Speaker 1: Ryan, thank you so much for joining the Philly Show.
Speaker 1: We're really excited to have you. Jim Salisbury is also
Speaker 1: on the show, but he couldn't make it, so I
Speaker 1: asked Jim, I said, do you have any questions for
Speaker 1: the big piece? And he said, I only have one question.
Speaker 1: Please ask Ryan if he's still keeping it.
Speaker 2: Crispy Man like always man with a two piece, like
Speaker 2: a two piece with a biscuit. Steak's always coming through
Speaker 2: Man steaks. I love him.
Speaker 1: He had to ask that question, so he's gonna be
Speaker 1: He's very happy.
Speaker 3: No, you're keeping it Chrispy.
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff we want to talk to you about,
Speaker 1: of course, and one of them is, you know, you're
Speaker 1: doing this new podcast. It's not even new right now,
Speaker 1: but with with your young James as you like to
Speaker 1: call him, on one podcast, and it's it's been a
Speaker 1: lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I listen, I'm a listener.
Speaker 1: You've had Chase on, You've had Peter Martinez on, you
Speaker 1: just had Simon Gratz, legend, Rashid Wallace on the show.
Speaker 1: What have you enjoyed about it and what do you
Speaker 1: how do you feel about being on the other end
Speaker 1: and having to ask questions of I have to answer
Speaker 1: the questions.
Speaker 2: Oh well, first, no, greatly appreciate it, you know, listening
Speaker 2: and tuning in. It's been a lot of fun. You know,
Speaker 2: I had I had a lot of great mentors to
Speaker 2: learn from over my career, you know, the John Salisbury's
Speaker 2: and Todd's, Aleki's and and all of those folks that
Speaker 2: would come into the clubhouse and just ask all different
Speaker 2: kinds of questions. But but you know what, I went
Speaker 2: to school for communications mass media, so you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's the first thing was was just going and just
Speaker 2: having a lot of fun with it and being able
Speaker 2: to have the guests on and just kind of sit
Speaker 2: back and chop it up as we like to speak
Speaker 2: and and and hear their stories and uh, learn about
Speaker 2: their paths to success and what they've gone through, their trials,
Speaker 2: their errors, and being able to share that with everybody
Speaker 2: has been something that's been really eye opening and uh
Speaker 2: and a lot of fun doing so.
Speaker 4: I had some questions about that, Like, you obviously had
Speaker 4: some really.
Speaker 3: Great guests on there.
Speaker 5: Is there anybody in particular you haven't had on there
Speaker 5: that you would consider like like your dream guest, I mean,
Speaker 5: either in the baseball world or otherwise that you would
Speaker 5: really love to have on there, anybody you had to
Speaker 5: break it down with.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean there's so many different people, I
Speaker 2: think from different aspects. I think, you know, a sport
Speaker 2: from the sporting aspect. I would love to get mj
Speaker 2: on there, would love to get you know, Michael Jordan
Speaker 2: on there, and he's one of the guys grew up
Speaker 2: watching and and just kind of learn more about his story,
Speaker 2: I think too, just as we try to hit different
Speaker 2: genres right of people, different entertainers, you know, a Jay
Speaker 2: Z or somebody like that would be great, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of hear their perspectives on their past, because.
Speaker 3: It's the cool thing about it is is you know, is.
Speaker 2: The journeys are the backbone of the journeys are all
Speaker 2: pretty much the same, right, but the past are different
Speaker 2: in the sense of where it is, whether it's business,
Speaker 2: whether it's music, whether it's sports. You still have to
Speaker 2: put in the work, you have to put in the time,
Speaker 2: you have to put in the grind, right, and there's
Speaker 2: always going to be some type of hurdle that you've
Speaker 2: got to get over. So how do you respond, how
Speaker 2: do you react to that? You know, and everybody that's
Speaker 2: you know, kind of had some type of success. We
Speaker 2: had Michael Rubin on, you know, as one of our
Speaker 2: earlier shows, and he was kind of going through his
Speaker 2: trials and tribulations.
Speaker 3: It's all about how you respond to it.
Speaker 2: So it's it's really cool here in everybody's different aspects
Speaker 2: and perspectives on that.
