WEBVTT - "Go Get 'Em, Sun." 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:18.320 This is Chase Utley and this is the Philly Show. Hi, everybody, 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.280 Welcome to the Philly Show. Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:26.800 Todd's Lucky Wednesday, August twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. Guys, 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.320 how are we doing, Ruben? You're showing a uh I'm 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:33.200 teasing your tea knockoff. You're talking. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.640 We got him coming. It's a knockoff. 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:40.080 That's the uhmer is coming. It's the bullpen cart that 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.080 used to meet tug At when you give you his. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.360 Jacket, that's all right, that's right. 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.120 I wish they had the bullpen carts still, just to 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:49.800 just to roll it out for old times sake. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.239 You know, I do love that cart. I think it's 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.000 the coolest thing. I think they might have one in 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:54.920 the ballpark somewhere. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.040 Yeah, dig that. They gotta dig that thing out, especially 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.480 on Thursday nights when they were in the record. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:01.040 Yeah. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.440 For those listening in their car, Ruben's got a Phillies 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:10.560 Show bullpen cart t shirt on to knockoff without us 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:12.720 in it. Without us, And it's always better when we're 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.800 in the cart driving at great point, Jimmy, are you 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.000 driving that cart? You're on the left hand side. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.000 No, I'm driving with my foot. 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.760 I do like the fact that you're hanging out to 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.880 the side though, j Yeah. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.559 I've been there before, hanging out of a golf cart. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.840 Oh my gosh, guys. The last couple of games for 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:41.560 the Phillies pretty pretty good. Bryce Harper hits that walk 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.480 off hit on Monday night. Aaron Nola just dials it 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.800 up on Tuesday night. Last night, Nick Castianis hits a 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:52.600 big home run, three run home run on Tuesday. Are 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.600 we feeling about how they've been playing the last four game, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.320 they won four in a row. They can sweep tonight, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.800 get the first five game winning streak since May, seems 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.600 like again, Jim, we talked about this the other day, like, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.400 you know, there's a lot of doom and gloom last week, 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.079 but a little bit different vibe going on right now. 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.680 Yeah, there was a lot of doom and gloom, and 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.160 some people scoffed at me when I said my panic 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.720 meter was at one point five when I take my pulse. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.760 But they did kill you for that. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.600 Yeah, but you know, no panic that. I just looked 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.600 at the standings. Guess what, They're tied for the best 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.200 record in baseball again. They've won four in a row. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:35.600 The offenses awakened just enough, just enough. The starting pitching 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.000 has been very good the last turn through, maybe the 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:44.120 last two turns turn plus, they've hit some bombs. They 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.040 are much better team when the ball ends over the fence. 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.239 And you can say that about pretty much every team 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.840 because home runs are big, and that's a lot of 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.400 the way that the game has played today. But getting 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.919 on base a little bit more, you still gotta take 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.560 care of those advantage of those opportunities that call for 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:06.160 some good situational hitting. But good teams will do that. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.760 But you know, they're bashing the ball just enough. Here. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.760 They had a couple of eleven run games in Kansas 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.359 City last night. You mentioned Castianus with that three run 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:20.160 home run, very very clutched, very timely. He sniffed out 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.320 that breaking ball. It was a twelve sixer. It didn't 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.400 break off the plate to kind of gives him trouble. 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.160 He sniffed it out and he drove it into the seats. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.400 So and Aaron Nola just made it all stand up. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.440 He he has been brilliant, you know his last three 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.800 or four, you know, last like twenty four innings. I 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.040 think he's given up like four in runs. I feel 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.040 like a lot of things are coming together at the 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.360 right time. Now with thirty games left, we're constantly asked, 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.560 are they back. I'm not going there. I'm not gonna 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.839 say they're back to me. They're back when they're when 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.520 they're on the parade, you know, float down Broad Street, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.680 That's when they're back, because that's what this is all about. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.160 But you know what, they're playing bad at a good time. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.720 They've won two series in a row. That's been a 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:09.760 magic recipe for them winning series, and they've they've taken 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.920 care of the Houston Astros here taking the first two. 