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Speaker 1: This is called Hamil's Welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, This is the Philly Show with Ruben Tomorrow, Junior,

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Speaker 2: Jim Salisbury, Todds Lucky. We're part of the Foul Territory Network.

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Speaker 2: It's Monday, August twelfth, twenty twenty four. Gentlemen, coming off

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Speaker 2: the weekend in Arizona. Ruben, how was Arizona? Other than

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Speaker 2: the play on the field, It was.

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Speaker 1: Like being on the equator. It was the hottest place

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Speaker 1: in the planet. But other than that, I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it was.

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Speaker 3: It was a reminder that the Arizona Diamondbacks have the

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Speaker 3: Phillies number. I mean, they played baseball exactly how the

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Speaker 3: Phillies played baseball in the first two months, and that's

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Speaker 3: exactly what they wanted. That's the kind of baseball that

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Speaker 3: the Phillies wanted to play, and they just it was

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Speaker 3: a beatdown in a lot of different ways. The pitching,

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Speaker 3: the offense, the situational hitting.

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Speaker 1: There was all types of things going on.

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Speaker 3: As far as just playing baseball is concerned, all the

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Speaker 3: things fundamentally, situationally, they just played better baseball. They are

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Speaker 3: a very fast team, they're a very athletic team. They

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Speaker 3: got exploited in that area. The Phillies pitchers got exploited

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Speaker 3: by walking too many people and making too many mistakes

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Speaker 3: defensively and leaving too many pitches in the middle of

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Speaker 3: the plate, and the d bas just took advantage of it,

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Speaker 3: as simple as that. And the Phillies are going to

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Speaker 3: have to figure out what's going on because it's an

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Speaker 3: unmitigated disaster right now.

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Speaker 1: The pitching's not very starting. Pitching has been.

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Speaker 3: Subpar, and they're gonna have to right They're gonna figure

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Speaker 3: away to right the ship because right now, if they

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Speaker 3: were going to go into a playoff game, regardless of

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Speaker 3: whether they win the division or not, they'll get knocked

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Speaker 3: out quick because the kind of baseball that they're playing

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Speaker 3: right now is just not going to get it done.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Those I mean, they're a very good team, the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned their speed and the way they can string

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Speaker 4: and then they also have some power pop too. A

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Speaker 4: really nice team playing terrific baseball. You can say they

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Speaker 4: have the Phillies number or whatever you want to say.

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Speaker 4: They're just out playing the Phillies. You know, going back

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Speaker 4: to Game six and seven last year. So you know,

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Speaker 4: I was watching Bryce Harper's post game interview. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it was a tough series. You lose three out of

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Speaker 4: four after taking the first game, and uh, there's a

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Speaker 4: lot of disappointment in that room, a lot of disappointment

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Speaker 4: etched on his face. And he was asked, I think

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Speaker 4: Corey Seideman asked him about the Diamondbacks team and how

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Speaker 4: they played, and he made the comment that they're not scared.

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Speaker 4: They play the game the right way. They're not scared

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Speaker 4: play the game the right way. And you know, like

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Speaker 4: it's our job. We read into things. That's what we

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Speaker 4: do as reporters and observers, and my little antennae I

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Speaker 4: went right up when I heard that they're not scared,

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Speaker 4: they play the game the right way. Bryce is a

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Speaker 4: master at messaging and kind of laying it out there.

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Speaker 4: You got to read between the lines. Do you think

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Speaker 4: there was a message there to possibly some of his

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Speaker 4: the right way. Do you read anything into that comment

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Speaker 4: or am I just being a little hyper observant.

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Speaker 2: No, I think that Bryce. You're right. Bryce does not

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Speaker 2: say things and not know what he's saying. When he

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Speaker 2: you know, when it comes from free agency gym. Remember

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Speaker 2: a couple of springs ago when they got Schwarbi's like, well,

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Speaker 2: you know, we'll see hopefully they're not done yet. Nick

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Speaker 2: Castianos comes aboard, you know, he's he says a lot

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Speaker 2: of those things, you know, trade deadline, free agency, the

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Speaker 2: that he might have been trying to send a little

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Speaker 2: up this team, which is twenty four and thirty since

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Speaker 2: they won that first game in London on June eighth

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Speaker 3: So here's what I observed about it, and the playing

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Speaker 1: Guys look a little they do.

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Speaker 3: They are playing a little timid, and it's it's there.

