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FT at Phillies Camp: Jimmy Rollins, Alec Bohm · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: What do you guys need to do to win it
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, stay healthy, I think keep doing what we've been
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  Speaker 2: doing right.
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  Speaker 3: First things first, our job to get to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Right here, we got We're back on FT with Alec Bohm,
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  Speaker 4: Alec great, tab yon Man always appreciate the time. Does
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  Speaker 4: camp feel like you're just going back to summer camp?
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  Speaker 4: Almost because a lot of teams go through a ton
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  Speaker 4: of turnover. But you know, the Phillies have the same
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  Speaker 4: dude showing up the last few years. So how's that gone?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all the same guys.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's pretty rare, I think when you
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  Speaker 2: see the same group continue to come back each year
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  Speaker 2: and see the same guys in the clubhouse and a
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  Speaker 2: couple of new additions here and there. But definitely definitely
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  Speaker 2: don't take that for granted.
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  Speaker 5: But before we dig.
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  Speaker 1: No no no, I was just gonna say, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming on, Bohmer, it only took us like
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half, and like who this from you?
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  Speaker 1: And then a hug at the All Star Game. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's all that's all behind us.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Who's the guy that you walk into the clubhouse the
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  Speaker 1: first day of spring training, You're like, oh man, it's
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  Speaker 1: so good to see.
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  Speaker 3: You Kyle Schwarber.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty well. I feel like everybody feels that way
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  Speaker 2: about Kyle. If you walked in the clubhouse, you feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's good to see him. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just he just brings that type of joy to
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  Speaker 3: the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 5: I just saw him in the cage. Yeah, and I
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  Speaker 5: had never played with him, and I was like, great
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  Speaker 5: to see you, Right, he's gonna he just put a
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  Speaker 5: smile on your face. I don'tbody loves them.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know he loves them.
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  Speaker 5: That's a great that's a great energy. It's like it's
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  Speaker 5: like crabs. Some people used to see me. They frown
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  Speaker 5: and turn around and walk away the other way.
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  Speaker 6: They're like, hey, what's up the guys? Guy?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, agreed? All right, So we got to ask this
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  Speaker 5: and the rumors this off season obviously you heard them, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and do you you're here, you're back, You're back back here,
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  Speaker 5: You're back with your boys, the Philly Boys. Do you
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  Speaker 5: block it out?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: I mean I mean it's probably harder on your family, right.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, Like, yeah, you hear everything.
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  Speaker 2: Like I got people at the gym coming up to me, like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Where you're going?
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  Speaker 6: What's up?
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  Speaker 2: But I'm like I sit here with like I don't
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  Speaker 2: have any of the apps on my phone, so like
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of how I don't pay attention to it.
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  Speaker 2: Like I just I'm just not on the internet, so
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  Speaker 2: like smart. Like I showed up the spring and I
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  Speaker 2: saw Paul Goldsman playing for the Yankees on TV, and.
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  Speaker 6: I like, oh, so you're that far just.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I was under a rock.
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  Speaker 5: You don't pay attention to Phillies.
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  Speaker 2: News or anything or any not not much at all.
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  Speaker 2: You live where somebody texted me, Hey, we got Lizardo.
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  Speaker 5: Like nice, Wait where do you live in the off season?
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  Speaker 6: Texas? Houston?
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  Speaker 5: Oh okay, I was gonna say it because you went
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  Speaker 5: to school at which state? I was like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe in Kansas. They don't have the we.
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  Speaker 3: Don't have internet in Kansas.
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  Speaker 6: I was caught up yet.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, but gosh, I mean you had a
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  Speaker 5: good year last year. Yeah, And I'll be and I'll
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  Speaker 5: be honest, I was. I was there when you guys
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  Speaker 5: played the Mets, right, and I heard people say they
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  Speaker 5: about you and like and I don't know what's true
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  Speaker 5: and what's not true?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 5: But to me, when I've seen you've always been a
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  Speaker 5: good guy. You play hard, you care, right, you obviously care.
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  Speaker 5: You hit, I mean you're almost you know, driving runs,
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  Speaker 5: You hit doubles, hit homers. To me, that's would be
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  Speaker 5: most frustrating. If I'm you, I'm I'm thinking, Man, I
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  Speaker 5: had a good year. I've gotten better defensively, I get
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  Speaker 5: big hits for these guys, I can drive in the runs.
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  Speaker 5: Why would they want to trade me?
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  Speaker 1: Why me?
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  Speaker 5: Like I want to you want to stay here? So
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  Speaker 5: I would have been like that would but it's good
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  Speaker 5: you don't have a phone. So you were like, no,
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  Speaker 5: I don't really know.
