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Life Updates and NFL Banter (PST Episode 539) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. Hope you are doing well. Whenever you're
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listening to this, we wanted to let you know that we recorded this podcast
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episode on Wednesday night, November eighth, twenty twenty three, so by the
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Come on your way this week. Got some Phillies talk, Sixers talk,
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on the table this week is a great discussion about this Eagles team, even
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the challenges they're going to be facing after this bye week and even longer down
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the road. For sure. I am Jeff Warren. I'm here at my
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good buddy, Eric Leonard, Eric Man. How you doing, Man,
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I'm good. I think it's time for you to take a bow, make
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a little announcement. Oh boy, copy, oh boy. Yeah. So,
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folks, I've mentioned a couple times how I was running for public office
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over the course of this twenty twenty three election cycle here in the county that
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I live in in Pennsylvania, in Northampton County. I won my race.
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I am officially a Northampton County Commissioner elect. I take office this January.
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I won with eighty to eighty. I wish I won with fifty seven percent
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of the vote and exceeding my expectations. So thanks for that, Eric,
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I appreciate it. I can't believe it, as I can't believe it's done.
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I can't believe it's done at this point, before we hit the record
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button, folks, I was telling Eric like I was getting to the point
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where I was tired of looking at a font on my signs and on my
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Palm cards when I was going door to door talking with folks, and you
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know, you just recite the same stuff over and over and over constantly.
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I was tired. I mean, I believe in my I believe in my
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platform, of course, but man, just reciting the same talking points over
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and over. I'm glad it's over. I can't wait to do some good
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work, man. But it was a long, long road, my friend.
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Yeah, and you and I have a tendency to self loath a little
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bit. Yes, you know, we can grow tired of ourselves pretty quickly.
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And it's like when I have a long day of calls at work,
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it hits five o'clock and the first thing I think of is, I hate
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the sound of my own voice. Oh my god, I'm so sicky myself.
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That's like an offshoot, cousin, of what you just experienced, you
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know, just campaigning constantly, and Connie, Yeah, the font of your
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card, the signs everywhere, the constant video shoots and meeting and greeting people,
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just and I'm sure there were nights you came home you're like, God,
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I hate I'm so sick of me. That's what I said. I
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cannot tell you how many I sometimes I'm Michelle will say to me, she's
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like, I don't know how you are in this particular line and a line
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of you know, public service here, because she's like, you are way
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too honest, Like I was. I was legitimately telling people when I was
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at their doorsteps, talking to them about issues they care about, and that
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I care about some people who I kind of knew anyway, but I would
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tell them, I'm like, I am so tired of looking at myself.
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I'm like this picture here on my palm card. I'm like, I'm tired
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of me. I'm so sick and tired of Jeff Warren, so tired of
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it. Yes, you know you really should do is on the pst Twitter
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account. Put some of the Jeff had to do, some like like what
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was it like tech text blasts? Yeah, they were like just to yeah,
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I used I used a specific company that that that's reputable, reputable and
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when I mean that reputable within election outreach via text messages. I'm sure some
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of you out there have gotten these. Look I didn't. I didn't like
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to do it, but it's a matter of getting people out to vote,
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to remind them when election day is because quite frankly, a lot of people
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don't know what election day is and off your elections. Yes, so there
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you go, Eric, So I have to do it, especially you're like
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this where people I know, I think you probably saw a coworker with I
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voted stick or you're like, what'd you vote for? It? Right?
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Hell's going on? But now you should really go on the Twitter account and
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put some of the best responses for those. Some of them were just I
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mean, some of them were just classic and I'm actually going to steal some
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of them for Yes, you're going to get those responses from me, like,
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hey, you ready to start the show. I'm going to blast back,
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yes, yeah, Should I tell them the best one? I mean,
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I mean we we're always making explicit Okay, the first one you got
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was the best one. The first response that I got it was fantastic.
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So I send out the text blast to folks reminding them that election day is
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November seventh. These are the issues I care about. I hope you remember
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me when you get to the polls. It was that simple, and it
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was my stupid face on this graphic, just saying, you know, remember
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election and first response back was eat shit, leave me alone. And I
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have to laugh at it. Folks. You know, yes, it's very
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serious stuff that I was doing. A campaign is very serious during the course
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of an election cycle, and I take this seriously. The work that I'm
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going to be doing with my colleagues in the future I take seriously. But
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you get to a point in a campaign where the feedback that you get from
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folks sometimes you know, it's it's not all, you know, clean and
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fun. It's not all clean and fun. You have people who are living,
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you know, their life and they don't want to be bothered. They
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don't want to be bothered, and I don't want to bother them. But
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I know that I needed to do outreach and to eat shit leave me alone?
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Was it actually just I just started laughing Eric as I should. I
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mean, it's such a wonderful sentiment because he could have just said leave me
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alone. He could have said he wants you to eat actual shit and then
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leave him alone. He wants to kick you in the balls and then walk
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away from me. I don't want anything to do with you. I also
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want something bad that happened to you, exactly like I bothered him right there
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at that moment, And he could have been in the middle of something where
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he was like, we're all in those situations where you're in the midst of
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like three different things. You're a little overwhelmed. I got a text message
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on my phone here, what is this? It's a weird number here,
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and you open it up and it's my dumb face saying, hey, remember
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it about what on November seventh. Remember he's like, eat shit, leave
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me alone. See I go the opposite. I bet you he's just in
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his awful job hating his life and had every opportunity to like not respond,
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Okay, he has nothing going on at his desk, and he saw it
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and was like, you know what, I'm gonna let this guy. Like
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he's a real professional, a businessman. He's at his desk and he's checking
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over emails. He's checking some stock prices. Oh, this one's up,
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this one's down a little bit. Uh, Frankie, can you come in
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here. Let's take care of this, you know. And he's just like,
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Oh, I've got a text message here. What is this? What's
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this number here? No, it's this fucking idiot bother me. I gotta
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tell you that. Man. Overall the campaign, it actually was just a
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great experience, you know, as exhausting as it is to do this type
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of stuff because it is and this is a small level, like I couldn't
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imagine doing like a US Senate race. Of course, presidential race, could
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not imagine anything like that. If you're running for governor or something like that,
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I couldn't imagine it. And yeah, you have staff and you have
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other folks in your life. And I actually decided, as I've done in
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the past with few previous races, that I was just going to do everything
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myself because I trust myself. I know what I want to do when things
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need to get done. I had my schedule, my timelines, and I
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know that I just can't do that again, even for a race this size,
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like from a county perspective, I can't do it because I have way
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too much stuff going on this podcast that we're very dedicated to. I mean,
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I have my full time job as well. I have a side business
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where I'm growing that as well, have my hands in a lot. So
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next time, if there is a next time, I should say, well,
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we'll see how this first term goes, see if I want to do
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a second one. But we're I'm gonna have to probably hire some folks because
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I just can't do it by myself. Yeah, you just I mean,
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you're what forty six forty seven, right, forty six forty six, and
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we're about to have two geriatrics running for president next year and I don't know
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how those I mean, whether you like them or not, Like, how
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do dudes in their eighties do that shit? I know, brand of a
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scale. I mean, that's why I think drugs are just absolutely I don't
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care which candidate, there has to be something going on, because I don't
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know how you're in your eighties doing that crap when you're forty six and struggling
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just to get in a spot in like north eastern Pennsylvania. Yeah, yeah,
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I do. Like I would. I would door knock on sege.
