Ten Thousand Losses - Non-Actionable Threats

Episode Date: February 4, 2022

Tom and Liam get mad at certain sports betting simps. Then they answer a listener mail about the greatest non-championship moments they experienced, talk about Joe Burrow's sexual prowess, and cover the rest of Philly sports. PS sort for any reverb on Tom's audio, he's having computer issues.  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 force. 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 do us but they won't let anybody else do us hello hello all right welcome to 10 000000 Losses Podcast. This is your Philadelphia labor-focused lefty sports podcast. And I am one of your hosts, Tom Payne. And with me is my handsome co-host.

Thank you. Thank you, Tom. I'm Liam Anderson. Yeah love i love what you've written here oh my pronouns are he him and your pronouns are he him yes i love if you've written in banter here uh i'm gonna just quote tom directly i don't think i could say it any better myself come at me bro you fucking portnoy bootlicker fucks i will destroy you i will crush your hopes and dreams into a singularity of pain so in case uh when this goes out i assume the the stoolies will be bored but uh both uh my girlfriend and tom instructed me to to get off twitter for the day uh as it was doing me no favors uh for those of you who don't know i just want to put out a disclaimer real quick if you are a barstool guy or a barstool girl and you stumble upon this podcast,

fuck you. Fuck you. Absolutely. Fuck you. Fuck your hopes and dreams. Fuck your kids. Fuck your parents. Fuck your pets.

Fuck your favorite color. If you have one. No, I'm going, I'm going, baby. You have to edit this. Uh,

you, uh, serve no purpose and would be better off as jet fuel. That's right. Uh, we, uh, I am, I, I, I kicked the hornet's nest of stoolies today because this is what I do for fun is just upset people.

Because Dave Fortnoy was credibly accused of, I wouldn't call it sexual assault, but we are not lawyers, we are not experts on sexual assault. Filming women without their consent sexual impropriety i guess would be a good way of putting it yes uh doing a bunch of bad shit without his partner's consent and now there's a bunch of people getting mad at me because i pointed that out um which completely

completely fucking normal reaction. Yeah, I mean, if you're a ball stool, if you're a bar stool listener and you're still listening or something, I will give you the one chance to repent now. Repent your sins.

Abjure all interest in bar stool. Realize that it's really just a network bit around ripping you off. And you are nothing but a cash cow to him. He doesn't care about you at all. I mean, he's the same height as Ben Shapiro, but managed to be half as interesting,

which is hard. People coming out to support him on Twitter. I don't know if you're paid bots or whatever. But yeah, you're fucking stools. You're idiots. You're fellow travelers. You know, please, please come at us. Your insults mean nothing at all.

What is that line? Your booze mean nothing. I've seen what makes you cheer i you know i've been insult at worst by better people yeah absolutely also my name's not leland like that's the one that pisses me off the most is like so like they keep calling me leland and i'm like it says yay Liam right there like obviously Leland is a bit like that's that's 30 seconds of investigation well they don't follow you they just see that you were just in mentions or whatever and they just fucking or the on the you're trending or whatever and they just hopped on you like it's the same like I had this shit with the Elon Musk morons um I I commented it on uh I think it was Scottley, who's famous for Kerbal Space Program tutorials.

And I like him, but he's too into SpaceX for my tastes. So anyway, I commented. I was like, hey, you know what? SpaceX, the engineers, credit to them for doing the work. But I do not like their labor practices. And I had just tons of guys who were like, oh, well, you don't work for them without knowing what you're getting into. And if you don't like it,

you're just going to get another job. And I deliberately, it was like kicking a hornet's nest. I deliberately was like, I'm going to, for the record, correct the most egregious of these. And just had people just saying dumb shit. And I guess the advantage I have

is I don't have my face as a profile picture. So people can't just throw that back at me. Um, right. Um, so good luck with that. I mean, you know, you know, if I did put my face on there and you tried to do that to me, I think worse things about me than you ever will. So I feel that. So, so good luck. Um, you know, also I actually am supremely confident in my handsomeness. So good luck.

There is something to be said about having your face punched once in your life. You need to. Everyone needs it. I have had my ass kicked a handful of times. Same. And they're humbling. It's a humbling thing it sucks ass um it's not as bad as you think either but it's it's it was a formative experience for me to

learn that like holy shit you you run your mouth and you get fucking smacked and i guess maybe i'm maybe maybe this is like my old man shit kicking in you know being in my 30s like you know back in my day you know we you we used to do this. We used to smack you around if you said anything and whatever. You could say whatever you want online with no consequences. Your account might be banned. I guess if you

tweet some shit at American Airlines, you'd get the FBI knocking on your door. At FBI, it's the same as a sub-auto. They just beat you at the gate. Let's put an M4 in your chest. one that's not a good flight oh no uh i hate this place i i got i got a foia my my fbi file see what see what what they got on me um because i know i do have a file that's that's a thing your stoolies will never have is the love of a woman yeah and and of a co-host because i love you too liam oh i love you too tom oh so

sweet all right uh yeah we both have women that love us isn't that nice it's it's it's sometimes confusing but it is very nice um i mean we have our moms too and our partners i my mom is a five six dynamite lady and i absolutely believe if somebody if she heard someone be like like cruel to these like cruel like these people are uh uh she would absolutely just go feral i could see that like i i fully believe my mom would just become feral i mean i've only met your mom once but i could see that i could see in that video where your your mom and dad are debating the merits of uh mal's like cultural revolution or whatever and your dad is just kind of like all right at this point i'm just going to nod and agree and not really bother yeah i don't

really have a counter to this uh that is worth you know i don't want to sleep on the couch tonight so um yeah so oh man yeah so yeah like seriously like fuck this shit like i and the first thing is like you come off someone go after someone's appearance which is uh not really the uh apotheosis of argument i go after your one rep max yes he does yes you do tell me how much you lift please tell me like if you can lift more than me that's yeah go ahead you know i mean yeah let me see squat bench dead tell me what and i will know if you're lying yeah i can tell you know you know i can tell even if you use it could be a like something used to lift like five years ago i i can tell you know i could see if you got a yoke or not.