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.640 And wouldn't it be something if Taiwan Walker went out 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.520 there later on today and had one of had it, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.479 had his best start of the season and helped them 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.440 lock down a sweep going into the final month, that 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.640 would be that would be something to see. I think 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:31.200 this is actually a fascinating day, you know, this Wednesday, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.880 going for the sweep against Houston with your weak link 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.040 on the mound, a guy who's really struggled, the guy 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.960 everybody's clamoring to, you know, bounce him out of here, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.840 and let's let's see what happens. I think it has 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.960 a chance to be some very interesting theater ninety seven degrees. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.599 Here's the thing that's back. Summer's back ninety seven today 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.880 Taiwan Walker on the mound, Ruben Tomorrow, sweat and bullets 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.719 in that beautiful jacket last night, Ruber. I loved that jacket. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:56.280 Thank you. 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:57.960 That was a great jacket. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:03.640 I appreciate the love. You will make great points. I 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:07.560 think back right now to a couple of different things. One, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.359 I think back to what Chase Utley said when I 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.560 was in La Listen, this team's got to go through 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:14.839 a tough time and they got to go through some 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.400 adversity and they got to bounce back and be playing 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.240 well when it's time to play well. And he may 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.800 be a soothsayer, because it looks like that sort of 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.159 thing is happening right now. I couldn't for the life 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.240 of me. People were asking me the same thing, like, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.799 what is going on with the Phillies? What is going on? Well, 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.200 I think and as I think about it now, I 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.640 think it's about the starting pitching, and it's about and 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.760 that's where it starts, and for me, that's where it ends. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.600 When the starting pitching is going well, which was and 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.600 it was the best in all of baseball in the 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.159 first two months of the season. All of baseball. Maybe 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.320 Seattle was the only other team that was as good 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.880 or maybe to touch better. But Seattle had no offense 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.480 at all, and they still don't have any offense, but 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.479 they still have pretty good pitching. So they're sort of 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:07.560 in the race. The Phillies. They're pitching rotation. Suarez going down, 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.760 that was huge, and I back now about Suarez coming 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.200 back and pitching in Kansas City and pitching the way 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.280 he did, and that was the start of this role 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.919 they got going. And I think that that in a 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.720 lot of ways, it's just weird. I don't know if 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.640 it's mental. I don't know if it's physical. It could 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.080 be a combination of the two. I think that's one 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.200 of the things that sort of picked this team back up. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.640 He came out and pitched his ass off, and it 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.640 was ranger Suarez of old and it started that turn 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.160 in the rotation that made it. You know, then you 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.040 got Suarez and Wheeler and Nola, and you know, Christopher 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.480 Sanchez is pitching his tail off as well. Obviously, Taiwan 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.279 Walker struggling and not pitching all that well, but having 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.960 those four guys setting it up for those four guys, 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.000 and this is what Rob Thomas has been talking about 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.279 all season long. Get those guys healthy, make sure I 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.599 take care of give him an extra day when they 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.800 need it, you know, kind of you know, take a 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.159 long time to get Suarez back after those back spasms 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.680 took their time. Hopefully he's going to be fine and healthy. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.160 And I think that's one of the biggest reasons why 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.720 these guys are short of back on track. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.680 Yeah, and then Jim, like you said, you have a 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.360 guy pop on every once in a while and that helps. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.120 Nick Cassianis last night you mentioned him. He gets a 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.960 first pitch fastball and he takes it, and after the 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.960 game he goes, yeah, I was kind of kicking myself 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.680 because I don't see any fastballs. In fact, he sees 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.000 fewer fastballs than any any hitter in baseball, you know, Nick, 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.280 It's just breaking balls and off speed stuff. So then 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.600 he is going, Okay, now, I'm that's probably the only 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.440 fastball I'm going to get in this at bat. So 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.600 he sits breaking ball and Justin Verlander throws him an No. 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.360 One breaking ball, hanger right over the middle, and he 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.000 crushes it. And it was interesting. After the game, Justin 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:04.720 Verlander said, you know what, against my I felt like 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.120 he was sitting spin. So I threw him a first 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:13.080 pitch passball, and then against my best instincts, I should 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.480 have thrown him another fastball, but I said, you know, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:16.800 I'm gonna throw him a breaking ball. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:17.000 Here. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.040 He's like, and I just had to basically said, I 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.800 kind of had a bad feeling about him. Looking back, 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.920 I wish I could go back, because there's no doubt 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:24.840 in my mind. He's like, you'll have to go ask Nick, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.320 but I bet you he is sitting something soft on 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.600 that old one pitch, And sure enough he was, because 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.360 he said, I knew I was going to get something 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:35.360 with some spin on it. But he's been We talked 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.439 a lot about him. He's been really good over the 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.720 last really since mid May. I think he's forty first 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.559 in OPS and baseball out of like one hundred and 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.160 thirty three failures, so he's top thirty percent in baseball 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.240 in terms of OPS. He's really been putting together. He's 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.320 now hitting fifth. He talked, we talked about us, remember 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.600 this earlier in the season, he was kind of complaining 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:57.679 about how he's hitting too low in the lineup. He 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.719 said last night, He's like, I love I'm basically a 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.560 glory or batting practice hitter. I swing at everything, and 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.719 I swing hard, and uh so it helps me when 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.959 I'm in the middle of the lineup. Rob Thomas said, 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.600 you got to earn that spot, though, and he's earned it. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.520 He's earned a spot. You know, you don't just get 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.320 to hit fifth just because you like to swing a 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.720 lot and you swing hard. You have to actually produce, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.280 and he's produced lately. So now he's been hitting fourth 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.559 fifth the last twelve thirteen games. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.320 Jim, I got to give it. I gotta get some 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:25.960 love for them, because you talked about it from the 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:29.160 beginning about how the back of the baseball football card matters, 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.960 and you talked about you know, you talked about Nick 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.480 Castianos a lot during the early part of the season 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.080 if everybody wanted a Cana guy. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.120 Yeah, I just felt like, you don't put up all 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.640 those good seasons and all those doubles and all that 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:49.400 slug by accident. And he's not old, but he is streaky, 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.120 and I just thought he was going through a bad streak, 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:52.440 and I thought we were going to see it almost 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.719 like an equally good streak at some point. We have 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.400 been very very important player throughout that you know, two 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.160 and a half month scuffle that this team has had, 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:08.680 helping them stay afloat with those occasional bolts, you know, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.640 bolts of lightning to the gap here and there. So 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.560 that breaking ball and he hit from Verland, it was 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.360 the perfect shape for him. If it was something off 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.160 the plate, those are the ones that give him trouble, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:25.280 but just a great piece of reaction reaction hitting, and 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.880 it was it was a difference maker in that game. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:33.480 Fascinating to hear, you know, how Verlander's mind was working there. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.760 So yeah, really, he's a he's he's a he's a 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:42.240 cerebral picture, he's a veteran picture. He's not afraid to, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.240 I don't know, let you in on what he's thinking. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.840 And that creates a really interesting storyline for people who 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.360 love the game and interested in the game that byplay 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.080 between the hitter and the picture of what they're thinking. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.120 So I really enjoyed reading about that today and your 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.000 story Todd. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.720 Yeah, that was you kind of hear those things that 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.840 you kind of nerd out as a as a baseball fan, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.480 he goes, yeah, he's like, you know, he talked about 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:11.800 the chess match between hitter and pitcher, and and sure 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.360 enough that's what Nick was thinking. And sure enough, vier 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.680 line is up there, going maybe I should be throwing 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.800 him a fastball here, hanger gone. