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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Kyles forber and welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, Rubin Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todds, Lucky. It's

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Speaker 2: the Philly Show. It's Wednesday, May seventh, twenty twenty five. Guys,

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Speaker 2: how are we doing this morning?

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Speaker 3: Outstanding?

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Speaker 1: Being great? A little tired, A little tired.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're a little tired. The game was a longer

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Speaker 2: ish game. I mean it was, I don't even know

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Speaker 2: if it was three hours, but seventh though, seven h

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Speaker 2: five starts.

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Speaker 1: When seven four starts, I don't like them.

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Speaker 2: You think you think of o'clock six forty five starts

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Speaker 2: that the Phillies do week nights. They're clutched. So Phillies,

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Speaker 2: if you're listening, keep doing the six forty five starts.

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Speaker 4: Well, they're going to change him here in Tampa here

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Speaker 4: shortly because it's gonna be too damn hot. So they're

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Speaker 4: pushing back to seven thirty later on this summer.

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Speaker 3: What difference is a half hour gonna make?

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Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's gonna be apps absolutely smoking here.

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Speaker 1: Man. It was hot yesterday.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're gonna have some they're gonna have some issues

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Speaker 4: with the heat, But no question about it.

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Speaker 1: It's hot.

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Speaker 2: It is gonna be so hot, it's it's gonna be

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Speaker 2: like it's gonna be like playing in Miami Old Pro Player, right.

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Speaker 3: Or the Florida State League.

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Speaker 1: Correct.

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Speaker 2: I mean you remember that, remember those games at Pro

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Speaker 2: Player where every day batting practice will get rained out

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Speaker 2: because of a thunderstorm rolling through. But then it was

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Speaker 2: just thick and hot the entire so.

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Speaker 5: Tod they were the first team I ever saw take

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Speaker 5: batting practice and T shirts and Jim trunks. Yeah, because

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Speaker 5: you always took batting practice with your game pants and

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Speaker 5: maybe a practice top or it's right, excuse me, but

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Speaker 5: the Marlins. And it was weird because you never saw

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Speaker 5: it in those days. It was like and you'd go

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Speaker 5: in there and you know they'd be taking VP and

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Speaker 5: Jim trunks and and and white T shirts because it

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Speaker 5: would be just incredibly hot. And not a lot of

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Speaker 5: teams do it, and every all that code has been relaxed,

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Speaker 5: but sure, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well most teams don't even take batting practice outdoors anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of guys just do it inside.

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Speaker 3: It's all.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: They don't hit they never hit inside, and they probably

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Speaker 4: should have hit inside when back in the day, but everybody,

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Speaker 4: everybody was outside every single day, and everybody took the

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Speaker 4: outside every day. And if he didn't, people would look

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Speaker 4: at you like what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, now you're like when the Dodgers are get

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Speaker 2: some you know, Bryce and Trey Turner usually hit inside.

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Speaker 2: Occasionally they'll hit outside.

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Speaker 1: Never he doesn't hit it outside.

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Speaker 2: Never hits outside. It was funny a couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: ago when they were in town. I was talking to

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Speaker 2: a couple of our photographers and that were for MLB

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Speaker 2: dot Com and Otani never comes out in the field

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Speaker 2: before the game, and so I was I was leaving,

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Speaker 2: going up the tunnel, and I said, Hey, what are

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Speaker 2: you guys doing And they said, ah, you know, not

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Speaker 2: not much as hell. You know, Otani's out there, and

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Speaker 2: they thought I was joking. They go, yeah, right, no,

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Speaker 2: he's really out there. He had jogged out there to

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Speaker 2: like play some long toss or something. And they're like,

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Speaker 2: are you serious. I go, yeah, he's out there right now.

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Speaker 3: They take off.

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Speaker 2: They took off running.

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Speaker 1: But you know what's interesting about that. John Mukovich used

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Speaker 1: to talk about.