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  Speaker 3: Just act like I don't hear it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's what that's like. I had a good year, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And I know that's try Once you know, you start
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  Speaker 2: hearing all this stuff, it's just like, all right, forget
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  Speaker 2: about that and build on the good year. Go get better,
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  Speaker 2: keep getting better, and just keep keep doing it.
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  Speaker 5: But Topper had your back, right, that has to make
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  Speaker 5: you feel good. Topper, Yeah, was like, yeah, I want
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  Speaker 5: him or he's here, he's our guy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When he reached out, I was more like all right, cool, Like, now,
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  Speaker 2: let's get ready for next year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, is the rb is RBI a stat because
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  Speaker 1: so many people are like RBIs don't mean anything. And
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  Speaker 1: when we played together in tam Usa, I remember watching
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  Speaker 1: your first VP and I was like, dude, this guy
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  Speaker 1: might be able because you elevate the ball the opposite field.
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  Speaker 1: So well, I'm like, this dude might be able to
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  Speaker 1: if he stays on some breaking balls, you might be
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  Speaker 1: able to drive in a ton of runs. And somebody
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  Speaker 1: turned to me and goes, RBIs don't mean anything, And
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  Speaker 1: you've gone back to back years of almost one hundred RBIs, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you're really like, you're just short, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you didn't know that, but you're just
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just get a hundred one time, please.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, like, why would you want to score more runs
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  Speaker 2: than the other team. That's not how you win, right.
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  Speaker 5: If you drive in more than the other team does,
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  Speaker 5: you usually win the games? Right, So to me, that's
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  Speaker 5: one of the dumbest things of all. Give me, dudes,
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  Speaker 5: you can drive in runs because I'll defense.
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  Speaker 3: But we got a score.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of defense, you were out here, he was out
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  Speaker 5: here with boa grinding on the half field they have
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  Speaker 5: over here. You do that every day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't get me wrong, I care about defense too.
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  Speaker 5: I mean he was over there.
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  Speaker 2: It's there for an hour, Yeah, probably less, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean just every day we kind of yet never
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  Speaker 2: we just kind of get the spring, We kind of
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  Speaker 2: get back to the basics of it and just rebuild
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  Speaker 2: it and just keep drilling things. So that game comes
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  Speaker 2: somebody whacks one at you, you just react.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're you're sick of Boa. Stop, You're You're
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  Speaker 1: just you're giving the You're You're like, you want Bobby back.
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  Speaker 1: You want Bobby to just give you the give you
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  Speaker 1: the drills, and Boa to be like just yell at me.
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  Speaker 1: Just have have Boa yell because he just loves to yell.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be sitting over there catching and Bo is just
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  Speaker 2: whacking fungo after fungo, not taking a.
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  Speaker 3: Breath and straight hours.
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  Speaker 2: Oh He'll he'll hit fungos until the player drops and
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  Speaker 2: he'll be still standing.
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  Speaker 1: Who who hits the best fungo?
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  Speaker 6: Though?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, they're all pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Like it amazes me every spring where they go around
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  Speaker 2: and like hit hit balls of the bags for tags
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  Speaker 2: and everything, and these guys are hitting it right on
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  Speaker 2: the bag every time. It just it doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 2: to me. But I think Bobby still probably got the
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  Speaker 2: best fungo for me.
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  Speaker 3: But that's probably.
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  Speaker 5: I can see both rage at you.
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  Speaker 2: He'll get going, he'll get going. But Bobby's Bobby's trying
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  Speaker 2: to like make you miss the ball. Really, he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to make it hard. Yeah, but it's good for you.
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  Speaker 5: Is that the best way you think to improve because
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  Speaker 5: your defense is a million percent better. Yeah, was when
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  Speaker 5: you first came up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was a lot of ground balls, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just doing hard stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Do you try to do?
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  Speaker 5: You try to make a game like, so you say
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  Speaker 5: to Bobby, like, let's let's do this, and it's more
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  Speaker 5: game like than just because anybody can kind of stand
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  Speaker 5: there and if they hit it right at you, right,
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  Speaker 5: you're a big league player.
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  Speaker 2: Like the short side fungo where you're getting like the
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  Speaker 2: top spin ball out of the baseline instead of like
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  Speaker 2: someone standing straight across from you and just hitting you
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  Speaker 2: a nice ground ball that's rolling at you.
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  Speaker 3: Looks good, cool, like we're loose, but.
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  Speaker 2: Like the actual like in the top spin where I
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  Speaker 2: got to make a decision, go find a hop catch
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  Speaker 2: the hop.
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  Speaker 5: Do that you mean the old one where the coach
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  Speaker 5: hits you the perfect too hot backspin one right in
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  Speaker 5: your glove. You're actually trying to make yourself work. I
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  Speaker 5: love it.
