Ten Thousand Losses - Gay & Extended ft. Stephen from Batting Around

Episode Date: November 22, 2023

Stephen from the Batting Around podcast joins the boys to create what is the horniest ever edition of 10kL. We break down the Phillies NLCS loss, find reasons for hope amidst the darkness of Rhys' departure. After that shit falls apart and we talk about thirst trap locker room photos and which mascots we'd fuck.  Find more of Stephen at https://twitter.com/TangoGolfKilo and find a way to listen to Batting Around at https://linktr.ee/battinaround  Leave us a voicemail! (give your name and pronouns): 267-371-7218 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses  Follow us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/tenklossespod Liam: https://twitter.com/notliamanders0n Tom: https://twitter.com/tohickontpain 

He is actually going to eject a fan. Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. The fan jumped into the penalty box area. Joy doesn't come to Philadelphia and stand here and dodge an ice ball. We, the Dallas Cowboys, have a sense of John Cooney. And we're live. Hello, everybody. I would like to start off, before we say anything or do any introductions, to give a big hearty

fuck you and blow me to all the Republican losers, Central Bucks school board elections. You guys got fucking swept. Cry, cry, cry. You're gone. Goodbye, losers. you're gone goodbye loses you're gone so uh yeah get the fuck get the fuck out of here this this fucking anti-lgbt shit anti-teacher bullshit we're losing teachers at central bucks for a fucking reason so good fucking riddance they lost in fucking penridge they lost two seats in council rock there's a whole bunch of districts up here are fucking done. We're done with this bullshit.

In Penridge, 18-point swing. So 18% of Republicans voted for the Democrat because they're done with that bullshit too. So fuck you. Fuck Hillsdale College. Fuck all these goddamn conservative pieces of shit. I fucking hope you don't choke on your vomit and die. Like, thank you. Welcome to 10,000 Losses.

Yes, we're a podcast. Was that banter or rants? That's 1A on our outline. Ranters. Yeah. Banters. Yeah, that was a banter. Ranter.

I just wanted to get that off first. And hello, welcome to the episode. 10,000 Lost is the only Philadelphia sports podcast that exists. I'm your host, Tom Payne. My pronouns are he, him. With me is my co-host, Ye. Ye, Liam. Hi, I'm Liam Anderson.

My pronouns are he, him. And also, each shit writes to Ricky Sanchez. And we have a guest. We do have a guest uh we have steven from batting around introduce yourself hello i'm i'm steven from batting around i i probably should have started with uh yo because that's what i do on my on my podcast but hi my pronouns are also he him we're yeah all right really really talking about sports podcaster trap uh yeah what's podcaster hat trick what's three what's three white guys with a beard yeah

thank you for thank you for kindly referring to whatever the fuck i have going on as a beard yeah yeah i give you credit it's all right i my shit didn't connect for a while um neither did mine yeah yeah so welcome, guys. It's just a fellow's nail. We're going to really be talking about big tits and beer. Alright, guys? Oh, the Eagles. Of course. I don't even know what any of their sports is.

Thank you. Thank you. I love to just have the sensation of WIP right in my ears all the time. You can just smell the stale Bud Light. You know, they have the Camo Kids of Keystone now. Oh, shit.

I love turning on my hoagie mouth as a party trick for people. Oh, it is. It is so much fun. I love doing it for people not around here, too, because they just they don't understand. They just do not get it. My boyfriend lives in Toronto. Yes, my boyfriend lives in Canada. He goes to a different school. You probably wouldn't know him. I heard it all before. But no, whenever I'm up there and hanging out with his friends like i'll say something and they'll just kind of look at me and and i'll be like oh right yeah that's

that's uh yeah that's how we talk i i've said this before in the private you know i was in california like are you from philadelphia like how could you tell because you said water it's like all right i got i got that a lot at um at petco um yeah you worked at petco oh yeah you did work no i didn't didn't you no i went to petco park i let you did you who am i confused no no i'm confusing you with totally someone different from new york no i worked at a beer store. I ran a Petco beer store and actual Petco Park together in my head. That's okay. It happens the best of us. I have heard from Rin and her mom that people think sometimes they're British.

Which, have you ever gotten that? My fiance and her mom. Yeah, Philadelphians. Have you ever gotten that? No. No, I didn't think so. I think that's a lie. The weirdest I've gotten is Southern.

Yeah. They've gotten Southern. Alright, Tom's linguistic moment. The Philadelphia accent, actually, the vowel system of the Philadelphia accent is actually closest to Southern American English. You fucking nerd. I will not disclose the fact that, well, I am literally disclosing that right now, but I knew that, and I'm glad you were the one that said it.

Yeah, well, yeah, because Liam's too nice to call me the fucking nerd like that straight up. I think it's interesting. It's not for me, but it is interesting. I make my own shit. I mod iPods for fun, dude. This is like I don't have any friends besides you.

Everyone who has a podcast is a nerd, to be clear. Yeah. No, absolutely. Pays rent, baby. Pays for my Patreon and my YouTube TV now. Hey. We just hit 250, by the way.

Speaking of announcements and voicemail, Patreon. Here, let's do that. Patreon.com slash 10,000 losses. We hit 250. Now we have to do some sort of thing where we live stream something twice or every other month or something like that. We got to figure that out, Liam. Okay.

We're going to record it like the IRA with just full balaclavas on. I think that's the best way. Geolocate this written across our chest. Whoa, with the Kensington Liberation Battalion flag behind chest. Yeah. Whoa. With the Kensington liberation battalion flag behind us.

Yeah. Yes. I like it. All right. We got to start putting those in the motion. We got to find the union, a flagship to make that, um,

voicemail call on two, six, seven, three, seven, one, seven, two,

one, eight. Give us your name and pronouns. Uh, tell us what you would do with, or who's penis, uh, this time.

What? Oh, it just happened. Don't worry about it. Yeah, yeah. Don't – what would you do with Byron Fitzpatrick's penis? Actually, wait. Don't do that. He's a sitting congressman.

Don't do that, especially with your real phone number. All right. Yeah. And also, I know the bonus is delayed. We're working on it. We'll get it taken care of. Leave us alone. Yeah.

Leave us alone. You'll be fine. Thank you. All right. So any other election talk for me that you use before we move to? I would like to congratulate Mayor Stoppenfrisk for providing much needed representation for the DUI having community. For the 50-year-old alcohol community. As the 100th mayor of Philadelphia, I think it's really important for people in that community to see someone like them in power. Yeah, we got to really, you know, the 50-something mom.