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Speaker 4: That a lot, like you needed to get outside to

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Speaker 4: get your eyes adjusted, especially at day games. He always

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Speaker 4: believed in guys going outside and hitting, even though it's

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Speaker 4: sometimes optional during the day games and not optional for

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Speaker 4: me ever, but optional for the guys.

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Speaker 1: Who actually played a lot.

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Speaker 4: And it made a lot of sense to me that

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Speaker 4: you get your eyes adjusted to seeing the baseball in

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Speaker 4: that bright light that's different, or in the bright light sunlight,

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Speaker 4: because you're you're so used to hitting at night with

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Speaker 4: the lights on in the ballpark. But he always thought

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Speaker 4: it was really important to get your eyes adjusted, especially

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Speaker 4: for day games, to go outside because it's different the

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Speaker 4: sunlight and the light that you would.

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Speaker 1: Get inside the cage is totally different.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's just a lot of different things,

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Speaker 4: and get your kind of juices flowing. So Lukie used

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Speaker 4: to talk about a lot that a lot made some sense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they used to take. They used to

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Speaker 3: take infield, outfield, used.

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Speaker 1: To hit it. Oh, don't be ridiculous, they used to.

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Speaker 2: The Phillies beat the Rays on Tuesday Night, eight to four,

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Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber, alc Bahm, Nick Castianos all homeward by Buddy

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Speaker 2: Colleague at MLB dot com. Paul Casella tweeted this out

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Speaker 2: last night Phillies games with three or more homers as

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Speaker 2: a team this season, Phillies first twenty nine games twice.

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Speaker 2: Phillies last six games three times. So it seems like,

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Speaker 2: you know, they're finding the slug, as Rob Thompson likes

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Speaker 2: to say. First inning on Tuesday night, Raised pitcher Drew

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Speaker 2: Rasmussen threw nine pitches and then he threw thirty in

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Speaker 2: the second, and then he threw twenty eight third, and

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Speaker 2: he was out of there shortly after that, and then

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Speaker 2: the Raised win had to go to the Zach Wheeler

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Speaker 2: dominated in seven innings, eight strikeouts, oh nine strikeouts, eight

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Speaker 2: on his seeing fastball, eight on his four seing fastball,

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Speaker 2: so you know he was feeling it. He was feeling

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Speaker 2: his fastball. Last night. He threw fifty four seamers, was

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Speaker 2: the first time he had done that in a game

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Speaker 2: since last September. His fastball average four seamer average ninety

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Speaker 2: five point nine miles an hour, up half a mile

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Speaker 2: from a season average. He touched ninety five and a

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Speaker 2: half in the seventh inning. I mean, another great effort

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Speaker 2: by Zach Wheeler. Rubin, what did you like about that?

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Speaker 4: You were up in the booth, Yeah, super efficient, nice adjustment.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is what the great ones do, right.

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Speaker 4: He's his curveball and his split have been phenomenal and

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Speaker 4: he's getting a lot of swings and misses on those.

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Speaker 4: For two particular pitches as a play, I think they're

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Speaker 4: over forty percent whipth rate on those, and so they've

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Speaker 4: been phenomenal pitches for him. But he didn't really have

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Speaker 4: a feel for a split and he didn't really have

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Speaker 4: was firing that that four seamer up on especially I

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Speaker 4: he said he hasn't faced a lot of I think

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Speaker 4: after the game, he says, he hasn't been facing a

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Speaker 4: She hasn't gotten a feel for it. You don't use it,

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Speaker 4: the one sinker out over the plate on Yondi Diaz

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Speaker 1: Home run that wouldn't have gone out.

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Speaker 4: Of any other ballpark in baseball probably it's a right center,

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Speaker 4: but I mean it was just you know, classic Wheels

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Speaker 4: making an adjustment and JT making an adjustment and say thing,

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Speaker 4: you know what, they're not hitting my fastball. I'm firing it.

