Philly Front Office

With the Brewers winning the World Series, there are 5 days until the MLB offseason begins. While this could mean nothing with a lockout scheduled to begin on December 2, it could also be the start of a frantic 30 days in baseball where all the rich teams like the Phillies try to get their business done before they can't anymore.  I'll be going through the Qualifying Offers, Posting System, and Phillies Free Agent needs to get you ready for the sprint.

Flyers and Sixers going in different directions with nothing much to do about it.

The Eagles get ready to make some trades before the November 10 deadline.

This week 18 years ago, the Phillies took 3 days to win Game 5 of the World Series.

It has been a very long week for the Eagles thanks to the Jalen Hurts blood clot news. I am not optimistic in the least about his ability to come back from multiple blood clots in his lungs. Beyond that, the Eagles have plenty of other issues too like what to do with their coaches and what to do before the trade deadline in a few weeks. Plus...

Flyers - They won! And won. And won again!!!

Sixers - Competence! Glorious, glorious competence!

Phillies - November might be AWESOME

This Day In History: It has been 50 years since Dr. J was refused by the Knicks and the Sixers swooped in.

It's been a rough October for Philadelphia. No one is winning, Donny Baseball is back, and now Jalen Hurts joins damn near all of his teammates on the injured list. How do we make it through these doldrums, why with the Sixers of course!!! Yikes.

Phillies: Don Mattingly is back, Kevin Long is gone, and the Phillies have a lot of work to do

Flyers: 8 losses in a row to start the season is starting to threaten the modern record

Sixers: Help me Bron Kenobi, you're our only hope

Eagles: Disaster in London keeps getting worse

Well, that was a hell of a last hour! The Sixers announced Ariel Hukporti ruptured his Achillies Tendon, the Phillies signed Dave Dombrowski to a lifetime contract, and Lane Johnson just retired. What the hell???

All that, plus me talking about the importance of Curt Flood on the anniversary of his trade to the Phillies that changed the baseball world...eventually.

Congratulations Jalen Hurts. Welcome back Zach Ertz. Happy Birthday to Gritty. Now that all the happiness is out of the way, the Phillies are in their final stretch of the season and desperately need to win two of their final games because they aren't getting much help from the Diamondbacks, though they do end their season against the Padres in a series that could determine our fate.

All of the major pro sports and player's unions sent a letter to gambling regulators throughout the country today to criticize their inability to regulate player safety concerning angry gamblers. It was a laughably tone-deaf response from an industry that has accepted an insane amount of money to plaster gambling lines and advertisements literally everywhere you consume sports. How is gambling any different than drinking or smoking? Why are we cautioned to not do any of these activities in excess but they can advertise it without any type of moderation? That letter is hypocritical bullshit. 

I get mad about the lack of reporting around the Eagles too because I was on a roll.

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There is not a whole lot of news this week for the Phillies, Eagles, Flyers, and Sixers, but that doesn't mean there is no news at all to talk about. The Kawhi Leonard Clippers fiasco checks all my boxes as a sports business fan: CBA talk, salary cap circumvention, and the legal process!! Oh, baby! I break the whole thing down and am way too excited doing it.

Also, This Week in History includes what I missed last week...

The big news of the week is the Eagles 53 man roster. I waited to record until we knew the practice squad situation because with most of the roster battles set between the lower level guys, who would stick around was the real story. As for everyone else, I give an update on the salary cap and spending situations for the Flyers, Sixers, and Phillies for the next two years. If you like numbers, I got numbers!

The Phillies are being lead into their playoff push by Alec Bohm and Aaron Nola. Some people out there said some pretty mean things about these two over the last 4 months...but we aren't here to talk about the past! The important thing is that they are performing now and we should do absolutely nothing to diminish the chips on their should toward their critics. No apologies!

Plus...

No This Day in History this week, wtf?

Why can't I quit the Phillies? I totally get why people are jumping off the bandwagon. They stink and are infuriating. Plus, giving up and getting mad that people who don't is a great defense mechanism. Mine is to get mad while they play, get bitter afterwards, then wake up and think of how annoying the 2022 Phillies were before going on their run. To each his own.

Plus, I talk about teams moving to get better stadiums, Field of Dreams, the Sixers schedule, and what to look for over the last 3 weeks of Eagles camp.