Ten Thousand Losses - Show-hole Ohtani

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

Every night at 10kL studios is dollar hog night...as is every game this MLB season. In an extra-long edition of 10kL, the boys talk about the dick and balls situation with the Fanatics baseball pants, discuss the EA Sports College Football 25 announcement, review a Marcus Hayes editorial about Harper's requested contract extension, and go through a downright turgid mailbag.  Hayes' Inquirer piece on Harper: https://www.inquirer.com/sports/phillies-bryce-harper-contract-extension-spring-training-scott-boras-20240222.html  Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses  Follow us on Twitter: Podcast: https://twitter.com/tenklossespod Liam: https://twitter.com/notliamanders0n Tom: https://twitter.com/tohickontpain 

He is actually going to eject a fan. Because bad things happen in Philadelphia, bad things. The fan jumped into the penalty box area. Joy it is to come to Philadelphia and stand here and dodge an ice ball. We, the Dallas Cowboys, have assessed Mike John Cooney. And we are live, live recording a podcast. Balls. Balls.

That's what we're talking about today. Have you seen my balls i have not seen i have not seen your balls but i have seen someone on the san francisco giants falls yeah his beautiful balls uh actually well i'm not gonna body shame of anybody dude could kick your ass i mean yeah oh yeah no he's a better shit he's got a nicer mustache than me. I got that wiry, like, Celtic fucking shit going on. Despite being Northern Italian. Yeah. Boo.

Yeah, fucking Lombards, fucking Cisalpine Gauls. Wow. That was, like, that's a record derailment. Yeah, so you would be seeing my balls, though, if I was wearing the latest in Major League Baseball jersey. Apparently, every player now has to look like they're dived up. Yeah, it's weird, man. The new pants, what we're talking about, for those of you who aren't terminally online on baseball Twitter, as we are,

the new MLB uniforms are out out they're very flimsy they're very cheap they're very shitty looking uh nike has licensed their logo to fanatics uh i'm not going to get into the fanatics criticism because that could be an episode unto itself yeah that's actually a good idea for a bonus. Yeah, just how cheap and shitty everything is now. But yeah, you can see people's balls through their pants. So, if you like baseball players' balls, if you like their asses, well, we have a season for

you coming up. Yeah, don't worry because the Philz aren't going anywhere, which we'll talk about. I just... Why? I mean, we know the reason why we know why capitalism, it always is, always is race to the bottom.

Yeah. I got it. Like, Oh my God. It's so bad. They're so bad. I knew you just copied. Did you see the guy?

I think it was on the Rangers. It was like going all the way around his back. It was like a horseshoe. Yeah. Yeah. They look terrible, dude. Yeah. There you go.

Look at this dude on the Rangers fucking jersey. Bursa care. Wow, that looks shitty. It is comedic how fucking stupid that is. That's so bad, dude. The 94 is basically on his ass. Yeah, this is terrible that is imagine making this to be like guys i don't think i think something's off yeah no i'm thinking that looks good job well

done yeah good job good job well done it fucking sucks the mlb is gonna have to do so i mean you can literally someone someone's gonna i mean at we're going to see who has the biggest dick on the Phillies. It's probably – what's his name? Castellanos. Probably. He's probably – he's slinging. He has to be. Yeah, seven soft.

Thank you. Just painting a picture. Thank you. Thank you. Just painting. Thank you. Thank you. Does he wear a cup? Well, we're going to know. We'll find out. We'll see each individual testing.

Yeah. All right. Because, you know, baseball is a statistics-driven sport, so we're going to do ball size versus exit velocity. Does it correlate? Mm-hmm. Does having a dawn shaped like your bat have a conferring advantage? I guess we're going to find out.

Yeah, we're going to find out. That's what baseball's about. It's about statistics. It's about dicks. It's about ass. It's about getting to sabermetrics. Yeah, sabermetrics. Hold on. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah yeah you're welcome

yeah shit like I mean at least it's a comedic thing I mean the prices they're going for

like what like $500 for a fucking no way yeah some of the prices for the full authentic okay

I'm on Nike's website a one soto authentic is fucking 326 dollars oh that is fucking awful you can this is just like all right i'm gonna go to ebay and buy more of like the dhk stock yeah yeah that guy there's a guy on um on ebay who who bought all like the old majestics and and letter stock and will as long as as long as he has it he'll fucking stitch it up for you and that's that's legit that's like an actual throwback i've got compliments on that one the croc one yes yes yes yeah with the world series patch yeah go fucking on on eBay and do that. Fuck that.

Refuse to buy it. At least this, if I find the Reese powder blue, which I want to get, I know it's going to be the old. I know it's going to be the old. It's fine. At least it's like... At least this error of capitalism.

It's capitalist foray and the cost cutting. At least it's visible and at least this this error of capitalism it's capitalist foray and the cost cutting at least it's like visible and the players are seeing it and it's not like hurting random people i guess but yeah it sucks dude it's just it's a reminder of the contempt that manfred and the sport and the owners in general have for us the fan. Right. They don't give a shit. We're just... Hang on one second. Yep. That was my dad, who didn't know I was recording. Oh.

That's okay. That's all right. Yeah, I mean, it sucks, right? Because it's just more contemptuous attitude for the players, for us the fans. And they just expect us to eat our slop and be happy about it. Yep. And I'm actually surprised that the Phillies haven't gotten a sleeve logo yet. Yeah.

There's some god-awful ones out there. The Mets, New York Presbyterian one was really bad. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just, like you were saying, it's like contempt for us. Right. We deserve nothing and we should be grateful for it. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like you were saying, it's like contempt, contempt for us. Right. We deserve nothing and we should be grateful for it. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to,

you're going to go out there and watch your baseballs. Aren't you? Aren't you buddy? You can't do without it. It's like, fuck you. Yeah. I don't want to,

but I sure can. Yeah. God damn it. What else am I going to do in the summer? Uh, improve myself. Drink. Drink. Drink?

Just drink. I'll leave that to your imagination, listener. Yeah. Yeah, it's not. It's cum. No. It's not cum. It's beer.

Why do you always go to cum, man? Well, we were talking about balls earlier. Yeah, I mean, even so. You know what I mean? Yeah. Makes you feel better. I'm trying to buy a reggie white jersey for 160 dollars nice yeah um 300 sorry that's with the authentic oh like the mitchell ness mitchell ness but they they're out of stock for everything ah it sucks at least those are like well made for it for now for now because they got bought by fanatics i think

dude yeah any can i can we petition the president be like president you know president biden you're you're you're a philly guy you're a philly guy we're all pals uh you and uh rizzo definitely got along back in the in the 90s over crime. I bet you have thoughts on that, don't you, bud? Yeah. I'm going to buy this 1990 Jerome Brown jersey. Yes, love it. That is sick. I encourage you to waste

your money on that. What was I going to say? The Yeah. Oh, buy an old buddy, old pal. Listen. I've got this thing called the Sherman Antitrust Act. Kind of a little rusty right now. Hasn't been used in a bit.

Why don't you spin it out for a little bit? How would you like to save baseball, Mr. President? You stupid asshole. I mean, if you may be the president, I'm yielding that act as a cudgel. Yeah. I'm going to be open about my grievance politics. Yes. Yeah. Me too, man. 100%.

