Steph in Purgatory, a LeBron Mini-Mailbag, Jaylen Trade What-Ifs, and the Revived Red Sox With Joe House and Bill’s Dad

**Bill Simmons** (0:00)
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All right. Taping this Sunday afternoon, Joe House is here. Our baseball team's made a trade last night. Yeah, baseball. Early for mead. You liked mead, I liked early. I'm happy for both of us.

**Joe House** (3:58)
There we go. And I'm happy to have baseball back in my life. Washington hasn't been competitive since 2019 when they won the World Series.
And they weren't supposed to be competitive this year, which is why they have a historically bad bullpen.

**Bill Simmons** (4:12)
Yeah, really bad. I saw it when they played the Red Sox.

**Bill Simmons' Dad** (4:15)
You didn't have a single guy.

**Joe House** (4:16)
You enjoyed it.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:17)
Yeah, it was fun.

**Joe House** (4:17)
You saw it and you enjoyed it.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:19)
Yeah, we made a trade.

**Joe House** (4:20)
It's good. Baseball. Let's go.

**Bill Simmons** (4:22)
We're gonna do a mail bag.
But before we do that, I wanna talk about the LeBron signing to Philly happened on Friday. And I wanted to do a quick thing about the biggest losers from the LeBron signing.

**Joe House** (4:36)
Well, hold on a second. It's warm. Let me get a little warm up here. Oh. It's a little warm.