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Speaker 1: How's it going.

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Speaker 2: This is Jason Kelcey and welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 1: Ruben Lamar Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd Solecki. How's everybody doing.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, August eighth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Guys.

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Speaker 1: How are we doing? How are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Doing great? I see what you did with the Kelsey start.

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Speaker 1: Yes, eh, little.

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Speaker 4: Eagles drop a little pregame, little preseason action.

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest.

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Speaker 3: I'm Tanner McKee Stanford boy.

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Speaker 1: See, I didn't even know. I was out of dinner

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Speaker 1: last night with some friends of the six kids running around.

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Speaker 1: It was mayhem, and all of a sudden the Eagles

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Speaker 1: pop up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I get so wrapped up in the Philly season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of how out of touch him with

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Speaker 1: everything else. I'm like, Eagles play tonight.

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Speaker 2: Cover baseball.

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Speaker 5: Covering baseball consumes your life for like eight months, and

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Speaker 5: then you wake up it's Game eight of the Eagles

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Speaker 5: season and you're like, wow, I get some wings and

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Speaker 5: have a beer.

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Speaker 3: So funny.

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Speaker 4: Interestingly, they scheduled Nate for Gazy, the comedian. I saw

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Speaker 4: him last night with my partner. It was fantastic. He's

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Speaker 4: really really funny man.

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Speaker 3: He's funny. But they did it at the same time.

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Speaker 4: I was scrambling around for an uber like afterwards it

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Speaker 4: was rough.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, they're both down. They were both in the

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Speaker 1: in the com.

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Speaker 3: Seven o'clock, both at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Really, he is great. I did see him. My wife

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Speaker 1: and I saw him once in Philly in Center City

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Speaker 1: at one of the theaters down there. And he is

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Speaker 1: named Nate is hilarious. If you haven't seen any of

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Speaker 1: his Netflix specials, you gotta check those out. Those are really, really,

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Speaker 1: really good. So the Phillies open a ten game road

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Speaker 1: trip guys tonight Friday night in Texas. It's what three

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Speaker 1: in Texas and then four in d C. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a long, long, little road trip. Friday Night.

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Speaker 1: The series opener is Christopher Sanchez against Merrill Kelly, Saturday

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Speaker 1: is Jesus Zarto against Jacob de Gram, and Sunday is

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Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler against Pactor Corbyn. All eyes in Philadelphia should

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Speaker 1: be focused on that Sunday start. See how Zach Wheeler

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Speaker 1: comes out of that. But we asked all of you,

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Speaker 1: all of.

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Speaker 5: Our Texas is a hot team. They've got a lot

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Speaker 5: to play for. US as a very meaningful series for

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Speaker 5: both teams. They've Texas has really served here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. And then they made Merrill Kelly was

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Speaker 1: a nice little little, nice little pickup for them.

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Speaker 5: So you know, they having a really good year bouncing back.

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Speaker 5: The guy is like ageless and amazing and.

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Speaker 3: Is not as terrible as he was in Washington.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say that a couple of literally, like

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Speaker 1: last year, like this guy is done. You know, he's

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Speaker 1: been he's been cooked for a few years, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, now he's he's actually competitive, he's throwing,

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Speaker 1: he's giving you competitive starts.

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Speaker 5: One of the best, maybe the best signing the Phillies

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Speaker 5: never made.

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Speaker 1: And why is that? And why is that?

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Speaker 5: You Yeah, because it allowed them to have the money

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Speaker 5: to get z dub That's right.

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Speaker 1: Think about that.

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Speaker 5: Remember that we were standing I was standing out on

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Speaker 5: that heart tramped street and taking pictures of the scoreboard.

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Speaker 5: They had Patrick Corbyn's picture up there in the Phillies

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Speaker 5: UNI and they put the rush on him to try

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Speaker 5: to sign him. He was the guy they want, the

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Speaker 5: best signing they ever made. You know, it just kept

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Speaker 5: him in line to use their resources for Zach Wheelers

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Speaker 5: next year.

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Speaker 2: And that's been one of the best signings in franchise history.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I will tell you sometimes, the best signings

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Speaker 4: that you make are the ones you don't make.

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Speaker 3: Same way with trades, Yeah, real question, you need, you need.

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Speaker 3: The best one you make are the ones you don't make.

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Speaker 1: And if you know, obviously they wanted him and that

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Speaker 1: he didn't want to come to Philly. Uh So yeah,

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Speaker 1: imagine if he had that was the place he wanted

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Speaker 1: to come to and was really sold on their pitch

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Speaker 1: and they made the stronger Yeah, I mean, Philly's history

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Speaker 1: could be completely different. Now, magine he.

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Speaker 5: Would have he would have bathed in the language of

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Speaker 5: love to use Max Kepler's awesome description of Philadelphia fans.

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Speaker 1: That was a great line.

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Speaker 2: That was absolutely a great line.

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Speaker 1: So we asked all of our our listeners on Apple

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Speaker 1: and Spotify, all of our viewers on YouTube and and

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Speaker 1: and everybody, uh to send us some questions post trade

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Speaker 1: deadline questions, and we got a lot, a lot of

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Speaker 1: really good stuff. So let's I'm going to start with

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Speaker 1: our first question, and it is going to be the

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Speaker 1: So this is from I love this, I love these handles.

