Ten Thousand Losses - Harper is MV3

Episode Date: November 19, 2021

BRYCE HARPER YA BABIES ARE THE FLYERS GOOD? NICK SIRIANNI LIVES TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenklossespod Leave us a voicemail: 267-371-7218 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses

. Accused of punching a police horse. CTE! CTE! CTE! Those negative fans. Make himself vomit. Go Bears! Go Bears! you gotta think the fanatic's gonna go down to her and give her a bunch of hot dogs or the snowball starting to come they'll boo us but they won't let anybody else boo us Hello, and welcome back to episode 5, somehow, of 10,000 Losses. Once again, I am Liam Anderson.

I have not gruesomely murdered my co-host. No, definitely not. My name's Tom Payne. Hi, Tom. Hi, Liam. Pronouns, I guess, I'm he, him. I'm also he, him. And before we get started, I just want to say that, you know, the Sixers play in Denver tonight?

Yeah. I just want to say that you know the Sixers play in Denver tonight yeah I just like can we just like take a blank like just give us an auto three losses so we don't have to watch this fucking team right now I feel so bad dude I just like because it's not any of their faults like it's not like

fucking Joel Embiid like went down to a strip club and was just like alright right everyone spit in my mouth I simply do not want to be on this road trip uh he didn't uh order was it order chicken wings or something I forget who that was last year oh and they got food poisoning? Yeah. Was it Lou Williams in the bubble? Lou Williams in the bubble. I have, honest to God, I have always, like, wanted a Lou Williams Sixers jersey. I fucking love Sweet Lou. I absolutely love Lou Williams, dude. I, like, I appreciate any, like, professional athlete that, like,, he's skilled at basketball.

He's very good at his job. He's a skilled defender. But there's something about watching a dude who's like, I'm going to get up there, and I'm going to piss off the most famous man in the world. And I'm just going to do shit like, oh, what's his name that was on the Cavs, and now he's at North carolina a and t for golf oh uh jr smith okay jr smith like untying vince carter's shoes in the middle of a game and like when they after they stopped making him fuck with vince carter's headband

because they were fighting him fifty thousand dollars every time he did it like i that's just the shit I'm at. I'm not like, oh, analytics are bad. Ban analytics. You should just pass the eye test. But there's something really fucking funny about the gleeful mayhem those dudes just create. Like, Lou Williams just fucked. You can't write an AI app to just start fucking with Vince Carter's headband.

Yeah. That's like weird baseball guy energy like that you don't like see so much in the NBA. Like Prince Fielder or whoever like just like I'm going to eat these nachos. Yeah. Well, like, you know, there's a there's a gif out there like a guy. I think it's in the minor leagues, but, like, the umpires make shitty calls. He gets kicked out of the game, so he just grabs the trash can. Go to your home.

And he puts it behind home plate, and he just starts pointing at it. He's like, that's where you are. You're trash home. Like, shit like that where you just start fucking with – because they – you really can't hear it unless you're, like, closer to the field, but those guys razz each other, both good-naturedly and not. So I like that kind of energy from an NBA player, too. Well, it's like because there's no – as much as I like watching football,

no one has any fun, clearly. It's a no-fun league. It's a no-fun league. They're banned from having fun with each other, and i get that it's like more of a violent sport so like you're not really in the mood to joke around but like it's fucking hilarious to watch dudes just like like i said uh lance stevenson being another one in the nba who just was like i'm gonna blow lebron james's ear that's what i'm gonna do and like imagine being one of the like 500 ish best basketball players on earth and being like

i'm gonna fuck with this guy like that's what i'm gonna do right now is blow with lebron's ear yeah no i i respect that energy and uh the yeah i was thinking today because I had a student ask me, hey, could you print out like an NBA coloring book? That's for like a – that's a long story. But I was trying – I was finding one and now I realize this. Just as you were asking for a Williams jersey, if anyone has like an outline of Allen Iverson stepping over – what's his name?

Ty Ty Lou. Ty Lou dude. Yeah. If anyone has like the NBA is Forrest Gump. Yes. If anyone has line art of that, so I can print that out, I'd be much obliged.

That's so fucking funny. Yeah. No sports. I think official, official position of the 10 000 losses podcast is that sports should be fun yeah because it's a fucking game i don't know if you agree with it but i i was never really a huge uh anti anti-doping guy because like if i'm supposed to watch the best people in the in the world compete at this sport, they should have every physical advantage available to them.

I'm not anti-doping per se. I just don't like – what I get concerned about is these guys are going to like fucking ruin their bodies. Oh, yeah. There's pressure to do so. Yeah, under that pressure. So were it in like some sort of worker- owned league i i wouldn't have so much a problem with it right and i don't have a problem oh my the records because they called the same shit when uh

roger maris broke um babe bruce record right they're like well it's 162 game season so you had you know what was it uh so many So many extra games to hit the home run. It shouldn't count. It should have an asterisk. There's always been idiots like that. It's so stupid. But yeah, definitely have... Steroids, though, should be legal, just period. Yep.

That's also the official position. That's a hell of a one for us to take, but that's fine. Alright. Danabal and whatever for everybody. If you want. Do you want to talk about the Eagles?

The Eagles, if you will. The Eagles? I watched this Broncos game from a bar in Chicago where Corinne, my girlfriend, was just like, they're going to win, and I was like, I don't know. Broncos defense is pretty good. And then the Eagles remembered how to run the ball. Yeah.

