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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Kylee Forber and welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Philly Show with Ruben Tomorrow, Junior,

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Speaker 2: Jim Salisbury Todd's So Lucky, brought to you by the

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Speaker 2: Foul Territory Network. It is Monday, September ninth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Jim and I are here together. Ruben is actually we're

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Speaker 2: taping this on Sunday night. Ruben is flying back from Miami.

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Speaker 2: Not a great end of this road trip, Jim. They

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Speaker 2: finished the road trip four and two, but I'm sure

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Speaker 2: when the team is flying back home night, they're going

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Speaker 2: they left the little meat on the bone, No.

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Speaker 3: No doubt, left some chicken on that bone. You know,

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Speaker 3: four and two is a good road trip, but you know,

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Speaker 3: you start off with four straight wins, and you get

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Speaker 3: two of the first two in Miami against which is

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Speaker 3: essentially a JV team. Aaron Nolah on the mount for

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Speaker 3: Game three of the series. He gets hit hit around,

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Speaker 3: which sometimes happens to him in that ballpark. Not sure why,

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Speaker 3: and then they just were never in Sunday's ballgame. Seth

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Speaker 3: Johnson with his major league debut in that number five spot,

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Speaker 3: which has been a problem for them. It won't be

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Speaker 3: a problem much longer. There's only you know what, two

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Speaker 3: or three starts left in that in that fifth start

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Speaker 3: before the postseason, and they can shorten the rotation. Johnson's

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Speaker 3: got some talent, He's got a chance to have a

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Speaker 3: future in this organization. I hope he doesn't get too

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Speaker 3: down about this. I'm sure it stings, but I do

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Speaker 3: remember Zach Efflyn years ago having a really poor debut

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Speaker 3: up in Toronto. Bounce back really nice. Has had a

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Speaker 3: great career, So hopefully he just kind of compartmentalizes this

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Speaker 3: as a learning experience.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they might.

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Speaker 2: They had the option of calling up Kobe Allard as

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Speaker 2: early as Tuesday. I mean probably wouldn't happen on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: but they have the option of calling him up and

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Speaker 2: maybe making those final three starts, So keep an eye

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Speaker 2: out for that. A lot of good that happened as you,

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Speaker 2: as we mentioned early on in the road trip, Jim, so,

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Speaker 2: I think now is a good time for our Philly

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Speaker 2: That's all right, I remember you mentioning that, Well, this

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Speaker 2: is jim I mean really for the Philly Show, for

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Speaker 2: our purposes, there's never there might never be better timing

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Speaker 2: for Philly of the Week because we had Kyle Schwarber

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Speaker 2: on the show on Friday, and I mean he had

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Speaker 2: an amazing week. Coincidental, I'm sure, but you know, maybe

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Speaker 2: he knew that he was coming on the show and

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Speaker 2: he's like, I got a step up for the fellas.

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Speaker 2: Give him something good to talk about.

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Speaker 4: So, jem I mean, you know, Kyle Schwarber, Philly of

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Speaker 4: the Week, Philly the Week.

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Speaker 2: What do you you agree with me? Or what?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Totally? I mean the trip gets off on a really,

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Speaker 3: you know, kind of a poor foot up in Toronto.

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Speaker 3: They fall down six to one, but he hits three

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Speaker 3: home runs to rescue them, and they post one of

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Speaker 3: the biggest wins of the season, one of the most

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Speaker 3: dramatic wins of the season, and get the trip off

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Speaker 3: to a good start. You hit three home runs in

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Speaker 3: one game, you know, the Philly of the Week, even

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Speaker 3: if you're not appearing on the Todd Pod.

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Speaker 4: But we had to.

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Speaker 3: Even if he didn't hit three home runs, he's probably

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Speaker 3: a Philly of the Week because kind of suck up

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Speaker 3: a little bit. We appreciated him, you know, coming on

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Speaker 3: the Todd Pod.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was great.

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Speaker 2: We had a lot of fun talking with him on Friday,

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Speaker 2: and so, without further ado, here's our talk with Kyle Schwarber. Kyle,

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Speaker 2: thanks man for joining us. We know you guys are

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Speaker 2: super busy, busy time of year for you, so we'll

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Speaker 2: jump right in. Night you guys beat the Braves. Nick

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Speaker 2: Cassidy Allens has this walk off fit after the game.

