Speaker 1: Hey, this is our going. Welcome to the Philly Show.
Speaker 2: Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky. It's a Philly show.
Speaker 2: How's everybody doing? It's Monday, August tenth, twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: Phillies Escape Escape with a win. On Sunday. They win
Speaker 2: in twelve innings, seven to six. So much to talk about.
Speaker 1: Guys with this team.
Speaker 2: Right now, let's get going. It is time for first pitch.
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Speaker 3: I don't even should my first pitch be a really
Speaker 3: good fastball? Should bring the fastball?
Speaker 2: Bring the fastball, Rubin, I'll bring the fastball.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you that I was very
Speaker 3: disappointed in their overall play this weekend and they were
Speaker 3: fortunate to roll out of there with one win out
Speaker 3: of three on Alumni Weekend. Think that Chase Sudley probably
Speaker 3: cared for the type of play that they saw this
Speaker 3: this weekend. And the reason why I say that is
Speaker 3: I just feel like so many different things that they
Speaker 3: did not do well. They didn't particularly run the base
Speaker 3: as well. They didn't particularly pick up the baseball and
Speaker 3: throw it across well. They didn't particularly move runners well,
Speaker 3: they didn't situationally hit well, they didn't move runners when
Speaker 3: they had to with advance them with bunts. So fundamentally
Speaker 3: it was a rough go. And then when you couple
Speaker 3: that with their inability to like shut games down late
Speaker 3: in the game, it becomes a little daunting. And we've
Speaker 3: been talking about this quite a bit, and we as
Speaker 3: a group, me personally, talked about the importance of having
Speaker 3: a bullpen that was sharper, and it hasn't been too sharp.
Speaker 3: It has been how can I say this in fits
Speaker 3: and spurts.
Speaker 4: I mean there's you know, one day a guy I'll
Speaker 4: pitch well, the next day does not pitch very well.
Speaker 4: And uh, they need a lot more consistency out of
Speaker 4: the guys that are going to hand the baseball to
Speaker 4: Juwan Douran, or they're not going to be able to
Speaker 4: handle hand the baseball to Juwan duran So that's my
Speaker 4: take on it. It was enlightening, however, in one way,
Speaker 4: especially offensively. Two guys that were pretty impressive. One mister
Speaker 4: Schwarber is now off the schneid.
Speaker 3: He's back. Yeah, that looks that looks exciting, And that's
Speaker 3: big for the team. There's no question about that. And
Speaker 3: number two Rice and Scott's been outstanding anyway. That's what
Speaker 3: I got.
Speaker 1: Well, Rubin, we know you were disappointed in the weekend
Speaker 1: because you were firing off some caustic text messages.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I was aggressive, you were coming out I was.
Speaker 5: I was coming in high and tight because it disappoints me.
Speaker 5: I felt like I was in the GM chair and
Speaker 5: I was watching some I was feeling the frustration of
Speaker 5: when the teams are not playing to.
Speaker 4: Their accustom level correct or the level that you would
Speaker 4: hope that they would play.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 1: It's no doubt they they gave away games this weekend.
Speaker 1: They continue to be so sloppy defensively and all weekend long,
Speaker 1: the miss chances. I don't have the final tally of
Speaker 1: what they were with runners in scoring position. And ultimately
Speaker 1: they got to win on Sunday because Derek Hill got
Speaker 1: to hit with running and scoring position, poked it through
Speaker 1: drawing an infield, but it was hit nonetheless to win
Speaker 1: a game. But you know, the runners left on base.
Speaker 1: The poor performance with runers in scoring position not being
Speaker 1: able to hold leads in the bullpen. It was a
Speaker 1: discouraging performance against the Jays.
Speaker 2: The bullpen is it's really concerned looking at some numbers here.
Speaker 2: So the first eighty two games for the Phillies bullpen
Speaker 2: not great. Three point nine one ERA, it's middle of
Speaker 2: the pack in Major League Baseball. You see their strikeout
Speaker 2: rate second best in baseball twenty five point seven percent.
