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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. Ruben Tomorrow Junior,

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Speaker 2: Jim Salisbury, Todd's luck. It's Monday, September second, twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: and none of us have as good at a setup

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Speaker 2: today as one. Ruben Tomorrow Junior, Look at you, buddy

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Speaker 2: living Where are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm in Brigantine, right on the peninsula. Man, my book,

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Speaker 1: my buddy from high school. Actually my brother's best friend,

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Speaker 1: John Sarkisian. He's a great dude. And their family's awesome.

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Speaker 1: They're like, you know, brothers and sisters and cousins. They

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Speaker 1: I decided, man, a couple of days off, a couple

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Speaker 1: of national games. Guess who's going down to the shore.

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Speaker 2: Looks like you're gonna run out of it at it? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: can take the jet ski home from right there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome. Gotta get ready to go to Toronto though,

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Speaker 1: so I got to roll out of here. But looking

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Speaker 1: forward to chatting with you boys about this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah what what what a weekend? Jim? How was your weekend?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: It was Bueno, beautiful, you know, chill, looking some Phillies games.

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Speaker 3: It was fun.

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Speaker 1: Did you do any grilling?

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Speaker 3: I actually I did some grilling. Yes, most weekends include

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Speaker 3: some grilling, and I had some I threw some stuff

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Speaker 3: on the grill, and uh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was great, all right, all right, all right,

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Speaker 2: So Phillies have a big weekend, being huge weekend. They

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Speaker 2: went three out of four guys and and every game

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Speaker 2: was pretty fun, pretty intense. Last night Nick Cassiijanos again

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Speaker 2: coming through, great pitching performance from Aaron Nola, great pitching

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Speaker 2: performance from the bullpen Carlos stan Is, two scoreless innings

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Speaker 2: in the tenth and the eleventh innings. What did you

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Speaker 2: guys think about this weekend in general? Is I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to say the NL East race is over, but man,

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Speaker 2: they have a If you do the math, they're in

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Speaker 2: a incredibly strong position to win their first division title

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Speaker 2: since twenty eleven.

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Speaker 3: They took a huge step toward it with really great pitching.

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Speaker 3: I think throughout the home stand, kind of one of

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Speaker 3: those home stands, I think that after kind of going

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Speaker 3: up and down a little bit, this really I think

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Speaker 3: firmly set everything in a good direction. The ugh seven

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Speaker 3: second best record in the National League, still slugging them

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Speaker 3: out with the Dodgers for that, But I was so

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Speaker 3: encouraged by the pitching, starting pitching, Wheeler Nullah, both brilliant

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Speaker 3: throughout the home stand and the bullpen. I think they

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Speaker 3: had one game where they had hiccup, but you know,

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Speaker 3: you look at the box scores, you know, the next

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Speaker 3: morning after every game, and you see a string of

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Speaker 3: zeros for the bullpen. I think the bullpen is really

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Speaker 3: righted the ship. What Estevs did last night is hard

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Speaker 3: to do. You know, one reason I don't like the

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Speaker 3: ghost runner thing is is the whole object of the

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Speaker 3: game is to get on get on first base, or

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Speaker 3: prevent the other team from getting on first base, because

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Speaker 3: when you get on base, that's how you score runs.

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Speaker 3: And now all of a sudden you're parachuting a guy right

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Speaker 3: to second base. It really hasn't earned his way there.

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Speaker 3: So to me, it's kind of it's not what baseball's about.

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Speaker 3: That said, is where we are. And he did a

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Speaker 3: great job in those in those two innings there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great effort by everybody. I think it was just

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Speaker 1: a lot of team wins you get in contribution from

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Speaker 1: a couple of different guys. But it's always about pitching. Boys.

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Speaker 1: I mean, at the end of the day, it's about pitching.

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Speaker 1: And I know that that Atlanta team doesn't have Riley,

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Speaker 1: they don't have a Kunya, they don't have Albis. I

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Speaker 1: get it, and that's a lot of firepower. But they

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Speaker 1: have to win the games. And you know, they're a

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Speaker 1: little banged up too. We'll talk about that later. But

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Speaker 1: that said, they have to figure out ways to win

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Speaker 1: baseball games. And while they did not win this against

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves and hopefully doesn't come down to any

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Speaker 1: tie breakers or anything like that, I don't think it will.

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Speaker 1: They did play well enough to split it and to

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Speaker 1: put themselves in it and put themselves in a great

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Speaker 3: And the Braves were really I'm sorry the Mets. The

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Speaker 3: Mets were really happy with the Phillies taking even winning

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Speaker 3: a series three or four against the Braves, because now,

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, the Mets are just a game

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Speaker 3: back in the Wildcard, just a game back of the Braves.

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Speaker 3: So there's a real interesting development there.

