WEBVTT - Royal Flush 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:17.400 Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to the Philly Show. Hi, everybody, 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.480 Welcome to the Philly Show. Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.919 Todd Zuleki, part of the Foul Territory Network. It's Monday, 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:30.200 August twenty sixth, twenty twenty four. Guys, big weekend for 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:35.800 the fight in Phil's. They scored some runs last time 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:37.600 we talked. It was a lot of doom and gloom. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:42.559 It's amazing what one weekend, one weekend can do. I 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.040 didn't get to see a lot of the games. I 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.800 was at Hershey Park this weekend with the family, running around, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.040 getting on the mosters, trying not to get sick. I'm 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:55.680 getting old and I can't do. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.320 You need a vacation from your vacation. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.400 I need a vacation. It's no vacation. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.800 We're with little kids like that. Rushy Park's fun though, man. 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:04.080 It is, it's fun. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.480 It was all about survival for me. The but the Phillies, 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.280 you know, yeah again, like Friday, right, we're talking about 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.119 how they can't go and get anything going offensively, their 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.039 approaching the plate, they're swinging and missing too much. Friday 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.960 does not look great. But then Saturday and Sunday, they 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.920 put up back to back eleven run games, the first 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.639 time they've posted ten or more runs in consecutive games 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.440 since I looked this up. Yesterday, August sixth, seventh, twenty 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.080 twenty two, they blew out the Nationals. They haven't done 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.479 this three straight games since June eighth, the eleventh, two 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.039 thousand and four, when they split a couple of games 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.360 on the road against the White Sox and they won 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.919 a big blowout win against the Twins at the Metrodome. Rubin, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.000 you were there, what was the big difference? 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.200 Well, I mean it was pretty clear. I mean there 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.920 was no question in my mind that the top of 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:01.040 the order was really struggling. I think that Kyle Schwarberz 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.760 sort of set the tone a little bit better, started 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.200 swinging the bat a little bit better. There's a bunch 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:10.720 of guys who who I think really started to turn 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.560 it up a notch, and I was concerned about them. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.240 I mean, you start thinking about the guys that. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:22.240 You thought would move forward this season, Brandon, marsh, Bryce 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.320 and Stott. You thought that those two guys were going 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.000 to start moving things forward as far as the offense 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.640 is concerned, and Brandon Marsh's strikeout rates was ridiculous. I 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.320 mean close to fifty percent over the last you know, 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.560 the last couple of weeks. Bryson Scott had not been 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.240 utilizing the whole field, a lot of big swings, a 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.600 lot of foul balls back trying to hit the ball 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.760 out of the ballpark. Well, those two guys swung the 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.919 bats pretty darn well. The last couple of days. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:54.240 You saw jt. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.840 Real Muteau finally get his foot down a little bit 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.920 more consistently, had one big, really big day but a 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.840 couple of good swings. And Bryce Harper I really hasn't 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.600 gotten it going yet. I mean he hasn't at home 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.560 in a long long time, like the most longest I think, 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:14.080 stinting of his career. But it was a great sign 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.160 because guys were doing like the little things, a little 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.720 bit small ball. They were just making contact. They had 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.560 struck out so many times in the Atlanta series that 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:28.240 it was like embarrassing, and you know, the way too 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:30.919 many strikeouts, weren't putting the ball in play, weren't doing 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.360 what they had to do to just to just fight 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.760 at the plate. And I saw a bit of a 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.320 turnaround with that in the last couple of games, actually 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.360 last three games, because I think they got eleven hits 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.120 in the first game. The fact that Taiwan Walker pitched 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.800 so poorly, I mean basically took him out of the game. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.960 Took him out of that game. But they started to 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:55.280 swing the bats well in that series on Friday, and 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.840 I saw much much better at bats. And you know, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.120 having JT and Garrett Stubbs and back to back games 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:08.240 have huge games was really big, big for the Phillies. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:13.840 And you cannot dismiss you know, what Ranger Suarez brought 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:14.400 to the table. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:15.320 The fact that he was. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.320 On the mound and pitching the way he did that 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.680 was a particularly special moment I think for this club 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.320 and pivotal in a lot of ways. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:25.839 So that's my take. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.920 Well, you know, coming out of Atlanta used the right 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:35.560 description dooming gloom Todd. It felt really doomy and gloomy. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.800 And to come home on Monday morning with you know, 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.040 a split play a five hundred, you have a five 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.400 hundred trip, I thought was a real positive because it's 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.400 just seems to play five hundred on the road the 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.120 way they play at home, they're going to be fine. