Ten Thousand Losses - Tired in the Second Half

Episode Date: December 16, 2021

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. Go Bears, go Bears.. you gotta think the fanatic's gonna go down to her and give her a bunch of hot dogs or the snowball starting to come they'll boo us but they won't let anybody else boo us Hello. Welcome back to another episode of 10,000 Losses. This is episode 8. We're recording this 15 December 2021. I guess if the earth gets nuked before this goes up. I am Liam Anderson. With me is my co-host. Tom Payne. Hi, Tom. Hi.

Yeah, so let's... This is going to be a bit of a short episode. The birds are off. Everything sucks. Yeah. Except maybe the flyers which we'll get into uh fuck that happened and this episode is going to include me as the worst boston bruins fan in the history of mankind defending the montreal canadiens and we'll get into that

maybe not defending but excusing uh you mean the monk toy conane you know it's like uh it's like you know gabagoo it's just like half a word yeah i i mean i mean uh uh alice was right when she said french is just muttering like random vowels and and uh in a general direction you know yeah yeah yeah no unequivocally yes oh i didn't realize that the okay yeah we'll get into it um what do we got all right uh apparently you don't remember a good third of the bonus episode no um i uh i hadn't eaten much that day. Oh, buddy. I had a beer or three. I remember talking afterwards and I remember starting it

but there's about a third in the middle that's like, oof. We didn't check our pronouns but they're both he, him. Yeah, they're both he, him. You can now check your pronouns too just now that we've done it. So I apologize for any blasphemies.

It didn't do too bad. I remember when one of those problems did the beer episode, and Roz had to excise basically the last hour because we're incoherent drunk at the end of it. to the beer episode and Roz had to excise basically the last hour because we're incoherent drunk at the end of it. I'm not sure if I made an actual threat. It's behind a paywall.

It doesn't matter. Yeah, and I think it was, I said someone should die, but I wasn't saying that any of us. That you were going to do it? No, I'm not going to do any of that. I assume Patreon doesn't pay attention to shitstick nobodies like us.

Yeah. We don't get that Chapo money. But with your help, we could. Yes. With $1 a month, you can help. Tom, buy beer, which he'll then give to me. Yes.

And you know, I don't know if you looked into the quote tweets for the Navy thing. Yeah, I did. And I was just like, God almighty, man. So for those who don't know, the army Navy football game is something that happens every year and it's supposed to happen in Philadelphia, but it didn't this year because not an 11 bullshit.

And we, we both critically support Navy in that game. Yeah. And we apparently got in trouble for it. Yeah. So just to make things clear, and we're both lefties. We both hate imperialism. We genuinely don't like the military. So don't worry about that. We're not supporting the Navy and polluting shit.

Fuck that. I mean, aircraft carriers are cool. Boats are cool. Boats are cool. Ships are cool. Yeah. But, but they shouldn't be used for imperialism. They should be used just for dudes.

Rock shit. Like, yeah, we're not, I think some of them were jokes, but I think some of them probably, you know, I'm sorry to the guy whose son got COVID from the Navy.

And then apparently they did nothing. Yeah. I specifically, I didn't address it just because I was like, there's nothing I can say to make that better for you. Of course. Obviously, I'm sorry your kid got COVID. As a parent, when you trust your baby with someone else, I don't know that feeling. I just know it must be horrible.

All that said we're not fucking imperialists yeah and yeah we're not we're not pro fucking bomb and shit we're jesus christ like how like like seriously like i can't believe we have to do this on this podcast um and i guess nuance gets lost on twitter though that's fair and, and there's some nuance here to like, this is where I'm personally going to get canceled. And I apologize that the person made this joke is listening. Cause please don't take this personally. I don't like dead soldier jokes.

I don't either. I, I, I just not a fan. I don't think it's beneficial to anyone. I think it's being spirited. Yeah. I, I, unless they're nazis right or confederates uh then i don't care right but but i don't want anyone getting killed and it goes both ways it's not it's yeah i'm there i guess i'm a

fucking american exceptionalist western marxist, whatever. But yeah, I don't know. Third worldism finally works out. You're going to be the first to go. Yeah. Yeah. I, you know,

