WEBVTT - Is This Real Life? 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:13.160 Hi, everybody. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.680 Welcome to The Phillies Show with Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisburry. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:21.079 I am Todd the Lucky. It is Friday, May twenty fourth, 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:25.479 twenty twenty four. The Phillies are on this incredible run. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.240 They're thirty seven and fourteen. It's the best start in 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.920 franchise history. They're in their best thirty five game stretch 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:36.519 in franchise history. No team has gotten off to I 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:40.879 start like this since the two thousand and one Mariners. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.280 So many good things going on, including this homestand they 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.519 go seven to one on the home stand. They just 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.879 swept the defending World Series champion Texas Rangers. They had 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.880 a packed house on a beautiful Thursday afternoon at Citizens 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.520 Bank Park. And as I'm watching these games, and as 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.320 I see them continue to rack up wins over and over, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.880 night after night after night, part of me is just 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.319 sitting last yesterday afternoon, I'm sitting at home and I'm 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:13.399 watching this and I'm going, is this is this really happening? 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.240 It's it's it's almost kind of hard to believe the 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.039 type of run that this team is on. I've I've 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:20.639 never seen anything like this before. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:26.200 It is complete insanity though, I mean it's insane. I 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:30.560 was there at broadcasting these games, and I actually don't 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.039 typically do you know, the home games, that's Cruoky's job. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.840 But but I've got these last six games, and these 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.720 guys are insane right now. They cannot lose. It's almost 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.760 as if, you know, I think, I think it's a 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.240 crescendo of a lot of things happening. But one of 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.320 the big things, obviously is the pitching. The starting pitching 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.200 has been extraordinary. But even when they're getting like mediocre pitching, 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.680 when Taiwan Walker took them out, they still had success. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.600 And it's one of those things like I compare them 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.680 right now to the team like the ninety eight, ninety six, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:08.600 ninety seven, ninety eight Yankees that literally, if you made 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.239 one mistake in the game, the Phillies would take advantage 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.359 of it and you get blown out and that's the game. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.120 The game's over. And even if it was even like 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.040 the two run or the three run, they're ahead like 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.679 two or three runs, and you still think it's sort 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.679 of a blowout. I mean, it's just bizarre the teams 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.800 that they're handling these teams in this way, because you 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.440 almost feel it and sense it from the other teams, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.080 and you sense it from the home dugout the Phillies 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.560 dugout that they're winning a baseball game and that's period, 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:46.760 end of story. And that's an amazing attitude. It's it's 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.200 it's a wonderful thing to see if you're a Phillies fan. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.520 I'm loving it because there's so many elements of the 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.640 game that I believe in that they're doing really really well. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.840 That makes me feel like a man, this is really baseball. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.040 They're they're starting. Pitching is excellent, They're throwing strikes in 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:11.040 an alarming rate. They are not walking people, they are there, 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:18.160 their situational hitting has been off the charts, and I 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.320 mean they're it's they're doing everything they're supposed to do 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.560 to win baseball games, and they're doing it fundamentally better 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.880 than everybody else and physically better than everybody else. 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.760 Jim, Yeah, what a home stand. I mean, you go 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:36.280 seven and one, the smallest crowd in that homestand was 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:41.600 thirty seven almost thirty eight, thousirty seven plus four sellouts. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.760 This team and this fan base is crackling with electricity, 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:52.320 and why not best record in baseball, best start over 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.760 fifty one games in franchise history. They now lead to 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.880 majors in era and starting pitching era they lead them 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.320 and starting pitching innings pitched. I mean, it's really kind 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.120 of an old school feel because they're getting so many 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.720 innings out of their starting pitchers. They're getting six plus 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.280 innings out of their starting pitches on average for the season. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:17.520 And you know, I've almost a couple things. One, I 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.679 expect them to win every time they step on the field, 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.960 so you might, you might I think they expect to win. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.279 I mean, I'm watching that game yesterday from the press 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.960 box and Zach Wheelers down one nothing, and I'm like, okay, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.640 I still think, you know, when are they going to 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.640 take control of this game. It's only a matter of time, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.159 it feels inevitable. And of course they did, and they 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.279 went on to uh sweep the defending World Series champions. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.960 And I've almost forgotten. And I've covered the Phillies for 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.640 a long time. I've seen a lot of losing streaks, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:50.240 but this team has not lost back to back games, 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.760 now consecutive games in a month, so they haven't even 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.839 had a little losing streak. I mean, that's to me 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.120 an astounding stat They have not lost back to back 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:05.760 games in one month. I mean, there's still that narrative 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.800 out there. They haven't played anybody, they haven't played great teams. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.080 They have a soft schedule. You can only play one team, 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:14.760 the team that the schedule, you know, mister schedule maker 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.560 sends you that night. And they're grinding up those teams. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.240 I mean they would they would be playing, they would 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.080 they would have faced more teams over five hundred, like 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.200 if they hadn't beaten them, like the Padres and the 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.720 Giants have been kind of treading water around five hundred. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.400 Little Phillies have beaten those teams and thrown them who 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.640 thrown them under five hundred. But you know, I mean, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.480 this is not about strength to schedule. This is about 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.880 winning ball games. And they got a hell of a team. Todd, Yeah, 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:43.960 you know who's a great team. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.719 That's what I want to know. Well, totally. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:47.599 So. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.880 I saw Matt Breen, a friend of the pod from 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.080 the Inquiry, he put out a great tweet the other night. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.719 But like, I've never seen so much obsession about strength 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:57.719 to schedule. This is not the BCS, This is not 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.120 Boise State racking up wins again cupcakes to get into 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:04.120 the college football playoff. Wins and losses all comp the same. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.479 So the Phillies against teams with losing records are thirty 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.840 three and twelve. It's a seven thirty three winning percentage, right. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.800 I went back and I looked, this is what I 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.800 do in my spare time. I went back and I 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.919 looked at all the one hundred game winners this century 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.480 from two thousand to twenty twenty three. Only they're thirty 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.600 five one hundred win teams. Only four had a better 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.640 winning percentage against losing teams. So the idea that this 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.640 is what everybody does. They're only winning because they're playing 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:37.320 teams with losing records. Even the really good teams this 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.760 century have not beaten the bad teams at a clip 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.240 like this. And I know you guys probably feel the 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:48.560 same way. I don't watch these games, even against the 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.880 losing teams and say, man, I'm telling you what, if 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:54.440 they were playing the Braves tonight, they would have they 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.159 would have gotten they would have won that game because 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.400 they are playing clean baseball for the most part. They 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.279 make a mistake here and there, but I'm not watching 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.280 these games going man, they are so lucky they're playing 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.240 the Nationals this weekend. They are so lucky they played 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.920 the White Sox this weekend. They are doing exactly what 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.680 they're supposed to do. And of those one hundred win teams, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.680 you know, five won the World Series less century. Eight 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.320 made the World Series a century. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:20.640 You know. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.520 But so they're they're they're not just beating bad teams, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.120 they're beating them at at a rate that really good 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.960 teams have not even done over the past twenty four seasons. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:31.080 It's pretty impressive. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.360 So the go ahead. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.200 So the one so, the one team that I played 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.320 for that I felt like this as a player was 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.520 the team in ninety five, the Cleveland Indians. We won 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.720 one hundred games out of one hundred and forty four. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.440 Think about that. It was one hundred and forty four. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.200 That was the record of the team at the end 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.400 of the season. And so they were fifty six games 0:07:55.520 --> 0:08:00.520 over five hundred and so that was one of those 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.680 teams that they bashed. It wasn't a great pitching team. 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:08.000 The Phillies have a much much better starting rotation and 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:12.240 in a better bullpen than that ball club. That ball 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.280 club had an amazing offense. You know, it had you know, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:21.160 Albert Bell and Kenny Lofton and many Ramier's, Jim Tomey, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.920 Eddie Murray. I mean, it was an amazing Carlos Bierga. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.120 You know, some guys you could really really rake, and 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.440 they they racked up numbers, but it was like, like 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.679 you said, Jim, the team took like a one nothing leader, 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.800 two nothing leaders, like Okay, no big deal, this game's over. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.600 We're gonna win at nine to two or nine to 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.520 four or whatever the heck, you know. And that's that's 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.160 exactly the feel I have with this team that it 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.000 doesn't really matter. They're gonna come back and do some 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.120 damage and have grat at bats, and it doesn't matter 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.760 who it is. It's gonna be in Mondeseshosa or it's 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.440 gonna be it doesn't have to be Brice Harper, it's 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.600 gonna be Cody Clemens, and it's gonna be you know, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.960 all types of guys up and down the lineup who 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.560 are just going to do some damage and it's just 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:05.600 an amazing run. