Hour 2: Craig Carton: LeBron James Will Be a "Loser" in Philadelphia

**Craig Carton** (0:02)
You all, what a great weekend for the Yankees to be in Philadelphia.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:06)
That's right.

**Craig Carton** (0:07)
Mets get the Dodgers here, Yankees get Philadelphia there. You know what?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:11)
I'm leaving right now.

**Craig Carton** (0:12)
Are you?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:13)
I'm going to put my Yankee jersey on, and I'm going to Philadelphia.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:17)
Let's go.

**Craig Carton** (0:18)
I wonder if LeBron will beat the game tonight.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:21)
Throw out the first pitch, it's LeBron Day.

**Craig Carton** (0:23)
It is LeBron Day according to Josh Shapiro, Clown Governor of Pennsylvania. Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:28)
That's right. I'm sure you'll be there.

**Craig Carton** (0:31)
No joke, they actually put out a proclamation today, saying that today is LeBron Day in Philadelphia. So you can...

**Chris McMonigle** (0:39)
That's pathetic. He's no longer worthy of a day. As much as I think you are a little out there with your obsession with him, I would... The signing of LeBron James at 43 years old is not worth a day.
It's not day worth a day.

**Craig Carton** (0:56)
No, I'll tell you what, if he's the cause or reason to actually get past the second round of the playoffs, which they have not done in the entire Embiid era, like let me just check, when's the last time... See, I need like chat GBT on my phone or something like that so I can just speak into it. Because I just got this new app called... So much easier, it's just your phone. There's a new app called Typless. Have you seen this app?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:18)
No.

**Craig Carton** (1:19)
It's basically so like it transcribes your words...

**Chris McMonigle** (1:22)
Really easy?

**Craig Carton** (1:23)
Really well. Like better than anything I've seen before. Okay, I'll answer that. Last time Sixers got to Eastern Conference Finals.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:31)
I'm constantly yelling at my car. There's nothing worse than sending a text message in your car and like it's a 30 second thing and you've gotten one word wrong at the very end and you gotta redo the whole thing. Sucks, right? Sucks!

**Craig Carton** (1:44)
25 years.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:45)
It's been 25 years.

**Craig Carton** (1:46)
Since I got past the second round of playoffs, yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:49)
So that's a long time.

**Craig Carton** (1:50)
Yeah, it's a long time. A quarter century. Imagine being that kind of a loser franchise.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:53)
Not anymore, I can't.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:55)
That's right.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:57)
Now I have no idea what that's like.

**Craig Carton** (1:59)
Now, they've made the playoffs eight of the last nine years. Okay, so they're typically good enough to at least squeak in.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:08)
To be in the top half of the league.

**Craig Carton** (2:09)
Well, with the playing out, that's kind of forgazing. Even more than that, yeah. To be fair.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:13)
Even more than half the league makes the playoffs.

**Craig Carton** (2:14)
Right, so that's not like a thing to brag about. No, I get it. This is also a team, just to walk you through the town that's been there, that's been unable in the in-beat era to get past the second round of the playoff. In 2019, you may remember Jimmy Butler going there. I've heard of him. I believe that was the Kawhi Leonard shot when he had that corner shot that hit the rim a few times and ended that series. To win the championship? No, no, for Toronto to advance past Philly to the Eastern Conference Finals that year.
They've had some talent that's come through. Remember when they had James Harden there back in 22?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:51)
I do. And guess what? James Harden eventually ended up not being happy there.

**Craig Carton** (2:56)
No.
By the way, that team had Harden, Maxi, and Embiid. No, absolutely. I think that was Maxi's rookie season. But he was there. He was there.
So the point is, they've had talents. I love it. I think the best part about it to me is the...
I don't think it's fake. I just think Philadelphia is not a basketball town anymore. Maybe back in the day, it used to be when LaSalle and Drexel and Temple and Penn had really good tournament teams. And they celebrated college basketball. The Sunny Hill League is one of the great summer leagues of all time. And obviously, Kobe and Lowe & Marion there, and AI goes to Philadelphia and all that stuff, right? The reality, though, is that Josh Hartz said it right. Philadelphia is a one-sport town. It is an Eagle football town. Look, I did sports talk right in there from 93 to 97 It's Eagles 365, 24-7. That's what it is. All right?