If you could pull serious way off the floor. If you can't, then shut the fuck up. I like the way you think, Tom. Either you can deadlift 405 or you can't. This only applies if you're insulting people with looks, by the way. I'm not being able to steer.

If you're a nice person, I don't care how much you lift. Right. Thank you. I'm sure you were able to haul some weight. Yeah, I can, but I don't like to. My knee doesn't like it. You can actually, if it's quiet

out and I walk up the stairs, you can actually hear my knee crunch. Crunching, just crunching. Yeah, and it's quiet out and i walk up the stairs you can actually hear my knee crunch crunching just crunching yeah and it's not like sucks it's actually normal apparently for some people i don't know if it's normal for me man we're getting old well that's what i saw something uh i guess you know we'll move on from banter after this i saw something it was like you live your 30s like your 20s until the injury i saw that too yeah or the diagnosis i'm just like oh no no thanks it was for me it was going up the hill going up a mountain this summer and suddenly i was like oh my there's no cartilage there oh i'm walking on crab meat. I'm literally bone on bone. This is not

how it's supposed to work. Announcements. Our bonus episode with Kate Wagner from McMansion Hell is up on the post Jordan Bulls. Please go listen to it. It's only a dollar a month and uh that was a fun one to put together absolutely uh i had great fun yeah i apologize for the crinkling bag um i'm not sorry for the crinkling bag and for i had to cut out some like

noises that were going on i did not realize I was being recorded with. And I apologize to my wife for hitting on the Chicago Bulls mascot. Oh, that's okay. Yeah. I mean, she understands, but you know, it's, it's kind of disrespectful. All right. Do you want to move on? Yeah.

All right. So mailbag. I've been talking a bit. Why don't you read the DM from Zach? Wanted DM from Zach. Wanted to keep the bit of interest calling into the Philly sports podcast at 3 a.m. We feel as left as it's much to reduce a wall in the middle of work and time theft

wholeheartedly agree thank you Zach and I answered just by the way I did respond to Zach saying oh I'm actually responding to this while I'm taking a shit so at work boss makes a dollar and I make a dime that's why I put a phone on company time

I think this hasn't been asked, but what's the highest high you've gotten as a fan of any team that wasn't a championship win? For Zach, it's either the Pirates. It's either all Pirates wins would either be the 2013 wild card game against the Reds or the back-to-back come back walk

off wins against the fucking Cardinals 2015. I know I love the show and hope for all the best in it getting bigger and bigger. First of all, thank you, Zach. Second of all, I have my answer ready to go. All right. Game 7, 2004, ALCS. Oh, yeah.

Boston, New York. That was my dad's bar mitzvah present to me. Oh, nice. Where the Sox are trailing. David Ortiz bombs one out, I believe, to right. And I remember they were playing New York, New York. It was an old Yankee stadium. Oh, yeah.

My dad went feral and like started taunting kids, started taunting adults, like just screaming, fuck you at children. Like absolutely unhinged psycho behavior shit. It was the best thing I've ever seen in my life. The Sox obviously went on to win the world series that year. That is, that is,

that is it. Yeah, that's a good choice. I mean, just as a baseball fan, the 2004 ALCS was something that made me a fan confirmed for life of the sport yeah i don't think you can get any more climatic and dramatic and just you know with a likable team than that that's funny because i'm confusing the game with something. I'm confusing the game with Game 5.

Yeah, the Sox demolished the Yankees in Game 7. It was 10-3. Did they come from behind? Was it a come from behind? Was Game 5 elimination? I believe it was close to it. It would have been 3-1. Okay. So they won 5-6-7. Yeah, so it would have been 3-1.

Okay. All right. Yeah, so they had gone down 0-3 and then won 4-4 in a row. Yeah, that was that was special. That was the Bloody Sock series with Schilling pitching on Crab Meat Foot.

That was pretty sweet. Yeah, 2004 LCS. Fucker Schilling. That was pretty sweet. And Rhode Island had it coming. What's yours? It's tough. I could say something that's latest, like the most recent,

which would be the walk-off grand slam from Bryce Harper against the Chicago Cubs. And it was, I think it was Harper's first year here. I might end up editing the audio in here in post. And he crushes it to deep right field. I think it's a second deck home run. And he runs around the bases like a kid who did his first home run in Little League. Like just pure, unadulterated joy at that.

Because it's such an unexpected thing to happen. It's not common you hit a game-winning walk-off Grand Slam. That was something beautiful. So that was like an insane amount of cheering and screaming. Adrenaline rock. Number two. The bases loaded. And one out. Oh, it's a foul. Deep to right field.

One up and one in. Second down, one left in the run. Ron Sloan brings home. Hell yeah, dude. You know, that's not a championship. I mean, the birds go into the NFC. The NFC championship. Yeah. I would say. With Nick Foles, that was a big one.

The Phillies go into their first World Series just going to the World Series oh that was when we beat the Dodgers and Stairs rips one into the night which is one of the few good Joe Buck calls Stairs rips one into the night

deep into right way out of here and Philadelphia gets a pinch hit two run shot and the Phillies lead 7-5 Up into right, way out of here. And Philadelphia gets a pinch hit, two-run shot. And the Phillies lead 7-5. That was also a really big moment for me. I regret to inform you that I like Joe Buck. He's all right.

He's all right. Actually, he gained a lot more of my respect after that incident with the flyover. Which one? The hot mic. Where he was saying, this is stupid. Yeah. He's absolutely right. It is stupid. They're dumb. What was it?

He took it on the chin too when What's His Name went on his podcast. He had an HBO show for half a minute. Artie lang went on and just completely ripped his ripped him a new one have you seen that no i haven't oh you yeah you have to um well i'll look it up oh oh it's it's and he just completely like existentially destroys him and joe buck manages to not choke him out.

And apparently they reconciled and he was like, yeah, no, it was a good burn. You actually got me. So he was a good sport about it. And that's something I, you know, with Joe Buck is he is a good sport. He knows who he is and he's gotten better over time. I think he's gotten better over time, too. I used to really dislike him, but I find as long as he doesn't do the thing where he sort of chases the

moment, if that makes sense. Like where he, I feel like he can get a little ahead of himself often, but he does that a lot less than he used to. Yeah. I don't know if you know, like a guy who gets ahead of himself all the time. Do you know Matt Vaskirjian?

