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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Philly Show.

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Speaker 3: Rubin Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's Lucky. It's the Philly Show. Friday,

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Speaker 3: July third, twenty twenty six. The Phillies survived a four

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Speaker 3: game series with a split against the Pirates. And I

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Speaker 3: say survived because I looked at the scoreboard in the

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Speaker 3: ninth inning and it said one hundred and five degrees

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Speaker 3: on the scoreboard. It's on Fanavision scoreboard. It Citizens Bank Park.

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Speaker 4: I think, Jim your sistical, Yeah, that was a juice

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Speaker 4: to gun. I think I think it was only one

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Speaker 2: I had one ten when I got in my car.

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Speaker 3: You had one ten. It was as uncomfortable as ever

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Speaker 3: been in a ballpark, I think, other than maybe Wrigley

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Speaker 3: Field in like twenty eleven when Royal over. Oh that

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Speaker 3: was a hot week. I remember I had, I had

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Speaker 3: pants on. I rolled my pants up and made him

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Speaker 3: shorts in the press box at Wrigley Field because it

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Speaker 3: was so hot.

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Speaker 4: Today are so heavy that night. Yes, it's unbelieved that

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Speaker 4: I remember. The funny thing was only like eighty five degrees,

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Speaker 4: but it was the most stifling eighty five degrees you've

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Speaker 4: ever seen in your life.

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Speaker 3: It was ridiculous. But the Phillies split this series against

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Speaker 3: the Pirates, put a bunch of runs up the first

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Speaker 3: three games, and then of course they score one run

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Speaker 3: on four hits on Thursday. But talking to Trey Turner

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Speaker 3: following Wednesday night win, guys, he talked a lot about

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Speaker 3: the offense. Don maddingly talked about a lot about the offense,

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Speaker 3: of course, because that was the second game this season

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Speaker 3: where they kind of jumped on Paul Skeens. He allowed

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Speaker 3: a career high eight runs against the Phillies on Wednesday night,

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Speaker 3: and Paul Skeens is pretty good, so they talked a

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Speaker 3: lot about it. The Phillies offense seems to be turning

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Speaker 3: a corner. I don't know what you guys think. I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna show you some numbers here. This is what the

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Speaker 3: Phillies did through April twenty six and Rob Thompson got fired.

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Speaker 3: They were twenty ninth in baseball and batting average, twenty

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Speaker 3: ninth in OPS, twenty ninth in runs per game under

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Speaker 3: Don Manningly through Wednesday, not including today, their fourteenth and

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Speaker 3: batting average twelfth in OPS, seventh and runs per game.

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Speaker 1: But in June.

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Speaker 3: Guys, they are seventh in baseball with the two sixty

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Speaker 3: sixth batting average, ninth with a seven to seventy eight OPS.

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Speaker 3: And they had this they were second in Major League

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Speaker 3: Baseball and runs per game in June. So my question

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Speaker 3: you guys, is is it hitting season? Are you? Are

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Speaker 3: you buying it? Are you a little less concerned about

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Speaker 3: the bats as August third approaches?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm a little less concerned about the bats just

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Speaker 5: because Trade Turner's starting to swing the bat a little bit.

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Speaker 2: He's becoming Trade Turner, so that's helpful. Marsh's had a

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Speaker 2: great year.

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Speaker 5: They've had major turnarounds from Alex Bohm was abysmal in

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Speaker 5: the first month, month and a half and he's turned

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Speaker 5: it around and he's picking it up, hitting the ball strong,

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Speaker 5: hit some home runs, driving the ball, almost pulled another

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Speaker 5: home run out of the ballpark off the top of

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Speaker 5: Nice to see him be able to do some things offensively,

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Speaker 5: and he's playing well defensively as in addition, so yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'm a little less concerned about but I'm even more

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Speaker 5: concerned about the bullpen and the rotation.

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Speaker 3: Ruben, you read my mind, my man, because I was

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Speaker 3: sitting next to jim to day in the press box,

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Speaker 3: and I think Jimmy and I were kind of thinking

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Speaker 3: the same thing as you kind of watch this game unfold.

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Speaker 3: You know, the bullpen has been used a lot and

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Speaker 3: all on run. Hell pitches four scoreless innings and you're

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Speaker 3: like five outs from this bullpen and it did not

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Speaker 3: go as planned. Jim, are you as concerned as Ruben

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I am. What we saw on Thursday and on Wednesdays,

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Speaker 4: their left handers had a lot of trouble. I mean

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Speaker 4: you look at Backus comes in the game, hits two guys,

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Speaker 4: faces three batters. On Thursday, hits two of them and

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Speaker 4: one of them forces home a run. Today, first battery

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Speaker 4: faces home run. Tim Mays has been very good this year.

