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Speaker 1: What's up, messed up listeners. We have a very special

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Speaker 1: interview with you guys here today Alex Faust from Apple

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Speaker 1: TV doing the Mets versus the Phillies Friday night, last

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Speaker 1: Apple game of the year. First of all, Alex, really

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Speaker 1: great to have you here today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks so much for the invite, guys. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: it totally.

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Speaker 1: So big game coming up this Friday, Mets and the

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Speaker 1: Phillies and Citizens Bank Park, that Phillies in the thick

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Speaker 1: of the Wildcard race, home field in the Wildcard round

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Speaker 1: on the line. What are you looking for in this game?

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Speaker 2: Oh man, you know, beyond it being a rivalry game,

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Speaker 2: you know, I feel like Mets fans are gonna roll

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Speaker 2: their eyes when they hear this, But I feel like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Phillies are probably the most under the

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Speaker 2: radar team in the National League that that's that close

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Speaker 2: to a playoff spot. You know, obviously the Braves running

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Speaker 2: away with the division, you know, Cincinnati with what they've

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Speaker 2: done with their you know, young kids, the Dodgers with

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Speaker 2: the second half. You know, probably the Phillies and the

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Speaker 2: Brewers you know, don't see to be getting a lot

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Speaker 2: of crazy national attention, and yet you know, Philadelphia has

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Speaker 2: just been so quietly solid most of the year, and

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Speaker 2: you know, especially with Bryce Harper being healthy, and probably

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Speaker 2: the only thing that you know is that stands out

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Speaker 2: to me is just you know, Kyle Schwarber having it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, even with Trey Turner recently, like yeah, on that

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Speaker 3: crazy hot streak, and you start to see everything coming

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Speaker 3: together for the Phillies kind of like it did last year.

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Speaker 3: A little bit makes them a little bit scary. James

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Speaker 3: has been in my year for the last two years

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Speaker 3: about how dangerous the Phillies are, talking about them like

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Speaker 3: moving forward. Do you think that this is a team

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Speaker 3: that maybe has the opportunity to go back to the

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Speaker 3: World Series again this year?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I don't see why not. I mean, they have the

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Speaker 2: pitching to do it too. You know, it's not like

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Speaker 2: they've been world beaters in that department, but between Taiwan

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Speaker 2: Walker Aaron Noah have both been solid. You know, Walker,

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Speaker 2: Walker's put together a great year for phil Piladelphia, you know,

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Speaker 2: a little bit shaky lately, you know, but this team

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Speaker 2: is I see no reason, especially since Turner turned around, right,

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Speaker 2: you know, you remember the first half of the year

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Speaker 2: and just how he was in his own head and

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Speaker 2: turn around his season and frankly, get you know, get

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Speaker 2: that whole crowd on his side.

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Speaker 1: Totally talk about the crowd. We are gonna have a

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Speaker 1: nice big crowds at his bag Park, I'm sure on

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Speaker 1: Friday night. And this is incredible. Just think about the

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Speaker 1: fact that this team has to under the radar when

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Speaker 1: they're sneakily the defending National League champions, just to pull

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Speaker 1: out for a second, hopefully have some Philly fans listing,

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Speaker 1: hopefully you can anger them a little bit. We also

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Speaker 1: know you're a New York guy. If you had to

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Speaker 1: pick a team's represent the National League in the World

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Speaker 1: Series right now, who you got?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I mean, how can you pick against the Braves?

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Speaker 2: You know, I think you know, for for the great

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Speaker 2: second half of the year the Dodgers had, right, you know,

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Speaker 2: there's still flawed in many ways, right you know, you

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Speaker 2: look at all their pitching injuries and you start asking yourself. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 2: like who's who's going to get the ball in half

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Speaker 2: of these games? You know, and Kershaw's is up there

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Speaker 2: been for years now. You know, certainly they have the

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Speaker 1: No, it's it's gonna be tough to pick against them.

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Speaker 3: Just being able to have like that young core with

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Speaker 3: and kind of to bring it back to the Mets,

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Speaker 3: We're starting to see a lot of the Mets young

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Speaker 1: Which guy are you most excited to watch on Friday Night?

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Speaker 2: Uh? You know, it's an interesting question because I feel

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Speaker 2: like this team, you know, we're we're gonna be talking

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Speaker 2: lot about him. It's funny. I go back to when

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Speaker 2: So that'll be a fun throwback for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: You mentioned coming up doing games of Staton Ald Yankees.

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Speaker 1: For a few years, we've had a couple other announcers

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Speaker 2: Gosh, obscure job. I mean a lot of people know

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Speaker 2: I didn't start in sports broadcasting right away. I was

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Speaker 2: But interestingly, even though I do college basketball, college football,

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Speaker 2: ever did for them was an IVY League lacrosse game

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Speaker 3: How do you even prep for something like that, like

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Speaker 2: I don't even know, man. I like that was just

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Speaker 1: And here we are talking about lacrosse, baseball, football, basketball, hockey.

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Speaker 1: When you're going and doing different games in different sports

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Speaker 2: I mean, the guy who I really look up to,

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Speaker 2: I've had to over the years learn to simplify a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the Apple broadcasts have been fantastic since

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Speaker 1: We've been a big.

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Speaker 3: Fan of them, and they've had some really big moments

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Speaker 3: as well on these Apple TV broadcasts. Through your broadcasting career,

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Speaker 3: what do you think is your favorite or biggest moment

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Speaker 3: across everything again in your opinion, you pick whichever one

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Speaker 2: The man, I've been so fortunate to, you know, across

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Speaker 3: Course, and everyone will be able to listen to you

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Speaker 1: Nice again, Alex, Thank you so much. Everyone can listen

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Speaker 1: to Alex with the Mets Phillies Game seven oh five

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Speaker 1: this Friday night and Apple TV, and thank you for

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me guys,