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Sixers Season Awards And Looking At The Sixers Upcoming Offseason (PST Episode 611) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest
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  Speaker 1: running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world, twelve
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  Speaker 1: years strong. For celebrating and commemorating twelve years here at
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  Speaker 1: the PSD podcast show, I'm Jeff Warren. As it says
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  Speaker 1: on the screen, I'm here with my buddy Eric Leonard.
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  Speaker 1: We are on video Eric here. Man is pretty interesting
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  Speaker 1: trying to get this figured out to start the very
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  Speaker 1: first video show. Man. Good to see you, buddy, you too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had to wear pants for this one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just in case stand up. Yeah, this and I actually
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  Speaker 2: have to pay attention and look at you, I know,
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  Speaker 2: actually the other host I know.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's funny, how you know, You're like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I think I need to get a light over here
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  Speaker 1: for myself. I may need to have a different setup
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  Speaker 1: at this point. There's going to be a new endeavor
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  Speaker 1: for us. We're going to be learning as we go
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  Speaker 1: along here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the stereotype of the middle aged guy in
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  Speaker 2: his parents' basement doing a podcast. Yes, this is my basement,
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  Speaker 2: I own this house. Yes, but yeah, this is this
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  Speaker 2: is I mean, this is this is my basement. There's
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  Speaker 2: no denying it. There's wood panel.
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  Speaker 1: You pay the mortgage over here, Yes, you pay the mortgage,
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  Speaker 1: so you can do whatever you want. Have that beer
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  Speaker 1: fridge back there, the wood paneling. You're paying the mortgage.
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  Speaker 1: I am there. You go have that reb that's beer
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  Speaker 1: for all of you out there right. Yes, we got
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  Speaker 1: a great show this week again. To start us off here,
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  Speaker 1: we are first and foremost gonna be getting into some
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  Speaker 1: Philly sports history. This is something that we used to
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  Speaker 1: do so many years ago on the show. I think
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  Speaker 1: even before you came on the show, Eric Lennon and
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  Speaker 1: I we would dive into some Philly sports history. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna bring that back for a little bit, see how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. And then from there we're gonna get into
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  Speaker 1: some Phillies talk. Phillies proved that they certainly can hang
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  Speaker 1: with the Los Angeles Dodgers. We're gonna get into that,
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  Speaker 1: as well as Jordan Romano really stinking it up. And
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  Speaker 1: from there we're gonna get into a brief Eagles talk
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  Speaker 1: about the meetings they've been having in terms of some
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  Speaker 1: pre draft visits and how we're hoping this draft inevitably
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  Speaker 1: goes for the Birds. And then we're gonna be getting
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  Speaker 1: into a bunch of Sixers talk. We've got Sixers trophies
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  Speaker 1: and awards that we're gonna be handing out this season.
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  Speaker 1: I know Eric Scott more than a few that he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be handing out. I've got some as well. And
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  Speaker 1: then what we're thrown down on the table this week,
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  Speaker 1: We've got our good friend Sean Bernard from Fox Sports Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: The Gambler and Pickswap Media, that great podcast is going
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  Speaker 1: to be joining us for a discussion about how terrible
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  Speaker 1: this six Er season was and what's in store for
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  Speaker 1: this team is. We're already looking towards the off season,
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  Speaker 1: so let's start off with some Philly sports history. It
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  Speaker 1: was interesting, you know, going through the computer. I was
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  Speaker 1: going through the computer and happened to come upon some
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  Speaker 1: moments in Philly sports history. And in April of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty four, specifically April eighth, nineteen thirty four, the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: Athletics and the Philadelphia Phillies played their first legal, legal
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  Speaker 1: Sunday baseball game in Philadelphia, following the state of Pennsylvania's
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  Speaker 1: decision to allow Sunday games to be played. Then April thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, the Philadelphia Athletics won their final opening
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  Speaker 1: day game in Philadelphia, defeating the Boston Red Sox six
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  Speaker 1: to four at Connie Max Stadium. And now this marked
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of their last season before relocating to Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: April sixth, nineteen sixty eight, the Philadelphia Flyers. They secured
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  Speaker 1: their first ever NHL playoff victory by defeating the Saint
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  Speaker 1: Louis Blues four to three in the quarterfinal round of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. And then from there we're going to move
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  Speaker 1: to two thousand and four. April twelve, two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies played their first regular season game at
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  Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. Although they were defeated four to one
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  Speaker 1: by the Cincinnati Reds, the game marked the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: a new era in Phillies baseball. And then, finally, in
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten, the Philadelphia Union, the city's major league soccer team,
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  Speaker 1: the first major league soccer team here to the city
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  Speaker 1: of Philadelphia, won their inaugural game home opener by defeating
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  Speaker 1: DC United three to two at Lincoln Financial Field. So, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: there's some sports history in the world of Philly sports
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  Speaker 1: that happened this particular week all of those years ago.
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  Speaker 1: The first one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm assuming the Sunday thing was like a
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  Speaker 2: religious I guess it had to be.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it had to be. I'm not one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent sure, but the state actually made the decision for
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  Speaker 1: the phil I'm not sure if it was Phillies or
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  Speaker 1: just professional sports teams in general to be able to
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  Speaker 1: play games on Sunday. And that was nineteen thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's not even one hundred years ago at
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  Speaker 1: this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was like not long after prohibition I think.
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  Speaker 2: And Pennsylvania has always had some weird drinking laws. I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if that's with a religious angle and the drinking
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  Speaker 2: law thing, maybe that's why they couldn't do it a Sunday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's certain segments of society now that kind of want
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  Speaker 2: to go back to that. Yes, it doesn't happen anyway
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  Speaker 2: for the Flyers that their first playoff win?
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  Speaker 1: What year was that in history with the fly That
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  Speaker 1: was the let me see here really quick. That was
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  Speaker 1: April sixth, nineteen sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Eight, Okay, was that their last playoff win or as
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  Speaker 2: a franchise.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like it absolutely feels like it.
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  Speaker 2: Geez, I'm just throwing Shaye because I don't know much
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  Speaker 2: about the Flyers things. Yeah, and the Phillies two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and four. I was actually at that game in out
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  Speaker 2: and left field.
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  Speaker 1: Were you actually at Were you at that game? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: About twenty year ours up behind left field and one
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  Speaker 2: of the drunker crowds I've ever seen, because I mean
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  Speaker 2: I went to the first and last game at the
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  Speaker 2: VET the previous year. Didn't think people could get any
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  Speaker 2: drunkard than those, but the bank proved me wrong. That
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  Speaker 2: it was I think the fact that people could just
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  Speaker 2: walk around for the first time at a baseball game, yeah, openly,
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  Speaker 2: and not have the fear of like tumbling down steps.
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  Speaker 2: There was really nowhere to stand and just watch the
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  Speaker 2: game without security guard. It's just bum rushing, you say,
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  Speaker 2: get the hell out of here. So it was much
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  Speaker 2: much more relaxed atmosphere, but it turned into more of
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  Speaker 2: a Margueritaville situation. Yeah, at Philly games.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, that's a good way to describe it, very
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  Speaker 1: good way to describe it. So all right, well that's
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  Speaker 1: a first segment we wanted to get into here Philly
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  Speaker 1: sports history this week. And look, folks, you know there's
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  Speaker 1: every now and again whether it's Eric on the show
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  Speaker 1: or Len on the show. Sometimes we're gonna have some
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  Speaker 1: breaking news. We may be able to get into it,
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  Speaker 1: may not be able to get into it right before
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  Speaker 1: we hit the record button. Eric, I know you will
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  Speaker 1: not be able to talk about this, so totally cool.