And the defense didn't look like absolute donkey shit. Yeah. Fletcher Cox got in the mix a little bit too, which was nice. The last two games, I've been pretty pleased I think he's listening to us yelling run the ball we know Nick Sirianni listens to this podcast I think we can confirm that at this point

so yeah running the ball fucking works it's setting up so much for J jalen hurts to succeed and do more than uh roll out to the right or or wait that was it was against the charges right that he we looked up his charts yes i said it to you yes yeah oh he's just rolling out to the right missing everything to the left side so he decided to flip that for that game. Again, Siri, I was listening to the podcast. Thanks, Nick. Yeah, rolling out to the left.

And cross-bodied, I guess wasn't really working that well for him. And they went back. A guy I want to specifically talk about is Darius Slay, who's been coming up with interceptions, fumble recoveries.

He came here from Detroit. He didn't look like the guy you pay top dollar to, even though they are. And I would say that even though they lost to the Chargers, I mean, they learned to like, they were doing a thing where they were clearly trying to at least exploit the, like the Chargers came in that game with the worst run defense in the NFL. The Eagles went for 176, I want to say. Something like that.

Yeah, it was – like, the defense, you know, even with Slay Lee, the defense looked decent. Right. Like, they're maybe rounding into shape the problem was a pass rush because like herbert justin herbert quarterback of the chargers went off like 32 of 38 for 356 or something yeah so like the defense is getting was getting better in that game and it certainly got better in denver but it was just like that felt like a winnable game. Right.

Oh, we were in the Chargers game. We were in the mix the entire game. Yeah. That was an honorable loss. End of the fourth quarter. Yeah. I mean, we lost by a field goal. Really, it was 27-24, I believe, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. I accidentally muted myself. Oh. Embarrassing. Anyway. oh embarrassing anyway yeah you're not talking to yourself uh i i thought it was my computer or shit in the bed no you're good um kenneth gainwell looks really good yeah big kenny gains yeah he was fucking exciting self memphis too yeah kenny g uh uh jordan howard hero ball is not a phrase i expected to uh hear myself saying you you might not expect it but that man has been i have loved that guy since he was in chicago

and i think we had this talk the last time i love little tiny dude scat back guys yeah but i like just guys who don't fall backwards i like i like the strong the strong guys who boulder away through the line and he is one of these guys and and again why the fuck was this guy on the practice squad for the last you know like the last two years yeah um i mean it's it's and it's become clear that the eagles run game is benefited by those sort of like small backs who can do damage yeah these these guys and boston scott was tearing it up against the broncos yeah um the had me had me jumping up and down and screaming i was not i was i was watching on the one bar on the TV that had it on. It was fantastic.

I was just surrounded by fucking Packers fans for some reason. I guess there's worse fates than Packers fans. But, yeah. Hey, City on team. Cool. We'll get to you packers fans you you have some answering to do yeah oh oh yeah but um yeah otherwise i i hope that this is what the eagles will be doing hitting a stride with the run game not forcing jalen hurts to kind of do this acrobatic shit where he has to like i'd like it's okay to take the decisions out of his hands to a point like he's still learning it doesn't mean he's stupid it doesn't mean he's not the guy

right kid needs help it's fine to need help and him having the run hat uh makes him more dangerous i couldn't tell you how many times the camera followed either the running back. The camera was getting tricked on the Broncos game because they thought that Hurts was either running with it or they thought that we – Had just gone into a pile of dudes, yeah. Yeah, so there were several moments with that happening. That opens up your passing game.

It opens up the play actions. It means that he doesn't have to throw the ball so often. And then when he does throw the ball, he's getting better looks. It just makes sense. And they were like, oh, well, we're not changing the plan, whatever. That's dumb coach shit. Sure, whatever you want, Nick. You literally have, but okay. Yeah, it's like, oh, well, we're not changing the plan. Whatever. That's dumb coach shit. You literally have, but okay. Yeah.

It's like, yeah. He really is just the golden retriever. He is. So maybe we were wrong saying fire him already. Yeah. Yeah. He gets the end of the season. Yeah, I think you got to give a coach two years.

You're probably right, because there's no job. Even if you're an assistant, you're never really prepared, I think. Yeah, it's, I don't know, it's anything like that. It's a lot of work and getting up to speed. I don't want to do it. Yeah. No. I'm good with that.

Yeah. So, I mean, yeah. So the Eagles, I mean, four and six, it's not the worst state of affairs. They're in a rebuild year. They're in a rebuild. They're, you know, if they rip off a few wins, they're right in it. And the back end of their schedule is actually pretty easy, if you look at it. I think we're... We've got to play the Giants

and Washington a bunch of times. Because we're only 0-1 in the division. Of course, we have to play the Cowboys again, too, who are looking not half bad at the moment. No. I'm pulling up the stands here. Dallas is the only team I'm worried about in our division. I'm not worried about Washington or the Giants.

Although they did just beat the Tom Brady and the Bucs, so who knows? Oh, yeah. I mean, anything could happen. We're probably going to lose to the Saints because we never win. The Saints are just Eagles killers. And the fuck Drew Brees. And I just fucking hate that guy. I think the rest of the schedule, yeah.

I think there's, besides the Cowboys, that's weird how they have us just doing a whole bunch of division games right at the end. Yeah. That's a weird schedule. I don't know why they did that. I mean, at least we're home versus the Saints. Yeah.

