinian solidarity print piece of the famous, like, statue of Ku Kowlan, but wrapped in a Palestinian flag with a kofia.

And on the top in Gweilga, it says, oh, God, Jlöfakhlyacht, which, which means solidarity. Gazuntite. Don't belittle your own people, dickhead. I'm not Irish. Yeah, but I am and you're a part of me. I'm inside you. Oh, all right. That's how this podcast plays.

It does. It does often. Yeah. Yeah, there's quite a bit of homeroticism. We got to fill time somehow. Yeah. In baseball? I don't think so.

Yeah. Baseball is a street of sport ever. All right. Anyway, to get a guy on car. for we got pound them inside real hard with the high heat. Straightest sport in the world. Slapping ass, slapping dingers, slap and dongers. Yep.

Frozen ropes. Ropes. Yep. Just foshton ropes all over the ropes. Did you just abbreviate it to frops? Because I don't like that one bit. God damn it. Maybe accidentally.

Maybe a mispronounce of those. I just heard froaps. I was like, I kind of fuck with it. I kind of hate it. That might have to be the episode title. It's unsettling for sure. And that might be good. We should just start

Drop that in like at a game like Damn that was a frope And people were like what the fuck Froop Yeah Um We don't even have to talk about Temple or the Eagles

The Eagles signs some guys Who gives a shit We have baseball podcasts on Let's talk about Let's talk about If you force me to talk about football In any way I will immediately eject myself from this podcast

The last time you were on You like we're so angry that you suffer through it. It was very noble of you. It was a bad sport. Like a better sport. I try. You know, I like hockey.

It's not better, is it? Okay. It's better. Yeah. I like, I mean, we do, we are football enjoys here. Fucking pickleball is better. Let's not say anything we can't take that.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know if it's actually any better for ACLs, though. Yeah. It might actually be worse. For the head, yes, absolutely. I don't actually know what, I actually,

I don't actually know what pickleball is, and at this point I don't want to. I know my neighbors are big into it, and they have pickleable stickers all over their fucking car. It's the number one way to gentrify basketball courts in the United States. It's very suburban. It's, Bucks County is full of it.

Yeah, yeah. I think it's smaller tennis, but do not, do not inform me about it at all. I would like to know no additional information about it. Technically, it's medium tennis. Ping pong is smaller tennis.

Medium tennis. Every 10 years, we just invent a new derivative of tennis that's 10% larger or smaller than the previous one. It's very annoying to hear. It's very loud. The thing I like most about it

is it really upsets very rich communities that will build one of these things accidentally, not realizing what they're doing to the neighborhood. And then all of the, like, cranky old homeowners get, like, red, hot, ripping angry at city council

meetings about people playing pickleball at 10 in the morning on Sundays. They won't complain though about the fucking you know three lane high or six lane highway by their house but the fucking pickleball court that's the one. The rich people don't live next to those though. That's true. That's true. Yeah. Not to

not to talk about a city other than Philadelphia on the Philadelphia podcast but it's a huge issue for the Georgetown, the old like the ancient wisdom class of like third generation Georgetown homeowners. here in D.C. is they put in pickleball courts over tennis courts, which in itself was offensive. Yeah, absolutely.

I guess it's like uncouth to be seen playing pickleball if you're a member of the elder gentry there. Yeah, man. I mean, I don't like small tennis or medium tennis or whatever the hell it is. I don't really value racket sports. I don't think sports should have accessories. I think it should be you and a ball and the suffering of man. Please ignore that about baseball because you're only bad the whole time. Or hockey.

No, because that's a puck. Doesn't count. My world, my rules, baby. Look, the pads don't count. The puck doesn't count. Yeah. Yeah, the several thousand dollars worth of equipment don't really count.

It doesn't matter, yeah. No, because the one I like, so that one's fine. The one I hate, that's the bad one. I like baseball. The thing is, I didn't really like baseball. Not that I disliked it. I liked all sports when I was a kid.

But I never played baseball or even t-ball. So I, besides the streak when this, when, you know, the Sox made it to the World Series in 2004. And my bar mitzsche president was the 2004 AOCS game seven. Fucked the Yankees. And my dad would absolutely fucking ape shit in like an eight-year-old's face. Yeah. Nothing like here your old. man just be like, yeah, you deserved 9-11 and also David Ortiz is here.

Yeah, I was, I then, and then you got me back into baseball and Mac got me back into baseball because I was talking, because when I met Rinn, you know, the Phillies were dismal. Phillies are still insultingly dismal sometimes. And then there was the year that they made it to World Series. So we were both like, yeah, we're all in on the 88 win chaos factory. And Corinne goes, it's just like sobbing when the Phillies make us. And she's like, and nobody believed in them except you and Tom. And I was like, babe, we didn't believe in this team.

Look, if they have like a $270 million payroll, but we never believed in them for a second. No. No. I would believe in anything in this fucking area. Yeah. So, go. Well, I think that's something I've noticed a lot is a lot of people, us included, did kind of come back to baseball. after like having experiences with it as young kids,

but then settling into adulthood, deciding we needed more parts of our personality, I guess. And that's certainly how we approached it. I think all of us kind of like our mid-20s got back into it after a decade. I turned not being on. I turned 25 and it was just like, all right, skill tree decision.

Which way are you going to go? I suck at makeup. I have a little bit of background here with this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll just get really into sports instead. Yep. Yeah. Which way Western woman is just makeup or baseball?

Yeah. It's it's the, I'm turning 33. What the fuck am I doing watching political YouTubers? Like, but instead of pulling the naval battles, it's a whole on a second. It's baseball.

It's a baseball statistic. It's a baseball prospectus book. Yeah. This is one of the, well, also the Naval Battles book. That's over there too. But, yeah.

No, I had a weird period because I was such a baseball fanatic as a kid. And it was like a short period. It was like basically I was dating one girl. And she just was like she hated all sports. So I kind of fell off of it for like the two years. I was with her. Very understandable. Arguably the correct thing to do.

Yeah. Yeah. But you know, the Phillies, you know, would have sucked you back in because you're dumb. Yeah. I also had like sideburns down. When I had hair, it was like reverse. When I had hair, she wanted to be like Mr. Darcy.

She wouldn't be have like Mr. Darcy sideburns. Oh, God. There's pictures of me like that. Also, she also used to dress me in Tweed. Do any of you know Korean? Because I just downloaded one of the kinds, but the subtitles are hard-coded in Korean. So I guess we're just going to learn that today.

What was that? Full-on anglophilia happening over here. Oh. Oh. A teobot, if you will. Thank God. Well, I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but she went on birthright, came back. Yeah, that relationship didn't last more in two months.