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  Speaker 1: But Daniel Gazdag from the Philadelphia Union was sent to
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  Speaker 1: Columbus and the Union are getting some cash, so Len
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  Speaker 1: and I are going to be talking about that in
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  Speaker 1: particular next week on the show. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: make you talk about the Philadelphia Union at all, so,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you probably would only have make maybe two
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  Speaker 1: or three words maybe.
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  Speaker 2: How much cash is involved with an MLS player, But
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  Speaker 2: it forty thousand.
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  Speaker 1: I'm perhaps more than that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a soccer because my son plays, and
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  Speaker 2: I do watch some MLS, but like, I just also
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  Speaker 2: know how much money they make, the everyday players, so
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  Speaker 2: I can't I can't imagine how much cash was exchanged
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  Speaker 2: between those two.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not that much. I mean, it's not not talking
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  Speaker 1: MLB or NFL type money when it comes to Major
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  Speaker 1: League soccer and stuff, so it's yeah, not that much.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Is Darryl Moury, the GM of the Union. Now, why
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  Speaker 2: are you selling players off?
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  Speaker 1: Or apparently he's probably infiltrated it in some way, shape
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  Speaker 1: or form here.
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  Speaker 2: We might come back to that later a later segment.
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  Speaker 1: Who maybe Josh Harris is a new owner. Maybe we'll
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  Speaker 1: come back to him too. Where's he there exactly? Oh god, well, folks,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into some Phillies talk here. The season has
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  Speaker 1: been positive for this Philadelphia Phillies team. They won their
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  Speaker 1: first as of US recording, this their first three series
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  Speaker 1: of the season, and that last series with the La Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies really proved that they are able to
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  Speaker 1: hang with the Dodgers, beating them in the recent series.
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  Speaker 1: So I think, you know, as we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: this pending season, this twenty twenty five season, Eric, we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about and I was talking about it with
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  Speaker 1: Lenn as well, that you know, whether or not we
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  Speaker 1: should be excited for this season and where this team
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  Speaker 1: could potentially go because this is a talented team. But
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  Speaker 1: there were just a lot of naysayers. Again, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about it here on this podcast platform. Should Phillies fans
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  Speaker 1: be excited for where this team is at right now? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: they should be and look, we got to go through
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  Speaker 1: this entire season before any postseason play. The Braves absolutely
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  Speaker 1: stink in this division? Are they are horrendous at this point,
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing to me where that team already is at.
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  Speaker 1: US Phillies fans, we should be really excited about where
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  Speaker 1: this team is at right now. Eric and uh, I
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  Speaker 1: think some of the naysayers coming into this season they
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  Speaker 1: should be eating crow right now, and they should really
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  Speaker 1: uh be taking a step back to say this Phillies
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  Speaker 1: team is one of the best in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Here, I haven't heard eating crow in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll pull them all out. You know that.
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  Speaker 2: If I had a Bingo board or whatever card, Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that one went. I have been on there, but I
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  Speaker 2: get to put it on there because it's up there
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  Speaker 2: with uh see the force of the trees.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, we need to have the jet. We need
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: to have a Jeff Bingo card.
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: I think for my horrendous I think, now that we're
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: on video, the three of us lend included, we should
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: have a our favorite Jeff sayings yes or like yeah
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  Speaker 2: that he says the most.
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  Speaker 1: If I see an attractive looking lady or something like that. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't throw her out of bed freeing crackers.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: Hmmm mmmm. That's always been my favorite one because you
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: said it the first time I've heard you say. You
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: just said out of nowhere, And I'm like, would you say, Grandma, Like,
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  Speaker 2: what where did this come from?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Her twenties, I just said out of nowhere? It's great
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  Speaker 2: any hoosies y, Yeah, if you're not excited, get the
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  Speaker 2: break out of my town. Man, Like, yeah, I don't
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: know what to tell you. Like the Sixers are a
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: dumpster fire, which we'll talk about later. Of course, the
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  Speaker 2: Flyers one tonight, but like they're they're kind of going
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  Speaker 2: nowhere and been going over for a while. The Eagles,
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: thank god, won the Super Bowl, and the Phillies are
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: just one thing has jumped out to me this this year.
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  Speaker 2: They're eight and three. They should have won last night too.
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  Speaker 2: I watched the whole game. I let the brace back
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  Speaker 2: into it. That's going to happen throughout the year. But
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  Speaker 2: just it's just what a professional baseball team. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: know it's a cliche, but like they just have professional hitters,
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  Speaker 2: professional pitchers all all over the entire roster, top to bottom,
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  Speaker 2: and like tonight Trey Turner. You know, I've given him
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  Speaker 2: a lot of shit on the show, and sometimes rightfully.
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  Speaker 2: So Yeah, he's he's faltered in the playoffs he did
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  Speaker 2: last year, but you know, comes up, hits a home run,
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  Speaker 2: puts sub fourth three of them. When the game, Alvarado
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: comes in to close it out. Taylon Walker has been
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: phenomenals at two starts this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, almost no era. He's just he's he's filling in
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  Speaker 2: for Range Suarez who's going to be out for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Just stepped up and he's doing his job. And that's
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: what that's what you expect with a expensive veteran Layden
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  Speaker 2: team like this, And there's been bad examples of it
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: throughout you know baseball history, some of the late twenty
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  Speaker 2: tens Phillies where that still had Chase Sutley for two
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  Speaker 2: months for too long and Ryan Howard that's bad example
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  Speaker 2: of that. But this is just a really good, solid team.
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  Speaker 2: Schwarber is just destroying the ball. Yeah, but for Fortnite
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  Speaker 2: with three strikeouts, doesn't matter the guy the guys has
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  Speaker 2: five home runs. He just he just continues to hit.
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  Speaker 2: Harper's doing what he does seems seems really healthy Stott.
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  Speaker 2: I think I talked about him in the pregame the
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  Speaker 2: pre show, like the previous show, has to be the
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  Speaker 2: guy to step up this year. Really doing well on
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  Speaker 2: the eighth spot that in two eighty and just just
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  Speaker 2: a really good team and the pitching is phenomenal except
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: for one guy right forgot. Yeah, I was going to
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  Speaker 2: bring him up. I saw I went through the pitchers tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I did not see his name, Thank goodness. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's why we won the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably honestly a close game Phillies ended up winning.
