Ten Thousand Losses - The Googly

Episode Date: January 28, 2022

It's an extra long one for you! In which the lads discuss old man energy, the impending winter storm, a voicemail about cricket, the NFL playoffs, Joel Embiid, Boston beer prices, the horrible Flyers,... pooping pants in baseball, 2022 baseball HOF inductees, and the time Tom yelled at an old man about unions at the beer store. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tenklossespod Leave us a voicemail: 267-371-7218 Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tenthousandlosses

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Starting point is 00:00:00 accused of punching a police horse cte cte cte those negative fans make himself vomit 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 And we're live. Hello. Hello. Welcome to the podcast zone. Podding zone.
Starting point is 00:00:54 Podcast. All right. Welcome to 10,000 Losses, a Philadelphia sports also doesn't does also talk about other things uh my name is tom pain i'm one of your hosts and with me is my other host the wonderful oh leo manderson yeah both our pronouns are he him yes they are god uh we go ahead i was watching in a separate window writing waiting for you to get ready uh wisconsin nebraska college basketball oh and like we're getting to the point of the year where it's almost uh uh college basketball tournament season so you get to see some real hideously
Starting point is 00:01:42 unwatchable shit oh yeah is it is it hideously unwatchable shit. Oh, yeah. Is it hideously unwatchable? This is pretty bad. It's 57-44 with 834 to go in the second half. Ooh. If you're interested in bad basketball. I'm your guy. Yeah. And you can also listen to the bonus episode we recorded an hour ago.
Starting point is 00:02:04 So, yeah, we've already been potting since 5 o'clock. eye yeah and you can also listen to the bonus episode we recorded an hour ago so yeah we've already been potting since five o'clock we both ate dinner in between pods yes yeah be grateful for the fact that we didn't just the first 20 minutes of this episode isn't just
Starting point is 00:02:19 us eating yeah because we could do that and there are podcasts that do that we won't mention their names on there they don't need the plug they make a hundred fucking thousand dollars a month jesus christ dude do you imagine making that much money no like seriously say we made a hundred thousand we each make 50k a month i don't know what i would do i i know seriously like why would you work exactly i i would i would probably take a portion of that and actually like
Starting point is 00:02:46 try and like pay people student debt or some shit oh yeah dead jubilee that'd be sick as hell yeah oh my god that'd be that would fucking like like this was this was uh one of the people uh i think i think follows both of us is a himbo socialism yeah he was talking about i can't imagine not being a billionaire and not just paying tons of people's debt and it's like why we'll never be billionaires oh exactly yeah because we have morals and ethics and and love for humanity i would just give shit away i couldn't wait to just you know yeah yeah because there's the happiness and joy that people would have in like just like generational financial security because you gave them five hundred thousand dollars that shit buying people houses i would be unstoppable yeah like i would
Starting point is 00:03:30 buy real estate companies first so they couldn't fucking jack the prices up like i buy zillow and just turn it into anti-landlord action yeah exactly. How to put your money into escrow when your landlord won't fix the fucking hot water heater. With my dad as legal counsel. Oh, yeah. The old man Anderson who can't see, just screaming at nothing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:57 He has entrance music in the court. The East is Red or the Soviet anthem. Yeah. Oh, God. No, no. the east is red or the soviet anthem yeah oh god no no shit you thought you dumb bastards you thought
Starting point is 00:04:15 you disbarred me no i he once said to me when he was he was threatening someone he said what are they gonna do disbar me that that is something that like an eight like a 19th century like like that's something like andrew jackson would have said i'm not comparing your dad to andrew jackson but andrew jackson thank you energy like like like in the sense that like i mean he beat his would-be assassin with a cane after he missed twice like there's a sort of energy that your dad
Starting point is 00:04:45 has um it's like old man energy that that fucking rocks oh yeah hell yeah um and that that i hope everyone listening can regardless of of your identity can live long enough to have that kind of i don't give a fuck anymore highly recommend it yeah energy it's it's a good kind of energy um shit uh well uh did we already mention the uh bonus episode yeah we recorded it earlier today yeah we did out and we'll be out by the end of this month yes so in a few days oh yes uh i forgot because we because we are in you know like like cue alarm i'll put that in here you know weather storm you know winter storm nor easter alert you know like the weather channel what's the name of the storm because they do name winter storms
Starting point is 00:05:37 uh no they they don't you know they do they do do that i said you couldn't talk about it in the podcast, Liam. I actually don't know what they're proposing. It's probably some stupid, like, you know, Winter Storm. I don't know. Winter Storm Disappointment. Winter Storm Xanthippes. Let's see. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:06:02 Winter Storm. Let's see what it says. Oh, Keenan.an oh hell yeah uh winter storm uh good burger uh jesus christ winter storm keenan uh what can you say about winter storm keenan that hasn't been said about uh keenan and kill really had at this point so uh let's see we uh we probably at this point have lost half the audience uh so yeah definitely definitely go check out our patreon uh because we will have a new episode up um for you to enjoy during the winter storm uh saturday uh this last this last weekend of January 2022, the year of our Lord.
Starting point is 00:06:49 Well, not Liam's Lord. Wrong Lord. Whatever it is in the Jewish calendar, 6,500, whatever. Life itself, right? Yeah. You get to have the Masada spirit.
Starting point is 00:07:03 All right. I will never I will never not respect the Jewish people for that thank you we'd rather slit our own throats baby yeah I say fuck you to the Romans something that that is admirable in
Starting point is 00:07:18 history thank you pass that on to the ancestors yeah I am a certified mensch so so you are yeah so you don't have to like they kind of the ancestors. I am a certified mensch. So you are. Yeah, so you don't have to... They kind of know already where I am. I know my bullshit. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Hey, do you know the name of a sport that is kind of like baseball but isn't? Rounders. Not that one. Cricket. It's a cricket? Yeah, it's a cricket. It's not town ball either. It's cricket. So we have someone who left a voicemail about cricket two weeks ago and we deferred it to this week. So let's, let's, let's hear what they have to say.
Starting point is 00:08:00 Hello. My name is Dexter. And I'm calling to talk about the time that Philadelphia defeated Australia at cricket. Hope that y'all have the opportunity to talk about that and how Philadelphia had the best American bowler and batter of all time. Love your show. Have a lovely one. Bye. Thanks, Dexter. That was lovely. Yeah, that was very nice. So, you know, there was nothing in the email about
Starting point is 00:08:34 when this happened. So this happened in the end of the... What's the French term? It's the end of the century. Fin de... Whatever. I don't speak French.
