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

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Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Philly Show with Ruben Tomorrow, Junior,

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Speaker 2: Jim Salisbury. I'm todd z Lucky. It is Friday, June fourteenth,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Father's Day is Sunday, and I will

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Speaker 2: be doing a book signing with Doctor The Life of

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Speaker 2: Roy Halliday at Shy Vintage Sports Saturday two to four,

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Speaker 2: fifteen eighteen, Paoli Pike in Westchester.

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Speaker 1: Hey, there's the book right there. Yeah, there's a book

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Speaker 1: right there.

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Speaker 2: What better way to say I love you to your

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Speaker 2: father than getting a nice personalized copy of Doctor Life

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Speaker 2: of Roy Halle. Don't get him a gift card. Come on,

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Speaker 2: you're better than that. Get him a book, Get him

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Speaker 2: a book.

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Speaker 3: That's what about the Rotation? You got any old rotations?

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Speaker 1: I do have a few copies of the Rotation that's

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Speaker 1: somewhere here. I think the publishers sent most of those

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Speaker 1: to Kindling. Yeah, I know they're harder to find. They're

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Speaker 1: harder to find. They're a lot harder to find. But

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Speaker 1: I do have.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll bring a couple of copies that I have,

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Speaker 2: some leftover copies.

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Speaker 4: That was quite the rotation. Guys.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no, it's it's so.

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Speaker 2: I will be signing copies Great Father's Day gift Phillies.

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Speaker 2: Come back from London, guys, six game road trip, good

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Speaker 2: challenge Red Sox Orioles. They lose two out of three

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Speaker 2: in Boston, they do something uncharacteristic. Christopher Sanchez and Aaron

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Speaker 2: Nola both struggle back to back starts. I think it's

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Speaker 2: the first time they have allowed eight or more runs

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Speaker 2: in consecutive games since the first two games of the

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Speaker 2: season they got clobbered by the Braves. Is this, uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, just coming back from London, just a couple

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Speaker 2: of bad starts.

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Speaker 1: What do you guys think?

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Speaker 3: What do you think?

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Speaker 4: Rubin Well, I think it's a combination of things.

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Speaker 5: I think that it's won a little bit of a

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Speaker 5: hangover from from the London thing. I would think it

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Speaker 5: was uncharacteristic in that. I mean, it was a couple

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Speaker 5: of different things. So Sanchez was really struggling with his command,

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Speaker 5: and that was something that he's rectified amazingly over the

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Speaker 5: last year and a half or year now and has

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Speaker 5: become a very viable starting pitcher. Could not throw strikes,

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Speaker 5: just couldn't throw consistent strikes and it was obvious that

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Speaker 5: he was not on top of his game, and the

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Speaker 5: Red Sox took advantage of it. The defense they didn't

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Speaker 5: play the defense. There was a couple of different things

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Speaker 5: going on in that game. In the second game, the

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Speaker 5: back to back loss, when Aaron Nola gave it up,

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Speaker 5: I mean Aaron old just didn't have his stuff. He

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Speaker 5: left a lot of pitches in the middle of the plate.

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Speaker 5: The breaking ball was rolling, it was not sharp. His

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Speaker 5: fastball command was not very I think he said it himself.

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Speaker 4: He needed it.

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Speaker 5: You know, he's having it. He's got a flush, just

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Speaker 5: want to move forward. But you know that happens from

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Speaker 5: time to time. Now there are I've always talked to

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Speaker 5: trainers Jeff Cooper, who was a great trainer for years

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Speaker 5: and years and years. He talks about this all the time,

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Speaker 5: that there is a period of time in the season

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Speaker 5: when you know pictures have that dead arm period. I'm

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Speaker 5: not sure if this is where those two guys are

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Speaker 5: just based on what I saw as far as their

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Speaker 5: overall stuff, there may be that they may be sliding

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Speaker 5: into that period. And I think every picture gets into

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Speaker 5: that period where they're just not really sharp with their stuff,

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Speaker 5: and then they bounce back from it, and I think,

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Speaker 5: you know, hopefully that's exactly what that was.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 5: That one other question I have as well, is it

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Speaker 5: because JT is not you know, behind the plate manning things,

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Speaker 5: and so that's a that's a question too.

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Speaker 4: You know, we'll see over over the next several weeks,

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Speaker 4: we'll find out.