Yeah, because I can't remember our win against the Saints in New Orleans in recent memory. No, no. I mean, Super Bowl is a Super Bowl. superdome is a tough place to play but i think you know the saints have been so goddamn inconsistent recently yeah i mean their whole season's been inconsistent but i think we have a a chance at stealing that yeah i think it's very possible for the rest of the schedule to rip off like six straight and then lose to the cowboys it would probably be in yeah i i would be surprised at like uh let's see i try to do the math here 17 game season 11 and 6 is what i was

sort of yeah 11 6 maybe on 10 and 7 was more accurate just because the cowboys i was thinking boys are in and not playing their starters you know what what I mean? Yeah, I was thinking nine and eight, but we can't have 500 anymore apparently. But yeah, one question, and this is something it's tangentially – I mean it is Eagles related, but the whole league is doing it. I am so fucking sick of these camo fakes. Salute to service bullshit nonsense. Why is it the whole month? It's a great question because it was

I thought it was just a week. I thought it was too fucking ridiculous and it's just like you please just keep this nationalism bullshit out of here. Can I just enjoy this and and it's boot as fuck which for those who aren't familiar with that if you for some reason stumble upon this podcast and you're a, you know, I support the troops no matter what, like, person.

The troops don't like this stuff either. They think it's lame as shit. So the vast majority of them think that the salute to service, the thank you for your service, you know, all this. They make fun of each other for that stuff, too. So it's called being a boot. the salute to service, the thank you for your service, you know, all this kind of, they make fun of each other for that stuff too. So it's called being a boot. And it's boot as fuck with all these fake military things. That's ridiculous.

It's just, could you imagine the German national football team coming out? We're in Germany. Deutschland, Uber, Alice, Jersey City. Yeah, and they accidentally play the first the forbidden verse. And they come out with

the uniforms, which aren't that far off from the Nazi uniforms still. We're digressing a bit. Keep the rants in. Yeah, no. Deutschland, Uber, Alice, and the fucking... What do you call it? Not Bundesliga. That's the league.

Bundeswehr? Bundeswehr, yeah. I don't speak German. You don't need to. They lost. I don't have to speak it. Yeah. Could you imagine any other country doing that and you would be like what the fuck but for some reason it's ridiculous it's so fucking ridiculous i hate it no and i and i hate how much they like push the merch too yeah that's that that it's just like

and every time if i i see occasionally people wearing the the camo the fake for those of you who might for some reason not understand what we're talking about, just look up NFL salute to service in an incognito mode so you won't get fucking ads. I have the ads. They are terrible. Yeah. It's just this shitty fake camo and they have like the name tapes on there, but they say like your team name and then NFL or whatever.

And I've seen people walking around with these. I'm just like, you're a fucking idiot. You got kicked out of boot camp, did you? Oh, I would have joined up, but I would have punched the drill instructor. Yep. Heard that a few times. Yeah, sure you would have, bud. And he would have laid your ass out, but

moving on. Yes. Did we want to touch on aj brown yeah let's talk about it um aj brown wide receiver for the tennessee titans posted a video about put some video to instagram apparently talking about depression and suicide and like we were talking about with lean johnson these dudes coming out of the uh coming out and saying like um and talking about their struggles has been really good uh i'm i'm happy to see it you know i'm sorry obviously that he struggled but i'm happy to see these guys you know especially playing a game that will kill them

a vast majority of these dudes uh i'd like to see that as a as a fucking uh nfl promo maybe they could pay for therapy for some of these guys yeah maybe it's a salute to service it's like salute to mental health yeah are they you know if you're gonna flush a billion dollars down the drain for the military uh you can give some therapists some money yeah they're usually nice people too um because they you know my mom is the greatest can confirm there you go uh it's just yeah it's another it's another um how do i put this you know i'm glad that lane johnson spoke i'm glad that aj brown speaking hopefully that this opens up ends ends this sort of warrior mindset that's in the nfl way just yeah yeah because uh i i think it was you that shared uh fucking what's his name making fun of i forget

what is that i i put it out of my brain because i was so angry yeah oh yeah no i was that's like that's like one of that's a hot like when you start saying you're mentally weak because you're depressed yeah like i'm just like all right like i'll punch you in the face like meet me somewhere you know it's me hey honey can you get the spackle kit the drywall i don't know why yeah uh it was not me yeah no it wasn't me someone broke in here and did that to us yeah someone got really mad can Can you even imagine? And not at their partner, but at dumb shit on the internet that is insulting someone who was brave to come out about their mental health. The – yeah, so it's good. And you're seeing it come out more like in other sports.

We had – what's his name? The hockey player. I think we talked about him in the first or second episode um we had that and in basketball basketball the guys have been talking about it for a while uh is it kevin love that's been talking about it i think so yeah the uh well that that that may be a segue to to our beautiful boy let's talk about this oh god go for it go for it so and i'm not going to be a hypocrite and and say it's not real or anything like that but but ben's still not playing for the uh for the Sixers. And by all accounts is refusing. Maybe he's meeting with team doctors now.

There's a bit of skepticism, and I think that Ben, I don't think it's just one thing. I think he has some mental health issues that are coupled with some other issues. Yeah. And, you know, when Joel Embiid is saying, or, you know, Ben feels like his partnership with Joel Embiid has run its course, you know, the mental health wasn't mentioned over the summer, at least not to my knowledge, but at the same time, like, mental health,

you don't usually get right on the first try. So I think it's entirely possible and probable that the dude, like, because you know that an entire city hates you. Yeah. I wouldn't feel very good. You know, I don't get the sense from Ben. And I could be wrong. You know, there is mental health, but it's not the Lane Johnson, AJ Brown mental health.

I don't think. And I'm not diagnosing. Right. mental health but it's not the lane johnson aj brown mental health i i don't think and and i'm not diagnosing right i i think that i think he does have there's something going on definitely uh the the sort of the last time i i cared to read about it was i think last week and the theory was basically if ben's not going to a doctor like then the way the league works is the league the team will be like oh here's our doctor we find the bill etc and if he's not going to do anything and not talk like not report anything then that's like almost the start of a legal way out of the contract i had seen that yeah yeah i i don't think that the contract. I had seen that, yeah. Yeah.

