The Josh Innes Show - The Worst Day In Philly Sports History

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

Thursday wasn't great if you're a fan of Philly sports. Eagles get embarrassed. Phillies lose on an error. Flyers lose the opener. I feel like WIP will be asking this questions..."Was this the worst day in the history of Philly sports?" I hate the Eagles so much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dart. But you go out and you roll out this ugly uniform combination of these black pants and white jersey, just a god-awful look. With all the uniforms you got, you go black pants, white jersey, ugly uniform, then you go out there and you get worked in the second half. Really worked for a lot of the game by the Giants, by the one and four giants. Ew. What a bad day for Philadelphia sports, wasn't it? You could argue, and I'm going to guess they're going to on WIP. If it were after 6 o'clock right now, if it wasn't, you know, 422 in the morning, perhaps I'd just turn on WIP and see if that's like right out of the shoot. Is this the worst day in the history of Philadelphia sports? Eagles lose to the giant.

bounce from the playoffs, the Phillies, and opening the season for the flyers that got worked on opening day two. But anyway, I'm going to guess it's at least going to be a poll question. At least a poll question at most in actual discussion. Yeah, is this the worst day in the history of Philly sports? It's going to be up there.

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I participate in restaurants in Canada for a limited time. So let's start with football because I don't really know how you start with baseball in a situation like this, right? Like the way the Phillies lost, like you play a good baseball game. It's a pitcher's duel. It's not like the Dodgers were hitting either.

It was going to come down to somebody needing to make a play, somebody needing to get a big hit. And by the way, your pitcher made the pitch. Your pitcher made the pitch. You should have been out of the inning. But he misplays the little bouncer back to the mound. Still had an eternity to throw it to first. But pressure bus pipes.

Tank loves to say that. That's one of tanks things, which he got from whomever he got it from, probably Jim Johnson. Pressure bus pipes. and when you're in that situation, ball comes back to you, and you should be throwing it to first, but your first instinct is, shit, there's a guy coming home, I've got to get the guy at home, and you airmail the throw, which wasn't going to be on time anyway, and you lose the game. Now, I guess I am starting with baseball to a degree.

But baseball is a hard sport to break down because it's not like, I mean, look, it's guys hitting, it's guys fielding, this guy's pitching, guys have to hit. If you want to sit there and break down baseball for four hours a day, you just yell, this guy needed a hit, this guy needed to hit, this guy needed to hit. So what's going to happen is they're probably going to fire the manager because someone's going to have to pay for another playoff exit. So they're going to fire the manager more than likely, and they'll hire somebody else. And I think it's probably the end of the road for old Philly Rob.

I think people, you know, because that's what happens, right? Like in a sports town where you're not going to fire 25 players, what you do is you focus on the star player if he didn't produce, which Bryce Harper didn't. So they'll shit on Bryce Harper a little bit and act like they've always thought Bryce Harper was overrated, even though they've sucked farts out of his ass for the last five, six, seven years. They'll tell you how they've always known that Bryce Harper was overrated and that Philly Rob is over his head and he's not capable of getting this team over the finish line, that he's a good regular season manager. But it's time to say

goodbye to Philly Rob. And eventually they're going to fire Philly Rob because someone has to be the symbol of the team's failure. That's how you keep people invested. That's how you keep tickets being sold. You don't just ride with a manager that's lost in the playoffs again. with an expensive roster of dudes, so they're going to fire him and they're going to bring in somebody else. That would be my guess. But as far as breaking down a baseball game, baseball games are not all that easy to break down because they're baseball games. You see ball, you hit ball. You field ball, you pitch ball. It's not, it is what it is. But on that last play, and I forgot who was calling the game because I didn't really watch a ton of the game. I was

more so watching football for the evening. Most of my attention was going to football. I would flip over, but which is also a pain in the ass when you have to flip over from Amazon Prime to go back to cable. That's a different story, but that's a pain in the ass. It's not like you can just hit back, and there it is. It's like, nope, you get Amazon Prime. All right, let's exit out of Amazon Prime. Now we've got to wait for this to load. Now we're going back to Comcast. All right, now we're going back to Amazon Prime. So this, this, this and this has to happen. But anyway, I'm not going to bitch you about that today. But I forgot whoever one of the commentators was, it may have been, I mean, it may have been Ron Darry.

