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Phillies clinch NL East, Yesavage SAVAGE debut, Brewers Uecker letter snafu, RIP The Natural · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: What everybody on this line Tuesday afternoon. Welcome to Foul Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Alana Rizzo, finish hitting for Scott Braun. You know
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  Speaker 1: What's up? What are you looking at?
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to make my bet. Actually, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: place my bet, so that's kind of what I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 2: I had a long morning, but trying to find my
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  Speaker 2: luck of the day, Alna, So I can get back
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  Speaker 2: in the positives.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yes, get back in the positive. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about that momentarily.
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  Speaker 2: E K.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing today? Man?
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  Speaker 2: Freaking awesome? Had a little meeting, a little exercise, a
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  Speaker 2: little mow in the yard. What it's about?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So you got some exercise in, got the
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  Speaker 1: blood flowing, you got one of your chores scratched, off
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  Speaker 1: the list. AJ has chores. I don't know, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: How about we get into the Phillies. Let's charge the
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  Speaker 1: Mound boys, Let's charge it about congratulations to Rob Thompson
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  Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia Phillies Alden Gonzalez with this tweet, of course,
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  Speaker 1: he works for ESPN. The Phillies clinched their third straight
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  Speaker 1: ninety win season and with that their second straight n
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  Speaker 1: Least title. They are back to that champs. It's the
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  Speaker 1: earliest they've wrapped up of a division ever. David Robertson
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  Speaker 1: sealed it by escaping a bases loaded one out jam
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  Speaker 1: in the tenth the T shirts are being brought out.
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  Speaker 1: It was the T shirts, it was the beer, it
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  Speaker 1: was the champagne, it was the festivities. Guys, how about
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  Speaker 1: this congratulations to the fight and Phil's AJ. What's your take?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? This was inevitable this year. They just they seem
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  Speaker 2: like the best team from day one. They're pitching their
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  Speaker 2: lineup everything. I mean the fact that it I mean
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  Speaker 2: it didn't take that long, but with two weeks to go,
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  Speaker 2: they've clinched and it gets your Dodgers, Alana. They got
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate in Dodgers Stadium. What a feeling it was
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  Speaker 2: for the Phillies might get to play them again here,
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  Speaker 2: not too in the distant future, so they better enjoy this.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna be They have two more games in this series.
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  Speaker 2: Today will be interesting. But I think the Phillies were
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  Speaker 2: the easy choice to win the nlast this year, especially
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  Speaker 2: once all the Braves injuries happened the Mets fell apart.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations Rob Thompson and all the Philadelphia Phillies. Now
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  Speaker 2: can you win the World Series? Because it's all World
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  Speaker 2: Series or bust for.
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  Speaker 1: The Phillies, no doubt. Kay, what do you think about
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  Speaker 1: this Phillies team? What do you like about them? What
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  Speaker 1: do you think that they have as their biggest challenge?
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  Speaker 2: Their biggest challenge is can they get the monkey off
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  Speaker 2: their back of does anybody show up in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: I mean last year Strom and Hoffman got waffled and
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  Speaker 2: they were lights out in the regular season. Their lineup
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  Speaker 2: went to sleep besides Costianos and Harper. This year they
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  Speaker 2: made a concerted effort to not strike out as much.
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  Speaker 2: Their strikeouts are down, as it always happens, their home
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  Speaker 2: runs are down. Obviously, we know it's a historic season
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  Speaker 2: from Schwarber but their home runs are down. It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be it's gonna be the very tired, easy narrative. They
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  Speaker 2: go on and they win the World Series, it's because
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  Speaker 2: they cut down their cut down their strikeouts and they
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  Speaker 2: still hit home runs. If they don't win the World Series,
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  Speaker 2: to me, it's gonna be the injury of Wheeler, ineffectiveness
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  Speaker 2: of NOLA, and they didn't hit enough home runs.
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  Speaker 1: Aj they lost the World Series in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: you said it's World Series or bust. They lost in
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  Speaker 1: the NLCS in twenty three, they lost in the NLDS
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  Speaker 1: in twenty four. Do the Philadelphia Phillies make it to
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  Speaker 1: the World Series in twenty and twenty five?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna say no. Although I love this team and
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  Speaker 2: I love I love where they're at, I just I
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  Speaker 2: think the National League is so tough. I still think
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  Speaker 2: it's the Dodgers are still number one of my power rankings.