So they got her. They got her. Oh, man. I was a podcast with me after I went on birthright. Yes, I know, but they didn't get you. No, I didn't buy the time share. No. And my mom reported to me that she saw her on Broad Street with a bunch of kids looking very

sad. So I was like, oh, damn. Damn. I want out. Yeah. Well, I was talking to my mom the other day because she has a halel calendar. She's like, well, it's free. And I'm like, okay, we're not beating the allegations here.

And she was like, you know, because they've lost my mom. They have long since lost my mom, you know, with the whole genocide and apartheid thing. And she was like, do you regret? And I was like, I was much younger. Like I wish I had known more and pushed harder for the like experiences of Palestinians. And I wish ultimately that I hadn't gone. But it was great fun because the person I went with got really mad at me when they were just like, yeah, the Arabs are, you know, insert horrible descriptors here. I was like that we are, we are not like we are not a tremendously different people here.

Like it's a bunch of like washed up American Jews being like, oh yes, the Arabs. And I'm just like guides. Guys. Yeah. And you only get to get drunk one night in Tel Aviv. And they're just like, isn't this the greatest? No, it sucks. I have to pay for my drinks.

Fuck you. Oh, shit. They don't pay for you. They don't put that on a tag. Sheldon Adelson. Sheldon Allison bankrupts the whole fucking project, dead bitch. And he can't pay for my drinks. Fuck off.

Yeah, he'll get you laid, but not drunk. That's crazy. I didn't get laid either. What the fuck did you get? What's the point? Yeah, what's the point. The person I went with got laid. And then I had to sleep.

So the last night of birthright, this penalty. I can't remember if it's the last of the penultimate night. They take you what they call Bedouin camping, which is. Oh, they're stealing those. So they're stealing that too. They are stealing. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. And they're like I am, as we know, not a small lad. And so I'm 6.1. And amongst American Jews, I am a biblical giant. Okay. and so I and the two other guys

who were the tallest who were like 6'4 and 6.5 were like, okay, well, all of you are tiny and can fit on these bedouet, bedouin and quotes, mattresses. So I slept on a picnic table outside and then just got wide drunk because I was like, I don't know what the fuck else to do. I'm so bored. I'm so uncomfortable. And then I had to climb fucking masada in the morning.

I was like, killing ourselves is the right choice. This shit sucks. Well, we can we can start our first baseball talk. was by saying, well, one, Lull Israel, because they got, they were eliminated very early. Sheld, yeah. I mean, Garrett Stubbs can suck all of my butt. Yep. Didn't watch a pitch, thrilled by it.

I caught up with that simply by looking at the scores and having myself a lovely little chuckle. Harrison Bader, you have been downgraded from suspected bisexual to straight. I'm done with you. We're done. We knew it was coming. Suck a dick on camera or like nothing. I'm done with you. Yeah.

But a breaking news. This is actually just for Stephen. Brandon Graham is back in 2026. Okay, moving on. Who? Brandon plays football. Yeah. Damn it.

He's a old guy. Please rest. My guy. Yeah. I think he's, is he my age yet or he's still younger than me? Well, you're what, 41? Yeah, 4008. He's 37.

Yeah, so he's my age, yeah. He's playing football. Just like me. I could do it too. Buddy, you got hurt, legging out a double. No, no, I got hurt tagging up at first base. I tore my calf. That's worse.

I swore I was going to go over to the third base was that. That is worse, yeah. I really thought the son. of a bitch at first kicked me in the back of the leg, like to trip me. I was ready to fucking kick his ass. I was really like,

yo, fuck you, dude, we're losing 12 nothing. God damn it. You let me, the fuck is this bullshit. And then just immediately collapse again. My right leg won't bend. Oh, shit. Oh, you're ruby to hot it yourself.

That's rough. It's such a good game too. I was fucking flashing leather. Oh, man. It's a shame. Baseball guys took me out. or softball gods anyway. So, so I know, Stephen, you were rooting hard for Mexico to lose in the way that, or win in the way, that that would eliminate the United States contention.

Correct. I would explain to me how, so I have watched the games. I don't understand a damn like of this pool, any of the pools. That's fine. You're allowed to not understand it. We don't really understand it. We're not managing teams. USA.

Yeah, exactly. I am getting intense texts about about Team USA's management and or lack thereof. I'm just like I'm going to you, Liam, about this. Yeah. Well, so I

have been dick deep in college basketball weirdness. So I'm pretty useless here, but yeah, go off, King. Sorry. Were you, where were you going with that? I have no idea, Steve. What is happening?

Oh, yeah, I think you wanted to know. I think you wanted to know. Yeah, can you explain this to me like I'm five? Yeah, yeah. So in the early stages of it, like, you know, the group stages, if it was a soccer thing, I think they call a pool or something, whatever. Pool, yeah. Yeah, pool.

And was there's four teams in it, I believe? Yeah, per pool. Yeah. Yeah. Four. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Five teams. So this, so, yeah, the one team was, the one pool, it was Italy, Mexico, United States. And who else was the other one? Great Britain and Brazil. Great Britain and Brazil. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And so all the baseball countries.

The ones you think of, you think of baseball. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Well. Well, I mean, pool B had the highest concentration of American players of the tournament. because Italy and Great Britain are pretty much entirely guys not born in Italy or Great Britain. I mean, Great Britain has like has a bunch of guys in the Caribbean too, but also a lot of Americans on it.

I'm as Italian as Aaron Nola. Right, right, right, right. It's pretty great. So they do a pool play and you know, you don't play that many games. You play each other once. You play each other once. Single round round round. You play each other once.

And so when that happens, a lot like in soccer, there's a, you know, you go to tiebreakers. And the first thing after wins and losses is runs allowed. And so Mark DeRosa going into the game the other day, the third game of the pool figured we're safe. We, our tickets. As he said, our ticket's punched. He said that in an interview. before the game. Our tickets punched.

We're going to give some guys some rest. His ticket was not punched, in fact. And they went to play Italy that night. And Italy has some good major leaguers on it, you know? It does. Yeah. Fittipacantino. Errol is here.

Jack Eagle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then a lot of guys that are like, you know, prospects or kind of like, you know, maybe they'll be good major league guys one day, but they're not quite there yet. And it's definitely not a situation of like Slovenia where like they're electricians.

Right. Yeah. It's not it's not the check like you know, your brain surgeon has to, you know, schedule your, your surgery for a couple months down the line because he's got to go. Because he's playing in the tour. Yeah. But, uh, America. But okay, I think we should also talk about the vibes of the American team.

I think that's really what we need to talk about to set the seats for all of this to make it so much fun. It's somehow getting worse every game too. It is bad. It's getting worse every game. Because initially it was just like, okay, well, we're making a super team. We are going to be the fucking death star. Aaron Judge is our captain.

And we are like basically, you know, like New York Yankees world police is kind of like what their whole vibe was. The vibe was bad. And it got worse when they were like, yeah, we got, we sent Roman Anthony, the youngest guy on the team. he had to, who's like a superstar. Like, we sent him out to go get a Bluetooth speaker so we could play Toby Keith's courtesy of the red, white, and blue on the bus.