Starting point is 00:08:50 I don't anymore. Sorry. Non parlo francese. Solo polo. Wow. Great fucking Italian. I don't speak Italian. Solo parlo inglese e italiano
Starting point is 00:09:04 e molto male ok but I do like that Philadelphia had a cricket team that was very hyper I love that we were world class about a sport we don't give a shit but we had like the Germantown cricket club, the Belmont
Starting point is 00:09:21 cricket club, the Tioga and Morristown cricket clubs. Like, holy shit. What? And over its 35 years, the team played an 88 first-class cricket match. I feel like we need to affect a Mid-Atlantic accent talking about
Starting point is 00:09:37 this, like the Grace Kelly kind of like, over its 35 years. All right, no, I'm not even going to try. No, no. Yeah, yeah. You'll just turn off the podcast. Yeah. not even going to try. You'll just turn off the podcast. Not you, the listener, Liam. Apparently, the gentlemen of Philadelphia played a first-class cricket match
Starting point is 00:09:57 against Australia and they won following a day in which the Irish beat Philadelphia. I'll take that loss. I'll take that trade. I'm really trying not to do my Irish accent, Liam.
Starting point is 00:10:18 I'm proud of you. Thank you. It's actually not bad. All right. I'm laughing at my own jokes today. It all right uh i'm proud of you you know everything that has to do with cricket it sounds familiar you have like a batter and a bowler right you have innings the fuck a wicket is i don't know um you know doing my research on this I really you know like clearly like this was kind of cool that Philadelphia actually kicked ass at cricket before
Starting point is 00:10:52 cricket was I didn't know that cricket actually competed with baseball for a little bit that doesn't shock me I mean like if you think about it East Coast American cities were kind of affecting this sort of like British you know coast American cities were kind of kind of were affecting this sort of like British uh
Starting point is 00:11:06 you know sort of weird second empire sort of shit yeah yeah like glomming on to that you know I mean the reason that New Yorkers and Bostonians drop like or have the you know they say like
Starting point is 00:11:23 yeah car water you know they they were aping in English accent there. Yeah. Cause cause nowhere else in the United States is that, that take hold. So one of the things though, that we realized about one of the teams that played was Bernard James Tindall Bosanquet. Bosanquet? I don't know how. But he's known for inventing, ready, Liam?
Starting point is 00:11:55 The Googly! Whoa! Oh, it's the Googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman. And what does the googly a delivery designed to deceive the batsman and what does the googly do well yeah clearly what a plebeian you are when bowled it appears to be a leg break but after pitching the ball turns the opposite direction
Starting point is 00:12:16 that's a curveball yeah candy cummings invented that that's a curveball motherfucker candy cummings invented that which which is a better name than Bernard Bosonquet, Quet, whatever. And yeah, he invented the curveball because you throw the ball like you're turning the handle of a door.
Starting point is 00:12:36 And he also played for Eaton, which if you don't know anything about British public schools, they're not actually public schools, they're private schools. And you are, if you're not a pedophile when you go there, you will be when you leave. Might have to cut that out. You're not wrong. Damn, dude. I used to be really into
Starting point is 00:12:58 shaving with a safety razor. One of the shaving creams I used to use where you would froth it up was Eaton College scent. And yeah, these days, I would not
Starting point is 00:13:16 purchase that because I know what would have gone into that scent. Yeah, if you don't know what a soggy biscuit is, go ahead and Google that on your work computer. Yeah, do it on your work computer. And let us know what a soggy biscuit is go ahead and google that at on your work computer yeah yeah do it on your work computer and let us know what happens to you yeah take a loss it's not responsible for you getting fired for your job uh christ i'm punchy today guys uh i was up at 1 a.m. lecturing people on the pronunciation of European on Reddit.
Starting point is 00:13:47 So, yeah. Don't let Leland get you down. Was this another voicemail? So this was a message I got on Twitter. It was a critical support for me. Very good. For my edits that Liam doesn't know about. The Soviet anthem.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Yeah, you know. Yeah. So don't let. Yeah, you know. Yeah. So don't let Leland get you down. I burst out laughing during your initial reading series with the anthem and the cut. Beautifully done. Love the pod, even though my only
Starting point is 00:14:15 relationship with Philly sports is MFs. It means motherfuckers trying to trade Dame for Simmons, which isn't going to happen, which isn't going to happen. It's not going to happen. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:14:26 But we appreciate the critical support. We're going to have to talk about that, too. Yeah. Every day, I think less and less that the trade's going to happen. Yeah, I mean, we'll get into it. But let's talk about football real quick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so NFL playoff update, of which the Eagles are not participating.
Starting point is 00:14:52 We can still laugh at the Packers and the Bucs. Holy shit, the Packers. Do you see what Aaron Rodgers said that people were rooting against me? I could feel the negative energy just because i you know i'm for vaccine choice and it was like no you just fucked up yeah you fucked up dude that's that's that's like all self-perception like you're feeling guilt about something dude yeah exactly no you're absolutely right like like i i did not have have anything actually i kind of liked aaron rogers until the same same, same, same.
Starting point is 00:15:26 Corinne and I were talking about that. It's just like, yeah, he was kind of not your primary choice. Like, yeah, you'd root for him. Yeah. He seems like a nice enough guy, and then he came out with all this shit, and it's like, I don't fucking care what happens to him. And a rare, like, not religious, which, you know, I mean, the atheism thing's thrown out.
Starting point is 00:15:43 But, like, you know, he's like a not religious guy. He doesn't talk to his family because he decided not to be religious and that kind of stuff you're like okay maybe he's got his head screwed on right no no he does not no he's not he's an idiot uh i mean we're all idiots too but um he's an idiot we're not playing we don't have the microphone for a professional football player yeah and uh i just love the the final field goal there and they only had 10 guys the packers only had 10 yes and robbie gould used to play for the bears too so getting able to being able to send the the packers home when you used to play for the bears probably feels pretty fucking oh yeah that's that's just a chef's kiss right there uh it's just
Starting point is 00:16:27 it's just like come on man and then uh the bucks the bucks uh got set yeah uh this uh there are rumors that this is genuinely the end of the line for brady but i wouldn't buy that who knows i kind of at this point
Starting point is 00:16:44 i want to see just how long he goes. Yeah, I think he's probably going to be back for one more season. Genuinely. Yeah, I think he wants to crack because like I think he probably wants to crack at number eight. I mean, play there 50
Starting point is 00:17:00 dude. Let's see if you can. I kind of want to see what his decline will be because he produced he's still like set personal records all over the place yeah you know i mean i feel a little saying that as a as a native philadelphia but i mean you can't not you're watching the career of the greatest yeah to ever do it like it's like you know i i hate the Lakers, but getting to watch LeBron is still special. Oh, yeah. I mean, if you took Tom Brady and put him in the NFL 50 years ago, his records would be unassailable.
Starting point is 00:17:37 Right. He'd be playing until he's 55. Right. And, you know, with 6,000-yard passing seasons and shit like that, he truly is just an incredibly gifted player. Yeah. So that leaves the NFC. We have the 49ers and the Rams this weekend. I don't give a shit who wins this game.
Starting point is 00:18:01 Yeah. I'm actually more interested in the AFC matchup, which is Bengals versus Chiefs. We watched the divisional round between the Bills and the Chiefs. It was one of the greatest football games I've ever seen. Change the fucking overtime rules.
