WEBVTT - Signs of Trouble: Phillies bullpen problems continue 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.120 Hey, this is our going. Welcome to the Philly Show. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.040 Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky. It's a Philly show. 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.920 How's everybody doing? It's Monday, August tenth, twenty twenty six. 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.640 Phillies Escape Escape with a win. On Sunday. They win 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:25.520 in twelve innings, seven to six. So much to talk about. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:26.720 Guys with this team. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.760 Right now, let's get going. It is time for first pitch. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:39.200 First Pitch is powered by Parks Casino, Pennsylvania's number one casino. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.480 I don't even should my first pitch be a really 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:44.520 good fastball? Should bring the fastball? 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.599 Bring the fastball, Rubin, I'll bring the fastball. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.440 And I'm going to tell you that I was very 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.559 disappointed in their overall play this weekend and they were 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.400 fortunate to roll out of there with one win out 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:01.640 of three on Alumni Weekend. Think that Chase Sudley probably 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.920 cared for the type of play that they saw this 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.800 this weekend. And the reason why I say that is 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.759 I just feel like so many different things that they 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.080 did not do well. They didn't particularly run the base 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.920 as well. They didn't particularly pick up the baseball and 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.039 throw it across well. They didn't particularly move runners well, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.920 they didn't situationally hit well, they didn't move runners when 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.360 they had to with advance them with bunts. So fundamentally 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.000 it was a rough go. And then when you couple 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.200 that with their inability to like shut games down late 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:37.240 in the game, it becomes a little daunting. And we've 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.440 been talking about this quite a bit, and we as 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.399 a group, me personally, talked about the importance of having 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:49.880 a bullpen that was sharper, and it hasn't been too sharp. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.520 It has been how can I say this in fits 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:56.120 and spurts. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.720 I mean there's you know, one day a guy I'll 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.279 pitch well, the next day does not pitch very well. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:05.560 And uh, they need a lot more consistency out of 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.560 the guys that are going to hand the baseball to 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.840 Juwan Douran, or they're not going to be able to 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:14.440 handle hand the baseball to Juwan duran So that's my 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:20.840 take on it. It was enlightening, however, in one way, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:26.320 especially offensively. Two guys that were pretty impressive. One mister 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.720 Schwarber is now off the schneid. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.799 He's back. Yeah, that looks that looks exciting, And that's 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.800 big for the team. There's no question about that. And 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.520 number two Rice and Scott's been outstanding anyway. That's what 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:41.160 I got. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.120 Well, Rubin, we know you were disappointed in the weekend 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:50.799 because you were firing off some caustic text messages. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:56.640 Oh yeah, I was aggressive, you were coming out I was. 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.360 I was coming in high and tight because it disappoints me. 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:01.480 I felt like I was in the GM chair and 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.880 I was watching some I was feeling the frustration of 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.520 when the teams are not playing to. 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.839 Their accustom level correct or the level that you would 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:13.760 hope that they would play. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:14.919 That's all. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:21.320 It's no doubt they they gave away games this weekend. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:27.880 They continue to be so sloppy defensively and all weekend long, 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.120 the miss chances. I don't have the final tally of 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:34.200 what they were with runners in scoring position. And ultimately 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.680 they got to win on Sunday because Derek Hill got 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.840 to hit with running and scoring position, poked it through 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.000 drawing an infield, but it was hit nonetheless to win 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.320 a game. But you know, the runners left on base. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.480 The poor performance with runers in scoring position not being 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.000 able to hold leads in the bullpen. It was a 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.920 discouraging performance against the Jays. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:01.360 The bullpen is it's really concerned looking at some numbers here. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.720 So the first eighty two games for the Phillies bullpen 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.520 not great. Three point nine one ERA, it's middle of 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.800 the pack in Major League Baseball. You see their strikeout 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.960 rate second best in baseball twenty five point seven percent. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:20.240 Their walk rate the best in baseball seven point four percent. Now, 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.880 last thirty seven games, their ERA is one point six 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.600 runs higher five point five one. Strike out rates about 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.839 the same, fifth best in baseball. But look at that 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:34.000 walk rate, guys, skyrocket, it's second worst in baseball twelve 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.320 point two percent. I mean you see it all the time. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:44.000 I mean, you know, Kirkering, Alvarado, all these guys late innings, 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.359 just putting free runner free, you know, base runners on 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:54.320 and just paying for I mean, Kirkering last eleven games, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.839 last ten games, eleven point seven to four ra or Alvarado. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.159 I think just last week we were talking about it 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.640 looked like he was kind of getting it going a 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:08.200 little bit, but then boom, Saturday night, walks a couple 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.320 of guys six point four one year in his last 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:11.040 twenty games. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.280 I think since July one, they have like the third 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:19.560 highest e r A the bullpen in the in the majors. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.880 It's it's and lately they're fatigued. There's been a few 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.320 crazy games where they've had to pick up a lot 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:30.800 of innings. They're fatigued and they're not throwing enough strikes. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.800 And the fatigue part is really troubling because I guess 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.640 you finally got an off day coming up on Friday, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.440 but you know the series coming, you got four more 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.760 games there before and off day, and you're in the 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.080 you're in the dog days. This is you know, it's hot, 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.040 and these are games that you know, the days that 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.240 can grind up a bullpen, and that is happening. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:06:00.240 And and honestly it's weird because the starters back he 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.040 pitched okay, I mean I know that that Wheeler got 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.719 banged after two innings because of rain. That was the 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:07.240 weird one. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.840 You were talking about, Jim, And then uh you know that. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.400 I mean, what hasn't been like they've had. I mean, 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.760 you saw Aaron Nola pick up some innings. He's thrown 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.520 a little bit better, a little bit more consistent, a 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:24.000 little deeper. Painter's been okay, and then he tweaked his 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.640 you know, hamstring, so that's you know, they wanted to 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.080 be real cautious with that. He probably would have gone 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.200 another maybe one or two innings in his outing. So 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.120 I don't think it's necessarily the starting pitchers problems. I 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.360 think it's just some circumstances that have happened and then 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.919 really honestly, they're inability to uh their ill ability to 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.280 be efficient. When you're not efficient, you run up, you 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.719 walk people, you run up your pitch count. Then you 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.000 can't pitch the next day, or you can't pitch two 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.719 days in a row because. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.440 You're you're running up your your pitch counts. And that 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.600 puts Don Mattingley in a very tough spot for a 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.960 number of different reasons. When you walk people out of 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.120 the pen. Talk to my dad about this way back 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.600 when he was trying to teach me about baseball when 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.440 I was ten years old and driving with him to 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:20.480 Reading to check out the Redding Phillies play. Son. Can't 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.120 have kids walking people when they come out of the bullpen. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.720 That is a no no. They have to throw strikes. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.080 They may not maybe get knocked around, but they got 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.640 to throw it over the plate. I mean I learned 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.880 that when I was dem. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.119 And a lot of Don Mattingley's moves are being picked 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.720 apart and called into question, and some of them rightfully so. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:45.880 But Bruce Bochi, who is the best bullpen manipulator, engineer 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.080 or whatever you want to call it in recent years, 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.680 would have trouble with this bullpen because he still off 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.400 to the player to perform, and these guys are not performing. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:57.400 You wonder if they needed more of an upgrade. They 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.240 probably did. It's a deadline and they got killed. And 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.000 who on Sunday grabbed his side and probably going that 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:06.600 to me when he grabbed his side that dramatically that 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.239 had I L written all over. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.960 It, I mean mannically even said it didn't look I 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.520 mean it's like that, it didn't look great. It didn't 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.240 look great. So that he stayed. He's going to stay back, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.520 I guess, and get some imaging done on Monday in Philadelphia. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.160 But that that's not good. He was one of the 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.800 two pickups, of course before the trade deadline. Brooks Rali 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.080 the other Brooks rarely blew a save the other day 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.560 last week against Washington, and you know, you kind of 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:37.600 look at and I was looking at some of the 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.000 relief all the relievers that were traded at the deadline 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.640 there really weren't. I mean, Luke Weaver was He maybe 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.080 the best guy, the best high leverage lead. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.280 He would have been my number one target without question. 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.080 I know it's in division. I don't know what they 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.720 would have had to give up for the man, but 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.800 for me, that would have been I would have been 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.680 hell bent on making a run him. Of course, you 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.640 never know if that was even a possibility, but yeah, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.200 we talked about a lot. I mean, it's still remained 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:09.800 for me. I mean, it's great that they picked up 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.319 our eyes. He really did serve a purpose and he's 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:17.080 important to this team. But the reality, I think Raley's 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.040 and Rally is a solid pickup. I just feel like 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.880 they probably needed more of a lockdown situation because they 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.280 really don't have that person that you can count on 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.800 right now. Unless somebody gets hot and gets real confident, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.959 unless the Alvarado's in the Kirkerings of the World and 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.560 the Bowlings of the World gets super confident, right and 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.240 you know, become a Ryan Mattson all of a sudden 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.400 in a month and a half, and you're looking at 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.040 a real difficult way to get through those seventh and 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.800 eighth innings with the lead. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:57.160 Yeah, they're they're in trouble with Alvarado and Cookering. Don't 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.280 get it going here because there's no other options. And 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.320 Balin's never been in the Crucible before. This is his 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.839 first time pitching in in big games like this, and 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.360 Leverage done a good job, but they need more than that. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.959 Well, one other thing besides Kirkering's performance today that kind 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.800 of jumped out at me was his his stuff was 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.640 just way down. And it happens from start to start, 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.440 our appearance to appearance, right, So I try not to 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.760 be alarmist when these things happened, but it jumped out. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.079 But then I looked at his season performance. Look, this 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.080 is his forcing fastball velocity, guys, and you can see 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:40.000 in his last five six, seven appearances it's way down 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.600 from it's down. It's down. I don't know if I want 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.680 to say way down, but it's down from his early 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.480 season performances through like mid June, so mid July, it's 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:51.040 it's down. 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.120 That's confident, yeah, one of his confidence or it's him 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.079 being used a lot. Sometimes it's you know, he feels 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.160 real confident with that fast ball sometimes he doesn't. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.960 It really is uncanny that he can get so many 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.640 quick outs, too quick outs, and then he just can't 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.120 finish off the inning. And listen, a lot of those 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.160 balls that were hit. One ball was hit pretty well 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:19.000 in in this last game on Sunday, we gave up 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.360 what three or four hits, but you know a lot 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.960 of them are blue pits. But he just cannot make 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.000 the pitch to get people out and to finish off 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.440 the inning. He gets two quick outs and it's almost 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:35.320 like something happens, whether it's a walk, an error, a 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.360 blue pit, a bullet, he just doesn't he hasn't, hadn't 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.719 been able to finish off that inning, and uh it, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.760 it becomes very taxing, and not just taxing for him, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.719 but for other people in the bullpen and for the 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.160 guys who are sitting there, those eight guys that are 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:56.320 sitting there on the field, because that you know, losing 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.640 games late and losing leads late are very draining to 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.800 a ball club on a lot of different levels. 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.640 Yes, thank you, ever wear a lot of leads in 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:08.200 this series. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.520 A big concern moving forward that was first pitch powered 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:17.840 by Parks Casino must be twenty one gambling problem, Call 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:26.960 one eight hundred gambler. 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Tomorrow, 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.880 Jim's got to get up and hump it through Nashville 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.920 via Saint Louis, and Ruben's gonna be uh. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.280 You know, I can handle it. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:16.439 I feel for you. I've been I would rather argue 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.280 on the charter fight. I'm not lying to you. I'm sorry. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.320 But Todd knows this because he's one of those whimps 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.760 that when we go to the West Coast, he always 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.400 goes out the day before to get his body adjusted. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:33.000 I fly, I get the extra day at home, and 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.520 I go out the day of the game. I've actually 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.760 panic to get to the ballpark. I've actually stayed away 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.199 from close to twenty four hours on like an extra 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:43.760 inning game. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.840 You know, I stopped, I stopped the yard. I stopped 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.160 feeling bad for that, bad about that. When Rob Thompson 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.880 a few years ago in twenty twenty two, they were 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.280 talking about whether they would fly back to San Diego 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.880 after it might have been game two or the morning 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.720 of and and he was talking about this sleep studies. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.679 He said, you know, the guys we do all these 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.959 sleep studies and the proper time to travel. I said, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.840 all right, I'm on board. I'm on board with these 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.920 sleep studies. So I flapped to the West Coast a 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.599 day before. I gotta get acclimated. 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.000 You know what you say about sleep study, Well, would 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:18.960 Larry Bow say about my sleep study? 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:20.280 That's when you die. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.960 Yeah, that's what Now, that's what Warren Zevon said, you 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:25.800 sleep when you die. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.760 That's right, that's right. Gosh, all right, well, hey, it's 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:34.240 it is Monday, and it is it is Monday, and 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.880 you know what that means. It's Best Week presented by 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.200 Manco and Manco. When you want the best of the best, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:43.840 it's Manco and Manco. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.920 I'm just gonna say this. In the suite and all 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:53.120 the sweets during Alumni weekend, lots of Manco and Manco pies. Yes, 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.560 did I have some slices? Yes? 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:54.840 I did? 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:56.680 All right, I love it. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:58.360 Who are you stuffing it in with? 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.080 That was there with Judy and uh my daughter Andrea 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.520 and her boyfriend Connor. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.480 Yeah, oh very nice. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.880 They were visiting Judy and Will. Sure you were stuffing 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:10.160 it in. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:17.320 Well for for for Best Week? Guys, what do we got? 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.200 I mean, I you know, I feel like we we 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.520 have to mention at some point Chase out least speech, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.640 I mean, that could qualify it for Best Week as 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.320 a he did as job the guy. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:32.960 Prepared and Pat Burrows actually introducing him, that was outstanding 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:33.360 as well. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.200 I thought Pat had such a great line when he 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.520 talked about how Chase did everything hard based running hard, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.040 and he's like, in fact, I think they, uh they 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.840 might have created a new no uh no contact a 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.040 little bit because of Chase or something. That was something 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.840 that yeah, it was very has yeah word has it? 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.640 Pat was very sneaky funny. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:55.800 That was that was great. 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.760 So you guys have anybody you want to start on. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.200 Uh, go ahead, James, who you got? 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.960 Well? It was a long home stand and I thought 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:13.520 Lewis Arise. Louis had a nice contribution the first three nights, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.120 early hits to driving runs and give him the lead 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.320 in all three games. I'm not sure what his pizza 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.920 of preference is because we haven't really gotten to know 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.600 him yet, but we're gonna give him a slab of 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.680 the Manco Manco best of the week. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.520 I like that, A nice little slab. Is it a 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.880 double slab? Is it a stack? You stacking these? Is 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.600 that a stack? Is that a stacker? 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:38.640 Now? 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.560 I'm just gonna give Louise one one. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:46.320 One slice, one nice nice, a nice nice. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.280 I'm gonna go. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:49.280 Why don't you go ahead? Tom? 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.080 All right, I'm gonna go. Uh, I'm gonna go. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:56.840 Jesus Lizardo, Jesus hey, Jesus sweet, Jesus, Jesus Zarda two 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:02.400 starts this week fifteen innings, eight hits, two runs, three walks, 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:04.960 nineteen strikeouts. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:10.919 They could use that. Do you think great week for 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.040 uh Hazleo's Lozardo for sure. 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.760 Jesus Like I think they've won like what fifteen out 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.159 of the last seventeen games he's pitched or something some 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:20.320 crazy number like that. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:20.920 Is that right? 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.760 It's so number like the team is fifteen and two 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.360 the last seventeen games, he's pitched some crazy number. I'm 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.200 not sure if that's all it's. It's pretty it's pretty amazing. 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.120 He's been fantastic. He's been absolutely fantasic. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.360 He's been really good. Man. 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.880 Yeah, really, he's fun to watch. He's just I enjoy 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.320 watching the pitch because he's so intense and he's got 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.720 the nasty sweeper. He's just a fun guy to watch. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.479 Yeah, he's got a little emotion to him. He's got 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.200 a little effort, you know. He's kind of fun. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.480 Yeah. Absolutely, what do you got rubin for manco Mark. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.400 Press and stop press and stops. My man, he's coming 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:05.840 on strong, really good. Eighteen at bats in the six games. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.159 I'm not sure if Tonight's numbers are in here, but 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.200 in the six games, prior was saying tonight meaning Sundays, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.560 because eighteen at bats, I think he had eight hits. 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:17.919 He had. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:22.119 He hit four forty four with a six hundred on 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:28.080 base percentage, a six sixty seven slug and a one 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:34.040 point two six seven ops I mean seven walks versus 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:40.800 zero strikeouts. Love that what he gets a very large 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:43.480 slice of the pie, if not a half pie, if 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:49.760 not a full Ruben Tomorrow Brock white broccoli and chicken pie. 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.480 I'm gonna give it to him, the whole, the whole thing. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.400 He's he's really come on. It's been nice to see 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.160 because I think we've all been waiting for it, you know. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.679 Not only that, but doing it while he switches positions 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.719 and playing it nicely to boot, So you're gonna give 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.320 him some love. I'm gonna give him a full pie, 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:10.040 full pie. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.560 I love it. He's a basic suppressive. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.320 He is a baseball it's impressive. I mean he coming 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.480 out of second base, where he throws a lot shorter, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.200 his throws are right on the money and strong from 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.520 third base, and you know he's a short stop. But 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.080 it's been a while. I got it really good throwing 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:29.840 Armost just a good infielder. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:33.000 That's the first one to uh to worry a little 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.080 bit because of the angles and him not having played 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.239 there for a while. But he's a ballplayer, man, and 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:43.480 he's making that adjustment pretty darn quickly, and uh, he 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.000 deserves some some love. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.120 Yeah, he's done a good job. That's a good all right. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:52.160 That's Manco Manco best week when you want the best 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:57.640 of the best, Manco Maco. All right. A few other 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.719 things happened this weekend. Do we have any thoughts on 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.400 the whole Zach Wheeler. Is his foot on the rubber? 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.199 Is it not on the rubber? I will say that 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:12.200 I did. I did love Zach dropping the. 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.280 That was so good. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:21.320 I actually said some to him rather, I said, I said, 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.240 I said that was a great f bomb. They caught 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:24.720 you on TV. And he looked at me and he goes, 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:31.440 I did three of them. They only got the one. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.160 Yeah, one, three ain't mad Matt in three thirty three. 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.920 But I'll tell you what, like yeah, I mean, I 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:42.359 wouldn't have I would have expected nothing less from Zach 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.240 than to react like that because he's one of the 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.200 very best in the game and somebody is trying to 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.280 come up with a way to get under his skin. 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:52.760 You know what. It reminded me of guys. That reminded 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.800 me of a few years ago when they first day 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:01.480 they started checking for sticky stuff on the fingers and 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.080 Joe Gurardi before the game says, I mean, I'm not gonna. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.200 I'm not gonna just go out there and challenge I 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.600 mean I would be unless I'm one hundred percent sure 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:13.200 this guy's using tacky stuff on his uh spider tack 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.560 on his hands. I'm not gonna do that. Like the 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.040 second inning, Max Suers is pitching, Joe Girardi goes out 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:24.359 there and Max Shirts just lost it. And then k 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:26.640 Long was on the Kevin Long was in the other 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.080 dugout and he started going out with Joe Girardi. When 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.359 you mess with the big dog like that, you gotta 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:34.200 be ready to take it. And then Zach of course, 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.359 after the games, like I guess, because they've been losing 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:37.960 a lot lately, they got to come up with that 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.640 was tremendous too. Loved it. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:44.240 They lose it a lot over there, so they needed 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:45.320 something to complain about. 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.320 That's a pretty good line. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.280 Do you remember my question to Joe after that game 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.239 because we were on zoom then, because I don't think 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:56.520 we were allowed the clue house? 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:01.919 Yes, what was it again? Wait? You tell it, you 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:03.200 tell it? 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.399 I said, Jones just just sure have a reputation of 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:08.240 loading up. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.440 Exactly does he have a. 0:22:12.640 --> 0:22:14.400 Reputation for loading it up? 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:14.960