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  Speaker 2: As much as we love those, I think if Wheeler
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  Speaker 2: was there, I think I would maybe change my mind.
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  Speaker 2: But I still think the Dodgers are the team to
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  Speaker 2: be and until someone dethrones them, I have to go
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  Speaker 2: and no, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's I don't know. This is a good, good, good team.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, they're good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're not good on that.
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  Speaker 1: Loop that whole thing, the gift, I don't know, gift
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  Speaker 1: mean whatever the heck that is. Just watching that over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again. I love this Phillies team.
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  Speaker 1: I really do. Let me ask you this, though. The
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  Speaker 1: homer that Duran allowed was this first since July twenty second,
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  Speaker 1: when he was pitching at Dodger Stadium. How much of
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  Speaker 1: an impact do you think has Johann Duran had to
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  Speaker 1: this Philadelphia Phillies team.
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  Speaker 2: Massive. It's a massive I mean, look at the other
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  Speaker 2: teams that are in the playoffs and you look at
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  Speaker 2: their holes, like just going just going to the Mets
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  Speaker 2: because they're you know, they're trying to get in. They
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  Speaker 2: have bullpen issues. Phillies have kind of solidified that they
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  Speaker 2: kind of had a good and they added an elite
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  Speaker 2: closer who's been elite, and I get it. He gave
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  Speaker 2: up the home run. It's kind of a little concerning
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  Speaker 2: that he gave up two home runs in Dodger Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they need to change the frequency on their little
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  Speaker 2: on a little PitchCom thing, or just not throw a
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  Speaker 2: backup hanging knuckle curveball to Andy Payes, who hammers off
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  Speaker 2: speed pitches that are strike off feed pitches. But did
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  Speaker 2: you just accuse the Dodgers of stealing Pitchcomb signals?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, he did not.
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  Speaker 2: I mean change. I don't get it. Change the frequency
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  Speaker 2: of what I don't I mean, what does that mean? Douran, Douran,
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be something, right. You can only give
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  Speaker 2: up two home runs a year, so somebody has to
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  Speaker 2: know something. Sarcasm, So the other thing that you have
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  Speaker 2: to make sure. Now I forget even where I was, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: why Doron is so important to this team? They didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a closer? Could Strom have closed the game out? Sure?
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  Speaker 2: Could Kirk Ringer close the game out? Sure? Is Alvarado
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  Speaker 2: a better choice if he hadn't gotten popped for steroids?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. So I think it was a
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  Speaker 2: blessing in disguise, and they got that. They got the
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  Speaker 2: guy that they wanted to trade for to trade deadline.
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  Speaker 2: From what we hear, they took him out from underneath
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners grasp who they already had a closer. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it it His value to this team was
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  Speaker 2: obviously because he's done well, he's blown once. Well, he's
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  Speaker 2: blown two saves now, but he is he's that lockdown
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  Speaker 2: closer at the end of the season. At the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season, he solidified himself with this team because
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  Speaker 2: coming in he uped his strikeout percentage before the season started.
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  Speaker 2: I mean not before the season, during the season from
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  Speaker 2: last year. So you wonder before okay, he just puts
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  Speaker 2: you know what happens if he gets in the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: and he's just got to put balls in play punch outs.
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  Speaker 2: He's shown he can get the punch out. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a huge, huge, huge bonus for the Phillies
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  Speaker 2: that they picked him up in a trade deadline crats.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, though, when you come out to that
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  Speaker 1: pomp and circumstance and all the lights go off and
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  Speaker 1: everything's going on, you got Tarantula's walking all over you, you
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  Speaker 1: better never give up a hit let alone any sort
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  Speaker 1: of earned run. I mean, that is so bananas in
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  Speaker 1: terms of what Johann Duran comes out to. You better
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  Speaker 1: be able to lock this down. But when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about value, AJ, I want to talk for hot second
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  Speaker 1: about matt Strom. Eric said, maybe matt Strom could have
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  Speaker 1: easily just closed it out. But let's think about this
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  Speaker 1: for a hot second. When I think of the Philadelphia Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe I should think of Matt Strom, but when
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  Speaker 1: I think about the Phillies, he's not the first name
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  Speaker 1: that pops into my head. Right But with those three outs,
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  Speaker 1: his twenty and twenty six option has vested at seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half million, pending a physical exam following this season.
