The Josh Innes Show - They Have Found The Guy Who Threatened Lance McCullers

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

What did I tell you? The guy who threatened McCullers was a gambler. Also, the guy wasn't a legit threat..he's overseas. The whole world was pearl clutching over Astros fans being terrible and this wasn't even an Astros fan. Maybe one day people will listen to me. Also, Paul Gallant can piss off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now here's the shocker of the day. Just the ultimate shocker, right? Headline reads international intoxicated better reportedly behind death threats sent to Lance McCullers. No way! Which means it's not really a viable threat which is something that I said from the jump. Like I understand that not everybody gambles and not everybody looks at everything fourth dimensionally and I get that. Common Sense was going to tell you in this story that this was not some angry Astros fan. The Astros have had a billion horrible things happen to them

in their existence and they've lost games and trust me they've got some emotional midgets as it relates to the people that root for the team just like every team does but a lot of these people that root for the Ast just like every team does, but a lot of these people that root for the Astros that are on social media are new fans. They are 2016 and beyond fans. They are probably couldn't pick Roy Oswalt out of a lineup fans. They have no fucking clue about anything before the Astros got really good. So they had they don't know what it's like for a

team to be bad. So when the team is bad, they don't really handle it well and they lose their effing minds on social media. That's how a lot of these Astros fans are. They are new money. The people on social media that are the biggest, loudest Astros fans are Jed freaking clamping, shooting at some food and up through the ground come a bubbling crude oil that is black gold, Texas tea. They're Beverly Hillbillies. They haven't had money their whole lives and now

they've got a team that's won the World Series twice. That's how a lot of the Astros fans are on social media. So they are unstable, they are wacky, they don't know how to handle losing, all that. Even with all that said, the idea that an Astros fan on social media after one bad game of Lance McCullers was going to send death threats was preposterous. But everybody latched onto that because nobody thinks like, hey, let me try to like look at this story and look at all the options. Nobody wants to look at all the options. All they want to do is look at, I bet it was an Astros fan because the Astros lost and an Astros fans pissed off. No, the obvious most logical answer is that it was somebody who was a gambler that lost. You have to connect all the dots. What happened in the game? Lance McCullers not only lost the game, he got rocked. The team lost. McCullers got rocked. These fans see teams lose once, twice, three times a week. And we've never heard of a death threat from any of these people after a loss. So why would this have been the one that a fan finally snapped

and said, fucking kill Lance McCullers' kids? It wasn't because it never was going to be the case. Yet people can't look at things fourth dimensionally, or I'd argue not even fourth dimensionally. They can't even look at the obvious thing because people are clueless dopes. The obvious answer was always that it was somebody who lost money on Lance McCullers and was pissed off and it was obvious that it was not a real viable threat. It was just a dude pissed off that he lost a bet and he says something stupid and that is that. It was easy but everybody on the internet's putting together these long diatribes about how

embarrassed they are. We're Astros fans and we got to do better man and everybody wants to pearl clutch and everybody wants to point fingers and everybody wants to be the nicest person and let you know that they're appalled by the horrible heinous actions of the Astros and just so you know that doesn't represent all Astros fans we're not all like this we got to find this person and dox them and kick them out of Astros fandom the obvious answer the most obvious answer of all time was that this was someone gambling and then it turns out it's someone overseas and as it turns out it was some drunk overseas

that lost a bet on Lance McCullers and that was that. No fan was going to be that fucking angry over a baseball game in May to the point that they were going to send death threats because their favorite team got blown out in a game in May. There are a lot of dumb people and I'm sure there have been times that people have said dumb irrational shit fans can be fucking idiots. But

there was no way like common sense was going to tell you that this was not someone who was just a fan that was super pissed off that day. It was not going to happen. But of course every story, oh the Astros got to do better. Astros fans riding in on their white horses saying we're not all bad and we love Lance. Lance we love you, we love you. We love you, Lance. We're sorry that this person threatened you. This is embarrassing. This is terrible. It's some drunk dipshit overseas, which every story I've read just says overseas

