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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Howie Roseman.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Philly.

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Speaker 3: Show tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky. It's a Philly Show.

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Speaker 3: It's Friday, September fifth, twenty twenty five. Hope everybody is

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Speaker 3: doing well. Everybody's in a good mood. On Friday in Philly,

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Speaker 3: Phillies beat the Brewers Thursday afternoon series finale. They who

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Speaker 3: took two out of three against the best team in

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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. And then the Eagles of course when

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Speaker 3: they're season opener Thursday night at the Link. It was

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Speaker 3: an interesting game before it even got going interesting game.

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Speaker 3: I'm watching the game and I'm like, did Jamien Crowdter

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Speaker 3: just spin on Dak Prescott?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: He did, Yes he did.

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Speaker 4: They found it way though, they said this was the

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Speaker 4: season of great expectorations.

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Speaker 3: DM.

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Speaker 5: I see what you did there. That's pretty funny.

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Speaker 6: I will say this, first of all, there's no place

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Speaker 6: in any sport or any time to do anything like that.

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Speaker 5: It's apparently it's a retaliatory move. Attack.

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Speaker 6: Apparently spin towards it, you know, Jalen Carter, and he

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Speaker 6: retaliated by spinning back at him.

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Speaker 5: Childish. Can we see some growth please? Have a little growth.

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Speaker 3: I've never been spit on. I've never spit on anybody.

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Speaker 3: I was watching the game of my kids. I said,

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Speaker 3: that is like the worst thing you could do to somebody.

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Speaker 3: Please never do that, like we would never. So I'm like,

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Speaker 3: all right, good, don't don't do that.

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Speaker 6: Never an excuse to do that, not a good precedent

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Speaker 6: to sit, especially before the first snap or whatever.

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Speaker 5: The hell.

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Speaker 3: It was exactly right, but hey, you know, the Phillies.

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Speaker 3: Though they did beat the Brewers on Thursday to nothing,

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Speaker 3: they won the three game series. Like I mentioned, they

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Speaker 3: have a six game lead over the Mets in the

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Speaker 3: National League Eest. They have a three game lead over

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers for the number two seed. And if you

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Speaker 3: will really want to get crazy, think that something crazy

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Speaker 3: could happen this month. The only trail the Brewers by

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Speaker 3: Just wanted to throw it out there. It's a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a long shot, but crazier things have happened.

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Speaker 3: Thursday's episode, we asked you, our viewers, our listeners on YouTube, Apple,

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Speaker 3: Spotify for your Phillies questions, and you guys sent us

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Speaker 3: a bunch and let's get going, it's time for the

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Speaker 3: All right, let's just jump right into this. I got

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Speaker 3: a lot of questions based around this central theme, so

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Speaker 3: this this seemed like a good first pitch question. This

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Speaker 3: is from Michael Stark on Blue Sky and then Bennett

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Speaker 3: Brown seventy six on Instagram something very similar as of today,

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Speaker 3: what gives you the most confidence in this team's ability

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Speaker 3: to win the World Series? And on the flip side,

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Speaker 3: what is your biggest concern? Then Bennett Brown said, you know,

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Speaker 3: just do you think the Phillies have a chance at

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Speaker 3: making the World Series?

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Speaker 2: Go ahead? Rupe?

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Speaker 5: So I'm actually it's gonna be a strange answer.

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Speaker 6: I think that bullpen is the thing that makes me

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Speaker 6: the most confident right now. And I say that because

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Speaker 6: they had they got the best bullpen piece they possibly

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Speaker 5: In Joe on draw.

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Speaker 6: I think it's just so huge that he got this

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Speaker 6: that that they got that done, and it sort of

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Speaker 6: sets up everybody all the way down. I don't necessarily

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Speaker 6: think that it's the best bullpen, but I do believe

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Speaker 6: that it puts them in a position more so this

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Speaker 5: They did a really good.

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Speaker 6: Job in the last couple of games against the Brewers,

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Speaker 6: and that's what you can envision happen. Happening when they

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Speaker 6: what they might have to do. They couldn't do it

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Speaker 6: last couple of years, and I think that they have

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Speaker 6: a much better chance of getting that done this year

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Speaker 6: because they have Joan Duran in their bullpen, a guy

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Speaker 6: And the other thing that I will also mention is

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Speaker 5: Kind of defense in the last three or four years.

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Speaker 6: They've never had this kind of quality defense the outfield.