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Speaker 2: Somebody asks Nick about the atmosphere at the ballpark, Philly's

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Speaker 2: Braves atmosphere at the ballpark, and Nick says, it feels

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Speaker 2: like October is around the corner, and I'm wondering, I

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Speaker 2: imagine you feel the same way, And I'm wondering what

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Speaker 2: you're playing on a team that is trying to run

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Speaker 2: down a postseason birth, trying to win a world series.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think the.

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Speaker 6: You know, the fun thing is right is you're you're

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Speaker 6: it's getting you can start, you can feel fall coming in.

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Speaker 6: You can feel kind of the anxiousness of everyone, you know,

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Speaker 1: You can you can feel the energy.

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Speaker 6: Football is around the corner, right, you know, everything everything's

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Speaker 6: for us, it's kind of just that that you know,

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Speaker 6: you roll into September and you know that it's kind

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Speaker 6: it's an exciting time. It's been an exciting time the

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Speaker 6: last couple of years, but you know, this year it feels,

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Speaker 6: you know, just a little bit different in terms.

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Speaker 1: Of, uh, you know what we're uh.

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Speaker 6: You know, knowing that we're capable of doing and how

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Speaker 2: So you had the big game on Tuesday. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: Jim and Rubin might want to ask you a little

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Speaker 2: three homer game on Tuesday, said, Saturday night, you know

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Speaker 2: you have been struggling. You went in the cage. You

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Speaker 2: and it reminded me of something that I've always wanted

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Speaker 2: who do you think in this clubhouse enjoys being a

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Speaker 2: he loves baseball. He loves baseball. And I remember, I said, Marshan,

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Speaker 2: oh Man, he's always talking. Schwarbs is always talking baseball,

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Speaker 2: what has you so hooked on baseball that keeps your

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Speaker 6: I mean, there's a lot of different things that I like.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's it's just, you know, obviously it's a dream,

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Speaker 6: like It's been an interesting road for me. You know,

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Speaker 6: it's you know, there's a lot of people who you know,

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Speaker 1: You know, it was.

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Speaker 6: You knew the stuff that you know now, right, Like

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Speaker 6: you realize that, you know, not taking that that oh

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Speaker 6: you gotta get to work and you got to learn

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Speaker 6: But I think that's the great thing too, is that

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Speaker 6: Say in the box whatever, it is right that you

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Speaker 6: can find many different ways to be a really good

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Speaker 3: You mentioned like, don't let an offer with a couple

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Speaker 3: of punchouts bring you down because it's baseball. And on

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Speaker 3: the flip side, when you have a night like you

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Speaker 3: I mean you talk to the writers after the game,

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Speaker 1: The right things.

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Speaker 3: But when you get on that bus and get back

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Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't say that you don't feel good

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Speaker 6: good day.

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Speaker 1: At the park.

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Speaker 6: And the team gets the lead. But you know, I

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Speaker 6: Things like that, you know what you you know, if

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Speaker 6: You know, sometimes this game can make you think, you know,

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Speaker 6: I think those are different things that you're able to

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Speaker 6: You know, different, different scenarios just running through your mind.

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Speaker 6: Everyone just kind of wasn't going at the same time,

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Speaker 6: And you know there's games that it's like, you know,

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Speaker 6: You know, being able to see how you know, my

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that's a real thing that you know.

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Speaker 6: And he goes, yeah, he goes, I don't know if

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Speaker 6: You know, you just see, you know, you see something

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Speaker 1: that's positive, right, That's going to be a good thing

437
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: to have. And you know seeing how.

438
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, being in my dad's work after school

439
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,919
Speaker 6: and getting that you know clubhouse feel, you know, seeing

440
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 6: how everyone interacts with each other, and seeing how you know,

441
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 6: my mom my sister, you know, how they're you know, strong,

442
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 6: and how they did a lot of different things when

443
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,080
Speaker 6: at different times of their lives that we're very challenging,

444
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 6: and you know, you see those things and it's like

445
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 6: why you know, you can you can put those things

446
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:19,879
Speaker 6: that you saw when.

447
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: You were younger into you know, things that I'm doing now.