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Speaker 3: They're not making plays that they typically would make. They

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Speaker 3: and I'm not sure whether he's feeling like he can't

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Speaker 3: the deal is. I have a feeling that that's probably

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Speaker 3: part of it. But there have been some situations where

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Speaker 3: there's some players who are not playing with the same

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Speaker 3: sort of fervor and I don't know confidence that you

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Speaker 3: would typically see in a team that's up what seven

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Speaker 1: And pitching wise, I don't see guys getting after it.

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Speaker 3: You know, guys are coming out of the pendum walking people.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're not, they're not. You're not seeing now

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Speaker 3: certain guys, not all of them, now, certain guys are.

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Speaker 1: Are getting after it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if I if I were going to name people,

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Speaker 3: I think Casianos is playing is his tail off right now.

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Speaker 3: I think you're doing a lot of things really really well.

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Speaker 3: He's having great at bats, he's he's playing, you know,

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Speaker 3: But there's some guys that are not getting after it

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Speaker 3: right now. And it's pretty and it's a pretty obvious thing.

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Speaker 3: And if they don't start getting after and start gaining

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Speaker 4: You mentioned you mentioned confidence another intangible urgency, sharpness, but urgency.

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Speaker 4: They built such a big lead, do you think it

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Speaker 2: Todd, Yeah, I wonder. I wonder if it might have

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Speaker 2: just looking back at their play recently. Yeah, I just

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's still their urgency at all.

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Speaker 2: But I do think that they're really lucky to have

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Speaker 2: the lead that they do have because in the division anyway,

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Speaker 2: I still think they're going to win the division. But

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Speaker 2: you look at the standings today and they are tied

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Speaker 2: getting in a situation you talk about urgency. They better

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Speaker 2: one wild card winner, which right now, as of today,

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Speaker 2: would be the Arizona Diamondbacks. You know, that's that's how

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Speaker 2: the matchup would would go in the playoffs. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know that, Jim. Do you

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Speaker 2: I guess I don't get that vibe so much, but

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't say too complacent, but you know, I think

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Speaker 4: the way human nature works, you get that big lead,

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Speaker 6: So well, it might take some of the some of

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Speaker 4: There might be a a little bit of complacency and

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Speaker 4: it's it's time to kick it in.

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Speaker 4: You know, since I was looking this up, since that

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Speaker 4: sweep of Milwaukee at home right before they went to London,

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Speaker 4: they're five games under five hundred. Yet they've only lost

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Speaker 4: a half game in the standings.

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Speaker 6: I mean that, right, you know, all of.

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Speaker 4: A sudden, I, hey, we really haven't played well, but

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Speaker 4: we only lost a half game in the standings. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think that can probably dull some of your urgency.

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Speaker 4: One of the real buzz words around this team since

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Speaker 4: Rob Thompson took over in June of twenty two, has

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Speaker 6: Point where it's been a cliche. Well, it's time to see.

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Speaker 4: Some you know, they've been really good at it, and

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Speaker 4: that's the reason it became a buzzword. They played through

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Speaker 4: a lot of injuries. They really scrapped in September of

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Speaker 6: So that will be gone.

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Speaker 4: Chicago White Sox. They have the worst record of the

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Speaker 4: major leagues. So what are they the team that had

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Speaker 3: So a couple of things resonate with me. This shows

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Speaker 1: Really good are are the Phillies.

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Speaker 3: The talent is there, and they were playing like the

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Speaker 3: The teams that are playing the game as the best

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Speaker 3: teams in baseball the Milwaukee Brewers and the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 1: In the National League.

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles is going to get there too, because Mookie

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Speaker 3: Betts is coming back. They're going to get some of

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Speaker 3: and in the San Diego Padres, they're playing as a

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Speaker 3: figure it because it was crude. They were going cruise control,

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Speaker 3: you know, one point two era and never really faces adversity,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to perform. You have to play winning baseball.

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Speaker 4: stuff when you know they're better than they are. Okay,

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Speaker 4: so maybe I'm parsing words, but I'm still not overly

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Speaker 4: worried because they're going to play in the postseason and

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Speaker 4: whoever gets hot is going to go, you know, crazy

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Speaker 4: through the postseason. But you know, it would really behoove

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Speaker 4: them to go into the postseason playing much better ball

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Speaker 4: than they are now. There's time to get things going,

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Speaker 4: but you know, it would be good to see trade

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Speaker 4: turn and get going. I think he you know, he's hot.

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Speaker 4: It kind of reverberates through the entire lineup, and it

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Speaker 4: would be good to get some depth in. You know,

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Speaker 4: the one through nine is such a big drop off

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Speaker 4: after kind of like number five in the batting order.

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Speaker 6: Got to get all those guys calling.

