WEBVTT - Trade ‘em: Phillies can’t worry about dealing top prospects 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:08.799 Hi, this is Chase that Lee. It's for the Philly Show. Hey, 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.320 Ruben Tomorrow Junior Jim Salisbury Todds is like, Hey, there's Ruben, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.640 It's the Philly Show. We're coming to you. After Sunday 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:20.280 Nights eleven four Phillies victory over the Yankees. The show's 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:24.080 post in Monday, July twenty seven, twenty twenty six, Phillies 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.440 go three and six on the home stand. Guys, they 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.720 avoid the sweep on Sunday night with a victory over 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.360 the Yankees. But I want to start talking trades because 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.200 you watch this team play over this nine game homestand 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.960 and they need some help. So let's talk trades. It's 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:47.640 time for first pitch. 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If you missed 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.080 our show on Friday, guys, we went over like what 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:59.080 fifty names, fifty different trade names, and we talked about 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.600 is Jim like to say, through a lot of spaghetti 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:03.400 against the wall. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.360 It was a good spaghetti show. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.400 It was a good it was a spaghetti western as perhaps, 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.080 but we talked a lot about trades, and then Ruben 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.679 kept saying, be bold, be bold, go all in, be bold, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.200 and then I read I want I read this article. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.320 Just the past few days, JJ Cooper from Baseball America 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.880 went back and looked at every trade deadline deal from 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:29.320 twenty fifteen through twenty twenty five, okay, six hundred and 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:34.880 it basically backed up everything that Rubin said. Rubin, it's 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.360 almost like you know, you've you know what you're talking about. 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.640 Can you believe it? Six hundred and eighty nine prospects 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:46.199 over the last eleven years. How many of those guys 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.800 do you think came back and burned anybody? Not very many. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:54.000 How about this, Forty three point seven percent of all 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:58.320 those prospects traded never made the big leagues. Twenty five 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:03.880 point seven percent of them have zero or negative war. Okay, 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.360 eleven point nine percent of them have point one to 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.440 point nine war. And that means eighty one point three 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:16.960 percent of all prospects traded from twenty fifteen through twenty 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:21.320 twenty five have not amounted to a hill of beans 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:27.680 pretty much? Does that make you guys say hell with it? 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:27.880 Man? 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.560 Trade them all, Trade every one of them, Trade each 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.079 and every one of them, and don't look back. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.440 I mean, if you're going to get major league players. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.200 I mean, that's the whole point. I mean, if you're trying. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.400 To add, you add with what you add with talent, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:49.240 and you add with the high level talent hopefully, and 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:53.600 the reality of it is you're adding players that are. 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.079 Doing it now today in the major leagues. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:01.280 You're not adding players that are on the come when 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.320 you're buying. And so I mean, the risk is worth 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.240 the risk is worth the reward man, as far as 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.919 I'm concerned. And if you have pieces that you need 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.239 and you have pieces to give a team and they 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:21.480 the way people value these, I've never understood how and 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.440 why some of these organizations value these prospects so highly, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.440 because the reality of it is, you saw the numbers, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:35.640 they really don't pan out typically because they're prospects. And 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.800 I mean, I just feel like there is a thought 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.800 process that started two decades ago where the value of 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:49.320 the prospect became so great that that people just didn't 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.440 you know, didn't want to didn't want to move them. Well, 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.560 they're just that they're prospects and they typically do not 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:56.360 come back to buy. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:56.520 You. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.000 Hearing those numbers, tak it indicates to me that the 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.760 prospect label is a fixed to too many players. 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:12.000 You're right, you're right, there's a there's top thirt you 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.800 know MLB pipeline, they do a great job. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.720 Hold up is crazy. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.680 Yeah, it's a top thirty, top thirty lists, you know 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:20.320 all that stuff. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:21.000 But go ahead. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.080 But people, people know so much more about the players now, 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.400 and they think since they know more about the players 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:31.120 and they're more exposed that you know, listen, Triple A baseball. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:37.000 Difference between Triple A Baseball and Major League Baseball is a. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:41.560 Gaping gap, a gaping gap, let me assure you, and 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.200 it's gotten bigger just telling you. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.880 But nonetheless, what's this team's payroll? 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.000 Three thirty. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.240 Up there? Yeah that I am. 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.400 Let's say three fifty three fifty three thirty three fifty 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.640 three three. It's astronomical for a team with a payroll 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:07.479 this high. They have an embarrassing amount of holes for 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:12.520 a team with that high of a payroll. Offense, the 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:17.440 lack of on base percentage, defense, the poor defense. They 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:19.760 don't have enough pitching to get through the season. With 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.400 two months to go, they need relief help. It's crazy 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.479 how many holes they are they have, and they're not 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.719 going to be able to address them all at this 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.960 trade deadline, I say, go out and address the one 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.960 you can address the best, Okay, But I am not 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.839 backing off what I said the other day. They need arms, 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.440 and I don't care where they need arms. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.600 So E've ben watching this offense. You know they had 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:49.559 eleven runs on Sunday night, Jim, but you know, one run, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.000 one run, one run. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.120 You know, I'll take some contact. I'd love a contact hitter. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.279 I'd love somebody to help the on base percentage. I'll 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.839 fix however I can best fix. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:01.040 Right. 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.240 The pitching really is scary. And I know what the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.320 offense looked like on this home stand. It was a 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.360 dreadful home stand. I know they had a big win 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.560 win Sunday night, but their game over five hundred at home. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.359 That's that's just not good enough. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:20.800 Yeah, you know, I was looking back and going back 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.520 to what we were originally talking about, which is how 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.040 prospects don't come back to haunt you, Ruben. I went 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.800 back and looked at your four big monster trades, three 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.599 trade dead deadline trades. One of them was not a 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.839 trade deadline trade. That was the Royaliday trade with the 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.880 Blue Jays in December two, two thousand and nine. I mean, 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:43.320 is there anybody in those four trades? I'm talking cliff Ley, Royaliday, Royos, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.039 Will Hunter Pence. Nobody ever came back to haunt the 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:52.159 Phillies franchise. There's nobody, you know who do you think. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.640 Would Carlos Carrasco probably had the most war, I mean, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.800 if you were gonna, I think he had the highest 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.320 war of all those players. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.640 But he didn't become like a real quality major league. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.640 Player for like four years, right or five years after 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:06.560 I traded him. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:07.000 Correct? 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.760 And so I mean there were some decent players there. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.200 I mean, Jay Happ probably ended up being a pretty 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:14.600 good pitcher. He was solid. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.160 He was probably number two, number two, and then then 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.320 was Michael Bourne was probably what I've never do. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.840 I don't think I traded no Michael. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.880 Yeah, Pat traded Michael Bach, But. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.760 None of those guys, none of those guys, Travis Dar 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.239 I'd never do that trade again. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:32.480 Correct. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.640 Yeah, there's no there's no Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.880 or whatever now type of trade. And is that the 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.280 guy's name, Ernie Broglio? Is that his name? Brollio? There 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.760 you go. See he is before my time. But at 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.760 least I know the trade, But yeah, Carlos carrasco Ja Happ, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.880 Jonathan VR had a twelve point four war in his career, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.320 Travis Darnelt had a nice career eight point six. But 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.119 then you get below that, Jared Cozart, Domingo Santana, Anthony Goes, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.720 Lou Mars, and Jason Donald, Kyle dre Back who was untouchable, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.040 Josh Side, Michael Taylor who was like the next big thing, 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.200 John Singleton who is the next big thing. Jason Napp 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.360 never made the big league. So think of all those guys. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.320 To me, yeah, all those guys were big prospects and 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.080 none of them came back to haunt the Phillies. 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:18.080 So trade them all. 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.880 I like where your head's at, Ruben. They do have a. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.720 What'd you think of the home stand, Rubin? 