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The Phillies Are Officially Heading To The Postseason! (PST Episode 634) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest
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  Speaker 1: years strong. Got a great show coming to you this week,
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  Speaker 1: my good buddy, Eric Leonard better known as Jackson Buddy.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, my friend?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good man.
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  Speaker 3: Country's doing well on the right track.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's everything's smooth.
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  Speaker 1: I should be crying, yeah, exactly. Yeah, things are great, folks,
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  Speaker 1: aren't they around here?
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  Speaker 2: Everything's just rolling.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Philly sports right now pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: Not bad, I mean not bad at all.
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  Speaker 3: Right in this moment, Eagles are two and oh Phillies
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  Speaker 3: clinched the East. We're heading into the next season, which
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  Speaker 3: is gonna be a little harry, which we're going to talk.
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  Speaker 1: About a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, not bad right now as a Philly sports
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  Speaker 3: fan is the country.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna just move on. But right now, yeah good.
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  Speaker 1: I had four hours of Northampton County Council committee meetings tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I could take talking politics. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I could do it.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't like my idea of just doing a one,
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  Speaker 3: one off weekly like political show. Ooooh, I would get
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  Speaker 3: your ass canceled so fast?
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  Speaker 1: How bad? Oh my god, I'm not winning anything ever again.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that would be fun, though, I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I've also thought, like you know, I do. I do
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  Speaker 1: another just for folks out there, if you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I actually do another podcast with a local friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about community based issues, like actual issues that
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  Speaker 1: matter to people in the community, whether it's housing, talking
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  Speaker 1: about where I live. There's a lot of warehouses and
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  Speaker 1: it's an issue, so we've talked about that. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about mental health funding, talking about various nonprofits in our
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  Speaker 1: community that do good things. Anyway, I've always wondered, like,
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  Speaker 1: what like doing a political podcast, Like how that would
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  Speaker 1: go over? Like I get more hate than I do now.
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  Speaker 1: Probably I wouldn't be able beyond because my views.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, it'd probably be you and Lenn and
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  Speaker 3: one of your like more tempered friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a good I listened to the mental health one.
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  Speaker 2: It's really good.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Like, if people out there want to get a listen,
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  Speaker 2: that's good.
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  Speaker 1: It's called just for Folks that I can't believe I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing this. I had no idea what we'd be talking
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  Speaker 1: about this anyway. Uh. The media platform is called Lehigh
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  Speaker 1: Valley with Love my good buddy George. Uh, that's his company,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the off the Record podcast. So if you
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  Speaker 1: go through and you subscribe, you can listen to some
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  Speaker 1: of those podcasts. So anyway, we got a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: Philly sports to get into, Eric, Like you said, I
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  Speaker 1: swear the world of Philly sports is actually really interesting
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  Speaker 1: right now. And I'm talking like with all five teams.
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  Speaker 1: I know, we don't get into the Philadelphia Union, but
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  Speaker 1: they've had such a phenomenal season. They are doing so well.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was never thought that the Philadelphia Union's
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season would get to where they are
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  Speaker 1: right now at this point, basically a top of the
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Conference. We've got the Philadelphia Flyers. We talked about
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  Speaker 1: that the off season on the Table Talk show this
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  Speaker 1: past week, and like Danny Brier is still making moves
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  Speaker 1: making sure that the goalie situation is secure in terms
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  Speaker 1: of what our expectations are gonna be for it after
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  Speaker 1: trading Ivan Fidotav this past week. Then we've got the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: which we're gonna be getting into on this show for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Not too too much hope there, however, there's still interest.
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  Speaker 1: There's still interest. And then of course we've got the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies going to the postseason. We're gonna be diving into
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  Speaker 1: that big time on this show, and as well as
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles as they are a top of the NL.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm serious. It's like, I couldn't imagine living in
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  Speaker 1: a place like Cincinnati or or another city where there's
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  Speaker 1: not too much going well in terms of their sports teams,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the Reds aren't going anywhere and Burrows out
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  Speaker 3: for that would be awful. It would be terrible if
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  Speaker 3: one of your team sucks and the rest are good.
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  Speaker 3: Like you're in good shape. Yeah, Can I ask you
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  Speaker 3: a quick Flyers question? I'm not totally I told you
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  Speaker 3: we're not actually gonna watch them Flyers when they start. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because I only have one kid left in the house,
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  Speaker 3: so it's a lot easier at more time for so
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  Speaker 3: they traded that goalie away right, and I saw on
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  Speaker 3: an Instagram and I flipped over and they had a
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  Speaker 3: brier with like red eyes like they do like.
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  Speaker 2: When Howie makes a good move.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, was that a good move? I guess it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was because there's certain goalies that I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: are various goalies quote in the pipeline, and what are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do with the goalie talent that was
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  Speaker 1: there last year? I can't believe that. I cannot believe
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  Speaker 1: Columbus actually took him because he had an eight to
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  Speaker 1: eighty save percentage last year. It was just he was
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  Speaker 1: not good, not good at all, but he was. He
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  Speaker 1: was kind of one of those guys who was difficult
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  Speaker 1: with the with the front office, difficult with the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: difficult with the coaching. Getting him out of here, getting
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  Speaker 1: him in a new scenery, it's probably gonna be best
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  Speaker 1: for him, definitely going to be best for the Flyers.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, they were to They were able to
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  Speaker 1: unload somebody to give more clarity to a position that
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  Speaker 1: needed more clarity.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, as a non hardcore Flyers fan, I saw that
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  Speaker 3: Instagram post and it was like reading the first ten
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  Speaker 3: pages of a book in the last ten pages, like
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  Speaker 3: there's this couple and they live happily ever after. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: something happened in the middle for four hundred pages, right,
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  Speaker 3: I just didn't read it. I knew it was a
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  Speaker 3: good trade. I just didn't know why. Yeah, So that's
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  Speaker 3: a great way to describe it. Yeah, yeah, so it
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  Speaker 3: was yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was yeah. All right, Well, let's get into this show, folks.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be starting off talking about some Eagles and
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  Speaker 1: some NFC East talk. Like I mentioned, we got some
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  Speaker 1: NBA talk, not just with the Sixers, but we're going
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  Speaker 1: to dive deeper into the LA Clippers and Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 1: contract situation that is astounding at this point. Len and
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  Speaker 1: I talked about it a bit last week. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to dive into it in a bit more details. Again,
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  Speaker 1: some Sixers talk. Ranked nineteenth in ESPN's new Future Power rankings,
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  Speaker 1: and then we got to dive into a ton of
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  Speaker 1: Phillies talk. So let's get started with some Eagles talk,
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  Speaker 1: some NFC East talk. First, Eric, with regard to the
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  Speaker 1: NFC East and this division, I'm not necessarily surprised by it,
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  Speaker 1: but the fact that the Eagles are at top of
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  Speaker 1: the division at two and zero. We're all happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: Commanders are one and one, Cowboys one and one, and
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  Speaker 1: the lowly New York Giants are o and two. There's
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  Speaker 1: six total teams in the NFC East. I'm sorry the
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  Speaker 1: NFC that are two and oh. Eagles are in a
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  Speaker 1: really good position, even though they haven't played their best football.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of this division here, I like what
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing. I do think the Cowboys could potentially be
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  Speaker 1: somewhat quote threatening at some point down the road. I
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  Speaker 1: don't necessarily know how to gauge that, because they have
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  Speaker 1: shown that they are a pretty decent football team. They've
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  Speaker 1: put up sixty points already on the season, while the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles have put up forty four. I think the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys could potentially be nipping at the Eagles toes as
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  Speaker 1: we're going through this season. But look, I think things
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  Speaker 1: with this this division are playing out how we kind
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  Speaker 1: of thought they were or would be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's even better. It's even better than that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look at the rest of the teams. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you just talk about the Cowboys. I don't think that
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  Speaker 3: defense holds up. I mean they gave up for forty
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  Speaker 3: points or whatever. Thirty seven points in the Giants. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and four hundred and some yards to Russell Wilson corpse.
