Speaker 1: Hi, This is Chase Utley and this is the Phillies Show. Hi, everybody,
Speaker 1: Welcome to The Phillies Show with Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury.
Speaker 2: I'm Todd's lucky.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, June twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. The
Speaker 1: Phillies Thursday night reached the halfway point of their season.
Speaker 1: They played eighty one games. They have the best record
Speaker 1: in baseball. They are on pace to win one hundred
Speaker 1: and six games for the season, which would be a
Speaker 1: franchise record.
Speaker 2: But it was kind of a disaster of a night
Speaker 2: for the Phillies.
Speaker 1: Potentially probably Spencer Turnbull earlier in the day goes on
Speaker 1: the fifteen day injured list with a strained right lat
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss six to eight weeks.
Speaker 2: And then late in the game.
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber leaves because of left groin tightness. And then
Speaker 1: in the final play of the game, Bryce Harper pulls
Speaker 1: up lame as he's running the first base with a
Speaker 1: left hamstring injury. The Phillies said they will know more
Speaker 1: on Friday, which is today, But man, oh man, and
Speaker 1: talk about it coming fast and furious. You know, you
Speaker 1: lose Turnbull, you already have Walker on the Angel list.
Speaker 1: Now you're gonna have Michael Mercato get into the rotation.
Speaker 1: But losing Harper and Schwarber potentially that that's going to
Speaker 1: be tough to overcome.
Speaker 3: It was your proverbial ship show yesterday on so many levels.
Speaker 3: I mean we're talking about I mean, we're talking about
Speaker 3: on so many doves from nine o'clock on. I mean,
Speaker 3: things discuss disastrous on on the for the country and
Speaker 3: and for the Phillies. But I gotta say, I gotta
Speaker 3: say this, if there's a team that can handle the
Speaker 3: and be resilient enough to be able to handle this
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, I think it's the Phillies that said,
Speaker 3: you know sometimes you know, this is a war of attrition,
Speaker 3: and you know, one of the biggest concerns that Rob
Speaker 3: Thompson had, I'm sure as a GM Dave Debrowski, you're
Speaker 3: a president of Baseball offs all those guys in the
Speaker 3: front office, is okay, we got to worry about injury.
Speaker 3: Now you've got them piling up at a ridiculous rate. Now,
Speaker 3: the fact that they happen this early is actually not
Speaker 3: the worst thing in the world. JT happened early. He
Speaker 3: should be back. Turner's stuff happened early. He's back and playing,
Speaker 3: but you know, keep losing guys like this, and it
Speaker 3: makes it very, very tough. I mean, the rest of
Speaker 3: the rest of the league at some point may be
Speaker 3: catching up again. I say this in so much that
Speaker 3: they're the Phillies, have the ability and have had the
Speaker 3: next man up and mentality. But when you start getting
Speaker 3: like the next three men up or four men up,
Speaker 3: it gets a little daunting. My biggest concern is a pitching.
Speaker 3: I'm less concerned about the offense. I'm more concerned about
Speaker 3: the pitching because now you've lost Taiwan Walker to a
Speaker 3: blister or a hot spot and he can't throw a
Speaker 3: split and it's not very good, and he hasn't been
Speaker 3: very good. And then you have Spencer Turnbull, who's going
Speaker 3: to be sort of like the savior in that rotation,
Speaker 3: and now he's down. So the next man up and
Speaker 3: mentality becomes a little bit more difficult when you have
Speaker 3: to go with the Michael Mercado, who's I like him,
Speaker 3: but he's not a you know, proven guy, and so
Speaker 3: you start talking about starting pitching depth. It becomes a
Speaker 3: little bit more daunting for the guys, Jim.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, next man up is a beautiful thing to say.
Speaker 4: It's a great quality for a team to have, and
Speaker 4: this team has indeed had it. You know. He lost
Speaker 4: Harper for a good stretch in twenty twenty two with
Speaker 4: the thumb injury, the broken thumb, and then he had
Speaker 4: the elbow. But they've overcome losses to key players before.
