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This Day in Philly Sports History - May 18, 2023 · This Day in Philly Sports History

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  What's up everyone? Welcome to this day in Philly
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  sports history, for May 18th 2023.
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  I'm your host Jim Montgomery. It's Thursday.
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  It's going to shitty week for Philly fans.
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  This is now. Take three.
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  First time I hit forgot to hit record.
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  Second time I accidentally deleted instead of saving it.
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  So here we go. I know what I'm going to say.
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  So at least we got that going for us which is nice but
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  Phillies update, they lost 72 for last night now, four in a
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  row. They've lost they got swept by
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  the Giants. Good old Gabe kapler or our old
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  pal. They got got down early for
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  nothing to warm Walker. Gave up a four run second inning
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  and then I think it was a second any doesn't matter.
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  And then the He's did battle back to tie it up.
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  They had a couple good Innings there and then blew the bullpen.
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  Blew it in the bottom of the eighth and gave up four runs and
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  then had the bases loaded themselves in the top of the
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  ninth couldn't get it in. And that is basically the mo
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  right now, this team, they get Runners on base and then cannot
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  get them to score. I mean, the starting pitching
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  has been in the bullpen has been inconsistent, but I think the
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  Really the big story is like they're not playing good
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  fundamental baseball, they're making errors poor base running,
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  they're not getting runners in when they're getting on base and
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  in scoring position. And I don't know, at this point,
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  whether they need a players only meeting or what's going on with
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  that, but the Braves it's not like they're running away with
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  the division and if the Phillies could just put together like a
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  10, 15, 20 games, stretch without having a four or five
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  game. Losing streak, let alone Hop
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  over them, they could be right there, back in the mix.
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  Again, it's still early enough but you don't also want to fall
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  too far behind, and it's just frustrating because, you know,
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  that what this team is capable of and they're just not doing
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  it. It's fundamental.
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  It's like, when I keep mentioning the little league but
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  like, when I coach little league, the team, I had, I knew
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  they were going to have one bad, any, it was just a matter of
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  when it was going to happen and then how they would bounce back
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  from it, and that's what the Phillies seem to be doing like,
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  they Have that this year like the theme is they have one bad
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  inning and then they're able to kind of bounce back, but the bad
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  ending is putting them in such a hole that they can't get out of
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  it. Hopefully things start to turn
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  around now and I keep talking about the weather getting warm
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  but it's You got to play well and get get the runners in.
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  Doesn't matter if it's hit and season, if you're not going to
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  hit the guys in and the fact that they are hitting they're
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  just not finishing. The deal is what's frustrating.
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  Speaking of frustrating Union and ugly nil-nil draw last night
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  against d.c. United again.
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  Missed opportunities seems to be the theme of Philly sports this
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  week opportunities or they're just not taking advantage of
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  them. I believe they're in action this
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  weekend then. Against New York, I believe
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  they're up there on the road in New York, but I'll confirm that
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  later. This week Sixers, update James
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  Harden, officially is opting out.
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  Okay, I mean, at this point, I don't even know what to think.
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  He said he wanted to go someplace where he could have
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  basketball, Freedom, whatever. That means, I don't know if that
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  was his shot at Joe shot. It DOC, his desire to kind of
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  have the offense and be the guy somewhere, I don't know, but
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  unfortunately, I feel as though we have painted ourselves into
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  this spot where our best option might be to bring James Harden
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  back and we have a shitty cap situation and they I don't know,
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  like they're, they're kind of hamstrung so we can offer him
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  more money. Does that mean we bring?
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  I don't know and I'm glad it's not something I need to worry
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  about. Maybe we tank.
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  Maybe we go of process Year. Joe gets a mysterious injury and
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  we kind of set him to the side similar to what the Spurs did
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  the year they were able to draft Tim Duncan I mean it's an
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  option. I mean Why not and hope that we
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  get lucky in the dress. I don't even know what that the
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  draft is going to look like next year, but that's an option.
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  So who knows? One thing I do know though is
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  Philly go.com has the greatest selection of Philly based
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  apparel, whether it's Philly. Sports teams.