Speaker 2: Their walk rate the best in baseball seven point four percent. Now,
Speaker 2: last thirty seven games, their ERA is one point six
Speaker 2: runs higher five point five one. Strike out rates about
Speaker 2: the same, fifth best in baseball. But look at that
Speaker 2: walk rate, guys, skyrocket, it's second worst in baseball twelve
Speaker 2: point two percent. I mean you see it all the time.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, Kirkering, Alvarado, all these guys late innings,
Speaker 2: just putting free runner free, you know, base runners on
Speaker 2: and just paying for I mean, Kirkering last eleven games,
Speaker 2: last ten games, eleven point seven to four ra or Alvarado.
Speaker 2: I think just last week we were talking about it
Speaker 2: looked like he was kind of getting it going a
Speaker 2: little bit, but then boom, Saturday night, walks a couple
Speaker 2: of guys six point four one year in his last
Speaker 2: twenty games.
Speaker 1: I think since July one, they have like the third
Speaker 1: highest e r A the bullpen in the in the majors.
Speaker 1: It's it's and lately they're fatigued. There's been a few
Speaker 1: crazy games where they've had to pick up a lot
Speaker 1: of innings. They're fatigued and they're not throwing enough strikes.
Speaker 1: And the fatigue part is really troubling because I guess
Speaker 1: you finally got an off day coming up on Friday,
Speaker 1: but you know the series coming, you got four more
Speaker 1: games there before and off day, and you're in the
Speaker 1: you're in the dog days. This is you know, it's hot,
Speaker 1: and these are games that you know, the days that
Speaker 1: can grind up a bullpen, and that is happening.
Speaker 3: And and honestly it's weird because the starters back he
Speaker 3: pitched okay, I mean I know that that Wheeler got
Speaker 3: banged after two innings because of rain. That was the
Speaker 3: weird one.
Speaker 4: You were talking about, Jim, And then uh you know that.
Speaker 4: I mean, what hasn't been like they've had. I mean,
Speaker 4: you saw Aaron Nola pick up some innings. He's thrown
Speaker 4: a little bit better, a little bit more consistent, a
Speaker 4: little deeper. Painter's been okay, and then he tweaked his
Speaker 4: you know, hamstring, so that's you know, they wanted to
Speaker 4: be real cautious with that. He probably would have gone
Speaker 4: another maybe one or two innings in his outing. So
Speaker 4: I don't think it's necessarily the starting pitchers problems. I
Speaker 4: think it's just some circumstances that have happened and then
Speaker 4: really honestly, they're inability to uh their ill ability to
Speaker 4: be efficient. When you're not efficient, you run up, you
Speaker 4: walk people, you run up your pitch count. Then you
Speaker 4: can't pitch the next day, or you can't pitch two
Speaker 4: days in a row because.
Speaker 3: You're you're running up your your pitch counts. And that
Speaker 3: puts Don Mattingley in a very tough spot for a
Speaker 3: number of different reasons. When you walk people out of
Speaker 3: the pen. Talk to my dad about this way back
Speaker 3: when he was trying to teach me about baseball when
Speaker 3: I was ten years old and driving with him to
Speaker 3: Reading to check out the Redding Phillies play. Son. Can't
Speaker 3: have kids walking people when they come out of the bullpen.
Speaker 3: That is a no no. They have to throw strikes.
Speaker 4: They may not maybe get knocked around, but they got
Speaker 4: to throw it over the plate. I mean I learned
Speaker 4: that when I was dem.
Speaker 1: And a lot of Don Mattingley's moves are being picked
Speaker 1: apart and called into question, and some of them rightfully so.
Speaker 1: But Bruce Bochi, who is the best bullpen manipulator, engineer
Speaker 1: or whatever you want to call it in recent years,
Speaker 1: would have trouble with this bullpen because he still off
Speaker 1: to the player to perform, and these guys are not performing.
Speaker 1: You wonder if they needed more of an upgrade. They
Speaker 1: probably did. It's a deadline and they got killed. And
Speaker 1: who on Sunday grabbed his side and probably going that
Speaker 1: to me when he grabbed his side that dramatically that
Speaker 1: had I L written all over.
