Philly Front Office

The younglings are the focus around Philly sports right now. 

 - The Phillies are imploding and their only options at the moment are pilfering their farm teams.  Justin Crawford and Andrew Painter need to join Otto Kemp and Mick Abel in the majors as soon as possible. 

 - The Eagles have 13 draft picks and $28m in cap space ready to use on different cap casualties across the league

 - The Sixers are 2 weeks away from the NBA draft and are the focus of the league.  What they do at #3 shapes everyone else in the top 10.  IT should be exciting.

The Flyers have their draft immediately after the Sixers.  They have not one, not two, not three...but SEVEN picks in the top 48.  I am going to watch the NHL draft just to see the Flyers always on the clock and to listen to the NHL equivalent of Mel Kiper, whoever that is. 

On May 31, 1983 the Sixers won the championship, sweeping the Lakers.  In the 42 years since then, they have been to the championship once, the world's population has nearly doubled and there are now 50 states!  Also in that time I was born, my sister was born, and our mother left her car in Florida and told us to drive it up.  So that's what we did during this podcast.

AJ and I run down the last week in Philly-ville while he gives his confidence level in all of our teams using the most relevant possible currency, eggplants.  5 eggplants and you got yourself a stew.

Armando and I have been friends a long time despite him being a Cowboys fan. We got past that through a lot of Simpsons jokes and 2 Eagles Super Bowl championships. He's also a Spurs fan. Come to think of it, me having the Eagles and Sixers is a hell of a lot like him having the Spurs and Cowboys. We both know one of our teams will do everything right while the other will do everything wrong. Set your watch to it (a long with the haircut of Johnny Unitas).

We are talking Cowboys, tush pushing, Spurs trades, Sixers suckitude, and - oh yeah - he lives in NYC so we get a boots on the ground view of Knicks misery and Mets Juan Soto remorse.

After not a lot of news coming out of our teams last week, the Phillies decided to drop some bombs this weekend.  Jose Alvarado is suspended for 80 games and the playoffs after having us all convinced that his 102mph fastball was back naturally.  To make up for it, the Phillies mercifully placed Aaron Nola on the IL and brought up their prized prospect...MICK ABEL!!!  We all thought it might be Andrew Painter for a minute, but instead Mick Abel made his debut and absolutely shoved against Paul Skenes.  Those two guys and the 6 other viable Phillies starters might be the eventual answer to the depleted bullpen.  In the meantime though, we need to make a move.

The Eagles made some waves themselves in extended coach Nick Sirianni and being the subject of a rule change prompted by the softest team and fans in the league, the Packers.  The league will vote on the Tush Push ban this week.  Plus, the only thing left to do before training camp is extend Reed Blankenship

The Flyers have a new coach and might be looking to spend some money.  Mitch Marner anyone?  Hopefully that is not a replay of the ill fated Ilya Bryzgalov signing of 14 years ago.  Going to write about that one soon.

Lastly, in Sixers-ville, I can't help it.  I'M OPTIMISTIC!!!  Give me hope and Ace Bailey!

Not a ton of Eagles news and I don't want to do any Phillies bitching about Rob Thomson and Aaron Nola, so I dive into the NBA Off Season.  It is percolating like crazy right now.  Teams are at a crossroads, players are going to be on the move, and the state of Texas is loaded with draft picks and talent.  Finally...I am decently optimistic about the Sixers.

The festivities kick off on Monday, May 12, at 7pm, but the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery has been in the works since July 6, 2019 when the Sixers decided to address the back up center position in the worst way possible, by signing Al Horford.  Getting this Celtics sleeper agent ruined the next season and forced us to trade his traitorous ass to Oklahoma City.  Not only did he make his way back to Boston at a discount price, but he continues to torture us on the court and now, for one final time, at the lottery.  Top 6 we keep the pick.  Anything else, and we cry tears as useless as Horford himself.   

I know that's not the quote AND it's a terrible joke. That's the kind of quality you can count on at this website. It might be bad, but I am aware of it.

 - NHL Draft Lottery is tonight at 7pm. I go into a quick break down of the Flyers terrible lottery luck over the years and explain how the whole thing goes down tonight.

 - Next up is the Sixers and the Rights to Ricky Sanchez Lottery Party where my dumb face will hopefully be meeting your Sixers aggression head on. The lottery is going to inform a LOT about where the NBA is going in the next few months and not just because of Cooper Flagg. We are looking at serious changes around the league. The NBA knows drama. Plus, who is more screwed, the Bucks or the Sixers. It's a close race.

 - The Phillies manager Rob "No P" Thomson seems to just get a pass as a manager. The people who come for him are always met by a wall of defenders who won't hear any aspersions cast in his direction. I have serious Nick Sirianni before the bye vibes from him though. What is he doing that's good? It worked for Nick, so let's see if Topper gets it together.

 - Finally, I go into the Dallas Goedert math with the Eagles and why I just can't see a deal of any kind happening with him.

On Episode 6 of the Philly Front Office Podcast, it's me talking about:

With one day to go until showtime, Danny, Joe, and AJ are back on the Philly Front Office Podcast to discuss the NFL Draft.  The four of us discuss the top of the draft, Eagles dream scenarios, full confidence in Howie, and take some shots at the Giants: