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Speaker 1: draft Capter is on with us. You're live from clear

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Speaker 1: ooters shirts around here.

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Speaker 2: Have you gotten used to the accent? I haven't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I mean I was only here for two

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Speaker 4: But now it's I've got a chance to talk to

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Speaker 3: Them when I was up in Philly, and it's it's

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Speaker 3: a it's a funny one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not a strong though some of the deep

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Speaker 5: No, it's not. I mean you have to really like

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Speaker 5: almost like complain about every word that you're saying if

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Speaker 5: you're gonna have a good Philly accent and waater and tournament.

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Speaker 5: So it's really it's not a big deal. It's just

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Speaker 5: it's just perfect. It's just a perfect way to talk.

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Speaker 6: That's great, all right, let me let me get all

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Speaker 6: right degree but okay, yeahs as much as I'm learning

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Speaker 6: right now, Brad, let's start with the WBC experience. You

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Speaker 6: just came back. So first off, what's it like to

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Speaker 6: come back from that? There was so much juice, so

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Speaker 6: much energy, so much star power. You basically found new

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Speaker 6: so we'll get into the tournament and what it was

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Speaker 6: like in the last game. But what is it like

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Speaker 6: for you to now be here? Is it kind of weird?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just different, right.

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Speaker 3: You go from such high energy games, you know, every

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Speaker 3: So it's definitely weird, but excited to be back here

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Speaker 2: What were the what was the environment you were there?

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Speaker 2: You were you were in the biggest games so far

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Speaker 4: Of those Yeah, I mean it was, I mean it

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, by far the loudest game I've

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Speaker 4: I was in the playoffs last year for the first.

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Speaker 2: But like it's hard to describe.

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Speaker 1: You know, I hear you say the Cubs fans have

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Speaker 4: Never wouldn't said that. No, really it was pretty electric

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Speaker 3: But no, but just like I think being in a

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Speaker 4: It was it was awesome, Like it's the whole game,

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Speaker 5: after the playoffs, I was exhausted. Whether it was how

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm feeling it right now. I'll be honest with

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Speaker 3: you. It was it was hard to come down from that game.

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Speaker 2: We all hung out after the game a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit and just kind of you know, our last our

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Speaker 2: Staring at the ceiling all night.

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Speaker 3: And yesterday got in the car and me, Harper and

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Speaker 3: I don't think I slept the night before. So it's

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Speaker 3: just it's it's pretty tough. And then obviously six am

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Speaker 3: just just so much adrenaline, you know, even going back

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Speaker 3: It felt like every single game like mattered. We could

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Speaker 2: Than just the team. It was for the country, you know.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I definitely definitely feel exhausted.

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Speaker 2: Right now, What are you gonna do with the silver metal?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I want to get a gold one.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, right now I haven't just you know, it's still

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Speaker 3: just stashed away in the bags. I haven't really unpacked

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Speaker 3: A couple of guys, yeah, I mean I get it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: probably probably hanging up until you get a gold one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's well did uh you guys don't have any

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Speaker 3: I think here with us, I think so, I think, uh,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, are they walking around with their

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Speaker 2: Ye look at Michael medal. Back to your medal.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, it was still cool though.

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Speaker 2: What else?

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Speaker 6: What else did you guys talk about in the car ride?

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Speaker 6: You're with two of the more respected guys in the

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Speaker 6: game in Harper and Schreber. What kind of combos do

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Speaker 6: you have when you get those guys? For whoever long?

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Speaker 6: The ride was about a couple of hours.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, a lot of it was just about

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Speaker 3: he thought it went, and you know, obviously you know

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Speaker 3: second half of the car ride was talking about you know,

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Speaker 3: it's chilly today. But yeah, I mean it was just

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Speaker 2: Harper Joe.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we we were offered, we were offered, uh,

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Speaker 2: Well, we rent it.

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Speaker 3: We had a lot of stuff, so we got a

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Speaker 3: was like a Wagoneer, like the bigger. I mean, we

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Speaker 3: up on all the suitcases and everything. Put you in

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Speaker 3: the back. Well, I volunteer to get back there. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I let those guys get the front seats. But yeah

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Speaker 3: I wasn't. I offered a drive too, And Harper's like,

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Speaker 5: So that show. I mean, you should offer to drive.