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.200 I thought it was very poorly played baseball generally. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.280 I didn't see any aspect of the game other than 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:38.600 the two starting pitchers because their studs and Joan Duran 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.520 that I just didn't see any aspect of the game 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.760 that was that I could you point to and say, 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.600 you know what they're they're doing a really good job here. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.600 In fact, I watched them the Yankees and the Phillies 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:57.680 play this series, and what troubles me with the game 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.760 of baseball is that these are two teams. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.840 Did none of them played very well at all? And 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.840 they're supposed to be two of the best teams in 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.800 baseball and we're talking about two of the top ten 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.920 teams of baseball, I think, and I'm just not watching 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:19.480 like quality baseball airrors, poor pitching, poor hitting, just bizarre. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.200 And I don't know, maybe it's the state of the 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.560 game of baseball right now that there's only like one 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.200 really good team and that's the Dodgers and probably the 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.720 Milwaukee Brewers. But after that, I mean, what are you 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.959 what are we looking at? I just it's just weird, man, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.960 the game of Maybe the players are tired, maybe at 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.719 that time of the season where. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.000 Where it's the dog days of July. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.400 They're gonna get worse in August, and then you know, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.400 maybe they get juiced up again in September and October. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:57.240 But I just, like, I don't it's a little disheartening. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.040 The brand of baseball that I'm. 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.600 Watching fundamentals were very poor. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.480 Does it It doesn't change anything in terms of what 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.439 the front office is trying to accomplish in the next 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.600 seven days, as it doesn't give them any pause if, 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.080 like you know, you can make a bigger trade and 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.439 maybe trade a gauge wood, or if something intrigues you 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.719 where you might dangle an Andrew Painter. Does they give 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.760 you any pause in that regard or now it does not, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:20.240 does it? 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.160 I'm open. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.560 I have to go for it. There there there their 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.880 windows closing. Man, it's going to close. And and I 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:33.160 I you know, I think that there's windows are real. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.079 I've lived them, and I will tell you that this 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.360 window is not going to stay open very long. I 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.880 know the pitching is great, but you're starting to see 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:48.040 some deterioration in some players and they're not going to 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.120 be able to hold on for four or five years 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:50.720 down the road. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:52.120 Yeah. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:57.120 Yeah, they better make it happen soon, if not this year, and. 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:01.359 If they if they're fundamentals or is lacking in October 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.920 as they have been recently, they're going home early. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:05.360 Correct. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.960 I would agree with that that was first pitched powered 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.840 by Parks Casino must be twenty one gambling problem Call 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:21.079 one eight hundred gambler. The Phillies Show is fueled by 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.880 Monster Energy. Unleash the Beast. 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Rubin and 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.760 I were kind of talking about before Jim hop down 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.160 going who we got this week? 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:13.880 Who this week? 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.480 Ruben? Do you have anybody? Well? 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.240 Yeah, I mean on Sunday night, Bryce and Stott swung 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:19.920 it really good. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:21.880 Yeah, and nice. 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:25.520 Story in the nice story department, Brian Keller, thirty two 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.959 year old rookie comes up, gives them three innings, one run, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:35.200 passable take it, but a nice personal story overcoming injury, 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:38.800 a lot of perseverance in the manor leagues to get here, 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.640 did a pretty good job. He'll stay with the team, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.560 probably be part of the number five puzzle as a 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.760 bulk guy. At least one more turned through. So those 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.960 are a couple of things that I mean, Trey swung 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.520 it very well. The defense still a major major concern. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.240 Another error on Sunday night. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.960 Yeah, what do you guys got, Rubin? 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:03.640 You got? What do you got there? 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.000 Well, he didn't get I don't think he got a 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.400 hit on Sunday Night. But during this past week, the 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.720 first five games or five or six games of this 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.480 past week, JT. Real Muto was swinging the bat pretty well. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.120 Up until entering the night he was seven for fifteen 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.560 betting four sixty seven. And listen, I'm not suggesting, you know, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.120 it'd be great if he could get things turned around. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.720 I'm not suggesting that he's going to return to prior 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.920 form or whatever, but I mean, just for a bottom 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.640 third of the lineup guy, if he could just hit 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.720 like two fifty ish the rest of the season, that 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.120 would be a huge boost compared to where he was. 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.480 He was hitting I think two one, two hundred for 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.079 a couple of weeks that are right before the All 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.720 Star breaks. So something good Ruben, you have you seen 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.640 anything out of JT over the past week or so that. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.120 Yeah, Interestingly, I just think that he's changed. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.600 His little leg kick has gotten a little bit less aggressive, 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.760 in other words, not as high a leg kick. He's 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:00.720 sort of up and down with it, and I think 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.720 that's part of the reason why he's on time and 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.000 swinging the bat a little bit better. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:05.959 There's been an adjustment there. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.240 At least that's my observation of what I've seen, and 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.320 I'll probably I'll be in Miami to check out to 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.600 check that out more closely. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:14.640 But that's what I see. 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.440 Also think that both Wheeler and Lizarda were very good. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.640 I got to give those guys some love. 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.520 But the guy that's getting the big piece of pie 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.480 is Jackson Coven the guy who a twenty one year 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.320 old who won the three. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.520 M Open in Minneapolis. That kid is twenty one years old. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.160 For him to go twenty five under and to break 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.280 the record whatever that record was for that course, and 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:47.160 then on top of it, to stave off the Scotti Scheffler, 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.760 I'm giving a big piece of pie to that kid, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.760 Jackson Covin twenty one year old winning from Alabama or 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.680 auburn or something from impressive. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.880 Very impressive. And to hold have Scotty Scheffler in your 0:14:58.920 --> 0:14:59.760 rearview mirror. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:01.760 That's great. 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:02.400 I love that. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.320 That's my big piece of pie right going off the board. 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.800 That's hey, I love it. That was That was Manco 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.800 Manco Best Week. When you want the best of the best, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.600 go to Manco and Manco. 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Well, he's really in it. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.600 That's not been elite. He has not been elite. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.560 Yeah, and uh, while he was, you know, through the 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.600 middle of the season, he was actually swinging the bat 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.400 really well, but he's been in quite the funk, and 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.840 particularly against left handed pitching. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.000 I do not like his approach. He's pulling off. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.160 When he pulls off like that, when his hips pull 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.800 off to the first base side, really struggles. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:30.040 Man. 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.800 He doesn't stay on the ball, and I'm not sure 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.040 what's going on, but he needs to turn it around. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.600 Hopefully it's a little lull before the storm. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:42.520 Because right now they're not getting a production out of 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:42.920 the man. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.520 Looks like he needs a rest today. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.280 That's what I was gonna ask tru. But you got 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.520 two right handers in Miami. I doubt he'll get unless 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.760 he d h is and they can do something there. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.200 But he looks like and you know, it's not going 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.280 to be ashamed of. Sometimes you need you need to 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:03.200 rest a little bit. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:04.200 Yeah. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:07.280 And he hasn't played all game, every game for the 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:09.359 last four or five years because he's been hurt on 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.320 the five years ago. The first year knock Wood is 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.680 the first time he's really been healthy all year long 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:20.120 and in a long time, and so he's playing every day. 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:21.920 I think it's starting to wear on him a little bit. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.960 It seems like he's hell bent on playing one sixty 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.560 two for the statement that it carries and the badge 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.600 of honor. But you know, sometimes you know, a little rest, 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.280 can you know, one step back, two steps forward. He 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.320 looks like, you know, he looked the whole team looked 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.439 tired going into the All Star break. Yeah, and you 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.959 know this homestand they didn't exactly look sharp. So I 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:49.040 do think they'll get a second win here, but you'd 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:49.920 like to see it come soon. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.080 Yeah, you know. I I was not the ballpark on 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.000 Saturday or Sunday, but I did see that Don Manningley. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.720 I guess Schwarber was taking some ground balls at first 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.439 base and they are going to try to get Harper 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.800 a d H game at some point, to get him 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.600 off his feet just a little bit. So that that 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.720 was the thing that popped in my head, is maybe 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.480 he's just kind of wearing down a little bit or 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.240 just going through a lulla, you know, just a little tired. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:12.840 Maybe get him off his feet could help for a 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:13.320 game or two. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.600 I don't know, she never really got that All Star break, right, Yeah, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.800 he had probably a lot of stuff going on. I 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.560 mean he was on podcasts and on this and on that, 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:22.200 and you know. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:23.600 A lot of going on. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.040 I'm run derby all types of stuff that you know, 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:30.240 all that stuff wears on you. And the fact that 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:32.920 he you know, he's not any younger, and he's got 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:34.160 a lot of mileage on him. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.280 I know he's not that he's not, you know, old, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:39.359 but he's got a lot of mileage on a lot 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:40.240 of Major league time. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.720 Yeah, I know, anytime he's not going, you can definitely 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.840 feel it in the lineup. But this team needs a 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.480 lot of helping in a lot of other spots. I 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.960 suspect he will bounce back eventually, for sure. Phillies opened 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.040 up a three game series beginning Monday night in Miami. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.719 We will, we will, We'll all be there. It's hayesus, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.440 I'm sorry. Six forty pm Monday Night, Zach Wheeler against 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:11.280 Old Philly Tyler Phillips six forty On Tuesdays Aaron Nola 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:16.000 against Sandy al Contra, and then twelve to ten on Wednesday, 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.680 is Jesus Lizardo versus tb D. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:24.720 That TVD guy's got good stuff, man, he's nasty. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.280 A little bit of this, a little bit of that, 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:27.919 a little that, a. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.399 Little this, little that little that, maybe the Sandy al 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.480 Contract game is like a little showcase for the fightings. 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.600 Ruben, you would love that to have. And you've been on. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.760 Sandy oh long. I love Sandy Yes, la la la 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:48.200 love him. Flow heavy, heavy flow. 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:52.600 For Sandy al Contra. So that's what's going on. And listen, 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.680 Ruben's got to catch a flight down to Miami, Jim. 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:57.920 You get Jim's got to get to bed because he's 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.359 got an early morning flight to Miami. Real quick, though, 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.960 we we got to talk about real quick, Lebron James. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.160 We're not a basketball show, but are you guys excited. 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:16.800 About Ron James? Lebron James, Lebron James. Congratulations of the 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.719 six Ers. They're making themselves relevant once again. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.960 Finally, Jim, are you excited about Lebron coming? What do 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:24.359 you think? 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:26.720 I'm ecstatic? 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:28.320 What? 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.520 You're not a basketball guy, You're you're He's a hockey guy, dude, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:36.080 I'm not. 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:40.120 I'm ecstatic mcstatic. I like it when all the teams win. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:41.639 If he helps him win, I'm ecstatic. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.000 I think it'll be a lot of fun. You know, 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:45.080 I was saying last. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:50.560 Week, John, it's le John James for you, Josh John. 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:55.320 James so tod I'm having a problem with personal problem 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:00.440 on my phone. My my Uber app, like it's says 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.040 it's been for like two weeks now since the last years. 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.440 It just says loading and it won't que up. 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:13.399 Okay, you want to restart, delete it and then and 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.560 then restart. 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.600 Yeah, that's what I would do. Jim. You can also, 0:21:18.800 --> 0:21:21.080 Jimmy is also get on Lift if you're looking for 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:22.240 a ride of the airport tomorrow. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:27.879 You're what, I don't know. 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:29.520 He loves those search charges. 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.399 I don't want to complicate things. 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:35.320