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  Speaker 3: So I did that team's a little scary offensively. I
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  Speaker 3: think defensively they're not going to be able to handle them.
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  Speaker 1: By the way.
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  Speaker 3: They're at home, and they had to go to overtime
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  Speaker 3: to beat the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, right down to the last second overtime.
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  Speaker 3: Who suck.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just face it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they went to Washington who lost Tuesday night and
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  Speaker 3: looked terrible or lost, you know, they lost their second game, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: looked terrible and they almost beat the Cowboys at home.
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  Speaker 3: That tells me the Cowboys aren't as good. That tells
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  Speaker 3: me the Giants stink. I mean, they just flat out stink.
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  Speaker 3: And Jane Daniels has already hurt. Yeah, and I mean
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  Speaker 3: how often we talk about it before the season. Like
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  Speaker 3: I said, hardcore, the Coms are going to have a
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  Speaker 3: down year. There's no way that guy's gonna stay healthy again.
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  Speaker 3: He had a great run last year. Doesn't seem possible.
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  Speaker 3: He's looked shaky just on top of being yea, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't even look he doesn't look good the first two
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  Speaker 3: weeks at all. They barely beat the Giants, and as
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  Speaker 3: I said, the Giants are bad to me, like all
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  Speaker 3: the Eagles have to do is get keep their head
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  Speaker 3: down and just keep beating teams. They had the Giants
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  Speaker 3: coming up in like what weeks six and eight almost
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  Speaker 3: back to back. Yes, Like what a nice break after
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  Speaker 3: we started with for him, the Cowboys, the Chiefs. We
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  Speaker 3: got the Ramsis I think they have an easier game
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  Speaker 3: Week four they played the Saints possibly, I can't remember now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm forgetting off the top of my head. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: do have an easier game coming up.
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  Speaker 1: But like the Eagles have the fourth hardest schedule in
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  Speaker 1: the entire NFL. I think it's the fourth hardest.
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  Speaker 3: But the good thing is, like you're gonna to play
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  Speaker 3: that comes twice, possibly once without Jayden Daniels. You're gonna
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  Speaker 3: play the Giants twice. There's three games right there. You
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  Speaker 3: should absolutely win. Yeah, And I don't think the Rams
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  Speaker 3: are going to come into town and beat the Eagles,
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  Speaker 3: like I think they're gonna comematus, But I think they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna win that game too.
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  Speaker 2: Again, everything points to the offense of the Eagles that
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  Speaker 2: they want to just.
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  Speaker 3: Take the NFC. So I think it's just there for
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  Speaker 3: the taking. Yeah, pretty easily.
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  Speaker 2: In this division. Well, let's hitting all the remarks have
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  Speaker 2: just made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get it. Let's get into the offense. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into the passing game in particular here, because look,
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  Speaker 1: I the bottom line for me coming out of this
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  Speaker 1: game against the Kansas City Chiefs, where yes, Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: only had one hundred and one yards of passing, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles passing game is obviously not hitting on all cylinders
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  Speaker 1: at this moment. It's an extremely small sample size with
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  Speaker 1: a unit, and I think it's really important to note
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  Speaker 1: and for us to keep in mind. This unit did
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  Speaker 1: not work in preseason action under a new coordinator and
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  Speaker 1: a new play caller in Kevin Patulo. So I think
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  Speaker 1: the quarter back play with Jalen Hurts, to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, has been pretty sharp. And I say that
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  Speaker 1: not because of the yards that he's giving up, but
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  Speaker 1: the fact that yes, he's only passed for two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty three total yards, hasn't thrown a touchdown, which
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  Speaker 1: is bizarre as well, but he has also not turned
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  Speaker 1: over the ball, and at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: that really does matter. So that's why I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting him the opportunities, giving him the opportunities Jalen hurts
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball downfield. Kevin Petulo is talking about
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  Speaker 1: this week during this press conference that they really haven't
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  Speaker 1: had those explosive play opportunities, you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the air yards sixteen plus yards is what the Eagles
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: define as explosive plays. Haven't really had those opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason. They've only had two fifty one yarder to
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  Speaker 1: John Dotson and the opener and the twenty eight yarder
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  Speaker 1: to DeVante Smith against the Chiefs. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if we should be panicking about the passing game. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. From everything that I've read, everything that
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  Speaker 1: I've seen, and we just know what the talent is
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  Speaker 1: on this team. I think things are gonna end up
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  Speaker 1: coming together a lot more here against the Rams in
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  Speaker 1: Week three. So I don't know what are you think
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  Speaker 1: in here, buddy?
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  Speaker 3: Well, okay, so if you look at the season so far,
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: let's just go game by game here. So they played
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  Speaker 3: the Cowboys week one. Let's preface everything with every team,
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: it's their super Bowl this year. They're coming after the champs, right,
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  Speaker 3: so they're going to bring their a game every single game,
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  Speaker 3: especially this upcoming week with the Rams. So think about it.
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  Speaker 3: The Cowboys defense stepped up in in week one. They
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  Speaker 3: looked pretty damn good. Yeah, you know, the Chiefs defense
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  Speaker 3: was good. You were in Case with a raucous crowd,
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  Speaker 3: second game of the year, and you got the Rams
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  Speaker 3: next week or come in like looking to kill us.
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  Speaker 3: Then you go to the Bucks. You got the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: at home, and then a Giants game. But then if
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  Speaker 3: you're going to Minnesota, I'm just trying to point out
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  Speaker 3: the defenses they're playing. You said, the fourth best record
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  Speaker 3: in football, four hardest not yeah, but it's just it's
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  Speaker 3: the hardest. Yeah, But it's like they're also playing really
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  Speaker 3: difficult defenses so far they are. And this is Poop
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  Speaker 3: poo Hole's first year as a coordinator. So like you almost,
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  Speaker 3: like like I said on the post game show, like
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  Speaker 3: I'm good right now, as long as like by week
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  Speaker 3: four or five we start to see it getting aired
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  Speaker 3: out a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and A J.
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  Speaker 3: Brown not running five yard slants seven times a half,
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  Speaker 3: going deep to DeVante every now and again, or even
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  Speaker 3: Brown like just like just one long one to open
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  Speaker 3: up the middle of the field for for uh Dallascott
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  Speaker 3: tight end, Yeah, Dallas gott are like man, there's so
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  Speaker 3: much talent on me.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's gonna break open.
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  Speaker 3: I think right now it's tough to watch, but like
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  Speaker 3: I think the offense is playing not.
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  Speaker 2: To lose right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the defense good way is strong, yeah and sturdy.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost okay.
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  Speaker 3: So back in the day when Andy Reid and Jim
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Johnson was a defensive coordinator, the offense was electric and
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  Speaker 3: the defense was ben but don't break right, keep it
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  Speaker 3: in between the twenties. Right now, it's like flip. The
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  Speaker 3: defense is attacking, making plays. The offense is like Ben,
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  Speaker 3: don't break, playing not to lose. I think next week,
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  Speaker 3: say you get a lead, you're up seven, nothing that
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  Speaker 3: you got to make. You got to try some chances,
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  Speaker 3: like go deep a couple of times, just to open
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  Speaker 3: it up and see what happens. Because you're you're setting
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  Speaker 3: yourself up for the rest of the season. And I
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  Speaker 3: think this next game at home with a Rams team
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  Speaker 3: who thinks they're going to come in and beat you,
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  Speaker 3: the crowd is going to be Believe me, Eagles crowds
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  Speaker 3: are smart. They know the Rams think they should have won.
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  Speaker 3: The crowd is going to be extra nuts this Sunday,
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: and they're going to be extra drunk. They're going to
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: get there really early. It's one o'clock afternoons. Wis be
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: nice weather? That just spells trouble. I've been I've been
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: to those games. I've been that person. I just think
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  Speaker 3: like this next Like I said, they're they're playing, they're
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: playing like prevent offense right like they're bringing up with
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: mint left and passing around the three point line. Take
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: some chances this week and try to try to set
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: momentum going forward for the rest of the season offensively.
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  Speaker 1: It's that's great advice. You should be a coach. Be
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  Speaker 1: a coach.