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Speaker 5: But he should have taken somebody. He should have had

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Speaker 5: somebody drive you guys. But my question is they talked

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Speaker 5: about changing the tournament you just finished, you just got

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Speaker 5: had Max Schurzer on said, hey, maybe we should have

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I think I honestly like that idea better.

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Speaker 2: Get into that environment.

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Speaker 3: And let that be like a mid season thing and

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Speaker 2: It would be a little bit tougher.

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Speaker 3: I agree with the whether it be the second half

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Speaker 4: That way, you do have guys built up.

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Speaker 3: Position players are used to playing nine innings, getting you know,

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Speaker 2: I like that idea.

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Speaker 3: I think after experiencing it, you do have quite a

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Speaker 2: You know, we're kind of we have to go back

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Speaker 3: We do the one pluses and things like that, which

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Speaker 2: Be able to study. Said he was exhausted. Oh man, yeah,

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Speaker 2: is he gonna catch nine innings? Yeah? I caught like

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Speaker 2: four inning. When I go out there and catch nine,

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Speaker 2: that's like talking to you know, Will Smith and and Cale.

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Speaker 3: About there's just like for our first game out in Arizona,

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Speaker 3: they went and caught nine, and they're like, we were

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Speaker 3: catching you know, four or five innings at a time,

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Speaker 3: and now we're catching nine for game and then cotton

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I can only imagine how those sketches you're

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Speaker 1: We don't even ask about that because the WBC is

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Speaker 1: stuff right there. Thank you very much, really appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to what you can do in Philadelphia. Hopefully

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Speaker 6: You live in Pennsylvania. What's the vibe this year. It's

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Speaker 1: I think the Phillies are still a good team, and

438
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Speaker 1: I think they have a great nucleus of guys that

439
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Speaker 1: can win again. They're then you're gonna need some things

440
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Speaker 1: to go right because do the Mets improve, Yes, we

441
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Speaker 1: think the Braves will be better than last year.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 2: Do we think the Marlins could be better than last year? Possibly?

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 1: So I think the phillies stranglehold on this division might

446
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Speaker 1: be loosening a little bit. But I still think they

447
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Speaker 1: have a good team, and I still think they have

448
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Speaker 1: a group of guys that can go out there and win.

449
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Speaker 1: They're a little bit older now, but they still are

450
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Speaker 1: solid guys that know how to play in big games,

451
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Speaker 1: know how to do things in big situations, and their

452
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Speaker 1: starting rotation is still strong. Wheeler is going to be

453
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Speaker 1: back probably the end of April early May. You still

454
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Speaker 1: have Nola, you still have Lozardo, and you still have Sanchez,

455
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Speaker 1: Christopher Sanchez, So you still have the makings of a

456
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Speaker 1: good rotation. You had Keller to the back end Alvarado's back,

457
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Speaker 1: you have Deron, and then you throw in and Andrew

458
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Speaker 1: Painter in the rotation as the fifth guy. Possibly they

459
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Speaker 1: still have the makings of a really good team. So

460
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Speaker 1: just because they made some subtractions, they also made some

461
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Speaker 1: additions and I still think this team has a chance

462
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Speaker 1: to be pretty darn good.

463
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Speaker 5: The tired or not tired. But the lazy narrative is, well,

464
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Speaker 5: you know last year, like this team, like everybody feels different.

465
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Speaker 5: Guys work on things, Guys get a year older. Sometimes

466
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Speaker 5: that's good, sometimes that's bad. It's all the narrative like

467
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Speaker 5: last year is behind this team this year? How are

468
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Speaker 5: they going to do a lot of the really good

469
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Speaker 5: things that they did last year but then take it

470
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Speaker 5: to the next step. And the next step isn't making

471
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Speaker 5: it to the NLCS. The next step for this team

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Speaker 5: is a World Series. I think is a failure of

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Speaker 5: a year. Probably even last year they would have said that,

474
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Speaker 5: the players would have said that if they don't win

475
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Speaker 5: the World Series. So I think it's a it's high

476
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Speaker 5: expectations and something that Aj said about stranglehold on the division,

477
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Speaker 5: I don't know that they need a stranglehold on the division.

