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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to The Philly Show.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to The Phillies Show with Throubin Tomorrow Junior, Jim Salisbury,

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Speaker 2: Todd Zlecki. Brought to you by foul Territory. It is Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: September twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. This is a very

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Speaker 2: special episode of The Philly Show because we're getting together

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Speaker 2: just mere hours after we finished our work days to

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Speaker 2: talk about the Phillies winning the twenty twenty four Nli's Championship.

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Speaker 2: We were all on, you know, clocked in last night

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Speaker 2: and watching the Phillies clinch where Jim and I were

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Speaker 2: in the clubhouse. Jim Rubin, you were working in the

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Speaker 2: studio at NBC. Always a fun night, always a crazy night.

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Speaker 2: I came home last night with the stench of cigar

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Speaker 2: smoke baked into my clothes. Avoided most of the champagne

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Speaker 2: and beer. Jim, did you avoid most of it? I

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Speaker 2: feel like you came out of it pretty clean.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I came out pretty clean, though my throat is

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Speaker 3: on fire from all up to got smoke, and I

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Speaker 3: did catch some beer and champagne shrapnel, and then I

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Speaker 3: was I'm at three twenty two at that light at

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Speaker 3: Route one and three two and the state cop pulls

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Speaker 3: up right next to you, and I'm like, if you

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Speaker 3: come over to this car and it smells all this

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Speaker 3: champagne and stuff, I'm in big trouble. But it was

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Speaker 3: a fantastic way. But you guys didn't partake it all.

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Speaker 3: I'm really good at getting out of the way, but

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Speaker 3: you do catch a few strays.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you get some strays, for sure, but I also

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Speaker 3: As one year. I think back in seven when you

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Speaker 3: guys finally won the division, Uttley got me bad, and

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Speaker 3: after that I've been pretty good staying on the periphery.

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Speaker 4: You know that's a sign of respect, right, well, it

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Speaker 3: You got me and uh, but it was. It was.

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Speaker 3: That was a very memorable champagne celebration, as was last night.

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Speaker 3: I thought last night was a little smaller than some

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Speaker 3: of their you know, this was the eighth one in

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Speaker 3: little smaller. And I thought that symbolically was a great

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Speaker 3: bigger plans for their baseball and their bubbly and.

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Speaker 4: It was interesting about the last out. You know, they

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Speaker 4: each other, gave each other some love. I thought that

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Speaker 4: that sort of made me start thinking about how important

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Speaker 4: it is to them that they've got more ways to go.

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Speaker 4: They've got a longer ways to go. There's got there's

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're not just there just to be there.

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Speaker 4: They're there to try to win it, and and that's

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Speaker 4: really cool. I was also taken aback in a positive

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Speaker 4: and they were all together, and you know, I had

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Speaker 4: each other, and they were all out on the field

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Speaker 4: like as a family. And there's a whole that whole

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Speaker 4: symbol of you know, family and togetherness. I made the

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Speaker 4: point last last night, and I'll make it again that

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Speaker 4: it's very rare that you have a team that is

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Speaker 4: basically a team of mercenaries and guys who teamed from

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Speaker 4: the other other organizations, either as a free agent or

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Speaker 4: as a trade piece that have gotten together and been

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Speaker 4: you have Stott, Bohm, Suarez, Nola. They're homegrown guys. Beyond that,

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure I'm missing a few guys a

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Speaker 4: of started with Harper coming and I mean, well JT

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Speaker 4: and then bang, bang bang. I mean you ended up,

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Speaker 4: you know, bringing in some of these guys that ended up,

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Speaker 2: And that's why it was cool last night that Nola

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Speaker 2: through all the crap that they've been through since, you know,

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Speaker 2: To see him get on that mound and clinch that one,

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Speaker 2: this division title since twenty eleven. You know, really nobody

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Speaker 2: else more fitting, I mean you, yeah, it would have

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Speaker 1: Jim Right, I mean.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Nola is a class act who says the right thing.