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Speaker 4: He had a tough inning, gave up a couple hits

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Speaker 4: in a run to tie the game on Thursday. And Alvarado,

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Speaker 4: who was coming off like four scoreless looking like he

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Speaker 4: was getting it together. He has a tough inning, gives

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Speaker 4: Jose al Elvarado, He's not the lockdown shut shutdown guy

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Speaker 4: he was. I mean, the stuff is still really good,

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Speaker 4: but he'll have that game where he gives up two

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Speaker 4: he's your top left handed leverage guy. So yeah, that's

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Speaker 4: a concern. I just think they need more of those

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Speaker 4: consistent outings from him. Like I said, he put together

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Speaker 4: a few coming into Thursday, but you know, today just

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Speaker 4: got away from him. I mean, his the era is

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Speaker 4: over six giving up forty one hits in thirty one innings.

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Speaker 4: That's a lot. That's a lot. Comes more of a

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Speaker 4: concern as the games get bigger in the second half

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Speaker 4: comes on. So I look at pitching as a need

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Speaker 4: for Dave Dombrowski here in the final month as he

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Speaker 4: sort of scopes out what his priorities are at the deadline.

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Speaker 4: But they could use back end help in the rotation.

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Speaker 4: There's no question they could use leverage. It'll help when

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Speaker 4: they get Keller back, you would hope. But they could

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Speaker 4: also still use a bat in that outfield. So I

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Speaker 4: don't know which way he's going to go with his

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Speaker 4: limited trade chips. Just think you know the way the

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Speaker 4: offense swung it in June, and it's continued to swing.

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Speaker 4: It makes you feel like, okay, maybe a marginal bat

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Speaker 5: As an arm I have to say this, Alvarado, I

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Speaker 5: cannot trust He's got a six era.

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Speaker 2: I just can't trust him.

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Speaker 5: So he's not going to be a leverage guy for

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Speaker 5: me in the eighth, seventh, eighth inning for.

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Speaker 2: Me in October.

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Speaker 5: And you need someone the way he's pitching, and so

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Speaker 5: you definitely have to have somebody there.

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Speaker 2: Keller has to step forward.

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Speaker 5: The two guys that become the most important to me,

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Speaker 2: But if they don't require somebody, boy.

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Speaker 5: You're you are really relying on some big question marks.

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Speaker 5: Keller with his helf and he wasn't all that effective

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Speaker 5: when he was playing. He was decent, but then he

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Speaker 5: would get in the spells too. There's not a lot

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Speaker 5: of consistency, as he said Jim, so it's a real concern.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: What was as weird as a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: I think it was when Alvarado was talking after a

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Speaker 3: game game. Obviously he gave up some runs and he's

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Speaker 3: he made a comment like, you know, so many guys

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Speaker 3: now see one hundred miles an hour, and so now

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Speaker 3: they see that velocity that much. It was ruby. You

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Speaker 3: say this all the time the last couple of years.

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Speaker 3: You say, Alvarado is a big confidence guy. If he's

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Speaker 3: sounded like a guy that has absolutely no confidence in

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Speaker 3: what he is doing on the mound. When when you're

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Speaker 3: throwing one hundred miles an hour and you're getting hit

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Speaker 3: and then you say, well, I don't know, I guess

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Speaker 3: everybody sees a hundred nowadays. It's so yeah, I guess

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get hit now. That seemed that seems like

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Speaker 3: a gay Without a lot of comments. Don maningly talked

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Speaker 3: guess it may be a little bit made him a

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Speaker 3: little bit more effective. But yeah, they need to get

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Speaker 3: his confidence back. He needs to get his mojo back.

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Speaker 2: For sure. He's gonna have to be able to use

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Speaker 5: Everything's on the inside part of the plate, glove side,

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Speaker 5: glove side, glove side glove side. Everybody knows that they've

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Speaker 5: been seeing it for four or five years now, so

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Speaker 5: it's nothing new to people. Glove side, fastball, glove side,

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Speaker 5: and that's inside on the right handers. So if I'm

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Speaker 5: a right hand hitter, I'm cheating. I'm cheating on the

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Speaker 5: inside part and I'm gonna whack it. And if he

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Speaker 5: doesn't throw it to the right spot, that's why he's

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Speaker 5: gonna have to figure out a way to use the

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Speaker 5: arm side or the outside part of the plate against

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Speaker 5: right handers and give them a different look on the pitch.

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Speaker 5: It's it is classified as a sinker. So if it

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Speaker 5: is a sinker, then you can work on the outside

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Speaker 5: part of the plate and I could have some life.

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Speaker 2: It could be a difficult pitch.

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Speaker 5: For a right handedator if they're looking inside all the time,

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Speaker 5: but he hasn't shown the ability to do that.

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Speaker 2: So you're right about the.

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Speaker 5: Confidence stuff with Alvarado, And right now he's going through

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Speaker 5: some personal stuff with the Venezuelan stuff that's going on.