478
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Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, I guess we lean on

479
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Speaker 5: what the Dodgers have done and they get into the

480
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Speaker 5: postseason and they're healthy and hitting on all cylinders. While

481
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Speaker 5: it may look differently than the last year when they

482
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Speaker 5: won the World Series, the Phillies need to be able

483
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Speaker 5: to do that. And I think that every year that

484
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Speaker 5: Topper spends another year in a managerial seat because he's

485
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Speaker 5: been in a dugout for I think two decades now,

486
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Speaker 5: it's something that he's learning how this team needs to

487
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Speaker 5: win in big situations. This Phillies team needs to win

488
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Speaker 5: in big situations in October. They don't need to win

489
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Speaker 5: all the games during the season. So do they want

490
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Speaker 5: to win the division? Absolutely? Do they need to make

491
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Speaker 5: sure that they do better in the postseason. Absolutely, That's

492
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Speaker 5: what this team is built for. And will they do it?

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Speaker 6: I don't know.

494
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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: They have a good team though.

496
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Speaker 6: When you look at the rest of the division. To me,

497
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Speaker 6: the Mets are tough to predict. Last year ended up

498
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Speaker 6: being a disaster finish for them. They should be better,

499
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Speaker 6: but there's a lot of variants there. There are a

500
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Speaker 6: lot of new faces, they really switched it up. They

501
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Speaker 6: went the other way, like, Okay, some teams are running

502
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Speaker 6: it back. We're just gonna scrap this. Let a bunch

503
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Speaker 6: of dudes leave, enter a bunch of new names. When

504
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Speaker 6: it comes to the Braves, AJ the Phillies offensively, I

505
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Speaker 6: think are right there with Atlanta, if not a little better.

506
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Speaker 6: And pitching wise, I feel much better about Philly than

507
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Speaker 6: I do about Atlanta. So when we're looking at an

508
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Speaker 6: alas projections, here fangrafts, they've got eighty nine point seven

509
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Speaker 6: for Mets, eighty nine point three for Braves, eighty seven

510
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Speaker 6: point nine for Phillies. For me, the Phillies are the

511
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Speaker 6: safest bet to be a playoff team in the division.

512
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Speaker 6: I feel really confident about that. If there's one team

513
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Speaker 6: where you're like, I feel like a lot would have

514
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Speaker 6: to go wrong for this team to not make the playoffs.

515
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Speaker 6: For me, it's Philly, right the variant of the match.

516
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Speaker 2: I can't believe, right, I kept their third on that

517
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Speaker 2: list apparently.

518
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Speaker 1: I don't know when those were put out, but that

519
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Speaker 1: can't be before Schwellenbach and some of the other guys

520
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Speaker 1: for the Braves started going down. I can't imagine that

521
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Speaker 1: it is, so I don't know how the Phillies are

522
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Speaker 1: third on LS. For me, I think Phillies in the

523
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Speaker 1: match maybe switch because the Mets, to me, still have

524
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Speaker 1: a lot to prove, especially in their starting rotation and

525
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Speaker 1: their pitching with some of the moves that they made.

526
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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be an interesting division. But those three

527
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Speaker 1: teams all can make the playoffs. And like you said, Scott,

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Speaker 1: I think Philly is the surest bet just because they've

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Speaker 1: been there and done that, and they know what they're

530
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Speaker 1: going to get and they have a guy in Dave

531
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Speaker 1: Dombrowski that is not afraid to go make the move

532
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Speaker 1: that he needs to make.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that. You're right, that's always the wild

534
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Speaker 5: card that will give you a few extra wins. Where

535
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Speaker 5: you're talking about projections. But is the same narrative said

536
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Speaker 5: about the Braves when teams said were when people say, oh,

537
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Speaker 5: they're running it back? Are the Braves just running it back? Well,

538
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 5: they have to run it back. Everybody's on the everybody's

539
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Speaker 5: on an extension. They added Robert Suarez to the end

540
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Speaker 5: of their bullpen. Like yeah, like I think teams, I

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Speaker 5: think good teams that run it back. I don't think

542
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Speaker 5: it's a big deal. Did they fall short of their goal? Yes,

543
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Speaker 5: I think they were fifth or sixth in the league

544
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Speaker 5: and hitting. So you run that same lineup back, I

545
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Speaker 5: feel like that's pretty decent. You know the Yankees, that

546
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Speaker 5: narrative is happening. They had the highest wins weighted runs

547
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Speaker 5: created plus in the league. So I'm pretty sure that

548
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Speaker 5: was a good lineup. You run it back, I'm pretty

549
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Speaker 5: sure it's going to be good again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: It also helps when you're bringing the same players back

552
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Speaker 6: on a year to year basis that all know each other.