Speaker 1: Definitely, I've learned a lot. You know, it was great
Speaker 1: having Chase on, Having paid Re Martinez on was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun.
Speaker 3: I learned.
Speaker 1: I learned some things about you guys that did not know.
Speaker 1: I learned that your nickname, besides the Big Piece, is
Speaker 1: the Big Sexy. I'm gonna leave it right there. If
Speaker 1: you want to know why Ryan it's called the Big Sexy,
Speaker 1: you got to go listen to Pedro Martinez podcast. But
Speaker 1: if you learned anything new about j Rowl since you've
Speaker 1: been doing this podcast.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's pretty much all still the usual suspect,
Speaker 2: you know, like Jimmy, Jimmy is is smooth.
Speaker 3: He's great, man.
Speaker 2: I mean obviously you know I watch him on TV.
Speaker 2: I watch you guys on TV. Ruby, you're doing an
Speaker 2: amazing job, man. Congrats on on that, as you know too,
Speaker 2: making making these types of transitions.
Speaker 3: It's it's different, you know, when you're.
Speaker 2: Like like Todd said in the beginning, it's like you
Speaker 2: go from the person being asked the questions to the
Speaker 2: person asking the questions. So it's all about, you know,
Speaker 2: the deliveries and the flows and everything.
Speaker 3: But Jimmy's great, man.
Speaker 2: We just try to get out there, just have fun
Speaker 2: and just continue to feed off each other. That's really cool.
Speaker 6: You know, you've gone through like a bunch of things.
Speaker 4: Personally, I'm sure you're like sort of I would assume
Speaker 4: you're keep an eye on what's going on with Kyle
Speaker 4: Schwarber with his season and the fact that he's you know,
Speaker 4: sort of closing in.
Speaker 6: A little bit on your home run record.
Speaker 5: I mean, that was an historic season that I got
Speaker 5: to enjoy and watch and and and uh, you know,
Speaker 5: obviously watched your overall development as a you know, as
Speaker 5: a slugger and as a hitter.
Speaker 3: I was wondering, like.
Speaker 6: You know, are you following what's going on? Are you
Speaker 6: rooting for him?
Speaker 3: Are you not rooting for him? Are you? I mean,
Speaker 3: how big of a.
Speaker 6: Phillies fan are you?
Speaker 2: What's what's your your take on this whole man? I
Speaker 2: follow the boys. I follow them all the time. I
Speaker 2: love I'm a Schwarber fan. I love Kyle, Like, Uh.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is is that when we trained together
Speaker 2: in Tampa because we both had we were both part
Speaker 2: of the same agency, We're both with c A, and
Speaker 2: we trained together in Tampa at a spot called Saddlebrook.
Speaker 3: So this was when he was first breaking into the league.
Speaker 2: I think he was still with the with the Cubs,
Speaker 2: and so I got to see him, you know, we
Speaker 2: were training, working out and doing all that kind of
Speaker 2: stuff and hitting, and I was watching him.
Speaker 3: I was like, this dude's got some some sock him.
Speaker 3: He's got some stupid pop.
Speaker 2: But even more so, like he was just a great,
Speaker 2: like down to earth like humble person, right, And so
Speaker 2: I was like, this dude's gonna be He's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: So it doesn't surprise me one bit. I'm excited for him.
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for him, cheering for him. I know it's
Speaker 2: the fans. The fans love it, you know what I did.
Speaker 2: And in two thousand and six, like it's one of
Speaker 2: those things where.
Speaker 3: It was just a pure.
Speaker 2: Kind of like video game blackout moment in a sense,
Speaker 2: I remember telling Jimmy. The one time I think I
Speaker 2: told Jimmy. I think it was on a stretch. I
Speaker 2: was like, man, Jay, like I haven't hit a homer
Speaker 2: in like a week or something. He looked at me
Speaker 2: and like he said, shut up, like I'm struggling. I
Speaker 2: was like, I'm struggling. Probably haven't hit a homer like
Speaker 2: a week or something like that. And he's like, shut up.
Speaker 2: I think I went and hit like two that night
Speaker 2: or whatnot. But when you're in a zone like he's
Speaker 2: in his zone right now and putting together great AB's.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing too, is he doesn't waste abs.