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Speaker 5: But but obviously neither one of those pitchers were sharp,

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Speaker 5: and you know, and it costs him and it's something

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Speaker 5: that typically doesn't happen to the Phillies. But they're gonna

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Speaker 5: have to turn it around against a really tough Baltimore team.

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Speaker 4: Jim.

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Speaker 3: As far as a London hangover, I mean, I guess,

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Speaker 3: but you know, I just think these are the ebbs

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Speaker 3: and flows of a season. Because they did come back

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Speaker 3: from London and win the first game in Fenway Park

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Speaker 3: behind a very good start from Zach Wheeler and some

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Speaker 3: timely hitting the next two nights. And when we talk

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Speaker 3: about it all the time, it's everything starts with starting pitching.

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Speaker 3: It is the basis of your team, the foundation of

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Speaker 3: your team. It is the foundation of that night's nine

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Speaker 3: inning ballgame, and they didn't have it those two nights.

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Speaker 3: I agree with you on Knowla just over the plate

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Speaker 3: way too much. Now, he's a guy, he's not gonna

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Speaker 3: blow you away. He needs to pitch, and when he's

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Speaker 3: over the plate, traditionally he gets hit. And he's the guy.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if the long layoff really hurt his location?

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Speaker 1: Eight days days from his life start?

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Speaker 3: How many eight eight days? Eight days? These A guy

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Speaker 3: typically benefits from an extra day, but nobody benefits from

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Speaker 3: four extra days. I mean, these guys need to be

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Speaker 3: in their routine, need to stay sharp. So I just

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Speaker 3: look at it as and their offense has tailed off

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Speaker 3: a bit. But so when two aspects of your game

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Speaker 3: and you don't have that foundation of that night's game

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Speaker 3: starting pitching, you're gonna take it on the chin. And

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Speaker 3: I think that's what happened the last two nights in Boston.

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Speaker 3: I'm not alarmed. I'm not panicing. It's a long season.

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Speaker 3: You're going to have bad stretches, and good teams navigate

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Speaker 3: those bad stretches and focus on the next night. Like golf, Ruben,

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Speaker 3: focus on the next shot.

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Speaker 4: That's right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: The Philly.

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Speaker 2: So you talk about like a bad stretch, this is

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Speaker 2: I guess you could say a bad stretch for the Phillies,

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Speaker 2: which they were thirty seven and fourteen on May twenty third.

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Speaker 2: They're nine to eight in their last seventeen games, you know,

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Speaker 2: so they that's I guess that's a bad stretch for

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Speaker 2: these Phillies because they were playing such an insane pace.

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Speaker 2: But to put that into perspective, the Dodgers in the

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Speaker 2: same stretches May twenty third, they're nine and nine, The

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Speaker 2: Braves are seven and twelve, the Padres are ten and nine.

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Speaker 2: Only one other really over five hundred team. There's only

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Speaker 2: five teams over five hundred the National League right now.

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Speaker 2: The Brewers are twelve and seven in that stretch. So

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Speaker 2: Phillies are kind of going through a little bit. Al

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Speaker 2: Bohm's really really cooled off, really cooled off on that

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Speaker 1: Five with the four to ninety ops.

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Speaker 2: Bryson Stotts really struggle betting one to eighty six four

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Speaker 2: and I think Boom we've talked so much about how

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Speaker 2: So I think you're seeing a little bit of that

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Speaker 2: effect with him when he cools down. That's a big

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Speaker 2: so go through it.

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Speaker 3: And they're kind of feeling for it in a cleanup

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Speaker 3: hole now as a result, they're kind of they're looking

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Speaker 3: for some consistent production there in an important spot in

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Speaker 3: the lineup. And even Sosa, who we all we all respect,

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Speaker 3: the job he's done in place of Trey Turner really

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Speaker 3: the last eight nine ten games. So and you mentioned Stottonbohm.

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Speaker 3: You know, the cooling off of a small core there

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Speaker 3: Trey Turner loss, has you know, taking its toll. I

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Speaker 3: think that's why, you know, in terms of production in

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Speaker 5: Back, and so a couple of things for me as

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Speaker 5: far as Boem is concerned, you know, that does affect

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Speaker 5: That was a big concern about coming into the season,

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Speaker 5: you know who's going to protect Bryce Harper, And so

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Speaker 5: that's important that that he bounces back and starts swinging

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Speaker 5: fact that, you know, there's a domino effect that's associated

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Speaker 5: with with him not producing one. They can pitch around

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Speaker 5: That said, you know, you got some juggling going on.