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Speaker 6: If you put together Max Kepler and Wright, Vader and

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Speaker 6: start thinking about how well the guys have played, particularly

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Speaker 6: the guy at shortstop, Turner has been outstanding. Harper's been

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Speaker 6: good at first. We know how good start is, even

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Speaker 6: though I had a little yet a little faux pas

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Speaker 6: in that series that rarely will happen, may not ever

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Speaker 6: defense and the quality of the defense and the quality

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Speaker 6: what gives me confidence that they can, that they can

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I have confidence that they can. They

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Speaker 4: can win the World Series. I think there's gonna be

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Speaker 4: twelve teams in the postseason tournament, and any one of

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Speaker 4: them can win it. I think it's really wide open,

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Speaker 4: but I think I think a lot of teams have

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Speaker 4: the talent to do it. It's about who plays well.

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Speaker 4: I know that sounds like crazy and simplistic. Who plays

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Speaker 4: well for three three and a half weeks is gonna

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Speaker 4: win the World Series, and the Phillies are capable of

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Speaker 4: playing very well for three weeks.

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Speaker 2: They have a lot of good pieces.

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Speaker 4: I love your point about the outfield defense, Rubin Zach

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Speaker 4: Wheeler is a big loss. Obviously, I'm concerned about the

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Speaker 2: That said, they still have a lot of talent. I've

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Speaker 4: Get hot for stretches and play really well in all

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Speaker 4: that for three three and a half weeks and raising

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Speaker 4: the trophy. In twenty twenty two, they got hot for

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Speaker 4: three weeks and got to the World Series. There's no

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Speaker 4: reason they can't. They have flaws, they have concerns. The

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Speaker 2: It's in their DNA. We know it's there.

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Speaker 4: If it rears its head at the wrong time, they're

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Speaker 4: going home. But they have the full capability to put

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Speaker 4: He's in a little lull right now and that might

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Speaker 2: So we'll see.

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Speaker 4: So, you know, I don't like I said, no slam

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Speaker 4: fully capable of Todd.

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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So my base concern is same thing, the hot

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Speaker 3: over the next three games. We've seen it happen in

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Speaker 3: So that's number one. That's that's a big concern, losing

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Speaker 3: Zach Wheeler. We spent Thursday, most of Thursday talking about

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Speaker 3: who's do they have a right handed starter that's gonna

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Speaker 3: they going to handle that? That to me is a concern.

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Speaker 3: But here's why I think that they can make the

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Speaker 3: World Series. Here's why I think they can win the

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Speaker 3: World Series. And Jim you mentioned this, it's a wide

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Speaker 3: open race. The Dodgers. They just got swept by the Pirates.

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Speaker 3: They just got swept by the Pirates. You know what

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers record is since July third, They're twenty two

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Speaker 3: League since July third. The Mets, after they swept the Phillies, lost.

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Speaker 2: Three of four to the Marlins.

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Speaker 3: Now the Phillies are playing the Marlins this weekend. The

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Speaker 3: Mets are thirteen and twenty one since July twenty seventh.

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Speaker 3: That's the third worst record in the NL natspan. The

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Speaker 3: Cubs are a five hundred team since July nineteenth. The

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Speaker 3: Padres just got swept by the Orioles. They're seven and

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Speaker 3: twelve since August thirteenth, and since the Brewers won thirteen

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Speaker 3: the Phillies at home. Since the Brewers won thirteen in

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Speaker 3: a row, they're eight and eleven. So that's my way

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Speaker 3: of saying, every team has flaws. So yes, the Phillies

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Speaker 3: hot and cold offense big considering going to the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: you don't know what you're gonna get. They could gay

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Speaker 3: it could get knocked out in the wild card series

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Speaker 3: that they finished with the third seed. That I mean,

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Speaker 3: I could very easily see that happen. I could see

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Speaker 3: them getting swept in the division series. But I could

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Speaker 3: also see the Dodgers getting swept in the division series.

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Speaker 3: The Brewers, you know, crapping to bed and getting knocked

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Speaker 3: out in the division series, the met the Cubs, the Padres.

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Speaker 3: Every single one of these teams has serious flaws. We

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Speaker 3: We don't talk about it. But I can tell you

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Speaker 3: that Dodgers fans are worried about their team. Padres Cubs Brewers.

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Speaker 3: Every team has concerns. Look at those records that I

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Speaker 3: just mentioned, and that's why I think the Phillies can

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Speaker 3: go on a deep run because they're talented, they got

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Speaker 3: good rotation, even with that Wheeler, They've got a good bullpend,

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Speaker 3: they've got a good defense. But like Jim said, they

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Speaker 3: just have to play well. So there you go.

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Speaker 6: There's no and lest we forget, you know, history does

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Speaker 6: repeat itself. Last year Jim talked about very adroitly talked

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Speaker 6: about the fact that the Phillies from like I don't know,

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Speaker 6: June fifteenth on were just a five hundred team, and

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Speaker 6: it reared its head in the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: They played like a five hundred team.