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  Speaker 1: How key has he been to what the Phillies have
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  Speaker 1: been able to accomplish. I want him to wash his
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  Speaker 1: hair and I want him to stop looking so much
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  Speaker 1: like Nicholas Cage. But he's been big for this club?
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  Speaker 1: How big in your opinion?
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  Speaker 2: Him and Tanner Banks for the lefties have been outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: You don't forget about Tanner Banks as the mass term
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  Speaker 2: has been an all star and you're struggling in the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: But Rob Thompson has trusted Tanner Banks a lot. So
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  Speaker 2: now they have two lefties with that, I mean, forget Alvarado,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't even count because he doesn't even matter. But
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  Speaker 2: Strom and Tanner Banks have been outstanding, so they mean
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  Speaker 2: a lot to this team. Anytime a team has not one,
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  Speaker 2: but two lefties that can come in and give them
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  Speaker 2: innings and get three outs, get lefties in righties out,
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  Speaker 2: you can't put a value on that.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the Phillies landed at two am before
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  Speaker 1: their game due to technical issues with they're playing, and
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  Speaker 1: then that game started at seven to ten Pacific. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Should we give them more credit, more love?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just in general, just baseball folks in general,
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  Speaker 1: for the ridiculous schedule that we have to do day
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  Speaker 1: in and day out. The grind that is a one
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  Speaker 1: to sixty two Eric. Nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear baseball Nobody wants to hear baseball
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  Speaker 2: players complain about riding on a private jet. But that's
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: the type of it is really the type of thing
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  Speaker 2: that can drain a team, can cause the Mariners all
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  Speaker 2: these collapse, historic collapses throughout history in the last whatever
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  Speaker 2: twenty years that they've collapsed in September. It is a
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  Speaker 2: very It's a tough travel schedule for some teams. This
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  Speaker 2: one's a grind. We'll see how it affects the Phillies
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  Speaker 2: throughout this road trip, because that was the first day
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  Speaker 2: of their road trip.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the Phillies, now that they've clinched the
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  Speaker 1: NL East, knowing that the Dodgers are still trying to
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  Speaker 1: win the division, knowing that the seating is still happening
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  Speaker 1: in terms of jockeying for position. When it comes to that,
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  Speaker 1: do you have a full lineup out their aj today
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  Speaker 1: or does Rob Thompson give his starters a rest?
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  Speaker 2: I think he gives them a rest. I think you
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  Speaker 2: have to after the the long plane flight and then
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  Speaker 2: the I guarantee you they did some sort of a
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  Speaker 2: celebration last night, whatever that celebration entailed. But yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: give some of them the rest. But it's changed now though,
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  Speaker 2: because you used to have forty guys. Now you only
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  Speaker 2: have twenty eight guys. So it's not like you can
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: give the whole team arrest, but definitely probably throw the
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  Speaker 2: backup catcher in there. You probably give a couple guys
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  Speaker 2: a day off here and there and let some of
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  Speaker 2: your starters just take a day to chill, relax and
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  Speaker 2: be ready for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, congratulations Rob Thompson. Congratulations to the Philadelphia Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: This team is unbelievable, back to back NL East title winners.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it very much being able to watch this club.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how far they can go.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: To get more on the Phills, check out the Philly
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  Speaker 1: Show on YouTube and wherever you get your pods. How
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: about this from Chandler Rome, who of course is on
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: the Astros podcast that we do here on the Foul
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  Speaker 1: Territory network.
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  Speaker 2: You're on.
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  Speaker 1: Alvarez just exited the Astros clubhouse on crutches and with
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  Speaker 1: his left foot in a boot. Well, that's not good,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: the team spokesman said. Alvarez did not want to speak
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  Speaker 1: to the media until he knows more about out his condition.
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  Speaker 1: You can certainly learn more on Crush City Territory. This
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: is bad news. You guys, You're done. Oliver is just
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: coming off the AISL not that long ago. A huge
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: bat in that lineup, of course, is the dh AJ.
