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

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Speaker 1: Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's lucky. It's the Philly Show.

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Speaker 1: It's Friday, May twenty third, twenty twenty five. Gentlemen, how

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Speaker 1: are we today?

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Speaker 2: Perfect?

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Speaker 3: Excellent, excellent? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: All right, it's Memorial Day weekend.

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Speaker 3: You know what I Memorial Day weekend. You're allowed to

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Speaker 3: say it's no longer early in a small season. Now

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Speaker 3: this is when you can finally say it, it's no

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Speaker 3: longer early.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 3: All the people I annoy by saying it's early, it's

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Speaker 3: you know, in two or three days. It's no longer early.

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Speaker 1: So you can't say anymore.

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Speaker 3: Jim can't say it's like it's like it's like wishing

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Speaker 3: somebody a happy New Year on January twentieth. It's just

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Speaker 3: too late. So true.

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Speaker 1: Well, Jim, it's no longer early. So we got to

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Speaker 1: talk about this. Then the Phillies sweep the the really lowly.

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Speaker 3: Rockies this week. They're an embarrassment.

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Speaker 1: That that's a bad team. Guys, that's a bad team.

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Speaker 1: But they did what they're supposed to do, right. They

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Speaker 1: throttled a really bad team. They won Thursday to nothing

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Speaker 1: for shutout at at Coursefield by the Phillies since twenty eleven,

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Speaker 1: so they sweep the four game series. They've won seven

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Speaker 1: in a row. They're thirty two and eighteen overall. It's

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Speaker 1: the best record in the National League. They have a

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Speaker 1: two game lead over the Mets in the National League East.

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Speaker 1: They're on pace to win one hundred and three games.

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Speaker 1: Not saying they're gonna win one hundred and three. We

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Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen, but they're playing pretty good

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Speaker 1: baseball right now.

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Speaker 3: Sure are getting good pitching. I mean, they had fifty

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Speaker 3: hits five zero hits in that four game series in Colorado.

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Speaker 3: Fifty hits. It's a lot of hits in one series,

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Speaker 3: and it was a four game series. But you know,

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Speaker 3: their bats have been good. Harper's been on fire. Turner's

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Speaker 3: got like thirty hits this month and the months still

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Speaker 3: got what ten days ago, eight days to go. Bone's

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Speaker 3: been swinging a good Harper's been you know, Harper's swing

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Speaker 3: has calmed down. His feet. When his feet are quiet,

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Speaker 3: he doesn't have happy feet. When he has happy feet,

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Speaker 3: his head moves, his eyes move, he doesn't square it up.

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Speaker 3: He's very he's very quiet in the badest box right now.

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Speaker 3: Feet are quiet, and he's squaring it up. Swing just

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Speaker 3: let it happen, nice, easy swings. He's such a strong man,

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Speaker 3: he does not need to swing violently. And he just

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Speaker 3: looks really really good right now.

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Speaker 4: Slow feet, quick hands. Charlie used to say all the time.

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Speaker 4: The guy that's really swinging a bat well for me

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Speaker 2: You know he hit a home run.

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Speaker 5: I think it was Thursday, Is that right?

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Speaker 2: No, it was Wednesday, Wednesday to.

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Speaker 4: Left, and the swing looked very much like his WBC swings.

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Speaker 4: Just nice level, smooth swing, pull side backspin, high finish

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Speaker 4: bat through his own flat, nice back spin.

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Speaker 2: Loved it.

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Speaker 5: And you know he's also hitting the ball in the

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Speaker 5: opposite field.

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Speaker 3: All the guys are.

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Speaker 4: Using the whole field, and you know, he's been the

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Speaker 4: most consistent guys. Casian just keeps getting his hits. He's

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Speaker 4: not hitting the ball out of the ballpark, but he's

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Speaker 4: getting his hits. I mean, guy's hitting I think he's

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Speaker 4: still hitting three hundred or close to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been tremendous. What about do you think it's

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Speaker 1: what about Harper shaving?

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Speaker 3: His head.

