WEBVTT - Schwarbombs, Schwarbombs, Schwarbombs! 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.520 Hi, This is Kyle Skorber, and welcome to the Philly Show. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:13.200 Schwar Bombs. They're all over the place, guys. Kyle Schwarber's 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.720 homered in five consecutive games. Zach Wheeler's throwing like three 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.360 pitches in an inning. They beat the Red Sox on 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:25.680 Tuesday night at Fenway Pac. Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.680 Todd so lucky. It's Wednesday, May thirteenth, twenty twenty six. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:38.159 Jim back up at Fenway Pac. Schwarber I heard. I 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.680 was watching the postgame show on Tuesday night, and you know, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.519 I like how he says, you know, he was being 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.159 asked about hit homering in five consecutive games, and I 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.760 liked his answer about you know, he says he kind 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.800 of says it all the time, but like that's something 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.320 in a few years down the road, I'll crack a 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.080 beerd and sitting on my front porch and do a 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:03.080 little bit of reflection. What was it like seeing him 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.520 hit that fifth home fifth straight homer last night? 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:08.880 And right after you said that, when he said I'll 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.400 crack a beer and on the porch and think about it, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.560 the cameras went off and I said to him if 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.000 I were you, I have a beer right now. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.120 Anyway, Wait, wait, Jimmy, if that's one thing and the 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.360 other thing, tell us about the nostalgia of you being 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.919 back at the at the Boston's Boston's Mecca. 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.600 I came here a lot as a kid. I don't 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.280 even want to tell you what year I saw my 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.400 first game here, But professionally I've been coming here for 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:42.360 thirty plus years. You know, covered the four World Series 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:47.640 here and many many many games. So but you know, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:52.240 schwar bomb he's carpet bombing. I mean, he's amazing. What 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.520 a month of May. It started off on May first 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:59.840 in Miami with eight straight strikeouts in eight plate appearance, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:04.160 and then now the streak is totally reversed. He's homered 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.760 in five games. And it's like that great Brandon marsh 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.920 quote the other day about you know, oh there's another, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.400 and there's another, and there's another. You expect it, and 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.720 you know, thank goodness he got he hit that home 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.720 run because he got them off to a good start. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.200 They hit two balls over the wall on Tuesday night. 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.240 Schwarver hit home run. Bryce and Start hit the ground 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.960 room double and that was your offense. And the pitching 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.920 was really great, and it had to be because there 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.960 wasn't a lot of offense that Brian Baos as the 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.079 bulk guy, did a great job for the Red Sox. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:44.000 But eleven and three under Donny ball game and nine, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.040 they're up to nine quality starts under Don Mattingly in 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:55.000 those in those fourteen games. I mean somewhere in Ontario, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.680 Rob Thompson is saying, where the hell were my quality 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:58.960 game qualities. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:07.080 There? Yeah, Schwarber's been absolutely ridiculous over the last you know, 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.520 several games, and you know. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.720 You know what's you know, you know what's been cool 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.280 about what's kind of crazy about Schwarber is that you 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.320 almost don't get surprised. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:19.880 I'm not even surprised by it. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:26.320 Right, He's he hits home runs with such regularity, and 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.600 you know, he goes into these, as you said, cars 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.679 starts carpet bombing, and it's almost like, well, you sort 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.640 of expect it now because he's hot, and someone's gonna 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.560 throwing over the middle of the plate and guess what's 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.680 gonna happen to it. It's gonna be crushed and go 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.240 out of the ballpark. And it's just weird that it's become. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.880 I mean, it's something that we should be really reveling, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.480 which we are in But I sometimes watch it and 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.840 I'm like, he's just doing it again, which is which 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.680 is something that is astounding because this is not how 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.040 base fall typically works. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.600 Well, it's like there's a Sunday Mother's Day homers in 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.160 his first two bats and in the back of your 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.080 mind and going, I know this is a long shot, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:12.040 but maybe he can hit for hit and I have 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:13.880 another four home run game. I mean, if there's a 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.960 guy that could possibly do it, you gom, let's keep 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.919 an eye on this one because he has been just 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.559 absolutely amazing. I was looking at his uh stat cast 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.119 page and just see a lot of like dark dark 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:34.240 dark red. That's that means red means flow. There's i 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:38.960 mean expected slug average exit v low, hard hit rate, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.400 bat speed, the elite bat speeds just so quick through 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.440 the zone. It's so much fun to watch him swing 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:49.120 and like the just how you know, a fishing he 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.880 is with his swing. You know, there's no crazy movements 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:57.200 or whatever. His hands there through the zone smokes every ball. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:57.920 It's just. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:04:59.839 Click. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.800 Yep, that's exactly right. It's a great way. It's like 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.520 a gun going off with with Kyle Schwbard, so just 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.760 you know he's on a role man. I was looking 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.080 at that list of five Phillies with five straight home 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:17.080 runs and o'double Herrera's on that list. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:19.839 Think of that. I don't. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.679 I remember what a rule five pick? 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.400 What a rule five pick? Who drafted that guy? 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:27.800 Mm hmmm. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.720 He had a he had a spotty, uh spotty tenure 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:38.680 there at the Phillies. But I mean, look at those names, man, Dick, Allen, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.640 Schmidt a brave you, Chase Chase did it twice two times, 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.799 and obviously Turner as well. But I mean, it's really 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.080 really cool to it's really cool to line him up man. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.680 And there's more to come with this guy, because I 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.880 don't think there's anything stopping him as long as he 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:58.480 stays healthy. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.760 Knockwood, Yeah, you know else is cool. Starting pitching is cool. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.039 It's like that old commercial with Glavin and Maddox. You know, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.560 chicks do dig long ball, but starting pitching is pretty cool. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.240 And Zach Wheeler last night was that was pretty fun too? 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.000 How was that upcoats? Impersonal? Jim? 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.600 As he was working so quick and so efficient and 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.279 throwing so many strikes. I wrote my story. He's pitching 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.839 like he was double parked out in Kenmore Square. That's 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.479 probably I thought we were going to be out of 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.479 there in an hour and fifty minutes. He was get 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.159 the ball, throw the ball. And that's a great stat 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:42.160 from Cassela. He's amazing coming up with those those audities 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.599 and those stats. That's a great one. I mean, so 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.320 he was sixteen pitches three innings through one time through 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:53.120 the order, and thirteen of them were strikes. He had 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.640 four innings of eight or fewer pitches. It was just amazing. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.680 So when he did have that at one or two 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.280 innings where the pitch count swelled a little bit and 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.040 only put him up to eighty five pitches after seven innings, So, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.440 I mean, I was wondering if Mattingly was gonna take 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.400 him out because the swings did get better. His last 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.240 out of the seventh inning came off to the bat 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.840 at one hundred and three miles an hour. The location 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.720 just wavered a little bit. The looks were getting better 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:23.040 at him. But you know, Mattingly gave him those first 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.480 two batters to get to the left handers and Alvarado 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.200 took over. But a magnificent performance from Zach. You know, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:36.400 I was thinking about this. He's nineteen days shy of 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:41.239 his thirty sixth birthday. He's just less than eight months, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.360 eight full months removed from pretty major surgery, and after 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.000 four starts, to me, he's answering that question, is he's 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.000 still one of the best in baseball? I think yes, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:54.080 the answer last three starts are all quality. The stuff 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.400 was up to ninety six last night. He might have 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.679 been playing possum on that velocity thing in the minors. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.520 Well not Yeah, you have to conclude that, but he 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.360 seems to be I think. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.240 I think one of the cool things that you know 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.360 that he has become. He's not you know, there was 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:14.120 a time when he. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.000 Was power power power. Now he really does pitch. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.400 I mean we referenced Greg Maddox a little bit just 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.760 because of the efficiency of with which he was working. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:26.480 But he's now a pitcher. 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.440 He's he's got great stuff, but he also pitches. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.120 He uses uses. 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.840 All the quadrants. He breaks it up in the eighths. Actually, 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.800 I mean he he does break up that that that 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.120 strikes zone in a lot of different ways, maybe into 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.800 ninths or whatever. But but he's one of those guys 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:53.040 that has the ability to, you know, to place pitches 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.800 where he wants to and with u with a complete arsenal. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.000 You know, he goes to the cutter and now he's 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.240 got the splitter and the sweeper and curveball. I mean, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.120 he's you know, the four Obviously, the four seamer and 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.000 the sinker continue to be his bread and butter. 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.959 But he pitches man and that's that's the heat. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.160 That's the separator between he and the rest of the world, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:15.960 I think, and that's why he's one of the best 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:16.800 pitchers in the game. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.080 And I always felt like even. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.120 If he had his velocity velos, he wasn't the same 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.199 that he'd be able to pitch like he pitched yesterday, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.840 that he'd be able to get quick outs. And I 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.040 can understand the process on on what Boston was trying 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.400 to do. I mean, the best way to get to 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.319 these guys is to try to get him early. They 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.680 did hit some balls hard on him. They had like 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.280 ten hard hit balls during the course of that game. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.120 That's a lot for Zach. But the defense played well 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.199 enough and they made the plays they had to. Got 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.960 a couple of double plays, which he's been waiting to see, 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.400 like to see that number jump. I think, uh, you know, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.000 when when when the guy hits the ball in the 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:58.800 place where he wants them to hit it in a 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.040 double play situation, want to be able to turn those 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.760 double plays. And that's what happened yesterday. A really good 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.120 one to to Turner's right, the very first one where 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.480 he planned and made a nice strong throat to stop. 