The Josh Innes Show - Random Thoughts: I Found My Philly Rage

Episode Date: October 28, 2022

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This is The Josh Ennis Show. Howdy, everybody. Welcome in. Josh Ennis Show. Howdy, everybody. Welcome in. Josh Ennis Show. Game one. World Series. Tonight.

Feels like it's been a, what, four years since the LCS ended. I get that this is how it's scheduled. And I get that you can't move around the schedule. And I get all that. I respect that. I really do. But some of the momentum really died when you have to wait four or five days for another series to start. And you might say, well, Josh, what about the Super Bowl? The Super Bowl has two weeks off. Yeah, but that's the

Super Bowl. The whole world cares about that. The NFL doesn't have to compete with people to be interested in the product. It is the Super Bowl. This is the World Series, which quite possibly might be one of the lowest viewed ever. And I don't care about breaking down ratings or anything. But my point being that you've got a World Series that starts on a Friday and Saturday night. Two of the worst TV nights ever. That's just the way things work so if you're a show that

gets moved to a saturday night your show is probably going to get canceled that's why they moved you to saturday night friday is a dead tv night that's why like tgif remember tgif remember urkel remember urkel and and family matters and full house and Step by Step and Boy Meets World and all those shows that were on on Fridays for TGIF, they were kid-driven shows because adults do not watch TV on Friday nights. They have lives and they go out and live them. So, of course, people who are diehard Strohs fans will watch and Philly will watch, yes. But, man, you really lose a lot of momentum. There's a lot of people who probably don't remember how those series ended

because they just ended, and then you have to wait damn near a week to get baseball again. I think that was a – again, you can't plan that. You would think maybe you have two competitive series. They go six or seven, and then none of this would have been an issue. You'd be working on two or three – a day or two rest as opposed to a week. But there had to have been something because, honestly, I'm, you know, I'm into it and I'm ready to watch tonight and I've been waiting for it.

But like, I even found myself over the last handful of days, just kind of like, hey, now what, like, what do you do? Like, I've kind of lost a lot of the juice for it, but you know, I don't know. I, to me, there has to be a way and I get there's TV schedules and all that, but they should have a contingency plan. And that contingency plan should be that, let's say the series, both series are done on Sunday, whatever. And the next series isn't supposed to start until Friday. Go to the network and say, all right, bump whatever crappy TV show you've got on. We're playing game one. And I know that's not the only thing you take into consideration.

People book travel hotels. I get that it's not feasible. I get it. But as someone who's not going to travel to any of these games, right, I just sit back and go, I'm going to watch it at home. Why do I have to wait a week between series? So I have lost a little juice for it like the last couple days I'd even found myself kind of being okay with McDougal just kind of people sending me messages because they heard the stuff about WIP a lot of people saying hey I wish you were

still on in Philly you know I really liked your show and not everybody hated you Josh and I'm like well that's nice you know what I'm kind of like I'm with you guys I'm with you McD. And I'm like, well, that's nice. You know what? I'm kind of like, I'm with you guys. I'm with you, McDougal. I'm not rooting for you, but I'm not rooting against you. I'm just kind of indifferent. I didn't like that I felt that way. I don't like that I sat there last night at the house and I'm reading nice comments about me on Facebook. And I'm like, I'm indifferent about this series now. Like, I hope the Astros win, but you know what? McDougal's not so bad. I don't want to deal. It's fine. So I performed a test today, and that test was I was just going to post something on Facebook that says, hey, I think the Astros are going to win, which I do. I think they're going to win the series, and I think Verlander, who has not won a World Series game, Verlander will win

a World Series game finally, and it will be lovely, and the Astros will be up 1-0. So I just say, hey, the Verlandi man is going to get his first victory in the World Series. And I said, if McDougal's kind of fun with the back and forth, okay. If it turns into lunatic McDougal, you're a fraud, we hated you in Philly, that's why you got fired. If that's the case, that would reignite that spark inside of me that makes me hate McDougal. And then I can hate him and be really back into the series again and hope like hell the Astros win. So I posted that. I just said, hey, I think that the Verlandi man, which is a reference they wouldn't get. A lot of people don't get the Verlandi man reference and that's fine. But I said, tonight, the Verlandy Man, which is a reference they wouldn't get. A lot of people don't get the Verlandy Man reference, and that's fine. But I said, tonight, the Verlandy Man gets his first World Series win.

Just a statement. Nothing major. Whatever. I didn't say, hey, Philly can go fuck themselves. Or, hey, go eat some horse shit, you pole-climbing Neanderthals. None of that. I said nothing along those lines of, you're losers. I said nothing like that. All I said was tonight the Verlandi man gets his first World Series win.

And I told myself if the bulk of the comments that I see are from lunatics that want to fight, tell me that's why I got fired, want to make it a personal attack, then I will be back in the game and I will be ready to root for the Astros. And my fat ass will be sitting in front of the TV at 7.03, pumpkin beer in hand, waving a fucking old-school 2017 rally towel from the World Series, ready to go. But then I thought, maybe McDougal's not going to do that. Maybe McDougal is also leveled out. Maybe McDougal understands that, hey, I've read Josh's Facebook, and I get where he's coming from.