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Speaker 6: They just did not play well enough to advance and

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Speaker 6: they got beat up by the Mets.

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Speaker 5: So you just never know.

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Speaker 6: Now the tea a couple of years before that they

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Speaker 6: had gotten hot, and so they got an opportunity to

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Speaker 5: Because they were playing hot baseball.

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Speaker 6: It's about who's hot and who's playing the best baseball

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Speaker 6: at the time, and there's no super teams.

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Speaker 3: Fo u L. All right, we're back. Kevin Demico on

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Speaker 3: X asked a question kind of a postseason related and

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Speaker 3: or has me feeling a certain way? That's from Kevin

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Speaker 3: to Meek basically. I think he's kind of talking about

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Speaker 3: that in there. It's in their DNA. Jim the hot

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Speaker 4: Quintana does that to the Phillies. Man, he can get

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Speaker 4: Uh so I feel I feel you, I get scared

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Speaker 2: And I feel like he has made those changes.

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Speaker 4: So then maybe the numbers aren't aren't showing it. But

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Speaker 2: And I think if they get on uh you know, a.

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Speaker 2: I see improvement on the offense. I really do. Rubin.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I think this team has gone through some phases,

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Speaker 5: Let's be a little bit more athletic in the box.

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Speaker 5: And they have done that.

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Speaker 6: Now the numbers as far as their selectivity have gone

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Speaker 5: And I do believe that I see a lot of them.

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Speaker 3: They are trending in the right direction. So, Jim, I

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Speaker 4: Over the final I'm sorry interrupted over the final one

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Speaker 3: Right, So, the the numbers right now match up in

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Speaker 3: Their slugging percentage is man, I gotta do math forty

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Maybe they can knocked out in three games and nlds.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but they are trending in the right

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Speaker 4: When your slug goes up, you're it's connected to your

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Speaker 3: Donald C fifty eight on X says, can the Phillies

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Speaker 3: get away with a three man rotation? Phillies fans seventy

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Speaker 3: is there any way we can allow Aaron Nola to

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Speaker 3: start a postseason game at this point, lots of rotation

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Speaker 5: So let me get into this a little bit.

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Speaker 6: So I do believe, in my heart of hearts that

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Speaker 6: there's a lot of talk about, you know, him not

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Speaker 5: I like the way that he pitched.

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Speaker 6: He has to get command of his basketball. His command

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Speaker 6: And you know, if he can get that back, and

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Speaker 6: No, is he gonna be the third or fourth probably,

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Speaker 6: And that's where I think he's gonna land.

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Speaker 6: I just I have the optimism based on the person

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Speaker 3: That'd be huge, that would be absolutely huge. So red

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Speaker 3: Ranger swore has become a possibility. In the offseason. At

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Speaker 3: They're gonna let him walk. They can't afford all these guys.

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Speaker 3: They've got all these guys locked up for long term deals.

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Speaker 3: There's no way a Ranger comes back. Qualifying offer I

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Speaker 4: I'm sure the conversation on the executive level of the

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Speaker 4: So and you couple that all that with as good

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Speaker 4: as Ranger has pitched lately, and he's a joy.

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Speaker 2: To watch, he's when he's on you know there are

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Speaker 2: those questions about.

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Speaker 4: The track record and the and the durability that I

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Speaker 4: think you have to weigh over a long term deal.

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Speaker 2: In a perfect way, he take that.

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Speaker 4: That qualifying offer, but I think there's going to be

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Speaker 4: a nice payday for him out there. So I think

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Speaker 4: it has changed the conversation. But at the end, I

446
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Speaker 4: would think he'd probably be in a different uniform next year.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see.

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Speaker 5: I think so, I don't so. So here's where I'm

449
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Speaker 5: at on Ranger Suarez.

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Speaker 6: There's like two left handed starters who are going to

451
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Speaker 6: be free agents next year. One was Franbur Valdez, who's

452
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Speaker 6: now screwed himself by what he did in Houston to

453
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Speaker 6: his catcher, so he's put himself in a tough position.

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Speaker 5: And Ranger Suarez and.

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Speaker 6: Those two guys are probably the two best left handers

456
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Speaker 6: that are available for a free agency. And if someone

457
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Speaker 6: wants to go get either one of these guys, they're

458
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Speaker 6: gonna probably have to pay handsomely. You're talking about a

459
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Speaker 6: five or six deal. I would not do that for Ranger.

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Speaker 6: If you can get him on a deal that's like

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Speaker 6: a three year deal or something like that, that's a

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Speaker 6: quality deal. In the thirties, three years, thirty million dollars

463
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Speaker 6: a year, something like that, which is a ton of money.