I don't think that the Sixers want to do that. No, that seems like the nuclear option. Yeah, that's like a money, you know, we don't want to spend. That's something I would imagine like the Phillies would do. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Or pick an NHL team. Yeah. The Sixers tend to be a little on the level.

We hope. We hope. Relatively, NBA teams relatively are more on the level, which has something to do with the degree of... Power the union has, honestly. Yeah, the power of the union. Honestly. So... Join a union, honestly. Yeah, the power of the union. Yeah. Honestly. So.

Join a union, folks. Yeah. If you aren't in a union, I guess contact the Wobblies. Maybe they'll help you out. DM us. We'll find somebody. Yeah, we'll find someone for you. We'll find someone. We'll find somebody.

Yeah. I know enough people. We need a union referral. Yeah. Oh yeah unions are good so i i think we're preaching the choir there but uh yeah so i guess i guess we'll see what's going on with ben i mean they they they could use them yeah especially i mean they are depleted. Yeah, that's a good word for it. Yeah. For those of you who aren't aware, a bunch of our guys are out with COVID, some with injuries, and we're running on fumes. I mean, those guys will come back.

Joel Embiid, our franchise center, is out with COVID. Tobias Harris was as well. Batiste Eibel. Seth Curry is hurt. I don't know if he's playing tonight. I haven't seen the injury report. Me neither. But, yeah, we are sort of running on empty.

I mean, I suppose if you have to have a time in the season to get the injury rug, you'd rather have it now, but like dropping five in a row fucking sucks. And it's not their fault. It's not their fault. Like the rookies and the bench are, are balling out is the only thing I can say besides that loss to the jazz. They've clearly been fighting.

They've clearly like had their hearts in it. I have, I have besides the jazz loss, which even then it's hard to critique after the previous few games. You just have nothing. Yeah. I mean, we had George Niang hero ball. We had Andre Drummond hero ball several nights in a row.

Tyrese Max hero ball. And you could tell just, and of course, our boy, the official player of this podcast is 4K and Corkmaz. Who is, I'm buying a Corkmaz jersey. Yeah.

I'm going to wait until you buy it. I'm going to be like, hey, 4K, what do you think about what do you think about, what's his name? Erdogan. Yeah? Erdogan. Yeah, Erdogan. How's he doing? I think he just stayed. I'm going to hear he's an honorable man and we shouldn't criticize him.

And I'm just going to be like, all right, hit the trash, I guess. He's going to be like, okay, how do I delete this from my email so when I go back to Turkey, when my phone gets searched at the border and all this shit comes up, I think that's probably what he's like. I'm not saying shit. Please don't deport't deport me yeah please don't ask me political questions thing um so yeah and and really reaching with shots you can see the end of the game they're they're sort of especially the the what were the two I watched most recently? It was – I mean, the Jazz game.

I'm scrubbing that from my memory. But I believe it was – there was a couple – the Bucs game. I mean, that was – They fought the defending champs truly until the bitter end. And I thought they were going to pull away with it for a minute. Oh, Toby is back, I think. Oh, good. I, I think. Oh, good. I didn't think he was. Alright, that's nice. Yeah, the next game,

the Raptors game, Maxie is shooting 54.3% over the last 10 games. That's insane. Yeah. And he's your bench guy. The Sixers, with some notable exceptions can draft yeah the although fuck the process uh indeed yeah yeah it's uh

you know it's depressing but it's not a you know ph Phillies shit the bed again kind of depressing. You're not. They are literally trying their best. Yeah. I truly, again, beyond the Jazz game. Sometimes you're just going to have those losses. Right. I'm looking at the point spread, like the point differential against the Knicks.

Lost by seven, lost by nine, lost by six to the Raptors lost by five to the Pacers. And then, yeah, the jazz loss was hideous. Um, the Sixers defense,

uh, they couldn't, I mean, the offense couldn't rebound. Uh, but like, they didn't have any of the, literally like none of their starters.

Right. I'm like, you, you're going to lose games like that sometimes. But, like, I have, beyond that, a game, like, these guys have been fighting absolutely out of their fucking minds. I'm really proud of those guys, especially the young guys who are just, like, I get you have to sort of fight for every minute. You know, you get, especially as a bench guy but like watching Furkan Korkmaz go for like 28 points like is

something special like it's been I love him yeah oh shit hold on breaking news breaking news Bryce Harper wins his second National League MVP award that's just as good as making the playoffs there we go yes Bryce Harper wins his second National League MVP award. Hey!

That's just as good as making the playoffs. There we go. Yes. Get a bullpen. Please get a bullpen. Bullpen, a left fielder, center fielder, shortstop. You can tell me all about your pain when we get to baseball. Yeah, we'll get to that.

But yeah, it literally just flashed up on my phone as we were talking. So yeah, back to Sixers. So yeah, I think once Joel gets back, maybe we'll trade Ben for a point guard. Although, if Maxie continues, it's a risky bet, but I like it. I think

if outside of the Jazz game, and maybe outside of the Bucks game, although not really, I think we would be talking at a Sixers game that won three out of the last two? Yeah, three out of the last five, four out of the last five. Yeah. As opposed to losing all five.

Right. Because he is that much of an impact factor. I mean, he's an MVP candidate every year for that reason. Mm-hmm. That's true. Do we want to move on to the Flyers? Sure.