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Speaker 3: clinching games. It was a very memorable one in Houston

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two. There was the one that got

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Speaker 3: won the division. Rubert, I love your point about guys

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Speaker 3: people busted for him, and I think that was illustrated

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Speaker 3: how they feel about him in the postgame celebration John

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Speaker 3: Middleton I'm talking about. But you know one guy who

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Speaker 3: did come from another organization as well as the manager.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this guy was a Yankee. He was there

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Speaker 3: And I think he's been great, and I think his

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Speaker 3: that with this authentic personality and this humility that I

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Speaker 3: galvanizing force, the personality of Rob Thompson. So there's one

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Speaker 3: other guy that came and Harper's been big on that.

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Speaker 3: But it is rare to see guys coming in from

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Speaker 3: It's I think that's one of the real endearing qualities

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Speaker 2: They did a really good job of picking good guys

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Speaker 2: I know they did a lot of research on Kyle

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Speaker 4: That brought again. I got to give a little love

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Speaker 4: to to clein tact too, because he's not getting you know,

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Speaker 4: he he left here sort of unceremoniously, and and obviously

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Speaker 4: just like you know, everybody has a hand in this thing.

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Speaker 4: He signed, did sign Wheeler, He's traded for me real to.

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Speaker 4: He brought Sanchez in and you know, so he should

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Speaker 4: you don't really know how these things will work out

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Speaker 4: later on, but you know there's some things that happened

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Speaker 2: Stott as well, right, I wasn't involved in those guys.

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Speaker 3: And he brought in He brought in Rob Thompson. I

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Speaker 3: mean they you know, Rob Thompson was in limbo with

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Speaker 3: He spent the day with them. He really liked what

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Speaker 3: I'm offering you a three year deal. I understand he's

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Speaker 3: So I mean, that's that's another one. There's so you know,

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Speaker 3: who gets the credit. So this team can do special

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Speaker 3: Ruben Tomorrow Junior drafted a guy named Aaron Nola.

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Speaker 4: You know, yeah, I mean listen, and these don't think

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Speaker 4: things don't happen in a vacuum. That happened. Almost every

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Speaker 4: Atlanta Braves and you were you know, you were John

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Speaker 4: Schuerholtz and for fourteen years or whatever the case may be,

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Speaker 4: you and Bobby Cox were putting this thing together for

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Speaker 4: that there's a lot of different pieces. Ed Wade had

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Speaker 4: The one thing that I will say about this this team,

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Speaker 4: they have a lot of humility for being such a

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Speaker 4: you know, I mean, you think about the superstars on

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Speaker 4: they're sort of not I don't I don't know stars.

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Speaker 4: I don't there's superstars. I guess. I guess you could

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Speaker 4: have Harper separate him a little bit just because he's

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Speaker 4: a perennial MVP candidate. But these are stars in the game,

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Speaker 4: and they are really humble for the most part, really

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Speaker 4: super humble. We don't see him flipping bats and freaking out.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they have they have pure joy. They're happy

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Speaker 4: when they're when they have success, and that's cool. But

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Speaker 4: there there's not a lot of show voting, there's not

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Speaker 4: a lot of I think that's part of Rob Thompson's

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Speaker 4: overall demeanor. I mean, he's a very very humble guy

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Speaker 4: of ways. But this is a really like humble group.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: And we are back and Rubin following up on that

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Speaker 2: I mean, he could have been playing in a dead

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Speaker 1: We are now and where we were two three months ago? Unbelievable?

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Speaker 4: And getting into some of the nuts and bolts of

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Speaker 4: Where the way Rob Thompson utilized these guys. So you

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Speaker 4: And I don't have any problem with the way he

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Speaker 3: So you think Hoffman is kind of the kill shot.

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Speaker 3: So Esteva is not necessarily in the ninth.

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Speaker 3: Todd, do you think do you think Rob tipped his

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Speaker 2: What do you mean the two sacrifice bunts the.

