Spike Calls Out Joel Embiid After Sudden Illness Scratch

0:00It is the WIP afternoon show with Ike Spike and Fritz. That's your 232 Pock. Of course you have a 330 country, 430 90s, 530 Creed. A quick hello. Now you know, I walk around all over town in South Jersey where I live now. Walk around all morning long. Yes. People are always saying hi. And they're always asking for shout outs. And I feel like I'm gonna have to do it or I'm not gonna be allowed to walk in town anymore. Val and I were walking the dogs last night at the Ella Harris Park. Okay. And this kid on baseball team, he's like, Spike. I'm like, yes, he's like, can I have a featured spot? And I said, no. And he said, can we get a shout out for our team? And I said, yes. So Harrison Heat is the baseball team. Yeah, they're out there. So I'm telling me that's exactly how the conversation is going. That's exactly how it went. But I was like, what's going on over there? I was like, they asked for a featured spot. I said, no. Harrison Heat, traveling baseball team. And then this morning, the guys of Pioneer Pipe, I was walking down on Main Street there. They were doing work. So hello. Yeah, Spike.

1:00They're the people. Yeah. They're a land fight. Yeah. Wow. He's just, he's a wholesome story. Yeah. Look. Look. And this is where you go to. Well, I don't think the guys are a land pipe for kids. No, they were not. They're adults. Yeah, that's good. They're adults. The kids were kids. Right. Kids were kids. All right. Now, you know what happens when there's a major, especially the major, the master. The major. We have the pre-eminent golf analyst. Right. In the world, 30 past every hour, today and tomorrow, we will have the Ike Reese Masters update. A tradition unlike any other Ike Reese on the Masters. Well, I'll tell you, Spike, each of you do it. That introduction gets better. Oh, it's only the second year. Well, you know, it might be this. Don't get a real good story. Well, it's not the third time we've done it. Maybe that maybe only the second Masters,

2:01but we've at least done it several times. All right. All right. All right. First of all, what a great day down at Augusta. It's a lot of beautiful. Listen to the Azaleas in a blowman. It's beautiful. Think I look around a man corner. Are you kidding me? That's what I'm talking about. That's golf right there. That is golf. That is what a golf course looks like. Yes. Let me tell you, Spike. It's been a good day out there on the course. Scores. You know, it's probably a little lower for the first day. Wow. Is this a tough course? It is. It's tough rock. All right. Is it? It's a tough one. Think of all the affordable housing they can put on that area. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. All right. Let me get back here. Yes. It's a affordable housing. Awesome. Well, I'll take a look at the leader for it. Let me take a look at the leader for it.

3:03I have big names went off early today. Yes. Yes. So to come in later, some of these scores. Pretty good. I got a defending champion, Roy McAroy. After 13 holes, he said number two, man. Three under. How about that? I've had a repeat champion that had dusted at a long time. You're starting to raise your voice again. I'm sorry. Watch it. We can't have it. We can't. We already go back to back. We can't go. We can't. No interest. My guy's Andrew Schauffly sitting there in the top nine. Also, 200. There you go. He looks striking. Yes. Scotty Sheffler. World number one golfer. He's out on the course right now. Just teed off not too long ago. He's already too under after just two holes. Hey, machine. Gotta love that. Gotta love that. Let's look who's at the top of the leaderboard. Sam Burns. Who is that? Who is that? Don't really know who Sam Burns is. Other than the fact that I've heard of him. I don't want to go off course. Is he that new utility guy on the phone? No. Minus five. It's Dylan Moore. Minus five.

