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Speaker 2: Jji Warris brought them to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 3: Everybody, how are you Ruby Tomorrow Juniors here? Jim Salisbury's here,

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Speaker 2: It's a Philly Show.

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Speaker 3: It's Monday, December second. The holiday season is upon us, guys.

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Speaker 3: I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving Day weekend. I did.

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Speaker 3: I had my family in town. I took my kids

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Speaker 3: some of their first ever Flyers game. Nice Flyers beat

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Speaker 1: Dude, love Hockey is a great spectator sport other than

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Speaker 4: For me, I think hockey is one of my favorite,

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Speaker 3: And I know Jim's a big hockey. Jim's a big hockey.

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Speaker 2: It's a great, great game. And as much as I

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. Well, so the Flyers visited my five

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Speaker 4: Like, can we go to a Flyers game where is

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Speaker 3: And I didn't know that Gritty was at the school

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they've been playing. They've been playing. Great man

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Speaker 3: Some things now, yes he can, Yes he can. So

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Speaker 3: that's been pretty cool. A lot baseball seems to be

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Speaker 4: Pitching many a lot of pitching pitching. Yeah, you're seeing

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's getting crazy out there.

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Speaker 1: you know, you just can't. The team just cannot sustain innings,

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Speaker 1: and you have, you know, fifty percent or more sometimes

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Speaker 4: They just can't sustain it. You got the guys who can,

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Speaker 2: Look at Paveta. Pavetta's going to get a decent deal.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I feel like if you're gonna give up

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Speaker 3: Think about how he left the Phillies. You would never

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Speaker 1: They had not very well for they really had struggled

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Speaker 3: This is from j T Nason on Instagram. This guy,

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Speaker 3: I can almost see this, Jim. Can't you see yourself

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Speaker 3: that's happened before, right, I mean all the time you

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Speaker 2: Well, how do you feel. We've said this all along,

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Speaker 2: I'm not trading him unless I'm getting a ton back.

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Speaker 2: We're here and in this, in this narrative that hasn't

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Speaker 4: Give them life.

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Speaker 1: If you don't comment on them, then the old that

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: Most organizations do not like to comment and can't comment

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Speaker 3: if you're good, every team is interested in you. And right,

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Speaker 4: Right, Like the Phillies are interested in one.

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Speaker 3: So you know, like I always say to people, the

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Speaker 2: And here's another one. Here's another the Phillies have discussed well,

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Speaker 3: Better, right exactly. It's it's very funny. It's frustrating as

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Speaker 3: Ruben went as a GM. You know, you see that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys make a great point.

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Speaker 1: If it's a good player, every single team, thirty of

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Speaker 4: And so I know people have to sell, and people have.

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Speaker 4: None of it means diddly exactly. Well, you know, and

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Speaker 2: I think there's a real chance Alec Bohm could be traded.

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Speaker 2: that phrase, Dobraska is open minded and being open mindedness

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Speaker 1: Once the er Pat Gillick told me years ago, man,

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Speaker 3: Let's say on the hot corner. This is from Ben

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Speaker 3: close attention. He said he wouldn't be surprised if Alex

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Speaker 3: Bregman was looking for a new contract that comes close

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Speaker 2: So why why wouldn't Bregman be looking for that? You

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Speaker 4: Like the player.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a type of player that David Brass

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Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about, okay, signing him even before

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Speaker 4: Now you've got to figure out where am I going

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Speaker 1: I mean that's being creative. But again, I mean, that's

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Speaker 4: There's already enough balls in the air. You're you're asking

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Speaker 3: Who Jim's ziwiki on X? Who do you think will

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Speaker 4: I mean, could be anybody, really, you know what.

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Speaker 1: growing up quite a bit. Why am I brain locking

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Speaker 4: Traded to oh Tanner Scott Tanner Scott traded.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, we'll see.

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Speaker 3: Would you trade for Ryan Helsley from the Cardinals. He's

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Speaker 1: They're gonna ask for a lot, you know, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: He's really good, and he's and basically Rob Thompson is

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Speaker 2: Manager, depending what happens in Saint Louis with Aaronato, right,

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Speaker 2: I think we talked about a few months ago how

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Speaker 1: So that would that would be sort of a role

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is creative. But Rubin, I like what you

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Speaker 4: It's a whole bunch of it is.