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.160 I think the other part of that is another fascinating 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.920 part of it, and you mentioned it and talked a 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:30.000 little bit about it, was how Castiano's talked about not 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.440 getting a lot of protection when he's deep in the lineup. Right, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.040 when he's deep in the lineup, he knows that he 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.760 can walk, they can walk him and not feel fear, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.160 you know, the Johann Rojas's of the world and the 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.680 other guys behind him. But when he's in the middle 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.600 of the lineup, you know, he's got a little protection 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.760 with you know, whoever it is, Scott or JT or 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.839 whoever is hitting behind him, so that they it it 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.240 gives the picture a little bit more angst to not 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.720 walk the guy and have to sort of challenge him, 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.920 which means he gets more pitches to hit. I mean, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:08.959 it's a whole and that's that's why roster construction and 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:14.360 lineup construction can't be all about the analytics. There is 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.679 a subtle piece of what's going on here about protection 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.640 and left right and you know, forcing the opponent to 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.280 do certain things that they might not want to do 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.680 because of the construction of the lineup. That was the 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.439 one big thing that Charlie talks about that every manager 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.480 really talks about. But you can't just have an analytics 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.640 guy just because this guy's got X Y numbers and 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.120 wobah's and all types of stuff. It's about the subtleties 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.559 of what's going on in the lineup versus that picture 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.839 the bullpen, how they will attack them. I mean, the 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:54.160 lineup means something, man, it really does and uh and 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.440 and that's part of the subtlety that creates and and 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.280 makes what good what you know, good managers are. I 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:05.000 think managers do two things, three things. They run the bullpens, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.880 they construct their lineups or should they know, shouldn't come 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.040 from above, but they do a lot of in a 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.480 lot of places, and they have to manage the clubhouse. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.880 And those are the three biggest things I think that 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.400 the manager do. Managers do And if you can do 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.760 those well, you can have a lot of success, and 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.520 I think Rob Thompson does a heck of a job 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:25.800 of it myself. 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.240 And they have to. I'm sorry, they have to. You know, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:32.120 you mentioned manage the clubhouse, build trust, communicate and when 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.560 Rob Thompson says to Nick Castianos, Nick, I'm gonna have 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.160 you right in the middle of that lineup. You're gonna 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.000 be hitting fifth, but you got to earn it. And 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.920 then he goes out and hits well and he learns it. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:43.720 You got to put him there, and that's how you 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.560 build a great relationship. And that's how player bustes asked 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:48.920 for the manager, and that's how players bust their ask 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.840 the manager. I agree with you on all that other stuff, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.600 the bullpen and the lineup, but there's a chemistry between 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.679 good manager and players and performance and the way your 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.240 commune to get it with them. And I think Thomas 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:02.079 is very good at that. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.120 And we will be right back. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.079 We're busy. 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We put out a 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:15.160 tweet last night for questions listener for your questions, and 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:18.240 I think it's taken off because we got a ton 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.880 of questions yesterday. Like, we got so many questions we 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.960 won't even get to you know, a third of them. 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.560 I don't think. I mean on Instagram and on x 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.920 AKA the or I should say they're formally known as Twitter. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.960 So uh, let's let's jump into these. We got a 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.080 bunch and let's start with the general themed big picture question. 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:37.840 This is something I think was I don't know if 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.520 the same guy asked it, but this is something that 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.920 was asked a few weeks ago. The Phillies seem to 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.720 be hurting me less. Now do you think they'll continue 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.720 to hurt me less into the postseason? This is for 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.960 Michael on x Remember we got one like that, like, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.560 why why do they want to hurt me so much? 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:55.240 Was that the yeah? 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.440 When will the ping go away? 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.000 Yeah? Elizabeth, Elizabeth? 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.640 So what do we think? Well, Rubin, you said the 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:08.840 starting pitching. If the starting pitching keeps going like this, 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.160 they're gonna be They're gonna be in games every night. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.000 I don't think there's any question that if if now 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:20.080 Rangers back on track and these guys remain healthy, the 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:23.400 four big four guys, because they're they're really they're the 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.400 crux of what they what this team is built around. 