Flyerd Up - Porter Martone Moves Flyers Into Playoff Position

First, we're also looking to get Zach Wheeler back with the Phil sometime soon, should

happen soon.

A couple more starts probably in the minor lake.

So if you miss it a few days ago, Zach Wheeler went three innings and gave up five runs.

He actually cruised through the first two and then ran into all sorts of trouble in the

third inning.

Let's listen to Rob Thompson speaking this weekend.

Scott Fransky here on WIP on the plans for Wheeler coming out of the now, his second

start in the minors.

Here's what top percent.

What's the next step for him?

He will go again Wednesday and will up his pitch count, he'll probably get to 65, 70

pitches.

Needless to say, he's got probably more to go than just that one after that next start.

Yeah, I would think so.

I mean, we got to try and get his pitch count up close to full.

Make sure that he's recovering properly and once we get to that point, we'll be ready

to go.

James, can the emotional side of you withstand two or three more Taiwan starts?

Yeah.

I think so.

I honestly, it is Philly's fans in general are getting tired of it.

You could tell, you know, and this is after he was, he was okay last year.

Yeah.

Totally.

Yeah.

I mean, I feel like I get more, why is this guy still on the team text about him than

almost anyone?

It does look like he's reverted back to so far this year to the 2024 2023 title.

Let me draw a hypothetical, you guys, because Thompson laid it out pretty specifically.

What happens if in his next start at AAA, Wheeler goes seven shut out innings in those

65 pitches.

Yeah.

And he gives up two hits and he strikes out like six play ball.

He's got to get the call, right?

They can't hold the line.

And oh, by the way, Taiwan gets smacked around again and it's next start.

If it's not perfect now at this hypothetical and I'm looking at the sun shining through

in all facets, if he has this dominant game, he's got to be back in rotation is next

start.

Probably would be, but I will say this knowing that the playoffs don't start for six months

and you got 150 something games to go, I would say as a Philly's fan, I'm not exactly

looking to rush it.

Like just get it right.

I mean, this is the guy that might be the best player on the team.

Just get it right.

And listen, maybe that game would prove that he is right, but I'm just saying after the

last game, that game is probably unlikely in the next game.

My guess is the next game might be dominant, but five innings, not seven.

Seven you might be pushing it.

I mean, you're saying seven, seven innings and 65 pitch.

Yeah.

I mean, that's hard to do.

That's why it's going to the high end of the bar here that he puts pressure on them

by being so dominant that they go, all right, maybe we need to rethink this.

It happened.

All right.

Look, again, we do percentages.

That's got about a two percent chance happening.

I'm admitting that ahead of time.

But if it does, it'll be very interesting.

And you know who I'd want to hear from Wheeler, because he thinks he's ready to go.

Yeah.

He, he fight to fight.

If he goes out and does what I said he could do, there'll be a conversation of, I need

to get to fill with LPA, ASAP.

Well, your chance to weigh on everything from the weekend, 215, 592, 94, 904, obviously

the flyers were the headliner with not one, but two wins.

And an absolutely thrilling one.

Yes, they crowd just went wild with that winning goal.

So action is out out of his mind with excitement right now.

I wouldn't say that.

He's, is Al ever out of his mind?

That's what I was saying.

He's doing a lot.

Yeah.

Does he have a mind then?

If you're not, does he have a heartbeat?

Yeah.

Post game show was electric.

Can you get out of the show, please?

I need Al.

I need to hear his heartbeat on the show today, because I mean, you better be out of his

mind.

I mean, this is Al's a cool.

He's very consistent.

Yeah.

Come on.

Al's not enough for Dan.

Oh, hi.

Hearts he was fired up.

Hearts he goes up and down.

He does.

Al doesn't.

Like a true battle.

He's Al is straight shooter, straight narrow.

All right.

Let's go to the phones.

Ashwin or James, someone try to get out on the show, 830 today.

Let's see.

He's probably making his Starbucks run.

Let's see.

We got to get him on.

I mean, it's a big moment in flyers right now.

They got a real shot for the playoffs.

Let's get to Jordan and Princeton.

Jordan, good morning.

What a day yesterday watching the flyers with my 12-year-old.

It was a last-minute decision.

Goal clock worth the show.

We decided to go catch the game.

And to watch a recently drafted player, 19.

He's only seven years older than my kid.

It's more a game winning goal in OT in a simple credit game.

The most critical game the flyers have played in a half a decade or more.

It was just it was a hell of a day.

And then hearing the call this morning on WIP, which I obviously didn't get to hear

live, it just the memories are going to flood back a long time.

Like that was my playoff from this year.

And I want to go further, but that was my playoff from this year.

And it was a heck of a day to be inside the year.

Yeah, but I will say this, Jordan, because I've seen enough sports to know this.

I promise you, I am certain that I'm right about this.

How you remember yesterday will in large part be dictated by what happens in the next

five games.

Because if if they go two and three or one and four, yes, that will still represent

a very cool moment in his career and what that can mean for the future.

But the team, they won't be viewed as total losers because they weren't viewed as total

winners coming in.

But the team will be viewed differently based on if they do or don't make the playoff.

There's still a big thing to accomplish, which hangs in the balance right now.

As a Philadelphia sports fan, you do have to separate your experiences as a fan from

the experiences and the success that the team has because the follow up I was doing was

going to Philadelphia sporting events in the last 40 years, looking for championships.

I'd be.

No, I know.

Using championships as an example, just just think for one moment, just for one moment.