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Speaker 3: I would be sweating bullets. Because you get older, you

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Speaker 3: usually break down more.

437
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Speaker 2: Usually old guys get hurt.

438
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Speaker 3: Yeah, old guys get hurt, and he's a young guy

439
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,439
Speaker 3: that gets hurt every single year. I don't know if

440
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Speaker 3: the Twins are gonna want to trade him anyway. I

441
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:11,680
Speaker 3: don't know what you could get for him that that

442
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 3: would be a high risk move, high risk, high reward move.

443
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Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I'd

444
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Speaker 3: be real comfortable trading a Justin Crawford in a deal

445
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Speaker 3: for for Byron Buxton or whatever it might be, you know,

446
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Speaker 3: Ranger Suarez, whatever.

447
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Speaker 4: The Twins would be dying to get rid of this guy.

448
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Speaker 1: They'd be dying, and they're trying to jump payroll. I mean

449
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 1: they're yeah, they're they're ownership change.

450
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they have an ownership change.

451
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Speaker 1: There's no way that Byron Buxton would be a guy

452
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Speaker 1: that I would be interested in unless they paid him

453
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Speaker 1: way down, you know, and and uh, I mean with

454
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Speaker 1: some great talent. But but you got to you know,

455
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Speaker 1: your best ability is your availability.

456
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Speaker 4: He is not ever available.

457
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Speaker 3: So even if, like they just said in the salary dump,

458
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Speaker 3: like give it and you know, we don't want any

459
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Speaker 3: of your top three or four prospects, would you give

460
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Speaker 3: up like a Gabriel Rinconis Junior. I'm just throwing a

461
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Speaker 3: random name out there, and a couple other like mid

462
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Speaker 3: level prospect guys as a as a salary dump for

463
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Speaker 3: the twins?

464
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Speaker 4: Would you do that?

465
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Speaker 3: Take on the fifteen million each of the next four

466
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Speaker 3: years and just hope you get something good out of him.

467
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Speaker 3: It's no risky, too risky man, Yeah, yeah, uh Chris

468
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Speaker 3: Chris Donald on XS painter guaranteed a spot on the roster.

469
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Speaker 3: And do you expect him to be in Lee High

470
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Speaker 3: Valley at the beginning of the season and a veteran

471
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Speaker 3: becoming the fifth starter? He's going to start the season

472
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Speaker 3: in Lee High Valley.

473
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Speaker 2: I think he's going to start the season in warm Weather.

474
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Speaker 3: There you go. Yeah, he can start in clear Water. Yeah,

475
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Speaker 3: work his way up high.

476
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Speaker 2: But you know, don't you think Reuben, when you start

477
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Speaker 2: him where you know the weather's going to be good

478
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Speaker 2: until May May tenth or something.

479
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I would definitely start him down south. His it's

480
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:50,040
Speaker 1: really about him just getting on the mound. It doesn't

481
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Speaker 1: matter who he's throwing against.

482
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Speaker 4: Right now, he's the.

483
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Speaker 1: Point rehab mode, and then work his way to the

484
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Speaker 1: point where when you when he starts to move and

485
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Speaker 1: to start to I think you're absolutely right on, Jim.

486
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 1: You should be working for for Luke Merton. I don't

487
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: even know that he'll be I think you should be

488
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: their pitching director. You should talk to Luke and send

489
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Speaker 1: your resume in, Jim, because you're spot off.

490
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you're not even activating. Maybe he's pitching extended

491
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Speaker 2: and through through mid April late April, and then you know,

492
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Speaker 2: maybe he gets in a couple official games and then

493
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 2: I get some you know, right around right around when

494
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 2: the leaves start popping, right after Kentucky Derby comes to Redding,

495
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 2: and because you really want to manage those innings and

496
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 2: slow him down a little bit at the beginning while

497
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 2: he's still building some workload so you can evaluate readiness

498
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 2: and if he indeed is ready, which everybody thinks he

499
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 2: will be. You're going to get the bulk of his

500
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Speaker 2: work up here where it really matters.

