It Just Means More: Philly Fan Calls Into WIP Sports Radio To Fire Off Some Paul George Takes Immediately After His Newborn Daughter Was Born At Halftime
The Sixers are really all the city of Philadelphia has at the moment. The Eagles are a disaster, the Phillies are a bunch of losers, the Flyers are a total dumpster fire. This city needs the Sixers to succeed more than anything else in life right now. We are a city that lives and dies with our sports teams, and we are on life support at the moment. Without the Sixers right now, this city would be burning to the ground.
Having a child is such a magical moment. Your wife gives birth to this little tiny human who now becomes the most important person for the rest of your life. You immediately gain a new little best friend. A son or a daughter who you will love, protect, cherish, and mentor as much as you possibly can. A new life is brought into this world, and it's a beautiful thing.
But at the same time...well you're stuck in this hospital room. Maybe you're lucky and you get moved to one of the larger rooms in the maternity ward. Free tip to all you future fathers out there, but you get bumped up to to bigger rooms if you have twins. Either way, you are stuck in this hospital room watching a television that only has the audio coming out of the remote by the bed your wife is laying in. It's not an ideal situation for just chilling as the dad. Especially not if you're trying to watch the Sixers play against Boston for the first time since the Jaylen Brown and Paul George trade. As someone who watched the Eagles season come to an end against Tampa Bay in a maternity room, it's a struggle.
The point I'm getting at here is that as the father, you don't want to be pissed off about the Sixers getting the shit kicked out of them at home against the Celtics when you have a newborn who is just a couple hours old. You don't want the first interaction between you and your newborn daughter to be filled with rage and resentment that Paul George came back to Philly and dropped 36 on our heads. So what does Corey in Germantown do?
What any sensible Philly fan would do in this situation. He calls into WIP to vent. He calls 215-592-9494 to let it all out. Sure, his newborn daughter is crying in the background. Sure, his wife's body is still going through shock from giving birth. Sure, the nurses are probably trying to give him all types of different information about how the next 72 hours are going to go. But if he doesn't call into 94 WIP to get his frustration with Paul George off his chest, he's going to be a maniac in that room. And that's no good for anybody.
By the way--maybe this is a crazy move if it's his first child. But if it's not his first rodeo, then he knows the deal by now. Those first few nights in the hospital are actually pretty sweet when it's your 2nd kid. You already know how to do everything so it's not like you're learning how to change diapers for the first time. And then the nurses just come by and take the baby for a few hours at a time. Pretty sweet deal for the dads once you get past the whole sleeping on the most uncomfortable chair on Earth thing.