I, I'm going to, I'm the one who's going to be canceled for that. Despite my stated support for places like cuba so uh yeah i'm an anarchist that means i get to say whatever the hell i want nobody's listening anyway yeah uh oh i'm listening thanks thanks tom yeah and uh so that that's that but you know we started off last week's episode with with some uh crude humor and i i just want to touch on the fact that you know one of us i'm not going to say who unless the person was willing to share it

uh has has has a tummy ache today and they're potting anyway it's me yeah it's me i i woke up at three to the most horrific diarrhea I've had. I'm keeping this in. I've had in years. And I had about 20 minutes worth of nonstop diarrhea. And I went back to bed and I stayed up because I was so afraid I'd shit my pants in my sleep that I just stayed up for like an hour watching uh a youtube channel that i had to give a shout out to which is called dank pods which is basically an australian man screams at sound equipment uh highly highly worth watching uh he's funny but uh i then have had

diarrhea on and off all day today uh i am i am going through it at the moment uh but yeah we uh should probably get into the announcements i want to thank everyone who subscribed to our patreon yes that means the world to us sincerely yes um i i was not expecting to get a single patron to be honest with you i didn't think anyone would listen to this bullshit. Tom and I do this just because we want to talk to each other about sports. The fact that you guys are willing to pay to listen to Joe Kasabian meltdown about the Detroit Lions and listen to us bullshit and listen to stories about Treebeard come is truly something special to me. We have a voicemail now at 267-371-7218. Actually, someone called in, and we'll get there.

Also, you can message us on Twitter at 10 K losses pod. We, we will respond. That's our mailbag. Yeah. You can email us too. The email. I don't check it as frequently.

No. So definitely, or you can just tag us in a tweet. We check it every day. We'll respond to you. Oh yeah. I, I will definitely check out if you, if you tag us, the tweet. We check it every day. We'll respond to you. Oh yeah. I,

I, I will definitely check out if you, if you tag us, the podcast, we'll, we'll, we'll get to it. So I'll try and figure out how to splice in the audio from the, the voicemail.

Yes. But we did get a voice message from someone asking if the Montreal Canadiens season can be salvaged. Montex, Rene. He was – I'm sorry. I'm not trying to offend. Atiyan, I don't know your pronouns. Atiyan, am I wrong? Is that Steven?

Isn't that – I think it is. Yeah. So, yeah yeah we we definitely apologize we don't know um yeah we're we're we're we're trying i don't speak french i just i used to and now i don't but i wanted to speak about their voicemail which was you know i don't give a shit about sports but it was really exciting to watch the habs make a run for it and now this season they've sort of cratered they fired their gm is there anything to be done and i wanted to say sort of two things on the subject which was there is no feeling in the world better than a sports team you don't really give a shit about getting hot. Yeah. Like that, that you like vaguely care about.

Right. Like for me, you know, I've watched all four of my teams that I primarily root for win a championship. Those are the Boston teams. Uh, and,

uh, I grew up in central Pennsylvania. So I remember what it was like when the Phillies made their, their world series back to back runs. It's there's no feeling like it. Phillies made their World Series back-to-back runs. There's no feeling like it. It's like watching a team you tangentially care about. Because if you actually care about that team, it's fucking horrible.

Unless you're the Eagles and you have no business being there in the first place. I mean, I gotta say, from the fan of a lifelong childhood fan of the Phillies, the 2008- 2008 2009 that that era was like catharsis for so much suffering oh yeah so so so that was actually pretty fucking awesome i have to say what what i mean is like but you're terrified they're gonna fuck it up

well you expect it right sports and i was and i would say uh prior to the socks making their 04 run my dad was just like here we fucking go again and then they won it in 04 and catharsis is the right word well that's that's interesting because that like the red socks for me were kind of a team i've always had just attraction to for the history. And that run where they turned it around on the Yankees to get to the World Series, that literally made me a baseball fan. I remember watching it. Game 7 ALCS, I was there.

That was my bar mitzvah present. That made me a baseball fan for life way more than it. I did it. I personally did it. You're welcome. Absolutely. They have your it. You're welcome. Absolutely. They have your seat.

That's the red seat in the outfield. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, I remember 2011. So I had started. I had kind of been a Bruins fan because I saw enough Bruins caps games as a kid. And hockey is my dad's favorite sport but as a teenager I was much more into football which I like played at the time uh and then watching the Bruins get hot and watching old man Tim Thomas become like a brick wall in net during the Bruins 2011 Stanley Cup run was like there's no better feeling than that and from the voicemail them saying like I don't really give a shit but then they got hot uh that's I just

wanted to talk about that feeling yeah and then on the note of the Canadians uh maybe the St. Louis Blues did it two years ago and beat my beloved Boston Bruins in seven. So, yeah, I understand that you're stoked. I actually looked at the standings and I was like, I haven't actually heard from the Habs in a while. We are 30 games into the season. Tom, I want you to guess how many games they've won. Seven.