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Speaker 5: You got Castillanos in the two hole, you got other

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Speaker 5: you know, the long term effect of not having Turner

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Speaker 5: And you talked about ed Mundo Sosa. Yes, you can

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Speaker 5: expect him to do like solid things. He's been outstanding defensively,

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Speaker 5: He's been very, very solid on.

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Speaker 4: The defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 5: Offensively, he's you know, he would be in every day

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Speaker 5: offensively as he had been for that first you know,

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Speaker 5: a few weeks when Trey was down, that said, I mean,

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Speaker 4: For a backup role.

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Speaker 5: And you know, as you said, I think the turner

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Speaker 5: is important for him to get back, and he will

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Speaker 5: be back probably with this weekend. And it looks like Marsh,

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Speaker 4: You would think that he'd be ready.

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Speaker 5: I think he's going to play on Friday night in

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Speaker 5: they send Rojas back to Triple A, just because Rojas

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Speaker 5: has been okay, He's getting a knock here and there,

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Speaker 5: he's not really driving the ball enough but singles, and

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Speaker 5: I thought he would be even more spectacular and he's

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Speaker 4: He's been fine defensively.

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Speaker 5: But the question is whether or not when they bring

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Speaker 5: send Johann Rojas back to the minor leagues, and I

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Speaker 5: think that's a possibility. Now they've got to make sure

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Speaker 5: that Marsh is healthy and hurd percent and to kind

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Speaker 5: that's the move to make, and it's a possibility.

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Speaker 3: I was going to ask you if you saw any

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Speaker 3: significance to Marsh being slated to play center field on

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Speaker 3: Friday Night. To me, it seems significant.

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Speaker 4: It does, no doubt that, no doubt about it. And

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Speaker 4: he's a good center fielder. He's not great, he's an

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Speaker 4: average center fielder. It's just a matter of whether or

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Speaker 4: not they feel like.

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Speaker 5: They can go with that sort of defense combination of

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Speaker 5: Pache and Marsh and feel comfortable with that with other

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Speaker 5: whoever gets an opportunity out there, and so we'll see

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Speaker 5: how that role. But I would I would think my

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Speaker 5: thought process would be that Riohan Rojas might get sent

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Speaker 5: offensively and see where it goes from there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be interesting.

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Speaker 2: You know, Jim, you mentioned so so ted last ten

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Speaker 4: I will I answer that.

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Speaker 2: Not I, not I.

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Speaker 3: It was me and it was actually nine patties. Get

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Speaker 3: Don't be afraid of them.

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Speaker 3: Hell you live, and let's go. You gotta you gotta

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Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, it was it was a Jake's Way

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Speaker 3: Too many to name. I love a good in and

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Speaker 3: That's clear that you're Jim Would.

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Speaker 6: all right. This is from Xander via ex hunt or Twitter.

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Speaker 6: This is an interesting question.

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Speaker 4: You know, are you taking this?

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Speaker 3: You could you could benefit from any one of those guys.

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Speaker 4: Pick one, Jim, pick one, pick one yet.

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Speaker 3: To pick one brad Ledge.

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Speaker 5: Brad Lyedge, Yeah, stole mine, because if you're gonna get

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna take Jason Worth. I like Jason Worth.

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Speaker 5: Four, Strom, Kirkering, Hoffman, and Alvarado really good. But if

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Speaker 5: you can make it better, I would certainly lean that way,

441
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Speaker 5: because if you want to win a baseball game in

442
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Speaker 5: the playoffs, you got to win it sometimes, you got

443
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Speaker 5: to win it deep, and you got to.

444
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Speaker 4: Win it with quality. So I would think about that.

445
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Speaker 5: I'm not as concerned about the offense because I think

446
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Speaker 5: we're going to get folks back.

447
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Speaker 4: I mean, we're missing three key pieces right now, right.

448
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Speaker 2: This one, This one's for Reuben. This is from Jeff.

449
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Speaker 2: From Reuben's standpoint. As a GM, how early do clubs

450
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Speaker 2: start making calls before the trade deadline? Is it ever

451
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Speaker 2: as early as a few weeks after the season starts off,

452
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Speaker 2: a desperate need arises. So give us some perspective, Ruben, Now, like,

453
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Speaker 2: what are the conversations like right now on June fourteenth?

454
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Speaker 5: And we talk about ebbs and flows all the time.

