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Speaker 1: The Philly Show is presented by Fox One, Rubin Tomorrow Junior,

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Speaker 1: Jim Salisbury, Todd Zelecki. It's Friday, October twenty fourth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. You guys, you know Bryce Harper is a

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Speaker 1: superstar when one person can make one comment in a

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Speaker 1: press conference and eight days later we're still talking about it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk more about Bryce Harper and Dave Dombrowski and

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Speaker 1: Scott Boris. It's time for the park's first pitch. First

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Speaker 1: Parks Casino, Pennsylvania's number one casino. So, guys, a recap.

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Speaker 1: Let's recap this whole thing. Right, So, last Thursday, Citizens

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Speaker 1: Bank Park, Dave Dombrowski does his mom on the season.

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Speaker 1: He's asked a lot of questions. He speaks for almost

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Speaker 1: an hour, so a lot of questions are being fired

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Speaker 1: at him and our good friend Mack Gelb.

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Speaker 2: From the Athletic.

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Speaker 1: I got to read you the question verbatim, just so

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Speaker 1: everybody knows what was asked exactly.

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Speaker 2: Is he a good friend? Eh, he's an acquaintance. He's

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Speaker 2: a good friend.

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Speaker 3: He's a nice little marsupial.

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Speaker 2: He is we love the Koala.

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Speaker 1: So the Kuala asks Dave what is the club's view

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Speaker 1: on his season, his being Bryce Harper season performance wise,

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Speaker 1: and also why do you believe maybe that it was

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Speaker 1: a down season for him and not the start of

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Speaker 1: maybe a downward trend. Here is what Dave said. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of you guys have heard this before,

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Speaker 1: but let's let's go over to it one more time.

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Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski's response to that question. He's still a quality player.

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Speaker 1: He's still an all star caliber player. He didn't have

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Speaker 1: an elite season like he has had in the past,

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Speaker 1: and I guess we only find out if he'd be

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Speaker 1: comes elite or he continues to be good. If you

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Speaker 1: look at around the league. I think Freddie Freeman, he's

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Speaker 1: a really good player, right, He's still a good player.

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Speaker 1: Is he elite like he was before? Probably not to

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Speaker 1: the same extent. Freddie is a treminous player, and that

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Speaker 1: to me is Bryce. Can he rise to the next level?

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Speaker 3: Again?

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Speaker 1: I don't really know that answer. He's the one that

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Speaker 1: will dictate that more than anything else. He continues on,

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Speaker 1: he thinks about Bryce, do you think about elite? You

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Speaker 1: think of one of the top ten players in baseball,

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Speaker 1: and then he says, but again, a very good player.

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Speaker 1: I've seen guys at his age. Again, he's not old

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Speaker 1: that level off, or I've seen guys rise again. So

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Speaker 1: obviously that blew up because it sounded well, sounded like

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Speaker 1: a lot of things. And here's what Dave Dombrowski said

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Speaker 1: on Thursday and followed Territory when Eric krat asked him about.

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Speaker 4: It, your comments about Bryce do you feel like they

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Speaker 4: were misconstrued because we talked about it on here and

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Speaker 4: I was kind of like, I don't know, maybe it's

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Speaker 4: a little motivation. Which do you feel like your comments

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Speaker 4: about him, you know, not being elite right now or

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Speaker 4: if he'll ever get back to being elite because you

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Speaker 4: are honest and we appreciate honesty in baseball. That is

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Speaker 4: like the greatest traits besides hitting homers.

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Speaker 5: Well, and it's of course got a life of its own.

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Speaker 6: I said so many things in a one hour press conference,

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Speaker 6: and this is the one thing that gets out of there.

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Speaker 6: First of all, I mean, to me, Bryce Harper is

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Speaker 6: one of the best players in the game of baseball.

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Speaker 6: And when I say he didn't have it, they asked

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Speaker 6: me what type of year did you think he had,

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Speaker 6: and I said, he had a very good year.

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Speaker 5: I don't think he had an elite year.

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Speaker 6: And when I say that, when I think of Bryce Harper,

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Speaker 6: it's a compliment because the reality is, there are i

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Speaker 6: don't know eight ten players in the game of baseball

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Speaker 6: every year when they're not, let's say, in the MVP

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Speaker 6: consideration for whatever reason. Sometimes it can be an injury factor.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes they just have a bad year, but whatever it's

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Speaker 6: it's not an elite year for them. So the reality

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Speaker 6: is is that he's a great player. He's a future

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Speaker 6: Hall of Famer. This thing's got a life of its own.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 6: I've been reading that although Phillies made trade Bryce Harper,

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Speaker 6: that couldn't be further from the truth.

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Speaker 5: We love him.

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Speaker 6: I think he's a great player. He's a very important

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Speaker 6: part of our team. I've seen him have better years.

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Speaker 6: I look for him to have better years, but I

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Speaker 6: think what ends up happening, this is not meant for him.