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Speaker 1: This is from Jammer mcdee on Blue Sky. Jammer mcde

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Speaker 1: on Blue Sky says, what do you think the team

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Speaker 1: looks like after this road trip? Max Kepler gone, justin

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Speaker 1: Crawford and Andrew Painter up one of Weston Wilson Auto

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Speaker 1: Camp going down with Alec Bohm coming back, David robertson

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Speaker 1: and now at Aaron Nola back. Big shake up coming

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Speaker 1: exclamation point there are He didn't even mention. He didn't

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Speaker 1: even mention that Jose Alvarado could be back just after

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Speaker 1: this road trip. He's eligible to rejoin the team on

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Speaker 1: August nineteenth.

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Speaker 2: He hit ninety nine last night.

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Speaker 1: He did, he did? He did hit ninety nine last

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Speaker 1: night Thursday night in Triple A Lee Valley. That was

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Speaker 1: his first rehab appearance. So Alvarado is eligible to come

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Speaker 1: back August nineteenth, two days after this road trip ends

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Speaker 1: on August seventeenth in DC. Big shake up coming, guys,

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Speaker 1: what do you have any thoughts on this?

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Speaker 4: Rubin Ooh, tough ones, but good decisions, good decisions to

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Speaker 4: have the biggest one for me is when Alec Boem

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Speaker 4: bounces back.

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Speaker 3: Because now you have a situation.

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Speaker 4: You have a situation where you know, what are you

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Speaker 4: going to do with you know, some of these right

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Speaker 4: enup at bats to continue to play somewhere somehow, So

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Speaker 4: you may end up having a situation where, you know,

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Speaker 4: I thought, honestly, they would go to Justin Crawford. It's

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Speaker 4: clear that when they made the move for Bader that

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Speaker 4: they decided that Justin Kaffer Crawford was not ready to

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Speaker 4: be the everyday centerfielder for a championship caliber team, and

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Speaker 4: so Baterter becomes that guy.

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Speaker 3: So if he's actually playing centerfield pretty much.

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Speaker 4: Every day, then what do you do with Marsh What

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Speaker 4: do you do with you know, what do you do

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Speaker 4: with Kepler? Especially when you're talking about say, say.

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Speaker 3: A right hander starts.

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Speaker 4: Now you have Boem on the team, West and Wilson

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Speaker 4: option auto Kemp possibly auto camp in left field against

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Speaker 4: the right hand is going to be probably Kepler because

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Speaker 4: he's had some decent at bats.

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Speaker 3: Hitting the ball a little harder.

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Speaker 4: What do you do with Brandon Marsh Because you're gonna

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Speaker 4: have Baitter in center, You're not really going to be

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Speaker 4: platooning him in center field, I don't think. I mean,

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Speaker 4: is it a possibility. Marsh has been swinging the bat well,

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Speaker 4: does Marsh? Do they go double platoon and left and

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Speaker 3: As they said, that's the question I have.

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Speaker 4: And uh, I mean, it's a good problem to have,

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Speaker 4: I think, but I think they have to decide, okay,

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Speaker 4: Bater and sit somebody who's gonna sit? Is Kepler gonna

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Speaker 4: sit against the righties? And if he's sitting against the

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Speaker 4: righties and there's no point in having him be on

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Speaker 4: the team, That's where I'm at.

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Speaker 1: Marsh has been wasaised.

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Speaker 3: That's the biggest issue for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Marsh has been way better against righty's. Obviously, he's

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Speaker 1: outperformed Kepler at the plate. He's been ops almost one

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Speaker 1: hundred points higher against righty's than Max Kepler, like seven

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Speaker 1: to ninety against six ninety against righty. So you can

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Speaker 1: make a very good argument that Brandon Marsh should be

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Speaker 1: the guy if if they would go with Baier in

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Speaker 3: They're not taking Casianos out of the lineup.

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Speaker 4: He's staying in a lineup right anywhere, and so Cassieano

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Speaker 4: is locked down, and right you got beater and center supposedly,

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Speaker 4: now who plays left field?

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Speaker 3: The right hander? And I think it's got to be

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Speaker 3: Marsh for me. And then what do you do with Kepler?

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Speaker 4: That's a very difficult situation if in fact, you're gonna

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Speaker 4: think that that's what they want to do.

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Speaker 3: So that's one. I mean, the other problems the pitching.

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Speaker 4: They'll probably end up going with Nola and a six

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Speaker 4: man rotation. I would think with the with what's going

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Speaker 3: Wheeler's got the issue with the shoulder. Why not go

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Speaker 4: Man rotation and and give this, uh, this staff a

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Speaker 4: little bit of a some ease, and I think they're

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Speaker 4: Robertson and Alvarado, they're gonna have enough depth, I think

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Speaker 3: Some length out of the starter.

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Speaker 4: So that's I thought on on some of those other

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Speaker 5: We've heard so much about the potential of a six

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Speaker 5: man rotation. To me, it's a good time to do

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Speaker 5: eight man bullpen. But I guess what, Taiwan could be

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Speaker 5: a swingman. But you know, you're probably gonna have to

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Speaker 5: manage Nola out of the gate as well. So it

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Speaker 5: seems to me a good time for a six man

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Speaker 5: rotation as these guys. You know, we've seen some frail

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Speaker 5: fragility in this rotation lately. Ranger's got almost a five

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Speaker 5: r or he's got a five VR, I think five

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Speaker 5: plus the RA since the break. Wheelers got almost almost

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Speaker 5: a five VRA.