Vaskirjian, yeah. He himself all the time. Do you know Matt Vesturgeon? Vesturgeon. Yeah. He's someone, he's like, you know, someone hits like a pop fly and he's like, and he hits it up. Oh,

and yeah, it's caught shallow left field. You know, it's like, all right, bring it down. Yeah. Bring it down,

man. But he, he, he makes everyone like he, he sounds like a homer for every team like he clearly just loves baseball i love those guys i i uh i'm forgetting who i was talking to but the uh the announcers for uh the bruins are jack edwards and i can never remember the other guys name but they are the worst homers in sports. And I love them. Like they are,

they like, if you go on, like there are like compilations by Canadians fans who are just like, I fucking hate Jack Edwards. Here's him being a homer. And I'm like, I just don't care. Like that's amazing.

Good. Fuck you. I hope you don't enjoy the sport anymore. I feel like the radio announcers end up being also like you listen to Merrill Reese compared to whoever they got on TV. Um, you know, the other guy's name.

Go on. Yeah. The, uh, the, like Merrill Reese is like a Phil, like if you don't know who he is, just look up Merrill Reese,

best calls, look up his call, the, the, the Eagle Superbowl when he, he's a, he's a phenomenal announcer. Um,

you know, and someone who's kind of a Homer, I mean, uh, Harry Cowles was kind of like that for the Phillies too. win. He's a phenomenal announcer. It's always kind of a homer. I mean, Harry Callas was kind of like that for the Phillies too. Oh, yeah. If you are a Zoomer listening to this and you are a Phillies fan, I'm sure you know of Harry Callas. If you don't, go just look up his best

calls. One of the best, I mean, he was a voice of NFL films for a bit for a reason. Like the man could call a ball game. And if you ever find yourself in lower hill cemetery, go ahead and sit in the veteran stadium seat right by his grave. You can't miss it.

It's the giant microphone. It looks like a dick. And yeah, just say hi to Harry decay. He was, he was a, he was a pretty cool dude, good era of Phillies baseball.

He was the kind of guy that kept you sane and I don't think the Phillies broadcast team has really come anything close to that. Andy Brickley, that's who I was thinking of. He used to play for the Flyers actually. He was drafted by the Flyers with the last overall pick in the

1980 NFL draft. The Flyers, actually. He was drafted by the Flyers with the last overall pick in the 1980 NFL draft. The Flyers, NFL? Did I say NFL? God damn it. NHL draft. That's all right. The sports podcast that knows nothing about sports.

We knew he meant. Oh, yeah. So those, you know, those are my moments. I don't know if you have anything else. I mean, you are a Red Sox fan. The pizza, here comes the pizza is pretty good. Here comes the pizza is pretty good.

I'm trying to know because the Bruins winning the Bruins going to seven games in each series of the 2011 NHL playoffs and having to win each in seven was, was pretty fucking impressive because they had to get through the habs and the flyers. Yeah. And then the lightning, uh, and then it was Bruins Canucks and the Bruins won it in seven. Uh,

the Bruins won, uh,. Uh, the Bruins won, uh, against the halves, which was the first round in overtime. Uh, and that at TD garden, and that was pretty fucking special. So probably that,

or like I said, 2004, 2004 LCS for me is just on like a different like plane. Yeah. Cause like, I know what happened. It was like my 2018, uh, NFC plane. Yeah. Because I know what happened. It was my 2018 NFC Championship. Right.

I mean, especially considering the history of the Red Sox and the playoff drought, the curse of the Bambino, all that shit. Mm-hmm. You know, it really... And the anticlimactic World Series. Yeah. Because the Sox swept the Cardinals. Yes.

Good. The Cardinals fans don't deserve joy. Yeah. Oh, no, we can't say that. I can say that. Because we might have, you know, maybe one day we'll have someone from St. Louis on. OK. Cardinals fans deserve the tiniest, tiniest bit of joy.

But no more if you are a St. Louis Cardinals fan and you want to get into our good graces please send us barbecue honestly because we got like two good places around here Mike's and

I mean I like Sweet Lucy yeah yeah mics. And I mean, I like sweet Lucy. I like sweet Lucy's. Yeah. Yeah. So. On to the, on to football.

Football. Change the fucking NFL rules or the overtime rules. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Let's leave with that. I, the, the,

the fact that you are encouraged to run the clock down to 10 minutes so that a field goal is sudden death, that's stupid. That's terrible. I've seen contrarian takes. I actually unfollowed. I will not mention who it was, but I unfollowed someone on Twitter for saying that the NFL rules, the overtime rules were fine. I am petty.

I think you should have a like a shootout with field goals or college overtime rules. I don't give a shit if it goes like three hours, like six hours or a two point conversion. That's how

college does it now. Okay. They used to do the old system which was better and resulted in like games where they were scoring touchdowns for the 25 yard line and it ended like 70 to 69 those are good games i don't like i'm like you know i don't wear pro labor player but like i don't care if you can walk out the day after the game or not like i like i want to see i want to see some 70 to 68 shootouts man i'm pro player but i want you to put three years on your acl um shootouts are fun um but yeah the playoff rules it it's just too frequent that that it's

down to a coin flip or just play a quarter like just play just play like an abbreviated court like i would be fine 10 minutes two timed outs no coaches challenge all reviews come from upstairs fine yeah and maybe and maybe like in an effort to encourage you to play offense like you do start on the 50 or something okay yeah so it automatically becomes a shootout, basically. Anything but what we have. Yeah, I mean, it's terrible. Sudden death over time is shitty. When you have a coin flip. You know, that's...

Because it robs us of good games, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you want to see some good shit happen. I'm sorry, I got distracted because Roz tweeted a picture of Stalin. Why? It's a joke. I'm kind of a Georgist. Oh.

Stalin's from Georgia. Anyway. Sorry. I don't want to make you mad. You're not making me mad. I'm just going to... Anyway, sorry. I don't want to make you mad. You're not making me mad. I'm just going to fight him. Yeah, I'd pay for that fight.

He's got tiny hands. I could kick his ass. I mean, you're both big guys. So, I mean, I'd like to see it. Thank you. Yeah, I want to see two best friends who when I first met you could clearly tell how good friends you were.

