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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Kyle Schwarber and welcome to the Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, Welcome to the Philly Show with Ruber Tomorrow

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Speaker 2: Junior Jim Salisbury. I am Todd's a lucky It is

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Speaker 2: Monday morning, October seventh, twenty twenty four. I've had a

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Speaker 2: couple cups of coffee. We love ball. We love ball,

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Speaker 2: dark out, it's still dark outside, but we love ball.

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Speaker 2: So we are up. We couldn't get to sleep last

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Speaker 2: night after Game two of the National League Division Series, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was up at like five am. I

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Speaker 2: just could not sleep last night. How are you guys doing?

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Speaker 3: Doing great? Fantastic game? Tale of two games?

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Speaker 4: They slept walk through the first five innings, and the

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Speaker 4: place was tight and quiet, and and they weren't playing well.

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Speaker 4: And four hours of hell was four hours of smell.

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Speaker 4: And all of a sudden, they you know, Citizens Bank

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Speaker 4: Park and the Phillies Bats in that order, the Phillies

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Speaker 4: Bats and Citizens Bank Park awakened. And it's going to

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Speaker 4: take an awfully big haymaker to get rid of these mets.

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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 4: The Phillies delivered a series of them right to the jaw.

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Speaker 4: I mean hell of a rebound in that second, you know,

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Speaker 4: second part of that game.

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Speaker 3: We always talk about.

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Speaker 4: Your stars gonna be your stars, and their stars were

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Speaker 4: their stars, you know, down the stretch in that game, Hopper, Castianos,

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Speaker 4: Trey Turner had a big hit, stot just a absolutely

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Speaker 4: fabulous game. May have saved their season. They may have

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Speaker 4: saved their season. You don't want to go up to

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Speaker 4: New York go two with, you know, in a short

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Speaker 4: series like that. It was reminiscent of some of those

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Speaker 4: great wins in eight No. Nine, especially that Jimmy win

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Speaker 4: when Jimmy doubles home Howard or Jimmy's double off Broxton.

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Speaker 4: I can't even think straight. So fabulous win. May have

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Speaker 4: saved their season. One of those games you were lucky

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Speaker 4: to watch, let's say, lucky to say you were there

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Speaker 4: down the road.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so many things to unpack, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 1: And I think that one thing that cook two things

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Speaker 1: that sort of get lost in the shuffle because it

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Speaker 1: was at the end of the game, is the fact

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Speaker 1: that Christopher Sanchez really delivered. I thought Christopher Sanchez to

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Speaker 1: a gem of a game. In fact, I thought he

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Speaker 1: should probably have pitched one more inning, I felt like

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Speaker 1: his stuff was good enough. I know that Topper likes

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Speaker 1: to use pockets. There's some question about whether Wheelers should

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Speaker 2: I don't believe that for a minute.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe that for a minute. I saw his

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Speaker 1: arm dropping, as a matter of fact, and I saw

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Speaker 1: own He had some guys, probably some on purpose, but

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Speaker 1: in the case of Christopher Sanchez, for him to go

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Speaker 1: five innings and to walk what one guy and punch

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Speaker 1: out five or whatever he did, and he gave You know,

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Speaker 1: Bientos has been on fire, he's been in fuego. He

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Speaker 1: the guy smoked one to right.

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Speaker 2: Listen.

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Speaker 1: The kid pitched his ass off, I think, and I

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Speaker 1: think he deserves a lot of credit and really sort

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Speaker 1: of justified the move that Topper made to have him

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Speaker 1: pitch Game two. And the other piece was that Bryce

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Speaker 1: and Stoff finally came through. I mean, Bryson Stott's been struggling,

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Speaker 1: he has not been swinging the bat all that well.

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Speaker 1: They did him a favor and through a little backdoor

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Speaker 1: slider it stayed on plane. He's been really struggling with

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Speaker 1: And they just sort of did him a favor and

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Speaker 1: flipped a little slider in the air for him, and

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Speaker 1: against you know, one of the better closures in the

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Speaker 1: lot of credit to that kid man, because it has

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Speaker 1: not been a smooth sale for him, and it has

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Speaker 1: not been the type of season that he probably would

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Speaker 2: And then how about of course Nick Castianos, you know,

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Speaker 2: did so much in that game. Just you know, I

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Speaker 2: of that game just reminded me of his season, Like

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Speaker 2: then he gets the Bronx cheers when he lays off.