455
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Speaker 5: It's sort of how it works as a GM. I

456
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Speaker 5: mean you, I think I always try to assess my

457
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:37,080
Speaker 5: team back then after about five weeks sometime in mid

458
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Speaker 5: May is usually when I started to assess Okay, what

459
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Speaker 5: do I have and what do I need?

460
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Speaker 4: And I have a pretty good idea. I think it's

461
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Speaker 4: backed up a little bit.

462
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Speaker 5: Now you're into June, early June to mid June. Now

463
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Speaker 5: when you're assessing just because your players don't play a lot.

464
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Speaker 4: Of spring training anymore, so you don't really know where

465
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Speaker 4: you are.

466
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Speaker 5: And it's a different scenario as far as you make

467
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Speaker 5: the playoffs, like where are we in the whole pick

468
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Speaker 5: scheme of things, like what teams can we target?

469
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Speaker 4: Right now?

470
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Speaker 5: There's so much parody in the game that you just

471
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Speaker 5: don't I mean you want to you don't want to

472
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Speaker 5: take a good, widespread look at what's going on. And

473
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Speaker 5: Mike Gondo will do a great job who's the pro

474
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Speaker 5: scouting director. He'll do a great job of trying to,

475
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Speaker 5: you know, talk with Samful and Dave Denbrowski that, Okay,

476
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Speaker 5: what are our needs?

477
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Speaker 4: Where do we need to concentrate.

478
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Speaker 5: On And he'll start probably more aggressively around this time,

479
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 5: getting ready whether it's a bullpen piece or an outfield

480
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Speaker 5: piece or you know again, things may I mean teams

481
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Speaker 5: may wait all the way up until the deadlines, like

482
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Speaker 5: really decide, Okay, are we in a reality. And so

483
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Speaker 5: that's that's the big challenge right now is how do

484
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Speaker 5: we manage through that?

485
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Speaker 4: And I'm sure Dave Nembrowski's on top of it.

486
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Speaker 5: And I will tell you this, And David den Browski's

487
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Speaker 5: got this old school mentality that he does feel like, hey,

488
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Speaker 5: I got to show this team, not necessarily just just

489
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Speaker 5: to make a move, to make a move, but I

490
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Speaker 5: got to show this team that we're in too.

491
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Speaker 4: And I think that there is you know, that thought process.

492
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Speaker 5: I believed in it, that you got to add something

493
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Speaker 5: to this ball club to show the people in the clubhouse.

494
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Speaker 5: So we are in on it as much as you

495
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Speaker 5: guys are in on it, and that you know, put

496
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Speaker 5: my money where my mouth is to try to make

497
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Speaker 5: a move.

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Speaker 4: So that's one. The other thing.

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Speaker 5: Other thing I want to say, Gotham, It's called the

500
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Speaker 5: Gotham City or Gotham Club.

501
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Speaker 4: The Gotham Club is the name of the and then

502
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Speaker 4: Lace in San Francisco and San Franciso.

503
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Speaker 2: Well, Rubin, you talked about like sending a message to

504
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Speaker 2: the team. I will never ever ever forget being in

505
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Speaker 2: Arizona in two thousand and nine July of two thousand

506
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Speaker 2: and nine, the trade deadline. The Phillies just trade for

507
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Speaker 2: Cliff Lay and you walk into the clubhouse and literally,

508
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 2: Shane victory. You will stand and is applauding, and you

509
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,639
Speaker 2: got a round of applause from the players in that

510
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 2: clubhouse because they were so jacked up that you got

511
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Speaker 2: the cy young winner, Cliff Lee. So that stuff is

512
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 2: very real, sending getting guys pumped up in that clubhouse,

513
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 2: sending a message like let's go, boys, it's time to win.

514
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Speaker 1: You know, here, this is what I did for you.

515
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 1: Here you go. You wanted something, I got it for you.

516
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Speaker 1: So that's a very real thing. Now that was a

517
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Speaker 1: cool moment. I don't know.

518
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate you bringing that up because that gives

519
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Speaker 5: me goosebumps even to this day. So I always believed

520
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Speaker 5: in that the importance of that. I've been in clubhouses

521
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Speaker 5: where there were no moves made. I've been in clubhouses

522
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Speaker 5: where there were moves made, and I know that it's

523
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Speaker 5: a real thing. And the fact that those players acknowledge

524
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Speaker 5: that meant a lot to me. It makes me emotional

525
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Speaker 5: sometimes because that's why.

