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Speaker 1: Everybody, Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky here.

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Speaker 2: It's the Philly Show.

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Speaker 1: We're live from Manco and Manco on the Ocean City Boardwalk.

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Speaker 3: Oh right, we got we got here. We got action.

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Speaker 1: We got some boardwalk action going on. We're excited to

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Speaker 1: be here. I hope everybody is doing well. You're watching

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Speaker 1: us live beautiful Sunday morning down at the Jersey shore Manco.

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Speaker 3: MANC doesn't like it.

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Speaker 4: It's fantastic, perfect combination, Todd.

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Speaker 3: You know when you got oshi, you're here at Maco macOS.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's best pizza in the planet.

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Speaker 5: The smell of a better the salty air or the

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Speaker 5: pizza cooking behind us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we're right behind it. I think we'll get

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Speaker 1: some in a little bit. But uh yeah, we're we're

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Speaker 1: super excited to be here. Uh Baseball season, Midsummer trade deadline, Jersey,

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Speaker 1: you sure change deadline four days. It's a little bit

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Speaker 1: more than four days away. So there's a lot going

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Speaker 1: on right now up in New York. Guys, Phillies, Yankees,

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Speaker 1: the crushing Phillies are also all of a sudden, they're

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Speaker 1: starting to hit the baseball a little bit yeah.

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Speaker 3: Who needs.

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Speaker 5: But I think they need a reliever more or in

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Speaker 5: the home stretch from the trade deadline. What do you

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Speaker 5: think you changed your mind on reliever versus bat after

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Speaker 3: Run the wrong No, I think the reliever.

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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously you got to wait to see what

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Speaker 6: effective he'll be. But you're not gonna be able to

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Speaker 6: find that out really until until you know, after.

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Speaker 3: The trade deadline.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure when Robertson's gonna be ready, Probably in

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Speaker 6: the next week to ten.

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Speaker 5: Days, about eight or nine more days, ten more days

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Speaker 1: Yes about that, Yeah, he's gonna start his Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: so let's let's talk trade deadline. Let's talk Phillies Yankees.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the Parks first, Hitch, what.

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Speaker 2: Do we want to do.

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Speaker 1: We want to talk Phillies Yankees first, and we want

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Speaker 1: to talk trade deadline.

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Speaker 5: Sorry, top of the lineup. I mean, how about the

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Speaker 5: month that JT. Real Mudo has had in the month

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Speaker 5: of July. I mean they right now we're seeing what

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Speaker 5: can happen when you get multiples three and four guys hot,

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Speaker 5: and that's what we're seeing over the weekend. I know

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Speaker 5: the Yankees are struggling, but it's great to see real

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Speaker 5: storylines coming in was, you know, can Bryce Harper really

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Speaker 5: it's been a real difference maker in the team, and

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Speaker 5: Schwarber has been Schwarber. I think it's time we start

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Speaker 5: talking about Kyle Schwarber as a serious MVP candidate National.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no question about that, but I I you know,

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Speaker 6: one of the things that we've been waiting for is like,

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Speaker 3: I mean they literally weren't doing anything.

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Speaker 6: And they have picked it up obviously, particularly a guy

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Speaker 6: like JT. That right handed bat that can can can

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Speaker 6: help this team a lot. They've got a lot of

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Speaker 6: think it's important to try to get somebody to really protect,

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Speaker 6: I think it lengthens out the lineup. It takes a

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Speaker 6: still got Alec Bohme coming back at some point. And

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Speaker 6: With with Dave Nebowski, I do still think that they're so.

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Speaker 1: Put yourself back in the GM shoes. Offense has been

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Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm going to be a buyer

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Speaker 1: It's like one week is going to change your entire

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Speaker 2: Somebody like that.

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Speaker 6: I think you have to be realistic about what this

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Speaker 6: I think the priority has to be if they're going

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Speaker 6: to make one move, I think they do need to

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Speaker 6: get somebody in the back end of that bullpen to

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Speaker 6: There's some guys who are pitching a little bit better

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Speaker 6: I think that's the priority, but you can't get sort

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Speaker 6: last few games, they they've swung the bats better because

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Speaker 3: They still need that bat.

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Speaker 6: I believe that's going to help them, give them a

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Speaker 6: it's a dangerous bat. Again, I don't know who's available

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Speaker 5: And it's an eternity four days, an eternity at the

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Speaker 5: trade deadline really is on the fence right up until

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Speaker 5: start rolling, We're in, make your offers, you know, bring it.

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Speaker 3: But I still agree with Rubin.

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Speaker 5: I wonder who is going to get the last three

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Speaker 5: can't kid ourselves. They need a bat. We've said it

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Speaker 5: But we're gonna find out. I think they know all

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Speaker 5: I know, they know all this stuff. They know they

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Speaker 5: It's like when you look at mc gable right and

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Speaker 7: No.

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Speaker 5: The teams out there know that he's a developing player

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Speaker 5: that's gonna need time. I don't think he kills his value,

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Speaker 5: like just like I don't think one big weekend in

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Speaker 5: they need both. The time is now with this nucleus.

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Speaker 5: The clock is ticking, and I think they're gonna do

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Speaker 3: To address both.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see kind of what they do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Dave Debrowski certainly has made some moves of

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Speaker 1: the past few trade deadlines, but he hasn't made that

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Speaker 1: Cliff Lee two thousand and nine, Royo's vaulty ten Hunter

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Speaker 2: Gone three years of kind of doing those.

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Speaker 3: I'm all about throwing all those ships in myself.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm all about it, especially with the way

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Speaker 6: things are set up across baseball. Detroit's not playing well.

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Speaker 6: The Yankees have been terrible. The one team that's playing

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Speaker 6: It's there for the taking, and it may be the

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Speaker 3: I think so. Rubin in the last like JT has

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Speaker 5: Lewis Robert has had a really good run with the

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Speaker 5: White Sox this month. He's turning out. He's killing left

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Speaker 5: I understand why, two very poor years, but I mean,

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Speaker 5: could he be someone if you didn't have to it

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Speaker 5: didn't cost you a ton of prospect capital. Maybe he's

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Speaker 5: with your big trade capital. Are you turning any Are

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Speaker 5: you coming around on Lewis Roberts at all? Especially if

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Speaker 5: he didn't cost you big You know, I've been all.

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Speaker 6: Thumbs down on him for a long time and I

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Speaker 6: just don't know money wise, and I think he's under

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Speaker 6: control for another options dollar.

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Speaker 2: Buyout, like a twenty million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Here's the other thing.

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Speaker 5: If you got him, he's gonna turn it on for

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Speaker 5: two months. He's gonna be very engaged because he wants

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Speaker 5: that twenty million dollars option.

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Speaker 3: Very possible.

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Speaker 5: I don't pick it up right, but I mean he's

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Speaker 6: So you have to view him as a rental and

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Speaker 3: So listen, listen.

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Speaker 6: As long as they do something strong at the back end,

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Speaker 2: Sounds like some of them wants to get traded, no doubt.

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Speaker 4: All right, we are back Manco and Manco Ocean City.

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Speaker 2: We're pumped because, yeah, it's a big guess we got

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Speaker 3: Man, we come down to the shore. Yeah, we got film.

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Speaker 4: Tell fran Donfie, thanks so much for joining.

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Speaker 2: Us, guys. Yeah, good to be with you guys.

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Speaker 3: So is this just so OC home?

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Speaker 6: You guys have homes here in OC or you're just

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Speaker 3: You do it?

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Speaker 2: Ever, Cindy Webster tells us, Oh, that's that's a great point.

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Speaker 2: We're both at Avabon.

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Speaker 5: It's awesome to have you guys. I know, legendary basketball

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Speaker 3: And then both of you guys.

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Speaker 2: All of those, but it's it's great fun.

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Speaker 3: Opinions are our fuel.

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Speaker 9: College basketball and then baseball, and I come by it

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Speaker 6: So one question I had about you guys when you

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Speaker 7: I don't know if we had the opportunity to select

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Speaker 10: I would love to watch end of basketball games to

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Speaker 7: That never bothered me. I was fired up about that.