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  Speaker 6: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: Anything offensively this year you want to you want to
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  Speaker 5: work on.
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  Speaker 3: Just keep building.
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  Speaker 2: I think the more and more you can stay in
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  Speaker 2: the strike zone, that's a big thing now, especially with
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  Speaker 2: what we're testing out here with this ABS thing. I
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  Speaker 2: know I'm trying not to pay too much attention to
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  Speaker 2: it now because I know that's not the strike zone
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have during the season.
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  Speaker 6: But did you measure?
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  Speaker 5: I want to know what you measured up?
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  Speaker 2: We have a little poll with the rings for like
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  Speaker 2: top and bottom of your zone, and mine's the highest.
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  Speaker 5: Is it so height? You were what six?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the exact height. It's just like the top
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  Speaker 2: of your zone. They measured I forget. They wouldn't let me.
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  Speaker 2: They measured you like three times.
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  Speaker 6: Is there somebody?
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  Speaker 3: There was like three people. There was no manipulating it.
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  Speaker 5: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I gave it my best we had.
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  Speaker 5: We interviewed j T. We're gonna run a little bit later,
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  Speaker 5: and he said, you guys ran into a rocket in
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs last year, the Mets. Yeah, they just look
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  Speaker 5: at it like we because you guys were so good
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  Speaker 5: during the regular season. Yeah, and then it's just they
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  Speaker 5: were got hot for three games.
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  Speaker 2: It's baseball, Like that's kind of like you know some
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  Speaker 2: other sports, like yeah, Like it's it's like the whole
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  Speaker 2: like march madnessing, Like the team gets hot, they can
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  Speaker 2: just go. And the Mets were hot, they're playing their
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: best ball, ball is bouncing their way. We just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: get it going. And that's just the reality of it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's baseball, and that's that's why the game's pure,
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  Speaker 2: because He's like anybody can win at any given day,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not so much what you see on paper.
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys need to do though, What do
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  Speaker 1: you guys need to do to win it this year?
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  Speaker 3: Score more runs than the other.
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  Speaker 6: Man?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, stay healthy. I think keep doing what
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  Speaker 2: we've been doing right, because it works, we get to
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. I think that's the main thing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody comes in the spring, everybody has a meeting. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: our goals win the World Series. But you can't get
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  Speaker 2: there if you don't get.
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  Speaker 3: To the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: So first things first, our jobs to get to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: and whether that's through winning the division or being a
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  Speaker 2: wild card team, whatever that is. But we just got
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  Speaker 2: to get there. And then we know over the last
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  Speaker 2: three years, anything can happen once you get there.
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  Speaker 3: Got to be there.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure you've probably been asked us before. The first
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you two questions. First of all, you're
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  Speaker 5: not on your phone. What do you do if you're
• 9:39
  Speaker 5: not on your phone?
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  Speaker 6: What the heck do you do?
• 9:40
  Speaker 5: Because everyone's on their phone?
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  Speaker 2: I know, not a lot, honestly, I pretty much it
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  Speaker 2: was off season. Was wake up, jim, little pt, little treatment, home, hangout,
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: video games.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, okay, a game.
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  Speaker 2: There's some type of technology in my life, but not
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  Speaker 2: with so much social media. Which game I'll play, some
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: Call of Duty, I'll play some NBA, whatever sports kind
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  Speaker 2: of end season, I'll play a little bit of you know.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, And then I got asked this best
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  Speaker 5: Bryce story?
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  Speaker 3: You can tell them her best Bryce story.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think one of the one of the
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  Speaker 2: wilder things I've seen on a baseball field was the
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  Speaker 2: the Angel Hernandez ejection on the check swing. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: on deck for this. So Bryce is, you know, walking
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  Speaker 2: off the field after he lets Angel know he missed one,
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  Speaker 2: and he's uh, he launches his helmet over the net,
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  Speaker 2: over my head, over the over the dugout, over the
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  Speaker 2: net into the stands, caught it.
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  Speaker 5: Did you sign it?
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  Speaker 3: I think he ended up getting it back and signing
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  Speaker 3: it for him everything, And that's great.
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  Speaker 5: But that's great. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: It was the kid's best day of the kid's life.
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  Speaker 2: But I think Bryce got in all the trouble for it.
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  Speaker 5: But I hopefully Bryce wasn't like this, Hey I need that, guys, Sorry, kid,
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  Speaker 5: I just need you.
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  Speaker 3: I need I got to use that.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got in trouble for Did he get Did
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  Speaker 1: he get figned?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. You'll have to ask him.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't loving the stands and got and got d
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  Speaker 5: f ag the next day. That didn't happen to Bryce.