Also, eat fucking shit Republican at-large council people. Oh, they got fletsco. The Mexico Working Families party was so excited was so excited to vote yesterday and not press the button for a democrat it just it felt so fucking nice i would like to do that more often please yeah um i am i'm not voting for a fucking national democrat uh for any Fucking national democrat For any time You know for the time being That's definitely not fucking voting for Biden again

I didn't vote for him the first time I did I held my nose A thing that I did not Publicize very widely At the time but I'm kind of proud of it now Yeah yeah no no With um To be clear Yeah with hindsight you know comes like but I'm kind of proud of it now. Yeah, yeah, no, no.

I mean, I was not upset, to be clear. You were right. Yeah, with hindsight, you know, it comes like, you know, yeah, you were right. You were right. Yeah, so, yeah, fuck you, Biden. And fuck the Democrats, except for the ones that won locally. Still fuck them. Still fuck them.

Yeah, they tend to be decent. Like, a couple of them are in my outer orbit, and they tend to be decent like a couple of them are in my outer orbit and they seem to be decent people so um they don't want they don't want lgbtq kids to be killing themselves because that uh is the shit that the republicans we love we love having a bar underground yeah yep yeah um uh you know what really is kind of sad thinking about that that bar being on the ground and you think about like you know plus 18 republican like 18 republicans at penridge coming out um you know gotta know the motivating factor was fucking property values like school district assessments being part of like how much a home is worth. That's probably really the biggest motivating force.

Oh, that's depressing. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Cause that's what I heard a lot of that talk. So. Fantastic. Awesome. So, uh, this is sports podcast. So. Is it? Yeah. Sometimes. Sometimes. Uh, let's talk about, uh, so we, we have Steven on to talk about his favorite sport, uh, sometimes. Let's talk about – so we have Steven on to talk about his favorite sport, football.

And I do want to spend a little bit of time talking about the Eagles win on Sunday, which was – Liam, how could we put that? Sloppy. Sloppy. The last minute, 37. I felt like it was baseball vibes. Agony? Yeah.

Like it was just that oh something bad could happen. An effort to give the game away? Yeah. Between the penalties and the Dallas Guider breaking his arm

and Jalen Hurts getting the same. Clearly hurt. Yeah. Hurting his knee and getting the good shit they gave Patrick Mahomes. arm and Jalen Hurts getting hurt. Yeah, hurting his knee and getting the good shit they gave Patrick Mahomes in the fucking Super Bowl.

Yeah, that was tough. But hey, 8-1, baby. Yeah, 8-1. We're the best team in the league and it doesn't feel like it. No, we're just going to complain until we lose the Super Bowl again. Yeah. Not too much to cover there.

Temple did beat Navy 32-18, so that's nice. Go Owls. I deleted the fight song, I think, by accident. That's okay. We didn't need it, bud. I need it. I, but. What else? Oh, Temple basketball is 1-0 in the Adam Fisher era.

They avenged their loss last year to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Managed to pull out a win. Good job, boys. Yeah. Sixers are decent, a win. Good job, boys. Yeah. Sixers are decent, too. Five and one, yeah. As of this recording.

Playing the Celtics. They're five and one? Yeah. Damn, you would not know it from my timeline. No, this is a... They're playing the Celtics tonight at the center. That'll be the test. That'll be the test.

Yeah. My beloved Boston Celtics or whatever. Flyers are below 700. Flyers are below like 100, dude. Did I say 700? I said 500. See, that's my math. Yeah, the Flyers are... Let's see that record. It's 5-7-1.

Yeah, so the Jets... Not the Jets. The Sharks started with 10 losses and they got their first win of the of the year. Would you like to know who was the guest? It is so fucking funny that like and an entirely predictable. That the Sharks winless after 10 games play the Flyers and win. It is so predictable. Perfect. Perfect. It is so predictable.

Perfect. Perfect. That's the storyline. They lost back-to-back games by nine and eight goals and then beat the Flyers two to one. Listen, I'm not mad at a team that has no hope. I think I need that right now. I think I need to just watch a team that doesn no hope. I, I, I think I need that right now. I think I need to just watch a team that doesn't matter. I like, I,

I, I have a lot of pain. This summer was a lot guys. Yeah. And we're going to get into it. We really will. That's why we have you on. Cause I'm still, I haven't processed that.

I still feel very. Processed what? Exactly. What are you talking about? I only have one pennant behind me. Yes. You got the real one. Nice.

The shit. Do we want to just go into the breaking news I do want to I do want to take listeners Behind the curtain a little bit For a peek We've had to reschedule this recording A few times

The first Time it was scheduled Was literally the day After the Phillies lost the NLCS. Yeah. And I, I remember, I remember after they lost thinking,

thank God it's Tuesday because I don't record my podcast for another week. Yeah. And I have time to process and think about it and then i got a dm from you checking in because i had forgotten i agreed to come on here and i'm like oh fuck i have to talk about this team tomorrow i think the response was was oh god we're still doing this and uh i forget why but we we had to push it and we pushed it and pushed it and now i'm in a much better place about the phillies than i was literally the day after the loss in game seven i didn't wear a phillies hat for like a week. I haven't put my hat on yet.

And we literally sat down to start recording and some news broke. Yeah. Yeah. So the news right now is that Reese Hoskins is not coming back. Bryce Harper will be playing first base full time. Yeah. Forever, I guess um for foreseeable future

my poor sweet Reese my favorite Philly yeah my favorite Philly of this era by far uh I yeah I'm gonna have to put taps in here. I don't. You cannot expect me to be rational right now.

I'm sure with time I'll, you know, not be quite so upset, but. God, he meant a lot. It's fucking sucks. He meant a lot. It fucking sucks. He was. I'm more. I'm actually worried about the team's like vibes. Vibes. Yeah.

Seems like he was the core vibes guy. And, uh, you know, the bat spike will be forever in my memory. It was. There you go. I had it as my phone background

Up until the The Harper Stare down I mean I still have I still have the stare down On there My students asked me

Mr. Tom Why did you Why do you have Reese Hoskins on there And not your wife And I said I love my wife But she's never hit a home run Off the Braves And the NLDS why do you have Reese Hoskins on there and not your wife? And I said, I love my wife,

but she's never hit a home run off the Braves in the NLDS. And if she does that, she will take her spot. That is incredibly fair. That is fair. Fair is fair. He represents a lot to me. He was the guy in the dark times. Yeah, he was the he's the only guy left. Well, except Aaron Nola. But, you know.

Who is also, you know, we don't know if he's going to be back. Yeah. He was Mr. Philly. He integrated into this city. He, you know, it's,

he, we talk about how Bryce panders to us a lot. And I think that we all understand what that means, even though that's not quite the definition of the word. Reese did it as well, just in a less flashy way, which is I mean. Harper should be flashy because he's Bryce fucking Harper, but like I'm not saying that is a dig on him or I'm not saying that is a judgment call for either of them. But Reese became a part of the city and Jamie, and Jamie became a vocal member of the community.