I'm writing an executive order. You are right and correct to do this. I'm writing an executive order to get rid of the antitrust exemption. Oh, but that was a congressional act. Okay. Well, I'm commander-in-chief and congress isn't so

what are you gonna do about it are you gonna impeach me over that we're gonna do this yeah he's made his ruling now let him enforce it don't look up but that's from yeah is that stalin jackson jackson oh yeah uh jackson one of the most uhplexing, one of the most interesting characters. I wish I had the balls he had in some cases. Speaking of balls. Yeah, he misused his balls in many ways. But in some cases... I hate going to the Eagles pro shop and it just being like a fanatics experience.

Like, yeah, no, don't... We're just going to buy a Steve Iseberg jersey. Fuck it. This seems like a monopoly to me. They're trying to corner the market. Fucking use the Antitrust Act. Use it. Philadelphia Eagles here on DHgate.

Let's see. Sherman Antitrust Act. This is how we do it. Was that William Sherman or a different Sherman? No, a different Sherman, dude. John Sherman. Oh, he was his brother. I didn't know that.

Yeah. Yeah, me neither until right. I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah, me neither until right now. We're here for it. Oh, right. So, yeah, history, facts, balls, that kind of stuff. And, yeah, so you know by the number of balls that you're listening to another episode of 10,000 Losses, the only Philadelphia sports podcast that exists. I'm your host, Tom Payne.

My pronouns are he, him. With me is my co-host Ye. Liam. Hi. Hi. What are your pronouns? Oh, they're he and him. Fuck my ass. Thank you. They're he, him, or fuck ass. Depends on who's yelling at me. Yeah. Pronoun jokes.

Get really mad at me in my bio. I don't know. Yeah. I love that guy got mad at you and i just kept going like you know that is a pronoun that then just stops him being like real mad yeah they're all douches yeah i've never expected these people they they so someone had commented forgive me for for not giving you credit but a paraphrase where they said, I don't know what weird lingo you culture comp warriors have, but it means nothing to normal people. So the little dumb in jokes they have, they go off tittering, pronouns of bio. Does it mean anything to a person that has anything anything close to normal politics it makes no sense well of course it doesn't dude that's the whole point the point is for

to not make sense the point is that like the culture war bullshit is just like oh you have pronouns and bio like opinion disregard it's like i'm sorry that like it's a it's like a a a it's a show of respect you know on some level but also like but also I do also genuinely get a kick out of people who the posture is like tough guys on the internet and they're just like melting down over like a basic construction piece of language. Yeah. Every single language has pronouns.

Every language has pronouns. Not just personal pronouns, but relative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, all that stuff. And it just shows how little knowledge these people fucking have. Right. Yeah. That's the whole point, right? It's willful ignorance.

Yeah. Pronouns are so scary. And like. Or what was it? Oh, you have a cat. You're going to go. You got to go to your cat is this like it is like yeah i don't i don't understand that one yeah oh is it like toxoplasmosis is that like what

makes you woke like go drink your milk like yeah like what the fuck? These people are fucking insane. And it just is funny, because if you would say that in real life, people would just be like, you're a fucking idiot. Shut up, dumbass. Shut the fuck up. Right. What are you talking about? All my friends are on 4chan. No.

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yeah all righty so uh i see i see the first two items you added so i'm gonna let you lead into those yeah so uh fucked flyers that's pretty much all i gotta say about that uh they're making sort of a second half charge uh i believe they're in the three spot in the Metro right now. They're like, what, 32? No, that's the Sixers. Yeah, Sixers are three and five without Embiid, but Flyers, Standings, because we don't do this before we go to air.

I used to. And we never will. Third in the Metro. Yeah, they're five, four, and one in the last ten. They're fine. I mean, just i fucking hate the flyers i am not philly four for four i'm philly more accurately two for four uh my loyalty is divided uh but yeah i mean fuck the flyers i i hope nothing but the worst for them uh owen tippett's fun to watch that's all i gotta say about that glory to the boston bruins uh god's own hockey team yes uh shut up uh who are who will be triumphant and uh definitely not break my heart in ways i couldn't even contrive of a year ago

uh absolutely the the fucking worst team to to root for in ways because they're so dominant in the regular season and then they get to the playoffs and they piss and shit and fart all over themselves and die in repeated gory ways. It's like being a Dodgers fan. Yeah, but there are no real Dodgers fans. There's no organic Dodgers fans.

No, shut up. Let's move on to the Chiefs speedrunning the most unlikable team in the nfl award by signing a rapist trevor ariza uh he was dropped from the suit uh he always said fuck the fuck head on the bills yeah i have no reason to believe that justice has been done or served uh fuck the chiefs you don't need a punter that fucking bad i can tell you that right now i know i know andy reed wants to he's like a gives guys second chances it's it's the

best and worst thing about him i know it is truly the best and worst thing about him uh andy reed has given a lot of guys second chances that wouldn't have gotten them otherwise and my line remains the same is that everyone deserves a second chance but i don't know that it has to be playing professional football yeah andy reed christ--like figure, maybe? He's a Mormon. You do it out what you will. Yeah. Neochrist. Right. You want to talk about NCAA

25? Yeah, so they dropped the fucking trailer. Temple's gonna be in it. Yeah. Oh, shit. I fucking deleted the Temple drop. Fuck. Temple, Alice, I can't wait. I can't wait in 4K UHD to fucking lose to Tulane.

Yeah, Eastern Carolina, Tulane, the best teams. UCF is a good one. What's the other one? USF is now the big 12 oh usf's a big 12 yeah you thinking of uh oh who's the fucking team oh the university of texas at san antonio oh yeah yeah utsa is the american now sun bowl baby yeah oh hold on one second i want to i'm gonna get the whoever else is in the american now because it fucking sucks all right it's south florida you uh central is central is in the uh

south florida the university of charlotte florida atlantic university smu holding it down as we know the university University of Alabama at Birmingham. The University of Memphis. The University of North Texas. East Carolina. Tulane. Rice. Tulsa. Wichita State.

Temple. And the University of Texas at San Antonio. Oh, my God. That. Oh, Army's coming in. Right. Another team to lose to in football. Oh, yeah.

I can't. I can't wait. This is this is horrible. They. Team, I guess it'll be good because it's going to suck. Yeah. I mean, it's sports are better than we're worth. I wonder worse as we know.

But. Yeah. Looking at a dude, I'm looking at the American football standings from last year. We went three and fucking nine and one and seven in conference. Temple. Do they have the 2024 schedule? We play Oklahoma this year, dude. We play Oklahoma.

We play Oklahoma this year. We're getting the money. We're getting the money for that. We're getting the money. Yeah, we're a buy game now, baby. We got Oklahoma, Coastal Carolina, Utah State,

UConn. What else? Is that all the games that we have scheduled? That's probably all that we have scheduled. They don't schedule for a while. It's weird. We're going to lose. Watch, we somehow beat Oklahoma, but lose 89-2. It's Coast. Oh, we're going to lose. Watch. We somehow beat Oklahoma, but lose 89-2 against Coastal Carolina.

