The Josh Innes Show - The Rally Tools at Yankees Game

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

Some bros at the World Series made news for being doofs. Now the world is pearl clutching. I’ve also upset some McDougalls in Philly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, I'm back. I had to run into the store. All right, again, not that any of you care. Whenever you're listening to this, you'll have no clue. But just know that I'm out running some errands. I'm out looking for some Halloween beer for tomorrow. You know what's a really good, a solid, I won't say it's great, but it's a solid pumpkin beer, is the Sam Adams pumpkin. I think it's called Jacko or something like that.

So I'm out looking for that right now so we can have some beer if the kiddies decide to come by the house to trick-or-treat. Which I guess sounded weird because it just sounds like I'm going to give them bottles of Jacko. But anyway, so another funny thing. So I was talking about McDougals. And so the story from the World Series last night, and honestly, I have watched 30 seconds of the World Series. I watched none of the World Series. I watched none of the game yesterday. I'm such a gambling degenerate slash uninterested in baseball that I was watching early season NBA, and I was watching college football games that are terrible until the quarterback got hurt or got taken out of both of the games, I bet. And I

decided that the world is out to get me. So I didn't watch those, but the world series is on and I have less than zero interest. But the story was these jabronis, these jamokes, these doofuses at the game that tried to, or well, successfully did rip the ball out of Mookie Betts glove. But it didn't matter because it was out anyway and they got kicked out of the ballpark and all that. So this becomes a big story and everyone's outraged. Everyone's outraged. Media people are outraged. Everybody's like, oh my God, can you believe these guys did this?

You would have thought they shot somebody in the stadium. But they've lost their minds over this. And I saw one of these guys that post shit in Philly. And again, some of this for you pops up. I don't even know if I follow the guy. I may, I may not. I know I did in the past, but these things will pop up. I didn't seek them out. It just popped up. And one of them was like, just, they were blown away essentially, because if this were in Philly, they would have shit on these guys. But since it was in New York, the ESPN people are writing glowing reviews and stories about these guys and people are just appalled by this.

And they're not appalled by it because the guys were dopes that ripped the ball out of the glove. The Philly people are appalled, like they always are, because they've made up a world where if they had done it, they would have been shit on differently than the New York people who are being celebrated. So I commented that. I said, you know that if this were in Philadelphia, you'd all be rallying around that guy, which, by the way, I'd argue they should. If I'm the Yankees, I'd view those as my rally tools, my rally dipshits, my rally goombas, because, hey, you won the fucking

game. And Philly knows all about, you know, the rally squirrel. Give me the rally tools. But anyway, that's all I said is in Philly, you know, you'd celebrate that. No, we wouldn't. But the media would tell us that we're terrible and they never give us a just do. And, you know, New York guy does something terrible. But all we got to hear about is snowballs and Santa Claus. And yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, guys, and I said this, as I've said on this podcast before, I actually like you.

And I've grown to appreciate my time there more than I did when I was there. And, you know, there's a line in, um, um, and I guess it was Christmas vacation where Eddie kidnapped the boss and the cops show up and everything. And at one point, um, Clark says, I got to apologize for, for Eddie. Um, you know, his, uh, brain is sometimes bigger. His heart is sometimes bigger than his brain. I said, thanks, Clark. That's Philly people. Like, nine out of ten times their heart's probably in the right place. Unless, you know, like, you know, they're beating some guy up in the subway or something.

Or kicking the shit out of that happy robot that was going through town when we lived there. Or, you know, you're the Swiss cheese masturbator or whatever. But, like, your heart is, or you're Paulie in Rocky. His heart wasn't in the right place. But other than that, for the most part, your heart's in the right place. You're just diehard people who've been raised to believe that the only thing in life that matters is the DeVry Institute and rooting for the Eagles. Okay, fine. That's what you do. That's what you're about. That's great. Your heart is in the right place. My issue is, this is where I will argue with you. And again, we've had this discussion about like, no one likes us, you wouldn't even make the story about yourselves. But every time there's a story like that, it's, oh, what if this would have been in Philly? Oh, they would have brought up the Snowballs and the Santas and the Huggies and the War Wars.

And like, you care too fucking much. Stop caring. But you can't because you're obsessed with what other people think of you. All while under the guise of no one likes us we don't care but you do so that's all i said was if this would have happened in your town you would have viewed those guys as heroes especially if you rallied from three nothing down and won the world series that was my point of course all the the dipshits start fighting with me oh this is a guy that got fired for being racist. Like, thanks for Googling me. Um, appreciate you. But like, I'm just, it's wild to me how much they care about this kind of shit. And that was the argument I was

trying to make. And of course they all come back at me. And the guy I commented on was like, um, he's sort of a media person, I guess, but he's like, um, don't take out your Philly rage on me. I'm like, I don't have Philly rage. Like, but if I see something, this goes back to Twitter and how Twitter just put shit in your feed. Cause they're like, Hey Josh, we want you to have an aneurysm. So we put this in your feed special just for you, buddy. And then I comment on it. But like you celebrate meathead fat fucks like big Dom, like let's not act like, or, oh, sorry. You celebrate like the dumb shit you guys celebrate that aren't always, you know, the most above board things you celebrate. And it's like, you act like you're not going to like cheer for these guys. Like if they would have kicked them out as those guys were