Not every, not every wag does that. And, you know, here she is out buying sections of citizens bank park beer during a playoff game. And it's just he's also known to be on the progressive side of things yeah uh as as a queer fan it means a lot to be able to root for someone who I'm reasonably certain

doesn't want me to stop existing. Right. You know, um, I can tell, I like, I, I can tolerate,

you know, hoping that a chud hits a home run because it would make me happy because of what laundry he's wearing. But it feels a hell of a lot nicer knowing that you know they see my humanity and i mean my corner of philly's twitter is all very you know i'm doing the i'm doing the limp wristed hand gesture for the listeners um and the feelings about reese Hoskins are pretty universal there. He's a good dude.

He's good at baseball, a little frustrating at baseball, but this whole team is a little frustrated. Yeah, he, he has the high highs. He gives, he's given us the iconic moment and i don't think from a purely baseball standpoint this is a bad move but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Yeah, it sucks. It feels like a stab in the back. Oh, we waited for you all year to get healthier now. Well, see ya. Yeah, why not a one-year prove it? Well, I think that I don't know what's going on with the decision-making process about first base. That's, that's the key. Right.

Hoskins has not signed anywhere. And like, this is not official, right? Like it, we all know what's coming, but it is not official yet. The news is not that,

that Reese Hoskins isn't coming back. The news is that Bryce Harper will be playing first base and Kyle Schwarber will be D.H. full time. Now, the reason we're all talking about Reese Hoskins is because he now has nowhere to play and is a free agent. So. He will almost certainly leave. Like, I don't know. I don't know what reality there could be where he could come back if Harper's on first and Schwarber's at DH. He can't play in either positions, can he? I don't want to see him in the outfield. No, please.

No. No. So, like, so the decision to move on from him is mainly Harper at first thing, which I find very strange. Personally, I would have assumed he would have wanted to go back to his natural position. He learned first base this year out of necessity. Yeah. Maybe the front office thinks that keeping him there will extend his longevity. But it's weird.

I can't say that it's bad yet it might be bad but you know who knows the offseason just started no one's like no one is signed yeah so it's really hard to tell What this will mean. I do trust. Dombrowski to. Put together another good team. He's got a good track record and he doesn't have. The financial restraints that like. 28 other baseball teams have. So. I. So I, you know,

I'm reserving judgment until the 2024 rosters in place, but just don't expect any like intellectual analysis from me right now. I'm just fucking sad, dude. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's fair. You know, he's, he's like the team captain and when the team captain goes you know that's it's normal to feel that way i mean you you definitely made a very like passionate you know heartfelt appeal for for um from your side of things and i think you know that's fair too like that's

important too and then i i you know i think there's like a like like a correlation between the team getting good again and him being back at the dugout like and i'm worried about that and look and we could we could i could edit this in the next couple of days and he they could be like, all right, you know, one year, prove it. I don't know where you're going to go, but we don't know that. I mean, it's probably not, but we can hope. I'm scared of where he could end up, though. Right with the goddamn Atlanta Braves. I don't know.

I don't know about that No he won't He'll go to the Mets And then he'll personally shoot Steve Cohen There is a team out there who Has already Expressed interest in him Did you see this? No who's that?

Who was it? I think it was Zalecki Mentioned that He is high on the Cubs list. I could see him going. I could see that. And you know what? I'm not a huge fan of the Cubs, but that is an acceptable place to see him play.

Yeah. Not Yankees. Not Mets. The Sox or something. He's not going to the Mets. Basically nowhere on the East Coast.. Basically nowhere on the East Coast. Yeah, nowhere on the East Coast. Because I could see like the Marlins taking a step.

I wouldn't mind. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, my second team is Toronto. I wouldn't mind that, but I don't think that's happening at all. I don't give a shit about Toronto too. Yeah. Go Leafs, baby. Love the Leafs. Maybe they're just making room for Shohei. happening at all and i don't give a shit about toronto too yeah um go leafs baby love deletes maybe they're just making roofers show hey hey that's what they're doing financially yeah maybe

man maybe in your in tom's delirious world i can't even i can't even i can't even bring myself to take that dreaming seriously, even though like it's not entirely crazy. Right. Like, but it would be. Like, I. I can't even describe. What my reaction would be. I would probably go catatonic. Like I come uh thank you it's always come with you man wouldn't be it wouldn't be the first time uh show on tony has gotten gotten some rope out of me but you'd be the most satisfying certainly

hey he's a handsome man i have a thing for guys built like refrigerators certainly. He's a handsome man. I was going to say. I have a thing for guys built like refrigerators. It's just one giant shoulder. Yeah. Him and Alec Boehm. Oh, man. Yeah,

this sucks. It just sucks. It does. It feels bad. They didn't give him the qualifying offer, but they wouldn't. They weren't going to pay that much for him anyway. They gave Noel the qualifying offer, but he's not going to take that. That is a formality. Yeah.

Do you think Noelola's coming back? I mean, if I'm going to put my out-of-the-park baseball GM hat on, you let the guy go try and see what things are like out in the free agent world and then sign him if he wants to come back for reasonable numbers. I mean, obviously, we're pro worker on this so we go get the fucking bag dude go go wherever you want to go get that fucking bag um if if there's a team that's going to sign you for what what did he want like once was it 165 i think so it might have been more than that i don't think he's getting that i don't think he's getting that but if if someone's going to pay that fucking go there yeah um i i i think he wanted 175 million good lord i would like that much money

yeah i would like that much money too actually i would like just 1 million of that farinola if you're listening yeah um we've always believed in you i've never yelled about you especially that's never said heated text during games about you aaron listen i will make sure that there is uh a bucket of crawdads um a jug band uh hooting hollering for you every time you you play we will put you in the humidor to make sure you get warm um yeah i'll get i will I'll get I will get Adam Sandler to do his Cajun man Just to get you all amped up

But Yeah Was it the one time he's like hurt his thumb He's like I must have been out fucking noodling catfish Got his hand, his thumb cut Totally fucking normal Yeah, I don't know. I,

I think he comes back. I think he comes back at a much lower contract that he's sort of expecting. He's going to, so he's going to come like the Phillies low balled him and he high balled the Phillies. Yeah. And then they proceeded to a season occurred

that essentially nuked both of those sides and forced the logical middle forward because he sucked and then he made an adjustment and was really good

and then he kind of fell off ran out of gas again so he can absolutely like he could play he can absolutely play he's absolutely valuable he He recovered some value, but he also lost some. So, I think they... Like, who else? Genuine question. Who else is spending money right now?

