Speaker 1: Hi, this is jt ol Mute. Welcome to the Philly Show.
Speaker 2: Hey, it's Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky. It's
Speaker 2: the Philly Show. We asked everybody for their Phillies Spring
Speaker 2: training questions, and so let's jump right to it because
Speaker 2: there are a lot of questions. And if you're watching
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Speaker 2: some of these tweets you've gots from our awesome, awesome audience.
Speaker 2: Let's throw our first tweet up. It's from Philly w
Speaker 2: X guy. I don't know if that's Philly Weather guy,
Speaker 2: but because we have a decent rotation, do you think
Speaker 2: there is less pressure on Andrew Painter? If there is
Speaker 2: less pressure, do you think he will turn and show
Speaker 2: his full potential? What do you guys think? I mean,
Speaker 2: JT real Muto talked about that after Sunday start saying
Speaker 2: it was your question, Jim right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely think if you know, if you
Speaker 1: were a club counting on soon to be twenty three
Speaker 1: year old Andrew Painter who's never pitched in a Big
Speaker 1: League game, to be your number one or your number two.
Speaker 1: That comes with pressure if you're asking them to pitch
Speaker 1: at the back of the rotation, a rotation headed by
Speaker 1: Chris Sanchez number two in the cy Young last year,
Speaker 1: and jesus Lozardo, and Aaron Nola who's a veteran, and eventually,
Speaker 1: after a few weeks, Zach Wheeler, who's one of the
Speaker 1: best pitchers in baseball. I do think that eases some
Speaker 1: pressure on a guy. And I do think whatever you
Speaker 1: do in life, you do it better without pressure, because
Speaker 1: I think pressure can be an enemy. I think there's
Speaker 1: a difference between intensity and approaching something with intensity and
Speaker 1: seriousness and urgency and importance. I think those are all
Speaker 1: a little different than pressure, and people don't often folk
Speaker 1: function well with pressure. So I do think there is
Speaker 1: less pressure on him because of the staff, and I
Speaker 1: do think that can help.
Speaker 3: My feeling is that this kid, just having seen him
Speaker 3: and having watched him work, I don't know that he
Speaker 3: will really succumb to a whole lot of pressure. Yes,
Speaker 3: there's no question about it, that there's a automatic pressure
Speaker 3: to perform in Philadelphia, There's no question about it. I
Speaker 3: think he will feel that, and he will feel it
Speaker 3: is probably his entire career. I just don't know that
Speaker 3: he's the type of kid that will succumb to it,
Speaker 3: just because from what I've seen of him, he seems
Speaker 3: very mature. He seems very focused. I love his answers
Speaker 3: and how he handles the press. I like the way
Speaker 3: he handles himself on the mound and in his first outing,
Speaker 3: is any indication of dealing or feeling the pressure, I
Speaker 3: mean he handled it pretty well. So yes, there's always
Speaker 3: going to be pressure Philadelphia. Yes, it's great to have
Speaker 3: a decent rotation to work behind, but I think this
Speaker 3: kid will handle it well.
Speaker 2: You know, Jimmy, you asked him yesterday Sunday, you know,
Speaker 2: do you feel any jitters coming out there? He's like
Speaker 2: I thought I would, but actually I was surprised. I
Speaker 2: didn't really feel much at all. And he kind of
Speaker 2: spoke to his routine, how he keeps his routine. You know,
Speaker 2: he's very regimented and kind of how he prepares for
Speaker 2: a game, and you know, he puts a lot of
Speaker 2: trust in that. He talked about one guy that he
Speaker 2: has learned a lot from watching in camp this year
Speaker 2: and maybe back in twenty twenty three, was Aaron Nola.
Speaker 2: Because he sees how in tune with his daily routine.