448
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 6: And I have a great amount of respect for obviously

449
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 6: my family and that's why you know, I'm the person

450
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,400
Speaker 6: I am today, and that's why I wanted to start

451
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 6: a charity, is you know, one the kind of represent them,

452
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 6: but also to that kind of just the daily challenges

453
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:46,120
Speaker 6: that first responders go through and their families go through,

454
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 6: and you know, and shed light on a lot of

455
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 6: positive things that they do.

456
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 2: I mean, your charity is Schwarber's Neighborhood Heroes. You started

457
00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 2: what in twenty seventeen and your wife page right, and

458
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 2: you've you raise over six hundred grand, if I'm not mistaken.

459
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so we I think we're I think we're

460
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,199
Speaker 6: over six hundred grand in the last two years in Philadelphia.

461
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 4: And since well that's just the last two years.

462
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and since.

463
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 6: I think since twenty seventeen, we're definitely over a million

464
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:25,880
Speaker 6: dollars raised, you know, which is which is awesome, And

465
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 6: that kind of all goes back into where we're at

466
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 6: as me and me and Paige are at in our communities,

467
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 6: right that everyone gets to see us as baseball players

468
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 6: and only.

469
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: See on the field.

470
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 6: But you know, this is you know, Philadelphia is where

471
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 6: my kids are growing up. You know, they're they're spending

472
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,879
Speaker 6: the majority of their time here in Philly, and obviously

473
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 6: we go back home in the off seasons, but you know,

474
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 6: we're spending six seven months a year in Philly and

475
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 6: that's you know, that's home much techically. So you know,

476
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 6: you want to impact your community, your community, not just

477
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 6: in terms of playing baseball, but you know, then you

478
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 6: can kind of give people a little bit of an

479
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 6: inside look of you away from baseball and things that

480
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 6: you're passionate about and things that you really care for.

481
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,640
Speaker 6: And you know, we want to try to create as

482
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 6: many positive experiences for individuals and families and kids, uh,

483
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 6: you know who might not be as lucky as I

484
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,200
Speaker 6: was when I was growing up. That you know, dad,

485
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 6: mom got to come home every night, sister comes home.

486
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: That you know that we can try to put.

487
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 6: Smiles on faces and as that's just for a day,

488
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,440
Speaker 6: if that's for a week, a month, a year, or

489
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 6: for a lifetime, that's that's what we're trying to do.

490
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that is great stuff, and that's important stuff

491
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 3: that's transcends baseball. It's about human.

492
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: Stuff. I mean.

493
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:10,320
Speaker 3: Specifically with baseball, it almost seems like you bring some

494
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 3: first responder ideals to the clubhouse when a guy's having

495
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 3: a tough night. There's been times like a guy might

496
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 3: have a tough night. There'll be times I've seen you

497
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 3: at his locker mentoring him. I think somebody told me

498
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 3: a story about Alec Bawm when he was kind of

499
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 3: a young player, maybe in twenty twenty two, and he

500
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 3: had a tough night, and you pulled up a chair

501
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 3: and said, let me tell you about the night I

502
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 3: struck out four times with men on base you know,

503
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 3: this relatable stuff. It's almost like nurturing. And I'm sure

504
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 3: it has a lot to do with your background. Is

505
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 3: that stuff you enjoy And how impactful can that be

506
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 3: on a clubhouse over the long season when we know

507
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 3: this game is so rooted in failure.

508
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think it kind of goes back

509
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 6: to what I talked about that, you know, my my

510
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 6: kind of journey to where I'm at right now as

511
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 6: a baseball player that you know a lot of high expectations. Uh,

512
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,119
Speaker 6: you know, obviously for myself one that I that I

513
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 6: put on myself and expectations outside of of myself too.

514
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 6: And you know, I come in twenty fifteen and come

515
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 6: in mid midway through the year and you know, have

516
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 6: a have a decent start, and we find our way

517
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 6: in the playoffs and make our way to the NLCS

518
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 6: and have a good postseason. You know, everything's excited, everything's

519
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 6: looking up. Sixteen comes third game of the year, I

520
00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 6: get hurt, find myself in the World Series and after

521
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 6: playing you know, playing three games and was able to

522
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 6: help contribute to a team that was you know, the

523
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 6: best in the National League and obviously the best in baseball,

524
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 6: and yeah, then going to seventeen thinking that everything's gonna

525
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 6: go great that you know, just win a World Series.