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  Speaker 1: As we're recording this on Wednesday night. Look, Jordan Romano
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  Speaker 1: is a problem here at this point. We all know
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: that he's allowed at least two runs in three of
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  Speaker 1: his five appearances to start the season. Again as we
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: are recording this, he's just he's been behind in the count,
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  Speaker 1: slow to the plate, and pitched with just very diminished
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  Speaker 1: velocity quite frankly in the early going here. And it's
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  Speaker 1: something that Rob Thompson's gonna need to get a handle on,
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  Speaker 1: and this organization is going to need to get a
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  Speaker 1: handle on. And I know Dave Dombrowski has been catching
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  Speaker 1: some flak about bringing him on board. But look, Hazu's Lozardo.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he has been absolutely electric through his starts,
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  Speaker 1: and even Joe Ross has actually pitched well enough to
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  Speaker 1: enter the mix for late inning, leverage type situations. But
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to Jordan Romano, I am not at
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  Speaker 1: all convinced that somehow he's just going through some early
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: season slump. The the issues and injuries that he had
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: last year, it could really be coming back to bite him.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm really concerned about where he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: within this bullpen and really how Rob Thompson's going to
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  Speaker 1: be using him. It's definitely one of the biggest concerns
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  Speaker 1: on this team right out of the gate.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Well, I hope he doesn't use him. I hope
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  Speaker 2: that's the solution. Yeah, he's Yeah, I think from what
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  Speaker 2: he's looked like so far, almost beyond injury at this point.
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  Speaker 2: But you never know with relief pitchers, you never know
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  Speaker 2: what baseball players right. But I can't throw too much
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  Speaker 2: shade at Dombrowski. Just when when you have such an
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  Speaker 2: expensive team already and you have limited you know, you
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: have limitations and what you can do in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: You got to take swings like Max Kepler right now,
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  Speaker 2: he's bat in two twelve, but he's you know, he
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  Speaker 2: might turn it around. He might be okay. Jordan Ramondo
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  Speaker 2: might be okay. It's it's the same as, uh, you
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  Speaker 2: know what the Eagles did in the off season last year.
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  Speaker 2: You bring in you how many bites of the apple
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: whatever term you want to use, like darts at the
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: dart at darts of the board, and and some are
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  Speaker 2: going to work out. Joe Ross looks fantastic. Alvarado looks fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I know you can sign him, but like maybe Jordan
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  Speaker 2: Romond doesn't hit, that's okay. Like you if there's one
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  Speaker 2: position at the trade deadline that you can upgrade, it's
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: always relief pitcher. Like it's as long as you have
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: a good closer middle relief, you're okay. It's like there's
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  Speaker 2: plenty of plenty of opportunity to pick up somebody down
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  Speaker 2: the road. If the bats keep hitting like they're hitting,
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  Speaker 2: maybe Romano gets some time to like get healthy or
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  Speaker 2: get right, whatever you want to say.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a fifteen point seventy five e er.
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  Speaker 2: He's been extremely disappointing. I'm not I'm not down playing it. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying what to give Don Browski shit for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like, Okay, he tried, Yeah he gave a shot.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're trotting out there every day and he's
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  Speaker 2: losing games left and right. We're eight and three right now,
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  Speaker 2: they win tonight. It's just just one of those early
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  Speaker 2: season like damn, Like I think I even I think
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  Speaker 2: I even referenced him during the previous show, like this
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  Speaker 2: guy might do something for this year, and it's yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna happen. But like you said,
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  Speaker 2: they picked up Wizardo. He was terrible last year. He
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: was hurt, yep, and he looks he looks like a
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  Speaker 2: not an ace, but like you know, he looks like
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  Speaker 2: a great number three pitcher and he didn't even have
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: There are guys on this team that have stepped up
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  Speaker 1: big time right out of this gate. I say stepped up,
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  Speaker 1: But it feels like JT. Real Muto as much as
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  Speaker 1: I had a concern about him right out of the gate,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of maybe on the downslide of his career,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is that arm thrown from behind home plate
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  Speaker 1: all the way to second base, Like it seems like
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: he has not missed a step at all. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a first game against the Dodgers,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, he basically took over the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was like a JT. Real Muto game.
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  Speaker 1: I sit back and I'm like, you know what, I
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: think he's gonna be fine. I think he'll be fine
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, you know, if he stays healthy. And so
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of various elements on this team that,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: you know, one like you're saying, got to be patient
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: when it comes to certain elements on this team, but
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: others that we kind of had some questions about coming
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: into this season. Some of these players have just been
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: performing really well and at a high level. Well.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and to go back to my point of I
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: called them a veteran, leaden experienced team. They can also
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: step up to the moment, you know.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: They they had the World Champions coming into their house.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: It was the last weekend and man just took two
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: or three, but like kind of kind of kicked their
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: u a little bit a little bit, like kind of
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: stole that one game from them, And like I got
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: a feeling there was they were in that locker room
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: being like, nah, let's let's go like they're not they're
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: not better than us, say they are better than them.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, just look at the roster. But I feel
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: like they took that series personal. And I know it's
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: early in the season, but that kind of stuff matters, yeah,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: down the road, especially for the younger guys, you know,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: like Stott and Bam, like they need to see that stuff.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And I thought that. I thought that series was really
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: really important, especially for Real Muto, who I think might
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: have taken some of the personal as well, because there's
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: no way he wasn't hearing like the whispers of like
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: maybe when is he going to start playing first base?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Because he can't be a catcher forever, you know. I
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: think I even mentioned in the previous show, like is
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: this his last legit season a catcher? And then you
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: got to figure out where to put Harper because you
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: got to stick real Mood to it first because he
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: can't be I have to play the rest of his career.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's been a fun season. Like Eric said,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: this team is eight and three as of us recording
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: this very successful thus far Phillies season, and we are
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: getting ready to take a break here, folks. And with
• 19:05
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• 19:09
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• 19:13
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• 19:17
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• 19:20
  Speaker 1: kids have actually said Eric that they've actually said, you
• 19:23
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• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. So also we're on face TikTok. Yeah,
• 19:30
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• 19:43
  Speaker 1: beer here, we are gonna take our first break here
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and we'll be back in just a bit. All right,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we are back, and now we're going to get into
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: this Philadelphia Eagles off season even more here. How are
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: we hoping that this is gonna go for the Birds?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: They have been talking to a number of players and prospects,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and they've had several pre draft visits and we're talking
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: about them looking at every position from cornerback to safety
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: to defensive tackle to of course edge rushers as well,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: offensive tackles, offensive guards as well. Next week on the show,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have a PST special podcast where I'm gonna
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: be talking to Matt Waldman, one of the best NFL
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: scouting prospects that there is out there, comes on the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: show once a year. We talk about these prospects right
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: before the NFL Draft. So stay tuned next week for
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: our discussion with Matt Waldman. But Eric, I have never
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: felt a time being an Eagles fan where I'm going
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: into a draft and I'm hearing about all these pre
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: draft visits with all these different positions, and I think
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to myself, if they take this guy, if they take
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this position, if they decide to go in this direction,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be fine with it. Like I'm just
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: gonna be fine with it. I feel like, aside from yes,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I think a need at cornerback of course, the defensive line,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: from an interior pass rush standpoint, to edge rushers as well,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I think those are going to be priorities for this team.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: In the trenches as well. Even from the offensive line standpoint,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I feel though any first round pick that how he makes,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be like a yeah, this is gonna be great,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be fantastic whoever, whoever, It's gonna be
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: same for the second round as well. This is a
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: team that has twenty draft picks over the next two seasons.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: It's astonishing, and they may get more. If the Eagles
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: trade back out of the first round, they're gonna have more.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, I've never felt this with this
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Eagles team, where any draft pick that they make on
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Day one that I'm gonna be totally cool with. I
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: don't know. Are you feeling that as well?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the past, like when the Eagles were
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: like at the lower end of the first round and
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: they would trade out into the second round on Thursday night,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: there'd be a bit of like, uh, we spent three
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: and a half hours watching this right, Yeah, what is
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: it next? Next Thursday? Two weeks from now, Yeah, two Thursdays. Yeah,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I don't care what they do, man' This is the
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: definition of playing with house money. And I'll say that
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: because like, here's the reason why we look at the
