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Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, this is our own Welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Rubin Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's Ale. It's the

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Speaker 2: Philly Show. It's Monday, June twenty third, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: We're back. They missed us, they had to, Did they

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Speaker 3: miss us?

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Speaker 2: We hope they missed us.

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Speaker 3: We hope we were missed.

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Speaker 4: We I don't know if anybody's picked up on the

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Speaker 4: pattern of the show, but usually we do a show

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Speaker 4: on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Today is Monday.

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Speaker 4: We do a show on Friday, and then we have

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Speaker 4: a midweek show.

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Speaker 2: No show on Friday.

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Speaker 1: We tried, We tried. We literally started.

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Speaker 4: We were a minute and a half into it and

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Speaker 4: I lost the internet at the house. Jim and I lost

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Speaker 4: power on Thursday and we were without power all weekend.

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Speaker 2: Jim, when did you get the power back?

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Speaker 5: We were exactly fifty hours, okay, and we lose it

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Speaker 5: all the time out here, and that was a halasious storm,

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Speaker 5: and I thought we were looking at at four days.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, fifty hours not bad considering some of the

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Speaker 5: past outages we've had.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got my folks know they both have generators,

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Speaker 3: but they were generating other parts of their homes more

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Speaker 3: vital ones.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, not.

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Speaker 1: All of them.

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Speaker 3: For people who think that you guys are, you know, misfits,

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Speaker 3: You're certainly not that.

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Speaker 1: I felt like we tried to do the thought out.

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Speaker 3: Of you guys. Felt badly for you guys. You could

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Speaker 3: have piled in it, you know, in the city with me,

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Speaker 3: but I had twenty seven other people there.

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Speaker 5: We tried to do the podcast Abraham Lincoln Style by

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Speaker 5: candle light, because I always heard that he studied by

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Speaker 5: candlelight deep into the night April.

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Speaker 2: We definitely could have done that.

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Speaker 4: I got power backer on the fifth inning on Sunday

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Speaker 4: Night's game, so the power came back. I fired up,

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Speaker 4: watched the last last three or four innings of the

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Speaker 4: Philly game. Had no internet, but we're back, which is great.

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Speaker 4: I'm glad to have AC back at the house. No

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Speaker 4: internet though, still, so I'm doing this from a hotel,

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Speaker 4: believe or not really. I rented out, I booked.

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Speaker 2: I booked it.

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Speaker 4: On Sunday for the family because the house is getting

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Speaker 4: so hot. I said, let's let's get a hotel. And

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Speaker 4: then I woke up no internet this morning.

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Speaker 2: Woke up my wife. I said, you haven't checked out

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Speaker 2: of the hotel yet, have you.

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Speaker 4: She's like, no, because they had come back last night.

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Speaker 4: I said, good, because I'm going back. She's like why.

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Speaker 2: I said, the internet's out.

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Speaker 3: A difference maker. See, that's a difference You're a difference maker.

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Speaker 2: I said, I gotta do the Philly Show.

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Speaker 1: Committed you committed to the to the show, and the fans.

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Speaker 3: Exactly appreciate it. I hope they appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: I hope we do.

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Speaker 4: We do. The Phillies, guys, they won two out of

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Speaker 4: three this weekend against the Mets. They have they are

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Speaker 4: now in sole possession of first place in the National

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Speaker 4: League East. Big weekend for the Phillies, of course, and

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Speaker 4: let's start right there with the Parks. First pitch, guys,

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Speaker 4: big weekend, as I said, for the Phillies. They take

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Speaker 4: two out of three from the Mets, sole possession of

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Speaker 4: first place in the National League East, and now everybody's

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Speaker 4: kind of like, you know, you know, are the Phillies

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Speaker 4: the favorites going down the stretch? Is it too early

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Speaker 4: to read anything into a series in late June? Where

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Speaker 4: do you think the Phillies stand right now coming out

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Speaker 1: Too early?

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Speaker 5: Too early to make any definitive reads. But I'll tell

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Speaker 5: you what, winning a series is a lot better than

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Speaker 5: losing a series. Because there had been this little narrative

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Speaker 5: kind of quelled that narrative for now with a really

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Speaker 5: good series win. I don't care when it is. I'll

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Speaker 5: always take a series win. But October is going to

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Speaker 1: We know that.