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I'm just saying, like, say that it's a you know, a week
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night, I would door knock maybe like thirty to forty houses or something like
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that. I'd get home and I'd be like, oh, man, my
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knees are hurting a little bit, you know, because I mean it's not
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all flat land and stuff like that. You know, you're walking upstairs,
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you're walking down you got you know, some of the terrain. It's not
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I'm not saying I'm walking up Mount Everest or anything like that, but I'm
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just saying it's a little you know it it can take its toll on you
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when you're walking door to door. And I know the presidential candidates are walking
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door to door throughout the United States, but you know it's seriously sometimes after
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after thirty forty houses, door knocking and stuff and talking to folks, I'm
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like, man, I'm really tired tonight, and I'm forty six I'm a
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middle aged white man. Oh dude, I remember in two thousand and seven
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I helped pass out flyers for you when you run for something in Easton.
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I forget which one, Houston City Council. Yeah, and I I had
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we just had our first kid, and I was pushing a stroller up the
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hills of Easton. It was hot as hell, and I was just plastering
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those things on doing I was exhausted, and I was like, who wants
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to do this? I justl like, screw Easton. I don't feel like
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dealing. I mean, of course I'm happy with the results, and uh,
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you know, it's a again. It was a It was a great,
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great experience in general, very tiring, and you have days where you
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absolutely are energized by what you're doing, and then other days where you know
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you're like, oh my gosh, is this going to be worth it too?
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Because you just don't know how the elector it's gonna feel on any given
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day. You really don't, especially you know, especially the media narrative where
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we're at right now, where the majority of folks are concentrating on polls that
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we're a Philly sports podcast. By the way, well over ten minutes into
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this and I'm talking about presidential polls. We have lives outside of the show.
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We do, yes, but very nervous about some of these presidential polls
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and how they may have reflected on my particular race, and due to quite
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frankly, the importance of my race where it is in a swing area of
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Pennsylvania. So a lot of people were looking at my race and are now
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looking at the results of this race and trying to determine how that is going
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to potentially affect Pennsylvania in general for next year during the presidential election. So
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it's I was, I was a little nervous, you know, day in
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and day out, I'd feel good and then I'd feel nervous. A lot
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of ups and downs. Man, It's like it definitely was a roller coaster.
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Yeah, And I mean, I'm proudy for winning. You did a
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great job. But Buddy, I simply can't. I'm not going to pass
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judgment on the show here, but the person you ran against, I'm not
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maybe not the best candidate. It was his first time. Yeah, it
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was his first time running. Give him all the credit in the world for
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throwing throwing it in the ring, but yeah, it didn't necessarily run the
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most professional campaign. I'll say that. I mean it was like a second
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round rookie in the NBA, and it was get a couple of good runs
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in, but you know, overall, like maybe ten ten good games out
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of seventy two or doing that. Maybe next time, you know, maybe
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next year, Maybe next time, you know, maybe starting and maybe start
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off serving your community in another type of capacity, you know, a little
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more local. Perhaps maybe I don't know, that might be a good idea.
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I mean I did that for a few terms, you know, in
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communities that I lived in, got some pretty good experience with that, and
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at the end of the day, I think that's what really helped, the
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fact that I did have local government experience that was going to help in terms
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of help to govern a county here in Pennsylvania. So every community the garbage
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men exactly. And then oh man, all right, enough of me.
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You're doing all right overall. I mean, you know, job life,
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and no one cares, no, what are you talking about? No one
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cares. I started coaching basketball last week. Yes, yes, I had
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a horrible interaction with the high school, local high school coach whose kids on
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the team, and just got really weird. Almost had almost had a what
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do you call it a not a fight but altercation, an altercation. Yeah,
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And I had nothing to do with it. He came to me and
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I had to do with like coaching baseball and his son, and it was
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just all fucked up. And I just not politics, but like, man,
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what a weird like just local politic kind of deal with her parents are
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involved in their kids, and it was just, yeah, it was really
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weird. It happened. I quit, I was talked into the next day
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to come back. And I've since seen him and doesn't even acknowledge what happened,
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doesn't even apologize. Was he actually like talking to you, but he
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was talking to you or communicating it's at some point and just didn't acknowledge it.
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He had Oh no, No, he had to talk to me the
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first time to show me where the balls were in the gym. Oh my
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god. And he just left and I was like, Okay, I guess
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we're just going to sweep it under the rug. My hio coach always hit
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me in the face. A volunteer parent who coaches his son, Oh god,
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yeah it you know, as as we go through the sporting world with
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our kids, you know, on this level, it really is the kids
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just want to have a good time. They just want to enjoy themselves.
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They want to have a good time. They want a certain level of success,
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you know, because they want to win whatever it is that they're doing.