4:03Yes, sitting in minus five. Okay. Two shots ahead of Shane Lowry. Oh. The big fat Irishman. Yep. And Kurt Gideyama. Here boy. Gideyama. Look at this. Scotty Sheffler just moved in a second. Oh. He's dead. He's dead. He's dead. Don't do that again. Yes. Yeah. Shut up spike. You don't care about this. I don't care about this. I don't care about this. Yes. There it is. Yes. Pretty good day for the first day. Scores are low. Could date for a pretty big weekend. Haven't seen scores like this in a while. Wow. Fred Couples is still alive. Dude. Yeah. Okay. He's too under. All right. There we go. There it is. The Icrease master's update. I always have trouble getting back to normal volume. Yeah. All right. Jack. We'll have the next one at 330. 2-5-5-9-2-94-94. David and Wes Chester. You're on WIP. What's up, David? Hey, spike. Thanks for telling you doing. What's up, David? What's up, David? Spike, do you still talk to your dad like on holidays and weekends and stuff?

5:04Yeah. Like the radio wasn't like the only place. He's still my dad. Okay. Are you asking your favorites to see if he wants to play senior softball? I can get him a celebrity exemption. And then you can come out watching. It makes fun of him. Like he used to do to you when you were playing against the Davis boys. No. I don't think he was making fun of me. I think he was just disappointed in me actually when I was playing against the Davis boys. So if you want him to play softball, you're going to have to reach out to him directly now. So go ahead. All right. Yeah. Send me his number. As far as these fillies go. Like Jackie base by talking down a couple weeks ago at the start of season. And I have been trying to be positive. I really have. And for the most part, I've not been able to do that. And I blame them. It's, you know, it's their fault for putting me through this. All this angst. And they've been putting me through it for years. And I don't see a light at the end of this tunnel. I think it's going to be like a, I don't know if you had a, like, say, EKG.

6:07It's going to be EKG season where they're going to be up down, up down, up down, up down. And they're going to flat line at the end of the season, just like they have the last few years. And it's very frustrating. And it's no fun to watch. How long have you been sitting on that line? Wow. I feel like you've been cooking that line up for a while. That's a good line. Yeah. That's a good line. He's an average caller in a town dog in sports. I appreciate it. Subpar. Subpar. Subpar. Come on. No, no, no. Well, I know you want to be subpar, but we think your average. And, and the EKG line was a good one. It was. It is, it is, it's just hard to watch them and believe that it is going to be any different that it's been. And that is my, that is the issue. Is that line up wise, there are too many holes and it's too hot and cold. You can be hot and cold if, if there's a lot of guys, they can get really hot. Or then there's, there's not. Or you can be solid all the way through.

7:07And they are, they are not. And the, the one thing I was worried about, it were two things that you could worry about. One is guys falling off a cliff at the same time. Who knows if that happens? Probably not, but, but who knows. The other thing is that the energy getting stale. And, and they've never been a team to turn over tables and, and you know, they've never been like a high energy team. And I, I worry that this whole season ends up with them just thinking they're going to, they're going to be okay. And they're just never as good. I just, I just have a hard time believing that when it, when we get to, they'll be like this. And then when we get to the playoffs, all of a sudden, they'll be better than this, you know. And it doesn't. When playoffs are a long time away. They are. A long time away. They are. Who knows what they do with the trade deadline? There are so many things that can still happen. When 150 games ago, I just don't see the benefit of coming to a fatal, complete sort of attitude with the baseball team. That's my only thing. There's plenty of time.

8:07If the Eagles were O and two and someone was screaming the season is over with, they're going to be terrible. I'd be like, are you crazy? They got 15 games left to go. It's got 15 games to go. When they were two and two, two years ago, and people wanted to coach fired and the season was over and everything else, I'm like, they still got 13 games to go. And they went on one damn there. Every last one of them, including the playoffs, when they went 17 out of 18, 16 out of 17, something like that. On their way to winning the Super Bowl, it's just way too early to give up. I just, I understand the frustration. I'm not saying spikes wrong with being frustrated. I'm not saying you're wrong, David. I'm just saying, I don't see the benefit of coming to that conclusion this early when I know I'm looking forward to watching this baseball team all year long. That's my point. I look forward to watching. Hey, I was looking forward to watching them. If you just think they stink. Because I'm a glutton for punishment. Oh, no. It's what. You know, it sucks.