501
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that you're going to see I

502
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,439
Speaker 1: don't think you're going to see this kid unless something

503
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Speaker 1: drastic happens. Some time between June and September is when

504
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: you'll probably see him, you know, surface at the major

505
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Speaker 1: league level.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they're gonna need some of that fist spot

507
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:15,920
Speaker 3: PSU beat Mafia on X. Favorite bullpen player to cover ever,

508
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 3: I guess in Ruben's case, favorite bullpen guy. I guess

509
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Speaker 3: you could been a teammate with, or signed or traded

510
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Speaker 3: for Jim. Do you have a favorite bullpen? A favorite reliever?

511
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Speaker 3: A lot of I mean a lot. There's so many.

512
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 3: I mean, like really it's such a cliche, but a

513
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,680
Speaker 3: lot of relievers are just great characters. And I find

514
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Speaker 3: like relievers to be just generally decent human beings, you know.

515
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Speaker 2: I mean speaking of Yeah, yeah, you know, talk about

516
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 2: a great man and who I mean? Brad Leedge forty

517
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 2: eight for forty eight storybook a year ye outstanding gentleman

518
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 2: to share his thoughts with reporters like us after games

519
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 2: every night, really let us in, you know, I always

520
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 2: told his story very you know, in uh inaccessible, gentlemanly way.

521
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 2: But he was just as accessible and and gentleman like

522
00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:18,200
Speaker 2: the next year when he was having like a year,

523
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 2: he was the same guy. You know, he's a quality

524
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,240
Speaker 2: human being. So I would put Brad Lidge and his

525
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 2: whole story, the good, the bad, and and the and

526
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 2: the person He was very, very high on that list.

527
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: But I would also put Billy Wagner. He's on the

528
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 2: wall behind me.

529
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, uh.

530
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 2: Billy Wagner was a delight to cover because what a personality,

531
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Speaker 2: what a good guy. You talked about, a good human being.

532
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 2: And you know, one of the good things about covering

533
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 2: baseball is you get to witness guys at the top

534
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 2: of their game, the elite. You get to witness greatness.

535
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 2: Every night. With Brad Lidge, you know, eight we witnessed greatness.

536
00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 2: And with Billy Wagner, you know, night after night it

537
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 2: was greatness. And that's what He's very viable to make

538
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,159
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame in a couple of weeks. So,

539
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 2: you know, Billy Wagner was a delight to cover for

540
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 2: me personally. You know that that story on the back

541
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 2: of the wall behind my head is the day I

542
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 2: caught his bullpen session in Cliwater twenty years ago.

543
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 3: That's amazing I think about it's.

544
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 2: Had a lot of laughs about that.

545
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think about left handers when I think about

546
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 1: bullpend guys, So the guys that I've either played with

547
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Speaker 1: or against or had played for for me. Guys like

548
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: Derek Lillaquist. He was awesome. He was a great teammate

549
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. There was Raal Cormier, who I thought was

550
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Speaker 1: a real gem of a human being, just a wonderful

551
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Speaker 1: oneerful God bless him. We miss you, Raal. Trying to

552
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,360
Speaker 1: think of some other its a dan plea, Sach. I mean,

553
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Speaker 1: I think of all those left handers who were just

554
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Speaker 1: really really great people and good people to be.

555
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 4: Around, and uh, just a joy to either be a

556
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 4: teammate or you know someone who someone was in your organization.

557
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 4: Just to just to name three of them, I'm sure

558
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 4: I'm missing this.

559
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's really hard to name like you feel like,

560
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: I mean you mentioned Rayal Cormier. He what a great guy, awesome,

561
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: great athlete. He had a great year here. He had

562
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 2: that one year where he was really struggling. Next next

563
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 2: year he came back he was. He was flat out awesome.

564
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 2: So many it was a really good guy as we

565
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: had a few years ago here Louis Garcia, remember him.

566
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Speaker 2: Great Adam Morgan was you.

567
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 4: Know Adam Morgan, great, great.