Speaker 2: That's been key and and rub as you know, like
Speaker 2: you get a guy. Kyle's a guy that when he
Speaker 2: gets going, he can carry a team. And you know,
Speaker 2: I think with with what the guys have been able
Speaker 2: to do thus far and getting into the postseason right now,
Speaker 2: everybody's clicking on all cylinders, which is which is what
Speaker 2: you want and what you need. But you know, Kyle's
Speaker 2: been a guy to when when they needed him, he
Speaker 2: can put them on his back.
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Speaker 3: What do you like about his swing?
Speaker 1: I mean he's got such a short, quick, fast, powerful swing.
Speaker 3: What do you kind of admire about it?
Speaker 1: What do you like about watching them hit?
Speaker 2: I guess I mean it's just that so like when
Speaker 2: you watch guys that hit home wrongs, there's always a
Speaker 2: certain an aspect to their swing, and there's always like
Speaker 2: a certain type of I don't know, just different explosiveness
Speaker 2: and finish to their swing. Like I always loved watching
Speaker 2: Prince filled or hit homers, Like I loved when we
Speaker 2: played Milwaukee, right because when Prince hit a homer, it
Speaker 2: was almost like the bat would just explode out of
Speaker 2: his hands.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Kyle's one of those guys where it's like it's so
Speaker 2: quick and it's just everything stops. I don't know, Like
Speaker 2: when I'm watching it's it just seems like everything after
Speaker 2: the swing just just stops because the ball, the ball
Speaker 2: just explodes off his bat and it's so quick and
Speaker 2: it's so short. As you said that, he just puts
Speaker 2: the fat part on the bat, of fat part of
Speaker 2: the bat on the ball, and the rest just takes
Speaker 2: care of itself.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like he's not trying to It's like
Speaker 2: he's not trying to hit the ball out of the ballpark.
Speaker 2: It's like he's just letting the ball run into the bat,
Speaker 2: or letting the bat run into the ball.
Speaker 5: I admired about you is that you had that ability
Speaker 5: to just take a nice, smooth, easy swing and drive
Speaker 5: the ball. I mean, you hadn't majestic home runs even
Speaker 5: the opposite way like that.
Speaker 9: It was like you were like a left handed hitting,
Speaker 9: power hitting right handed hitter. When you were hitting balls out,
Speaker 9: it was really really awesome. I mean you always had
Speaker 9: that sort of that.
Speaker 5: Ability to to drive the ball the other way.
Speaker 6: Can you talk a little bit about how Charlie's influence
Speaker 6: when you were a little bit younger as you were
Speaker 6: moving forward, how that like all that that development of
Speaker 6: like hitting the ball to the right side of the
Speaker 6: field and you know you're still utilizing that power. What
Speaker 6: kind of influence Charlie had on your swing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Charlie was great.
Speaker 2: Charlie always had, you know, the positive reinforcement in building
Speaker 2: it up and for me actually learning I was a
Speaker 2: dead pool hitter in high school. Growing up, I did
Speaker 2: not know what center field or left field was because
Speaker 2: my thought process I was very raw. So my thought
Speaker 2: process was was if I'm not hitting it down here,
Speaker 2: I'm late. Right if I'm hitting it anywhere else, I'm late.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't actually until I got to college that
Speaker 2: my coach shout out my man G. Keith Gutton, Missouri
Speaker 2: State University. G my man G was the one who
Speaker 2: opened me up to the entire field. So he took
Speaker 2: me and he said, hey, we're going to make your
Speaker 2: foul polls from right center to left center, which basically
Speaker 2: it just opened up the entire field for me, and
Speaker 2: it actually slowed everything down to where I was able
Speaker 2: to recognize pitches a lot better because I stayed up
Speaker 2: the middle of the field now where Charlie came into
Speaker 2: play in the minor leagues where he came in, Charlie
Speaker 2: would notice at times I would close myself off too much. So,
Speaker 2: just like with Tony how Tomy would hold the bat
Speaker 2: out towards the pitcher, League had me start to do that,
Speaker 2: so it aligned myself up where I was open and
Speaker 2: can see the picture.
