Perhaps The Murphys Should Consider Staying Home

Phil Murphy

Last week, after video of a woman telling Governor Phil Murphy he’s “such a dick” surfaced, I took some heat for a blog post it shouldn’t have happened because family is off limits.

In that post I explained that I’ve been doing this for a long time and that I remembered we always operated under certain rules. I wrote, in part:

I also remember there were certain rules. Among those rules were you never went to a candidate’s home and you always left family out of it. Of course, there were (and are) exceptions to every rule. For example, if a family member injected themselves into a campaign then they got what they asked for.

Well, the Murphy family has injected themselves into the situation. Art Gallagher over at More Monmouth Musings reported that the Murphy’s dined out at a Long Branch restaurant and their son wore a baseball cap with “STAY THE FUCK HOME” printed on it.

Photo “borrowed” from More Monmouth Musings. Hopefully they don’t mind.

I can’t explain why Governor and Mrs. Murphy would pose for a photo with someone wearing a “STAY THE FUCK HOME” hat. I don’t know why they thought it would be a good idea to allow their son to wear that hat in a photo.

What I do know is when it comes to Murphy — family has taken themselves off limits.

I think what really angers me is I actually felt a little bit sorry for Tammy Murphy when the woman decided to curse her husband out. For the first time in two and a half years of doing a radio show and blogging I sorta kinda stuck up for Murphy, but not any more.

I imagined how my mother would feel if some random Hirsh Singh supporter spotted me at a restaurant and she had to listen to them curse me out for all the trash I talk about the boy who lives with his parents and thinks he can be governor. That wouldn’t be fair to my mother and I didn’t think it was fair for Mrs. Murphy to hear her son get cursed at when he isn’t a public figure and hadn’t injected himself into anything.

Admittedly, my family wouldn’t have put up with that stuff. Fists, and probably plates, food and furniture would have been flying.

Unfortunately, for the Murphy’s because they posed for a stupid photo they have injected themselves into the debate and are no longer off limits.

The Murphy family may want to take their own advice and stay the fuck home!

More Soccer: Did Mrs. Murphy Learn Spin From Her Husband’s Staff?

Just yesterday The Bob & Steve Show and several others were writing and talking about the fact that Governor Phil Murphy’s soccer team sent out a Tweet in which Mrs. Murphy said she has “chosen to take an active role in club activities moving forward.”

I wrote about how Tammy Murphy, in the team’s Tweet, said she anticipates players “will enjoy their upscale apartments and new furnishings.” I was hopeful that it meant women would never again be forced to live with an elderly man who repeatedly makes inappropriate comments to the players.

Given that back on January 10th when the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) announced, “the Permitted Team Assistance Cap has nearly doubled from the previous season, allowing teams to spend additional amounts through providing players assistance in the areas of housing and automobiles,” that by Tweeting, “We are committed to improving the player experience and anticipate they will enjoy their upscale apartments and new furnishings,” all players would be provided housing.

Well…you know what they say about never assume anything. I was wrong to assume all players would be provided housing. Fortunately, Forbes magazine today asked a bunch of questions about the announcement. The first question and answer:

What is new and improved about the housing mentioned in Tammy Murphy's note?

Via the team, we have some specific news here.

“Thanks to an increased housing cap, we were able to secure apartments for 14 players and, thanks to an investment from ownership, we are providing brand new furnishings for those apartments. Like the rest of the league, Sky Blue FC is moving away from host families and will be less reliant on them this year than ever before.”

 Hopefully, this will mean an end to things detailed in the important reporting last summer at Equalizer Soccer, from repeated in-season moves to sleeping on couches.

Here’s the thing, under 2019 rules the “NWSL senior rosters will expand to a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 22 players.” The team is providing apartments for 14 players which means a minimum of 6 players will either have to find their own apartments or be forced to live with host families.

Given that Sky Blue FC obviously is not providing housing for all of its players I have to ask if when Tammy Murphy wrote that she anticipates players “will enjoy their upscale apartments and new furnishings,” if she was simply being a spin doctor?

Surely, Sky Blue FC will end up using host families for the 6 players that aren’t fortunate enough to get to live in one of the team provided “upscale apartments.”

To be fair, every team uses host families, but I have to wonder if the Murphy’s will be a host family. Or maybe the women who get placed with host families will get lucky like a pair of Houston Dash players did a couple of years ago when they landed at Jeff Van Gundy’s house.

But for now, I simply want to know where Mrs. Murphy leaned the art of spin, because it did appear that every player would enjoy an “upscale apartment” in the Tweet sent out by the team.

Governor Murphy Sends His Wife In To Take Care Of His Soccer Team’s Problems

Here we go again, another post about Phil Murphy’s professional women’s soccer team, I lost count somewhere around The Bob & Steve Show’s 33rd post about the team.

I’ve written many times about how the soccer world recognizes Murphy’s record of poor treatment of women. Now, it appears Murphy has decided to dump the problem of his soccer team on his wife, Tammy Murphy.

The soccer team sent out a Tweet this morning in which Mrs. Murphy said she has “chosen to take an active role in club activities moving forward.”

In what many would call an understatement Mrs. Murphy writes that they “recognize there have been challenges, but she is “looking forward to working with our team to create a climate of success.”

I guess that explains why she anticipates players “will enjoy their upscale apartments and new furnishings.” I’ll assume these upscale apartments come without an elderly man who repeatedly makes inappropriate comments to the players.

While I am hopeful Mrs. Murphy can make improvements at Sky Blue FC I have to wonder if the Governor is going to be helping her make decisions for the team. He’s supposed to be running the state, not a soccer team, and we already know he has continued to dabble as a soccer team owner despite a blind trust.

Good luck Mrs. Murphy! You’re going to need it.