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  Speaker 3: I The only downside is like you just sleep in
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  Speaker 3: your office like a lunatic, sleeping every time I watch
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  Speaker 3: the NFL film. Yeah, can I coach in my boxers?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's my man.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine right now in all seriousness, like that's I
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  Speaker 1: think that's how you just have to open up the
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  Speaker 1: passing game. I mean, we're fans of this and look
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the Kevin Patulo and and Nick Sirianni. Whether again, whether
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: it's these guys not having had the work in the preseason,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: getting the rust off, the fact that they're two and zero.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: They can go on the road to that that crowd
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  Speaker 1: down in Kansas City that you were just talking about, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: and come away with a win the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we want, are the wins. Of course, we
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: don't want things to fall off a cliff like they
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: did two years ago, as the team was at an
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: absolute disaster towards the end of the season. I don't think,
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  Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imagination, that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I think this team has the ability to grow. I
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  Speaker 1: think the coaching staff is there, especially with Sirianni, to
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  Speaker 1: help this team get to that next level that we
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: want in terms of the offense. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great game against the Rams. We're
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: gonna have our Eagles postgame show, and we'd like to
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: hear what you think. Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Let us know what you're thinking about this Eagles team,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: the offense, how things are going. We'd love to read
• 16:39
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• 16:41
  Speaker 1: So so we're moving along here, got to get into
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: some NBA talk because one of the biggest storylines in
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the NBA and in the sports world in general is
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: about the mess that's going on between the Los Angeles
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Clippers and Kawhi Leonards. So much this scanned is just
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: now being rooted in some minute details. You're talking about spreadsheets, documents, lawsuits,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: line items. You know, your eyes just start to glaze
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: over when you dive deep into what this actual story
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: and scandal really is. So real quick for folks, in
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: case you haven't heard, real quick synopsis. Kawhi Leonard and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Clippers under intense scrutiny. After the Excuse Me,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: The Pablo Tory Finds Out podcast and Pablo Tory broke
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the news that Kawhi Leonard had a no show twenty
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: eight million dollar marketing job with a company called Aspiration,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: who happened to be a Clipper sponsor before completely going under.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Tory suggests that the Clippers brazenly circumvented salary cap rules
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: to pay Kawhi more than what the league rules would
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: actually allow. So this week, excuse me, Wow, John Hollinger,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he published an article talking about what could actually be
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the punishments for this, you know, avoiding Kawhi Leonard's contract
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: banning him possibly from re signing with the team. I mean,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: it's a this is gonna be a much more chaotic situation,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I think, because this is uncharted territory, this scout, this
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: size and scope with a scandal like this, We've known this,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that this has happened before in the past. Eric lenn
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and I talked about it last week. But this massive
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: penalty that's probably going to be coming down the pike
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: could have unforeseen effects on both Los Angeles Clippers and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the entire league. And that what the hell happens with
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard If his contract is void, He's still an
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: elite NBA player when he's healthy. Losing him would be
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: a big deal for them. It's just it's crazy. It
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: really is crazy. What have you been thinking about this? Well, okay,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: so a lot of thoughts. Okay, this one is way
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: more egregious.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: The best one to compare it to is that Joe
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Smith issue from like two thousand and five, But that
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: one was on such a smaller scale and didn't involve
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: outside companies that the owner had percentage stakes in and
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: own partially owned, and and even like even what do
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: you call it? Put ten million more dollars into that
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: company just recently looks really bad for him, Bomber. It
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: does make you think, like, is he arrogant? Is he
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: so arrogant that he thinks he's just going to get
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: away with it? Or did he really not have any
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: idea of someone like doing stuff with his money, because
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: it's so it's so obvious once you read the pabulatory story.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: By the way, if you're a sports guy and you're
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: doing something wrong and he comes he texts, you don't answer, Yeah,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: you are fucked. This guy is blowing up stories left
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: and right.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Get like big ones man. He's really good at what
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: he does out there doing it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really quick. Mark Cuban was like defending the Clippers
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: owner with this. I was actually kind of surprised with
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: it because Mark Cuban is usually not all the time,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: but usually pretty level headed. Maybe when it comes to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: various NBA issues, I don't I don't know. Maybe I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: don't know what you've We've never had a conversation about
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Mark Cuban. Look, the guy's a billionaire. He's probably not
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the most straight up honest person in the world. But still,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, he comes across as somebody who is uh,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe not.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Let's come on, let's think of corporate America. Yes, billionaires
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: protect other billionaire that is a matter. Yes, I used
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: to be an NBA owner, but I'm still a billionaire.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: That is true.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Steve Balmer, Steve Balmer is a peer, but he'll never
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: throw him under the bus. Plus, Mark Cuban did some
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: shady shit in Dallas, by the way, absolutely, yes, whole organization,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: so I'm sure. But if you in his defense though,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: he actually went on Pablo Tory's podcast and actually it
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: was a really good conversation, level headed.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I didn't agree with Cuban's points at all, but I
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: was like, I see you where he's coming from. But
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: at the same time, you're just a billionaire protecting another one.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: But whatever.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: But the Joe Smith thing, so just real quick recap
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: on that one, because I want to compare it to
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: what this one is, because this one is just to
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the moon three and a half million dollars fine to
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: the Timberwolves. And what they did with Joe Smith is
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: they signed three one year contracts. So it so it
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: looked it was like hit different parts of the cap, right.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know how they didn't think someone would notice this.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: They used the new the newer ish at the time
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Bird's rights rule to do it. Completely broke the rules
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: and it was a three and a half million dollars fine.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: They lost five first round picks, which is god, that's right,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: that was five. Yes, that's that's like the death penalty
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: in college, you know what I mean.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: That's like, that's like gu SMU stuff.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Now, David Seern was the commissioner, right, he avoided all
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: of Smith's contracts, and then the team, the Timberlves were
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: banned from signing Smith after that, and then Glenn Taylor,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the owner was barred from all team operators and Kevin
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: McHale took an unpaid lead of absence right like they
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: he wiped it out. And that was David Stern. What
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Kawhi did was so much worse. It was more mafia
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: like he got a no show job twenty eight million
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: dollars part of this company planting trees for God's sakes.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Like, so.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: You could plant you could reforce the entire North all
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: of the North America. It still won't be worth twenty
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: eight million to one person. Right, He got that on top,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: He got that on top of his current contract Bomber is.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know what Bombers quite said yet, I'm sure
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: as attorneys are like, don't say a fucking word. Yeah,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: while the NBA is investigating this. It really bothers me
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: that Adam Silver came out at the NBA Owners meeting
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: recently and said he didn't even hear about it. Yeah
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: the first time you heard about it? Right, what the
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: fuck are you doing your job? But isn't that your
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: whole job?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: One of one of the owners you just met with
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: possibly broke the law on top of NBA rules, Like
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: fucking new of course he did. I mean he's just
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: like he's just like goodell the owners. He works for
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: the owners basically, but what something has to happen though,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: There's there's no way they're just going to be like, man,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: he made a mistake.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: We're going to move on from this.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the rest of the NBA teams are going to
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: be like, well, first of all, every NA team is
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: going to be.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Like, well, I'll just do this now, right, Like why not?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Like what why would not?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Why would Josh not do that with one of his
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: multi billion corporate million dollar corporations? But like, I'm going
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: to give I'm going to give our third round pick
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: one hundred million next year. Yeah, and he's uh, he's
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: an assistant manager at this company, like exactly right, like Edgecombe.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: And it's like, you have to knit this in above
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: because these guys can't help themselves. They're the same owners
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: that signed guys like Joel Embiid to, you know, extensions
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: that are completely outrageous and wrong. They can't help themselves,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: so he has to do something. One thing I will
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: say about him was when he first came in, David
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Stearn would annihilate the Clippers. There's no doubt. Yeah, Like
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: he didn't give a shit. If it was Steve Balmer,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: he would. He would absolutely go after them. Adam Silver
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: did come in and the first thing he had to
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: deal with was Donald Sterling, if you remember, who was
