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What Is Happening To The Phillies? (PST Episode 631) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: What's up. Hope you were doing well. We wanted to
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  Speaker 1: let you know that we recorded this podcast episode on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: August twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. By the time you
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  Speaker 1: hear this, some things may have changed here or there,
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  Speaker 1: but we hope you enjoyed the show. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly
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  Speaker 1: sports podcast show in the world, over twelve years strong.
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  Speaker 1: We got a great show coming to you this week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Warren. Here about good buddy, Eric Leonard, better
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  Speaker 1: known as Jackson. If you're watching on YouTube, you can
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  Speaker 1: see Jackson with Triple Xes. How you doing, buddy, It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like you're in your underpants so like you
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  Speaker 1: were a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: You call back, dude, it was like one hundred degrees
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  Speaker 2: down here that two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: It was very warm. Yes, it's like sixty eight. Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm in pants.
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  Speaker 2: Good, you're lucky. Yes, yeah, it's I'm good. It's been
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  Speaker 2: an interesting week.
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  Speaker 1: It's been an interesting week as you, I mean, Lennon
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  Speaker 1: and I were talking about the fact, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: took your daughter to college and she's now up at
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  Speaker 1: the university of Buffalo getting acclimated to things. There you go,
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo sweatshirt, there, hoodie, and yeah, it's gotta be tough, man,
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  Speaker 1: Gotta be tough. Gotta be bizarre not having your little
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  Speaker 1: girl there. Yeah, it was a week ago. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: could go.
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  Speaker 2: Like last Wednesday, we moved her in, took he out
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  Speaker 2: to dinner, all the good stuff, and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: we stayed in Buffalo till Friday. But like, but she
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  Speaker 2: stayed there with a roommate. Yeah, so we only saw
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  Speaker 2: her like a little bit, and it was just like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is okay nearby, and then Friday got in the
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  Speaker 2: car and left, and I was just like, it's just like, that's.
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  Speaker 3: My little baby. Like I'm gonna protect her.
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  Speaker 1: I can't, like, yeah, exactly exactly. Oh my gosh. Yeah, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: you looked because we saw each other this past week, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for my fantasy league. Yeah, and you and the guys
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  Speaker 1: were there, and you, in all honesty, you just looked
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  Speaker 1: like I've been through some ship right now. I've been
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  Speaker 1: through some shit there personally. Oh god, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: one of those things I've been seeing like on your
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  Speaker 1: face too often.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I I you know, I'm usually pretty, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I got to your house and I saw you guys. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, my guys, I need you right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I hugged Jeff at before we left, Yes, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, to the show, sweek man, I need it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, thanks man, I love you. We both need the show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. This show is just, like we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about it how many times, it's like a therapeutic part
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  Speaker 1: of our lives at this point with everything that we
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  Speaker 1: have going on, whether children are leaving for college, stuff
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  Speaker 1: in the professional world going on for us as well,
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  Speaker 1: when we're here Wednesday nights doing this show in front
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  Speaker 1: of these microphones. Now we're recording on videos, been doing
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  Speaker 1: that since April. Like, it's actually therapeutic for us. The
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  Speaker 1: things that I had to do today with regard to
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  Speaker 1: my political endeavors, it's just horrendous. It was horrendous, pull
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  Speaker 1: back the curtain. I'd do something today folks called call time,
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  Speaker 1: where you're just calling people asking for financial donations for
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  Speaker 1: your campaign, and it's just it's the most uncomfortable thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world. It really is. I probably shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: talking about it, but honestly, it's but This is therapy
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  Speaker 1: for us, right, the show's therapy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I man, You've always had one thing I can never do,
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  Speaker 2: and it's that bah public or just.
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  Speaker 3: With people in general.
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  Speaker 2: Never had that in me, but certainly couldn't do that
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  Speaker 2: just calling people out of the blue. Yes, Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Warren and I and I'm the back of my
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  Speaker 2: mind's be like, no one cares about you. Everyone hates you,
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  Speaker 2: No one wants to talk.
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  Speaker 1: I know. That's what I was thinking the whole time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, why is anybody gonna pick up the phone
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  Speaker 1: when I'm calling them? But then again, I, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: called your wife today. I was like, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to Eric. I don't want to ask him
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  Speaker 1: this stuff. I talk to your wife, pick up the phone.
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  Speaker 1: She picks up the phone. Jeff, is everything okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Is everything all right? It's like because we never talked,
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  Speaker 1: like nobody talks to the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, no, I mean, if I call you out
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  Speaker 2: of the clear blue, like the day of the show
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  Speaker 2: or something, you know, it's probably yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like, hey, i'm parking the car now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm walking to the venue.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, like.
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  Speaker 1: That type of Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But if I called your wife like an hour from now,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure she'd feel like, oh my god, what's what's
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  Speaker 3: wrong with something?
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  Speaker 1: Rat if something's if something's going on with Eric, he's calling.
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  Speaker 2: Me, something's amiss, Like, yeah, because nobody called any each
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  Speaker 2: other anymoreus know.
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  Speaker 3: You were shocked, and you were shocked to know that
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  Speaker 3: I still know your phone number?
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  Speaker 1: You do? You do? I could not believe it. Oh
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in life?
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  Speaker 3: I still remember Len's parents number. It's still their landline number.
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  Speaker 1: About that. Incredibly, they still have the landline.
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  Speaker 3: I know as far as I know. Yeah, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: call them at midnight.
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  Speaker 1: You should sure make sure they're safe and sound.
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  Speaker 3: Crap out of them.
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  Speaker 1: Man's oh my god. Well we got a great show, folks,
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  Speaker 1: We really do. We got some interesting topics. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get to the Philadelphia Eagles. They made their
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  Speaker 1: roster cuts, they got the fifty three man roster set.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, we're just gonna talk about this team.
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  Speaker 1: Got the first game of the season happening next Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: September fourth, kicking off the season against the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely gonna get into this Eagles team. Now we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: dive into a story that, Look, it affects the sports world,
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  Speaker 1: but it affects pocketbooks as well. It's just about corporate
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  Speaker 1: greed continuing with broadcasting companies who just have billions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars as it is. Anyway, some of you out there
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  Speaker 1: may have been following this ridiculous saga between YouTube of Slash,
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  Speaker 1: Google and Fox Sports and the agreement that they have
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  Speaker 1: with streaming blah blah blah. We're gonna get into this
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  Speaker 1: corporate greed nonsense and then from there we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: into a ton of Phillies talk. The first part of
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies Talk this week is we got a brand
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  Speaker 1: new top three list. You know, when Eric and Iron
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  Speaker 1: we love doing top three lists every now and again,
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  Speaker 1: So in light of Jordan Romano and his absolute horrendous
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  Speaker 1: season that he is having, especially as we are ending
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  Speaker 1: August here, we are going to be getting into the
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  Speaker 1: top three worst free agent signings by the Phillies in
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  Speaker 1: franchise history. Somehow, after doing this show for twelve years,
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  Speaker 1: we've never done this. I cannot believe we have not
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  Speaker 1: done this list before. But we're gonna dive into that,
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  Speaker 1: and then what we're thrown down on the table. We've
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  Speaker 1: got our friend Michael Fisher from fansideds that balls out
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  Speaker 1: of here dot com. He's gonna jump on the show
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  Speaker 1: to get into some Philly storylines that we're following here,
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  Speaker 1: as this team has certainly been slipping with regard to
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  Speaker 1: the New York Mets in the series. There, my God,
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  Speaker 1: just awful. So he'll beie exactly exactly real quick. Though.
