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Tom McCarthy talks NL East champ Phillies, Schwarber status, Bedlam! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And there he is the man, the myth, and the legend.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite booths in all of Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball is when Tom McCarthy and Kruky John Cruck are
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  Speaker 1: in the booth together talking about the Philadelphia field and
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  Speaker 1: they are the NL East champs once again. Tom, great
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  Speaker 1: to be with you. Thank you for doing this. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're incredibly busy. Congrats man, what a team to cover,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the earliest that they have clinched an NL's
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  Speaker 1: title in their history. Tell me what you're going through
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's just great to see and guys, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: having me on. You know, it's funny. I was sitting
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  Speaker 2: there Sunday on my flight back from my football game,
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  Speaker 2: and I hadn't realized that this would have been the
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  Speaker 2: earliest that they would have clinched, because, you know, going
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  Speaker 2: back two weeks ago, they were three games up over
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  Speaker 2: the Mets, and I'm thinking, well, I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: take Week four off of the NFL because that's when
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  Speaker 2: the clinching's going to happen. So I did that, and
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  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, they come flying,
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  Speaker 2: flying high, and it was just incredible to watch how
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  Speaker 2: how well they were playing, how well they were pitching.
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  Speaker 2: They've only lost the one game since Trey Turner and
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  Speaker 2: Alec Bohm went on the injury list. It's pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: And to couple that with what they they've done since
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  Speaker 2: Zach Wheelers out, it's a really good group. And to
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  Speaker 2: watch them do that last the other thing too, I
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  Speaker 2: know it was late. It was a great baseball game,
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  Speaker 2: Like it was a really cool baseball game. And I
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  Speaker 2: probably wouldn't have said that if we had lost. But
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  Speaker 2: it was really a very good game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the congratulations affilies. This has been a foregone
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  Speaker 3: conclusion I've said for a while now, but this is
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  Speaker 3: what I want to know. Are you a in the
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  Speaker 3: champagne kind of guy? Are you a lurker around the
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  Speaker 3: edges kind of guy? Do you jump in and get sprayed?
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  Speaker 3: It was Krooky there because I can see Crooky. I
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  Speaker 3: know Crooky doesn't I don't think drinks it. He doesn't
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  Speaker 3: drink anymore, right, So I mean it's Crooky like getting
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  Speaker 3: the sparkling grape juice sprayed on him because he.
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  Speaker 4: Wasn't He was not there.
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  Speaker 2: And if you guys have been at the Dodger stadium
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  Speaker 2: in the Visney Clubhouse. They've done really a lot of work,
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of no's a lot of work on
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  Speaker 2: making it better. But it's really small. So I think
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  Speaker 2: we were all kind of on the fringe, because if
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  Speaker 2: we weren't, there was not a whole lot of room
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of that area. I did just send
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  Speaker 2: all my clothes out though, because it did get enough
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  Speaker 2: of it, and the clothes I wore last night for
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  Speaker 2: the celebration basically the same clothes I've worn for the
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  Speaker 2: last four years of celebrations. I've taken them, I've repacked them,
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  Speaker 2: I've sealed them off into my closet after I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, you try to get as little as
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  Speaker 2: you can. I forgot my crocs though, that was the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I was in socks basically, So those socks got thrown away.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So who celebrated it the most? Sometimes there's times like eleven,
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  Speaker 3: it's always well, he parties the most. I'm saying, who
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  Speaker 3: was it different for? Who is it different for? Because
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  Speaker 3: in eleven I remember watching Hunter Pence. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: guys had won five straight, I think, and celebrates and
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  Speaker 3: there was live somewhere a little bit more subdued.
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  Speaker 4: Hunter Pence was like, this is amazing. You guys should all.
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  Speaker 3: Do and Victorino is like folding up his shirt and like,
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't win the World Series. I'm gonna you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go work out kind of thing. Who celebrated
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  Speaker 3: it a little bit differently on this team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny you say that cratzy because it
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  Speaker 2: was more more of a workman like celebration. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of the other ones that we've had.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was great to do it. I thought
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  Speaker 2: some of the like some of the newcomers, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the hayesus Lozardos, who's already celebrated when the Marlins went
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  Speaker 2: into the postseason, Lou Trevino and Tim Mayza, both local
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  Speaker 2: guys who get a chance to celebrate as Phillies fans,
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  Speaker 2: even though they they've been there before with other teams.