I think he might have been calling the game. But you got Ron Darlane, and they're like, listen, that's pressure. Like you pressure will make you do crazy things. Pressure will make you make the wrong decision. And inevitably, he made the wrong decision. He should have wheeled through the first. Would have got the guy by a mile? They may have still been playing baseball at this point.

But they didn't. He threw it home. And that pressure, you know, once he bobbled it, once you've bobbled that ball, there's a lot of pressure there. so I like I can't shit on the guy you know like I'd like to shit on the guy but it's just one of those things where you're like shit happens you know and maybe if it were my team and I were more passionate about it and and you know I had gone through the same shit you've gone through as a fan the last couple of years of feeling let down by that particular team then yeah maybe it'd be a different story but I'm watching that and I'm like look it's a tough play he bobbled the ball he's got to make an instant decision he thinks the closest distance is to home, and he airmails to throw to home. Despite the fact, by the way, the Rio Muto's behind home plate going, hey, throw it to fucking first, you, Jemoke.

He's pointing to first. He's like, no, I'm going to throw. Oh, you want the ball? Oh, I think he's waving because he wants the ball. Look, it sucks. A shitty way to lose. But ultimately, he didn't hit enough. He scored one run.

Would you play 11 innings of baseball? You scored one run? You're not going to win a lot of games that way. And it ain't like you were facing Sandy Coffat. out there either, and you didn't score but one run. You were basically invisible in three of the four games. The games you lost, you were invisible. Really, you had a good inning or two in the series, and that's why it went to four.

You very well could have been swept. You got lucky Clayton Kirchow pitched. If Clayton Kirchard doesn't pitch, then maybe you're losing game three, and it's a sweep. But Philly Rob will be gone, because that's how things are going to go. Someone's head has to roll. And maybe Schwerber will be gone, too. Not that they're going to do it because they're blaming Schwerber, it'll just be a money thing. And Bryce Harper has to stay around because what does he have like 400 more years left on his deal?

Even Bryce Harper's little pandering act ran thin on people. Like eventually you've got to win. The pandering can really mask a lot of shit. And Philly's an easy place to pander. You just got to tell them what they want to hear. Tell them they're the greatest fans. Put on fanatic cleats. And they will love you to the day you die, Clark.

But eventually they'll even get tired of that and they want to move on. So that was one leg of the worst day in the history of Philadelphia sports, maybe. I'm not going to lie to you and tell you. I watched any of the Flyers game, but the Flyers come out and start the season with a loss. And then you get the football game, which is a loss to the one and four giants. Who, boy, if the Giants would have done what they should have done and beaten the Saints, shit. They could be a three-win football team, right?

They'd be a 500 football team. As shocking as that might sound, they might be. That's my man, Jackson Dart. I'm telling you, the dude's a star. And he has to be because, like, if you're going to wear, like, a turtleneck and the necklace he wears over the turtleneck, like, he looks like he's wearing a dicky. My man looks like he's wearing a fucking dicky on the field. If you're going to wear a dicky while playing quarterback, you better be fucking good. That is your only option.

You cannot suck if you're wearing a dicky. If your wardrobe is similar to that of Cousin Eddie, you cannot be bad. He looks like Cousin Eddie while Cousin Eddie's a drinking eggnog out of the the Marty Moose Cups in Christmas vacation. Yeah, Clark, that there is an RV. Like, no, that man's wearing a dicky. And if you're going to wear a dicky to play quarterback, you better be fucking good because that is certainly a choice fashion-wise. And I think my man's good. Not good enough to throw for 10 yards in the fourth quarter to give me my hit.

I needed two more fucking passing yards from this Jamo. I know you got your own problems. but you want to know it works me up. I had one bet for the quarterbacks to combine for 500 yards. I had another one for the quarterbacks to each throw for 10 in each quarter. And that son of a bitch threw for eight. And it's not his fault. He didn't have to throw it.

You know why? Because the Eagles fucking suck. If they would stop turning the ball over and kept the game competitive, I would have thrown for my 500 yards, which I was like 20 yards short on, and I would have won like $400. And then if they would have been competitive, if they would have thrown for 10 yards in the fourth court, I would have won that, which would have won like $2.50.