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Speaker 5: It's shaping up almost to be like a two team

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Speaker 5: getting swept up in City Field in April, and then

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Speaker 5: there's any little seed in the back of their mind,

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Speaker 5: they they destroyed it with a really good series win

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Speaker 5: at home. Crowds were electric, electric Sunday night, Sunday Night baseball.

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Speaker 5: That ovation they gave Lozara when he came off the

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Speaker 5: So it was a really fun on weekend and a

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Speaker 5: when two teams are gonna showdown for first place. I

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Speaker 1: Now they lead the division. So fun weekend.

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Speaker 3: So they win the rubber match on Sunday Night, and

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Speaker 3: these are the guys that are in the lineup. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Johann Rojas, Buddy Kennedy, Otto Kemp and EDMUNDOSSA.

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Speaker 5: Big right handed lineup against the lefty and we're going

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Speaker 5: But I mean, you're right, they've they've had this really

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Speaker 3: They really have, and they've you know, they've done this before,

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Speaker 3: It took us. I mean, he pitches really really well

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Speaker 3: and a half, so great decision. Guys performed, and Mundos

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Speaker 5: Play make managers look good. At Mundo Sosa made his

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Speaker 3: So little hangar, Yeah, he killed it.

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Speaker 5: of the season. And supposedly power numbers are a little bit

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Speaker 1: Pretty good showing by Kyle. Last few games.

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Speaker 5: He's really you know, he had that little downturn, but

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Speaker 1: Down some of his numbers.

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Speaker 5: Last four six for fourteen, two home runs, two walks.

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Speaker 2: He gets started a little slowly in June, but maybe

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Speaker 4: But I mean the Phillies are. They're a good team,

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Speaker 4: and I think, where are they going to finish in October?

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Speaker 4: I have no idea.

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Speaker 2: You know, they could get bounced out in the first round.

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Speaker 1: Again.

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Speaker 4: They also could go and win the World Series, and

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Speaker 4: I think people need to remember.

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Speaker 2: That, you know, the baseball. Baseball is a long season.

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Speaker 4: I was listening to the other day Ken Rosenthal in

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Speaker 4: the Fair Territory podcast, and he was talking about how

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Speaker 4: the Yankees had a stretch recently where they scored seven

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Speaker 4: runs in seven games, How they Podreys are under five

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Speaker 4: hundreds in mid April. How the Mets, Jim you mentioned it,

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Speaker 4: how they had a lead over the Phillies just, you

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Speaker 4: what eight out of nine, nine out of ten, you know,

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Speaker 4: the Phillies had that nine out of ten stretch. Teams

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Speaker 4: go through these types of things. So when the Phillies just,

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Speaker 4: I don't know what's going to happen. You know, are

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Speaker 4: And mean, look at that starting pitching staff right now.

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Speaker 4: I mean you would the Mets. David Stearns from the

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Speaker 4: he would just do backflips. You know, every team has

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Speaker 4: how well are you playing once the postseason starts, and

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Speaker 4: what kind of and how do the a Phillies maybe

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Speaker 2: They have Before the July thirty first trade deadline.

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Speaker 5: So you mentioned Mets rotation had really done a good

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Speaker 5: job for most of the season. Lately, you know, the

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Speaker 5: last couple of weeks really showing signs. They lost Senga,

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Speaker 5: they have other injuries, Manaya Montass, somebody else's.

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Speaker 5: I mean a lot of those, all those guys that

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Speaker 5: look for starting pitching at the deadline along with bullpen,

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Speaker 5: along with center field. Phillies could go for bat in

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Speaker 3: Hey, before we get going, I cry some Manco and

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Speaker 4: So let's go though, Manco Manco Best Week. Who wants

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start it off. I'm gonna lead off right off.

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Speaker 3: Get it, Jim.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to see some pitches though out of the

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Speaker 1: Worst of the Week.

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Speaker 5: First last night in the press box, Ruben Tomorrow wearing

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Speaker 3: If you guys would have seen my outfit, you would

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Speaker 4: I think I think Ruben is probably the the most

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I'd have to see the outfit, but

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Speaker 3: I'm sure somebody took a picture.

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Speaker 5: Tanner Banks. And you know why that was a big

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Speaker 3: And I like that call to him. It's very thoughtful.

