Pathetic: WIP poll asked fans if Bryce Harper is “getting on their nerves” after he hit for the cycle and 90% said no

94.1 WIP’s afternoon show released a poll on Monday asking a simple question about Bryce Harper. “Is Bryce Harper getting on your nerves?”

That’s what the flagship sports radio station in the city of Philadelphia decided to ask its audience the Monday after Bryce Harper hit for the cycle in five innings against the Mets, came back the next night and fell one triple short of doing it again, went 7-for-10 over the weekend with two homers, two doubles, two singles, a triple, and six RBI while switching to a heavier bat and putting on one of the greatest individual two-game stretches in Phillies franchise history.

Lets see what Phillies fans had to say about that…

😂 I mean not even worth the conversation. pic.twitter.com/Vu5XVPE2bw

— Drew Smith (@drewmsmith) June 23, 2026

Is Bryce Harper getting on your nerves? After THAT weekend? After the helmet flying off between first and second on the cycle-completing triple?

After the standing ovation from 43,402 people at Citizens Bank Park? After the man saluted the crowd and said “the fans are why I came here”?

Back-to-back games with a Bryce Harper homer!

He’s halfway to another cycle 👀 pic.twitter.com/UgppdKV5L8

— MLB (@MLB) June 22, 2026

That’s the question WIP thought was worth asking 11,000 people on a Monday afternoon in June. I mean fucking hell guys, I know trashing WIP is beating a dead horse at this point but some things have to be addressed. We can’t have that type of behavior. We’re entering the Dog Days of Summer, trying to chase down the Braves and/or stay alive in the Wild Card hunt.

Simply cannot be asking if Bryce Harper is getting on your nerves lol. That’s insane.

Thankfully the audience has more sense than the people running the station because over 11,000 people responded and 90 percent of them said no, Bryce Harper is absolutely not getting on their nerves, which should have been so obvious before the poll was even posted that the fact it was posted at all tells you everything about the state of sports talk radio in Philadelphia right now.

WATCH: Bryce Harper makes history with a 5-inning cycle in a 15-3 demolition of the New York Mets >>

The 10 Percent Who Said Yes Are the Same People Who Call Into WIP Every Day

Every poll has a lunatic fringe and the 10 percent who said yes are the same people who call into WIP at 2 PM on a Tuesday to complain that Harper doesn’t hustle enough or that he showboats too much or that his bat flip was disrespectful to the game or whatever other geriatric complaint they’ve been recycling since Harper signed with the Phillies.

These are the people who watched a man hit for the cycle in five innings and immediately found something to be annoyed about because being annoyed is their entire identity and WIP has spent decades cultivating an audience that views negativity as a personality trait.

Harper could hit .400 for the rest of the season, win the MVP, carry the Phillies to a World Series championship, and hit a walk-off homer in Game 7, and there would still be 10 percent of WIP’s audience calling in the next morning to say “yeah but did you see that he didn’t run hard enough to first on the groundout in the third inning?”

These people are beyond saving and the station keeps feeding them content designed to validate their misery because outrage generates phone calls and phone calls generate ratings.

If You Replace “Bryce Harper” With “Philly Sports Talk Radio” the Results Flip Completely

Here’s the poll WIP should have released instead. “Is Philly sports talk radio getting on your nerves?” Run that one with 11,000 responses and I guarantee you the results flip to 90 percent yes because the only people in this city who are genuinely annoyed right now aren’t annoyed at Bryce Harper. They’re annoyed at a radio station that takes the best moments in Philadelphia sports and immediately searches for a negative angle to generate discourse that nobody asked for.

Harper hit for the cycle and WIP asked if he’s annoying? Like come on man… lol

Schwarber hit four homers in two games and the conversation on Monday morning was probably about whether he swings too hard.

The Phillies won the Mets series behind Wheeler and Sanchez and the station probably spent three hours debating whether Mattingly should have pulled Wheeler one batter sooner in the sixth inning.

That’s the WIP formula and it has been the WIP formula for as long as I can remember, which is to take whatever positive thing happened over the weekend and find the one thread they can pull to turn the conversation negative because happy fans don’t call radio stations and angry fans do.

WIP Is the Problem, Not Bryce Harper

I’ve said it on this site before and I’ll keep saying it until the station either changes its approach or loses its audience entirely.

94.1 WIP and the culture of manufactured negativity that it promotes in this city is actively making it worse to be a Philadelphia sports fan. The station exists to create arguments where none exist, to manufacture controversy out of positive moments, and to give a platform to the loudest and most miserable voices in the fanbase while ignoring the 90 percent of fans who are enjoying the ride and don’t need a radio host to tell them how to feel about a guy who just hit for the cycle.

Spike Eskin spent Sunday morning calling Harper’s triple a double.

The afternoon show spent Monday asking if Harper is annoying.

The entire station’s approach to the best weekend of Phillies baseball all season was to poke holes in it and look for reasons to be unhappy about a two-time MVP putting on a show at Citizens Bank Park.

Bizarre behavior: Some Phillies fans and WIP hosts attempt to ruin Bryce Harper’s triple for the cycle last night vs the Mets

Bryce Harper is not getting on anyone’s nerves. WIP is getting on everyone’s nerves. The 11,000 responses to that poll confirmed what the rest of us already knew, which is that the fans love Harper and are tired of a radio station that keeps trying to convince them they shouldn’t.

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