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Speaker 2: Of collage basketball has changed. Mighty league.

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Speaker 9: But there they practice when it's hotter than heck, and

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Speaker 9: Playing in that kind of atmosphere, and to be honest

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Speaker 2: It's not going to work, right, It's it's just not

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Speaker 9: And just to be because you're passionate about can I

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Speaker 6: Do you think it was more important while you were

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Speaker 7: I think, for in honesty, our world that we lived

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Speaker 2: Are you going to sign my autograph or whatever? You

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Speaker 7: Those things that take place, how they present themselves as

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Speaker 9: Grou the world, the world that you had to recruit for.

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Speaker 9: It is different because how many of those kids that

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Speaker 3: Very few?

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Speaker 9: it can't always be the coach, because we have thirteen

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Speaker 2: But if they have family, that to me was a

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Speaker 9: Get home in a crisis and not have to pay

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Speaker 1: So the Phillies are playing the Yankees this weekend and

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Speaker 2: Their feet to the fire enough in the media.

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Speaker 1: Rob Thompson gets criticized for this quite a bit too,

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Speaker 2: You guys, I think could offer some unique perspective on this.

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Speaker 2: So how did you guys handle this when your players were.

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Speaker 8: Playing, well, you had a bad play, a bad game,

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Speaker 4: And how do you look at what's going on with it?

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Speaker 1: You know, get Rob Thompson, Nick Sirianni, those types of things.

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Speaker 2: Give it the credit, take the blame.

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Speaker 7: That's the when you sign those papers, when you take

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Speaker 7: that job, that's part of your responsibility.

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Speaker 2: Give the credit, take the blame.

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Speaker 7: And you just don't want those kids, especially back then

447
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Speaker 7: when they weren't being paid money, which now it's going

448
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Speaker 7: to be.

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Speaker 2: I think there's things are going to change now.

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Speaker 7: At the college level, But for the most part, you're

451
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Speaker 7: protecting those kids that you have in your program and

452
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Speaker 7: You're talking to them every day because you want maybe

453
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Speaker 7: they had a bad game tonight, you need them to

454
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Speaker 7: have a good, good game on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: So let's make great scream.

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Speaker 2: Scream your praise, scream your praise, whisper.

457
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Speaker 9: Your criticism, and as often as possible, in public praise

458
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Speaker 9: and in private you can criticize and break them down. Now,

459
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Speaker 9: as far as the Phillies and Rob Thompson, they do

460
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Speaker 9: not want to.

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Speaker 2: Make me up.

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Speaker 9: If Reeler throws a ball this afternoon, I will want

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Speaker 9: him ship to Allentown.

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Speaker 3: Immediately, and I will volunteer to drive.

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Speaker 2: I will volunteer if Turner. If Turner doesn't get a

466
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Speaker 2: base hit, I'm like, seriously, what are we waiting there?

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Speaker 3: I am.

468
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Speaker 2: I am completely And it starts in Clearwater.

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Speaker 9: I watch every pitch and I react the exact same

470
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Speaker 9: wad way in Clearwater.

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Speaker 2: Because this is magical.

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Speaker 9: I don't have to preach to you guys like if

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Speaker 9: this disappears and we become Pittsburgh or one of these

474
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Speaker 9: dredge franchises, Like, I just can't get over what the

475
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Speaker 9: organization has done, with how good they are. When you

476
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Speaker 9: go down there and walk that concourse and you see

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Speaker 9: a family from North Philly and then you see a

478
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Speaker 9: family driving in from Tom's River or whatever. Please, we

479
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Speaker 9: cannot we cannot lose this. We cannot lose this. It

480
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Speaker 9: is so magical to have great baseball. I don't want

481
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Speaker 9: to ever see us where we're.

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Speaker 3: Can you imagine I had to go?

483
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Speaker 2: Can you be in that ballpark and see twenty thousand people?

484
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Speaker 2: It would be it?

485
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Speaker 3: I know we are, we all have.

486
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Speaker 2: What do you want? How about how good Wheeler is? Easy? Ridiculous?

487
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Speaker 3: That's insane to watch it.

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Speaker 7: He should have fifteen wins and being the number one

489
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Speaker 7: candidate for Cy Young.

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 4: I think we all agree that he's one of the

492
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Speaker 4: best pitchers in baseball.

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Speaker 2: Sh easy fellas he hasn't won his last two games.

494
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Speaker 2: I need to see one.

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Speaker 3: We'll put your we'll put you, We'll put you guys

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Speaker 3: on the spot.

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Speaker 6: If you guys were in the GM seat right now,

498
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Speaker 6: would you go chips all in and and tell your

499
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Speaker 6: prospects or would you hold something back and hope that

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Speaker 6: these guys can get it done.

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Speaker 2: That's why you had the job that you have. He's

502
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Speaker 2: a Politicially, I would do both.

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Speaker 7: To be honest with you, I try to find the

504
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Speaker 7: person that we think it's going to help us right away.

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Speaker 2: But you can't give everything away.

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Speaker 7: And because we're playing next year in the year after,

507
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Speaker 7: just like my man said, we gotta we gotta hold

508
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Speaker 7: under this nothing.

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Speaker 9: One arm, one arm, one arm in the bullpen, one

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Speaker 9: arm and one arm in the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: No b one arm in the book.

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Speaker 9: Don't mess with that psyche of that team. That that

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Speaker 9: picture yesterday of marsh carrying Sosa off the field. And

514
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Speaker 9: by the way, he must have gone to Lords overnight

515
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Speaker 9: because he's playing that That was.

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Speaker 2: That was a soccer fall, wasn't it. I wouldn't mess

517
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Speaker 2: with the psyche that of that.

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Speaker 5: So you're touching on something that always interests me at

519
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Speaker 5: the trade deadline. The teams that bring in talent and

520
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Speaker 5: buy their good teams their contenders. But oftentimes when you

521
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Speaker 5: bring in somebody, it can disrupt a little bit in

522
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Speaker 5: the cup off. Somebody has to take a take a

523
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Speaker 5: step back in their role. Somebody might actually have to

524
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Speaker 5: leave because.

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Speaker 3: You have freshmen coming up taking jobs. You have to

526
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Speaker 3: consider that the college.

527
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Speaker 9: This is how nuts it is for me last year

528
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Speaker 9: at the trade deadline when they they dfad uh Meryfield yeah,

529
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Speaker 9: I just said, I hope it didn't mess with that

530
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Speaker 9: locker room, because that locker room, this is my picture.

531
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Speaker 9: The Phillies were as classy as ever, honoring Dan Baker.

532
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Speaker 9: He and I were there, and Jay Wright was there,

533
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Speaker 9: and Dan Baker was speaking from home plate. And I

534
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Speaker 9: remember telling you this. I turned to my right. Twenty

535
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Speaker 9: six players were on the top railing, led by Harper,

536
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Speaker 9: and I said, that's why these dudes are special.

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Speaker 4: Don't mess with special. I tell you what.

538
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Speaker 1: There were some players in that clubhouse after Witt Mirrorfield

539
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Speaker 1: got released.

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Speaker 4: I wondered if it effected the juju in that clubhouse.

541
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you think it's faked.

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Speaker 5: You know, Meryfield was in the basketball equivalent of a

543
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Speaker 5: gym rat, you know, yeah, and he was good in

544
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Speaker 5: that room.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you should be advising Dame Dembrowski.

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Speaker 9: Now, today's Dave Van Grouse's birthday, by the way, So

547
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Speaker 9: that's how.

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Speaker 2: And I also checked the Mets.

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Speaker 9: First thing I did at five o'clock this morning, when

550
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Speaker 9: I got up, I checked the Mets score from last night.

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Speaker 2: It's insane, It's truly insane that.

552
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Speaker 1: Before we really go, I know, you've got a podcast

553
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Speaker 1: filled make a different podcast.

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Speaker 4: What can you tell us about it? You've had fran

555
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Speaker 4: on it.

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Speaker 9: You've had fran On, I've had fran I've had nuns

557
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Speaker 9: who are serving the homeless. I did not want to

558
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Speaker 9: do sport. I did not want to do basketball only.