Six. You were close. Oh, shit. They are 621-3, which is bad which is bad oh bad that's yeah the bruins aren't looking too too mighty either or 14 9 and 2 so at least we're all in the shit heap together uh i do want to say uh yeah hockey's real fucking weird uh anything is possible. That's my honest answer to you. Do I think you're going to make it back to the Stanley Cup Final?

Absolutely not. Do I think your asshole team can sneak into the playoffs and do some damage? Yeah, because I wouldn't put anything past that roster. Hockey's real fucking weird. If you can get into the playoffs, you can win a cup. Well, didn't the expansion team Vegas?

Did they make the finals their first year? They made the finals their first year because the NHL rigged it. I'm not familiar to that. This is my conspiracy theory. This is my pet conspiracy theory. The NHL rigged the Golden Knights inaugural season

in order to increase fandom in the team, knowing that they were the first professional team in Vegas, and knowing that if they sucked, the team would fold. They changed the rules of the expansion draft, too. And then you look at the Kraken, who are way down at the bottom there. Yeah. Hmm. And Seattle is a city that deserves the bottom there. Yeah. Hmm.

And Seattle is a city that deserves teams. Right. It's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, the Wild are leading the Western Conference right now. So who fucking knows? You know, anything can happen.

My serious answer is Habs suck, but never say never. The Blues have provided the template. It's certainly possible. Hockey is weird enough that you might just sneak in. Never say never. The Blues have provided the template. It's certainly possible. Hockey is weird enough that you might just sneak in. Absolutely believe that. And come down to meet Joe at Irish Weekend. Yeah.

We do our first live show. We have to prop up Joe. What is that? Weekend at Bernie's? Yeah. Yeah. Irish weekend. Jesus Christ. That's going to probably end up being what it is.

The first live show will be at Irish weekend in North Wildwood. I think that's probably going to have to. I think we'll do that. Yeah. Yeah. We'll like fight the WIP guys. Did we ever tell the John Boleros story? I don't think so.

I know we got to keep it short today. Long story short, there's this weather guy named John Boleros. He predicted the storm of the century in Philly, and it didn't happen. So everyone made fun of him. He left town for a couple of years. He's a saga on its own. He got scammed by the same Russian, uh,

prostitutes twice, like two nights in a row. Uh, but the one time he's down in, uh, down at Irish weekend or down like one of those, like a radio station, you know,

we're opening a short weekend, you know, here at Kenyans Irish pub in Wildwood, New Jersey. And so, and he's told this story. He's standing there, and he just feels warmth on his leg, and he looks up.

Some dude's taking a leak on his leg. And he just goes, hey, John, look, it's raining. Oh. Philly legend John Valeris, come on the podcast. Oh, we actually have, before we talk about the Eagles, today is the anniversary of a specific incident of Philly lore. Oh, shit. It's Santa getting pelted with snowballs. Oh, and if you listen to the intro where the guy's like,

and then the snowball started to come, that is the guy. That's the snowball guy. I forget his name. He's from some south philly dude um yeah yeah uh for those of you who don't know do you want to tell the story you want me to um you're from here i feel like it's cultural appropriation if i do it well you can you can fill in the details because it's a bit vague. But basically there was an Eagles game and there was a delay. We'll have to do a proper treatment

on this in a bonus episode. What the fuck is actually wrong with Philly fans? Yeah. And this guy always dressed up like Santa and he's walking out of this he's trying to get up or something like that. People started throwing snowballs at him.

He was 19 years old. Yeah. I don't know what the inciting incident was there, like what triggered it. I know that they were sort of like a delay. I think there was a delay or something. People were getting rowdy. Oh, people love this shit.

Oh, no, maybe. Vamping until I can pull it up on Wikipedia. So he gets snowballs just fucking thrown at him. So that's where now Philadelphians are known as the team that threw snowballs at Santa Claus. I feel like people think that Santa was on the field at halftime. It was halftime.

The 1968 Eagles were 2 and 11 yeah uh that's the 60s eagles yeah yeah they were very bad uh so yeah it was at franklin field in west philly not down in south philly for what that's worth wait wait franklin field yes franklin field oh yeah yeah i my brain went to frankfurt yellow jacket so i thought you said frankfurt field no wait no yeah and they uh they booed him uh and started just tossing uh snowballs at him yeah because uh the eagles were actually winning which is really funny yeah uh and that's one of the reasons they were booing because they were they were worried we'd miss out on the chance to draft oh boy oj simpson yes excellent yeah snowballs beer cans bottles hoagies uh uh they they were playing here comes Santa Claus and just they profiled him back in 2011. He, the

Olivio who played he got hit by at least 100 snowballs. Yeah. We are the worst pieces of shit in any professional He's like a South Philly legend. I think he's still alive. No, he died. He died back in 2015, I think.