I always root for the Temple suicide bomb option. Oh, I love going to Temple Owls football home. We made the ESn bottom 10 kent state uh the university of louisiana monroe umass temple uh ohio state is here ohio state yeah because they keep can't beat michigan dude akron vanderbilt the university of texas el paso nevada and ecu the american are terrific because why does anyone at this conference even play football i i love i love temple football i'm like not sorry for it i know i love that we have like a like obviously they always get blown out but temple basketball is at least good for a few laughs every year uh yeah keep it close and keep it

keep a gross approach oh you know uh for those for those keeping tabs on my NCAA 14 dynasty, we'll see. I got my last year with P.J. Walker. So I got one more year until the last of the red shirts are gone and it's all fictional, guys. Right. P.J. Walker, though, is a Heisman candidate. Wow.

Yeah. So, yeah, he's a Heisman candidate. Wow. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, he's a, he's a 99 overall right now. So he's been balling out. We'll see how it goes.

Um, and yeah. Uh, although I have a, I have a six foot five, 220 pound white wide receiver from fucking Kentuckyentucky and his speed rating is 94 that would be a terrifying dude to run into in real life yeah and i'm dude who runs like a 4 3 40 who could also carry you yeah so it's my uh my my current plan is uh whoever's the quarterback

even if they're not good i'm just gonna throw to throw just four verts, throw to this guy, because he's going to have six inches on most of the cornerbacks in the conference. So, yeah. I like it. Yeah. So NCAA 25, it's been what? 11 years? Yep.

Since the last NCAA football game. That was always my favorite. I've always liked the recruiting and the dynasty thing. You don't have to worry about the finances. I've always liked that. And we've actually done a lot of talk. A couple of bonuses we talked about. There was one bonus we got with the college sports one we got into in particular. i don't want to like retread ground but um yeah though it looks like it's

coming um i'm going to pretend it's just going to be a madden clone and suck and then if it's good it'll surprise me yeah i think that's probably what we're gonna get honestly but yeah and madden hasn't been good in years i think i think this might... The one thing that might happen is they've been working on it a couple of years and it's the first release. So they aren't under any pressure to make next year's game yet. No, they probably are.

Well, yeah. Because MLB The Show is like this might be the first year I don't buy it. It looks the same. Unless something real new comes out about franchise mode uh it's not interested i just don't care i i right the this another good topic for bonus would be like like collector card modes in sports games yeah microtransaction shit like that yeah they're they're outrageous and mlb the show has been like pretty decent but it's starting to leak in and like you have these collections or cards that you just

it's like i i work for a living i can't i don't i can't spend five hours a night grinding like right if right if it was something i could do on a sunday morning oh but cool i finished my collection and then but it. But it's not. I feel the same way with Call of Duty, a game that I play a couple times a week. And some microtransactions I'm just not interested in. It can't hold my attention that long. Not that it can't hold my attention,

but I have a job and a wife. And I just would rather not spend my money on what I basically view as gambling with colors. Yeah, it's nothing you can actually own. It's just like a dopamine hit in the game. Right, exactly. And it's just not a thing. Yeah, but yeah, we'll see what happens with the game. It's funny how they're announcing they're going to have it in there.

Maybe they were doing the stadium sounds while we were there at the SMU game. Just us harassing SMU players. John Wesley was a heretic! Keep that in! Keep that in! The band leaving at

halftime. That would be nice if they had like, if your team's really bad by the fourth quarter, the stadium is empty. Yeah, I like that. Because it's funny. Like in NCAA 06, which was like the GOAT one, in my opinion, you would have that happen. You would have – by the end of a bad game, you would have that happen. You would have, by the end of a bad game,

you would have like almost no one in the stands. Or if it was like, you know, like a real shitty conference game, you know, you would like, I don't know. They,

they, NCAO sick had fucking tons of, well, that was called what? Division two, right? Yeah. Or one double A.

One double A FCS fcs is known now yeah so you could play like the you know the delaware hand the blue hands who are transitioning to or being left out of ncaa 25 because they're transitioning to fbs oh hell yes we got we got i'm i'm looking forward to the first temple delaware Losing to Delaware. Losing to Delaware. Maybe they'll pull an App State, be really good, and we'll have another team to root for. Yeah. I mean, Joe Flacco was a Delaware.

Yeah. Yeah, I got nothing against – I have family in there. I have family in there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so we're looking forward to that. And, yeah.

So we got um some you you uh famously on twitter talked about how you pried the remote away from your wife to watch the nba all-star game how did that go oh it was but dude it was it was awful i mean i i kind of like that the players have just turned it into like we're not going to really, but we are going to try to score 200 points. Like we don't give a shit about defense, but we think 200 points is kind of funny. So we're going to do that. Yeah. I don't need it to be good.

I don't care. I mean, I get from the league's perspective, you know, well, this, this is kind of like our crowning, you know,

exposure moment. But I don't give a shit about that. I care about the sport of basketball and therefore don't care about the all-star game. Yeah. Uh, I don't believe there's any reason anyone should, including the league,

give a shit about the all-star game. I think it's funnier that they don't care. I think it's objectively funny when players are just like, fuck it. Can we score 200 points? Yeah. Uh, I,

I think at the same time, like if you did like an NBA cup and like made it count in ways, I think it could be worse. The in-season tournament was at least a novel approach. I wonder if doing something like the All-Star, the better defensive team by certain metrics know those players get a cash bonus or something but like I don't see any reason to tweak it I think if you made it I think that honestly what I would do is make it three on three half court

and make it like a 20 minute pickup game and like also like bring in dudes from the G League like they did with Matt McClung in the dunk contest like identify players you think are going to be good they already do a rising stars challenge but like that's kind of like tucked away like it would be cool to do like a especially since the nba wants to improve like how it's viewed internationally especially regards to china and especially regards to like

the nba development camps in africa and in europe i do think moving to like a rotating format where like at some point they're like okay we're gonna do like usa versus world like that'd be sick i'd like that and then the next year they do or they do like three mini games like the way like the or even tournaments like it would be cool to do like all right we're gonna do 10 fucking minutes of three on three ball uh and you know these the guys from like this this division like i'm gonna look up mea divisions because i don't know them off the top of my head because i have a life and they don't matter they don't matter but like it would be fun to watch like joel mb jason tatum and like whatever dudes on the raptors this week like try to learn to cooperate in real time that would be very interesting yeah yeah yeah you're not allowed

to talk beforehand yeah yeah or or or like you know i rotate like world verse like i said world versus uh usa like open by college would be cool like do like all right like tatum and like you know whoever went to duke versus whoever went to kentucky like let the players pick themselves like that would be really cool like all right we're gonna have like yukon alumni versus kentucky alumni like learned to how to make it cool yeah it would at least be novel like you know i don't know that you can get anyone to give a shit least of all the players about the nba but like watching like donovan mitchell and yannis play on the same team like along with like tyree's halliburton three on three pick up 10 minutes would be fucking cool yeah no i i agree that would be cool um

yeah do something do something do do something, do something different. Um, do something weird. Get weird. Cause, cause the only all-star game that actually where the guys like try and play a game is, is the MLB one. Yeah.

Also NHL. Cause those guys just kind of hate each other. But yeah, I like, I like the MLB all-star game. Like, uh, I always watch it.