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Speaker 6: And I was reading an article yesterday. It wasn't about Bryce,

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Speaker 6: was actually about Kyle Schwarber that Mike Schmidt talked about,

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Speaker 6: and I thought it was so good, and I was

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Speaker 6: out and got to thirty three and he had won

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Speaker 6: agow and he wasn't quite the same player.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 6: Mike Schmidt's comments because I asked him about Kyle, said,

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Speaker 6: you're getting into your middle thirties, moving a little bit

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Speaker 6: into your late thirties. If you can stay healthy, continue

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Speaker 6: a really really strong workout program in the off season,

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Speaker 6: your flexibility he has to be there. Your batspeed opoly

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Speaker 6: obviously has to stay up. Your eyes have to stay

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Speaker 6: You've got to be able to see have a twenty

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Speaker 6: get good insight eyesight as you go along. There's a

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Speaker 6: lot of non mechanical baseball swing issues.

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Speaker 5: They have to stay right.

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Speaker 6: So basically that's what happens with every player. I mean

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Speaker 6: the reality now, I'll take my chances with Bryce more

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Speaker 6: than most because Bryce is an elite talent, and he's

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Speaker 6: a very very talented individual, and he's driven. So I

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Speaker 6: think that it's a shame where this has gone because

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Speaker 6: it wasn't meant to be a criticism.

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Speaker 5: It's just he didn't have a to me.

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Speaker 6: And when you talk about Bryce, and again it's a

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Speaker 6: few other guys when they aren't in the MVP considerations,

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Speaker 6: well it's probably not as good as yours that they've

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Speaker 6: had other times.

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Speaker 2: All Right, what do we think?

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Speaker 7: Well, I think he was being honest about his comments,

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Speaker 7: there's no question about that. But I also think that

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Speaker 7: there was a message or two in there. One and

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Speaker 7: Seed to double down a little bit on the messaging,

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Speaker 7: just with regard to the quotes from Mike Schmidt. Basically,

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Speaker 7: it was these are some of the things that needs

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Speaker 7: to that need to be done. You need to take

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Speaker 7: care of yourself in the off season. You need to

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Speaker 7: you know, stay on the regiment and you know, continue

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Speaker 7: to do the things that you do.

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Speaker 2: To keep yourself at that elite level.

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Speaker 7: So there's a little bit of messaging there from the

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Speaker 7: Mike Schmidt quote, I think.

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Speaker 2: But he reeled it back a little bit.

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Speaker 7: But you know, from the beginning, I know the comments

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Speaker 7: that's that's okay, And I don't think there's anything wrong

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Speaker 7: with that. But I as far as him being traded

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Speaker 7: and being on the block and.

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Speaker 2: Stuff like that, I don't think there's much to that.

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Speaker 2: I really don't, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I said this last week. I don't think they

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Speaker 3: want to trade him. The owner wants him to go

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Speaker 3: think he wants to stay here. I do think he

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Speaker 3: I didn't have a problem with Dombrowski's comments last week.

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Speaker 3: I thought, like we said, you know, sometimes it gets

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Speaker 3: tiring listen to podium speak and GM speak and cliches

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Speaker 3: and noncommittal answers and political answers.

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Speaker 2: I used to toss out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, being afraid to speak your mind. I thought he

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Speaker 3: spoke his mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure those were conversations they've had upstairs, and

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Speaker 3: maybe it just came out in a press conference setting.

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Speaker 3: I don't know that it was premeditated, because I don't

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Speaker 3: know that you can anticipate that question. But I honestly

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Speaker 3: commend him for being honest, because I thought it was

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Speaker 3: a really good season, but not a Bryce Harper season.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 3: The thing he left out was, yeah, I had that

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Speaker 3: risk he missed a month. Might have been a lot

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Speaker 3: different if you didn't have the rist soreness and played

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Speaker 3: that entire month. But nonetheless, I think everybody should be

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Speaker 3: able to take this. Stop being so sensitive. The boss

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Speaker 3: said something, he critiques someone, Now it's up to the

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Speaker 3: athlete the employee to respond. And knowing Bryce a little bit,

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Speaker 3: how competitive he is, and he's almost a little bit

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Speaker 3: like Kurt Shilling because he finds that little motivation streak

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Speaker 3: where nobody else can, you know, Like Tito used to

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Speaker 3: say about Shilling, he used to get motivated on Bobblehead Day.

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Speaker 3: If you slighted Shilling in the simplest way, he'd come

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Speaker 3: back and stick it right up your nose, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean. And maybe that's what Bryce can do,

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Speaker 3: and maybe that's what Bryce has in him. I think

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Speaker 3: he does have a little bit of that in him.