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: roster now that free agency is over. Pretty much they
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: brought everyone back for the most part, Like I'm not
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: worried about who who left. Josh Sweat might be the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: most like concerning one, right, but I feel like I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: feel like his position and hit, like what he brought
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: to the tables kind of replaceable in the first or
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: second round honestly, or agency down the road or.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: The roster number one, number two, the way they kick
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the shit out of the Chiefs is still fresh in
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: everyone's mind. It wasn't just like, oh, the Eagles played well.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: They they kick the crap out of the like one
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: of the best teams in the league in front of
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: ever having many people, millions of people, and it was like,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: why I can't possibly get upset for one second about what.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: They do right draft?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: What I will say though, is I think since this
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: is the definition of playing with house money for Howie,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: like I could see him wheeling and dealing left and
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: right because you're not going to keep twenty players on
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: the roster over the next two years from the draft,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: so I think, why not go after a veteran or
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: two if they're available, you know, not unlike the AJ
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Brown trade, right, not not quite like to that caliber,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: but like just something like that that we're not really sure,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: like you know, you're be that'd be kind of move
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: to like filling some holes on the roster that like
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: because this team's a little not a little older, they're young,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: but like there's you know, you're already in winning mode.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So if you want to bring a guy that's like
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty seven who can like he in the
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: next two years, go ahead and do it, because you
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: know part of your patri and agenda, Like what are
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: we hoping we see? I hope how he does his thing.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I hope he doesn't rest in his laurels and sit
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: back be like I got one in the I got
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: one in the trophy case. I'll just take my picks. Yeah,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: if there's guys out there, there's rumors about players that
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: can help us, like d do it. I'm down absolutely,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah if you do.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Even if you do take some of the some future
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: picks from next year, you package them together to bring
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: that next that next safety, you know. I mean maybe
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they I don't know, maybe they are able to get
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: a Penn State safety Jalen Reed. Perhaps maybe they can
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: get him, Maybe they feel that he might be the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: future at the safety position. But when you look at
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the fact that Sydney Brown might be back there this
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: coming season, read blanken Ship has certainly proven himself to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: be more certainly more than a serviceable safety. But if
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you're bringing in somebody on a CJ. Gardner Johnson level
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: ish somewhere around that degree, and you're trading some picks
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to get that person from another team or that player
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: from another team, absolutely do it. You know. I would
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: say the same for the defensive pass rushers as well.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I think that's where if you want to package some
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: of these picks to make a deal with another team
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to bring an already established player onto this team, this
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: is the absolute year to do.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It, oh easily, and it's it's a great trade off.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, if he sits back and just takes the
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: best player available offensive lineman or defensive line, because that's
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: kind of where they that's the smart move and that's
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: kind of what he does. Yeah, totally fine with it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: If he makes a move where he brings in a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: veteran and trades away future picks, cool, I it's it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: it's a can't lose draft, which in the past, like
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: we're you know, we're you and I are big NFL
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: draft fans and an NBA draft for me too. It's
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: it's like heart attack night. Yeah, yeah, you got to
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: make the right move if we're gonna win this year.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: And I hope that is you just mentioned defensive end.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I hope that's the position they target, either through a
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: draft pick or through a trade, because as you saw
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl, that's how they won that game. Yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: they just dominated the line and just took over.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely. I don't have anything else here for the Birds.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: But again, folks, we're gonna be getting into some Eagles
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: talk and certainly some prospects talk next week again on
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: our PST Special podcast, where Matt Waldman's gonna be joining us,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: one of the best in the business. He's gonna be
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: jumping on to talk about a ton of offensive prospects.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So let's move on. Here, we were diving into the Phillies,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: we were diving into the Eagles. Now we've got to
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: get into the Philadelphia seventy six ers, who Eric we
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: have not talked about very much at all over these
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: past few weeks, and for very good reason. But this
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: week and here on our inaugural video podcast, we have, folks,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: some Philadelphia seventy six There's awards and trophies that we
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: want to hand out to certain individuals, either on this
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: team or affiliated with this team. Eric, I know you've
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: got some. I've got two. I've got two basic trophies
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that I want to give out. So why don't you
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: start off with a couple, and then I'll do one,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and then we'll kind of just go back and forth.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, I have a bunch because this is my team
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: and this has been one of the most peculiar seasons
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: they've had in a long time.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I don't really cared about them too much beyond them losing.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: So this was actually fun to sit down and come
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: up with some awards for this god awful team.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Just I will never remember or look back on. I'll
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: never have my grandkid in my Let me tell you
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: about their twenty five six.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Twenty five six ers. Boy what a season that was?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, Yeah, it was just no one really played.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, we'll get to one of my awards here
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: to commemorate that. So the first award I'm giving out
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: or trophy, whatever you want to call it. And some
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: of my references are old because I am old. Okay,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the al Cervic Award in honor of the Rodney Dangerfield character.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Here's the trophy, folks, here's one of them that we're
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: given out right here, look at that boy that that
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: looks stellar?
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Can we break these in half next time? Just because
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: this is how bad the season went. This one goes
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: out to Paul George.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, the al Cervic Award.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, because you know one point in the in
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: the movie, you know, he gets hit by the golf ball.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: At the end, he goes, oh my mom, it's broken,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: starts shaking it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's broken.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: So Paul George about thirty minutes, there are thirty games
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: into the season, goes, oh, my finger hurts. All of
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: a sudden, my back hurts. He's done for the year. Yeah,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: just done, like exits stage right. I love it because
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: you were I mean, you weren't helping us anyway. You
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: had a few good games. We want we need to
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: start tanking. But like that, dude's injuries just there was
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: no explanation.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what's wrong with him. Yeah besides
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: doing you know, more podcasts and scoring points this year,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: but like he might be cooked whatever. I'm just happy
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that he sat his ass down due to some due
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: to this injury to allow us to be the fifth
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: worst team in the league and hopefully keep our draft picks.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: So thank you, Paul George.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Very nice. You know what, we're going to be getting
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to Paul George again again? Okay? Or maybe I should
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: just maybe I should just do my trophy now, ye,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: just do it, because it's a Paul George trophy. It's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: called the Mystery Trophy, and it's kind of like kind
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of kind of what you know, in the same regard
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of your particular Awarden Trophy when it comes to Paul George.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: So mine is the Mystery Trophy. And what I mean
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: by this, folks, is what kind of Paul George are
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: we going to end up seeing from here on out?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Because there are already questions coming into this season about
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: what type of NBA player he was, how he was
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: gonna fit with Embiid, how he was gonna fit with
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi, the impact that he was going to have.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: It is still a mystery. It is still a mystery
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: what type of player he is. And I'm certainly gonna
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: be getting into it with our guest on this week's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: show and just a bit Sean Bernard. Is Paul George washed?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Is he washed? At this point? We don't know is
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: he going to be a serviceable player? Is you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: he's certainly not going to probably be the player that
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: he was even three years ago. But uh, the mystery
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: trophy I'm given to Paul George here and I love
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you gave him the al Cervik one, Paul George. He
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: deserves a lot of trophies and awards at.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: This point because the injuries came in fast, Yes, and
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: with no explanation. Yes, And I swear if one was
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: like finger yes in the box, in the box score
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: out with a finger. And I know you're a big
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: JFK fan the movie. I do like m He's an
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: enigma wrapped in a riddle at this point. Yes, I
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: don't know what he's bringing to his table next year,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: No clue. I don't know who is as a player,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: even a person. Because we started complaining about I'm not
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: happy right now. I'm not having fun, Like I don't care.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, goodness, goodness.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Like I don't want to play center fifty mil your
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: ass in a center right now?