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Speaker 2: I think it was an O two pitch in the

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Speaker 1: I don't said these people, that's what he said.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. He he, he

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Speaker 2: didn't really want to get into it last night. He

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Speaker 2: comes back in such a huge, huge way. He follows

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Speaker 2: up Harper's home run with the game tying homer in

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Speaker 2: the sixth, He gets a single in the eighth, scores

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Speaker 2: the go ahead run, and then of course he hits

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Speaker 2: the walk off and Nick Castiano's five walkoff hits the

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Speaker 2: season his first postseason walk off hit. And I read

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Speaker 2: I wrote this, it's like his five walkoff hits are

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Speaker 2: tied for the third most in a single season in

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Speaker 2: baseball since nineteen seven four. So, I mean, this guy

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Speaker 2: behind home plate, which must be so cool. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're all dads. I mean, can you imagine being in

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Speaker 2: with him. So that was that was really a cool moment.

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Speaker 4: That was a great moment. I just love when you

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Speaker 4: side of human There's no more human side than giving

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Speaker 4: of love there, and it's great to see. But I

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Speaker 4: think you make a great point analogy kind of comparing

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Speaker 3: Early finished strong, and.

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Speaker 4: He did not want to talk about the fourth inning

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Speaker 4: want to talk about it after the game, but very

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Speaker 4: succinctly he did talk about it. He kind of under

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Speaker 4: his breath said, it locked me in. Remember that time

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Speaker 4: we were there, he had locked me in, And indeed

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Speaker 4: it did. Now maybe Harper's home run locked him, because

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Speaker 4: I think that locked everybody in, and it had. It

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Speaker 4: And then you know, after he got booed. After Castianos

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Speaker 4: one of next three at bats he had I mean

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Speaker 4: that just hung there that they kind of hang middle

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Speaker 4: He sniffs out that mistake as good as I've ever

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Speaker 3: And that's what he did.

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Speaker 1: And there's no question about it. And he has the mentality.

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Speaker 1: He made a great point about his mentality. He's one

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Speaker 1: of those guys that he said, oh really, you guys

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Speaker 1: exactly who I am. And he has, I mean, sort

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Speaker 1: of has like the perfect mentality to play here in

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Speaker 2: He can and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't you know, it affects him like sort of

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Speaker 2: I don't think he.

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Speaker 1: Liked it that said, there's no question in my mind.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's it's sort of a deep thinker. He

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Speaker 1: really glad for the guy. I know he's a different

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Speaker 1: kind of a cat, a deep thinker. He's he's got

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Speaker 1: a different sort of mentality. His interviews are interesting. But

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Speaker 1: the thing that I love about the guy is that

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Speaker 1: he cares a lot. He wants to win. He busts

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Speaker 1: his butt. I mean, he busts his ass. There's nobody

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Speaker 1: in the team when they talk about hard working, there's

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Speaker 1: nobody who works harder and he does. He comes out

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Speaker 1: early every day to work on his outfield play to

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Speaker 1: make himself better, which he did. He comes out early

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Speaker 1: all the time to work on his hitting as a

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Speaker 1: plan all the time. And he played one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty two games.

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Speaker 2: Guys, one hundred sixty two games.

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Speaker 1: Nobody does this in in this game anymore. Nobody does

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Speaker 1: it in the game anymore. And so I love a

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Speaker 1: lot of things about the guy, and he certainly deserves

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Speaker 4: He had the quintessential Philadelphia sports day, at least from

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Speaker 4: the higher fan relationship. They boo him, they're on his ass,

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Speaker 4: they mock them, and then they cheer him like a

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Speaker 3: By the end of the day in the whole gamut.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so don't forget that he made another one of

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean he's done that every single postseason.