And when I, when I saw that thing, I was like, I kind of get the vibe that these guys are going like, well, we don't have to listen to any of that goddamn reggaeton in here anymore. We don't have to listen to any bad bunny sort of thing. Like, time to, like, blast the country. The fucking, like, Iraq War booster song. Yeah. I don't know

some parallels there it's like man we're in a really extremely dumb and unpopular war with Iran right now and your first instinct is to go to that song like there are like other dumb patriotic let's she do Lee Greenwood instead and like that that might even though he has like direct

ties to Donald Trump like that might have like less like wretched vibes than Toby Keith's courtesy of the red white and blue um good and

And like, they're all like when they're out in the outfield, they're saluting each other. Yeah. The front towards enemy shirt bullshit nonsense. Cal Raleigh, another guy I'm downgrading from suspected bisexual to strain is wearing the-like-clamor. He's just dumper now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's wearing the front towards enemy Claymore shirt.

And like, yeah, like, sorry, no like, no gay guys know what that is. So, like, you know. maybe maybe maybe maybe like one of the chudder guys on the team gave him that maybe kershaw gave him that oh um but so anyway the vibes on that team horrific there was some really weird thing with caleralee and randy a rosarena yeah we refused to shake his fucking hand yeah after the game it's a buddy it's a game yeah i i don't know i you know like they've been teammates for a couple years they seem to have been friends on the team outside it but it blew up in a weird way and no one's really sure how

ironic it is. It's very strange. I mean, you know, he's pissed about it. Yeah. Even by Mariners standards, it's really weird. Good for him. Good for Randy. Good for Randy for like, hyping this team up and making a problem. I appreciate that. To be like, look at these Yankee

pigs. Like that one wouldn't even shake my hand. Well, he just because he has a big ass and hits a bunch of home runs. Fuck you. I don't care if you're my teammate. You know, 99% end of the time. Randy Rose Arena, welcome to the resistance.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's joining the DSA. I don't think you're going to get the Cuban exile to join DSA. Yeah, that's going to be a hard. That's going to be a hard sell, I think. But anyway, so Mark DeRot, like I was saying earlier, Mark DeRosa goes during interviews, like, our tickets punch, we're going to give some guys some rest.

So they give some guys to rest. Italy goes up on it goes up eight, nothing. in that game. Incredible. Incredible. And I think in the middle of the game, DeRosa realized like, oh, like, oh, no, our tickets not actually punched. I don't think someone told him.

I don't think he realized. Yeah, yeah. No, no, I'm being very, very generous to Mark DeRosa, who I have other stuff to say about when this is over. But, like, he had made roster decisions already that had kind of blew the game. and they end up rallying. They scored six runs, but they end up still losing to Italy,

find out, Mike Rosa finds out afterwards. Like, yeah, I misspoke. You know, it turns out we didn't have our ticket punched. And so they go, going into a situation of the last game of the pool, and if,

for Mexico versus Italy, and if Mexico won, and scored four or less runs, then the U.S. would be eliminated. It didn't happen. Italy won. I need it so bad. Italy won, which meant that both the U.S. and Italy went on.

Yeah. But I still want to point out how absolutely hilarious it is that Team Italy went undefeated. They swept this pool. Team Italy In contrast to America The team USA They had fucking awesome vibes

Like yeah They were in there They're fucking beating up Yeah we're bringing our espresso machine After they beat USA Vinie Pasquintino is coming into the clubhouse Like the tunnel going like Who's got the wine

Like you know They're not spraying beers all over each other They're having a nice red You know it's This is awesome The Catholic The Catholic nations of Europe

you know again the no price and work ethic there we're going to enjoy the wine you know we're going to have the coffee and also we're going to have some fun we're going to take a fucking nap if we want to fuck you and your work ethic bullshit and kind of words do I think Italy

it does have a role in like rolling out the red carpet for them scheduling like organizations that have actual ties to Italy even if these guys are Americans are like treating them in nice dinners feeding them lots of wine providing the coffee coffee maker.

Like, the country of Italy is not totally dissociated from the process. Yeah. They're going, hey, guys, like, we want to reward you for representing Italy so well. We're going to give you a set of Italian host parents and you can live there and not work a job until you're 34 years old. You're going to live in your mom's house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't worry. You can date.

You can fuck like there. But your parents will be home. Your host. Everyone in town is 75 years old. Don't worry about that. And they're just kind of hanging out all day. It's great. It's a great way to live.

I mean, we can learn a lot. I think on our last episode I said it is like, you know, like the Mediterranean lifestyle. Like not the one you're talking about where it's like, oh, we have olive oil and stuff. It's just like, no, we just don't work and we hang out and drink espresso. It's like, that sounds awesome. We need that. Mm-hmm. We can use that.

I'm just imagining you get like Vinnie Pasquintino's Italian family. You're just like, you know, it's like the stereotypical. The dad's just laying on the couch watching. fucking, I forget what his name. It's an inspectorate, something. It's like, their crime, just a sillyan guy who's always eating food while he's talking to the criminals and some shit. Spoked cigarettes inside.

Spoken cigarettes inside. Yeah, yeah. Still a G8 country. Still a G8 country. Yeah, somehow. Well, but, and so, you know, this also begs question here is like, Mark DeRosa, that name ends with a vowel. Mm.

A sleeper agent? Maybe. Marco de Rosa. Yeah, maybe. Sleeper agent. But if you, but if we want to bring back, you know, Mark DeRosa to the theme of this podcast, Philadelphia, Mark DeRosa was the one that went to the Phillies Clubhouse last summer and told Bryce Harper that, like, guys that go up against Rob Manfred like might wind up in a ditch. Oh, shit.

Yeah. That was Mark DeRosa. I didn't realize. It was Mark DeRosa. I forgot that. Yes. He is like one of MLB's yes, man. Yeah.

It is very important to contextualize all this. and he is not like an experienced coach. He is a TV host and Rob Banffred's like gopher. I think he's, I think he's coached this is a couple times before. Right. I think he's coached a couple times before though, right? So he's,

he's baseball's Pete Hagseth. Kind of. Yeah, kind of. Yeah. I mean, I don't think he, I don't think he's an alcoholic,

but other than that. Yeah. Yeah. We know, we don't know, but I don't want to impugn Mr. DeRosa like that. I have no evidence that he's an alcoholic, but like, man

fucked up so bad and even though they are going on to the next round I don't see how this can't be like permanently disqualifying for you yeah you have to be done done

yeah you well he also used to be on MLV the show but they got rid of his commentary with the rest of the guy Maddie V and the other dude yeah Matt Fasker's said Mark DeRosa here yeah I've heard that way too many times playing

is Mark DeRosia It'll be the show. Is Mark DeRosa the one that said you got to pound a guy inside? I think that might be what it's from. I think it was DeRosa. Yeah. So we're playing Canada. That's going to suck so bad.