464
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Speaker 6: But that's what these guys are getting these days. I

465
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Speaker 6: mean I would consider doing that. Anything longer than that,

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Speaker 6: I would not because of the because of the track record,

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Speaker 6: Jim and I think that, you know, they're gonna have

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Speaker 6: to think about other ways just to uh to figure

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Speaker 6: it out, figure out that rotation and hope that guys

470
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Speaker 6: like Painter will step up and maybe somebody else that

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Speaker 6: they might target later on.

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Speaker 5: So that's where I'm at on that.

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Speaker 6: I think the priority is still as Schwarber and JT

474
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Speaker 6: ahead of Ranger Suarez right now unless they can get

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Speaker 6: record Ranger in a shorter deal, and I don't think

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Speaker 6: that's gonna happen with us.

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Speaker 2: Todd.

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Speaker 4: Let just to kind of backtrack a teeny bit, uh,

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Speaker 4: these rotation questions are really good.

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Speaker 2: They would only need a three man rota in the NLDS.

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Speaker 2: They would only need the DS, which would which would

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Speaker 2: be their first round they would get the buy.

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Speaker 4: Their first round is the DS and they only need

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Speaker 4: three correct So as we sit here today, I got

485
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Speaker 4: to think it's.

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Speaker 2: The three left handers.

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Speaker 4: But if Nola, as Reuben said, you know, continues to

488
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Speaker 4: shows something down the stretch, maybe they alter. They would

489
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Speaker 4: not need that fourth until the nl c S if

490
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Speaker 4: they get there, and that's when you really have to

491
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Speaker 4: make the I would think that Nola or the Lozardo decision.

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Speaker 4: I think you're gonna go Sanchez Ranger one two.

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Speaker 2: Would you guys agree with that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And also I mean you would need a force if

497
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Speaker 3: the Phillies, of course, they finish as a three seed

498
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Speaker 3: and they have to play the Wildcard series and it

499
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Speaker 3: goes three games, then you might need then you might

500
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Speaker 3: need that fourth starter, you know. So you could technically

501
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Speaker 3: need that fourth starter in nl d S if they

502
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Speaker 3: don't get the first round by. But why the by

503
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Speaker 3: is huge, right, That's why the buye is huge. You

504
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Speaker 3: advance or round and you get to keep her three minute, huge, huge,

505
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Speaker 3: three three man rotation in the n l d S.

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Speaker 2: If I could, I want to ask Rubin something really quick.

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Speaker 4: You think the fromer Valdez incident the other night, which

508
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Speaker 4: was awful, a terrible teammate behavior, but you think that's

509
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Speaker 4: going to impact his free agency? I just think I

510
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Speaker 4: just think somebody's gonna say it. Was a you know,

511
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Speaker 4: it happened once. It was an isolated incident. He'll deal

512
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Speaker 4: with it in the press conference. Here's your big here's

513
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Speaker 4: your big contract.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm not there in spread rumors, but anytime a

515
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Speaker 6: person does something like that tip of the iceberg, I

516
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Speaker 6: think it's a tip of the iceberg. Okay, ways, my

517
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Speaker 6: understanding is that, uh, he may not be the best

518
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Speaker 6: actor in that clubhouse.

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Speaker 5: So h you know, I don't know now listen.

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Speaker 6: I mean, ultimately it's about performance, right, but you do

521
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Speaker 6: need to have quality teammates.

522
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Speaker 5: And if you don't have respect to your teammates.

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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting.

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Speaker 5: Let's just put it this way. It's made it very

525
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Speaker 5: interesting to see how it's gonna all play out.

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Speaker 3: Rubin the Eagles. They beat the Cowboys in the series

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Speaker 3: open on Thursday at twenty four to twenty we I

528
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Speaker 3: asked you for your hot Hot Eagles take on Thursday's show,

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Speaker 3: and wouldn't you know it?

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Speaker 5: You hit.

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Speaker 3: You said the Cowboys would the Eagles would win, but

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys would cover. They would cover.

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Speaker 2: Nailed it.

534
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Speaker 5: Great time to talk about that's right. If you want

535
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Speaker 5: to do some betting, I mean I should probably start

536
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Speaker 5: my own show. But you know, I'm not that expert,

537
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Speaker 5: but you know I was nailed it.

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Speaker 6: So anyway, but if you really wanted to really enjoy

539
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Speaker 6: doing some betting, uh, because a pro football regular season,

540
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Speaker 6: he is here in the burge back of that huge win.

541
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Speaker 6: There are a ton of games that are upon us hugely.