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  Speaker 1: Folks on YouTube, like and subscribe if you are new
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  Speaker 1: to watching us, if you happen to if our video
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  Speaker 1: popped up and you're still here, we'd love to actually
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  Speaker 1: be on your screens more in the future. Yes, go,
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  Speaker 1: there we go. Eric's got the up there light right, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was right where the thing was.
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  Speaker 1: The thumb was nice, right, And let's get into our
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  Speaker 1: first story here. It's gonna be the Philadelphia Eagles. They
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  Speaker 1: made their roster cuts. They now have fifty three man
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  Speaker 1: roster for the season. Thoughts here, I gotta tell you, Eric,
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  Speaker 1: I am a little concerned even though you're on our
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  Speaker 1: table talk show this past week. Talked about the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: and just how they're deep at a lot of positions
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  Speaker 1: and they are especially on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: They do have the second youngest roster in the entire league,
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  Speaker 1: and especially when it comes to a defense that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a veteran presence like Big Place Sleigh or CJ. Gardner, Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: A lot of young guys in the secondary. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and you look, you look at the fifty three man roster.
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  Speaker 1: You look at that list of guys and city yourself. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: one of these guys goes down. If Reid Blankenship goes down,
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  Speaker 1: which is a possibility. Guy plays tough all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew maccob, he's got you know, he's been nursing an
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  Speaker 1: injury throughout training camp as well. If something were to
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  Speaker 1: happen to him. At Quinnon Mitchell, god forbid, he's cornerback one,
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  Speaker 1: cornerback two. Probably gonna be a rotation of a few
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  Speaker 1: guys A Dori Jackson, Kieley Ringo and oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: why am I forgetting Jackryan Bennett, coper'r Jaree Bennet. YEA, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe Cooper Regen goes on the outside. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's gonna stay inside in the slot. But man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still not feeling wonderful. I'm not feeling wonderful about
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  Speaker 1: the young aspect of how this secondary is actually looking
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  Speaker 1: coming into the season. And maybe I don't know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find something to complain about. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I am. I think the concern is legit. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'm at right now, after the fifty three
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  Speaker 1: man roster has now been set. That's where That's where
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  Speaker 1: I'm at. Where are you at here? Here?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a little scary. Uh, It's It's
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  Speaker 2: probably the one position we talked for the show. It's
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  Speaker 2: one position on the roster that you're one major injury
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  Speaker 2: away from, like at the backle you know, like I mean,
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  Speaker 2: god forbid Quinnon goes down at one point, then you're
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  Speaker 2: you're You're.
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  Speaker 3: A heap of ship.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's gonna be a full rotation and it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be interesting what what the defensive coordinator wants to
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  Speaker 2: do here because he he had a kind of a
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  Speaker 2: wealth hit a wealth of cornerbacks last year in safeties
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  Speaker 2: really and man, it does suck because like certain areas
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  Speaker 2: on the field got butchered in free agency. We lost players,
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  Speaker 2: but that didn't really tap into the secondary, like Darius
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  Speaker 2: Slade is kind of we just basically cut, right, We didn't,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just didn't resign him and we traded
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  Speaker 2: Gardner Johnson for That's the one thing I'll ding Howie
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  Speaker 2: on it. I know Gardner Johnson's out for the year,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, right with with a bad injury.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure if it's for the year, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a significant injury that he has.
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  Speaker 2: Yeaheah, I mean not regardless of that, like that trade
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  Speaker 2: would the Texans was bad. You know, the guy that
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  Speaker 2: got back they cut. They basically got nothing for CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Gardner Johnson, a key component of that secondary and the
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl team last year.
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  Speaker 3: I will I will give Howie a ding on that one.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it would have been nice to have one
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  Speaker 2: of those two come back, just to fill a space,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in this rotation, because like I said, like
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  Speaker 2: Dejean or Mitchell injury, you're screwed. You got some young players.
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  Speaker 2: I do like that they have a lot of good
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  Speaker 2: young players. They did spend another high draft pick in
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  Speaker 2: Mkuba second round super duper smart Reblanken Ship, great story,
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  Speaker 2: you know, very talented. Do I want him as my
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  Speaker 2: starter every down safety? You know, Like I'm okay with
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  Speaker 2: a rotation, so it is good they have some extra
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  Speaker 2: bodies in there.
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  Speaker 3: We just we just need one of the one of
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  Speaker 3: those young.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, whether it be Kylie or Kylie right, Khilie Ringo
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  Speaker 2: and or or Rakuba steps up and you know, and
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  Speaker 2: it gives you gives you a little bit of what
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  Speaker 2: Dejeene and Mitchell gave you last year.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously not full on like that.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not gonna happen like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, And the good thing too, I just thought of
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  Speaker 2: like Qunnia Mitchell played. I've looked at the stats before.
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  Speaker 2: He played like the third most downs of any cornerback
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  Speaker 2: last year. Yeah, and one of the all times as
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  Speaker 2: a rookie. Like he just didn't go out. Ever, You're
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  Speaker 2: hoping he has that same durability this year because he
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  Speaker 2: is obviously the key to this whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Look, you know, from an offensive perspective, I
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  Speaker 1: think I think this team is really deep, and I
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: think that the conventional wisdom says that it's it really
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: is bizarre during this time of the year, how Eagles writers,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: content creators, they're just looking to like pick at anything.
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  Speaker 1: I think the discussion we just had about the defense,
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  Speaker 1: their youth, what's happened with the secondary, very legitimate. But man,
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  Speaker 1: when you've got people like talking about, oh, the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: position behind Jalen Hurts and this and that, and Tanner
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  Speaker 1: McKee's injured, Now, how long is he going to be? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: How long is he going to be? Into? Like people
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  Speaker 1: just really grasping at straws and stuff. I just I
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  Speaker 1: find it a little bit bizarre. I think this offense
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  Speaker 1: is honestly going to be such a powerhouse that perhaps
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  Speaker 1: perhaps defensive dominance isn't going to be absolutely necessary. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for God's sake, what the Eagles did last
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  Speaker 1: year the last two games of the season, the NFC
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  Speaker 1: Championship game against Commanders and then of course the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: just absolutely whipping the hell out of the Chiefs. If
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  Speaker 1: that offense can be sustained and they just get into
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  Speaker 1: it this season, this team's gonna be fine offense.