Starting point is 00:18:19 It shouldn't be decided on a coin flip. There was a very contrarian, like, no, the rules are fine as they are. No, they aren't. They suck. No, you shouldn't have sudden death overtime when there on a coin flip. There was a very contrarian, like, no, the rules are fine as they are. No, they aren't. They suck. No, you shouldn't have sudden death over time when there's a coin flip. Like, you should be able to answer that touchdown. That's exactly right. Yeah. That's exactly right.
Starting point is 00:18:33 Yeah. It really does kind of leave it up to the ref because the ref can flip it. You know, you can fuck with a flip. I mean, I used to do that shit the ref can flip it you know you can fuck with a flip i mean i used to do that shit you know it just sucks that all that was for for bullshit basically uh i do want to talk about that game a little bit because yeah my prediction for the chiefs bangles is that the chiefs are just going to run away with it yeah The Titans sacked Joe Burrow nine times and couldn't win.
Starting point is 00:19:07 The Bengals don't have an O-line. So I'm expecting fully like a massacre. Regardless of what the Chiefs defense has much improved from a couple years ago. I'm really expecting a massacre.
Starting point is 00:19:26 I mean, look, we've kind of like positioned ourselves this year as as kind of supporting a rust belt kind of oh no i want the bangles to win because i love joe burrow man i love that he and like there was a tiktok going around where he invited like six basically identical blonde girls to come watch him play like jesus christ yeah come on man that's fucking that's way better than like trevor lawrence getting married at 20 well i mean nothing against trevor lawrence but like i mean i mean brunettes are nicer but uh jesus christ i'm married to brunette i i i concur the brunettes are nicer eyes on the ball, Tom. All right.
Starting point is 00:20:06 All right. Sorry. Sorry. You said you said a hair color and I got distracted. Yeah, I just I do want the Bengals to win. I'm putting all my chips in on Joe Burrow and his just. Like, I want him to just like go to the Super Bowl and like win the Super Bowl and just not even be on this earth. It'll be like when the Caps won the Cup a couple years ago and Ovechkin was just no longer
Starting point is 00:20:29 of this world. They'll do like the painting of Washington they have in the Capitol building of him ascending to heaven with like the Roman gods, but they'll do with Gerber in Cincinnati. And he will deserve that. We have to talk about at some point, not today but like how paul brown
Starting point is 00:20:47 left the browns it was like fuck you guys i'm starting another team in ohio with the same colors yeah exactly but you guys are gonna keep that name right yeah yeah um you know there is a part of me though i can't not kind of like want andy reed to get another ring he's one of the greatest coaches yeah but tyree kills a piece of shit and that alone doesn't for me all right so tyra kells a piece of shit like objectively like i can't stand the guy but there's a lot of guys on the chiefs are not pieces of shit so i don't know i hard disagree with you uh bangles by 90 uh joe burrow joe burrow goes home and fucks the kansas city cheerleaders uh oh god uh consensually and yes yes consensual kansas city Chiefs cheerleader orgy. I mean,
Starting point is 00:21:46 game recognized game, I guess. Yeah. It's not really game recognized game there. It's just admiration. Guy recognized game. Guy would be like, oh, yeah, dude, good job. Good on you.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Brandon Brooks is retiring. Brandon Brooks. Apparently he's going to be going to Penn. Good for him. Yeah. I mean. He's a Philly dude. Yeah. I mean, Philly legend, certified for life.
Starting point is 00:22:14 One of the best free agent signings. I mean, Howie's not bad at free agent signings. No, as we said, if you took away the ability to draft from him and gave it to someone who was competent at drafting, they'd be the perfect GM. And I feel like I might be just talking on my ass here, but they did something with the bonuses so that even though he's retired, he's going to get all his bonuses. That's good. Good on him. Like the team went out of their way to make sure he got paid.
Starting point is 00:22:41 I always like when players like know that that like a receiver someone needs x amount of yards and like in a meaningless game they'll just keep feeding him so they can get the bonus oh yeah no definitely uh brandon brooks also when he got signed to philly he uh he took a picture uh down in south philly like broad and oregon kind of area. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, he's like, Oh yeah, I'll be just parking in the middle of the street here. Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:09 Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome to South Philly, dude. There are no rules. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:14 There's no rules. The only rule is get a parking spot. Um, good luck to you. Uh, uh, uh, so,
Starting point is 00:23:23 so Brandon books are retired. So, I mean, obviously Phillyilly legend he's staying around here um like good for him getting out uh getting paid gonna get him some himself some education like fuck yeah dude like that rocks um brainer brooks coming to the podcast uh that would be sick. Oh, God, that would kick ass. If this was 20 years ago and we wanted Eric Landros, I could swing it, but it's not. I'm just going to start DMing people on Twitter and being like, come on my sports podcast. I mean, at this point, the worst I can say is no.
Starting point is 00:24:02 Exactly. Or not say anything. And, yeah, so the team, so since then the team has committed to Hurst as a quarterback for 2023, or 22-23 season, which I feel like he got to do that. And his quarterback class isn't anything that this needs at. No, this year's quarterback class is actually butt, so.
Starting point is 00:24:27 So, I mean, at this point, like... Why not stick with him? Yeah. Why not stick with him? I mean, you got to the playoffs with him. Yeah. So, get some pieces that work well with him and see what happens. And maybe our handsome boy will be able to get some sort of ring or trophy. And I put in
Starting point is 00:24:46 the notes, draft nerd shit at some point. I don't think we're there yet. We're not there yet. That's your bailiwick. Three picks. Yeah. The defense in the pass rush especially needs to be upgraded. The O-line, depending on retirements
Starting point is 00:25:02 and stuff, needs to be upgraded. Not even necessarily upgraded, but just refreshed. They've hit on some gold with Mailata, and obviously Kelsey is the biggest Eagles draft steal of all time. Probably not even
Starting point is 00:25:17 close. Kelsey doesn't have to leave Philly. He will never pay for a drink the rest of his life in this city. He could run for will never pay for a drink the rest of his life. No. In this city. He could run for mayor and he would win 90% of the vote. Convincingly, yeah. And I don't really care about this politics.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Run for mayor. Just do it. Fuck it. Why not? You can't do a better job than... Timothy Kenny? Yeah, he sucks ass. He's terrible. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:43 Stop sucking the cuffs. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Talk about Temple. Yeah, so you made a mistake. You were giving me hope. So is this a Warner of the Warners?