Ah, RIP. RIP to a real one. Yeah. Shit. I mean, he probably would have lived a few years longer if it wasn't for the snowballs. Some other Eagles news. Jalen Hurts and Gardner Minshew are splitting reps.

Oh, boy. Oh, we're going gonna get a fucking QB controversy. Of course it is. Of course it is. I thought we were growing roots, Nick. This doesn't feel like a tree that's making much progress. You're digging half the pot out

and then putting some slightly compatible shit in there. I don't know. I don't garden enough to make good metaphors. Yeah, me either, so that's fine. Wow, this sucks. Oh my god. It's...

It's... They've been listening to WIP. That's the problem. They've been listening to sports radio. They've been listening to the dumb guys from Delco having their way with takes during the spy week. Yep.

That's what this is. And the teams that we needed to lose didn't lose. The Cowboys won. Fuck, you know. And that was actually – I don't know if you caught that, the tail end of the Cowboys-Washington game. Yeah, I did. Yeah.

Washington tried. They really came close. I got real excited. So did I. It's bad when you're rooting for the... I mean, it is literally the shittiest franchise versus the second shittiest franchise. Yeah, but you know it's bad when you're rooting for the Dallas Cowboys.

I was rooting for the football team because I want Cowboys to lose. No, but they were already ahead of us in the standings. Oh, for wild card. Yeah. Oh, see, that was dumb of me then. I was sending my energy to the wrong team. Yeah, I was sending my energy to really neither of these.

The Eagles are going to get into the playoffs. Oh, hell yeah. All right, let's look ahead to the uh oh i i missed the uh in case you're wondering why we're not talking about the eagles performance they're on the buy you play sunday against washington uh you want to talk about tragedies in the nfl well so we had two. Emmanuel Sanders. Yes. Or Demarius Thomas. Both of them. Oh.

Because we had a shooting by a former NFL player. Right. And then we had the death of, what's his name? I'm mixing the two up, but I'm an asshole for it. Demarius Thomas, right? Demarius Thomas at 33. Apparently, and I don't want to... We know that it was not... Like foul play.

Right. The family, I think, came out and said it was likely as a result of a seizure, which is terrifying. Yeah. I wonder how you get seizures. Because they didn't really start until later in his life apparently yeah uh i wonder how that happened cte baby yeah don't play this fucking sport as two people who used to do not play football um don't yeah don't

play football and don't let your kids play football. Yeah. So, so both, both of these cases, CTE is, it comes up. I mean, it literally is a sport. It's a sport that, that,

that turns your brain into, into, into sponge. You give yourself Alzheimer's. Yeah. No joke. No joke at all. Like literally like,

and, and it's, um, you know, there's been a lot this year. We talked about Lane Johnson earlier and, uh, what's his name? Um, the other player. Oh, I know you're talking about. I talked about him.

My, my, my brain is, my brain is. Yeah. My tummy hurts. So, yeah. And, and you have this sort of like, there's a, there's a, there is enough of a shift where it's like, you do have guys starting to come out about issues and talk about this stuff. But there's still especially with former players, you know, the sport is still very, very in this like, you know, we're the 300 Spartans kind of shit. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, literally, I'm going to bang my helmets together, you know, in high school to prove how tough we are to the coach. Right. Yeah, that's shit. So, yeah, I think probably at some point we could do a little deeper dive. Maybe once things are slow in the offseason, do a deeper dive on this shit. Because it's... We should do an episode about that.

Not a bonus, but yeah, we should do like a CTE episode. Yeah, because it really... There is a moral... You should be mindful of what these dudes are putting their bodies through for your entertainment. Yeah. And as a lifelong football fan, it can make the sport hard to watch. Yeah. Especially knowing that the NFL has done some really gruesome shit in its pursuit of covering up CTE.

Yeah, and I tell you, we're going to find out 20, 30 years from now that his brain was fucked from that clowny hit and no one wanted to talk about it. It's a hidden secret. No, that's absolutely true.

A hidden secret. What a great turn of phrase. Open secret. Jesus Christ. Whichever. Yeah. You want to move over to the preview for this week's upcoming game against the football team? Oh, the toilet bowl?

Yeah. Yeah. Well, half of Washington, let's see, their starting quarterback for this season was Ryan Fitzpatrick, who is having or just had season-ending surgery. Their backup, Taylor Heineke, is out. I forget what he did to himself. I think a knee injury or an ankle injury.