Speaker 3: With both eyes.
Speaker 2: And then that helped me even more to where it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: some of those balls that were more middle middle end,
Speaker 2: I was able to kind of turn on them and
Speaker 2: then stay back up the middle and then again go
Speaker 2: go away.
Speaker 3: So the fun part about it was was I used
Speaker 3: to Uh.
Speaker 2: I feel like I used to bait pictures in because Rube,
Speaker 2: you used to see me all the time. I stood
Speaker 2: way off the plate yep. And so I swung a
Speaker 2: longer bat. I swung a bigger bat. My bat was
Speaker 2: like thirty five inches thirty four ounces yep. And so
Speaker 2: those guys would see me so off, so far off
Speaker 2: the plate that they would throw it middle, middle, away
Speaker 2: and sometimes even off the plate away, and I was
Speaker 2: still able to get barrel on it. So for me,
Speaker 2: I wanted to try to stay in the middle of
Speaker 2: the field. So by doing that, I stepped off the plate.
Speaker 2: So now middle is away, away, is away, in is
Speaker 2: now middle, and anything that's more off the plate in like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I can catch it. I think there was one pitch
Speaker 2: that uh. And the reason why I don't forget this
Speaker 2: is because I don't know how I hit it was
Speaker 2: off of uh. There was like a slider from John
Speaker 2: Smoltz that was like down and in like off the plate,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what happened. I just got somehow
Speaker 2: got the barrel to it. But again, being off the plate,
Speaker 2: there's no other way, if I'm on the plate, I'm
Speaker 2: missing at or I'm following it off my shin.
Speaker 1: You mentioned like that that the slider off Smoltz. Do
Speaker 1: you remember does anything stick out about that fifty eight
Speaker 1: home run season any one of those specific home runs?
Speaker 1: Is that the obvious one, that Tim Hudson three homer
Speaker 1: game when he hit fifty to fifty one fifty two?
Speaker 1: Anything else jump out about that that season?
Speaker 3: Yeah? There was two. There was.
Speaker 2: I mean obviously that game was was fun and it
Speaker 2: was fun to watch.
Speaker 3: That was that was. That was a good day.
Speaker 2: And then and I would say the Mike, you seen
Speaker 2: a home run the game, but that the one to
Speaker 2: the third deck and seeing uh, Matt Dog and Brett
Speaker 2: Myer's reaction like when it landed. So I mean it
Speaker 2: was it was when I when I hit it, I
Speaker 2: was like that felt There's those times where you hit
Speaker 2: a ball and you feel like you didn't even feel it,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh, that felt good, Like I
Speaker 2: didn't even feel it. And then the next thing it
Speaker 2: was just you know, landing the third deck. So yeah,
Speaker 2: that that reaction that was that was good.
Speaker 3: And I will say there was another one. There was
Speaker 3: another one in.
Speaker 2: Houston groupe that I feel like I got robbed in Houston.
Speaker 3: I think it was off Who is it?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 3: Was it Wandy Rodriguez? I hit it.
Speaker 2: I think it was against Wandy and I hit it Appo.
Speaker 2: It was a day game in Houston. Smoked the guy
Speaker 2: in the chest in the front row in Houston and
Speaker 2: left field, and they called it a double because of
Speaker 2: the glare from the sun, so they couldn't tell.
Speaker 3: And we didn't have replay. Why back then?
Speaker 4: That's one question I had about so so people often
Speaker 4: ask this question. I mean, do you ever really or
Speaker 4: how many times in your career do you think you
Speaker 4: actually tried to hit a ball out of the ballpark,
Speaker 4: Like on this particular swing, I'm going to try, I'm
Speaker 4: thinking about hitting it out. Did you do that a
Speaker 4: lot or did it just happen naturally? I did it
Speaker 4: one time I actually hit a home run with in
Speaker 4: the minor leagues where I actually wanted to hit one
Speaker 4: home run out.
Speaker 6: That was the only time I ever did it my
Speaker 6: whole life. Now I couldn't hit home runs, but I
Speaker 6: was just curious, like a power hitter like yourself, do
Speaker 6: you actually.
Speaker 3: Think to the go and you know one particular swing. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm hitting this ball out of the ballpark.
