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Speaker 1: Phil Hey, this is Bryce Harper and.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to The Philly Show, Ruby Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury,

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Speaker 2: Todd So Lucky. It's the Phillies Show.

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Speaker 3: Coming to you live from Clearwater. We're recording this on

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Speaker 3: Sunday after Sunday's workout. Philly's first full squad workout is

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Speaker 3: on Monday at Bake Care Ballpark and Carpenter Complex. But

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Speaker 3: this morning we got the opportunity, guys to talk to

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Speaker 3: Bryce Harper, really the second time he has spoken since

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Speaker 3: Dave Dombrowski's elite comments or not elite comments, and seems

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Speaker 3: like he's still pretty irked by it, don't you guys think?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that when he says

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Speaker 4: it's kind of wild quote unquote, then you know that.

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Speaker 4: I think he did not really appreciate those comments. Again,

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Speaker 4: I don't think that there was any malice behind those

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Speaker 4: comments from Dave Dombrowski. I think he was just speaking

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Speaker 4: his his truth on that. It was obviously not taking

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Speaker 4: taken well by Bryce, and it seems like he's still

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Speaker 4: sort of miffed about it.

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Speaker 5: They did speak.

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Speaker 4: According to Matt Gilb and others in that article, he did,

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Speaker 4: you know, he did have a conversation with Dave Dombrowski

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Speaker 4: since then and in between, but I mean, at least

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Speaker 4: it seems like they've discussed it, but it seems like

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Speaker 4: it's still something on on Bryce Harper's mind, and I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure that.

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Speaker 5: He was very appreciative of it.

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Speaker 4: It was interesting to have him say this that when

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Speaker 4: you know, they originally talked and he originally came on

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Speaker 4: board that you know, the Phillies would keep things in house.

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Speaker 5: Know that that necessarily is happening on both ends.

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Speaker 6: Dave wasn't the GM.

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Speaker 4: Dave wasn't the GM at that time, number one. But also,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I do remember at times when Bryce Harper

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Speaker 4: was screaming at folks about maybe he was twenty twenty

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Speaker 4: about signing JT and in voicing his opinion about that

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Speaker 4: as well. So you know, there are times when maybe

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Speaker 4: sometimes those unwritten rules are broken, and in this case,

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Speaker 4: I guess it was a sort of unwritten rule broken

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Speaker 4: by Dave, who, as you pointed out, Jim was not

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Speaker 4: the GM at the time.

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Speaker 5: But listen, at the end of.

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Speaker 4: The day, I think it's all gonna well go away,

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Speaker 4: and I think Bryce Harper is poised to have a

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Speaker 4: strong season. I know when he's challenged, he's got a

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Speaker 4: ton of pride. He's one of the best players in baseball,

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Speaker 4: and he's gonna prove to the world that he is

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Speaker 4: still one of the best player players in the game.

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Speaker 4: And I feel they expect him to do some serious

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Speaker 4: damage this year in twenty twenty six to most East

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Speaker 4: Pictures and others across the board.

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Speaker 7: I do agree it's going to go away. I agree

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Speaker 7: with you on that, Ruben, But clearly right now as

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Speaker 7: he checks in, he still has.

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Speaker 6: A bustle in his hedgerow. Something is bothering him.

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Speaker 7: And you know, listening to his words, it doesn't sound

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Speaker 7: like he took great umbrage on the content of Dave's words,

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Speaker 7: which I think was more critique than criticism.

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Speaker 6: I thought it was honest critique. I think there's a slight.

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Speaker 7: Difference between the word criticism and the word critique. Maybe

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Speaker 7: folks will quibble with that, but Bryce acknowledge he didn't

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Speaker 7: have his usual year. I think Dave was remiss in

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Speaker 7: not pointing out he had been hurt. But clearly what

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Speaker 7: irks Bryce to use your word to odd is that

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Speaker 7: it was done publicly. But man, it was done at

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Speaker 7: the end of a news conference, almost like a footnote.

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Speaker 7: I've covered Dave Dombrowski here in Philadelphia. I've been an

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Speaker 7: avid observer of his since his time in Montreal. I'm

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Speaker 7: talking like thirty years. It just doesn't seem like his style.