He's a guy that's moved around a lot, and he's rooting for the Astros because he loves the city and lived there for a decade. Yeah, he's that's moved around a lot, and he's rooting for the Astros because he loves the city and lived there for a decade. Yeah, he's a Cardinals fan, sure, but he's rooting for the Astros, and that's totally okay. I'm not going to get worked up over the fact that this guy thinks Justin Verlander, the Cy Young Award winner, all-time great Hall of Fame pitcher, 1.75 ERA this year, that that guy could win a game in the World Series.

I thought there's no way McDougal's going to be that insane that he's going to want to fight over all that and make personal attacks. There is no way. Then I waited a little bit and waited for the comments to roll in because McDougal, like there's like a buzzer that goes off. And if McDougal hears anything or if anybody on the internet says something that is not hey the Phillies in two somehow McDougal gets this like buzzer that goes off and they just comment they just show up they're like zombies it's like night of the living dead it's like dawn of the dead they just keep coming and they don't stop I guess it's admirable in a way there's

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Therefore, it makes it a lot easier for me to say, fuck Philadelphia, fuck the Phillies, go, go fucking Astros. Now I will read you some of these comments. Let's see. I seem to remember when Josh was in Philly, the Cardinals were his team, not Houston. So I guess this means Philly gets two shots at you this year, big boy. Okay, that's fine. That one's a totally fine one. Totally cool. Fine. Let me scroll through some more of these. Well, we're putting in our number two starter. Well, again, that has nothing to do with how well Justin Verlander pitches McDougal. Let's see. Let's see. Why don't you check his World Series record? Go, Phils. Well, friend,

why don't you... I don't really care about what someone's record is that's not this year right that's like saying well clayton kershaw he sucks against the cardinals in the playoffs which he does but that doesn't mean clayton kershaw is going to suck every game in the postseason a lot of gifts let's see here i like when you make predictions they are usually wrong not really I haven't made any predictions about anything by the way I literally said the Cardinals were going to lose to the Phillies that's why I did not want them to play the Phillies because they would lose and they did see McDougal the part that makes McDougal stupid is McDougal sees you rooting for someone

and thinks that automatically means hey I'm picking them to win no the Cardinals I wanted them to win I said they weren't going to win that's why I did a whole goddamn podcast praying that they would win because I didn't think they would and I was right. Let's see here. Well, at least this person says, thanks for your hard work in getting Verlander to Houston. Hey, I can do a whole pod about that.

Let's see this McDougal. His 6.30 ERA says an L is on the horizon. This is another, this is not a personal insult to me, but the commentary is so stupid and so indicative of what McDougal is. He's a completely uneducated, doesn't watch any other sports other than Philly, has no fucking clue, mouth breather Neanderthal, he has no clue. His 6.30 ERA says an L is on the horizon. He had his time and was great, but it's too late for him. What are the odds that McDougal doesn't know that Justin Verlander has a 1.75 ERA this regular season?

What are the odds that McDougal doesn't know that Verlander struck out 11 in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, struck out 11, I think at one time struck out 7 in a row, gave up 3 hits in a run, and the Astros won that game to go ahead 1-0 in the series. What are the odds? Oh, and by the way, those 11 strikeouts came in 6 innings. But anyway, there's no way McDougal actually knows that. Justin Verlander is just a nobody. He's a has-been, whatever. Okay, cute. McDougal hears a number.

He rolls with it. There's a couple replies. Let me see here. I said, the dude is going to win the Cy Young. His ERA this year was sub two, to which Leo Thomas says, not in the playoffs when it really counts. How the fuck do you know? Your team hadn't been to the playoffs in 12 fucking years.

Oh, and by the way, your guys that were rock stars in 2011 got bent over by the Cardinals. So like the idea that you're some sort of expert on, oh, well, not in the playoffs when it really counts. How many starts the guy has made in the playoffs? 33! His career postseason ERA is 3.5! Like, the idea because, what, he had a bad start against Seattle? Shit happens. Because, and I think people get caught up in this idea that Verlander, oh, well, he's 0-6.

Well, the record is not something you control, right? The Astros won game one of that series against Seattle. Verlander gets a no decision. He sucked in that game. Didn't win, didn't lose. Got a no decision. Based on his pitching, should have been an L, but they bounced back and won. You look at some of the other stuff.

Like, go back to the World Series in 2019. He started two games in that World Series. Wasn't spectacular. Gave up four runs in six innings in one game. Gave up three runs in five the next. Not spectacular. But there are plenty of examples of Verlander pitching his dick off and not getting any run support, which happens to a lot of great pitchers.

Like ALCS game five, 2019. Verlander went seven, gave up four. He was fine. Struck out nine, whatever. There are games you pitch your ass off and don't factor into the decision. Take that back. It was actually game two I was thinking of in the ALCS. Two earned runs, 7K, six and two-thirds in that game.