Speaker 2: It, I mean mannically even said it didn't look I
Speaker 2: mean it's like that, it didn't look great. It didn't
Speaker 2: look great. So that he stayed. He's going to stay back,
Speaker 2: I guess, and get some imaging done on Monday in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: But that that's not good. He was one of the
Speaker 2: two pickups, of course before the trade deadline. Brooks Rali
Speaker 2: the other Brooks rarely blew a save the other day
Speaker 2: last week against Washington, and you know, you kind of
Speaker 2: look at and I was looking at some of the
Speaker 2: relief all the relievers that were traded at the deadline
Speaker 2: there really weren't. I mean, Luke Weaver was He maybe
Speaker 2: the best guy, the best high leverage lead.
Speaker 3: He would have been my number one target without question.
Speaker 3: I know it's in division. I don't know what they
Speaker 3: would have had to give up for the man, but
Speaker 3: for me, that would have been I would have been
Speaker 3: hell bent on making a run him. Of course, you
Speaker 3: never know if that was even a possibility, but yeah,
Speaker 3: we talked about a lot. I mean, it's still remained
Speaker 3: for me. I mean, it's great that they picked up
Speaker 3: our eyes. He really did serve a purpose and he's
Speaker 3: important to this team. But the reality, I think Raley's
Speaker 3: and Rally is a solid pickup. I just feel like
Speaker 3: they probably needed more of a lockdown situation because they
Speaker 3: really don't have that person that you can count on
Speaker 3: right now. Unless somebody gets hot and gets real confident,
Speaker 3: unless the Alvarado's in the Kirkerings of the World and
Speaker 3: the Bowlings of the World gets super confident, right and
Speaker 3: you know, become a Ryan Mattson all of a sudden
Speaker 3: in a month and a half, and you're looking at
Speaker 3: a real difficult way to get through those seventh and
Speaker 3: eighth innings with the lead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're in trouble with Alvarado and Cookering. Don't
Speaker 1: get it going here because there's no other options. And
Speaker 1: Balin's never been in the Crucible before. This is his
Speaker 1: first time pitching in in big games like this, and
Speaker 1: Leverage done a good job, but they need more than that.
Speaker 2: Well, one other thing besides Kirkering's performance today that kind
Speaker 2: of jumped out at me was his his stuff was
Speaker 2: just way down. And it happens from start to start,
Speaker 2: our appearance to appearance, right, So I try not to
Speaker 2: be alarmist when these things happened, but it jumped out.
Speaker 2: But then I looked at his season performance. Look, this
Speaker 2: is his forcing fastball velocity, guys, and you can see
Speaker 2: in his last five six, seven appearances it's way down
Speaker 2: from it's down. It's down. I don't know if I want
Speaker 2: to say way down, but it's down from his early
Speaker 2: season performances through like mid June, so mid July, it's
Speaker 2: it's down.
Speaker 4: That's confident, yeah, one of his confidence or it's him
Speaker 4: being used a lot. Sometimes it's you know, he feels
Speaker 4: real confident with that fast ball sometimes he doesn't.
Speaker 3: It really is uncanny that he can get so many
Speaker 3: quick outs, too quick outs, and then he just can't
Speaker 3: finish off the inning. And listen, a lot of those
Speaker 3: balls that were hit. One ball was hit pretty well
Speaker 3: in in this last game on Sunday, we gave up
Speaker 3: what three or four hits, but you know a lot
Speaker 3: of them are blue pits. But he just cannot make
Speaker 3: the pitch to get people out and to finish off
Speaker 3: the inning. He gets two quick outs and it's almost
Speaker 3: like something happens, whether it's a walk, an error, a
Speaker 3: blue pit, a bullet, he just doesn't he hasn't, hadn't
Speaker 3: been able to finish off that inning, and uh it,
Speaker 3: it becomes very taxing, and not just taxing for him,
Speaker 3: but for other people in the bullpen and for the
Speaker 3: guys who are sitting there, those eight guys that are
Speaker 3: sitting there on the field, because that you know, losing
Speaker 3: games late and losing leads late are very draining to
Speaker 3: a ball club on a lot of different levels.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, ever wear a lot of leads in
Speaker 1: this series.