553
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Speaker 2: And I know you.

554
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Speaker 6: Can overrate the chemistry factor AJ, but when have the

555
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Speaker 6: same mix and there's some star power, now you think

556
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Speaker 6: do you do you think that it can get stale

557
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Speaker 6: or do you think it's it's easier the guys that

558
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Speaker 6: have right, it raises the floor in my mind. Right,

559
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Speaker 6: you know what you're getting with a lot of the guys.

560
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Speaker 6: And then here's the thing, one or two of the

561
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Speaker 6: young guys could break out. Andrew Painter, Justin Crawford, maybe

562
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Speaker 6: Aiden Miller at some point later in the season. They

563
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Speaker 6: have some blue chip prospects, and I would venture that

564
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Speaker 6: at least one of them is going to be a

565
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Speaker 6: major contributor this year, and up to three could.

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Speaker 2: Crawford for sure.

567
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Speaker 1: I mean, I talked to Kevin Long and he's he's

568
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Speaker 1: he loves this guy. He loves his back to all skills,

569
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Speaker 1: he loves his barrel awareness. He absolutely loves Crawford, So

570
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Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a major factor. And

571
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Speaker 1: Painter is probably going to be in the rotation breaking camp.

572
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Speaker 1: So I think at least two of those guys will

573
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Speaker 1: be major factors for the Phillies this year, and they're

574
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Speaker 1: both ultra talented. We saw glimpses of Painter before he

575
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Speaker 1: got injured, but what he can do not as many

576
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Speaker 1: what is I think Crawford's won batting title of two

577
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Speaker 1: of the three league years he's played, so that dude

578
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: can hit, he can run, he can play center field.

579
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Speaker 1: So I think the Phillies are in good shape prospect wise.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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583
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Speaker 1: Here at Phillies Camp with bench coach for the Phillies

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Speaker 1: Don Mattingley, who was one of my favorite players growing up,

591
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Speaker 1: being from New York, you know, cratzy. He was kind

592
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Speaker 1: of in my prime growing up as a kid in

593
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Speaker 1: New York. Don Mattingly was the man hitting homers every night,

594
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Speaker 1: not quite every night, it was there was a stretch there,

595
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Speaker 1: a little scretch, yeah, small.

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Speaker 2: Scretch, nice little run.

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Speaker 1: I'll play a little bit, a little bit, a little bit,

598
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Speaker 1: and I fight for you. I think you should be

599
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Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. I'll thank you, I'll fight.

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Speaker 1: I'll fight you, and for kind of it's my two

601
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Speaker 1: favorites growing up. I think, yeah, I appreciate that. Being

602
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Speaker 1: in merchhed class, that'd be. That's a good that's a

603
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: good guy to be with. Are two of the nicest

604
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Speaker 1: human beings I've ever met in my life. That's where

605
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: you live, right. You treat people with respect, hopefully get

606
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Speaker 1: it back you don't.

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Speaker 2: It's no problem. How was it over here in Philly Land.

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Speaker 2: It's good. It's good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a chance to to work under my

610
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Speaker 1: son is your boss. He's my boss officially. Yeah, I

611
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Speaker 1: am an hr nightmare for him. I will not watch

612
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Speaker 1: the dog or anything else. So yeah, here's boss.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 2: Wow, So you can't ground here. They're grounded.

615
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Speaker 1: He's been gone for a while. At least he's off

616
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Speaker 1: the payroll. That's the way I look at it. Is

617
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Speaker 1: it Is it different?

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Speaker 2: Is it strange? It's gotta be awesome day. No, it's

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's great.

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Speaker 1: But when you come from the era that I came from,

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Speaker 1: you know, the locker room is sacred. You don't want

622
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Speaker 1: anybody to feel like you're a messenger to the top

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Today's game is a lot different because the

624
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Speaker 1: front offices are down in the locker room all the

625
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Speaker 1: time talking with guys. So it's probably a lot more

626
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Speaker 1: comfortable now than it would have been fifteen.