It's always, it's just like, it's fun. It's fun. It's fun because the league isn't. Oh, okay. Hold on. You need to see this picture. Hold on.

Oh, boy. Am I going to look at nuts again? It's a little more nuts. That's a dude's whole dick. That's a hog. That's a dude's whole dick. I don't know who that is. We're looking at...

That's a whole penis. That's a penis. We're looking at an MLB player bending over, touching his toes. You can see his hammies and you can see his dick and balls. It's just there.

Am I going to get banned for retweeting this? No, probably not. The other one got deleted. Howard's, the San Francisco one? Yeah, they deleted it. Oh my god. Oh my god.

This glorious, stupid sport. That's gotta... That's gotta be intentional at this point we gotta show how bad this is they gotta do, I don't wanna like backtrack too much, but come on, you gotta fucking do, you can't have thick balls flopping around man, every time someone does

like a great play, you're gonna have to censor a fucking replay, cause their dicks get mashed into the dirt, or something like that guys are gonna get hurt out there, just look in the dong there's gonna be a guy sliding at a homie just a dick print i'd say that's a good episode title dick print um uh imagine it starts like raining and like the the way the rain falls. See the hog. Yeah. Oh my God.

We're not even pretending anymore. We don't care. Oh my God. It's so funny. I think it falls right there. How long till we get some hole? There's going to be hole at some point. There's got to be hole, right?

Welcome back to 10,000 Losses. America's most serious sports podcast. It's just you got like you got like, you know, sometimes they'll do the umpire cam. Yeah. And you get the catcher bedded over and it's just his assholes right there. Tasty. Show hole. Show hole. Show hole Otani. Tasty. Showhole. Showhole.

Showhole Otani. Oh. That's the episode title. There you go. Yeah, what if there was a baseball player, but his name was Showhole Otani? I'm cracking myself up so much. I know.

Okay. I gotta... I'm not even looking at it anymore. I can't stop laughing. I took no substances. I am completely sober. I'm unaltered. All right. Think about completely sober. I'm unaltered. All right.

Think about sad things. Think about those sad animal commercials for a second. All right. There you go. Okay. Back to the NBA. So speaking of... Someone's making their triumphant return to the Sixers tonight. Kyle Lowry.

To Philadelphia. He's never been on the Sixers before. Kyle Lowry will make his debut on the Sixers tonight. And, yeah, we'll see how it goes. See if he's better than Pat Bev. Let's hope. Yeah, we'll see. Excuse me.

Yeah, no That'll be the first Full NBA game I watched this year So I've been doing a bad job Okay Yeah I guess we go right back to baseball Do you have anything else on the

Sixers or NBA? No well um do you have anything else on the sixers or nba uh no all right oh i opened up the tab again stop looking at dick and balls i gotta change it yeah so someone shared it on the tippy pitches slack so um yeah in the in the in the in the horny channel. Sorry. You're okay. Just now I'm thinking about like is the player circumcised or not? We can find out this year.

Moving swiftly on. All right. Probably because it's baseball. All right. So Phillies did some things. We were poking them. Come on. Do baseball. All right. So Phillies. Phillies did some things. We were poking them. Come on. Do something.

All fucking offseason. Now we got Whit Merrifield. Not in his prime. He was good like three years ago. Oh, cool. He's a bench piece. He's a utility guy. You know, speedy.

Okay. Defense. It's kind of like a Jake Cave replacement. Yeah, he's getting up there. We also get Spencer Turnbull, so kind of if we want a six-man rotation, he could be like a swing man there. Right. Yeah.

First spring training game is on the 24th of the month of February and is coming the same day as the next Union game, the first Union game of the season. I don't know if Wayne called in about it, but there was a nice self-goal that the Union scored. Saw that. That's a nice start of the season.

Of course, with the racist guy, Kai Wagner. You're good. You don't have to of course. Ah, you're good. Yeah, you don't have to be suspended. Punish for your racist shit. Yeah, fuck that. But yeah, but we did notice something. This guy, Caleb Ort.

Do you want to read the Caleb Ort saga who was on the Phillies for like three days? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me bring up his wiki. Hang on. Caleb Ort is now on the orioles he made his mlb debut in 2021 and was not selected at the at the draft in the draft okay so let's read this guy's fucking suck so he he he starts in the frontier league which is

like an independent league. Yes. Then he goes to the Diamondbacks, does not make an appearance. And then two months later, signs with the Yankees. Does not make an appearance with the, I believe, does not make an appearance with the Yankees, like the New York Yankees. And then he, during the Rule 5 draft, selected by the Sox, goes to the Worcester Sox. It wasn't Worcester. Jesus. I've been away too long.

Worcester Sox. He makes his major league debut, allowing one hit and no runs in a third of an inning. Then he goes back to Worcester, goes back to Boston, splits time. He's recorded to save in September 29th, 2022. Here's where it gets weird. He's waived October 2023, October 11th. Two days later, he's claimed by the Mariners, October 13th, 2023, Corinne's birthday. Then December 2nd, he was again claimed off waivers by the miami marlins

he was dfa'd five he was dfa'd on february 7th 2024 so a couple weeks ago and cleaned off waivers a third time on february 13th megan's birthday by the philadelphia phillies the phillies then designated him for assignment on february 19th and it was traded to the Orioles for cash considerations later that day. This poor fucking guy. This poor guy. It's like the Furcon-Korkman shit, where it's just like, you'll be buried under Camden. Oh, poor guy.

Now, I'm wondering, if the MLB salary is prorated, so like the minimum, the league minimum. I doubt it. I mean, so he's made a couple, you know, like maybe like – A couple bucks basically. Yeah, like maybe like $2 million. Yeah.

Which, get the bag, my man. But He's He is still pre-ARB Eligible meaning that I guess Is he still counted as a rookie? No not anymore But he could be Just tendered a contract And be like yeah it's your fucking contract So

Yeah I mean with He's got like his ERA was like 4.8. His career ERA is 5.34. So, yeah, there's a saying that relievers are like punters. They're fungible. So I feel bad for relief pitchers because they do have to move hounds fairly often. But this guy suffered more than most.

I'll point out that Reese said about Odubel Herrera that he would have to... It was on Herrera to try and gain the trust of the organization back, which I think is the best thing to say in terms of a situation like that. Well, pitcher Aaron Nola said that he believes in second chances

and that he believes his teammates would be just as accepting. I'm going to put Aaron Nola in a blunder. Where did you come across this? Dubal Herrera's wiki because I was looking at Rule 5 pitchers. Draft results? Rule 5 drafts, yeah. Oh, yeah, Reese. Oh, that picture I sent you you reese he wants to come

home he's got to retire as a philly we've got to get him back yeah reese please as soon as i saw his picture that picture i sent you like the first thing in my head was like all around me he looks pretty grim, huh? Like, just sad. He looks so sad. Bring him home. Any Brewers fans listening to this, you better fucking treat him right. All right? Because he's a treasure.

He's a sweet boy. Good man. Yeah. And by all accounts, legitimately a good man. So we got to get back. You want to talk about this Bryce Harper shit? Yeah,

this is a fucking reason he's not around because of fucking Bryce Harper who's very, very good. But, but, there's a but here.