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Speaker 1: So Phillies never know, You never know, you get.

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Speaker 3: To this time of year, victories impact so many other

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Speaker 3: teams as well, victories and losses.

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Speaker 2: So like doing the math right, like Phillies have a

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Speaker 2: seven game lead with twenty five games to play, and

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Speaker 2: I like doing this just because I think it helps

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Speaker 2: put things in perspective for Phillies fans. So if the

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Speaker 2: Phillies would go twelve and thirteen, the rest of the

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Speaker 2: way they played game under five hundred. Right now, they're

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Speaker 2: really picking up steam. I would be surprised. I guess

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Speaker 2: that that happens. But if they did go twelve and thirteen,

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Speaker 2: they'd finished ninety three and sixty nine. The Braves would

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Speaker 2: need to go nineteen and six to tie. That's a

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Speaker 2: seven to sixty winning percentage. They haven't had a stretch

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Speaker 2: like that all season. Their best stretch was eighteen and

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Speaker 2: had a Kunya, Riley Stryder, Alb's all those guys. So again,

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Speaker 2: nothing has been decided, but they're they're in a great

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Speaker 2: They're in a great mission as they go on the

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Speaker 2: road this week. Nick Castianos had I thought, had a

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Speaker 2: great quote last night talking about the energy at the

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Speaker 2: ballpark this week against the Astros and the Braves, and

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Speaker 2: he said, it feels like October is around the corner,

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Speaker 2: and it kind of it kind of did, kind of did.

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Speaker 2: The energy was pretty tense, and yes, if you look

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Speaker 2: at the counter, it is right around the corner. There's

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Speaker 2: a month ago. That's a month he had that.

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Speaker 3: Another big walk off for him. He's thinking like five

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Speaker 3: of them this year. He's such a field player and

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Speaker 3: he derives a lot of feel positive vibe. I think

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Speaker 3: from from the audience, from the from the fans, from

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Speaker 3: the big cellout crowns. I think he feeds off of

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Speaker 3: a lot. I think he's a player that you know,

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Speaker 3: he needs love, and when he gets love, I think

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Speaker 3: he performs better. Now it becomes chicken in the ead.

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Speaker 3: You have to perform to get the love. But wherever

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Speaker 3: it comes from, when he's got that good feel coursing

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Speaker 3: through his veins, he's awfully productive player and he ain't

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Speaker 3: missing mistakes this whole homestand.

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Speaker 1: Both of those doubt about it, noted, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: He's one of those guys again, one of the best

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Speaker 1: right handed producers in over the last you know, eight

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Speaker 1: to ten years. I mean one of them that are

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Speaker 1: right handed producing bats. Has had some ups and downs

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Speaker 1: he knows how to he knows how to hit. He

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Speaker 1: works the ball through the middle of the field pretty consistently,

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Speaker 1: and you know when he's swinging and pitches in the

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Speaker 1: strike zone, he's usually getting them right now. You know.

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Speaker 2: You think back to the home run he hit off

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Speaker 2: of Verlander, he fell behind oh one. I think the

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Speaker 2: home run he hit on Thursday against Grand Holmes, I

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Speaker 2: think he started that in a in a hole. And

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Speaker 2: then both of his hits last night he started oh

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Speaker 2: two two to Spencer Schwellenbach came back hits that double

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Speaker 2: then Holmes just fires a fastball right down the middle

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Speaker 2: So some some some pretty good hitting for a guy

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Speaker 2: that I mean, every hitter is. You look at the

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Speaker 2: major league averages. When a guy is oh and two,

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Speaker 2: it's like one forty three point fifty oh ps. And

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Speaker 2: then but last night Nick Castiano's two for two, an

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Speaker 2: extra base hit, walk off hit.

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Speaker 3: And he didn't try to do two oh two oh two.

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Speaker 3: You're not trying to swing from your you know, shoe

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Speaker 3: tops just used the bad had put the ball in play.

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Speaker 3: That's what he did. Line drive up the middle. It's

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Speaker 3: a good piece of hitting. Man's just a good piece

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Speaker 1: What a mazing concept. Actually trying to make contact with

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Speaker 1: two strikes isn't a thing of beauty. You're going to

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Speaker 1: hit it, actually, and you can actually be productive when

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Speaker 3: What a ball game?

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Speaker 2: Well, it is interesting that he has kind of developed

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Speaker 2: this two strike approach where apparently spread out a little

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Speaker 2: bit more. And you know, I know a lot of hitters,

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Speaker 2: not every hitter, but a lot of hitters do that,

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Speaker 2: and he's kind of employed that. And uh, last night

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Speaker 2: you saw the benefits of Nick Castianos two o two

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Speaker 1: You would you would think that some other you would

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Speaker 1: think that some other teams and players would do that

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Speaker 2: they have Baseball cards there and Pokemon cards there. My

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Speaker 2: kids are rifling through the Pokemon cards as I'm dropping

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Speaker 2: off these, dropping off these these books, and of course

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Speaker 1: find them anywhere. Can't find charge art anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Is that?