627
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Speaker 2: Twenty years ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird for me when I walk in there,

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Speaker 1: right right, I'm all, yeah, how fast.

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Speaker 2: Can I get out of it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Once you leave the locker room, it's funny. Even going

632
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Speaker 1: back into New York a couple of years after I played,

633
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to be in there, you know, especially

634
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Speaker 1: anywhere close to game time, because I felt like I

635
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: was infringing upon her space and where they want to

636
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Speaker 1: get ready, and that's their place, right There's not too

637
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Speaker 1: many spaces for players to be able to hang out,

638
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: talk talk shop or talk you know, talk bs and feel.

639
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Speaker 2: Comfortable doing it.

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Speaker 1: So I was never comfortable going back in there if

641
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Speaker 1: I wasn't a part of it.

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Speaker 5: What do you bring to this staff? What do you

643
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Speaker 5: don manning all your experience, all the years bring to

644
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Speaker 5: this staff that has had success and gone to the

645
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Speaker 5: playoffs the last few years.

646
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Speaker 1: Now, this is a team that's had tons of success.

647
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Speaker 1: So I think the one thing that I bring is

648
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Speaker 1: a different set of eyes, some questions for TOMPs during games,

649
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Speaker 1: but ability hopefully to be able to connect with players

650
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Speaker 1: and what's that next little step, that next detail that

651
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Speaker 1: we have to take care of to win a championship

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Speaker 1: or to move on into playoffs. As you get into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, we know over one sixty two the best

654
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: team is usually gonna win, But when you get into a.

655
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 2: Five game set or a seven game set.

656
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: It's who plays best, and momentum is a big part

657
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: of that and small plays mean something. So hopefully I'm

658
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: just another set of eyes and a conversation within during.

659
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 2: The season, what was the proving touch to you? Because

660
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: you're in Toronto.

661
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: You guys were four inches away from winning the World

662
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: Series last year. Ye did they recruit you over here

663
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: to Philly or was it just something once you decided

664
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: to leave Toronto, if your son came to you and

665
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: gave you some nil money.

666
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 2: I don't know about nil money.

667
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: But I went into the season last year knowing that,

668
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: you know, thinking that that was going to be my

669
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,040
Speaker 1: last season of kind of on the field, travel and

670
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: doing all that, and so I kind of enjoyed that

671
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: last year. And obviously the run that Toronto went on

672
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,959
Speaker 1: was was a lot of fun and those guys were

673
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. And as that season ended, you know,

674
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you've been in those situations. Once the season ends,

675
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: it's like crash and you're just like exhausted. And a

676
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: couple of days later, Dave calls me. Preston had called

677
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: me a couple of days after and said, hey, Dave

678
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: wants to talk to you, and then we talked about

679
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: the situation. And at that point I felt like I

680
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: needed time, Like I wasn't I really didn't plan on it.

681
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: The one positive that happened during all that, I think

682
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: as far as me continuing was like an eleven year

683
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: old now that's into baseball and just loved last year,

684
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: and he was kind of like, Dad, you got to

685
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: keep going, and I was kind of like, I don't know,

686
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: and we kind of kept thinking through it and talking

687
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: about it as a family, and then Dave's you know what,

688
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: Dave thought I brought to the table. That's something that

689
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: they needed, and it was like, Okay, let's go. And

690
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: Preston being here a granddaughter in Philly, so it makes

691
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: it feels.

692
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 2: Like family in it.

693
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: And it's nice to be on the same team, honestly

694
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: with Preston because as we've talked over the years, he

695
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: was in San Diego, Miami, he's over here when I'm

696
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: in the Blue Jays, and it's like he's always telling

697
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: me what I should be doing or what we should

698
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: be doing. But now to be on the same team,

699
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: kind of fighting for the same thing, it's kind of cool.

700
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 5: Were you part of the bo Nil pitch getting Boba

701
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 5: Schett to come over because you were already on staff

702
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 5: here with Philly and it just came so close to

703
00:31:58,360 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 5: getting him.