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But man, it's the parents that really take things to the next level
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over the top. Not every parent, of course, but a lot of
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parents get so invested in the performance of their kids or how their kids are
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going to do because it somehow psychologically reflects on them. And I wish parents
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could just take a step back and see this and guess what, You're not
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doing any good for your kids in the long run, You're not doing any
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goods for your community either. Man. Yeah, I mean, and he
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was. He was so out of line for doing it. I didn't report
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to anybody because I'm like, I don't want to lose his job. If
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somebody finds out, that's fine, but I'm not going to be the one
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reporting. But it's like, you know, he worked that hard to get
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the head coaching job and at a high school, and it's like because his
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kid plays sports, now, like our kids make us lose our minds.
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Sometimes his parents, I know, what I've seen it. I've done it
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myself maybe a couple of times, but my god, it's I've been texting
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with a lot of coaches that I know, and all of us we always
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text each other the same thing. Parents ruin youth league sports. It's never
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the kids I've had. I've had a couple of ship head kids that were
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just like this kid, it just sucks. He's not a nice person,
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right, but I can, like, at least I can get past him
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by just by coaching him hard, making like making him work hard. But
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like, it's ten times out of ten, it's the fucking parents that ruin
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it for everybody. It just sucks so hard. Yeah, it does.
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It absolutely does. You know what, I'd love to hear some stories out
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there from you all listen that are listening Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com.
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I'd love to know, like, and we'd love to read it here
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on the show too. And you can make the emails and content within it
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as cryptive as you want, but I'd love to hear some of these stories
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too, because I hear them. I've seen them, you know, when
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when my daughter was in gymnastics, I would certainly see it, you know,
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Eric is living it right now. I'd love to hear some other stuff
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out there. That is the funny. Par Like, I used to hear
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these stories, and now that I'm like really involved with the coaching, I'm
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like, oh, these stories are real, man. And it happened a
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bunch. Yeah. This was just the latest one. I mean had I
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had the one coaching au tell me to fuck off in the hallway after a
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game, right in front of his son, and I was just like,
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holy crap, this is real. I'm the one at the bar now telling
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the other coaches and like friends like, yeah, the head coach almost punched
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me in the face. It's just yeah, yeah, you're living it.
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Oh my god. Well, folks, we do have a good show.
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But I do want to say this really quick. You know, I received
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a I received some very nice dms on Twitter, just some messages over you
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know, Facebook Messenger, because I'm friends Facebook friends with some of our listeners
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out there as well. There were a lot of nice messages that came through
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congratulating me, and I just want to say thank you all very much.
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And believe it or not, there are some of these some of our listeners
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out here contributed to my campaign for this county council seat. And would you
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say, I said, nice, yeah, yeah, yeah, some of
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some of the listeners contributed and it meant so much. It's a you know,
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Michelle and I and I was talking to the twins last night. As
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I've said throughout this whole campaign, and I'm gonna get really really hokey.
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It's not just about me, like, it's about our family too, Like
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we all made decisions together, we all were invested in it together. And
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yes, even though my name was on the ballot, it was us doing
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it together as a family. And then we were the core. And then
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outside of the core is the supporters and the people that go door knocking for
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you, the volunteers, the people who like even I had a family member
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who was actually stuffing envelopes. Yes, you actually do that these days.
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Because there was a gated community in a municipality I couldn't get to because it's
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gated. I wanted to get in there to introduce myself to folks, but
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I couldn't do it. So I actually had to print off some letters,
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put my Palm card in the envelope along with the letter and send it to
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him saying, you know, I'm sorry I wasn't able to meet you face
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to face, but I hope you'll consider voting for me. And I had
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somebody who wasn't able to walk very well do that stuffing envelopes for me,
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and just all the quote little stuff that adds up over the course of a
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campaign. There's so many individuals out there to thank and to you listeners out
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there who showed a lot of support, even if you shot off at like
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I said, a d M or anything over social media. I just I
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really appreciated it because it was it's something that's it's it's difficult, and it's
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an extraordinary process and an experience. So I just want to say thank you
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everybody out there. So I'm imagining you just shaking the bars of the gay
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trying to get in, screaming into that community. By the way, that
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was beautiful. Let's get to the dick jokes now, all right? Man,
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hey man, the Phillies. Man, I think they're talking to Sunny
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Gray. I wonder what color is underpants? Are gray? Oh? My
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god? What is that? That hurt? It was meant to just trying
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to trying to go with the dick joke thing, but it really didn't even
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have to. I wasn't even around the bend at all with that one.
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Jesus terrible, all right, but we are going to get into some Phillies
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talk here enough about our personal lives. But yes, apparently Sonny Gray's camp
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at this point is talking with the Phillies in a report that did come out
20:07
today, and the question is could he actually be the number two starter on
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this Phillies team. I think he could absolutely be the number two starter for
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the Phillies. But you know, why is this actually happening? Eric?
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It seems that it's pretty apparent the Phillies are trying to put the squeeze on
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Aaron Nola's camp early this offseason, based on this conversation with with Sonny Gray's
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camp here. So, look, what did he do last year? I
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think he posted a two point seventy nine ERA in one hundred and eighty four
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innings thirty two starts for the Twins. You know, one of the best
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campaigns of his eleven year career for sure. And yes, signing Nola was
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going to be priority number one. But I think what they're trying to do
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is really put the squeeze on Nola's camp. Here by letting by letting this
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this news leak out here. And by the way, Sonny Gray is He's
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thirty four years old at this point too, so I'm not sure how how
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long of a contract that would be, if this is even a thing at
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this point. Yeah, the nice thing is that the Phillies have been so
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successful in the last two three years that they can now They're now like major
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bidders for top free agents, so they have like multiple options here. Yeah,
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obviously just resigning a thirty one air Nola back on a team friendly deal
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would be ideal. Or but there's gonna be a bunch of teams going after
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him Nola pretty hard, including prompt I'm assuming the Orioles, Cardinals, maybe
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even the Braves, who knows. But I like the cheaper, the cheaper
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option of Sonny Gray. He may actually made the All Star team last year.
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I was looking at this some of his stats as like advanced stats.
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He led the league in FIP last year, which is like the fielding.