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Speaker 4: And he just kept firing it and they swung over

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Speaker 4: it or under it. And he's got one of those

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Speaker 4: Justin Berlander Kirk Shilling type bastballs that has that high,

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Speaker 4: spin that sucker backspin and get it off your fingers.

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Speaker 1: And that's what he's got going. Man. It's it's it's

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Speaker 1: it's lethal.

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Speaker 5: And it was when yesterday you could see him, you know,

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Speaker 5: hunting strikes on strikeouts at the top of the zone

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Speaker 5: when he got strikeout counts with that fast battles right

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Speaker 5: he was locating that thing beautifully. But yeah, I love

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Speaker 5: it when I love that off the fingertips.

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Speaker 3: And I'm wondering if.

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Speaker 5: Probably you know, the warm weather, probably a little humidity,

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Speaker 5: you can get it really off the tip fingertips.

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Speaker 3: Good Night to pitch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah said it was impressive.

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Speaker 2: He's taking away our livelihood here out there sharping car.

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Speaker 4: Topics, a lot of different thoughts.

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Speaker 3: I've never screwed up anything, So.

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Speaker 2: We're planning on that Thursday, so please please do that.

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Speaker 2: Last night, Alec Bohm second inning HiT's a three to

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Speaker 2: one I think it was a three to one cutter

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Speaker 2: run since I believe, like September twentieth, twentieth, Yeah, September

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Speaker 2: September twentieth of last season. And we've talked a ton

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: But here, you're right, Jim, I think he's gonna he

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Speaker 1: But that's a.

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Speaker 1: And like Jim said, I totally agree, it's not about

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Speaker 5: And he said that after the game, you can't try

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Speaker 5: He's six for seven and he makes other World League

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure, and if Boone can keep this up, it'll

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Speaker 2: you know, you talk about don't pass Jim, but this,

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Speaker 5: Maybe not at third base, but I think if he

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Speaker 3: Here I mean, hats off to this kid. He is

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Speaker 5: To me, the intriguing thing would be he's a right

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Speaker 3: But you still learned at some point that doesn't.

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Speaker 5: if you can hit major league pitching. You know, at

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Speaker 5: some point, you know you get a shot. I guess

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Speaker 5: what I'm trying to say is, you know I do

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Speaker 5: have I have a lot of respect from what these

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Speaker 5: guys do.

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Speaker 3: Gotta shine and shining.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, good stuff. Man.

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Speaker 4: I just feel like Western Wilson is going to a

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Speaker 4: good guy that provides a lot more right now for

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Speaker 4: this team than Otto Kemp does because he can play

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Speaker 4: all those positions. He's athletic, he can steal bases, he

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Speaker 4: can run, he can do a lot of different things,

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Speaker 4: and he's got some power to can swing. And he

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Speaker 4: put those numbers up in Triple A too. I mean

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Speaker 4: he was he was a dominating force in Triple A

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Speaker 4: as well. So I just feel like right now for

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Speaker 4: this team that Western Wilson sort of provides more of

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Speaker 4: what Rob Thompson needs for this team at this time.

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Speaker 4: But you're right about that Auto Kemp keeps playing and

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Speaker 4: can swinging it. At some point he's gonna get an

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Speaker 4: opportunity to be in Philadelphia or possible trade bait.

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Speaker 1: Who knows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that's also true. To keep that in mind.

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Speaker 2: Trey Turner had a couple more hits last night. He's

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Speaker 2: batting three ninety one, three doubles, seven RBIs, four stolen bases,

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Speaker 2: eight eighty o PM in his last fifteen games. He's

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Speaker 2: got seven multi hit games in his last fifteen games.

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Speaker 2: So he's also, Uh, that's a good sign. He hasn't

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Speaker 2: he hasn't, let you know, slugged, I guess. But man,

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Speaker 2: getting on base at that clip I think is on

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Speaker 2: base percentage is like four fifty in the last fifteen games.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, that'll work.

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Speaker 1: That'll be just fun. Yeah, that's his job is to

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Speaker 1: get on base and score runs. Man, produce runs. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's your job. Producer runs.