So, he's been trying, this is, we're, we're using an article written, published today. It was pushed to my phone

and for some reason whenever I get Inquirer sports updates, it comes in threes. Like, it gets pushed three times before I can fucking read it. I get those. Inquirer, please fix your shit. Also, why do I have to keep fucking signing in? Dude, I fucking know. We support local journalism, but we don't appreciate the local journalism could clean up a little bit. Yeah, I appreciate the Inquirer, And it's actually like a fucking non-profit.

Like, it's not a... It's a legit, like... It's not owned by fucking Bezos. Yeah. And the Inquirer's a good newspaper. Someone's got to keep the fucking... Those clowns in city council

you know, accountable. But anyway, this is by Marcus Hayes. And if you don't know who Marcus Hayes is, he usually comments on the Sixers. He's a sports columnist for the Enquirer. Sometimes he's got some, I don't want to say clown takes, but questionable takes maybe. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it's Philly. It's Philly. A lot of sports takes are meant to rile up. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's Philly. It's Philly. A lot of sports takes are meant to rile up. Right. Us. Yeah, us numbers. Yeah.

We're drunk morons. Yeah. I'm drunk moron with a sixth grade education. I can read the Inquirer. If I have a fourth grade education, I can read the Daily News. So Bryce Harper risks alienating. This is the title headline. Bryce Harper risks alienating Philly's teammates in Philadelphia with his outrageous contract request. No, it doesn't.

Okay. So I just did like a bunch of Trump hand gestures. I'm sure you did. So we are 100% secure the bag, get fuck them fuck the owners right yep i do see where marcus is coming from in in in his in how he talks about how i'm not really worried about the teammates i don't think the teammates give a shit but it there is a point to be made about the team, the fuck, the cities, the fans. And so here's the gist. First off, he starts off, and you thought Terrell Owens was crazy. Not since T.O., who in 2005 wanted to renegotiate a seven-year deal with six years left,

has a Philadelphia athlete requested anything as audacious as Bryce Harper. With eight years and $196 million left to go on a contract he signed just five years ago, Harper and his agent Philly villain Scott Boris have told the Phillies that they want an extension. Okay, so Harper wants an extension. Harper wants to make the money that some of the other guys in his free agent year got. His bracket, basically, especially with what we're seeing from Otani with the Dodgers and stuff like that. I totally get it. My initial reactions to this are like, I give much less of a shit about bryce harper asking for more money than i do about middleton like spending the requisite capital right he can afford it like

i don't he can afford it but i do get the like if you're a player and i'm speaking like you know specifically like if you're just like a rotation guy yeah i think that kind of pisses you off right like right and you're not wrong to be like bryce like you like they were saying in the article like schwarber only has two years left yep like you can't and to be fair like you can't prioritize harper over schwarber at least i don't think you can you can't prioritize harper over schwarber in terms of like deal doing a deal right now. Oh, right. Oh, I, I don't think short.

I think Schwerber's done after his two years. I like Schwerber a lot. I like, all right. Like I've had the same thought. So both Schwerber and Hoskins are on two year deals. Do you bring Hoskins back as a DH? No,

no, no, I don't 30 home runs a year. Nope. I mean, obviously it's. 30 home runs a year? Nope. I mean, obviously it's not 40 home runs. So you would take Schwerber over Hoskins? Yep. It's like a Solomonic dilemma there.

I know. I know. But you can also make these dudes. I don't know. I don't know. That's why I'm not a GM. I mean, I am a GM in OOTP. I know, know. I don't know. That's why I'm not a GM. I mean, I am a GM in OOTP. I know, bud.

I know. I won't get into that right now. So the article, and I have to say, Marcus talking from a PR perspective makes sense. Yeah. So he says here, now 31, Harper says he wants to play to his 40s. He hasn't been fully healthy since in the last two calendar years.

Exactly. Let's try to make it through the 30s first, huh? Okay. Well, the UCL thing that happened, that was a wear and tear thing. But the other times he got hurt, like he was hit. He got hit. Right. Yeah.

Now, he goes, Harp's popular. But I mean, read the room, man. He was part of this epic two-game collapse that allowed the Dimebacks to steal the pennant just a few months ago. It was more than just him. Okay, I'm not following Harper. Whatever. The bat's on silent, but not just Harper's bat. Yeah, that's on the team.

That's on the team. 25% of Philadelphians live below the poverty line and cannot afford to attend a single Phillies game. And he hopes for what? An extra three years and $150 million? Okay, that's a fair point. cannot afford to attend a single Phillies game. And he hopes for what? An extra three years and 150 million. Okay. That's a fair point. If you are a Phillies fan in this city of Philadelphia, where a quarter of people live behind below the poverty line.

Right. And while baseball is a more affordable sport to attend, unfortunately you can't bring your own food in. It's still like 25 bucks, you know, for a cheap seat. It's still too much. It's still too much. It's still expensive. It's still expensive. It's still like $25 for a cheap seat. It's still too much. It's still too much.

It's still expensive. It's still expensive. And this guy, when he asked this publicly, it does, I got to say. Raise eyebrows. It comes off in a little bit of poor taste. And I know he's floating that out there. And I know how contracts work and this stuff. And I'm sure he's asked for it privately.

And I got to say, when Marcus further down says, this is an almost unprecedented misstep by Harper during his Phillies tenure. Because he is really good. They call him the pander king. Right. He's really good at pandering a Philly. He is. The jersey kiss, the I hope I get buried in a Philly's jersey. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. And, I mean, obviously, he's a generational talent. He's going to be a Hall of Famer. Has been since high school. Yep. Yeah. And, you know, I know that he – I'm sure he loves playing for Philly. I don't think he's lying.

But that is going to rub people the wrong way. And he definitely has matured. I mean, I think everyone fucking hated him when he was on the Nats. Yeah. I mean, I sure did. Then on the other side of things, I could see this, right? That maybe this extension could Shift the money Like alright well only pay me Like lower that AAV

And then shift Backload this contract Let's get one more guy And then we're not going over the fucking luxury tax I could see that Like the Otani deal Where he's only making really 2 million a year Right exactly Until after his contract's up So I could see that. Like the Otani deal where he's only making really $2 million a year. $2 million, right.

Exactly. Until after his contract's up. So, you know, some of the stuff that Marcus here says is like, imagine being another player and hearing this. I don't think the other players would really give a shit. He talks about this might rub Kyle Schwarber the wrong way. Well, you don't know that. Right.

Unless you're in Kyle Schwarber's brain. Yeah. Schwarber might just be like, fuck it, man. the wrong way well you don't know that right unless you're in kyle schorber's brain which yeah sure reminds you like fucking that i imagine like him going like what do you think about harper i don't think about that at all man i think about i think about us playing the games and anything doing money it's i think about me and that's it i i don't imagine the guy who's that i mean hoskins was reese was like the the clubhouse captain now who's now I mean Hoskins was Reese was like the the clubhouse captain now it's now it's

definitely Schwarber right I yeah and the rest of the article talks about how you know players tend to

tend to really drop off a cliff it's you know going to be a change. By the time that his contract's up, we're looking at a new Phillies era. The window's open for the next couple years. Schwarber's not all a super long deal.