559
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Speaker 9: I didn't want to do coaching. I didn't want to

560
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Speaker 9: do yuck it up. I truly wanted to make a difference.

561
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Speaker 9: I wanted to make a difference in all of these

562
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Speaker 9: different ways because so many people have allowed me to

563
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Speaker 9: live the life that I live because they've made a difference.

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Speaker 2: So when I take people on, it's very formatic.

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Speaker 3: Beginning.

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Speaker 9: I do my Martelli minute, and then I do my guest,

567
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Speaker 9: and uh, we have a young lady.

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Speaker 2: Who deals with autistic children all over this country.

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Speaker 9: She says, guests this Tuesday, Next Tuesday, Next Tuesday's guest

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Speaker 9: number ten playing shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Speaker 2: That'll be fair. Larry's fantastic. We all love Larry. That's

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Speaker 2: gonna be made. I don't know if we'll go live.

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Speaker 5: But no, I just want to say how much I

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Speaker 5: admire the the college basketball coaches in the Philadelphia market.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, all winter long, you guys slug it out

576
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Speaker 5: and you try to beat each other off and then

577
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Speaker 5: when it's over, I mean you guys, just who's respect

578
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Speaker 5: for each other and your and your your buddies.

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Speaker 3: You do great charity work, So that's.

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Speaker 2: Great.

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Speaker 6: Daddy, guys is part of the community. Guys, you're Philadelphia's

582
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Speaker 6: throw it through and we appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much. Thank you, see you guys on Broad Street.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, join us.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Phil Mark, Lly fran Don Free, thanks for coming on

587
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Speaker 2: the Phillies. It's awesome.

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Speaker 4: That was awesome.

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Speaker 2: All right, we've got a listen. This this is how

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Speaker 2: high tech we are.

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Speaker 3: Guys.

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Speaker 1: We're doing a fan question really, Eric promotion, Citty, what

593
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Speaker 1: do you got buddy?

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Speaker 2: Guys? How you doing a great job with the podcast.

595
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Speaker 2: We really appreciate it. I think we're all wondering about Schwarber,

596
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Speaker 2: with him being red hot and such a great leader.

597
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Speaker 2: Do you think the Fields are gonna.

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Speaker 1: Do what it takes to keep them and what will

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Speaker 1: it take to keep them?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 6: I think that I don't think there's any question in

602
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Speaker 6: my mind that it always takes two to tango. But

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Speaker 6: I have to say that there's no question in my

604
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Speaker 6: mind that the Phillies are gonna do everything they possibly

605
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Speaker 6: can to shine the guy. I don't that's that's I

606
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Speaker 6: think that's their intent clearly, and he is a big

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Speaker 6: priority for them. The issue I think is really is

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Speaker 6: that Schwarber's could have put himself in a position to

609
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Speaker 6: try to get as much money as he possibly can

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Speaker 6: and the and the greatest length, and he wants to

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Speaker 6: whittle it down to places that he loves to play.

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Speaker 3: And I think he loves to play in Philadelphia, Don't

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Speaker 3: get me wrong. I think he really enjoys it. I

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Speaker 3: think that he is. There's a mutual respect there.

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Speaker 11: But but there's other cities out there that he could consider,

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Speaker 11: Cincinnati and Chicago and uh, there's gonna be some big

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Speaker 11: hitters in LA and some other places maybe in New

618
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Speaker 11: York that are gonna go after him.

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Speaker 3: And I think he wants to set his market.

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Speaker 6: And if I'm in the Phillies, I let them all

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Speaker 6: try to put bits on him, and I pay him

622
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Speaker 6: one more dollar than there than than they uh they

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Speaker 6: throw out there and try to get him done.

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Speaker 5: So I'll say this, I think they're gonna resign him,

625
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Speaker 5: as I said here right now. And the reason why,

626
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Speaker 5: obviously you need power in that ballpark. He's and he's

627
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Speaker 5: he's got big power. I think he's gonna continue to

628
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Speaker 5: show it into his late thirties. John Middleton is a

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Speaker 5: guy who listens. He's a business man. He listens to

630
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Speaker 5: his customer, he listens to his fan base, and they

631
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Speaker 5: want him back. And in the end, I think John

632
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Speaker 5: Middleton's gonna listen to his fan base and bring him back.

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Speaker 3: So that's my opinion.

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Speaker 1: We've made them, We've made the comparison all season that

635
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Speaker 1: he could be like the Phillies' version of David Ortiz

636
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Speaker 1: for the Red Sox. He's got this incredible bat speed.

637
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Speaker 1: It's not slowing down. It's got elite level bat speed,

638
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Speaker 1: and so it's not like we see a guy, a

639
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Speaker 1: bigger guy, power hitting guy, and his bat speed starting

640
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Speaker 1: to slow down. You're gonna know what's this gonna look

641
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Speaker 1: like in three years if we sign him to a

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Speaker 1: five year extension or a five year contract, I feel

643
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Speaker 1: like Kyle Schwarber is going to be hitting home runs

644
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Speaker 1: for the next several seasons. There's no safe bet, there's

645
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Speaker 1: no guarantee on anybody, but I feel pretty good about Kyle.

646
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Speaker 2: Schwarber being a productive hitter in the major league. They

647
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Speaker 2: need him in several seasons beyond this one.

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Speaker 3: They need him. Look at the year he's having.

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Speaker 5: We said earlier in the show, he's gonna starting to

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Speaker 5: move his way into the MVP picture. And now I know,

651
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Speaker 5: you know we Soto left the Yankees, but after Big C,

652
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Speaker 5: I just don't see. I just think they're gonna try

653
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Speaker 5: to wrap him up and do everything they can do

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Speaker 5: to keep him here because he is so valuable on

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Speaker 5: the field, in the battles box, in the club police.

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Speaker 3: He's a really special guy.

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Speaker 6: I was in the clubhouse when they Boston had David

658
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Speaker 6: Ortiz the last two years, his last year, excuse me.

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Speaker 3: He makes a really, really huge difference as a leader,

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Speaker 3: as a person in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 6: And that's the other piece of this that becomes so

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Speaker 6: important for them. I mean, they have Harper and they

663
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Speaker 6: have JT, and JT's gonna be a free agent, but

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Speaker 6: as far as leadership is concerned, and that's a hard

665
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Speaker 6: thing to buy, you can't quantify it.

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Speaker 3: But that's a really important piece of this as well.

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Speaker 6: And I think that that's another reason why they'll probably

668
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Speaker 6: resign him and do everything they possibly can to do.

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Speaker 2: So what's the number. It's a five year.

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Speaker 6: Deal, I think, and I think a five year deal

671
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Speaker 6: is gonna start with it's gonna start with a three.

672
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Speaker 3: I think it's one hundred and fifty million bucks.

673
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 5: And like I said, John Middleton listens to his customers,

674
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 5: and the people in this town want this guy back.

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Speaker 3: I think he's coming back.

676
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Speaker 1: Yes, no doubt, Yeah, thank you, yeah, thank you, Thanks

677
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Speaker 1: for shy. So I want to ask you guys. We're

678
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: gonna bring on Brandon Duckworth in a few minutes, but

679
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you guys, besides Suarez, is there

680
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: any other bats out there that might not be attainable?

681
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: But man, if you were Dave Dombrowski, Preston Manningly, you're

682
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: really bringing some heat on these guys. Is it Stephen

683
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: Kwan who would be amazing left field?

684
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 2: We did, We did it.

685
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: We did a show about a week and a half ago,

686
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: twenty five trade names flow.

687
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 6: No flow, heavy flow, heavy flow, heavy flow on Kwan,

688
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 6: Jeremy very minimal. I had very little or no flow

689
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 6: on Robert a little bit more now than I did then.

690
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Speaker 2: I love it.

691
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Speaker 6: I think that for me, I think you just need

692
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 6: to get marginally better, marginally better, incrementally better in your lineup,

693
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Speaker 6: and then you've got to get much better I think

694
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 6: in your battle.

695
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Speaker 3: That's where I'm at.