Speaker 2: You know how important Nola's daily routine is. It's like
Speaker 2: you're watching the right guy, because I remember, you know,
Speaker 2: some people have back in the day compared Aaron Nola's
Speaker 2: routine and preparation between starts to Roy Halladay in terms
Speaker 2: of like how religious he was in terms of getting
Speaker 2: everything done. Now, Aaron's routine has changed over time, But
Speaker 2: the point being that you know, if you have that
Speaker 2: routine and you go into the game as prepared as
Speaker 2: he possibly can be. You know, I've learned in talking
Speaker 2: pitches over the years that does kind of take the
Speaker 2: pressure off you or maybe put you at ease a
Speaker 2: little bit, knowing that you've done everything you can possibly
Speaker 2: do to prepare to throw the first pitch of the game,
Speaker 2: and then the second pitch and then the third pitch,
Speaker 2: and be prepared for anything that might come your way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think those routines, those routines in that
Speaker 1: preparation rubs off on guys like you mentioned Doc Halladay.
Speaker 1: It rubbed off on Cole Hammel's and he was a
Speaker 1: different preparation beast after becoming a teammate of Dog Halliday.
Speaker 1: But I do think pressure exists, and I do think
Speaker 1: we see this team put a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: itself in the month of October, particularly the hitters. But
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I think Payter was this is
Speaker 1: where he belongs. He's going to be here, and hopefully
Speaker 1: he doesn't put any pressure on himself. Hopefully he breathes
Speaker 1: and let's it happen because he's a talented fellow.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's go to another tweet here. This is
Speaker 2: from Ben Quickly. This is all on X. I think
Speaker 2: they are still looking to add another starting picture. I
Speaker 2: talked to David and bro.
Speaker 3: I would think I would think.
Speaker 2: No, I was gonna say, I just I talked with
Speaker 2: Dave about this the other day. He said, yeah, we're
Speaker 2: looking for a starting pitcher, but it's based off of
Speaker 2: the way our rotation is set up more of an
Speaker 2: optionable type of guy, a guy that can go to
Speaker 2: Triple A.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I asked him specifically about Max Sure's or I said, well,
Speaker 2: Max sus are just signed for three million dollar deal,
Speaker 2: and from what I've read, there's kind of like this,
Speaker 2: how is he going to fit? Who's gonna go to
Speaker 2: make him fit into the rotation? And Dave basically said, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's that's not the type of guy we're looking for
Speaker 2: right now. And I I wanted to ask that because
Speaker 2: Lucas Giolito is still out there, Zach Lttel is still
Speaker 2: out there, so more of an optional guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that they're just looking for flexibility right
Speaker 3: now and they're looking for depth. They feel very confident.
Speaker 3: I believe that they're going to get Zach Wheeler within
Speaker 3: the next month or so, beyond the you know, after
Speaker 3: the opening day, and you know, I guess my feeling
Speaker 3: is that if they the one thing that they do
Speaker 3: need is some optionable folks who can or pitchers that
Speaker 3: can help them if they do have a breakdown somewhere.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's gonna be a big time name.
Speaker 3: I don't think that they're going to be spending a
Speaker 3: ton of money. That's not gonna happen, right, But don't
Speaker 3: be surprised if they have a couple of prospects they
Speaker 3: would consider a prospect for prospect type of a deal.
Speaker 3: And that's kind of depends on And that's why you know,
Speaker 3: scouts out there watching every single game in spring training.
Speaker 3: That's why it's important for you know some of the
Speaker 3: young players that are in camp right now to perform
Speaker 3: well because there might be a scout out there is
Speaker 3: looking for, you know, looking for a different type of
Speaker 3: a position or a different type of a player that
Speaker 3: might be of some interest and a movable object for
Speaker 3: the Phillies to try to add to that depth.
Speaker 1: I think I think the payrolls tight because they're over
Speaker 1: that fourth luxury text that is an impediment. I think
Speaker 1: everybody is looking for optionable starting pitching depth. That's another impediment.
Speaker 1: And Lattel and Gilido, I think are very content to
Speaker 1: sit back and wait for a contender to sustain an
Speaker 1: injury in spring training and that increases their leverage to
Speaker 1: make more money. And it also gives an opportunity because
Speaker 1: they're going to want to go somewhere where there's a
Speaker 1: real chance to start. So those I think that's where
Speaker 1: the Phillies kind of lay at this point.