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Speaker 7: He's not that, you know, cunning. I don't think an

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Speaker 7: individual to send a message publicly like that. I think

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Speaker 7: it was from the gut. I think he got a

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Speaker 7: question and he answered, answered it honestly, and what maybe

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Speaker 7: he had been thinking for a while came out. I

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Speaker 7: don't think it was an intentional challenge, but I think

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Speaker 7: ultimately it will act as a challenge. And Bryce today

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Speaker 7: said he's you know, he doesn't need that to be motivated.

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Speaker 7: He said that several times. I feel like it's going

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Speaker 7: to be a great motivator for him this year, because

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Speaker 7: he is a guy we saw, you know. I mentioned

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Speaker 7: this months ago. The little shortstop Rcia took a jab

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Speaker 7: at him, and he stuck.

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Speaker 6: It right to him.

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Speaker 7: I think this could ultimately be a very good incentive

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Speaker 7: for Bryce to do some big things this year.

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Speaker 2: So, Jim, are you saying that.

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Speaker 3: You don't necessarily believe that he wore that not elite

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Speaker 3: T shirt during batting practice in late December, because hey,

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Speaker 3: if they give me a free T shirt, I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: wear it.

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Speaker 8: By the way, if that's the case, we funny show tea.

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Speaker 8: I have a feeling he would go, I feel I.

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Speaker 3: Have seen it.

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Speaker 2: I have seen players do this. I have a feeling

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Speaker 2: he would take that tea and go.

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Speaker 6: Well, then no, no, I can give something to my friends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly. But I mean that was that was

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Speaker 2: kind of a funny answer.

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Speaker 3: I thought, you know, just saying no, I mean they

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Speaker 3: made it, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna wear it.

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Speaker 2: But clearly it.

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Speaker 7: Was everything he does, I mean, has has purpose.

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Speaker 6: He's a he's a.

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Speaker 7: Savvy guy, right, you know the way you know, he's

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Speaker 7: very adept at messaging, in the way he talks.

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Speaker 6: Going back to what Rubin said, you know, sign him

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Speaker 6: for j T.

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Speaker 7: You know, I I thought one of the interesting things

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Speaker 7: he said today was looking forward to the w b

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Speaker 7: C and having Aaron Judge hit behind him. I thought

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Speaker 7: that was a bit of a message and and the

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Speaker 7: Dodgers do it the right way.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't very it wasn't very subliminal.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's uh, he's a shrewdie Man. But uh, as

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Speaker 7: long as he's knocking balls over the wall and off

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Speaker 6: Then he's here for the reason they got him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the next big, big piece of this

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Speaker 4: not only is it will be his overall performance number one,

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Speaker 4: but also I think as we developed through the spring,

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Speaker 4: is where who is going.

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Speaker 5: To hit behind him? Because he did make some comments

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Speaker 2: Todd, Yes he did.

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Speaker 3: He said, you know, I believe I asked him because

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Speaker 3: in the past Bryce has been very clear about this,

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Speaker 3: he said, and then we've talked about this here. It

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter who hits behind me, They're still not going

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Speaker 3: to pitch to me. But he basically said, yeah, it

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Speaker 3: does have a big impact. And so I feel like

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Speaker 3: because he had he was like last in baseball and

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Speaker 2: He would like to see a little bit more production

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Speaker 3: And so he said, the cleanup hitter for the twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six Phillies quote has a big job to do,

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Speaker 3: whether that be Alec Bohm, A. Dooleys, Garcia, JT. Real Muto.

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Speaker 3: My money right now is on Alec rot. We talked

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Speaker 3: real Muto as possibilities, but for me starting this season,

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 2: It has to be boom or should be boom.

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Speaker 3: We'll find out, of course, But no, no, and this, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I want to mention this. So that question was asked

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Speaker 3: as well. He said, No, I want Trey Turner, Bryce Harper,

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Speaker 3: Kyle Schwarber all hitting first, all hitting in the first inning.

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Speaker 3: I want them to have a guaranteed to bat in

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Speaker 3: the first inning, so it will not be a uh Turner, Boom, Harper, Schwarber,

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Speaker 2: So Harper hit second, Harp, That's what I think.

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Speaker 6: Not now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Now, Harper I apparently told Rob He's like, I'll hit,

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Speaker 3: I'll hit wherever.