526
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Speaker 4: I did my job.

527
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Speaker 5: I wanted to do my job to bring not just

528
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Speaker 5: you know, quality to the clubhouse, but quality to the

529
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Speaker 5: fans and the chance really win.

530
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Speaker 4: And that was a cool moment for me.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you quick, just follow up. And I

532
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Speaker 3: agree Dave Dombroski is going to do something. I mean,

533
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Speaker 3: if you can, if you can inch it along, you're

534
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 3: a good team and you can and you can improve

535
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Speaker 3: by an inch you do it. I agree with the

536
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Speaker 3: message sending is in terms of you know, we're behind

537
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Speaker 3: you one hundred percent and what that can do for

538
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 3: clubholls like the Cliff Lee thing, right is could part

539
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Speaker 3: of the message sending also be hey, we're twenty six

540
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 3: seven games over five hundred, we're cruising. We're doing really

541
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Speaker 3: good here, but we haven't accomplished crap yet, you know?

542
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 3: Is there part of that too? Oh?

543
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Speaker 4: Also, no question about it. And I think and the people.

544
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Speaker 5: That you target are important, right that, because you want

545
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Speaker 5: to have somebody that's that's sort of going to fit

546
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 5: in the clubhouse. You want the piece that's going to

547
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 5: fit on the team, but you also want to.

548
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,360
Speaker 4: To fit you know, you sort of try to target guys.

549
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Speaker 5: I felt it was important to target guys who have

550
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Speaker 5: been there and done it, Like if you got a

551
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Speaker 5: bullpen guy who's never really pitched in the playoffs or

552
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 5: in the tight or been in that situation, he may

553
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 5: be able to respond to that, but you just don't.

554
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 4: Know whether he's going to be able to respond to that.

555
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 5: And so I believed in trying to get somebody who's

556
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 5: been there, done it, and had the success in that role.

557
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 4: In that situation.

558
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 5: You know, one of the reasons why we ended up,

559
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 5: you know, signing papal Bond because he had done it.

560
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 5: But even in those situations when you're adding pieces, hey, uh,

561
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 5: if it's a guy who's pitched in you know, Kansas

562
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 5: City for instance, had never been there and never done

563
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 5: it and hasn't had to pitch for a World Series

564
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 5: championship or a you know, or a pennant in the

565
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 5: National League or American League, makes it you gotta you

566
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 5: gotta sort of assess and really get into that guy's

567
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 5: soul and find out that this guy is really prepared

568
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Speaker 5: to do this.

569
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Speaker 2: Or a guy that's never been booed after he was

570
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Speaker 2: a three run lead in the eighth then and he

571
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Speaker 2: gets a crap boot out of them squaking off the field,

572
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Speaker 2: you know, how's it gonna bounce back from that?

573
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Speaker 1: So so Phillies open a. This is gonna be a

574
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Speaker 1: fun series.

575
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Speaker 2: I think this weekend three game series beginning tonight, Phillies

576
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 2: Orioles potential world series matchup. I mean potentially. You know,

577
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 2: two great teams Orioles are red hot right now.

578
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Speaker 4: And look at these pitching matchups.

579
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Speaker 1: Great pitching matchup.

580
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Speaker 2: Ranger Tonight, Friday Night Ranger Sworez versus Kyle Bradish Who's

581
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 2: two and oh with the two six two e ra A.

582
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Speaker 2: Saturday Taiwan Walker versus Grayson Rodriguez seven and two with

583
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Speaker 2: a three to two seven. Sunday Zach Wheeler versus Corbyn

584
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Speaker 2: Burns seven and two with a two point zero a

585
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Speaker 2: e ra A. Paul Casella, Who's covers has been covering

586
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Speaker 2: the Phillies for MLB dot Com, had an interesting little note.

587
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Speaker 2: This is the first time ever at Camden Yards the

588
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 2: Phillies and Orioles have both had winning records at the

589
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Speaker 2: same time.

590
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Speaker 1: Now, interleague play, they don't play every year.

591
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: Teams go through hot stretches and cold stretches. But this

592
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Speaker 2: is the first time two winning teams are you know,

593
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Speaker 2: Phillies Oriols are playing at Camdony Yards. All three games

594
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Speaker 2: are sold out. It is gonna be fun. That Oriols

595
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 2: are such a fun young team. Phillies are a fun team.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun.