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Speaker 1: It seems like every single postseason series he makes some

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Speaker 2: So, Jim, you had a quote from JT. Real Muto

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Speaker 2: in your story at all phl y dot com today

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Speaker 2: about how the I think was the Harper home run

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Speaker 2: right in the sixth inning from JT. Real Muto, he said,

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Speaker 2: basically that allowed us to breathe and relax a little

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Speaker 2: we've talked a lot about Chase and the first five

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Speaker 2: was like forty eight point six percent Chase rate.

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Speaker 3: That's that's too good.

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Speaker 2: That's a high number. Rubin, their regular season number is

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Speaker 2: thirty point three percent, which is still super super high.

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Speaker 1: But after they had talked about it and then they

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Speaker 1: literally didressed it with themselves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so they did, and it was funny. So before

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Speaker 2: the game we were talking to Rob Thompson, and I

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Speaker 2: asked him, I said, do you think the chase stuff

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Speaker 2: is in their heads? Because we've asked you a billion

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Speaker 2: times since the last NLCS about it, Chase rate, chase, chase,

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Speaker 2: chase rate. The players have been asked a billion times

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Speaker 2: about it, and I thought Robot Thompson gave an interesting answer.

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Speaker 2: He said, I hope it's in their heads because they

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Speaker 2: need to make the adjustment. So in other words like yeah,

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Speaker 2: So I thought that was an interesting answer rather than no, No,

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's in their heads. I don't think

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Speaker 2: they're overthinking. But do you think that let them breed?

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Speaker 3: Jim?

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Speaker 2: I mean JT Real Muto shirt thoughts. So Harper's home run,

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Speaker 2: Harper's home.

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Speaker 4: Run, no question In that quote, I think he also said,

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Speaker 4: because what there were two outs there?

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Speaker 4: A very good choice. None of it happens without Bryce Harper.

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Speaker 4: Harper with all due respect to Castianos. What a game,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it made a very very loud sound as soon

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Speaker 2: Do you remember, Dad, when I was at that we

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe one of the best baseball games. I've ever

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if you guys have listened to

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Speaker 3: Wasmb a little bit?

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Speaker 1: No, he just I mean at the very end, he

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Speaker 4: I mean, the only time he sits guys, is for lefty,

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Speaker 3: I know maybe his hand has bothered him.

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Speaker 4: And then Rob says I'm looking for energy, and I

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Speaker 3: I'm like, hold on a minute.

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Speaker 4: This team reports the spring training and all they're talking

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 4: But obviously it was because of the struggles, but he

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Speaker 4: was hoping that Sosa could bring some energy. Tray Turner

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Speaker 4: it certainly didn't appear because he got two hit bats

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Let me just say this, guys between the lines here,

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Speaker 1: from another player, not from Boem because he doesn't like

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Speaker 3: And that's as.

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Speaker 1: Simple as I'm going to put it to you. I've

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Speaker 1: But I can tell you right now the reason why

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Speaker 1: that you see Munda play second base, possibly real, And

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 2: I think that that's interesting because I love the same

440
00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,360
Speaker 2: thing Rubin. I thought before Game two, I said, chance

441
00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,679
Speaker 2: said Mundo Sosa plays second base, no doubt about it.

442
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,640
Speaker 2: But I do wander now, Jim, I'm my thought immediately

443
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:37,000
Speaker 2: turned to what you're thinkings man mindset.

444
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,600
Speaker 3: If he doesn't play after that trip.

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Speaker 1: I think he needs to win baseball games, dude. And

446
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: Mania is nasty against those left handers.

447
00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:44,879
Speaker 2: He's dropping down.

448
00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,159
Speaker 3: He's filthy. I put and Mundo.

449
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Speaker 1: So I don't give a shit about people's feelings. I

450
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,679
Speaker 1: care about winning the freaking game right now.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but maybe Stott's confidence is at a point where

452
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Speaker 4: he can really help you win that baseball game.

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Speaker 3: To me, there's some.

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Speaker 2: Let him let me pinch, be confident that it's that's

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Speaker 2: a great It will be very interesting to see how

456
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Speaker 2: that lineup is in game three, because I thought the

457
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,639
Speaker 2: same thing as you, guys. Yeah, and here here's the

458
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:14,199
Speaker 2: thing about those moves. Right if if if Sosa starts

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Speaker 2: at second base and he doesn't come up with it

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Speaker 2: doesn't come up with a hits, or Stot starts and

461
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Speaker 2: he doesn't come up with hits, it doesn't make it

462
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Speaker 2: the wrong move. Sometimes moves just don't work out.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean like.