704
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: Well, you know, obviously I'm not part of making a

705
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: decision that they want to, you know, look into Bow

706
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: or try to bring Bou here. But it was on

707
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: a zoom call with Bou. I knew what kind of

708
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: player he was. I knew how good he was, what

709
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: he brought to the table. So I guess in a

710
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:22,479
Speaker 1: sense I was part of it. But you know, obviously

711
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: when New York comes with that kind of what they

712
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: did with him is like you can't hardly you know,

713
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,479
Speaker 1: you can't fall to the player, right. I know, Philly's

714
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: Pitchel Shiege, but that was was was something different when

715
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: you when you see the money, it's being thrown around

716
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: to it and obviously as a player, I'm one players

717
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: to get every dollar thing you get, right, You ever

718
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: look back because I think, man, what could I have done?

719
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: I know it's a weird thing, but sometimes people say

720
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: if you would have played it to me, if you

721
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,719
Speaker 1: would have played now like much, I don't know if

722
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: I would have made that much right, right, but you

723
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: were super Yeah, I think you in a since you go,

724
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: you know you were that guy or at one point

725
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: I was kind of in that tier right where I

726
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: think I signed a five year deal at nineteen something,

727
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: and that the highest paid at that point, right, And

728
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: guys kept jumping in obviously.

729
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,680
Speaker 2: Over the years.

730
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: But I look at it a little differently because I

731
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: looked at Mickey mannon I play in New York. I

732
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: came in, I was making decent money of the time there,

733
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: and they talked about Mickey never made over one hundred grand,

734
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: And that's just the way the game goes, right.

735
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: Your timing in the game is where it happens. And

736
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: I'm with you. You want players to make money and

737
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 2: you want the game to grow. You feel like.

738
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 1: They're not giving money out that they don't have. Obviously,

739
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: we're walking into a situation next year. There's no agreement yet.

740
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: We'll see where it goes. Hopefully it's something for baseball

741
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: that because you want to continue. The game's in a

742
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: great spot, I mean as far as fans and people

743
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: at the games and things like that.

744
00:33:57,520 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 2: So you want the game to continue. You don't want

745
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 2: to see stop bitch.

746
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure. And and as a player who has

747
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 5: gone through all those things, how hard is it for

748
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 5: you to hear lockout strike all that stuff?

749
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 2: Well? I was, I was.

750
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: I was part of the ninety four, you know Strike

751
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: that ended up missing the World series.

752
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 2: So you know what guys have fought for.

753
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: I've just been you know, when I came into the game,

754
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 1: it seemed like every year, every couple of years there

755
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: was there was conflict and guys were fighting. So I

756
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: always looked at it like, I know a lot of

757
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: guys fought for me, right, and I wanted to continue

758
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: that fight, you know, to continue to go the game

759
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: and help players as I was in it. And so

760
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's one of those things, right. You

761
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: want the game to grow, you want it to be good.

762
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: But I've also been part of the fights over the

763
00:34:53,719 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: years for guys' rights. Basically agreed, Yeah, ninety four, I

764
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 1: signed my first spring to the place players right. I

765
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 1: tried to explain to this the guys that I played

766
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: with twenty years later, you guys don't understand what people

767
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: before you went through to get to the point where

768
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: you guys are making the money you're making. So I

769
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: totally agree with what you just said. Remember the people

770
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: came before you, what the sacrifices that they gave. Right

771
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,919
Speaker 1: when you're here in camp, you have Kevin Long next

772
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: to us, in the batting cage. Do you ever go

773
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: in there and say, Kevin, no, it's not launch angle.

774
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: I swing down on the ball. I want to let

775
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: it get on top of the ball. I go in there,

776
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: and I don't talk to Kevin like that. Kevin is

777
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: one of the obviously one of the best, if not

778
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: the best guy in the game, if one of the best,

779
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: and Kevin also doesn't go in there and go you know,

780
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: I know angle, but you know I do like I

781
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: love going in the cage.

782
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite places to hang out.

783
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: No, I don't hit, and I probably can't yet, but

784
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: I like to think I could, right, you know, it's

785
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: like the old boxer that that tries to block a

786
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 1: punch me after he got hit. So those reactions are gone.

787
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: But I love going into cage in that area of

788
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: the game. I really believe that hitting has not changed

789
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: that much.

790
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 2: The swing.

791
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: The guys that hit in the past and the best

792
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,240
Speaker 1: hitters today are doing a lot of the same stuff.