Hmm. Like, I don't even fucking know where Shohei is going to go. It's LA, but... Yeah, he's going to go to Dodgers. But the Mariners, Jerry DiPoto fucking put his foot in his mouth about that. They're not going to pay. I just saw recently, apparently the Giants are trying to stay away from the luxury tax. And Brian Cashman's out here showing his entire ass

and it's just like what what team out there is is is is buying the mets aren't even though the best 10 because they are in rebuild mode it would be be unwise for the Mets to buy. I mean, unless like Shohei actually goes to the Mets, which that is an absurd thing to think about. But the Padres are fucking waving the white flag too. Yeah. What? Are the Rangers

just going to keep getting better? Does he want to go to Texas? God. I'm not even talking about Otani anymore. I'm just talking about like the big free agents.

Like who the fuck every owner right now is just like, nah, no thanks. Right. We're going to we're going to

what's the what's the euphemism they use like um competitive like balance or some stupid thing yeah some shit like that are we gonna have another uh fucking what's it called uh like collusion year right the slow lockout thing no one is going to sign until Otani signs yeah that's so depressing I think it's more likely than not that NOLA comes back I also

saw today I got very excited about it because one of my favorite non-Phillies is being linked to the Phillies apparently we have interest in Sonny Gray because one of my favorite non-Phillies is being linked to the Phillies. Apparently, we have interest in Sonny Gray. Oh, okay. All right.

And we could use his services. Sonny Gray, another confirmed good guy. Yeah? That's good to know. I don't know much about it. He plays for the twins, right? Yeah. The twins.

Yeah. Uh, I used to be an athletics fan. Um, sorry, buddy. Yeah. God damn.

You know how to pick them hot. Well, I wanted an AL team and I was like, well, I got to pick the AL team that was in Philly. Um, so I have a deep affinity for a lot of the players

that were on the 2014 to 2019 athletics. Gotcha. And it really makes me want to fucking jump off a goddamn bridge that so many of them ended up in the NL East, not on

the Phillies. Sonny Gray leading the league in fifth in his, how old is he? Age 34 season? Good lord, is he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a Cy Young finalist. Yeah, yeah, but he's always been solid. He's never been like a...

He had like one or two years where he was like, eh. But consistently, statistically, like one of the better pitchers in the league. And he's got a connection to Caleb Cotham. So I like that. We need that solid one, two, three. Yeah. And also, Sonny Gray shouts out to a below 6-foot pitcher.

A 5-foot-10 pitcher. You love to see it. Also, very crucial for my metrics, personally. he is one of the players that consistently rocks the top buttons undone, no-wonder shirt look. Oh, hell yeah. No, bring him here. Bring him in. Bring him in, boys.

Does he do high socks too? I don't think so. Does he? Can't be perfect. Let's see. Sonny Gray. Now I'm looking at pictures. No. Yeah. No. Can't win them all. Can't win perfect. Let's see. Sonny Gray. Now I'm looking at pictures. No.

Yeah. No. Can't win them all. Can't win them all. Although there is a picture of him pitching in shorts. Oh, I know that picture. Now I know where to go to. It's like, hey, I need this picture of this baseball player doing this incredibly.

No, no, no, no. You do not understand. I am guy i got i got you hold on i got i had a friend text me um sorry for the pause you're fine okay. Okay. October 30th. Quote. This is a Twitter DM from a person I am like mutuals and friends,

but like not close with. She texts me, quote, himbo emergency. My gay friend is texting me about fought and quote, you may be onto something with baseball.

I was like, Oh my God, you missed the gay ass Phillies. Can you send me some hot ass celebration picks of the fills? And I sent, I sent her a bunch of tweets. I have bookmarked. No,

let's see. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight tweets. And then one, two, three, four, five, five photos. And her response was, oh, my God, I'm crying. Thank you so much. And then she sent a screenshot of her friend's reaction to everything,

which is just a lot of key smashing because gay people. And I, she sent that and she was just like, ladies and gentlemen, we got him salute emoji. And I'm like, you know what? You came to the right place.

This is my niche market that I've cornered for myself. My goal, my deep reason for being is I want to make baseball gayer, and I want gays to appreciate baseball. I need to bring the two sides of myself together. A truly noble cause. Truly. And the Phillies are really helping me do that. And as an ally, we support it and we'll help promote that as much as you. We'll do it when we can.

Whatever you want us to do. Yeah, we got you. We should have had you on when we did the – we randomly went on a tangent a couple – this was a couple months ago. We were like, what Phillies players have the best physiques? And we just started looking at them. And then we got to – it was like, oh, wait, we haven't checked out Bryce Harper. I was like, Jesus Christ.

Bryce Harper, the body issue. Oh, yes. Bryce moved up a lot in my estimation this year actually because we haven't really seen him take off his shirt since the body issue. And with all due respect to 2017, Bryce Harper, not my type. Yeah.

Little, little too lean, little too Twinkie for me personally. The man in the, Yeah. Little, little too lean, little too Twinkie for me personally. Uh, the man in the NLDS victory celebration, uh, went, went shirtless and,

oh boy, he no longer shaves his body hair and he's looking, he's looking more beefy. He's a daddy. And that's what I want that's what I want he went from twunk to daddy has there ever been spoken about Braceheart before I don't know won't broadcast it anyway but I think it should be said more

I think the best physique though is Alec Bohm he's a bit of a butter face average handsome face I think the best physique though is Alec Bohm he's a bit of a butter face uh average average average handsome face but probably easily the best body on the team to google um so this is this is like

this is straight guy brain thinking of things like in like I know I kind of yeah but it's picture with him of the dirt I think he's got a more bodybuilding. I think he's got a weird like upper, but I think his like arms are too long. But I'm just thinking like bodybuilding kind of

stuff. Who gives a shit what I think? But, um. He has long ass arms, dude. I'm looking at a god damn. I mean, the wonder he can hit the ball so fucking hard. I like with like line drive guy. He's got so much leverage. His arms

come down to damn near his knees. Yeah, he could. I wonder if he played basketball. He probably could. How tall is he? Tall enough. He's tall enough. He's super tall. He's 6'5". God damn. Yeah, he could have played basketball. I wonder if he did.

Oh, you haven't seen like the Alec Boehm photos? The clubhouse celebration photos? Oh, I have seen those. Okay, yeah. Because there's a woman on the tipping pitch of Slack who's like, that's her boy. And so I was, hey, I'm the only one with NBC Sports Philadelphia on this Slack.