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Speaker 4: That baths were great yesterday either, right, right, So I

466
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Speaker 4: think this is a fascinating decision myself.

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, we'll finish up.

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Speaker 2: Jim so so yeah, I don't know what we're gonna

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Speaker 2: do with what what they're gonna do with with with

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Speaker 2: Bryce and stottan Muss, but it is really interesting. What

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Speaker 2: do you think going into game three? You have Aaron

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Speaker 2: Nola on the mound, and there's been a lot of

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Speaker 2: back and forth about the game three starter should have

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Speaker 2: been Nola And now I'm thinking now it now it

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Speaker 2: looks like.

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Speaker 3: Good stroke.

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Speaker 2: I do would say a stroke a genius, But you'd

478
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Speaker 2: much rather have Aaron Nolan on the Mount of New

479
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,959
Speaker 2: York in Game three than Christopher Sanchez, who's had an

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Speaker 2: ERA over five on the road in Game three. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and Nole's pitched well at City Field as well in

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Speaker 2: his career. I think his last twelve starts at City Field,

483
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Speaker 2: he's got an ear ray under three, so he's he

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Speaker 2: pitches well there.

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Speaker 4: I can recall him pitching some terrific games up there.

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Speaker 4: Want didn't he strike out ten in a row to

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Speaker 4: start a he.

488
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 2: Tied Tom terrific Tom Seaver the the MLB record for

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Speaker 2: most consecutive strikeouts.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And watching him in the clubhouse last night getting

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Speaker 4: ready to go to the bus, he seemed, you know,

492
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Speaker 4: just Aaron Nola chill, like where's my fishing rod? So, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it for so.

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Speaker 3: Much thought that went into that decision, and is it

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Speaker 3: the right move.

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Speaker 4: It's a pretty good because I think you grabbed a

497
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Speaker 4: ton of momentum in game two. I think they finally

498
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Speaker 4: feel good about themselves. I think their confidence was down.

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Speaker 4: I mean a real mudo talked about it, how this

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00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 4: is such a momentum boost and a momentum swing, and

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Speaker 4: how that dugout was tight and there.

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Speaker 3: Was a tightness. He talked about how there was a

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Speaker 3: tightness entering.

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Speaker 4: The series, and I think they had to do with

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Speaker 4: expectations and the fact that you're facing the red hot

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Speaker 4: team in the in the Mets.

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Speaker 3: Aaron, I can't you know other than Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 4: He's the guy. I can't think of anybody else I

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Speaker 4: want to hand the ball to. And a lot of

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00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 4: it has to do we know how good when he's on,

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Speaker 4: when he's in the lower part of the zone, getting

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Speaker 4: the ball to move both ways. If he's locating and

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Speaker 4: he's Aaron Nola, that environment, you know won't bother him

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Speaker 4: at all. Matter of fact, he'll just block it out

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Speaker 4: and focus on and JT's Mitt. So I think potentially

516
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Speaker 4: they could be in a very good place with with Aaronola.

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Speaker 4: But know the offense needs to build on this moment,

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Speaker 4: on this on this great game in Citizens Bank Park

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Speaker 4: and and jump on me and I early.

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Speaker 2: You could tell last night. Of course, if they were

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Speaker 2: down to two, it would have been a Morgan there,

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Speaker 2: but you could tell that there was a rejuvenation of

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Speaker 2: spirits in that clubhouse last night, and I did. I'm

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Speaker 2: probably reading too much into this, but I did think

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Speaker 2: it was interesting. Bryce Harper was talking about going to

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Speaker 2: New York, and he kind of smirked a little bit,

527
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Speaker 2: like it's going to be fun up there, like he

528
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,640
Speaker 2: knows he's going to get the crap boot out of him.

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Speaker 2: But I think he's also looking forward to getting booed

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Speaker 2: and hated on and the team getting just you know,

531
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Speaker 2: bleeped to death.