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Speaker 2: Since the break. He's had the shoulder issue.

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Speaker 5: Lozardos after his first eleven starts, has been completely inconsistent.

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Speaker 5: And you know they always talk about managing and budgeting

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Speaker 5: and being aware of October. This was a good time

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Speaker 5: to you know, get Aaron Nola back, get some innings

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Speaker 5: from him. Also see what you got from him, because

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Speaker 5: your your playoff rotation is going to be up in

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Speaker 5: the air. Yeah, you know, Wheeler Sanchez, is Nola your

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Speaker 5: number three? Does he come out of the gate and

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Speaker 5: give you six really good weeks and you say, yes,

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Speaker 5: he's our number three.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna find out, right, what do you.

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Speaker 1: Bryce Harper. Usually I'm a rotation guy, but I'm going

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Speaker 1: to say, Alec Bohm, I'm.

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Speaker 5: Gonna employ my favorite line from the Wire, spoken by

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Speaker 5: the character Lester Freeman.

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Speaker 2: All the pieces matter, So I would say both.

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Speaker 3: Is that the guy that used to say she.

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Speaker 2: The other guy?

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Speaker 5: It's the guy that they buried in the back room

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Speaker 5: for like three years and then they decided. Then they

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Speaker 5: discovered he was absolutely brilliant, so he started leading the investigation.

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Speaker 5: Also in Marley and Me, he was the editor of

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Speaker 5: the Inquirer.

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Speaker 3: Todd, that same actor.

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Speaker 2: He was a great actor.

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Speaker 3: Great.

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Speaker 4: So, just to weigh in, whoever asked this question, was

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Speaker 4: the guy's handle.

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Speaker 1: A brownie a brownie ninety three?

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Speaker 4: He or she made a great gat That's as good.

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Speaker 3: A question as that.

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Speaker 4: One of the questions I've heard, because they're equally important.

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Speaker 4: I think they're you know, having that four hole hitter.

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Speaker 3: Maybe a touch more. I'll go one one A.

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Speaker 4: Just because there's so much riding on the production of

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Speaker 4: the two left tenders in that lineup, in Schwarber and Harper,

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Speaker 4: Harper protecting Schwarber, somebody protecting Harper because Harper is going

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Speaker 4: to be huge in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: You can book that because he's stepped up and done it.

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Speaker 4: Are they going to choose to pitch to him or

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Speaker 4: are they gonna have, you know, worry about whether they

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Speaker 4: have somebody behind him who can do some damage. And

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Speaker 4: that's why I think Alec Bohm is slightly more important

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Speaker 4: a return. If he's Alec Bahm of you know, twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty three and twenty twenty, you know, twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 4: where he's driving in ninety seven runs or ninety eight

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Speaker 4: runs or whatever it was, or in twenty three and

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Speaker 4: twenty four, that's really important for him to step up

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Speaker 4: and be that guy.

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Speaker 5: That's why, you know, you mentioned protecting Harper, how vital

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Speaker 5: it is. That's why I thought Stephen Kuan was, you know,

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Speaker 5: whether or not how serious the Guardians were about moving them,

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Speaker 5: and now they're just like a game and.

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Speaker 2: A half on the wildcard spot.

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Speaker 5: It's good they've got him, but he was so intriguing

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Speaker 5: to me because you can put him up the top

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Speaker 5: and then go Tray Turner and then go Harper. Now

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Speaker 5: you can put Schwarver back behind Harper and you know,

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Speaker 5: and then you know, Bourne would have to come in

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Speaker 5: behind Schwarmer. But you could really maybe unlock Harper if

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Speaker 5: with Schwarmer's menacing bat behind him.

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's for four or five guys that

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Speaker 4: that are dangerous.

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Speaker 1: That is uh Phillies again open up a three game

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Speaker 3: Yeah you got it right, Todd.

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Speaker 1: Gambler Bill Brown on X says, will we see justin

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Speaker 1: Crawford this year? He deserves it? And Dave Dombrowski didn't

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Speaker 1: make any sense in his explanation on why he's not up.

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Speaker 1: So do we think we're going to see Justin Crawford?

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Speaker 1: Justin Crawford, for those that aren't keeping up on his

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Speaker 1: numbers down in Lehigh Valley batting three twenty seven, nineteen doubles,

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Speaker 1: three triples, three home runs, thirty one RBIs, thirty five

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Speaker 1: stolen bases, eight thirty five ops. Everywhere he plays, the

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Speaker 1: guy just hits three hundred. He rolls out of bet

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Speaker 1: hits three hundred. What do we think of you see

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Speaker 1: Justin Crawford this year? Got I got you safe to

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Speaker 1: say Crawford as a September call up. That's from weight

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Speaker 1: Man Stats on Instagram. You know, will Crawford and be

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Speaker 1: ready to start twenty twenty six with the Phillies. That's

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Speaker 1: from Hayfield Baseball on Instagram. A lot of Justin Crawford questions.

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Speaker 5: Well, I think Marsh's improvement has factored into him staying there.