526
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 6: You go into the World Series, you got got seven

527
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 6: hits and how many freaking baths? Right, like, yeah, this

528
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 6: is gonna be great. And the next thing, I'm in

529
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 6: Triple A and you feel like everything's like you know,

530
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 6: at the time, for me, it's like you feel like

531
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 6: everything was like You're like, what's your You're questioning yourself,

532
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 6: You're questioning your ability, You're questioning a lot of different things,

533
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 6: and you know, it was kind of just like, Okay,

534
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 6: what can I do about this? You know, am I

535
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 6: gonna out or am I going to work and try

536
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 6: to get my way right back to the big leagues?

537
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: You know.

538
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 6: So I found myself I'm just like, you know what,

539
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 6: I'm gonna work every single day and try to get

540
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,719
Speaker 6: myself back quick. I was fortunate to get back up

541
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 6: there pretty soon, you know, have a bat, you know,

542
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 6: have a decent few good years there. Then twenty twenty happens,

543
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 6: not a good year. Found myself non tendered and going

544
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 6: to Washington on a on a one year and uh,

545
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 6: you know that's kind of when I really got my

546
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 6: opportunity to just go out there and play every single

547
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 6: day and kind of found my found my own right that,

548
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 6: you know, that's the player I thought I was. And

549
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 6: you know, you get traded and get traded to Boston,

550
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 6: walk into a team that was in first place.

551
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: And you know, you go to the.

552
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 6: Postseason again and next thing you know, you're in Philadelphia

553
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 6: with a roster of stars, and you know it's just

554
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 6: like okay, Like for me, I'm just gonna be my

555
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 6: you know, I wanted to be myself. And you see

556
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 6: all these young guys that we had in our in

557
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 6: our clubhouse and in our room. You know, you see Boehmer,

558
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 6: you see Bryce and Stott.

559
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we trade for marsh you know.

560
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 6: Now you look at our team where you have Rojas,

561
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 6: you know, and you see guys who keep getting years

562
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 6: and years under the belt of postseason experience and uh success.

563
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 6: So you know it's you know, all the success is great,

564
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 6: but also too is making sure those failures when those

565
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 6: failures do happen, that you know, we're not carrying those

566
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 6: into the into the next day. You know, I think

567
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 6: that's the biggest thing, right Like, when I look back,

568
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 6: it's like man, I probably carried so many different freaking

569
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 6: things on my back that I couldn't even have success.

570
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: For the next for the next week, you know. I

571
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: mean that, like the.

572
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 6: Great Ken rivesa. He's a he's a great uh mental skills.

573
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: He's passed away now.

574
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 6: And I remember we're in LA and playing the Dodgers

575
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 6: and it was seventeen. I was struggling and he comes

576
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 6: to my hotel room. He goes, hey, what are you doing?

577
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 6: And like sitting in my hotel, he goes, I'm coming

578
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 6: up to your room. I go, okay, Ken, and then

579
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 6: comes in my room. We're sitting there and we're talking.

580
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 6: You know, he goes, you know if anyone new can.

581
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 6: Ken's got this great voice and does a great personality,

582
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 6: and he goes.

583
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: Well, Kyle, I want you to go ahead and get

584
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: act like you're getting in the box. So I get

585
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: in the box. He goes, take a swing. I take

586
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: a swing. He goes, great, now turn around. I turn around.

587
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 1: He jumps on my back and he goes, now, take

588
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: a swing. He goes, you feel how weighted town you are?

589
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: I feel that, And you know it's funny. You laugh

590
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: about it, then you think about it.

591
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 6: You're like, man, you know what, Like it's true, you

592
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 6: know that it's hard to take a swing when I

593
00:31:58,800 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 6: got this guy in my back.

594
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: What about you know, the last ten outs I made

595
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: are the bad call.

596
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 6: You know, I think I'm the umpire made a bad

597
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 6: call me that bat, and I'm still thinking about it

598
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 6: in the about, right, Like those are those are all

599
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 6: different external things that.

600
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: Your mind can go to.