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Speaker 1: Man, the guy's been.

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Speaker 5: On fire since it's all about the weave.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets a wig busted. Next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's caught fire. I look at this, So he shaved

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Speaker 1: this head. On May twelve, he goes over three that

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Speaker 1: night with a walk against the Cardinals. In the next

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Speaker 1: night games, he's batting four to seventy one. He's sixteen

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Speaker 1: for thirty four, five doubles, home run ten RBIs a

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Speaker 1: twelve hundred plus ops. Here's the here's the thing that's

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Speaker 1: amazing these last nine games. I mean, all those numbers

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Speaker 1: game stretch like that. He's got four walks in that stretch.

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Speaker 1: He struck out one time in the last nine games.

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Speaker 1: One time in the last nine games.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the hair, and it has nothing to zero

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Speaker 3: But I am a believer in this that the mind

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Speaker 3: can leave the body in a lot of ways. And

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Speaker 3: I do believe in certain instances in a mental reset,

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Speaker 3: and if that can be the symbol of a mental reset,

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Speaker 3: you know, start anew you know, he just find it's like,

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Speaker 3: you know, kind of like once a year when I

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Speaker 3: clean off my desk. It's like glean. Yeah, it's like

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Speaker 3: a mental reset and you have like a really good

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Speaker 3: week after that. And I just wonder if symbolically cut

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Speaker 3: his hair, but it acted like a it served as

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Speaker 3: a mental reset, kind of a cleansing breath, and maybe

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Speaker 3: it just helped something. Maybe it slowed him down, but

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Speaker 3: who knows. Like I said, it has nothing to do

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Speaker 3: with the hair. So it's something.

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Speaker 2: There is something to say about.

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Speaker 4: The game of baseball being what's heal? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 4: you have to do a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 4: negativity and sometimes a reset ain't the worst thing.

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Speaker 1: Todd, No, I was gonna say.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: In September of twenty twenty three, the Phillies were in

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Speaker 1: San Diego and Bryce was really going through it at

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Speaker 1: the time. It was early September, and before one of

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Speaker 1: the games, he shaved his beard. So he's clean shaving.

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Speaker 1: I mean it looked he popped out of the dug.

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Speaker 1: I we like, you know, you see somebody has shaved

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Speaker 1: their mustache or beer for a long time. It's just

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Speaker 1: jumped out at you. So after that game, I think

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Speaker 1: it was Mac Gelb goes like, so, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: what's what why'd you shave your beard? And Bryce goes, uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys know, everybody knows. And then so

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Speaker 1: he he goes over three with the walk that night

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Speaker 1: in San Diego, just like he did the first night

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Speaker 1: he shaved his head in Saint Louis. And then in

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Speaker 1: the final twenty two games of the twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: regular season, Bryce betted two ninety four, six home runs,

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Speaker 1: seventeen RBIs and ops over one thousand. So last two

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Speaker 1: times he's done some some hair work, cleaning, little clean

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Speaker 1: up work. He's uh, he's caught fire, so maybe there's

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Speaker 1: something to that. I wish I could do something yard.

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Speaker 5: Last couple of times he's trimmed the yard.

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Speaker 2: He's gone yet, yeah, exactly right.

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Speaker 1: He has heat it up in the Yeah. So it's

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Speaker 1: you know, phillies are on a roll right now. Phillies

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Speaker 1: are on But guys, it's Memorial Day weekend. And if

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Speaker 1: you're not going to the shore, and I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to the shore, so swing by my neck of the woods.

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Speaker 1: Come to Delco. It's hang out Delco. They say, it's

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Speaker 1: a lot in the right. We got everything, as you know, guys,

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Speaker 1: family fun festivals, great restaurants, and bars, gardens, history, trails

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Speaker 1: and outdoors activities and much more. Take it for me.

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Speaker 1: I'm a Delco dad. Check it out for yourself this weekend.