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Speaker 3: You better pop one. And I'm gonna pop one with
Speaker 3: you because I got a very early tea time seven
Speaker 3: forty five.
Speaker 2: Here, different, different, different, a lot of different experiences. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Jim's got to get up and hump it through Nashville
Speaker 2: via Saint Louis, and Ruben's gonna be uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I can handle it.
Speaker 3: I feel for you. I've been I would rather argue
Speaker 3: on the charter fight. I'm not lying to you. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: But Todd knows this because he's one of those whimps
Speaker 1: that when we go to the West Coast, he always
Speaker 1: goes out the day before to get his body adjusted.
Speaker 1: I fly, I get the extra day at home, and
Speaker 1: I go out the day of the game. I've actually
Speaker 1: panic to get to the ballpark. I've actually stayed away
Speaker 1: from close to twenty four hours on like an extra
Speaker 1: inning game.
Speaker 2: You know, I stopped, I stopped the yard. I stopped
Speaker 2: feeling bad for that, bad about that. When Rob Thompson
Speaker 2: a few years ago in twenty twenty two, they were
Speaker 2: talking about whether they would fly back to San Diego
Speaker 2: after it might have been game two or the morning
Speaker 2: of and and he was talking about this sleep studies.
Speaker 2: He said, you know, the guys we do all these
Speaker 2: sleep studies and the proper time to travel. I said,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm on board. I'm on board with these
Speaker 2: sleep studies. So I flapped to the West Coast a
Speaker 2: day before. I gotta get acclimated.
Speaker 1: You know what you say about sleep study, Well, would
Speaker 1: Larry Bow say about my sleep study?
Speaker 3: That's when you die.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what Now, that's what Warren Zevon said, you
Speaker 1: sleep when you die.
Speaker 2: That's right, that's right. Gosh, all right, well, hey, it's
Speaker 2: it is Monday, and it is it is Monday, and
Speaker 2: you know what that means. It's Best Week presented by
Speaker 2: Manco and Manco. When you want the best of the best,
Speaker 2: it's Manco and Manco.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say this. In the suite and all
Speaker 3: the sweets during Alumni weekend, lots of Manco and Manco pies. Yes,
Speaker 3: did I have some slices? Yes?
Speaker 6: I did?
Speaker 2: All right, I love it.
Speaker 1: Who are you stuffing it in with?
Speaker 3: That was there with Judy and uh my daughter Andrea
Speaker 3: and her boyfriend Connor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh very nice.
Speaker 3: They were visiting Judy and Will. Sure you were stuffing
Speaker 3: it in.
Speaker 2: Well for for for Best Week? Guys, what do we got?
Speaker 2: I mean, I you know, I feel like we we
Speaker 2: have to mention at some point Chase out least speech,
Speaker 2: I mean, that could qualify it for Best Week as
Speaker 2: a he did as job the guy.
Speaker 3: Prepared and Pat Burrows actually introducing him, that was outstanding
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: I thought Pat had such a great line when he
Speaker 2: talked about how Chase did everything hard based running hard,
Speaker 2: and he's like, in fact, I think they, uh they
Speaker 2: might have created a new no uh no contact a
Speaker 2: little bit because of Chase or something. That was something
Speaker 2: that yeah, it was very has yeah word has it?
Speaker 2: Pat was very sneaky funny.
Speaker 6: That was that was great.
Speaker 2: So you guys have anybody you want to start on.
Speaker 3: Uh, go ahead, James, who you got?
Speaker 1: Well? It was a long home stand and I thought
Speaker 1: Lewis Arise. Louis had a nice contribution the first three nights,
Speaker 1: early hits to driving runs and give him the lead
Speaker 1: in all three games. I'm not sure what his pizza
Speaker 1: of preference is because we haven't really gotten to know
Speaker 1: him yet, but we're gonna give him a slab of
Speaker 1: the Manco Manco best of the week.
Speaker 3: I like that, A nice little slab. Is it a
Speaker 3: double slab? Is it a stack? You stacking these? Is
Speaker 3: that a stack? Is that a stacker?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give Louise one one.