9:07You know, and they suck. And it's like, they're driving me nuts. I, you know, I'm leaving. I'll see you tomorrow night. That's, that's Philly's baseball. Yeah. All right. Thank you for the call, David. Listen, I get it, man. See, I get it. I, I get it, man. I listen. We wouldn't watch two straight shutouts. Yes. That, that, that, that, that's not been fun. They were tough. Yeah. Guys on base, guys on base with. Yeah. I mean, I, bonk him up with two guys on base twice yesterday or three times yesterday. Yeah. Didn't get anybody home. It was just. I want it, I want it noted. Yeah. That two of Aaron Nolan's outings have been completely wasted. Oh, yeah. That one was fine yesterday. And great yesterday. What do you want the last one? Right? You thought the first one. Oh, come on. You have a three runs in the first one. Yeah, three runs in five innings. I mean, I don't know that's wasted. That's a guy with a five. All right. Oh, start with the price tag. He's a fourth pitcher. He gives up three runs, score some runs. They didn't get a hit for that game to the fifth or sixth inning in that game.

10:07That's fine. The time he's pitch, he's getting no run support. I would agree with that. I would agree with the no one. Oh, Aaron Nolan three. If you get three runs out of Aaron Nolan through five or six innings, you got to take that and be happy. Also, that home run was the most predictable home run in the history of Major League Baseball. He had banks in the bullpen. Yeah. Warmed up. He would have gave it up anyway. He would have gave up the three run. He would score. Well, yeah, but I don't think he would have given up a three run on run that spot. They give a three runs regardless. Well, I don't know that. Well, you can't wait until you do nothing anyway. They wouldn't have scored three runs. Well, once they went down three nothing, game was over. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Once they went down three nothing, the game was over. But when they come back scoring after the seventh inning, all I hear is, you don't need the Major League's run scored after the seventh inning for the last two years. So how the game over if it was just three nothing? Well, I felt like the game was over. Oh, okay. I felt like they're going to come back Monday. That's Thurston, Daniel. Yes. 888-729-94-94.

11:08We are on the verge of the summer. The summer in Philly is short time. It is beach time. And Adam Cassabee can make sure that you have your own place to go to. He says, Spike, Cassabee, that's a weird name. It is weird. It's spelled K-S-E-B-E, but he's not weird. Well, he's a little weird, but he's great at his job. He is based out along the foster. He is a realtor. He is the realtor that to make sure that if you want a house at the beach, Delaware beaches, that you are going to get it. Right? It is one of those markets where it can beat the energy out of you, right? Because of the number of people. Every time one goes up for sale, there's 30 bids and all this. And you don't know, oh, that one look good. But it's in the wrong spot in town. Blah, blah, blah. Cassabee will really be your partner. And if you want to be in Rehoboth, or you want to be in Lewis, or you want to be in Bethany, or you want to be in Dewey, he can make it happen. Then you have your place. You can tell your family, your friends, hey, let's go to our place. Renting out to other people. So you're not on the other end of that.

12:09Those people are paying your mortgage when it's time to take the leap. Adam Cassabee, K-S-E-B-E. This is his direct sale. 302-864-864-3. That's 302-864-864-3, or go to buyandallowair.com. All right, the sixers. So they have three games left. And just to set up what just happened here about an hour ago. They have three games left. And essentially, they have to win all three of those games if they want to be in the six seed. For a while, it was just the raptors that they had to worry about. But now they have to worry about the magic. And the magic only have two games left, and those two games are against the bowls who are terrible and the Celtics who at that point will be locked into the two seed and have nothing to play for. So you have to assume that the magic are going to win those final two games. So basically, the sixers have to win out. So they have Houston tonight, which is a good team on the road, and then they have two teams that are horrible, right? Indiana tomorrow, and then the Bucks on Sunday.