Speaker 2: Triple A depth right now. Rotation is Alin Roun Hell
Speaker 2: Gene Cabrera, Tucker Davidson, Bryce Wilson. Those are some of
Speaker 2: the names that could be and the rotation triple A
Speaker 2: rotation to start the season. We'll see how it shapes up.
Speaker 2: Of course, this one is from first and foremost on X.
Speaker 2: Does there seem to be any get it done or
Speaker 2: blow it up type mentality amongst the players or even
Speaker 2: the front office, like there was a nineteen eighty or
Speaker 2: are we doomed to quote run it back forever?
Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna find out a lot.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find out a lot of stuff that goes on,
Speaker 3: obviously with the season that they have a lot of
Speaker 3: it will depend on how this season goes. I mean,
Speaker 3: if they're in the tank and it's July and they
Speaker 3: got no chance of getting out of it, you're gonna
Speaker 3: see some movement. There's any question about that. There's gonna
Speaker 3: be a shift one way or another. And a lot
Speaker 3: of it depends on how things finish off at the
Speaker 3: end of this year. Right now, they're help ben on
Speaker 3: winning a World Series. That's the goal. They're gonna be
Speaker 3: doing everything they possibly can to do. So. I think
Speaker 3: they have a very good team, a top five team,
Speaker 3: and I think in Major League Baseball, and I think
Speaker 3: they're gonna push as hard as they can to bring
Speaker 3: that trophy back.
Speaker 1: I don't sense there's a mentality in the room. We've
Speaker 1: got to get it done now or we're all out
Speaker 1: of here, because they're not all gonna be out of
Speaker 1: here because there's a lot of long term deals. But
Speaker 1: I think we all know that if it doesn't come
Speaker 1: to fruition this year, then there will be some corners
Speaker 1: of that roster that they can shake up, and I
Speaker 1: do believe they will shake shake more things up than
Speaker 1: they have this year or last.
Speaker 2: Ed Bauers on X what amount of money comes off
Speaker 2: the payroll next year? And how will that extra cash
Speaker 2: be spent on Lizardo, other free agents or extensions. So
Speaker 2: I did the math, Ruben Jim, I need you guys
Speaker 2: to check my math mentally, Okay, So here's who's coming
Speaker 2: off the books next year. You got Nick Castiano's twenty
Speaker 2: million dollars, he's coming off the books, Taiwan Walker eighteen
Speaker 2: million dollars, Jesus Lozardo eleven million dollars. He's a free agent,
Speaker 2: as we all know, Alec Bohm ten point two million,
Speaker 2: Jose Alvarado I think he's nine million, eight and a
Speaker 2: half or nine million, and then in Mundo Sos is
Speaker 2: a free agent at four point four million. I add
Speaker 2: that all together in my pardon me seventy five. Eighty
Speaker 2: two point six is what I got, eighty two point six.
Speaker 2: You're in the ballpark, though, I mean, what's you throw
Speaker 2: out seven million dollars? Once you get to that point,
Speaker 2: what's that, Ruben?
Speaker 3: Did you throw Alec Bohm's name?
Speaker 2: I did, Yeah, I got Alec Bohm. Yeah, Alc Bohum
Speaker 2: ten point two million. So you know you have eighty
Speaker 2: two point six million dollars coming off the books here.
Speaker 1: I mean the question included Lozardo's name, and that's quite relevant.
Speaker 1: They would like to get something done with him and
Speaker 1: extend the relationship. He's thirty years old, he's damn good.
Speaker 1: They they would love to get something done there, so
Speaker 1: I could see that happening. As far as what else
Speaker 1: is on their plate, they would like to move these
Speaker 1: younger guys in to balance out to pay roll and
Speaker 1: get some young legs, young talent on the roster. But
Speaker 1: I don't know what other ways they're going to go
Speaker 1: after that. But Lozaro was definitely a guy they want
Speaker 1: to extend the relationship.