Alright, they might be good. I think at this point in the season, I'm willing to say probably good. Yeah. A4 and 2? I'll take that. That's pretty good. They're still fun to watch. And, yeah, I think that so far I get my limited hockey knowledge.

Carter Hart is standing on his goddamn head. I told everyone Carter Hart is going to be back, and he is. There you go. I mean, they lost a game to Ottawa, I want to say, 3-0. But it would have been 6-0 if not for Carter Hart is going to be back, and he is. There you go. I mean, they lost a game to Ottawa, I want to say, 3-0, but it would have been 6-0 if not for Carter Hart. Like, he got no fucking help in that game. And Ryan Ellis, who just came back, is back on injured reserve. We have Cam Atkinson, who we acquired from the Blue Jackets,

has looked really good. This team is showing consistently good goaltending, consistently decent attempts at scoring, although they've won a lot of games 2-1, 1-0, and flashes of a genuinely really good hockey team. My concern is, can carter hart stay like this and if not is he gonna crater like he did uh last year is is this a team that like how's the defense like overall is it like the defensive lines are they you know adequate are they you know oh they're getting better like yeah you know it's honestly how i would say

it yeah uh of all the of all this i'm going to be honest with everyone of all the sports i've watched the flyers have been the team i watched the least because watching hockey is really fucking difficult for some reason well like if you have our the fucking break between periods is longer than the goddamn the scary thing is when they lose they're they're they're not in the game like they win more than they lose but when they lose they're not in the fucking game like if you look at their score like against the stars a couple games ago lost five two versus the leaves lost three nothing versus the flames lost four nothing versus the panthers lost four two and then you then their wins are 2-1, 2-1, 2-1. I worry that that is not a thing you can maintain over a season.

And I have my doubts that it is. And that could be sort of a situation where it's like, ah, shit. It's like Philly syndrome. You know, ah, we're behind. You know, might as well fucking call it in now. Like what am I going to do? Like I can't – there's no way we're going to score that many goals.

So what the fuck? The – you know, so you could be seeing that. Yeah. I just, I, I, uh, I cautiously optimistic about this flyers team. Yeah. It seems fun.

And, and you know, it's, it's kind of insane that at this point, the flyers are like the, the one we have the most hope in. I mean, I,

I'm not doubting the Sixers. I think the Sixers are still, they're definitely still a playoff team. Yeah. And this is not a – you know, to be doing this well without Ben, I think, is genuinely something to be proud of. Yeah, they've lost five in a row, but they're doing it with, like, their bench. And the bench is fighting tooth and nail. Like, you know, it would have been sweet to pull out that game against the Bucs or against the Pacers.

But, like, I, you know, they've been keeping it real close. Oh, you're talking? Yeah. Hang on one second. Yeah, no worries all this gets edited out thank you you're welcome have fun now that Liam's gone

really tight hello there welcome to all the criticisms I've ever had about the Boston Red Sox yeah welcome all the criticism. Welcome to all the criticisms I've ever had about the Boston Red Sox. Yeah. Welcome.

Welcome. Welcome to Marxist Leninism baseball hour. Which player would you have a struggle session against? Bryce fucking Harper. Oh, he's a fucking judge. He is a judge. Massive.

Massive. I would like to have a double Herrera sent to Gulag. Oh, fuck a double. Hey, guess what? Yeah, we can transition. Bye. Fuck you. We did not take his club option, although. Thank God, dude.

That was just. It was an embarrassing fucking signing. There was no reason to have him outside the fact that they didn't want to pay his salary and not get way around him. It's the only reason they did it. He sucked ass. He couldn't get on base.

He struck out all the time. He swung his bat like a samurai beheading an intransigent peasant. It was just, oh. And then when they were batting him leadoff, it was like, Jesus fucking Christ. We don't have any hope, do we? No.

Yeah. We have a surfeit of left-handed fucking outfielders. All guys who are kind of you know they can play you know they're they're in between triple a and mlb quality right do really well in japan uh but yes so doobles gone uh we didn't re-sign andrew knapp or backup catcher which uh you know he got a lot of shit but he was really good at calling games. And then what hurts me the most is that we didn't take the option on Andrew McCutcheon, who genuinely just a good dude.

Yeah. Fun guy. Good clubhouse dude. Not the greatest baseball player in the whole world, but who cares? This team sucks anyway. Yeah. Well, he's getting up there. And his knee's always bugging him and stuff like that.

I have a faint hope that won't happen, that they'll bring him back on some sort of smaller contract as a bench bat or something like that. That's not going to happen. Because they need a right-handed guy with pop against lefties off the bench, which they don't have.

It's interesting. So this is the first full offseason that Dave Dombrowski has to really shape this team the way he wants to. And he did good things with the Red Sox. He did a good thing with the Detroit Tigers. So, you know, I'm sort of cautiously optimistic for next year. Am I buying season tickets? Likely not.

But, you know, we'll see how it goes. You know, we'll see if there's any signings that are worthwhile. Right. Yeah. I'm also on the consciously optimistic train. Yeah. The Phillies overall aren't a bad team. It's dumb mistakes.

Right. And Joe Girardi played his part in that, too. I think this is his last year as the GM unless something amazing – or as a manager unless something amazing happens. Yep. And it's sad because I was kind of like happy when he came here, but it's like, ah, I'm not so sure at this point. Yeah, he favors guys he played with.