Another team that's overperformed expectations really well. Yeah. So out of the teams that are left, so we got Korea, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Italy, United States, Canada, Venezuela, and Japan. I try to think, like what's the, what are we? we hitching to because I was root for Mexico I was also I was riding hard for Mexico basically the way like since basically since the Olympics I've I I've my rooting interests looking ahead to the baseball class the world baseball classic was fuck the US anyone that can stop then has my sword except

oh, I really don't want Japan to do it either because A, they won it last time and B, half the fucking team are Dodgers and I'm still mad at them. So, I think the greatest hope of a non-U.S. or Japan win is the Dominican Republic, which happens to also be a very fun, cool, good team with amazing vibes. Definitely. Incredibly talented.

Maybe the only team that's as talented on paper as the U.S. and Japan. But also, I think a very strong reason to root for them is Albert Pujols as the team manager wearing tiny glasses. Wasn't Nelson Cruz their general manager, like general manager, whatever they say with quotes? Probably. Probably. The DR team. Yeah, I got to look that up.

I just, I really recommend taking a look at Albert Poolews wearing glasses. He does look more erudite. It is the glasses effect where it makes him look smarter. It's true for all of us. Well, that's what they would call that. He does. He looks. And also the Mexico's manager look pretty short with the glasses too.

But that old school black glasses look, I think, is coming back. Oh, man. The very sharp Italian kind of style. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mid-century look. No, he looks awesome. It's a sharp look, but. He should get the tiny Batista glasses, though, is what he should get.

I mean, on him, they're close because he's just a big, he's a big guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. it's funny before like I used to be like super heavy into like power lifting and bodybuilding and stuff like that and they would call them

intelligence glasses when guys certainly like oh I'm not having a show I'm doing an interview and suddenly I have glasses on but no no he's looking sharp with those glasses so I think

the other I think yeah like D are great chance to actually do it I'm so happy to see Puerto Rico get through to this stage because they had a lot of trouble getting their like actually filling out their roster because a lot of the guys that are on it were not cleared for the insurance purposes Francisco Lindor Carlos Correa all these guys are basically like hey you guys had surgery like last September last October like there's no way that you can we can have you

play your bad bunny tried to pay their insurance but it's just like no it's not going to not going to can't do it um but yeah yeah you know i don't have a ton of uh confidence that they'll that they'll get through because like they're not just not at stack as some of those other teams are but like uh d r yeah super fun i would i would love to see the them or porto rico i think are the two i like yeah i'll take canada doing it even though like i don't know a lot of the canadian guys i think are bored in the u.s is just like my grandpa was uh canadian i'm part of the canadian diaspora, you know, sort of bullshit in. Yeah, I have to throw my flag in for Canada.

Yeah, yeah, right. Because it is my, it is my future home. But I, I'm really happy. Stephen is a mail order bride for a Canadian. And the paperwork is still being filled out. So he doesn't want to get denied. I'm, I'm happy that they advanced, but I, like, I don't see how they can get much further.

I'm also always thinking like political like chud percentage of course and obviously it's high for all these and like I wonder if like the Czech team or the Dutch team was had the same

like would the Hitler particle detector go off as high yeah because they're more working class though yeah but a Czech right winger is I mean the Hitler particles there the Japanese Hitler particles Oh yeah No way

their government that's coming in Holy shit Oh good This just says Nanking denials Yeah And I'm not gonna And I'm not gonna pretend that a bunch of Italian American professional baseball players

Playing for team Italy aren't chuds Just because they're playing for not playing for the United States You know but right now their vibes are better They are not doing They're not like explicitly being like Hey fucking yes America, military, like... You're drinking wine and playing Andrei

when you win. Like that's fun. That's awesome. That's awesome. Like the WBC should be like G Gundam where like you are just like playing up all of the stereotypes about your country.

Like that, yeah, like that Gundam series where it's like, oh, the Dutch team like Gundam just turned into a windmill and waited out the whole tournament. I was going to turn into a giant can to shoe polish. Yeah. You beat me to it, you motherfucker. But yeah, like I mean it's no,

it's definitely. definitely hard not to like... A bicycle that leaves trails of... Yeah, blackface. It's definitely very easy to like to see this as like a like geopolitical thing, but I don't know.

I mean, it is in that like I mean, I've been saying on our show for a long time like nobody should even be coming here. This should not be happening. No. Yeah. Yeah. I mean like team you say you should be like you should be having burgers and shit like

like like... Sure. Yeah, have like a grill that you like every time we do a home run you get a burger. Yeah. some dumb shit like that. Even if you want to do like some dumb Nashville country shit, like put on the shit kickers and start line dancing,

I would think that was fine. I think that's great. But it's like what you add into like, you know, yeah, military, claim more shirts and like, it's just.

Saluting. I love, I was watch, I figure which game I was watching was a team USA game. And this is the intro. They're like, yeah, so and so would have served in the military,

you know, if you hadn't gotten into baseball. Oh, yeah. Just shut the fuck up. Yeah, I would have joined the military, but I would have punched the drill instructor if you ever forgot on my fucking face. Just shut the fuck up.

No baseball player can ever say that now that Griffin Jacks is a successful baseball player while he's an active duty Air Force captain. I think he did actually change the rules for him. Probably. Probably. Didn't we have a guy that went in, the Phillies, that went in and he like debuted as an old man?

Uh, yeah. Yeah, but I can't remember. He pitched like one game or two games and then he went back down to the AAA. There's a couple of years ago, I think. I can't remember. But so to finish the world baseball classic sort of segment, what are our sort of predictions for who's going up to the next level? I think who's winning at all

the U.S. versus the DR in semi-final one and I think I think it's Italy Japan in semifinal two I think Italy has the juice and they might pull off an upset well isn't an upset

anymore well yeah Puerto Rico isn't quite the powerhouse the others are but I think it would be upset still I also don't want to totally count out South Korea they have been really fun they kind of have a chip on their shoulder about how they didn't make it, I think, to the semifinals last time. And that's also a pretty stacked roster, all things considered.

That's some of the best of the KBO. They have definitely an uphill battle against the DR, but one game, baseball's stupid, who knows? Yep, yep. And if you're looking for a team where the national politics are better, that is a country with better vibes right now. Yeah, that's true. Oh, yeah, they're actually punishing your insurrectionist.

We should try that. That's crazy. If we're going to have a horribly misogynistic culture that really hates women, just like they, you know, they also have that. But at least, yeah, they're throwing their fucking traitor as a former president's into prison. Yeah.