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  Speaker 3: He's not getting fired for that.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have any do you have any Bryce signed memorabilia?
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Like do you wish you would have like my tumbo
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  Speaker 1: like that helmet before it went out there and be like, hey, Bryce,
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  Speaker 1: you can sign this for me and not I.
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: Got the Harper's on right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, but he's not signing.
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  Speaker 3: There's got to be a signature on here somewhere. It's
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  Speaker 3: not real.
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: But what if you what if you asked him to
• 11:43
  Speaker 5: sign this in a warm in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be tremendous. That would be you have
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: definitely more power.
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  Speaker 4: I got I got one more for you. Uh, Philly's
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: hit a home or do something big? Guys have anything
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: planned in the dugout?
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  Speaker 3: No, that stuff kind of just makes itself up on
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  Speaker 3: the way.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of that uh, that whole organic kind of
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: messing around that teams do. And you know, we don't
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  Speaker 2: really uh pre like plan that stuff. I think some
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: skit will pop up throughout the year and we'll roll
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: with it and that'll that'll probably be what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever gets as hot.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: Who's the best? You guys have it. You guys have
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: a table in your in your in the clubhouse. Who's
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: the best? And what's the ranking system? Top top three?
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: I think the hurricane wiped out the ping pong table,
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: but uh so we don't have one right now. Starts
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: to typically the stots typically the winner from what I've
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: remember from last year.
• 12:45
  Speaker 5: Every time I've ever been beaten every time. I was
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  Speaker 5: gonna say, every time I go into the Philly Clubhouse,
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: it's Schwarber on the ping pong, it's Schwarber. Price is
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: usually there is Locker on the couch with the hoodie on,
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: and then Schwarber is just standing there. Whoever will walk
• 13:00
  Speaker 5: like I think one time schober tried to get me
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  Speaker 5: to play against He's like someone you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, loves to compete.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like, I'm a guy's here to compete, But
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  Speaker 5: I always see him stand They're just hitting pick pong.
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  Speaker 5: Whoever walk by. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to see him, but you're
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: Stott's always beating Kyle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is big money? Is there? Some is that? Is
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: that supplementing Stott's Stott's minimum salary that he was making.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, the numbers are public for what
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  Speaker 2: are what the guys on our team are making? So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's they're not They're they're playing they care about this game.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hell yeah, Alex, thanks for stopping by. You know,
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: it's always great to make someone's day. And look at
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: that smile on Kratz's face. So you made his day, appreciate.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Kid. We got Jimmy Rollins, Jay Roll
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: the Jay roll soon to be Hall of Fame shortstop
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollins. Jimmy I did a little bit in our
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: break what do you call me? And you might not
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  Speaker 1: even remember it anymore, Like if you were to see me, Hey,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: how are you doing.
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: At that? That's one of a question, you know, I've
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  Speaker 6: I've given so many nicknames, crashy. Honestly, I don't remember,
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  Speaker 6: but what it was, I'm sure it was probably pretty good,
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  Speaker 6: but please remind me. Yeah, I'm getting old, bro, you
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: know I'm getting old. I'm out of touch.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, I said, I set you up
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: for that one because it wasn't a nickname. You were
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: one of the few people when I played that called
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: me Eric all the.
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: Time, like yeah, yeah.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: It was super. Hey have you heard have you heard
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: anybody that comes on the show call me Eric?
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Me?
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: Maybe I don't even call you Eric.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: And so that's why I said it. That's why I
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: said it because A J is the second one that
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: calls me Eric. And I think it's the it's the
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: fringe Hall of Fame. It's the dudes who are like,
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be a real hall of fame. I
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: really don't want to call this guy by the name
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: that everyone else calls him, just I'm just gonna call
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: him Eric. So it was so unique that you're both
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: sitting next to each other and you both call me Eric,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: and very few people my dad doesn't even call me Eric.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, you just look like an Eric to me.
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: You know, one of my best friends growing up, his
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: name was Eric Hugh and so that was like the
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: second time I got to call somebody by their government name.
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: So Eric, get to see your brother government Eric.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: You know what we we do this because we played
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: in Japan back in two thousand and two.