Think about how different many Phillies players, Rob Thompson and Dumbrowski would be viewed

if they had won just two more games in the 2022 season, two more games instead of getting

to games six of the world series and you lose the series for toe.

Just imagine they win a series that thing called the world series two more wins all required

and they'd all be champions and I guarantee you Jordan Harper, Dumbrowski and Bryce,

no, excuse me, I mean, Harper, Nebraska and Rob Thompson, more than anybody would be viewed

differently in this town than they are true, like there is a big frickin difference between

winning and losing or in this case, making the playoffs or not making the playoffs still

to be determined.

I can't disagree with anything that you said there, but I should you ever look well,

I mean, we can always disagree with Joe Hammer, half the Philadelphia, if not more does,

but, but I am going to choose to look through the lens of a positive father and this comes

on the heels, by the way, I've seen the Andrew Panner start last week with my other kids.

So I just, I think sports is such a generational experience and we take our kids to participate

in youth sports so that they can learn about lessons and success and you have, Panner coming

up and throwing a gem, you have Marton coming, you know, at a college and scoring a game

winning goal and O.T.

The arena, I'm that it was electric, I haven't thought about that.

Well, the crowd went wild.

I mean, that was a, I said it earlier, it reminded me the Hoskins batsland.

The crowd went frickin wild when that goal got scored yesterday.

All right, Jordan, I need a big answer from you.

Who are what?

Like the flyers this year took a while to get going.

I went back and forth between so media and something in the popular culture.

I'm going to go with culture.

Barlin Sanders didn't achieve success with KFC until he was in his 60s.

That's a pretty good answer right there.

That's a very, very good answer.

All right, we got the answer at the end of the flyers game yesterday.

Who's going to win the game?

Who's going to score the winning goal?

Well, if there is one because sometimes it's just, you know, a shootout goal.

Turned out to be Marton, we've got not only the goal, but we've got what he said after

the game.

Let's listen to the goal.

The best flyers moment in many years, frankly, Marton's first goal ever.

It's a game winner, and it just blew the roof off the, uh, the Wells Fargo.

Ziggress.

Across the first two.

For 73.

Uh, Ziggress.

Ziggress.

Side of the net.

And every drummer don't say, remember don't you start.

It's first.

Any jungle.

It's a game winner.

Fire, split it.

Two, one.

Fire, split it.

Two, one.

Fire, Marton.

How do you do that's high and down?

What's your call is in the flyers and everything else on the weekend, two, one, five, five,

nine, two, ninety, four, ninety, four.

All right.

So, Ashley, and if, if, if Al's heartbeat was steady because it is, please tell us that

hearts, he was going wild.

Wild.

I mean, in J.J.

What a call by J.J.

Now, we were, we were jumping up and down.

It was pretty cool.

And just, even I've been here four seasons now, three and a half and, and I keep hearing

about playoff hockey and what a hockey town this is.

And it's been a bummer because I truthfully haven't seen or felt that since working for

the flyers.

You hear about it.

You hear about it.

And that's why even as someone who's in their thirties, the generational thing I think

really matters because how many years can you hear about this and not experience it to

believe it?

And I didn't believe it.

And then I saw that game yesterday.

I was like, all right.

If this was a playoff game, it's like I can only imagine.

James, the bat slam analogy, is that hold?

I think it's a great analogy.

Yeah.

Because the crowd went crazy.

It was like a release.

It was like, we've been waiting for something like this to react to for such a long time.

I think it's a great come.

So, Ashton, did you know prior to today, when I referenced it a couple hours ago that Jody

Mackerite here is the man that invented and then it's a term flyered up?

I had no idea.

I truthfully, I figured it would just be a fan thing.

I didn't even think about where it came from.

I've just heard it so many times.

His wife is still mad at him that he didn't trade, Mark.

Yes.

I did not trade, Mark.

And she said you were going to need you.

Money out there.

I didn't matter.

I was out to dinner with great flyer fans for one of the charity things we do here on

the station.

You bid.

Well, I did dinner with Mack and Mack and with just two diehard flyer fans who wanted to

go out and have a good dinner with their favorite show and WIP.

And I just, the guy was so effusive about how he believed in the flyers at the time.

And he said, wow, you are really flyered up.

That's so cool.

He just looked at me and said, wow, I never heard of put that way.

I said, I never put it that way before, but deal free to use it if you want.

And yeah, we had a lot of fun with it.

That's really cool.

Yeah.

Really cool.

It was a great win yesterday.

All right, James, one more for you because you want to feel good, James, you went a

little.

You know, I do, buddy.

You'll feel good moment.

Listen to Porter Martone after the game.

He's being interviewed by the TNT crew.

And he already knows the right things to say, although I think he genuinely believes it.

But this will give you the feel good to fill it off.

You listen to Porter Martone.

So you score that goal.

You barely get to celebrate because you get mugged by all your teammates by the glass.

But you saw that crowd today alive into every single play.

What do you think of Philadelphia as a sports down?

It's amazing.

I can easily say these are the best fans in the league.

You know, it's been loud my two first games here.

And you know, hopefully just continue to get this place.

Keep on rocking.

I think Ziggy, Ziggy, Scott, I'm in a bit of a headlock at everybody.

You know, is it a pretty good crowd pop?

How about that?

A crowd pop courtesy of Porter Martone.

And of course, the flyers win in that game too.

So more good news.

Al Morgani will join the show at 830.

Oh, sweet.

Love it.

He just text me that he's running his dogs.

He sounded very busy.

So I didn't think he'd fall.

Love it.