And the backup they put in has COVID. Kyle Allen. Phenomenal. So, yeah, that's what we've got. Jalen Hurts is expected to come back, although it's not a certainty. A report came out today that washington football team owner dan snyder uh tried to prevent a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct from speaking with an attorney last year um let's see washington has eight players on the covid list.

They have no cornerbacks. They're all dead. So yeah, the Eagles will find a way to blow this. That... Fuck. They have 18. 18 people on the COVID list. Excuse me. There's no excuse not to win this game.

No. No. There's not, so we win this game. No. No, there's not. So we will find a way. And I really wonder what's going to happen with Hertz and Minshew this game. I think they're going to start Minshew. You think so? Yeah, I really do.

They better not. I'm done with this quarterback controversy shit yeah it sucks it it sucks and you know what's gonna happen it's gonna happen again in in the draft anyway so what the fuck who cares i guess right uh but yeah no so so so six and seven four so four games left yeah okay all right and we play washington twice yeah so we should that we should win that and then we play the cowboys and the giants right yeah all right this is good i mean at least at least it's coming down to some interesting games at the end of the season um so the nfc is fucking putrid yeah no absolutely i mean i think the whole nfl just sucks ass this year it's it's been hard to watch it has not yet it hasn't been

that fun uh it cove you know it's it's sort of like a there were a couple games last week that were entertaining yeah oh yeah no definitely uh it just it's like the quality the level of play i don't think is there is as it used to be. And I think it's just a symptom of COVID. Feels like every game is just going like 17-10. Yeah. There's not a lot of high scores. There's... Or there are.

They're just complete domination. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Fuck. Yeah, so I guess listen to us next week when we complain about whatever happens. Even if it was good, we're still going to complain. We will.

Because we're Eagles fans. Yeah, exactly. So I put the owls in here. Yeah, let's talk about it. We lost to St. Joe's. We lost to St. Joe's. We lost to St. Joe's. What the fuck?

We're playing the University of Central Florida tonight. That's on ESPN, too, man. Oh, man. I might have to check that out. I'm going to force myself to watch that. I'm actually in a point where I'm having trouble Forcing myself to watch Basketball and hockey

Can't blame you And I have to Obviously but It's just been I don't know if it's me If I'm just projecting my own internal Like fatigue From just teaching Right and it being that part of the year where we're just in the rush for

Christmas break, or if it's ever, everything kind of sucks. I think it's both. Yeah. You know, but at least the owls are doing better than, than they were.

And apparently I just saw it popped up my phone that the, they're looking for the, in the, in the search for coach for the temple owls football yeah it looks like they're looking for texas associate head coach slash running batting coach stan drayton oh boy okay i don't i'm not super into college football so i don't know about him i don't know his... I mean, Texas is a legitimate program that finds new and interesting ways to fuck up every year.

So he'll fit in. He'll fit in. He'll slide in real nice. Yeah. We cheer for the dumbest teams. Because cheering for good teams is for bandwagons. Yeah.

I don't know if other cities are like this, but like you start cheering, even like a passing interest, like, will you fuck a bandwagon or what the fuck's wrong with you? Like, no, I'm just here in the misery. Yeah, it's cheering for my alma mater who sucks.

Yeah. I'm not cheering for Penn State. Right. I'm not going to cheer for what Arcadia or Drexel Fuck that Yeah So Temple it is Yeah Temple it is

Temple it is So speaking of basketball Yeah You want to talk about the Sixers So speaking of basketball. Yeah. You want to talk about the Sixers? So speaking of things just with fatigue, the Sixers. In the second half specifically, maybe? Yeah.

So I looked up. I looked up. We're scoring most of our points in the first quarter. And then we're just hoping. Yeah. And we're just losing gas. And I don't know if that's a Doc Rivers thing. That's kind of a Sixers thing for the last few years. Before Doc too.

I don't know if it's like a manager thing. I haven't... I could get into the... There's a fucking website out there where you can actually look at the different times and the different pairings and stuff like that. I used to use it for... When I was really big into 2K, I would different pairings and stuff like that. I used to use it for when I was really big into 2K.

I would schedule my teams using stuff like that. I'd have to take a deeper look at that. They definitely are, at least with the eye test, just falling apart, especially in the second half.

They've done this for years now yeah uh a few years ago when they lost to the toronto raptors in the second round yes uh they had clearly just forgotten how to play basketball besides jimmy butler yeah uh. Embiid gets fatigued sort of just as the nature of the beast. He's even in the best shape of his life. That is a big body to move around for 40 minutes a game. Yep, absolutely. That is not a critique of Embiid's conditioning or anything about the player.