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Speaker 2: I'm sure put it in the comments. Let us know, Ruben,

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Speaker 2: Philly of the week. Who do you got, well?

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Speaker 1: I have Phillies of the week. I got the bullpen man,

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Speaker 3: They had three big games where they just racked up

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Speaker 3: But how can I ignore it? If Ruben's gonna go

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Speaker 3: So there's twenty six innings they picked up and four runs.

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Speaker 2: Nick runs. Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna We're gonna

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Speaker 2: keep this a family We're gonna keep the Ramlank Richard Nick,

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Speaker 2: gonna go Nick. Of course, three big games. That big

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Speaker 1: It is not a.

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Speaker 3: Top out one. He completely deserves it.

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Speaker 3: Ruben, you gotta be careful. You are a legendary former angel.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'm legendary, all right. I was there for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we got rosters expanded.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Take the wheel.

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Speaker 3: So you, Todd broke a very significant story in my mind.

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Speaker 2: Well, so, I mean, yeah, he had been wearing that

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Speaker 1: Especially now, it explains some of the power out it no,

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Speaker 1: no question. Yeah, yeah, I.

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Speaker 3: Know, it's just his This is a team that needs

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Speaker 3: to slug and they need They've proven it on this

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Speaker 3: homestand they hit home runs and they want a lot

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Speaker 3: of ball games. They need to slug and hit the

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Speaker 3: ball in the gaps, and this guy is a big

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Speaker 3: part of it. You know, he's playing through it. He's

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Speaker 3: a gamer, he's tough. But it's to me still a

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Speaker 3: concern that he's not injured but hurting and he's such

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Speaker 3: an important guy going into such an important part of

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Speaker 3: the season, So I think it's a it's a it's

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Speaker 3: a significant concern for me.

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Speaker 2: You know, Ruby, you mentioned how he had shown some

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Speaker 2: signs on on Thursday on this homestand he actually he

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Speaker 2: actually had it was the best offensive performing OPS over

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Speaker 2: a thousand, only only Phillies player on this homestand with

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Speaker 2: an OPS over a thousand, a lot of doubles, some walks,

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Speaker 2: getting on base, so you know, maybe that's maybe that's

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Speaker 2: a sign of things moving in the right direction. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we'll see how that goes. But yeah, I think it

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Speaker 2: would be I think they would love Maybe he needs it,

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Speaker 2: maybe he doesn't, but I would think that if they

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Speaker 2: could wrap this thing up in the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 2: get to wrap up the division title, maybe they can

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Speaker 2: get him, get him to rest for a couple of games.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he would want that, but it

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Speaker 2: might help. It might help.

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Speaker 1: Again, they're still chasing that, you know, the best record,

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Speaker 1: you know, the best record too. Yeah, that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be an issue as well. I mean, I know,

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Speaker 1: I guess they won the season series with the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: in case there is a tie breaker there, but you know, still,

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Speaker 1: and I think they won the season series with Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: as well, is that correct?

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Speaker 2: Well, they swept they swept the Brewers. They got the

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Speaker 2: Brewers coming up in a couple of weeks, so I

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Speaker 2: guess they could. I guess they could split that season

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Speaker 2: series at the Brewers would sweep them, but the Brewers,

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Speaker 2: Phillies win just one game against the Brewers, they'll win

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Speaker 2: that season series. But right now, yeah, I think the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers are game up. Then it's the Phillies, and then

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Speaker 2: the Brewers are a game behind the Phillies. And the

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Speaker 2: standings for that you got, you know, for those for

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Speaker 2: those top two NL postseason seeds, and.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of hands, I mean Alec Bohm has been banged up.

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Speaker 3: Ye need invention feeling good. So it is the time

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Speaker 3: of the year. Harper's right, It is the time of

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Speaker 3: the year when when everybody's banged up.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 3: I just get a kick out of people when they

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Speaker 3: say baseball doesn't take a toll on you. These guys

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Speaker 3: are pounding on their bodies, boom on the ground all

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Speaker 3: the time. I mean, you strapped it on one hundred

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Speaker 3: and sixty two nights a year. It is a it

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Speaker 3: is right, you know. I know that people say about

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Speaker 3: it being a marathon, but it's just such a test

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Speaker 3: of your endurance and your health and and your your mind.

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Speaker 3: Your body does take a pounding day after day after day.

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Speaker 3: And this time, you know, September is when guy feel it.

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Speaker 3: It's also the time when you need to, you know,

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Speaker 3: play through it. In Harper's case, I need bone back.