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Speaker 5: It's really affected him. He's a pretty sensitive guy. These

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Speaker 5: going through that, you know, stuff that he was going through.

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Speaker 5: He's sort of seemingly gotten through that stuff and now

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Speaker 5: I think it's the weight is off of him a little.

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Speaker 2: Bit and he's starting to play the way he can play.

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Speaker 5: So hopefully Alvarado gets to that point as well, because man,

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Speaker 5: they need him and I right now, me personally, as

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Speaker 5: and let's be okay with him.

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Speaker 3: what were you saying.

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Speaker 4: I'm just agreeing with Reuben that it's really leverage reliever,

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Speaker 4: late game reliever, shut down seven slash eighth inning guys

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Speaker 4: really emerging with a month ago before the deadline is

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Speaker 4: looking like a priority.

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Speaker 3: This, I mean, it really is going to be an

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Speaker 3: interesting trade deadline with the prospect capital that they have,

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Speaker 3: the different things you could make an argument for. We

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Speaker 3: actually did a fan pull on our ex account and

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Speaker 3: this is a few days old, but and this will

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Speaker 3: this is I think from like literally like late last week.

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Speaker 3: But fans fifty seven percent still want that right handed bat.

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Speaker 3: I think that is shock and bad memories of the

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Speaker 3: past few postseason scots of that offense. But the bullpen

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Speaker 3: right there twenty two point seven percent, and you have

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Speaker 3: the back end starter eighteen point five percent. But it's

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Speaker 3: really going to be interesting to.

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Speaker 2: The right handed bads. Trey Turner, folks, that's it.

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Speaker 5: He's the guy that's the right handed bat, and he

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Speaker 5: and Boem are the right handed bats that need to

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Speaker 3: He was pleased, he was pleased, He was not pleased

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Speaker 4: Well, he was short to the point and quite transparent.

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Speaker 4: And I thought that was the right decision. And I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Like like many things in the moment, I totally

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Speaker 2: I believe that his stuff was still there. It likened

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Speaker 5: I know, it wasn't nearly as important in a game

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Speaker 5: I didn't agree with, disagree with a whole lot of

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Speaker 2: That was one of them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, in this case, I still think that he had

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Speaker 5: I am If I am Zach Wheeler, and so had

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Speaker 2: Would have been right or wrong, I don't know, but

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Speaker 5: Made just because of who I think Zach Wheeler is

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Speaker 2: And I just think that he's just I agree with Jimmy.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the job of the manager is to make

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Speaker 3: Well, here's here's what Here's what Don Manningly said on

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Speaker 3: That's what the great ones do. But I still have

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Speaker 5: No, No, he tossed Dombrowski under the bus a little well,

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Speaker 5: I mean well, I mean here's a shot out there there.

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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's one hundred percent right now. In fairness,

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Speaker 3: there's nobody in any farm system that could replace Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 3: But this is not a There is not a farm

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Speaker 3: I mean, when they sent Andrew Painter down, it was

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Speaker 1: You're going, it's all.

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Speaker 3: In ron hell or nobody, And you know, so they

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Speaker 3: Zach Wheeler if he gets heard. If you lose Zach Wheeler,

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Speaker 2: So yeah, no doubt. Did Jim freeze up on us?

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Speaker 2: We lost Him's gone Jim. He lost Jim.

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Speaker 3: But I think so, Ruben, how would you? I mean,

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 5: No, No, he's been in, he's been he's been in LA,

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Speaker 2: No, you're good we got You're a hardworking man, Jim,

436
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Speaker 2: even on the off day.

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Speaker 4: But my internet is a little fuzz Why but this

438
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Speaker 4: might be our This is our last podcast before Saturday

439
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Speaker 4: when the old our teams will be announced, right, Todd,

440
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Speaker 4: And there's a little intrigue. I mean, Brandon marsh deserves

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Speaker 4: to be there. He's gonna be there. Very curious to

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Speaker 4: see if Bryce Harper, who has driven in runs in

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Speaker 4: eight straight games and now leads the team in RBI,

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Speaker 4: is very curious to see if he's in that game.

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Speaker 4: I suspect he will be, given that this is his

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Speaker 4: playground and he's having a very good season, tied for

447
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Speaker 4: tenth in baseball and OPS. But we'll find out Saturday,

448
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Speaker 4: and with that, we're gonna find out in the days

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Speaker 4: maybe after that, if he's going to be in the

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Speaker 4: Home Run Derby. I think that would be fascinating stage

451
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Speaker 4: for him to be on the in the Home Run Derby,

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Speaker 4: going head to head against in some way or battling

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Speaker 4: with Kyle Schwarber like they did in twenty eighteen. What

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Speaker 4: do you guys think?