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: a racist piece of shit, like just one of the
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: worst human beings. He treated his players like garbage. He
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: called them like slaves and stuff that's just disgusting. And
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Adam Silver dealt with that really well. He brought the
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: hammer down. I think he knew he had to do
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: it because he was new to the league as the commissioner,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and other owners as well as players were like, we're
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: hoping you can do something. This is a joke, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: he did it, like he forced the guy out.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: He never he.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Cannot even can't even go to NBA games anymore. It's
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: like he took care of that situation. I think he's
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: a smart enough guy to not just read this situation,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: but what potentially could breed out of the situation throughout
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: the league and what a fucking mess it could be.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: He has to come down hard on the Clippers.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: And all that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: In saying all that, I mean, there's no doubt that
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: that second contract's going to be voided, the one through
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: the corporation for the new company for Kuhi.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: But what happens.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: If this is a good question, what happened? What happens
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: if they just void the contract like his actual Clippers contract,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: because that's not technically illegal that one, unlike Joe Smith's
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: contracts because we're actually signed, you know, on the cap,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: but three different ways. It was just that that was
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: definitely illegal. What if he what if they keep that
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: or what if they just void all of it? Kauhi
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: is a free agent, That's what I think. Are the
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Clippers maybe happy, Yeah, because Kawhi only plays fifty games
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: a year. Look, there were some reps of injuries every day.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there are some reports that came out, you know
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: where you've got front office guys shitting on Kawhi saying
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: basically saying, well, you know, his team isn't the best
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: to work with and if he's not on the team, okay, whatever.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So they're anticipating it for sure this point, I wouldn't.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Be surprised if they nullified the contract, if they didn't
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: ullify his contract, the actual contract, Yeah, I wouldn't be
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: surprised if Silver then hit them with a lot of
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: cat penalties as well, so they couldn't roll that cap
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: space into getting another like million dollar player, right, Yeah,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: because you're you're you're then rewarding that team because then
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: it looks like they did this on purpose to get
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: out of the Kauhai contract.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I think you stick him with the contract, you still
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: cat penalize them left and right. You nullify like five
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: first round picks again, which they don't have any anyway,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: They're going to not have first round pick to like
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: twenty forty. It's gonna because I don't think you have
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: the next three first round picks. It's going to be like, yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: next decade, but he has to do something like there's
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: no way. This is just the first read of it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: You're like, oh, this is bad, and then you keep going,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: you keep going. It's like, this is the worst thing
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: in the NBA. This is horrible. Yes, this is the
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: This is like corporate greed at a sports level that's
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: almost like unfounded.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I'm bad. There's talk to like I
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: said earlier, is talk of spreadsheets and just like different
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: line items. You just kind of stare at this and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: dive down the rabbit hole and you just start to
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: your eyes just start to glaze over. But real quick,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: let me just go back to what you said. You
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: know about VJ. Edgecomb, like you know, an assistant manager
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: at like Cole's or something. That would be fantastic. I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: would love to see him with a little Cole's name
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: tag here. VJ. I mean he's just one time a month,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: he's he's stuck in Haines underpants on shelves or something.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Or even like like Josh put him in one of
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: his like uh equity on firms, right, and he's he's
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: an assistant equity guy. Yes, he has he has a
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: little tiny desk in a little office somewhere.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: He comes the first.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Day and has VJ on his thing, yes, wearing a and.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Then never comes again.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: You never seen it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Like the desk set they gave him his first day
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: is just sitting there unopened.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's not even a MacBook computer. It's like some
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: some kind of uh what's.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: It called on a box?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a box. It's a cardboard box. Yeah they
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: drew they drew a screen on it and a keyboard.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Or you go behind his desk and you realize everything's fake, Yes,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: fake laptop.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: They have a best Buy Like they.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Drew a pancil on the desk. No. Really, So it's
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to follow this story, for sure. It's
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be like something has to happen
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sooner rather than later because the season's gonna start. Like
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: something has to happen before the season starts.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: It starts October seventy or twenty third.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right around.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's close because we have our NBA Fantasy
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Draft in my house in the team. Yes, yeah, I
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: think it starts like four or five days later.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, you're right.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: You cannot go into the season with QUI just playing
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: right and it's just hanging in the air. Yeah, like
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: the rest of the Clippers team's gonna.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Be like, what are we gonna do?
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, We're gonna have cola.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Can we please know this is crazy?
• 29:08
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know, I might as we're taking
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: a break here, I might go have a shmag if
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: everybody knows what.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: That is, greatest, greatest, the best.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: One of the greatest things you've ever sent.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Eric.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: If you're on Instagram, I'm just looking daily schmag s
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: h M A G. It's just this fifteen second clip
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: of the outside part of what's the park out Candlestick all.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Right now where the Giants play. Geez.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's it's just these two deep Yeah, it's
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: just these two super deep voice announcers. The color anas
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: played baseball absolutely has been smoking heaters for like forty
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: five years, deep voice. And they go out to the
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: board walk outside of the yard and there's this just
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: guy with a dart hanging out of his mouth and uh,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: and he's just playing catch out there. And they go
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: out there and the color guy goes, guys, got a
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: heater going, And then the play by play guy goes, yeah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: I'm playing catch having a smag.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: It's the greatest thing. There are some people probably like, Okay,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about here? You have to look
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it up. It's just get de late. Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: It's an Instagram count that plays the same clip every day.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, And that's the clip this.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: One plays and I watch it every morning and I'm like,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: all right, I get my day going. Here we go,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: there you go. Because apparently schmag is a term for
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: a cigarette. I never knew.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: It's new to me.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I was in a game for quite some time, but
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I never heard that term.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: So all right, everybody, we're gonna take a break when
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: we get back. We got some Sixers talk and Philly's talk.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Stick with us. All right, we are back. Let's dive
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: into the Philadelphia seventy six ers in terms of some
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: power rankings. Eric ESPN just came out with this past
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: week their NBA Future Power Rankings, and the seventy six
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Ers have plummeted to being now ranked nineteenth coming into
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: this season. I hate laughing, but it's like, what do
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: we do at this point other than laugh at what
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: has happened with this team and what the future may
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: actually be. Look, I mean, it's not all doom and gloom.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: This team certainly isn't the Washington Wizards by any stretch,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: but well, who knows, maybe they could be, Maybe they
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: could be, but man, they had a fourth place ranking
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: last year, which which looks hilariously wrong and at retrospect here,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: but it's I don't know, It's like it's like I'm
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: looking forward to the season, but kind of just like
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: not looking forward to it as well. You feel the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: same way.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, camp be as bad as last year. I
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: know they were pre ranked fourth overall, but even I
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, that doesn't feel right. Embid isn't healthy
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: Paul George. Pretty quickly it was like, oh, he's not.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Spending his knee in the preseason.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: It was like here we go now, yeah, and it
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: was like, oh, all of a sudden, this team is
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: just MAXI and the McCain kid who promptly tore his
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: a cl I thought they were ranked too high, but
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: you know, nineteen actually, I mean it's.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Who are they ranked between.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Again, there's sandwich between the Pistons, who are good, and
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: then the Raptors are right the Raptors, and I that
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I take offense too. I watched the Raptors last year.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: They're not a good team. They just fired their GM.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: It's it's just not a good situation up there. Yeah,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: and we're only one spot above them. That's that's pretty pathetic.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: But that's what you get when you sign right now,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: when you have two of the probably four worst contracts
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: in basketball on your roster and they're not even playing right.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: So I saw Embiid on Instagram. He was at the
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: initial shoot you know, shoot arounds with the team, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: he was talking edgecomb and looks skinnier, but if he's