He favors veterans. And he does not like playing young guys. No, he doesn't. And that's a real problem for a team that has a bunch of dudes who are getting up there and no young blood yeah the thing with baseball more than like any other sport is and it's a long season you got to get a if you have a young kid you're bringing up for triple a he needs like 100 at bats minimum before you can really assess anything so you actually have to play this dude for a month or two before

you can really assess anything. And right. Like Mickey Moniak up and he's down, he's up and he's down, he's up and he's down and no consistency there. No really defined role. Not like, Hey,

we're going to trust you with it. I'm going to go forward. You know, maybe Adam, Adam Haisley might be back next, next year. He, he's another another guy he took like a leave because of mental health issues he hasn't really come out and really spoken about it which

is fair yeah yeah that's that's that's that's his right you know yeah oh the hockey player we're talking about carrie price yeah earlier this season he uh released a statement i just wanted to say real quick sorry i forgot released a statement. I just wanted to say real quick. Sorry, I forgot. Released a statement that he had been struggling with substance abuse issues as well. And I want to say, as primarily a Boston Bruins hockey fan and a man who, if I could, would get fuck Montreal tattooed on myself, if I thought they'd let me in the border uh i want to say that hockey is absolutely a better fucking game when carrie price is playing so sincerely hope that he gets the help

he needs and comes back and then loses all the time to us but uh sincerely hope he comes back healthier and all that shit yeah absolutely these uh plus the haves get all the help they can get right now they're not good yeah the the the more these guys are able to come out um i think baseball is probably the sport that needs this next i think so it's definitely you know gabe capler when he was playing when he was on the red socks yep he said he was the only democrat on the team and you know okay cool but consider that baseball teams have a large contingent of you know players from dominica republic players from venezuela players from cuba right who are not white um and you would think that your interests would align differently, but baseball is a very conservative sport,

which kills me because it's my favorite sport. And it's, you know, and that goes to Bryce Harper. So when I added this to the outline, we were talking, hey, is Bryce Harper going to be MVP? And I think the hint was that Mike Schmidt was tapped for the MVP ceremony. Mike Schmidt, also a guy who's not as nice as you think he is. No. Kind of an asshole. Are you surprised?

No, but my mom was surprised when I told her he was an asshole. Oh, yeah. You don't find things out about players. Oh, I guess that's – yeah. Back in the 80s when she was watching Mike Schmidt, like, oh, he's so handsome. Oh, he's such a good player, which of course he was. Phenomenal – one of the best of all time at the sport. But holy shit. You know, I was saying,

I don't know if it was on Twitter, he starts talking, every time he's on a broadcast, I'm like, Jesus Christ, he's going to start complaining about some shit. He's going to blame the Jews. Steve Carlton. Go look him up. Another Philly's great. He had some interesting takes on the Jews Jews we root for the dumbest fucking team

in baseball I mean that's the name of the podcast so Bryce Harper I feel it was a prelude to Bryce Harper being the MVP which he absolutely fucking deserved. He played out of his mind this year.

Yes. It would be great if they could get to the fucking playoffs. Yeah, hero ball. Get to the fucking wild card game, dude. Anything. Anything, please. If we hadn't got... If we hadn't lost...

I'm sorry. If we hadn't lost a fucking series in goddamn Pittsburgh, we would have been in the playoffs. Yeah. Pittsburgh. Yep. And honestly – The Pirates exist to, like, hurt me, I think.

You know what? If you're from Pittsburgh and you're listening to this, if you're a Yinzer out there, listen, you are hurt and you are valid. Love to our Yinzer brethren. Fuck the Nuttings. Listen, you are hurt and you are valid. Love to our yinzer brethren. Fuck the nuttings. Oh, yeah. You do not deserve that. Seize the team

for your own, right? Seize the means of baseball out in Pittsburgh. Do a green bay on them because you do not deserve that ship. Beautiful city, beautiful ballpark.

And some of the worst owners in baseball. Yeah. I mean, they're all some of the worst owners in baseball. Storied history and no fucking reason. Yeah. Yeah. It's,

it's, um, you know, so, uh, Blake Wheeler, uh, Zach Wheeler wheeler zach wheeler why did i say that but i get it confused with blake snell maybe i don't know yeah blake trant uh so he he uh second place for the national league cy young they actually tied in the voting and then uh

fuck now i'm gonna get who was the NL Cy Young? Was it a fucking... It was the Brewers pitcher. Oh, yeah. It wasn't... The big... No, what's his name? God damn. Oh, Otani, unanimously crowned AL MVP.

Oh. Of course. Otani. I mean, he's doing crypto shit, which... Which sucks, but god damn, he's fun to fucking watch. Oh, yeah. No, he's... People are like, oh, he's fun to fucking watch. Oh, yeah, no. People are like, oh, he's the next Babe Ruth.

Like, legitimately. But Babe Ruth didn't pitch while he hit. No, but like... Babe Ruth hit, but he didn't hit his home runs until he got off the pitching mound. So, Corbin Burns. Corbin Burns, there we go. All the Brewers.

And the Brewers had a good year, too. Yeah, so Zach Wheeler and I think it was about eight or nine Phillies games this last year, and I saw Zach pitch three times. And the dude was just another guy trying to carry the team. Yeah. Phenomenal pitcher. Yeah. I mean, he carried them about as far as I think he possibly could. Yeah. Phenomenal pitcher. Yeah. I mean, he carried them about as far as I think he possibly could.

Yeah. The Brewers looked like they were struggling pretty hard in that playoff series against the Braves, I think it was. Yeah. You think about it. You got Harper as MVP. You have Wheeler tie with them for the Cy Young, and then lost on points. And it's

like, holy shit, that's the best pitcher and the best player. The fuck are we doing? When do we finish? 82-80? That's winning. That's a winning record, baby. Hey, was it winning season? Yeah, sure, I'll take that, but

Jesus Christ. Get these guys some help. I want to be able to go to Citizens Bank Park this summer and have the official 10K losses outing where we get kicked out of the game for cursing.