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Speaker 6: But more bet more than the score, bet passing and

543
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Speaker 6: rushing yards, player touchdowns. There's so much you can bet

544
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Speaker 6: on my team at the bet Parks online sports sportsbook

545
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Speaker 6: and casino has your cover because they basically help you

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Speaker 6: do any type of bet known to man. It's the

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Speaker 6: only sportsbook and app that I would ever recommend Betparks

548
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Speaker 6: dot com as terms and conditions and winners. You know

549
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Speaker 6: when you guys, you guys have a real great chance

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Speaker 6: to win. It's you know, it is one of the

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Speaker 6: best places to go and be entertained, Go have a

552
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Speaker 6: nice meal, go chill with your family.

553
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Speaker 5: And make some bets. It's it's really the best.

554
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 6: And you got to be twenty one in Pennsylvania, New Jersey,

555
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Speaker 6: Maryland and Michigan. If you do have a gambling problem, though,

556
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Speaker 6: you got to call one eight hundred gambler.

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Speaker 3: So this next question is from Gardner's Z forty five

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Speaker 3: on Instagram. And I'll answer this one really quickly because

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Speaker 3: I got the answer. Look, I had the benefit of

560
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Speaker 3: seeing these questions in advance, So I'll just answer this

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Speaker 3: and we'll move on to the next one. You think

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Speaker 3: the ten million dollar mutual option for Harrison Bader will

563
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Speaker 3: be picked up? I look this up. There were thirty

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Speaker 3: There were thirty four mutual options Jim in the last

565
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Speaker 3: off seasons. Not a single one was exercised. So either

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Speaker 3: the team or the player reject of the mutual option.

567
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Speaker 3: So unless Harrison Bader and the Phillies want to break

568
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Speaker 3: that trend, that three year trend, I would say that

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Speaker 3: Harrison Bader will be a free agent after this season.

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Speaker 3: And that leads us into several questions about what Rob

571
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Speaker 3: Thompson is doing with the lineup. Would you still run

572
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Speaker 3: the left field and second base platoon in the playoffs

573
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Speaker 3: or ot for the best defensive lineman every game? That's

574
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Speaker 3: from c tswe on Blue Sky. You can throw it

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Speaker 3: in the right hand right field platoon as well, Todd.

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Speaker 4: Would you would you if you were the Phillies, you guys,

577
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Speaker 4: would you pick up the the the Phillies and to

578
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Speaker 4: the Harrison Bader ten million.

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Speaker 3: I would I would do. I would too, I would

580
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Speaker 3: because ten and a half million is I don't want

581
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Speaker 3: to say a steal or a bargain, but for the defense,

582
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Speaker 3: and he gives you. You know, you don't know. If

583
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 3: you don't know, who's gonna be playing right field next year.

584
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Speaker 3: Max Kepler's a free agent. Nick Castianis might not be back.

585
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Speaker 3: I think that's fair to say. They've they've looked to

586
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Speaker 3: move him the past two off seasons, So you might.

587
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Speaker 2: Would I would.

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Speaker 4: If I was the Phillies, I'd be I'd be open

589
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Speaker 4: to my half of it. But maybe he wouldn't be right, right,

590
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Speaker 4: he want a multi year, right, Yeah, I would think

591
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Speaker 4: he would want a multi year that's usually right.

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Speaker 6: I mean you would think that he depends on how

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Speaker 6: a lot of depends on how he finishes and how

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Speaker 6: he plays in the playoffs. If he plays well in

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Speaker 6: the playoffs and he's good, obviously he's gone that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: If he has a bit, yeah, yeah, I would certainly

598
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Speaker 5: consider it.

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Speaker 6: I mean, there's nothing to lose ten million dollars in

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Speaker 6: the stand age in this day and age's pocket change, right.

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Speaker 3: Right, Exactly would you guys do you guys like and

602
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Speaker 3: this is a eighteen eighty three Philly on X. What

603
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Speaker 3: does a legitimate reason Justin Crawford never get called up.

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Speaker 3: I get the platoon of Marsh Wilson has been good,

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Speaker 3: but the Castiano's keplip of two is seriously lacking. For

606
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Speaker 3: a team that is so inconsistent on offense, why not

607
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Speaker 3: give the kid a shot? But I do want to

608
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Speaker 3: say before you guys jump in the right field platoon,

609
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Speaker 3: at least on the Max Kepler side, has been very

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Speaker 3: good recently. I mean Max Kepler in his last fifteen

611
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Speaker 3: starts is batting two ninety one, four doubles, three homers,

612
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Speaker 3: nine RBIs a five to twenty seven slug. You know,

613
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Speaker 3: he's been very very good.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget the the defense he brings us big has.