That's, you just throw them in jail. Imagine Chuck Schumer climbing a fence to stop Trump from doing anything. Oh, this fence is so, so pointy. Well, live streaming. That's still one of the craziest things I think I've ever seen that I've never really fully processed. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

I'm sorry to do the voice a little bit there, Liam, with Chuck Schumer. It's okay. I'm not offended. Yeah. I did have the thought that like, what, if Ireland had the same qualification rules as Italy, what would that team look like? And I just looked up, I just looked up baseball Ireland. and, you know, they have a baseball team. It's, you know, whatever.

But their hats are extremely sick, and I kind of want one, but the website is so bad that, like... Yep, that tracks. Like, their merch section just doesn't populate. Can you pop that in the... Yeah. Is it this hat with the harps, with the harp on it? Yeah, it's a dark...

Oh, and there's a baseball flying through it. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's pretty good. Yeah. It's a dark green hat with a white harp on it. And it's the sickest shit I've ever seen. I don't think you could feel the team Ireland the way you do a team Italy, though, because all the Irish-American guys are like brain dead from doing MMA by the time they're like 23.

That's well below baseball primaries. So like, I don't think it's happening. I wonder if they could all just like we wearing flat caps instead. This like the exception. That would be a fun thing. to do in for this. Yeah, you should have to wear like the traditional garb of your people. Ah, but we have the team, Arlen Shaleli for what do you hit in?

Hold on. Just the most offensive, offensive Irish accent. Yeah. No, thank you for that. They look like the fucking Notre Dame leprechaun. Yeah. We all deal. Eventually.

Just like me not used to wear. Stop it. that would that would be cool and you know that that that team Ireland would get so much support they I think the vibes would be but it would be like all right let's bring

we have to bring team Ireland in we're going to fly you over to Ireland and like have a week long training course we're by the end of you get cafes deep program them yeah yeah

just coming back and be like yes I'm a Republican with a lower case are Yeah, I'm the good kind of Republican now. 32 baseball teams, 32 counties in the Republic. That's right. So, transitioning a little bit. We got Phillies.

Phillies we extended Luzardo, which is nice. But I wanted to talk about, let's see, we're running at 54 minutes. I was going to look at like what's new at Cinescentus Bank Park. but it looks like they haven't put anything up yet. That sounds about right. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine.

Opening days in two weeks, but don't worry about that, assholes. Yeah. I'm going. Are you going? Opening day? Yeah, I'm not going. I'm not going to opening day. Because I have a job.

I also have a job, but I'm a social worker so I can take off because they value my time. I mean, I could take off. I am union, but I'm not union. Fuck you. Yeah. Start one. The union of social workers, but it's just me. Yes.

yes um they had to get like uh all right i'll talk to the wobblies that's fine yeah yeah so so i i could leave this up to you guys if you if you want to talk about the citizens bank food we can or if you want to talk about the phillies being the epicenter of uh dumb honesty um both of those are generally in our wheelhouse yeah i don't one of them is exhausting and I'm tired. Steven, you were invited on a Philadelphia Phillies podcast. You can't object to talking about the Philadelphia Philly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't pull this like, oh, this is, I don't want to talk about this stuff. My team are almost certainly with the NL East. Yeah, come on. Oh, that what will they do, Lauren? Will they go any further than that? Probably not.

No, because Brace Harper can't hit the playoffs. You stupid fucking asshole. We're going to have bo-knit and cleanup. I don't understand this. Jane, this is horrible. You are a five-tool player fuckface. I'm flying Stephen by three. This is a nightmare.

I just like, I just like like like like mods are asleep. I'm scrolling down to the comfy Bryce Harper. Mods are asleep post comfy Bryce Harper. As soon as like Bryce Harper's problems hitting in the playoffs are going to be solved. As soon as he finishes his like the Truvian man gyroscope. That does something with his blood. I don't know what yet, but that's what he keeps saying. And I'm sure he'll be fine by them.

Is he still Bryce Harper? He said all his blood replaced. Yeah. Oh, like that one's his day. The boy that I hate. Well, I hate them all, but. Oh, man. No, Bryce, you had something in this, in the dock here.

Yeah, this is a fun picture, Bryce you got. The comfy, Bryce? I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he's wearing his hipster glasses. Yes. Yeah, he's going to take a break from drinking wrong milk. He's going to the postal office show.

Uh, the postal service you're perfectly clocked Postal. Yeah, all right. I was a mouse mouse guy, so whatever.

Oh yeah. You want to listen to listen to good people, good news for people who like yes. Yes. Yeah, we'll let this little float on. You can tell me what a historic record that was.

No saying, I know the, I know their first five albums I know by art. I'm sure you know. And we're all very impressed, but that's not the point. We're all of that age. We all picked some that up by osmosis.

I'm alone some crowded, West girly, I know. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. 100% there with you. What? Bankrupt don't sell on.

What? Starphone boots. It's a nice, all ice. Go ahead. All right. What is going on with this thing that Bryce Harper's in? Like, because it's just like a cheaper version of that weird bed that like Mike Trout is endorsing.

Which like, you've got to figure. I feel like I put my cat in this. You'd be very comfy. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. What I don't get about this is the fact that, He seems to be wearing his clothes in it.

I don't think the red light. Yeah. And he's wearing his finest. Real tree. Real tree. This is actually how I dress usually. So I don't. This is like, like this is actually not far off.

Like if the beard was a little longer, this could be Liam. Liam was like, I need my cozy blanket. It's cold out. Oh, I. So when I, I'm not recording this podcast, I have to deliver. me with my wife and it'll be 95 degrees outside like oh i need my cozy blanket my toes got to be warm but she's like you're sweating like a lot it's like yeah yeah man but i need my cozy blanket think about this with bryce it's just i just you're a five tool player i know you are you

useless sack of 300 million 330 million dollars fucking hit in the playoffs and stop drinking rob no i'm so sick of this fucking team dude it's all like soon Like, we're, it's all, and we've had, uh, Jordan from bringing young money on talk about like how Mormon coded this team is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's getting more Mormon by the year. Yeah, we've got two, I think. But it's specifically just like Bryce is a Las Vegas Mormon.

Las Vegas. Yeah. It's different than the Utah Mormons in, in a couple of key ways. I don't know, Bryce here is so, it's so funny. He pander's like the best of them. And in this picture, it's the, uh, it's the, it's the, yeah, works on me. The real tree with the glasses, but he's laid down.

He's laid down. He's closed. And I also, I can say, you have a $330 million contract. Look at the woodwork. It's bad. Look at the gap between the floor and the pan. Like the woodwork there. That's abysmal.