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Speaker 5: I think there's serious concerns about his ability to shine

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Speaker 5: and play championship caliber center field, which was evidenced by

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Speaker 5: the acquisition of Bata.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not sure.

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Speaker 5: You know, once upon a time I thought he was coming,

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Speaker 5: but with their actions recently and Marsh's improvement. Not sure

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Speaker 5: he's coming. I guess you'd have the Jettison Kepler to

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Speaker 5: bring him. But then his questions about is he going

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Speaker 5: to play every day? And you want him to play

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Speaker 5: every day up there and try to improve in center field.

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Speaker 5: But everything I hear his best position is left field.

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Speaker 5: So you know we're going to find out. I mean,

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Speaker 5: it's it's a little weird how things have worked out.

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Speaker 5: Maybe not weird, but interesting how things have worked out

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Speaker 5: with Crawford and Painter. They might end up both getting

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Speaker 5: like a whole year of development at Triple A. And

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Speaker 5: that ain't the worst thing in the world either.

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Speaker 2: That's the way it used to work.

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Speaker 5: Spend a whole year, get five hundred at bats, get

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Speaker 5: thirty twenty five stars, and you know, I always go

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Speaker 5: back to how people squawked about Ryan Howard.

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Speaker 2: Staying too long in Triple A.

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Speaker 5: Maybe it was just right because when he came here

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Speaker 5: he was a dynamite hitter. He hit three hundred, so

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Speaker 5: it's more development time is not hurting you.

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Speaker 1: Do.

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Speaker 5: I think he could jump up here now and help

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Speaker 5: I do. But I just don't know where the role

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Speaker 5: is and I think is the fact that they obviously

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Speaker 5: don't think he's ready to play major league caliber center

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Speaker 5: field is impacting all this as well.

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Speaker 3: Well, said Jim.

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Speaker 4: I totally agree that the actions that they had getting

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Speaker 4: Baiter to be there everyday center fielder basically tells me

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Speaker 4: that one he they're not ready to have him be

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Speaker 4: that everyday centerfielder to win a World Series championship, and

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Speaker 4: they'd rather go with the guys that they have right now,

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Speaker 4: and you may not see him, and you may not

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Speaker 4: even see him in September because they can only call

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Speaker 4: up what two guys, so they're gonna bring a pitcher.

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Speaker 3: And they probably bring they might bring Garrett Stubbs.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that, but it'll be interesting who that

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Speaker 4: second player is going to be because I mean, typically

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Speaker 4: you almost always brought an extra catcher, but nowadays you

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Speaker 4: can only bring two guys, so it's very very strange

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Speaker 4: how it's going to work out. I totally agree with

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Speaker 4: Jim in that, you know, it's just too crowded an outfield,

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Speaker 4: and I don't think that they were ready. The only

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Speaker 4: way that they would bring him to the big leagues

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Speaker 4: if he was going to play every day and they

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Speaker 4: felt that he could be their centerfielder or left fielder

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Speaker 4: every day, and right now it seems to me that

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Speaker 4: they're not prepared to do that, and you may not

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Speaker 4: see him until later on. Painter, on the other hand,

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Speaker 4: I do think is going to get a call up

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Speaker 4: September at least, because I think they need to give

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Speaker 4: him a taste of the major leagues, especially if they're

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Speaker 4: considering throwing him in the bullpen during the course of

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Speaker 4: the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So let's let's follow up with maybe a little bit

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Speaker 1: more on that. Mcderham nineteen on Instagram. Does Painter wind

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Speaker 1: up still getting called up this year? Giving his recent

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Speaker 1: ups and downs? I want to mention this to you guys.

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Speaker 1: So I think it was in April early May. We

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Speaker 1: were in Rob Thompson's office and somebody asked about the

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Speaker 1: plan for Painter, and robbed throughout the number one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty, one hundred twenty innings. Well he's right now,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Painter as eighty three in the third innings, So

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Speaker 1: if that number was accurate one hundred and twenty, obviously

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Speaker 1: that stuff changes a lot. He's about forty innings away

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Speaker 1: from that, so is that enough to he's got maybe

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Speaker 1: what eight starts seven eight starts left. If you go

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Speaker 1: by five innings per start, five six start, do you

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Speaker 1: think he would do you think they would throw him

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Speaker 1: in the bullpen? Kind of interesting to think about what

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Speaker 1: might go on there. I would still bring him up

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Speaker 1: at some point just to give him a look.

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Speaker 5: But I think it's too risky to put him in

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Speaker 5: the bullpen, and I've said that all along. Maybe you

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Speaker 5: could use him as an opener where you could get

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Speaker 5: a full warm up. It's just that full pregame routine

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Speaker 5: coming off Tommy John that concerns me.

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Speaker 2: But Rob did say on what day was I. Rob

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Speaker 2: did say the other day.

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Speaker 5: I guess it was Monday or Tuesday, that with his

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Speaker 5: innings budget, he's going to get through the season. They

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Speaker 5: haven't mapped out that he will get through the season

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Speaker 5: regardless of where he is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to put him in a bullpen

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Speaker 3: right away.