13:09Tonight is a must-win game. It is an all-hands-on-deck game. Getting out of the play-in is massive for the Philadelphia 76ers. You know you're in the playoffs. You also get five or six days off. So whatever is going on with Maxi's. Pinky, you know, everybody over there are all broken down team. Everybody gets a chance to rest. Get out of the play-in, get out of the play-in, get out of the play-in. All right. So we have Embed, who played in the last game against the Spurs, was not on the injured report. The sickness completely gone, right? The illness that he was throwing a tantrum about last week. The illness is gone. And remember, Ike, the last time he had the illness, when they ruled him out, he said, I could have played. I was mad. Go talk to Darryl Moray. So yesterday, Joel Embed, not on the injured report, no illness whatsoever. An hour ago, Joel Embed ruled out of tonight's game with an illness. What are we doing? What is going on here? Because it feels like one of two things.

14:11One, Joel, and look, I reserve the right, if Joel Embed is in the hospital, or there's a true illness there, whatever, then I apologize. The one thing is, is Joel Embed with an illness is decided not to play against the Houston Rockets tonight. And you, I'm sorry. Like, unless you are physically unable to get there on the court, you have to play in that game tonight. You do. Players play with illnesses all the time. You've got to play in the game tonight. Yeah. This is a, that's a good team Houston. You're on the road. You've got to play in that game tonight. You can beat Indiana tomorrow without Embed. The other thing that could be going on here is the organization and the player trying to, like Embed saying, okay, well, now I'm not going to go to the film session today. Yeah. And then the sixers going, okay, well, you're not in the film session. Do you have an illness? No, I'll play it. You're an illness. Or him saying, you know what? You ruled me out last time when I wanted to play this time. I don't want to play. I haven't known this. Ha, ha, ha. See what you do about it. And, and this is not healthy. This stuff, it just stinks. And, and I know I'm going to be one of those people.

15:13You're going to be one of those people. We're all going to be one of those people. Where if they're in a first round playoff matchup, we're going to say, hey, if they're healthy, look how talented they are. This is not the kind of team that surprises somebody. Yeah. It's just not. Well, I, I, I would say this, but honestly, I think these latest developments have dampened my spirit on the six, even being in the playoffs. I think there's something going on with Joelle and Beat in the organization. Yeah. I just do. And that's never a good thing when your star player, whether you think he's the face of the franchise or not, he's one of your faces of your franchise. And he is clearly frustrated for some reason about being able to play, not being able to play. What is his obligations to the team as far as showing up to certain things? And then the team holding him accountable for doing that. And, and if you don't do those things, then maybe they take your playing time away from you. I don't know what it is, but it seems like there's something going on there.

16:13And I can only imagine behind the scenes, from a teammate standpoint, how that messes with the chemistry in the team. Dude, that is, that's what I keep coming back to. You're mad at Darryl Mori. Fine. You're mad at, at whoever, and fine. You're mad at Nick Nurse Fine. But there's a roster of players out there who, while you only played half of the games this year, kept this team in, they were frustrating for a lot of the year, but kept this team in a position to get into the playoffs while you decided all that was the only thing that was important was being in the playoffs while you're healthy, right? You're only going to play 40 games. Tyree's maxi out there playing 43 minutes of game. Everybody just bust in their ass. Good batter and different to make sure that, so I don't care what you think about Darryl Mori. I deal with it in the off season. Right. I don't care what you think about Nick Nurse. Deal with it in the off season. You're being paid $50 million a year. You are one of the best players on the planet. Get out there and play against the Rockets.