568
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 2: I love Adam Morgan's story. He was ready to retire

569
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 2: and go become a fireman and he had to ends

570
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 2: up going to the bullpen having a couple of pretty

571
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 2: good years. So just so many really good guys to cover,

572
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 2: but you know they backed it up with performance and

573
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 2: and accountability. Really just have to have thick skin, man

574
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,520
Speaker 2: because you know, as you know when after a game,

575
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 2: Todd knows this. So sometimes the only night you end

576
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,239
Speaker 2: up at a reliever's locker as a reporter is when

577
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 2: he messes up and he has a bad night, and

578
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, I got to get by this

579
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 2: guy's locker when he's having a great night. It's just

580
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: to balance it out. But you know, the good ones,

581
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 2: they understand they're accountable. They don't hold it against you.

582
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 2: So a lot of terrific, terrific guys.

583
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes they're being treated like the Baltimore Ravens kicker. Well,

584
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny you mentioned that the other guy

585
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to a lot of the left tend I

586
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: want to talk about j c RAMERI, which also a

587
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: phenomenal human being as well, had a great did run

588
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: for us.

589
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Speaker 3: There, you're right, Matt Stairs, h Matt matt Strom, I

590
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: think said something similar Rubin. You know, the relief pitchers

591
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 3: are kind of like the kickers on a football team.

592
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 3: You only you only notice them when they screw up, correct,

593
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 3: you know, And it's it's very true and that and

594
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,239
Speaker 3: so Jim, you're right. I try to go over and

595
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,000
Speaker 3: talk to these guys is as much as possible before game,

596
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 3: when things are going good, you know, after a game,

597
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 3: try to pop over and just chat with him for

598
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 3: a minute or two. Because you don't want to be

599
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 3: the guy only goes. You do want to be doctor

600
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 3: death going over to him only when they blow a game,

601
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 3: you know, and then because they notice that, Oh they

602
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 3: noticed that, that's.

603
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 4: What makes that's what makes you a pro? Tozzi that

604
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 4: what makes you a pro?

605
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 3: I only notice I only know you only come over

606
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 3: when I suck? Why is that?

607
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: Shut up?

608
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 3: Schnecksville Schnecksville mom on Instagram. What moment in the press

609
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,960
Speaker 3: box was the hardest to not react like a fan.

610
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good one.

611
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 4: I react like a fan all the time up there.

612
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 4: But I'm saying in a third row, you guys have

613
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 4: to hear me. That's a terrible pitch. What do you do?

614
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 3: The truth is is that there are a lot of

615
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 3: moments when we kind of jump, you know, not jump

616
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 3: jump out of our seats, but there are a lot

617
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 3: of moments, Jim where we kind of go, oh my gosh,

618
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 3: what a catch or what a play or you know,

619
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Speaker 3: Bryce Harper bedlam at the bank and like, oh my god,

620
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 3: that's unbelievable. You know, the final couple innings of Royal

621
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 3: Holliday's postseason no hitter. That's really shitting going is this?

622
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna this is crazy. I'm here watching this.

623
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Speaker 4: So there are a lot of those moments every every day,

624
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 4: you know.

625
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: From my perspective, Again, I sit at the third level,

626
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: so I try to stay out of it when I

627
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: when I go into the games if I'm not covering

628
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: or whatever.

629
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Speaker 4: And uh, and I watched, so I watched reactions.

630
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: Of the guys and who were in the front row

631
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Speaker 1: like yourselves, Like you two guys, there's a lot of

632
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: head snap like a head snap.

633
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 2: You're gonna go look at the monitor after the play

634
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 2: the head snap.

635
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, I watched the head snap.

636
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 4: That's kind of cool.

637
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: It's kind of.

638
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.

639
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, you just like, oh my god, what did I

640
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 3: just see? There's I mean, we're you know, we're all

641
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 3: baseball fans, and we all appreciate like great performances and

642
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 3: great moments, and you know, you know, we all see

643
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: terrible calls by an umpire the same way. So you

644
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 3: sit there, go are you kidd You know those those

645
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 3: types of things that way stairs his home run, didn't

646
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 3: you bang your knee on the press box on the.

647
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 2: Electrical under the I still got, like I still get

648
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 2: swelling in that knee because of and Victorino's grand slam off.

649
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 2: Sabbathia was big. Just so many of them bedlam at

650
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: the bank.

651
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 3: You know.

652
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: I mentioned this the other day. One of them that

653
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: made me got me out of my seat is that

654
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: brawl between the Yankees and Red Sox when Pedro and

655
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Speaker 2: Zimmer went at it. And I was at Family Park

656
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Speaker 2: covering that game, and that brought me out of my seat.