696
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Speaker 5: Totally agree with that. So if you went after a

697
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 5: guy like Loriano, maybe he doesn't cost you, you know,

698
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,239
Speaker 5: an arm and a lag, and you can use your

699
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 5: trade capital in the bullpen where you need that lockdown guy.

700
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 3: At the end of the game.

701
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 5: So, but Robert is starting to intrigue me with this

702
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 5: little turnaround he's had here.

703
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 3: Robert intriguing me depending on what I have to give up.

704
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 5: I'm not going to be fooled and give him up

705
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 5: and give up the farm for him. But I'd rather

706
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 5: spend big in the bullpen and get those last three

707
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 5: outs taken care of to.

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Speaker 3: Bring back Austin Hayes. Would bring Austin Hayes, I mean for.

709
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Speaker 6: The purpose, the reason that why they got him was

710
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Speaker 6: what he's doing now over there with the Reds.

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00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 3: I think the Reds are probably still in it. I

712
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 3: don't think they want to sell.

713
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Speaker 6: He's sort of cheap and stuff, so I don't think

714
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Speaker 6: they want to change that.

715
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Speaker 5: If you could get you know, Gino Suarez, you're probably

716
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 5: using more trade capital there now you have less to

717
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 5: us in the bullpen, so the you know, to me,

718
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 5: inch that offense along and go big in the bullpen.

719
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Speaker 4: What about what reliever would you guys want if you

720
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Speaker 4: could wave him out.

721
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Speaker 3: I'm still in on Class A.

722
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Speaker 6: I know he struggled his last time out, and he's

723
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Speaker 6: had some struggles throwing strikes at times in certain situations.

724
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Speaker 3: I like him.

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Speaker 6: I still like the guys in Minnesota Duran. Again, these

726
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 6: guys have not really pitched in the tight, in those

727
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 6: tight situations to have to make them.

728
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Speaker 3: You'll get those three outs to get it done. But

729
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Speaker 3: I mean I would take him.

730
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Speaker 5: I still like Mason Miller, even though they're probably not

731
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 5: going to move them. And I love those four years

732
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 5: of control. Love no doubt triple digit fastball. Yeah, he

733
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 5: hasn't been there, done that, but you can say that

734
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 5: about every athlete. At some point in everybody's career, they

735
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 5: had to pitch him pressure for the first time. So

736
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Speaker 5: but you know, I, I you know, I like Bednar

737
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 5: his questions, whether he's a closer or not. To me,

738
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Speaker 5: he's having a hell of a year. Hellsley is gonna

739
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 5: probably go. I know, he's a rental. The guys from Minnesota.

740
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Speaker 5: The guy bird in Colorado. Another guy I like and

741
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Speaker 5: I think I would be on is ryselle Iglesias has

742
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 5: not had a good year, has been very good recently

743
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 5: in Atlanta. Would they trade him to the Phillies? You

744
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 5: know what, he's gonna be a free agent. I think

745
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 5: they probably would for the right for the right return.

746
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 5: I don't rule out right Ryssel Iglacia having a pretty

747
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 5: good final two and a half three months.

748
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Speaker 3: And you know he's been there, he's kind of been

749
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 3: there and done that.

750
00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 6: No, yeah he has, and you know again he hasn't

751
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 6: had the greatest year, but he's starting to heat up

752
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 6: a little bit. And hey, we got Kevin Nolan from

753
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 6: Atlanta when and we never thought we would.

754
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Speaker 3: Get him, and we got him. You know who screwed

755
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 3: this up?

756
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 5: The Red Sox because they got good, they started playing good,

757
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:52,800
Speaker 5: and they're gonna keep Chapman.

758
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Chapman's the man for me.

759
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Speaker 6: I mean, I love the idea of having Eraaldis Chapman

760
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 6: and uh I.

761
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 3: This guy.

762
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 5: Gets hurt and I think that a lot of number

763
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 5: one target I gotta I gotta believe so control no doubt.

764
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 5: A power short car ride you can get him here,

765
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 5: like you make the trade at three o'clock, he can

766
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 5: close out that game.

767
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Speaker 2: O Roll.

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Speaker 12: This chapter was my guy, man. I was all about

769
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 12: as battle tested. He's throwing the ball with tremendous confidence.

770
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 12: He's left handed, which is you're gonna need Alvarado's coming back.

771
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 12: But he's not gonna be able to pitch in the

772
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Speaker 12: in the postseason.

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Speaker 3: So he was my guy.

774
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Speaker 6: But I don't think that's happening because Boston it's gonna

775
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 6: be tough for them to sell.

776
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, for sure. But we're gonna bring out

777
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Speaker 4: another guest.

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Speaker 1: We've got Brandon Duckworth forward Philly Brandon Duckworth, Brandon, Welcome

779
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: to the Philly Show.

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00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 2: Welcome.

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00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 13: Oh, it's great to be here, guys. I appreciate the invite,

782
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 13: and it's gonna be a lot of fun. That's awesome, man,

783
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 13: We're excited to have you.

784
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: So I want I want to start by asking you this,

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00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: At any point in the past week, have you said

786
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: to anybody you know, Billy Wagner bring all you know, Uh,

787
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: you know, Philly's traded.

788
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 3: Me to that's right.

789
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, for me to get Billy traded for a Hall

790
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 4: of Famer.

791
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 3: He was traded for basically a Hall of Famer. That's right.

792
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 2: I tell you why.

793
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 13: You pinch yourself, and you know, to be associated with

794
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 13: a guy like Billy Wagner first and foremost is amazing.

795
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,399
Speaker 13: But at the end of the day, I mean you're

796
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 13: just kind of like, oh wow, you can't do you

797
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 13: pinch yourself and say that's pretty dann cool. Something that

798
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 13: you can talk to your kids about and whatnot. But

799
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 13: you know, I always get the stuff from my kids.

800
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 13: Oh here we go, dad lore once a.

801
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so.

802
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 3: You've been involved in baseball for a long time.

803
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,479
Speaker 6: You've been scouting there with the Yankees for a long

804
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 6: long time, and.

805
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 3: You've seen a lot of baseball.

806
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 6: Tell us what you think, what some of the evolution

807
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 6: of baseball, what's kind of going on, and do you

808
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 6: see a big difference from the time you started scouting

809
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 6: till now. I think you've been at this what twelve

810
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 6: years now, ten ten or twelve years?

811
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 3: Yeah.

812
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 13: I think the big thing is utilizing the analytics much

813
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,919
Speaker 13: more than we ever did in the past. We were

814
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 13: able to measure things, you know, whether or not how accurately.

815
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 13: It's continually gotting better. I think more of the players

816
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 13: are more open to all these things, so they're utilizing it.

817
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 13: Sometimes I think it's a little too much because they

818
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 13: never take a downtime, so as soon as the season's over,

819
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 13: next thing, you know, they're immediately in some of these,

820
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 13: uh you know places that are measuring all your spin rates. Okay,

821
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 13: now we're going to start tinkering with pitch grips and

822
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,479
Speaker 13: and all that. Like we used to do it way back,

823
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 13: you know, but we used to do it by utilizing

824
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 13: other other players and saying, hey, how do you do this,

825
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 13: how do you do that? What's your thought process, what's

826
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 13: your grip like? So now we're I'm seeing some funky

827
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 13: grips and I'm just like, I would have never thought

828
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 13: to utilize that. And then you know the hitters, you know,

829
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 13: they're just trying to launch, and I think, you know,

830
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 13: I think that's where we've gotten a little bit further away, whereas.

831
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Speaker 2: There's more I guess you could say holes.

832
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Speaker 13: On players now as far as hitters, because they're tuned

833
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 13: to one thing and one thing only, and there's a

834
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 13: lot of three true out outcome guys. So I think

835
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Speaker 13: those are some of the biggest things that I've seen

836
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 13: and it's progressively gotten worse, and I hate to say

837
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 13: the fundamentals, it's not really been a strong suit in

838
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 13: Major League Baseball over the past few years.

839
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Speaker 3: I agree.

840
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 5: I think we're you know, once upon a time when

841
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 5: you were pitching, you never heard the expression pitching lab

842
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 5: where they're you know, changing grips and pressure points and

843
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 5: all that stuff, and you were out on the mound

844
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 5: figuring out how to get guys out.