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Speaker 3: The thirty three thing is interesting because I think athletes

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Speaker 3: change in this era, in the post steroid era. Guys

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Speaker 3: change after thirty three, and I think Bryce has to

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Speaker 3: change a little bit. And I'm not a hitting coach,

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Speaker 3: but that big, violent, all or nothing swing, if he

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Speaker 3: would make his goal not to hit a six hundred

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Speaker 3: he'd finish in the top five of the MVP every year.

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Speaker 3: If he went out there and tried to hit three

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Speaker 3: thirty three, he'd have great season after great season. He'd

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Speaker 3: hit a shitload of doubles. He'd still he'd still accidentally

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Speaker 3: He'd be a he'd be that, he'd be that elite

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Speaker 3: But this whole Dombrowski comment thing, yeah, it's been blown

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Speaker 3: up a little bit because that's what happens in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five. That's what happens in Philadelphia. That's what we do.

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Speaker 3: And it did sound like a challenge, and it was

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Speaker 3: a there was nothing wrong with the observation from the

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Speaker 3: it sounded like a challenge, well challenge delivered great competitive

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Speaker 3: Bryce Harper, go answer it. Go answer it. You are

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Speaker 3: capable of answering it.

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Speaker 1: What do you say, well, you know, yeah, I feel

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Speaker 1: the same way. There was nothing that he said last

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Speaker 1: week that was like, oh, that's totally crazy and wild

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Speaker 1: to suggest any of this stuff. But the part that

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Speaker 1: jumped out to I think everybody was I said, will

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Speaker 1: he get will he get back to being elite? Or

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Speaker 1: will he continue to be good? I think that was

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Speaker 1: a line that stuck with everybody. It was kind of

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Speaker 1: like openly, openly questioning if that this is the best

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Speaker 1: word we're going to see from Bryce Harper in the future.

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Speaker 1: So that's why it blew up. Not saying that Bryce

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Speaker 1: Harper didn't have an elite season. I mean, everybody knows

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Speaker 1: it wasn't his typical season. But I was kind of

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Speaker 1: glad that Dave came out said there's not going to

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Speaker 1: be a we're not looking at trading Bryce Harper, because

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Speaker 1: I I didn't buy that for a second. I think

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of kind of conspiracy theories that

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Speaker 1: came out of that they're trying to push.

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Speaker 7: there and you're a you're a manager, or you're a

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Speaker 7: pitching coach, and you see, okay, do I want to

437
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Speaker 7: pitch to that guy or do I have to say

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Speaker 7: that guy, And it makes it pretty obvious if the

439
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Speaker 7: guy behind Harper is not really responding, makes it difficult

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Speaker 7: for a guy to get pitches to hit.

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Speaker 3: One of the big reasons Schwarber blew up this year

442
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Speaker 3: had the great year he did. He had Harper behind him.

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Speaker 3: That certainly certainly helped. If you go back a year ago.

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Speaker 3: If you go back a year ago to Rob Thompson's

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Speaker 3: postseason press conference, he talked about taking schwarbur and putting

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Speaker 3: them forth behind behind Harper to protect Harper. This has

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Speaker 3: been a long standing issue. They thought about putting Harp

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Speaker 3: Schwarber there to protect them last year, and then it's

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Speaker 3: just kind of more often to Schwarber hitting where he

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Speaker 3: did Turner and then Schwarbren and Harper. So it's it's

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Speaker 3: a long standing issue, That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Harper in the postseason he saw pitches in his zone

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Speaker 1: only thirty nine point one percent of the time, so

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Speaker 1: it's even it was far a pretty good drop from

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Speaker 1: the regular season numbers. Now, what's what's interesting is that

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Speaker 1: I think Harp Schwarber hit behind Harper when in like

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Speaker 1: late April, early May, for a few weeks and the

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Speaker 1: numbers actually didn't improve. It's not like the numbers were

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Speaker 1: about the same in terms of pitches that Harper saw

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Speaker 1: on his zone. So do you think that if they

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Speaker 1: could get into Alonso or maybe put Schwarba back there

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Speaker 1: the entire season, you'd see those numbers go up. Because

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Speaker 1: I mean Bryce has said at least once, he's like,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter who's hitting behind me, and they're

465
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Speaker 1: never gonna throw me strikes. But maybe that settles him

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Speaker 1: down over the long term. I don't know. Like that

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Speaker 1: short again, that short sample size of Schwarber hitting behind Harper,

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Speaker 1: the numbers really didn't change that much.

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Speaker 7: I think that was during the time. I think there

470
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Speaker 7: were some risk issues with him too, that could be

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Speaker 7: really swing the bat all that well and stuff. So

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Speaker 7: I think that's so sort of coincided. I think the

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Speaker 7: reason why he did is because he was not swinging

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Speaker 7: all that well. So maybe that was the reason why

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Speaker 7: Thompson did it, and it didn't really change much because

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Speaker 7: I think that Harper at the time wasn't really swing

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Speaker 7: the bat all that well.