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.200 That was a big one right out of the shoot. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.560 So you know, that's the kind of stuff you need 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.320 to be efficient. But he pitches man and he's one 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.400 of the best pitchers in the game. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.200 Because of it, you got double plays in the big 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:27.360 double plays in the second and third inning from Unner 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:32.120 and Stott. And one thing that was interesting, you know, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:36.120 postgame in the clubhouse, is he admitted he had nothing 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.400 in the bullpen. He said, I was lucky if I 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.120 threw three strikes, had no idea which way the start 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.319 was going to go. He actually said I was a 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.559 little nervous coming out of the bullpen because I was 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.959 so bad in the bullpen. That was something you don't 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:53.240 hear from Zach Wheeler very often, but he quickly dialed 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:53.560 it in. 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.040 He seems to be so at easy of himself too, right. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.040 You know, he's almost kind of like joking about it, right, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.239 I mean, doesn't he seem to be like super comfortable 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.880 with him? I mean, not that he wasn't necessarily before, 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.600 but more so maybe at least in talking to us, like. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:15.000 No questions, Yeah, no question. He seems like he's stopping 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.520 to smell the roses a little bit, you know, enjoying, 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.960 enjoying the journey. Maybe it's comes with age and surviving 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:28.440 a serious surgery, but yeah, he seems at ease. He's 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:33.640 very quotable and insightful, and and really he's enjoying this ride. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.800 Not that he didn't always enjoy it, but I think 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:40.120 you're right. He there is a real ease to how 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.680 he is, uh, just kind of going through it all well. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.560 He said. As he was walking in from the bullpen, 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.040 he said, he was telling Jay's, Wow, this is pretty cool. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.240 A lot of history here. This is pretty neat. I 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.000 I want to pitch on the pitch at Fenway. Pretty 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.080 cool after he just had the world's worst bullpen session. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.600 I mean, that's a that's a perfect example. We talked 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.839 about it in the post game as well, that you know, 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.360 what do you think about pitching and families that Wow, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.560 he looked out there and that he could feel the energy, 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:11.960 he could sense the energy of It's pretty cool. Yeah, Hey, 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.320 that does happen with age, and it also happens with 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.520 a forty million dollar contract that you know, not that 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.320 he wasn't comfortable before. But I think you're right. I 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.920 think that you're right. I think that he's I think 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.880 you hit it right on the head man. He's he's 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:33.240 enjoying his space in the game right now, and while 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.160 he is still super competitive, I think he's also getting 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.520 a chance to really enjoy being a major league baseball 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.080 player and being one of the best in the game. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:43.839 Hey, good for him, Good for him for doing that. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:50.600 Really happy for him. That attitude. I think they could 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.000 use a little more of that in the postseason. Just 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:58.080 enjoy where you're at and see what happens in set 0:12:58.080 --> 0:12:59.960 of grinding and stressing someone. 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.199 You don't want those sphincters to tighten up. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.520 Great, great reference to the sphincter. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.680 I love it. 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Can't remember that. 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.720 I don't think it was I home my first bat. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.720 I struck out on three pitches and it was a guy. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:00.080 It was a guy. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.640 I think it was an ambidextrous picture. It was a 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.720 right hander, but he also threw left hand every once 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.880 in a while. I can't remember really good at curveball. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.320 I was done, pitch is gone. It was Greg Harris. 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.280 It's exactly who it was. I think he got me 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.040 on three pitches and I walked back. It was a 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.720 long walk back from that from that circle all the 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.720 way to the dugout, and they just ate me alive 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.520 because they, I mean, the fans just ate me alive. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:26.160 It was funny. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.720 I'm not sure if I was an Indian or I 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.120 think it was an Angel anyway, but I actually won 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.240 a game against Todd Froworth. I think I got a 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.680 base hit to put us ahead in like the extra 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.840 innings or something. When I was with the Cleveland Indians. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.280 Well, here here's what I looked at that. Yeah, you 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.040 went two for four in your career at friend Way. 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.600 But there was a game at Fenway. I think it 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:55.680 was in ninety four with Cleveland. You came into the 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.960 game in the ninth inning, eighth or ninth inning. You 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:03.720 pinch ran four Hall of Famer, Come on, rubin, Eddie Murray, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.840 Eddie Murray. You pinch ran for Eddie Murray. You scored 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.280 the game tying run in the top of the ninth, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.639 So I do it, and then and then you and 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.879 then you got a base knock in the eleventh against 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:20.240 Todd Froworthy scored Albert bell As an insurance run in 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.000 like a fourteen to ten, fifteen to ten victory over 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:23.760 the Red Sox. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.440 So, okay, I got an insurance run. Okay, Yeah, I 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.160 thought I was a team ahead, But that's okay. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:34.840 You scored the game tying run, though, How you do it? Yeah? 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.800 Did you give a lot of interviews after the game? 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.720 I do not remember that, but I do remember Charlie Manuel, 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.040 who was the hitting coach at the time. I remember 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.240 Charlie Mannuell saying, hey, man, it's a great job. I mean, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.080 you you never get a chance to play and you 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.000 still contributed to a win. I mean, I think I 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:58.920 got like sixty at bats that year if that, and uh, 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.520 maybe even less, but you know, with the opportunity, I 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.800 wasn't going to get opportunities to play in that unbelievable 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.440 outfield when you got Bell and Lofton and Ramirez. You 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:13.399 ain't playing, you're sitting, and and it was it was 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.480 nice to be able to contribute to you know, some 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.439 some cause or some win. And uh and Charlie and 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:20.760 I acknowledge that. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:21.240 That's cool. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:23.320 You're a big leaguer. That's special. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.760 Yeah, that's awesome, man. I mean, come on, pinch running 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.480 for Freddie Murray alone would be a thrill. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:28.639 All right. 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.920 So my very first, my very first pinch hit, pinch run, 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.720 my very first appearance on a field was for pinch 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.919 running for a Hall of Famer Dave Parker. 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:42.160 Wow, that's cool. How about that the Cobra, that's right, 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:43.040 the cobra. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.880 Okay, So Jim, Jim's book will have all that. 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:55.800 That's right, Jim. Phillies are twenty and twenty two. Guys. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:19:00.280 They're just at the quarter mark, the quarter poll, whatever 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.280 you want to call it. And they won eleven out 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:09.480 of their last fourteen playing good ball. Show you what 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:14.840 they're Phillies have the second best, second best record in 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.000 Major League Baseball since the managerial chains are eleven and thirteen. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.880 Only the Rays are better. They're twelve and two. Right 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:26.000 behind the Phillies are the Brewers, Cardinals, Cubs. So they're 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:31.920 playing they're playing good ball right now, and I think 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.480 they're like four games back in the wildcard l Wildcard. 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.719 I know it's like it's only May whatever, but so 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.440 here's my question. You guys that the the midway point 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.760 of the season is going to be June twenty fifth, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.480 will be the eighty first game of the season. Will 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:51.159 the Phillies be that third wildcard team? Will they have 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.399 crept back in and made up all that ground in 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:58.480 the next forty games. They have a pretty favorable schedule 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:03.959 coming up. I think they've got like after the Red Sox, 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.399 they play like including the Red Sox, I guess they 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:11.919 play eighteen consecutive games against teams with Oh I'm sorry, 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.720 the next eighteen actually are a little bit more challenging. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.800 The next eighteen games after this Red Sox series against 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.959 teams with winning records, the Pirates, the Reds, the Guardians, 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.240 six against the Padres, the Dodgers, and then things soften 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.359 up a little bit. In June, they play the White Sox, 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:32.840 Blue Jays, Marlins, Mets Nationals. You what do you see 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:33.360 coming up? 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.480 You know, I think they're going to play in October. 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:42.639 I still do. In the world we live in with 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:48.159 three wildcard teams, I still think they get there. Not 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:50.920 sure about the division, and I wouldn't worry about it 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.080 right now. The only thing I would be worried about, 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.840 not even i'd focus on, is getting to five hundred. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.560 You were ten games under five hundred when they made 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:04.119 the managerial change. You woke up this morning two games 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.200 under five hundred. So I'm stealing a little bit of 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.520 Rob Thompson's philosophy. When he took over in twenty twenty two. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.640 His goal and he told them, let's get to five 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.480 hundred and then let's worry about or focus on, getting 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.679 five games over five hundred, and then we'll focus on 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.240 getting five more games, ten games over five hundred, small 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.280 bites of the apple. That's the only thing I would 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.200 be focused on, and the rest will take care of itself. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:33.080 So June twenty fifth, will they be on the wildcard grid? 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.720 I'm going to say yes, Keep winning the series, keep 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:39.199 taking small bites of the Apple. 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.359 I'll say, yes, yeah, I totally agree with that. 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:45.000 I mean, you're seeing the team be what we thought 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.480 this team would be from the outset. I mean, this 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:50.480 is basically what we thought we'd be seeing from this team. 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.760 And in fact, I even thought that they'd be better 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:55.679 as far as they're starting pitching. 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:56.280 This concern. 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.160 I really thought it'd be much better offensively. 0:21:59.280 --> 0:21:59.919 You just didn't know. 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:02.359 You thought you got, you know, the back of the 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.480 baseball cards and all that stuff would come through, but 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.320 you just didn't know whether they'd be swinging the bats 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.400 well all the way through. It's a little bit streaky, 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:13.560 and you're getting a lot of contribution from guys that 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.280 you weren't sure you would get contributions from, like marsh 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.320 who's having a heck of a start to the season. 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:23.320