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: Oh too, man, So Jay Row and I go way
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: back and then yeah, yep, bonds each ye Row that
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: that whole thing. We can't talk about anything that happened
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: during that time, but we had one hell of the time,
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: I guarantee you that much.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Lots of sushi and saki.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, lots of that, by the way. And then
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: also so I come to clear clear Wooter as Eric
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: calls it, in clear water, right, and it's fifty degrees here,
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: so we're fresiating. This reminds me when we do the
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: playoffs together. Jerrold and I worked for Fox, and I know,
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: oh my god. We're in Boston and it was like
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: ten degrees of twenty thirteen World Series and we're sitting
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: out there in right field. You never get they didn't
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: have enough heaters, blankets, we had gloves on.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Jake to Beanie on.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: I still got that one, bro, Yeah, I still got
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: it right.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: And now look at him. He's a big media star
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: on TVs. So I mean, you never just never.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Know big Okay, okay, here we are in foul territory.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: This man is still working. You have Fox Sports, right, yes,
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: so I'm everywhere. We've both grown in different ways. That
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: that's all of this. You know. I just get to
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: work every Tuesday. That's the only difference. Bro.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: I work Saturdays.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: I mean, your weekends is done.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: It's just funny how I look back over your career
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: and then you be guys like Jimmy and we always
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: you know, kept in touch after we went did Japan.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Then we go to get to work the playoffs, right,
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden you look up and
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: you're like, man, he's awesome on TV.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: I know him.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: I played with him. Oh Man, I was there when
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Jimmy first.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Did TV Man first started for real nervously. It was
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: it was, you know, because you're playing, and so you
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: want to be truthful, but you want to be fair,
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: but you can't be too opinionated, as we always say,
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: you don't. You never know when you're going to be
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: in a clubhouse with that guy. So now, but now
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: that I know, it's like you, now that we're you
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: never had a problem being opinion they let's be honest
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: about that. I mean, you never had a problem with that.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: But now that you're done, it's like you can look
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: at it differently and say, I can be truthful to
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: what I know and to what I speak and as
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: nothing that's let's do with being in a clubhouse with someone.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: It's being honest with the fans that are watching the game.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Because baseball fans, I think are the most honest because
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: almost everyone has played baseball at some point in their life,
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: whether it's recreationally, little league, and got to a point
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: where it's like I knew I wasn't going to make it,
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: but they still understand the game. So when I understood,
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: I can be really honest without overteaching without being too harsh,
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: too critical. That's when I found my voice.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Jimmy, I want you to be honest about what you
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: thought of AJ. I know you played together, you know,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: are in the Japan series or whatever, but as a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: fellow competitor, a dude that is out there every single
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: day like you were always you were always posting one
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games a year, what did you
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: think of AJ and how much he played? But also
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: as a person, because you said it a little bit,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: you alluded to it. I'm afraid to be opinionated.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: No, not at all. So I didn't play too much
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: against him earlier in my career, but I would hear stories,
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: you know, I mean people hated him why because he
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: always talks. But as a pitcher, he's always fighting for
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: that pitch for he's fighting for that strike. He's trying
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: to distract the hitter, get in your head. So the
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: times I faced him, I was prepared. I'm coming in
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: with a whole conversation for him also, but it's kind
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: of empty headed, like I know he's gonna talk, he's
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: gonna try to distract me. But I didn't mind it
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: because I was always prepared. Now, like you weren't talking either. Now,
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I said, I had a conversation ready. Yeah, I had
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: a conversation ready. But it was good. Yeah, and you know,
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: big fan, but yeah, so and and then obviously he
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: got through him personally. So I didn't mind. It wasn't
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: I just feel like he was trying to to sabotage
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: my back. He's just trying to give his team in
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: this pitch the advantage if you fail for it. That
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: was on you. So I already knew the game coming
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: in U faced him, So I didn't mind. But Schward
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: was just in there sharing the story back in fifteen
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: where you were down in Atlanta and I guess, uh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: pitch it through a ball right down the middle. You know,
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: you didn't care about framing. It was right down the middle,
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: and he called it a ball and you and you
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: stand up. And this where AJ got away with murder.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: He would never look at the empire. He would stand up.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Sometimes he'd hold he kind of like fake pump and
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: he's still talking. He'd throw it back and he's talking
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: trash umpire. But Schwarve said, you got that as a
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: ball or you touched it up part you got that
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: as a ball he's like, yeah, well you didn't give
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: me a good look at it, and you turned around
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: and lost it and said, give you a good look
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: at it. That ball's right down and bleep the middle.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: What do you mean, give you a good look at it?
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: And those were things that as a player, as a hitter,
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: you hear that. You hear fighting for his picture, but
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: it's getting in your head because you're like, well, I
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: saw it as a ball. And if you and if
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: you don't have the courage to say something either back there,
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: they're like, hey, that's enough for the umpire like, no,
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: you got it right, which I would, and I'm gonna
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: catch a fight for something. I'm like, no, you got
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: it right. You made the right call. Because he's doing
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: the same thing for his picture, so if you take
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: it the wrong way, obviously got under your skin. And
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: don't get me wrong, I've seen him do some stuff
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: or you know on ESPN, you know kind of get
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: some things like that. But for me, for me, I
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: was okay with I'm like because it's all gamesmanship. So
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: I never had a problem with Aj even today, you know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: I Sam's like was up and we started together. He
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: started a little bit before me. But TV, so it's
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: it's all competitive bancer.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: All right, let's let's dig into your team.