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Speaker 1: This Saturday, May twenty fourth, don't miss the Swarthmore Town

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Speaker 1: Center Farmers Market, which is every Saturday from nine am

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Speaker 1: to noon. It's in the Swarthmore Borough parking Lot. Great vendors,

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Speaker 1: music and crafts for the kids. I've been there, Give

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Speaker 1: the kids a little shave, ice, pick up some food

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Speaker 1: for dinner, walk around a lot of cool stuff to buy.

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Speaker 1: So check that out. Then on Monday, May twenty six,

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Speaker 1: it's Memorial Day, don't miss the Rockdale Memorial Day Parade

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Speaker 1: in Aston. It's in it's one hundred and forty fourth year,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. I did not know that. Free

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Speaker 1: hot dogs, pretzels, drinks and Italian ice for the kids,

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Speaker 1: plus a special gift for veterans at the hospitality tent,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. Parade starts around eleven fifteen. Find

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Speaker 1: a full list of events at visit Delco dot com.

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Speaker 1: They say Delcos a lot, and they're right.

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Speaker 2: He still waiting on my visit on my.

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Speaker 3: Will we make it happen? Is that parade like one

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Speaker 3: year older than the Phillies. What is this one three

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Speaker 3: for the Phillies.

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Speaker 2: Oh not sure, boy.

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Speaker 1: Now you get to ask me to do math Jim

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Speaker 1: eighteen eighty three. Maybe that's pretty wild though, phill Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Phillies has been.

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Speaker 3: In the same neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: To get back to us, call in one eight hundred,

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Speaker 1: tell us of what the math is?

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Speaker 3: I think slide and Billy Hamilton was the first Grand

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Speaker 3: Marshal of that parade and Grand Marshall, huh did who

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Speaker 3: were you there? No? No, no, I wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So check that out in Delco. You know that

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Speaker 1: that'll be fun. Well, Like I said, I've been to

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Speaker 1: that It's worth More Farmers Market before and it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a good good place to go, check out and

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Speaker 1: walk around. So a couple of things from this week

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Speaker 1: I want to get your guys opinion on. So in

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Speaker 1: Denver this week, Rob Thompson told the reporters there that

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Speaker 1: after Taiwan Walker's start, he is when Aaron Renola is

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Speaker 1: ready to rejoin the rotation. It could be soon he's

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Speaker 1: going to throw off the mound this weekend in Sacramento

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Speaker 1: at some point they think he's going to be back.

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Speaker 1: You know close to you know, the fifteen days, if

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Speaker 1: not fifteen days and not long after that. But when

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nola returns, they're going to move Taiwan Walker back

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Speaker 1: to the bullpen, of course. And he said that they

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Speaker 1: other words, if somebody would have to miss a start

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Speaker 1: And I want to ask you guys about that, because

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Speaker 1: guys can do. With Elado out for eighty games and

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Speaker 1: if can Taiwan actually be a high leverage guy before

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Speaker 1: the July thirty first trade deadline. Man, man, if he

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Speaker 1: can do it, boy, now maybe you don't have to

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Speaker 1: go out and get to guys if they were thinking

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Speaker 1: they might need to get you guys. Do you guys

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Speaker 1: like this idea?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's definitely what it's all about. Finding out and

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Speaker 3: the spot start thing. It's no coincidence that it comes

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Speaker 3: a few days after make Abele's gem. They feel confident

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Speaker 3: they got somebody who can spot start there, and you know,

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Speaker 3: we're counting down toward we're getting closer to the painters.

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Speaker 3: So those are your two guys that they would start

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Speaker 3: if they needed someone. But yeah, you got to find

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Speaker 3: that's I still think they're going to need somebody at

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Speaker 3: the deadline. We'll see what level of reliever they need.

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Speaker 3: But I think they're gonna need a leverage guy towards

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Speaker 3: the back end. I thought they needed one before Alvarado.

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Speaker 3: I think it's still gonna need one. But if Taiwan

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Speaker 3: maybe you know that split works against lefties. You know,

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Speaker 3: we'll see obviously the down to lefty, they're gonna need

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Speaker 3: some somebody who can get help help with left handed batters.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe it's him.