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Basically, he doesn't give up home runs. He led the league in that
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as well as home runs per nine, whereas or Nola is kind of a
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gives up gives up quite a bit home quite a bit of home runs,
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and he'd be a cheaper, cheaper option Sunny Gray. But because they're so
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successful and they're they're willing to spend, I think, why not go into
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the sweepstakes for like Otani? Why not go into I would love to have
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to sign. I would love for them to sign I'm going to go for
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this uh Yoshi Nobu Yamamoto, Oh my girl, Japanese pitcher. Nice,
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that's going to be coming into the major leagues next year. I mean,
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he would be a phenomenal option there. I mean, the Yankees are gonna
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bit hard for him, quite a bit of money. I'm sure they'll go
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after Otani as well. But why not throw your hat in the ring for
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something like that, because you you know, you're in the World Series two
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years ago, you were one game from it. This past year, you
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have the success. Now, why not go after a twenty five year old
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ace? You know, in light of like Zach Wheeler getting older, And
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if if only they could sign him just so you'd have to like pronounce his
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name every show like that, that would be the best part of signing him,
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honestly, would you, I would make you make you stay his whole
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name. I practice it like ten times before we did the show. Did
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you okay? Look? Gone are the days of Matt Kleintech just idly sitting
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by not making too much noise during the start of the off season. Those
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days are long gone. And like I feel like we have this type of
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communication coming from the Phillies in front of us Eric where they can they could
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potentially get yo Yo Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Did I get it? It's pretty good?
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Yeah, all right, Blake Snell possibly Sonny Gray, those those names
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a little easier for me. Uh So they could potentially get these guys now.
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And the dialogue is starting now. It's not starting whether it's after the
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the you know, GM meetings and and uh the owners meetings, I should
23:57
say. And it's not heading into January like it was a lot with Matt
24:03
Kleintech. They're attacking, they're aggressive within free agency. Now there seems to
24:08
be a formula for the Philadelphia Phillies, not just in terms of, you
24:14
know, what they want to do in terms of free agents, but the
24:17
communication process I think is so important here. And you know what, if
24:21
they're trying to squeeze Aaronola a little bit here. Yeah, squeeze them a
24:25
little bit too. I mean, this is a team that still is going
24:29
to have a window of opportunity to go to the World Series, I think
24:32
next year, and I would think Aaronola believes that as well. I would
24:36
think that he would probably want to potentially stay in Philadelphia, possibly because of
24:41
that, because of his relationships that he has with teammates, perhaps some other
24:45
other circumstances as well. So I just think it's really smart of this Phillies
24:51
front office to do what they're doing early on here, and especially with addressing
24:56
one of the biggest needs on the team heading into this offseason. So I
24:59
guess what I'm saying here, Eric is those are doing a damn good job
25:02
in terms of where they want to position this team in the future. I
25:07
agree, And I mean Matt Clintac just sent a shiver down my spine.
25:10
Yeah, full GM. But they picked a great season or a great offseason
25:15
to have this dilemma because there's a lot of options. You just mentioned Blank
25:18
Snow he's probably the fifth best or sixth best free agent of the market.
25:22
Noel's probably fourth or fifth. So but there's other there's other arms Marcus Stroman's
25:27
out there. Yeah. And I also love the aggressiveness of this team.
25:32
They just they just they just traded for a relief pitcher from the Tampa Bay
25:37
Rays. I forget his name already. Yeah, I'm forgetting too. Yeah,
25:40
But I just like those little moves like that that could that could come
25:44
like like next June, all of a sudden, he's he's killing it in
25:47
triple A and you call him up. You're like, what the hell's where
25:49
did you get this guy? Like, oh, yeah, they sign him
25:52
in freaking November or trade it form November. Yeah, in the race have
25:56
such a track record of like great arms. So I just like how they
26:00
make these little moves and they can even do a free agency too, where
26:04
it's not it's a little bigger of a move, right signing up Blake Snow,
26:07
but they have they have options, and I Michael Mercato, Sorry,
26:11
Michael Mercatto, Michael Ricatto Yeah yeah, left handed, Yes, yeah,
26:15
go ahead, I'm sorry, he's a right hander. Sorry, yeah,
26:18
And I'm I mean, I'm hoping it's just no. They just resigned Nolan,
26:21
that's just it. But if they did go with the Sunny, Grain
26:25
got another cheaper like like third or fourth option, because they still have Swore
26:29
as they still have Teywan Walker who didn't pitch in the postseason back had a
26:33
really good regular season. Yeah, if they let Nola walk, if he
26:37
gets a gigantic deal from the Cardinals or something like that like that, it's
26:38
not going to be the end of the world. Yeah, I absolutely agreed.
26:41
Let us know what you're thinking out there, Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail
26:45
dot com. Love to hear your thoughts on the Phillies, how the off
26:48
season would look perfectly for you as a fan, Like what that perfect off
26:53
season would look like. So Eric, let's move on to the Philadelphia seventy
26:57
six ers because it's only cow and this team, Holy cow, they look
27:03
really good. Man. They are better than they than what we thought they
27:07
would be at this particular point. I know it's early in the season,
27:10
of course, but man, we're seeing some really good stuff. Man.
27:14
We said before before the show, before we hit the record button. Man,
27:18
Tyres Maxi is hitting those floaters and it looks beautiful. Tyres Maxy and
27:23
his development. We are seeing it more and more. Game after game,
27:27
Nick Nurse implementing an offense and actually having these guys playing some defense too,
27:33
which is fantastic. I'm not gonna sit here and say old, you know,
27:37
Doc was the entire problem. He was definitely part of the problem.
27:40
I think we know and see that now. But the Nick Nurse has these
27:45
guys pointed in the right direction here. This has been a fun early part
27:48
of this sixer season. Yeah, you've got a super engaged embiid. I
27:53
think the day Harden left, a lot of weight went off his shoulders.