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  Speaker 1: How does this affect the Stros moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a big It's a big blow depending on
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  Speaker 2: how long he's out. If they get into the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Losing their their top option at dh left field wherever
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  Speaker 2: they want to put him is a huge blow. He's
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  Speaker 2: one of the best bats in the American League's basically
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  Speaker 2: had a wasted gear because he's missed most of it
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  Speaker 2: and something new for Astros to not talk injuries, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, he had that hand thing and and nobody
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: could get figure out why he was out for so long.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a bad it's a bad thing for the
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  Speaker 2: Astros and they're missing a bad man if he's out
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: for a while. Hey, did you did you wear moldeds?
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Did you wear moldens or metals? I always wear moldeds.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever slip like that? Because I never wear
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: mold I wore moldens one time in a spring training
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  Speaker 2: game and I got the second base on a double
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  Speaker 2: and I stepped on second and it's and my foot
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  Speaker 2: slid just like his foot slid on home plate like that.
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  Speaker 2: No I was. I was light on my feet, So
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  Speaker 2: no I didn't. You're athletic.
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  Speaker 1: Wait tell me what you guys are talking about. What
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  Speaker 1: do you ask? And if he were, what explained.
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  Speaker 2: To the lastic or metal spikes? Plastic or metal spikes?
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  Speaker 2: Molded or plastic?
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  Speaker 1: Don't look now, gentlemen. But the Arizona Diamondbacks before we
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  Speaker 1: were waving the white flag on the d Backs, they're
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  Speaker 1: just one and a half games behind the Mets for
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  Speaker 1: that third and final wild card spot. Bob Nightingale, they
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  Speaker 1: win eight to one, and despite waving that white flag
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  Speaker 1: at the trade deadline, as I just mentioned, one and
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  Speaker 1: a half games behind the Mets, the Arizona Diamondbacks blow
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  Speaker 1: the game open. How about this, though, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: so you're saying there's a chance. I know, Ken just
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  Speaker 1: said the Mets get in. I'm hoping it's the Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 1: But what say you, Eric Kratz?
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  Speaker 2: I agree? I mean, I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: the Mets for the same reasons that that Ken said. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I get it, the Diamondbacks one, Zach Allen did what
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  Speaker 2: he's supposed to do as what was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: their best pitcher this year, or one of their best
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  Speaker 2: behind Corbyn Burns. They just they don't have They don't
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  Speaker 2: have enough, in my opinion, to make up the ground.
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  Speaker 2: It's always way harder to make up the ground. I
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  Speaker 2: get it, the Mets faltered and so they gave up
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ground. But it's so hard to just
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  Speaker 2: play that much better than a team. And they got
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  Speaker 2: to play two games better than the Mets the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the way, and I don't think they have the
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  Speaker 2: pitching or kept enough of their offense, even though they
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  Speaker 2: are scoring without Nailor and Aohenio.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, as a tiebreaker, the Mets do with the Diamondbacks,
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  Speaker 2: the Mets do. It's over or it is. It's three games,
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  Speaker 2: it's a three game lead with what eleven to play.
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  Speaker 2: They're not The Mets aren't gonna blow that man.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, every single major league baseball debut, as the two
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  Speaker 1: of you know better than anybody else, is always incredibly special.
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  Speaker 1: But when you can have have a debut like Terrey A.
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  Speaker 1: Savage did when he had nine k's in his debut
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  Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Rays, that's a franchise record for
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  Speaker 1: a big league debut. That's pretty special for this young
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  Speaker 1: man Toronto now five games up in the division. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not certain if you guys actually saw his debut watching
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  Speaker 1: the game last night, but I mean, that's that's pretty special.
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  Speaker 1: Nine punchies, I'd take it. What's your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: It was great his angle he throws with his ridiculous
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  Speaker 2: like it looks like the ball is going straight down
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  Speaker 2: and the split I don't know if it's a split.