Starting point is 00:26:01 Yes, this is Kurt Warner's kid. Kurt Warner? Alright, alright, alright. He's apparently a three-star recruit. Of the Warners? Yes. This is Kurt Warner's kid. Kurt Warner? All right, all right, all right. He's apparently a three-star recruit. I regret to inform you, if you didn't already know it, that the Warners are horrible evangelical Christians. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:26:20 That's why they were all plugging that movie. I'm like, ah, I'm good. Yeah. I know Kurt Warner. Yeah, he's a good quarterback. Yeah, that's why like they were they're all like plugging that movie i'm like ah i'm good yeah i don't i know kurt warner yeah he's a good quarterback but yeah that's it yeah he's committed to temple university so uh that's weird that's kind of that is kind of weird if you think about it like why temple the dude's from arizona. I mean, this could work out. The Philadelphia is objectively better than anything in Arizona. Um,
Starting point is 00:26:51 three-star QB for temple is a pretty good get. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So unfortunately we are doomed to care about temple football again. Um, unless he just transfers after a year, she's going to,
Starting point is 00:27:08 but, uh, he's going to pull a Matt Rule he's gonna go to Baylor and then he'll go to the Panthers I have not still not forgiven Matt Rule I'm still salty or fucking what's his name the Giants coach wasn't he of Albatross
Starting point is 00:27:23 Joe Judge? Yeah. He may have been back in the day. His parents. Yeah, he's from Philly. He's from Doylestown. Yeah, he went to Lansdale Catholic, but no, he was not. They still call themselves the Crusaders.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Fucking assholes. I did say that if the Giants defeated the Eagles both times, I was going to go find his parents' house and do an upper deck or guest room bathroom. That's a very sane thing to say.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Yeah. I don't think that's an actionable threat. Does that fall into that category? No, probably not. I'm just going to poop in the bathroom but in the wrong spot. That's fine. Yeah. Who cares?
Starting point is 00:28:08 Yeah. I do want to. All right. Doylestown. Cool. Yeah. Basketball. Owls basketball.
Starting point is 00:28:20 Beat Cincinnati. Yeah. Starting to look up. Starting to look up. Starting to look up. Who knows? Again, you're going to have to get past Houston in the tournament, but who knows? Yeah. But if we get into the Jesus Christ, the March Man, this would be kind of cool.
Starting point is 00:28:43 Yeah. The last time it was years ago because I was at Temple when they made it yeah we had a watch party I remember yeah it's you know again everything's gonna come down to the conference tournament but Temple is looking Cincinnati is not a bad team
Starting point is 00:28:58 they've won four straight I think so that's yeah they're pretty good yeah I mean again and the games they lost to relevant programs, they lost them pretty close. I mean, there were some blowouts, absolutely, but
Starting point is 00:29:12 the problem is you gotta these ugly losses to St. Joe's by 19 and UCF by 17 you know and like they rounded into shape
Starting point is 00:29:30 the last few games I mean they kept it closed in Houston a few weeks ago but they're gonna have to go on the road and play SMU and ECU and then Tulane.
Starting point is 00:29:45 And again, at Cincinnati, at Memphis, at Houston. And then the tournament is March 10th through the 13th. I mean, I'm hopeful that they can, you know, do damage and maybe Houston suffers some sort of horrific collapse, which would be tight and Temple ascends. But I don't really see a scenario which, uh, temple without some help gets in this thing,
Starting point is 00:30:10 but you know, it's possible. Yeah. Well, we should still, we, we still should do, uh,
Starting point is 00:30:18 go see one, a live blog. Yeah. Live pod get kicked out. Cause we're recording something. Saturday, February 5th against Tulsa at 2pm
Starting point is 00:30:29 I'm not doing shit on Saturday tickets are cheap too of course tickets are cheap yeah I do want to see a Sixers game this year too it's less good than it has been. The whole presentation? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:50 Well, you went early in the year, right? Yeah. It's just kind of off. I think a lot of that, again, has to do with the fact that on defense, they're missing something. I wonder what that is. I really wonder. I wonder what that is i really wonder i wonder i wonder what's going on with defense i mean they've been like playing really well i mean we would be way
Starting point is 00:31:14 we'd be a couple you know spots up we'd be like fourth or something like that if if we had uh some some player who's not playing who's really good at defense. Hmm. Can't think of anyone. And who has, who's a reputation for being very, having a lot of endurance and being able to play a lot of minutes in games.
Starting point is 00:31:35 Yeah. Yeah. Real nice compliment to our center who we have to worry about. Yeah. Cause he's, cause he's giant guy and giant, like God did not create us to be so large no and and yet despite despite god's will he excels at all things he does yes he does which is basketball and trash talking
Starting point is 00:31:54 we are of course talking about ben simmons and joel and b and joel and b who is doing who is okay so i have a couple things uh story came out that the Sixers were not looking to trade Ben Simmons until the season is over. And that is organizational malfeasance because you'd be wasting. And this is an MVP season for him. Oh, and you're wasting it. Oh, unequivocally. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:22 He is literally taking his team on his back. Yeah. I don't, I don't know how many of these kinds of seasons you're going to get out of the guy. Right. Why would you not capitalize on him being absolutely dominant? Get what you can get.
Starting point is 00:32:36 Find some guys to complement his style of play and just keep feeding him. Even at this point, get a 6th or 7th guy who can play D and keep shit going while he's not in. Yeah, absolutely. Uh, because that's the problem.
Starting point is 00:32:54 And it's the classic Sixers, the, the, the process error. And, and since Sixers is the fourth quarter collapse. Yeah. Because they're just out of gas.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Right. Absolutely. And especially, you know, Joel's conditioning is much better this year, fourth quarter collapse yeah because they're just out of gas right absolutely and especially you know joel's conditioning is much better this year but he's seven two he's seven two the man is tired and he's got no help like occasionally like like the bench is you know like tyrese looks like the point guard of the future but like oh you haven't here is shooting 28%. I know. Oh man. You say there's a shot. He's never seen a shot that didn't look good. And it's like, he's never seen a shot.
Starting point is 00:33:29 I didn't like you. You kind of, he might need to start being a little more discriminatory towards his shots. Cause I love the dude. He, he is just, he's all gas, no brakes as a player.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Yeah. And you love to see it, but man, 20%. Jesus, dude. Fuck. Yeah. as a player yeah and you love to see it but uh man 20 jesus dude fuck yeah so tonight uh this will it'll have happened by the time we post this but uh playing joel and bead is shooting 49.9 and averaging 29 points a game for the Sixers. And he had 40 points in his last three out of four games. Yeah, it's fucking incredible. He is playing
Starting point is 00:34:10 just insane basketball. Yeah. He's fun to watch, man. The dude rocks. Like, he kicks ass. And they don't have everyone. Ben is obviously out, but Seth Curry, Danny Green and Shake are all out. Yeah. You know, it's they play Shake are all out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:27 You know, they play the Lakers tonight. LeBron is questionable. Now, I'm really hoping that the Sixers can do some dominant shit. I mean, the Lakers aren't that good, but, you know, they're not, like, a trash team. No, and I'm never going to bet against LeBron James. No. Oh, if he's playing. Oh, he's apparently out. He's a goat No. If he's playing and he's apparently out, he's a goat.