Just absolutely destroy the relationship in fist fight. We'll still be friends after. That's true. That's how guys work. That is. Yeah. All right.

Joe Burrow fucks. We should have left with that. Yeah, he fucks. Joe Burrow fucks. We should have led with that. Yeah, he fucks. Joe Burrow fucks. So, confirmed communist Joe Burrow. Yeah, I like that he's been digging up his old tweets. Joe Burrow's like, yeah, why don't they pay us? He's like, under capitalism, yeah, our names are worth something.

I was like, holy shit. And that was when he was in college. Yeah, Joe Burrow comrade? Maybe. I mean, we have like Sean Doolittle. If you know Sean Doolittle, please contact him so he can come on the podcast. So you have DSA guys who are in MLB. I don't think Joe Burrow is a DSA guy.

He fucks too hard. Apologies to our DSA friends. But Joe Burrow is never not fucking i think uh he he is a treat it's been uh because i was i've been talking to kirk about this is that like it's so much fun to not have two quarterbacks in the super bowl who like marry their high school girlfriend yes and are like lame lame like what i don't know Joe Burrow's religious beliefs, but like very visibly Protestant and annoying. I'm Patrick Mahomes

and I like to, you know, I believe in God and I go to church. And Matt Stafford's the same way. At his most anti-vaxxer, which is annoying. I got in this debate at work. It was like with my colleagues. Someone was like, no, Matt Stafford deserves all these years of Detroit.

I was like, no, he does not. He does not. He should have stayed in Detroit. I don't blame him. I know. I know. But like, I want Joe Burrow to win a ring much more than I want Matt Stafford. I want Cincinnati to have a win.

Yeah. A town that deserves a win. It is a Rust Belt town. It's been shit on. Suffered the same shit a lot of those Midwestern Rust Belt cities have. It shares that sort of spirit with Philadelphia. They deserve a win. And Joe Burrow deserves a win too.

And there are more players on the Bengals that I can get behind than on the Rams. Yeah. Yeah. I concur with that. Yeah. And also Joe Burrow fucks. I mean, it's like you're completely right. It's like, you know, there there's that that, you know, Carson Wentz ass energy.

Absolutely. You know, starting. Obviously, your religious beliefs are your business. Like, I'm so sure I'm fucking hearing about him. you know, Carson Wentz ass energy. Absolutely. You know, starting. Obviously, your religious beliefs are your business, but like I'm so sure I'm fucking hearing about them. Yeah, that was like my big thing was like Carson Wentz and Doug Peterson was like, okay, yeah, they start like a whole Bible club. You know, it's like, all right, cool.

Can you be an NFL player? Because this is something actually we could talk about at some point is that if you are an out atheist or just not Christian, you actually like in scouting reports they will mention that like like internal scouting reports because they think if you're not religious you're not a team player well i don't know how to help you that's i mean i i yeah like i have no reason to disbelieve that and like of they do, right? Right. Although Julian Edelman did just fine.

Yeah, or Aaron Rodgers, but he, you know, different issues. Different issues, yeah. Putting it very mildly. Just one moment. I just cracked open a Lawson's Hopzilla and it smells like I just cracked open a Lawson's Hopzilla, and it smells like I just cracked open like grade A

fucking weed. Lawson's is fine, dude. What's the really famous one they're known for? Sistma Sunshine. That's so good. It's like 8%, and it goes down like water. I'm drinking it, and I feel like I just had it

like an edible. Nice. Oh, man. I might have to drop something in there. I know people who've tried to make cannabis beers and they taste like ass. Yes, yes. I'm aware of this.

Alright, back to Joe Burrow. Jack, back to... So, we said the overtime rule sucks. We're kind of doing this backwards on our notes. But that Bengals-Chiefs game was a very, very enjoyable... That was a very good game. Very good game. If I don't pull my phone out...

Yeah, exactly. I'm just sitting there like that scene from A Clockwork Orange. My hands are down. I'm leaning over the coffee table. Where your eyes stretched open. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was I was at my girlfriend's parents house and like it was my girlfriend's mom's birthday. And I was just like, this is girlfriend's mom. I love you, but like I need to watch the Bengals play.

And that, you know, that, that those sort of boundaries, you know, me being a married man for a long time now, uh, you know, those boundaries you said over time, you know,

given, given, given my married man advice, uh, even though I'm barely a few years older than you, um, fuck, uh,

I don't know. 18 point comeback Yeah, no, I mean they were down what 21? 18 I don't know where I get 21 from The Chiefs had 21 points Right, right, right Yeah, so coming back with 21 to 3

Yeah, so 18 points. I'm not good at math as we've established in previous episodes I have a degree in history. Sorry. Uh, Oh, so it's my bank account. Um,

sorry. Uh, so, so yeah, no, it was a class, like one of these great comebacks, uh,

enjoyable to watch. Both teams played well. Joe Burrow again proved that he doesn't need an offensive line. I mean, he survived nine sacks from the Titans.

And they did a much better job protecting him this going around, I will say that. Yeah. Definitely. He didn't get sacked nine times. Yeah. Is that a record nine times sack and still winning a playoff game I'm sure it is that has to be um imagine

sacking a guy nine times and still losing yeah uh fuck um but yeah no so definitely if you haven't like watch it I you know highly suggest picking up the highlights the highlights are long because it was a good game full it was a really good game um and the and the chiefs you know highly suggest picking up the highlights the highlights are long because it was a good game full it was a really good game um and then the chiefs you know didn't i mean they

kind of shit the bed a little bit but not really they were still in the game but like they should like after they just sort of ran out of juice i think yeah i mean and like there was that like where they they try to go for a touchdown instead of just taking the points. Like, you know, they just got, they got, I mean,

they won the coin flip. Like, yeah, I was, I was greatly reminded and I posted this like in some random comment, the last North Catholic versus Frankfurt game. Yes. In 2009,

the North, North Catholic went for it on uh to try to try and tie up the game and then they missed the two-pointer and it came back to haunt them but they still ended up managing to win on like a uh i think it was a field goal hell yeah yeah oh yeah it is such like i actually there's part of me that wants to like i'm gonna take the footage I think it was a field goal. Hell yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. It is. Like, I actually, there's part of me that wants to like, I'm going to take the footage and then I'll like narrate it. Like maybe we could do that if we were really fucking drunk and watch a

two and a half hour college football game in four ADP and narrate it. Like we were actually, I do that as like a live stream. That'd be fucking funny. Oh, we could do that. Good idea. Thank you. Yeah. All right. I do that. Good idea. Thank you.