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  Speaker 2: That's a really good question, I would probably say, besides Garrett,
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  Speaker 2: who always celebrates because he's really good at it and
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  Speaker 2: he's the best DJ in the history of clubhouse DJs,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our owner on Middleton really celebrated. It was
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  Speaker 2: kind of cool to see him in the mix with
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  Speaker 2: it player wise, I think they all were. They were
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  Speaker 2: all in there. I mean it was it was. There's
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  Speaker 2: a great picture that one of our team photographers, my
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  Speaker 2: buddy Mitch, took of Harper in the middle of its
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  Speaker 2: kind of his arms raised out. I thought that was
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  Speaker 2: emblematic of the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's all you said. I was kind of workman like. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the celebration on the field was workman like. When you
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  Speaker 3: get a beer bong out there, I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: little less and I know that's Garrett Cratzykratzy.
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  Speaker 2: Cratzy is a new term for it. It's called the
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  Speaker 2: chug buddy. Apparently called the chug buddy.
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  Speaker 4: So not a beer bong. Okay, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it's said on the side of it.
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  Speaker 4: Good to know, Okay, the chug buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Can you confirm that it was apple juice in Bryce's
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  Speaker 3: chug buddy?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, I don't know if it was apple
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  Speaker 2: juice it was, I'm sure it was something along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't look at his I was looking at the
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  Speaker 2: other guys. I was out turned. I was turned to
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  Speaker 2: my head doing some other inner views.
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  Speaker 1: Apple between the chug buddy opportunities. Is anyone sliding in
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  Speaker 1: an extension with John Middleton and Kyle Schwarber in between,
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  Speaker 1: like all of these celebrations. Can can we just extend
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  Speaker 1: Schwarber for a lifetime contract for the Philadelphia Phillies, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm obsessed with him. I'm obsessed with this Philly
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  Speaker 1: and I want him to be a Philly for the
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  Speaker 1: remainder of his days. What are we doing with him?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think everybody feels that way, Alana. I
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  Speaker 2: think I mean everybody in the organization, front office, the
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  Speaker 2: ownership group, they all want him to stay. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's been such a shot in the arm. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's so uplifting to watch him take some swings. But
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  Speaker 2: it's also the off the field stuff that he and
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  Speaker 2: Page and the entire Schwarber family have been part of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, here in Philadelphia. I mean when he launched
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  Speaker 2: that one right there, the number fifty home run, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was just explosive in the ballpark. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: going to get done. I think they've kind of put
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  Speaker 2: it off until you know the season is over with.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, God bless him for doing what he's done.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was a very big prospect obviously coming
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  Speaker 2: out of Indiana won a World Series with the Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: The sky was the limit despite the knee injury. But
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  Speaker 2: he's played himself into having a very comfortable last few
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  Speaker 2: years in the big leagues, and I don't see him
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  Speaker 2: slowing down. But I do think it's going to get done.
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  Speaker 2: I think that he wants to stay. I think he's
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  Speaker 2: great for the city. I think the city is great
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  Speaker 2: for him, and I look forward to having him in
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse for many years to come.
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  Speaker 3: Can you talk about John Middleton's demeanor when you had
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  Speaker 3: mentioned it there that he was celebrating because AJ on
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  Speaker 3: the show did the Mets Phillies series last year and
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  Speaker 3: saw John Middleton leaving after they lost, and he said
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  Speaker 3: that was one pissed off dude.
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  Speaker 4: And I think this team is going to have changes.
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  Speaker 3: And I know John just from alumni days going, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being invited over to his house. And I was roasted
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  Speaker 3: for agreeing that he thinks this is his legacy to
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  Speaker 3: leave a World Series championship in Philly. Is there anything
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  Speaker 3: that is.
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  Speaker 4: Not right with that? Is he.
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  Speaker 3: Doing exactly what he's done every other year or is
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  Speaker 3: there more of like a ratcheted up, like, Hey, we
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  Speaker 3: really need to do this now, because you always hear
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  Speaker 3: about his riveting speeches and spring training and everything too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he obviously is all in. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a Philly fan, true and true. I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: the one thing about him. You know, when you think
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  Speaker 2: about ownership groups around Major League Baseball, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of them who are big fans of the teams that
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  Speaker 2: they own, but have been for their entire livelihood, but
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  Speaker 2: not all of them. He is. I mean, he is
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  Speaker 2: a Philly fan. It's the Phillies, it's the Eagles, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But he wants this to be a legacy that he
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  Speaker 2: can leave on such a positive note. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: keeps talking about wanting his trophy back. I mean he
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  Speaker 2: truly does. But you can see it the way he
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  Speaker 2: goes about everything, you know, watching him in the ninth
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  Speaker 2: inning last night. I mean, he is a fan and
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  Speaker 2: he consumes every thing about the Phillies. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a great thing because the fact that he embraces
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  Speaker 2: every bit of this ball club from you know, whether
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  Speaker 2: it be the celebrations, whether it be the trips, everything
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  Speaker 2: goes a long way for all of the players. And
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  Speaker 2: their families feeling good about being part of this organization
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  Speaker 2: and this great city. So he loves it. Gratsy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's it is, It is in his blood. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's a very competitive guy. And I like that about him.