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: I know you play for some other teams.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: But yes, you're a Philly. You're a Philly.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: Your blood runs deep for Philly. Can they win it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: All this year? Anybody can? Anybody can win it all?
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: I think they definitely have the pieces to do it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: They have the team to do it. They've been there.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: But I'd be remiss if I didn't say I feel
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: the NL runs through l A. That's that's just what
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: it is. I mean, first of all, you have to
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: come out the National League to even get to the
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: World Series. And what the Dodgers have done, They've put
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: themselves in position that they're gonna make it very hard
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: for anybody to beat them. Now they're gonna lose games,
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: They're gonna lose series. Do the Phillies have what it takes? Yes.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: I love the fact that they have for good starting staff.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: They had a good starting staff last year. Then you
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: add a Lozardo to it this year. I think that's formidable.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: It's always a question about the back end. It's it's
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: it's been like even when I was here. That's how
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: far back it goes. We have Brad Legge for some
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: years and matching the Brad JC match into Brad Ledge
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: for a few years after that. It was always kind
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: of mixing match and they still have that going on now.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: So I don't know what it is about, you know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: being a relief pitcher for the Phillies. But if they
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: sew that up, they could find themselves winning a lot
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: of games. But I still think right now it goes
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: through the NL until it's proven otherwise the Dodgers in
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: the n L till it's proven otherwise you did it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: How hard is it to go back to back World Series?
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Oh? I guess looking back at it, it was hard.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: But when you're in it and you believe it, you're
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: supposed to be there. And I think that's the mentality
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: you have to have as a winning player, that when
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: you get there one time, you know we won, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: then we end up losing and then we never got back,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: but always felt like we were supposed to be there.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: We put ourselves in position, we made the moves up
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: top as far as the staff and the players that
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: they would bring over to be in a World Series.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: But we only got there twice. But that's mentality you
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: have to have, like we're supposed to be here until
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: you're eliminated or you at all?
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: What'd you say when you guys won? Now we don't
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: have to hear about the eighty three team anymore.
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: We want to hear about the nineteen eighty Phillies because
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: and I tell that the Bryce. I tell that the Bryce.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: I've told them playing signs. If you don't want to
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: hear about oh eight, go win it true because I
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: felt the same way, like I got tired of hearing
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: about nineteen eighty, like that I was born in seventy eight.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: I don't want to hear about the guys that played
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: in eighty. I love them. I knew Mike Schmidt, I
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: learned about Larry Bow. I was like, I have to go,
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: you know, and that's who I was chasing. But in
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: order for you to create your own legacy, go create it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: If you don't want to hear about the OA team,
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: go win. They'll talk about you guys, and then you
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: tell the next generation. If y'all don't want to hear
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: about the twenty twenty five Phillies, go win. And you
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: started all over so that that that's what was a
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: driving factor for me, And I told Boa when he
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: was my manager. We started at the VET. You know,
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: they won it all in eighty. They had to seventy eight,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: seventy nine, winning eighty lost eight three, but they were
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: that they were a team. And I told them, this
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: is the house that you built when they built that
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: place next door, that's gonna be the house that I built.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: And we got there. We create our own legs. You
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: can see in that building and it's going to be
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: here for a while now. So for the guys that
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: come after you, you can ask that legacy. You don't
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: want them to talk about us, Go win it, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: I encourage them to do it all the time. Go win.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Don't let them talk about us. You should be tired
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: about it, heard them about it. So you felt the
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: same way.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: What year did you think you guys should have won it?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Going going through that time? Besides eight obviously, eight nine.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: And eleven ten, the giants, I just they were just
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: a team on a mission. They were I mean, they
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: got some young guns that came up there, and and
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: and a whole bunch of guys that were kind of
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: you know, throwaways, were teams were kind of you know,
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: trading them off. We did not sign them back, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: they all took that personally. Obviously they went out there
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: and won, and the ten, twelve, fourteen we know about
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: the history of it. But in eleven, I felt that,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: you know, that was our last chance. We were the
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: best team in baseball. I felt one hundred and two
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: and sixty or something like that. But we had one
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: opstate and we knew it. It was the Saint Louis Cardinals.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: We knew that. I mean when we when we won
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: on the last day, which the Braves you know, kind
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: of ended up giving us that game that made an
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: airon and I think it was like Brooks Cronk Conrad
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: booted the ball and we ended up winning. Saint Louis
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: got in. We're like, if we get past them, we
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: went it off. That's that's how we felt. But we
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: knew the type of team they were in playoffs. They
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: were a team built for the playoffs. They had management,
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: they have staff, that confidence. They had just won it
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: five and we just didn't get out that series. But
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: I would say eight to nine, although we lost nine
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: and eleven, were definitely the years that we probably had
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: a chance to if we didn't get three for sure.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Two rings.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: Two fan questions for you. One the best game or
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: your favorite game you ever played in?