Speaker 4: They are tough. They are resilient. But even the toughest
Speaker 4: and most resilient team has its limits. And you're looking
Speaker 4: at real Mudo Schwarber for all the handwringing early in
Speaker 4: the season about you know, is he a good leadoff man?
Speaker 4: Can this team survive with him in the leadoff man?
Speaker 4: He's been exceptional. They've done a great job. Look at
Speaker 4: the record, Look at the basis centers they've done. Look
Speaker 4: at the Knights. They jump out to one nothing leads
Speaker 4: or have big first innings and demoralize the other team instantly.
Speaker 4: And Harper been the best player in baseball pretty much
Speaker 4: since May one. He was the player of the month
Speaker 4: in May, is maybe going to be the player He
Speaker 4: might be the player of the month in June. Even
Speaker 4: with this huge losses. There are limits, you know, the
Speaker 4: goofiest cliche. Guys are going to have to step up,
Speaker 4: but you can only absorb so many losses. They have
Speaker 4: to hope neither one of these is serious. I think
Speaker 4: there's a chance that Schwarber's is not. That seemed to
Speaker 4: have a precautionary bent to it, but it was quite alarming.
Speaker 4: As you know, Harper's accelerating to the bag, all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, he's grabbing his left hamstring that had the
Speaker 4: look of a pop or something acute, even if it's
Speaker 4: mild like the old grade one. You're looking at three
Speaker 4: to four weeks, right, so we have to wait till
Speaker 4: what comes back in terms of the evaluations. But it
Speaker 4: didn't look good. Injuries continue to test this team, Injuries
Speaker 4: to core important important pieces. But this team has been
Speaker 4: built since day one on starting pitching and knock on wood,
Speaker 4: and thank goodness, you know, just this week they've had
Speaker 4: a couple of setbacks in the starting pitching, but not
Speaker 4: to the bedrock of that rotation, not to the elite
Speaker 4: level talent that has that you've built this team on it,
Speaker 4: that has carried this team so far. But you know
Speaker 4: there are limits. You have to hope these things pass
Speaker 4: quickly and they are not serious. But I love where
Speaker 4: the team is at the halfway point. Eight games up
Speaker 4: pays for one hundred and eight wins. But these are
Speaker 4: little things. Yeah, you gotta you gotta take them serious,
Speaker 4: and you've gotta be a little concerned about it because
Speaker 4: these are such important guys.
Speaker 2: Rubin, So you said you're more concerned about the pitching.
Speaker 1: Is it because you're concerned about if something happens to
Speaker 1: the other four guys, who's going to step up?
Speaker 2: Or are you more concerned about the number five?
Speaker 1: And I don't say that because I feel like the
Speaker 1: first four guys in that rotation are so good they
Speaker 1: could you know, they can handle Michael Mercado potentially right
Speaker 1: or whoever, however long it goes. So what's what's your
Speaker 1: concern with the rotation? Because when I looked at I
Speaker 1: was like, oh Man Harper and if they lose Arpurn Schorber,
Speaker 1: that's a killer for the offense.
Speaker 5: But you feel differently, Yeah, to me, it's about whether
Speaker 5: or not they lose one of the core play those
Speaker 5: other core four. And when I say four four, you
Speaker 5: know we're talking about Nola, Wheeler, Sanchez and Suarez. I
Speaker 5: mean we lose one of those those Phillies who lose
Speaker 5: one of those guys, and you're talking now, we're starting
Speaker 5: as talk disastrous.