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Speaker 2: I still would be surprised if it's first.

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Speaker 3: Although Ruben and I we were saying a couple of

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Speaker 3: weeks ago we loved that idea of him hitting first.

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Speaker 3: Probably won't happen. But yeah, those those Turner, Harper, Schwarber,

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Speaker 3: top three. Don't you think it's gonna be boem guys?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I do think if Garcia bounce is back,

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Speaker 3: that's super instinct because he is the more prototypical leadoff hitter,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I do think it's gonna be Boem.

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Speaker 4: If you look at the numbers from him last year,

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Speaker 4: we talked about this a little bit. Boom did that

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Speaker 4: did struggle in the four hole, There's no question about it.

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Speaker 4: In twenty six games started, he hit two sixteen with

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Speaker 4: a two sixty two on base percentage and a five

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Speaker 4: I know was not a ton of games, but twenty

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Speaker 4: gotta believe that in his career he has been better

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Speaker 5: There's no question in my mind that as I look back.

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Speaker 4: At, you know, some of the numbers career rise for him,

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Speaker 4: He's a two seventy two hitter with a three twenty

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Speaker 4: So I think last year in the four hoole was

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Speaker 4: a little bit of an anomaly for him. And he's

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Speaker 4: driven in ninety seven runs two years in a row

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Speaker 4: So I gotta believe he's gonna get the first crack

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Speaker 5: I also think that it's an important year for Alec Bouma.

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Speaker 5: He knows it. It's a stepping off year for him

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Speaker 4: Maybe all the things line up properly for him to

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Speaker 2: So you know, I did talk to Ruben.

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Speaker 3: I did talk with Alec the past couple of days

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Speaker 3: about a lot of different things, being a free agent,

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Speaker 3: being on the trades block.

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Speaker 2: Again with the Bobachette stuff.

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Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, the last five years, every year I'm

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Speaker 3: being traded and every five years I'm back in Clearwater,

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Speaker 3: So what do you know? But he did talk a

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Speaker 3: lot about hitting cleanup, and he did talk about his

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Speaker 3: performance last year.

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Speaker 2: It was a down year for him.

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Speaker 3: Now, remember he had that he had a cyst in

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Speaker 3: his left shoulder yep, and so he had to have

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Speaker 3: that drained in September. He said he spent this offseason

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Speaker 3: in Houston. He trains down in Houston. He said he

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Speaker 3: spent this offseason kind of look going over the film

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Speaker 3: from his twenty twenty four year when he was the

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Speaker 3: starting third baseman on the NL All Star team and

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Speaker 3: looking at that swing again and what he found was last.

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Speaker 2: Year because of the cyst in his shoulder.

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Speaker 3: It started it would pinch him a little bit, so

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Speaker 3: he would work to get try to find a place

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Speaker 3: of comfort in his swing. And what he found was

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Speaker 3: his bat was kind of you guys can speak to

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Speaker 3: this more than me. But he found his bat lagging

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Speaker 3: difficult from to pull the ball at times, not that

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Speaker 3: that's necessarily his game, but he said the swing mechanics

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Speaker 4: So really really interesting stuff. I'll be watching for that

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Speaker 7: I hear this Memorial Day stuff and it makes my

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Speaker 6: So go get him.

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Speaker 7: I just think he didn't have his usual great year

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Speaker 3: Pat Gillick the other day. Pat Gillick was here the

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame general manager, Ruben's former boss, and he

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Speaker 3: was having a heck of a time too. Guys, Pat

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Speaker 3: Gillick couldn't get his fingerprint to work. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if Pat heard me or not, but I yelled over

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Speaker 3: to him and said, Pat, why don't you bring your

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame plaque.

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Speaker 2: Maybe that'll get you into the building.

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Speaker 6: And he also owns a piece of a team. He's

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Speaker 6: one of the owners, that's right, a piece Jim.

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Speaker 9: I totally forgot about that. He's got a percentage of

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Speaker 9: the Phillies. So anyway, I want to hear that out

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Speaker 9: little fun, little fun moment in spring training. You know,

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Speaker 9: we're having fun out here. So well, that's it.

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Speaker 3: Eyes.

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Speaker 2: We will be back later this.

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Speaker 6: Week for more Phillies Show Smelly Later, boys.

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