Didn't factor into the decision. Astros win three to two. I'm not going to sit here and just break down numbers, but the idea that some slapdick Neanderthal from Philadelphia thinks Justin Verlander sucks, probably has no idea that he's got a 1.75 ERA in the regular season. Probably has no clue that for his career he's a 3.55 postseason pitcher that's got over 200 career postseason strikeouts.

Guy has no clue. And by the way, this is a different Verlander than you saw in 2019. He obviously had the year off. There was the Tommy John, all that shit. Look, is the guy perfect? No. But, like, literally the last start that Verlander made, he went six and struck out 11. Last time I checked, the last start that Aaron Nola had was shit.

So if we're going by that logic, then Aaron Nola sucks ass too. Because last time I checked, Aaron Nola gave up six in four and two-thirds innings in San Diego and stunk. Anyway, go back to the commentary from the people. Now I'm all worked up. Now it makes it easy. Makes it easy. This guy says, and the Dodgers won 111 games in the regular season. This is the playoffs as ERA for this year's playoffs at 6.3.

Like, here's the other thing about ERAs. It's two fucking games. ERA is quite possibly the worst statistic to look at for someone's data, for someone's career. You're talking about two fucking starts. Great. His ERA is 6.30. What was his ERA in the second game?

What was his ERA against the Yankees where he gave up one goddamn run and three hits and struck out 11? God, why am I doing this to myself? I've done it. I've done it to myself. But I needed to do it because I needed to have the hate come back. I needed to do it. I said to myself, I said, Josh, you actually might kind of like McDougal

and people are saying nice things to you, and maybe it's time you just say, bury the hatchet and say something nice and say, Hey, let's have a great series. I hope everybody has fun. And then all the people say, man, Josh, we wish you were still in Philly, but I can't. It's like, there's that alien inside of my body, like an alien. And it needs to come out. There's a monster. There's a beast inside of me and the beast fucking hates McDougal and hates Philadelphia. But sometimes I need to be reminded of that. Because all throughout the week, all I could do,

as the games grew apart and there was all this downtime and then the Angelo thing happened, I'm like, maybe they're not all that bad. Maybe they're not all that bad. God, 6.30 ERA. Who gives a flying fuck what a guy's ERA is in two games?

And again, by that logic, please give me Nola's postseason, please. Congrats. That's like me. So basically, you had two very good starts from Nola against the Braves and the Cardinals. Then he got his ass lit up against the Padres, which is going to drive his postseason ERA up. So if I just went back and said, well, you know, why am I even looking for logic? What are you doing, Josh? Stop trying to fight morons with logic. They're fucking imbeciles. You must stop. You must stop. You must woosah. You must say to yourself, Josh, Josh, this can't happen.

You just got to pump the brakes. You got to step back. You got to say to yourself, Josh, stop fighting with morons. At least I haven't fought with them. I'm just voicing my displeasure with them on the pod here. I told Jilly I wouldn't argue with people on social media anymore, and I'm trying not to. I said I might respond to people on occasion, but I'm not going to sit here and fight with them. But my God, when you're like, this is a God.

And like the guy's name is Ralph Papa. Like, my God, he sounds like a McDougal. Hey, I'm Ralph Papa. Verlander's a piece of shit. Okay, thanks. Thanks, McDougal. Like, I can see this guy calling the cuz. Cuz, I don't know who this Verlander is.

I can tell you ain't no Tug McGraw. I know that. But whoever this Verlander, he's cooked, cuz. Cuz, he's cooked. He ain't got nothing. He's empty. He's an oil can. He ain't got nothing, cuz.

We're going to take him down. He's garbage. He's shit. He's a jet bag, cuz. What are we going to do with that? Please, God, let it happen. Just let these guys get swept. Oh, my God.

I had to do this. People were being too damn nice, and there was too nice of a situation happening. It had to end. So I had to post that, and I had to see people's reaction. Again, I posted an innocuous thing. Verlander's going to win. It's not an insult to anybody. I didn't say anything about anybody's mom.

I didn't shit on anybody. I didn't do anything. And they still did it. So it makes me happy because now I can sit here and root for the Astros and hope they beat the ever-living shit. The same shit that you dipshits eat on a regular basis. I hope to fuck they beat the shit out of the Phillies. And it will bring me so much fucking joy. What's sad is I don't know that anything could bring me any more joy.

They could tell me, Josh, guess what? Medical science in the veterinary field is going to lead Luther to live forever. We just discovered this. Luther will never die. Great. I might be happier that McDougal gets swept. Josh, your dick grew nine inches tonight. Great.

What am I going to do with it? What am I going to do? I'd rather see McDougal. Josh, you now have the body of a tonight. Great. What am I going to do with it? What am I going to do? I'd rather see McDougal. Josh, you now have the body of a god. Great. I would rather McDougal get swept. Josh, you have your own car again. A beautiful truck.

It is yours and you can drive anywhere you want in it. I don't care. I'd rather McDougal lose. That's all I want. Thank you.