Speaker 3: One slice, one nice nice, a nice nice.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go.
Speaker 3: Why don't you go ahead? Tom?
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go. Uh, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 6: Jesus Lizardo, Jesus hey, Jesus sweet, Jesus, Jesus Zarda two
Speaker 6: starts this week fifteen innings, eight hits, two runs, three walks,
Speaker 6: nineteen strikeouts.
Speaker 2: They could use that. Do you think great week for
Speaker 2: uh Hazleo's Lozardo for sure.
Speaker 3: Jesus Like I think they've won like what fifteen out
Speaker 3: of the last seventeen games he's pitched or something some
Speaker 3: crazy number like that.
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 3: It's so number like the team is fifteen and two
Speaker 3: the last seventeen games, he's pitched some crazy number. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if that's all it's. It's pretty it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: He's been fantastic. He's been absolutely fantasic.
Speaker 3: He's been really good. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, he's fun to watch. He's just I enjoy
Speaker 2: watching the pitch because he's so intense and he's got
Speaker 2: the nasty sweeper. He's just a fun guy to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got a little emotion to him. He's got
Speaker 3: a little effort, you know. He's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, what do you got rubin for manco Mark.
Speaker 3: Press and stop press and stops. My man, he's coming
Speaker 3: on strong, really good. Eighteen at bats in the six games.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if Tonight's numbers are in here, but
Speaker 3: in the six games, prior was saying tonight meaning Sundays,
Speaker 3: because eighteen at bats, I think he had eight hits.
Speaker 4: He had.
Speaker 3: He hit four forty four with a six hundred on
Speaker 3: base percentage, a six sixty seven slug and a one
Speaker 3: point two six seven ops I mean seven walks versus
Speaker 3: zero strikeouts. Love that what he gets a very large
Speaker 3: slice of the pie, if not a half pie, if
Speaker 3: not a full Ruben Tomorrow Brock white broccoli and chicken pie.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it to him, the whole, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: He's he's really come on. It's been nice to see
Speaker 2: because I think we've all been waiting for it, you know.
Speaker 3: Not only that, but doing it while he switches positions
Speaker 3: and playing it nicely to boot, So you're gonna give
Speaker 3: him some love. I'm gonna give him a full pie,
Speaker 3: full pie.
Speaker 2: I love it. He's a basic suppressive.
Speaker 1: He is a baseball it's impressive. I mean he coming
Speaker 1: out of second base, where he throws a lot shorter,
Speaker 1: his throws are right on the money and strong from
Speaker 1: third base, and you know he's a short stop. But
Speaker 1: it's been a while. I got it really good throwing
Speaker 1: Armost just a good infielder.
Speaker 3: That's the first one to uh to worry a little
Speaker 3: bit because of the angles and him not having played
Speaker 3: there for a while. But he's a ballplayer, man, and
Speaker 3: he's making that adjustment pretty darn quickly, and uh, he
Speaker 3: deserves some some love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done a good job. That's a good all right.
Speaker 2: That's Manco Manco best week when you want the best
Speaker 2: of the best, Manco Maco. All right. A few other
Speaker 2: things happened this weekend. Do we have any thoughts on
Speaker 2: the whole Zach Wheeler. Is his foot on the rubber?
Speaker 2: Is it not on the rubber? I will say that
Speaker 2: I did. I did love Zach dropping the.
Speaker 3: That was so good.
Speaker 1: I actually said some to him rather, I said, I said,
Speaker 1: I said that was a great f bomb. They caught
Speaker 1: you on TV. And he looked at me and he goes,
Speaker 1: I did three of them. They only got the one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one, three ain't mad Matt in three thirty three.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, like yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have I would have expected nothing less from Zach
Speaker 2: than to react like that because he's one of the
Speaker 2: very best in the game and somebody is trying to
Speaker 2: come up with a way to get under his skin.