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Speaker 4: I'd rather have him start in the major leagues and

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Speaker 4: get his feet wet and you know, get a feel

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Speaker 4: for what it is to play with the third deck,

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Speaker 4: and then see if he's effective enough and he throws

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Speaker 4: enoughts quality strikes to be considered to be put in

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Speaker 4: the bullpen in the playoffs, simple as that.

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Speaker 3: Right now, they have crazily knock Wood.

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Speaker 4: If Wheeler stays okay and the Suarez stays okay, and

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Speaker 4: that's big goats are still big ifts. They got a

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Speaker 4: reason to put them in the rotation. With Linola back,

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Speaker 4: especially with the way Taiwan Walker's been throwing the ball.

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Speaker 4: Been fine, and you got to give him a lot

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Speaker 4: of credit. He's kind of like the forgotten man. But

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Speaker 4: the man's come back and pitched pretty damn well. You

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Speaker 4: got to give him some love.

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Speaker 2: Very professional.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he had like the best start of his last

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Speaker 1: two or three years the last time out. It is

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Speaker 1: funny how everything works out.

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Speaker 3: Everybody forgets.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody forgets the j L designs Philly on threads.

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Speaker 1: Is Zach Wheeler healthy.

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Speaker 5: We talked about this the other day, Ruben, go ahead,

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Speaker 5: what are your thoughts on this?

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Speaker 4: You know, I do think I think there's a concern.

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Speaker 4: There's no question about that. Then, whenever you have the

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Speaker 4: his timeline and pushing back his start, that's an issue.

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Speaker 4: But just having spoken to him briefly. He is intimated

661
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 4: to me that he's just fine and that there's no

662
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 4: structural damage, so he's not worried about it.

663
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 3: I have to sort of take his word for it,

664
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 3: but you never know.

665
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 4: I mean players, and you know they talk about their

666
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 4: health in different ways. But he seemed to me like

667
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 4: he felt very, very comfortable with where he was, even

668
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 4: though it was sore. Soreness and illness are two different things, right.

669
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 2: Soreness and injury. Yeah, you know they need him.

670
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 5: He's he's to me, he's indispensable. So it makes Sundays

671
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 5: start one of the most very important starts made by

672
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 5: Philly's picture this year. You just want to see him

673
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 5: looking like Zach Wheeler and you know, and feeling good

674
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Speaker 5: and everybody will feel better.

675
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Speaker 4: Cannot you can't overstate it, Jim, that you made a

676
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 4: great point. It may be the most important start of

677
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Speaker 4: the season.

678
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: Everything changes if all of a sudden he starts getting

679
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: banged up and struggling and you know, there's a flare

680
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 1: up and we got to shut him down, and you know, somebody,

681
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: one of the questions I was asked here is, you know,

682
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Speaker 1: why don't you just shut him down for a couple

683
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: of weeks. But you know, then you have to build

684
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:18,840
Speaker 1: him back up. And yeah, obviously you want to you

685
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: want to avoid that. All right, here's one from em,

686
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: and maybe it's.

687
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 5: Not maybe it's not serious enough to shut him down.

688
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,799
Speaker 5: They they know their their picture better than anyone, and

689
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 5: the picture knows his body.

690
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 2: Better than anyone. So, uh, that's kind of something.

691
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 5: I hang, my I'm concerned, but I hang my hopes

692
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 5: on those two elements.

693
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 4: Right, say, but you never know, but you honestly you

694
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 4: never know because the guy does. His desire to win

695
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 4: the cy Young may cloud you know, some of those decisions.

696
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 4: But I believe that he's intelligent enough and around the

697
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 4: blocking up knows it's so that the most important thing

698
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 4: is the ring.

699
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 3: The cy Young is secondary.

700
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: M Jermino on Instagram. What do you think Kyle schwarb

701
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: AAV For those don't follow the contract stuff, that's average

702
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: annual value. What do you think Kyle Schwarber's AAV will

703
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: be for his next contract? Any chance of resigning him?

704
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: I think there's a great chance. I shouldn't say great, well,

705
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a very good chance that

706
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,520
Speaker 1: he resigns. I think the Phillies know they need to

707
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: resign him. I think they have every incentive of the

708
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 1: world to resign him. John middleton Is says, we don't

709
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: need any reminders on how valuable Kyle Schwarber is. We

710
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: don't need any incentive. We know how valuabil is are. Okay,

711
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 1: So that makes me makes it sound like you're gonna

712
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: really make an honest effort to resign him. What's the

713
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: AAV guys going to be?

714
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 3: Let's make some predictions.

715
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: Todd you first, all right, So I just typed in

716
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: because I was like Ruben Dick, I think a couple

717
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, you said five years one point fifty

718
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: that's a thirty million dollar AAV. I said, well, I

719
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe thirty five, but thirty five. If you

720
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: did a five year deal, that's a five year, one

721
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five million dollar contract for Kyle Schwarber.

722
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: I think thirty I think I think al Shober could

723
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: get thirty million on the open market for sure with his.

724
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 3: Give me a number, give me a number.

725
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say thirty five. I'm gonna go crazy. I'm

726
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: gonna go crazy. Yeah, if you want to get it

727
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: done early, I'm gonna go thirty.

728
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 2: Two, thirty two, okay, like it.

729
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with my old number, thirty three. I'm

730
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 3: gonna jump one.

731
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit looser with my cash.

732
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,479
Speaker 3: Fellas, it's not my money. Give him.