793
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 2: Our language just changed, as far as you know.

794
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: You know, we're talking vert, we're talking horizontal, we're talking

795
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: spin rate, things like that, the same things.

796
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 2: Those terms.

797
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: All they meant to me was this guy's ball jumps

798
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: at the top, you got to push him down right

799
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: and things like that was a simpler way of going

800
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:41,280
Speaker 1: about it. But the swing itself, to me, still works

801
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: the same way with guys that are.

802
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 2: The best hitters.

803
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 5: All right, Do you guys have a limit on the

804
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 5: amount of Yankee stories that you guys are allowed to

805
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,959
Speaker 5: tell with Topper k Long you like, I remember when

806
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 5: George was like this, or I remember when Tory was

807
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 5: like this.

808
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: Well, if you're in locker room with Bow, uh, Charlie Manuel,

809
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: there's lots of stories flying from all different organizations, so

810
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: the Yankee stories are all just part of it. Yeah, yeah,

811
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: but I would love to sitting there when you crouch

812
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 1: and just listen to the Yankee stories between from that,

813
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: from those times between.

814
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 2: Charlie Man, Charlie's Charlie is the best.

815
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 5: I want to hear. I want to hear Charlie talk

816
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 5: about stories about hitting. And then Larry Bow is like

817
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 5: the little Chilua ones like yeah, Charlie say all, tell

818
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 5: all you want, and Toppers just sitting back there, just relaxing,

819
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 5: kicking on his fingernail.

820
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: It's like not listening and kind of listening. That's the

821
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 2: way it is.

822
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 5: You got it.

823
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: You got to see now you don't have to be

824
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: in there because you already know what's going on.

825
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 2: Well, Donnie, thank you.

826
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: By the way, I have to say this, the poster

827
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: you had is still probably the best poster.

828
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: Of all time. Oh the hit man, Oh my gosh,

829
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 2: are you kidding me? The suit? Yeah? You know, a

830
00:37:58,040 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 2: quick story.

831
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: I did a little meniscus in between eighty four and

832
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: eighty five, and i'd won the bat and title in

833
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: eighty four. So I come back and I'm in camp

834
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: and they're shooting that and George I got this suit

835
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: on in there and they're shooting this commercial and George

836
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: walks by, and I'm like going, ah, man, this looks

837
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: so bad.

838
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 2: With him walking through me in this suit. But it

839
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 2: ended up being really cool. I'm sure George probably didn't

840
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 2: say anything to you.

841
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 1: He didn't say anything then he may have been thinking

842
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: of though you just looked at you, just kind of

843
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 1: looked at you this guy.

844
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm like like, ugh, it's not good. Donnie.

845
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. We appreciate it. We'll be right back,

846
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 2: all right.

847
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 6: That's a fun one today. Bet MGM futures and we're

848
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 6: looking at the most bet players to hit forty plus

849
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 6: home runs. This doesn't mean that a fan thinks, or

850
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 6: you know, a better thinks that this is the player

851
00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 6: that's the most likely. It's the combination of having a

852
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 6: good feel and liking the odds. Okay, Colson Montgomery at

853
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 6: plus sixteen hundred, this will be his first full season.

854
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 6: He's getting a lot of love on tickets. So is

855
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,479
Speaker 6: Murakami at plus one thousand. Third most bet in terms

856
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 6: of tickets Spencer Torkolsen at plus sixteen hundred, Kyle Tucker

857
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 6: four at plus nine hundred, and Fernando Tatis Junior at

858
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 6: plus six hundred. Anything to pick out here from the trends, AJ,

859
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 6: we got to go to you first. The two most

860
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 6: bet tickets are White Sox players.

861
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: Duh be surprised.

862
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: Well, Montgomery had a monster second half last year with

863
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: the home runs, and they're hoping Murakami comes in and

864
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: hits forty. So I think that, you know, I think

865
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: it's awesome. And Kyle Tucker is the one on there.

866
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,760
Speaker 2: I don't know. He hit forty in LA. That's different

867
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 2: than Houston. I don't know.

868
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. Tatisas in San Diego.

869
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: I don't know, but two on the top of the list.

870
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: They definitely can do it if they continue to do

871
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: what they done in the past and continued to grow

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Speaker 5: either of those top two guys hits forty home runs.

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