Speaker 3: Right now, it's it's really super concerning. But then you
Speaker 3: start losing, then you start losing multiples of those pieces,
Speaker 3: and especially in the rotation, then it becomes disastrous. And
Speaker 3: I think that's one of the reasons why it's so
Speaker 3: important for Dave Dombrowski to wait and to settle in
Speaker 3: and to surmise what his real needs are going to
Speaker 3: be as we get closer and closer to that trade deadline,
Speaker 3: because these are the things that happen. It's one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty two games. And you know, when I was
Speaker 3: in this position to be a buyer, you know, you
Speaker 3: sort of, Okay, we needed a right fielder, we needed
Speaker 3: a new starter, we needed whatever. But you sort of
Speaker 3: have to wait to see as close to the deadline
Speaker 3: as you possibly can, and sometimes you're forced to do
Speaker 3: it because there's so many teams, especially now there's so
Speaker 3: many teams sort of in the wild card race, and
Speaker 3: you don't know who's going to be selling, who's buying.
Speaker 3: But in this case, in the Phillies case, I mean,
Speaker 3: you got to really assess what do I really need.
Speaker 3: God forbid they have a blowout in one of those
Speaker 3: core for starters, then you're gonna go get a start.
Speaker 3: That's what you're gonna do, because if you got Turnbull down,
Speaker 3: you got an ineffective Taiwan Walker. Now you have to
Speaker 3: build for if you're thinking about winning the World Series,
Speaker 3: you need another start first and foremost. Right now, I'm
Speaker 3: you know, I'm all about pitching. I'm always about pitching,
Speaker 3: because at some point those players who pulled their hamstrings
Speaker 3: or got those soft tissue injuries, they'll be back. That
Speaker 3: doesn't worry me nearly as much as making sure the
Speaker 3: guys on the mound can keep guys and they can
Speaker 3: keep this team in the in the game, as they
Speaker 3: have done so well this year.
Speaker 2: So Michael Mercato, I guess they haven't.
Speaker 1: Phillies have an off day on Monday, so they could
Speaker 1: skip the fifth starter, so Mercado could make two or
Speaker 1: three depending on what they do with the rotation before
Speaker 1: the break, and then after that, who knows. But you
Speaker 1: talk about like depth behind you know that your concerns
Speaker 1: with depth. I was looking at just the Triple A
Speaker 1: performers right now, maybe the next guy up if something
Speaker 1: would happen, you know, is Rob Thompson likes to say,
Speaker 1: if somebody takes a shinberger, a line drive comebacker off,
Speaker 1: you know, it has to leave a game earlier, miss
Speaker 1: a game or two or something like that. Colby Allard,
Speaker 1: he's on the forty man roster. He was not good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they took him off the roster and put him on
Speaker 1: the He's back now, uh four one five ERA in
Speaker 1: his last seven appearances in Triple A two four ninety
Speaker 1: eight his last four games. So based on the fact
Speaker 1: that he's on the forty man and he's pitching relatively well,
Speaker 1: he'd probably be the next guy up. But then you're
Speaker 1: looking at Tyler Phillips, who Dave Dombrowski loved in spring
Speaker 1: training seven and three fourty eight nine with the Iron Pigs,
Speaker 1: David Buchanan four and three, five one nine ERA.
Speaker 2: That would be an awesome story, but you know we're not.
Speaker 1: Phillies are trying to win games, not you know, make
Speaker 1: awesome stories.
Speaker 2: The killer, I think is just Mick Abel. He's he is.
Speaker 1: It's it's killing him. It's killing him. Like he would
Speaker 1: be the guy right now. That would be up if
Speaker 1: he was doing what everybody expected to do. He's one
Speaker 1: in seven seven point zero eight e RA in twelve
Speaker 1: starts the season, and his last five starts a nine
Speaker 1: points seven zero ARA, eighteen walks, seventeen strikeouts in twenty
Speaker 1: one in the thirty innings in this last five games,
Speaker 1: he's walked more than he has struck out.
Speaker 2: So that's that's a that's a that's a kill.