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  Speaker 2: I like the passion and he treats a lot of
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  Speaker 2: us really really well. And I think it's I think
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  Speaker 2: it's emblematic of the city that we are part of.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he is true and true of Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. Question the home field advantage for the
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  Speaker 3: Phillies big time. You're there every night. Kruck never travels.
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  Speaker 3: So the question that AJ asked it he was there
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  Speaker 3: Kruck truck. Kruck drives to Fort Myers and then back
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  Speaker 3: up to Phillies. So he's only there in Philly.
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  Speaker 5: He took some trips this year. Oh yeah, it took
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  Speaker 5: big timer. But can you can you try to explain
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  Speaker 5: to our national audience the energy or just the atmosphere
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  Speaker 5: that's in Citizens Bank And it's the reason the Phillies
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  Speaker 5: have the best home record in baseball the last two
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  Speaker 5: years because we always try to explain. AJ tries to
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  Speaker 5: explain San Diego and what kind of environment that is
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  Speaker 5: you go in.
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  Speaker 4: There, and it's ruckus.
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  Speaker 3: Can you explain it to our national audience what Citizens
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  Speaker 3: Bank is like, especially in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's a there's a there's an emotion that
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  Speaker 2: you feel when you're at the ballpark, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: the good, the bad, the nerve wracking, whatever you're feeling.
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  Speaker 2: The stadium is feeling too. But they're so uplifting when
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  Speaker 2: the game begins, when something positive happens, when they need
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  Speaker 2: to come from behind and do something. There's a soundtrack
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  Speaker 2: that's just different. And you know, we've been in different
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  Speaker 2: cities during the playoffs. You guys are right. San Diego's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco's unbelievable. Boston is unbelievable. It's hard to in
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  Speaker 2: New York last year at City Field, I mean it
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  Speaker 2: was incredible to feel it. It is hard to duplicate
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  Speaker 2: what is South Philadelphia and Citizens Bank Park. I mean
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  Speaker 2: it is just uplifting on every level. I mean as
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  Speaker 2: a broadcaster, the soundtrack is just riveting. I mean it
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  Speaker 2: is just incredible. It brings you to a different level.
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  Speaker 2: You know, nothing against Dodger Stadium last night, but it
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  Speaker 2: was not what it would have been at Citizens Bank
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  Speaker 2: park in a tie game in extra innings with that feeling,
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  Speaker 2: that playoff feeling. I'm grateful that that's what I get
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  Speaker 2: to go to work for every day. But you kind
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  Speaker 2: of feel the whole rollercoaster of a game and not
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  Speaker 2: in your stomach, Like you feel that not in your stomach.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody in the crowd has the not in that stomach.
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  Speaker 2: And when you see Victorino hit a grand slam against
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  Speaker 2: CC Sabathia, you feel the whole Bill Bilding shake, or
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  Speaker 2: Bryce going opo against the Padres, you feel the whole
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  Speaker 2: building shakes. It's really something that I wish upon every
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  Speaker 2: baseball fan to feel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great, great atmosphere. You just are a
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  Speaker 1: man of many talents. Mister Tom McCarthy called Bengals Ravens
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. A rumor is you have Colts and Titans
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  Speaker 1: this upcoming week and a Cup. I have a two
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  Speaker 1: part question. Number one coming off Colts and Broncos game,
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  Speaker 1: which you did not call, but I'm pissed off about
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  Speaker 1: how many times do they call a leverage penalty? Number one,
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  Speaker 1: that's the question I want to know. And number two,
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  Speaker 1: how do you juggle all of this?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: Question number one. I watched that and I still don't
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  Speaker 2: think that there was a leverage. I think he put
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  Speaker 2: his hands on him, but I didn't see this three
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  Speaker 2: hundred pound guy put his hands on him and lift up.