657
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Speaker 4: I'm like, holy, you know, grazy.

658
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Speaker 2: So I mean, an awful lot of them because we

659
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Speaker 2: you know, we love, we love the game. We love

660
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 2: big moments were like anybody else big moments. Really, I'll

661
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Speaker 2: tell you at night, I was not in the press box,

662
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,160
Speaker 2: and I reacted like a holy you know, like a

663
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 2: fan when Ruben Brock Cliff Lee back, you know, working

664
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 2: that story till like three in the morning, and you

665
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 2: you know, you're just thinking, oh my gosh, the rotation

666
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 2: they just put together here, and uh, that was a

667
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Speaker 2: that was quite a big one.

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Speaker 4: That's when I was smart to him. That would sound

669
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Speaker 4: smart back then. And then I don't see.

670
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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened after that, but you mentioned

671
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: to you mentioned two things to Bettlem at the bank

672
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Speaker 1: when I was in the studio in the studio offices

673
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Speaker 1: watching the game because we were doing a pre impost

674
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Speaker 1: on NBC, and and I'm literally jumping around like a

675
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Speaker 1: little baby child, like.

676
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I can't believe I just saw that happen.

677
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Speaker 2: I can't believe. Why did they pitch to him?

678
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 4: How did hate or not coming to the game.

679
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: You know, I was freaking out, you know, Yeah, that

680
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: was one and the other one I reacted to you

681
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: and you said you banged your knee.

682
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Speaker 4: I actually cried when that Stairs at that over. I

683
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 4: literally was crying.

684
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Speaker 2: Were you in that so at Dodger Stadium that night

685
00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: when he hit the ball off Brox and it got

686
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 2: so quiet, I had fifty eight thousand people hush, and

687
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: all you could hear was there was a like a

688
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 2: luxury suite two or three down from the press box

689
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 2: where a Phillies people were sitting, and you could hear them,

690
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 2: you know, yelling and screaming. Were you over in there?

691
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: I was probably in there. I don't know if I

692
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: was yelling at screaming. I was literally I was someone shocked.

693
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Speaker 1: I was so in shocked. I was teered.

694
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Speaker 4: I was literally like, holy schnikes.

695
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Speaker 2: It's just.

696
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Speaker 3: I always tell people, I said, you can watch that

697
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 3: instant replay of Stairs home run a million times, it

698
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 3: does not do it justice of how high and far

699
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 3: that ball sailed out of that ballpark, even though you

700
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Speaker 3: see where it landed, But just to see it actually

701
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 3: live and in person, I was like, I've never seen

702
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 3: a ball hit that far.

703
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Speaker 4: I wish they had, or how loud it was off

704
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Speaker 4: the bat?

705
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Speaker 3: Oh, it was like, literally, yeah, it was crazy. We

706
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Speaker 3: kind of talked about this last week, but if you

707
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Speaker 3: guys wanted to add anything. What inspired the love of

708
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 3: baseball for each of you? And since you have a

709
00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 3: decade or more under your belt in baseball, what keeps

710
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Speaker 3: it on?

711
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 4: That's from jay On X anything you guys.

712
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 3: We kind of talked about this last week in our

713
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving episodes, so go back and listen to that. That

714
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 3: was we we talked a lot about or where we

715
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 3: kind of got our passion for the game from. Who

716
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 3: was the best December? Who is the best December free

717
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 3: agent or trade acquisition in Philly's history? That's from Phil's

718
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Speaker 3: fan d l R on Instagram. There's I mean there's

719
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Speaker 3: a lot of great December. I mean.

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Speaker 2: Roy holl And Fleeward December.

721
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Speaker 3: Pete Rose was in December.

722
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all of them?

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Speaker 1: Probably Yeah, I would say Roy and Pete were probably

724
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Speaker 1: two of the best.

725
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Speaker 4: One was Steve Carlton.

726
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Speaker 3: Steve Carlton was in February, late February. I looked, that

727
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Speaker 3: was the first guy I went to when they get

728
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Speaker 3: Steve Carlton, and that was in February February because because

729
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Speaker 3: Rick Whyse wanted a raise, No, Steve wanted a a

730
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Speaker 3: very modest raise from the card and Augie Bush said,

731
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Speaker 3: we're not paying that guy an extra five grand.