Yeah. All right. I like that. Um, cause the guys are like, oh yeah. Uh, so number 11 is playing real good.

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And number 12, he he looks like he's real quick. It's just literally like two 20 year olds. That's fucking fun. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That's. I'm going to take over this podcast as North Catholic reminiscing, but goddammit, every year we had this turkey bowl. I know every town's got their local turkey bowl, but the North Franklin one was so good. It was like almost 100 years of history there, and then you destroy that.

So I guess this is our cue for fuck Justin Regali this episode and to move on. We hate you, Father. Yeah. What do you call it, Bishop? Is it your grace or some shit?

I think it's your grace. I kissed that fuck's ring. We had to kiss his goddamn ring. I'm sorry. You're blowing out the levels. Put the noise gate on. I will be. Listen, if you want me to have a better microphone, please subscribe to our Patreon.

I will be. I will be getting a real mic in the next month or so. Faster if you subscribe. Sure. Do you even want to talk about the Niners Rams game? Because it sucked. I mean mean that was a boring game like I actually struggle to remember

anything from it I mean the Rams came back in the fourth quarter school yeah Jimmy Capicolo Jenny Capicolo didn't didn't pull it out I mean he's not he's not the world's best quarterback

they drafted Trey Lance for a reason yeah the Rams are a better team 49ers like good or dead excuse me I mean they were not better than the Packers they won that game for myriad of dumb reasons so it was kind of boring. I mean, there was no scoring. I think there was no score out of the first quarter. No, or it was 3-3 or something. Something like that, yeah. Or 3-0. Yeah, it was bad.

Yeah, so we're going to have the Bengals versus Rams Super Bowl, which, you know, come at me, Roger Goodell. Come defend the shield. We use the word Super Bowl, which, you know, come at me, Roger Goodell. Come defend the shield. We use the word Super Bowl. We must defend the shield.

We must protect this house. So Bengals are in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Go Bengals. I'm rooting for them to win it. Yeah. I think, I mean, we could talk more about this too next week. It's not this week so which annoys me i want the game to be next week like and then be done with with football and

dragging out to the middle of february is just too much very annoying um so i think it's gonna be a high-powered game i think it'll be fun. I mean, I want the Bengals to win. Money's on the Rams. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We'll see how it goes. Wow.

We have talked about football for like almost, almost 30 minutes. Yeah. So we're still gonna talk about football for like probably 10, 15 more. So our boy, your dad, Jalen Hurts.

Had ankle surgery. Yeah, it turns out he was thrown on a bad ankle the last four games. Still made the playoffs. Which you had speculated, yes. Yeah, we speculated, and I had the question asked to me today, does that mean if his ankle's fixed,

he will throw better? No, but sort of maybe maybe I mean which ankle is it left I think so yeah yeah so I mean that's not his plant ankle but it is you might be like not wanting to land on it so you might not throw as hard and running

you'd use both feet by and large yeah usually use both feet when you run so yeah that stinks and And running, you'd use both feet by and large. Yeah, usually use both feet when you run. So, yeah, that stinks. And our best wishes to our QB1. We'll see how that goes. Hopefully he heals up quick. Yeah, I'm sure he will. It's a long offseason.

Hey, we got baseball that might not happen. How exciting. It's going to be a union podcast for a bit You're going to have to get into soccer I know, I already know The Olympics have started I can squeeze some material out of that I watched our women's hockey team Take a crap on Finland today

As I was eating my breakfast Oh yeah, you were saying that Hell yeah No, we won 5-1 Show those fucking fans on Finland today as I was eating my breakfast. Oh, yeah, you were saying that. Yeah, hell yeah. No, we won 5-1. Show those fucking fans. Absolutely demolish them. I don't have any hate against Finland, I guess. No, as a man of Scandinavian descent myself,

I guess like, well, no, that would make it more natural for me to hate the Finns since I'm of Irish or Swedish descent. I don't think any of us would be podcasting. You include it on your other podcast if it wasn't for the Finns coming out with a certain video game. So that is true. Yeah. So I guess we owe everything to the Finns.

No, they're the Swedes. I thought Colossal Order was Finnish. They are Paradox of Swedish. Paradox of Swedish. But I think thatal Order was Finnish. I assume that they are... Paradox is Swedish. Paradox is Swedish, but I think the dev is Finnish. I want to... Colossal Order is goddammit Finnish. All right. Paradox is...

Is Swedish. Is Swedish. We probably don't have many... If you're like a Hearts of Iron nerd, you're not listening to this podcast. No. probably don't have many if you're like a hearts of iron nerd you're not listening to this podcast no yeah you're you're too busy uh trying to join adam often uh oh oh yeah a little too spicy there a little spicy uh the washington slurs have been renamed the washington commanders i like their new uniforms. You said so. I took advantage of the podcast account to retweet someone who was like,

these Wario-ass uniforms. I saw you do that. I was just like, ah, we have done. Podcast controversy. We need more drama. They do have some boot-ass like fucking patches. They're trying to look like they're like

army patches um the uniform isn't bad i think i think black uniforms are underutilized in the nfl um and their colors are not bad colors because so many teams are red and blue anything that's not that is sort of a you a that's a bigger problem than baseball i think but um yeah uh commanders really i yeah how about like potomac's or like that would have been a sick name uh trying to think what else i mean you can't have nationals senators Senators, you could pull back. You could strike a deal for generals. And if they did, I would hope they got flee. I hope Snyder would get fleeced on that. Yeah, exactly.