The next two years he stinks, I'll just let him go. If Cassiano, same thing, you know, that's a, that's a big, big chunk of money.

But yeah, like if, if some of the, some of the new kids come up, you know, Stoddy and, and he mentions his article like Stoddy and Boom.

I don't, like, yeah, okay. But, but, um, um, and Marcus talks about too, he goes, you know,

Hey, he's really healthy. He's like unnaturally healthy for his age. He doesn't drink. Yeah. Well, he's Mormon. So that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he's, you know, Hey, he's, he is daddy. When you, when you see, look, I mean, man, you got it. man. You get it. Can't wait for those pants shots. Stop it. Be normal. I don't know. Dabrowski's sort of... And again, Marcus is doing his interpretation.

He scrolled down for the article. He says, Fortunately for the Phillies, President Dave Dabrowski is sort of – and again, Marcus is doing his interpretation. He scrolled down for the article. He says, fortunately for the Phillies, President Dave Dabrowski views Harper's request with appropriate incredulity. Earlier this month, he told WIP, quote, you can desire and want anything you like, unquote. Between his gentlemanly manner and his desire to respect Harper Boris, that's as firm as a, quote, are you fucking kidding me, unquote, as Dabrowski can manage. Right. I think you're reading a little too into that yeah i would say yeah um yeah i i uh he also calls terrell owens a narcissist a combative diva okay all right that's that's All right. That's Marcus Hayes there for you. What does he say here? He says he's not a diva.

He finishes our article saying, DeBrasco also said to the radio station, knowing Bryce, that when he gets to spring training under any circumstances, he's ready to go and you know that you're going to get 100% from him in any regard. That should be true for at least the next five springs. It's like, oh, you got to be real cute with this. Oh, so what do you think? I have to read this. Meh.

What do you think? Hard meh. Meh? Yeah. Hard meh. I got to say, I will say in terms of I agree with Marcus here when it comes to the fans. It's going to come off as...

Alienate them. Yeah. It's a working class setting. Yeah. It's just the way it is. Oh, man. The comments are enable on this. Oh, no.

Yeah. Harper will lose all goodwill if he keeps this up I don't think that's true Yeah I don't often Agree with Marcus' comments but I think he's right on this one That's too long Someone talked about how Mike Schmidt is better

Okay I don't know what to tell you about that Someone said If he gets us a ring then talk I don't know what to tell you about that. Someone said, if he gets us a ring, then talk. That will play more with the fans. If he comes up with a wing next year or two, all right. I could see the fans be like, all right, let's pay the man. I could see that.

I kind of believe that. Someone's saying Justin Crawford will be better by then. He's a fucking prospect. Justin Crawford. Oh, wow. He's 10. Yeah, he's a baby. Do not apply for a job

at the Boris Corporation. I wasn't going to. Yeah. Name me one Philly star Hayes doesn't like or attack hey hayes is the guy who shits on the beat right calls him lazy yeah yeah yeah all right we're gonna close that so uh yeah if you have any any like we said this earlier in the show like any hyper local sports takes bad takes uh bad takes or controversial stir-the-pot takes less. All right. We're going to move to our feedback section.

We got a couple voicemails as well. No DMs, although I will say thanks, Wayne, for sending me the NCAA 25 news. That's sweet. Yeah. Appreciate that. All right. So, I'm going to go in order.

Some of these are from right when the Super Bowl came out, but they're still relevant. All right. Let's go. Hi, y'all. This is Ari Sheher. I'm calling in from 626 on the day of the Super Bowl with my official prediction.

I think probably the outcome that would make the most people mad is the Chiefs winning. So that's probably what's going to happen. You're in luck. Oh, also, I figured you'd find this funny. I have an uncle, apparently. He died a couple years ago. But apparently he used to claim he played one game for the Philadelphia Eagles

back in, like, the 50s or 60s. I don't know. Dumb story. a couple years ago but apparently he used to claim he played one game for the philadelphia eagles back in like the 50s or 60s i don't know dumb story but apparently uh when he died a couple years ago he got a bouquet from them but i can't find anything about it but uh funny story seems like the kind of one thing and i'm full itself uh yeah i mean go birds, I guess. Go birds. Yeah, have a good one. If you want to forward us, you don't have to publicly post or anything. Forward us the name. Or you can just look up yourself. Go on the pro football reference.

Yeah, we can figure it out. Yeah, we can. And through our links with the Tipping Pitches community, we have a lot of stat nerds that we can annoy who would love to look that stuff up for us. So if you want to pass that along, we won't share. If you don't want us to share it, we don't have to share it. We'll have to dox you.

But that's kind of cool. I remember someone that I had worked with at some point had a family member who was a center for the Eagles. What's his name? Jaws was. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I think I told you that. Yeah, the guy's all CT'd to hell right now.

I don't know if he's still with us or not. But that's cool. And you were nice with your prediction. You were correct. Well done. Well, thank you. We got a voicemail. What's next she her pronouns and I just wanted to say before I get started thanks for being one of the rare like non shitty sports spaces really nice here but that said it's the start of spring training and that means

that the Giants have not broken my heart yet oh I swear to god if they become the worst offense in the league in august and september like they did again but this time it's the rookies that are getting ruined instead of shitty veterans on one year deals i'm going to scream um i don't know i i think like probably two or four of the big guys being bailey harrison lu Luciano and Montos have a chance at popping off and we'll see about the rest. Rotations made a duct tape and Logan Webb's Cy Young caliber arm

I think he's probably going to finish second for Cy Young again to some probably, I don't know, Spencer Schreider again, but whatever. Do the nays. Also, can we get the Boris guys to just like sign our date like this is fucking unreasonable I don't know he does

have to be going like we need a place like I need to know where we're living for the season right like gotta be something to like kick the kick the Boris guys to sign but i don't know i like that to get players paid but fuck me if this isn't frustrating um but yeah uh also um for the

playoffs uh besides the dodgers who must choke again in the NLCS as is tradition they will yep how well do you think the Phillies are gonna how well do you think the Phillies are gonna play World Series Champions uh World Series Champions yep like this entire year because World Series Champions I don't know lock it in lock it in yeah book it book it the Dodgers and the Braves and then like right Braves choke artists. Braves choke artists. I was there. I saw them do it. So, I don't know.

I'd like to see anyone but the Dodgers and the Braves there. But knowing my luck, it's going to be Dodgers, Braves, and, like, I don't know, fucking the Astros on the other side. Mm-mm. Phillies. Phillies. Phillies are your World Series champions. Bryce Harper.

Hopefully, Phillies spring training is going well because Giants spring training spring training is nice um i got a question for y'all um obviously reece hoskins is like the favorite ex philly at this point but who's the least favorite ex philly that y'all can think of because i don't know i have some ex-giants that I absolutely cannot stand. Anyway, fuck the Dodgers. Fuck the Braves. Fuck Penn State. See ya. Well, thanks. Thanks, Eve. And sneaking that in right

at the 2 minute 59 second mark. I missed a question. I was sending the text. Can you repeat the question? What Phillies... So what former Philly do you hate the most? Oh, Pete Rose. Pete Rose. Yeah, so if we're going all time, uh what phillies so what former philly do you hate the most oh uh pete rose uh pete rose yeah so if we're going all time pete rose lenny dykstra uh a doable a doable yeah you it's funny breeze hoskins is a bitch oh fuck you we're fighting now uh no so so it's Pete Rose. Podcast canceled. Yeah.