I got you. So I'm the only one with NBC Sports Philadelphia on this Slack. I got you. So I'm just saying. Yeah, I wonder if he ever played basketball. But yeah, no, no. There's that picture of him like hand, finger up in the air, drinking a beer. That's like a fucking godly bodybuilding pose. I mean, yeah.

Oh, shit. That's too big. Oh, hang on. I gotta load today's shoutouts. Stolen game of the week. Oh, that one. That one. Oh, let me load it. With his

A shirt on underneath. Oh, daddy. Good lord. That is, well, he put on some he clearly put on like 10,, daddy. Good lord. He clearly put on 10-15 pounds since last year. Wow. That's more sexual than the shirtless pic. It is. It really

is. I'm not at liberty to go into any further detail about this photo. I understand. I understand completely. It's okay. We don't ask questions here yeah no um yeah the uh yeah um all right what were we talking about before we got gay and horny uh we do this without you sometimes.

No, we're talking about the Phillies and where we're sad. No qualifying offer. I guess this is a good time because we have the celebration pick in there now. To... Why? All right. Sort of get... Let's help the listeners wow listeners process uh the loss okay we go into the playoffs hot we go into the nl the wild card games were hot the nlds we smoked the braves right um

and energy is good life is good good. We have the stare down. Every single baseball fans in Philly's metaphorical dick is hard. Some of their literal ones are, but we're all just the biggest, like, no. I was so confident. I was like, gentlemen, sweep. We were talking about hiding in blooper's walls and eating him. Yeah.

Yeah, we wanted his heart, his liver. We bullied Blooper. I don't think that what played out invalidates that, by the way. Oh, yeah. Blooper should be executed. I'm pro-life and I take no joy in reporting this. Yeah. Well, there's... Oh, I'm not going to use that phrase. Sometimes there's crimes that are committed that cannot be paid for without the blood price.

Like being blooper. Yeah, like being blooper. That specifically – like that's the one I'm thinking of. That and like Genocide those two are Right you know Neck and neck with genocide edging It out a little bit I think bloopers probably worse Than genocide yeah well you know

What Coming from you Liam I'm going to take that As this Official statement no let's Not do that let's not do that So Are we looking for are we looking official statement. No, let's not do that. Let's not do that. So are we looking for are we looking for cope? Yeah, we're looking for cope.

We're looking for cope. And not the one that cops pack. Cops pack skull. Oh, I always mix it up. I know. I don't dip. So I'll give you my I'll give you my spiel.

Let's hear it um the Phillies are good they are not going anywhere the window is open we have probably the only owner

in the sport that is explicitly stated he wants to spend to win. We have Dombrowski, who has done this for several other teams. The playoffs are a crapshoot. You need luck in addition to skill you need both you just you just gotta punch the ticket as many times as you can and hope that it shakes out your way last year

they they fucking they made it all the way to the goddamn World Series. And no one expected them to. Yeah. This year, everyone expected them to. That's different. It's they they they were learning on the fly last year. And I think. This year being so different. Was also a thing to adjust to.

I think they could have done it. I think that they had the easiest path this year. Oh, yeah. Then they might ever get again. They're not going to get past the Braves every time. Yeah, they're not. It's just it just a numbers game. It's random.

What you can hope for is just get there a lot. One of them will go in the hole. I think one of the biggest concerns I have is the mythology of citizens bank park was broken um that was our secret weapon yeah last year and throughout the first couple series this year.

And, you know, the Diamondbacks took the wind out of it because here's the secret. Here's how you make, here's how you neutralize this as a bank park. Don't go down early. Like literally every other team did when they were here. Like we're loud when the Phillies are winning or when it's close. If you're, you know, blowing us out or as I like to refer to game seven,

a two, if you're, if you're, if we're having a two run blowout yeah it's just gonna be it's it's like any ballpark right like i believe in philadelphia exceptionalism but people people got a little a little too crazy with it this year they were it it just that's not that's not what it this is i think this is a great place i think we're better than most places i don't think we're the best because there is no best it's all circumstantial um we have a good team they have good vibes i'm worried about the vibes a little bit now. But again, I'm waiting until the offseason is over before I'm, you know, passing that judgment. And, you know, they got too cocky. And they're going to have to live with that.

They're going to have to learn from that. Because they threw everything they had at the Braves because they were scared of the Braves, as they should be, because the Braves are the best team in baseball. Yep. They threw everything into beating them. And they executed their plans. And it was great. They took them down. And then they got the diamondbacks and they underestimated them like they factually did oh yeah and what the diamondbacks did was what the phillies did to other teams last year and this year, which is okay.

Underestimate me. They beat them decisively in game one. They blew them out in game two. Then they start talking about playing in their pool. And they took the foot off the gas maybe some players it's a long season and yeah they made a deep run

last year but it's still hard you're going to run out of gas so I think it feels worse to lose to a worse team than it is to lose to a good team you know like last year we could just be like yeah well we lost to the 106 win houston astros in the world series and we were also the first team in the playoffs to hand them a loss. Like there's a lot we could hold our heads high about. And this year it's just like, oh, you choked.

Right. Which feels worse. So, yeah, it sucks. But next year's, you know, windows still open. We're going to keep going and we're going to keep crossing our fingers and hoping that maybe one time we'll get the fucking shot through the ventilation shaft. That's that's hopeful there. an imminent departure of Reese Hoskins. I am, I am a thousand times more pissed off about losing last year than I was. Yeah. Yeah.

The, the, the guy deserved the ring. Um, yeah. Uh, I'm going to, uh,

I am going to go to my grave, uh, cursing the Houston Astros. I have a permanent blood feud with them. I started this season pissed because I like to rank every team by

in order of how I like or dislike them. And I was pissed this year because neither New York team were in the bottom two for the first time since I ever started doing this. Um, but fuck the Astros forever and ever.

And I will laugh at them when they have misfortune at like they did this year. That was very fun. I really enjoyed that. That was nice. Nice seeing them lose. Uh, yeah. I, I think you covered a lot of, of what both Liam and I were, I really enjoyed that That was nice Nice seeing them lose Yeah

I think you covered a lot Of what both Liam and I were Thinking But Yeah I didn't I said this The last episode

That I didn't watch A single pitch Of the World Series Oh I did I know you're Yeah you're Devoted Baseball

I mean I'm a devoted Baseball fan too I just I couldn't do it I'm a devoted Phillies fan I'm not a baseball, I'm a devoted baseball fan too. I just, I couldn't do it. I'm a devoted Phillies fan. I'm not a baseball fan. I'm a baseball fan. I, I, I, if there's any sport that I'm going to say I'm a fan of the sport, it would be baseball, but I am

still a homer. Yeah. And I still put a lot of my, I sublimate, I always say this. Sports is where you sublimate the shit of this fucking world and you're able to put it on your team for a little bit and you're able to kind of like offload that. I'm worried about my bank account.