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.840 I think I know they spend a lot of money 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.120 on offense, but the reality of it is I'll never 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.840 and I'll never stop thinking this. When you have great 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:36.920 starting pitching, man, you've got a chance to win every 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:41.400 single night. It's as simple as that. And why the 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.800 game got away from this, I don't know. If I 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.640 was an executive in this day and age, I would 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.400 go back to the same themes. When everybody's going left, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.360 I'm going right and going back to what's what means something, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.560 and that's starting pitching. If they're healthy, they'll be back 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.720 and they'll be really, really good in the postseason. I 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.800 know they have to get big hits, and they have 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.439 to make adjustments to teams that have good plans and 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.480 execute those plans. But if they get good starting pitching, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:09.840 they got a chance every single day. 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.959 There still might be nights when the pain rears its 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.960 ugly head when they're chasing and swinging from their heels 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.000 and having a night like they had in Game six 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:24.560 and seven last year. Unfortunately, it's kind of in their 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.639 DNA that stuff can pump up. But I do think 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.320 when they're going good, they can put together lengthy stretches 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.879 where they avoid that stuff and seem to be in 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.919 one right now. Bomb chasing a little bit, you'd like 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.439 to see that him get dialed in because he's typically 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:44.800 a very selective hitter. But right now the pain is subsiding. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.280 But I will remind you of that Bart Giamatti quote. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:54.120 Baseball is designed to break your heart. And you know 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.680 it's a tough, tough game and a tough tough business 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.560 and only one team at the end is going to 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.720 be smiling on. So you got to get into October, 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.000 which they will, and then you got to play good baseball, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.600 take care of opportunities, don't make errors, don't give up 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.080 extra base runners, extra bases, and put it all together. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.160 This team is very capable of doing that. I personally 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.200 can't wait to see how they perform in the month 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:17.879 of October. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.560 Jim, you you mentioned Alec Boom. That was the question 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.119 that British Philly on X one S wanted to asked 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.200 about what's going on with Boem? Weird body language gone 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.840 from constant RBIs to swinging at everything. Any inside information 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.560 from coach Rubin on a player showing body language like 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.159 Boom has been. I mean that has jumped out the 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.000 last few games, and I know he has talked about 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.720 that in the past, like trying to control his emotions 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.040 on the field and not having such bad but I 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:51.159 mean slamming the helmet, flinging his bat. A lot of 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.719 frustration from him over the last six games, spatting one 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.879 sixty three ninety two ops, three grounded into double plays, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:00.399 three double place. 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.000 You know, I think he's starting to feel it. He 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.000 had such a great start to the season, and you know, 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.879 these are human beings, and now he started going into 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.639 one of those funks. For a while, I mean for 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.440 almost a month he didn't have an RBI. It was bizarre, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.320 and part of it was because guys in front of 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.199 him were really not getting on. There was a lot 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.600 of stuff going on as far as the lineup construction. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.800 You know, Schwarber and Turner were struggling. They weren't really 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.360 doing a lot, and so even Harper was not as 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:37.719 the dynamic clearly, and his opportunities did not present themselves. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.520 And then he struggled in those opportunities, and I think 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.480 it sort of snowballed on him a little bit. And 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.200 over the last a week or so, I see him 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.560 sort of getting out of his comfort zone. He's a 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.359 guy that uses the whole field. He swings the bat 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:56.639 on pitches that are in the strike zone. Typically, I 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.159 see him just trying to press a little bit and 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.480 do a little bit much. Maybe he's starting to think 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.680 about arbitration and money and contracts and things like that. 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.679 He hasn't been locked up. I mean, I don't know 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.480 that about him. I don't but if I'm if i'm him, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.920 if I'm in his shoes, I start thinking about those 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.200 things like, oh my god, if I get another ninety 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.280 or one hundred, you know, another one hundred and ten 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.679 RBI season or whatever the case may be, you know, 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.320 I may put myself in a position to make a 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.680 ton of money. I don't know if those things are 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.440 going through his head. I don't know if he's just pressing. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.240 I don't know if he's getting out of his comfort zone. 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:37.280 But I do see some differences in him. I think 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.159 fortunately he hasn't really taken it. I don't think to 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.199 the field, which is a you know, which is a 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:47.840 very it's something where he's showing to his maturity. I 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.280