Speaker 2: Majority of the time, it's all natural, like it just
Speaker 2: it's just reactionary, and it happens. There's sometimes where either
Speaker 2: like you get into a certain count and you know
Speaker 2: like you're a thousand percent sure, like this is what
Speaker 2: this guy is gonna throw me, like I'm not missing this. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I forget that. I forget the guy's name. It was
Speaker 2: a picture on the Nationals. I think I hit like
Speaker 2: two grand slams off the guy and he was the
Speaker 2: second ball that I hit in the third deck, and
Speaker 2: I just remember when he threw it. I was I
Speaker 2: was sitting dead red change up, and I remember I
Speaker 2: was like, he throws his change up, I'm hitting this
Speaker 2: thing out of the ballpark like we're going on the street.
Speaker 3: And when as soon as I hit, I was like, oof,
Speaker 3: that might leave everything.
Speaker 2: I felt like it felt better than the one off
Speaker 2: of you've seen it, and that that time was like
Speaker 2: one of those times where I knew, like, Okay, if
Speaker 2: they give me this pitch, I'm gonna be But you
Speaker 2: have to be feeling good though, too, right your swing
Speaker 2: and everything's got to be feeling good to where you're
Speaker 2: even telling yourself that as a hitter, because you can't
Speaker 2: go up there feeling like garbage and be like, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go up here and I'm gonna hit this
Speaker 2: out like everything.
Speaker 3: You got to be in the flow right there.
Speaker 4: It's funny you should say that because for me, I mean,
Speaker 4: this is a story about me. But you remember Claude
Speaker 4: os Dave Ostein was a big change up guy. But
Speaker 4: Claude Osting used to be a pitcher pitching coach for
Speaker 4: many many years in the Big Land, pitch in the
Speaker 4: big leagues. So Dave Ostein, same thing. I sat on
Speaker 4: a change up, but he's towing me a change up.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hit this one out And I actually hit
Speaker 4: it out of the stadium in Little Rock, Arkansas, which
Speaker 4: was weird because I had no pop, but he actually
Speaker 4: threw it. Oh my goodness. But it's funny that it
Speaker 4: was a similar bridge. I just can't imagine that you
Speaker 4: ever put yourself in a position to do that like
Speaker 4: all the time, and so it's interesting to actually pinpoint
Speaker 4: the one.
Speaker 2: Time that you know you did well, you know what, ahead,
Speaker 2: oh go ahead, go ahead, no no, no, no, go right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was just I was just gonna say because it
Speaker 2: made me think back to nine, the whole get me
Speaker 2: to the plate thing, right, and I just remember, I
Speaker 2: don't know what happened. I just again another blackout moment
Speaker 2: over the course of my career. But when I went
Speaker 2: when I went through it because I knew what the
Speaker 2: situation was and with like Houston, like Houston Street, right,
Speaker 2: because we're playing the Rockies and Houston was my teammate
Speaker 2: in the Fall League, so I'd gotten to see a
Speaker 2: lot of Houston like pitch.
Speaker 3: And so I was just like, all right, I know
Speaker 3: what he does. I know what his ball does.
Speaker 2: I'm like if he if he does this, I'm hitting
Speaker 2: it out, Like, just give me to the plate, like
Speaker 2: I I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Hit it out. And then I just I just missed
Speaker 3: it and hit that top spin and hit it off
Speaker 3: the wall. And yeah.
Speaker 2: So it was It's like one of those things where
Speaker 2: you just it just kind of comes together when you
Speaker 2: know exactly what a guy is gonna try to do
Speaker 2: and you're feeling good enough to where it's like, hey,
Speaker 2: all right, if you get me to the plate like this,
Speaker 2: we're going.
Speaker 3: To win this game. Because it's it's going to go out. Well.
Speaker 1: Kyle Shureber when he finally hit his fiftieth I know,
Speaker 1: he said, once he got the forty nine, he said,
Speaker 1: he was kind of thinking about fifty a lot. Were
Speaker 1: you thinking after you hit fifty eight? Were you thinking
Speaker 1: I can smell sixty those last few or not?
Speaker 7: You know what it was?