Speaker 2: With no doubt about it. I mean, you know, Jose Alvarado,
Speaker 2: he's not resigned. He made You know, you have a
Speaker 2: lot of money to to move around add from the
Speaker 2: bullpen and it's a lot. You know, you have some money,
Speaker 2: maybe go out and get an out. Although the market
Speaker 2: is not very deep next year in terms of hitters
Speaker 2: from what I recall, which is why one big reason
Speaker 2: why Bobaschett took that deal he did with the Mets
Speaker 2: because he'll be thirty and he'll be forty two million
Speaker 2: dollars richer and he can still go out and get
Speaker 2: another seven year deal. So that's something to remember as well. Okay,
Speaker 2: here we go, let's go to Philly Sports. Do you
Speaker 2: think the Phillies can make a big trade for a
Speaker 2: big time player at the deadline? So we're already thinking
Speaker 2: trade deadline.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, to me, a lot of it depends on whether
Speaker 3: or not the some of the pitchers that they drafted
Speaker 3: over the last couple of years. They have been very
Speaker 3: aggressive with with pitching talent as far as the draft
Speaker 3: is concerned, whether some of those guys really shine during
Speaker 3: the course of this season this year. If some of
Speaker 3: the guys that they picked, maybe it's gauge would maybe
Speaker 3: it's you know, so other talent that they that they've
Speaker 3: acquired over the last couple of years in in the draft.
Speaker 3: If they come forward and they pitch, well, it's possible,
Speaker 3: I do believe. And a lot of it depends on
Speaker 3: their need, and the need can change all the way
Speaker 3: up until the deadline. That need could be an outfielder,
Speaker 3: That need could be a bullpen piece. That need could
Speaker 3: change depending on who's healthy, who's not, and whether they're
Speaker 3: still contending in July.
Speaker 1: Right, it depends on where they stand in July, Like
Speaker 1: Rubin said, the need, how big a need it is,
Speaker 1: how close they are to winning. You know where they
Speaker 1: are in contention because they're in go for it mode.
Speaker 1: And if they feel like you know, one piece is
Speaker 1: going to propel them to where they need to go,
Speaker 1: I expect them to do something. So I think it
Speaker 1: could be a busy trade deadline. I think there could
Speaker 1: be a significant move. It's much like it was last
Speaker 1: year when they got round.
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Speaker 2: Sir Frederick and Melody, do you think Justin Crawford will
Speaker 2: play center field for the whole season. I mean that's
Speaker 2: the plan. If he doesn't play center field all season,
Speaker 2: then yeah, they're kind of thin. There's this report out
Speaker 2: there about Johann Rojas, of course, and potential suspension. They're
Speaker 2: nothing official yet, we don't know what that's going to
Speaker 2: look like. But you know, if Crawford would struggle, if
Speaker 2: Rojas is gone for a stretch, then you have to
Speaker 2: move marsh over to center field. Now your depth and
Speaker 2: left is getting thinner. You know, the only healthy the
Speaker 2: only healthy outfielder on the forty man roster then is
Speaker 2: Pedro Leone. Not counting Schwarber in there. I mean, Schwarber
Speaker 2: is listed as a as an outfielder, but he's not.
Speaker 2: He's not playing outfield. So then you have some non
Speaker 2: roster guys. You have Brian Da la Cruz. You know,
Speaker 2: Gabriel Rincone is on the forty man roster. He's got
Speaker 2: the knee issue going right now, so he's not available.
Speaker 2: So right they really need Justin Crawford to do what
Speaker 2: he's done and and he's played. He's looked good in
Speaker 2: this spring for what it's worth. I know, we all say,
Speaker 2: don't worry about the numbers or whatever. But he's he
Speaker 2: has looked good so far this spring. He's he's looked
Speaker 2: like he's played the part.