I'm worried about fucking shit happening overseas. I'm hoping – whenever politics is happening. And just for a little bit bit big man hit ball far and it was such a like just fuck and I was like I can't there would have been no joy in me watching the world

series I have nothing against the Diamondbacks honestly that was actually very interesting for me to kind of have that question, that theory answered because I was like, how am I going to feel about a team that I didn't already hate eliminating the Phillies from the playoffs?

And it turns out I'm not mad at the Diamondbacks at all. I'm mad at the Phillies for losing. I don't care that the Diamondbacks won beyond how it affected my team. I was hoping, yeah, the Diamondbacks would fucking beat the fucking shitty goddamn oil baron fuckhead assholes

that are the Rangers that anti their only team doesn't have a fucking pride night, right? That's true. Yeah, fuck them. George Bush threw out the fucking first pitch and I was actually going to watch the game, and I said, George Bush, fuck this shit. I'm not putting this on. No, that was like, and I didn't put it on a single game after that. I did enjoy getting to talk shit on Zach Gallen on twitter oh yeah i he is the only diamondback i have a grudge against

and it's not even because he fucking played well against us because he fucking didn't uh he just had to run his mouth and i resent if you're from here yeah i resent you unless you're on my team sorry i'm not rooting for you because you're fucking from here especially if you're from here. Yeah. I resent you unless you're on my team. Sorry, I'm not rooting for you because you're fucking from here, especially if you grew up a goddamn Cardinals fan for no fucking reason. Absolutely. I just like baseball, man. Like I, I, I learned how to. My baseball origin story starts after 2008.

Oh, wow. OK, I guess I guess I could get into that. My baseball origin story starts after 2008. Oh, wow. OK, I guess I guess I could get into that. I hated sports for basically my entire childhood because I was a gay nerd. And I'm like, what the fuck is this shit for? And the Phillies won the World Series. I remember exactly where I was cause, uh, I was in college. It was my freshman year in college. I was in the apartment of a boy I liked and we were playing super Mario galaxy.

Oh yeah. And my mom called after my mom called me on the phone because they won and she was crying. And I remember saying like, do you know how much this means? And I'm like, I guess not. Uh, and then my dad got on the phone and he was like, listen, I gotta, I gotta ask you a favor. I'm like, uh, okay. My dad for context was disabled. He was like, you got to take your motor to the parade and i'm like okay why and she he's like she really wants to go and i can't take her she doesn't want to go alone i'm like all right when is it it's like october 31st i'm'm like, Dad, Halloween?

So I went and I took her and that was where I kind of like saw the joy and I started to get it and I'm like, oh, okay. Maybe there is something to this whole baseball thing. And then I started, you know, watching a little bit, realized

I liked it, got more and more into it. And then, yeah, I spent most of my baseball fandom during those dark years. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Which is why I picked up a second team because I couldn't handle. Yeah. Understandable. That't handle. Yeah. Understandable. That's understandable.

Yeah. No, absolutely. That's beautiful, man. Yeah. Assume you weren't a football fan because the Eagles would have picked up that a little bit for you. I was curious to see if that would happen, but no. Yeah. No.

Football is an aggressively boring sport for me to watch. Just I hate the stopping and starting. I hate I hate how aggro it makes people like way more like way more than any other sport. We both feel bad for liking it.

Yeah, we both we both played in high school i didn't play that as much as liam did but um yeah it's uh yeah i mean i like i like the i like the chess match aspect of it i like the strategy uh yeah but um that's my favorite part of any sport really is that is that strategy i like baseball so much yeah yeah yeah um the different kind different kind of strategy. You know what it is? Football is like you're actually playing chess with human beings and you get to watch the pawns kill each other, which I don't like that part.

Which feels bad. Yeah, it does feel bad. Yeah. And the touchdown is a checkmate. I am. So recently I've been getting more and more into rugby. Okay. Y'all ever watch rugby? Rugby is fucking cool.

I have. Yeah, that's nuts. Rugby is essentially to me. Oh, this is just football. If football were good. The issue with the NFL and with american football as it's portrayed is it is a tv sport yes and it is when you're in person and if you watch if you're at a game where the tv isn't really a big consideration the pace is a little bit quicker uh they don't

have as much time uh between like um i was gonna say in, like quarters and stuff like that or timeout cutaways and stuff. It makes sense in that context. I've actually been to some of the best sports games I've been to were high school. I was at the last, I will always tell you it's the last North Catholic Frankfurt game, was any level of sports. It was an amazing game because they scored like 20 points in the last you know fucking i don't know six minutes of the game when shit like that happens yeah

and genuinely just like like it was a great experience but like watching yeah watching especially if you don't have an investment um whereas like i can i i've i've gotten my students in the baseball just showing it and just explaining, oh no, that's why this is happening. And then they all start getting into it. Oh, what's he going to throw next? Because I start getting, well, it's not just a random ball they're going to throw. Think about the strategy here. He's got two strikes, right? He's going to try and throw something. It's 0-2. He's going to try throwing something outside, but maybe he's going to trick them. And then the kids start to get that the you know the logic wheels turning in a very

yeah and baseball's so good baseball's a great sport for casual people because even if you don't know any of that shit's going on it's still pretty intuitive what's going on in the field like you don't have to like ask to understand like the good and the bad things I did. I one of my favorite games I've ever been to last year. One of my friends, he and his husband were moving away from Philly. And before they left, they're like, listen, we got to go to a game with you because we know that's like a big and we know that's your thing. And we think it'd be interesting to go to a Phillies game with you. And I'm like, all right, shit.

Cool. And it was like early August, I think. And I was really excited because the fucking angels were in town and I was going to go to that shit anyway because I got to see Shohei Otani yeah and the three of us went and it started with just like just me like all right that's you know those are the bases like basic basic stuff but all throughout the game they kept asking questions like oh why'd that happen and i'm like well okay so this is and by the end of it they were like super into it that ended up being the catalyst for them that ended up being the bryson stott walk-off game wow and they were yeah they were losing their minds at that game yes that was that was insane. Like by the end.

And it was so, it was a great game. They were, I got them really into it. And I remember my buddy's a barber. And he was like, who's that? I like him. And I'm like, I don't know who the fuck that is. Let's wait for him to come up on screen. Oh, it's a guy named Brandon Marsh.

Yeah. I never heard of that guy. Um, and my buddy's like, I like him. I'm like, all right, cool. Uh,

and then he like, he scored a run for the angels or something. And I was like, well, I don't fucking like him. And then, oh my God, it was so funny.