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: not even gonna I mean skinnier body, bad knees. Yeah,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: seven to two doesn't matter. So I don't know when
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: he's actually gonna play. I don't know when Paul George
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: is actually gonna play. It makes you incredibly tiny in
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: the front court, like really really tiny, and you start
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: to play some of these bigger teams. You're you're yard
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: heavy and you can score, but like all of a sudden,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: you become like you become the Pacers without a good defense,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: which is not a good place to be or the
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: depth the Pacers have. Yeah, exactly. And here's the thing
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: that's just awful. I mean, I'm not going to go
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: on about PG and em Bead's injuries, because what the hell,
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I'm excited to watch Edgecombe. I think Edgecomb, Maxie and
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: McCain are gonna be a lot of fun to watch. Like,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: there's just no doubt there. I really wish I would
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: have signedy Aabaselli to make it a little to bring
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: some retain some size and have some energy. Uh, that
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: was a really bad non signing in their part. They
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: under they undervalued him. Stupid move. The Nicks picked him up.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: He's going to kick our asses this year. But like,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: here's what's really deflating. Like, the Hawks are ranked twelve. Yeah,
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: they're better than the Sixers right now, but seven spots higher.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: They didn't make the playoffs last year.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Now that they have some.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: They're a team. They are an interesting yea, they have
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the Magic are very interesting heading into the season.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Dude, they got Dyson Daniels, Jalen Johnson, that Russia, the
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: French kid from last year.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I like a lot.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: They're banking on prison is to be good better, but
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: like that team's seven spots higher than you.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: This is the one that pisses me. The Celtics are
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: ranked thirteenth or nineteenth this year.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: What you say that they're superstar that that was the
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: MVP of the Finals just two years ago.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: He's just not there now. But there's still.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Six spots ahead of us. Awesome, who were just absolutely mediocre.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: They're fourteenth. The Pacers are fifteenth. Tyres Haliburton's not going
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: to play this year. They're fifteenth, and they lost Miles Turner.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Somehow they're above us. The Grizzlies are above us in
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: the piss like things aren't good, but there are things
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: to be excited about with the edge Combe and the Guards,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: and maybe PG has a bounce back season. I'm not
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not like completely against that happening. I think it
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: could happen. The MB thing though, is just so it's
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the whole season once again slating.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: It's just a flating yeah yeah.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: But it's the same narrative every year, like if it's
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: in shape, be healthy, it's like you want to move on,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but then you sign in that monster contract. One positive
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: for the Sixers is we here at the show. We
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: are abstually we are going to do a process show
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: before the season starts.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking thinking October, in September, October some time.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: We're going to get in before the season.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Because this is what I've been like jotty notes down
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: during like work calls, just just thinking about it. I've
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: gone back and read some of the art I used
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: to write articles for PSD. Yes, we used to write
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: articles back in the day.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, And I went back and read some of them recently,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: and I'm just like.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: The twenty fourteen article, I'm like, man, I wonder if
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: what if Neuralan's Noel and Michael Michael, what that was
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: a kid's name the mcwe mcw Ookie of the Year
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: in twenty thirty.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Like, I was like, could these guys be in the future?
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Good God, so sad Man.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh we're gonna get that podcast.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait. Yes, Julia might be in the future.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oka far I was so excited. I'm like, yeah,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I got Oka four. Let's yeah, let's go it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: I dude, I remember like twenty for twenty fifteen. Oka
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: four and Narn's nowell like the third game of the
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: year and each had twenty points, like ten rebounds and
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: they were just awesome.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was like, we.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Finally did it and it beads coming.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Nope, not even.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Close, not even close, not close at all. Oh my gosh.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Well there is there. There is some high hopes in
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia as we segue into the Philadelphia Phillies, because this
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Phillies team is now at top of the NL East
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: as champions. Yes they are division champions. I just want
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: to dive into just this up and down season. They
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: have this momentum now eric heading into this postseason, and
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I just I can wait to see this team. We're
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: gonna dive into a little bit more with our interview
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: this week with Ethan Witty from the Good Fight dot Com.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: But they have now won the NL East for two
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: consecutive seasons in a row. I am so high on
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: where they are at and like again, a roller coaster
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: of a season. I remember just four months ago saying, Okay,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: my whole prediction of them going to the World Series
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: is absolute garbage and nonsense. And now we're here, you know,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: mid September, toward the end of September, red October is
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: just right around the corner, and the pitching is gonna
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: be I just cannot wait to see the pitching. Some
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of the guys in the batter's box, we're gonna need
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to step up and it need to be consistent. You're
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: gonna get to with Ethan in a bit. I cannot
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: wait to watch this team like this is this is
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: is so nice to have like something nice here. We've
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: got the Philadelphia Eagles, We've got the Philadelphia Phillies here.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: It's it's nice, Eric, It's nice to feel feel good.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mane.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: One thing that bumm me out was that they won
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: the NL East at like one in the morning, basically, yeah, yeah,
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: So I couldn't stand up and watch the cell because
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: I used to, Yeah a minute, I used to celebrate
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: with him.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: When in the East.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Uh, you go go out and have a shmag, have
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: a shmag.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Here you're going.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, I wouldn't do the beer funnel like Schwarber
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: was doing the other night.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: And he made at one.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Point he was like I'm hammered or something like that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Pretty.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know what this was a
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: This was a absolute pro drinking move. He had the
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: tube here in a bottle here, yes, in a double
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: and like I back in like the senior week days,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I've done the double, but I never thought to do
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: the bottle.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: The bottle.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good on him.
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: No, it's it's it's fantastic. And you know when the Mets,
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: when the Mets swept us a couple of weeks ago, right, yeah, yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: I mean I was just like, oh here we go again.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: My god, this team took us out of the playoffs
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: last year.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: They're hot. They went fourteen four. They went fourteen of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: four after getting swept by the Mets. Seriously, it just
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: it's eighteen games stretched. That was just launched by Kyle
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Schwarver's four home run game the night after the City
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Field massacre. They won three of four from the Braves
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: and just looked looked like a cannon was shot out,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: And conversely, the Mets just completely fell apart. Yes, you know, great,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: good fuck them, but like, but not just that they
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: went the East, there were only two games out of
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: the top seed with the Brewers in the entire leagues
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: for the home field at the playoffs. It's just, I know,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: it's been an up and down season, but it's been
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: one of the most fun ones. I gotta say, Like
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: the run they had in twenty two when they went
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: to the World Series, a ton of fun. Reese Hoskins
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: was a ton of fun, you know, just throwing the
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: bat and just being a maniac all of a sudden,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Like I tested his blood that year because he had
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: a bunch of home runs and he was like screaming
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: and yelling quite a lot. Yes, but this team is
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: just you had your typical stories. Castianos is lazy and
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: he sucks at the plate, but every now and again
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: he comes through. That's been his entire run as a
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Philly I think I think, honestly, the fans are a
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: little hard on him. Yeah, Trey Turner a little bit
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: of an injury at the end that happened too again,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: but this one seems to be like mild one.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: He's gonna he'll be back by the playoffs.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: You lose your start, you lose your key, bullpen piece,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: to a to a suspension, you know, you lose your ace.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, blood clots for God's sake, like, yeah, my brother.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: In blood clots.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: I really felt for him when I heard the story,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: and I thought, maybe, well, I'll just do what I
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: do when he gets shot up a couple of times
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: and it's gone. But no, apparently it's not bad. He
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: had to get surgery and his like it just sucks. Yeah,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: but on the bride side, Man Schoreber just an all
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: time Philly season, Yeah, not just like like I think,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: like all time Philadelphia season.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like like it's.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: We're talking like Babe the Blue Ox and Paul Bunyan
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: like kind of heroic kind of thing, like a fairy
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: tale or whatever you want to call it. And it's
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: just like what fifty three home runs now on hundred
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: twenty eight. Ribbi's in the contract year, still doesn't get on?