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Speaker 3: Been very very good, you know, the Marsh platoon and

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Speaker 3: Weston Wilson in left field. Marsh is hitting three hundred

617
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Speaker 3: since the start of June. Weston Wilson is a seven

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Speaker 3: to fifty three OPS in the twenty games twenty six

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Speaker 3: games he started, a nine to forty nine OPS in

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Speaker 3: the last eleven games he started. Harrison Bader has been

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Speaker 3: great since the trade deadline. You know, you talk about

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Speaker 3: the platoon at second base at Mundo Sosa has been

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Speaker 3: hitting lefties all season long. Scott has been better, especially

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Speaker 3: against righty. His ops is almost a thousand against righty

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Speaker 3: since August fifth run. I ride these platoons second base,

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Speaker 3: left field, right field, I run them all the way through.

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Speaker 5: Agree, Well, so here's the deal.

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Speaker 6: This Does this remind you a little in nineteen ninety three,

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Speaker 6: my friends, this is exactly the same platoon left field,

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Speaker 6: right field and second base, Mariotto, Duncan and Mickey Morendini

631
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Speaker 6: at second base.

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Speaker 5: In left field it was Inky and Milky and Milt Thompson.

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Speaker 6: In right field is eisen Reich in West Chamberlain And

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Speaker 6: I was sprinkled in a little bit, you know, in

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Speaker 6: a couple of different situations when some boys were hurt.

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Speaker 6: But I will tell you that that works, and it

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Speaker 6: is working, and it's working and it's not broke. Don't

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Speaker 6: fix it, and so I would be really happy with that.

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Speaker 6: I think it depends on some of the matchups left

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Speaker 6: these righties like that. But I got to believe that

641
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Speaker 6: at the end of the day, if this just continues

642
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Speaker 6: to work through September, and I think that that's this

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Speaker 6: is going to be employed.

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Speaker 5: I do believe that you should just stay right with it.

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Speaker 5: Why not.

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Speaker 6: It's not about hurting people's feelings, baby, it's about winning

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Speaker 6: baseball games.

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Speaker 3: And Casti has not been good, uh for for a

649
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: while now, but you need him to get going, so

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Speaker 3: he's going to continue to play. You know, you hope

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Speaker 3: that he gets hot. He is insanely streaky. He goes

652
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Speaker 3: to these he goes through these stretches where he is

653
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Speaker 3: like one of the worst offensive producers in baseball. He's

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Speaker 3: been like that before, and then he'll get crazy, crazy hot.

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Speaker 3: So you hope right now he's going through this dreadful

656
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Speaker 3: streak and then maybe in a couple of weeks he

657
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Speaker 3: gets hot and he can carry that through and you

658
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 3: have the kepler castianis thing going on right, and also

659
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 3: in your offense looks a.

660
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 2: Lot better, So no doubt that's what you can see coming.

661
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Speaker 6: The other thing is that Brandon marsh does a good

662
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 6: job off the bench. I mean, he's been chip numbers

663
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 6: are stupid. I mean, that's a hard thing to do.

664
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 6: So if you start Wilson and left and you have

665
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 6: a tough right end right and come in, you throw

666
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 6: marsh in there, let him whack away and then take.

667
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 5: Put them out there to the left field. Simple sounds simple.

668
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 3: So Tom Tom Robson on Blue Sky says, question for

669
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 3: Ruben from a GM perspective, what would you be doing

670
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 3: this time of the year. There's not really any more

671
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 3: moves to be made before the postseason, but there's still

672
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 3: a month to play. Where would your focus be right now?

673
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Speaker 3: So obviously there's no waiver trade deadline anymore, so, but

674
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Speaker 3: it is September fifth. What are you doing, Ruben? Are

675
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Speaker 3: you just uh he kicked up on the desk back,

676
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Speaker 3: you know.

677
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 5: Having a cigar, having a cigar, having a bourbon and

678
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 5: just watching baseball? That's it? No, I mean, obviously you're

679
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 5: assessing every single minute, like what you were going to

680
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Speaker 5: do in the playoffs.

681
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Speaker 6: You are preparing, you know, you get your scouts out

682
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 6: there to see all the teams that are potential playoff teams.

683
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 5: You're coordinating some of that and making sure that's happening.

684
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 6: You're keeping an eye on potential free agents for next year,

685
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 6: potential trade targets.

686
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 5: The job never ends, I will assure you.

687
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Speaker 6: I think that when you at the end of the day,

688
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 6: the game is like sort of the relaxing time where

689
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 6: you just sit there and relax. I didn't relax during

690
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 6: the games, but that's sort of the entertainment of your

691
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 6: job because you can't do anything about the games. You

692
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 6: can't impact the games right now, You can't impact the

693
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 6: roster a whole lot unless there's unless there's guys hurt

694
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 6: or what have you. But you're just observing the games,

695
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 6: and you know, preparing for next year and the following year,

696
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 6: and you're putting yourself in a position to prepare for

697
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 6: the playoffs as well.