732
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Speaker 1: A year in an amazing in an amazing worked that

733
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Speaker 1: well for the Phillies.

734
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Speaker 2: Correct, there used to be a day like you know

735
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 2: you mentioned, well, Carlton, you said February. Yes, but that

736
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,240
Speaker 2: was a trade. But there was a time when free agency,

737
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 2: the bulk of it happened in November, December, especially December

738
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Speaker 2: leading up to the winter meetings, and a lot of

739
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 2: teams had their most of their business, you know, buckled

740
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Speaker 2: up by Christmas. And now it extends into January and February,

741
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Speaker 2: as we saw Bryce Harper, Jake Garriotta, even March. It

742
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 2: just has extended so long. But you know, as a

743
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 2: baseball writer, you know back maybe a decade or so

744
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 2: ago or more, January January was that one month where

745
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 2: you could kind of catch your breath a little bit.

746
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 2: I remember actually going out and covering playoff football because

747
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,959
Speaker 2: you know, baseball was kind of that was the dormant month.

748
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: Teams had completed their their you know, off season construction.

749
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 2: Now you're counting down to spring training, and but now

750
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Speaker 2: the off season is every every bit of it. And

751
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 2: one of the things we need to discuss. I was

752
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: actually speaking with this with Rob Kessner recently, is you know,

753
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 2: should there be some we we probably need to dedicate

754
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,879
Speaker 2: an entire podcast to this, maybe later in the winter,

755
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 2: but should there be some, you know, some deadlines, like

756
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 2: like the other sports where the free agent periods are

757
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 2: shorter and very intense and they gain a lot of attention.

758
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: It's almost like event status. You know. I don't know,

759
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 2: but I certainly think it's something we could talk about,

760
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 2: maybe in another podcast.

761
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Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see how everybody takes that, because

762
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,479
Speaker 1: you know, the you know, the MLBPA wants as much

763
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: openness as possible, but for the sport itself, for the

764
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: good of the sport, it may be best to say, okay,

765
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Speaker 1: here's January twentieth, or January thirtieth, or whatever, whatever the

766
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: date may be, where your pre agents, your Major League

767
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: pre agents must be signed by I think that that

768
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: would that would create a lot of buzz, and it

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Speaker 1: would help sell tickets. I mean, I mean it's important

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Speaker 1: for front offices to be able to sell their product

771
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: and to know which teams are going to be walking

772
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Speaker 1: into their you know, spring training camps, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's an that's an important element.

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Speaker 3: As well, yeah, I would personally love it. I think

775
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Speaker 3: it would be but it'd be great. I don't know

776
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Speaker 3: if the Union would go for if they think that

777
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 3: maybe teams would try to hold everybody's feet to the

778
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 3: fire and low ball them or whatever. So there's it

779
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 3: would be great, though I would personally have last question.

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00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 3: This is from Sam Viola on Instagram. What are Who's

781
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 3: your favorite player that you've that you covered or Ruben's

782
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 3: case been a teammate with can you pay? I mean

783
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 3: same thing with the bullpen guys. It's so tough to

784
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 3: pick one guy, I I always say, and we had

785
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 3: him on our show. I love covering Jeff Frank Corr.

786
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 3: You know, he was only here for one season, but

787
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 3: just a great guy, super personally. He played on a

788
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 3: crappy team, but yeah he did Rubin he probably played

789
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 3: it was a crappy team, but.

790
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Speaker 4: He was helpful.

791
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 3: But but he was helpful. And what I liked about

792
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 3: Jeff frank core is he brought a great attitude into

793
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 3: the clubhouse every day. He wasn't moping. We've seen good,

794
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 3: really good players as a team starts to go down,

795
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 3: become really all of a sudden go from being good

796
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 3: teammates to like problem teammates. And Jeff Frank Corer was

797
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 3: a class A greade, a guy from day one through

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Speaker 3: day one sixty two, no matter how bad that team

799
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Speaker 3: was playing, and so I enjoyed that. So I put

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00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 3: Jeff Frank Corr at the top of my list. So

801
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 3: many other guys though, Choots, you know, a Shane Victorino.