Pete Rose, like half the 1993 team. No. Yeah, honestly, though. Pete Rose is number one. Lenny Dykstra is number two. Darren Dalton, a little bit further down. A lot of those guys. I don't like Steve Carlton.

He's a weird anti-semite. I don't. You know what? Let's he's a weird anti-Semite. Um, I don't, you know what? Let's pick, you know what? How about this? Who's your least favorite dude on the 08 team? On the 08 team?

Cause I got one ready to go for you. Uh, fucking, uh, Brett Myers, Brett Myers, Brett Myers. He beat, he's a,

he's a, he's a domestic abuser. Fuck him. All right. Let's take crime out of it. Who's, who do you just hate on vibes? Out of 2008? Out of 08. All right, Let's take crime out of it. Who do you just hate on vibes? Out of 2008?

Out of 08. All right. Hold on. I got to jog my memory. I'll get you the roster. I know most of the guys. I know you do, you fucking dweeb. All right. 2008 Phillies. Hold on. Here you go. Here's the baseball reference page.

Who do I hate on that team irrationally? Irrationally and you've got to pick one oh that's i get maybe jhab i don't know you got to pick a guy can't do eric bruntley because he had the last triple play let me tell you why it's carlos ruiz no i will fight you. I will fight you over that. You don't have to smirch too much in my presence. I can't do Pat Burrell. How could you hate Pat Burrell? I love Matt Stairs. I love fat guys who all they could do is hit home runs.

There's a couple guys on there I don't know. So Taguchi, I just remember. I don't remember too much about him, but I remember going, oh, that's so Taguchi. Yeah, great joke. Pedro Feliz kind of wasn't that good. I also kind of hate Jason Wirth. Jason Wirth, okay, I'll give you that.

I don't really hate Jason Wirth worth but he was definitely the most hateable i go click on his picture he's got his very that very 08 like shitty um like on brad hair he's got rap rock uh chin straps or uh i had chin strap a rap rock oh like a fred durstass goatee going on. Yeah, it's Jason Wirth, right? Yeah. If I had to pick one of the guys, Jason Wirth. But yeah, there was a lot of lovable guys on that team. But absolutely Brett Myers. Outside of Brett Myers.

Fuck it. He's a piece of shit. I was a big fan of Kyle Jandrick either But Yeah if you want to say current Phillies that are former Besides Oduble Who was that piece of shit

We got him on like a rental From Boston Oh Ridley's picture Brandon Workman. Yep. He was annoying. They're all annoying, dude. They play professional baseball.

Yeah, but he was more annoying. Yeah. I'm making Corrine answer the question. Yeah. All right. Now I got to look up. Yeah, there was a Right now we're lucky.

There's a lot of lovable guys on the team. It's a it's a lovable team. It's a fun team. Yeah. Lots of hippos. Who's your who's your least favorite eagle from Super Bowl

52? Let me pull that up. Carson Wentz, I guess. Yeah, that's that's fair. Yeah, I don't like Carson Wentz, I guess. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I don't like Carson Wentz. Obviously. I would say I would personally like to... You know who kind of annoys me?

Samalo. Isaac Samalo. Remember him? Does he? Can't explain it. Just don't like the guy. Are you against Polynesians? I suppose so. We're taking your Jordan Maialata jersey away.

I don't have a Jordan Maialata jersey. You're not allowed to buy it now. Well, good to know. Stefan Wisniewski can suck my butt. Who else? I'm looking at the names. Rick Lovato, Chris Moragos Oh, Jalen Mills, dude Easy, Jalen Mills

He's still on the Patriots He's on the Patriots He always has his hair dyed green, right? Yeah, or he did, I don't know if he does on the Patriots He does in his picture That works for the Eagles It doesn't really work for the Pats Nathan Gary.

Corinne said Pedro Feliz. Okay. Pedro Feliz. If you had to pick a guy that kind of just says, eh. He was not as iconic as the others. Yeah, that's true. Carlos Ruiz was not

a force at the plate, but he was a really good catcher. And he was very... He was beloved. And he was considered... Every pitcher loved to work with him. Whereas Pedro Feliz is like,

ah, you got a mediocre third baseman. A third baseman that can't hit? Oh. You expect that out of your shortstop. Yeah. Yeah, Pedro. But you know what? Philly's got the ring, so what can you say?

All right. All right, we got three more voicemails. Let's get to, I think it's Ethan. Thanks, Eve, for that. That was a good question. Let us know who was your least favorite. What would you do with

Pedro Feliz's penis? All right. Hey, it's Ethan from Edmonton again. Any and all pronouns. Listen, after my last message, I recorded that the day before you guys released the Fuck Hockey episode, which I got to say, if someone listening hasn't listened to it, and

I know there's a content warning, but it's very important to listen to, because it was a very good episode. I felt like shit, because I just went off about how happy I was about my team, and then they lost the next game anyway. So, I mean, it was a great win streak for the Oilers, but, ah, fuck, right? But I did forget to say the thing that I wanted to call about, which was, like, two years ago now, Tom mentioned that they wanted or he wanted to get into hockey

and didn't have a team. And I was like, listen world juniors every new year's that all these young guys get together and do this stuff but um i mean shit after that episode i just feel like garbage i'm glad you guys brought up a lot of good points about like um you know you wanna you want to enjoy these sports and how difficult it can be sometimes when these awful things happen. And you guys are absolutely right. This shit does not get enough coverage. I imagine down in the States, much less in Canada.

This shit's being, like, swept under the rug. I've seen nothing about it since the story dropped. And, yeah, it's terrible stuff. But keep your podcast up. I love it. Love listening to it. And have a good day. Adios. nothing about it since the story dropped and yeah it's as i'm much terrible stuff but keep your podcast up i love it love listen to it and uh have a good day uh adios yeah thanks thanks for that ethan um appreciate it yeah um we're gonna no one listens to this but we're gonna we're gonna keep getting mad about it yeah you know uh speaking of listeners do you know what the all-time most downloaded episode still is what the dip and snooze because it's on the feed

um yeah and then the the first one we have with ross is the the most um all right uh so we got oh yeah we got actually we have – actually, we have Nuki, too. I forgot about Nuki. All right, hold on. This is an extra large version. If we were trying to stuff this into some pair of baseball pants, you'd be seeing it all. All right, so we got Wayne, Sean, and then Nuki.

So let's listen to Wayne. Hey Tom, yeah Liam, it's Wayne. Pronouns he, him. Calling today because apparently the entirety of US soccer has basically decided to light itself on fire. Mainly, specifically Major League

Soccer. First step, number one, the MLS is employing scab referees while the uh the p the professional referee union uh is uh locked out of the league but do not watch a union game lockout do not watch mls and the nhl lockouts of old uh and the mLS is currently trying to basically kill the US Open Cup in broad daylight by claiming they can't they don't want to play the matches because of lead of fixture congestion that was completely self-created with the creation of the League Cup and a bunch and the in-season tournaments and all the other bullshit.