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Speaker 4: If you do it by driving them in great, if

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Speaker 4: you're doing by scoring great.

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Speaker 5: Last night, like two, three, four, five in the lineup,

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Speaker 5: all just multi hit, multi hit. I mean, it was

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Speaker 5: a really good sign.

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Speaker 1: Big big, one of the biggest moments of the game.

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Speaker 4: I thought yesterday again, he's not facing like the best

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Speaker 4: pitcher in the planet at the end of the game,

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Speaker 4: but Bryce arperated a bullet to left center field. That

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Speaker 4: is a tremendous sign for the Phillies and for Bryce Harper,

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Speaker 4: because when he's driving the ball the opposite way means

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Speaker 4: he's hanging on it. Yep, and he's getting ready to

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Speaker 4: make a run here. So look out. My prediction, he's

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Speaker 4: going to go deep today, Okay, tonight, and he's gonna

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Speaker 4: go deep again tomorrow night, and he's gonna go on

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Speaker 4: a tear for a while.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call well.

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Speaker 2: After these words, we're going to talk about another guy

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Speaker 2: Foul We're back. Kyle Schwarber. He hit his twelfth home

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Speaker 2: running the season last night, one of three opposite field

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Speaker 2: home runs. Schwarber did his in the first second inning,

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Speaker 2: gave the Phillies a lead, and he is now tied

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Speaker 2: with Aaron Judge and Cal Rawly for the MLB lead

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Speaker 2: in home runs. His last seven games, he's batting three

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Speaker 2: twenty five home runs, ten RBIs ops over fourteen hundred.

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Speaker 2: You know, right in the comments section, gotta sign that guy.

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Speaker 2: Gotta sign that guy. Price keeps going up, up, up,

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Speaker 2: up up, Kyle Schwarer. He's uh, he's making a good

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Speaker 2: case for himself.

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Speaker 1: Oh and he will. He keeps getting better with age

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Speaker 1: sort of them. You know.

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Speaker 4: I think that the fact that he's everybody's worried about

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Speaker 4: sliding him out of the one hole and this, that

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Speaker 4: and the other, well, he's made the adjustments he can.

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Speaker 4: He hits, he hits, and he gets in streaks where

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Speaker 4: he punches out.

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Speaker 1: Because he's going to do that. Guess what, That's what

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Speaker 1: power hitters do.

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Speaker 4: They punch out some times. But the beauty of this

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Speaker 4: guy is that he's really put himself in a position

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Speaker 4: to make more consistent contact through the middle of the field.

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Speaker 4: He can get hits, he can drive the ball the

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Speaker 4: other way like he did last night, and he seems

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Speaker 4: to be getting better like as he gets older. So

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Speaker 4: it's a it's going to be an interesting one. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's not about the money. It's about the length of

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Speaker 4: the contract, because what is he with thirty one right now?

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Speaker 1: Thirty thirty or thirty one?

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Speaker 4: Anyway, I think it's going to be about length and.

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Speaker 5: And but and the length is you know, somebody's gonna

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Speaker 5: want We're gonna throw an extra year.

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Speaker 3: Is gonnas gonna go up, and.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna escalate, Yeah, iscalate. I mean I could see

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Speaker 1: it being a four or five year deal.

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Speaker 4: If he continues to do the things that he's doing

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Speaker 4: right now, and you know, he has an ops of

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Speaker 4: eight fifty or and hits forty home runs and.

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Speaker 1: Drives in you know, one hundred and ten runs.

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Speaker 4: The man's gonna make his money, and he's gonna get length.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a five year deal. It might

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Speaker 3: be a six year deal.

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Speaker 5: In his why ideally you'd love to get him on

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Speaker 5: like a three year deal. You're gonna know you have

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Speaker 5: to go to four to get him. Somebody's gonna do

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Speaker 5: something and go five, and then somebody's gonna do something

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Speaker 5: crazy and go six. So uh, you know it's he's

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Speaker 5: gonna he's gonna be a good power hitter right until

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Speaker 5: his late thirties with that bat speed.

