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Speaker 1: ISAs are Nola, and welcome to the Philly Show. Buddy,

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Speaker 1: Rubin tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd so lucky, I'm in clearwater.

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Speaker 1: Jim and Ruben are back in Philly. How you guys

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Speaker 1: doing very well, very well? Well, there's lots of talk

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Speaker 1: about Phillies. Let's start with this though, guys. Let's just

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Speaker 1: jump right into it. Bryce Harper got hit by a

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Speaker 1: pitch Wednesday in Dunedin. Got hit on the right triceps.

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Speaker 1: He suffered a bruise, but he is okay. He is okay.

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Speaker 1: He was on the half field earlier this morning doing

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Speaker 1: He's gonna play on Friday against the Red Sox against

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Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet scare. Rob Thompson talked about it. He says,

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Speaker 1: I hold my breath every moment of every game spring

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Speaker 1: training game, especially the first few ones when you have

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys kind of shuffling through. Ruben, imagine

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Speaker 1: you kind of hinted at that earlier this week, right

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Speaker 1: as you were panicing. You know, they're kind of holding

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Speaker 2: Always holding your breath when the games start and you

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Speaker 2: have these young pitchers who just have no idea where

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Speaker 2: they're throwing the baseball, and that is a concern, and

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Speaker 2: that's why you have the guys get in there early.

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Speaker 2: You have them hopefully when they're playing, they're playing against

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Speaker 2: a ball players, guys that are at least, you know,

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Speaker 2: buying to make the team. You don't want to see

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Speaker 2: sixty nine's and eighty eights on the backs of their jerseys.

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Speaker 2: In this case left hander who had a through eric fastball.

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Speaker 2: Throw strikes man. This is all part of the game,

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Speaker 2: and it's something that I get concerned.

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Speaker 3: About in the game in general. You got to be people,

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Speaker 3: especially if you're going to be in Big Link camp.

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Speaker 3: You got to throw the baseball over the plate. There's

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Speaker 3: nothing worse for anybody, and any time, whether it's a

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Speaker 3: GM manager, coach, hitter, player in the on defense, throw

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Speaker 4: I'm glad.

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Speaker 3: He's fine. He doesn't bruise and he doesn't bleed, so

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Speaker 5: Well that picture that left he actually has big league time.

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Speaker 5: I was watching that inning and that was an embarrassment

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Speaker 5: for the Blue Jays. The two pitchers they couldn't throw strikes.

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Speaker 5: They were falling all over themselves. It was gross. And

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Speaker 5: you know, he almost hit him twice. He almost hit

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Speaker 5: him with the first pitch, and then you know, he

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Speaker 5: finally got him, and Harper was ticked off, but you know,

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Speaker 5: didn't really say anything, walked off the field, and like

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Speaker 5: you said, Bryce Harper is tough. He doesn't bruise. He

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Speaker 5: did one of the most remarkable things I have ever

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Speaker 5: seen in thirty plus years of covering baseball, hitting the face,

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Speaker 5: hitting the face with what ninety six ninety seven from

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Speaker 5: that Genesis Genesis Cabrera in Saint Louis that night. I

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Speaker 5: still can't believe he walked away from that. It hit

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Speaker 5: him so hard it ricocheted off his face and actually

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Speaker 5: hurt his wrist. So he's an amazing specimen, that guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's gonna play on Friday, so you know, And

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Speaker 1: to you guys's point, the one thing Bryce expressed to

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Speaker 1: us real briefly again, he was just kind of walking

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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, I feel like I'm out there

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Speaker 1: all the time getting getting drilled because guys can't throw pitches.

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Speaker 1: Over the plate. So I think that's the the well,

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Speaker 1: not the no pun intended. The genesis of his frustration

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Speaker 1: where he's getting drilled inside. You know, he broke the thumb,

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Speaker 1: he got to hit in the face again. Yesterday, he

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Speaker 1: survived a scare. So I wanted to get your guys

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Speaker 1: opinions on a couple of things that happened this week.