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  Speaker 2: I saw him put his hands on him but then
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  Speaker 2: have no impact on the play. But it is it
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  Speaker 2: is the letter of the law. But I was I
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  Speaker 2: was expecting to see somebody put hands on jump over.
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  Speaker 2: I saw somebody low hands on. I didn't really see
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  Speaker 2: the leverage play that they were talking.
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  Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos should be two and oh damn it,
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  Speaker 1: Denver Bronco.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, well, you know it's funny. So this morning
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  Speaker 2: I've spent my time doing my charts for this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of have this regimen where I get up
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  Speaker 2: at a certain time and then for two and a
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  Speaker 2: half three hours I do football, and then I'll do baseball,
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  Speaker 2: and then the next day I'll sort of do the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. But I had a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it was. I had a brain fart.
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  Speaker 2: So I started doing the Texans chart. But we're I'm
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  Speaker 2: not doing the Texans game. So when I do do
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  Speaker 2: a Texans game down the road, I got their offense
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  Speaker 2: all into a chart, so everything's ready to go, but
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  Speaker 2: I just try to manage my time with it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I got a really good crew, and those meetings beginning
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  Speaker 2: on Friday, as you guys know, you know, because you
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  Speaker 2: do other games, they're so helpful to get in there
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  Speaker 2: and just sort of hunker down. I'm just grateful that
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  Speaker 2: I was here to do this game because on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: when I'm doing that the Ravens game, I'm thinking, oh man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to miss the clinching and that would have
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  Speaker 2: crushed me if I would have missed the clinching.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, Well you wouldn't have got sprayed with apple juice, Tom,
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  Speaker 3: But can you show one of those charts, because I
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  Speaker 3: don't think people understand what a football charge.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the start of it right here. This
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  Speaker 2: is the kind of the skeleton of it. This is
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  Speaker 2: the this is the this is the Tennessee Titans right here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So you have basically do one of those boxes
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  Speaker 4: for the whole team, right yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the this is the Texans for later
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  Speaker 2: on this year that I started and gotten halfway done with.
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  Speaker 4: They lost last night to the Bucks. By the way,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: They did, and I'm not sure. I think I was
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  Speaker 2: watching some highlights of it. And that's why I I'm
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times in the AFC South, so sometimes
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  Speaker 2: my mind's working that I'm either Texans, Jags, Titans. You know, Colts.
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  Speaker 4: You got the Ravens right this week.
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  Speaker 2: I had him last weekend. That was that was great.
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  Speaker 2: I love going to Baltimore. That's a great It's a
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  Speaker 2: great stadium to watch a game.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so better better stadium then an NFL stadium packed
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  Speaker 3: or the Bank packed?
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  Speaker 4: Which one's a bank packed?
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  Speaker 2: The Bank packed it is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's better than better than the Phillies. I
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  Speaker 3: mean the Eagles stadium across the way. So I was
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  Speaker 3: over the Eagles. Be careful, now, be careful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always I'm always gonna say Citizens Bank Park. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I love, I love Lincoln Financial Field, but I'm always
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  Speaker 2: gonna say I will say this. I remember some years
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  Speaker 2: ago watching the Eagles Vikings when the Phillies are going
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  Speaker 2: through their decade of not being in the postseason, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the box watching the playoff game, and the
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  Speaker 2: Eagle fans are doing the skull, you know, just to
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  Speaker 2: mock the Vikings and Gabe Kapler was there with me
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  Speaker 2: and I looked at him, I said, this is what
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be like. We never got there with Gabe,
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  Speaker 2: but it was deafening the Eagles Vikings game team.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're the best baseball announcer out there, and
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  Speaker 3: thank a friend, but it kills me. And do you
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  Speaker 3: think you'll ever see a change where you get to
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  Speaker 3: do national games when the Phillies are in it? It
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  Speaker 3: kills me that you're not on. And I love that
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  Speaker 3: your guys Franski in La and Murph and Stocker, all
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  Speaker 3: the guys from the radio crew for the Phillies, they
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  Speaker 3: let you in and you guys make a little pump fired.
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  Speaker 4: You barely fit in the radio booth. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: But to me, baseball is a regional game and the
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  Speaker 3: one time of year when guys like you should be
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  Speaker 3: celebrated nationally because regionally everybody gets to enjoy you, and
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  Speaker 3: then nationally for football, and then you get put to
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  Speaker 3: the sideline. You think that'll ever get changed?