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  Speaker 2: And then he throws that breaking ball where these guys
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  Speaker 2: are just swinging over the top. I mean the way
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  Speaker 2: he throws and with the angle and the way he
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  Speaker 2: creates that angle is pretty awesome. Yeah, this guy's gonna
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he's gonna be on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: In the post, listen to Jayside the Als wrapped up. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're five games up with eleven to play. They've got it,
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  Speaker 2: so congratulations to them. But I don't know if he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna make Maybe he could be a weapon for him
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  Speaker 2: in the bullpen because their starters are pretty good Gossman, Bassett,
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  Speaker 2: Biebers or Barrios. You Savage, Wow, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he could be in one of those multi inning guys
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  Speaker 2: that we all hear about. But I think I think
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: this guy can be a weapon for him somehow, Someway.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: What about a closer? I know they have Hoffman, but
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, what about someone that can help Hoffman in
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: certain situations that would look be good, that plays a
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: hundred with angle and the split and a slider and
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: a curve ball it plays. I can't believe he took
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: that from me. I was gonna say, what if he
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: closes out big games? What if he because of the
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: fact that, I mean, we look back at in history. Okay,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: who closed it out for the Cardinals as a as
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: a young rookie, Wayne Wright? What was he throwing? He
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: was throwing from a high angle. He would that curveball
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: was going straight down and he got angle on his fastball.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're the same guy. Wayn Wright wasn't
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: throwing one hundred miles an hour and this is an
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: extreme high angle. But Trey with that type of arm,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: with that unique style, that really the only way that
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: you can as a team layoff stuff is you have
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: to say you see him up in the zone because
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: anything down is going to be a ball, except it's
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: ninety nine, So you got to get it started early.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Like I was super impressive. I had heard a little
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: bit about him from one of my buddies, but that
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: was that was impressive.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Is there anything to it that this kid doesn't know?
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: What he doesn't know? So John Schneider, obviously the manager
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and AJ's Manager of the Year in the American League,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: had this to say, I don't want to say it's
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: a risky thing bringing him up, because we talked about
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: it a lot. We thought he could help us win,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: which he did tonight, meaning yesterday. With that being a
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: little unorthodox at the time of year, a young kid
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: making his debut and where we're at in the season
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: and the standings. It's good for everyone else to hear
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: to see what he can do. But he doesn't know
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: any differently, right, Like, he doesn't know what he doesn't know,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: and it's kind of nice going in there as this
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: kid that to him, it's just the same game that
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he's been playing all the time, same game between those
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: White Lions. I mean, is there something to be said
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: about him being a little bit naive to what it
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: is to be in the big leagues and just shoving.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's used to doing this though. He shoved
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: in college. That's why he was a first round pick.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And now he's gone through the minor league, so he
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: doesn't know any different. The only thing I worry about
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: with him being a reliever is he hasn't done it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: He hasn't done it. So if I was them, and
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I think with their rotation, I would say, all right,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: all right, you're gonna get some bullpen outings to try
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: to see if you can do this and give us
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: two innings, three innings if we needed, or an inning
• 18:32
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• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I think that if I was the Blue Jays, that's
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: what I would try and do, especially if they're thinking
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: about putting him on the postseason roster, because I think
• 18:41
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• 18:44
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• 18:48
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• 18:50
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• 18:53
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• 18:57
  Speaker 2: completely a different type of pitcher. The game now gets
• 19:02
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• 19:05
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• 19:09
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• 19:14
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• 19:16
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• 19:23
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• 19:25
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• 19:27
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• 19:31
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• 20:32
  Speaker 1: For a hot second about George Springer and like what
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: kind of year this guy has had for the Toronto
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Blue Jays Seeing.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: The comeback player of the year. He's got to be
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: a comeback player of.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: The year, got to be right. I mean, he's he's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: he's got to be the comeback player of the year.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he's going to be the comeback
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: player of the year. I he's getting the discussion. I
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: think de gram is but the way the year at
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: DA gram Is is going to be the comeback player
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: of the year. But I mean George Springer, his care
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: is at the top of the list for position players,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and the year he's had has been fun to watch
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: because he's a fun player when he's right. Right, let
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: me ask you this, most I would say he's most improved. Sorry, Alana,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I would say he's most improved. I have a problem