But your saxist shit couldn't stop turning the ball over. I cannot tell you how much I dislike the Eagles team. I fucking hate them. I hate the coach. I hate the quarterback. I hate the diva receivers that don't get the ball and wine and sulk and pout. I love Dallas fucking Goddard. That's a man you need catches.

He'll come through for you. Literally. I like Sequin Barkley, who they just decided, you know what? I know you ran for 35 yards on the first two carries of the, the game and it seemed like it was something that may work. Let's let Jalen fucking Hertz throw it 45 times. There's a great, there's a wonderful decision. You've got this guy that was the offensive MVP in football last year, a guy that was

putting up 130 yards a game last year. He has 30 yards on the first two carries of the game. He had 31 yards on the first drive of the game. And you're like, you know what we're going to do? We're going to let Jalen Hertz throw the ball 33 times. And Saquan Barkley is going to. carry at 12. The dude average five yards a carry. He got 12 carries.

Oh, but Josh, they were in come from behind mode the whole time. Not really. First half, you were just down by a score the whole first half. There was never a point in the first half other than when it was 13.3. And by the way, you marched right down the field after they made it 13 to 3

and you scored to make it 13 to 10. At that point, you were never up or down by more than a score until it got to 27, 7.7. midway through the third quarter. Yet somehow, when you go back and you look at the play chart, you look at the drive chart, after you guys made it 13 to 10, you put together a 13 play touchdown drive to make it 1613.

How many times did Sequin Barclay touched the ball in that one? All right, here we go. One run there. Now, granted, they were moving the ball. But once you took a 1710 lead or 1713 lead, The fact that you were just decidedly like, you know, we're going to throw the ball today. And sometimes I understand that's what the game calls. Like the way the game is flowing calls for you to run the ball or throw the ball more, whichever one.

But you've got this dude who had one of the most epic seasons ever last year, and he is on a milk carton. So while your little wide receivers are bitchy nonstop about how they're not getting their yards, you've got a dude who is legitimately the best offensive weapon in the NFL a year ago. and he's a non-factor. He's averaging five yards of carry in this last game, and he doesn't touch the ball. Here's Sequin Barclay's games this season, kids. The last five of them he's played in.

He had 88 against Kansas City, 46 Rams, 43 Tampa, 30 Denver, 58 Giants. Receiving. Non-factor in most of the games. Denver, you had a lot of receiving years. yards. Tampa did as well. But point being, now I'm sure some of it's his own issue. Some of it's the offensive line. I get that. Some of the times you're losing so the game doesn't dictate

that you're able to run the ball. But you've got Sequin Freaking Barclay. Like, who's a better option? The quarterback that is Jalen Hertz to win games for you or the running back that is Saquan Barclay. Now, it's not like there were a ton of turnovers by Jalen Hertz. His guys didn't make plays for him. He did throw the pick, which was pretty egregious. That changed my whole fucking life. If they score a touchdown there, they're probably looking at guaranteed getting to the 500 passing yards and the 10 in each quarter and I'd be like

$600 up today and my life would be good. Yes, a lot of my anger has to do with gambling parts of it. And then the Jemoke that fumbled the ball on the running back that fumbled the ball. That was really the killer. Once they fumbled that, they could have cut it down I think to 10 at that point and it

was still a game and maybe DART has to throw a little bit because the Eagles are breathing down their necks, all that shit. Nope, Eagles never got a bag after that. You fucking Jim Oaks. But I hate watching that offense play anyway. Good for them. I fucking hate them.

I hate watching them play football. They're just certain teams. They're at least a good team that it sucks to watch play. There are bad teams too. Their teams are just bad at football that also suck to watch. But I just hate watching the Eagles play football. And now they can't go, well, we win. Well, yeah, you're four and two and you just lost to the fucking giants.

Congratulations. You've lost to Denver and the Giants in back-to-back weeks. Not the Denver sucks, but the Giants certainly do. So you can't come back in me with, well, it wins. Not anymore, it doesn't. Not the last two weeks it hasn't. Anyway, worst day in the history of Philly Sports. Like, tune in to WIP today or the fanatic.

One of them or both will at least have a poll asking if that was the worst day in the history of Philly Sports.