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Speaker 3: How many?

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Speaker 1: How how many home runs? In New York? Is you

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Speaker 1: gonna hit in Yankee Stadium?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god?

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Speaker 1: Now, I don't know. There's a Yankee guy. He's played

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Speaker 1: all over the place. Maybe how many does he hitting?

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Speaker 3: How many does he hit in Cincinnati?

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Speaker 2: At there?

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Speaker 5: If I'm the GM, If I'm the GM in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 5: he's the guy I have my eye on. Almost like

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Speaker 5: you guys have told me years ago, this is a guy.

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Speaker 5: I got a young team that's getting better, getting closer

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Speaker 5: to ready to win. The guy is a winner. He's

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Speaker 5: great between the lines, he's great in the clubhouse. He

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Speaker 5: goes to the postseason every year in his career, and

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Speaker 5: he would demolish my ballpark, and it's his hometown, and

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Speaker 5: he would electrify my fan base.

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Speaker 3: That is the team that needs him. That's the team

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Speaker 3: I would.

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Speaker 5: Keep an eye on, but I'd also keep an eye

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Speaker 5: on the Phillies because I think they're gonna re sign

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Speaker 5: one of one of those guys either M Moro, I'm

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Speaker 5: not sure who.

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Speaker 3: I think one of them comes back.

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Speaker 4: You and imagine him playing I agree with that. I

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Speaker 4: agree with everything you just said, Jimmy, and imagine him

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Speaker 4: coupling up with Terry Francona.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's sort of a really good it's a

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Speaker 1: really good mix of people there.

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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to sell him on it, but I'm

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Speaker 4: just looking at I'm just looking at the reality.

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Speaker 1: I'd love for him to be a Philadelphia Philly.

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Speaker 4: For life, to the way the type of person he is,

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Speaker 4: the player, he is, the leader, he is all the above.

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Speaker 1: It'd be great to have him in Philadelphia for a

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Speaker 1: long time.

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Speaker 4: But hey man, there's a lot of different factors when

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Speaker 4: guys are making these decisions.

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Speaker 5: Philly, Philadelphia, the Phillies are in the driver's seat.

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Speaker 3: But I, you know, I Cincinnati.

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Speaker 5: If I was there, GM, I would be like you

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Speaker 5: and Ed way back when when you were targeting big

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Speaker 5: GYM big Gym.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. But he is thirty. He just turned

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Speaker 2: thirty two about a month ago. I guess, yeah, thirty

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Speaker 2: two in March. We've talked about this before, and Jim,

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Speaker 2: you mentioned the bat speed. He hasn't It's not like

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Speaker 2: he's he's slowing down the bat speed. The bat speed

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Speaker 2: is still like he's still swinging the bat and hard,

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Speaker 2: and I just don't see that. I just don't see

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Speaker 2: that dropping off like in the next one, two or

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Speaker 2: three years. So yeah, I would feel, you know, you never,

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Speaker 2: you're always it's a risk to sign somebody who's thirty

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Speaker 2: two to a five six year deal. But man, if

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Speaker 2: you're going to take a bet on a hitter to

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Speaker 2: continue hitting into his late thirties, I feel like Kyle

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Speaker 2: Schorverz is about as good of a bet as you

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Speaker 2: can make.

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Speaker 4: And the per and the accountability of the man, and

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Speaker 4: that as well last.

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Speaker 3: A great a great man.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's he He is a boon to your

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Speaker 5: organization all over the place. But I think somebody goes

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Speaker 5: five or six and hopes to get four good ones.

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Speaker 5: I really do, And it might be worth it if

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Speaker 5: you do, because you know, he he wins every year,

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Speaker 5: he goes to the playoffs. Year, you pack your seats,

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Speaker 5: you make money. It's a good deal.

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