Speaker 2: You know what. It reminded me of guys. That reminded
Speaker 2: me of a few years ago when they first day
Speaker 2: they started checking for sticky stuff on the fingers and
Speaker 2: Joe Gurardi before the game says, I mean, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna just go out there and challenge I
Speaker 2: mean I would be unless I'm one hundred percent sure
Speaker 2: this guy's using tacky stuff on his uh spider tack
Speaker 2: on his hands. I'm not gonna do that. Like the
Speaker 2: second inning, Max Suers is pitching, Joe Girardi goes out
Speaker 2: there and Max Shirts just lost it. And then k
Speaker 2: Long was on the Kevin Long was in the other
Speaker 2: dugout and he started going out with Joe Girardi. When
Speaker 2: you mess with the big dog like that, you gotta
Speaker 2: be ready to take it. And then Zach of course,
Speaker 2: after the games, like I guess, because they've been losing
Speaker 2: a lot lately, they got to come up with that
Speaker 2: was tremendous too. Loved it.
Speaker 1: They lose it a lot over there, so they needed
Speaker 1: something to complain about.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good line.
Speaker 1: Do you remember my question to Joe after that game
Speaker 1: because we were on zoom then, because I don't think
Speaker 1: we were allowed the clue house?
Speaker 2: Yes, what was it again? Wait? You tell it, you
Speaker 2: tell it?
Speaker 1: I said, Jones just just sure have a reputation of
Speaker 1: loading up.
Speaker 3: Exactly does he have a.
Speaker 2: Reputation for loading it up?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: My god.
Speaker 3: If you ain't seen, you ain't trying. Boys.
Speaker 2: But that was Yeah, that was a really interesting little
Speaker 2: situation that happened the other night and Friday. It was
Speaker 2: Friday night, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not all sorry stunned from the fact that
Speaker 3: the balls were so tight and they had so little.
Speaker 4: Lace to work with. That guy's I mean, the brilliant people,
Speaker 4: the cheaters, decided to develop, you know, something that was
Speaker 4: h gave the picture a little bit more attacking us
Speaker 4: so we can spin the baseball more. And then it
Speaker 4: was cracked down on and that's why you see the
Speaker 4: umpires checking what they're checking every every couple of innings.
Speaker 2: Right, But to suggest that, yeah, I just thought it
Speaker 2: was It's funny that the Blue Jays decided to bring
Speaker 2: that up. And then you could hear the home plate umpire.
Speaker 2: It's clear as day on the ballpark. Mike, enough with
Speaker 2: ther know, I'm tired of hearing about the robber, so
Speaker 2: they had had enough of that as well. That was
Speaker 2: that was a fun moment. What about Alec Boham dropped,
Speaker 2: didn't play the other night, didn't start the other night,
Speaker 2: dropped to eighths and the lineup. He's really been struggling.
Speaker 2: That was a planned off day, though planned off day.
Speaker 3: It was a planned off day. The one thing that
Speaker 3: he is doing, it's pretty astonishing, is it. Like in
Speaker 3: certain Barbie I situations, like if there's one out or
Speaker 3: nobody out, he's sort of got lately, He's gotten in
Speaker 3: the habit hit a lot of groundball double plays. But
Speaker 3: when there's two outs and there's a man on in
Speaker 3: score was actually somehow comes up with a big base hit.
Speaker 3: I mean he's like what second or third on the
Speaker 3: team and like two outs with the runners in score
Speaker 3: position coming through. So he's had some success doing that,
Speaker 3: but certainly not enough for the fans liking, because they
Speaker 3: are starting to get on him and you can see
Speaker 3: some of those frustration coming out.
Speaker 1: Terrible terrible at that. Late that came Friday night with
Speaker 1: you know, he swings at the first pitch, bases loaded.
Speaker 1: All you want to do is lift the fly ball,
Speaker 1: and he swings. It's a sinker down and he beats
Speaker 1: into the grounds. Terrible, terrible at that, and then brain
Speaker 1: cramp at first base on Saturday night really costs sugar
Speaker 1: because you know there they should be out of that ending,
Speaker 1: no doubt he I mean both of to me, both
Speaker 1: of the you know, swing at the first pitch after
Speaker 1: a rise draws a ten pitch walk, swing at the
Speaker 1: first pitch down when you need a fly ball and
Speaker 1: beat it into the ground. And then the place Saturday,
Speaker 1: the United I think both of those were mental errors.