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: You subliminally Yeah, yeah, like in the but it wasn't
Speaker 2: like one of those things where I'm thinking about it
Speaker 2: every single day. It's just like, oh, yeah, like I'm
Speaker 2: going to get there. You know, it's I'm going to
Speaker 2: get there, but I'm not trying to get there, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So it was like it's going
Speaker 2: to come by me. Just continue to do what it
Speaker 2: is that I'm doing. And like I said, the guy
Speaker 2: in Houston that got hit in the chest, well lost
Speaker 2: a one late.
Speaker 4: Season the fifty nine because then the sixties right there,
Speaker 4: Oh it would be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be right there.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's one of those things to
Speaker 2: where it's like I was so young in my career,
Speaker 2: that was my first full season, to where it's like okay,
Speaker 2: like you don't realize what you did until you actually
Speaker 2: get a chance to like sit back and look back
Speaker 2: on on what you did and I and I look
Speaker 2: at it and I'm like, I don't know what the
Speaker 2: hell happened that year?
Speaker 3: Like I was, things just all came.
Speaker 2: They all because you look at it and you and
Speaker 2: you say, man like wow, like that was that was special?
Speaker 3: It was really special. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: I don't want to we really appreciate the time. I
Speaker 1: just got a couple more. I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: when you get Chase on you and Jimmy kept saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you were cereal. You were cereal, which I
Speaker 1: guess meant like mentally he was like a serial killer?
Speaker 1: Is that what that's coming from?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: I mean that's safe to say, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: So we've had people on and they've told like a
Speaker 1: good Chase story, Like what's your good Chase story? Is
Speaker 1: there a serial Chase story that you could tell?
Speaker 3: Wow, Chase, I mean Chase.
Speaker 2: Everybody got to see Chase like on the field, so
Speaker 2: Chase was always hard nose. He was like, you know,
Speaker 2: the the hustle guy all that, but Chase off the
Speaker 2: field was like a joker man like he would he
Speaker 2: was sneaky. Chase was Chase was sneaky man, and he'd
Speaker 2: he'd be doing all kind of like jokes and and
Speaker 2: and and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I got any uh.
Speaker 2: Good appropriate stuff because it's probably a family.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 1: That I was gonna say, you've seen him smash helmets
Speaker 1: and batrax and stuff.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, Well you know what's funny is is
Speaker 2: like the things that I would always find funny. So Jimmy, Shane,
Speaker 2: Chase and myself always hitting the same group, and we
Speaker 2: had Mick bill Meyer was our VP guy, and so
Speaker 2: like Ruben was, you see it all the time. So
Speaker 2: it's like if Chase was kind of like scuffling hitting wise,
Speaker 2: or he didn't feel good, like Chase would just have
Speaker 2: these this mini explosion every once in a while during
Speaker 2: batting practice.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 2: One time mixed throwing and Chase just can't get his
Speaker 2: rhythm going. He's just feeling like crap or whatever. Swings missed,
Speaker 2: like hits it into the into the top of the
Speaker 2: batting cage.
Speaker 3: Fires is bad at the l screen.
Speaker 2: And he's walking out and then just like fires the
Speaker 2: ball back into the batting cage, not throwing it at Chase,
Speaker 2: but he just fired it back in I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm hitting after Chase. I always hit after Chase, and
Speaker 2: so I was like, all right, well, I guess we're
Speaker 2: ready to go. I don't know if he's swinging anymore,
Speaker 2: but be ready for this fastball. Get in here, go
Speaker 2: take these rounds and see what happens. But he would
Speaker 2: have some like hilarious snaps. And for all of us
Speaker 2: who knew Chase, like we're standing there like Shane, and
Speaker 2: Shane's dying laughing. Jimmy's dying like I'm laughing, And I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, Nick, you good bro, Like we can take
Speaker 2: a little bit off if you know, if you if
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 1: Well, So that's this is the great part about the
Speaker 1: six Woman podcast.
Speaker 3: You do a Jimmy.
Speaker 1: I was listening in the Pedro Martinez episode, and I
Speaker 1: also learned that Pedro called him a snapper or something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Right, He's always he was always snapping. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a good quality snap every once in a while.