733
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 2: Go forty? Why not?

734
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta get out there and it's a

735
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: nice round number. And then with the cash left over,

736
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: you bring back JT on a three year deal. What

737
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 1: do you think about that?

738
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 3: I got a two year deal your deal? So I

739
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 3: was talking, I would try to hold it down to

740
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: it two.

741
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 4: I personally, if I was a GM, if I was him,

742
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 4: I'd try to get a four year deal, but i'd

743
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 4: try to get a two year deal out.

744
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 2: Yeah.

745
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: If I'm the Philly as, I'm trying to get a

746
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: two year deal as well. But I was thinking about

747
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: this yesterday, talking about this with somebody yesterday, and and

748
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: don't you think that some other team is going to

749
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: go out there and go, Okay, I get it. He's

750
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: a catcher in his mid dirties. He's caught a ton

751
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: of innings. The bat's not what it once was, necessarily,

752
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: but man, look at all the catchers that are out there.

753
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: There's not any good catchers out there. We're going to

754
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: give them three, even though we know it's not a

755
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: good decision.

756
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 5: Right, everybody gets the extra year because you always throw

757
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 5: the extra year at the guy just to get it.

758
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 2: Over with, right.

759
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 3: Oh, I know.

760
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 2: It got me fired. I'm off the hook. Not really.

761
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 4: It was a three year deal for Chooch, three year

762
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 4: deal for Jimmy. You know those were those were a

763
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 4: little debilitating at the end. And uh, it'll I'm fascinated

764
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 4: by what's going to happen at the end of the

765
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 4: season because obviously a lot of it depends on whether

766
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 4: they win the World Series or not, how far, how

767
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 4: deep they go, whether they break.

768
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 3: This down and retool. I am fascinated by this. This

769
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 3: is a fascinating next two months.

770
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 5: It really Even if they win the World Series, I

771
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 5: hope they are wise enough to realize through the euphoria

772
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 5: and the confetti if they win it, that this team

773
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 5: needs a retool.

774
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 2: Anyway, there's got to be some change.

775
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 4: I totally agree, totally agree, which is, you know, part

776
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 4: of what we should have done, you know, after twelve

777
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 4: or whatever.

778
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: Well, let's a few more here, and this is kind

779
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,320
Speaker 1: of related to what you just said. Jim a retool,

780
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: a potential retool, regardless of what happens. This is from

781
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: WV Cats two on Instagram. Do you see Bryson Stott

782
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: still being with the team next season after another disappointing year?

783
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 3: Really good questions? Questions?

784
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are.

785
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 2: Part of that.

786
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 5: He could be part of that retool. I don't know

787
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 5: if you know he's done enough. It probably hasn't done

788
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,160
Speaker 5: enough to secure his place as part of the foundation

789
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 5: to this team. Might you know, I would be open

790
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,959
Speaker 5: to all possibilities of of uh, you know, saying goodbye

791
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 5: or whatever.

792
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 4: I think he may become a platoon player. He may

793
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 4: become a straight platoon player, and and you might have

794
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 4: Sosa playing second and him playing short, or him playing second.

795
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 3: Against rightings right.

796
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 4: Who knows that's a possibility because that's fairly cheap in

797
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 4: that position.

798
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: Well, make a it's kind of related, so you kind

799
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: of answered and make a mike on Instagram. Is there

800
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 1: a chance at Mundo Sosa continues to start every day

801
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: at second base after Alec Bohm returns. I think one

802
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: hundred percent there's a chance that that happened. I mean

803
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,279
Speaker 1: a very good chance that that happens. You know, going down,

804
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: he's going to play. Yeah, I think not every day

805
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: platoon a platoon start at second base.

806
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 3: I think that they'll definitely platoon them right right.

807
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 2: That's nice.

808
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, not not every day as a platoon. I meant

809
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: to say that there's a very good chance of that happening.

810
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: Let's see here a couple more to go. I watched

811
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: the Jimmy Rollins documentary twice already. And Mark Denarda, who

812
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: was on our show on Thursday to talk about the

813
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: Joan Duran experience, he was he was involved in the

814
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollins documentary, and I have to ask, what are

815
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 1: your guys favorite memories of Jimmy and your favorite moment

816
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: that's from Aunt Pirandazzi on X. I mean so many

817
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: great Jimmy Rollins moments.

818
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 2: I mean of them.

819
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 3: I have two of them.

820
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 4: When he got the triple to go to what is

821
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 4: the twenty triples or whatever the hell it was.

822
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: Or last day of the seven twenty triples, ye, to do.

823
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 4: That, that was one of the single most exciting plays

824
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 4: I've seen for him to step forward and do it

825
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,840
Speaker 4: on literally the last last day of the season, was

826
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 4: his last at bat or something.

827
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 2: It was like in the middle of the games, like

828
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 2: the game. Yeah, it was just I mean electric.

829
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 4: And that big double against Broxton, Oh my gosh, that

830
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 4: double against Broxton when Chuoch scored and I'm running on.

831
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 3: Top of the on top of my desk in the booth. Uh,

832
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 3: that was an nine.

833
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 4: And that was one of the more special base hits

834
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 4: I've seen a long long time.

835
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 2: Man, I have just too many.