17:14Now is not the time to try to prove something by not going to a film session or trying to test, you know, whether the rule you out or where you're back in. Because now, he was ruled out. And the last time he was ruled out and he decided he wanted to play a cost of team $100,000. Yeah. So is that what we're going to do now? We're just going to cost the team money just to prove a point. Like this just, if I was on the team, and it was the point that Dustin was making earlier, if I was on the team and I was looking at Joel and Beat, if I'm Tyree's maxi, as much as I like this guy personally, I'm saying, you know what? Get out of it. Get out of it. Get out of it. There's no doubt about it. And when you're, when you want to be a organization and a team that's moving forward and maxi is trying to continue to establish himself as the face of the franchise and be a leader and he's trying to do things the right way. It makes it tougher on him. You are such an imposing figure and an influence from your stature on this team and what you've done

18:15and what you accomplished. If you're not pulling in the same direction and support of that, then you're pulling against it. And there's a conflict there that is inevitable that it splits the team some way or another. It just does. And eventually they're not going to do something about this moving forward. They just, they just, you're in a critical moment trying to stay out of the play in trying to survive a six seed. Right. And I have to worry about the playing where you get an extra week or rest before you have to actually play. Yes. And this is what you're doing. Right. And not to mention avoiding playing the Boston Celtics who you have no chance of eating. Right. Absolutely. Positively no chance. Zero. Zilch. I will, if the odds are even close, I will put my retirement on the sixers losing to the Boston Celtics that they put. Well, I'm not going to do that. I'm just kidding. I usually bet like five bucks. Yeah. Luckily, I got more than that. And they call Val and you're like, hold on. Yeah. They don't put the retirement on it.

19:15Yeah. Yeah. I'm not putting retirement on it. The dogs would be mad too. They're like, they're nice beds and they're nice food and all that kind of stuff. I understand what you're saying, though. You're just, this is just an unacceptable time and an unacceptable for this to happen. An unacceptable situation. You want to tell me that the team's making and he are making some calculus that they definitely want to beat Indiana tomorrow. And you know he's not going to play back the backs and they're making this decision. That's one thing. But this illness thing, I can promise you. If they were going to do that, this would have been set up yesterday. He would have been on the injury report yesterday with something so they would have had or they would have used oblique injury management or something like the sickness thing is a shot either him at them or them at him or both of it. And it is such a disappointing way for this to go. And the thing that Dustin said earlier about just eating the money. I wish it was that easy in the NBA. It's not that easy.

20:15It's not that easy. It's not that you can't just pay him and have him go away because that 55 million is on your cap and that you have to eat. Somebody's actually got to take him if you're trading him. And man, I just... He wants to play. Yes. At times. At times. Yeah. I'm just, I was at this point earlier in the year where I'm almost fine. They don't have any chance to win a championship next year. Oh, fine. They don't have a chance to win a championship with Joel. If there is a taker this off season, you can't do it this way. This way it doesn't work. You see the teams that they're playing that like the top level teams, those teams... It's like he wants to go. It feels like we're getting to that spot. Yeah. Like just for comparison, they're one of the guys from Rikki wrote a whole thing about their two five man line ups that they start with. One with Barlow, one with Ubray. The one with Barlow, which they've played with the most. Outscores teams by like one point, by every hundred possessions.

21:16That's nothing. That's nothing. Yeah. And they've hardly played together. And you watch these teams, these machines, the spurs of the world, the Celtics of the world, the pistons of the world. Yeah. They play together. We're going to get destroyed in the playoffs. Oh my god, it's so disappointing for it to end like this. Yeah. Just man up and play in the game and stop being a baby. 88, 729, 94, 94 coming up next. Larry Anderson, L.A. is going to be in an amazing mood for the Phil's, isn't he? He's going to make us explain this L.A. He's being valid. Those are road games. Yeah. So he really had to sit there. Yeah, he didn't have to sit there within the same way. Yes. I'm sure he'll be like, hey, long season, everything will be fine. That's the way L.A. You got to trust the back of the baseball card. Yeah. 88, 729, 94, 94. Larry Anderson joins us next. This is the WIP afternoon show with Iksbike and Fred. Hey, golf fans. I'm here for Fandool to help you get ready for the major of the year. This year, Fandool and partnership with Valley Forge Casano has your back with a special

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