Speaker 4: This is the time he should be knocking at the
Speaker 4: door and blowing down the door in terms of he's
Speaker 4: been around enough a little bit where there should be
Speaker 4: some signs of readiness. I'm not saying all the way,
Speaker 4: but from signs of readiness, and there is a need,
Speaker 4: you know, and he's just not doing it. I think
Speaker 4: back to Kyle Kendrick in OH seven. You know, he
Speaker 4: came up and filled the breach when they had a
Speaker 4: problem there. They need kind of somebody like that at
Speaker 4: least at the ready. If another need arises, and certainly
Speaker 4: if Mercata is not the answer, there will be a
Speaker 4: need because uh, you know, Turble's going to need more time.
Speaker 4: This is how injuries go. He comes out of the
Speaker 4: game the other day with a little tightness and out
Speaker 4: at six eight weeks.
Speaker 2: Or six weeks yeah, six eight weeks yeah.
Speaker 4: Kids, So you never know until the evaluation happens. But uh,
Speaker 4: Mick Abel's inability to throw strikes at the core of pitching,
Speaker 4: throws strikes right at the most fundamental thing the pitcher
Speaker 4: needs to do is throw strikes, and he's not doing it.
Speaker 4: It's just really a head scratcher.
Speaker 3: So here's so, here's where if I'm sitting there, I'm
Speaker 3: a GM and I have another injury and I have
Speaker 3: to replace a player, especially on the mound. I need
Speaker 3: to get somebody I can trust. And when I say trust,
Speaker 3: someone I know will be able to step on the
Speaker 3: mound at a major league game and be able to
Speaker 3: throw a strike. And it doesn't matter with two different pitches,
Speaker 3: whether it's a fast ball or slide. I need somebody
Speaker 3: who can throw strikes, and I need somebody who can
Speaker 3: keep me in the baseball game for five innings with
Speaker 3: this offense. Now, the offense is taking a strike, taking
Speaker 3: a couple of hits. But I'm going to go to
Speaker 3: a guy like Buchanot because I know the guy's going
Speaker 3: to get up there and throw a strike, or somebody
Speaker 3: that I know is going to or someone else. But
Speaker 3: I say like Buchanan because just as you said, Jim,
Speaker 3: you know, we brought Kyle Kendrick to the big leagues
Speaker 3: because we figured, you know what, he's gonna throw a sinker,
Speaker 3: We're gonna catch it when they hit it on the ground,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna get it out. And that's exactly what
Speaker 3: Kyle Kendrick did. And he didn't do anything dazzling, little sinker,
Speaker 3: little slider, occasional change up, but he got the ball
Speaker 3: on the ground in the eight up innings. And that's
Speaker 3: what you needed somebody to do. And I think a
Speaker 3: guy like David Buchanan, that's why you have a guy
Speaker 3: like that. Hopefully a Kobe Albert. Albert can throw enough
Speaker 3: strikes to get on the mound and throw a strike.
Speaker 3: And if they can't, and they you know, they have
Speaker 3: somebody who cannot do that, then that's troublesome. And so
Speaker 3: if somebody were to go down, I think that's the
Speaker 3: at least short term answer, someone who who they can
Speaker 3: feel they can trust. Rob Thompson, Caleb Cotham, Dave Dombrowski,
Speaker 3: the guy can stand on that bump it all strike
Speaker 3: all right?
Speaker 4: Can I can I ask this question, Uh, just to
Speaker 4: backtrack and get off the pitching from me, go back
Speaker 4: to Harper and give me a quick answer, because this
Speaker 4: very well could be probably will be dated. But as
Speaker 4: we sit here on Friday morning, how long do we
Speaker 4: think Harper is going to be out? Ruben?
Speaker 3: The man doesn't bruise, and the man doesn't swell. He's
Speaker 3: never fit. I mean, he's a superman. And so if
Speaker 3: it's if it's a it's a Grade two, it's six weeks.
Speaker 3: If it's a Grade one, it's three weeks.
Speaker 4: Todd, how long is price Hopper out?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say three to four weeks. If it looked
Speaker 1: I mean it just it looked really bad. But you
Speaker 1: were right, Ruben, He's had some injuries where it looks.
Speaker 2: Awful and next thing you know, he's back.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a cyborg.