836
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 5: It's only like one of my favorite players ever to

837
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 5: cover because he did great things on the field and

838
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 5: said exciting things after the game and interesting things, and

839
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 5: it was fun to write about.

840
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 3: That Broxton double.

841
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 5: So it was a double, right, Todd, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

842
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 5: He continues to run toward third base and he gets

843
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 5: the third base and he pulls that he goes across

844
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 5: the back and now he pulls up and the team

845
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 5: is coming toward him and Howard is going to muckle him.

846
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 5: And there was a picture on the on the front

847
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 5: page of The Inquirer of Jimmy kind of pulling up

848
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 5: and gearing up for Ryan to muckle him, and this

849
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 5: huge smile, because Jimmy always does have that great smile.

850
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 5: That picture just I can still see it in my

851
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 5: mind's eye. It was awesome. And the other thing I

852
00:41:55,280 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 5: used to love watching Jimmy play defense, how every ball

853
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 5: he threw had plenty of juice on it, but it

854
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 5: was always from the same arm slot. He was so

855
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 5: consistent in his arm slot. That's why he hit the

856
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 5: first basement in the chest every time. And that play

857
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 5: where he'd go behind second base, spin and fire a

858
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 5: strike to first base, which so it was so much

859
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 5: It was so much fun to watch that guy play

860
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 5: defense all elements of the game. I loved watching him

861
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 5: play defensive. Probably way too many memories to uh to

862
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 5: even get into right now, but those are a couple

863
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 5: of them.

864
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, his defense.

865
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: You know, you in the moment for me anyway, you

866
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: you appreciate it, but then you really appreciate it once

867
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: it's gone and you just see, like you go, man,

868
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy rowinds that dude made every single play out there,

869
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: and it really was when he did miss he.

870
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 2: Got to everything.

871
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 5: He got to everything. He made like six hours a

872
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 5: year he got. It wasn't like he wasn't getting the stuff.

873
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 5: He got to everything.

874
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: He also just wasn't He made great diving catches and

875
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: you know that there was that double play at the

876
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: end of I think the clinch seven or was it

877
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: the eight NLA eight n LA What a great fun

878
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 1: highlight ESPN you know, web GM play, but he also

879
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: didn't have it. I feel like he was just so

880
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: good at getting the ball with ease that he didn't

881
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: have you know, all those plays happened all the time,

882
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: just because he was so smooth and so quick and

883
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: so great at just getting to everything.

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00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 2: So he was funny as hell too, Wasn't.

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00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 4: He one of the more under underrated fielders in the

886
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 4: history of baseball because he did it pretty easily, and

887
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 4: he did it so consistently. And the guy only won

888
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 4: what two or three Gold Gloves. Yeah, he probably should

889
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 4: have won like twelve of them.

890
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, just because he.

891
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,360
Speaker 3: Was so consistent, so good. But there are other guys

892
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 3: who were flashed here.

893
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 4: There are other guys who did like more acrobatic type stuff,

894
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 4: but Jimmy was and jim was super athletic, but he

895
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 4: just made the play.

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00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 3: Gimme. He had the most accurate arm I've ever seen.

897
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,280
Speaker 3: He had eighty zero.

898
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 4: If there's a higher mark there be, I would give

899
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 4: that he had eighty accuracy.

900
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 3: He could hit the that's and that's ass.

901
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 4: With his throws, and you're right about his consistent thing

902
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 4: and where way Harry released, But he never had to

903
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 4: drop down. He never He was just so good at

904
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 4: you know, being able to get to that spot and

905
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 4: releasing certainly really amazing.

906
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy said, how funny is I remember there was a

907
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: time there was a stretch there where every once in

908
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: a while when I first started out curring the team. Uh,

909
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: you know, you go into the manager's office post game,

910
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: and you know, like Charlie would sometimes go, you know,

911
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: these guys is swinging at too many first pitches, you

912
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: know whatever, Right, So I would go post game, I'd

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00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 1: go over to Jimmy go, yeah, you know, Charlie says,

914
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: you guys are swinging at too many first whatever. The

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00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: criticism was during a rough stretch. And then finally I

916
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: must have done this like ten times in a row

917
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: to him, and finally he stops. You know, he kind

918
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: of like would drop his head, drop his head, look

919
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: over Charlie. Charlie says, it's always Charlie says with you,

920
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, yeah, okay, but it was

921
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: a funny.

922
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 2: It was a funny moment.

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00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: He kind of laughed because I guess I had done

924
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: it enough where he just started picking up the pattern.

925
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 5: Do you guys remember when he would come out of

926
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 5: like he'd be in the clubhouse and he'd have this

927
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 5: white terry cloth full length robe on with Rollin's eleven

928
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 5: on the back. I think I had pinch stripes and

929
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 5: walk around with his flip flop song and his shower

930
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 5: shoes and this white terry cloth rope. You just wanted

931
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 5: to get him like the newspaper and a pipe.

932
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: And this easy chair fireside chat with j Rowl.

933
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 2: He'd spread around in that thing thinking he was the cats.

934
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: Me he's a Hall of Famer just for that robe.

935
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: Last one, Jim, This is just for you, buddy, because

936
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: I get a lot of questions about it's over the

937
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: past several weeks, we haven't had This is from Jason

938
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: wfd on YouTube. We haven't had any garden talk with

939
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: Jim recently. The middle of summer. It's the middle of summer.