Yeah. Rich people used to have standards. Maybe this is just like a separate apartment that he keeps for all of his googas. For the gizmo. Yeah. Every baseball player does have one empty room in their house. They don't know what to do with after they get the mega contract. He could just have like a whole separate like house just for his electronic. It's like the Grover house. It's not to code. He's got lots of dangerous wiring. And for guys. I mean, deep in somewhere in, uh, in, in Burlington County. Yeah. That room. Yeah, that room just used to have like a bow flex in it. Oh, God. Don't. But now, but now it's like it's full of all sorts of crazy shit. Like he probably. has his own hyperbaric chamber besides the one that's in the Philly Clubhouse. Please, you're making me think because I know

there was a certain somebody who kept the boflex in the extra room in their house that was illegally added on. I'm not joking. Oh, God. It was an illegally added on room to the house. And it was not a code. And there was a boflex in there. Yep, yep.

We need the male living, R slash male living spaces MLB subreddit. I want to see that. And not just like, because I'm sure there's some, some like pretty dire ones when it's like the guys like splitting a room in the miners. But like I want to see the guys with money, but still haven't like, you know, bother to develop any taste or interest. I want to see their MLB male living space is really bad. I think we've been doing this podcast for five or six years now.

And I think in that time we've identified one player with an actual hobby. Yeah. And that was Ozzy Albies in his fish tanks. That's it. I mean, Hunter Pence had a weird. ADHD. He likes chess, yeah. He picked up chess eventually.

He picked up chess. He was also doing costumes, though, while he was still, he seemed to have a special interest in, like, weird children's Halloween costumes. Like, you know, you do like the Hulk or Harry Potter or something. But, Ozzy Lb's, like, got to learn about that. Yeah, Ozzy LB has like a crazy fish tank, though, that he, like, gave up his garage. That's sick, though. That is. It is very funny.

Yes. Uh-huh. I went to like I don't remember whose house it was I think it was like a friend of my mom's friend as a kid and they had a and this was like down right off Broad Street like not too far from where the stadium is

and they just had the whole front of the row house just was a giant fucking coral reef fish tank and I just remember being a kid like I just stared at it like the entire time I was there like I just I want a coral reef in my house it's the coolest fuck so I would not believe what my water bill looks like.

God damn. I need to become like a fucking international drug dealer now if I'm gonna have this sort of thing like that's a hard that's hard work to get too

it's fucking expensive yeah. You get to get the pH right and all that shit that shit's hard. You got to worry about invasive species because your tank's that big.

Yeah, clean it even when you don't want to it's crazy. Oh. So we have like the heated blanket thing. We have the blood doping thing.

The EBO, which that is blood, that's blood doping. Blood ozone treatment. What the fuck? But I mean, I would, I don't think I would consider it blood doping because I don't think it has any sort of medical use. And it's still not gonna hit in the playoffs so it doesn't fucking matter.

Also like ozone, I, we used to have like, when I worked in a winery, we had like this ozone water thing. When did you work in a winery? I'm not doxing myself so but yes we worked in the winery um we had this big ozone water generator it was it was supposed to you know I could Tom Paine winery yes because that's my that's the joke thank you I'll say I'll just go believe don't worry about it which is oh yeah okay yeah um but uh yeah we had this job

giant ozone thing and it would pump ozone gas through the water that you would use to sanitize. Well, one through fucking, he leaned over it too far. Got a bunch of ozone up his nose. He passed out. He fell backwards. He had his head. But if he fell forward, he would have drowned. So he's lucky.

Jesus Christ. So I don't know if I want that in my blood. Yeah, we looked into the medical claims on this and it did seem fairly dubious. I think they were like very specific kinds of like cancers it can treat or something. Yes. But in the context that he's using it, I don't think anybody turned up with some very clear evidence. I also did, it's just a fun word, it's an ozonator.

That's a 19th century, like, magician's name. The great ozonators, yeah? With his fantastic magic lantern show. It's going to generate flogiston on stage. The organ will be outside the bounds of known science. And this one is, this was apparently from last year, but I didn't know about this, the biocentric lighting for peak performance, which sounds like an anime episode title. Yeah, Phillies have added biocentric lighting for peak performance in the club, but that's like Goku shit. Yeah, and that might have some legitimate recovery stuff.

That was a little less opaque. Yeah. But it's all still very, you kind of got me off thinking like, of which do you? would be most impressed by an old-timey magician and I do think it is the Phillies. Oh, yeah. Totally. Oh, wow, I cannot believe that this has happened.

This one bottle here, it cures everything, you know. Ricketts. It's just cocaine, man. Yeah, it's just cocaine and alcohol and heroin. Don't drink the brain tonic. Every one of them, if they were in Deadwood, would have fallen for the, like, oh, there's $10 in this bar of soap. Cures, what hell is it?

Yeah. I hate my fucking team so goddamn much. Well, like, and then they've been excited for the Blue Jays. You know what? I'm sorry, sorry, Liam. You know what? I know you're frustrated with Bryce Harper and stuff.

I'm going to yell at you the same way I do, Stephen. You have it so much better than almost every other fan face. Maybe 25 other teams would love to be a film. I'm a twins fan. I'm a twins fan. Like, I'm so sorry. I'm like, I'm like one season away from being like, fold it.

Just fold the fucking team. I can see Target Field right now from my window, and it's sickening to me to actually look at it. Have you watched the video of them putting, what's his name into the hyperbaric chamber? No. That's LinkedIn. Yeah.

They put like a wristband on them, and it looks like they're putting them in that, like, nitrogen suicide chamber. They're just loaded. We put Alec Bohm on the roller coaster that kills you. We gave Alec ball with that. Can it be worse? We gave a week.

Oh my God. Who am I thinking of that I hate? Bryson Stott. He Brice and Stott the exit bag and said, go for it, man. Is that the guy? Bracin Stott's the guy we hate that much? Why do we hate Braconstadt? Because it was the first name that popped into my head, Stephen.

Oh, okay. We could book Gards though. the ones I'm least mad at currently, I think. He seems like he's okay. Like he just tries. Doesn't matter. Yeah. That was the name I came with.

So that's the name we're getting. That's fair. Yeah. I mean, there's some plays that I probably could have made that he didn't make. And I'm much bigger than him. At least the Castianus is gone. Thank you, Jesus. It's within the case and the Cassianus and the hyperbaric chamber.

That is if you're looking for like a reason to be optimistic about this, about the season, I think the biggest possible vibe shift that they could have. If you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're,

if you're, if you're desperate for some reason to connect with the team and try to, like, work yourself into being hyped for the new season, him not being around, I think is, uh,

the most compelling case you'll get. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's a big one. Yeah. Like, I, like,

that's will be really big, like, vibe shifts, but like, you're still left with an underlying, like, kind of chud vibrations in that clubhouse that I think, like,

the Mets did much better in their vibe shift. Oh, yeah. like way way better. Liam like Cassianos' mom liked one of Liam's posts. Oh, she liked one of mine too. She liked one of mine about being horny for him,

which, oh, it was what it was, Liam was calling him like a big dumb moron or something like that, big beautiful moron or something like that. I think I called him an orange cat in a human body and and then you go look at her tweets and they are not good. She's big, she's big time maga.