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Still can't you know? Stilling bat in two forty. But
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: at that with those stats, who gives a shitty is
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: at nine hundred ops.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: He was like a couple of years ago, he was
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: batting like one ninety eight if you remember, and it's
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: just like like, okay, this is just gonna be.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Like twelve this year at one point. Yeah, if you remember,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: it was pretty bad. Yeah, No, he's a nine to
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: forty three ops. And like, just he's been fantastic. Harrison
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: batter has been an awesome story since coming here. Like
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: he said, uh, I saw a clip of him in
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: the in the clubhouse when they won, and he was
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: just like what a just goes what a blessing.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: It was like I was on.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: The Twins and like it's the same. It happens a lot.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Like you're on a bad team's going nowhere, they traded
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: all the players away. You're playing for nothing, Like your
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: stats might slip a little bit because's like what am
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: I fucking doing here? Like, yeah, I'm making a paycheck,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: but I want to win. Comes to a team to
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: have a shot, and he has just been fucking awesome
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: the past two weeks. Like he's he actually has a
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: nine hundred oh ps. He's second on the team right now.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: So he's played forty games, so it's a pretty good
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: sample size. He's been a huge spark plug. I mean,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: they're batam lead off for god's sakes because he's actually
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: hitting the ball. Yeah, and really good in the field.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Great vibes too for the with the kid, with the
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: kid he helped out in Miami.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Just love the guy.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: And then then you got the just Duran comes in
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: like he's been. He's had a couple of shaky spots here,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: but like then then I'm kind of like he's yeah,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: he's he's gonna throw that ninety eight mile per hour
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: knuckle curve that hits the dirt.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: It's just like, what.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna do?
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: You can't hit that?
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: He throws that fucking thing, and he throws it one
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: O four top top high ball, like against the against
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: the strike line. Every every batter is gonna swing at
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: that because they're they just want to they want something
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: to hit. And he's been phenomenal. Harper has been great again, Schwarber,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: like I said, Turner's coming back, Brandon Marsh earned center
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: field spot.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: He's been I got it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: He's Max Kepler has been good this year the past
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: few the past hover many weeks, he's actually played really
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: well and they've had these guys step up that that
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: had to step up.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Marshan Wilson.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: Rojas is gonna be out for a little while, so
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: you need you need KEMP to keep or Sos or
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: so Rojas is on the d L. Now I forget
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: which one Rojas. So you need auto Kemp to continue
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: to step up and fill in its spots.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: About how about Bryson Stott though too, And I'm gonna
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to Ethan a little bit about Bryson Stott.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: But what a second half of the season. Seriously, how
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: many of us wrote them off. They're like, all right,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: well we're gonna need to figure out second base for
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the future. But here we are and he is killing it.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he started killing it.
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: You know, he had a game where he played some
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: country song when he came out to that and he
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: didn't play that song that everyone loves. And then like
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: the week after he brought the song back then he
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: started hitting again.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: I think it has something to do with it, because,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: like I remember hearing it. Even my son was like,
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: that's not is everyone knows this song? Why is he
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: playing this country shitstition really yeah, it was really stupid.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: But going to the pitching, like the bullpen's really good
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Some of them guys have to find roles now because.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: There's definitely defined roles at this time at this point.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: But starting pitching, going to the playoffs, that's the one place,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: like offensively, where you want to be. Last year, they
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: got super hot first half of the season, had like
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: what six All Stars, Yeah, and then it kind of
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: just who as the season went on. They're hot the
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: right time. There's only what twelve games left or whatever.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: And but the starting pitching going forward, you have three
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: you have one I think I would call Sanchez and Ace.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: At this point, you have one Ace, you got it
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: one b Ace and Suarez.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: He's been really good.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Well.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Zarto pitching super well. Has the most wins on the team,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: by the way, which is crazy. He's he's he's definitely
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: like your three nole is probably your three four You
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: don't that's the one. You got three left. He's in
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: a righty and the righty' shaky Yeah. Walker Buehler's on
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: this team. I don't know when that happened.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I told you for the show.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Just missed that one completely. But that's the out of
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: all the optimism, that's the one piece of the season where.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: I'm like, or the playoffs, I'm like, oh, man.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: That's you want to tighten into a four man rotation,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: but do you even have four with a really shaky
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Aaron Nola.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: So I'm still confident going into this postseason with this pitching.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I mean I am. I'm confident, I really am. I
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: think it's going to be fantastic to watch. So look, buddy,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: before I let you go to real quick, want to
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: get into Kyle Schwarver's possible upcoming contract with the Phillies
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: because news leaked from Ken Rosenthal this week that the
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Phillies are looking to offer Kyle Schwarber four years, thirty
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: million per year for him to remain on the team. Hell,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I'll take that. I'll take that. John Middleton'll probably take
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: that too, But like, I don't know, I don't know
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: if he's gonna want to test the market. He loves Philadelphia.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Philly is his place, like it's it's I don't know, man,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Philly's different than so many cities where guys will at
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: times based on the stories over the years, we'll take
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: a quote pay cut to stay in Philadelphia. I wonder
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: if that's going to be a situation like this.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: That's my only fear is it feels like a pay cut,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: because if he hit the open market with an open mind,
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine that Dodgers or Yankees or someone like
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: that not offering him like thirty five or forty Yeah,
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: just just to top the Phillies. Yeah, I mean, I'm
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: sitting here going one hundred and twenty million is pretty low,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: but for a guy who put this team on his
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: back a couple of times this year and is absolutely
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: the reason, like one of the one key reasons where
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: we won the NL East.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: It's him.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: And I know you don't want to you're not rewarding
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: past whatever when you sign a contract, but he means
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: so much of this team. He's been a stalwart for
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Philly and quite some time. And like he's been batting leadoff, Yeah,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: he's like your leadoff hitter. He blasts him, runs, he
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: gets the crowd going, he gets the team going. When
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: he starts hitting, everyone kind of starts work, you know,
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: hitting around him, and he's just he's more important than
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: just like a home run hitter in my opinion, and
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: I hope his love of being here. He has kids,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sure they have a great home in the Philadelphia
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: area or in South Is where a lot of players live,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: and he just wants to, like, you know, plan his
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: roots and just stay here because he has He's traveled
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: a lot. Like if Chicago Boston is thirty two years old? Yeah,
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: what else did he play for? He I think he
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: has another team in there right now, I said Boston, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Chicago and Boston. I'm pretty sure the two teams might
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: be a third one, but I I I'm just hoping
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: that's enough money for him to stay if they have
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: to up it. There's no captain baseball. Who gives a shit? Right,
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: you're the team is worth nine gazillion dollars? Just make
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: it for four years forty mil per? Just who cares?
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Yes at this point?
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who gives a crap? Really? Who gives a crap?
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: I think he was also a let me check right here?
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Uh he was? He was on Washington.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's right.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: He was on Washington for one one year, I believe. So, yeah,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: good way to end this before we go to break here, folks. Yeah,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: you got any final thoughts. Man, It's just it's it's
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: a fun time. It's fun time for sure, fun time
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: for sports. Yes, yeah, absolutely, all right, just for sports.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Just that's it.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Not the world, not the country. Yes, no, all right, folks,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: we're gonna take a break.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: Wait one thing to say, No, I'm not gonna.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, you gotta watch us on YouTube, folks. It's
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: a good time watching our dumb faces when we're doing stuff.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: It really is great. All right, quick break and then
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: when we come back, more Phillies Talk.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: And now on the table.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: And joining us this week to dive into this Philadelphia
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Phillies team as we look towards the postseason. A lot
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: of postseason storylines that we're gonna be following here at
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show. We have from the Good
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Fight dot Com. He is the supreme blogger over there
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: at that wonderful site. You know, we love our sp sites.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: We've got the one and only Ethan Witty. How are
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: you doing, buddy, I'm good.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Ready for right October to show up yet again and
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: get moving on that.
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: I'm ready for the late nights. I'm ready for the
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: long nights. Totally fine.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, look there are. Like I said, there are
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: so many storylines heading into this postseason. We're certainly going
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: to get into some of them during this discussion and conversation,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: but I kind of wanted to be reflective first here
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: when we look at this Philly season, this twenty twenty
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: five season, there have been a lot of ups and downs.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: It really has been a roller coaster ride for all
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: of us fans following this team, wanting this team to
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: get to this point where they are NL East Division winners.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: But I do wonder Ethan, you know, what do you
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: think has been the theme of this season? If you
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: had to pinpoint a theme, what would that theme be
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: and why?
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Lately, I would say it's the overcoming adversity. I mean
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: through the whole season, it wasn't like they were you
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: don't want to say coasting, but it's kind of like
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: they knew they were to get to the playoffs, but
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: how were they going to get to the playoffs?