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Speaker 1: In Harper's chase rate was up up the season, there

479
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Speaker 1: was such a closed career high. So maybe just the

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Speaker 1: patience of him. Maybe if he sees forty three percent

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Speaker 1: next season, if he has a big bopper hitting behind

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Speaker 1: him now, maybe he walks a few more times. Maybe

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Speaker 1: he's a little bit more patient, Maybe he doesn't chase

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Speaker 1: as much, so you know, in that regard, maybe that

485
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Speaker 1: helps him out as the mindset more or less, you know,

486
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Speaker 1: not you know, Sandial Contra is not going to throw

487
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Speaker 1: me more strikes now because kyleege Horber is hitting behind it.

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Speaker 1: But maybe I don't feel like I have to go

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Speaker 1: out and make something happen, force force, force, force myself

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Speaker 1: to swing at something and hit something, because I just

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Speaker 1: I want to do so well for the team.

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Speaker 7: So here's the thing about my observations. And I like

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Speaker 7: to study hitting a lot. It's something that I've always done,

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Speaker 7: even as a player as a kid, and I feel.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm a student of it. And what I.

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Speaker 7: Notice about Bryce Harper is that his progression as far

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Speaker 7: as an overall player is concerned, He's got he had

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Speaker 7: gotten for several years, gotten better and better at using

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Speaker 7: the opposite field.

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Speaker 2: And when he does that, it opens up the whole

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Speaker 2: world for him.

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Speaker 7: And so I mean, I talk about it on the

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Speaker 7: broadcast at times, sometimes on pre and post where for me,

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Speaker 7: if he stays in left center field and he stays

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Speaker 7: his thought process stays on the opposite field, he can

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Speaker 7: still get to the pitch inside because they don't challenge

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Speaker 7: him all that much inside part of the plate, and

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Speaker 7: when they do, they throw it off the plate on him.

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Speaker 7: So if he would stay in the middle of the

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Speaker 7: field more consistently, and he didn't do that last year,

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Speaker 7: he did it for like a lot less than he

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Speaker 7: had over the last three or four years, and so

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Speaker 7: I think some of the numbers just didn't translate because

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Speaker 7: I think he was so conscious of the pull side

515
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Speaker 7: and driving the ball out of the ballpark as opposed

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Speaker 7: to staying on it and driving it the other way.

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Speaker 7: He had that one game in San Francisco that I'll

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Speaker 7: never forget. He had like five hits the other way.

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Speaker 7: It bullets, I mean, rockets, runs and doubles in the

520
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Speaker 7: biggest ballpark in left center field in baseball. And so

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Speaker 7: when he stays there, he's going to have success. And

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Speaker 7: I think I keep thinking about the same thing. We've

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Speaker 7: talked about it already, the concentrations on hitting in the

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Speaker 7: middle of the field of hitting three hundred, his numbers

525
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Speaker 7: will all be there.

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Speaker 3: And take the walk, become a base frount he when

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Speaker 3: he's he's very exciting on the basis. He's just an

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Speaker 3: exciting player and he can create energy on the basis

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Speaker 3: and and really help the team. There's there's there's more

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Speaker 3: ways to help the team than just by you know,

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Speaker 3: swinging out of your shoes and trying to hit hit

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Speaker 3: the ball over the liberty bell. You know, he's a

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Speaker 3: he can be a dynamic offensive player. He has been

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Speaker 3: and he can be that again.

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Speaker 3: So yeah.

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Speaker 1: Dave Dombrowski was on Followed Territory on Thursday, talked to

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Speaker 4: Do you have an update on Wheeler where he's at

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Speaker 4: with his rehab, but also as far as where he's

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Speaker 4: at if this blood clot situation was completely taken care

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Speaker 4: in the thoracic out.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I do, because I saw him the other day

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Speaker 6: was actually down I think it was Tuesday, was down

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Speaker 6: in the clubhouse.

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Speaker 5: So he's going to be in Philadelphia all wintertime.

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Speaker 6: Our head athletic trainer, Paul Bukite was working with him

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Speaker 6: at that particular day, so I chatted with him. He

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Speaker 6: showed me a scars. He feels no pain, he said,

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Speaker 6: he feels great. They're now getting to the point where

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Speaker 6: they need some more flexibility with them, and they should.

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Speaker 5: This should have cleared it up.

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Speaker 6: They're not anticipating any setbacks, not expecting this to prow

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Speaker 6: once again.

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Speaker 5: So he's in a solid position now.

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Speaker 6: The timing will be it was given to us from

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Speaker 6: six to eight months that he will be ready again.

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Speaker 6: He's a gift gifted athlete. He's elite and who his

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Speaker 6: talent his jeans, just like Bryce is in that regard.

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Speaker 6: So we're hopeful it'll be on the front end, which

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Speaker 6: would even get him ready for opening Day. But right

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Speaker 6: now he's doing very good and he's going to stay

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Speaker 6: here all winter, committed to getting ready as soon as

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Speaker 6: he possibly can.