Starting point is 00:34:47 Oh, he's been ruled out status out. I just checked on ESPN. Well, there you go. Are we playing there here? Yeah. Here.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Yeah. Cause they're, they're dead. Even they're 500 right now. Yeah. It's on TNT. Oh, it's a game of the week.
Starting point is 00:35:00 Yeah. I, I will say like, that's, that's what's gotten me pissed off this week. It's just like, if you don't move Ben and the Sixers don't win, like, if you don't move Ben and the Sixers win the title, well, good. Who cares? Or at least get to the finals.
Starting point is 00:35:15 Right. Because you never know what's going to happen in the playoffs. Get out of the second fucking round. Yeah. Get out of the second fucking round. If that doesn't happen, like, no, you't happen, no. Elton Brand needs to go. Fucking Harris needs to sell the team. This is an MVP season
Starting point is 00:35:30 and you're right. How many of these are we going to see? That's not his fault. It's just he's a big man. The knee was not designed for that. The knee is a shitty... It's the greatest argument against
Starting point is 00:35:44 intelligent design. You want to talk about for that uh the knee is a shitty uh is the is the greatest argument against the um intelligent design intelligence thank you uh you want to talk about uh doc rivers having a meltdown which i think was fair no it was fair i mean they were up 24 at the start of the fourth and then they lost by one and they're like oh well doc hey doc you think he was like coach or something like that and he's like yeah like like i don't a coach or something like that? And he's like, I don't know. He's fucking mad, dude. And then all the sports radio guys are like, oh yeah, he does not talk to
Starting point is 00:36:14 press or anything like that. Like Kate Toland. He has a ring and you don't. Oh yeah, that's true. He's mad. There are criticisms of his coaching. But you were mad about Brett Brown, too. So like, where does it fucking end?
Starting point is 00:36:30 But I don't think a 24-point collapse is entirely up to the plays that were being called. No. No. Absolutely not. That's not. That's part of that's on the players. Yeah. And if it's on the players, then it's on the person who built the team.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Elton Brand, where you at and and like 18 other people and some sort of weird anarchist don't do that don't do that no it's it's it's for sure frustrating but like no i don't think that this is certainly the blame does not all fall on doc rivers and it's absurd to say so. No, and it's just for the evidence that the Sixers have to embrace democratic centralism. Well, yeah. I mean, we beat the Spurs, which are trash. The Pelicans are trash. The next couple of games are trash.
Starting point is 00:37:21 I mean, LA – I mean, now that LeBron's out, they're kind of trash. We play the Grizzlies this weekend, which is going to be a tough one. Grizzlies are a tough team. That's a tough team. But we really, the next stretch, I mean, should be all winnable games. Well, Chicago at Chicago, and they're number one in the East. Yeah. Dallas is at least going to be like a fight and because
Starting point is 00:37:46 that's also at dallas didn't that get rescheduled too or something like that uh it might be a makeup yeah yeah but then but then it's yeah the schedule balances out because you've got phoenix who are very good but at least you've got them at home oklahoma city at home who are terrible cleveland at home boston at home like looking to the next 10 games or so, the vast majority should be Sixers wins. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:12 Their home record is not that great. It's not something to be super pessimistic about. The team is playing pretty well overall. I mean, the Grizzlies, again, are like a test to see if this offense – I don't know if we'll have Danny Green and Seth Curry back for that. Right. That offense has been clicking.
Starting point is 00:38:43 Yeah, and the Grizzlies are not the bumping grind Grizzlies this is a very fast young team yeah they play fast they love fast breaks they love to shoot like running gun basically yeah so that'll be that'll be tough especially with no band you know
Starting point is 00:39:00 I mean Embiid is a world class defender but he struggles to defend the perimeter. As a guy his size. Oh, yeah, and that's not a criticism of him. It's hard to move a 7'2 body. Yeah, that's why you have the 6'1, 6'2 guy. Just face guarding someone.
Starting point is 00:39:21 Yeah, yeah. All right, Liam, we're up. We're going to do a triangle. Yeah. How have these guys lost 73 games? Look, you could set a pick. I think you could. I'd
Starting point is 00:39:35 like to see that. I missed the layup. Yeah. Womp. Fuck. All right. We've got to talk about the other team. yeah womp fuck alright we gotta talk about the other team that plays the same place
Starting point is 00:39:52 yeah I guess we do holy shit what a shit show this team is 13 game losing streak worst in franchise history welcome to Philadelphia you've only been a franchise since the 60s this fucking team is so god damn embarrassing history welcome to philadelphia i mean yeah you've only been a franchise since the 60s but uh this
Starting point is 00:40:05 fucking team holy shit it's so goddamn embarrassing oh my god this is the worst broke the iron man streak that's kind of cool uh cool i mean who cares and with the 13 game losing streak uh shit i mean i mean it's cool. I mean, it is cool, but shit, dude. Can you imagine being in that locker room? I'd be, I don't know, I'd just be hammered all the time. It's got to be so fucking demoralizing,
Starting point is 00:40:36 dude. I can't wait to go out and be made. I'm like, because any of the guys on that team, no matter how bad they stink in the NHL, they're the top 0.1% of hockey players all time. Like, you know what I mean? Like, they're still like the, the, the, the best of their generation. Right.
Starting point is 00:40:55 And then you're stuck on this shit. Like, man, that sucks ass, dude. I like, you mentioned me imagine being traded to Flyers? That would suck ass. Oh my god, morale has to be zero. They must all... If you think your job sucks ass right now, at least they're getting paid a little bit on the Flyers.
Starting point is 00:41:18 Yeah, well, the ownership has said that the GM, Chuck Fletcher, has a blank check to fix the team's problems. Drew has a no trade clause, so he's getting moved only if he wants out before the trade deadline. I mean, he's been on this team for so long. 15 years. I mean, at this point, who cares? Like, you get paid regardless
Starting point is 00:41:46 come to the Bruins Claude no yes yes go to the Bruins and stay in one of the shitty hotels in the fake area that they built around the fucking TD arena that's not part
Starting point is 00:42:02 of real Boston where I stayed for five days The fucking TD Arena. That's not part of real Boston. Where I stayed for five days. I couldn't find a goddamn bar. Yeah. Except for one place that was like. Also, it's TD Garden, not TD Boston. Whatever.
Starting point is 00:42:20 And it's right near North Station. How could you not find anything? Have you gone to bars by North Station yeah you go to hurricanes i mean don't go to hurricanes but you can go to hurricanes or the harp i uh i figured we ended up going to a place where you know uh the beers were only ten dollars and uh yeah you stayed in a tourist area that's entirely your fault yeah well i was in the fucking north end speaking of town the old heads i got some coffee for cheap uh i'm going to boston next month and we're staying in the north end i do i love boston boston's such a cool city thank you i do love boston uh but i'll pass on your feedback yeah uh let them know let them know that you're okay uh night Brewery is also good.