940
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,320
Speaker 1: The people are clamoring, they are clamoring for an update,

941
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 1: and then he puts in parentheses it's me, I'm the people.

942
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: So Jason wfd on YouTube wants to know how the

943
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: gardens grow, How Jimmy's garden growing.

944
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 5: I'm having a championship type season in the garden. Really, yeah,

945
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 5: great season. I'm looking at it now. It's it's like

946
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 5: a jungle out, dare I I but I know where

947
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 5: everything is.

948
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 2: You know, I things.

949
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,360
Speaker 5: Hide because I plant a lot of stuff and I

950
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 5: trail us it all up so it gets all gets sunlight.

951
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 5: But tomatoes are killing it. Jalapenoss. I got cayanes that

952
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 5: are yeah, I got cayennes that are bigger than rubens nose.

953
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 2: Look at that cayenne. Wowian that.

954
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 5: I will dry those and then grind it, and you know,

955
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 5: you sprinkle them on stuff. So this is an Look

956
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 5: this nice pablano I just picked this morning.

957
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 3: Oh wow, how spicy of those, jim.

958
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 2: These are pretty mild.

959
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 5: They're great stuffed, and then you can dry them and

960
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 5: make what they call ancho powder. Picked a nice cucumber

961
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 5: about an hour ago.

962
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: Look at that thing.

963
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 3: Wow, that was professionally done.

964
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 2: That's beauty.

965
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 3: And uh then half an acre back there.

966
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 2: You got a nice summer squash I picked.

967
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 5: And uh, I got some beautiful butternut squashes coming.

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00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 2: But it's a little early.

969
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 5: I plant those a little later, because nothing worse than

970
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 5: a butternut squash.

971
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 2: In the summer.

972
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 5: You want that come in September October. And then these

973
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 5: are my, uh my coudou gras these.

974
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 4: Tomato tomatoes Jim Yes, wow, Jim, what a perfect tomato.

975
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 2: That's a nice one.

976
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 5: I'll slice that up maybe uh a little American cheese, mayo, salt,

977
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 5: pepper on bread and have that like nice tomato sandwich.

978
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 2: Nothing like it.

979
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: That was a sandwich Jimmy would bring every once in

980
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: a while he'd bring me some tomatoes to the press

981
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: box and he'd say, this is the sandwich you have

982
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: to make, and then he got me turned onto those

983
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 1: sandwiches a little. That's great. That is a great summer

984
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: sunny day. Take it out in the backyard, sit in

985
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: a chair, eat one of those sandwiches. Absolutely gorgeous. A

986
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: little and as a side. You know who loved talking

987
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 1: tomatoes with Jim Salisbury, Jimmy Rollins.

988
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 2: He did you remember that, Jimmy.

989
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy took a great tomatoes. He took a great interest.

990
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: There are so many times I would you know, especially

991
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: playing days and after his playing days, Jimmy would always

992
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: like bring up, like Jim, tell me, how's your garden going?

993
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: This summer, you know, and they would get in this

994
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: deep talk.

995
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 2: About Jim's tomatoes. Yeah, Jim, you have.

996
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 4: A lot of talents, man, but Zero really really taken

997
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 4: it to the next level on with the dirt.

998
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 3: You're a man in the dirt.

999
00:48:56,239 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 5: I am. I'm dirty man, It's uh. And I got

1000
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 5: some beautiful flowers too. I have lots of cosmos sunflowers

1001
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 5: zinny Is and I have these things there. They're known

1002
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 5: as Mexican sunflowers. They're awesome and they go everywhere. So

1003
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 5: I also enjoy a lot of color in the garden,

1004
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 5: a lot of nice flowers like that.

1005
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 2: Diversity.

1006
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, but sometimes you end up getting in fights with

1007
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 5: bees and I I had a big battle yesterday with

1008
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 5: a big bee's nest and I got nailed.

1009
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 2: Look at that, so the.

1010
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 3: Green film became red.

1011
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 2: It's swollen. Yeah, so you gotta be careful.

1012
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 5: But you know, I wish I could I traded all

1013
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 5: in to be able to play golf as good as Reuben.

1014
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 2: And you, Todd, You're.

1015
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 3: A good golfer, good days, bad days.

1016
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hits the crap out of it.

1017
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 3: Every God's got a nice smooth swing man, impressive.

1018
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 5: A lot of leverage, and you get a lot of leverage.

1019
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: And yeah, I wish I could play man, I wish

1020
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: I could play more. I wish I wish I could

1021
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: play like Ruben, and I wish I could garden like Jim,

1022
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: and everything would be looking a lot better for me.

1023
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: So well, that was great. We got finally got Jim's

1024
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: garden update. Hopefully we can get more as we head

1025
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: into the fall and we see the butternut squash come in, Jim,

1026
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: They're gonna maybe you can maybe you could drop ah

1027
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: a recipe on us or two. You know, no doubt

1028
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: for those people that I'm wanna take advantage so out there. Yeah,

1029
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:34,280
Speaker 1: we'll be so Phillies again. Ten game road trip begins

1030
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: on Friday night against the Rangers. We will be back

1031
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: next week.

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Speaker 2: Smell you late boys, you Jim.

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