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: What do you think you? Yeah, I know I have
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: no idea. Yeah, well, what's your next trophy? Here?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Or okay, these next two these next two are going
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: out to the same person, but uh two separate. One
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: is positive and one is negative. The Desperate Bachelor Award, Okay,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: you know how the stereotype of a woman who has
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: to get married like biological colock is ticking. Well, there's
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: a male version of it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I used to be that in my mid twenties.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Why no, I didn't mean to say, I want to
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: say it out loud, but.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: The Yeah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: The Desperate Bachelor Award goes out to Dr moy for
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: deciding to give Joel Embiid a massive, massive extension without
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: knowing if his knee was propped in healthy, if his
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: head was right yep, and he came into camp. He
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: played in the Olympics for no reason whatsoever. He looked
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: terrible over there, came into camp looking awful, had a
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: horrible season. He might miss next year because of his knee,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: and Darryl decided, but we have to treat our players better.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, because of the.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: James Harden thing. I have to show the league that
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: might show the players in the league that we treat
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: our players with respect. So I'm going to give this
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: possibly broken down seven to two guy one hundred and
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: ninety five million extent. It's just outrageous. What a desperate
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: attempt to woo like the rest of the league's players.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: But I'll say this, he recognized that things were going
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: south really quickly. So I'm going to and he shifted
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: on a dime to the tank mode. I'm going to
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: give him the Gordon Gecko Award for absolutely liquidating the
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Sixers franchise in a matter of a couple of weeks.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: In my opinion, it was amazing how fast you did it.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: This should be a double trophy. Yes, this is a
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: double trophy. Two trophies for Darryl One. A horrific move
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: as a GM. But there's the second go to make
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: up for it, to try and keep our draft pick. Now,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: if they keep the draft pick, awesome. If they lose it,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: he should be fired. Yeah, and we'll take back the awards.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: But what a great job in setting up the tank.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It really was. Boy, I'll tell you, I love that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I love the whole bachelor thing. I love that because
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it's like you're just trying to see what works, really,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: just trying to see what where's all. I'm gonna take
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a gamble here, I'm gonna it's it's me and my twenties.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I was there. I was right next
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: to you watching it. But and I thought of you
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: when I gave it came up this award, But like
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: he was so worried about how badly the James Harden
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: situation when he's like, we need to send a message
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: that we treat the city just play truth their players.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Really well, maybe he didn't want another investigation by the NBA.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Uh oh oh, yeah, there's other ways to get around
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: that thing. Giving this hulking, gigantic man who may not
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: bill to play basketball for a two hundred million dollars guaranteed,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: that's that's that's a mistake.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that very good, very good, well for me, And
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: it is really obvious. This is an obvious trophy and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: award here with regard to the trophy for the worst
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Philly sports owner, and that goes to Josh Harris. Of course,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I know, like there's a lot of folks not happy
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: with Josh Harris simply because he's more focused on the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Washington Commanders, who have a lot more promise than this
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventy six ers team right now and who knows
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: for the future. But Josh Harris not having a good
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: pulse on what is going on with this team, not
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: only during this season, but who knows what's going to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: happen in future seasons. So Josh Harris he gets and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it's right up there with mister Sugarman from the Philadelphia Union,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: another absolutely terrible owner, but worst Philly sports owner. I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: think at this point, I'm saying it's got to be
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Josh Harris. He is going to get that trophy. I mean,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: here's my next award.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I'll go right in.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: WHOA, all right?
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: And this is this is a very obscure in memoriam
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: of Val Kilmer. It's the Ghost in the Darkness Award
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Josh Harris. It's one of Val Kilmer's movies from the nineties.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed and.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the movie has nothing to do with this
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: at all, but the word ghost is in it. Josh
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Harris just he owns the Commanders and the Devils. Now,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I don't think he gives a rats ass about the
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Sixers whatsoever. I don't know if he signed off on
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: that embiid contract. I'm sure he did because he's the owner,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: but like, no input whatsoever. Haven't heard a word from
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: him on this disastrous season. I kind of understand it.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I probably wouldn't either. Who wants to who wants to say, like, hey,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of responsible for this piece of ship, But yeah,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I just I've never said it's tough to It's what
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: was Norman Brayman, the Eagles owner back in the eighties nineties.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, Buddy Ryan used to call him the the
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: European guy or something like that because he didn't even
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: care about the Eagles. He was just living in like
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: France or some crap.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: How can you own a professional team? How can you
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: own a professional sports team worth billions of dollars and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you just don't care? I wonder what type of life
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: that would be where you just don't care. That's that's
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: astonishing to me.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't want to be that wealthy, because so
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: wealthy you don't care about things. Yeah, yeah, you know,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: like I I don't even I'd like to be wealthy,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: no no problem there, But like I just want to
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: own like one team, yeah, and just care about that.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: That'd be nice.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I won't want to own three teams and be like
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: I like the one, the other two or just a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: tax right off right to live life like.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: That, you know, I forget the Jacksonville Jaguars.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I got three more awards real quick. Yeah, he broke
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: blow through these again. This is a total eighties reference.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I hope the younger kids get this. But the Ducky
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: from Pritty in Pink Award, which just your classic nice
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: guy goes up to Tyress Maxie and Jared McCain.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: There really are nice boys. They're nice bar real sweethearts.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Tyres Maxie went at Joel Embiid at one point during
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the year, and even the way he did it, from
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: all accounts, is that was just it was very like,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: come on, man, come on, that's you got to step up,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: and you know, like that. It's like he didn't get
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: in his face and it wasn't like a it wasn't
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: a Gilbert Rainus, you know, handgun situation. It was just
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Maxie was like, hey, come on, dude, you gotta be
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: better than this. And and Jared McCain just a sweetheart
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: of a guy on TikTok awful that his knee broke.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: It's kind of cool that two him are coming back
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: next year. It's gonna be totally healthy, and it's like,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: what do we have there? Yeah, And they're and they're
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: nice guys, Like, I'm very happy about that. I got
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: two more real quick ones. Yeah, the James Cordon Award.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Oh and this is basically anything this guy is in
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: is completely ruined because he sucks goes out to Quentin Grimes. Now,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Quentin Grimes is good, and I'm a big fan. Well,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I know, but we're trying to tank, dude. Stop stop
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: scoring points.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Stop scoring twenty two twenty five a night, Just score fifteen.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Stop with your twenty eight, six and six nights. We
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: don't we want none of it. We can't put you
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: on the bench because the league might investigate it to
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: that point. I mean, so many guys are just like
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: done for the year in totally mysterious ways, Like Tyry
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Smax is a back issue all of a sudden, he's
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: like twenty four. Yeah, it's just completely ridiculous. But and
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: I dislike James Cordon fly I never do.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I never knew that you did.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, he's horrible.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Have we I don't think we've ever talked about that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: The dislike for James Cordon. I no, I like him. No, No,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I honestly I'm kind of indifferent. I mean, I couldn't
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: care less. I just I just find him.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I think he's like the new Ellen. Yeah, obnoxious,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Like when is somebody gonna point out like, man, he's
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: annoying as hell, Like we're going to talk about this,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: We're doing it now. Yeah I am. I'm hoping this
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: is the beginning of his downfall. Was and this is
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: my this is my favorite one. And it's no shade
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: on this guy because he's probably gonna be out of
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: league next year.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Just the W. T.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: H Award. Who the hell goes out to Colin Castleton?