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  Speaker 2: So they're gonna be totally fine. And we talked about
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  Speaker 2: the secondary. That's a legit discussion. Yeah, we didn't talk
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  Speaker 2: about the on seven the front like it. There's a
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  Speaker 2: murderer's row up there of talent. They just keep drafting
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  Speaker 2: Alabama and Georgia players. Gihi Campbell look pretty damn good
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  Speaker 2: in preseasons. I mean, you got Nolan Smith, you got
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: helped me to Kobe Deane Like they're not you're not
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  Speaker 2: your traditional defensive vents, but it doesn't really matter in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and and then.
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  Speaker 2: To to to cement it, to put all together, you
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  Speaker 2: have two of the best young defensive taccles, maybe the
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  Speaker 2: best defensive tackle in football right in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, what a what a brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Move to take those guys back to back because they
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  Speaker 2: just slidi fight everything last year and they're just gonna
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: get better, right, I mean, I'm sure Jalen Carter was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was fun. I want to I want to kill
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  Speaker 2: more people. Basically punching Mahomes in the face on national.
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  Speaker 3: Television had to be right at his alley.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: He had to feel so good and I and I
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  Speaker 2: love how the two of them are are are are
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  Speaker 2: growing together.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna get pay like a mother here soon, yep.
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  Speaker 2: But but they're well worth it, like they they they
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  Speaker 2: are that they make the entire defense work and if
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  Speaker 2: they're if they take another step up, both of them
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  Speaker 2: and they're just that much a lead. Again, the secondary
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  Speaker 2: maybe shouldn't be as much of us because if.
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  Speaker 3: You have constant pressure on the quarterback absolutely puts a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, eas easier secondary.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, all right, let us know what you're thinking,
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com. That's our email.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: We'd love to hear from you. Shoot us off an email.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: We will respond to it here on the show. If
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, let us know in the comments
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: what you're you're thinking about this Eagles upcoming season, this
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, the defense that Eric and I
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: were talking about. Again, leave it in the comments. We'd
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: love to hear from you and respond to you as well.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: That being said, let's move on to this next story here.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: So this next story and topic here, it just absolutely
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: pissed me off this past week. We're talking about corporate
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: greed just continuing with broadcasting companies, companies who just they
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: have billions of dollars, billions of dollars to basically play with.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: So if you had read this past week, you know Google, Slash,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: YouTube TV and Fox Sports were at an impass and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: dispute in terms of contracts and how they were going
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: to how they were going to put out the college
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: football season and NFL season. That's that's right upon us
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  Speaker 1: now today today they came to I guess and a
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: short term extension on this. So yes, YouTube TV and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Fox came to an extension to prevent its channels from
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: going dark, which would have happened in three days. In
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: three days when so much of the football world cannot
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: wait to see Ohio State against Texas, and especially as
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: arch Manning, who's playing for Texas it's going to be
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: playing his first game starting, is one of the top
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: quarterback prospects in this league. I love Google's statement on
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: this in a blog post, they said, We've reached a
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: short term extension with Fox to prevent disruption to YouTube
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  Speaker 1: TV subscribers as we continue to work on a new agreement.
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  Speaker 1: This is my favorite part. We are committed to advocating
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of our subscribers as we work toward a
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: fair deal, and we'll keep you updated on the progress. No,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: you are not committed to advocating on behalf of any
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: subscriber at all at all. The nine point four million
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: YouTube TV subscribers, you are not committed at all. You
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: want billions of dollars, you want the tech oligarchy and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the power that they now have within the world. It's incredible.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: The greed is incredible. And I know I'm going off
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: on this here, but it never ceases to amaze me.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: These tech oligarchs. They can't get enough power, they can't
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: get enough money. I mean, how many billions of dollars,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the hundreds of billions of dollars is enough for these folks.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I just I can't wrap my head around it. Eric,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I can't wrap my head around here. It's it's amazing.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: So so we're not gonna quote, have to suffer because
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: of their inaction and their greed right now. But maybe
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: maybe in the future. Who knows.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: You know, something tells me they'll come into an agreement
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: and we'll be paying for the difference.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Oh you think, yeah, ay, you're onto something, buddy. But
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: but if you.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Read in the article YouTube and Google did say if
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Fox does go offline for an extend amount of time,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: ten dollars credit ooh each to each subscriber.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Oh. Thank, I have to thank them. I'll send them
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: an email and say thank you very much for looking
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: out for us. You're subscribers, and.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: That'll that'll pay for maybe a month of service.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: God, what a bunch of fucking degenerate pieces of shit.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: So I cannot stand these people. I probably shouldn't be saying
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: that right now, but I can't stand this. I cannot
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: stand this. Like it just gets too much. It's too much,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: it's too much.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Well, it's it's almost like capitalism, like the cornerstone is
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: fucked the customer, you know.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And and I'm not I'm not.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not going off on some socialist you know, I could,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: but but I will say this, like this has been
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: going on forever. It has, it has, We've we've been
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: caught in the middle. And I'm watching the Cowboys documentary
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: on Netflix that I pay for streaming service.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: And they talked about the mid.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Nineties when Jimmy Jones made the deal with Fox Jones
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: on his own Jerry Jones, sorry, and and made made
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that deal on his own outside of the like with
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: with you know, basically without the owner's consent. And it
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: really was one of the first dominoes that kicked off
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: this like because I think they they bought it foxbotch
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: like one point six billion, which at the time was
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: like unheard of.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: It was crazy massive number.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: They were talking hundreds of millions, and then Murdock said
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: one point six.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: And I think that's where it really kicked off because and.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Since then, like the NBA, major League Baseball, they've all
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: had like in the NFL, have gone from different networks,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and now you're into the streaming world. And unfortunately, what
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the the contamination of what happened with sports in with
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the networks has now seeped into all of the streaming.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Services because that's what we're all on now.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, and they continue to raise our prices, by the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: way constantly.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: And that again they got us by the balls, like.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, screw all you.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go back to Comcast.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have cable, right I know, well now
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I can't, but now I don't have to to get Netflix. Yeah, shoot,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: might go over getting emotional, Getting emotional. Seriously, every few months,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I feel like we're getting some sort of increase, you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: whether it's Netflix, whether it's Hulu, because I have Hulu
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Live to watch stuff now, you know. And it's like
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm paying just as much now as
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I did back when.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: I get I'm paying more now like when it all started,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: We're like, oh yeah, I screwed the.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Cable companies and then like five years later, like we
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: kind of figured it out.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Now you owe a bunch of us. Well, eventually you're