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Speaker 4: So when you say they got to find out about him,

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Speaker 1: We are back, guys. Ed Munda Sosa keeps starting against

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Speaker 5: You know, I noticed something about him.

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Speaker 5: He's not necessarily a base dealer, but he can really run.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I really do think it's it's something that sort

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Speaker 4: Going to give up a pretty good player to get

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Speaker 3: But I don't want to add a piece this year

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Speaker 1: And so I do look at this season and it's

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Speaker 1: I think, want to try to add if you can,

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Speaker 1: and and.

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Speaker 3: You want to have the best possible team you can

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Speaker 3: have in October.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. I mean they're going to be facing Mason

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Speaker 1: Miller this weekend and in Sacramento, and that's a guy

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Speaker 1: we talked a lot about last year at the trade deadline,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure it'll come up again. I mean that

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Speaker 1: the A's are playing, they're okay, they're I don't you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're under five hundred.

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Speaker 3: But isn't playing like Crabb right now?

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Speaker 1: Under five hundred?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're under They've.

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Speaker 3: Lost, They've lost like thirteen out of fifteen.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, they can struggle, and I think they put their

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Speaker 9: win streak or losing streak.

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Speaker 2: Losing streak.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there are nine, so they've credited. I mean this this,

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Speaker 3: you know the teams the Phillies are facing here, the Pirates,

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Speaker 3: the Rockies, and the A's. I mean you talk about

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Speaker 3: making hay. I mean they could make a.

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Speaker 5: Lot of hay for a lot of and they won

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Speaker 5: every game so far.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they can keep doing it. The A's are

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Speaker 3: just they have absolutely cratered. But Mason Miller, if they

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Speaker 3: want to stick him in the luggage rack on the

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Speaker 3: way home, I think they can find room for him.

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Speaker 4: I don't know they're gonna take a lot because they

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Speaker 4: got what foe three years of.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, four years, and they've tried. They've tried on Mason

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Speaker 3: Miller last summer, this winter, we're talking about Boom and

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Speaker 3: Mason Miller. Those guys were all you know, they approached

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Speaker 3: Oakland about that and that control is so valuable for

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Speaker 3: the A's. But if they they're gonna want a lot

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Speaker 3: because like you said, the four years of control, he's

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Speaker 3: thrown out. He throws one hundred and two and he

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Speaker 3: just blows people away.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: It seems like such a luxury too for a team

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Speaker 1: like that. That might not win in the next couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Do you need a guy throwing a hundred? I mean,

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Speaker 1: you need a guy throw.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna do well because there's about four or five

479
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Speaker 4: teams who could really lose use it a closer. They're

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Speaker 4: going to maximize and I don't blame them, and they're

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Speaker 4: gonna get two or three or four prospects that are outstanding,

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Speaker 4: and the Phillies have them. But the question is, is

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Speaker 4: that price goulna be too heavy?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if the if the a's. If the A's

486
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Speaker 1: called Dave Denbrowski and said, well, you know, Aiden Miller,

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Speaker 1: let's start with Aiden Miller. Mick abel edward O, ty,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I'm just saying, like to me,

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Speaker 1: I got it. Any any one of those guys, you

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Speaker 1: gotta go, Oh my.

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Speaker 5: God, we gotta it makes it Mike's life tough.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, they are prospects,

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Speaker 1: Its true, and.

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Speaker 3: There would be future Las Vegas a's.

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Speaker 5: And also good ones.

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Speaker 9: And also it's like that's what makes it tough because

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Speaker 9: when we made our deals, they were guys that were

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Speaker 9: a little bit further away, and when we got you know,

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Speaker 9: the os Waltz and uh and the hundred Pences of

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Speaker 9: the World and even you know, Doc Halliday and Cliff Lee.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you're we didn't really give up.

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Speaker 2: We give up what we thought were pretty good players.