Starting point is 00:43:06 Night Shift Brewery is good. Get the trade-sell pizza there. Pretty cool. Bartenders don't talk too much, which as a Philly guy, you're used to the bartenders wanting to know everything about you. It's the worst thing in the universe. It's the best thing in the universe, especially from out of town. It sucks. You are deranged.
Starting point is 00:43:24 I am from the city that's like you just want to talk about like dumb shit like yo oh all right you cause where you from uh you're from fucking delaware holy shit yo tell us about delaware i think i know sales tax fucking wild dude that's how it goes that's how it goes you're not from the neighborhood because you know you know it gets interesting that's fucking funny though
Starting point is 00:43:52 a Philly thing is like you go to a bar those of you who aren't from Philly you go to a Philly bar and the bartender just wants to know everything about it and talk and hang out as a Philadelphian like I said that's like oh shit this dude wants 25 bartender just wants to know everything about this talk and hang out. And, uh, as a Philadelphian, like I said,
Starting point is 00:44:07 that's like, Oh shit, this dude wants 25, 30% tip. Don't, um, so, he's going to earn his money.
Starting point is 00:44:14 God damn it. Yeah. Uh, but unless you're Liam, apparently, uh, apparently I don't like that. I want to be left alone.
Starting point is 00:44:23 So we see that. And this is the thing. I am a pure extrovert, which is weird for someone who loves the internet so much. But I just... If you think yay Liams, not lay Liams. I mean...
Starting point is 00:44:37 Yay Liams! Build you up too much. Don't ever say yay Tom. Because... It feeds on it oh yeah i uh i thrive on that shit um yeah that's why philadelphia rocks dude it seriously it is one great setting like like you might think we're a bunch of assholes oh we beat up the robot well the robot fucking
Starting point is 00:45:02 had it coming the robot had it coming the robot fucking had it coming. The robot had it coming. It was a Mormon. It was on mission. Hitchbot had it coming. Hitchbot was a warning. Bad things happen in Philadelphia to assholes, and Hitchbot was an asshole. I don't know where to go with that. The head was never found.
Starting point is 00:45:28 We're going to get hyper local here uh yeah that's uh that and the boy in the box those are the two philly uh we're gonna become a true philly crime podcast um the have you ever heard of the shoemaker murders? Uh, no. Uh, look it up. Cause they found one of the bodies literally 80 feet from where I grew up. A hundred feet. Holy shit. Yeah. Uh, the guy who used to do my grandpa's shoes, uh, ended up being, uh, a sex, a sex torture murder killer with his son.
Starting point is 00:46:01 Joseph Kallinger. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Kallinger. Yeah. Yeah. They had, they had, they had a cobble shop on Front Street, like front
Starting point is 00:46:08 of Allegheny. And they, yeah, they killed some people. And Marie No. Welcome to Philly, guys. Marie No, a woman who had eight kids and killed them all. And Gary Heidnik was not too far from where I grew up. So, yeah, Kensington, great, great place.
Starting point is 00:46:26 You really could do a Philly true crime thing, but, uh, Jesus Christ. Yeah. We're not, we're not doing that. Uh, I won't play the dramatic piano drop we have that would suit that bit perfectly. Um, so I, I gotta say, so are they going to sell and tank the Flyers back to the Flyers? Yeah, I think so. I think they have to at this point. It sounds like it's going that way.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Like, why would you? I mean, I don't like tanking. Me either. But the season's lost. A 13 straight. Jesus Christ, man. After another part of the season where they had lost 10 straight i mean this is the season's over man like i don't like tanking either uh but it's not even tanking
Starting point is 00:47:13 at this point right like they just suck yeah um you know what and it's a team that you know has a history of being pretty good overall. Yeah, they won some cups. Especially around the turn of the decade, they were really good. Man, if you're one of your Art Delco listeners and you got the calf tattoo, don't erase
Starting point is 00:47:38 it yet. They might come back. One hopes. One hopes. Anything else, the Flyers, before we move over to the to the best sport no let's talk about uh let's talk about the goddamn fellas uh about baseball baseball so we we had the hall of fame uh it's a 2022 hall of fame ballot come out. And I hope if there's a way we can turn this because you have to cover a beat for so many years and you've become
Starting point is 00:48:11 part of the Baseball Writers Hall of Fame. We can get ourselves into it. Like the Baseball Writers of America and you get the Hall of Fame ballot. I would just write in Barry Bonds 200 times. You got to be on the Veterans Committee. I'm going to ask you about Barry Bonds 200 times. You got to be on the Veterans Committee. I'm going to ask you about Barry Bonds in a second
Starting point is 00:48:28 because the only one who got in, which I think is uncontroversial, is Big Papi, David Ortiz. So he is now a Hall of Famer. And he absolutely took steroids. Who cares?
Starting point is 00:48:43 The dude rocks. I was saying that you should be consistent and also allow Barry Bonds in. took steroids. Who cares? The dude fucking rocks. I was saying that you should be consistent and also allow Barry Bonson. Yeah, so limiting the conversation to just right now, Boston's boy Big Poppy. He also has a
Starting point is 00:48:59 great personality. I think that's a big part of it, too. He's a nice guy. He was so much fun to watch and i wonder what happened to the guy who stabbed him was it stabbed or shot it was stabbed right i wonder what happened to that guy because uh i mean you had like like i had the urge to to do things um just because oh he was shot he was shot yeah there was like there was like a rash of shootings of tourists and like the maker public like two, three years ago. And, uh, some of, some of them probably deserved it, but you know, uh, big poppy definitely
Starting point is 00:49:35 didn't. And, uh, the thing too, about the make Republic, there's like a lot of issues with like race in terms of like, if you're, if you're, if you're dark skinned or not, and he's a darker skin fella and there's like a bunch of shit there like it's i don't want to get too into that but like you know he came from a community that even in a country that has like the shit end of the stick with like uh colonialism imperialism like like he came and was this big success. He was this big lovable goofball. That just fucking
Starting point is 00:50:09 slammed home runs. Like I'm not a Boston Red Sox fan. I'm a Phillies fan. I don't have anything against the Red Sox. Red Sox fans, that's another story. But the Red Sox themselves, I love the franchise. Yeah. Not you specifically, but your average red sox fan um and yeah david ortiz yeah good good for him man
Starting point is 00:50:32 yeah the roberto clemente award you know yeah that means you're a good dude if you get the those are the roberto clemente clemente award is given to basically someone who does a lot of charity work and is like a good guy so you don't get that for Pete Rose also won it so you know Pete Rose one of the best of all time giant prick
Starting point is 00:50:59 giant prick in a good way he's unbelievably fucking obnoxious. Like, that 80s, I mean, that's on the list of bonus episodes is like the 80s fillies. And how many of those, 80s and 90s fillies really had almost no redeemable guys. Yeah. And speaking of the 90s fillies, right? So the guys who are timed out of the Hall of Fame,
Starting point is 00:51:26 you get to be on it for 10 years. And if you don't make it, you're out. Is it 10 or 5? It's 10, right? Is it 10 years until you're eligible? Then 10 years? Fuck. Off the top of my head, I'm not I don't want to search something because it might freeze my computer.