845
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 3: And when you're on the mound, you don't.

846
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 5: You can't rely on a computer and a pitching lab.

847
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 5: You actually got to use your inate ability to actually

848
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 5: get guys out. So I think some of the analytics

849
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 5: and some of the technology has led to an over

850
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 5: engineered athlete that doesn't necessarily always think for himself.

851
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 3: But I do think it has its place.

852
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 5: I mean, we're we're seeing these skills that just are

853
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 5: eye popping, some of the movements on these balls.

854
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 3: But I think it has to be a balance.

855
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think, you know, I think that's some of

856
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 13: the biggest things is how much do you do with

857
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 13: guys and you don't want to take the feel out

858
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 13: of the game, because you know, we.

859
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 2: Always go crazy.

860
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 13: I'm sitting there watching guys and they're pulling stuff out

861
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 13: of their pockets.

862
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: Oh where do I have to adjust? Like back in

863
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 2: the day, a lot of the guys that we.

864
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 13: Had playing behind us, they knew innately, Oh who's pitching?

865
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 2: Okay, what's his pitch? What's this? What's that? What's the situation?

866
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 2: Now they're moving around on their own.

867
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 13: Or you have a center fielder that's saying, hey do this,

868
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 13: do that, shortstop saying hey, let's let's go this way.

869
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 2: Maybe he knows something that's going on. But you know, we.

870
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 13: See it a little bit now with pitchcon middle infielders

871
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 13: and center fielder they know what's coming in a lot

872
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 13: of regards, so they can cheat one way or another.

873
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 2: They can do different things.

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00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 13: So there's a lot of really good stuff, but it's

875
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 13: a matter of how much do you need without it

876
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 13: taking your feel away from the game.

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00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 5: That's feel is that's such a big word, and uh

878
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 5: and such a such a how did you get a

879
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 5: day off today? So Brandon is a pro scout for

880
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 5: the Yankees and they're out there, you know, looking for talent,

881
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 5: and you're going around and looking at minor league players

882
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 5: that you might be wanting to acquire. This is an

883
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 5: incredibly busy time of the year for the scouts.

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00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 13: Right, I'm still working, trust me, you know, I've been

885
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 13: away for a long time.

886
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: I was fortunate, let's have a.

887
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 3: Six weeks leading up to trade deadline.

888
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 5: Like for for a guy who focuses on the pro ranks,

889
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 5: you know.

890
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 2: You don't know where you're going to be from one

891
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 2: week to the next.

892
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 13: Like you can go to one series where I was

893
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 13: at and then they're like, okay, hey go here, go there,

894
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 13: and a lot of it will depend upon you know,

895
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 13: are you close to any certain group of players that

896
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 13: were interested.

897
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,319
Speaker 2: In and so on and so forth. So you know,

898
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 2: I just came off the road.

899
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 13: I have a couple of days, but I'm also going

900
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 13: to see our minor league guys so that are potentially

901
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 13: part of some of these trades. So our club is

902
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 13: going to be playing in Wilmington, So I'm actually with

903
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 13: the good fortune of being able to drive to and

904
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 13: from and be at home. So you know, I'm doing

905
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 13: live in and look, I'm doing video reports.

906
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 4: I'm doing all sorts of stuff, making calls.

907
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 13: You know, trying to see kind of what the temperature

908
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 13: is on certain guys, what makeup is, you know, We're

909
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 13: just trying to make sure that we have the right fit.

910
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 13: Because the toughest thing, no matter whether you're in Philly, Boston,

911
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 13: New York, is can they handle the market, which you

912
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 13: guys were talking about earlier on the college drink. So

913
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 13: you know, if you can play in any of those cities,

914
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 13: you can play anywhere in the country. Now it's a

915
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 13: matter of say, you, guys, we look at a guy

916
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 13: that maybe on the in the Midwest or the West Coast,

917
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 13: and you're like, Okay, they haven't really played meaningful baseball.

918
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 13: Do they know what it's like to be like in

919
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 13: a pressure cooker where every little thing is scrutinized. Northeast

920
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 13: is at Philly, Boston, New York period, Like, it's tough.

921
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 2: It's very tough. You better have thick skin. But if

922
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 2: you if you.

923
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 13: Drive there, I mean, you write your own ticket to

924
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 13: handle me.

925
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 6: I just want to switch gears a little bit and

926
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 6: ask you about your time in Philadelphia as you were

927
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 6: coming through the system and as you were getting opportunities

928
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 6: to get towards the big leagues, going to big league camp,

929
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,959
Speaker 6: being in big league camp, any players that you sort

930
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 6: of idolized.

931
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 3: Or you learned from or players.

932
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,400
Speaker 6: That as you got closer and closer to the big leagues,

933
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 6: you thought about or not.

934
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 3: Idolyzed is probably not the right word. Maybe you know,

935
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,760
Speaker 3: seek maybe some of their advice and that kind of stuff.

936
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 13: No, I think the biggest thing for me was I

937
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 13: watched a lot of baseball. Like, not only did I play,

938
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 13: but I watched. I loved watching Greg Maddox and guys

939
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 13: like that pitch. So I tried to do all I

940
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 13: could to emulate some of those people and just say, Okay,

941
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 13: he doesn't throw particularly hard, but man, he's a master.

942
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 2: He knows what he's doing. He's one or two steps ahead,

943
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 2: you know.

944
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 13: So coming through, I was always just pound the zone,

945
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 13: pound the zone, pound this own. But you know, maybe

946
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 13: you have average stuff versus some of the kids that

947
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 13: you see today that have the big monster arms, but

948
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 13: you still have to command it.

949
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 2: It doesn't play if it's not in his zone, no

950
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: matter what to do.

951
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 13: So coming through, you know, I would always idolize, Like

952
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 13: I used to love watching Kurt Schilling, Like.

953
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 2: He didn't care. He was just like here it is.

954
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 13: If I give up a homer, guess what, it's a

955
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 13: solo homer, right, solo homers generally don't beat you, and

956
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 13: you know he would give up his solo homers, but

957
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 13: he was eight innings in next thing, you know, complete games,

958
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 13: So you're.

959
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 4: You're trying to idolize something like that.

960
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 2: You know.

961
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 4: Obviously Greg maddox is who I really like to watch.

962
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 2: Just because he was a surgeon. He could do.

963
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 13: Different things and set guys up. He would set guys

964
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 13: up if you watched any of his thing on MLB Network.

965
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 13: He set up Jeff Bagwell for the playoffs, throw him

966
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 13: a pitch that he knows he wouldn't throw, and next thing,

967
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 13: you know, he didn't get it later on and said

968
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,400
Speaker 13: it to Eddie's like remember three months ago when like

969
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 13: so guys like that tacticians, you know, and as you

970
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 13: work through you get into big league camp. You know,

971
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 13: I rubbed shoulders with a lot of great guys, like

972
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 13: a guy, a couple of guys that were.

973
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 2: Really close to me. The late rial Fourmier was amazing.

974
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, you'd have Ricky Beatallico in there, so

975
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 13: you would ask him things and you're like, okay, here.

976
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 3: We go, am I gonna put a quarter in?

977
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 2: What's gonna happen? What's gonna come out right.

978
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 13: But you know guys like Dan Pleasak, who in the moment,

979
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 13: like if I was in the bullpen and he's talking

980
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 13: about situations like those are the things that I don't

981
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 13: think a lot of people realize that happened. You're always

982
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 13: constantly learning. I would try to listen to the hitters

983
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 13: on the bench, listen to Bobby Bray, Ricky Ledee. They're

984
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 13: talking about guys and what they used to do. Hey,

985
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 13: you can pick this pitch. Two of the best guys

986
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 13: I'd ever seen picking pitches on pitchers or what they're doing.

987
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: So you're sitting there going, okay, now I got to

988
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 2: close up that hole.

989
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 13: Am I doing suff Or you'll ask them, hey, I

990
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 13: feel like people are on me. Can you see anything?

991
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 13: Some may tell you, some may not. They're like I

992
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 13: may have to face them later on down the road.