27:56
Oh yeah, and a lot of weight went off the shoulders the fans in
27:59
the front office because I think the chances of him sticking around and like really
28:03
playing hard, they they they increased, you know, incredibly, like huge
28:10
percentage wise, because that was gonna that was gonna crumble. And I said
28:12
in the show last week, like, thank god they did it three games
28:15
in. I don't know, still not sure how they did it. We
28:18
talked about in the show the Clippers have bit it against themselves. Great job,
28:22
front office. But I was at the game Monday night. My brother
28:26
and I went and saw the whiz wiz Sixers game real quick on the Wizards
28:30
for thirty seconds. One of the saddest teams I've ever seen live. Like
28:37
I looked at my brother in the second quarter and I'm like, you know,
28:40
if if they had like one or two like really young, good young
28:44
players, they could they could be excited about, like at least they'd have
28:48
some hope. Like that team has no hope. Their coach is awful,
28:52
he made horrible decisions. No one plays defense at all. They just try
28:55
and shoot and score and there's not a single player on that roster to get
28:57
you excited. And he's just like, Wow, this is a no man's
29:00
land, shit team. I'm sure they're tanking for this year, but wow,
29:03
just a sad team. But the s and the Sixers did what they're
29:07
supposed to do and be put up twenty nine points in the third quarter,
29:10
the most by a Sixer in team history in a single quarter. They just
29:15
demolished them. And tonight, you know, the Celtics are really damn good.
29:18
And I said this to my brother on Monday night. It's like,
29:22
it's so nice having a team of professionals who give a shit and play really
29:27
hard and know their role and being coached by an absolute professional who like gets
29:33
that and pushes them really really hard to play good defense. And like the
29:37
game offensive basketball, like Nick Nurse is a damn good coach. Man.
29:41
I'm so happy that bustdonn't sign him. I think that that would have been
29:44
ideal for him. I'm so we haven't had a like, we have not
29:48
had a good coach. It's been a long time. Brett Brown was not
29:51
a good coach. Doc was not a good in game coach, you know.
29:53
And he let his superstars run the show. And this dude doesn't take
29:56
that shit. He makes him play defense. He's unleashed MAXI, who works
30:00
on his game every off season. You can tell his shooting gets better and
30:03
better. I told you before the show, like his body control at the
30:07
rim when he's finishing. He had one in the third or fourth quarter against
30:11
Jalen Brown where he just put his big, thick, but six' two
30:15
body end of Jalen Brown is an awesome defender and just kind of use Brown's
30:19
body to kind of maneuver his own body to make a layup. And I'm
30:22
like, you can't teach that. That's just like innate from playing years and
30:26
years of basketball. But and the big thing too, and I said this
30:30
before the show too, was like they have the perfect scenario of a team
30:36
of multiple veterans who are playing for in their next contract on expiring deals,
30:41
Tobias Harris being one, obviously, Kelly oubre Melton. I mean everyone on
30:45
the roster outside of like Maxine and b don't count, but everyone else in
30:48
the roster is playing for a new deal, and they are playing and they're
30:52
being coached by a guy it doesn't give a shits. He probably understands it
30:56
too, Like you want another contract, you're gonna play my way. You're
30:59
gonna like freaking hard. And that's why they're sixty to one right now.
31:02
And I'm I'm actually like way way up on the sixers, Like we need
31:07
to start talking about, Okay, what can they do? Can they make
31:10
it? I don't want to make it in like a mega deal, which
31:12
they could if they wanted to, but like, how can they supplement what
31:15
they have now and not screw up the chemistry? Because Nurse is an awesome
31:19
coach and he won the title in twenty nineteen with a one superstar. He
31:23
has like one and a half superstars right now with plenty of ammunition to go
31:27
get you know, some other pieces, and you gotta start talking, you
31:32
know, after this win tonight, Like, where are they at in the
31:33
NBA landscape? It's they're they're at least they're they're in the conversations. Yeah,
31:38
look, I know, we we know what in b is doing on
31:41
the court. We know Tyrese Maxi in terms of how he has been developing
31:45
in just about all aspects of his game. But I have to mention one
31:49
guy, and he is averaging almost twenty points a game, nineteen point seven
31:55
points per game. His field goal percentage is sixty three point. He's ranked
32:00
tenth in the NBA as of us recording this, and that is one Tobias
32:05
Harris. Holy crap. Yes, like you mentioned, you know, in
32:08
a contract year. Of course, of course this is the type of you
32:13
know, productivity we're getting from him, and it's fantastic productivity. But man,
32:17
like, it just goes to show the healthy balance that Nick Nurse has
32:22
brought to this team. I think, allowing players to do what they do
32:27
best, but also kicking their ass when they need to be kicked, coaching
32:31
when he really does need to be coached. Finding that healthy balance, I
32:35
think is what Nick Nurse has really brought to this team and the organization in
32:38
general. Where you got Tobias Harris doing what he's doing, becoming a very
32:44
very relevant piece of this team. Eric and like, I mean, how
32:47
many times is it like, oh my god to Bias Okay, Oh,
32:51
it's great. You know he put up he put up twenty five this game
32:53
where he put up you know, twenty twenty two, this game great.