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Speaker 5: Wow hamanahamana.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's not a little one.

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Speaker 3: That's great. Great to hear that he's doing well and

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Speaker 3: they have that projection for his return. It's an indicator

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Speaker 3: of how well he's doing and how good the prognosis is.

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Speaker 3: But I don't want him until mid May. I don't

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Speaker 3: want him to approaching you know, May. I'll say mid May,

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Speaker 3: after the Kentucky derby mid May, because I want him

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Speaker 3: to uh budget his innings and his firepower for October.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to do what the LA Dodgers are

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Speaker 2: doing with all of their guys.

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Speaker 3: They want to.

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Speaker 2: Burn back until the real important Well.

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Speaker 3: I want him to be. Yeah, I want to say

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Speaker 3: some of those over time.

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Speaker 2: The November time.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna be thirty six, he's coming off of major

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Speaker 3: surgery and health issue or whatever, And yeah, I don't listen.

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you because I.

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Speaker 7: Don't think that there's a whole I don't know that

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Speaker 7: the NL East is going to provide the kind of

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Speaker 7: challenge like they can sort of. I'm not saying take

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Speaker 7: the foot off the pedal, but I'm not sure that

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Speaker 7: the teams in the in the East, Miami, Washington, the

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Speaker 7: Mets are good, not great. I think they'll get a

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Speaker 7: little health fear so they'll be you know, there will

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Speaker 7: be challenging there. Atlanta will come back and be good,

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Speaker 7: there's no question about it in my mind, but they're

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Speaker 7: going through some transition with a new manager and some stuff.

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Speaker 7: I don't think they have to have the pedal to

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Speaker 7: the medal in the early part of the season. They've

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Speaker 7: seen that already. When they're better later, I think they're

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Speaker 7: better off. And I think that there's something to making

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Speaker 7: sure that these guys are one percent when it's time

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Speaker 7: in September October, and the.

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Speaker 2: Dodgers are a little bit. You know, we have a

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Speaker 2: copycat industry.

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Speaker 7: Don't rise if you don't see some other teams doing

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Speaker 7: the same thing, including the pills load management.

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Speaker 1: Baby, bring it to baseball, I know.

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Speaker 7: I don't know if it's load management as much as

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Speaker 7: it is protection.

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Speaker 3: But you know that's what when you know, Joe Jrowy

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Speaker 3: always used to say, I will not use the reliever

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Speaker 3: three days in a row. You can call that load management.

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Speaker 3: I call it. He said, until we get to down

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Speaker 3: the stretch September and October, I'll do it. And you

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Speaker 3: always say the prize is in October, and he was

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Speaker 3: budgeting for that, and he was one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Right, A absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 9: I know.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, back in the day guys have pitch relievers,

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Speaker 1: it's seven days in a row. And as I go

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Speaker 1: back when men were men, it's like, come on, all right,

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Speaker 1: here we go.

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Speaker 2: Well.

655
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 7: The other thing we have to have to understand, too,

656
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 7: is that I think people are starting to realize that

657
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 7: the load that the bullpen folks are having to bear

658
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 7: is really a detrimental thing, and that the starting pitching

659
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 7: is really important. It really is important to have some

660
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 7: horses and some depth in the rotation so that they

661
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 7: can cover the innings that are necessary when you start firing.

662
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 7: Those those guys out there, they're seeing a lot. Their

663
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 7: arms blow up. They just those guys in the bullpen,

664
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 7: they just can't handle the workload. It's just too much

665
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 7: on the body with the way they throw the baseball now,

666
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 7: and having to have have guys eight innings in the

667
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 7: beginning of the game is a long term issue. You

668
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 7: gotta have starting pitching that can go more than four

669
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 7: innings or three and a half, because to cover six

670
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 7: or seven innings every single night in the major leagues

671
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 7: is detrimental, and people just don't have the kind of

672
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 7: depth that's necessary.

673
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 2: To cover them.

674
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 3: You have to protect you guys a little bit because

675
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 3: the max effort is a big thing. You want to

676
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 3: It just jumps out at you like it's World Series time.

677
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: So we're seeing a lot of old videos and highlights

678
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 3: of all World Series and I mean, you look at Larson.

679
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 3: The highlights from Larson in fifty was at fifty six,

680
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 3: and the highlights from when Masarowski hit the home run

681
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 3: to win the sixty World Series. These pitchers were barely

682
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 3: even pushing off the rubber. They were slinging the ball

683
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 3: all arm. You even go back to seventy five, the

684
00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 3: Fisk game. You know, you know, guy Louis tan has

685
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 3: thrown one hundred and sixty pitches and but he's not

686
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 3: a max effort guy, and the relievers are not. You know,

687
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 3: you can just see relievers these days, max effort, the

688
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 3: push and the and the arm speed and the fire.