I sure hope so. You will get warned at Citizens Bank Park for cursing fucking try me boys and sorry memory's coming back to me and I want 40,000

people just fucking going wild and because I remember the 2008, 2007, 2008, 2009, like the good years. I suffered through the fucking 90s. Yeah, fair enough. The youth of the young fans of this team

deserve their own version of 2008. But all this has something looming over it. We're going on strike, maybe, I hope. Maybe. Not literally us. I mean...

We could. My CBA is up next year. From my job. But the commissioner of baseball, in his esteemed wisdom, says, you know, hey, you know, a lockout's different than one that cancels games so it's not that bad okay guy that yeah i saw that i was just like that is that does not sound like someone who's interested in coming to the table in good faith no and a lot of the

the both both sides have been giving proposals to both sides, to each other. And MLB is really proposing some dumb shit. We're going to have a pitch clock. Yeah. Or we're going to tie your – we're going to get rid of arbitration, salary arbitration. Those who don't know – so MLB has like a fucking Byzantine contract. If you have three service years in

baseball, so that's three years. I forget how many days it is. It counts as a year. On a 40-man roster, which is the expanded roster, you have so much MLB service time. You get three years MLB service time, then you

can negotiate your contract with the team uh in a process called arbitration and they're like well let's get rid of arbitration because you know it's you know it's hard feelings on both sides and you know the team will do things like hey uh you were looking a little pudgy there two years ago i'm not sure you're worth this much so basically both sides submit a value to an arbitrator. The arbitrator determines which side they're going to give the money.

Usually, the team's low-balling and the player's high-balling. There's no shooting the gap. They can't go, I'm going to give you in between. It's one or the other. We're going to get you in between. It's one or the other, which is, you know. Right.

So, oh, we're going to get rid of this process. What we're going to do is we'll tie your contract to your Fangraphs War. So Fangraphs is a statistics site, and War is something called wins above replacement. Above replacement, yep. Which basically if – how many wins did you add to the team if you were if you were if you're on the team you know say we took you out versus like a vanilla replacement like an average yeah uh some sort of you know uh 45 out of 80 50 out of 80 on the on the scouting scale average player and that's so fucking stupid.

You might as well just hide the Bitcoin. Because you can manipulate players' stats so easily. Right. And they recalculate these stats and it's just, yeah. So no real good faith arguments on the side of the owners. But what do you expect from literally the worst owners of any sport?

These guys, baseball teams were forming. Slave owners were still former slave owners were still alive. That tells you the mentality of MLB ownership. These are not good people. You should not be sympathetic to them. No. MLB owners are just... Yeah, they're not.

And the guy who owns the Phillies, Moneybags Middleton, you know, he made all his money fucking tobacco. Which is fine, and we support. Which Tom and I support. Cannot emphasize this enough. Although I did say last night on Twitter, I was like,

you know, a cheeky little pipe once in a while is fine. I got yelled at for putting a pinch of snooze in Chicago. I can't relate. Everyone enjoy it without me. I'll just be over here.

Yeah, snooze. Listen. All right, you know what? We're going to get you a snuff box for Christmas. Thank you. One of the congressional ones. I want one of those, man. They're on eBay.

I would love to have seen Button Gwinnett or one of these old-timey dudes just doing... Did they grow out Coke fingers to do snuff? Yeah, sometimes. Usually not. Usually you're just pinching. Yeah. Pinch your pinchy.

I don't pinch anything. I would think that now it's a candy jar. It's a centaurial candy. I fucking hate these people. Just lame-ass shit. Speaking of lame-ass shit. Yes. Let's talk about the head-assery.

Oh. If you want to talk about... All right, this story just came up on ESPN for me. It was that Antonio Brown, former wide receiver for the New England Patriots, If you want to talk about – all right, this story just came up on ESPN for me. It was that Antonio Brown, former wide receiver for the New England Patriots, current wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. According to his former personal chef – hang on. I'm going to open this beer and hope it doesn't fizzle all over the place.

Very important. No, we're good. We're good, fam. fam um he or his girlfriend paid uh the chef five hundred dollars to procure a uh a fake covid19 card covid19 vax card uh dude google google in the some card stock. $500? Jesus Christ. That's pretty fucking embarrassing, man. Yeah. I was at Zahav not too long ago. Nice.

Yeah. Fancy restaurant for those who don't know in Philly. Although I'm not sure if I'm violating BDS by going there and good hummus and they looked at my vaccine card like you have to have a vaccine card to eat there they won't let you in

and I just you know they were looking at it like scrutinizing it I was just like how the fuck would you tell? It's printed card stock. But what if just it's, of course, Antonio Brown is going to do this. It's just dumb guy energy. And I just, I kind of love that rather than just pay the five, just getting the Vax

he now risks his probably not his career, but game check certainly over it isn't that a federal crime too? I believe so it's actually pretty serious if you're caught doing it he's rich, he'd probably get away with it

but it's just so fucking stupid he's rich he'd probably get away with it but what it's just so fucking stupid it's just stupid science is real guys folks you know don't get COVID I got COVID it sucked ass I think I lost 10 IQ points

damn dude yeah I mean I don't know if I did or not you know fuck you know and related COVID long COVID and shit I don't know if I did or not. Fuck. Related COVID stupidity. Long COVID and shit like that. I still have brain fog days. Yeah, my friend Kate does too.