Yeah. Yeah. and yeah it's that's that i i have loyal to you mcel castianos i'm sorry that's my problematic fame is yeah is dick castianus his mom could get it uh i i it's funny too is like when nick canstian was here it was like he was like taking guys like team members out to like uh i'm gonna take you the italian dinner and hadnfield new jersey uh like uh like yeah we're just like we're just We're going to be in the, you know, the Godfather's room at the local Italian, like, God.

Red checkered, um, fucking table mat. We're sitting in the pump booth at Bucca de Vepo. Yeah, and Caso Romano's. Oh, the family restaurant. There's the Bucca d'Aubilia in Times Square, or at least they're used to be. You can get the one giant meatball, and I think they have an appetizer Ferris wheel, but I might be confusing that with the Hard Rock Cafe. Planet Hollywood.

That's why I'm confusing it with. I was thinking of like the shitty ones that like they, the business would if you, if you somehow started prosecuting wage theft, like this entire industry of Italian family restaurants would go out of business overnight. That's the only way they live. Piccolo, Italian Tritoria, 15 million.

Pennington, New Jersey. I'm looking at you, motherfuckers. There's a lot of Piccolo. what the Tritory is around here. Yeah, I'm looking specifically at the one in Pennington, New Jersey. I think there's one by me too. Yeah, that family can suck my whole

dick and balls. Is Michelle Castianos? Is that the, his bond? Yeah, she is. She is. Yeah, bang it. And holy fuck. I told you.

I mean, look, no one ever said this, the Castianos wasn't that. I mean, I mean, it's, I mean, his departure is, is interesting because there's now, actually really pretty. There's no longer a like an objectively correct answer

to who is the hottest Philly. Now, now it's like a question of taste. That is that I have never agreed with something so much in my life. Yeah. That is true because the Cassio's was

objectively that I would say is objectively if you want to go like a hot guy. Yeah, my wife calls him Zaddy and it's just And then like, because like JT, I think we might talk about this last time we how you know, Stephen. Like, JT's like the clean cut army guy. JT is the straight women like catnip. Every middle age straight woman I know thinks that he is the hottest Philly and that makes

no fucking sense to me. They're slightly right to center. Oh, man, they're all. Like, the Jason Kelsey like also, like it's the same orbit. Jason Kelsey. No, Jason Kelsey is actually hot, though. Right, but like this, the women who like both of the. Oh, sure, sure.

The ones I encounter in my line of work. You know what baseball player does it for like all the women in my family? Like I've like, like, I remember watching a Dodgers game like, oh, back during like COVID and my family is over. And every woman in my family went nuts for Chris Taylor. They all thought that he was like the most handsome man they've ever seen in their lives. Yeah, I'm looking. I'm looking at the Phillies roster now trying to find. And it's just like, yeah, it's different tastes.

Like, are you, are you in the mood for a guy with like a dirt baggy twunk look? Let's go with Bryson Stott. Are you in the mood to get suffocated by biceps? Let's go with Adolese Garcia. If you're in the mood for a Disney, a literal Disney Prince, Jesus Lazzardo. Bone, bone, was a Disney Prince too. Bone, no, bone, it's not handsome. No, he's got the hair and he's got the body, but he's not handsome.

He's also got a weird. He does have a kind of odd, like, we don't bother a show of this podcast, Tom. He's got, he's got the hottest body on the team. He's got it. His face is kind of busted. His shoulders, the way his shoulders are just, I'm thinking like in a bodybuilding, like I said, very heterosexual. Um, yeah, uh, I'm just thinking there's a story of my aunt would, my mom would tell to embarrass my aunt, which was, uh, my aunt thought Greg Maddox was like, the handsomest guy.

And then he took his hat off and when he was bawling and she just cried bitter tears. This is the thing we talked about on like one of our first episodes of our show was hat on versus hat off hot. Oh yeah. And like yeah. Yeah. And talking about like well some of these guys like they like these baseball players like they just you wouldn't expect him to be handsome.

But then like because you only seem with your hat with their hats on. But as soon as the hats off is like oh okay now I get it. Like. And then some of them it's like nope they need to have it on. Keep it on. Keep it on. Keep it on. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Where do you stand on Schwerber being handsome?

We think he's handsome. Yeah. I miss chunky Schwerber era, but he's a giant. He still gives teddy bear vibes. Like hot. Like honestly, he he doesn't have a bear's body anymore, but he is a bear's face. Yeah. still and now and that leaves bare doing bare face is a funny

funny image and that raises the question because we've we've talked about this before like we were trying to figure out like like we know that like JT's a like like turbo Hiller no one's not that far behind Bryce Harper

definitely right wing but I feel like he's not smart enough to really understand politics And he's kind of the RFK of the team. Yeah. Yeah. He's also. Bad comparison.

He's also too busy with the RFK shit to do the Hitler shit. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very important distinction. Yeah. I mean, not that there is an overlap that there isn't eugenic stuff going on with RFK. But like,

but like he's, he's not going to be like, you know, coming out with some pro ice statement or something. Right. He's too busy. He's too busy. He's too busy with his brand. His brand.

Yeah. Right. right, right. And he might not have the amount of blood to stay conscious to make that statement. Like, it might not be in his body at the moment. So, like, are you about to ask me who the woke players are? Well, we know Taiwan Walker probably is the, yes. He's got to politics by all the guys. Yeah, he's a very cool guy. Taiwan Walker was the one where when he played for the Mets. He, uh, like bought out the like all the pride merchant. Merge for like, like told people like, yeah, go in there, buy pride shit. It's on me. I'm trying to figure Schroer out because we go back and forth and he wore like a Black Lives Matter shirt but with like a like a his dad's police department hat.

Yeah. Oh, yes. Well, no. Like it was as Schwerver was doing like the both sides like Black Lives Matter and police thing like that's just dumb guy vibes. Yeah. Right. No, exactly. That that tells me like this is a well-being but very dumb guy.

Yes. Yeah. 100% Who is Who is who is Whose father is literally Like the chief of police Of his town

Like yeah Like a democratic politician Like the average like big city mayor Um Would wear the Black Lives Matter shirt And not the police hat All while voting to the Like all the while like instituting a huge police budget

You know so like I think like Schwarber's probably better politics than Jacob Frey If I had to guess But Yeah Like, I'm, I don't know, I don't know if there is a single, anyone else. Right wing white guy on this team. Yeah, because, boom, Bome certainly is.

I don't know about Stott. I don't know. I have been told through the grapevine that Scott is, Stott is quote, one of the good ones, but I don't know what that means. And I've also heard that Brandon Marsh. It might just be that he doesn't hate gay people. Right. I've heard that, but like, you can not hate gay people and be a Nazi.