32:55
He's giving a lot of consistency to this team. And that consistency, I
33:01
think if it remains this, they are really going to be contending in the
33:07
East here, not just because of Tobias Harris, but just as a piece
33:10
of the puzzle to finding that balance and because of the way nurse coaches like
33:17
Oubray and Harris are just absolute beneficiaries. Yeah, Maxine embid trying double teams
33:23
and they're they're probably Harris for sure is like overqualified as a fourth best player
33:30
who's going to be open a whole bunch, right. You know the reason
33:32
he's shooting sixty three percent, he's got wide open. Looks like he's wide
33:37
open. He's not getting covered at all. And I know they played some
33:39
bad teams. I just talked about the Wizards, but they've beat the Celtics,
33:44
they've beat the Suns. Should beat the Bucks in Game one, and
33:49
I couldn't be happier. And I'm not surprised Harris is having a good season
33:52
because of the contract year, but also just the way the season's playing out
33:57
so far with Maxdine and Bed just taking over. It's like, like,
34:00
dude, you're going to get your shots, just freaking make them. Nurse
34:02
is such a good coach that I'm sure he's pressing Maxine and be like,
34:06
hey, he's going to be open, give it to him, you know,
34:08
right, he's playing for a contract. He's not saying that out loud,
34:12
but like, I'm going to use this to my advantage. It's worked
34:15
out really well. Cool. And Ubray Uber is such a like I'm kind
34:20
of shocked by Ubra eighteen point seven points a game, just a he's always
34:25
been an underachiever. Maybe he found his right team. Maybe he's you know,
34:29
on a it's also the expiring deal thing, but he's going to make
34:32
a big money contract next year, probably not with us, but I'll take
34:37
the I'll take the effort in getting that contract. Yeah. Absolutely, Again,
34:40
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34:44
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35:22
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35:25
your way, so stick with us. We'll be right back. All right,
35:29
We are back and Eric, I thought it was interesting this past week,
35:34
as many who watch and follow football that won. Aaron Rodgers said that
35:38
he'd be back in a few weeks, and then he walked that back day
35:43
later and said, well, I'll be back in a few fortnights. Thank
35:47
you Eron for that one. He's like, look the guy's looking to return
35:51
this season, and I think you know Aaron Rodgers, you know, he's
35:55
now known as more of a caricature, I think within the sports world,
36:00
especially the football world, and I think I think it would be amazing if
36:06
he did actually come back from a torn achilles this season that he suffered in
36:10
Game one the first quarter. I think it was only four snaps until that
36:15
achilles went out on him. But I wonder if it like shows his fortitude
36:20
in a way. Maybe I'm giving him too much credit. Maybe it shows
36:23
that sports medicine is doing some incredible things out there. Or maybe this is
36:28
just Aaron Rodgers like being a dope, you know, because we know Aaron
36:35
Rodgers and his brand what they are. I don't know what were your thoughts
36:37
on this when you heard it, because I mean, I know you're not
36:40
probably not the biggest Aaron Rodgers fan, but I thought, boy, if
36:45
he could actually come back this season, like even maybe in a month,
36:47
that would be that would be like unheard of. You know, I don't
36:52
know what are your thoughts here. I mean, he's one of those guys
36:53
that thinks, you know, you can go live in the woods for a
36:55
month and just eat mushrooms and shit, and he'll everything any ailment in your
37:00
body. You know, I take them seriously as an NFL quarterback. I
37:07
don't take them seriously in any other arena of life. Like it just he
37:10
just says dumb shit. He has like a weekly spot on some bad radio
37:15
show, likes bad sports talk show, and he just says dumb Pat McAfee
37:19
show. Sure, whatever, But you know, and always honestly when I
37:27
read the topic, and I've been thinking this for a while, you know
37:29
how comedians, a lot of comedians who like just get older and like and
37:35
just bitter and they're not really funny anymore, and a lot of them turn
37:37
to they become conservative comics, like a Rob Schneider. Yes, just not
37:43
funny anymore. Maybe it was never funny, but they reach a point in
37:46
life where they're just the humor that got them to where they are in their
37:51
profession is kind of gone. They're super rich, and they go the easy
37:57
route of conservative comedy where you just talk about woke and ship and you know,
38:00
and those those idiots, the you know, the freaking seals flap their
38:06
their fins together. What do we want to call it? He reminds me
38:08
of that, Like he might have been interesting at some point in his life,
38:12
but now he's not, and he's not as as irrelevant of course,
38:15
mean he hasn't. He doesn't even play anymore. He's not gonna play it
38:19
all this year. So he just says like outrageous ship and I mean all
38:22
off season, off season in the past three years, he just says,
38:25
dumb shit. It's just to keep himself like relevant. Yeah. I don't
38:30
know, It's just he bores me to death. And I can only imagine
38:34
what his post NFL career, what that's gonna look like. It's gonna be
38:37
hideous. Oh, that's that's actually a pretty good topic. Let's predict Aaron
38:39
Rodgers and his post NFL season, his post NFL career. My gosh,
38:46
we should actually do a good bit on that at some point, because he
38:51
just he loves himself a lot. He loves himself a lot. How is
38:55
he going to remain relevant in whatever sphere he decides to you know, you
39:00
know, dive into. Because I doubt it'll be football. I doubt it.
39:04
He's not going to be an announcer. He's not gonna be He's not
39:07
gonna be in the booth. He's not going to be in the studio,
39:10
you know, give given halftime analysis, none of that stuff he's got.
39:15
He's gonna have to do something really bizarre to keep our attention, or at
39:19
least to keep the sports media's attention. That's a good that's a good topic
39:22
down the road. I like that, Buddy Well, And he crossed over
39:25
into a scary territory for some people who like get a lot of money.
39:30
He's he's he's had his ass kissed for for ages, right, Yeah,
39:34
he's a bazillionaire and he's been told that you're awesome for how many howver many
39:38
years. Now that he's crossed over into the he truly believes that he's witty
39:43
and charming, yes, and deep at the same time. Yeah, he's
39:45
really analytical and he really he's a deep thinker. It's like he's like,
39:51
don't believe that he's one of the good. Don't believe the media. Yeah
39:53
you sheep, he's one of those types. And you're just like, dude,
39:58
someone he's in knock you down a couple of pegs in life. He
40:00
never will because he's too far gone. It directs in the rich direction.
40:04
But like that's what it strikes me. And that's why. Because of that,
40:07
and he's so like his head's sewing the clouds and he's been told he's
40:13
been his ass kiss for twenty some years. I can't wait to see what
40:15
his next step is in his career because it's gonna be really dumb. It's
40:19
gonna be something we're gonna make fun of. He's not gonna be on TV.
40:22
He's not gonna be football related. Nobody's gonna hire him, right,
40:24
but he's gonna be doing dumb shows like then what he does and just saying
40:28
dumb shit. So I'm but I would love to have a show like that,
40:30
like an actual I like to have like a couple of minutes sit down
40:32
and figure out what his career is going to look like. I love it.
40:36
I love that because after what he did this past offseason, if you
40:38
remember, he spent what four days in a one room house in the dark
40:43
at some unannounced location or something like that to figure out what he wanted to
40:46
do with his career before deciding and signing with the Jets. But I love
40:52
that he's like announced, he had to announce it. I'm gonna be spending
40:54
four days in a dark room to figure this out out, like thanks,
41:01
Buddy's there's millions of Americans everywhere doing that all the time. Yeah, yes,
41:07
all these people. Yep, you're not special, pal. Yes,
41:10
it's not the big a deal. Yeah. All right. Well, keeping
41:14
keeping on here with some NFL and then as we get into some Eagles talk
41:19
as well. We're a little over what halfway done with this season, and
41:22
it's interesting to look at some of the potential MVP candidates, Rookie of the
41:27
Year candidates. So we have at the agenda this week just you know what
41:30
we're looking at. Who the potential MVP candidates are. Of course, Lamar
41:35
Jackson is up there. Jalen Hurts certainly has to be up there as well.