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Speaker 3: I would love to see Schwerber and Harper both say

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Speaker 3: yes to the Home Run Derby. I believe that both

457
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Speaker 3: of those guys will make it on the roster. You

458
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Speaker 3: know that you got Freddy Freemant Metals. It's not great

459
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Speaker 3: their first basement the Nashley. But I don't see how

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Speaker 3: they cannot have Harper on that all star roster. Like

461
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Speaker 3: you said, tenthon ops twenty home runs and he just

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Speaker 3: get him in the home run derby. That will be

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Speaker 3: a fun night Monday, that Monday night, says to the

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Speaker 3: bank Park.

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Speaker 2: Baby, Hey, I got a quick I got a quick

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Speaker 2: comment about this. This is sort of intriguing.

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Speaker 5: Does the commissioner Can the commissioner choose special players and

468
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Speaker 5: he did with Meserowski last year? Is he have the

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Speaker 5: ability to like just say, hey, wave his magic wand

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Speaker 5: and say this guy's going to.

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Speaker 2: Be in the in Well, yeah, so here's here's how

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to all roll out. Hear me

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Speaker 2: out here.

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Speaker 5: Boys, You remember there was a little bit of a

475
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Speaker 5: tiff riff whatever you want to call it between Bryce

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Speaker 5: Harper and the commissioner and or was it maybe Mark

477
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Speaker 5: de Rosso or something like that, right?

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Speaker 2: It was what last year when.

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Speaker 5: They started talking about the salary cap and Bryce Harper

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Speaker 5: took kind of an exception to it. Well, here's what

481
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Speaker 5: I he is a really really good way to sort

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Speaker 5: of send out the olive branch. Bryce Harper doesn't get chosen,

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Speaker 5: isn't picked, but the commissioner picks him on the team

484
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Speaker 5: because he deserves it, because he's a showman, and that

485
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Speaker 5: helps develop maybe a little relationship between the commissioner and

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Speaker 5: Bryce Harper.

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Speaker 4: Just interesting. But I think Bryce Harper is having a

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Speaker 4: good enough season where he doesn't need to have a

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Speaker 4: bone tossed his way. He should be in the front.

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Speaker 2: No, he doesn't. But there's a lot of first basemen

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Speaker 2: who do deserve it over him. There's two third first

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Speaker 2: basemen who deserve it over him, are there not? Boy,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean you could say, I mean Harper's tenth in

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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball and ops, I mean Freddy Freeman is

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Speaker 3: obviously Freddy.

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Speaker 5: Or Freeman and Olsen are not are not ahead of

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Speaker 5: him as far as the statistical analysis of the game that's.

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Speaker 3: Concerned, right, I guess maybe if you look at war

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Speaker 3: and I have to check that out because that's the

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Speaker 3: encompassing number. But man, Harper's has a fantastic season. Fantastic

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Speaker 3: I had a great season.

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Speaker 2: And he does deserve to be on the All Star Team.

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Speaker 5: I don't think there's any question, but I just feel

505
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Speaker 5: like there's a good way for Baseball to bring it

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Speaker 5: together MLB and MLBPA.

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Speaker 3: He's got to be on there some way, shape or form.

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Speaker 3: With Schwarber, like you said, Jim marsh is going to

509
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Speaker 3: be on there. I wonder how many Phillies pitchers are

510
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Speaker 3: going to be on there. Sanchez to me is a lock.

511
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Speaker 3: Zach wheelersneak on. Does Juan Duran make it? Johan Deron's

512
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Speaker 3: gotta make it. He's one of the best relievers.

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Speaker 2: Of those three guys have to make the All Star team.

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Speaker 2: There is no question in my mind.

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Speaker 4: Wheels pitches Sunday, lines up to pitch Sunday, so that

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Speaker 4: might knock him right.

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Speaker 3: Oh, if he pitches Sunday, it might knock him off.

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Speaker 5: If he does pitch Sunday, it will definitely knock him off.

519
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Speaker 5: And then that that makes the decision to bring Harper

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Speaker 5: on a lot easier.

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Speaker 4: I think, yeah, he would get he would be named

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Speaker 4: to the team, get their all handshake, but you know

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Speaker 4: somebody else would be h I think I looked it up.

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Speaker 4: I think he's supposed to pitch on Sunday. He pitched Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: I think you're right, because.

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Speaker 5: He's pitching on He's pitching on Tuesday, Tuesday, and Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Right right, right right, because Sanchez is pitching Saturday, So

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Speaker 3: that would make him eligible to start the game potentially.

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Speaker 3: Do you give him the start over the Miz.

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Speaker 2: I do, and it'll be ridiculous to be doing. And

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Speaker 2: I think Dave Roberts is smart enough to do that.

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Speaker 2: I really do.

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Speaker 5: Mis got got on the team last year. He's gonna

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Speaker 5: have many, many opportunities to do it. It's his Philadelphia's team.

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Speaker 5: This kid has pitched unbelievably. He's got a zero point

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Speaker 5: eight five ERA at home. He deserves to be the

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Speaker 5: starting pitcher in the All Star Game. In my opinion,

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Speaker 5: it just makes sense.

