Philly Front Office

The Trade Deadline is now a week in the rear view and the fears that the Phillies didn't do enough have been verified. Turning the roster into a pretzel to accommodate Alec Bohm has also gone predictably poorly. That being said, I never want Luis Arraez to leave. 

It isn't all Phillies though as Lane Johnson of the Eagles says this will probably be his final season.

Serenity now, serenity now...LeBron James, LeBron James.

The Sixers kept the positivity train going this week by signing KCP and maybe more importantly, getting rid of Johni Broome, the worst player in NBA history (probably). The Eagles made it even better by not only just returning to our lives, but signing Jalen Carter to a massive (yet cap courteous) extension. Thankfully, this was enough to get us through a not-literal-but close funeral in Miami for the Phillies on Wednesday. They are going to try to Bernie Lomax this thing to the finish line, but...yikes! Somehow this got me talking about the looming baseball labor issues.

LeBron James signed with the Sixers today and continued the total public perception overhaul of the team. We are now firmly on the basketball map. The Sixers aren’t all though. The Eagles still rule the city with stars everywhere. The Phillies have a trade deadline coming up where they need to re-establish themselves. Don’t count out the Flyers either, they are sleeping giants

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The Flyers are running it back, the Sixers are still in the hunt for LeBron James, the Phillies need help, and it's July so people are finding reasons to get mad about the Eagles. All that being said, I want to talk about the Mile World Record attempt that's going down in London on Saturday.

It's not like it's hard to rank the guys who call the shots for out teams.

https://phillyfrontoffice.com/2026/07/10/episode-50-ranking-the-philly-gms/

Famous last words, right? I don't care. The Sixers traded for Jaylen Brown in one of the most shocking bits of sports news I can remember. How shocking? Well, I go through some of my personal favorites of the last 20 or so years when the 24/7 media schedule and star reporters make rumors regular and surprise more and more endangered. Plus, the rest of the news...

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After a month of life getting in the way, the PFO Podcast is back to catch up on all the Philly wheelings and dealings of June so you can be properly informed for the offseasons to come and a summer of baseball. Here's what I talked about:

NEWS

Eagles

Only DeVonta could get Jalen Hurts line dancing in a Canadian Tuxedo

Extension Season: Jalen Carter, DeVonta Smith, and Jordan Mailata

Joseph Woll and Garnet Hathaway Trades

Draft Tonight!

Offseason starts on July 1 at Noon

NBA is crazy: Giannis and LaMelo

New GM, same bad owners

NBA Draft: Labaron Philon

Free Agency: MLE Money!

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

All the bad Sixers moves at the draft of the last 40 years: Jeff Ruland, #1 pick, Markelle Fultz, Mikal Bridges

June 23 is crazy day for the Flyers: The Bryz, Carter, Richards

The Eric Lindros Saga:  11 Days of Confusion

I recorded this originally on Friday, but then it disappeared. That worked out nicely though considering so much happened in the last few days including the Myles Garrett to the Rams trade just a few minutes before I went live. While I get into the Post June 1 of it all, this week's feature is the labor negotiations in Major League Baseball as well as lottery reform in the NBA. I'm very bullish on both.

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This Week in Philly Sports History

June 2, 1989 - The Phillies trade for John Kruk and the story is bonkers. Very Krukian

There are two distinct sides to the relationship between Joel Embiid and the Sixers. On one side, there are the ones who will stick this through forever through sickness and in health, 'til death do we part. On the other side, the relationship is fractured beyond repair because Embiid has not been pulling his weight in this marriage. Both sides are proclaimed idiots by the other side, one holding on too much, the other not enough.  As much as I want to try to make this work, why is it impossible to even mention divorce? Isn't it possible that both player and team still love each other, but that it might be better for both sides to consider a change?

Don't put me in the anti-Embiid camp, I know we are better with him than without him, I just don't want to simply go through the motions for the next 3 years of hopelessness.

I'm on a vacation with my wife, so instead of shirking either my husbandly or Podcastelry duties, I have combined them into a feature on the Philadelphia vs Miami sports environment. She just so happens to be a Miamian born and raised. While they have college football, we have the Eagles. About the only thing they have the advantage in is professional basketball. While she has Wade County, we have #selltheteam.

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