Speaker 2: But but you had to love his his competitive nature
Speaker 2: and in what it was. And Chase always would about
Speaker 2: playing a game the right way, and I loved him
Speaker 2: as Chase was one of those guys, and guys would say,
Speaker 2: it's like you love him on your team and you
Speaker 2: hated playing against him because of how because of how
Speaker 2: he played, you know what I mean. Like people would say, oh,
Speaker 2: Chase was dirty. I was like, no, Chase, Chase isn't dirty.
Speaker 2: It's like he just he plays hard. Like we grew
Speaker 2: up watching baseball a certain way, and it's like if
Speaker 2: you're gonna if you're gonna go in. He's coming in
Speaker 2: to try to break up a double player. He's trying
Speaker 2: to come in and break up, you know, and out
Speaker 2: so you don't get him if so you don't get
Speaker 2: somebody else out. He's gonna play hard, he's gonna hustle,
Speaker 2: and that's that's what he did.
Speaker 5: And then I had one more I had one more question.
Speaker 5: I know, obviously you've had an amazing career. It's so
Speaker 5: cool to see you do the stuff that you're doing
Speaker 5: off the field. We've had a couple of guests over
Speaker 5: time where they'll be like, in some random place, Howie
Speaker 5: Rosman's happened to him? And uh, I think Chase went
Speaker 5: through it in a couple of different places where you know,
Speaker 5: people would randomly say, like world lefing champions or you know,
Speaker 5: stuff like that, Howie.
Speaker 3: Rose and Go Birds.
Speaker 5: Have you been in like any weird or like remote
Speaker 5: places in your travels where people like come up to
Speaker 5: recognize and say, you know, go Phills or have you
Speaker 5: Have you had any of those types of experiences because
Speaker 5: we've heard some funny stories over the years, and I'm
Speaker 5: not sure if you've gone through that too.
Speaker 3: So I got a twofold for you.
Speaker 2: So one I was like, we we went on vacation,
Speaker 2: we did like a European vacation this year, and a
Speaker 2: lot of Philly fans in Italy, so we ran into
Speaker 2: a lot of people from Philly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in Italy.
Speaker 2: And but to give you the the kind of fun thing,
Speaker 2: I was actually at a Lucha libre wrestling match and
Speaker 2: had a guy like Mexico in Mexico here in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: There's a guy here in Atlanta that puts him on.
Speaker 8: And so.
Speaker 2: Buddy of mine was like, hey, hey, right, like I'll
Speaker 2: be in town. You want to come to this lucha libre.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, cool, let's go. So I
Speaker 2: went over there to that and it was like that
Speaker 2: was an experience.
Speaker 8: Man, it was.
Speaker 3: It was interesting. It was like really cool and funny.
Speaker 3: It was like I like, I enjoyed myself. It was
Speaker 3: like it was crazy. We did have a person come
Speaker 3: up and say, what's up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Phillies fans meant Philly fans.
Speaker 3: Phillies fans. They are everywhere, There's no doubt it.
Speaker 1: And my last one is, what, uh tell me why
Speaker 1: you think this group? You said you kind of watched
Speaker 1: the Phillies. Why do you think this group might have
Speaker 1: a chance to win the World Series? Is you're what
Speaker 1: do you what do you like about their chances? Or
Speaker 1: what do you like about this team?
Speaker 2: What I like about their chances is I mean, obviously,
Speaker 2: look this this day and age of ball, I think
Speaker 2: we're getting back to the point to where everybody's understanding
Speaker 2: how important starting pitching is in the postseason. You know,
Speaker 2: during the regular season you kind of get away with,
Speaker 2: you know, letting guys go five innings or whatever. But
Speaker 2: I think, you know, as I've always said, when a
Speaker 2: guy is going going well, if you can get it
Speaker 2: to the right hands at the end, the less hands
Speaker 2: that have the opportunity to touch it, the less the
Speaker 2: less chances there are for somebody to mess up.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So I think the importance of starting pitching, and with
Speaker 2: this day and age, man, these guys have you know,
Speaker 2: barring now that you know obviously with Wheeler out, you've
Speaker 2: still got four pretty good starting pitchers. Right So You've
Speaker 2: got Ranger, You've got Lizardo, You've got Sanchez, who's been
Speaker 2: amazing all year, and you got No No, you got
Speaker 2: Nola right where now most of the time with the
Speaker 2: with the way the postseason is, you really only need three,
Speaker 2: you know, because you've got the off days in between
Speaker 2: to be able to continue to set up your your
Speaker 2: your your rotations or whatnot. So I like that from
Speaker 2: that standpoint, you know, being able to either put guys
Speaker 2: kind of back to back if you need to, and
Speaker 2: you can set up your rotation however you I will
Speaker 2: put Rangers for Az up against anybody's ace any day
Speaker 2: of the week, and that dude's gonna give you an
Speaker 2: opportunity to win. Christopher Sanchez has been pitching out of
Speaker 2: his mind.