Oh, for sure. So, like, who knows? And I've heard that Brandon Marsh does not like country music. So, like, maybe. Maybe. Brandon Marsh is also a gigantic whore and is giving it out all around town. And I'm pissed the fuck off about that. I'm jealous.

I have heard. All these women. we already told you last episode you're not allowed to transition it can't be old of us I did hear that one yeah I was catching up with you guys no

my family member redacted has has some you know knowledge and apparently the biggest asshole in the team is JT he is a giant prick not surprising no

makes a lot of sense like obviously like no shit There's nasty to most people in general. So, like, not surprised at all, but, uh, I was sad when we resigned him. I know it was, oh, that's what I was, it was the best, it was the best decision for the, for, like, like, he was the best available option. Yeah. Yeah.

But. Yeah. I didn't want his vibes anymore. He's going to run for a fucking office when he's done. It's going to be. Where's he from Florida? To share a real moot. you know, 2032.

It's going to be our next Jim Bunning. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, now that we've spoken that into existence, thank God. Oh, my God. Yeah, he's, he's, I don't like him.

No, no. Bad dude, probably. Yeah, I want, it's, that's the one thing. I mean, that's a baseball problem in general. Like, we said, like, at least it's not as bad as hockey. Not as bad as hockey. Hockey really took the,

really gave the Dodgers a good couple weeks off. Yeah. After they went to the White House. Yeah. That's true. And that's, and that's, that's kind of like obviously, you know, even ironic patriotism at this point is like indefensibly disgusting. If I hear the USA chant, like it drives me to a blind rage.

like obviously like rooting against a national team like rooting against the US national team in any sport is like performative in bringing politics into a thing that shouldn't have politics in it and I recognize that but also

I don't give a shit fuck that fuck you and there are players that I enjoy when they do good things on Team USA. I don't want our big wet pedophile president to be sending them texts or giving them calls or inviting them to his house and me having to put the bill like engage with that. I only want to have to do that if the Phillies win the World Series because if they win the world series, then I, like, I'm done. I can cash.

I can, I can get out. And then, you know, all those assholes that go over there, I can disavow. But yeah, I want to speculate about how many. I'm not going to do that for the fucking big world baseball class. Right. I really, really don't want the America winning because Byron Buxton is very fragile and Donald Trump might buy him a pair of shoes that don't fit. Oh, no.

And he could be out for two years on that. I imagine like Aaron Judge like you're a big guy why don't you have some more of the burgers the perfect temperature of 75 degrees to be out there for four or five hours if Aaron Judge just sounded like James Austin Johnson's

Trump when he wasn't like on camera what a big guy can't believe you play baseball you should be playing another sport maybe oh man so So,

uh, anyway, um, are you still on the, I guess? Yeah. Oh, okay.

I never heard from you. No, I was, I was taught. I was agreeing with Stephen. Yeah. I, I support Liam's,

uh, on strike, whatever it is that I'm doing. Yeah, just like turning camera off, not speaking, just taking a nap. Like,

I might, I might do that. I might do that next, next, Next episode. You're doing, your team, your team,

Italy vibes. Yeah. Uh, I, I love, uh, I love the espresso machine in the dugout. Uh,

I love, I, apparently, I saw some, maybe with Lauren that skeeted. Uh, heeded. What?

Skeeted. About the espresso. Just say posted. It's okay. Posted, not being, uh, fresh pulled.

I forget what it was, but I was, the, the, the, the, the, the,

The illusion came down a little bit. What somebody had, I don't know, man. I'm so tired. I'm Stephen now. I und zip my skin and I'm Stephen. Yeah, the time change this week. I still have not fucking recovered from it. Not good.

It's, it's bad. I don't know. You know what? Governor Shapiro, you listen to this podcast. You can change this in just Pennsylvania. Why don't you do that? Can we just fucking give it? one way everyone should be more like Arizona.

Yeah. I've played one singular way. Yeah. I've played farm simulator 25 enough now that I know that the farmers don't need the light. They got lots of big ass lights on their equipment. Oh, yeah. You know. I do, I do think that like, based on what scene was, it's just like, it's so irritating that like the chuds have just like, the chuds have just like, oh, we don't care.

And the nationalism and just the like, the fatalistic feel. of it all or blowing up schools and shit is just fuck off i want like even the most well-intentioned left of center liberal or like lefty person i want them to feel bad saying positive things about this country even if they are in a completely innocuous i want you to feel bad Yeah, hell yeah Sorry, I'm still relitigating I saw a lot of people

Sub posting me during the USA Canada Final Because they were Like people were like Because I was very loudly rooting for Canada I was also worried for Canada There were a bunch of people that I clocked

Not adding me and not not saying my name but complaining about exactly the specific thing I was doing. And I still have a bone to pick with them. I mean, I had the last laugh because they were all miserable the next day. You could, like, we talk about this a couple of times, especially as things have gotten worse. Like, hey, I can root for the guys who are like, hey, nation state aside, they're from my country. And like, regardless of politics. and I want to be able to root for like my guys

but they're not making it easy and yeah it does it does seem like because they're going to go and they're going to do a bunch of jingoistic nonsense like you said like go to the fucking White House and and you know just like we should not like like the the team USA management should be like hey we're going to keep this shit low key

you know it's a divisive time let's just have fun with it we don't have to be But, no, it's mandatory patriotism. Our sports have to be like a recruiting tool for armed forces. So we can't. And it's also funny because like I was like shearing hard for Italy to beat the U.S. And someone made the comment like, isn't that all just Americans? I'm like, yeah.

And they're not wearing the American flag. Yeah. So good at all. I don't take issue with the fact that they are American. I take issue with what they are representing. Yeah. And also our uniforms are ugly, and theirs are better. Oh, they're hit.

I really likes the Mexican uniforms that we were talking about with just last couple of years. They've had really good to be a BCC uniforms. Hats are incredible. Yeah. Every time I see someone wearing the hat, I want to give them a high five. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it's a, it's a, we talked about a couple episodes ago. It's just a beautiful, it's the, it's the best one, I think, of the World Baseball classic jerseys. and America is somehow I don't know is it worse or second worst Great Brins is the worst But uh I don't know if the baby

If our font was normal We didn't have the stupid bacon us I was pissed because when I was in When I was in Toronto a few weeks ago I was this fucking close To getting a Canada world baseball classic hat But unfortunately that one's also ugly So I did not do that

That's a shame All right We're at an hour 27 Would you guys Feel the end Please let me End it let him die End it

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I did I don't teach math for a reason. Yeah. What are you going to do? I was thinking like 110 because it's one colon 10. This is me doing my laundry every single week. Don't worry.

Yeah. It's kind of like in baseball. It's like, you know, four point two innings, you know? I hate that. I hate that.

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