698
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 4: So real quick, once the trade deadline comes, you got

699
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 4: your army of pro scouts. They're out there preparing for

700
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 4: the trade deadline. Trade deadline comes and goes. Now are

701
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 4: they They're focused on next year for this winter's free

702
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 4: Asian class, right, and then some of.

703
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 6: Them are some of them are are are are locking

704
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 6: into that, but others are actually starting to be deployed

705
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 6: for the playoffs.

706
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 5: We have two or three advanced guys.

707
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 6: Two or three of those guys are maybe three on

708
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 6: a team if it's if it's a real important team

709
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 6: and you don't feel good about maybe it's usually just

710
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 6: two a pitch guy who's focuses on pitching a guy

711
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 6: who focuses on on the offense.

712
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 5: You might have three in certain situations.

713
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 6: But yeah, you're getting out there and getting as much

714
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 6: information as you possibly can on the on the clubs

715
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 6: that you will possibly face, and you're getting your best

716
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 6: scouts on the teams that you know you're going to

717
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 6: be facing or you have much better chance of facing.

718
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 6: And uh, I mean you're trying to find out what

719
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,280
Speaker 6: size underwear these guys were. You want to find basically

720
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 6: everything there needs to be found out about something a

721
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 6: guy at tips, or a guy does something in the

722
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Speaker 6: batter's box, or.

723
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Speaker 5: There's something that they do that you can take advantage of.

724
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 5: And it's not just by video.

725
00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 6: It's also by watching the games and noticing what the

726
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 6: manager does and the tendencies and all those sorts of things.

727
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,800
Speaker 6: There's so many intricate, intricate pieces that are associated with

728
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 6: doing this because the one play, the one play and

729
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 6: the one piece of information that you can get may

730
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 6: when you eat world series. It could be the slightest

731
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 6: of things, but it may win you a World Series.

732
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 6: And that's why these guys are super.

733
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, the classic advanced scouting for the postseason story is

734
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 4: the Kirk Gibson home run off of Eckersley, the uh,

735
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 4: the Dodger scout, I think it was that was it,

736
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 4: Bob Diddier? He said, when Accersley gets I think it

737
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 4: was a certain count. I think it was three to one.

738
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 4: He tries to back me. Yeah, big famous scout. And

739
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 4: when Accursy gets to that count, I think it was

740
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Speaker 4: three to one.

741
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: I'd have to go back and look.

742
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 4: But he tries to backdoor that slider, and Gibson talks

743
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 4: about he could hear Diddyer's voice in his head, and

744
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 4: here it comes the backward slider and boom. And there

745
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 4: was another great story about the ninety three World Series

746
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 4: against the Phillies and the Jays. When Ricky was on

747
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 4: second base, driving Mitch crazy. Mitch would slidestep and and

748
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 4: throw a certain pitch and that helped Carter a little bit.

749
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 4: I think Gordon Laky was the Jay's advanced guy then,

750
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 4: so interesting stuff.

751
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 3: Oh that's interesting.

752
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 2: Well, then he came over.

753
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 4: I remember talking to Wade forever. Yeah, I remember talking

754
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 4: to Gordon about that. I'd have to go back and

755
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 4: refresh my memory, but that stuff is really interesting. I'd

756
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 4: hate to see that stuff go away because everybody relies

757
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 4: on video now.

758
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,720
Speaker 5: It's uh, it's great stuff, really good and important.

759
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 3: We'll wrap up with a couple off the beaten path.

760
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 3: Questions are Red Mustang on YouTube wants to know if

761
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 3: you guys were able to have a walk up song,

762
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 3: what would you pick?

763
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 2: I had one? Yeah, what was it?

764
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 5: I was you two one?

765
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 2: There?

766
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 5: You two one?

767
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 2: Interesting?

768
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 5: I don't know what.

769
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 6: I had a great rift, had a great rift in

770
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,760
Speaker 6: the beginning, and as I walked up only briefly, only briefly,

771
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 6: because that was just when they were starting doing some

772
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 6: of that stuff.

773
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 5: It was like what ninety seven, ninety six, ninety eight,

774
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 5: something like that.

775
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 2: Yeah. I used to love one, uh.

776
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 3: Good one.

777
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 4: Scott Rowland was where the streets have no name by

778
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 4: you two. I used to love watching al Lighter when

779
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 4: he was with the Mets. He'd warm up to Rosalita.

780
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 4: I thought that was great because he was from the

781
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 4: Jersey Shore area. I don't know what I would use.

782
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe a little maybe a little zeazy top rough

783
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 2: boy you got.