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  Just Philly in general. They have I was looking around,
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  there's web the web site. The other day, they have like a
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  neighborhood section where you can have.
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  They have shirts for the different neighborhoods in the
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  city, as well as some of the The suburbs to and you know how
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  Philly is like a big neighborhood Centric City so be
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  10% off your order. All right, we're going to go way
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  back today to 1912 and on this day February, or why do I keep
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  saying February? This is how bad I think because
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  February was good, leading up to the Super Bowl until the Super
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  Bowl actually happened. I just want to go back to that.
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  At time 6 is were playing. Well, Flyers were in the the
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  hunt for the first pick. Phillies weren't playing
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  terrible, fundamental baseball. It was like they were coming
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  into spring training, maybe that's why I want to go back to
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  February. But on this day May 18th 1912.
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  The Philadelphia has beat the Detroit Tigers 1:36.
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  Why are we spotlighting this game?
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  Well the Tigers regular players were protesting the fact that Ty
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  Cobb has Received an indefinite suspension for Major League
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  Baseball and we're refusing to play.
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  Ty Cobb was suspended for running into the stands a couple
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  days before and almost beat a fan to death because they he was
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  getting heckled so Major League Baseball and formed.
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  The tigers that they would be fined, heavily the team and the
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  players. If they did not feel the team.
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  So the Tigers manager and A's manager Connie Mack decided,
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  okay, I will pick eight athletes from around the city of
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  Philadelphia, put them on the field.
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  So the Tigers could forfeit. I forget the exact rule of how
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  the forfeits work, but I think you have to have at least eight
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  players and then if you don't have the 9th, you throw one
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  pitch and then that's basically the forfeit then.
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  But Connie Mack being who he was saw an opportunity and said,
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  nah, we're going to play this game out.
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  You're going to play with these Philly athletes.
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  Including gangster and boxer, Billy mchargue.
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  He played third base but the big story was st.
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  Joe's, Junior Allen, Travers pitched his, he was also known
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  as father Travers because he was a priest, but father Travers,
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  gave up nine or 24 runs in nine innings, which is a Major League
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  Baseball record 26 hits, which is the record for hits given up
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  in a nine inning game for a pitcher 14 earned runs seven.
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  Walks and did have a strikeout. He became the only priest to
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  ever play Major League Baseball and truthfully.
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  His name will be forever in the record books because I don't see
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  a picture lasting that long to break touch, let alone their I
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  should say, sniff lonely touch either, those records.
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  But on this day, back in 1912 the A's beat the Tigers 1:36,
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  the Tigers fielded a team of local Philly, athletes to avoid
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  a It for at the pro players protesting, Ty Cobb being
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  suspended, but father, Travers your name will be forever in the
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  record books. Hopefully he was a better priest
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  that he was a picture, but Phillies are Phillies Sixers
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  playoff spot light. We're going to back to 2002 2003
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  Sixers were two years removed from being the Eastern
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  Conference champions. They went 48 and 34 that Year s
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  in the Atlantic. Fourth in the conference.
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  A, I was an All-Star. He averaged 26 points six or
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  twenty seven point six points per game.
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  He started the All-Star Game by the way, Keith Van Horn average.
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  Seven point one is rebounds, Eric snow. 6.6 assist also on
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  that team still holdovers from that Eastern Conference Team.
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  Aaron, McKie Tyrone Hill, they had brought in Derrick Coleman
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  and future. I put a question mark there
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  because maybe his name is being floated around Sixers coach
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  Monty Williams was on that team. Mmmmm.
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  He's kind of one of the the guys that they're really looking at
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  has ties to the Sixers as well as Doc Rivers.
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  So I don't know if that's good or bad but in the playoffs they
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  beat the Hornets. Four games to two in the first
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  round loss to the Pistons for 22 in the conference semis that
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  Pistons team was one year from winning the championship
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  themselves. All right, this has been this
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  day in Philly sports history. Be sure to check out Philly
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  go.com little retail therapy is all you need to feel better, use
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  the promo code Jim Montgomery at checkout, go have yourself to
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  Thursday and until next time I will see you when I see you.