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Speaker 3: I agree. And he did something historic this season, the

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Speaker 3: fifth longest score twice freak in baseball history, fifty and

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Speaker 3: two thirds innings. I mean, he did something that nobody

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Speaker 3: has done for a very long time. And so I

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Speaker 3: think for that reason you can make a st CA's

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Speaker 3: just on that alone, you could say he could do it.

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Speaker 3: But his numbers overall numbers are absolutely fantastic. So the

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Speaker 3: Phillies open up a three game series. They're off on Friday.

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Speaker 3: They open a three games right, Yeah, they're off on Friday.

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Speaker 3: They're off on Friday, opening rap around, wrap around the

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Speaker 3: old wrap around Saturday at eight ten as Usizzato. Saturday

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Speaker 3: Sunday at three o'clock Eastern is Aaron Nola, and then

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Speaker 3: one ten on Monday is Christopher Sanchez. Should be fun.

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Speaker 3: Fourth of July.

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Speaker 4: Now, nine game trip against two last place teams and

554
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Speaker 4: another team that's struggling. These three teams are thirty five

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Speaker 4: games under five hundred entering Thursday. The Phillies need to

556
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Speaker 4: chow down a little bit on this favorable portion of

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Speaker 4: the schedule before the All Star break.

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Speaker 5: And they played very well on the road in general.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think they're what ten or twelve games

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Speaker 5: over five hundred on the road, is that right? I

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Speaker 5: think they're at least eight games over five and I

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Speaker 5: don't know the exact numbers, but they played very well

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Speaker 5: on the road, and.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not easy, it's what is it.

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Speaker 4: On the road, they're twenty four and eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Well there you go, so six games over still good.

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Speaker 5: Which is pretty damn good still, And I mean I

568
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Speaker 5: exaggerated a little bit, but they need to play.

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Speaker 2: Well on the road. It's not easy, it's going to

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Speaker 2: be hot, it's in the middle of it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if the dog days are coming, and I

572
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Speaker 5: think they're starting to they're starting to feel a little

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Speaker 5: bit because they need that All Star break right now.

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Speaker 5: So it'll be interesting to see what happens in these

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Speaker 5: nine games. Hopefully that they can come out at least

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Speaker 5: five and four.

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Speaker 3: Jim, you mentioned showing down well, Rubin. Jimmy Rownds was

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Speaker 3: at the ballpark today and I caught Jimmy and Jim,

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Speaker 3: Jimmy and Jimmy chatting and do you know what the

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Speaker 3: first question that Jimmy Rowlands asked Jim Soulsberry about, how

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Speaker 3: is you?

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Speaker 6: Say?

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Speaker 3: How are your tomatoes growing? Jim? And so this we

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Speaker 3: haven't done this in a while, so let's do it

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Speaker 3: gardening and grilling with Jim.

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Speaker 4: Jim.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Rowlins wants to know how your tomatoes are growing?

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Speaker 4: And are your tomatoes?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how are you? How are the tomatoes growing?

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Speaker 4: Jim?

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Speaker 3: And And when Jimmy Rownds comes back into town for

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Speaker 3: their Alstar break, is there any shot that you could

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Speaker 3: give him some mimetos or is it gonna be more

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Speaker 3: for the Chase Outley Wall of Fame induction that you

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Speaker 3: might be able to bring a little sack.

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Speaker 4: Of Yeah, I think closer to Alumni weekend. So they're really,

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Speaker 4: you know, everything's a little stressed right now with this weather.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they love sunshine. They don't love phoenix, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean. This has been Phoenix the last

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Speaker 4: few days. I mean, how many how many times you

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Speaker 4: get set to go to Kansas City to cool off,

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Speaker 4: and that's what's gonna happen. But yeah, I'll probably I'll

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Speaker 4: bring them a nice tomato sandwich in August. But I

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Speaker 4: had a little bit of I'm a little troubled by something.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I think some of the plants that I

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Speaker 4: bought might have been mismarked. I like a nice, big

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Speaker 4: round slicer, and some of my tomatoes look, I look

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Speaker 4: like I have a lot of cherries, which you're fine.

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Speaker 4: I like cherries, but I'd rather have a lot of

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Speaker 4: big slicers, so I'll have plenty of them. But something

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Speaker 4: I have to deal with, you know, it's a personal issue.

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Speaker 2: It's a game of the game of adjustments.

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Speaker 4: I have to adjust. We met around each other way

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Speaker 4: too much. This heat is just burning up my Cilantro

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Speaker 4: and I do love the clan. That hurts me.

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Speaker 2: I love to Lantro.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you walk by it, it's like walking into a

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Speaker 4: Mexican restaurant. So nice.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, Jay, Ruben jim was telling Jimmy. He's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: come on over, I'll make you a belt.