He is a god, and he is a big a big boy yeah he's got those engine hours like rack it up faster yeah yeah yeah that's that's truly what it is but i mean without uh a certain all pro defender uh on the floor uh with the ability to at least suck up some of those duties. That's a roster stretch thinner. Yeah. Like, I will say the young folks. He's known for his energy. Yeah. Matisse Thibold looks fucking incredible.

Yeah. That victory against the Warriors, he was truly everywhere. Yeah. He blocked two of Steph's threes in a row, a feat which had never been accomplished up until that point uh the Tyrese Maxey uh seemingly can just go forever yeah watching him play is absolutely a joy that I mean that 100% sincerely watching Watching the kid play is a blast. Yeah. He was a good pick. Yeah.

But yeah, they've done that for you. I don't know if it's the roster construction. I don't know if it's the fact that the team sort of runs through Embiid and then he gets tired and then playmaking sort of slows down. I think that's part of it. You know, when you don't, when you, when you have, you know, he's such a dominant presence in the, in the paint, he frees, he frees up everybody else and defense. I mean, I don't know. Like, like, like it feels like, you know,

the guys are getting tired on defense when he's not on. Yeah. And someone like Ben, again, who's a phenomenal defender and who's got a lot of, you know, he's, he's got some stamina.

You know, you can press R2 down on him real long and, you know, he doesn't lose energy. Jesus Christ. And yeah. And I think, I think it's like yeah like you did that that's part of the problem you know i think that i think the bench is tired because of all

that's been put upon them right early it's a lot to ask of those kids or especially you know when the b was out and, you know, this dude's knee is like... Crab meat. Just get him a new one. Especially his age, it'll keep for a while. Just give him bionic legs.

That would be sweet. For the rest of his life. Yeah. So, yeah. They're not they're not awful they're not they're not phenomenal i still think they're gonna make the playoffs oh they will yeah it's just uh it's just a you know it's a slog this part of the season anyway you know usually it's more of a slog when you get to like february but right but this is this is you know especially with the weirdness of the last couple nba seasons like

uh no it's what are you gonna do is sort of my answer yeah i don't know i don't know what you do i mean you trade ben simmons i guess but yeah, the rumor came out that the Pells were looking to trade a couple first-round picks and pick swaps for Ben Simmons straight up. No Brandon Ingram involved this time. Not sure how legit that is. Yeah, I was hearing stuff about training for – well, we talked about this the last podcast, training in Indiana for Sabonis. Sabonis, Miles Turner about this the last podcast, training in Indiana for

Sabonis, Miles Turner, and the other guy, yeah. I just remembered that because we did talk about that. Oh, yes. Go hang out with Carson fucking Wentz. Yeah, please. Two of you can have an unlikability contest.

Exactly. Yeah. You got anything else on the Sixers? On the Sixers? No. We're playing the Heat tonight. We'll see how that goes. Temple plays the University of Central Florida. So you text me which game you want to watch, and I'll

watch the other one. We'll see which one's going to be more painful. Probably Temple. Yeah, you might have to do temple then i'll take temple all right uh the flyers have won three in a row yeah uh so so question as someone who's not as as hockeyfied right i don't have i don't have the inside knowledge uh was firing the coach yeah i mean it sort of looks like it i mean you lose 10 in a row you know there's and like the steve is still nothing to write home about right but like the flyers had six last night yeah mackinson looks better and better uh he had three goals and an assist last night uh they're three and two under mike yo

so i don't you know the the devils i'm gonna focus on the Devils game from last night because that's the one I watched. A bunch of them have COVID. The Devils haven't beaten anyone that's not Philly since November the 20th. Fuck, of course. Yeah. Carter Hart made 26 saves. But I will say they beat Vegas. Was it Vegas or was it someone else, by essentially standing on their head, by Carhartt standing on his head after they were outshot like 44-18.

So yeah, some of these wins, I'd say a couple of these wins have been pure dumb luck. And the Flyers beat a bad Arizona team. They beat a hamstringed, at the very least, Devils team. But they got a quality win over Vegas. And some of that breaks down to Vegas just not being, whatever, firing on all cylinders. But at the same time, Carter Hart made 41 saves

and had a.9932 save percentage and we think of that as pretty good uh and and you said that he's a he's a special boy and he needs he needs love right he needs help yeah yeah yes that's that's that's good for your uh morale yeah so you know who does um they're probably not gonna do anything special i don't think they're gonna make it you know i actually do? They're probably not going to do anything special. I don't think they're going to make it. You know, I actually do think they're going to make it to the playoffs because the East is just a dumpster fire this year. It's like it's literally every sport. Yeah.