689
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 3: You you even watch relievers in that seventy five World Series.

690
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 3: A lot of the ms slinging the ball. A lot

691
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 3: of them are just laying laying the ball in there.

692
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 3: You look at the Bernie Carbo home run, which I've

693
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 3: seen a million times in the uh uh you know

694
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 3: this time of the year, the Cincinnati Red pitcher, he's

695
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 3: basically trying to he's laying the ball in there and work,

696
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 3: you know, using his defense. I guess right. Pitching has changed.

697
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 3: The max effort You gotta you gotta watch.

698
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: Guys, no question about it.

699
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's there's this workload that's that's just too great

700
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 7: for the for the maximum effort for.

701
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: The body for the definitely great news that uh, Dave

702
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: Dombrowski thinks that will not be an issue and that

703
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: even if the Phillies do what Jim you kind of

704
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: hope they do is, which is take your time with that.

705
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: Even if they do that, the fact that they think

706
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: he might be in play to be ready by opening

707
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: day is a good sign because obviously no.

708
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard, you know,

709
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 3: pulling in the reins on Zach. He's gonna be like

710
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 3: a bucking Bronco wanting to pitch on opening day.

711
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 7: Right, So you start, you start fantasizing a little bit

712
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 7: about the rotation. Right, you got Zach Wheeler, you got

713
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 7: the two left tenders and Lizardo and Sanchez. You have

714
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 7: Nola still and you're hoping that Nola bounces back, and

715
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 7: it's like, can pitch it like a solid number four

716
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 7: or number three, whatever the case, maybe four or five.

717
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 7: And then you also have Taiwan Walker still under under control.

718
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 7: Now you want to add some depth there somehow, some way.

719
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 7: You got Painter and he's a guy that adds a

720
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 7: little bit of depth. So if you end up having

721
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 7: six guys, now you're talking business, maybe a seventh that, yeah,

722
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 7: you got to have a seventh that you can sort

723
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 7: of count on. Uh, it'll be an exciting offseason as

724
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 7: far as the rotations, because I don't think it's going

725
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 7: to be Ranger Suarez, because I think the numbers are

726
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 7: going to play out for them.

727
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 2: But you never know, you never know.

728
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 1: So one last thing from Dave Dobrowski. He was asked

729
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: about the Phillies payroll.

730
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 6: Well, every owner is different. With whom I worked, John

731
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 6: and I stay in close contact with that. We know

732
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 6: it's a really big winter time for us, So we've

733
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,439
Speaker 6: been talking about this for weeks and I propose something

734
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 6: to him. He's given me an approval on it. So

735
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 6: I know where my payroll is and it's still a

736
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 6: very hefty payroll. But I still think it's a challenge.

737
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 6: It's going to be hard to sign all of our

738
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 6: players just because there's so many of them, and we're

739
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 6: also challenged with some younger players that finally in our

740
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 6: system are ready to step in and play for us

741
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 6: after a couple whiles, a guy like Justin Crawford.

742
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,359
Speaker 5: Andrew Pater we feel will be ready to play with us.

743
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 2: This year.

744
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 6: We've got a young kid by named Adan Miller that

745
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 6: was a number One pick, that's been very, very talented individuals.

746
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 6: So we're gonna have to it's gonna be a tough winner.

747
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 6: We're gonna have to do a lot of balancing. I

748
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 6: think we have a chance to still really have a

749
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 6: good club because I think we'll bring some of the

750
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 6: guys back. We'll have financial wherewithal and I think anytime

751
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 6: you can have a system, Wheeler should be back. Anytime

752
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 6: you can throw a Wheeler, you can throw Sanchez, you

753
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 6: can throw Blizardo, you can throw Nola as your top four.

754
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 6: No matter what happens with Sures, you're in pretty good

755
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 6: shape to move forward.

756
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: What's hefty in your mind?

757
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 2: Hefty payroll down? What was the final what was the

758
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 2: final number?

759
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 1: The final number I think for luxury tax purposes was

760
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: over Yeah, three thirteen ish something like that.

761
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 3: For the luxury tax purpose. I don't see it going down.

762
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 3: It can't go down.

763
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be between three, you know,

764
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 7: three fifteen and three twenty five. And I'm going to

765
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 7: make a really strange prediction, maybe not so strange. I

766
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 7: don't think that they're you're going to have lost cost

767
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 7: in Castianos. I believe that's twenty million dollars.

768
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 3: Uh.

769
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 2: Can they shave five off of that? Three off of that?

770
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 2: Whatever the case?

771
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 7: Maybe maybe by moving him and you know, taking back

772
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 7: a lot of the money, there's gonna be a non

773
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 7: tender or two.

774
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 2: Or someone there.

775
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 7: They're going to trade an Alec Bohm type player because

776
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 7: Alex is probably gonna be I don't know as projected number.