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: You know, what were they going to be? Like? What
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: shape were they going to be in?
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Yep, In the past what month plus, it's kind of
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: been like, Okay, first your ace goes down and then
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: your MVP candidate goes down. And then you know, Alec
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: Bohm gets nicked up, and it's so says Nick, that
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: they're getting there.
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: Just there.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: Every obstacle that's been in their way lately, they're just
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: kind of jumping over it and moving forward. I think
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: I saw today it's they're like twenty and nine or
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: some twenty one and nine or something since Wheeler went down,
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: which is just incredible. It's it's really it's great for
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: the regular season. You know, we can thank the Mets
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: for whatever is going on there, thank God for that. Yes,
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: but it's really impressive that they've done in the regular season.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: You know, I'll still maintain a hint of skepticism about
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: the postseason because you just took away arguably the best
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: pitcher in baseball from your postseason.
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: You you didn't make it easier by any stretch.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Now, that's a regular season problem, right, you know, they
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: have five starters to get through it, but you just
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: took away one of the two best that'll be in
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: the National League, and that's not a good thing for them.
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, once you at the postseason, things change.
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, all the teams are good. You're not beating
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: up on bad teams. You're not beating up on struggling teams.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: You're playing good teams each night.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: So I think if you're talking about like a season
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: long theme, it's just getting through.
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: Just keep plugging away.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: It's almost like blue collar, hard hat type thing. Just
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: keep plugging away, just keep going, keep going. Everything will
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: be fine. Yeah, just keep get towards the goal.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I think resiliency for me. I mean, if there's one
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: word to describe this theme this team throughout this year,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: that theme is resiliency for sure. Overcoming the injuries. I mean,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: at first, when we heard that Jose Alvarado is going
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: to be going out on that suspension, holy cow, it
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: was such a deflator, so many deflating moments throughout this season.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: But this team has persevered and the resiliency really is
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: quite quite amazing, to say the least. And I think
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: this twenty twenty five team is going to be remembered
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: in the history books of baseball because of that. But Ethan,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: I wanted to dive into some of the personnel on
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: this team, what we've been seeing from them, what we
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: can may maybe expect from them during the postseason, and
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: first and foremost, I really want to dive into Bryson
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Stott because just I mean four months ago we're talking
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: on this podcast. You know, there are other podcasters and
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: friends of ours who said, you know what, he just
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: not looking great as we knew, and is he long
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: for this team and to be a key contributor. However,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: even though we thought he was cooked that maybe four
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: months ago, since late July, he's been killing it in
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: the batter's box. So how do you think Bryson Stott
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: and his performance, if he's able to remain consistent in
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: terms of his hitting, possibly plays a key role as
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: we look towards this postseason.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: That one you kind of want to look at the
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: work of Kevin Long. I think they've shown a few
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: times on broadcast, sent on different articles. You can see that,
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: like his mechanics are different, his hands are in a
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: different place, which.
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: Are helping him get to the ball faster.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: And that was kind of kind of the big knock
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: on him was velocity could beat him, but you know,
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: bringing your hands down, you don't have as much movement
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: to get to the ball. It's helped him get to
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: a more consistent hitting position, which has led to the
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: results you've seen. I was on that bus of I
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: was full on after the season's over, it might be
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: time to move on because unless he's I mean, he's
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: an incredible defender. I mean, it would be difficult to
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: give up on that. But he wasn't hitting, and he
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: wasn't hitting at all. But then something switched, and it
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: could be something as simple as a mechanical adjustment to
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: where that mechanical adjustment has led to results that you
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: keep waiting for. Okay, is the Brysons thought we saw
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: from the first half going to come back. I mean,
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: like you said, we're on three months now of this,
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: so at some point, it's not a small.
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: Sample size anymore. It's kind of what he it's kind
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: of of what he is.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: So you look at Scott, I look at a guy
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: like Max Kepler, who I think we can honestly say
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: no one wanted on the team after the deadline, Yes,
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: And then there it came out that once he accepted
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: his role, like you're going to be platooning. Once he
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: accepted his role, he's taken off and he's kind of
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: taken off to the point where do we really want
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: to platoon him with whoever? It would be that coming
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: in for him, you know, I think we're kind of
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: the point where you kind of want all these guys
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: in a stable spot.
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: Stott included, where keep the line up. The lineup has
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: been producing, the line has been winning, and they're beating
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: good teams. So it's not like they're they're playing the
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: White Sox, that twin the Rockets. They're not playing bad,
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: They're playing good teams and winning.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Right, you know, Yeah, absolutely, I think I think there
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: is always hope with the talent on this team. I
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: think there is always that, and it may sound hokey,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I really don't care, but I have hope with all
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: of these players because there is good base ball to
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: be brought out I think in just about everybody on
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: this team. And as we segue that into this next
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: individual we know is an amazing baseball player, and that
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: is one Bryce Harper, but he has struggled for much
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: of this season in late and clutch base situations and moments. Ethan,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: It sometimes has been frustrating to watch those moments here
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Just really bizarre to actually ask
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: you this question because of the type of player Bryce
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Harper has been for years, But do you have concerns
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: and maybe what concerns do you have about about Harper
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: in the postseason when coming up in these clutch moments,
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: and clutch moments, as we know, are a key part
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: of playoff baseball. What are your thoughts here?
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm not concerned at all.
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: Okay, in any way because we're you know, we're speaking
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: on the day after the two wins in Los Angeles. Yeah,
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: and in game one he had a big hit, and
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: then game two he had a big hit.
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: I mean it, when the moment's there, he'll be there.
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, I got called out online somewhere for stating, you know,
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: it's Bryce Harper. Over the long term, he's been bad.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: But then the person that was calling me out was right.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: Since whatever data was I think it was, since he
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: came back from the injury, he hasn't been good.
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: And that's the truth. He has not been good. But
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: as we've seen the last two games, when he's playing
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: up to where he needs to be, he has stepped
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: up and delivered. I just I'm going to believe the
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: Bryce Harper over his entire career, over the Bryce Harper
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: of three four months. It's kind of the anti logic
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: of what I was just saying. About Scott, you know,
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: it's kind of the anti But when a case of
• 58:43
  Speaker 5: somebody like Harper, who is a superstar, I'm just going
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: to rely on his history that he will be fine.
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: You know, I have no doubt that.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: It's a fair point.
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: At some point he is going to step up in
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: a clutch situation. I have no fear or worry about
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: his delivering in that situation. And if he doesn't, he doesn't.
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: I mean that is that is baseball, you know, not
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: even not even show. Hey O, Tony's going to deliver
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: every single time. At some point.
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: You just have to believe the guy you're paying three
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: hundred million dollars to.
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: Is going to earn that money as he did against
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: San Diego a couple of years ago. I just I'm
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: not not worried about him at all.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: All right, very good again. Folks were talking to Ethan
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: Witty from the Good Fight dot Com. Ethan, can you
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: tell everybody where they can find you on the interwebs
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: if they want to follow you out there? And uh,
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: what you and your buddies are doing over at the
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Good Fight dot com?
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: I think on what is it X now? Whatever?
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: That Twitter?
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: Yeh, that's still Ethan at Underscore, Witty and Blue Sky.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: I honestly don't know, all right, I'm on there. I'm
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: on there so little. It's probably in there somewhere. I mean,
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: if you look on the Good Fights, speed on there,
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: you'll find me somewhere. I'm not running it just because
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: you know, I have other things to worry about.