Speaker 2: The man's a cyborgs a cyborg. Jim, what do you think?
Speaker 4: I I and what I know about hamstrings? And he's
Speaker 4: an explosive guy with his legs. I mean, I know
Speaker 4: Marsh made it back quick, but his was quite mild.
Speaker 4: But you know, turn are still he's not running full speed,
Speaker 4: which is a little arksome. I know he's protecting it,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna guess, as we sit here at having
Speaker 4: not heard the medical evaluation, they're gonna be without him
Speaker 4: for a month. I kind of hope I'm wrong that
Speaker 4: it's short of there. I think that's if it's.
Speaker 3: Not a crap, if it's not a cramp, it's six weeks. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's not a cramp, and it's a Grade two, it's
Speaker 3: six to eight weeks, So what do they do? And
Speaker 3: if it is a Grade one, as I said, it's
Speaker 3: going to be three weeks or.
Speaker 1: Four weeks, Okay, So say Harper goes on the injur list,
Speaker 1: which we all kind of expect, Cody Clemens probably gets recalled.
Speaker 1: He's on a rehab assignment. He is healthy, so he
Speaker 1: probably gets recalled. That's how do you handle first base?
Speaker 1: You go with Clemens and Alec Bohm. I hate moving
Speaker 1: Alec Bohmer to first base. And I know that that
Speaker 1: defensive metrics aren't they're very scattershot. But I think he's
Speaker 1: a better third baseman than he is a first baseman.
Speaker 1: I would love to keep him at third base, but
Speaker 1: you can't have I don't know if you can have
Speaker 1: Cody Clemens hit against left hand of pitching. What do
Speaker 1: you how do you handle first base for how however
Speaker 1: long Harper might miss with Marriorfield.
Speaker 3: With Marrorfield plays first base, and they're playing him at
Speaker 3: first base, and they're against the lefty, and Cody Clemens
Speaker 3: is going to do it against the righting, that's what
Speaker 3: you're saying. That's where I and I know with Marriorfield
Speaker 3: hasn't swung the battle that well, but he's gonna have
Speaker 3: to continue to get I mean, they got to try
Speaker 3: to find a way to get him hot or viable
Speaker 3: or someone who's productive. And I think that's the way
Speaker 3: to do it right now.
Speaker 4: Even with the way Sosa swung it while Trey Turner
Speaker 4: was out, you're not gonna put Sosa at third, you know,
Speaker 4: more often and and.
Speaker 6: Move Bome over the first I don't I they may
Speaker 6: do that, but I feel and I think Sosa can
Speaker 6: still get starts at shortstop and at second base. I
Speaker 6: think Maryorfield's gonna go play first base because they got
Speaker 6: to the against something out of.
Speaker 4: It might be a you know, it's certainly an interesting
Speaker 4: idea and has merit as a way, almost like an
Speaker 4: investment to try to get him some pitches, get his
Speaker 4: eyes going, get his hands going, and get his bat going,
Speaker 4: because you really need to get something out of this guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because then you've gotta make a decision because if
Speaker 3: the guy doesn't, it doesn't produce, you may have to
Speaker 3: release the player. Because I mean, I love with Merrifield.
Speaker 3: I love the idea of having them, but it's about
Speaker 3: a production. If and if they give him enough at
Speaker 3: bats and he is now not you know, now he
Speaker 3: is not right using, then they're gonna have to get
Speaker 3: somebody who can do that job, and someone from the
Speaker 3: right side, because.
Speaker 4: Maybe the right side, the reps, the extra reps, the
Speaker 4: pick up and gained reps help him. If you do that,
Speaker 4: you bring him in, you sit him down, and you say, hey,
Speaker 4: I don't want you to worry about a damn thing
Speaker 4: and putting me out there every night, and you're gonna
Speaker 4: be our first basement for And mean, you're a veteran,
Speaker 4: you know you don't scare. You know you're gonna help
Speaker 4: us get through this tough time. Just what happens.