597
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Speaker 3: The sellouts are very notable to me because Phillies fans

598
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 3: traveled so well. Interesting. I'm interested to see the Phillies

599
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:33,479
Speaker 3: fans impact. I'm sure it will be huge. The Orioles

600
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: do have that great young team and that shortstop, I mean.

601
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Speaker 4: Wow.

602
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Speaker 3: But like the Orioles are in the middle of the

603
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Speaker 3: pack in the American League and attendants averaging twenty six

604
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Speaker 3: thousand per night.

605
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Speaker 4: That surprises me.

606
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Speaker 3: I look at their attendants all the time, and you know,

607
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 3: they have had a lot of lean years and those

608
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,239
Speaker 3: fans have had to tolerate a lot. But they got

609
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 3: a great young team, they got a new ownership group.

610
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 3: Things that are really looking up. They have a you know,

611
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 3: gorgeous ball park and they're still they're not banging that

612
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 3: place out every night. I'm sure they're gonna love. You know,

613
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Speaker 3: the Orioles management is gonna love banging out and having

614
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Speaker 3: three sellouts, even though a lot of people are gonna

615
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Speaker 3: be wearing red. But I think it'll be a lot

616
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Speaker 3: of fun and a special series. And you know, for

617
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Speaker 3: everybody says the Phillies haven't played anybody. Well, they're gonna

618
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Speaker 3: play somebody this weekend.

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Speaker 5: Right, And I think the fact that they might have Marsh,

620
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Speaker 5: I think it'd be great to have Marsh and Turner back.

621
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Speaker 5: If they can get him back during this weekend series,

622
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Speaker 5: it'd be a little bit better armed. You know, when

623
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Speaker 5: you're missing three or your big boys, it's it makes

624
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 5: it a little bit more difficult. But the matchups are

625
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Speaker 5: tremendous as far as the pitching. As you said, Todd,

626
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Speaker 5: I am really looking forward to the Wheeler Burns one,

627
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Speaker 5: and it's sort of like, I know Wheels.

628
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Speaker 4: I know that he's still upset.

629
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Speaker 5: About not winning that that cy Young and lost it

630
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Speaker 5: to Burns, and I think it's pretty I think it's

631
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Speaker 5: Wheeler's gonna be amped up for that one because he's

632
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Speaker 5: gonna want to He's gonna want to show the world

633
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 5: that he is the best right handed baseball.

634
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 2: Listen, I had to cy Young vote that year, and

635
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 2: I voted for Zach Wheeler, and not because he plays

636
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 2: with the Phillies, because he threw like thirty five forty

637
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: more innings than Corbyn Brow.

638
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 3: Yeah.

639
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 2: No, it's wild that, you know, people did not look

640
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 2: at the innings pitched.

641
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 3: Zach was outspoken. Zach was outspoken the following spring, saying

642
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 3: he thought he should have won it. He didn't know

643
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 3: it makes any words.

644
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it was absolutely so.

645
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Speaker 2: I think, Ruben, that is going to be a lot

646
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 2: of fun on Sunday, but the whole series is going

647
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 2: to be fun.

648
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Speaker 1: Camden Yards is such a great place.

649
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,239
Speaker 2: We didn't mention that is a great ballpark to go to,

650
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 2: but that's a great ballpark to go to, you.

651
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 5: Know, very first, it was one of the very very

652
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Speaker 5: first retro ballparks and it's still the best retro ballpark,

653
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 5: I think, especially in the American League. It's just phenomenal.

654
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Speaker 5: Did you write something about that? What about the Camden

655
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 5: the Archer? Did you did one of you guys write

656
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Speaker 5: about the Cambdi.

657
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, But you're right. It is the

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Speaker 3: ballpark that inspired the retro movement. I mean the Famoue

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Speaker 3: story about Bill Giles. It opened in ninety two. Bill

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Speaker 3: Giles took a ride down and immediately fell in love

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Speaker 3: and came back and started telling people we need one

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Speaker 3: of these. And you know, it eventually took a long time,

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Speaker 3: but they got one.

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Speaker 7: And then you get to see the oriole bird Jim

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Speaker 7: So one of my favorite I've had a lot of

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Speaker 7: spent a lot of time in Camden Yards covering the

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Speaker 7: Yankees and covering the Phillies.