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Speaker 1: The game was not broadcast today, but Kyle Schwarber playing

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Speaker 1: first base, he didn't get any balls hit his way Zach.

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Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler said before the game, he told him, He's like,

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Speaker 1: it's all yours over there. I'm not I'm not running

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Speaker 1: It turns out he didn't need to do anything because

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Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler was so good. But do you guys have

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Speaker 1: any thoughts on on Kyle Schwarber getting some first base

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Speaker 5: I honestly don't think we're gonna see it a lot

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 5: Spring training is practice. They mess around with the lineup,

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Speaker 5: I just think it's kind of a little bit of

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Speaker 3: And not only that, but you also got guys like

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Speaker 2: I think that's Uh, Listen, anytime you can create some versatility,

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Speaker 2: Other guys in the lineup alone Listen, it's spring training.

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Speaker 3: You can try anything, you can do anything, and you

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Speaker 3: don't feel like you're putting your players in jeopardy. I

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Speaker 3: think that Rob Thompson's looking for a little bit more

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Speaker 3: more more just gives them more options as moves through

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Speaker 5: They'd want to keep Schwarber's batt in the lineup on

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Speaker 5: it on the day they give Bryce that half a

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Speaker 5: day off, so it's just you know, optionality. My boy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Kyle said the same thing too. He's like, listen,

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Speaker 1: The great thing about this is that you can screw

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Speaker 1: it does not matter at all. So He's like, this

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Speaker 1: I can I have Bobby Dickerson yell at me because

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Speaker 5: If I may does anybody can get him ready to

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Speaker 2: Bobby Dickerson could be the guy because he simplifies.

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Speaker 4: It really well. Listen, I've seen him work on that

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Speaker 3: It's one of my favorite things to watch happen. I've

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Speaker 5: Yeah, love love hanging out at the half field. I

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of there's a lot of Kyle said

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Speaker 1: he made a mistake the first day of working out

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Speaker 1: especially the first one. But Jose Alvarado today hit one

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Speaker 5: Yeah, triple digits man, that is uh. That's the reason

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Speaker 1: He is the big cheese. Jordan Romano also made his

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Speaker 3: Speaking well, Alvarado's a confidence guy, Todd and Jim. If

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Speaker 4: And it creates a whole ton of depth.

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Speaker 3: You start talking about strom Alvarado, you got banks back there.

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Speaker 4: People don't talk about him a whole lot.

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Speaker 3: He's got a darn good arm and and he can

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Speaker 3: it's it's about options again. You talked about it, Jim.

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Speaker 3: If Rob Thompson has options in the seventh, eighth, and ninth,

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Speaker 4: Get the first shot at it.

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Speaker 3: But that said, I mean he's gonna mix a match

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Speaker 5: Hey, Ruben, do you with in the case of case

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Speaker 5: of Grande do you worry about too hard too early? Uh?

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Speaker 5: You know what?

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Speaker 4: I think?

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Speaker 3: Not for him, and I'll tell you why. I think

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Speaker 3: We had all surprised if if Christopher Sanchez, because of

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Speaker 3: They're eight and they're their best hitters. Put them all

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Speaker 1: Let him roll, baby, Yeah, get get him up there

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Speaker 5: These spring training lineups are a lot of times dictated

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Speaker 1: And so, yeah, Jesus Lozardo makes his Phillies spring training

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Speaker 1: Of course, you guys know this. The Philly has tried

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Speaker 5: Would not be here if they could have consummated the

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Speaker 3: He's confident, he goes after hitters, he loves the spotlight man,

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Speaker 1: Well, guys, thanks for hopping on. Can you guys hear

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Speaker 4: No, but to.

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Speaker 5: Get back to it, Tod, where are you dining tonight? Todd?

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Speaker 1: I might be going to the ho new and beautiful

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Speaker 5: That's a new place for you.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, But anyway, where are you dining.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to uh dear Daphne, and I'm going right now.

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Speaker 4: So let's roll, let's go.

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