784
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, I don't know what I

785
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 3: would pick. It's funny. My my my son is playing

786
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 3: fall baseball. Just it's like Savannah Banana style baseball, and

787
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 3: it's very you know, it's just like just to kind

788
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 3: of keep the kids out there and active and having fun.

789
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 3: It's really grilled towards fun and not just like you know.

790
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 3: And they asked him to pick out his song, and

791
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: he picked out He goes, oh, Ain't No Love in

792
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 3: Oklahoma by Luke Combs right away, wow, because we saw

793
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: the movie Twisters and he loved that song. And then

794
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 3: there was a stretch where he would just play that

795
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 3: in the song that played that song in the car

796
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 3: all the time. He's like, I want eight and no

797
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 3: Love by in Oklahoma.

798
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 2: Like okay, So.

799
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 3: There you go. The Anthony Zorzi on X the broadcasters

800
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 3: through the years have referenced friendly wagers on the sausage

801
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 3: race during the annual Milwaukee trip. Any interesting wagers or

802
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 3: traditions amongst the beat writers in different cities.

803
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 2: Boy, yeah, we used to do that, the prop bets

804
00:39:58,680 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 2: to open the season.

805
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, we would do like prop bets in the past,

806
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 3: like you know, over under home runs for Bryce Harper.

807
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 3: You know, how many when does so and so make

808
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 3: his major league debut?

809
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 5: But so and so go on the I L.

810
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: And so and so called up things like that.

811
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, how many wins, how many you know, how

812
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 3: many how many strikeouts does so and so have you know,

813
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 3: So we would have some fun with that. And then

814
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 3: back in the day there was the no hit pool. Jimmy,

815
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 3: remember that. Somebody would have a backup card.

816
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 2: There are certain cities.

817
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 4: You go to Cincinnati, there was a guy in Cincinnati

818
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 4: who would always be in charge with the no hit pool,

819
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 4: and I swear he would do it in the bottom

820
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 4: of the first inning if the guy had a one, two, three.

821
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 2: I mean a little too.

822
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 4: Early, but yeah, everybody throws five bucks and you pick

823
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 4: a number and a lot. I haven't seen the no

824
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 4: hit pool in a long time.

825
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, that kind of died They kind of died off. So, yeah,

826
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 3: you would have a deck of cards or you know,

827
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 3: ten cards or whatever, and if you pulled out the

828
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: jack or the joker, you had the pitcher. So you

829
00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 3: would win up the picture through the no hitter. If

830
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 3: you grab the eight card, the eight hole hitter was

831
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 3: your guy. And back in the day, if you grab

832
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 3: the ninth, the nine card, you were screwed because you

833
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: were you had drafted the pit the Phillies pitcher or

834
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 3: the up opposing pitcher to break up the no hitter,

835
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 3: and that you know, that almost never happened, so that

836
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 3: those were a couple for sure.

837
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 6: There was a.

838
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 4: There was a year I won't expound, but there was

839
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 4: a year when a writer actually ran in the sausage

840
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 4: range and the Phillies dugout found out that certain writer

841
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 4: was in the costume and they when he ran by

842
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 4: the dugout, they doused him.

843
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 2: They go, it was not me, that was yeah, that

844
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: was not you, Jim.

845
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 3: You didn't want to pull a Hammy. Kevin McConville on

846
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 3: Instagram says what kind of tomatoes is Jim growing? And

847
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 3: he wants to know any fall crops planned for the year.

848
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, Mike, peppers go right up into Halloween,

849
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 4: so and like my pole beans right up to Halloween.

850
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't really do like it's like sometimes

851
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 4: the cool weather stuff. I do most of that early,

852
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 4: like lettuce and stuff. But you know, some of my

853
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 4: butternut squash will go right into the fall. They're really

854
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 4: starting to pop now. And my tomatoes are very basic.

855
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 4: I do some San Marzano's and I do.

856
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 2: I do big boys, I do better boys.

857
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 4: I do beef steak, and I do a lot of cherries,

858
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 4: some red, some yellow, all all the basics basically.

859
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 5: And then, uh, Jim, I thinking, I love on your butternuts.

860
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 5: I love on butternuts pop.

861
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 2: Nothing like a good, good butternut pop. You know what.

862
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 3: We'll end there, We'll end there. That's a great that's

863
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 3: a great way to end the show. Uh, Phillies play

864
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 3: the Marlins this weekend. As you can see, Ruben's got

865
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 3: a nice little trapical background going.

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00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 5: I like it.

867
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 2: No golf, Reuben today.

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00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 5: Nah, I shut it down, shut it down, I shut

869
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 5: it down.

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00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're shutting. We're gonna shut it down now and

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00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 3: we will be back next week.

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00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 2: Smell your lated, boys, Jim.

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