I, I texted him immediately. Once, uh, we acquired him like, like like a month like a couple weeks later yeah it was only a few weeks later um that was that way yeah i was actually at that game with my wife that was what uh i was up in like 420 uh that was we were we were we were what very close to each other that was that was one of the best games I've ever been to.

That was so much fun. Because Bryce Harper hit a grand slam. He sure fucking did. And I was like, what the fuck? I've never... And that was the first grand slam I ever saw in person. Really? Yeah, yeah, it was.

And I remember seeing the Phillies in the fucking like 97 So You could just sit wherever the fuck you wanted Because no one was there Because no one wants to see this Fucking watching Mike Lieberthal Catch the unsung hero of the era

He retired One year too early But yeah That game if you were not like because my wife is is she's not like a fan fan but she when there's a good game on and there's stakes into it she does she gets into it and she wasn't raised with sports or anything um that was a game where she was like damn that was amazing High fiving just randoms in the fucking crowd and shit. Yeah. I will say patting myself on the back.

I felt really good. Afterwards, they were getting up to leave and I'm like, no, no, no. We got to sing a song. Oh, yes. Don't leave. We sang the song. We were getting ready to leave there was this old couple in front of us the lady turned around and looked at me she's like i just want to let you know

you explained the game so well to them and i'm like oh thank you also we were not just talking about baseball and i'm very concerned about the other things that you might have overheard but don't worry about that we're all friends here we're all God's children of the dark I really no I've had yeah maybe she shared your thoughts

maybe she knows she was young once oh that's funny that's funny oh man yeah she was young once. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. Oh, man. Yeah. Well,

Mookie Betts, Shohei Otani and Cody Bellinger have made People Magazine's list of sexiest men in sports. Mookie, I missed you so much. Why was I born a Red Sox fan? Yeah, I don't know.

Well, you're Philly's fan. You were born a Red Sox fan? Yeah, well, you're Philly. You were born a Red Sox fan. Yeah. Rip. Yeah. Hope you like. I don't. Whatever this is going to come out of your mouth.

I don't. They're going to get all the. Well, I think they're they're single. A team is just white Puerto Ricans. That's all they've got. Fuck you. It's the same tradition with only having

white receivers on the League of Patriots. All right. I think that's a good segue. Why? Why? Why? That's it.

Isn't there like a Jewish book of why? Why don't you get this whole bad? Why? I'm sorry you just hold that? Why? I'm sorry, what's happening? He's just telling why. Liam's upset.

He's considering the fact that he was born liking Boston sports. Nice or not like dad? The Red Sox are... They are a team. They have brought you... They brought Red Sox fans more joy in the last decade

than pretty much almost any other team in baseball. So you can shut the fuck up. Also... Well, hang on. I have my flex story, which is that I was at 04 ALCS Game 7 in Yankee Stadium Old Yankee Stadium And I got to watch the Red Sox come from behind

And I got to watch my dad turn into A wild animal and Scream at a 6 year old that how do you fucking Like that That's beautiful and that is I do not like The Red Sox at all I can never truly Hate them though Because And that is I do not like the Red Sox at all. That's OK.

I can never truly hate them, though, because. There's way too much hate in my heart reserved for the New York Yankees. And the enemy of my enemy is sometimes my friend. I don't want the Red Sox to ever win another World Series as long as I'm alive but i will root for them in like playoff series they don't want necessary and if they do win the world series again i'll just look i'll just be like ugh whatever i won't there won't be wailing and gnashing of teeth like there would be if the fucking yankees did the the the um a segue out of the baseball for a second. Or after this.

Sorry. The 2004 AFCS. I said this on the pod before. That's what made me a baseball fan for the rest of my life. That'll do it. And I had actually... And I've said this before, too. So I liked Derek Jeter as a kid. I'm going to punch you in your stupid face.

You know this story. Some of the listeners know this story too because I said it early on. And so the Yankees were in town playing and wasn't as many interleague games. So we went to see and I had – and I grew up in Kensington. So I grew up in Puerto Rican part of the city and there was a lot of Yankees fans. And there was actually – I can't remember his name, but there was a guy on my street. He played for the Puerto Rican national team. Not like a big guy. He was like, you know, one of their bullpen arms.

And he used to like help us like, you know, teach us grips and stuff like that. We were kids. But he, so I had an affinity for the Yankees as the history behind the team.

But I was always a Phillies fan, but I really liked Derek Jeter. I was, I want to say, 9 or 10, maybe 10, 11. We went to the game and I had a Jeter jersey and a Phillies hat so that everyone

would know I'm still on the right side. No, this was at the vet. I got heckled. My mom got heckled. So I still kind of – I don't have that level of hatred for the Yankees. I don't have that level of hatred for the Red Sox just because like the history of the teams. My hatred really is there for the mets and the braves uh most uh but

hello guy from york who's a braves fan and i just want him to be miserable until the end of his days he's also a vincent oilers fan so work that one out i have a i have a deep affinity for the mets i love having them as our rival very much. I cherish and value it deeply. Mets fans are Phillies fans for different laundry. We're both fucking insane dirtbag freaks.

And I obviously fuck the Mets forever, but it's very fuck the Mets in an affectionate way from me. There's no affection to my feelings about the Braves at all. It is not a fun, jovial rivalry. They're not my little brother.

I like if, if I could erase baseball teams just with the snap of my finger, the like, aside from the Phillies, the last team I would erase would be the Mets. The first team, the Braves. We don't need that. Get out of here. I never felt like I was going to eat like I was willing to, like, cook Mr. Met in an open pit barbecue.

In fact, Mr. Met is actually a good fucking mascot. He is. And in fact, I'll cook dinner for Mrs. Matt. I'm on the record for that. Come on over to my house. Wood. Wood. Absolutely wood. Wood. Wood. Is it

padding? Or is it the costume? Is it the costume or is it the... We're going to find out. The twink inside that costume is probably very excited by all this attention. Well, that twink's got an ass that goes for days.

So... Shit. That's not really my type but alright fuck it this one no um my wife's not gonna listen to this one um yeah she's not gonna listen to this either who gives a shit absolutely I have all the records saying this about this

what a normal thing for us to have to say. What a remarkable thing to transpire this season. Just like open horniness for Mrs. Met. They did something to the costume. They had to. They had to have like – No, I don't think they did anything to the costume. They just take the pictures from certain angles now.

Well, because Mr. Met looks like he's got like his biceps are popping more this season. So I don't know if it's like a different. Oh, do I want to fuck Mr. Met? You know what? What's he doing? Well, he's going to be he's not going to be doing anything while Mrs. Betts over my house. So you got.