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just can't believe. Like there, listen, there's tanking,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: and then there's tanking on the level of Colin Castleton.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm bringing up his numbers for tonight with.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: The numbers because you know what, I don't know those
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: numbers at all. I don't guess what. I shouldn't know
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: those numbers.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: No, okay, so I and last week. I'll get to
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: his numbers tonight. But I remember last week. Yeah, it
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: was a week or two ago and I flipped the
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: sixers on. I'm like, oh, what what the hell? Let
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: me watched the first quarter, right and allah and allah
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: didna He's going through uh, going through the players, He's like,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: and the Sixers brought in Colin Castleton and they're they're
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: showing him warm up and they're showing his stats, and
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, I knew the tank was bad. I
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: don't know it was this bad, right, right, Like a
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: seven to one white guy weighs one hundred and forty pounds, Like,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: what what the hell happened in the season? Like he
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: was just the epitome of like in twenty fourteen when
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: they tanked and I'm like, I don't even know who's
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: on the court. He was like, I'm like, oh my god,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: who is this guy? Good lord? He had twenty eight
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: He played for twenty eight minutes to night twenty eight?
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Did he really?
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Oh my twenty eight minutes. There's only how many minutes
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: in the game, Jeff NBA game.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Perhaps more than that, but still there's Oh my gosh.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: He played twenty eight minutes, had two points and fourteen rebounds,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: four personal fouls.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Eric, my gosh, what a great award. Let's bring it
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: up real quick, here we go.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's my favorite one. Yes, because this is probably
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: it for him, so.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wow, wow, can you imagine Nick nurse
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: being like, you know what, gotta put Colin him. He
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: needs twenty eight minutes tonight.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, he was trying to lose tonight to the Wizards,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: but they're they're so bad, like they even twenty minutes
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: of Castle Castle Collinton. I forgot Colin Castleton. Who gets
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: It's some shitty name I forgot already, But yeah, I
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: love it. God blessed the kid. But yeah, yeah, we
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: play him twenty eight minutes tonight. And uh yeah, by
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: the way, Andre Drummond didn't play tonight because of left toe. Ooh,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: maybe that's what we're with this team toe fungus. Maybe
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Maxie in that play for right finger. Whoa, this is
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: on the box score.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I'm still on the toe fungus thing. Get him some
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: blue star o ointment past, teddor siriasis, springworm. I don't
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: know why. I know these are great and put up
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: these stupid graphics like this, right, it's so stupid. It's great.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy, We're gonna get to the interview this
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: week with Sean Bernard from Fox Sports, Phillies, The Gambler
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and Pickswap Media, that great podcast and uh, you got
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: anything else, buddy? Before we had at here and head
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: to break.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Uh first AU tournament this weekend in Westchester, Pennsylvania. Rats
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: out of Philadelphia. Nice go Midpen motion.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Nice there there you go, all right, folks, Well again,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: real quick social media sites here at the Philadelphia Sports
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Table podcast show where you can follow the show. You
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: can follow Eric or myself. Len. He's just he's taking
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: a break and it could be a per vacation from
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: social media. We saw him this past week said his
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: mental health has been doing a little bit better now
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: that he saw off social media. So check us out there,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: and uh, we're gonna see hopefully Lynn next week. Hopefully.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: If there's issues Eric, you maybe have, we maybe needed
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: to do the show together next week.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Do I have to drive to his house?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know. No, I would. I would drive there
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: for God's sake. I'm the one that wanted to do
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: the video here. So all right, buddy, Well, I'm gonna
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: let you go. We're gonna take a break, folks. We'll
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: be back in just a bit and now on the table.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Joining us this week from Fox Sports Phillies. The Gambler
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: also PICKSWAP Media. I specifically subscribe to that podcast over
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: on Apple Podcast we have got our very good friend
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: of the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, mister Sean Bernard.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: How you doing, Sean, Yeah, Jeff, appreciate you having me
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: back on.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, I guess looking forward to this season finally winding down,
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: as this has been a more off the rails Sixers
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: season than I thought even you were as king scenario was.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: But we were almost to the finish line and then hopefully, goodness,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: some better days on the HRZE.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank goodness, we're almost done well, I mean, as
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: you said, I mean, it's been a pretty terrible season
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: for this Philadelphia seventy six Ers team, and we're we're
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: already looking towards next season with the future holds for
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: this organization, this franchise, and this team. And thankfully there's
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: only a couple more games left in this season. But
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you know, what we are looking forward to seeing is
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: if the Sixers team is really able to keep that
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: top six protected pick from ok See. I mean, that's
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: on everybody's mind right now, and the Sixers of course
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: want to hold on to this draft pick if they can,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: and if they do, sean two part question for you here,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: what does this pick mean for the team's future if
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: they are able to keep it. And even though you
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: know Derek Queen is the player that some are saying
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: could be coming to the Sixers via the draft, but
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering, also, who do you see them possibly drafting?
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: So again two part question, what does this pick mean?
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: And who do you see possibly coming to the Sixers
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: if they're able to keep this pick.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the draft lottery will truly be a pretty fateful
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: day and franchise history here, and I kind of look
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: at it as when you think through this era. Obviously,
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: this championship window was assembled around Joel Embiid. I think
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: the Tyrese Maxi draft pick extended that window. I think
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: the Jared McCain draft pick created a new window, and
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: I think this draft pick, if they are able to
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: keep it, is a way to blend all of those
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: together there. But they have to be able to keep
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: it for that to be possible. Unfortunately, it is purely
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: at the mercy of the ping pong balls. It will
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: be a straight random drawling and the sixties are pretty
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: locked in to a sixty four percent chance of keeping
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: their pick there, so obviously they're pretty like last offseason
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: was the offseason in which they were wheeling and dealing,
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: making their notable news and building things up. This was
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: when there was going to be a little bit lighter
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: that there aren't that many directions they can kind of
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: build out this team currently.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: I know that's incredibly disappointing and especially after a season.