41:39
I think those guys are probably the two leading candidates at this point,
41:44
Eric and I think if they are here as we're heading into the Eagles by
41:47
week ten, and after what Lamar Jackson has been doing this year, my
41:52
gosh, I don't think anybody thought he was going to be playing like this,
41:55
especially after representing himself getting his contract. I just you know, so
42:00
you get the contract and you just don't play as well. But he has
42:04
been killing it this year. I don't know. What do you think in
42:06
terms of leading candidates for MVP, Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts. What are
42:09
you thinking? Look, I'm a jailing guy, but I don't think it's
42:15
even close. I think I think Lamar Jackson is the MVP. That's what
42:17
I'm thinking at this point. Yeah, kind of by far. I mean
42:20
this right now here, a week ten, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
42:22
right right now. And he has better stats than Jalen Hurts, but it
42:25
doesn't matter. Jalen Hurts has the best offensive line in football in front of
42:30
him and tons and tons of weapons. You look at what Lamar Jackson has.
42:35
He's got a good offensive line in some weapons. But the stuff he's
42:37
been doing and having that team, I think they're what's seven and two?
42:39
Yeah, when people were kind of predicting a five hundred team, five hundred
42:44
record for that team, Yeah, they were not high in them. And
42:45
he's man. Talk about talk about the greatest result possible of betting on yourself
42:53
in the representing himself to get his contract, not that year, oodles of
42:58
money with an agent, and my god, he went out like he signed
43:01
a monster deal. Went into the season kind of not controversial, but like
43:07
had a lot of critics like, you didn't play well last year. You
43:12
like you made some weird comments about the Ravens not wanting to sign you,
43:15
and he was not the most popular player even in Baltimore going into this season.
43:20
And he's just shut everyone up. He's just he's so damn good.
43:22
He's going to have a bad game or two here and there. He's not
43:25
perfect, but this season, Pat Mahomes has not been perfect. Jalen Hurts
43:31
absolutely has not been perfect. Eight interceptions this year. If Lamar keeps playing
43:36
like this and the Ravens win their division and get like a one or two
43:38
seed, I'm pretty sure he's got that locked up. Yeah, I agree.
43:42
I think it's Lamar Jackson at this point. But it's interesting to also
43:45
look at what is happening from the Rookie of the Year conversation and those possible
43:51
candidates as well. And I think, especially after this past week c J.
43:55
Stroud, which absolutely amazes me that we are seeing in Ohio state quarterback
44:00
coming into the league rookie year with such a success. You you just don't
44:06
see that, You really don't see that happening. And my gosh, what
44:10
an incredible quarterback. So far, he's only got one interception on the season,
44:15
He's got what seventeen touchdowns. I think as of us recording this just
44:19
an incredible, incredible candidate. Then then again, you have Pukinakua wide receiver
44:24
for the Rams, just having a monster season two. I think at the
44:29
end of the day, the NFL likes to give these awards out to quarterbacks.
44:32
Quarterbacks are really the faces of the NFL, you know, for a
44:37
lot of cities, a lot of teams. So I would think that the
44:39
leading candidate this year for Rookie of the Year, and it probably makes sense
44:43
is CJ. Stroud at this point heading into week ten. Yeah, I
44:46
don't think it's even closed. I think Stroud's going to run away with it.
44:51
All the controversy of should be Bryce Young or CJ. Stroud, it's
44:54
like, man, he put that to bed. I mean, Bryce might
44:59
be good sometime, Holy crap, man, he's really good. The Texans
45:02
are four and four, he's got it absolutely locked up. If if you
45:06
can get them like a seven seeds somehow, or even like they win their
45:08
division somehow, because it's not a great division, it's that would be one
45:14
of those almost unanimous like m uh unanimous votes right that the kid for the
45:22
Rams is gonna have to have like awesome games going forward. But their quarterback
45:25
situation, I can't see that happening. And they had three points this past
45:28
Sunday. Yeah, so I think Stroud's gonna run away with it. All.
45:31
Right, let's get into some Eagles talk here before we get to our
45:35
next break and before we get to our interview this week, because what we're
45:38
throwing down on the table is our good buddy, Jeff Kerr from CBS Sports.
45:43
He's going to join us talk about the Eagles and a little bit more
45:45
detailed some of the challenges are going to be facing after the bye week here.
45:49
But Eric and I wanted to get into this Eagles team in terms of
45:53
the fact that this is a top team in the NFL and what I see,
45:59
whether it's on social sites, you know, whether it's in various articles
46:04
just conversations in general, everybody's like so worried about the Chiefs, the Bills,
46:08
the forty nine ers and then second meeting against the Cowboys after this bye
46:13
week, and I'm kind of sitting back thinking to myself, Eric, I'm
46:15
like, the Eagles record wise, are the best and top team in the
46:21
National Football League. They are at the top, and they are finding ways
46:25
to win games while not being quote perfect, but they are doing such a
46:31
good job from a defensive front standpoint to kind of mask the absolute terrible secondary
46:37
play that we are seeing and on offense, when the Chips are down,
46:42
they could be down by double digits and Jalen Hurts we were just talking about,
46:46
you know, is going to bring that inevitably bring them back. We
46:51
are seeing this consistently over and over and over, folks. I don't I'm
46:57
not as concerned about the Chiefs, the Bills, the nine Ers, Cowboys
47:00
after this bye week. Are they gonna be some tough games? I think
47:05
so. They're gonna be pretty competitive, Eric, But like, I'm not
47:08
like so concerned about ever. Everybody's like, oh, they're just gonna these
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teams are just gonna, you know, take it to them. Really,
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you think so after what we've seen this year, Like I the Chiefs out
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in Kansas City, I think is gonna be tough. I really think that's
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gonna be a tough game for them to win. If it was at the
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Link, I think the Eagles are gonna win that game. There was something
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about that home field advantage out in Kansas City that really means something, not
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just to that Chiefs team, but just to you know, whether it's Andy
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Reid. You know, I believe that they they're gonna be competitive in these
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games. But I think these games are absolutely winnable and they're not gonna win
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all of them, I don't think. But anyway, I wanted to get
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your thoughts on this too, because I think folks kind of need to comic
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down just a little bit. This Eagles team is a really good team.