777
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 3: Is, but I will over a little over ten.

778
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 7: I think IBE ten or eleven or twelve or something

779
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,240
Speaker 7: like between ten and twelve. So I think you're gonna

780
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 7: see some some changes in those numbers just because and

781
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 7: some some moves. The fact that Rob Thompson says, you know,

782
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 7: Otto Kemp could be an everyday player. Uh, maybe he

783
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 7: becomes the new third baseman. Maybe they hope that that

784
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 7: Bobby Dickerson can work with him so much like he

785
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 7: did with Alec Bohm to get him to the point

786
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 7: where he's an addict with third baseman. Maybe they go

787
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 7: with a minimum salary guy there, Aiden Miller. Maybe he

788
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 7: starts to transition from short to third. A's at some

789
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 7: point at A at triple A. A lot of this

790
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 7: kind of stuff you made, you know, Bryson Stott not

791
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 7: going to make that much money. I don't think that

792
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 7: he's a non tender candidate. But when I say nontender,

793
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 7: it's it's you either trade him before December fifth, or

794
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 7: you consider not having that salary on your or something

795
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 7: that you know John.

796
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 2: Scherholds did with who was it? Where you go, I

797
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 2: can't pay this guy ten million dollars and I got

798
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 2: to move him for X and.

799
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 7: So you may see some of that stuff kind of

800
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 7: happen with some of the guys that are like those

801
00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 7: mid tier salary guys to open up some possibilities that

802
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 7: maybe you can bring a Bregmann in, Maybe you can

803
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 7: bring an Alonzo in.

804
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 2: Maybe you can figure this, you know, piece of the

805
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 2: puzzle out. Who knows.

806
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 3: I think you kind of hit the two the two

807
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 3: most logical trade ships, Bom and Stot. Not in love

808
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 3: with the idea of moving Stott because where he is,

809
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 3: the salary structure and his defense, and I.

810
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 7: Don't want to move Stout because the salary and and

811
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 7: what he brings to the table.

812
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 2: I think he's a gamer.

813
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 7: I'm Alex Bahum, is Alec Bohm fungible? Maybe from what

814
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 7: he brings to the table good player, really good player?

815
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 2: Does he really.

816
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,760
Speaker 7: Protect Harper in the lineup? Is he somebody that somebody

817
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 7: had covets? I think I got to believe. So he's

818
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 7: a talented players. That's some He's had some really good

819
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 7: years ninety plus RBIs a couple of years in a

820
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 7: row and can rack up some doubles.

821
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 2: Not going to hit the ball out of the ballpark

822
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 2: all that.

823
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 7: Often hasn't you know, really reached that power potential. But

824
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 7: I mean there's some movable parts. I'm not trying to

825
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 7: get rid of the guy. I'm just feeling like there's

826
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 7: there's ways to uh to revamp this lineup and revamp

827
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 7: the team a little bit, and sometimes you have to

828
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 7: do something a little different.

829
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 3: BOM's got a lot of strengths.

830
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 2: I think he's made.

831
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 7: There's really a very very solid third which I didn't

832
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 7: think whatever happened to.

833
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,720
Speaker 3: Me that he's got to be in the right lineup.

834
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 3: He's not a guy I think that can drive the

835
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 3: boss or even sit in the first seat. But you know,

836
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 3: you put him in a little bit in the middle,

837
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 3: take some heat off them. I think you've got a

838
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 3: really good contributing player to a good team.

839
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 2: Could be a Milwaukee Milwaukee Brewer at first base next.

840
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: Year, makes sense, Yeah, I mean, yeah, I can see that.

841
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 7: I'm just tossing it out there, or or it could

842
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 7: be a Cleveland Guardian at first base or something like that.

843
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you're gonna shake things up, that's that's

844
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: the place to start, you know. Well, that's the place

845
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people will look in terms

846
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 1: of moving guys. So, guys, where do we World Series starts?

847
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: Friday night? Balls back on the on the tube, we

848
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: have a.

849
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 3: Well. My prediction is Dodger in five, Freddie Freeman MVP,

850
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 3: and he publicly thanks Dave Dombrowski for motivating him.

851
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Dodgers will crush. It won't be in four,

852
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 2: will be in five.

853
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 7: And Mookie Betts my favorite player probably in baseball.

854
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman is probably one or two. Also the number

855
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 2: one A.

856
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 7: Mookie Betsman's the MVP, playing great shortstop and uh scores

857
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 7: like twelve runs.

858
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 5: Great point.

859
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: Do you think do you think Freddy Freeman sitting there

860
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: going what my catching? I gonna walk off Grand Slam

861
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: in the World Series last year?

862
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 2: What? What the hell's going on? Do you think you

863
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 2: picked up the papers?

864
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 3: And how did I make it it to that press conference?

865
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:05,360
Speaker 2: Why am I? What the hell? Funny? So funny, trap trapnel.