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: Like that, but this draft picked having this is truly
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: their best chance to adding like a high caliber talent,
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: So they need to keep that at all costs.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: So definitely send some good vibes in the pink pong
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: balls favor.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Yep. Absolutely, I'm wondering is there a specific talent that
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: you're really looking at, you know, if they are able
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: to keep it again mentioned Derek Queen, but is there
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: anybody else made coming from the college ranks or even
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: overseas from an international perspective that may be a good fit,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: not just a fit, but may be able to really
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: come on this team and make an impact right off
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: the bat.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Cooper flags the headliner of everything, and there's a
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: ten point five percent chance the sixer will land the
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: one pick, which isn't you know there's you could be
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: in a much more spot here. Right to the Sixer's credit,
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: they have certainly gone all in on the tanking approach
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: in the second half of the season here. So like
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: Cooper Flag, I think from day one would be a
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: guy that you step in and you're talking about a
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: starting five. I get there's question marks and next to
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: some of these guys, but if you're talking about a
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: potential starting five with Tyrese Maxi, Jared McCain, Cooper Flag,
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: Paul George, and Joel Embiid, you're in a good spot
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: heading right into next year.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: Beyond that, I'm a big fan of Ace Bailey out
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: of Rutgers.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: That's a guy that I also think kind of fits
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: the role the Sixers need as far as sort of
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: a power forward, sort.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Of a big man that can kind of play in
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: different settings.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Bailey's guy who has to clean up some stuff, but
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: the raw talent and just the energy that he plays
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: with I think is really infectious.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: Who I like there.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Dylan Harper will probably be regarded as the number two
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: prospect pretty universally.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Also on that Rutgers team.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: That's definitely disappointing that they missed the playoffs there, and
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: there's other guys as well.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: I'm not as high on kind of the.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: Guard class, a guy like Trey Johnson, I'd rather stay
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: away from just from the standpoint of where the Sixers
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: roster is currently at. Rather the biggest Derek Queen guy
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: in the world either. I have some skepticism about his
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: full NBA fit, but the talent is certainly there. So
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: the biggest thing is having a chance to keep a
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: pick and physically get a guy in this top six.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: But there's a lot of young talent. This is one
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: of the better classes to have this type of opportunity.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and like we mentioned, I mean this is a crucial,
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: crucial draft. It's a crucial time for this seventy six
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: ers franchise and organization as we're looking ahead, because there
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: is one particular player on this team who, just two
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: years ago, Joe El Embiid, was one of the greatest
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Philly sports figures and athletes, completely beloved and still is
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to a large extent, but just after the injury history
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: over the past couple seasons, specifically this year. You know
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: what happened last summer and how that trickled into this
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: coming season. I mean, Sean the guy won the MVP
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: of the NBA just two seasons ago, even though he
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: went through a lot physically back then. Now it feels
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: like we're just at this crossroads a couple of years
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: later here, So I'm wondering, like, how should we really
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: be looking at Joel Embiid from here on out? Him
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: going from one of the greatest Philly sports figures and
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: athletes as somebody who has beloved to now us questioning
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: as fans, where is his career going to be going?
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts here, buddy?
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's amazing how quick it happens that it's
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: less than a calendar year. This dude was scoring fifty
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: points in a playoff series here, and this is the
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: state of what it is here. This is certainly the
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: biggest crossroads of the Joel andbiad era, And for the
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: first time it does feel like there's some friction between
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: him and the organization as far as what the approaches.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Those are tough conversations to have. Is you can never
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: truly know what a guy is feeling like except for
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: what they tell you. That no one can kind of
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: understand their body except for that person directly. I think
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: that's a lot of the biggest issue here. Some of
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: the options that they looked at as far as the
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: surgeries for him or some sort of like experimental procedures
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: and things like that. None of it paints a very
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: bright future for what it could be. But like at
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: the same time here, I don't think the days of
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: Joel Embiid playing basketball over. I don't think the days
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: of him playing basketball at a high level are over.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: Do I think his MVP days are over or him
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: as a top five guy in the league. I think
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: that is probably the case there, But I still think
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: there's very much a world where this guy is a
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: highly impactful player on the Sixers team and sort of
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: the power bounds within the organization begins to shift where
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: Tyrese Maxi is a little bit more of the front
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: and center guy Jared McCain, it takes on a little
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: bit larger of an offensive role. This potential draft pick
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: is a guy who is at the forefront of the production.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: And Joel is not asked to be a guy with
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: a top five usage eight year in and year out,
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: as has been the case throughout his career here, So
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: the biggest thing is about his physical level. They're going
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: with an Arthur scopic surgical approach. I'm not super optimistic
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: about that. Basically, any NBA athlete can get that done
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: at any point, and it's sort of just a clean
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: up the knee type thing. There does not seem to
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: be any structural damage there. The biggest rift between them
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: was the sixer stance that basically your body's gonna adjust
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: the more you play through the pain and figure things out.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: And Joel is saying that I'm just not right, like
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: the knee does not feel right here. So he's gone
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: under the knife again. This is the second surgery on
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: that same knee in fourteen months. Maybe this will be
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: a wake up call or things click the right way
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: this time, but at this point it's kind of based
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: on let's see how his body responds, and it wouldn't
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: shop me this time. Next year we're talking about a
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: little longer scale recovery surgery for Dowell.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting where his career certainly has gone. And
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: there's a no other gentleman on this team where it's
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: interesting where his career has gone as well. Lots of
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: US fans talking about whether or not Paul George is
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: basically washed. At this point, we know what kind of
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: season he had. It was a challenge for him from
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: a health perspective, and yes, again injured to start the
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: season after he hyper extended his knee in the preseason. Sean,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on Paul George here, you know,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: potentially quote being washed at this point in his career.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm more optimistic about a Paul George bounce back
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: season than a Joelle. As far as for next year specifically,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: I think some of the how Paul George played or
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: how bad that he was gets a little overstated. He
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: certainly was not great by any means here, and he
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: I don't think we're ever getting the max contract fifty
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: two million dollar guy that we kind of thought we
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: signed here, the guy that has been a ten time
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: All Star, been in the league forever and performing at
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: a high level. But I do think it'll be better
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: than this year, to be completely fair to him, Like
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: he dealt with the injuries, as you mentioned that first
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: knee hyper extension, I thought he tore his AC I
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: want to have live and kind of like tough way
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: to start. And then the growing injury he was getting
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: injections just to stay on the floor, dealing with a
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: little bit of a hand injury as well there. So
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: he did battle through some things. And again fairness to Paul,
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: he wasn't brought in to be batman here. He was
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: brought in to be a complimentary great point. Yeah, and
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: when Joel Embiid is not there, like the kind of
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: the power balance of the team does not function as designed.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: So I think it was a mess of a season
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: on just about all parts. Paul George was sort of
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: a symptom of that or an effect of that, more
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: than a cause. And I do think next year that
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: with a clean slate in second year, he'll be a
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: little bit better, and I think we can be optimistic
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: about that.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: So what you're saying, Sean is there is hope for
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: the seventy six ers team down the road. They're not
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: going to be the Washington Wizards. Correct, they will not.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: This certainly, I do think will be a one down
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: year and back of the next. Again, the draft pick
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: is that huge Ashric that we got to keep throwing.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: But the other guys that I'll throw up, and that's
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: throwing the same conversation here. We forget just how good
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Jared McCain looked in that brief specially that he was
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: there this season. I'm really optimist about him in the
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: long haul and as soon as next year that he
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: can really transform this offense and things look a lot different.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: So even if there is not a little luck in
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the lottery here, that is going to be like a
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: notable improvement for next year. Absolutely. And Look, one of
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the storylines that we have been following and talking about
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: thinking about is where this Sixers front office may go
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: this offseason as well. And the questions are persisting about
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Daryl Moury and his tenure with the Philadelphia seventy six Ers.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: I guess do you think the Sixers front office, you know,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Josh Harrison company, end up keeping Daryl Morey around after
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: this season? And second, if they do, how does Daryl
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Moury approach this upcoming offseason in terms of priorities? What
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: are your thoughts here, Sewan?