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Speaker 3: Last night and a hit.

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Speaker 1: So that's what that that's what he made. A great

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that made That's what he has to do.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, what a game contact, two bonds, big catch.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I will.

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Speaker 3: I'll also say this.

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Speaker 4: Let me just say that I want to be, you know,

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Speaker 4: out there. So people talk about wanting Kyle Schwarber in

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Speaker 1: In a row.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, for the first time, and god knows how

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Speaker 3: And with a homer, he actually leads off the game

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Speaker 3: hit fourteen leadoff home runs, they won the ball game

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Speaker 1: They love and those guys all love him hit being

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Speaker 2: They they love him in that spot and he loves

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Speaker 3: He's kind of prioritizing the buy over the best record.

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Speaker 2: They want to finish with the best record in baseball,

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Speaker 2: so they have home field advantage Game six, game seven

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Speaker 2: in the World Series if it comes down to that.

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Speaker 2: But this is a guy who has talked about the

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Speaker 2: value the importance of his player's health since the beginning

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Speaker 2: of the season. I don't think the day goes by

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Speaker 2: when he doesn't talk about somebody's health. There's been moves

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Speaker 2: that he's made this season that he's gotten killed for

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Speaker 2: because he was thinking about his player's health. Remember the

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Speaker 2: game that Harper and Rio Muto didn't pinch hit on

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Speaker 2: that Sunday afternoon. I can't remember the opponent now, but

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Speaker 2: but so he basically said, I love the number one seed,

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Speaker 2: but I'm not going to kill my guys for it.

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Speaker 2: That tells me Zach Wheeler on Saturday, Aaron Nola on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: don't expect them. If their crews and to go eight inx,

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Speaker 2: they're probably going to dial them back.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Aprahm offfin inning. That also tells me. And Bryce Harper.

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Speaker 2: Hinted at this to Jimmy, you were there last night

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Speaker 2: for it. He said, we'll see what the lineup looks

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Speaker 2: like the rest of the week. And because he needs

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Speaker 2: some rest. Other guys need some rest. I think there

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Speaker 2: are a lot of guys that are banged up and

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Speaker 2: they would rather go into the postseason healthy than grind

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Speaker 2: through to get a hypothetical Game six against the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: at Citizen Bank Park versus Game six at Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 1: And oh, by the.

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Speaker 2: Way, I think the Phillies beat the Dodgers in the postseason,

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Speaker 2: you know in eight and nine in the NLCS when

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Speaker 2: they did not have home field advantage, So it can

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Speaker 2: be done.

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Speaker 1: You can beat a team.

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Speaker 2: Without having home field advantage. So Rob Thompson again prioritizing that.

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Speaker 2: But it was interesting that he just came out and

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Speaker 2: said it. You know that he that he's going to

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Speaker 2: prioritize that health going in.

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Speaker 3: Yep, it was very interesting. It's not going to put

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Speaker 3: his players' health in jeopardy. So you know what part

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Speaker 3: of me likes that because you know how far they

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Speaker 3: go is still going to be determined by them. You know,

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Speaker 3: the support and the stands is great and they acknowledge that.

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Speaker 3: But they're the ones who are going to go out

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Speaker 3: and catch the ball, make great defensive plays, make the

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Speaker 3: routine plays, not give extra bases, throw strikes, throw quality strikes,

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Speaker 3: not chase have beginnings. You know, they're the ones that

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Speaker 3: have to play good baseball.

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Speaker 2: To me, the bigger question is how are they going

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Speaker 2: to stay sharp next week so they don't go into

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Speaker 2: that NLDS. It's Game one is on October fifth, so

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Speaker 2: they have a good five five days of not playing baseball.

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Speaker 2: How do they go into game one of the NLDS

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Speaker 2: and not pull the braves use an excuse that the

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Speaker 2: layoff just you know, oh my gosh, our timing is off,

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Speaker 2: and you know, Ken Rosenthal said that on the broadcast

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Speaker 2: that earlier this season, Brian Snicker mentioned the layoff really

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Speaker 2: killed him and Phillies took offense at that.