Speaker 1: Certainly has it's done a nice job. We've all seen
Speaker 1: guys come up and stay the whole year and and
Speaker 1: and grow and get better a little bit better every month,
Speaker 1: and and and grab holds of the job. And we've
Speaker 1: seen other good players come up and have to go
Speaker 1: back and then come back again. So I don't know
Speaker 1: how it's going to shake out, but I agree with you.
Speaker 1: They need him to be there all year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's their guy, There's no question about it. And
Speaker 3: one of the thing that I go back to, and
Speaker 3: I think about this a lot, speed usually does not slump,
Speaker 3: and the fact that he has that piece, as long
Speaker 3: as he's making like fairly consistent contact, he can put
Speaker 3: himself in a position to be productive even when he's struggling.
Speaker 3: And so you know, he's got he's got some weapons
Speaker 3: in his body, in his overall makeup and his natural
Speaker 3: ability that might help him stay out of long term slumps.
Speaker 2: Uh didn't get a chance to put all these tweets
Speaker 2: on screen for so this is from on Facebook Karen
Speaker 2: asks says, what players should I watch in spring training?
Speaker 2: While so many are away at the WBC? Is there
Speaker 2: anybody that's caught your right? That's a great question, Karen.
Speaker 2: Anybody that you guys would recommend that fans take a
Speaker 2: look at besides the obvious. I guess.
Speaker 1: You know it intrigues me a little bit of this
Speaker 1: is this Dylan Moore, who has a lot of big
Speaker 1: league time with Seattle. I could see him being on
Speaker 1: the opening day roster. He plays a ton of positions.
Speaker 1: There's some value in that. You know, you might see
Speaker 1: a little more of Edmundo Sosa. He's always a I mean,
Speaker 1: I know fans are quite familiar with him, but he's
Speaker 1: always an exciting guy to watch play. If Scott keeps
Speaker 1: swaying at the way he has been, he'll be fun
Speaker 1: to watch this month. I'm sure there's somebody I'm missing
Speaker 1: on the on the pitching side, maybe in the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Uh Bacchus has been a good looking, uh funky lefty.
Speaker 1: Could see him becoming an important part and an important
Speaker 1: part of this bullpen. So those might be some guys
Speaker 1: to take a peek at. And I'm sure at some
Speaker 1: point somebody will come from the minor league complex and
Speaker 1: uh and give you a little cameo as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Auto Kemp situation, that'll be interesting
Speaker 3: to watch whether he becomes like the guy that they
Speaker 3: want him to be as far as a hitter what
Speaker 3: they think he can be, but he's got to perform.
Speaker 3: I think that's a big one. At some point, we're
Speaker 3: hopeful to get uh Aiden Miller out there to watch
Speaker 3: him play. I think that's an important one. He's got
Speaker 3: that back issue right now and I think he's starting
Speaker 3: to improve, but he's not alway there. So it's been
Speaker 3: a back issue that's been bothering for a while and
Speaker 3: that'll be intriguing. I like to see Franconis get on
Speaker 3: the field as well. I mean, the guy's got some power.
Speaker 3: He's a beast. I was standing next to him yesterday. Man,
Speaker 3: he's a monster and uh and he's got a lot
Speaker 3: of powers, had a lot of success against right handers. Uh,
Speaker 3: he could factor in it point. Hopefully he gets opportunities
Speaker 3: to play. And the one very intriguing piece of a
Speaker 3: battle that's going to be happening is the Marshawn Garrett
Speaker 3: Stubbs one. I mean you know that that backup catcher situation,
Speaker 3: I think that Marshawan probably has the edge right now,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to be
Speaker 3: the guy. So that's uh, either one of those guys
Speaker 3: have have options, and I you know, I'm fearful that,
Speaker 3: uh one of those guys is going to get lost.
Speaker 3: And the question is a Phillies, You're gonna have to
Speaker 3: decide who's best to be on the team and who
Speaker 3: are they more feel fearful of losing on the waiver wire.
Speaker 2: Great point. Dave Dombrowski mentioned that on Saturday as well.
Speaker 2: He talked about the catching depth and you know, with
Speaker 2: with the tough decision coming forward with with Stubbs and Marshaan.