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Speaker 4: But I don't think there would be the level of

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Speaker 4: these types of players, and because these guys are going

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Speaker 4: to make an impact in the big leagues.

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Speaker 1: And I just think too, like, either you go for

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Speaker 1: it or you don't go for it. Isn't there some

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Speaker 1: aspect of that as well?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: I mean either you you know, yeah.

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Speaker 5: You need to and toes in baby, that's right.

512
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Speaker 1: Either you go for it or you don't. You know,

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Speaker 1: you don't hold on to a prospect. You you're scared,

514
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Speaker 1: and then you lose the World Series and you go, oh, man,

515
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Speaker 1: if if we had just given up Edward O TAYI,

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Speaker 1: we could have gotten Mason Miller or whomever. You know,

517
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Speaker 1: if they say that was the last piece and then

518
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Speaker 1: you go for the rest of your life going. I

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Speaker 1: wonder if we would have won the World Series if

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Speaker 1: we had made that deal. You know, I think you

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Speaker 1: gotta try sometimes make the run. Yeah, you gotta make

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Speaker 1: the run, that's right, even if it doesn't work out.

523
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Speaker 1: You gotta try. So, Jim got a lot of questions.

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Speaker 1: I know you're not gonna mention it, but I got

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Speaker 1: a lot of questions of the roy sever story.

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Speaker 2: Gotta answer it.

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Speaker 3: Answer I can't, all right, I can't give up the

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Speaker 3: You can't do that.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not it's not like it's not silacious

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Speaker 1: or anything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not slacious. It's just like, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: just I don't feel like, okay, huh, I.

533
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Speaker 5: Feel uncomfortable telling the story.

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Speaker 3: It's at uncomfortable.

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Speaker 2: How about this?

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Speaker 1: I want to make Gelbson out of tweet today. I

537
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Speaker 1: don't know if this I thought this was kind of funny.

538
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Speaker 1: Johann Rojas goes in the stands. Did you guys see this?

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Speaker 5: You walk you can't get back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that course field security tard You know they are.

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Speaker 3: They are. They're just too enthusiastic about their job, like

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Speaker 3: they have to remember in the press box. They read

543
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Speaker 3: over your shoulder and they walk you out. I used

544
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Speaker 3: to I used to, oh my god, you shoul driving

545
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Speaker 3: me nuts. And the guy that would check your bag,

546
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 3: you'd be at the end of a seven day road

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Speaker 3: trip and he'd be going through your your suitcase because

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Speaker 3: you're trying to make a flight. Do you know that guy?

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Speaker 1: I do know the guy. I know after the games,

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Speaker 1: the guy would come up there and go, how many

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Speaker 1: more minutes you get me ready?

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Speaker 3: Like? Oh yeah, like I'd just be settling in, you know,

553
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Speaker 3: reading over your shoulder. He goes, you dangled that partisle.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to create some art here, guys. Come on,

555
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to create a masterpiece.

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Speaker 3: My gosh, officious.

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Speaker 1: They were they were memorial the weekend. Are you, guys, Jimmy,

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Speaker 1: got anything going on the grill? People always like to

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Speaker 1: hear what you got cooking? Ruby, You got any big plans?

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Speaker 3: Got I have no plans yet. I'm still formulating.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 5: Are you thinking about a nice maybe?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Corner the do you do?

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Speaker 3: Corner the cob? You I soak it. It's not corner

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Speaker 3: of the cob season, but yeah, I soak. I soak

567
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Speaker 3: it for about five minutes, and I put it on

568
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Speaker 3: the grill and I roast it and you cook it

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Speaker 3: so it looks like almost like a meteor. You know

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Speaker 3: the husks? You could you do it right in the husks.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, it's so good right in the husk.

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Speaker 5: Huh you know you know husk it?

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Speaker 3: No, you you soak it and you put it right

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Speaker 3: on the grill in the husk, and that husk, you know,

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Speaker 3: will act as like a natural projection steaming device. It

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Speaker 3: roasts and steams all at once. Oh, you gotta do it.