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: one person and Elon or the Prime the Amazon guy.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: But yeah, it is crazy because like the other just
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the other day, I'm like, I put the I go
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: to Hulu to put the Phillies on.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what what is It's nowhere? What's like, what
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: is happening? And I look it up and.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: It says it's only on Roku TV. Yeah, I'm like,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: what the fuck are we doing?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I have to go to a different TV in the house,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: walk into my Roku account that I'm paying for. It's
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: just oh my god, like and and you know it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: gonna happen someday.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: We're all gonna No, we're not.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: We're gonna keep taking up.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna keep taking it right up the rear.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: It's gonna work.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: You mean we're not gonna stand up and fight the stuff. No,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: we never have over anything I do. Oh, it's a
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: great way to end this first segment here before we
• 22:06
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• 22:10
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• 22:22
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• 22:24
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• 22:31
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• 22:35
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• 22:38
  Speaker 1: We got a lot of Phillies talk new top three list.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be back with more
• 22:43
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• 22:45
  Speaker 1: with Phillies talk. Stick with us, all right, we are back.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get into our top three list here. I
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: love the top three list that we do here, so
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to commemorate Jordan Raman and his incredible season thus far,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: let's just be on.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Interesting term for it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going down as one of the worst free
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: agent signings by the Phillies in the past couple of decades,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: for sure, But we wanted to get into our top
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: three list right now of worst free agent signings by
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the Phillies. In franchise history, I'll say that Jordan Romano
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: is not on the list yet, like maybe ten years
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: from now he'll be on the list. But Jordan Romano
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: is not on our list here at this point, right,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: he's not on your list? Right?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: No, But can we just have a quick one minute
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: of Jordan Romano hate?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, absolutely here. He's been absolutely horrendous.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: What a fucking disaster signing. I can't stand when he
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: comes in. I hate his face. I hate like he
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: doesn't seem to give a shit. He's one of those
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: guys like right away, it just like I don't like
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this guy.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like it. And then you suck too
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: on top of it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, awful.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: And by the way, you said his season was interesting,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: that'd be like you coming to me, going, Eric, I
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: was diagnosed with cancer and me going interesting interest interesting,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Like Jordan Romano's Philly career is cancer.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: It's not interesting.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well, let's get into the list here,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: let's do it in honor of Jordan Romano. We now
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: have this list, So I'm gonna let you go first, buddy,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Like number three worst free agent signing by the Phillies
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of all time. Who is that for? You?
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Can I just say quick, I love the worst of
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: top three list? Yeah, and I love I do like
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: the ones. Hey, it was the best signings by the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: fact I like these. These are my favorite. These are
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: because you remember the great players. I truly remember hating
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: certain places. Absolutely appointed or my first one is pure disappointment.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: I mean we yeah, we were in college when this happened.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Let me get to I want to have his stats
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: in front because it was so horrendous.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: So the Phillies had it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: There's so many guys to choose from, by the way.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was scrolling trying to find through all
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the bad signings, and uh, I remember this one because
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: you know, I was in college and watching Phillies games
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: when I could, and you know, and the Phillies have
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: this bad history man of signing guys that are just
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: past their prime.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, just Dale.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: They brought in Dale Murphy and he was okay, but
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: it was kind of past his prime. And Lance Parish
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: is the ultimate one. Yeah, this one.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: My three hate.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: My three picks are going to be disappointment, yees and hatred. Okay,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: this one is this one's disappointment. Danny tartible in nineteen
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: ninety seven, they signed him for one year, two point
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: three million. He was kind of done, you know, just
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: done enough where it was like, this feels like a mistake. Yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I was still excited because it was a name and
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: you know, Phillies in ninety seven.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Hell were we doing? I know, nothing going on like
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: with Scott rolling the team maybe or was coming soon?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I think he was? Was he coming soon? I think?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I think I think he was ninety eight. But it
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: was just it was just a bad time, ye to
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: be a Phillies fan. Yeah, he comes in, You're like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: all right, this could be interesting. Yes, first at bat,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: breaks his breaks his toe, Yes, on a foul ball.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Pretty much done for the year. He plays three games
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: for the Phillies. Three games.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Classic Phillies. Yep, I'm not sure about this guy, And
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: yeah I was right. We shouldn't have been sure. It's right, disaster.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: So that's my number three.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I like that. Look, if you can bring in a guy,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: a free agent signing that you're thinking is a lot
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: has a lot of promise. You know it's going to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: be able to contribute to the offense, and then the
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: very first breaks a bone in his body and is
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: only able to give you three games. That's right up there,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and you might be thinking to yourself out there, folks,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: how was that not number one? How was it not
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: number one? Oh, there's a few more we're going to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: be getting to here. Let's start with my number three,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and that is going to be one. D. D. Gregorias.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Now in with what you were saying for me, that's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: more the disappointment because prior to joining the Phillies in
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, DEDE. Gregorias was coming off a twenty plus
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: home run season, seventy plus RBI season, and three of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: his previous four years with the New York Yankees. When
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: they got him, I was so freaking excited. I mean,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: he was going to complement a Phillies office that had J. Tromuto,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Rehys Hoskins, Andrew McCutcheon and Bryce Harper already you know,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: major part of the team here. But Man, his first
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: year with the with the Phillies, he put together a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: solid season. He did two eighty four batting average with
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: an eight twenty seven OPS along with thirty four runs scored.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: He had ten home runs forty RBIs. But Man, with
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the Phillies. I don't think what they didn't expect was
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the massive regression in his game that quickly followed. Man
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, two to zho nine batting average
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: along with a six thirty nine ops only thirty one
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: or thirty five runs scored, sixteen doubles, thirteen home runs,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and fifty four RBIs in one hundred and three games played.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Just absolutely horrendous. Twenty twenty two, just continuing to fall
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: off that cliff, a two ten batting average, just horrendous,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: nineteen RBIs over the course of sixty three games. And
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I remember talking about Gregorius on this show back then.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: We were talking about him and just what a disappointment
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: it was. But man, he's definitely up there. He's definitely
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: up there. He's my number three. And he was one
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of those guys too.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: If you play fantasy baseball like in the late twenty two,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: like in twenty to eighteen, twenty nineteen, everybody was waiting
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: for him to come up. It was one of those
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: names like you stuck on your bench if you could
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: get him. Yeah, And he just waited and waited because
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: he was for the Diamondbacks, I believe, and uh, huge
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: upside and did look good Man and Man twenty twenty