802
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: We just had Jason Worth on. We talked Jim and

803
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 3: I about how much we love covering Jason Wore. There's

804
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 3: a billion guys, guys.

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00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always I like covering Jimmy Rollins. I mean

806
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 2: they covered them with really from the day he was

807
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 2: drafted until uh he left the Phillies and even beyond.

808
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 2: And but it's hard for me to name one guy

809
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 2: because there's literally dozens that I enjoyed, both personally and professionally.

810
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: And I was, you know, captured by their story and

811
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 2: I loved telling their story. But Jimmy and even Kurt Shilling,

812
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 2: they did great things on the field and then they

813
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 2: said interesting things after the game. Billy Wagner was a

814
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: lot like that. But I hope I'm literally dozens and

815
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 2: dozens upon just we're a joy to watch and cover.

816
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: So I don't know that I could name one guy,

817
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 2: but a guy like Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, I mean,

818
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 2: you know those guys are in the rare air.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, those guys go without saying. I have them from

821
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 4: different perspectives.

822
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: So as a teammate when I was playing, Kevin Jordan

823
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 1: was a very.

824
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 4: Close close friend of mine. We did everything together, both.

825
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: Bench mates through the late nineties, and so he as

826
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Speaker 1: a teammate, I would say that one of the most

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Speaker 1: favorite guys that ever will ever be around is Rookie Betts,

828
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: having coached him. Just just a phenomenal human being and

829
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Speaker 1: a great player and someone that you know, frankly, if

830
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Speaker 1: anybody gets a chance to be around the guy like that,

831
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: you're really fortunate.

832
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 4: Jim Tomy was a.

833
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: Great teammate and a great human being. He was everything

834
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: that the Phillies needed at the right time. Edwarde did

835
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: an amazing job of bringing him to Philadelphia. I mean

836
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: started talking about like unbelievable human beings, and you know

837
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Speaker 1: the Utleas and the Rollinson and all those guys, just.

838
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 4: And even Brian Howard, what a superb human being.

839
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Speaker 1: Just great, really really good guys that you were fortunate

840
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,800
Speaker 1: to be around not just great players, but great people.

841
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 4: But I've been around a million of them, and I'm.

842
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: Sure I'm gonna end up screwing it up because there's

843
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: so many of them. As Jim said and Todd you

844
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: alluded to as well, that there's just so many phenomenal

845
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: human beings that we've gotten a chance to be around.

846
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: And in my role, I've got a chance to be

847
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 1: around a zillionable I mean Mike Schmidt, I mean I

848
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: love Mike Schmid. Mike Schmid has come a long long

849
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: way from the time that he was very sort of

850
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: aligned in Philadelphia and now he's, you know, part of

851
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: the broadcast team with us, and just a lot more comfortable,

852
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: don't skin. I got a chance to know him as

853
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: a person and as an employee because he worked Corse.

854
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 4: But so many different people that are just really phenomenal.

855
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 2: People, tons of them. How about Todd you mentioned this

856
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 2: guy the other day, Andres Blanco, a good teammate with

857
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 2: a good player, yes, do a little bit of everything.

858
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 2: Just a good guy to have in your roster.

859
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 4: And Freddie Galvius, I mean Freddy was in a tough

860
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,439
Speaker 4: spody because he was Freddie.

861
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: Was a good, really great teammate, a good, good team

862
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: team guy, and he had to take for Jimmy Rollins

863
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: of all people.

864
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 4: You know, it's a difficult you know, it's a difficult task.

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Speaker 3: Another guy that brought a great attitude of the clubhouse

866
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 3: on some teams that really struggle with Freddie Gallvis. I mean,

867
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 3: that guy really wanted to win and he really went

868
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 3: about it the right way.

869
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,720
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean Ryan Howard, you mentioned Ryan Howard.

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Speaker 3: People always ask me about Bryce Harper, right, Bryce is

871
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 3: tremendous in that clubhouse. Uh for us, for sure. He's

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Speaker 3: we'll be back later this week. Maybe things are starting

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Speaker 3: make a move this week going into the Winter meetings

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Speaker 3: which begin next a week from the day Dallas Winter Meetings.

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Speaker 3: So I'll talk to you guys later.

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