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.280 Some of the big eye openers for me on the 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.240 weekend were Stot the way he swung it and Suarez 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.000 the way he came back on Saturday night, because I 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.400 I just think both of those guys are so important 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.760 to where this team wants to go, needs to go, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:12.640 and you know they both lengthen their respective units, the 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:17.279 lineup and the rotation, so you need to see more 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:21.560 but really positive steps on each side. I thought Scott 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.960 swung the back great, particularly on Saturday night, but you know, 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.800 basically throughout the weekend is it bats were very good, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.360 so you know there were other positives on the weekend, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.960 but just most of all, it just felt like just 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.680 one of those another occasion where it felt like they 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.560 were kind of riding the ship. Now it's up to 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.239 them to extend it and do more with it, because 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.400 you know, two good games over the weekend does not, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.880 you know, make up for two and a half bad months, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.440 and that's what they've had. Tailor two teams really good 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.640 early and really mediocre after that, barely mediocre. So but 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:05.960 coming home tough, tough home stand with Houston and Atlanta, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.160 two teams with a lot to play for, two teams 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.160 with a big history against the Phillies, so it should 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:12.360 be a very interesting week. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.000 You guys mentioned both mentioned Stott. So I'm driving home 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.320 on Saturday night. I'm in the car listen to Scott 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.200 Franski and Kevin Stocker. And in the sixth inning, I 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.919 think Nick Castianos had a single, Bryson Stott comes to 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.000 the plate, and Bryson Stott puts the ball in play, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.279 hits the lip of the infield or the cut of 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.160 the infield back spins over the second basement's head, and 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.240 I think it was the next batter, maybe JT hits 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.120 the three run home run. And in the back of 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.520 my head, Ruben, I remember you talking about this on Friday, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.919 about putting the ball in play. In the back of 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.960 my head, as this ball goes over the second basement's head, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.159 I hear Ruben in my head, go, this is what 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.800 happens when you put the ball in play. Good things happen. 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:53.080 Good things happen. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.000 They struck out thirty three times against the Braves last week. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.000 They struck out twenty times this weekend against the Royals, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.680 So thirteen fewer strekeouts, thirteen more balls in play, one 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.120 of them maybe being Bryce and Stott's little you know, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.680 crazy backspin hop Boom sets up a three run bomb. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:14.840 Everything is right in the world. 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:15.120 Again. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.200 This is interesting about that play is and I talked 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.160 about it a little bit on the broadcast yesterday, is 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.920 that they just put that new saw down. They literally 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.720 just put that saw down like a week before. I 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:33.960 think they're that series while they're on the road trip, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.840 and it was just a sod in the infield because 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.480 they want to go to a different for some reason, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.800 they want to go a different bermuda grass or blend 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.360 or whatever the case may be. They laid it down 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.960 and that ball hit that lip, and I guarantee it 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.280 had a lot to do with the fact that there 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:49.040 was a new someone's in trouble. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.360 Somebody's gonna get one of these. 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:58.000 And if I was a GM, going yeah, I will 0:07:58.040 --> 0:07:58.480 say this. 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.880 They did it against pretty good pitching. They had, you know, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.360 they had to face some pretty good starting pitching. I 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.000 didn't think Lugo was as sharp. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.120 But the fact that they beat up on Lugo, who 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:13.840 has not been as sharp as the first half, and 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.080 the fact that they've you know, swung the bats pretty well, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.360 that that bullpen's terrible for the UH for can't see Royals. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.720 I mean, the numbers don't lie. It's just not great stuff. 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.720 But that said, you still got to get it done. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.800 It doesn't really matter how it gets done, just so 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.440 that it does. You make a great point about just 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.559 making contact, and you know, even a couple of times, 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.360 I mean, you know, you had Johann Rojas hit again, 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.600 a couple of infield hits to extend innings, just touched 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:42.319 the baseball. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:43.920 Another thing that. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.640 I will actually say is that my feeling is that 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.760 Howie Kendrick came in town and he's been around the 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.640 ball club a little bit. I'm not sure if that 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.240 was by design for a reason because they haven't been 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.080 swinging the bats well, whether they just needed another voice 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.320 in there. I mean, you know, who knows what would 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.680 have happened over there, like if they would have continued 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.880 to like be terrible, which was amazing to me. You know, 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.040 they were literally as bad as you could be for 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.280 the talent that they've had. So offensively, you know, you 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.160 get started concerned about, you know, do they make changes, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.040 are they going to do something with the hitting coach 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.120 and all this other stuff, because the two assistant hitting 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:30.040 coaches were let go last year. Yeah, they had new 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.080 hit assistant hitting coaches. Is that working? Was that working 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.040 at this time? I mean you start thinking about, you know, 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.679 how this is going to you know, affect you know, 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.680 the hitting coaches this year, and they brought Howie Kendrick 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.640 in on this. He came in I believe in the 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.960 Kansas City. I'm not sure if he was in Atlanta 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.520 and I can't recall, but just the fact that he's 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.000 here and he also traveled with the team back to Philadelphia, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.400 I'm not sure if he's given him a little bit 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:05.640 of you know, a little help, a little observation, whatever 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.080 the case may be. I don't want to put it 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.640 on him necessarily because the guys have to do it 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.160 in the box and they have to commit to it 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.560 when they're at the plate, but maybe it might add 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.160 some positive effect. And uh, and it was just something 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:21.360 I noticed that that happened. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.559 As far as the personnel is concerned. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.760 Well, that's very very interesting because he was a professional 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.720 hitter who gives you a lot of good at bats 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.800 and like he's not in the batter's box, but he 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.760 can certainly articulate things around the cage and help with 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.280 mindset and just help with a new voice. He's a 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.240 been there, done that guy. He's got some uh, what 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.480 would you call it, grit, competitiveness, toughness to him. He's 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.439 you know, he ain't afraid to ruffle a feather or two, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:54.280 like Howie Ruben Todd. We you know, at the end 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.120 of last week, I was actually speculating that it might be, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.640 you know, kind of opining that it might be time 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.240 to send Marsh out his bats right that poor and 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.040 then Friday night he just lights it up. Friday night 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.240 he comes out, he's turning on balls, he's driving balls 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.839 the other way. He had really good at bats. Do 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.880 you guys get the sense that they were getting close 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.000 there to doing something with him, because like, for the 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.199 month he was like forty strikeouts. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.200 I know that ahead I was gonna say, I just 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.240 know that there was a lot of frustration there with 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.559 with Brandon Marsh and just the lack of productive at 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.720 bats because, like you said, Rubin, I think they thought 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.240 that he was going to take a step forward this 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.960 year and they keep wanting him to prove himself to 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.720 be the everyday player. And now it has gotten to 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.200 a point where it's like when do you play this guy? 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:45.959 Can you play this guy. Can you trust him? Is 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.040 he going to give you a quality of bats? So, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.839 I mean he struck out only three times at a 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.640 twelve at bats this weekend. But yeah, I think there 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.400 was a lot of frustration. I don't know how close 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.640 they were to that decision, but a lot of frustration 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.760 I think internally about about his play. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:05.200 There may have been some rumblings. And you know, listen, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.600 it's a production based game. If you don't produce, uh, 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.400 and you're a young player and you don't have like 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.160 the track record and he really doesn't have like the 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.679 track record like some of the other players do. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.520 You know, the tray turner's obviously. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.680 And and and the and the harpers, you can you 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.560 can suck that up because you know at some point 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.640 and even Castiano's you can kind of suck up, you know, 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:32.160 a month or two of production that's not normal and 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.480 still know that at this at the end of the day, 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.360 you're going to get the kind of production that you 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:37.160 just sort of need. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.880 And Castianos is a perfect example of that. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.560 Jimmy, you and I talked about that a lot that 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.640 at some point he was going to get it right. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.000 He's been probably the most consistent guy they have, but 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.280 Marsh wasn't there, and Marsh hadn't. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:51.240 Really built that equity. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:59.640 And you know, hopefully he continues to produce because he's important. 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.040 Stots and and he's important. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:02.800 And we talked about the length of the lineup in 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.000 the early part of the season, like those guys, they 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.000 need to produce and if they don't produce, don't get replaced, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.000 Like Dave Dombrowski doesn't screw around. 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WILLI 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:49.600 the Week presented by Shibe Vintage Sports, get unique throwback Phillies, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.120 teas hats and sweatshirts from local artists at their shops 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:57.400 in Center City, Wayne and Westchester, and of course online 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.000 at shib sports dot Org. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.800 Hey you guys were wearing you guys call each other 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.160 today with the spectrum in the vet the old school venues. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.440 That's okay, awesome, Irene. I wore mind the whole trip. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:13.720 I was when my workout, I wore a couple of 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:14.800 the Ben Franklin one. 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:16.240 I have a picture of that Ben Franklin. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.720 I'll shoot it out there because Ben Franklin was at 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.960 a coffee shop. He literally like there's like a like 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.600 a pewter thing of him. Anyway, I'll tweet that out. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.640 At some point, I missed the Vet. I really missed 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:32.440 the Vet. Yes, my my parking spot, players don't. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.880 My parking spot at the VET was so close that 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.240 I'd often get blocked in if I was getting out 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.040 of there quick, I'd get blocked in by the visiting 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.200 team bus. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:43.560 That's right. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.200 We used to have wow parking spots. Media used to 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.320 have parking spots at the VET. I forgot about that. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.400 We had him right underneath, like where the press entrance was. 