Speaker 2: Kyle Beckets has been kind of an interesting guy. You know.
Speaker 2: They they they liked him from Arizona because his side
Speaker 2: arm delivery. They haven't had a guy like that in
Speaker 2: several years. He's working on a change up and he
Speaker 2: also added about ten to fifteen pounds of muscle in
Speaker 2: the offseason because he only his fastball is like ninety
Speaker 2: ninety one and I think he flashed like a ninety
Speaker 2: four the other day, just one and he says, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not really looking to like hit ninety four. What
Speaker 2: I'm trying to do is to just maintain ninety one
Speaker 2: ninety two throughout the entire season, because he felt like
Speaker 2: last year, in years past, he would lose so much weight,
Speaker 2: he would lose some velo. And so he throws the
Speaker 2: side arm. He throws ninety ninety one. But he also
Speaker 2: has like this insane extension to the plate, so the
Speaker 2: ball looks a little bit faster coming out of the hand.
Speaker 3: So he's just kind of a cool.
Speaker 2: Different type of guy to watch going forward. So this
Speaker 2: is an unusual and I didn't see I'm going to
Speaker 2: see what you guys have to say here. This is
Speaker 2: from Jim Slade on X What players amazing Spring Training?
Speaker 2: Comes to mind? That added up to nothing? What player's
Speaker 2: horrendous spring training? Do you recall that was followed by
Speaker 2: a hot start to the regular season, And he says,
Speaker 2: I think of Scott monning Hoff for the first category.
Speaker 2: Could you he was.
Speaker 3: That's when my dad was way back in those days
Speaker 3: when Dallas and Paul Owens and Ruben Tomorrow Senior were
Speaker 3: part of the front office there, And uh yes, Scott
Speaker 3: Munninghoff he was a big time prospect too. It's really
Speaker 3: great and didn't I I think that of the latter one,
Speaker 3: I would say Aaron Rowan's a big one. Aaron Rowan
Speaker 3: was horrendous when we talked about that a lot. He
Speaker 3: was horrendous. That won Spring and then he ended up
Speaker 3: having a great year thirty home runs and you know
Speaker 3: eighty RBIs or ninety RB eyes or whatever he did
Speaker 3: Philly's in two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: I'll give you two that had great springs and it
Speaker 1: didn't translate with Scott Kingery. I mean he had right,
Speaker 1: he had two of.
Speaker 2: Them, two of them back.
Speaker 1: He earned a lot, a lot of a lot of money.
Speaker 1: And my first year covering the Phillies was nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: and Rubin, I think you know this guy because he
Speaker 1: went into scouting. But my first I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: There was a kid in camp and I think he
Speaker 1: was a six year free ation, but he absolutely had
Speaker 1: it off the chart spring and Jim Fragosi pronounced him
Speaker 1: as close the quote was as close to camp miss
Speaker 1: as you can get. And he was an outfielder named
Speaker 1: Phil Geisler.
Speaker 3: Oh I know Phil really well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, yep. I remember he left handed hitter.
Speaker 1: He hit the ball all over the all over the
Speaker 1: lot that spring, and I don't even think he made
Speaker 1: it to the big leagues that year. But those are
Speaker 1: a couple of the iron own examples. A great one.
Speaker 3: Somebody I really know well myself in nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 3: I had a all of a spring and then I
Speaker 3: all of a sudden had to play every day and
Speaker 3: pitchers were sticking it up. I took us there for
Speaker 3: a while, so I struggled quite mightily during the season.
Speaker 1: You were introduced to Uncle Charlie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mom, I'm coming home. They're throwing me break the balls.
Speaker 2: God, that's great. Two spring trains that come to mind
Speaker 2: for me. I always loved like those long shot guys
Speaker 2: that all of a sudden they made the roster. I remember,
Speaker 2: you know Chris cost I think it was back in
Speaker 2: two thousand and five. He was hitting like four point
Speaker 2: fifty all spring, and all of a sudden he was
Speaker 2: like this, who's this guy? Who's this non roster guy?