601
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 6: Besides, you know what, you've got to be so hyper

602
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 6: focused on what you're doing at the plate. Uh, when

603
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 6: you know ninety eight's coming at you or an eighty

604
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 6: five slider or whatever it is, it's coming at you now,

605
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 6: and that you know you need all your focus going

606
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 6: into that at bat and uh, you know if you're

607
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 6: thinking about any other thing, that it's going to make

608
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 6: it just ten times harder. So you know, if I'm

609
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 6: able to you know now that I've gone through those

610
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 6: things and I've experienced them, and I've always said experience

611
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 6: is a big thing, right, that things that you experience

612
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 6: are are big learning points. And if you you can

613
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 6: kind of help just be an ear and you know,

614
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,479
Speaker 6: make someone feel like they're they're just the only person

615
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 6: going through it. You know that no I've been through

616
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 6: it too, and you know, I'm I'm sure everyone else.

617
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 6: You know, all the biggest names in the game, you know, Harp,

618
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 6: Trey j T. You know, our roster's gone through it.

619
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 6: You know, everyone goes through it, you know. But sometimes

620
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 6: it makes you feel like you're on island. And if

621
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 6: you can make the island full of people and you

622
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 6: can find your way off the island with a lot

623
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 6: of different people, that's a lot more enjoyable than does

624
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 6: you floating on a rap by yourself, you know.

625
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: What I mean. That's great stuff.

626
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 9: I we have something in common because I did work

627
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 9: with Kenravision myself when I was with the Angels, and

628
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 9: and he's a spectacular person.

629
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: God bless him.

630
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 9: He's no longer with us, but but there was a

631
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 9: lot of he impacted so many people. I'm really glad

632
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 9: that you brought him up. I didn't know that you

633
00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 9: had had interaction with him. That's that's really really cool.

634
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 9: I wanted to just to talk about that island. So

635
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 9: I think part of what I like about you guys

636
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 9: is went off the field, and I think I felt

637
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 9: like this when I a lot of teams that have

638
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 9: had a lot of success that off the field, you

639
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 9: also like really care about each other, like to be

640
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 9: around each other. I think part of that process for

641
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 9: you guys is being on the golf course. It seems

642
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 9: like that's something that you guys like really enjoy doing.

643
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 9: Talk about you know how that has developed over the years,

644
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 9: because I know there's a lot of veterans to go

645
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 9: and play golf.

646
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: A lot of people say, hey, you shouldn't be playing

647
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: golf during.

648
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 9: The season, but it's actually something that Rob Thompson likes.

649
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: And I think that you guys seem to bond with that.

650
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I think you're onto something where, right,

651
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,959
Speaker 6: Like if I enjoy walking into the clubhouse every single day,

652
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 6: that's a good work environment. And you know, I'm pretty positive,

653
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 6: I'm one hundred almost.

654
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to say ninety nine point nine percent positive.

655
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 6: Everyone in our everyone on our team looks forward walking

656
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 6: into that clubhouse because you know what that every single

657
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 6: person is going to laugh that day. You know that something,

658
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,439
Speaker 6: something stupid, something funny is going to be said that

659
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 6: everyone's going to enjoy it and you And that comes

660
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 6: to the off the field side too, right, that we

661
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 6: spend so much time with each other, you know, it's

662
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 6: sometimes it can be sickening, right, think that you know,

663
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 6: we're we're with a bunch of dudes for this much

664
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 6: time and you're away from your your wife, your kids,

665
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 6: you know, your your friends back home, your family back home.

666
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:39,879
Speaker 1: Right that.

667
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 6: You know, it's it really is a family, you know,

668
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 6: because that's that's what that's what we do. And the more,

669
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 6: you know, say a lot of it's more on the

670
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 6: off day away, right, you know, everyone wants you know,

671
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 6: this is a family. This is one of the few

672
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 6: teams I've been on that a lot of young families

673
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 6: on our team, right, and you know, a lot of kids,

674
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,760
Speaker 6: a lot of babies, right that it's really cool to see.

675
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 6: And everyone loves spending time with their family. And then

676
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 6: you know, you hit the road trip and you know you.

677
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: Have that off day.

678
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 6: You know, we gotta find that we got to find

679
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 6: that boy that you know, obviously we miss our families,

680
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 6: but we're gonna spend a lot of time with each

681
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 6: other and we're gonna enjoy it.

682
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:27,760
Speaker 1: And that's out on the golf.