993
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 13: But you're always trying to get that edge to make

994
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 13: yourself better. Whether it's talking to position players, whether it's

995
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 13: talking to pitchers. You're talking to the pitching coaches and

996
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 13: coming through anybody that would come in on a rehab

997
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 13: you'd sit and talk to, you know.

998
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,720
Speaker 2: So I don't think you ever stop learning.

999
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 13: And I think That's one of the biggest things that

1000
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 13: I think I could express to kids is ask questions,

1001
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 13: ask how people do it, and try to emulate someone

1002
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 13: that has similar stuff, similar style.

1003
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 2: You know, but stay within your strengths.

1004
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 4: Your son Easton's here, what I mean, he's playing the ball,

1005
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 4: travel ball.

1006
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: I mean, is there anything from your career that either

1007
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,680
Speaker 1: you had success with or struggled with? Is like maybe

1008
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: like one or two things that you always key on

1009
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: with him or you would tell you. We have a

1010
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 1: lot of parents that listen to show kids playing baseball

1011
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: from five years old through high school right now, like

1012
00:45:59,440 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: what would you?

1013
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 13: I think that the power of positivity with young kids

1014
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 13: is immense. It's easy when you're on top of the world,

1015
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 13: playing hitting, making all the plays. But it's when they

1016
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 13: find themselves in a little bit of a rut and

1017
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 13: trying to help them get out of it the power

1018
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 13: of positivity because that's when the kids need you the most,

1019
00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 13: when maybe they're struggling and whatnot, and they're like, oh man,

1020
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 13: I'm just not hitting, or I'm in a rut. Defensively, like,

1021
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 13: so hey, let's go, we're gonna work. I have all

1022
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 13: the confidence in the world. I think positivity at the

1023
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 13: young ranks I think is paramount. Get them to believe

1024
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,240
Speaker 13: in themselves and maybe they're not doing anything wrong.

1025
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, they believe in themselves and they

1026
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 2: take off.

1027
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 5: Brandon, I don't know if you can, let's talk about this,

1028
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 5: but the state of the Phillies farm system. Can you

1029
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 5: give us a general overview of it? It seems like

1030
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,520
Speaker 5: it's gotten better in the last handful of years. Seems

1031
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 5: like they have some marquee guys. We hear a lot

1032
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 5: of the name trade deadline time. You never knew who's

1033
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 5: on the move. But if you can, you offer a

1034
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 5: snapshot of the health of the Phillies bulb system.

1035
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 13: Yeah, like right now, they're pretty top heavy, and they

1036
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 13: got a pretty good top five guys, I would say,

1037
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 13: and then after that it's just kind of marginal type

1038
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 13: of prospects that you're like, Okay, can this guy turn

1039
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 13: into excuse me one a different player? Like, what are

1040
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 13: the odds? I think that's the big thing. And then

1041
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 13: then you have some the top tier and then you

1042
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,720
Speaker 13: got some lesser knowns, or I should say, the kids

1043
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 13: that are at the lower levels, the tight eights, the

1044
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 13: Escobars of the world that have a chance to be

1045
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 13: pretty dang good players. I think they have some healthy guys,

1046
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 13: more of the upper echelon, but then it kind of

1047
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 13: falls off a little bit. But at the end of

1048
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 13: the day, they got enough to go out and try

1049
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 13: to bolster their bullpen, maybe get another position player if

1050
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 13: if they need or feel that they need that. But

1051
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 13: right now there's not a lot out there and prices

1052
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 13: are just going further up and up, and.

1053
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 2: No doubt, Yeah, that's awesome.

1054
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: Well, Brandon, thanks so much for for stopping by the show.

1055
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Well, I guess I was gonna ask you,

1056
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: what do you think the Philly should go out and do?

1057
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 4: But I guess he's not allowed to say that, say

1058
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 4: what they can do.

1059
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah.

1060
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 13: Yeah, they're in a good position as they're beating up

1061
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 13: on us this weekend.

1062
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 14: Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, what feeling on the Phillies.

1063
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 14: You know you've seen this weekend up in New York.

1064
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 14: Run prevention is key at this point in time. Playoffs

1065
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 14: is all about run prevention. They've got a strong lineup,

1066
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 14: I think, so.

1067
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 5: If you could do only one thing with the Phillies,

1068
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:46,279
Speaker 5: a bat or a big arm at the end. I

1069
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 5: think I'm I think, I I'm picking up what you're

1070
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 5: laying down.

1071
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 2: Run prevention prevention sounds like a bullpen piece.

1072
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:57,800
Speaker 3: That's that's a signal for bullpen.

1073
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: Well, now that let me ask you this question because

1074
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: a lot of people in Philly, of course, fans watch

1075
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: their team and they see every flaw, but they don't

1076
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: watch all the other teams and see all their flaws.

1077
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:12,720
Speaker 2: Could this team win a World Series?

1078
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: Because right now, you know, a lot of talk from

1079
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: Phillies fans is it's like the offense is too hot

1080
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: and cold, the bullpen's not consistentough.

1081
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 4: There's no chance, no chance they can win the World Series.

1082
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 2: Welcome to Major League Baseball in twenty twenty five.

1083
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 13: Everybody has the wars, as we say, and it's a

1084
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,720
Speaker 13: matter of when do you get hot.

1085
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: If you're hot at the end, you can run through

1086
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 2: a system, no doubt about it.

1087
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 13: You know, you just want to be one of the

1088
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 13: teams that doesn't have to play in the wild card, right,

1089
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 13: So if you're one of the top two teams, you're like, okay, great,

1090
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 13: now we can structure and get our all of our

1091
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 13: ducks in a row to start the game, and then

1092
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 13: guys get a little bit of a rest. Sometimes it

1093
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 13: can hurt because you take that rest and you're not

1094
00:49:57,760 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 13: playing all the time.

1095
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you can talk

1096
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 2: to anybody. They're like, no, we'll take that.

1097
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 13: We'll get into the Division series right away and not

1098
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 13: worry about it.

1099
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,880
Speaker 2: We'll roll roll with that. So I think it's pretty open.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Dodgers aren't playing great right now. Detroit's

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Speaker 2: not playing great. We're not playing great. The team that's

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Speaker 2: playing amazing right now is Toronto. I mean they're lighting

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Speaker 2: it up.

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Speaker 5: Hey, since they signed Guerrero, it's like that Composts came

1105
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 5: alive and they just started winning ball game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

1107
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Speaker 3: John Schneider was like on the hot seat. Now he

1108
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Speaker 3: might be the manager of the year.

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Speaker 2: Well thanks, Brandon, appreciate it. Man. Oh my pleasure. Good

1110
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Speaker 2: luck to the Yankees. Maybe Yankees Phillies World Series. Heys, great,

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Speaker 2: that'd be fun.

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Speaker 15: But all right, we got another question. We got Jim

1113
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Speaker 15: from Warrington stop by a what do you got, buddy?

1114
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 15: I got a question for you. How much do you

1115
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 15: pay attention as a general manager to what the competitors

1116
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 15: are doing at So, for example, if the Mets announced

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Speaker 15: the trade this afternoon for Duran and Buxton from the Twins.

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Speaker 4: How would that is what Playbowski to do to combat that?

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Speaker 3: I missed?

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Speaker 1: So he said, basically, if the Mets go out today

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00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,399
Speaker 1: and they get Duran and Buxton, if you're if you're

1122
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: Dobrawski right now, how much does that influence what you do?

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Speaker 1: And you go, oh crap, all right, we're gonna throw

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Speaker 1: Painter in, Miller Crawford, We're gonna get Suarez, and we're

1125
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Speaker 1: gonna get you know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you try not to be too reactionary as a GM.

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00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,439
Speaker 6: You try to do what's best for your club. It's

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Speaker 6: obviously would be a big blow, and it's in you know.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the reality of it is, you gotta hope

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00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 6: that your your team is gonna be able to step

1131
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 6: up for the most part. But I mean you still

1132
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 6: want to start trying to be aggressive. I mean, I'm

1133
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 6: a believer in in this situation because the team is

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Speaker 6: good enough to win a World.

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Speaker 3: Series right now as it stands. But I would throw

1136
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 3: my chips in and try to be as aggressive as possible.