Speaker 1: You gotta be more focused.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could see go ahead. No, you see the
Speaker 2: frustration getting to him for sure.
Speaker 3: My thing he swings in a lot of first pitch
Speaker 3: is my thing on the first pitch is if you're
Speaker 3: going to swing at the first pitch and you're going
Speaker 3: to ambush, very rarely does he ambush and hook the ball. Typically,
Speaker 3: when you ambush, you jump out. You're cheating basically on
Speaker 3: the pitch. You're trying to beat the pitcher to the spot,
Speaker 3: and you usually air on the side of getting out
Speaker 3: like early on your swing, so you'll pull it. And
Speaker 3: oftentimes when he is swinging at the first pitch, there
Speaker 3: are times when he gets sort of jams himself and
Speaker 3: gets caught up or rolls over. It's not like he
Speaker 3: has full extension with his swing. And I guess I
Speaker 3: see that a lot more often than I used to.
Speaker 3: When people ambush, I mean when you're up there looking
Speaker 3: for a certain pitch and you're ambushing. You're jumping out there.
Speaker 3: I mean you're getting out in front of it and
Speaker 3: he's either hitting on the end of the batter, you're
Speaker 3: hooking it, or you're smoking it. And I don't see
Speaker 3: that happening all that often, which you know can lead
Speaker 3: to uh lack of lack of production.
Speaker 1: You know who used to ambush every time he didn't stick.
Speaker 1: He wasn't around here long. But Nick may Tongue remember him.
Speaker 1: He would jump every first pitch fastball and why not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't say the bat's box long.
Speaker 2: No, you're right, bench player.
Speaker 3: When you're a betch player, man, you don't be waiting
Speaker 3: around for breaking balls. I'm not dealing with that.
Speaker 2: No chance I got time for that.
Speaker 3: I think they're bringing my luggage in here.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what he gives him for a tip.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny? So that might as Sean Casey
Speaker 2: was on that be network, I don't know, in the
Speaker 2: last year or something like that, and he would like
Speaker 2: tip guys two dollars. You know, he was in the
Speaker 2: big leagues. He was making millions. He was tipping guys
Speaker 2: two dollars. And then finally, some for some reason, a
Speaker 2: couple of his teammates, I don't know who, with the
Speaker 2: Reds they were in they saw him tip two dollars
Speaker 2: and they go, hold on a second, did you just
Speaker 2: tip that guy four dollars for two bags? He goes, yeah,
Speaker 2: two dollars a bag. Right, He's like, dude, you're making
Speaker 2: like eight million dollars. Get me tipping two dollars a bag?
Speaker 2: I got I gotta find if you find that clip,
Speaker 2: it's on the internet somewhere. It's Sean case. It is
Speaker 2: very very funny, very very funny.
Speaker 3: It was five dollars a bag when I was playing
Speaker 3: one hundred years ago and I was making one dollar.
Speaker 2: You know, you weren't making eight million dollars a year, Ruven, Shit, No,
Speaker 2: I wasn't.
Speaker 1: But you didn't just tip that guy. You didn't tip
Speaker 1: that guy.
Speaker 3: No, they they they get tipped by the We don't
Speaker 3: tip him on the second one unless they drop them
Speaker 3: in your they drop them in your room. Well the
Speaker 3: fifth these days, well we.
Speaker 1: Don't have that problem because uh Todd. You know, with
Speaker 1: big Blue, we just carry it.
Speaker 2: You know Jim's famous suitcase, Big Blue. It's been, it's
Speaker 2: been there everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's like it's all ripped up and torn and dirty,
Speaker 1: but it gets the job done and no bellman ever
Speaker 1: wants to handle it. So I don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about tipping anybody.
Speaker 2: Worried about catching something out that thing, Big Blue, Big
Speaker 2: Blue A right, the Phillies. The Phillies open up a
Speaker 2: three game series this week in Saint Louis. Jim and
Speaker 2: Ruben will be there seven forty five pm Eastern on
Speaker 2: Monday of Andrew Painter against Hunter Dobbins, seven forty five
Speaker 2: pm Tuesday, Christopher Sanchez against Andre Palante, and then two
Speaker 2: fifteen pm on Wednesday is Zach Wheeler versus versus Kyle
Speaker 2: Lahey and true.