or international. That's all I've seen. I haven't seen specifically where it is, but some drunk jemoke angrily sends this message. And of course the Astros latch onto it because Lance got his fucking ass pounded that day so the manager runs out and is like, I can't believe we're getting death threats. And then Lance plays along with it like, hey, I know you're passionate about the games and all. Like Lance has more sense than this. Like Lance had to know that that was not a fan that it was never going to be a fan that was doing that but he goes with it and I know you guys are passionate about baseball and all but this is just taking it too far and now my man's got

personal security and everything over some drunk Jim Oak that lost probably like a $50 bet in in Fiji or Guam or Pakistan or wherever the hell this guy was and the cops are still looking into it and they might still pressure. I want to be clear. I'm not condoning this and I'm not telling you that it's okay that people send dipshit messages and threats to people over sports. I'm not telling you it's right but fucking common sense. This is for Paul Gallant who was sitting, when I was

talking with him about this he's like, you know who you are, you're just angry guy on Facebook. You're the uncle on Facebook. Fuck you Paul Gallant. Go eat a dick. This wasn't a crazy wacky uncle fucking thing. It's obvious. It's common sense. This was not going to be some dipshit Astros fan that was so pissed over Lance giving up seven runs that he was going to threaten his kids. Obviously somebody lost money on it. It was clear. Oh, but you're the

crazy uncle, Josh. You're the crazy wacky uncle with conspiracy theories. Fuck you. I've also seen people say, well, this just shows you why gambling on sports is so bad. No, I've also seen people say, well, this just shows you why gambling on sports is so bad. No, I could also argue it shows you why alcohol is so bad. You see, one of our favorite discussions on this here podcast is the discussion about vices and how you can't really pick and choose which vices should be legal and which shouldn't be like, well, if there was no gambling, then Lance McCullers wouldn't have gotten those threats. OK, cool.

Well, if there was no alcohol, that guy wouldn't have been inebriated or intoxicated enough to feel confident enough to send that message. And if there were no cigarettes, people wouldn't get lung cancer. And if there was no fast food or whatever, then the people wouldn't get heart disease. And if there weren't no Soty Pops,

people wouldn't get diabetes. Like, if you want to play that game then get rid of everything. We will sit around and we will drink water and eat celery all day and have nothing. So like the idea that people point at things and say this is bad for this like you see it about college athletics now. It's terrible that these guys are like they're treating college athletes like this. Sorry, 21 year old dude making like 500,000 to play basketball at East Carolina. You miss a free throw there's gonna be some fucking people angry. That comes with the territory pal. That's the way of the world. So I'm not condoning the actions of people. I'm not telling

you that it's right. I'm not telling you that people are like that I'm supporting this guy losing his fucking mind over losing a bet and then sending threats to Lance McCullers Jr. and I guess to a degree I can understand where Lance would take it as somewhat viable, but the reality is that the majority of threats you're going to get on social media are not viable threats. Why? Because most people are're going to get on social media are not viable threats. Why? Because most people are not going to put out in public what they're going to do to you.

They're just going to attack you or they're going to send you a letter. Like my guess is if the Zodiac killer were in 2025, the Zodiac killer wouldn't be sliding into your DMs sending coded messages. He'd still send letters to the newspaper. You can't trace them. Like, you can find dipshits on the internet as proven by the fact that they found this dipshit on the internet in like a week. You know who they still haven't found? The Zodiac Killer.

With all the technology that we have in the world, the Zodiac Killer was doing all this shit back in the 60s and 70s, the Zodiac Killer has not been caught. He sent letters and made phone calls. If this guy were truly gonna threaten someone's family, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that he would just show up and beat the shit out of Lance McCullers for costing him $50. He wouldn't slide into his DMs or at him and say, gonna kill your family today Lance, because obviously they can find who this person is. Just an angry drunk drunk. But nobody looks at these things when they talk about them. They have to

get on the radio and instead of looking at it like realistically and how it should be looked at, people look at it in this weird world of this is just sick. This is sick and this is a bad statement about gambling and alcohol and people and sports and blah. No, common sense would tell you that this person is not a viable fucking threat because he's not going to go on social media and tell you he's threatening you. Not saying it's right, but I would just have appreciated if one human on the planet on the radio could have said this. But if you say that on the radio, then you're this evil human and everybody says you're terrible and you're awful

and how dare you downplay such a thing because people are pearl-clutching puds. So I wonder if Lance is gonna to keep paying for his security? Questions. Anyway, more to come.