683
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 6: Course a lot of the time, and you know, that's

684
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 6: competing away from baseball, and that's competing with each other,

685
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 6: and there's smack talk. There's fun, there's uh you know,

686
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 6: there there's good times to be had out there, and

687
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 6: you know it's we're we're just competing and laughing and

688
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 6: trying to act like we're good at something that we're

689
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 6: not good at, and.

690
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, and it's fun.

691
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 6: And yeah, like you just got to find, you know,

692
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,800
Speaker 6: not just always talking about baseball.

693
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: Is we don't always talk about baseball.

694
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 6: You know, if we're talking about golf, we're talking about hunting,

695
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 6: we're talking about your family, we're talking about whatever it is, right, Like,

696
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 6: that's that's how you keep making relationships through the game,

697
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 6: and that's how you find, you know, coming into the

698
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 6: clubhouse even more enjoyable at.

699
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: The end of the day.

700
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 6: You know, you talk about what happened on the off

701
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 6: day or you know how I shanked a fifty yard

702
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 6: shot or I took freaking three three swings at a

703
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 6: chip around the green. You know, like like it's fun

704
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 6: to talk about. And that's how memories and that's how

705
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 6: friendships are going to be made and last through baseball.

706
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 2: And then you get to do in the off season

707
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 2: on your fantasy football squad.

708
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 6: Right that's already we already had some some smack smack

709
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 6: talk going on yesterday.

710
00:37:54,680 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 3: So I remember in uh in September twe twenty twenty two,

711
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, you guys used to do

712
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 3: that curveball machine thing early in the afternoon, play the

713
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 3: game and kind of hoot and holler and get on

714
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 3: each other. And I remember writing a story about it

715
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 3: and asking you about it, and you said, well, it

716
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 3: brings us together. We're having a lot of fun. And

717
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,959
Speaker 3: one of the quotes in the stories was the good

718
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 3: teams are close. The good teams are close. And I

719
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 3: think that had a lot to do with the way

720
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 3: you guys rallied in September twenty two and made it

721
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 3: to the World Series, and you've carried it over in

722
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 3: twenty three and twenty four. You guys are close, You

723
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 3: have chemistry.

724
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 2: You like it.

725
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 3: Not only are good players, you're good guys are close

726
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 3: working toward a common goal.

727
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: I mean it's almost do.

728
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 3: You feel like because you have that closeness, it's almost

729
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 3: like having a little extra weapon in your bag.

730
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: I would say so for sure, right like yo, if.

731
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 6: You know, like I said, if we walk in that

732
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 6: clubhouse every single day and you're forward to walk through

733
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 6: that door. You know, that's already one thing that's on

734
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 6: our side, you know. And I think the other side

735
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 6: of that is too, is that, like we said, when

736
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 6: the you know, when everything's going great, it's awesome, you know,

737
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 6: and then when there's some things that that might not

738
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 6: be going our way, that we're able to have those

739
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 6: conversations with each other and we're able to kind of

740
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 6: figure it out. And I think that comes back to

741
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,320
Speaker 6: the relationship side of things.

742
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: That everyone knows in the room that.

743
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,359
Speaker 6: We all one love each other, we all care about

744
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 6: each other, and that we all believe in each other,

745
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 6: and we have the most respect for each other in

746
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 6: that room, and that if we can you know, have

747
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 6: fun on a daily basis, we can be accountable to

748
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 6: each other, and we can be business like about it

749
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 6: as well, that you know, it's gonna be really hard

750
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 6: at the end of the day the go out there

751
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 6: and beat us, right like, you know, we we know

752
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 6: that there's really good players in the room, and that

753
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 6: if we're doing everything that we know that we can

754
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 6: do on a daily basis, So that doesn't mean going

755
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 6: four for four, you know, that means, you know, just

756
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 6: going out there and taking our bats, having our bats,

757
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 6: being hard outs, the way our pitchers go out there,

758
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 6: and the attack the zone and playing defense that we

759
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,000
Speaker 6: know that we can play. That it's gonna be hard

760
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 6: to beat us. You know, teams are going to beat us, right,

761
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 6: it's baseball. You play so many games that you know,

762
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 6: no one's going one hundred and sixty two and oh.

763
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: That you're gonna go out there.

764
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 6: You're going to have great wins, you're gonna have bad wins,

765
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 6: you're gonna have.