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Speaker 4: He used the word hostile, he said, oh yeah, but

533
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Speaker 4: then he would crack a smont said, I love it.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait. Okay, so yeah, I didn't know if

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Speaker 2: you Yeah, you were there when he oh yeah, jumped out.

536
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be hostile, It's gonna be great. But yeah,

537
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Speaker 3: it's it's he's he's hurt it since he's been sixteen.

538
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 4: You know, he should have tallow ball tournaments and and

539
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 4: he had this reputation he was the best player, and

540
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 4: moms and dads would hate on him, you know.

541
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 3: So yeah, he'll he'll find he finds fuel in it.

542
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 2: He does. Yeah, when you're twelve years old and somebody's

543
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 2: dad's yelling at you, Yeah, what's a met fan in?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm down the first baseline, going to do

546
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 2: not much, not much. Do you have any thoughts on

547
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Speaker 2: our concerns about the bullpen, the way that they pitched.

548
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: You know, Matt Strom's giving up a couple of big runs,

549
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 2: and Hoffman and and Ryan Kirkring, and you know, I

550
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Speaker 2: agree with Ruben. I would have Jose Ruiz pitching the

551
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 2: sixth inning there. That was a that was a head scratch.

552
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 2: That was a head scratcher big time.

553
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Speaker 3: If you're going to go to your book because was

554
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,920
Speaker 3: Kirkering up that previous inning?

555
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: I that I I yeah, I don't know.

556
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Speaker 4: You know, if you're gonna go to somebody, you go

557
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 4: five deep with guys you trust. Maybe maybe if you're

558
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 4: going to go something over there, you go Kirkering to

559
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 4: try to keep it. You know, you're you're down two

560
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 4: oh there, try to keep it too oh. But that

561
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 4: you don't seem to want to use their top five

562
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 4: guys in those negative situations if they can, you know,

563
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 4: avoid it. I mean, as that game was bobbing back

564
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 4: and forth last night, you know, I think they had

565
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 4: to do it. But yeah, you could have stuck with

566
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 4: Sanchez or maybe going somebody different. And I also wondered

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Speaker 4: why he didn't stick with a Stebez or the ninth

568
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 4: after just eight pitches.

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Speaker 3: I mean, but.

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Speaker 4: And then we talked to Strom after the game and yeah,

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Speaker 4: he's maybe the layoff has hurt the bullpen a little bit,

572
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 4: maybe their sharpness, and maybe these two games actually help them, maybe.

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Speaker 3: Knock some rust off.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, Strom is a concern the stakes

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00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 4: over the plate. But he, as he said afterward, you know,

576
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 4: winning fixes everything.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was. He did have a smile on his

578
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 3: face last night.

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Speaker 2: He was very thrilled that Nick came through and and

580
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 2: bailed them out. Not really, the entire offense came through

581
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 2: and bailed them out. So it's gonna be fun game three.

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00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: If they were teams that are down two in a

583
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Speaker 2: best of five series, or teams that are up to

584
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 2: own a best of five series, I should say have

585
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 2: won eighty nine percent of the time. Uh, teams that

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00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,680
Speaker 2: go home with a split one to one. That would

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Speaker 2: be the Mets. They have won sixty six percent of

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Speaker 2: the time. So the Phillies did improve their odds. Their

589
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: odds are not great. But I don't know how many

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Speaker 2: of those teams have Aaron Nola on the mound in

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Speaker 2: Game three. I don't know how many of those teams

592
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 2: have Bryce Harper in the lineup, you know, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think the Phillies like their chances a little bit

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Speaker 2: more than that sixty six percent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the guy who kind of the unflappable right hander

596
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 3: who shuns the spotlight against it, and you know, paired

597
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 3: with the unflappable slugger who loves the spotlight, it is

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Speaker 3: gonna be fun.

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Speaker 2: Well, j we'll be back after game three and we'll

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Speaker 2: see what We'll see where we are. Ruben had to bounce,

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Speaker 2: so I have I guess I have to. I guess

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Speaker 2: I have to drop the smell you later.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, I will smell you later. Let's see it.

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