1137
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 6: Who knows one of those doors closing, sometimes another door

1138
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 6: opens up in that situation. But I would continue to

1139
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,799
Speaker 6: try to be as aggressive as I could, but I

1140
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 6: have to work a little bit in the back. Evil

1141
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 6: necessarily work in that vacuum, because hey, there's teams around

1142
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 6: you that are doing things. But but you also have

1143
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 6: to be really well focused on what the goals are

1144
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 6: for your team and your organization and and have those

1145
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 6: be foremost in your mind.

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00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 3: And you can't really worry about too much about what

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00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 3: the rest of the you know, rest of baseball is doing.

1148
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: That said, you do probably pound your desk when you

1149
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: see the Mets make that trade movement.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I would not be happy. Yeah, I would

1151
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 3: not have been happy if that happens. But but listen,

1152
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 3: that's part of the game. The beauty is in the

1153
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Speaker 3: eye of.

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Speaker 6: The beholder all the time. You never know what prospects

1155
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Speaker 6: other teams you're interested in. You never know what kind

1156
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Speaker 6: of talent other teams are willing to give up. And

1157
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Speaker 6: that's the difficulty of making trades, especially at this time.

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Speaker 1: There you go, awesome, thank you, I appreciate it, all right,

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Speaker 1: Appetizers, Ah, Jimmy, the right guys, let's bring We brought

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Speaker 1: the pizza, but we got the man that makes the pizza.

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Speaker 4: We got Chuck Bango for Manco and Manco. How are you, Chuck.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 16: Thanks for having Thank you for being here. It's absolutely

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Speaker 16: great to have you. Our fans appreciate, our customers appreciated. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah that's awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah, we are

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Speaker 4: really excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Same here, guys.

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Speaker 3: So tell me about your experience.

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Speaker 6: I know, I know you have a great relationship with

1202
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 6: the Phillies organization, and I know it's it's something that's

1203
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 6: important to you to watch them have their successes and

1204
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,280
Speaker 6: you've gone through the successes and failures.

1205
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Speaker 3: Tell me about you know when that started for you.

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00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 6: Because you're you're not necessarily a Phillies originally a Phillies.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm a I'm a border Race Phillies fan.

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00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 17: I'm responsible for sneaking about five hundred pony bottles of

1209
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:24,840
Speaker 17: beer into the bat back in.

1210
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Speaker 16: The day, a false bottom in the cooler, Eagles fire sixers,

1211
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Speaker 16: all all of our staff here for Phillies fans, and

1212
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 16: the Phillies approached us to be a corporate partner with

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Speaker 16: them four years ago. We said yes, and it's been

1214
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 16: a great ride on both sides of the baseball Aaron

1215
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 16: Mark and the Phillies.

1216
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,880
Speaker 2: It's just been unbelievable. Cindy Webster has been great to

1217
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Speaker 2: deal with.

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00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 17: She's she's the best back there and having and this

1219
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Speaker 17: is the icing on the cake.

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Speaker 2: And we're proud to be part of your.

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Speaker 5: So we're in the era of analytics. How many pizzas

1222
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 5: do you sell every night? And Citizens Mac Park?

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00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 2: A lot? I can tell you about half. To tell you,

1224
00:55:58,760 --> 00:55:59,879
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, a lot.

1225
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 3: We saw a lot.

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00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 2: Savannah Manana's last night was off the off wow. But

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Speaker 2: we're just proud to be part of the Phillies organization.

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00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 2: Just been unbelievable extremes.

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00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 17: I mean a diehard baseball fan to meet a few

1230
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 17: folks the Phillies players, John Middleton, his staff just fantastic.

1231
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 5: I know you saw a lot because all I see

1232
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 5: is people walk in front of the press box.

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00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 2: So Chuck, when you get, you get.

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Speaker 4: You've been assistants Bank Park since twenty twenty two.

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00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:27,399
Speaker 1: You're our four year right, So I wrote, I wrote

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00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: a little story, Uce wherever have to re signed exactly

1237
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: exactly right, exactly right. I wrote a little story the

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00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 1: first homestand the first of of opening weekend. Yes, as

1239
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: this Bank Park post game, the Phillies are about to

1240
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: go on the road. You had players were just crushing

1241
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: Manco and Manco in the clubhouse. Remember Jeans of Gura

1242
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: had a couple of slices. I remember that very distinctly.

1243
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: And I remember people were leaving the ballpark with whole pies,

1244
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: like they would go to the game, get pizza and

1245
00:56:58,440 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: then on their way out.

1246
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 4: I think you sold a brown almost six thousand pizzas

1247
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 4: in that six games.

1248
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 2: We were busy. We were actually overwhelmed.

1249
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean that's how what a huge hit it is.

1250
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 1: It was such a huge hit. John Middleton a few

1251
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: years later called you up and said, we want you

1252
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: to do what do you know what I'm asking you

1253
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: go down to clear Word, clear Water and bring down

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Speaker 1: Manco Manco. Now, I also asked you this a few

1255
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,680
Speaker 1: years later when you're coming into clear Water. I said, Chuck,

1256
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: are you one of these pizza guys that believes the

1257
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: water makes the pizza? And you said one hundred percent.

1258
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: I said, all right, So you don't have the Ocean

1259
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 1: City water in Clearwater, Florida, But you said you have

1260
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: a little.

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00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 2: We bring the water to Ocean City or to clear Water. Yes, yeah,

1262
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 2: you have, like we bring it to the bank.

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00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 17: Well not literally, but we used the same water to

1264
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 17: make the doll in clear.

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00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 2: Water as well as I'm filled out here.

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00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: Yes, so the pizza in clear Water tastes like the

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Speaker 1: pizza right here.

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00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 2: If it didn't, our loyal fans will let us know

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00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 2: and York minute.

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00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 6: So so when I make a beat back in the

1271
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 6: day when I made a big trade and we got

1272
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 6: you know, the hundred pencils of the.

1273
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 2: World and the Royals Wilds to the world.

1274
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 6: I know how our our front office felt when we

1275
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 6: got those things done. How did it feel when you

1276
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 6: guys were finally in the ballpark and building that really

1277
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 6: what was that day like for you?

1278
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 3: When when you guys became part of Citizens Bank.

1279
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 2: Day, we ain't the contract.

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00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 16: It was just overwhelming and as I told Dave Buck

1281
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 16: and Howard and John Middleton, and we were just honored

1282
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 16: and humbled to be there.

1283
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 2: Couldn't believe it. We still pitch ourselves. We get to

1284
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 2: go into that ballpark, be.

1285
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 16: Part of this organization and sell pizza to or fans,

1286
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 16: and I have to thank our loyal fans.

1287
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 2: Without them, we'd be nothing. So it's just.

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00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 6: Just you're feeling here. You're following here in an ocean city.

1289
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 6: I've been coming down here for many, many years. It's

1290
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 6: been a staple. It's been something that you know, everybody Maco,

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00:58:57,280 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 6: macOS and me that you come down, that's something you

1292
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 6: at you actually have to do. I mean, my kids,

1293
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 6: you should come down. First thing that we did was

1294
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 6: come here. How does that make you feel like you're

1295
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 6: you're the king on the boardwalk here?

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00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 17: I mean, we're humble, we're honored. We don't take anything

1297
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 17: for granted. I really have to give a shout out

1298
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 17: to my wife and her parents back there. Her parents

1299
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 17: are the founders of the company. Next year b O

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00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 17: seventieth anniversary, and we work hard to keep this place

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00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 17: going the way it goes. You can see the customers

1302
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 17: who are stay up in here and we don't. We

1303
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 17: don't take it for granted to me.

1304
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 1: To me, one of the cool sites about just again

1305
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: going back to spring training clear Water is to see

1306
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: people walking. I always tell people that's like a bucket

1307
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: list item. If you haven't any clear Water, you got

1308
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: to go because to the atmosphere.

1309
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 2: Is just tremendous.

1310
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Speaker 1: And now you see people around walking around with the

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00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: box Manco Manco pizza boxes. I mean even at Citizens

1312
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 1: ban I mean it's one thing for people to come

1313
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: down here in the short and being your restaurant needed,

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Speaker 1: But what.