766
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: Bad losses, and you're just gonna lose. You know, it's

767
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: just how the game goes. And you know, I.

768
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 6: Think that's why the course of the year is so important,

769
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 6: because you know, you figure, you figure those things out,

770
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 6: and then you get to the most important time of

771
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 6: the year and you put all those things that happened

772
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 6: throughout a course of the year, and now everything's magnified

773
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 6: in the you know, trying to win, you know, heck,

774
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 6: for for us, hopefully we're trying to win what is

775
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 6: that four, four and three, so eleven games, you know,

776
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 6: and there's two extra games added on now with the

777
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 6: wild card, trying to win thirteen games if that happens.

778
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 6: But you know, that's the most important time of the year,

779
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 6: and you know, trying to win eleven to thirteen games

780
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 6: after winning, say, you know, we're what eighty three wins

781
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 6: right now, you know, it's so it's such a small

782
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 6: number and minu but that's the best part about baseball

783
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 6: in that time of the year is because it's just

784
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 6: the most pure game. It's the most pure it's the

785
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 6: purest form of baseball, and all you're trying to do

786
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 6: at the end of the day is just beat the

787
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 6: other team and get to where you want to be.

788
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

789
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 4: Well, Kyle, Kyle, thanks so much for the time.

790
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 2: I want to mention again your work with Schwarber's Neighborhood Heroes.

791
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 2: You can go to you have a website schwarbers Neighborhood

792
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 2: Heroes dot org. You can donate to the cause. You

793
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 2: obviously post your events that you have. You had the

794
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 2: block party this summer, of course, and that was super successful.

795
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,240
Speaker 2: So check that out. I mean, I see you talking

796
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 2: to these guys when they come to the ballpark all

797
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 2: the time.

798
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: It's it's a.

799
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 2: Really really cool thing that you do, you know, And

800
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 2: and so I wanted to mention that Schwarber's Neighborhood Heroes

801
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 2: dot Org. They announce the Roberto Clementary Award nominees on Monday.

802
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 2: We're taping on Friday, so we'll find out if you

803
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: get nominated for that. Obviously deserving if you are, and

804
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: if you are or whoever it is on the Phillies,

805
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 2: you can vote for that. I think you can vote

806
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 2: for that at MLB dot com for for the Roberto

807
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 2: Clemente Award winner.

808
00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: So check that out.

809
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 4: But Kyle Man, thanks a lot.

810
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: Again.

811
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 2: We truly appre as where people are around every day.

812
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 2: We understand how valuable your free time is. So the

813
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 2: fact that you hopped on with us.

814
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: We really do, truly truly appreciate it. So thanks a lot, Man, I.

815
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 6: Appreciate Thank you. Guys, appreciate you so much. So let's

816
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 6: keep pushing and see where this thing takes us.

817
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 4: All right, Thank you again to Kyle Schwarber for the time.

818
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 4: Jim when he when.

819
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 2: You listen back to that interview, what kind of anything

820
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 2: jump out at either you really particularly liked.

821
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 3: I love the whole thing, you know. I like where

822
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 3: he talked about they had that tough time, you know,

823
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 3: in the middle of the season for a couple of months,

824
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 3: and he said, you know, you learn to deal with adversity.

825
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 3: In case you get punched in the mouth or punched

826
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 3: in the face in October, you know how to deal

827
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 3: with it. And I also like the line of questioning

828
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 3: you had about his uh, his foundation and how he

829
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 3: helps first responders. And his parents were both first responders,

830
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 3: his sister is a first responder. And you know lo

831
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 3: and behold Wednesday at the ballpark, since is Bank Park

832
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 3: his first responders night, so perfect timing for that.

833
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.

834
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 2: I liked the story that he told about the mental

835
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 2: skills coach when he was really struggling with the Cubs.

836
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 4: The guy jumps on his back, that's going to take

837
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 4: a swing.

838
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 2: Brilliant stuff, you know, like you never think about this

839
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: stuff happening, but it happened in his hotel room when

840
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 2: he was playing for the Chicago Cubs, so definitely made

841
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: an impact on him. Well that was It was great,

842
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: Thanks again to Kyle. Like I said, Ruben, Jim and

843
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,240
Speaker 2: I will be back on Wednesday to talk more Phillies.

844
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:44,440
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845
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,319
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847
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848
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849
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