Speaker 3: It's not going to be against the lefty, it's not
Speaker 3: going to be against the right. He's I think he's gonna,
Speaker 3: like Cody Clements said, because Cody's did a nice job.
Speaker 3: He's done a nice job against the right anders when
Speaker 3: he's got a opportunit. But if there's any lefty and
Speaker 3: there's a chance to get him at bats, they're gonna
Speaker 3: they gotta find out. They got to find out really ultimately,
Speaker 3: whether he can be a productive at bat off the
Speaker 3: bench for this team because they need to win a
Speaker 3: World Series and they need to win with twenty six
Speaker 3: really good players. And if Maryfield is not producing in
Speaker 3: any way, shape or for him, I don't feel like
Speaker 3: they have comfort in him to be able to come
Speaker 3: off the bench and do some damage. They may have
Speaker 3: to make him a change.
Speaker 2: They might prove it either way.
Speaker 1: So, you know, Schwarber after the game last night said,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's anything super serious.
Speaker 2: You know, there's maybe, like I.
Speaker 1: Think somebody said, precaution more of a precautionary vibe to it.
Speaker 1: But let's say he goes on the injured list as well,
Speaker 1: just they just want to protect him because he's so
Speaker 1: valuable as well. You don't want him running around blowing
Speaker 1: out his groin or something like that.
Speaker 2: Now you're really digging deep into the bench.
Speaker 1: You've got Buddy Kennedy, who they just picked up, the
Speaker 1: grandson of Don Money Millville High School. He's been swinging
Speaker 1: a good bat in Triple A for the Iron Pigs.
Speaker 1: You got Wes Wilson.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you've got Johann Rojas who could come back.
Speaker 1: He's he just got sent down, but he could come back,
Speaker 1: you know, because of the injury. So you know, did
Speaker 1: did do you bring? How would you handle that? If
Speaker 1: Schwarber got down with the d H spot, with the
Speaker 1: outfield spot, just yeah, the leadoff spot.
Speaker 2: You know, you have Stott hit lead off, you'd have
Speaker 2: Turner hit lead off.
Speaker 1: That's that doesn't seem to be as serious, but that's
Speaker 1: that that's an interesting, interesting one as well.
Speaker 3: Sure, Jim, I.
Speaker 4: Wonder if you may look at Stot there a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but I think you'd have you'd have other options Turner, certainly,
Speaker 4: depending on maybe Alrighty left you or how you set
Speaker 4: up your lineup. But I mean Stott's another guy that
Speaker 4: I think needs to you know, they're halfway through the season.
Speaker 4: He's sputtered at times. Yeah, you know, when when when
Speaker 4: players go down, other players need to pick up the slock.
Speaker 4: It would be really good if he could get it
Speaker 4: going too, more toward what we expected of him this season,
Speaker 4: and we all, I think know it's in there, but
Speaker 4: they could certainly use more out of a guy like that.
Speaker 4: So I might be tempted at times to take a
Speaker 4: peek at him up in the leadoff hole.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's I think Scott's probably the guy. And
Speaker 3: if they don't think that, the if they don't think
Speaker 3: that Johann is ready to go now, he has done
Speaker 3: a pretty good job of getting some sacrifices down and
Speaker 3: and done some things. But I mean, ultimately, if you're
Speaker 3: not if you're not producing, man, you're you're it's not
Speaker 3: a gonna happen. I mean, you've got to leave him
Speaker 3: down there and let him and let him continue to develop.
Speaker 3: It's a tough position to put everybody in. And we
Speaker 3: talked about the next step, you know, the next guy up.
Speaker 3: I don't know that there's necessarily the next guy up.
Speaker 3: Turner's the guy. Put Turner in the one hole, let
Speaker 3: him go. Yeah, put Turner in one in the one hole,
Speaker 3: let him go, can do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, who hits third?
Speaker 4: Who you're texting?