What else? What else is Washington, D.C. famous for? Corruption. Corruption. Overpriced French food. Yeah. Good Ethiopian food, though. Corruption Overpriced French food Yeah Good Ethiopian food though Good Ethiopian food

Probably better than West Philly I would say Wow Okay I love West Philly Ethiopian food You're talking to Queen Sheba let's go Two blocks from the old apartment That little area there Has some of the best just ethnic cuisine

Period that you can find Because you can find fucking anything there So definitely But overall Ethiopian food There's so many places in D.C. Because it's kind of like where their diaspora Sort of Colessed around the most

Is my understanding. Look, I'm just trying to give DC a win. That's fine. The Union, but they would have to fight with the soccer team for that. The Lincolns, the

Giant Dick. Big Dicks. Big Dicks. Yeah, big dicks yeah big dicks marvel dicks uh the wooden teeth um and ivory yeah uh it's actually slave teeth um if you guys didn't know that

yeah yeah uh fuck george washington yeah um really good at retreating yeah that was just yeah like like generally that was his best skill, was retreating. Exactly. Always in order.

Yeah, yeah. Especially retreating from Long Island is always a good idea. Anything you say in the Commanders? I mean, it's not a very inspired name, and whatever. I mean, I kind of liked football team. Yeah.

In a way. I did what it said of liked football team. Yeah, I did what it said on the 10, you know? Yeah. But onto more serious stuff. Do you want to talk about the Flores lawsuit? Yeah. So for those of you who are unaware, Brian Flores was fired by the Miami Dolphins after three

straight winning seasons. He alleges in the lawsuit that ownership instructed him to tank and he refused to. He also states that the giants called him in for an interview, knowing they had already made their head coaching hiring decision just to fulfill the requirement. We should talk about the Rooney rule for a second,

which requires pass in, requires an NFL team searching for a new head coach to interview at least one minority candidate because I think there's only one black coach in the NFL now. It's Tomlin, right? Is it? I think he's the only one. I can't think of another black coach. Let's look up. Hugh Jackson's out in.

He was in Cleveland, but now he's out. And I will say the Eagles did this exact same thing, too, with Deuce Staley. Yeah. So the Eagles are not innocent from clearly Deuce Staley would have been a good head coaching hired and they got Sirianni instead. And they got and they do. Staley has not been given a starting chance to start a head coaching chance, but he obviously deserves one over some of these pricks. But the allegation, the lawsuit also alleges that John Elway, GM of the Broncos, showed up drunk to his interview with Flores an hour late.

Oh, good. And the NFL is coming out quick and is like, oh, these accusations have no merit. But it takes you six months to investigate Tyreek Hill almost killing his own kid. But right off the bat, there's a without merit. Okay. Oh, man. kill almost killing his own kid but right off the bat you know there's a without merit okay oh man I'm looking up I looked up NFL coaches

and only came up was like there were five minority coaches in the NFL ah so Ron Rivera Mike Tomlin Brian Flores David Kohler David why is David Kohler not striking about I've never heard of that man David Kohler NFL

uh it's literally like only showing up on this website so maybe they spelled it wrong and then they had Robert Salet like he's not he's a Lebanese I mean I guess

it counts as a minority yeah so they misspelled it he was Like he's not, he's a Lebanese. I mean, I guess that counts as a minority. Coley. Yeah. So they, they misspelled it. He, uh, was the coach of the Texans. Yes.

And to be fair, the Texans are horrible. Oh yeah. As most things for Texas, but like all these guys basically go around the coaching wheel, but for some reason, black coaches don't. And Robert's still left.

That's true. Yeah. And he's, and he's, and he's and he's and he's levities i mean yeah if you can you know it's funny if you um i mean i don't want to speak for for my you know my wife or in-laws who are from you know um the north africa you know about that the whole whiteness thing i mean on the census they're considered white uh i don't know if that experience held true after 9-11 yeah so uh but yeah i won't speak for for her for uh their her

family's experience right with that bullshit right i mean that's just like there have been there have been court attempts but like i'm looking at this and like these guys besides maybe hugh jackson were never given a fucking fighting chance. I mean that do Staley really shit, like fucking chaps my eye. Cause like that he's a, he played for the, for the,

for the birds. Give, give him a real chance. Yeah. I think he sucks. He sucks. Like, yeah,

but you know, these guys, like guys are hired, being hired here all the time who are just fucking terrible. And the same thing in professional and in basketball. Like Steve Kerr, not Steve Kerr, Steve Nash was hired as a head coach with no head coaching experience for the Nets. Right. I'm like, okay.

Yeah, exactly. I think the coaching carousel, that sort of shit is the worst in the nfl you just have to have been a coach or a coach's son and you have a job yeah absolutely and and without merit it's it's it doesn't make sense to me you know how often coaches get third fourth fifth chances and it's all the same fucking dudes and this whole coaching tree thing i've never heard that in any other sport this coaching tree like that doesn't it's not a pedigree you know uh you're not you're not uh but you know i guess that kind of nfl is out of the major four sports the more conservative of the four so the most incestuous and yeah and that too

MLB close second especially when it comes to front office guys that's all just sons of front office guys that's almost all it is but yeah no

so like hopefully his lawsuit you know i mean one yeah fuck yeah sue them for over the shit to even if he doesn't win it's like it's like shining a light on this shit right um you know and i have students i had a student literally ask me what i thought about this and what was it about you know because this is something that a kid you had a student literally ask me what I thought about this and what was it about, you know, because this is something that a kid, you know, a student who's a part of minority, you know, wants to know about because it's about their representation at large in our society. Absolutely. And there's a ceiling on that that's artificial and bullshit that's put in place. And it's most obvious in things like sports and politics.

No, no, you're absolutely right. Yeah, that's that's some heavy shit. Well, I want to move on, try and keep this thing manageable. Yeah. 48 minutes already. Yeah. Let's let's Temple Ow owls football uh we have to believe in this stupid thing again don't give me hope kurt warner's kid is committed

kurt warner himself uh tweeted about tweeted go owls and we got a former running back from texas a&m named uh dalvin Hubbard, who basically was a reserve on A&M, but is coming to Temple, presumably to be our star back. He's going to run for 2,500 yards, and I am pinning all my hopes on this 19-year-old.

Yeah, he's going to run for 2,500 yards, and they're going to put a jetpack on Hooter TL and he's just going to fly around and, uh, execute the fans of the other team. That's right.