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: one just really bad. And twenty twenty two, I remember
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: he was unplayable. Here was a point where like frends, Yeah,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: like he didn't even I don't did he even play
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: in the postseason.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I'm not even sure if he.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Didn't not have Actually, now that you've meant, now that
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you mention it, yeah, yeah, that's I mean that team
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: went to the World Series and he didn't contribute and
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: was making twenty.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Million times pretty amazing, uh huh. But the upside to
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: him is that it actually led to the Tree Turner signing. Yes,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: so it kind of forced their hand.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I remember that.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I remember them making that signing and being like, that's
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: a lot of money for him. But I'm like, oh wait,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: I remember dig Yes, that's our shortstop and we.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Got to do it. Yeah, They're like, we gotta do it.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: We gotta sign Trey Turner. Great, all right, number two
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: for you, who is number two on your list of
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the worst Phillies free agent signings of all times?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Ah?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Then this guy, he's he's the ultimate.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Ugh, he's just and and and this was this was
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: almost personal because this is when I lived in Old City,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: and I went out all the time to watch games,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: and I watched you know, I just go sitting for
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: three hours at a bar and watch the whole game,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: the whole This was pre cell phone, like on the
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: internet all the time, so I was literally just sit
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: there like a normal human and drink beer and watch baseball,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and I like.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Look at my phone.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: And David Bell was our third base in two thousand
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: and four, I think was the year. Yeah, and I
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: had partial season tickets. That was the year the open
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: to the new stadium. They got a new third basement.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Jim Tomey was already there. Ye mean, Tony worked out,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: let's sign the third basement from Cleveland, his teammate, and man,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: within a within a month, I'm like, I hate this guy.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I don't hate him, I'm just like, what the fuck?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: What Like we just signed Tony amazing to them Mountaintop signing,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: and then you you came back with your usual shit
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Philly signing. We're gonna get my number one's even worse.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: But like this was one of those like, yeah, you
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: gave this guy for this guy's my third basement for
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: four years. That's where Michael jack Schmidt worked. How many
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: years with the Phillies and you're gonna ship on him.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I'd rather Rick Shue, who replaced Schmidty at that point. Okay,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: like he I think his first year he'd had it
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: one ninety five. Like I think his his ops was
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: like six hundred. Maybe he was decent in the field,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: he had no power and he couldn't get on base.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was slow and he wasn't the best fielder.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: What the are we doing? And it just it And
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: he had that kind of face. I'm not gonna lie.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: He had that face where you're just like if I
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: had I was a party not punchable face, but just
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: like talking to people, I was like.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I don't like that guy. There's something wrong with I
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: don't like him. It's hard to explain.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: But if you know David Bell and you know his game, yes,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: like god, what a what a insufferable two years? Only
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: thank god four years, four year contract and they shipped
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: him out O six because yeah, yeah, you had to
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: four year?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: What was four years? Seventeen million dollars they sign it was?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It was, I mean, they signed him to be that
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: steady third baseman. After he did really well with the Giants,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: he did. But my gosh, you want to talk about
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: a long term commitment that backfired immediately. I mean that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: is man that is up there. Oh my gosh, but
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: it's not number one, not number one. And I'll get
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to my number two here. My number two, folks, is
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Jake Arietta one. Jake Arieta, my gosh. Signed after winning
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the twenty fifteen nl Cy Young with the Cubs. He
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: was supposed to anchor the Phillies' rotation during their rebuild
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to contender transition and just it just sucked. It just
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: absolutely sucked. He posted a four point three six ERA
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: over three seasons, and yes, he was battling injuries, he
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: was publicly clashing with teammates and the media. Just never
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: delivered that ace level performance that they brought him in
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: at what was it, three years, seventy five million dollars
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen, and the Phillies missed the playoffs
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: all three years of his contract. Man all three years, yes,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of course.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: And he was he was one of those guys when
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: they signed him. Even though he won the Saw Young,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: people were kind of like whispering he might be done. Yeah,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Like physically he's just not quite there. It was very memorable.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Of five, David Bell was still in the team. They
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: traded for Freddy Garcia. I remember from the White.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Tests, and there was tons of rumors of his shoulder
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: were shot.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And I was actually at one of the games he
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: pitched and he was hitting like eighty eight on his fastball. Yeah,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: and the whole crowd goody, oh he's supposed to hitting
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: like ninety five, ninety six.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: It is ain't good.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. All right, Well that's that's our number
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Two's number one here for you, buddy, who's your number one?
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: I mean we're the same age.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I think, I think we may have the same We.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Gotta have the same one. It's got to be Adam Eaten.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Adam Eaten, Yes, who.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: So the first one was disappointment, The next one was
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the last one was hatred.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I don't hate the man.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to wish him any ill will, but
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: I hate his performance. I hate like everything he represented. Yeah,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: he pitched to contact. He had like no attitude on
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: the mound. When you suck and you just walk off like, oh, like.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: That's awesome if you come back and win the next game. Yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: he never did that.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: He was aloof He was a shitty interview. He was
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: like kind of prickly to the fans and the reporters too.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And if you're you know, if you're if you're performing,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: you can kind of get away with that. But when
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: you get a three year, twenty four million dollars contract
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: for a team that's heading into the playoffs and possibly
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: a World Series and two thousand and seven.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: They becomes, yes, yeah.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: We're starting to become contenders.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to be a part of that, right and
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: you did not, I mean, did precipitate some moves that
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: they had to make to fill his pathetic ass? Yes,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: because he couldn't. I mean, I mean, what is it here?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: He was in Triple A by like what two thousand
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: and eight, Yes, they had him, and I wanted to
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: say something right here, like okay, we're six two ninety
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: RA two thousand and eight, five eight oh era A
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: nineteen starts.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Before de Moni did Triple A, we were one of.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: The best teams in baseball and he was the worst.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We somehow overcame his shittiness.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: He was one of the worst among major League baseball
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: starters that year. In two thousand and seven, what'd you
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: say it was. Was it six' ten e RA a
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: six or six point one zero.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Ro first five eight zero era in twenty two thousand and, eight, yep.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Two thousand oh AND i was talking about two thousand and,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: seven two thousand and seven six to nine, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Oh my, gosh like with multiple, starts like way too many, starts,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: yes and a nineteen starts IN o eight on a
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: team that like we were going, places And i'm just
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: like every time he was out there in the mountain
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: and he threw a, Dut i'm, like what do we?