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do lean toward yes.
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: As far as Daryl Moury being back here, I don't
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: think it's a surefire lock in that and I would
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: understand if the organization wants to go a different direction.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: But I honestly think that this year is a little
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: bit of a case of you can make all the
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: right decisions and things still do go wrong.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: I do think Daryl Mourray for the most part, took
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: the pathway and made the decisions that were the greatest
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: chance at the sixers looking like a real contender this year.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: It just didn't work out, and that chance obviously was
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: not successful there. And for all the bad that he
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: did do and the stuff that you know, he has
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: to wear. As far as DePaul George contract not agent well,
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: the extension to Joel Embiid, he's still got to give
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: him props for the other things that he do. Garshan
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: Yabuseli was a slam dunk minimum signing there. Jad McCain
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: an excellent draft pick at twenty one, didn't some other
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: pretty creative things at the bottom of this, this kind
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: of salary caps picture. Quentin Grimes, the chance to re
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: sign him is another one I would point to there.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: So yes, it was not a ideal season where we're
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: seeing the results on the floor, But I don't think
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: Maury's specific process was the biggest issue in all this. Now,
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: when there is a season this off the rails, someone
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: tends to catch the brunt of the blame here. I
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: kind of think it's more likely to be Nick Norris
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: in this situation, especially in the ecosystem, which I mean,
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: in this past two weeks we've seen Taylor Jenkins and
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: Michael Malone be fired from the Nuggets and the Grizzlies
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: over there for far less. They're having far reasons there.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: So I'm more so lean towards Daryl Moury being back,
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: but it wouldn't outright shock me if the organization does
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: decide to change.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, actually, I do think that Darryl Mory's
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: still going to be with this team. Like you said,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: you can make all the right moves during the course
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: of an offseason and sometimes things just go south with
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: what you had available for you. So just a couple
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: more topics here, Sean, and then we're going to end
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: this podcast. This week, we've been seeing players like Quinton
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Grimes playing some pretty good basketball down the stretch here.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: You know, Adam Bona has shown some development too since
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: he has been given some opportunities here and there this season.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: I'm wondering which players do you think are going to
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: be kept around for next season based on really how
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: they played down the stretch here.
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And one of the things that's been nice for
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: this Sixers team with the expectations off the table is
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: you've kind of gotten a chance to just try out
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: a bunch of guys, see what these guys can really
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: do in different roles. A guy like Quentin Grimes playing
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: with the most basketball freedom of his entire NBA career,
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: and it is wild. At twenty four years old, a
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: guy that was a first round pick and has some
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: decent pedigree to his name is already in his fourth
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: NBA team, but he's showing what he can do, and
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: that is a guy I do think we'll be back
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: on the Sixers team. The only chance that I don't
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: see it happening is if a team primarily the Brooklyn
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: Nets are the only one that really have an opportunity
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: to do this from a cap perspective, but throw just
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: a ridiculous offer to kind of lure him away from
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: the organization. But I do think when they made that trade,
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: this was pretty locked in that the intention was to
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: return Quin Grimes.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: They do hold his bird rights.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: He will be a restricted free agent, so there is
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: sort of every advantage that you could ask for as
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: an organization for.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: Retaining that player.
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: There a lot of the young talent has shined a
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: den Bona I've been really impressed with a lady exploded
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: for a twenty eight performance or twenty eight point performance
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: not that long ago. A guy that there's a clear
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: pathway to him being a rim running shop blocking just
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: your standard NBA center, I can survive and have a
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: ten to fifteen year career there. Justin Edwards another dude
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: who I could not be more impressed with, which the
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: way that he's scaled up his offensive role showing what
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: he can do. That's the guy thinks they surefire a
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: rotation player next year. Guy like Jared Butler has been impressive,
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: and that is a dude stick around. Will probably run
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: the second or third unit as a point guard next year.
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: Lottie Walker sort of a similar story. We're starting to
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: see him come into form here, and that's a guy
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: who has NBA pedigree, who has.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: Been successful in the league before.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: He was a little bit rocky when he first returned
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: to the United States, to Philadelphia and to the NBA there,
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: we're finally seeing his feet kind of settle in. So
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of these bottom of the roster guys I
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: do think will end up sticking around. It is strange
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: for a season that has a record with what we
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: currently said at we're talking about all these guys wanting
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: them back.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: And that they will be back here. But I do
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: think that's sort of the state.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Of things again, folks. We are talking to Sean Bernard
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: from Fox Sports Phillies The Gambler. They do such great
• 57:38
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• 57:40
  Speaker 1: at sewn Underscore Bernard one. He is a great great
• 57:44
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• 57:47
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• 57:50
  Speaker 1: I know you've gotten into some Phillies and some Eagles
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: stuff as well over there, Sean, Do you have anything
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: else you want to promo before I ask you last question? Buddy?
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he pretty much nailed it there.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: I don work on Sixers Digest in Phillies Digest on
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: YouTube channels as well, and I also writer for DraftKings,
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: so cranking.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Out that's what content for them as well. Absolutely appreciate it.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Yep, you got it, buddy. So as we're end in
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: the discussion here, finally, if you had one realistic offseason
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: move that you hope the Sixers would make to really
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: benefit this team long term, what would that one move
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: be and why.
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, not that it's one fully in their control,
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: but the ideal for me is absolutely Cooper Flagg being
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: a member of the Philadelphia seven again, seriously, yeah, And
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: I do think that's like a short and long term
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: accomplishment that as of next year he can step in
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: to be a guy to play next to Joel Embiid
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: as well as hold down a full time kind of
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: center spot in the games where Embiid is not there.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: And in the long run, if we're talking about a
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: starting core of Tyrese Maxi, Jared mccainn and Cooper Flag,
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: I do think that is like the foundation of contender
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: for ten years to come there. So Cooper Flag would
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: be the ideal one for me. It does all come
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: down to that draft lottery and seeing where they slot in.
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: Keeping the draft pick in and stuff would be a win.
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: But if you can get up to that number one
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: pick and get a guy like Flag, that would be
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: a franchise changing day.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting to see where this Philadelphia seventy
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: six ers team goes for sure. Again, folks, Sean Bernard,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: thank you buddy so much for taking the time to
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: join us. Very much appreciate it now I'm hoping that
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: you jump back on at some point down the road.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: I'd love to have you back on the podcast. Yeah.
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, Jeff, appreciate you having me on once again. And yeah,
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: I think it will be better days. We'll have a
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: little bit more reason for hope coming this summer for.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: The absolutely, absolutely, that's gonna do it for us folks
• 59:32
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• 59:35
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