Um, that's right. That's what I, uh, yeah. So that should be fun. Um, hopefully they still play at Lincoln financial field and they don't try and destroy more of North Philadelphia

for their own dumb shit. Yeah. So we've got some guys, a couple three-star recruits at Temple. It seems like there's some optimism around the new coach and all that. Yeah, wow. It's not so bad. Hoping we... Yeah, it's uh it's not so bad uh hoping we uh

yeah it's probably not going to be amazing but uh hopefully better than last year and there's always a chance to make if fucking cincinnati can do it we can lose like what like like 63 to 7 to fucking uh ruckers yeah that was that was bad or Whatever that was, yeah. It was bad. Maybe we don't do that again. Yeah, it turned out to. Basketball. Lost to SMU and beat ECU. As always, the theme of Temple basketball this year is inconsistency. So hopefully they can get it together and make a run at Houston and SMU, who are sort of the leaders of this conference.

I don't know how likely that is. Probably not very, but Houston's like sixth in the country right now. Houston is a very good team. They'll get another crack at SMU in a couple weeks, and they'll get another crack at Houston On March 3rd So like if they could win both Of those Temple's in with a shout

Get your Brackets ready We are third in the conference so that's Something Yeah so I mean yeah they could be worse I mean last year they were absolute Dog shit so Not bad It could be worse Houston I mean, last year they were absolute dog shit. So, you know, not bad. It could be worse. Houston's also won like

11 in a row. Like, yeah. Houston's really fucking good this year. Philadelphia sports. It could be worse. It could get worse. It could always get worse. Villanova, not a Philly school. Leave us alone. No. Yeah, you're not real. All right. Let's talk about the Sixers.

Aren't you excited to talk about Mr. Simmons? Not again, man. Fuck. You want to talk about what came out with him and Shaq? Well, so apparently, so Shaq called him out. And Shaq, whatever you think of Shaq, he definitely is an interesting guy. And he called him out, as he's wanted to do on inside the NBA. I think it was like last week.

And apparently Ben DM him. It was like, you're hurting my feelings basically. Yeah. He wouldn't say what it was exactly. And, you know, so he was talking about that.

And then apparently the interviewer asked Shaq, like, Hey, and for some reason Shaq was wearing glasses during the interview indoors like Oakley ass looking man does what he wants it's it's it's I want to like Shaq

but he's too into like the cop shit I know sorry if you're a cop you list this podcast about how the fuck you found your way here so he does the like center right dad humor too much yeah um him and uh barkley i don't need to ever listen to those two talk again um and then it's funny because ernie's like southern baptist and he's like way more left

yeah and uh what's his name uh kenny uh yeah yeah he's he's he's pretty good i like him he's usually got a better take than than yeah i like kenny smith a lot yeah uh they they take well charles barkley i mean that's that's a whole bonus episode the the that era of the sixers and his weirdness because sometimes he says shit that's really true and then he'll just like shit in his own mouth yeah um but uh back to ben simmons so apparently uh you know they were dming there's a story that came out sort of to set this table yeah that uh ben simmons was hurt that doc rivers didn't basically fly out to california to convince him to play which is bordering on lunacy that is i'm not gonna call out you know i'm not going to that that is like someone who's maladapted socially shit like that's something where you need therapy yes if if it's and who could blame

you because you've been told like all the shits you were like 14 about how great and special you are like i yeah it that that's like that's like a test if you love me kind of thing and then that and that shows there's like deep insecurity like i'm not trying to analyze like psychoanalyze the guy right now um but that that's ben simmons i think is pretty clearly in need of help yeah um and he's probably like like most people in this situation probably surround it with like obsequious yes men yeah i have i have absolutely no reason to doubt that he is having mental health issues like maybe we we just don't know what they are. And I'm I'm tired of Philly talk radio commenting on them., I'd bring it up to my team. Right. If a kid stopped coming to school

because I gave him an F, and that stuff happens, that's a red flag like, let's get this kid help. So if that's what's happening with Ben, that should be raising red flags. He had that guy, what was he on?

Like the, the jet, he was like on JFK on the bridge with the fuck Ben Simmons banner. Yeah. If you saw that, it's like, all right, dude,

come on, come on, man. I get it, dude. There's how about fuck John Middleton or fuck, you know, Josh Harris.

Yeah, exactly. Um, I'm not sure if I got to this. The interviewer asked Shaq if Ben has his number. Shaq said

no because I ain't got nothing else to say or something like that. It's like, all right, dude. But you did have something to say. It was the same thing they always do inside the NBA where they basically issue scorching hot takes and then sort of pretend like they're not backing away from them as they're backing away. Yeah. Like, why don't you, Shaq, why don't you go meet him?

I mean, if you don't have time pretending you're like some sheriff's deputy down in Florida, why don't you go out and talk to him and bring along you know a sports psychologist or something and say hey dude listen let's talk about this because he says something he says he says something to the effect of like when people criticize me for not being able to shoot i didn't get upset okay correct like cool not everyone is shack right and and you are correct that the healthy way of taking it is not to stop playing for your team that is a correct statement but you but that's also the situation on the ground so it's relevant you don't uh bringing his shit to like the public's you know to the forefront is not how you're going to solve this issue. It's also like,

I, I don't know. I thought it was just pretty scummy. Like, yeah. To, to sort of be like, well,

like Ben Simmons messaged me like, and, but, but I'm not going to talk about it all coy. Like, yeah, I'm not going to explicitly say what he said, but I'm going to, you know, beat around the bush so you get the picture. Yeah, you shouldn't have said anything at all, frankly.

Well, I'm wearing sunglasses that I'm probably getting paid to wear. This really bothers you, huh? Yeah. Because he's wearing like full mirrored Oakley kind of looking things. Yeah, they were a little too much yeah um the sixers lost to the wizards in a pretty ugly game montrez harrell is our dad unfortunately yeah uh tyrus maxi is your dad yes uh the sixers did beat a very talented grizzlies team without joel or ben that's a great sign yeah you know uh my the one thing you really have to be worried about with a beat is his

conditioning so like if you know if he if he has to like take because he was on a rest night if god forbid and i don't think it's the same if he goes out with entry but like if he needs to take time in the run up to the playoffs, the team's in good hands. Tyrese Maxey is playing out of his goddamn mind. Oh yeah. Uh, he's, he's playing like a vet.