I mean, it is. it is a well established. It is well established lore on my podcast that they are that they are swingers. She can't resist the Phillies. The. They engage in ethical non monogamy. And we applaud them for it. Yeah, good for them. You know what?

If you want to get your bell rung by fucking Mr. Redlegs, go for it, girl. Oh, Mr. Redlegs, there's not going to be... He's... I mean, he looks really messed up, so I don't think there's going to be much action happening. Those eyes? No, Mrs. Met and Mrs. Redlegs. happening um with those eyes no i i know mrs matt mrs matt and mrs red legs uh get get down and dirty with each other and if mr matt is is a good boy he he gets to watch oh this is red leg okay that's some betty page energy, I didn't know she existed. I'm a little,

I'm a little put off by her energy. I'm not going to lie. Uh, well, yeah, I mean, you gotta match, you gotta match Mr.

Red legs off putting energy. Yeah. I'm going to go back to Googling. Mrs. Met, um, Mrs. Met.

Yeah. There we go. I'd like to step right up and greet the mets it is genuinely incredible sorry i'm i'm moving on uh we have it is genuinely incredible to me that an employee of the Atlanta Braves thought it was a good idea for that mascot account to pick a fight with the Philadelphia Fanatic. It's stupid. Whoever's doing their PR, it's got to be someone in the front office that's like, kid, it's got to be. It's so.

It is cringe as hell. It is on the level of the first couple seasons of the Golden Knights account. Oh, God. Yeah. It's just God about that. She's like twee cringe bullshit. If like. You shouldn't be tweeting if you're a mascot.

I'm sorry. No. The Fanatic doesn't tweet. Nope. Doesn't need to. The Fanatic has an Instagram. And he never forms words. It's just pictures with emojis sometimes.

Yeah, he doesn't need words. Correct. He's got the Galapagos gang to handle anyone who questions him. God. The fanatic would never stoop to the level of Blooper, but the Galapagos gang would absolutely fucking. Well, what they don't know is the Galapagos gang has been stooping their whole lives.

Yeah, like Blooper's in for a Kensington mouthwash. At the hands of Iggy. Izzy, right? Is it Iggy? Iggy the iguana. Fuck. Sid. Sid.

Iggy, Sid. What's the turtle? Bessie. Bessie. And Calvin. Yeah. I know my mascot lore. Yeah.

Iggy's going to cut your fucking brake lines while you're not looking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was this fucking lizard that was going around, fucking stealing shits out of people's cars. Yeah. She was taking the fucking tags. You don't even need them anymore. I don't know what the fuck, but

I wasn't going to say some shit. I was going to get eaten or something. Incredible work. All right. Any last words on mascots? Mascots that are going to fuck? Baseball players and mascots?

This is Matt. Call me. All right. I'll slide. After I talk to her, baseball players and mascots. This is Matt. Call me. All right. I'll slide. After I talk to her, I'll pass your card. Thank you. All right. We got one

other sport to cover with our union correspondent. Charlie has left the DM. I'm assuming he's going to mention the Kai Wagner. Did you hear about this? Yes, I did. I'm assuming he's going to mention the Kai Wagner. Did you hear about this? Yes, I did. Yeah.

So here's Charlie. Huge bummer. Yeah. Hey, German guy being racist with last name Wagner. Great look, dude. All right. Here we got our voicemail from Charlie, our official union correspondent. Hey, guys.

Yay, Liam. Hey, Tom. This is the rare union playoff preview. Didn't go to the game nine days ago. Hopefully, Wayne left a message from the soup. Congrats to my friends who's wedding I was at instead of watching the playoff game. But everything has gone to shit for the Philadelphia Union, and I was kind of waiting for a decision.

But I think MLS and its wheel of discipline is not going to come up with a decision yet, but at least the union did something. And reported by The Atlantic two days after the playoff game, Kai Wagner used an alleged, I have to be careful, but realistically used a slur in German for an Asian person directed at New England Revolution forward of mixed descent Bobby Wood who reported it to the official during the game

that happened in the 89th minute watch the replay of it out there on Twitter and the Philadelphia Union and MLS with their zero tolerance towards racism balked for nine days and announced today that Kyle Wagner is not traveling with the teams in New England

for the second game of potentially three in the playoff series. So total cowardice by everybody. And this is the third instance of a player using racial slur this season. The other two took about, these investigations took about a month and resulted in both players being suspended for long periods of time. And if the assumption is that he did say it, he is gone for the rest of the playoffs and if the investigation hangs over the head over the union,

he's probably not going to play the rest of the playoffs and good news, they're not going to extend him. So he's going to leave on a free contract at the end of the regular season, at the end of the playoffs anyway. So they are all kinds of fucked. And it's a great way to, you know, say everybody, hey, this is my last chance.

So enjoy this latest ride and then go fuck up royally. I am 100% believing Bobby Woods' account of the situation. And if you are any kind of person, you should probably believe him and, you know, move on. All right. I think you hit the three-minute limit there. He does that sometimes. He does that. It's all right. We love Charlie. He's a nice guy. All right. I think you hit the three-minute limit there. He does that sometimes. He does that. It's all right.

We love Charlie. He's a nice guy. All right. Well, thanks, Charlie, for that. Yeah, we covered that a little bit the last episode. That fucking sucks. And currently, there's a lot of sports going on. The union you're playing, it is scoreless,

but that's how soccer matches tend to be, I think. Oh, they're playing right now? Celtics are winning 26-22. All right. Apparently, the Sixers did score the first seven points. Robert Carrington is headed back to the locker room. Looks like he got hit in the eye. That sucks.

Oh, great. Love it. Love it. We love it here, folks. All right. So, shouts out to our North Catholic tier patrons, Patrick, Sean, Mike, Amanda, Stephen, Kyle, Coho, Chucklebird Cat. And now finally paying us for the privilege of being our official union correspondent is Charlie. We also have a new 700 level patron, Gonzo Bomb, a motherfucker. I want to jump in, interrupt what you're doing,

and give a special shout out to Stephen for spelling his name correctly. Oh, yes. Yeah. Not this F or V bullshit. The original way, the way the Greeks intended with the PH.

That's where it comes from, Liam. Thank you. Oh, it's Gans Bomb, not Ganso Bomb. Apologies there. Our official, ever since Roz was on, our official notes are in Comic Sans. I was going to ask about that. Yeah, don't worry about it.

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So they're batting around at batting around on socials because we couldn't get batting. But, you know, so it goes. I want to say batting around the podcast, I believe that got Sean Doolittle to say come.

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There we go. Thanks so much for being a guest, Steven.. There we go. There we go. All right. Well, thanks so much for being a guest, Stephen. It's been fun. This was a blast. Thanks so much for having me, guys. Absolutely. All right, everybody.

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