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: when guys that played the year before and just didn't
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: do good get comeback player of the year, like the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: grom was out out and what he did this year.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: So I would say it's played last year, he pitched
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: last year, the Graham he pitched how much? Yeah, but
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: George played the whole year and just wasn't good.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: But do you think comeback player of the year should
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: be like a medical issue, like the player was hurt
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and couldn't all right, So what about Trevor's story?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Then?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Is he your comeback player of the Year. Because trevor
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: story after the freaking I mean right going up into
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the All Star break and the second half of the
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: season has been ridunculous. He is finally what I thought
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: he was going to be in Boston when they acquired
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: him in free agency. It took a while for trevor
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: story to show the Boston fans who he was, and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I kept telling people and nobody wanted to listen. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: finally Pap gave me credit for saying, wait, Trevor's story
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is going to be an unbelievable player for this Boston
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Red Sox club. He could very well be in that
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: conversation with George Springer for the American League Comeback Player
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of the Year. Is that fair?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Another most improved? I mean, it takes a long time
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to come back from shoulder injuries. Again, I'm trying to
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: look up how many at bats Trevor's story had last year. Okay,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: so he played, he didn't play that much at all.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: So he was coming back from that shoulder surgery last
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: year and he came back and didn't play, So yes,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: he could definitely, especially since he's been in one hundred
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: and forty six games. I did. Dudes playing every day,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: and there's a reason he got paid what he did.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Everyone's gonna be like, oh, he's inflated numbers because of Colorado.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. There's very few dudes that are that
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: skinny and can hit the ball as hard as he
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: can hit it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: That's skinny. He also has a really a really, really
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: good glove. By the way, Jacob de Gurm three starts
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: last year last year guys ten and two thirds innings,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: all in September, so he barely pitched. He barely pitched. Yeah,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. It's a good conversation to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: have with George Springer looks great, Trevor's story looks great.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: You know, both of those teams hopefully making them most season.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, George will get George will get some MVP votes,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: which I don't think people. You know, when you start
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: talking about farther down the list MVP votes, like Willie
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: finished above Nick Kurtz in the MVP voting. I don't know,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: but like those are two guys that will in no
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: way are going to be in the top three. In
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: my opinion, I guess I should have hesitated when I
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: said that. But like you sit there, they're not gonna
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: be in the top two. You know who the top
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: two are. But for George Springer to do this, really,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: he's only had one other good year in Toronto and
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: that was his All Star year, I think twenty two.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: And I think it helps this young team that a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: veteran guy is gonna come up clutch and they're like, oh,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: this dude's been in the playoffs and he was nails
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs when he was at the Astros. So
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: it's a cool story for sure.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: All Right, guys, this is a little weird. So Adam
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: mccalvey does a great job for MLB dot com talking
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: about the Brewers. Covers the Brewers on a daily basis.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: The Brewers sent along clarification today that no, Bob Euker
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: did not leave behind a letter in the event the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: team made it back to the postseason. It was written
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: by Pat Murphy in Uker's style, meant to honor the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: man who loved these celebrations so much. It's a little
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: bit disingenuous to me, guys, Pat Murphy this morning on
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: six twenty WTMJ on the letter of the team from
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Uker in quotes, I just thought it was a great
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: tribute to Bob. He's been at the forefront of our minds.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: It was an opportunity to honor him and connecting the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: players to Brewers' history in the city of Milwaukee. AJ,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: what's your take.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I don't get why we did this. I don't understand
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: and listen, Murphy is trying to be cute. I get it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't the right way to go about it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: But the social media team for the Brewers that jumped
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: on this and made everyone feel like this was a
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: real thing is where probably went wrong, because you don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: need Maybe Murph wants to do this, he reads us
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: to the team and doesn't put it out there. But
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: for the Brewers social media team to say a letter
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: from Pat Murphy make everyone including us feel like this
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: was real, and then it was two days later that
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: it came out that it was fake is crazy to
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: me that I just I don't know. I like Murph
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: and I know he's trying to be cute, and he's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: trying to do these things and motivate and keep you
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: in their prayers. But why not just have Christian yell
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: at you love, Bob Buker or Pat Murphy come up
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: and say a word, or Mark Antinasio, the owner, come
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: up and say a word. Hey, Yuke's watching us, guys,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: he's looking down upon us. He's proud of you, guys.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: We know this, he loves you. That would have been cool.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: But to try to fool everybody, it just it didn't