Speaker 1: Big Trip.
Speaker 3: Balante Balte. Let's go move forward?
Speaker 2: There you go?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: All right? Yeah, big series though, Big Trip. They got
Speaker 2: the Field of Dream Games on Thursday. On Thursday, Yes,
Speaker 2: Thursday in Iowa. Ruben, what before we go? How was
Speaker 2: the slug ball event on on Saturday?
Speaker 3: Well, it was great to it was ended up being
Speaker 3: a showdown, first time in any competition we've ever had
Speaker 3: where we actually had a sudden death to win it
Speaker 3: where one player, yes, where one player from each team
Speaker 3: had to go out there and uh and work through
Speaker 3: the process of slug ball, which was in this case
Speaker 3: you had to pull one, then go just to the
Speaker 3: middle and then to the opposite field in succession, and
Speaker 3: then you know, tally up your points. It was Team
Speaker 3: Boa versus Team Manual, and of course Larry BoA's team
Speaker 3: won because he can't stand losing. And I was part
Speaker 3: of that team. Actually I didn't play that well, I
Speaker 3: didn't do that. I got some points, but but we
Speaker 3: I mean, Randy Wolf was like one of our MVPs.
Speaker 3: He was unbelievable.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 3: And these arms looked like Jim Wolf's right now, Oh
Speaker 3: it was. It was cool to watch Cole Hamill swung
Speaker 3: the bat well. Aaron Rowan had a couple of unbelievable rounds.
Speaker 3: Kenny Lofton was really good at times, and you know
Speaker 3: guys like Kevin Stock Kevin Soccer was one of our
Speaker 3: MVPs too, just massaging the ball around the field. He
Speaker 3: and Mickey Morndini on our team. They did a nice job.
Speaker 3: And Leby participated a bunch of guys. Don Brown had
Speaker 3: a nice was really impressive. I means a monster. So
Speaker 3: it was really cool. Joe Blanton was there. There was
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of guys there.
Speaker 4: It was really nice to have them participate bait and
Speaker 4: it was a good time, had a good time.
Speaker 2: He had Leslie Goodell and Chris Wheeler doing the.
Speaker 3: Doing the play by sort of the play by play.
Speaker 3: And then we had you know, a gentleman man Geronimo,
Speaker 3: a young, young, aspiring PA announcer basically narrating the game.
Speaker 3: That was cool. And uh, I think all had a
Speaker 3: good time. Very hot that day. Was Chili.
Speaker 2: Wasn't but I saw I saw some of the clips
Speaker 2: on the slugball social media accounts and and Boa was chatty.
Speaker 3: Oh, he was chirping. He was very aggressive. Charlie was
Speaker 3: much more subdued.
Speaker 2: Charlie was Boa was into it.
Speaker 3: He was deep into the chirp. Yes, which was fine.
Speaker 3: It was very nice. It added a little a nice
Speaker 3: element to it because that's the whole point, and we're
Speaker 3: there to have fun. It's an outing, it's it's an
Speaker 3: enjoyable time. Crack a beer, play a little slugball, talk
Speaker 3: some smack to your bud buddies, and try to beat
Speaker 3: up on the opponent.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm glad it was a good event.
Speaker 3: And I got to thank the University of Pennsylvania. It
Speaker 3: was at Tommy John excuse me, Tommy John, Tommy Lasorda
Speaker 3: Field at Michael John Stadium right there at the University
Speaker 3: of Pennsylvania, right off of seventy six and the Gray's
Speaker 3: Ferry exit, And it was a really good time, nice venue,
Speaker 3: and they put together a nice they did a really
Speaker 3: good job for us.
Speaker 2: Well, that's fantastic. Happy to hear that. Jim Rubin enjoys.
Speaker 2: Saint Louis and the Philly Show will be back later
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 3: We're gonna miss you, Thanks.
Speaker 1: We're gonna miss your Todd, but we will smell you later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll smell you, Jim