Oh, I guess basketball. Well, kind of. They're only five points out of a wild card spot. So anything is possible. Yeah, that's true uh so uh any any upcoming game what's i gotta look at the schedule i play i believe the habs next all right not tonight thank god yeah tomorrow yes uh then what do we got uh yeah i mean they're 11 12 and 4 which isn't very good but at the same time could be worse if you survive a 10 if you're gonna have 10 losses in a row and still only be five points out of a wild card spot that's not the worst place to find yourself in no not at all so they

and they have like the cracking coming up they have a mixed schedule because I mean the Habs are tragic Ottawa's not great like they can pull off a few wins and sort of get right back in the meat of it.

So we'll see. All right. I'm going to have to find out why you call them the Habs. Habitant. Like, of the city? The name, yeah. They're called the Habitant in French, the Habs. All right.

Okay. There we go. That's very... Romance languages. All right. Okay. There we go. That's a very, romance languages, jokes. All right. Any, any other hockey?

It's not much for, there's not much for a fucking baseball. We got a little bit. Go for it. So, Dick Allen, who, if you don't know, you need to look him up

Read his Wikipedia page it's pretty interesting Who was a Phillies player And he's also Part of the reason why there's free agency in any sport Was snubbed again for the Hall of Fame Oh that's some bullshit And now the Baseball Hall of Fame Is

Sort of weird how it does its elections, selection of members. You have like after you've been out for 10 years, the you know, the sort of that's like the the main way people get in there. There's an election by all the baseball writers. But then there's like committees that go back and look at like,'re called the Veterans Committee, so they're for certain years. And Dick Allen was one of them, and he lost by one vote. That's bullshit. And this is a guy who had to wear a batting helmet in the outfield while fielding because there was so much racial shit getting thrown his way.

This is for Philadelphia. And like genuine – like this is in Philadelphia, you know, and like genuine, like genuine, like this is, this is in the sixties. This is like, this isn't like black players are new. They had been playing for a couple of years. Like I think almost a decade at that, at that point he was playing, he played for the Phillies with six early sixties, early sixties. Right. Yeah. So it wasn't, it wasn't yeah.

For 63 to 69. So it wasn't it wasn't for 63 to 69 so it wasn't like black players were like a novelty but he was getting shit thrown at him in the outfield but he's probably one of the best power hitters of all time who just kind of because of his

role in labor because of the racial stuff he kind of is just like this like under like this low-key guy that has kind of slipped through the cracks of the system and this is part of the job of this is what pisses me off is this is part of the job of the hall of fame is to recognize those guys specifically yeah and the veteran and the veterans committee in particular for the guys who get past of Fame is to recognize those guys specifically. The Veterans Committee in particular, for the guys who get past the regular committee.

He's a guy we could probably do a whole episode on or that era in Philly. Him being snubbed is an insult. He's the guy who basically taught Mike Schmidt how to fucking hit the right way. He got snubbed for the Hall of Fame.

Outside of that, shit is still in deadlock with the lockout. Who the fuck knows when it's going to end? Fuck that. Great. No baseball news. I can't even look forward to February for pitchers to catch its report.

I'm sorry, man. I know you're not the huge baseball guy, but you know how baseball people are when February comes around. It's like the light finally starts shining a bit. We can't even have that. Can't even have that. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, it's like the light finally starts shining a bit. Yeah. Um, I can't even have that.

Can't even have that. Uh, fuck. But, uh, all right. Since this is now also a union podcast. Yeah.

Apparently. Yeah. Uh, we have to talk about the MLS cup, uh, because soccer is fun to watch lamb. Yep. that's a thing that I also agree with.

Is that sarcasm? Oh, fuck yeah, it's sarcasm. Oh my god, it's so much fun to watch. All the different maneuvers and shit they do, it's so cool. Go ahead, Tom. Listen, you're talking to a guy who thinks that reading about different languages and how they conjugate and have tenses is fun, too.

So keep – Yeah, fair enough. Yeah. So take that with a grain of salt. But so anyway, so it was New York City FC who beat the union. So fuck them, right? And against Portland. Right. And against Portland. Right.

And. Port. When, when New York city scored the first goal, they started celebrating and someone from Portland just threw a beer at the New York player. Fuck you. Which is kind of fucked up. Cause the players have nothing to do with like the politics of the club.