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Speaker 4: Thirty four stakeouts, thirty four strikeouts, good, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: I like that. That's I mean, he's been fun big,

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Speaker 4: You mentioned Bryce and Stott, and he would have been

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Speaker 2: He gets better.

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Speaker 4: Not because he said what he said to Rob Thompson

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Speaker 2: I don't know what is going on, but he.

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Speaker 2: But that's Nick.

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Speaker 5: I feel like he's learning. I feel like this is

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Speaker 5: He's going to have nights like that. Control and command

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Speaker 3: don't have life in the zone, then the big boys

438
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Speaker 3: are going to get to it. And that's what's happening.

439
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Speaker 1: He had it that day against Pittsburgh, for sure.

440
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Speaker 3: He did, except it's not consistent and the ball he

441
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Speaker 3: hasn't been able to drive the ball down in the

442
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Speaker 3: zone as it was also a Pittsburgh team. I can't

443
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Speaker 3: hit right, but he was.

444
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Speaker 1: He was up that day and it was had finish.

445
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Speaker 3: But you know, I don't see it right now.

446
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be a big month for him in

447
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Speaker 4: a lot of ways. You know, Can he do what

448
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Speaker 4: you guys just talked about. Is he going to be

449
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Speaker 4: in the organization five weeks from now? You know, the

450
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Speaker 4: trade deadline's coming up to the Phillies trade him if

451
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Speaker 4: if he continues to struggle, does that make it harder

452
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Speaker 4: for the Phillies to trade him? If that's something that

453
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Speaker 4: they might be interested in doing, knowing that they have

454
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Speaker 4: Andrew Painter coming up down down the Pikes. So a

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Speaker 4: lot of a lot of the big month for sure.

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Speaker 4: For Mick Abel Jim. You mentioned earlier in the show

457
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Speaker 4: how it was.

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Speaker 2: Electric at the ballpark this weekend.

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Speaker 4: If he did not get down to the ballpark this weekend,

460
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Speaker 4: you could have swung by Rubin. You've done this before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awfully hot too, right, so you want to

463
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464
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466
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467
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468
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473
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Speaker 3: the state of the Art Excite Center, I mean, I've

476
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478
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479
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Speaker 7: It was simple I just clicked on which slab pack

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you did it awesome.

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Speaker 7: Now hold on is Robbin me outs in the Hall

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Speaker 7: of Fame. He's not getting any more rookie cards.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna stick with it for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: See at the price might start just going up a

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Speaker 6: Yep, you can track that, and of course if you

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Speaker 2: We are back Auto Kemp left field Sunday Night.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 4: How do we feel about auto Kemp and left field

517
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Speaker 4: Auto Kemp has been such a great story, you know,

518
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 4: for so many different reasons.

519
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Speaker 2: And now and now he's moving out the left.

520
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Speaker 4: Field, which he's only played I think seven games in

521
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Speaker 4: his entire minor league career. They all game this season,

522
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 4: very very little experience in left field. But he's he's hitting,

523
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 4: he's hitting left handed pitching. You got to get his

524
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 4: bat in the lineup. They need help in the outfield.

525
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,800
Speaker 4: So now he's going to platoon with Max Kepler a

526
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Speaker 4: little bit in left field.

527
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Speaker 2: How are we feeling about this?

528
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Speaker 4: Is this a less risk averse situation than when a

529
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Speaker 4: Phillies threw Reyese Hoskins out there? I mean he's more athletic,

530
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Speaker 4: of course, but how do we feel about it?

531
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Speaker 3: Oh, he's not Res Hoskins out there and left I'm sorry,

532
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 3: I mean he's not. I mean he can move around.

533
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Speaker 3: He had a tough play, very first play he had

534
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Speaker 3: to make, goes in the left center. I thought that

535
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 3: it was a ball that Johann Rojas should have gone

536
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Speaker 3: and caught, but he sort of let him die out

537
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,639
Speaker 3: there and left wabble center field and he stayed with it.

538
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: Made the play good for him. He is is I've

539
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 3: had a kid there's no question about it. I'm a

540
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Speaker 3: little surprised that he hadn't played a whole lot of

541
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Speaker 3: outfield at all. I know, you know, most most of

542
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Speaker 3: his life, he's been an infielder. All of his life,

543
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Speaker 3: he's been an infielder. I'm just surprised that somebody hadn't

544
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 3: thrown on the outfield glove on this guy earlier in

545
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Speaker 3: his career, just to you know, mess around with it.