He, the Sixers can draft sometimes. Uh, but I do want to say one more thing about Ben Simmons, uh, which is that I've said from the beginning that drafting ben when you already had joelle and bead sort of made no sense and the sixers did pretty ugly when they also tried to have al horford as sort of a towering three so like i get where it comes from but like

ben also understandably is never going to be like yeah i'm okay with riding the bench right i'm a number one overall pick i don't want to ride the fucking bench like i get that but like and he's talented the sixers did put him in a shitty position i'd say uh but the rest of this is i think the guy just needs a change of scenery and some therapy yeah yeah he needs to lay down on the couch and, you know, do all that shit. You want to talk about the Flyers? No. Okay. The Flyers have won two games in a row.

Trade Claude Giroux. Just let him win a cup. And the press conference last week was unhinged. They were basically like, yeah, we're just like a quick turnaround away. Like, we just need to add a couple pieces. A few pieces. Yeah. So don't worry. Don't worry. The Flyers are are gonna be bad for a while yeah the young core is shit the old guys

are shit besides uh uh almost guys like carter hart claude gerrille uh let's talk about the fucking fellas which what is there to fucking talk about it's a CBA shit although I am in particular calling out this is an official call out the UK Texas Rangers fan they posted a meme

the handshake meme which was MLB and MLB PA being incompetent and I quote tweeted them with the podcast account and said, basically Rangers fans, MLB blaming the MLB PA for their own incompetence. So, um,

you never responded to my three tweet thread. So, um, you've lost the debate just so you know, that's, that's how it works. The, I put respond to me now, you limey fucks. First off, I ask the question, you're British.

Or you're British or whatever. I'm going to have to cut that out for your own edification. Thank you. Liam does not like my British accent. He's not. So, you're British. you don't have baseball. You have rounders or Welsh baseball, which if you haven't seen that, have you seen that?

No. They wear soccer kits for Welsh baseball. Yeah. So you become a baseball fan in the UK. You're like, I'm going to pick a team. I'm going to pick one. The Bush family has a stake in wrong. Yeah.

What the fuck wrong? Yeah. Like there's UK Phillies fan out there. Yeah. Good on you. You rock. I don't know you, but you're you post good shit most of the time. So you're cool.

But the MLB PA is not incompetent. I'm reiterating what I said on Twitter, but I don't give a shit. The owners hold all the cards. And they have set several issues as non-starters. Those issues are everything that the Players Association wants. I yearn for baseball with every fiber of my being my heart soars at the thought of pitchers and catches reporting next week i love baseball in a way that cannot be described adequately in words like like genuinely genuinely, there is a romance

I have with the sport in the 19th century romantic sense that is just a wonderful, beautiful thing. But that love does not come before the players getting their fucking share. And the

owners are cheapskate assholes who will not yield to the players and they're going to end up losing money and they know that the players don't have as much money to lose you know they have more to lose by not having a season

not getting paid because they're not billionaires and every time they have a meeting it's 90 minutes and the fucking uh mlb walks it walks away and uh apparently the last the last meeting they had was 90 minutes and they tried to talk about four things the minimum salary for players how long it takes to get to arbitration which is currently three years and the luxury tax which is sort of like a kind of soft salary cap, and service time manipulation. How do I say this without being too nerdy?

You have to be on an MLB roster for a certain number of days to count as a year. Right, right. Yeah. And this ties into arbitration. So they can kind of have you up for two years in the in the major send you back down and you're those two years on a roster don't count so they kind of get seven years out of you before you're a free agent that's fucked up yeah i mean what other sport has you play for six years before you're a fucking free agent I think almost every other sport's two years. Yeah. Yeah.

And I get, you know, baseball, Hey, you were invested in the guy for longer. He's in the minor leagues for five, six years before he comes up. But man,

some of these guys aren't free agents. So they're 30, but they're fucking them with the service time thing too. Like putting them down in the minors at the last possible second to keep the shit going and and you get you the i and uk texas range of strands if you're listening to this maybe you don't understand american politics they have a minimum wage exemption uh the mlb does for uh minor leaders they have a exemption from the anti-tr clause of the Sherman Antitrust Act. So what the fuck, man or woman, whatever?

I don't give a shit where you are. Like, what the fuck? So answer me, you coward. Join me. Answer him. Yeah, answer me. Answer him. Yeah, because I actually wrote a nice civil response and I wasn't responded to. Yeah, answer me. Answer him.

Yeah, because I actually wrote a nice civil response and I wasn't responded to, so. I'm sorry. That's all right. Oh, fuck. Man, we are, we're running long today. We're at hour five. Well, we're, we're, we've got an hour 10, hour 15, the last two, I think.

Yeah, I guess so. yeah. So we ended up front-loading it with football, but what other sports really besides the Sixers are worth talking about? Right. Fair. Yeah. What high school rejected Dave Portnoy despite that being his first choice? Father Judge High School.

Oh, that's embarrassing. Yeah. And they said he's too much of an asshole for Father Judge. Wow. That not so much a joke but fuck dave portnoy right yeah dumb face yeah he was too short to join uh to to i would love to fight him oh you're probably gonna have to cut that but like i'm six one dude i feel very confident my ability to fuck up dave portnoy uh we don't have to cut that i mean uh you told me told me three episodes ago that I could win in a fight with him. He's not a big dude or strong. I mean, so yeah, I got like several inches. Dave Fortnoy, I'm looking

up. He's tiny shit. That's what I'm saying. Listen, you can be a way for whatever. I don't give a shit about your body type, but it talks shit. Oh my God. I thought you away for whatever. I don't give a shit about your body type, but it talks shit. Oh my God. I thought you'd appreciate this. I told

Fred, whatever, that we would get dinner tonight, and I just got a text on my Apple Watch that just says, are you almost done? So yeah, we'll be done, Corrad. we'll be done we'll be done you know

take away Liam from me when it's my wife's at a book club tonight and so I have nothing else to do it's gonna be bad are you almost done I'm hungry okay alright

bye everybody Hungry. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Bye everybody. All right. Bye. No one likes us. We don't care.