In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I go over the 126 to 117 loss to the Boston Celtics on opening night.

Going over the little bit of good that we saw, the whole lot of ugly, and breaking down whether or not any of that ugly gives us concern on a potential title run.

Enjoy the episode.

All right. Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Fondner, Join Barrett Hoffman on a six

would be part of the athletics. Podcast Network. How you doing, Rich? Derek, I'm doing great. Did you see how far Kyle Schwerber hit that ball last night? He did. I would love to spend a little bit. I saw there was somebody who pretty much overlaid it on Matt Stairs, Rips 1 in the

night from 2008, lined it up perfectly, frame for frame. It was fantastic. I'm glad we

get to talk about that for a half an hour here this afternoon. It's going to be wonderful.

Just talking Phillies all the time like we always do. Yeah, I wonder, I know it wasn't Joe

Buck who was calling the game, but I think that

it would have been tough. You would have had to think on your feet pretty quickly, but that is a, that should have gotten a rips into the, or rips it deep into the night chant or, uh, I'll be honest. I can't even remember what the, what was said during it, probably because I had it muted because I was watching

another game which we'll get to in a minute.

I wasn't watching it live because I was watching another game,

which we'll get to in a minute.

I wasn't watching it live.

I don't have two screens.

I don't recall seeing, like, remembering the call from the highlights, either.

It was amazing.

The Phillies are playing awesome, and I am very happy about that, as I know you are.

Yes.

Unfortunately, we have a less than amazing 126 to 117 loss to the hated Boston Celtics

here to talk about this afternoon.

I guess we'll sort of like take a step back because I feel like reactions are on one of two extremes for pretty much

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