Right. Like the, cause New York city has a, not the Red Bulls, but the FC, NYCFC or whatever. They have a lot of Proud Boys and shit who are fans. Portland

does not fuck. Well, we know what happened over the summer last two years. Portland doesn't fuck around. I imagine it was a misguided sort of, you know, the official line of this podcast is, do not throw things at players, throw them at

opposing fans who are being racist or assholes. Yes. And yeah, the players don't deserve that. Unless you're watching like SS Lazio, or like one of those, or the Rangers. One of the fascist football clubs. We'll excuse it.

Yeah. I mean, Jesus Christ. SS Lazio. It's got SS in the name, which I know it doesn't mean that. Yeah, but even so, right? Their logo is the fucking Mussolini Eagle. And they're known for being racist for Italians, which if you know anything about Italy, it's something. yeah and they're known for being racist for italians which if you know anything that italy is something uh uh jesus christ but yeah yeah so i i put there put portland pulled a philly there

throwing a beer at a player um but it was interesting though it's like you had or this was on abc it was a national national broadcast and the whole ultra section they had black lives matter they had trans rights flags they had the iron front logo which is okay It was a national broadcast And the whole ultra section They had Black Lives Matter They had trans rights flags They had the Iron Front logo Which is okay I was thinking of you I appreciate the thought

Most people who are using that logo Are not using it Like Fuck Rosa Luxemburg They're not using it that way What's his name This is not a social sister podcast like fuck Rosa Luxemburg uh they're not using it that way right or well that wasn't I guess Rosa was what's what's his name this is not a social sister podcast but anyway um so but yeah no it was super cool to see that and the and the fans the fans were

I was like hell yeah that that like seriously like that fucking rocks when do you see that in sports the United States right Right. No, absolutely dude. It was, it was, it was genuinely cool to watch. I caught the highlights. I was like, all right,

like sports, especially like football. Again, we both care about has such gross racial undertones. Oh yeah. In the United States. Like it's nice to see something that didn't look like that. Yeah.

Compare that to the World Series, which is the equivalent in baseball, and you had fucking Atlanta fans doing the chop. Right. Happy shit to be doing in town. And in the stadium that they built in the suburbs, explicitly to attract white fans. Yes.

Because who would want to attract fans from another race that are way more into the sport? Jesus Christ. Bonus episode of me raining my baseball. I'll listen to that. I'll be on that. If only you were on a sports podcast. You're dehydrated. I've pooping non-stop for a long time man yeah oh i didn't get to bring up the uh the the astronaut thing i wanted to bring

that up on the oh we can we can skip that okay all right turns out astronauts had to wear diapers people and and you know neil arm wore a diaper, and it was tailored to his body shape, which means that future historians can go on the moon, find the diapers, and figure out how big Neil Armstrong's dick was. We must do this for science, of course.

I like Neil, like, I don't know, Buzz might have him beat there. I assume so. I wish this weren't what we're talking about but it is now well i was i was trying to bring the discourse that's fine yeah i mean yeah it's like you know it's like a a canister tennis ball is hanging there yeah yeah you know how it is listen you, you know what? We don't discriminate, but you got to send your best to the moon.

Yeah, it's just slang and dong out there. I mean, they're riding a giant dog. Yeah. Road is a rocket, if not an edifice. A phallic edifice to man's hubris. That's a good point.

That's a good point. That's a good point. That's God almighty. Jesus Christ. Any other sports takes? Oh, no. Wait, hold on. Now, I want to say that what was fun to watch, though, was the end of that game. Because that was.

On PKs? Wait, what? On penalty kicks? Well, what? On penalty kicks? Well, the end of regular time. Oh, okay. Or not regular time. It was extra time. And they had literally four seconds left.

They scored a goal to tie it up. Yeah. And then the penalty kicks were like, oh, Portland. Oh, God. You poor boys. No, no, no, no. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, worth a shot. Got the yips. But no, that was fun. Well, no, no. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, worth a shot. Got the yips. But no, that was fun. Well, let's see. We managed to make 50 minutes. Good for us. Yeah. It'll be – we could just put the intro in like three times and bump it up to an hour.

Remix. Yeah. All right, Tom. What did god say after he created father judge students i could do better and yeah he did and then got open north yeah absolutely uh i don't know if i did that joke already i gotta keep track of them you haven't okay uh well do you do you have any plugs for today because i know you you got to run literally and figuratively yeah uh oh we made it just to 530 perfect uh subscribe to our patreon yes by joe kasabian's book uh listen to well there's your problem yes uh and listen to lions led by donkeys

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