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Speaker 4: It'll be great.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was good stuff.

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Speaker 3: But uh hey, h Philly Show will be back next week.

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Speaker 3: Stay tuned, though, don't go anywhere. Ruben's gonna hop off.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have NBC Sports Philadelphia's Rob Kessner jump in

627
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Speaker 3: and talk about some of the All Star stuff they

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Speaker 3: got going on. Cool shows going on at NBC Sports Philly,

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Speaker 3: lean up to the All Star Game.

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Speaker 2: Happy fourth of July, Happy Twndred and fiftieth. That's right, States,

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Speaker 2: that's right.

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Speaker 5: Happy birthday, Sofia, that's right, Sophia, she'll be twenty.

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Speaker 2: Wow, she's gonna be twenty five.

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Speaker 4: James, you're old. You're old, all right, Well, have a

635
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Speaker 4: nice night, have a nice night, birthday dinner with your daughter.

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Speaker 4: Happy birthday to Sophia before Ruben will smell you later

637
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Speaker 4: and we'll be right back Todd one. Alrighty, we're back

638
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Speaker 4: now here on the Phillies Show, joined by our good

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Speaker 4: friend Rob Kestner of NBC ten, and we got the

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Speaker 4: All Star Game coming up here, and it's a lot

641
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Speaker 4: it's baseball, but it's a lot more than baseball. Rob

642
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Speaker 4: is producing a series for NBC ten, Coca or NBC

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Speaker 4: Sports Philadelphia, et cetera. It's going to repair out a

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Speaker 4: bunch of platforms. It's called Calling All Stars. It starts

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Speaker 4: on Friday, it starts on Monday Night, right Rob, Monday Night, Monday.

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Speaker 1: Morning, Monday Morning, Monday Night a NBC ten. But thank you, Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: What a setup.

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Speaker 4: My god, I know, I know it's a labor of

649
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Speaker 4: love for you. And it's going to start off with

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Speaker 4: a look back at two thousand and six Ryan Howard's

651
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Speaker 4: home run Derby Championship. I can't wait to see it.

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Speaker 4: Tell us a little bit about the making of it,

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Speaker 4: what we're gonna see, and what the what the fans

654
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Speaker 4: are going to see?

655
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Speaker 1: All right, first of all, thank you for the setup.

656
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: And I just want you to both know I have

657
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: a lot of flow right now being on the show.

658
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: And if you think I'm making that, I have so

659
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: much flow being on the show, Like, did you trade

660
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: Ruben for me? Because that's a bad deal. Just so

661
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: you know, I would have kept Ruben, you know the option,

662
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: the optioned Rubin. Well maybe after that Ranger offer that

663
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: he had the other day, you know, you just get

664
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: rid of him Ranger for Painter. Now I'm kidding, Jimmy,

665
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: thank you for that. I appreciate it.

666
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 4: It is great to be with you.

667
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: I love, love, love the show. So this is a

668
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: lot of fun. So yeah, on Monday, Uh, it's going

669
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: to start our series calling All Stars.

670
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 5: Uh.

671
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: It's five part series, one every day.

672
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Speaker 2: Uh.

673
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: The goal of it when we started was kind of, look,

674
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Speaker 1: you guys know this because you've covered a lot of

675
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: All Star games, but an awful lot of people in

676
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: phill it Op you don't realize how big the All

677
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: Star Week, not just the game, not just the Derby,

678
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 1: but the week has become. So the idea was to

679
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 1: kind of show shine a light on that, show people

680
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff got to be fair. I

681
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: wanted to get things started with the home run derby

682
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: from twenty years ago, a because Ryan tells some awesome

683
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 1: stories about it and I don't know if you guys

684
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: were both there, but I will always had a front

685
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: row seat for it. It was spectacular but one of

686
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 1: the coolest parts in it. When we talked to him,

687
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: or when I talked to him, I said, look, I said,

688
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: people may not realize, but two things happen when you

689
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: won that Derby. One you want a house for somebody.

690
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,319
Speaker 1: That thing was sponsored by Century twenty one. And then

691
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: the second thing his last home run when he beat

692
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: David Wright in the home run, you know, the little

693
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: finale they had it hit a sign that said win

694
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: five hundred flights. So I asked him, I said, hey,

695
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: did you get any flights or b have you been

696
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: to the house And he said no, I didn't get either.

697
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: It's terrible and it was my rookie year, so I

698
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: could have used the flights. Yeah, it's fun, but uh,

699
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, after that, we have stuff, you know on

700
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,879
Speaker 1: the Jenny Finch Celebrity or the Jenny Finch All Star Game,

701
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: which if people don't know, that's an it's an amazing

702
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: event that's gonna be down an FDR Park. It starts

703
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: the Friday of All Star weeks, so next Friday things

704
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,720
Speaker 1: get started and that's some of the best softball players

705
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: and also in the Commissioners Cup, baseball players from all

706
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:37,240
Speaker 1: around the country. Uh, we're gonna have the HBCU Swingman Classic,

707
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: which Jimmy Rowins is managing. We've got local players playing

708
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: in an a Philly guy, and we're kind of showcasing

709
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: the Philly connections with Dave Simms calling the game and

710
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: Milt Thompson on the on the staff for Jimmy Rowins.