Speaker 3: I'm not texting anybody. I'm trying to figure out who's
Speaker 3: on the roster to be able to come up and
Speaker 3: help these guys.
Speaker 2: Who who do you who do you have hitting third?
Speaker 1: If Harper's Harper's on the injured list, as we as
Speaker 1: we expect.
Speaker 3: You go left right, you can go left right. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know, is it boom?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Do you take the do you slide him out of
Speaker 3: the fore hole and put him in there? I don't
Speaker 3: know who goes into the four hole. It's you're in
Speaker 3: a bit of a conundrum when you're losing two guys
Speaker 3: in the top top three of your line.
Speaker 4: Everybody lost three actually with j C.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 7: It's a conundrum. And Rob Thompson's gonna have to do
Speaker 7: some serious managing. I mean he's I mean, he's got
Speaker 7: a really good job of this. And again, you know,
Speaker 7: the guys have been really super resilient over the years.
Speaker 3: But there's almost there's you know, how much resilience can
Speaker 3: you have? That's the question.
Speaker 4: But didn't you feel like watching last night? You know,
Speaker 4: they get really sloppy towards the end of that game
Speaker 4: and they basically blow a win for Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 3: That's kind of sucked for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was pissed at the umpire missed the call,
Speaker 4: extended the ending. All of a sudden, everything blows up
Speaker 4: on him and then and then just it was like
Speaker 4: injury to insult. It was like you know what else.
Speaker 4: It was almost surreal. So they come out of this
Speaker 4: on you know, later today on Friday, feeling like they
Speaker 4: got you know, two decent medical reports all things considered. Uh,
Speaker 4: that that's that's a win right there. But victory. They
Speaker 4: needed to catch that victory last time. I'm sorry. Even
Speaker 4: though your eight games up and have the best record
Speaker 4: in the nationally, you know, the game you're supposed to win,
Speaker 4: you're supposed to win, And that was one that they like.
Speaker 3: That away Man an astrominator. He's been outstanding, but you
Speaker 3: know he and and Hoffman and Show's Haffman, they gave
Speaker 3: it up. I mean, Hopman hangs a breaking ball.
Speaker 4: But they've been so good. Yeah, you know they're gonna
Speaker 4: have a bad way. I'm talking mostly about the defense.
Speaker 4: It's just got away from him.
Speaker 2: Well we'll get and lose.
Speaker 1: Later today on Harper and Schwarber, we know Turnbull's going
Speaker 1: to miss six to eight weeks. We know Walker will
Speaker 1: not be back until after the All Star break.
Speaker 2: So things are getting interesting.
Speaker 1: You know, it was like it was like the summer,
Speaker 1: the Great Summer of Phillies baseball.
Speaker 2: Everything was just going swimmingly.
Speaker 1: People were, people were, people were angry because you know,
Speaker 1: Turnbull wasn't in the rotation for Walker, and you know
Speaker 1: that was the big problem. Is you know, which solid
Speaker 1: number five starter can they put in there? And now
Speaker 1: it's now you're talking about. Is Buddy Kennedy going to
Speaker 1: be up later today?
Speaker 2: Is Wes Wilson? Is Johann Rojas? How long is Harper
Speaker 2: out for? How long is s warp out for?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they want to make a trade. Yeah, it was
Speaker 2: summer love. Now we don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: We will find We will find out later today and
Speaker 1: we'll be back.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Monday. You know, maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 2: this is all for not and there everybody's fine.
Speaker 3: I'm nothing to see here.
Speaker 2: Nothing to see, nothing to see here. All is well,
Speaker 2: All is well.
Speaker 4: You guys, will you want to talk about golf handicaps?
Speaker 2: Not mine? Not mine either, No, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 3: Not good.
Speaker 2: We'll save that, We'll save that for another time.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go play some golf right now to
Speaker 3: try to lower a little bit more because it's been inflated.
Speaker 2: God bless you. We'll be back on Monday.
Speaker 4: Can carry your own bag.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not carrying my bag, not doing it awesome ja.
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