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Speaker 2: Does it feel different?

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Speaker 1: Like what do you think when you see people walking

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Speaker 1: around Citizens Bank Park with the pizza boxes clear Water?

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Speaker 2: I just say it's amazing. I just think it's amazing.

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Speaker 17: And uh, if my wife isn't at the game with

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Speaker 17: me and my work husband.

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Speaker 2: Greg, who's back there. We go to about seventy five

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Speaker 2: of the eighty games. So text me and go, I

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Speaker 2: saw a box. I saw a box. It's all yeh,

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Speaker 2: there we goes. These boxes are great. That's right, there

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Speaker 2: we go. This is the box you see? I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're all over Clearwater.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's amazing, it's stay hard, it's great.

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Speaker 6: So I want to go back to your childhood a

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Speaker 6: little bit and what were your favorite if you were

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Speaker 6: going to pick out your favorite Phillies teams, what year,

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Speaker 6: what team, what players? Were the teams that you you

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Speaker 6: felt that you really sort of gravitated.

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Speaker 18: Mike Smith days in nineteen eighties were fantastic, and the

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Speaker 18: eight No.

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Speaker 2: Nine teams, yeah, really everyone in between. It was just

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Speaker 2: it was it was just great.

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Speaker 18: All the players are great, whether it was Steve Carlton,

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Speaker 18: Mike Schmidt, cho Brad Lage. It's just great to watch.

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Speaker 18: It's my favorite sport. Oh really it is. You're still

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Speaker 18: your favorite sport favorite.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Awesome.

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Speaker 16: We love it guys, and you do a great job

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01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 16: and thank you for being here.

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01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we have.

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Speaker 1: We love Every Monday, we do the Manco Manco Best

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01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 1: Week segment, we do the Player of the Week, and

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Speaker 1: we always out of fun, a little fun debate every

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Speaker 1: once in a while.

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01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 2: Sometimes we agree.

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01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 3: Sometimes we agree, sometimes we.

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Speaker 16: Don't know that's the game right to banter about.

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Speaker 3: We agree that this is great stuff. We got here.

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01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 3: There was a line out in front. You weren't even

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01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 3: open yet, there was already a line.

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Speaker 4: I know that.

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01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 2: I mean that's gonna be great as well.

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01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, so what move were you making to try to

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01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 3: break make this team better? What's your move? Yeah, what's

1360
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 3: your what's your deadline move?

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01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 2: But you got one move to make?

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01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 3: What are you doing?

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01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 2: Chuck? One move? Maybe Suarez?

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01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 6: That's like, all right, Henny, you give away the farm

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Speaker 6: to get a couple of Reynolds.

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01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,040
Speaker 2: But uh, I think you're okay.

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01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 3: With where they are. Just go ahead and get another bat.

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01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 2: Bring up Painter, Let's try out Crawford. What do we

1369
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 2: have to lose? Bringing up Justin Bofford? See what he

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01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 2: could do. I agree with that.

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01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 3: I think, all right, right on, I think he's gonna

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01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:03,919
Speaker 3: be up major league pitching, and he's not. It's real.

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01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 5: If he doesn't hit it right away, eventually he's gonna there.

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01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:09,959
Speaker 3: There is a breaking pare no doubt.

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01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 2: And I'm excited that that Robertson's back. In a strange way.

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Speaker 3: I like that guy.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he pitched well, and he knows he's been here,

1378
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 5: done it, been here, and he knows pizza to he

1379
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 5: knows pizza.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: What do you order when you when you get when

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01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: you're here, Like, do you have a go to playing

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01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: in a white broccoli?

1384
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 2: Hands down my favorite really white brock white.

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01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 3: And get some bright white broccoli, the white Brompton green.

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01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 2: She says, A Heineken bottle doesn't count.

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01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 3: I'm not leaving it without some white broccoli. Brother, take

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01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 3: care of that is amazing.

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Speaker 2: I like to know that.

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01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 4: I like to know what the guy that makes when

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01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:48,360
Speaker 4: he eats.

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01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 2: That's a great recommendation. That's awesome.

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01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 4: Well, Chuck, thanks so much, man, appreciate us.

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01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 3: Thank you.

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01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 2: This has been awesome.

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01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 19: Jonathan Jang hungry guy. Thank thank everybody. We're gonna we're

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01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 19: gonna wrap this up. I want to say, Dick Allen's

1398
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 19: going to the Hall of Fame today.

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01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 2: That's huge, you guys, It's a wonderful years. I mean,

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01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 2: what are you any thoughts on Dick Allen going in.

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01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 3: I'm just so disappointed.

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01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 6: I'm happy for the family clearly that Dick Allen is

1403
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 6: now a Hall of Famer or will be.

1404
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 3: It's just unfortunate that he wasn't able to enjoy it

1405
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 3: while he was with us.

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01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 6: One of the best athletes that ever played, ever done

1407
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 6: a uniform in Philadelphia, which was you know, my dad

1408
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 6: used to talk about it all the time, how how

1409
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 6: special he was as a as a player, probably the

1410
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 6: most misunderstood player back. I mean, he was truly the

1411
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 6: most misunderstood player, and he took a lot of heat.

1412
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 3: It was a difficult life for him.

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01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 6: Here in Philadelphia at that time, and for him to

1414
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 6: work through it and be the player that he was

1415
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 6: and then to come back again to Philadelphia make an impact,

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01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 6: great thing. It long overdue. I'm glad it's happening. God

1417
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 6: blessed the Dick, the Allen family. I'm super super happy

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01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 6: for all of them. Well deserved, and it's great that

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01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 6: he's gonna be forever, Yeah, in Cooperstown known as one

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01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:18,479
Speaker 6: of the best players that ever played the game.

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01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 3: Long overdue, well deserved.

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01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 5: I mean, from sixty four to seventy four, that's eleven seasons,

1423
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 5: his numbers were right there with Hank Aarons. You know,

1424
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 5: one of the criteria, I think loose criteria, unofficial criteria

1425
01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:35,160
Speaker 5: that we looked at for the Hall of Fame is

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01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:38,920
Speaker 5: dominating your era, and he was a dominant hitter in

1427
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 5: his era from sixty four to seventy four.

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01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 2: You look at some.

1429
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 3: Time at his nineteen sixty six season. It is incredible.

1430
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 5: Maybe he beloved in the Hall of Fame just based

1431
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:51,920
Speaker 5: on his nineteen sixty six season, and there was some

1432
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 5: real great season finished like.

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01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 3: Fourth in the MVP that year. A bunch of guys

1434
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 3: had great years.

1435
01:04:57,160 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 5: But I am really happy for him, having gotten to

1436
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 5: meet him a few times, a real gentleman. And I'm

1437
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 5: happy for John Middleton because, uh, I think he spearheaded

1438
01:05:05,240 --> 01:05:09,760
Speaker 5: this effort to help right this wrong that he wasn't

1439
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 5: in there, and it's it's great to see that it's

1440
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 5: happening today.

1441
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:15,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got his number retired a couple of years ago,

1442
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 1: but when when Dick was still around, and I definitely

1443
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: think that that kind of pushed him to the forefront

1444
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: of the minds of some of those.

1445
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 4: Voters on the Doubt Hall of Fame Committee.

1446
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 1: So, uh, thank you so much. Thanks to everybody that

1447
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: stop by to watch a show. Thanks to Phil Martelly,

1448
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:33,720
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brand Duncan, Thank you, Brendan Duckworth, thank Chuck Bangle,

1449
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: thank you everybody at Manco and Manco. The Philly Show

1450
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,439
Speaker 1: will be back. We're gonna have a few, We're gonna

1451
01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: have several episodes this week. Is I have a feeling

1452
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: the Philly that be making some emergency.

1453
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 3: Let's get to eat some pizza, the slide some in.

1454
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:51,959
Speaker 3: All right, well it's that time.

1455
01:05:52,120 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 4: Well thanks everybody, We will be back.

1456
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 2: Philly Show will be back this week.

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01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 3: Smelling Later, Boys, Smellia Je Smellia