711
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: So a lot of Philly connections for that. And then

712
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: the other part is the MLB Draft. You know, that's

713
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: a relatively new ad to All Star Week. So that's

714
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: coming to Philadelphia, and our region features one of the

715
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: top players in this year's draft, Cameron Fluchi, a pitcher

716
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: from Coastal Carolina, who I know both of you guys

717
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: are big college baseball fans. It's in the College World

718
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: Series last year against LSU. So some really fun stories,

719
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: some really cool stories surrounding the All Star Week.

720
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Speaker 4: So Rob hearing about Ryan Howard in the six home

721
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 4: run derby I was there, was very exciting. I think

722
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 4: he hit six splashdown balls into the Allegheny and his

723
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 4: young son Darien was with him, you know, during the

724
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 4: whole event. On the field. And now Darien is a big,

725
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 4: big guy and he works for the Phillies and on

726
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 4: his screen faver on his phone is a picture of

727
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 4: him and his dad from that night in Pittsburgh. So

728
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 4: it was pretty cool.

729
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, every time you're not sure how old you are,

730
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Speaker 1: you get to see something like that, You're like, oh

731
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: my god, I'm one hundred years old and believe it.

732
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 4: And you mentioned the draft local kid fluky, but you know,

733
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 4: a few years ago the local kid was Kevin McGonagall,

734
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 4: and he is now the Detroit Tiger's best player. I

735
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 4: gotta think he's got a shot to be here. We're

736
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 4: gonna find out a little bit more on I guess

737
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 4: on Saturday whether he's gonna be in the All Star

738
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 4: Game right up the street from where he grew up.

739
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 4: I know you're close to him, You're close to the family.

740
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 4: You've done a ton of great stories on on Kevin McGonagall.

741
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 4: What do you think of his chances? And tell us

742
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 4: what you might have planned if he's here.

743
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: So I think he's getting in a much like you.

744
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: I feel like he's getting in. I mean, if you

745
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: look at it, he's number one in Major League Baseball

746
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: among shortstops and on base percentage. He's among the leaders

747
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: in hits, he's among the leaders in batting average. You know,

748
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: war if you believe in that, it's he's second among

749
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: all shortstops and all of baseball. So there's both the

750
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: analytics stats and the old timer stats that all just

751
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: kind of play in his favor. And you know, I'm

752
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: somebody that just believes if you can walk more than

753
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: you strike out in today's day and age as a

754
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: leadoff hitter, you're really doing something right. I mean, at

755
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: this point, it's just him and Juan Soto and it's

756
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: pretty heady company. So I do think he's getting in

757
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 1: as it relates to his involvement in the series. So

758
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: I went back to Dermant Field, the little league field

759
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: that he grew up playing on in Delaware County, shot

760
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: with his dad and two of his former coaches and

761
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: just kind of told stories about what it was like.

762
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: So I'll give you a couple that I really like.

763
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: So his dad, he said, you know, I really knew

764
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: he was special. I'm sitting there trying to watch a

765
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: Phillies game, and this four year old's just pestering me

766
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: with this little plastic bat He's like, Dad just throwing

767
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: me balls, throw me balls. So I'd be sitting there

768
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: and trying to like poke my head around, watch the

769
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,800
Speaker 1: TV and watch the Phillies. Meanwhile, my son's just you know,

770
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: ripping laser with this plastic batam thrown on the ball,

771
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: and the kid just didn't miss no matter what I throw.

772
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 1: This might be something for real, you know. And what's

773
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: funny is when I first really had a chance to

774
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: meet Kevin, he was a junior at Bonniprendi and so

775
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: we shot leading into I should say leading into his

776
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: senior year, when it was pretty clear he was going

777
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,760
Speaker 1: to be a top pick and all scouts and eyes

778
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: were on him. And he had actually played in the

779
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: All Star Game the prior summer. Leading into his senior

780
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: year in Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium, they had a

781
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: high school All Star game and I watched that game.