546
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Speaker 2: Right.

547
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Speaker 5: Well, he was, you know, he most in high school.

548
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 5: You always your best player is going to play shortstop.

549
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 5: So he was probably the best player on his high

550
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Speaker 5: school team. And he went to a Division two team

551
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Speaker 5: and he was probably the best player there, I'm sure,

552
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Speaker 5: and they kept him in the infield, didn't you maybe

553
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Speaker 5: diversify his skill sets? I mentioned on the last podcast,

554
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Speaker 5: I think he would have been well served going behind

555
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Speaker 5: the plate at some point as a young man, because

556
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Speaker 5: I could see that positioning happening, as it's happened with

557
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Speaker 5: a lot of players over the years.

558
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Speaker 3: JT.

559
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 1: Real Mudo, Carlos Ruiz.

560
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Speaker 5: Rafee, Elmer John, all those guys were middle infielders. Anyway,

561
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Speaker 5: I'm eager to see how it works out there. He

562
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 5: did make that catch, last night over in the gap,

563
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Speaker 5: and you know, if he can just make the routine

564
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Speaker 5: plays and not become a liability out there, like the

565
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Speaker 5: chance of that being a very positive right handed hitting

566
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Speaker 5: half of a platoon with Max Kepler.

567
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Speaker 3: I think this.

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Speaker 1: Lineup's been begging for that all year.

569
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Speaker 5: A productive right handed bat in that platoon, and you

570
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Speaker 5: could have a pretty nice situation out there with Kepler

571
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Speaker 5: and the right handed bat. For now, it's out o

572
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Speaker 5: Kemp and I feel like he's going to get a

573
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 5: decent lookout there before the trade deadline, at which point

574
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Speaker 5: they'll realize they're determined if they have to address to Grant.

575
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Speaker 4: So I was just going to say that you kind

576
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Speaker 4: of asked my question, which was I believe last year,

577
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Speaker 4: you know, Weston Wilson was out there a little bit

578
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Speaker 4: in left field before the trade deadline and a you know,

579
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 4: they would ended up going out and getting Austin Hayes anyway.

580
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Speaker 4: So let's say for argument's sake, Auto Camp is fairly productive.

581
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Speaker 4: He's not hitting you know, thousand ops or whatever, but

582
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Speaker 4: he's been he's been pretty solid out in the left field.

583
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 4: He's catching the balls he needs to catch, he's he's

584
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 4: hitting left handed pitching solidly whatever however you want to

585
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Speaker 4: define that.

586
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Speaker 2: Do the Phillies then still feel like they need to

587
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 2: go out or what would you do? Do you still go.

588
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 4: Out and get a right handed hitting corner outfielder to

589
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Speaker 4: pair up with Max Kepler, or do you just put

590
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Speaker 4: all of your effort into upgrading the bullpen, well.

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Speaker 1: The gym do so?

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Speaker 3: I mean think a lot of it depends on the

593
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Speaker 3: trajectory of the team where you feel they need to go.

594
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Speaker 3: And as far as like the long term aspect of it, Yes,

595
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Speaker 3: they want to win in twenty and twenty five, but

596
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 3: they're going to have to give up a lot to

597
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Speaker 3: get this reliever, and they don't have a lot to

598
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 3: give up in their system, and so when you start

599
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Speaker 3: thinking about getting two pieces, that's even more difficult. And

600
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Speaker 3: if this guy can play left field well enough so

601
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Speaker 3: that they can platune he and Kepler out there, I

602
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 3: got to believe they're going to continue to put their

603
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 3: their eggs in that bullpen basket that because it's a

604
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 3: far more important piece of the pie. I think that

605
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 3: they could probably get. You know, they'll find out whether

606
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Speaker 3: or not Otto Kemp can actually play left field. They're

607
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 3: going to find out this week because they're they're playing

608
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 3: too left handers in a very very tough place to

609
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Speaker 3: play left field. It's short, but it's weird. It's a

610
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Speaker 3: you know, the very short left field with a strange

611
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Speaker 3: angle in left center field. Uh So he's going to

612
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Speaker 3: have a you know, Paco figure Rod is going to

613
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Speaker 3: be working with him out there in that corner of

614
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Speaker 3: the of the ballpark here at daycon Field, Dacon, is

615
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Speaker 3: that what it is? Day something like that, Bacon, I

616
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Speaker 3: better figure it out before I broadcast. But the but

617
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Speaker 3: the reality of it is that they're going to have

618
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Speaker 3: to find out. And that's a great way to find out.