Starting point is 00:51:44 But the four that are timed out that are pretty big guys. Barry Bonds. I'm going to be retired for five. Retired for five, on the ballot for ten? Yeah, and on the ballot for ten. All right. So Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, and Curt Schilling. Let's get the easy ones out of the way.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Curt Schilling, we don't give a shit. He's an asshole. He was on the Phillies. And the Red Sox. He pins with a bloody sock. What a just absolute guy. Also winner of the Roberto Clemente Award. Did he really?
Starting point is 00:52:20 Yeah, he really did in 2001. The fuck? I know. All right, I retract my statement Roberto Clemente award however Roberto Clemente angel absolute just awesome human being
Starting point is 00:52:33 if you say anything better about Roberto Clemente not only will I fight you but the entire city of Pittsburgh will and you will deserve it and all Puerto Rico too so so it'll happen man like like I mean, go ahead. Kurt Schilling on the other hand. First off, he almost bankrupted Rhode Island.
Starting point is 00:52:52 Yes. Which, okay, that's actually kind of good. But, I mean, he's a giant just prick politically. He's a shithead. Roger Clemens is also an asshole. Barry Bonds just took steroids. I don't recall him doing anything
Starting point is 00:53:13 personally fucked up. I don't either. I kind of feel like he deserved Hall of Fame. I thought so too. You don't put like like baseball requires a lot of skill you can't just hit home runs and not be able to barrel the bat like he had skill too i mean and you know same like you were saying like david ort, did he take steroids? You say yes. Very much so. Probably, obviously.
Starting point is 00:53:48 You get a lot of guys. I mean, Mark McGuire, obviously. Frank Thomas claims he did take steroids. I'm actually kind of inclined to think maybe he didn't. But those arms are just you know, they're kind of dreamy. Jim Tomey,
Starting point is 00:54:04 who's probably my favorite ofomey, who's my favorite, probably my favorite of that era. Um, he's a nice dude. He's like one of the, apparently one of the nicest human beings ever played a sport. Uh, he says he's never been involved in any kind of stuff.
Starting point is 00:54:16 He's kind of corn fed, you know, Midwest boy. you know, so, so, but Barry Bonds, I feel like kind of belongs in there too uh again
Starting point is 00:54:27 good player yeah the steroids make you hit things harder but they don't make you see the ball better exactly um unless i'm wrong i mean that's just like adderall like like some guy like it's only 40 percent of i don't want to say 40% maybe it's like 30 40% of baseball players have an Adderall Prescription Which it does it does help you hit the Ball better right Because you're paying attention but
Starting point is 00:54:56 Give them give them Steroids give them steroids But in a way where they're not going to hurt Themselves give them Adderall And just like let them fucking whack exactly exactly i want to see athletes at the peak of their physical performance and you don't have to be an athlete to play baseball like i like like i want to see like more more big dudes just slamming home runs and you know that's part of the fun of the sport
Starting point is 00:55:28 is that you don't have to be an athlete and you it looks like it's something that you or i could do which we could um you know uh neither of us could hit a major league home run uh if you just put us up that we'd be scared we'd be scared of the ball We'd be scared of the ball. I would be scared of the ball. Could you imagine being a second baseman or a shortstop? No. Having a major leaguer hit a line drive towards you? Oh, I'd poop my pants. It's just like, I don't want to bring my jaw.
Starting point is 00:55:55 I don't want to bring my jaw. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like, fuck, man. That shit's wild. I played outfield and I got scared of line drives. No, I don't need any of that, man. That shit's wild. Like, I played outfield and I got scared of line drafts. No, I don't need any of that, man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:17 So, you know, Sammy Sosa, you know, Sammy Sosa needs some help, man. I don't know if you're too familiar with his saga post-baseball. No. He's had his skin bleached a couple times. times oh that's a shame yeah there's a dude needs some mental health stuff um you know and he was part of that was really fun with him and mcguire chase yeah it was it helped boost baseball back up so uh you know i kind of have a soft spot for Sammy Sosa being there. I don't know if he fully fits Hall of Fame. Now, to be fair, the Bonds made 69% of the vote.
Starting point is 00:56:55 I think it's 75% you have to get in there. So he wasn't that far off. Right. Yeah. But meanwhile, two of our two of our favorite boys here ryan howard and prince fielder fielder prince fielder should have been the first ball at hall of famer yes and they were dropped less than five percent so you don't get the terrible hall of fame uh that's terrible ryan howard deserved more than five percent and so did prince fielder. I love Prince Fielder. So my theory is that this is fat phobia.
Starting point is 00:57:26 Yes. Because they're both big, hardy boys. And they probably love their moms. And they just hit the ball really hard. I don't know what else to say besides that. Jimmy Rollins, it was also his first ballot. And this is a big discussion. So the 2008 Phillies, right was also his first ballot. And it is a big discussion.
Starting point is 00:57:46 So the 2008 Phillies, right? You had Ryan Howard. Jimmy Rollins, I mean, objectively, is a better player. 9.4%. I wonder what Chase Utley is going to end up being. I think next year, I think he's up for it. I think so. Chase Utley is going to retire. Wow.
Starting point is 00:58:01 Yeah, I know. You want to get me going, by the way, start playing cashmere and imitate Harry Cowles. You'll be my guy. Oh, yeah. I loved all those guys. All the 2008
Starting point is 00:58:17 Phillies. Jamie Moyer. Fucking Chooch. All those guys fuck Brett Myers I hate that dude piece of shit asshole but most of those dudes on that team were pretty solid dudes
Starting point is 00:58:33 and Philly legend Pat Burrell that's a bonus episode to do itself I want to do a Pat Burrell episode that's where we're going to get going to get a cuz on there because he he lives not too far from the Black Horse that's, that's where we're going to get, uh, got to get a cousin there. Cause, uh, he, uh, he knows he lived not too far from the black horse tavern where
Starting point is 00:58:48 pepper was famous for receiving, uh, services from adoring fans. Uh, good for him. Oh, Pat Burrell. I mean,
Starting point is 00:58:56 they called him Pat the bat for a reason. Yeah. It wasn't because of his baseball, uh, skills. Um, so Jimmy Rollins, I put a 4% first ballot.
Starting point is 00:59:07 Yeah. He's not going to make it to the Hall. I don't think Chase will either. I don't think anyone from that team will, honestly, despite them being sort of forever in our hearts as Philadelphia fans. That 2007, 2008, 2009 Phillies were just something magical.
Starting point is 00:59:28 Oh, yeah. If you don't know what we're talking about, just go on YouTube and look it up. Just look up the highlights from that season. It was a bunch of just guys that just kick ass. You know, there's a reason that Always Sunny has an episode about
Starting point is 00:59:45 trying to become Chase at Least Friends. Yeah, that's the gang gets lost in the woods. And it's the Riot Punch episode too. Yes. Which we will, this summer, we are going to do
Starting point is 01:00:02 an episode from Lot M. That would be fun. Yeah. Oh, can you imagine that? We'll do that. We'll just have to tone down the leftist shit so we don't get beat up. Fair enough.