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.360 It's funny. I can still remember getting out of there 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.920 really quick one night and walking out and the Giants 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.440 bus was there, and Matt Williams was on his early 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.400 cell phone. It was like a block and I can 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:06.800 see him in the bus and I'm waiting for the 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.040 bus to pull out so i can get out of 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:09.960 my pocket. Spot. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:10.960 That's funny. 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.920 That is so funny. I wrote, side of the vet. 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.800 The foul balls, Oh my god, they would come screaming. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.840 So I wrote on my wall, I had the great 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.080 fortune when I moved into the front office there, because 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.200 I literally went from being on the field to the 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:31.560 front office in ninety eight at the end of ninety eight, 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:36.160 and when we ended up blowing it up just beforehand, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.640 I wrote on the wall of my office, I had 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.360 Rouy Carpenter's old office, and wow, and desk, it was 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.680 like the greatest desk and office ever. It just happened 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.920 to be that I got that office and it was 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.760 right across the way from Ed Wade's and I wrote 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.200 something like on the wall before they blew it up, 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:00.800 I wrote in a sharpie on one of the walls, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.000 I wrote something like, thank you so much for all 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.159 the memories. I appreciate everything that you brought to uh 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.359 to the US Philly fans or something like that. And 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.960 apparently a cop before you know, when they were like 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.520 making sure that everybody was out of there and make 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.560 it and had to get make sure that there's nobody 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.800 in there when they imploded. It took a picture of that, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.720 and someone has it. I've never seen it. I would 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.119 love to implore people if there's a if there's a policeman, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.879 who who did take that? I remember somebody tell me 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.760 that and I've never seen the picture. But apparently they 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:38.400 took a picture of it. I never did. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.440 Let's put that out there. That would be pretty cool. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.600 Yeah, that photo, man, I would love to be able 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:43.960 to put it. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.040 I mean, I think I will put it out there 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.840 when when we throw this episode out there online, I'll 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:52.040 shoot that out there as well. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.400 So a shirt, that's awesome, said them. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.600 Whatever, man, somebody, somebody has it and somebody mentioned it 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.600 to me and I never really thought it up on it. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.399 I'd love to be able to see that picture. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.480 That's very cool. So let's so let's do uh Philly 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.240 the week? I started last week, so I can't start 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.679 this week. I don't want to, you know, pick we 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.840 can go different guys. Let's start with Jim. Jim, who's 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:17.680 your Philly of the week? 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.359 Wow? Who do you got? Bud? I got Garrett Stubbs 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.159 because I thought it was really important that uh, you know, 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.320 you got a nice win on Saturday night stop the 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.600 skid a little bit, but it was very important that 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.159 you build on that win. And he came out to 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.600 play yesterday. I had himself a day at the plate, 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.200 and uh, obviously JT with the big night the night 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:46.080 before and you know, Sunday afternoon game ninety seven degrees, 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.359 I knew JT was gonna sit and I knew people 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:54.359 were gonna go crazy, but uh, Stubbs is play silenced 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.959 a lot of people. So we're not listening to you know, 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.720 everybody squawking about JT getting a day off after he 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.560 swing it so well, and Stock comes in. He contributes 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:04.680 like a member of the team. He does more than contribute. 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.800 He he was a real difference maker for that team. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.200 So he got j T a day off. He helped 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.360 him win, He helped him build a you know too 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.639 modest two game wing streak. But they come home looking 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.720 to continue to build on that. So I thought his 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:22.240 performance was important on several levels. So he is, uh, 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:23.800 you know, the Philly of the week for me. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:24.960 Great call. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.760 And then follow up on that, I talked to Rob 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.680 Thompson after the game, I said, I said, awesome game. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.560 I said, Garrett stuff picked really really played. Well. He goes, yeah, you. 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.320 Robert, he said, he said, he said, he said, he said, 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.119 he said, he goes, he saved my ass. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:45.640 He was kind of kidd he said, I'm pretty smart 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.720 and I had a hunch. I mean, you know, it's again, 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:51.280 I know, I understand it. 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:57.400 You know, he being a fan and an x GM, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.200 you start thinking about, you know, why in the world 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:02.320 is this guy not getting it? You know, why why 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.880 is he getting a day off? Well, there's reasons, and 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.600 they need JT for this last month and a half 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.160 or two months to be playing at a high level 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:14.600 every day. 0:20:15.280 --> 0:20:15.399 Uh. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.960 The fact that he had that scheduled, that scheduled day off, 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.119 that was rough on a lot of people. 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:22.879 But you're right about Garrettuff's great call. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.800 I actually have j T as my as my player 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.800 of the Week because I think JT had a phenomenal game. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.040 He's starting to come out of whatever funk he was in. 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.760 He's getting his foot down more consistently. I think that 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.200 he's just those overall at bats and approach. Obviously, having 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.040 two three run home runs does not hurt but JT's 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.720