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: The favorite game I ever played in? Wow? I mean, okay,
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I'll exclude the World Series because those are all specially
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: anything in the playoffs. No, but I'll go back to
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: two thousand and seven, and because that was the first
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: year we actually made it to the playoffs. It was
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: the last game of the season. Whatever two. We played
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: a series at home against the match We had a
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: four game set, and the last game of that series,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Billy Wagner, Chase Udley, Tadahitoe Guca. I think so on
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: a second, and if we don't win, we really have
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: no chance of chasing them down. Chase gets a game
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: winning single and we complete the sweep, and we knew
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: we were in business. We were like three games out
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: with a week left. Still it's going to take a miracle,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: but without that we don't get there. So that happens,
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: and then the game we actually clinched the playoffs where
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: in Philly we're playing the Nationals. We come out, the
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Mets are down five nothing early to the Marlins, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: all have to do they win, they're in there's nothing
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: we can do, but we're in the cluboufs because that's
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: before everybody out started the same time. So we had
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: a one to thirty five start, they had like a
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: one to ten start, and you hear the crowd, they're
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: just roaring and stomping, and the TV's are off because
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: we don't wanted to let that get into our psyche
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: because we justill have to handle business. If they lose
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: and we lose, they go on. And so we're getting
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: dressed and I'm putting my uniform and I'm never out
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: super early, but I kick myself because he's tracking up
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: with that. So I'm never up super early. But the
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: TVs aren't on, but I want to go see what's happening.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: I want to believe it's good, but I don't want
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: to get caught up in that because we still have
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: a job to do. So we come out as five nothing.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: We end up beating the Nationals, clinching the division for
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: the first time since ninety three, and it was just
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: like we finally got here. Now with short lived we
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: were three and done, but just the fact that we
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: med to the playoffs, we kind of took that monkey
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: off our back. The game against the Mets and then
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: the Mets losing us winning the last game of the
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: series that clinch the playoffs. Outside of obviously winning the
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: World Series, those are probably the two most exciting games
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: that I've been a part of. That's awesome.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: I love that all right, So I have a question
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: then on you know how much swag you brought? Kratz
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: was talking about it before. Okay, now let's fast forward
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: to now, right, twenty twenty five? Yeap, how do we
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: keep baseball in the national stratosphere more like it was
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: not even thirty years ago, right like even ten years ago?
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Why why is it getting kicked to the curb by
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: so many?
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: And there's some people that are going to watch It's like, no,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: the game's fine, the game's fine, but just national attention,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: especially for a younger audience. We tried to do this
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: every day. But what's your take on maybe what's missing
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: now or how the competition is thriving as well other
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: sports and other options.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: I honestly think it's it is. It is starting to
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: come back. Obviously the game is. For a while, it
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: wasn't exciting. There was there There was just home runs
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: and strikeounts. There was nothing in between. We saw show
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Hey go fifty to fifty last year. The year before
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: that come you went like what forty seventy or whatever
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: it was. So those things that were more skill based
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: are starting to come back into the game. We we
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: sped up the game. We have we have the pitch clock,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: like called the shot club, but we have the pitch clock.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Those things that are shortening up the end of the game.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: And I think because that fans are starting to come back.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: We were losing fans, a lot of fans the last
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: parts of the game, and I think that's where real
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: baseball fans really, you know, tend to hang around to
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: see the finish of the game. But yet still, you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: the other sports are sexy. I mean, who doesn't want
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: to talk about Patrick mahonmes. Who doesn't want to talk
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: about Lebron James or or Kyrie Irving when when he
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: when he's on And it's comparing them to Alan Iverson
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: and his handles, uh sg a who I watched play
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: last night, Like they're exciting. You get to see their faces.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: They have the ball, you know, in the crucial moments.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Baseball is in the game where you can put up
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: your best pitcher or your best batter when the game
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: is on the line. The other sports your quarterback, can
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: you know me, me and Kelsey. Look, it's this me
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: and you and into until we score sg A. You're
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: gonna take You're taking the last shot. Yes, but look
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: the golden bat rule is kind of weird, but it
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: might do something. It is weird, But the other sports
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: they get to do that. They get to put their
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: best player in the prime time every single time. To
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: go to State Warriors. Who's my team, Steph Curry. You
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: know he's getting a shot. It may be at half
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: court and he's probably gonna make it. You kind of
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: expect that. And baseball it is like, look, bro, you're
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: getting up in a sixth in and you might get
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: one more bet if things work out well, that you