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: But I'm on there somewhe.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: Very good, very good, folks. We're going to take a break,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: and then when we get back, we still got some
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: more Phillies talk coming your way with Ethan Wittie from
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: the Goodfight dot Com. Stick with us, all right, we
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: are back and to continue diving into this conversation about
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies and what to expect during this upcoming postseason.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: As this team has won the NL East here in
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The postseason, as we know Ethan, requires
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: contributions from everyone on the team in order for the
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: team to advance. I mean, we need to see that.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: And I'm wondering, who are the key players, key players
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: on this team that you're going to be keeping your
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: eyes on that really need to find that consistency in
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: the batter's box. If this Phillies team is really going
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: to find success and hopefully get to a World Series appearance.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts If we're talking line up, I
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: can look at three I'll say Alec Boone, Harrison Bader,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: and j t Romuto, And it's kind of they all
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: have the same thing in common. The right handed You know,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: you're you're big two are Schwerber and Harper. Those are
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: your big two and assuming hew Trey Turner at the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: top of the lineup. But then when you get further down,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: the righty's have to hit for the lineup to work.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: You know, you'll have Brandon Marshen there who can be
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: neutralized by a good left handed pitcher. Max Kepler can
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: be neutralized by a good left handed pitcher.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: So if you've got.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: That left hander coming in, you need Bader to continue
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: whatever he's on, whatever hot streak he's on, God love him,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: you know, if he's continuing, that's kind of one less worry.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: Jt real Muto against same thing as it's always been.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: He's he'll go hot and cold, and hot and cold
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: and hot and gold during the season. What they need
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: from him is just somewhere in the middle. You know,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: you don't want stone cold hot would be great, but
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: you know, this is the playoffs.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: You're facing great pitching.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: And Alec Boem. They need some any kind of power.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: Any he's some kind of a power threat.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: It's just gone. And I wonder if it's the shoulder
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: injury of late.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: That's what I've wondered.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not there. Yeah, there's just zero power.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: He's a singles hitter, and you know, getting that further
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: down the road if we're talking just now, if he's
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: going to be a singles hitter, then he needs to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: be a singles hitter. I mean in the playoffs. Beggars
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: and choosers, you know what I mean. But if he
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: can give some semblance of power, it would add so
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: much to the lineup, just lengthening the lineup, keeping it deep,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: keeping the threat moving, keeping the line moving. As long
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: as they're able to do that. You're talking five, six, seven,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: eight batters deep that they are able to run out.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: And we've seen lately there's you don't want to say
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: there's not a hole. But the whole lineup has been
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: hitting so well, it's been kind of tough to find
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: Zaut find outs in a Phillies lineup of late. You know,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: when you get to the postseason, you'll face better pitching.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: You'll face those relievers that were every single one of
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: them is throwing ninety eight ninety nine. They can get
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: that velocity and get contact and get some kind of
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: power that's just going to make the lineup so much deeper.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 5: Just those three that I'm looking at in particular.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's logical, of course to look at
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: those three and say they need to step up in
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: a big way. But I'm also wanting to look at
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: what the pitching is going to look like during the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: postseason as well. Start off with the bullpen here, because
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: the bullpen is going to need to be incredibly stable
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: in the clutch moments during this postseason. I mean, we're
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: talking high stakes battles against very quality opponents like you're
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: talking about. So it's a two part question for you here, Ethan.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Let's start with the first part of this. What is
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: your biggest concern with the bullpen as we're looking at
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Red October here.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: The biggest concern that I would have would be probably
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: how can they handle going back to back dates. I
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: don't want to look at one picture in particular, just
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 4: because bullpens are so volatile, but how can they handle
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: going back to back days. They've hardly had to go
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: back to back all season, which is obviously a strategy
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: in place to get them ready for October. But once
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: October hits, that strategies out the window. You want your
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: best four or five relievers available every night within reason, obviously,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: how are they going to handle the back to back
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: with David Robertson, for example, One of our writers today,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: Smarty Jones, just wrote about, is there an issue coming
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: with David Robertson with his being available back to back days?
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: If not, that's a pretty big right handed arm that's
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: just not going to be there. They need, They need
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: their pitchers to be able to be effective back to
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: back days for however long they go. The Division series,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: they do have that extra day of rest built in,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: so you're really only asking one game one to two
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: day off Game three to four day off game five,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: so it does help a little bit, but at the
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: same time, they have to be able to go on
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: back to back days. That would be my main concern
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  Speaker 4: as opposed to looking at one picture.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I think that's fair. Yeah, absolutely, On the flip
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  Speaker 1: side of things, what's the one. What's the one aspect
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  Speaker 1: of the bullpen that you are least concerned about?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's easy. I mean we all know what that
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  Speaker 5: answer is that.
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  Speaker 1: I had to ask out.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he answered right back from blowing the save
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  Speaker 4: on Monday night, came right back and dominated on Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: night and again a back to back, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: high stress situlation and just came back and it was
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  Speaker 4: like nothing to it.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, that's why is it just incredible?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't we were talking about this in
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  Speaker 4: our own slack. Have they had a better trade deadline
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  Speaker 4: as a team since Cliff Lee bringing Lee? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: has there been a better one? I don't think there is,
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  Speaker 4: right and even you know, Cliff Lee got them to
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  Speaker 4: the World Series, so obviously that's the benchmark, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's where that you have to be to surprise surpassed that.
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  Speaker 4: But adding Batter and Doran, especially Doran, just put everybody
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  Speaker 4: in their place. You know, everybody has slid into a
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  Speaker 4: more suitable role for them in that bullpen. Specifically, some
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: people were completely removed from rules, which is what had
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  Speaker 4: to happen. And since then, you can see I think
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  Speaker 4: it's since October or August first that whole bullpen's been
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  Speaker 4: almost untouchable, and it's because of one one player. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: when that night thinning starts, you kind of know what
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  Speaker 4: you're getting. And that's when was the last time the
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  Speaker 4: Phillies have had that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, it's been so.
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  Speaker 4: I mean lydgon eight, but when's the last time? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's just it's been a pleasure. It's honestly, it's been
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  Speaker 4: a pleasure to watch, and I'm excited to see what
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  Speaker 4: it looks like in October.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And a theme we've been talking about on this
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  Speaker 1: podcast platform is that Dave Dombrowski really deserves some credit
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  Speaker 1: for what he did before the trade deadline with Harrison
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  Speaker 1: Bader and with Doran as well. I mean, he really
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  Speaker 1: does deserve some credit. So, Buddy, before I let you go,
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  Speaker 1: just one last pitch topic in question, because I'm just
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: so excited to see what the pitching is going to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: do during this postseason. I'm wondering which starting pitcher do
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  Speaker 1: you think, well be the most fun to watch during
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: the postseason and the guy that's gonna have the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to really leave his mark historically on this Phillies franchise.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: If there is one. What are your thoughts.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: Historically? Yeah, my positive about that one.
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  Speaker 4: But the guy outpoint the guy out point at his Ranger,
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  Speaker 4: because you've got not just he's since Wheeler has gone down,
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  Speaker 4: he's just taken off. He's clearly said I need to
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: step my game up, and he's become the clear number to.
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  Speaker 5: Me, the clear number two.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's also now not just pitching for the Phillies
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  Speaker 4: to get to a World Series and win one.
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  Speaker 5: He's pitching to show twenty nine other teams.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a postseason rock that you can count on when
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  Speaker 4: it comes time for free agency. And you know, I'm
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: not worried about twenty twenty six, but if that motivation
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  Speaker 4: is going to help him win in twenty twenty five,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: I'll take it.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Now he has to be that guy that goes five
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  Speaker 4: to six innings in every one of his starts and
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: just dominates. If you have Sanchez at the beginning. You know,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: we're kind of taking Sanchez for granted that he'll be fine,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: he'll be grand. He likely will be because I don't
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: know about you, but I consider him an ace now yep.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: But if we've got Ranger taking that other step forward
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  Speaker 4: and in the past, they've kind of held him three
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  Speaker 4: four innings at a time to maybe once twice through
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  Speaker 4: a lineup.
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  Speaker 5: If he's able to.
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  Speaker 4: Get twice and you know, into a third time through
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  Speaker 4: a lineup while still dominating. I mean, now, can any
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: other team in the National League playoff picture match that
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: I don't know, couple that with potentially Lozardo doing the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: same thing. But I don't know if a long I
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: don't know if he'll have as long a leash as
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: Suarez will in a game. But if you've got those
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: three pitching as they have of late, I there's something
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: special brewing there, something there, good Blues, three Lafties.
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  Speaker 5: That's just been something to watch.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: It really has been. It's gonna be amazing to watch
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• 1:09:25
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