WEBVTT - Celestial Oddities 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:15.080 Hi, everybody. 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:19.560 Welcome to another episode of the Philly Show with Ruben 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:23.720 Tomorrow Junior Jim Salisbury. I am Todd Solecki. It is Monday, 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.880 April eighth, twenty twenty four. Does everybody have their solar 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:30.840 eclipse glasses? Jim, I know you're gonna be in the 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.400 backyard today, right in your garden, peering up towards the sky. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:36.920 I don't have any glasses, so I'm not going to 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.279 be looking up there because you can. I mean, that's 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.479 not a myth. You can hurt your eyes. So unless 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.199 you have the glasses, be very careful. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:45.880 Ruben, you got your glasses. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.239 I have sunglasses, but I have special sunglasses. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.560 Don't be looking I actually. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:53.559 Would not be peaking at it. 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:54.000 I don't know. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.280 We're right on the edge here in Saint Louis because 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.800 I'm getting ready to broadcast these three games here, and 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:01.200 that's t. 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.200 L but. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.320 I think that we're gonna have special glasses on the broadcast. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.800 Oh that's cool, that's cool. I actually nerd it out today. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.440 I walked over the Saint Louis Library, well, the library 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:15.319 see if I could get. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.440 Some, and they're all out, so I will now also 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:18.800 not be. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:20.600 Where do you get them. Can you get them? 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.440 Maybe I'll go get some any eyeglass store now, but 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.319 I think as it's last minute, they're probably all all gone. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.040 So call your optometrist or whatever you call your eye. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.240 What is the actual when is the actual timing? 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.720 That's a great question. I don't even know, but it's 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:35.520 gonna be some point. 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.720 Today's when it when it comes to you're closing schools 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.200 and stuff. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.000 My son's getting out of school early. 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.680 When it comes to celestial oddities, Haley's comments my thing. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:46.959 So I'm just gonna wait for that. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.160 Okay, that's fantastic. I don't know when that's coming around, 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:51.800 but I'm gonna I'm gonna keep an eye on that. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.760 You did there, Well, that's oddities. 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.800 Phillies take two out of three this weekend in d C. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.800 They lose this year finale on Sunday three two. They're 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.440 four and five. I thought we should start with something 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.680 that's kind of been a hot topic topic of conversation, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:17.040 which is the Phillies' base running. They have made twelve 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.760 outs on the bases this season, which leads major League Baseball. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.840 It is four more than any other team. They've been 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.600 caught stealing six times, they've made six other outs on 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.079 the bases. Kyle Schwarber got doubled off at first base 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:37.360 yesterday and I thought Rob Thompson said something interesting yesterday. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.480 Asked him what do you do about this? And he said, 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.600 this is a tricky, complicated conversation to have with players 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.359 because if you start hammering them on, you guys need 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:50.000 to be smarter. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.639 You guys cannot start. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.000 You guys can't get thrown out taking extra bases. Then 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.839 they lose their aggressiveness. So now tonight, what you don't 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.560 want to happen is you have a guy stop at 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.680 second when he could have gotten a third. So I 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.360 guess I want to start with Ruben because you are 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.079 the base running coach with the Red Sox and the Mets. 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.520 So put yourself in Poco Figureo's shoes right now. 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:13.839 You need to clean it up. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:18.160 But you don't want them to lose their aggressiveness. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.919 What what do you say? What's your message? 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.040 Well, the hope is that they went over this stuff. 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:24.720 You know, I talk. 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:30.040 I'm pretty adamant and very It's something I'm very passionate about, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.480 is the base running, because I think it sets the 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:33.840 tone for your organization. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:35.840 I think it sets the tone for your team. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.280 I believe that it can change the game in a 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.480 lot in a lot of ways. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.080 And you can win championships. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.560 So Kennissey Rules basically Run won a championship on their 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.160 base running in twenty fifteen. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:50.400 I think it was and. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.360 I think it's just a a sort of a mindset. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.320 It's one thing to be aggressive, it's another thing to 0:03:58.320 --> 0:03:59.520 be aggressive. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:00.920 And dumb on the base path. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.480 And they just I mean, they have some veteran guys 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.600 in that on that team that are not making, you know, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:11.080 very good. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.160 Decisions on the base path. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.839 I always would want my team to air on the 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:22.559 side of aggressiveness because getting that extra ninety feet means 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.160 a lot, especially with as many strikeouts as there are 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.880 on the on every game, if you can figure out 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.040 a way to get another ninety feet somehow, that can 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.680 translate into another run or two. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.360 So I think that's important. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.120 That said, and I know they have eleven bags, which 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.599 is good, ranks them pretty high in the National League. 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.960 But the fact that they have been thrown out six 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.440 times not good. The fact that they've been picked. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.800 Off, especially on a left lefty a couple of times on. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:59.560 Like first moves I just feel like, you know, there's 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.760 a level of concentration that's not quite there. I would 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.159 assume that they worked on this stuff in spring training, 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.800 but doing rob tops and did say something about, you know, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.800 this is sort of being on him. It's because maybe 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:13.920 they didn't work on it, or they didn't set the tone. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.039 I know, every year when I was a player in 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.480 the Phillies organization and then when I was a coach, 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:24.400 we would go what we would call around the horn, 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.640 and basically, you know, John Vukovich went through based from 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.440 home plate all the way around the home plate, all 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.440 the responsibilities you have as a base runner. And that 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:37.200 was something that. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.000 Was really near and dear to me. And when I 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:39.560 did it with. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.520 The Boston Red Sox, did it with the I did 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.880 it with the Mets. The Mets they had never done 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.000 anything like that, so they were it was like. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:50.480 New news to them. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.120 But I, Brian Butterfield and I were worked on the 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.560 with the Red Sox, worked on the. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.599 Base running stuff. 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.000 At nauseum in UH. 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.440 In spring training, and we were all on the same page. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.599 Man, we were you know, old kind of old school 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:09.280 about it, and and I think it's just repetition. I've 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.160 seen I've seen. I've seen us do some things already 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:13.640 this year. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:14.800 Fly balls in the. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.480 Outfield with nobody out and not tag up and advance, 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:23.200 not make the right decisions going halfway or tagging up. 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:24.280 That kind of stuff. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.520 That's stuff that's fundamental, stuff that should not ever happen, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.840 especially for this team that's been around a little bit. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.000 You know, these guys are you know, they're not. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.359 Oh they're not rookies. There's only one rookie in the 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.440 lineup in Rojas, and I want that guy to be 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.560 as aggressive as hell. So I just think it's a mindset. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.240 I think that they're not concentrating well enough. And you're right, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.120 there is a fine line because you don't want to 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.680 you don't want to say, hey, uh, you know, got 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.320 to be a little smarter. Well, I think it's more 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.279 about just paying attention. You got to pay attention and 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.400 understand the scoreboard and understand the score and do what 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.400 you're supposed to do, and know where the fielders are 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:09.480 when you check. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:11.160 Get on the base path. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.720 It's not about whether I got a hit or not, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.400 or you know what. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.840 The deal is. It's about concentrating on scoring a. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.920 Right Now, did you hear those two. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.880 Yeah, are those two? 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.560 No, we're having technical difficulties somehow, Rubin had a. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.200 We had some realities. Yeah, it wasn't for me. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:43.880 So Rubin. I I remember those sessions with John Vukovich 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.360 fondly because we're both very fond of the late great 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:49.200 John Vukovich. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.360 Yes we are, but I. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.320 Mean they were they were like a signature day in Clearwater. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.400 Today is camp vuk Er vuke one on one right, 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.160 and he would you know, start off, play first base, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.560 second base, I mean, where to hit the bag and 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.280 stuff you learn a little league, but you have to 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.440 you know, turns and stuff and where to look picking 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.960 up balls. Stuff you learn as a kid. But you know, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.040 even at the major league level, it has to be reinforced. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.560 I like, you will always err on the side of 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:24.280 aggression because I think it's not a good thing when 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.760 an athlete, almost at any level, is afraid to make 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.200 a mistake. All of a sudden, you're tentative. And when 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.920 you're tentative, you actually make more mistakes. It becomes like 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.440 they're reverse. So you know, the importance an extra ninety 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.160 feet is huge. I think they stressed that a lot 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:41.880 in spring training. I think coming out of spring training. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.920 It's on their minds and it sounds simplistic, but just 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.520 you know, do it the right way. And I think 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.440 this is a small sample size. I think it's going 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.560 to level out. I think they're going to be all 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.560 right there. But just don't lose your aggressiveness and don't 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.880 be afraid to make a mistake. It's it's a really 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.840 really fine line. I mean, the guy who's the most 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.200 daring on the basis is Harper. Occasionally he will do 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.680 something that you like sitting upstairs and you're like, you know, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.000 why did he do that? Clearly he's trying to do 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.760 too much, being too aggressive, trying to carry a team 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.360 on his all on his back. Remember that mistake that 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:22.160 Travis Jankowski made a few years ago, Yes, on second bag. 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.600 I always and I still feel bad for him on 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.720 that because he hadn't played a lot. He was like, 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.960 you know, a reserve guy. They put him in. I 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.640 think the pinch run they you know, he needed to 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.520 move up ninety feet. It would have really helped if 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.280 they and he wanted to be aggressive. He read the 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.160 ball down, it gets lost in the catcher's equipment, it 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.880 blends in his dust, you're trying to do too much. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.160 You know, you're getting in the game for the first 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.880 time in a while, you want to make a difference, 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.800 and next thing you know, you're just a little bit 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:53.120 over aggressive. But even though that was like his signature 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:58.960 moment here, you know, he's. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.280 A good base he's a good base runner. Yeah, it happens. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.200 I just feel like it's a level of concentration. 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:09.520 It's another level of concentration that at at least in 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.480 the early part of the season, just. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:12.240 Like anything else. 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.120 And I think it's part of like not getting enough 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.440 reps in spring training. If you're not on base in 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.920 spring training and then you're trying to do certain things that. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:30.360 You haven't done since last October, it's it's a little unwieldy. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.360 It's it's like you practice things and if you don't 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.920 do them in a game situation and you don't get 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.240 to do them a lot during the course of the spring. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:40.839 And a lot of guys, there's some guys you don't 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:41.720 even get on base. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:46.240 During spring and Ruben tell me if I'm wrong, you 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.400 got practice, You've got spring training. When the lights go 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.520 on and the third deck was on, the game moves 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.160 even faster so you're trying to take that extra ninety 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.280 feet and that split second is the difference between you 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:03.120 being bang out or safe. The game moves that much 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.840 faster in the regular season. I just think I don't 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.920 think it's gonna last all year. I think it's kind 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.440 of an adjustment thing. But does the game move faster 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.679 in regular season, Well. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.280 It does, And even more so with with you know, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.560 when you can make you know, calls based on the video, 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.000 like those bang bang plays. 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.600 You might have been safe, you know ten years ago, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:27.840 you're no longer safe. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:33.360 Right Well, you know there's replay and stuff like that 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.079 that that that factors in as well. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.120 And I think everything that you guys just said you 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:38.920 don't want you want guys to air on the side 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:45.600 of aggressiveness is important to say because yesterday again social media. 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.440 Rob Thompson has to send a message, he has to 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.720 bench these guys when they make a mistake. That gosh, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.720 that would be such a massive overreaction. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:53.160 You know. 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.280 Kyle Schwarber after the game, I went up to him 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:56.600 and I said, you know, can you tell me what 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.920 happened that play? Just said totally bad read in my part, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.240 totally bad reading my part, and the second thing is 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:06.240 I wouldn't have been able to get the third base anyway, 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.360 so I don't know kind of what I was doing there. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.200 But he said, you know, I've got to you know, obviously, 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:12.080 I've got to. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:12.480 Clean it up. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.480 And Rob also has said he's like, and I can't 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.120 find these numbers, but he thought they started slowly last 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.480 season too, in terms of making too many mistakes on 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.160 the bases, and then they did clean it up as 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.360 the season went on and they finished Abut they finished 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.079 about middle of the. 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.880 Pack in baseball and outs on the bases whatever that is. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.360 So they also put a lot of guys on the 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.640 bases as well, so that might factor into those numbers. 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.240 I think they got better and better. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.520 I generally view them as like a good aggressive base 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.640 running team, but not when you're running into outs. I mean, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.439 we talked about uh, we talked about harp. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.560 You know. Sometimes he reminds me of Scott Rowling. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.080 I'm going to run till I'm out, and I you. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.840 Know, you'll you'll love the aggressiveness, but you also have 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.560 to have to have some you have to have some 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.000 prudence as well. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.400 Spencer Strider is out probably for the season, a huge 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.400 blow for the Braves. Shane Bieber is out, but you know, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.360 the Strider one obviously has greater implications for the Braves 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:18.080 and for the Phillies and mean, I guess I'm just wondering, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.719 you know, do you guys, what do you guys think 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:27.199 about Strider going down and this uptick in UCL injuries 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.720 over the past few years. You know, so the league 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.960 and the Union going back at each other over the 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.719 over the weekend. You know, I don't think it's any 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.960 secret that the velocity going up and up and up 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.480 over the years has correlated with the increase in UCL injuries. 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:44.319 What do you guys think? 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:51.679 Well, you know, the velocity is a product of guys 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:57.319 training to throw harder and pushing their bodies further and further, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.840 and their body just their elbow, their arm up in 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.800 able to hold up to the stress and the exertion 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.080 level of trying to throw it harder and harder because 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.839 there's pressure to throw it harder and harder. It's how 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.240 you get noticed in the showcase circuit. It's how you 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.880 get a college coach to come look at you. It's 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.680 how you get a scout to drive two hundred miles 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.520 and fill out a report on you. And it's the 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.800 same for hitters. Power dominates the game. It's the reason 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.800 we see the elevated or the you know, the the 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.520 bat path with the launch type of angle. It's the 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.120 reason we see less line drive approach, power, power, power. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:38.080 It's intoxicating. But you know, I, you know, the art 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.400 of pitching has been replaced by the desire to just 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.400 blow up by people. But I feel bad for Strider. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:44.800 I feel bad for the game. You know, I love 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.440 the game. I love watching that guy pitch. I love 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.400 watching him go out there with those Martin sant Louis thighs. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:51.440 You can look it up. Todd. 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:54.240 Is he a hockey player? 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.520 I like to call him Eric Heiden. 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.560 Eric Heiden is a good get. Rubin nice. You were 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.400 watching the Winter Olympics. I don't watch. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.920 Hey, how about Dan Janssen. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:10.240 Dan Jansen, he's a Wisconsin You guys remember Rick Kelling, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:11.880 right handed, big strong, right hander. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.000 What about Albi Lopez? How about those calves? 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:19.080 So I thought, But Stryder drives off that rubber. He's 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.480 fun to watch. Yeah, I mean last the last two 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.400 years he led the majors and strikeouts, and he spent 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.040 part part of that time as a reliever. A big 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.720 blow to the Braves. I mean they were twenty six 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.080 and six in his starts last year. It's a big blow. Uh. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.640 That said, I'm sorry to see him go down because 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.440 you want your best players on the field. I'm sure 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.200 that in that Phillies clubhouse they're sorry to see him 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.080 go down because you know, any competitor worth his salt 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.200 wants to bang heads with with another competitor who's at 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.640 full strength. But yeah, I mean, you can't be naive. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.520 Braves have lost their best pitcher, maybe the best picture 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:55.360 in boseball. 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:57.240 You know. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:02.200 The Phillies' they're aware of that. They're gonna face him 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.640 five less times this year, and it's it's it's it 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.760 could be to their advantage. But that said, the Atlanta 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.240 Braves are a professional unit. They know how to win. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.120 They really know how to win. And I'm not just 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:20.000 talking about recent years. I'm talking going way back over 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.920 the last generation really, so you're gonna have to be 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.080 your best to beat him. But it's it's definitely a blow, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.120 and it's sad. It's sad to see Bieber go down. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.400 This epidemic of elbow injuries is really sad, and it's 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.520 it's it's it's the crisis for the game. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.640 I'm gonna get on my stub box, guys. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:40.960 I might it might be a while. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:43.080 We get a stop watch. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.080 Yeah, here's the issue. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.040 I think people who don't really know the game have 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.280 affected the game in a really negative way in this 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.200 regard we drive, we have weighted balls, we have drive line, 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.080 we have stuff that has created and jimmuted it and 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:58.880 nail on the head. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.400 I mean, everybody's worried about. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.359 Velocity and spin rate and forgotten how to the art 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.960 of pitching, and everybody's worried about trying to hit the 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.280 ball in the air and drive the ball out of 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.520 the ballpark. And we've lost our way with regard to 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.080 what the game of baseball is supposed to be and 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:16.719 how it really should be played. 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:17.480 And we've got. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.720 People who are now taking over the game, who running 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.000 the game at the major league level and all the 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:28.199 way down, who don't really know the game and feel 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.399 like the biomechanics of the game are you should be 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.120 changed because you know that's the way to have success. 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.360 Well, guess what, there's. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:42.200 A billion dollars of people on the IL right now 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:47.880 because of it. The body cannot biomechanically take the sort 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:52.119 of pressure that is created by the velocities and the 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:56.720 spin rates and the way you're twisting your joints and 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:01.439 your soft tissues in your ooints to be able to 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:02.240 withstand any of this. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.359 And this is the result. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.919 And so we allowed people who don't really understand the 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.560 game take over the game, and this is. 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:11.200 What you're gonna get. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.320 And so it's so disappointing because you want the because 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.359 the athletes in this day and age are better than 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:19.040 they ever were. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.520 I mean, it's ridiculous from a decade ago till now. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.000 These guys are big and strong and fast and unbelievable, 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.600 but they're not taught to play the game the right 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:36.440 way because what's become more important is, you know, biomechanics 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.639 and that kind of stuff, and not the game of 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:42.199 baseball still a game of baseball that is unique to 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.280 any other sport. And so maybe the cricket as close 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.920 as you can get, and that's pretty damn popular too, 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:54.960 but that that's a real problem because you want. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.840 To have the best athletes on the field that fans deserve, 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:02.800 that you deserve it. And I think this has really 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:07.320 created a situation where now when you go to a 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.520 baseball game, you're not going to see Garrett Cole, You're 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.280 not gonna see Spencer Strider, You're not gonna see Uri Perez, 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.960 You're not going to see Bieber. And it's disappointing now 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:20.600 for the Phillies on for their part, when you start 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.359 looking at what you know, guys like Aaron Nola, who's 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:29.840 as durable as hell, and Zach Wheeler, who is now 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:34.320 learned over the last several years how to pitch without 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.840 his great velocity, to move the ball, to cut the ball, 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:40.480 to keep the ball off the. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:41.479 Barrel, to pitch. 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:43.400 I love it. 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.879 And the same thing with a guy like even Christopher Sanchez, 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.600 same thing. I mean, they didn't have a great out 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.280 in his last outing, kept the team in the game, 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.120 but he was one of the most consistent guys because 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.720 he's learned how to pitch and throw strikes. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.159 Wheeler still brings it. He's just kind of easy velocity, 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.160 beautiful Anne's easy velocity and everything looks to He's got 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.879 a big, tall frame, big strong man. It fits his frame. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:08.880 He's not a grunter and a groaner. 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.640 No, there's so much maximum effort now in a lot 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:17.280 of the pitchers that that maximum effort is causing real problems. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.359 I don't know if it ever goes back, because I 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:24.440