getting kicked out of the stadium, I guarantee the people at the ballpark would have cheered for them. I guarantee it. So get over yourselves. Like you're in this weird world where you want to be considered assholes. But then when people tell you you're assholes, we're good people, I just, I, it's crazy, I gotta get off of Twitter again, yeah, I gotta get a job, I gotta get off of Twitter, maybe I'll door dash, but my fat ass might just, like, eat shit out of the door dash bag, like, oh, you went to McDonald's, sorry, I ate a couple of fries, likerest gump when he brought that fucking herpes riddled whore jenny some chocolates i ate some yep and then people are all worked up over that they're so worked up over these guys like they're the biggest scumbags on the planet it's like you realize that this world of elevating sports to where you elevate it to creates people like this.

You know that the fact that when you turn on a baseball game and if you're not seeing an advertisement for beer, you're seeing an advertisement for gambling. If you're not seeing an advertisement for beer or gambling, you're seeing fucking political ads that make you want to blow your brains out. But like, if you're not seeing those, you're seeing wings and beer and gambling vices, shit that's bad for you. And then you're surprised. And then you talk about every game. Like it's the biggest thing ever. You all go to social media, say, this guy sucks. This guy's great. This guy's the worst, all this shit you do. And then you're surprised when people do stupid shit at sporting events. And I'm not defending people for doing dumb shit by saying that, oh, they're just following your lead. But when you create a universe, media, teams, everybody, that every game is life or death. And then you promote gambling and you promote alcohol.

You get people blitzed. You move back last call time at a ball game to the eighth inning. You're wanting people to get belligerently drunk and be passionate about your product. And then when they go too far, you're shocked by the fact they go too far. You're shocked by the fact that people that listen to WIP or WFAN would go too fucking far in something. It's crazy. Oh, shit. But that's what happens.

Like, who, us? We created these people? You did. And if you didn't create them, you're certainly helping. You're squirting them with water and turning them into gremlins. You're helping them. You're not, you know, battering them down with water like this is signs. You're putting water on them like they're gremlins. Back to the whole thing about the, uh, the, if this were Philly, I would consider the, if this were Philly fans, that, that is a topic that is on the Mount Rushmore of shitty sports talk radio topics in Philadelphia.

It might be the ultimate, the ultimate shitty Philly sports talk radio topic may be the, oh, but if this would have been us, then what? But also, we don't care what you think about us. We'd love us, but we don't care. But why don't you guys love us more? Why don't we get the same attention these teams get? Also, we hate our fucking team, but why don't you love our fucking team? But I would put that on the Mount Rushmore.

I'd say, let me see, if Mount Rushmore's four, so the Mount Rushmore of shitty sports radio topics in Philadelphia. The Washington Monument of those topics is probably no one likes us. And if Philly did that, we'd be criticized. Then probably Cowboys might also be the Washington Monument. But I'd say Cowboys would be two. Do they still do, like if McNabb threw up, like McNabb throwing up and like McNabb and Andy Reid,

although the Andy Reid thing I would imagine has shifted a bit because once a guy that was in Philly that they hated starts winning somewhere else, they start speaking very highly of him. Like they always knew he was great and they always loved him. But I don't know that Andy Reid's still a big topic on there. Of course, there's always like, you know, like there was one the Cuz did once. This was the most amazing radio topic I've ever heard. So I want to say it was Jason Tatum was on a bag of like ruffles or something. And the cuz did a whole show about how he wouldn't buy the ruffles because Jason Tatum was on the bag. I would put that up there, but that's not really a go-to topic, but that's kind of like

from the cuz's bag of tricks. Like, hey, watch this. I'm going to, you know, find a way to make a topic. In a way, it's kind of genius. Like it's a, you know, it's the middle of, I don't know, July, nothing's happening. The cuz has to do three hours of radio. And it's like, you know what? Let's talk about how I saw Jason Tatum on a bag of chips and I won't eat them. But I think the worst thing about Philly media is that even the new people still revert to the same old shit. Nothing moves forward. Nothing's progressive. Nothing is innovative. It's just like you put in slightly younger people and then have them do the exact act that the other people before them did, because no one believes that you can go into

Philly and do anything different other than why do you hate the Cowboys? And if that would have been Philly, we would have blank. And also, I do believe those Yankees guys are heroes to the Yankees people. And they are right there, like Dan Aykroyd in Celtic Pride when he and Daniel Stern kidnapped Damon Wayans to help their team win the championship. Of course, not to spoil it, it doesn't work out that way. It goes the other way. And then I'd put them up there with, oh yeah, like when De Niro killed Benicio Del Toro in the fans

so Wesley Snipes could get his number back. That's loyalty. Here in sports fandom, we use words like honor, code, loyalty. And right up there with those guys are the Jamokes at the Yankees game trying to help their team win. That's commitment, Philly fans. Learn about it. All right, anyway, see you guys later.