47:53
This is just outrageous even saying these four teams are better than the Eagles.
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It's it's right. The Bill's defense is a disaster. Everyone's hurt. Their
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quarterback looks like shit, I'm not gonna lie. He makes three or four
48:07
bad throws every game. He looks he just he has no weapons. Pat
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Mahomes is having it down year. He has no weapons outside of Travis Kelce.
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Have you seen a receiver like wide open on that team. You can't
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just let wide receivers keep walking out of the system and be like, well,
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we'll just get another one because we have Pat Mahomes, Like, well,
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this year, it's not happening. I've seen. I've seen multiple stats
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where his his time in the pocket is much greater this year. The van
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stats of like wide receivers being open. It's just not happening with that team.
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You canell he's having a rough season. He is really quick, really
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quick just to piggyback off that. And yes, I know this is fantasy
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football, but I'm actually in a standard league where I actually drafted Patrick Mahomes.
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I was able to get him, and I've wanted to get him in
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this league for a long time. And my backup quarterback was Baker Mayfield,
48:54
Okay, because you got to you just have to have two quarterbacks in this
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league. So there have been three weeks thus far where I should have started
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Baker Mayfield over and I'm talking like by significant margins, and that means in
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the fantasy world by like you know, by like four or five points in
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a standard league. You're absolutely right, Patrick Mahomes is not having a good
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season when I should be starting Baker Mayfield on my fantasy teams instead of Pat
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Mahomes. Dear God, it just reminds me like we have a system here.
49:27
We can just plug in any player we need it's like, no,
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no, that's once you run out of receivers, it's just not gonna happen.
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Like the Eagles recognized that two years ago and went out and got some
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absolute weapons for Jalen Hurts and put them in a great spot to succeed the
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cow Get the fucking Cowboys out of here. I don't know, we just
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beat them. I watched Dak step out of bounds. You know, he
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screwed up. He always screws up, Yes, and that's his thing,
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you know. And the forty nine Ers, super talented team, who's their
49:58
quarterback? Come on, manrock or who is a Sam Darnold is the back?
50:02
Like they made one of the worst draft picks of all time a couple
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of years ago getting that quarterback, and then these trade them for nothing,
50:09
Like I hope that trade has discussed this offseason. If the Niners, like
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don't make the Super Bowl, because that that has to be a blemish on
50:17
the GMS record. Man, that is such a disastrous move. And they
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really thought they're going to be have a quarterback for the next ten years and
50:24
then they're in the spot there and now I think we're like head and shoulders
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about these other teams, these four teams, Yeah, I do too.
50:31
I think folks were all we all need to calm down, you know,
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yeah, I mean the Chiefs game is gonna be tough. You know,
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they're going to bring their a game. They're gonna absolutely try and beat us.
50:40
And you know what, if Eagles do lose that game, number one,
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it doesn't hurt you in the division or in the conference, and it
50:46
probably gives them some confidence, the Chiefs. But you know, go ahead
50:52
take that confidence in the middle of the season. Who cares, Like if
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we meet the Super Bowl again, I honestly think we beat them this time.
50:59
So I'm not or fold that at all. And again, none of
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these teams scare me whatsoever. The Cowboys wok. Probably the scariest team left
51:06
in the NFC. I mean, the Niners two, but we just beat
51:08
them at home. Probably should have beaten them by more. That's my only
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fears. The Eagles are not stepping on team's throats, right, But there's
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so much. They're so talented that they can almost get away like that Redskins.
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Redskins the com Sorry, I'm gonna get more hate mail. I know,
51:24
Race it's redskin guy, But that game, right, there. That
51:30
was a perfect example of like, they're just so fucking good that they can
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beat a team that is so repped up and they're playing their super Bowl,
51:37
you know, that's that's become super Bowl. Yeah, and still beat them
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and there's just nothing they could do about it. And every team's throwing their
51:45
best game at us and we're still winning. So there you go. There
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you said it. Let's uh, let's hear what you have to say.
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Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com. And we are going to take our
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break here a last break here, Eric, have anything else body before?
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Let you go here. Nope, I'm old. It's ten forty seven pm.
52:04
It's time to go to bed. We're gonna take our break. We'll
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be right back, all right, folks, we are back. Let's get
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to what we are thrown down on the table this week. Jeff Kerr from
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CBS Sports. Always love talking to him, especially about this Eagles team.
52:17
And we're gonna get in some of the challenges this team is gonna be facing
52:21
here after this bye week. It's what we're thrown down on the table and
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now on the table. All right, we are back, and unfortunately,
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our guest this week, Jeff Kerr had a family situation that he needed to
52:37
tend to during the time that we were gonna be recording this particular interview and
52:40
discussion about the Philadelphia Eagles and the challenges that are gonna be persisting during the
52:45
second half of this season. So we are not going to have that interview,
52:50
and quite frankly, I just don't want to keep talking about the Eagles
52:55
just to put content out there for the for the sake of it, quite
52:59
frankly, so we are going to end this podcast show this week right now.
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Hopefully we will have Jeff or another guest at some point next week on
53:08
to talk about this Eagles team because I really want to get in the challenges
53:12
that they're going to face. You know, from a running back perspective,
53:16
what has happened with the Eagles running game. That's something I really want to
53:21
get into with a guest and get some feedback on it. We'd love to
53:23
hear from you as well the secondary, how the linebacker Corr has been doing
53:29
as well. So I want to get into this Eagles team more in the
53:31
future. Again, big thanks to Eric as always for jumping on. I
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have the best podcast co hosts out there. That's going to do it for
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us folks. You all take caaring. We'll catch you next time.