Speaker 2: And then lighton Camp was like, this guy, I actually
Speaker 2: make the team. And I think he was going to
Speaker 2: make the team, and then Pat and Rubin pulled the
Speaker 2: rug out from under him and went and got David
Speaker 2: Deluci like about what the day to go before opening day?
Speaker 2: Remember that you guys got David Lucci and he guys
Speaker 2: needed a left handed outfielders and it made sense of course.
Speaker 2: Then you know Chris Coast eventually got up to the
Speaker 2: big leagues and was on that eight World Series team.
Speaker 2: And the other one was Brock Stassy. I remember he
Speaker 2: had a great spring and he that was kind of
Speaker 2: but that was a cool story. He was really emotional,
Speaker 2: uh that day heading heading north, knowing that he had
Speaker 2: made the big leagues. He was a long shot candidate.
Speaker 1: So that was a great day. That was a great day.
Speaker 2: That was that was that was very cool.
Speaker 1: And you remember when Todd do you remember when the
Speaker 1: during the pandemic they had the shutdown and then they
Speaker 1: came back in July and they had like a mini
Speaker 1: summer training for like two weeks and Phil Goslin lit
Speaker 1: it up and blew away, uh, blue away, blue Way.
Speaker 1: Neil Walker made the team the High Street Hammer from Westchester.
Speaker 2: High Street Hammer.
Speaker 3: Now Phil Goslin was part of the Phillies front office.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, good good man.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a great guy. I mean, one of
Speaker 2: the nicest guys you will ever meet. All Right, here
Speaker 2: we go, let's do a couple more. Eric Gidney on Facebook.
Speaker 2: Rob Thompson recently called this the strongest bullpen he's had,
Speaker 2: with Juan Duran established as the closer and Alvarado back
Speaker 2: from his twenty twenty five suspension. Is there a specific
Speaker 2: pecking order developing for the seventh and eighth innings or
Speaker 2: will Thompson stick to his usual matchup based philosophy.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think he's gonna match it up in the
Speaker 3: eighth inning. I think if there's lefties, he's gonna face
Speaker 3: Alvarado's gonna throw him out there unless he's struggling. If
Speaker 3: there's not, then he's probably gonna be, you know, the
Speaker 3: right hander. I mean, it's probably gonna end up being Keller.
Speaker 3: I would think that he'd love to have guys be
Speaker 3: able to lock down each one of those innings. Alverado
Speaker 3: in the seventh, you know, Keller in the eighth, and
Speaker 3: Joe wander On in the ninth. But that doesn't normally happen.
Speaker 3: It's usually you usually get to those those matchups, and
Speaker 3: a lot of it depends on on performance. If guys
Speaker 3: are locking it down, then he'll go with them. If
Speaker 3: they're not, then he'll mix it up.
Speaker 2: Agree, I agree, I agree, I agree, all right to
Speaker 2: the last one. People always ask they want to know.
Speaker 2: It's always it's always in the comments, whether we're talking
Speaker 2: whatever we're talking about. Every couple, every couple episodes, Jim,
Speaker 2: we get a question about you, does Jim? This is
Speaker 2: from Robert Stevens on Twitter X. Does Jim have any
Speaker 2: new and exciting barbecue recipes he's looking to try the spring?
Speaker 2: And when is opening day for the grilling season?
Speaker 1: Oh, there's there's no off season in the grilling season.
Speaker 1: I'm out there with my little miners hat in the
Speaker 1: winter brushing off the snow. So I grill year round.
Speaker 1: But I am home for a week now. I'll be
Speaker 1: back to bother you guys. But it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: seventy here on the weekend, so I might grill up
Speaker 1: some stuff. But you know, anything new and especial and exciting,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm looking forward to, you know, getting the
Speaker 1: guard grown some really good halapenos this year, and I
Speaker 1: love you know, I stuff them with you know, a
Speaker 1: homegrown that I cut him open. I stuff them with
Speaker 1: some sausage, usually some moderey Jack, and then I might
Speaker 1: draw a swirl of bacon around a toothpick and I
Speaker 1: put him on the smoker. Oh my, those are good,
Speaker 1: really good. And I got this Amage market, Mary, I
Speaker 1: go to the Amish market. I get these cheddar Julapeno sausages.