866
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 3: Freddy is the nicest guy in baseball. We're standing there

867
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 3: in the runway. Last year, he's.

868
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 11: Outside the Phillies clubhouse, a bunch of reporters and he

869
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 11: walks right over with this big, genuine smile and shakes

870
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 11: todds of Lucky's hand like it was his long lost buddy.

871
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 2: He's the best man. I love Freddy he is.

872
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 3: He's a nice guy.

873
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Speaker 7: He's a good and a good man, a great player

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Speaker 7: and a Hall of Fame person and player and uh in.

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Speaker 3: The MVP of the twenty twenty five World Series.

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00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: Dude, he's a man, I mean, total legend.

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00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 7: And me it was nineteen I saw him taking ground

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00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 7: balls at the Wide World of Sports.

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00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: It would uh during the NLC NLDS. We're at Dodger

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00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: Stadium and it was mac alb and I were talking

881
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:55,720
Speaker 1: with Jeff Frank Krer and we were just talking about

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00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: guys on the Dodgers and just in baseball and and French.

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00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: He said something, I'm like, Yeah, who else would you pick?

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00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: He says for me, Game seven of the World Series,

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00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: two outs, bottom of ninth inning, winning runs on third base.

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00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 2: Something like that.

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00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 1: He's like the player I want at the plate more

888
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: than anybody else in baseball. If I if my life

889
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: was on the line, my family's life was on the line,

890
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: I needed a base hit. I want Freddy Freeman at

891
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: the plate.

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00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 2: Amen.

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00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: Do you not disagree with him? How many times at

894
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park. Have you seen him just knock a

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00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: base a base hit the left field.

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Speaker 2: So he sort of reminded me. Yeah, he reminded me

897
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 2: of like the Chipper Jones when he was Chipper was

898
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 2: in Atlanta. Like I felt like.

899
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 7: Chipper Jones was the guy when I was playing against

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00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 7: him and such, where he was the kid and the

901
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 7: young and the player that with the game on the line, Man,

902
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Speaker 7: he's the dude.

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Speaker 3: And you know, Mike, one of my I have a

904
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Speaker 3: lot of great memories watching him play. That swing is

905
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 3: so consistent and powerful. But one of my big memories

906
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Speaker 3: of Freddie Freeman, it might have been his rookie years,

907
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 3: a very young player in twenty eleven. You both were

908
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 3: at the game. We were all at the game in

909
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 3: Turner Field the night the uh Phillies. You know, I

910
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 3: think it was the last night of the season in

911
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 3: twenty eleven, the Phillies hundred and second win knocked the

912
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 3: knock the Braves out of the playoffs, and Freddy Freeman

913
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 3: it made the last out, I think it made a

914
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 3: double player or ground out, and he crossed first base

915
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 3: knowing that they had been eliminated from playoff contention and

916
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 3: he spiked his helmet. You could hear it all over

917
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 3: the ballpark. I don't know if you guys remember that,

918
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Speaker 3: but I can still see it in my mind's eye

919
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 3: and I can hear it all over the ballpark.

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00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 1: A winner, man, he is elite. My predictions, as you

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Speaker 1: guys say all said Dodgers in five, I'm gonna say

923
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: Dodgers in six. And I don't know how the pitching

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00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: is lining up, but I'm gonna say Blake Snell.

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Speaker 2: World Series, good call. Yeah, right now, So I'm.

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Speaker 1: Gonna say Blake Snell. I'm gonna say Blake Snell shuts

927
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: down Vladdie Laddie Junior. Although I think it's a fun series,

928
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of reasons they're root for. The Blue

929
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,800
Speaker 1: Jays haven't won the World Series since ninety three. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a fun series. I'm looking forward to watching it.

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Speaker 2: So while you play the games, baby.

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00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm room for a little you know, I just

933
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 3: room for a good series. A lot of great storylines

934
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Speaker 3: on the Blue Jays side. I like their manager, kind

935
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 3: of a local guy playing N's great guy at u

936
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Speaker 3: D and I saw him playing college because he's a

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00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 3: teammate of Vince Fukevich and I like Don Mattingly. I

938
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Speaker 3: think he's one of the classiest guys in baseball. I'd

939
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Speaker 3: love to see him have a, you know, a great experience.

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Speaker 7: He Don Manningly get another chance to manage, because I

941
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,359
Speaker 7: think he did a hell of a job over there

942
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 7: with the Marlins in a really difficult situation. I thought

943
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 7: he was a very very good manager for them. Love

944
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 7: to see him get another opportunity. It's great to see

945
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Speaker 7: him get to the World Series.

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Speaker 2: Finally.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was awesome, very cool, very cool guys. That

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Speaker 1: was a lot of fun. Thanks to everybody for watching

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Speaker 1: and listening, and we will be back next week.

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Speaker 2: Smell you later, boys, Smell you James.

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