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Do we can't do.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: This and then they Got Joe, blanton thank god of
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: the trade. Deadline, yeah who was a, better much, better
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: much more likable version of.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Him he pitched a contact, whatever and.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: He gave a shit, too, actually like gave a. Shit
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he was one of those players that gave a.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: SHIT i never felt Like adamy and gave a shit
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: about baseball or.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Anything AND i, MEAN i.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Text my brother for the show And i'm, like who's
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: your least Favorite philly the? Past like twenty Years adam
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: eat and came back in two. Seconds he, everybody everybody
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: dislikes the. GUY i guess if you're A phillies fan our,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: age like he's one of your number One, like oh,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: GOD i hate.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look DON'T i want to put this out there
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: too when we're going through this list, here Like i'm
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: glad guys get their. Money how many times have we
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: talked about on this podcast platform when guys are, paid
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: good for them getting their. Money, again these are, billionaire,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: billionaire billionaire owners who are able to pay this. MONEY
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: i don't begrudge them at all for the money that they.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Get like it does bother me at times when people are, like,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Oh David belle four, years seventeen million back in twenty twenty,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: three stole that money from the. Team you know, WHAT
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: i really don't care about. That WHAT i care about
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: is the performance these guys actually giving a shit when
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: they're on the field or on the mound in the batter's.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Box that's WHAT i actually care. About it's not about the,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Contract it's about the actual performance and the attitude of the,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: player especially when they're in the city Of philadelphia. Too
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: there's a different type of attitude that players have to
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: have coming, here whether they sign in free, agency like
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: we were just talking about with these, players whether you're
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: traded or. Whatever when you're In, philadelphia it is a
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: different sports scene and a lot of these guys here
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: just didn't get it.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Well especially how The phillies ended in six like that
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: just absolute. Upswing, yeah, like, okay this team is, rocketing, Man,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: yep two thousand and, seven they make the, playoffs they
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: made a huge, run and.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: They sign it before. That actually he's actually part of that,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: run even though he did.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Horribly and then there was a certain Point. No, Eight i'm,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: like he's gonna fuck this run. Up, yeah he's got
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: he can't be on my. Team this is this might
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: actually happened this, year and that's it has nothing to
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: do with. Money he's he believed. Me he's probably In florida.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Retired he doesn't give a shit about, us right or
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: his baseball. Career but, like you stunk and you were
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: you almost screwed up my. Team, Yes Stick foible probably
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: could have played that last year in ninety. Seven he
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: broke his toe and he had seven at. Bats, yeah
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: you couldn't come back and broke his. Health, obviously he
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: took the money and Like i'm, done screw this.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Shit yeah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly, Anyway David, bell like you made your, money but guess,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: what you just weren't very good AND i just didn't like.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: You, yeah, EXACTLY i wouldn't like you out, There, no.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: And you did nothing to help the team, Really so
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: that's all it. IS i don't care about the. Money.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Park, yeah that was a great. SEGMENT i love. It
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: i'm telling you. THERAPEUTIC i absolutely needed the show this.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Week we should do.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Worst three lists every? Week, yeah THOSE i get. THOSE
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: i get jonesed up.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: For, like when you did the best, Stuff I'm i'm,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: LIKE i kind of, know, yeah but then when it's
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: like a hate, List i'm, like, no dig in.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Yes an eighty four ops? Plus oh my, god we
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: got to talk about it. Exactly all, right, Buddy, Well
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: i'm gonna let you go because we do have an
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: interview this, week. Folks we are going to be getting
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: to our good friend from that balls out of here
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: dot Com Michael fisher in just a minute or. So.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Here any final thoughts buddy before we head out this.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: WEEK i, mean we've got THE nfl season, starting you. Know,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Look flyers hockey is gonna be here before we know,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: it believe it or. Not a couple of weeks before
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: camp starts, here and, uh you know what that, is
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: hockey the sport you know.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: They're going they're going camping.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Together del Del, Camp, yes Del.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Camp, LISTEN i only get one kid in the. House,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: yeah Maybe i'll Give flyers a try this.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Year who don't tease.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Me this will probably end after a. Week i'm, YEAH i,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: know but If i'll give it a. Shot, yeah But
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: i'll see this.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Weekend absolutely we're gonna be hanging out our buddies getting
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: together end of the summer picnic that we're gonna be
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: having here at my. House and uh, yeah, no it's
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: gonna be great seeing. You, yeah any final? Words are
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: you or is that? It it's think it's time For
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Betty by time and cry. Time everyone's going to and cry, now,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: yes all, right, everybody we're gonna take a. Break when
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: we get. Back we got More phillies talk coming your way.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: And now on the.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Table all, right let's get into some More Philadelphia phillies.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Talk joining us this week is our good Friend Michael
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: fisher from that balls out of here dot. Com you
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: know we love our fans sided. Sites it is great
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: to see, you my. Friend to get into This Philadelphia phillies.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Team first, off how you how have you been and
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: thanks for coming, On.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Thanks for having, Me jeff appreciate. It as, Always i've
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: been been, good been.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Good you.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Know it's as you, know The phillies are a roller.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Coaster so, yep my summer has gone along the way they're,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: going so.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Yep up and, down up and. Down, Absolutely look the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: series with The. METS i wanted to get into that
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: with you right off the bat here BECAUSE i, mean
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: it's just the most astounding thing that we continue to
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: see with This phillies. Team they have such an issue
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: playing The mets when they're up At City. Field we know.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: This this has now just become a. Thing it's this
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: theme here and as of us recording this here On,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Wednesday august twenty, seventh they are six and twenty three
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: in their last twenty nine games At City. Field it's absolutely, Astonishing,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: MICHAEL i, mean what is it with This phillies team
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: where they just cannot seem to pull out wins At City?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: FIELD i, MEAN i do wonder if if there's some
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: sort of mental block thing going on here with this.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Team what are your?
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Thoughts, yeah what's a not nine in a?
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: Row?