Speaker 3: He continues to do that. That that right there, you
Speaker 3: got too. You can put No No and.
Speaker 2: And uh Lozardo you know back to back as well.
Speaker 2: You still got tied whoever you want to throw on there.
Speaker 2: You still got some depth at that starting position. But
Speaker 2: what I also like is the bottom of the lineup
Speaker 2: has been coming through for the Phillies, and that is key, Rube.
Speaker 2: You know, like when we were winning, everybody was hitting,
Speaker 2: you know, the one through five, those usual suspects are
Speaker 2: gonna be what it's gonna be. But I think where
Speaker 2: it's one is in the trenches where you get those
Speaker 2: guys six to nine that can get there. So it's
Speaker 2: almost like if those guys can continue to do what
Speaker 2: they're doing, and in the times where the top is
Speaker 2: not getting it done, but the bottom is starting to
Speaker 2: come through, that's gonna give you more opportunity to sit
Speaker 2: there and try to go win as well. So these
Speaker 2: guys are clicking on all cylinders and play baseball. Get
Speaker 2: them on, get them over, get him in. It ain't sexy.
Speaker 2: The analysts don't like it, but damn it. We about
Speaker 2: w's at the end of the day. So that's what
Speaker 2: it comes down to is at this point, like all
Speaker 2: the other stuff kind of goes out of the window.
Speaker 2: You got to start playing baseball. Like if you got
Speaker 2: to play small ball, whatever it is that you gotta do.
Speaker 2: The year they went to the World Series, they played
Speaker 2: small ball they were butting guys over, getting them on,
Speaker 2: getting them over, and getting them in.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: The Diamondbacks did it to them the next year.
Speaker 2: So if you notice, like when you get to the postseason,
Speaker 2: everybody starts kind of okay, Hey, the homer is great,
Speaker 2: we'll take it, but we've got to be able to
Speaker 2: manufacture runs.
Speaker 3: And that's what they've been able to do thus far
Speaker 3: towards the end of the season.
Speaker 2: And I think in order for them to do what
Speaker 2: they want to do and get to the mountaintop, you
Speaker 2: got to keep doing that. You gotta find ways to
Speaker 2: get runs across the board.
Speaker 1: Chooches walk off from the World Series, man ball hit
Speaker 1: about three feet in the plate and bounce straight up,
Speaker 1: straight up high to Evan Longoria.
Speaker 3: No shot, that's right, speed kills exactly right.
Speaker 2: Well, Ryan, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: Everybody.
Speaker 1: Make sure to check out the podcast six one one Right,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollins, you can you tell us who your next
Speaker 1: guest is? Do you know who your next guest is?
Speaker 1: You want to tease right now?
Speaker 3: We have just done we did one. We got one
Speaker 3: coming out.
Speaker 2: We got to keep people tuned in, so we got
Speaker 2: one where we like to do a couple of them
Speaker 2: with ourselves and just kind of like go back and forth.
Speaker 3: So it's great. Yeah, well we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Look at doing some reactionary stuff too over the course
Speaker 2: of the postseason, so you know, just continue to tune
Speaker 2: in sixty one one Podcast and check us out.
Speaker 4: Awesome, Ran, Thanks so much for your time, Man, it
Speaker 4: was a pleasure and continued success on your stuff.
Speaker 2: Man's cool A man back at you guys, Man appreciate
Speaker 2: it was always fun