Speaker 1: Put those on the smoker too. Those are really good.
Speaker 1: You see.
Speaker 2: You know what we need to do is we need
Speaker 2: to have people write in and demand that when Jim
Speaker 2: does this, he has to have he has to shoot
Speaker 2: like a little video. We'll post it on our Instagram
Speaker 2: m page. We'll post it on Facebook and TikTok. We
Speaker 2: want to see Jim doing his grilling Jim the other day.
Speaker 2: What I would like to see, Jim? What I what
Speaker 2: I would like to see you do? Make it your
Speaker 2: mission this summer is to replicate the wings at the
Speaker 2: Dunedin's Smokehouse.
Speaker 1: I can come close, but I don't think I can
Speaker 1: do them that. Those are so good.
Speaker 2: Those were good. Yeah, we've we've been there a couple
Speaker 2: of times this spring. The dned Smokehouse.
Speaker 1: Don't give away all the restaurants. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: wait line.
Speaker 2: But it's just people helping people. Jim, We're just you know,
Speaker 2: people come down, you know they you know they they
Speaker 2: hear about our restaurant and recommendations. And what is cool
Speaker 2: again is we're running into people. Hey, I heard you
Speaker 2: guys talking about this place on the show. We went
Speaker 2: there and we loved it. If there's one thing that
Speaker 2: three of us know, it's like good food and clear
Speaker 2: water and around and around the big leagues. We know,
Speaker 2: we know good.
Speaker 1: We we hit up last night Sunday night. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what day it is, but we hit up Christino's.
Speaker 1: Rubin you like that place. Christino's a solid.
Speaker 3: I just drove past there when I was coming back
Speaker 3: from the golf outing at the bell Air. But you know,
Speaker 3: I went to my old Staple Island wait grill yesterday
Speaker 3: and they had a They had an outstanding sushi roll.
Speaker 3: It was one of the best stone crab sushi roll.
Speaker 3: That was just smoking. I recommend it lot, man. I'd
Speaker 3: have been there for since last year. First I was
Speaker 3: here there this year. Wow, it was tremendous.
Speaker 1: We can't afford that place.
Speaker 2: It's that was the place back in the day. I
Speaker 2: you know, it's funny, I haven't been there in a while,
Speaker 2: but that was the place during the run two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven. In twenty eleven, if you wanted to catch
Speaker 2: a Phillies player at dinner, I mean that was like
Speaker 2: Chase Leshane, Victor Reino, Jason Worth, Jimmy Rowns, Ryan Howard,
Speaker 2: Kyle Kendrick. They were all there at the Island Way
Speaker 2: Grill getting sushi and you know, eating eating well every
Speaker 2: single night. So Jim, I do want to have you
Speaker 2: work on those wings though. I want you as close
Speaker 2: as you possibly can.
Speaker 3: Let's go. Let's go, Barne do it.
Speaker 2: All right, guys?
Speaker 1: That was fun picture.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Get on the social media, Jim. We want you
Speaker 2: to expand your footprint.
Speaker 3: Get one of your daughters to take some video. Please, Yeah, because.
Speaker 4: You know what happened when you know what happened when
Speaker 4: Jim takes video rubin big thumb over the camera screen.
Speaker 2: Jim took one yesterday. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 2: Jim's post on x but Jim took a video of
Speaker 2: Zach Wheeler throwing a bullpen. Jim comes up to me
Speaker 2: afterwards and he goes, see my video, how'd my video look?
Speaker 4: I said, He's good. I love the thumb and he goes,
Speaker 4: what I said, Your thumb was in a gym as usual.
Speaker 4: It's the best part of spring training.
Speaker 1: My cell phone, my cell phone is so old. It's
Speaker 1: so old that it's a dialog.
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