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Speaker 3: You need your best guys to be your best guys

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Speaker 3: at this time of year if you want to get

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Speaker 3: to where you're going. So a lot of respect for

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Speaker 3: Harper playing through this thing and grinding, and we saw

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Speaker 3: it with the elbow in twenty twenty two. You know,

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Speaker 3: when he heard it like the first week of the

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Speaker 3: season and he just you know, grind through it. So

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Speaker 3: but it's a big, big piece going forward here as

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Speaker 3: this team tries to accomplish what it what it needs

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Speaker 3: to and what it wants to.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I gotta I gotta give a shout out to

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Speaker 1: Edmundo Soso, please, because I think that every time he

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Speaker 1: has to come in and be a part of whether

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Speaker 1: it's portray turner or for Alec Bohm or whatever, come

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Speaker 1: up with some big hits. I mean he crushed that

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Speaker 1: one home run. Oh, I mean, you know, to offer Freed.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's sort of electrified the team a little bit,

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Speaker 1: just to just to get things going. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: love that player, man, and he's so important to this team.

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Speaker 1: Every good team has role players on that team that

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Speaker 1: can do some things. And he has really been a

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Speaker 1: tremendous fine for this team on a bunch of different levels.

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Speaker 1: Great human being, really good player, and he's providing a

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Speaker 1: lot more offense than I think anybody ever thought he

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Speaker 1: would provide for this team. You know, I just love

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Speaker 1: what he's done as a role player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's done a tremendous job in that role. I

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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier rosters expanded. Tyler Phillips came up yesterday, Cody

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Speaker 2: Clements came up yesterday. Tyler Phillips is going to start

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Speaker 2: the series open around Tuesday against the Blue Jays. Chris

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Speaker 2: Bassett will face the Phillies, and then on Wednesday it's

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Speaker 2: going to be Christopher Sanchez versus Bowden Francis and then

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Speaker 2: they play four over the weekend against the Miami Mallins.

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Speaker 1: The Lowly Marlins.

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Speaker 2: The Lowly Marlins, so you.

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Speaker 1: Know, the Marlins have nothing to lose.

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Speaker 3: Did you guys see that Aiden Miller had five hits

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Speaker 3: on Sunday and has been promoted to double A Apparently

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Speaker 3: that's that's He's just a little over a year out

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Speaker 3: of high school and he's had to double A.

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Speaker 2: That's We've talked about him a little bit. People talk about,

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Speaker 2: you know, untouchable guys, and you know, remember the trade

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Speaker 2: deadline and the Phillies got to go out and give

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Speaker 2: up this guy and that guy. Phillies did not want

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Speaker 2: to give up Aiden Miller. They think he is going

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Speaker 2: to be a star player. And immediately, I think somebody

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Speaker 2: mentioned this last night or in the last week, him

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Speaker 2: playing shortstop with Trey Turner there and Rubin you can

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Speaker 2: speak to this, right, these things will sort themselves out. Man, Now,

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Speaker 2: what are the Phillies gonna do with Aiden Miller? You

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Speaker 2: got Alec Boham at third base for the next few years,

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Speaker 2: You got Trade Turner locked up in shortstop for the

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Speaker 2: next nine years. Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 1: I would say, Hey, if if a guy like Bryson

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Speaker 1: Stott doesn't start being Bryson Stott and being like a

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Speaker 1: solid lea, he may find himself as a bench player,

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Speaker 1: utility player. Aiden Miller might take his job. Who knows, right,

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Speaker 1: if you love, the more talent you have, the better.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that's gonna happen. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: it's going to push some people. Hey, heads up here,

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Speaker 1: he comes because one of the things that they really need.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of swing and miss in

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Speaker 1: this team. One of the things that is important to

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Speaker 1: them is somebody who makes consistent contact. You need more

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Speaker 1: Alec Bohmes on this team, and you need guys who

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Speaker 1: can just make more consistent contact and not strike out

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Speaker 1: as much. And Aidan Miller seems to be one of

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Speaker 1: those guys that he's putting the bat on the ball,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know. Of course it's in the minor leagues.

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Speaker 1: I get it, and it's gonna change. It may very

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Speaker 1: well change. You may. I haven't gotten a chance put

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Speaker 1: my eyes on it. But it seems like he's one

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Speaker 1: of those hitters that's a pretty pure hitter and he

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Speaker 1: can make consistent contact. Not really a big strikeout guy.

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Speaker 1: Just a thought.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now he gets a double A. Now we can

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Speaker 2: start watching the It will be the Aiden Miller watch.

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Speaker 2: When's he gonna be up? Is he gonna be up

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Speaker 2: next season? You know, whatever the case may be. So

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Speaker 2: but we will be back. We know we will be

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Speaker 2: back on Wednesdays, so that'll be they'll already have played

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Speaker 2: one game in Toronto. So guys, we'll chat with you again.

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