It sounds horrible. Today was an okay day. Yesterday was a great day. It's much more... We're getting to a year at this point. Anniversary soon. Hopefully it'll go away. Hopefully I won't die at 65 from some dumb fucking COVID. it's much more you know we're getting to a year at this point anniversary soon so hopefully it'll go away and hopefully I won't die at like 65 from some dumb fucking

Kobe shit. That'd be just embarrassing. Yeah just fire my corpse out in space but yeah Also Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers you know and we were talking before we recorded about how we kind of used to like him a little bit you know he didn't seem like one of the typical you know and we were talking before we recorded about how we kind of used to like him a little bit you know yeah he was he didn't seem like one of the typical you know right protest yeah

fanatical weirdos yes he seemed like weirdo but all professional athletes are strange yeah you gotta be kind of a weirdo yeah he didn't he wasn't into the religion stuff uh which is is rare in football and he wasn't talking about jesus constantly like you said and like there was some weird stuff with his family but he also went to cal which tends to produce like even keeled guys yeah and then so he's just gotten into what that actually might explain all the alternative medicine shit yeah so he he lied about being immunized or when asked are you vaccinated he said i'm immunized yeah and they sort of took that as a yes from what i understand yeah uh so so is it confirmed that he ivermectin himself i don't know i think he may

have done something else actually i hope it was something like crystals yeah i'm really i'm like praying for something really bad yeah because i'm an asshole and i'm from philly yeah uh it's just it's just it sucks so much dude like this shit just sucks so much it's it's this is this is the reason why other countries are are successfully fighting COVID and we're just going to keep dragging this on and on and on for fucking ever as small business

owners cry that no one wants to work and all this bullshit. Pay more money then. Hey, have you tried paying more money? Have you tried not stealing their wages? No, they haven't. That's all they know. I mean, yeah, I guess you don't want to be a role model or whatever. Too bad. You're the quarterback of the Packers, dude.

You are a role model. There's a lot of kids who have grown up in Wisconsin. They dream of becoming a cheese farmer. That's how cheese works, right? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, and they look up to whoever the quarterback of the Packers is to give them advice. Aaron Rodgers, you failed in your duty.

Yep. Wildly. Yeah. And guess what? You might get COVID if he does the Lambeau leap. Oh. Can you imagine that? Oh, that would be fucking funny, dude.

Like six degrees from Kevin Bacon, but it's like, did you get COVID from Aaron Rodgers? That, oh. Hell yeah. Because then you could be like, because you know how sometimes opposing players will do the Lambo leap? Yeah, and they shove them back. Yeah, so you'd be like, no, we're holding them. I was like, oh shit, we're giving them COVID. That's a good bit.

It's a stupid shit. It always is, man. It always fucking is. Yeah, and these guys have college degrees well uh i think we've both proved you can go to college and not be all that bright yeah uh go go to subscribe to well there's a problem patreon and listen to the episode on college thank you yeah please do that um all right i think that that's going to about do it for this week. I think so.

Make your father judge joke. Yes. So father judge high school. I don't know if you knew this, Liam, but the field there is actually AstroTurf. And I wasn't sure if you knew why. I'm eating the grass Oh, the fighting councils Yeah The father judge

fighting moomoos Yeah I don't know if we've embarrassed ourselves. Yes. Please, edit that out. Yeah, I'll edit that out. Don't worry. So, yeah. I've been

compiling a list of bad jokes about Father Judge. Thank you. Doing our fans a real favor. Oh, yeah. I just hope one of these days we'll meet somebody judge thank you so yeah we should we should do it doing doing doing our fans a real favor oh yeah i i just i i just hope like one of these days like you will meet somebody from fucking because you said we had a couple listeners from canada and they're just like going on twitter and like hashtag father judge judge or adding them and just telling them they suck ass do not do this

that will get me banned from twitter. Yeah, don't do that. Yeah, yeah. I just think it'd be funny if we just, you know, make Father Judge the rightful international laughingstock it should be. Fuck that school.

Yeah. So you're on two other podcasts. I am. I am on Lions Led by Donkeys, which is a leftist military history podcast. And I am on Well, There's Your Problem, which is the only leftist comedy engineering disasters podcast with slides that we're aware of. Yeah. And fucking watch the slides. Thank you. Shut the fuck up. Stop complaining. Thank you, Tom. like you shut the fuck up stop complaining that

yeah yeah shut the fuck up i i did i did not get that criticism yeah fuck you that's why yeah that's fuck you that's why i you could take this two angles you could do the trash future you know slurp it up hogs or or you know no shut the fuck up stops, or you know, no, shut the fuck up. Stop being a baby. Watch your god. You'll learn something from the goddamn Titanic. We learned something. There's a reason we have lookouts on boats.

You know, navigation rules, coal regs, look it up. Thank you, Tom. Yeah, of course. I'm always willing to get mad about boats. Oh, oh, yeah, listen. You know where I am. You know my of course I'm always willing to get mad about boats oh oh listen you know I'm all you know where I am you know my phone number if you want

if you need me to get mad about boats on any episode you let me know I will so yeah I think that'll about do it for this one yes all right we will join you guys a couple weeks we will I think that'll about do it for this one. Yes. All right. We will join you guys. In a couple weeks.

We will not. Thanks. We are off next week. We apologize for the delay. Our personal lives sort of got away from us on this one. Yes. But we will be back. Yes.

Enjoy your Indigenous Remembrance Day. Seriously, I apologize. I forgot how we branded it. Fuck the pilgrims. Do enjoy turkey because that is good. I like turkey. It should be good. Turkey is not a bad food.

All right. Good job, everybody. Goodbye.