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.400 I loved what Rob Thompson said the other day, I 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.160 think it was after the win on Wednesday night. He 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.360 was asked about getting off to the best start in 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.320 baseball since the two thousand and one Mariners. And he said, well, 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:19.839 what did they do, Well, they won one hundred and 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.679 sixty game. No, but what did they do at the end? Well, 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.480 they didn't win the World Series? And I think that's 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:30.120 I thought. I loved, loved, loved that answer because and 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.240 I really truly feel that that is the attitude in 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.199 that clubhouse. This is great, but keep your eye on 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.319 the prize. They fell short the last two years late 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.559 in the postseason, talking to players in spring training, they 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.400 felt they should have won the World Series. Last year, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.400 they really felt that they blew an opportunity to win 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.000 the World Series. I think that's hung with them. I 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.240 think filling two wins short of the World Series in 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:56.600 twenty two was hung with them. And I think beating 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.400 the Braves in the NLDS the last two years to 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.320 those hundred win teams is also another reminder that this 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.960 is great, but keep your eye the price. And I 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.200 feel so anybody that's kind of worried about any lack 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.240 of edge or whatever, I think this play team is 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.040 playing focused. And I also think that they're playing with 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:19.360 an edge and a purpose that a lot of great 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:20.000 teams have. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.920 Yeah, Rob talks a lot about staying humble, and I 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.000 think it's a sound message, but I don't think it's 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.880 needed with this group because there is a palpable hunger. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.120 I still look at twenty twenty two, getting the Game 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.920 six of the World Series is a great accomplishment, sure, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.680 but a little bit of a bonus. Last year I 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.920 think is the one that was the gut punch for 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.679 this team, and there's still sucking wind a little privately, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.560 quietly sucking wind a little bit from it. And that's 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.480 the one that gnaws at them and is fueling this 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.320 team right now because and I just I don't think 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.560 they're gonna let I don't think losing their edge complacency 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.840 is going to be a problem, because you know, the 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.760 manager delivers the subtle messages. But I just think that 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.280 the leadership in that clubhouse is fully committed and they 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.400 have enough veterans to know that you've got to keep 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.640 moving forward, and you know you're playing good right now. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.080 It's still technically springtime, but it's all about what happens 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.160 in the fall for this team. So I don't have 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:29.760 any worry about the intangible qualities in that clubhouse. I 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.200 think I just think, you know, they are very, very 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:35.520 motivated and very hungry. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.240 Yeah, you mentioned about that. I think of the twenty 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.160 eleven team, you know, after we lost in twenty eleven, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:44.840 I think that that next year. That's one of the 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.240 reasons why I went out and got papal Bond and 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.400 decided to add on because I felt like, I know 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.839 that this team knows that they lost an opportunity and 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.240 a little bit like two thousand and seven to two 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.680 thousand and eight, they were grinding at the bit to 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.400 try to get back to it, and then the guys 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.480 sort of fell apart. I mean, everybody sort of got 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.280 hurt and then it kind of blew up on us. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.679 But in twenty twelve and then we sort of had 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:15.800 to reverse reversed gears. But you're right about that there 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.920 is a hunger in there and there is a drive 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.000 in there too. You know that the prize is one thing, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:27.120 and I do believe that these guys believe that that 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.400 it's World Series Champion or bust. I think that's the attitude, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.520 and that's okay, there's nothing wrong with that. 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.560 You know, one thing they've they've they did well in 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.560 twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three is playover injuries, 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.920 and they lost Harper for a time in both seasons, 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.240 they lost Hoskins, they lost Wheeler a little bit down 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.840 the stretch in twenty twenty two, and lo and behold, 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:53.720 they're doing it again. I know it's not like a 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.440 long injury for Trey Turner, but you know he's been out. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.360 I think he's gonna get back here soon. He's ramping 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:00.440 up his workout. It's going to do another one today, Denver. 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.400 But the way they've covered that loss, I mean they're 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.800 fifteen and three without them. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:10.520 That's crazy. And listen, listen, listen. That's that's an MVP 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.200 caliber player. I mean I picked him to be an 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.240 MVP this year. And like, if you start thinking that 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.719 the numbers that from when he started, when they got 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:22.280 the applause, from the time that happened to now, I 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:24.680 mean you think, look at his numbers, dur MVP type numbers. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.440 I mean the regally totally. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.439 We I think we need to show a little accountability 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.800 here on the Todd Pod because when Trey Turner went down, 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.680 I think all three of us to a man, said yeah, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.920 they'll probably slide stot over and give wit Maryfield some 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.200 time at second base. That'll be their best lineup. Maybe 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.440 you know a little bit with ed Mundo Sosa against 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.920 a lefty at shortstop. Well at Mundo Sosa must have 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.839 heard those remarks and said, screw you guys. He has 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.800 been He has been flat out awesome since Trey Turner 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.680 went out. He's hitting three forty two, six extra base hits, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.520 nine RBIs and a ten thirty four ops. Also playing 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.960 excellent defense. Rubin that catch he made back pedaling yesterday 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.840 going back into the outfield. I mean little plays like that, 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.880 that ball drops in all of a sudden, that dugout 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.760 on the other side becomes alive. There's another runner on base, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.320 you know, Wheeler, you know, you. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:27.560 Never know a play like that, a play like that 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.400 is it can be a game shaper. 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.040 And he's done a great job. So hats off to 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.880 ed Mundo Sosa, you know, he you know, much like 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.000 I think the Arizona loss last year, maybe is uh, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:44.360 you know, resonating or staying with that team and motivating 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.360 that clubhouse. I guess he just you know, says I'm 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.200 gonna show those guys on the Todd Pop. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.520 Who knew he was a listener who knew he was a. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.440 Listener, but yeah, I love him too. I love him 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:56.080 as a player and I love him as a person. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.400 He is a great, great young man. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.760 Play with a lot of energy, A lot of energy. Man. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.240 I love the energy when you're winning and you're playing well. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.640 It's easy to play with energy. But energy is such 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.240 a difference, making intangible really in anything you do. And 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.640 it's just he is just radiating it and it's fun 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:16.480 to watch him playing. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.960 Well. You think back again, go ahead time. I'm sorry, no, no, 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:20.280 no go. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.680 I was gonna say, you think back to when they 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.000 got him a couple of years ago at the trade deadline. 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.080 It was I don't want to say it was an 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.160 under the radar move, but people are kind of going, 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.720 all right, where's the neck, where's the real move coming 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.200 in because he was struggling with the Cardinals. And listen, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.000 if you're in Philly, you don't know much about Edmundo Sosa. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:39.480 You just look. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:41.440 You go to Baseball reference page. You go, this guy's 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.320 hitting two hundred. This is we gave up Jojo Romero. 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.720 The guy throws ninety six. He's a left handed reliever. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.720 He smashes red bull cans on his head and we're 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.760 getting a middle infielder that can't hit, you know, over 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:56.440 two hundred and think about how valuable he's been over 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.920 the passcal years, the energy, the defense, and think about 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.240 just what he's done over these past you know, fourteen 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.640 games in trade Turner's place, or you know fifteen eighteen 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:07.840 games in trade Turner's place. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.400 And this is the beauty of what Rob Thompson also 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.840 brings to the table because he gave this guy opportunities. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.400 He loved on this guy, he awardly. I really liked 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.320 this guy. He liked his actions, he liked his energy, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.960 He wanted him on the field. He put him in 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:29.560 situations to have success. And I think the kid like says, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.160 thank you, thank you for giving me that love, thank 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.960 you for believing in me. You're giving me opportunities to 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.480 play even with a team that's sort of stacked, and 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.440 I'm producing for you. I mean, this is really really 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.600 good stuff, man. This is this is like come full 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.840 circle type stuff that that really makes a difference. And 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.200 I think it gives you the brilliance of what Rob 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:57.680 Thompson's about. We talked about, you know, the comments that 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.520 you that he made about that winning that that that 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.760 Seattle team and you know what they did at the end. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.639 And I think this pert the team has taken on 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.640 the personality of this of this manager as well as anyone. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.800 And they're just going about it and grinding it and 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:20.320 doing it in a confident but not cocky way, and 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.280 they're enjoying themselves in a professional way. It's it's a 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:24.960 beautiful thing. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.560 Yeah. Very they're very steady, like their manager's personality, just 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.000 you know, very steady. And that's something I think that's 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.240 required in baseball because it's it's every day. It's not 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.199 a bang your head against the locker sport and go 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.879 out and take somebody's head off. It's it's you know, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.920 there's a there's a languid steadiness to it. And I'm 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:51.400 not suggesting suggesting that it doesn't have intensity and passion 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:56.040 and you know, I'm not suggesting any of that. It's 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.720 it's a hard hitting sport, but in a different way. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:00.840 You know. 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.920 I think it's fun about this run is that, as 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.720 a from a baseball writer's perspective, is all the history 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.560 that's being brought up, you know, best thirty five games 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.480 stretched since the eighteen ninety two Phillies you know, Ranger 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.639 Suarez is off to the best start of any Phillies 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.360 starting pitchers since Grover Cleveland Alexander. You know, I think 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:21.919 that stuff is a lot of fun too, and I 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:26.160 think that stuff gets fans excited. Best best thirty five 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.560 game stretches eighteen ninety two. Ed Dela Hanty, Sam Thompson, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:32.720 and Billy Hamilton were on that team. Can you guys 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.840 give me any fun facts? But any of those three 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.880 Hall of Fame outfielders, Let's see what jumps out at. 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.160 Billy Hamilton his nickname was Sliding Billy right. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.240 Because he apparently was a fantastic slider. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.600 Like turner, like turner. And wasn't Ed Delahanty the guy 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.040 that went over Niagara Falls? 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:52.480 Yes? 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.880 Yes? And who's the other guy? Correct? 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:01.000 Sam Thompson? I got nothing, I got. 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.200 An I'm not familiar with Sam Thompson. 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:05.120 They're all in the Hall of Fame. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.560 But Ed Delahanty, I think it's such a you know, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.720 such an eighteen hundreds, late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundred story. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:15.960 He died mysteriously falling into the Niagara Falls coming off 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:16.439 a train. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.639 But was that on a team trip? 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.520 No, that wasn't that was not on a team that 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.880 was an off season trip. But the mystery remains. You know, 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:27.560 that's crazy. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:28.840 That is crazy. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.480 This So this weekend, the Phillies opened a three game 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:39.960 series against the Rockies. Christopher Sanchez Friday Night against lefty 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.480 Ty Block, He's one and two with a five one 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:46.359 to four e RA. Saturday's Aaron Nola versus Dakota Hudson. 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.600 He's one and seven with a five eight ninety RA. 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:55.600 Sunday Rangers Suarez aka Grover Cleveland Alexander versus cal Quantrille 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.400 three three with a three five niney RA six game 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.840 road trip, West Coast road trip. They can always be 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:06.040 a little hairy, but this team seems to be pretty 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.800 well equipped to handle anything anything throwing its way. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.320 Yeah, I think so. It's it's obvious that the Colorado 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.400 Rockies are one of the worst teams in the National League. Yeah, 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.760 they're coming off a super tough loss. They just lost 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.080 a tough one. They were up like four to nothing 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:25.240 a couple of times late in the game and in 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:28.960 an extra innings this last game. And their bullpen has 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:34.280 just really struggled. They just don't throw enough strikes. But 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.080 you can't take any of these teams. Lightly, you're going 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.280 into thin air here up in the you know, at 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:45.320 cors Field, it's a whole different atmosphere. They're not going 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.000 to have a lot of people at the ballpark. I 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.879 don't believe it'll be interesting to see how well the 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.640 fans travel here because it's a weekend and they're so popular, 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:58.040 and usually the Philly fans do travel well, especially on 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.160 weekends as they get closer to the to the summertime. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.840 But it's not going to be easy to win. I mean, 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.159 San Francisco is playing a little bit better, they're a 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.399 better team, they're they're a little hotter, they're they've won 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:13.080 some late games and they're starting to get some mojo there. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:18.120 It's never easy to play on the West Coast. They 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.480 had a really good West Coast run the first time 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.359 through or and and and they've done well there. And 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:28.320 you're right, I think they're well equipped to handle things. 0:21:28.359 --> 0:21:31.920 But they got to keep grinding, keep playing and uh 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:34.760 and you know, show the rest of the world what 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:35.480 they're all about. 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:42.520 And coursefield can be, pardon me, a real test of 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:46.880 your pitching, because not only the way the ball flies, 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:51.280 but just from talking to pitchers over the years, everything 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:54.720 feels a little different, often feels a little different coming 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:59.879