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: seem right to me. It felt weird. And now that's
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: come out. I'm glad they're honest about it, but it
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: felt weird in the moment, and something I lost in translation.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe the maybe the social media team thought
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: it was an actual letter and they were posted. I
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: don't know. I feel like, yeah, it just felt a
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: little weird, especially since Antanasio gave Murph the letter and
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Murph started reading it. Anyway.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Murph was kind of like interjecting his
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: own things in terms of you know, best record, best
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: record on the road. I was I was even a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: little confused. I was like, well, mister Yuker wouldn't have
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: known that at the time, and it was the whole
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: thing was I mean, good intentions, bad execution. I think
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Obviously we know how much Bob Yucker means to the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: If you have advice, Alon, if you haven't been to Milwaukee,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure you got to meet you, but if
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: you haven't been, I mean, they have huge things of you.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Now the youth press box. Yeah, you go into the booth.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It's Bobby. I mean, listen, bobyger is a legend. Okay,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: So just I don't know, it was just it was
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: just stringing.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Nolan Arnado says he has considered the possibility that this
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: might be his last homestand as a cardinal, I feel
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: like this guy's been getting traded for the last seventeen
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: years and that he anticipates a similar coming winter in
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: terms of trade discussions as last winter.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Guys.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, is this finally the year that Nolan Aronado
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: gets traded away from Saint Louis?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Should be? They traded him last year and he didn't
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: want to do it. So I think he looks up
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: and says, oh, I don't want I want to don't
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: want to. I don't want to go somewhere. I want
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: to stay here. Where As Ken Rosendal just said, they're
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: probably going to rebuild like yeah, if they find a
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: good place somewhere that'll take you, that's better than Saint Louis,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: he should take it. He has the right to say no,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: but gosh, don't you want to play for a winner
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: rather than a team that we don't think? He's going
• 27:32
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• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Year, man, Eric. I remember when he got traded to
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals from the Colorado Rockies. I thought
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: it was a massive mistake from Colorado's perspective, but I
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: was so excited for Nolan because I was like, Yeah,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: he's going to a contender. What went wrong? What happened there? Uh?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: YadA? Here? Molina quit? YadA? Hear Molina retired? I think
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I think the Cardinals have been reeling. I get it's
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: just one person, but it's more of the fact that
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: what that core was built around. I don't think they
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: kept it up to help Nolan Aernada when he had
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: started to maybe decline some offensively. Defensively, he's still really good.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I guest he didn't win the Gold Glove. But we're
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: still just talking now. This season's over, but we're still talking.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two, he was number he was third in
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the MVP voting twenty twenty three. In the first half,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: he was an All Star. Ever since the second half
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: of that season twenty twenty three, he started to he
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: started to offensively decline. And I think there's the effect
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: of you know what, YACHTI was here, What are the
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Cardinals going to do to replace that huge lynchpin? And
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I think maybe they looked ahead and thought a guy
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: like Nolan Aernada would do that with his defense. It
• 28:49
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• 28:52
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• 28:56
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• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I just didn't see his offense sliding like it has
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: in the recent years.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: And it looks like he sees the riding on the wall.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I think this organization's heading toward young players. It's exactly
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: what Ken Rosenthal was saying, right, letting them go, and
• 29:11
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• 29:14
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• 29:16
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• 29:20
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• 29:23
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  Speaker 1: And he went on, obviously to do amazing things. May
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: he rest in peace. The Natural has to be one
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: of my favorite baseball movies ever. Do you guys like
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: The Natural? Where does it rank in terms of your list?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Of baseball movies.
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  Speaker 2: Natural's good. Bull Durham to me is still number one
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: and always be number one. It's about a catcher, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: it's the most realistic baseball movie that I've ever seen,
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  Speaker 2: especially for when I came up through the minor leagues
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: and the stuff they did, because we did a lot
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: of that same stuff. So to me, Bull Durham, but
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  Speaker 2: the Natural is definitely top probably three right up there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: But listen, the thing about Robert Redford to me is
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: not the Natural. He was in a movie called Jeremiah Johnson. Okay,
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: And when I was in the minor leagues, we had
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: a coach named Stu Clyburn that made us watch Jeremiah
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Johnson like twenty times a year. I only know Robert
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Redford does Jeremiah Johnson. Like we're talking about all these
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: other movies. He's Jeremiah Johnson. To me, what.
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  Speaker 1: Is that movie about. I don't even know what's that.