Starting point is 01:00:18 I haven't been in a fight in a long time. Me either. You know what it is? It's the women in our lives that keep us from getting records uh all right back to more philly shit so uh if you were a philly's fan you like kevin franson uh well either become a nationals fan or say goodbye because he left kind of sucks the Phillies radio team was really good yeah Scott Franski and Kevin Franson they were really good together and now you have Scott Franski
Starting point is 01:00:56 and fucking what's his name shit he's an asshole Larry Anderson Larry Anderson is a Prick by the way Uh Even though you'd be like
Starting point is 01:01:10 Oh wait has he not been GM for a couple For two years yeah you're right He but John Milton doesn't pay For it wow we are falling asleep Um That's right we're at an hour at this point Um I mean uh baseball the the CBA stuff.
Starting point is 01:01:27 So I don't want to get too in the weeds. Still nothing. So it's not nothing. Apparently the two big things the owners won't budge on. They've literally said, don't even bother. It's the arbitration. Basically in baseball, once you hit the major leagues, you have six years before you become a free agent. The first three years, it's tender contracts.
Starting point is 01:01:56 You offer the contract, and you can accept it or go not play for a year. And then after that, three years, you have arbitration. Right. And the Players Association was like like let's cut this down it doesn't need to be six years like maybe make it four or five and then the mlb owners who are the biggest pricks on the planet um with the smallest penises uh said no and the other thing that they won't touch is revenue sharing, which is like the luxury tax. So those are the two things they, they said are non-starters.
Starting point is 01:02:29 Don't bother. Don't even fucking try. Um, but maybe, I don't know that I've heard through the grapevine that like, I'm some fucking insider. I've heard on Twitter, other podcasts,
Starting point is 01:02:44 uh, that, uh, Like I'm some fucking insider. I've heard on Twitter and other podcasts that they are telling minor leaguers to report February 21st. So if you're in a minor league contract, you're not subject to this. So they're saying report to spring training February 21st, which is the date that anyone who's not a pitcher or catcher will report. So they usually report a week early. But speaking of minor leaguers, I don't know if you recall, this is pretty early on. They were talking about the minor league. The MLB agreed that minor leaguers would get housing paid for free as part of
Starting point is 01:03:21 like, so you wouldn't have to pay. Oh, good. So the organization was behind kind of pushing the mlb is like oh yeah so it looks like they're they're like building tenements oh not good for players that's good where there might be three or four to a room come on man and it's like it's all up to like what team you're on like if you're on the Royals you're probably fine you know but if you're
Starting point is 01:03:49 on like the Phillies or the Mets the Phillies actually if you're on the Mets or the Dodgers it's like oh you're fucked dude that sucks dude so they need a form of fucking union dude like at this point like I was talking to my coworkers today where we were
Starting point is 01:04:06 saying like, you know, people shitting on teachers. And, uh, I actually had an argument in public last year, um, when the schools closed for COVID. And, uh, so I found schools closed. I went to the beer store as one does. And, well, we're gonna be virtual us here buying beer. And, uh,
Starting point is 01:04:28 I talked to the guys at the store and they're like, oh yeah. Oh man, that's wild. Like we just heard. Yeah. It was on the news. And some fucking old head is like,
Starting point is 01:04:37 uh, of course. Oh, well you get the summers off and all this shit. And, uh, I was like, oh yeah, uh, yeah, we get the summers off all that. Cause the And, uh, I was like, Oh yeah,
Starting point is 01:04:45 you get, uh, yeah, we get the summers off all that. Cause the kids are off. So there's nothing for us to do. Um, so, uh, so, so you're saying, but, uh, I'm trying to paraphrase here. Like, uh, so, so you're saying that you, you know, we don't do like, we don't work or what is it? He's like, Oh, well you get, you get paid and you get the summers off and you, and you get all this time off of the shit. I was like, I was like, shit, man. Like, what about you, dude? Like, how's that work? He's like, I work 60 hours a week. I'll get paid shit. get the summers off and you get all this time off of the shit I was like shit man like what about you dude like how's that work he's like I work 60 hours a week I don't get paid shit I was like man sounds like
Starting point is 01:05:10 you need a fucking union at your job and uh yes I he's like oh I don't need a union I was like no it sounds like you do because you can't negotiate that with your boss and the I was worried I was going to get in trouble at the beer distributor because like they're not union.
Starting point is 01:05:26 And the one, the owner's son literally was like, hey, I got friends who are teachers. They worked or something. They got to find second jobs. I was like, thank God. So the guy left after the staff shit on him.
Starting point is 01:05:41 Good. Yeah. It's like, fuck you, dude. Fuck that guy. Yeah. Fuck that dude. Form a goddamn union. Don't complain that teachers don't have it. Oh, you guys, first of all, we don't have it. It's because we're 60-hour fucking weeks. We're your shitty kids. You can't put your cell phones away.
Starting point is 01:05:57 Fuck your kids. We cannot be clear enough on this. Yeah, your kid. When you do the bonus episode on uh wtyp i'll save the infected for that thank you for uh for education system because it's it's going to be the tom show okay the mad tom show okay mad tom yes i mean i mean if you if you if you want mad tom it's that's it literally will be mad word. Mad, Tom. Oh, yeah. Just revolutionary rage.
Starting point is 01:06:28 I don't even have to put the Soviet anthem in. It will just play behind me. I like the idea of you open your mouth and without speaking, it just comes out. Yeah. You know what? It doesn't have to be that. It could be Solidarity Forever. But the Utah Phillips version where they call capitalists free parasites.
Starting point is 01:06:45 Yes. Not the Pete Se version where they call capitalists free parasites. Yes. Not the Pete Seeger version. Jesus Christ. Yeah. So money leaguers form a union. If you don't know how to form a union, well, talk to your buds who have one. Maybe talk to the Wobblies. Talk to Longshoremen.
Starting point is 01:07:04 They're pretty radical. What's another good union? My union sucks. PSCA sucks. UOCW is alright. Yeah. I'm trying to think. Shit.
Starting point is 01:07:32 Just you, gentle listener, sweet, sweet listener who we want to you to pay a dollar a month so that we can buy beer. Thank you. It'd be more funny on the podcast. If you don't have any of your job. So. Yeah. Start something, baby. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:44 Do it. Starbucks is doing it now yeah we congratulate them yeah fuck it um start a union though whatever you do so you oh fuck all right wait this is an extra one this is uh you love it you hogs don't you all right delirious i i am i'm probably i mean i'm gonna edit the episode and then fall asleep yeah tom yes did you hear the father judge school library burnt down, I did. It's a real shame, but luckily, there was only two books in there. But one of them wasn't even colored yet. Yeah.
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