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  Speaker 2: Boy, that's a great question. Cratsey. I knew what I
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  Speaker 2: was getting into when I switched over to television. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it'll ever get changed. I do wish it would.
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  Speaker 2: I would love the opportunity. I'm grateful that I get
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  Speaker 2: to do two witnings of radio every playoff game, Beyond
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  Speaker 2: grateful because not many TV guys get a chance to
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  Speaker 2: do that. I do wish it would happen, But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're fortunate that there are a lot of really good
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  Speaker 2: people doing those national games, so they kind of tell
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  Speaker 2: the story and make sure that it's told properly. I
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: just don't think it'll ever happen now that it obviously
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: hasn't happened for so long, I don't think it'll ever
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: go back the other way, as much as I wish
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: it would.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, tomm you do a great job, but it's
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: not happening because unless unless you get a job like
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: a Jason Bennetti on a national game in a national broadcasting,
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: it's not gonna happen because the national rights holders, as
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: you know, pay so much.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: Money for these games.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Their money is made in the playoffs, and they use
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: these guys the whole year to get to the playoffs.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: B I mean, listen, yeah, I mean everyone, every every local.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Homer person says, oh, we want our local guys to
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: cry the playoff games.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen. I'm sorry.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: As cool as could be, it's not gonna happen because
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: then you'd have to have two broadcasts doing the game.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: So you can't have two. You can't have two broadcasts
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: on one channel. So sorry, you can't have the Phillies
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: and the Mets guys both calling the game together.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: That would be weird. You and Gary would be like,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: who talks more?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know, we talked the Saints. I don't know,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: he says, some Cruck I don't know. But anyways, before
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I let you go.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: You you imagine that you imagine a Keith John Cruck
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: booth or Ron Darling John Cruck No.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: To be unbelievable. But here here's here's the question I
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: have for you. First of all, should the tush push
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: be banned? Because last I mean against the Chiefs they
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: used it seven times?
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Right, I mean, come on, like, I don't know, you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I did the Saints game Week one, and and you
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: know Kellen Moore who came over from the Eagles, they
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: tried it and it just didn't really work the way
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: it does in Philadelphia. I don't know, I don't think
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: it should be banned. I think it's a football play,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and you know, I'm amazed that nobody's figured out how
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: to stop it as of yet. But it is amazing
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: to me to watch like the Saints trying to cheat.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: They cheat. Every time they cheat. The center, the center.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Already has the ball between his legs, and every every
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: time they showed it on Sunday, they were off sides.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: They were a false star. I mean, the freaking.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Dudes, are you a cheating No, I am not.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I'm a football fan. I'm a Bears fan. Tom, have
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: mercy on my have mercy on my soul exactly. But
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, as a neutral observer, every time the center,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: the center already has a volve with his legs and
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: before he even snabs it, the two guards are already
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: submarining the other players and they're I mean. And then,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: but by the way, I do love Jalen Hurts because
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: when he told Chris Jones, shut your mouth.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Boy, we won on the whatever SA I actually thought
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: that that was awesome. You know, it's funny. My game.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: The other day, I was trying not to talk as
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: much when the quarterbacks were up with the line of
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: scrimmage because I love the interaction that you can pick
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: up every once in a while between the defensive lineman
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: and the offensive lineman or you know, the quarterback. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: think that is awesome. It doesn't happen all the time,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: but I thought that was phenomenal when they were going
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: back at each other.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Murph last question, Yeah, Murph. I called you Murph because
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Murph made me ask you little?
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: He little?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Did you he's yeah, he's he's he's a small one.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: You're the tall one. You cut yourself. You cut yourself.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: And he came on our national show.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Right here I did. I cut it on Sunday and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: every day now I'm trying to get around it, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: I keep popping it open again. It's it's listen. When
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: you don't have this up here, everything else just you
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: just market. It goes, market, it goes. I don't know
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: what it is.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: You got a face.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: You got a face for radio.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Brother, You don't think, you don't think. I don't know that.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Well. I don't want you worrying about the tush push.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I want you worried about the leveraging penalty. Okay, Tom,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: thank you so.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Much for everything.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: We appreciate it.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Good luck to you the rest of the way, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the fills the rest of the way. I swear and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I mean this sincerely. When I say this, you and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: correct the best booth in baseball. Really, it's just an
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: absolute blast to listen to you guys.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Thanks for coming on.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. We'll catch up with you soon
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: All right, look forward to it to you guys.