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Now? There, yes win, somehow and they've done it all
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: kinds of different ways. Too it's blowouts and close, games extra,
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: innings and, uh it's they've been all over the. Map
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: it'd be nice to nice to know there's an easy
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: answer to, it that's for. Sure going in this, week it,
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: was you, know such a such a big, series trying to,
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: important trying to expand that lead and kind of bury The,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: mets but they're not going, away and, uh it'd be
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: nice to be able to blame it on like a mental. Block,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Uh it's it's hard to, though with such a veteran laden. Team,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: uh it's not like you got a team of young
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: players that haven't done this before or haven't been in
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: this position. Before you, know they you, know they they
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: had the same thing last year when they were trying
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: to trying to fend The mets off down the stretch,
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: there and you, know things didn't go great At City,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: field especially In, september and, yeah but you know they
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: they did. It SO i don't, know IT'S i don't.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: Know it could be just, baseball as they, Say, yes
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: it's just it's just one of those things like even
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: like you, know you think of the players that have
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: been there for all these, losses and they've got. Baggage
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: obviously they're. Human but you, know someone Like, duran you,
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: know he's been there three, WEEKS i, do and then
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: and then he gives up four straight hits last, Night
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: so you, know that's that's not something where you're bringing
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: someone who's you, know, uh had that experience before In
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: City field against The. Mets so, yeah it's it's tough
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: to know what the what the answer. IS i don't
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: think anyone. Knows they don't seem to know based on
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: all the postgame comments.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: INTERVIEW i try to look at this in the context,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: though Also michael Of, okay The phillies are still up
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: five games on The mets in THE Nl, east and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: this record At City filled is the way that it,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: is and, like what does that actually say about The
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: New York. Mets that that's the context That i'm trying
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to think of this in as, well trying to at
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: least have some sort of silver lining and positive aspect of.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: This, yeah, yeah they well they went in with a
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: nice cushion because The mets had been playing so poorly
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: in the second half. Especially, yeah you, know aside from
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: being completely, BIASED i don't know how good The mets actually.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Are they look amazing AGAINST. US i don't. Know they
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: always looked amazing going into this into the. SERIES i don't.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Know it's it's mind, boggling it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: Is it's one of those things where you really hope
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: they can pull out the series finale tonight.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: And get. Swept, yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Because then they got four more back at home later,
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: on and you, KNOW i don't, know maybe maybe they'll
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: be there again with postseason.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe who, knows who.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: Knows kind of you kind of want to slay that
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: dragon at least once before you have to go back
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: there if you, do.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Absolutely and, folks we'd love to hear from you out.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: There Philadelphia Sports table at gmail dot. Com shootes off an,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: email let us know what your thoughts are with regard
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: to The phillies when they played At City. FIELD i
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: would absolutely love to hear from. You read your email
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: here on the show and respond to. It but moving along,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: here and, LIKE i don't want to be so like
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: doom and gloom because this team is still first in
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: THE Nl. East they are still first again by five.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Games but you, know my co Host eric AND i
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: we just got done briefly talking About Jordan romano and
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: how painful this season has been for him and FOR
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: us fans who've been watching him on the. Mound, michael
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: he's now on the Il and, LOOK i remember when
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the season initially, started And i'm hoping we can get
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to that. Context when the season, started most of us,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: said there's a lot of unknowns With Jordan. Romano it's
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: either gonna work really really well or it's not really
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: gonna work at, all based on what his career has
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: been over the past couple of, seasons like with injuries
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and just where he's. At we knew it was a.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Gamble it was a gamble That Dave dombrowski made and
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: as of, now as of us recording this, year, yes
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: it has not panned out that particular. SIGNING i, mean
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: things just happen in baseball. Sometimes we know that, again
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: a gamble that hasn't paid. Off what do you take
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: away from this particular signing and something THAT i would
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: actually call this off season experiment that didn't work? Out?
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Here you what are your?
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: Thoughts, yeah and anytime you bring in a guy that
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: is coming off a season of, injuries you know he
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: barely pitched last year barely a season for it's it's a,
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: gamble it's an, experiment whatever you want to, risk whatever
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: you want to call. It and like it's just they're
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: obviously looking up the glass half full when they made
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: that decision and during the winter meetings, there you, KNOW
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: i don't THINK i don't think anyone expected his ceiling
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: to be as high as when he was With toronto
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: saving you, know thirty six. SAVES i think just two
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: seasons ago he had thirty six saves and thirty six
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: a year before. That he's got one hundred and five With.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Toronto full. Disclosure originally A Blue jays fan, HERE i watched.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: THAT i watched. Him he was just. Dominant so this
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: has been this has been real tough to watch multiple.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: Fronts you, know they signed him when his his velo
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: looked good in the, winter right he was, throwing he
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: threw for.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Them, yes.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Did ANYONE i don't, know could could anyone predict that
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: this the floor be this low and this was going
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: to be that, high LIKE i don't, know maybe like
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: a four and a half five E r like Like
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Joe ross finished with a five five eleven twelve yards
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: or something before they released, Him, Like, okay that's a bad.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: Season but eight twenty three or, Whatever romano has now
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: on the il like he TOOK i think he said
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: forget the. Floor he just took the elevator straight down
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: to like sub basement d or. Something it just it
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: was a disaster all around. It you can't you can't sugarcoat. It.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah the thing is though that sometimes in baseball things
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: just don't work. Out you, know we don't have crystal,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Balls and you know, what sometimes things do work, out
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: like a signing Like Kyle schwarber from years. AGO i
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: mean that has certainly worked, out and we see him
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: playing his best baseball here in twenty twenty. Five you,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: know he's playing better baseball than he has the past few,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: years amazingly. Enough you, know you put him on the
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: day he's THE. Dh it has worked. Out sometimes it
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: works out in. Baseball sometimes it doesn't work out in.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Baseball AND i think that's just something that Is phillies
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: fans and just baseball fans in, general we really need
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: to keep in. Mind but AS i say that, too
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: there is another aspect of this team That i'm just
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: so thoroughly concerned, about AND i Think philly's nation in
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: general is concerned about, it and it's what's gonna happen
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: with this starting rotation down the. Stretch and you, know
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: as we are, looking you, know hopefully to a postseason, Here,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: michael with not Having Zach wheeler in that, ROTATION i,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: mean losing him changes a lot in my. Opinion mainly
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: it alters HOW i was thinking that this team could
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: potentially perform in A World. Series and, YES i Know
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: i'm putting the car before the horse saying, that but
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: there's conventional wisdom out there and thought that This phillies
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: team could potentially get to The World, series not out
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: of the realm of possibility at, all BUT i think
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: not Having Zach wheeler now puts those dreams in jeopardy
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: FOR us fans. HERE i don't, KNOW i don't mean
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: to be so dismal with this particular, topic BUT i
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: mean it's. ROUGH i hope we see him again pitching
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: on the mound In. PHILADELPHIA i hope that that's what it,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: is because there's a there's a percentage ants that he
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: could not that his career could potentially be over. Here
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: so the starting rotation Without Zach wheeler are our dreams
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: in jeopardy, HERE i know it sounds very.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: Human is a great Great like speaking of sugar, coating
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: there's no way to. Sugarcoat you can't replace A Zach, wheeler,
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: like there's no way to do. That very few teams
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: would even have a chance at even filling one of his.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: Shoes The phillies are lucky With Christopher, sanchez the fact
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: that he can step in despite despite what happened this
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: week against The. Mets you, know he's just as you're
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: that as better as close as you're going to. Get
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: but you, Know wheeler is a top Tier Major League baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Ace, Ye.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: And when you start looking at postseason, rotations forget getting
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: to The World, series Just Division, series, right you gotta
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: get three guys lined, up and you, know when when
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: you take Out Zach wheeler from, that it's, huge it's.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: Huge as good as The philly starters can. Be no
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: One Zach. Wheeler and you, know the goal was The
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: World series from spring, training and you know they have
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: a deep they're they're built, deep like they have a deep.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: Roster it's just going to be a little bit harder
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: for them to actually get.
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  Speaker 1: There, now do you think that, Like i'm sorry to,
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  Speaker 1: interrupt BUT i think about that ace situation that The
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: phillies had with With Zach, wheeler AND i wonder if
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: and you hate to put it on, somebody you know, That,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: okay you have to be that, Ace but Can Cris
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: sanchez be that Next Zach wheeler for this team during the? Postseason,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: like can he be that dominant? PIECE i do think
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: that there is that. Possible there there is a there
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  Speaker 1: is a ceiling for that to, Happen but it's gonna
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: have it's gonna have to be almost kind of a
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  Speaker 1: perfect pitching type of SITUATION i think for him to.