782
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: He ripped a laser to left off a kid from

783
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: Texas throwing ninety nine. And I'm like, nobody in the

784
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: Catholic League is throwing ninety nine, and this kid's turning

785
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: on that. He's pretty good. But when we did the interview,

786
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: his dad had told me, said, you know, he fashioned

787
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: his entire swing short, compact, direct to the ball, and

788
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: approach to the game, run off the field, run off

789
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 1: the field, like Chase Sutley. So I reached out to

790
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: your good friend of mine, Greg Castrioto. He made a

791
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: phone call and we got a little video for Kevin

792
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: that we surprised him with when we did the interview,

793
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: because we knew by that point he was going to

794
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,279
Speaker 1: be a pretty high draft pick. And he was just

795
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: blown away, like, how did you guys get this? You know,

796
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: and Chase was so good with him, so it was

797
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: really really cool, and it's been it's been fun. I mean,

798
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: you know, I had a chance. I figured because the

799
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: Tigers weren't coming to Philadelphia that a lot of Delaware

800
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,879
Speaker 1: County might make the trip to Baltimore. So I called

801
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:38,799
Speaker 1: his mom and I said, you know, hey, Trace, how

802
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: many people are coming? And I said, you know, you're

803
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: bringing friends, family. She goes, are you kidding me? I've

804
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,280
Speaker 1: had to do tickets for one hundred and sixty people

805
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: And that was a month before the actual game. By

806
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 1: the time it was over, close to three hundred people

807
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: had made their way from Delaware County down to Baltimore

808
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: to watch him play enough. The day we went, the

809
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: game got washed, it got rained out, which enabled Kevin

810
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: to come over to Pickles Pub the bar across the

811
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: street and hang out side some autographs and I have

812
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: a really good time. So it'll be exciting. But either way,

813
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 1: I mean, the Phillies play the Tigers for that first

814
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: game on Friday, so we will have a story on

815
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: Kevin one way or the other, whether he's an All

816
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: Star or he's just playing his first ever game against

817
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: the Phillies in the regular season next Friday. So it'll

818
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: be cool.

819
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 3: You know, It's funny, Rob, I live in Delco, and

820
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,479
Speaker 3: it's like just my kids are in the Little League

821
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 3: and just running into people's He's kind of getting that

822
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,720
Speaker 3: reputation of everybody has like a a Kevin mcgonagall's story,

823
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 3: Like my friend's cousins, you know, babysitter used to grew

824
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 3: up next to Kevin McGonagall, or I know a guy

825
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 3: who played Little League with Kevin McGonagall, or Kevin McGonagall

826
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 3: used to come into place all the time and get

827
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 3: his ogi's or you know all that stuff. It's pretty crazy.

828
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 3: And even at Little League this year, I've seen I

829
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 3: saw obviously you ninety five percent of everything I see

830
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 3: are is Philly's gear. But I did see a couple

831
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 3: Kevin McGonagall suerseys this year at little league.

832
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: Telling you they're all over the place. They really are. Yeah,

833
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: and it's funny you talk about those stories. Like his

834
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: sister is a dance instructor, and so they were having

835
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: one of the recitals that you would have and the

836
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 1: teacher stopped, the woman that ran the whole thing stopped

837
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: the entire ceremony. This was like three weeks ago. While

838
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,399
Speaker 1: they're the voting was still going on, and just said,

839
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: we're not sure if you know, but Carrie's brother is

840
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: Kevin McGonagall, and he plays baseball and he's got a

841
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,320
Speaker 1: chance to make the Major League All Star team. So

842
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: you need right now to go and vote.

843
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: So they had like a.

844
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: Thousand people at a local recital and they stopped the

845
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: recital to try and get people to vote for Kevin.

846
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,320
Speaker 1: Which is it just speaks to this area and the

847
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: way people are and how much we love sports, and

848
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: it's cool. It's really, it's really fun.

849
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Speaker 4: It's a huge bug here.

850
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Speaker 5: Rob.

851
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 4: I congratulations on the series. I know how much you

852
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 4: love the game. So I know it's a labor of

853
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 4: love and I can't wait to watch it. Just give

854
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 4: us the quick, quick, quick, the schedule again?

855
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: You got it?

856
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 4: When everything's gonna roll, go ahead, all right.

857
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: So Monday through Friday, all leading into All Star Weeks.

858
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: So July sixth through the tenth, every morning on NBC

859
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: Sports Philadelphia. Their show is Sports at Central, so that

860
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 1: starts seven and then on NBC ten every day in

861
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: our four o'clock news. So we'll run it plenty and

862
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,240
Speaker 1: obviously post it on social media as soon as everything

863
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:44,959
Speaker 1: airs on TV.

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00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 3: That's awesome, man, I'm looking forward to it. It would

865
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 3: be great, a great way to kick it off with

866
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 3: the Ryan Howard home run derby.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait. It's gonna be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: And look before I go, I just gotta say smell

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Speaker 1: you letter Jimmy. I always wanted to say it. I

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Speaker 1: know I don't want to steal anybody's thunder, but I

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Speaker 1: just needed to get that out there.

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Speaker 3: So I'll appreciate you know what, Rob, we appreciate it

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Speaker 3: coming on. So give jim one more smelly later. We'll we'll, we'll,

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Speaker 3: we'll wrap up the show all right, Jimmy and Todd,

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Speaker 3: Smell you later.

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