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Speaker 3: And it's a way to do it. You know. The the

620
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Speaker 3: we're in June, the division is not in the balance.

621
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Speaker 3: This is a good time for them to find out

622
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Speaker 3: whether or not Auto Kemp can be that right handed

623
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Speaker 3: back for them that they need to be able to

624
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Speaker 3: help this team win.

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Speaker 4: Right, They definitely have some decisions to make a couple

626
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Speaker 4: more things real quick. I want to mention that Bryce

627
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Speaker 4: Harper is traveling with the team. He is with the

628
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Speaker 4: team in Houston. He has been hitting, you know, taking

629
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Speaker 4: some swings in the cage. He's expected hitting the cage

630
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Speaker 4: either you know, tomorrow or Wednesday in Houston. So he's

631
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Speaker 4: coming back at some point. The fact that he's with

632
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Speaker 4: the team, maybe they just activate him at some point

633
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Speaker 4: on this road trip.

634
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Speaker 2: We will see.

635
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 4: And then Aaron Nola played catch in the cages on

636
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Speaker 4: Saturday and Sunday. If he responds well, he can begin

637
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Speaker 4: throwing again. His throwing progression this week on the field.

638
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Speaker 4: So I did want to mention that Jim you know

639
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 4: him well, Ruben, you knew him. Longtime baseball writer Scott

640
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 4: Miller passed away way this weekend.

641
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Speaker 2: Such a tremendous guy.

642
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 3: You know.

643
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Speaker 4: When I got on the beat into you know Scott.

644
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Speaker 4: For people that don't know, Scott used to work at

645
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Speaker 4: the he worked at the La Times, he worked at

646
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Speaker 4: the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. He's been writing recently for

647
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Speaker 4: The New York Times. He just wrote a book that

648
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 4: came out called Skipper, about why managers in baseball still matter,

649
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 4: are still important.

650
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Speaker 2: He's written a lot of books and.

651
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Speaker 4: Probably one of the nicest people I've met on the beat.

652
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Speaker 4: And I say this as somebody who in two thousand

653
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Speaker 4: and three I start to beat. I don't know anybody,

654
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Speaker 4: and Scott Miller was a national writer, very highly regarded,

655
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Speaker 4: could not have been friendlier, could not have been nicer.

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Speaker 4: Every time he saw me, he came up and asked

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Speaker 4: me how I was doing. And just a classy, classy guy,

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Speaker 4: you know, So he will be definitely missed. Really hit

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Speaker 4: me hard this weekend when I heard that he had

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Speaker 4: passed away. So Jim, I mean, you know you knew

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Speaker 4: him a lot longer, longer than me.

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Speaker 5: It certainly hit hard because you know, when you say

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Speaker 5: he was one of the nicest guys you ran into

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Speaker 5: as we travel the country following baseball, he was, I

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Speaker 5: mean just one of the nicest guys you ran into

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Speaker 5: when you when you saw him in a press boxes,

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Speaker 5: always smile on his face, always a big handshake, Always hey,

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Speaker 5: how you doing?

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Speaker 1: He always meant it.

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Speaker 5: It's a really good hearted guy and and a tremendous writer.

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Speaker 5: Loved reading him. He uh, it's hard to believe. And

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Speaker 5: you're right, I mean, he he brightened a lot of

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Speaker 5: lives and we just I was shocked when I heard it,

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Speaker 5: and I'm very very sad, and I offered my condolences

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Speaker 5: to everybody who loved him, including a whole lot of

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Speaker 5: baseball riders.

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Speaker 1: We can be u we can be kind of a

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Speaker 1: grumpy old bunch.

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Speaker 5: But when he saw Scott Miller, he put a smile

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Speaker 5: on everybody's face.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, we talk about reading faces all the time.