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  Speaker 2: He's like a mountain man and he like lives out
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: in the there's a song Jeremiah Johnson. Yeah. My Game
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  Speaker 2: was a good movie too, with Brad Pitt. By the way,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: that that was a good movie. I'm not sure if
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: we're talking about Robert Redford movies or not. But the
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: fact that we've been on for three seasons now and
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Stu Clyiborne or Stan Cliborne Twins have not come up
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: until this day on FT is unbelievable. But anyway, I
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: regress to the top five baseball movies of all time.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: I think The Natural is up there. I think Major
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: League because that's a good comedy. My favorite, personally is
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: For the Love of the Game. I know it's Morny
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: and whatever. I think Bull Durham's in there, and then
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: everybody's fourth. You have to you have to try to
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: our fifth one. You have to try to throw one
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: of the other ones in there. From my kid days,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I think Rookie of the Year is there. Although The Rookie.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: The Rookie is a solid movie, but you know, Disney
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: maybe made it a little hokey, like the guy was
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: throwing one hundred from the left side, so it felt
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: like more like nuke l Loos than anything. But there's
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: some good baseball movies out there, but The Natural is
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the top five for me.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, as far as Robert Redford movies are concerned,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a list of some of them.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, AJ just said Jeremiah Johnson was
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the only like real Robert Redford movie that he really
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: knew about. But think about I mean Busch Cassidy in
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the Sundown, I mean, this is certainly before our time.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: It came out in nineteen sixty nine. But the Sting
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, the way we were, I mean, that's
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that's a classic. All the President's Men in nineteen seventy six,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Three Days of the condor The Natural. Obviously we just
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: talked about that. Sneakers, the Horse Whisper, Spy Game, All
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: is Lost, The Walk in the Woods is pretty good.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: The Old Man and the Gun, I mean, Robert Redford guys,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that's I don't know, just makes me sad. It makes
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: me sad. What do you like about the Yeah, the
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Natural was it? I think you know Roy Hobbs like
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: he was forty six, by the way when he made
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: that movie, which is insane.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Well, he gets a hit off, he gets a hit
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: off the whammer, remember, or he strikes out the whammer
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: or whatever he does. I don't forget what he does,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: which is supposed to be Babe Ruth at the time.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I mean The whole thing is pretty It's pretty cool
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: how he hits the home run and he breaks the
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: clock and he's running around the field. It just if
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: you like baseball, it's just such a nostalgic movie. Uh,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: you know, we need to just look at it and
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: the way the kids reacted to him. And you know
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: who didn't as a kid growing up have a wonder boy?
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I mean I had a wonder boy. Every every kid
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: had a wonder boy, right, And I was looking for
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: the tree that was struck by lightning. And when he
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: looks at me, looks at the kid and goes, hey,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: was it Bobby? Pick me out a winter Bobby? I mean,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: one of the great lines in a baseball movie of
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: all time. And he goes and gets them, you know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the wonder boy, and he hits the home run and
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: that whole thing. I mean, it was just it was
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: just so nostalgia. Again, if you like baseball, just make
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: you like baseball a little bit more. If you're a
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: baseball If you were a baseball player and you were
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: allowed to work on the lathe in shop class, the
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: first thing you would have done is try to make
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: a bat, and they would have been your wonder Boy.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: As far as my generation, my buddies shop class, we
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: rarely were allowed to go on the lathe, and I
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: get it now as an adult. I'm like, why would
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: you get eighth grader seventh eighth graders on the lathe?
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: But somebody spinning a baseball bat that's going to be
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: way too freaking heavy, terrible wood to do it with.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: But you did it, and you rode on their wonder Boy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my father in law actually has a lathe right
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: now in his basement. I'm wondering if I should just
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: go make a wonder Boy in honor.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: I made one in the Fall League as a joke,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: and I actually hit my only home run in the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Fall League with it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Listen to this Citizens Big Park. We know what is
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a force when you were there. The fans are massive,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere is electric. The Phillies are selling Beater Tots
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: at Citizens Bank Park for the rest of the twenty
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: twenty five season. It's an exclusive food item you guys,
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• 36:27
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• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I saw Bader and a couple other guys kept their
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: shirt off for most of the celebration last night in
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. I don't think Bader's eating any beater Tots,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: just saying ripped, saying the guys, the guys pretty jacked.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Sure, but these these are for These are for the
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: fat fans like me, like these are for like fans
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: to enjoy, not the players. Hey, Jae, are you eating?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna eat some beater tots? If we go
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: to some.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Chicken and peats kravvy fries. I'm in I was there
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: last night. Throw a cheese steak in.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Krat Do you look like you have the same color
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: hat that you had on yesterday?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: So?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Are you wearing the MS cap again? The EM's hat.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I'm not What do you do it? The team that
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: might have a shot except a Alana picked the Giants
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: to beat them, and so Alana doesn't believe that the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Diamondbacks you're gonna wear a Diamondbacks hat? That I would
• 37:28
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