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Speaker 4: So I'm still not that worried because they're gonna play

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Speaker 4: in the postseason. They got a big cushion, but frustrated,

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Speaker 4: ticked off. I certainly can understand what people why people

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Speaker 4: would feel that way for what they what they're watching,

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Speaker 4: because it's just not fun.

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Speaker 6: It's kind of a shorter watch.

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Speaker 4: You don't deliver runners in the scoring position, you're not

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Speaker 4: getting quality starts. It's nights when the defense is off.

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Speaker 4: Everything needs to be sharpened up here.

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Speaker 2: Ruby, what about you, let's let's do you said four

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Speaker 2: or five ish? Where are you at?

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Speaker 1: I'm going at eight.

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Speaker 3: I'm going at eight because what I see right now

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Speaker 3: and has been and now it's been long enough. I

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Speaker 3: thought that they would play at least five hundred on

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Speaker 3: this road trip.

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Speaker 1: And when you get blown out.

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Speaker 3: That many times in a road trip, that that really

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Speaker 3: concerned me because of the pitching. See, the pitching needs

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Speaker 3: to get turned back around.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: I was given a lot of love to Caleb Cotham

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Speaker 3: and Brian Kaplan and all those guys that were running

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Speaker 3: the pitching, but it's not executing now, they're not executing shooting. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They look tired. The team looks tired.

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Speaker 3: Uh and and it doesn't look like it has the

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Speaker 3: same sort of energy.

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Speaker 1: Now, losses can do that to.

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Speaker 3: You, but in particular, big, big losses can suck the

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Speaker 3: energy out of you. And the pitching really needs to

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Speaker 3: get turned around. And the pitching is a real concern.

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Speaker 3: Suarez needs to come back and be sharp. You've got

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Speaker 3: to get a sharper Nola and uh, you know, and

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Speaker 3: I'm a big Nola advocate because he's so steady, but

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Speaker 3: he needs to be sharper. And you know, Wheels, I

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Speaker 3: think it will be fine, but you need to you know,

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Speaker 3: Ace like work from Wheels as well. Those three guys

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Speaker 3: have to really get going for this team to uh

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Speaker 3: to start rolling. And the guys in the back end.

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Speaker 3: I love Carlos Steves. I think he's gonna be great

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Speaker 3: and I think he's gonna be fine. It's just strike

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Speaker 3: though he's not afraid. It goes after guys. But you know,

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Speaker 3: Hoffman and Alvarado they're gonna have to can you know,

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Speaker 3: bounce back, because right now they're not. They're not nearly

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Speaker 3: as sharp as as you would hope, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you're hopefully that hopefully they're going through that little dead

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Speaker 3: arm period, that lull or whatever the case we be,

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Speaker 3: and we'll be striking on all cylinders.

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Speaker 1: But I'm still at an eight because of the pitching.

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Speaker 2: I'd probably be at four. I'm probably at a five

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Speaker 2: ish now because of what I mentioned it at the top.

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Speaker 2: Now they're in the they're gonna win the division. I

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Speaker 2: believe that they're going to win the division. But where

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Speaker 2: are they're going to be seated in the postseason race?

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Speaker 2: You know, are they gonna Are they gonna let the

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Speaker 2: Brewers and the Dodgers pass them by or whoever wins

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Speaker 2: the NL West? And now you're talking about playing a

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Speaker 2: best of three wildcard series and if, like I mentioned,

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Speaker 2: could be the Diamondbacks, and as Bryce said, they ain't scared.

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Speaker 2: They ain't scared, So you better get this turned around

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Speaker 2: and get that first round by. I do think that's important.

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Speaker 2: So you can't let this thing linger around for a

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Speaker 2: few more weeks and then oh man, okay, well we're

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Speaker 2: just gonna try to get in and get hot at

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Speaker 2: the end of the season and had one more series

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Speaker 2: in there. He adds one all these different things that

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Speaker 2: can pop up and crazy bounce and boom. Now your

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Speaker 2: season's over, so they gotta get out figured out.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back on uh, I think later. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back on Wednesday maybe, and if you we'll take some

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Speaker 2: listener questions, some viewer questions, which there should be some

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Speaker 2: good ones. If you have any listener questions. If you

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Speaker 2: have any questions, shoot them our way. We'll send a

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Speaker 2: tweet later today, later tomorrow and then shoot him in

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Speaker 2: there and we'll we'll try to get him get to them,

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Speaker 2: keep them clean. I know you're frustrated, but but well,

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Speaker 2: I guess we can.

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Speaker 1: Edit it out. It's to wear words.

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Speaker 2: But uh, you know, we'll be back on Wednesday. Thanks guys,

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Speaker 2: little boys side.

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