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Speaker 3: And my favorite story so covering the nineteen ninety seven Phillies,

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Speaker 3: which was a very bad team. They tied for the

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Speaker 3: worst record in the National League with the Cubs, and

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Speaker 3: they were going through the rebuild first year Terry Francona,

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Speaker 3: and they went in June of nineteen ninety seven, they

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Speaker 3: went four and twenty two. It was awful, and that

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Speaker 3: was part of a bigger four and twenty six stretch.

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Speaker 3: And in that four and twenty six at early July,

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Speaker 3: that nineteen ninety seven team gets swept in Camden Yards

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Speaker 3: and they finish that series with a Wednesday day game

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Speaker 3: and they take a lead in that game. They need

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Speaker 3: to win badly. They take a lead in that game

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Speaker 3: in the sixth inning on a home run, a solo

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Speaker 3: home run in the sixth inning off of Scott Kaminicki,

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Speaker 3: by that would be me, Rubyo Amaral gives him a leading,

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Speaker 3: gives him a memory.

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Speaker 2: So they.

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Speaker 4: Home runs.

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Speaker 3: I can remember the ones that so they need a

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Speaker 3: win like just I mean, the clubhouse is a funeral paller.

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Speaker 3: Every night. They're losing, night after night after night. They're

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Speaker 3: about to get swept in by a ninety seven win

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Speaker 3: or a ninety eight win Orial team that actually won

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Speaker 3: the Al East over the Yankees that year. They take

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Speaker 3: the lead in the top of the six and a

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Speaker 3: home run by Ruben and looking like they're gonna get

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Speaker 3: that win, and then Jerry Spradlin gives it up in

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Speaker 3: the bottom of the sixth. The Phillies get swept and

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Speaker 3: after the game, the Oriole Bird is in front of

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Speaker 3: the Phillies dugout waving the the mascot is waving the flag,

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Speaker 3: and I think he's waving the flag, and I think

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Speaker 3: he's got a broom as well, something like that. I

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Speaker 3: think he might have had a broom actually. And Philly's

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Speaker 3: going their clubhouse and we're waiting outside for five or

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Speaker 3: ten minutes for them to cool off to go in,

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Speaker 3: and John Vukovich comes flying out of the clubhouse and

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Speaker 3: he is ripped raw and mad and he wants a

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Speaker 3: piece of the bird. Who was, you know, doing the

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Speaker 3: broom in front of the Phillies dugout And he finds

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Speaker 3: the bird's dressing room and he goes in and there's

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Speaker 3: a kid sitting there, and he says, where's that bleeping bird?

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Speaker 3: And the kid says the kid sees fire in Vukovich's eyes,

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Speaker 3: and the kid thinks quick on his feet and says, oh,

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Speaker 3: he just left. He's down the runway there. He just left. Well,

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Speaker 3: that was actually the bird. He was getting undressed. But

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Speaker 3: he thought quick because he saw so angry. And Vukovich

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Speaker 3: may have known deep down inside that that was the kid.

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Speaker 3: And Vukovich looks him in the eye and says, you

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Speaker 3: tell that bird he ever waves that broom in front

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Speaker 3: of our dugout again, I'm gonna pluck every feather out

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Speaker 3: of his body. That was your That was your moment, Reuben.

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Speaker 3: That was your moment. I was gonna write the whole

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Speaker 3: story about you. You could have clipped it and put

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Speaker 3: it on your wall.

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Speaker 1: They could have been the wall right behind you.

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Speaker 4: That was not a good year for for years, truly.

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Speaker 5: But but that was a big base hit and KAMERNICKI

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Speaker 5: was having a pretty good year and and uh, I

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Speaker 5: think it was a little slider or something that he

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Speaker 5: hung up there. I hit the right center field shotting,

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Speaker 5: but got him remember that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so funny. All right, guys, that was That

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Speaker 1: was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: So a quick reminder, I'm gonna be signing copies of

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Speaker 2: doctor Roy Halliday, maybe some rotation as well, Saturday two

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Speaker 2: to four at Shive Vintage Sports in Westchester. Father's Day

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Speaker 2: is Sunday. Don't blow it, get your data.

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Speaker 1: Nice gift?

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Speaker 2: How about a nice personalized message from me? Wouldn't that

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Speaker 2: be sweet? Wouldn't that be sweet?

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Speaker 4: So we'll be back on everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Happy Fay to you guys.

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Speaker 3: For sure Fathers Day and of course we will smell

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Speaker 3: you guys later.

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Speaker 2: You guys letters see by.

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