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Speaker 1: Nice, Jimmy. If you do, you guys, send us a

578
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Speaker 1: pick throw it up on the Old Philly Show and

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Speaker 1: a gram account.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: When I do some corn, I'll definitely uh yeah.

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Speaker 5: You know what else are you gonna do? You gonna

583
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Speaker 5: roast any pig? Or you're gonna roast you know what

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Speaker 5: are you gonna do?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 3: I I, like I said, I really don't know.

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Speaker 5: It's an important day.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to watch my weight.

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Speaker 5: It's okay, you can still eat, you know, reasonable portions, James.

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Speaker 1: Exactly nothing go pick out on it. But anyway, I

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Speaker 1: hope everybody has a great weekend. We will be back

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Speaker 1: next week after the Phillies come home from Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: Sack though, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Do you ever play there there?

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Speaker 2: There?

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Speaker 4: Never once in my life. I had a few friends

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Speaker 4: who played there. Scott Serny and Mike Musolino were from

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Speaker 4: that area.

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Speaker 3: I think so they weren't Triple A when you were

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Speaker 3: in the Pacific Coast League.

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Speaker 2: They were not.

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Speaker 4: Okaya, Sacramento is not a triple It was not on

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Speaker 4: a p c L when I was there.

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Speaker 3: Sacramento of the hometown of what famous Philly.

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Speaker 5: Larry Boa and John Bukovic.

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Speaker 3: John nearby Sun, I think, and.

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Speaker 4: Sweet ge Greg Vaughan I used to play with him

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Speaker 4: and it and Greg Vaughn was I remember.

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Speaker 3: I remember Greg Vaughan a lot of home runs for

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Speaker 3: the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Speaker 4: And you know, and from the Sacto area.

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Speaker 5: Cool Papa Bell.

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Speaker 1: Oh cool Papa Bell.

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Speaker 5: No, you know, cool Papa Bell is.

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Speaker 3: The guy huh Ricky Jordan.

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Speaker 2: Cool cool.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't jubilating them there. I was jubilating myself.

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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, that's funny. There's some good players that

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Speaker 5: came from sack though, sure city necessarily.

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Speaker 3: Dusty Baker from there.

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Speaker 5: He might be, he might be, although he might was.

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Speaker 5: He a Bay Area guy.

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Speaker 3: Andrew Naples from that area.

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Speaker 1: Reee Hoskins, Right, I think we went to school.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's from Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he went to Sacramento State, right.

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Speaker 5: The players that came from there, Man there's a lot

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Speaker 5: more of them.

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Speaker 2: We're missing a ton of them. But yeah, that's the recall.

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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what that ballpark looks like,

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Speaker 1: how it plays this weekend. You know, who knew that

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Speaker 1: be playing in two minor league parks in a month.

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Speaker 1: But here, here, we are, Here we are.

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Speaker 5: It's a strange game.

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Speaker 1: It is a strange game.

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Speaker 4: That's right ruin the minor league parks for a full season,

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Speaker 4: and in sac though more than a full season, and

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Speaker 4: then who knows what's gonna happen in Tampa.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's the same it's the same game, same game,

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Speaker 3: sixty feet six inches, ninety feet, same game.

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Speaker 2: All that is the same game, but not the venues.

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00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 3: James, not the game, same game.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what the Phillies can do this weekend. They'll

644
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Speaker 1: see maybe future Phillies reliever Mason Miller.

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00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not holding my breath.

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00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: I'm not either.

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00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 3: I'm not either. All right, I'll talk to you guys there.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back.

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Speaker 1: Philly Show'll be back back next week. If you like us,

650
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651
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Speaker 1: appreciate all your.

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Speaker 5: Support show.

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Speaker 2: The show.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly right. We appreciate the love I had. I

657
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Speaker 1: was walking through the ballpark the other day getting something

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Speaker 1: to eat and somebody yelled Todd pods. It's funny how

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Speaker 1: it's funny like the things that people pick up on.

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Speaker 3: Smell lady boys, loll you.

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