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Speaker 3: He's one of those faces that you love to see

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Speaker 3: every day. Right, Yes, he's one of those guys. When

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Speaker 3: you look at him, it's always happy, it's pleasant. He'll

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Speaker 3: be terribly missed. I didn't know him like you knew him,

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Speaker 3: but I had an opportunity, obviously to interact with him

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Speaker 3: on a number of occasions. And I think classy is

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Speaker 3: a great way to describe him, Todd, because he's always

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Speaker 3: been that way with me totally and was so God

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Speaker 3: blessed her at his family.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was always I mean, I just love seeing him,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell this story.

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Speaker 5: And it was twenty twenty two, and I'm not going

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Speaker 5: to get real specific, but it was twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 5: We were in Atlanta. Scott was working for the New

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Speaker 5: York Times doing sort of big picture national stories, and

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Speaker 5: he called somebody in the Phillies organization to interview him.

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Speaker 5: And this guy really didn't know him, and he asked

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Speaker 5: me about him and the guy in the Phillies are said,

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Speaker 5: this guy, Scott Miller told me about him. I said,

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Speaker 5: you should return his call. You should return his call.

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Speaker 5: You should talk to him. He will treat you fairly,

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Speaker 5: he will get it right. You should talk to him.

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Speaker 5: The guy talked to him. A couple of days later, say,

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Speaker 5: I talked to that guy.

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Speaker 1: He was great.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's great because that really is him.

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Speaker 2: I got it totally.

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Speaker 4: He knew baseball, he knew how to you know, he

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Speaker 4: was just a solid, solid baseball guy, tremendous writer, tremendous person.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, I wanted to mention Scott because he was

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Speaker 4: just one of the all time best.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Phillies guys open a three game series on Tuesday

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Speaker 4: night against the Astros in Houston. Whatever we're calling the park, Rubin,

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Speaker 4: you'll figure it out. I mean, be listening closely in

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Speaker 4: the broadcast on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 1: Don't call it by that name, Ruben.

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Speaker 5: Don't call it like what was it called Dikon Radish

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Speaker 5: Ballpark or something.

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Speaker 1: Don't call it that.

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Speaker 3: Dikon is d A I K I N isn't it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but like a Dikon Radish I always see it

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Speaker 5: on the Food Channel. Like I, I'm so tired of

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Speaker 5: these ballparks changing their names. So I actually adopted a

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Speaker 5: little bit of a personal.

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Speaker 3: Philosophy.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 5: But when I go to San Francisco, I mean, that

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Speaker 5: place has had like five names.

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Speaker 1: I never refer to it by its name.

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Speaker 5: To me, when I refer to that ballpark into the

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Speaker 5: Phillies one four to two last night at twenty four

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Speaker 5: Willie Mays Plaza. When I go to Miami, it's not

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Speaker 5: whatever they call it now, it's under the Big Top

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Speaker 5: in Little Havana. You guys, come up with something, how

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Speaker 5: about under the Big Top in downtown Houston. Enough of

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Speaker 5: this with changing names every five minutes.

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Speaker 3: Or the replacement of the Astrodome, how about that?

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Speaker 1: How about the Astrodome's uh, the Astrodome's.

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Speaker 2: Brother, a kid brother, the local Nines home field, but.

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Speaker 1: The ratless Astrodome.

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Speaker 2: I've heard many stories about the Astrodome back.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard about the astro rats?

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Speaker 3: You talk about them all when today?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we so so Tuesday, I'm gonna run through

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Speaker 4: the pitching matchups real quick. Tuesday is Ranger Suarez against Franbervaldez.

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Speaker 2: That should be a great one. Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: That's at eight ten pm Easternertouns back Man.

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Speaker 3: They're both pitching great.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Rangers been one of the best pitchers

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Speaker 4: in baseball. After his first start there Wednesday night eight

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Speaker 4: ten Zach Wheeler against Colton Gordon and then the series

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Speaker 4: finale on Thursday at two ten pm. That's an afternoon game, guys,

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Speaker 4: Christopher Sanchez against Hunter Brown, who has been absolutely outstanding

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Speaker 4: for the aster. Ye hear a under two, so the

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Speaker 4: Phillies bats have their work cutout for him. Guys, I

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Speaker 4: will talk to you later this week.

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