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Speaker 1: So that's going to be a big storyline.

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Speaker 2: I think next week is how do these guys stay

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Speaker 2: sharp so they go in guns of blazing and and

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Speaker 2: take care of business.

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Speaker 4: How I think that they're gonna do some simulated stuff.

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Speaker 4: I think that they'll I don't know that they'll they'll

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Speaker 4: have some guys. I'm not sure if they're gonna have

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Speaker 4: live vps or anything like that, but they might bring

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Speaker 4: some guys to do some live vps, either from Clearwater

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Speaker 4: or from Lehigh Valley. Whatever the case may be. They

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Speaker 4: may have they may be doing some of that, but

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Speaker 4: you also got to be careful about that as well.

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Speaker 4: So I don't know. I think that they have some plans.

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Speaker 4: I do know that they've been thinking about a lot.

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Speaker 4: I know that Rob Thompson thinks about all this stuff

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Speaker 4: all the time. Do they do they pipe in sound?

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Speaker 4: Do they you know, you know, when they're during their workouts. Uh,

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Speaker 4: there's there's a lot of things to think about. Someone

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Speaker 4: mentioned that to him one time and Rob was like, like,

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Speaker 4: LI may not be a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: These guys have been through it a little bit. They

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Speaker 4: understand it, and they understand their bodies. They do have

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Speaker 4: to figure out way.

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Speaker 9: To be sharp because live live action there's only there's

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Speaker 9: only one way to simulate live action, and it's by

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Speaker 9: having live action, and so there is some element of that.

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Speaker 4: But that said, they can use a couple.

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Speaker 3: Of days off.

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Speaker 4: It's okay. I think that I think that overrides, you know, uh,

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Speaker 4: the fact that there are some guys that are banged

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Speaker 4: up a little bit. I think it sort of overrides

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Speaker 4: the fact that you know, they have to be ready.

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Speaker 3: So come out, come out get an early lead and

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Speaker 3: and look at that rest as, Hey, you guys earned this,

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Speaker 3: this is your reward. And then you come back and

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Speaker 3: and you get the starting blocks again, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you come firing out the starting blocks and and win

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Speaker 3: a sprint. You know it's they can do.

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Speaker 1: It anything else. Jump out to you guys before we

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Speaker 1: wrap this up on the celebration last night.

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Speaker 4: No, just to the whole family atmosphere and cheers, cheers

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Speaker 4: to the organization because they had a goal. They've set

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Speaker 4: several goals. They've hit a couple of them, and hopefully

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Speaker 4: for the Phillies fans, they're they're on the way to

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Speaker 4: a couple more.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they played really good ball game on top

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Speaker 3: of it all. And Aaron Nola, Aaron Nola, you know

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Speaker 3: the clinch whisper. Now he's got the most wins. He

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Speaker 3: passed Cole Hamil's. I think that was his fifty seventh

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Speaker 3: win at Citizens Bank Park, so he had the most

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Speaker 3: wins ever at Citizens Bank Park. But you know, you'd

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Speaker 3: never know what he would never strut and he's a

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Speaker 3: very very humble guy and did a good job. Man.

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Speaker 1: We will be back later this week. Seems like a

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Speaker 1: good opportunity.

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Speaker 2: If anybody wants to fire off any questions, we'll send

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Speaker 2: something out on x and Instagram, and if you are

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Speaker 2: watching us, throw a comment in the common section on

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Speaker 2: YouTube and we'll answer all of your Phillies postseason questions.

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Speaker 2: I've been asking for life questions, but again, no life questions.

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Speaker 2: No one wants our personal advice.

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Speaker 4: They should either from YouTube.

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Speaker 2: H So thanks, Ay, that was fun wrapping it up

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Speaker 2: and we will back later this week.

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Speaker 4: Smell you lady boys, Smay Jim.

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