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: get your best batter up there with the game on
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: the line. So you can't you can't force that in baseball.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: So I think that's what makes those sports sexy, that
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: they're star driven, where baseball is starting to become more
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: of that. It's always been about the name on the front,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: not the name on the back, and the other sports
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: have recognized if you have a star, we want to
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: promote that star. Yes, people are gonna follow that team
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: because of that player, but they're more than likely going
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: to buy that person's jersey, follow that person because they
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: like that person in that moment, and baseball you just
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: can't force that.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: You mean, if Bryce Harper came up in the eighth
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: inning in a playoff game against the other team's club
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and hit an opposite field dinger, you mean that type
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: of like super big moment.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: Yes, don't get me wrong, they happen. That happens, and
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: that's the beauty of it. Like when they happen, they're
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: so special because because circumstance put these two guys in
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: that situation, where, like I said, in the other sports,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: you can make a guy be in that situation. Last
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: shout of again, we're gonna run some screens or you know,
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: we're gonna run some cross routes and the tight end
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: or running basket gonna come out the field and may
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: do a reverse jump over a linebacker's head like Saquan.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: You know, you can put guys in that situation. But
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: in baseball, it just happens. As you talk about that
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: San Diego, and I was I was really happy about
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: that about I was jumping around. We're in Uh, I
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: forgot where we were. I think we're in New York
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: covering the game, and I'm like, bro, that was a
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: moment for Bryce, like that that was my I thought
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: my walk off doubles. I walk off double was exciting,
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: but I was more excited about that. I think it's
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: always more exciting, as you know, when you're watching other
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: people do it. When you do it, it's like I
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: did the job, and yes, you're celebrating, but I did
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: the job. When you watch, somebody was like, yo, that's
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: that's why, and it's different. So yeah, but those moments,
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: as you said, Ala Bryce, they happened. My moment in
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: O nine, it happened. Things had to work out perfectly
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: for me to get that at BET. Things have to
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: work out perfectly for that situation to come down with Bryce.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: And that's what makes baseball special. But the other sports
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: a sexy because you can continuously put a guy in
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: that position to be successful.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Last one, Jimmy more of a story and
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: more of like a thank you kind of thing. Twenty eleven,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I signed with the team. I'm in spring training. You know,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: you go play, guys, go play in the B game.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I went and played in the B game. I hit
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a dinger against Chad Cordero, chief he was at the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: end of his career. It was the last that bad.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: You know. It might even been like the sixth inning
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: of the B game, right there on the field, right
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: behind you. And I was walking in and you go, hey,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I heard you hit a homer. He goes, you go,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: good job, because you were in the cage taking your
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: thousand swings and he always took you go, you go,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: good job, you go. Just be ready. Chuck was watching
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the home run and he told me you hit a
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: home run. He always puts the dudes that hit a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: home run in the game on the big field. And
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, fifth inning, I'm down in
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the bullpen. The phone rings. It's Chuck. He's like, hey,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: get crashed down here. He's gonna pinch hit. You got
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: me ready. I got an opportunity, and that day I
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: actually hit a home run. And I think those little
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: moments help guys who are on the fringe, like be noticed.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I didn't make the team until way late in the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: season that year I was in Triple A, but it
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: helps those little things. So appreciate you, Jay Row.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: Thank you man. I appreciate it, but yeah, and it
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: goes to show you never know who's watching. And they
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: say that and we take that as a cliche you
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: never know is watching. No, you really never know who's watching.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: I want to know who's coming up. And like I said, Charlie,
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: he's a guy. Jimmy, I like god, that can hit
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: Jay Row. I just tell you make that bell ring
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: son and that was probably run. Like, yeah, I knew
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: the drill. And I always wanted my teammates to be ready,
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: you know, and whatever little thing I can do to
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: help them. I don't take credit for it, because you're
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: the one I have to go and execute it. But
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: it happened to me. Be ready for your moment, and
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: I want you to be successful. There's enough room for everybody.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: So that was just one of those moments. And thanks
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: for sharing. I'm glad I can have a little part
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: in that. E ain't hit straight in right, and he
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: got no chance today chicagoing out.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: It's blowing thirty straight in from left, Granty, you ain't
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: got no dance.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Put a butt down, Jimmy, get your.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Legs on him.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: But Jimmy, Homer guy triple.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Out the right dog right.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Jimmy, this was awesome man, thanks for stopping by. Enjoyed
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: camp and we'll catch it during the season, all right,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Thanks guys,