And basically hitching their ride into Messi and basically, you know, basically copying what the NASL did in the 70s and 80s, trying to capitalize basically milk every cent and then, you know, just leave the remains to just burn after they get the cash. So, fuck MLS. If you are a supporter of the Philadelphia Union, absolutely do not attend any of their fucking matches at all. Send a message to the MLS. Don't attend any MLS match.

Don't attend any MLS club. People have to send a fucking message out here and actually tell them, tell the MLS to eat shit, play in the US Open Cup, and pay the fucking referees. Hell yeah, Wayne. You tell them, Wayne. Yeah, fuck yeah. Yeah, I've already

run through a wall for Wayne, I think. Yeah, dude, I think Wayne's ready to fucking clothesline some motherfuckers. Yeah. All right, yeah. So we're officially boycotting the – I did not realize that. And I had skimmed past some stuff. I talk about referees, and I guess I didn't realize that's who it was talking about.

So, yeah, fuck this shit. Fuck MLS. Don't watch anything union or soccer or MLS until they fucking stop locking out their refs. Because while ACAP extends to referees, we say that in jest, but they are still workers and they still deserve a living wage and their rights. So yeah, fuck that shit. Uh, um, I don't know how anyone's going to top that.

Uh, we got, uh, yeah. Uh, all right, we got Sean next. What's up guys.

Sean from Charlottesville, uh, calling because, uh, yet another Philadelphia sports team, the newest one, the Waterdogs, has come in second place. It's pretty fucking frustrating, in my opinion, because they demolished the Cannons in the first round,

and then Michael Sowers, best player, one of the best players in Premier Lacrosse League, one of the best prospects outside of Brendan O'Neill, took him out of college, just gets taken out by a cheap shot in the first quarter, and they had to just spam two-point goals for the rest of the game. And it's bullshit. I'm so sick of it. And my wife and I are finally moving to Philadelphia, back to Philadelphia for both of us after being away for the last 20 years.

And the Sixers are so up in the air. The Phillies have been disappointing. No idea what's going on with the Eagles. We're so excited to be back there and get season tickets and it's just like and are we signing up to just be miserable yes fans yes for that's yes you want that we all want that that's okay to get out of my system thanks guys love. Oh, I forgot my pronouns. See ya. Thanks, Sean. Yeah, appreciate that. Yeah, welcome home. You get a citywide special to drown

your tears. Yeah, you're going to need it, bud. Yeah. And, look, okay. I take umbrage of one thing, Sean, that you said. The Phillies are disappointing. The Phillies are disappointing. The Phillies are disappointing, my guy. But they've made it far.

Relative to expectations, the Phillies are disappointing. Last year was, but there's part of me that's still living on the high from the year before. Oh, yeah, in which we won. Oh, wait, we didn't do that. Right, but we still got there. Yeah, but we still didn't win, dude. But that doesn't mean that it's... No, it does. When you haven't been to the playoffs

in fucking 11 years. In the back of 11 years and then you make the World Series. Oh, is that what I... Oh, is that what I sound like? My name's Liam. Although I started doing Carmen. Yeah, I was...

Hey, yeah. Man! Hey, you guys. Fuck you. I used to say, when I was. Hey, yeah. Hey, you guys. Fuck you. I used to say when I was a kid, I used to be able to do Cartman really well before the voice got too deep. Yeah. All right. So we have a long awaited first time, long time.

Had to send it through Twitter for some reason. I don't know if the international rates through Google Voice are too long, but we got we didn't. I just did affiliate. We go from Australia. I don't have to do the accent anymore, apparently, because

Nuki has called in and has some advice for us. If you do that accent one more time, I'm hanging up the Zencaster. We're 11 minutes. No, do the accent. I'm going to do it again because I'm going to trigger my oppositional defiant disorder. Got a little bit of the oppo defo um yeah uh and and nuki had called in or sent me a voice message twice or sent us um and the first

one nuki thought didn't go through but it did but uh nuki had asked i don't play that one it's fine it's just longer. So when Nuki references, this is my second time, it's not. This is Nuki's first time. So, yeah. Farce Tom, long time. Yeah, you should have did that. All right.

Without further ado. Hello. It's Patrick again. Nuki, that's what I go by on Twitter. My pronouns are he and him. I apologize to Liam for the Australian accent, but go fuck yourself. This is just how I sound.

That's fair. So I was getting in touch to, you know, mention as the official 10,000 losses Australian correspondent, I have to let you know, you know, roughly a month in advance that you need to choose which AFL team you're supporting pretty quickly. The season starts in about two weeks and it doesn't get interesting for about, I guess, four. So, you know, you only have a certain amount of time. My personal suggestion would be the West Coast Eagles because, you know, obviously you've got the Philly mascot connection there, but that's about it.

Yeah, I think that was pretty much all I was going to say. I won't bother doing a transcript for this one because I think my accent's pretty easy to understand. It's very easy to understand. Cheers, cunts. Thanks. Thanks, Patrick. Yeah, no, you have a very crisp voice and you clearly used a microphone

uh yeah as opposed to uh the the voicemails from wayne and charlie which are just how would you yeah i'm here in the subway the fucking guys fucking world war ii field telephone audio call yeah there's a bunch of fucking guys shooting guns behind us, but we wanted to get it in. Also, Charlie's getting arrested. I just wanted to get this in. Yeah. There's some good

10,000 losses lore. Yeah. We're ready for a bingo, I think. Someone can make a bingo card with us. I'm looking up the West Coast Eagles. But the only problem is, is that I knew someone from Perth and they were a libertarian. So I don't know if I can vote – if I can root for the West Coast Eagles.

You might as well. But the colors are like Union colors. Or Golden State Warriors colors. They do have a bald eagle as their logo. Or mascot.

I like it. I like it. What are the other teams? They got a shitload of teams. Where's Brian? Brisbane? Brisbane. Collingwood?

Oh, dude. Yeah, I'm rooting for Collingswood. Oh, hell yeah. Does anyone have a slur in their name? Probably. Unnamed Tasmanian club? You've watched the Strong's Rules football before. Yeah, I have.

Yeah, it's pretty fun. All football is good football, Tom. Yep, that's true. A fucking man. Amen, brother. Amen to that. I'll drink a beer to that. That's fucking true.

Yeah, I guess, I guess, uh, so, uh, uh, Patrick, then you'll have to be, uh, keeping us abreast of the situations, uh, the situation with the, with the Aussie rules. Uh, the old footy. Yeah, I, we haven't gotten a call from Charlie. I, if you're listening, you gotta, got to call in, bud. Charlie definitely listens. And I got to show you the last text I got from him, which is going to go over so well in this visual medium of podcasts. Well, you can just hold up your phone to me, I guess. Yeah, I know, but for the listener. Okay. Charlie had texted me, Nick Furiani is like the fursona of nick sirianni and then uh he he ai generated this charlie you don't have to charlie buddy you know maybe don't call it

um put it down yeah um oh my god Charlie He even says I'm going to stop now And I say quit before you summon the unknowable We love you Charlie You should call him I haven't heard you in a little bit

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