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  Speaker 1: Be AND i don't, know do you think the same?
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  Speaker 4: Thing uh, yeah, Yeah like you don't know how he's
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: going to react until it's. Happening you, know it's the
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  Speaker 4: first time doing, that and it's not like he has
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: the years of experience built up Like wheeler.
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  Speaker 1: Has, right you.
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  Speaker 4: Know anything can happen in the. Playoffs that's that's what
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: they're all. About, like, ye last, year The phillies wasted
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: an Incredible wheeler start In game one of THE, Nlds,
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: right he was, amazing and they still lost that. Game
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  Speaker 4: like it's you never know what's going to. Happen and you,
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Know sanchez can go out and toss game, one seven
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: inning shutout and you don't, know they got to have
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: everything clicking at the same. Time BUT i think based
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: on what he's done over the last, year year and a,
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: half he's he's the guy they're going to have to lean.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: On so hopefully mentally he's ready to to take that
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: take the. Reins.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely all right, again, folks we're talking To Michael
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  Speaker 1: fisher here from That balls out Of here dot. Com
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: you know we love our fan sided sites, Here, michael
• 53:16
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• 53:22
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  Speaker 4: Michael, Sure, YEAH i still Say. Twitter. YEAH i Know
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• 53:36
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  Speaker 1: Yep a lot of content over at That Balls out
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  Speaker 1: of here dot com for. Sure so all, right we're
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: gonna kind of stick with the doom and, gloom but
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: we are going to end with some. Positivity we, will,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Folks we're gonna end with some. Positivity but right, now
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: really wanted to discuss what the concerns are going to
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: be on This phillies team again as we're heading into
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: the final stretch, here as we're looking towards this, postseason
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: want to talk about the concerns about when it comes
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: to the batting at this point with this, team when
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: it comes to the starting, rotation when it comes to
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the bullpen as. Well so let's start talking with these concerns.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Here get your opinions, Here. Michael let's start with. Batting
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: what should we be most concerned with when it comes
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: to the batting at this point with This phillies? Team and?
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: Why UH i think every fan might tell you the same.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: Thing it's the. Inconsistency, okay, serious series to, series you
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: don't know what you're gonna. Get you, know when they're
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: not on, yikes like it's it looks it looks. Ugly,
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: yeah you, know the inability to move guys over when
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: they need. To he's in the bad handle a bit
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: too tight when runners in score and. Position you, know
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: you know, that we know they got the horses to do.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: It they did it a week. Ago so, yes JUST
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  Speaker 4: i don't think there's any specific thing because it's going
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  Speaker 4: to take, everyone you, know, uh chipping in over the
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: course of the next. Month it can't be one one
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: guy carrying the team the whole. Time and they have
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: guys that can do, that but they need to get
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: everyone pull in the same. Direction.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah let's talk about the starting. Rotation biggest concerns
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: about the starting. Rotation i'm wondering if yours is going
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: to be something similar to, mine which is you, Know Aaron.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Nola we know that coming back from this injury hasn't
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: necessarily been the most, consistent BUT i mean the starting
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: rotation again With Zach, WHEELER i, mean what's your biggest
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: concern and.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: Why Uh nola for, sure because, yeah we don't. Know
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  Speaker 4: like obviously before you is on the I l it wasn't, going, well,
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: yeah we need we really need him to to be
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  Speaker 4: the veteran close to his ace as he can. Be but,
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  Speaker 4: REALLY i think it's like you can't really worry about
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: like for the rotation as a. Whole the day to
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: day they're. There they've shown that they are one of
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: the top rotations even Without Zach, wheeler that the guys can,
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: pitch they can go out every day and keep the
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: team in the, GAME i, think and kind of Like,
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: nola just the health like THEY i don't, know if
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: they overcome another, injury it's it's the health like they've
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: seen to have found something with Taime On walker this,
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: year like he's he's really stepped in and helped fill
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: that fifth. Spot lose another guy that's you, know there's
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: nothing you can do with that, either but it's always
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: kind of in the back of your mind now and
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: their depth isn't as deep as we thought it was
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: three months.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Ago, yeah very good. Point very good point for. Sure
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the bullpen. Here biggest concern with the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen and.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: WHY i don't know if i'd call it a concern
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  Speaker 4: just the recent regression From. DURAN i wouldn't Say i'm
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: concerned about him because he has a track. Record but you,
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: know in the game since he took that comeback or
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: off the, ankle he's given up more hits than he's had. Strikeouts,
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: yeah like the velocity is still, There like he looks,
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: good but he's given up more heart contact even though
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: some of the hits have been pretty pretty. CHEEKY i
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: was just looking at the five games since he took
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: that off the, ankle his average exit velow is up
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  Speaker 4: to ninety six point seven miles per hour his season
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  Speaker 4: average eighty nine point. Three. Wow so, yeah like there
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: being some as they call, them lucky, hits you, know
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  Speaker 4: down the lines and finding, holes but there has been
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: a lot of hard contact and it just is it bad?
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  Speaker 4: Luck is? It it makes you wonder, though, Right it's,
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: LIKE i don't, know it's there's gonna be. Regression like
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: he hasn't had a sub too era since his rookie, season,
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: right so you know there's. Regression he just happens to
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: be right. NOW i don't.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: Know, again it's, baseball, right these the ebbs and flows of.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Baseball that's what we are seeing right now in many
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: ways on This phillies. Team so all, right, well let's
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: end on a positive note. Here, okay let's end on
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: a positive note, Here. Michael let's talk About now we
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: were just talking about the. Concerns let's talk about the high,
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: hopes the high hopes we have for This phillies team
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: in terms of the, bats in terms of the starting
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: rotation and the. Bullpen let's start off with. Batting what
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: do you have the who do you have the highest hopes?
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: For and thinking How schwarber somewhere around there, Perhaps.
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: Well it's hard not to have high hopes about. Him,
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: yeah a little, bit a little bit of a funk
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: right now the last week or. So but you, know
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: he's gonna get. Fifty he's gonna hit, fifty And I'll
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: i'll probably do it when the next like when he
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: gets hot, again he'll do it in like three games, probably,
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: yep just and just the other veterans in the, lineup
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: BECAUSE i said, before you, know when they, click it's
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: a beautiful thing to. Watch, yeah but, YEAH i think Seeing, schwarber,
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: uh you, know leading the majors and RBIs he's gonna get,
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: fifty only second filly to do. That so that's gonna
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: be a pretty pretty, big pretty big.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: Milestone, yeah, Absolutely all, Right, well let's move to the starting.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Rotation is there anyone in the starting rotation you've really
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: got the high hopes? For and, uh you, know maybe
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: whether It's Chris. Sanchez maybe outside Of Cris, sanchez what
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: do you what are you?
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: Thinking, yeah outside outside Of Sanchez.
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  Speaker 1: Ranger, okay, agreed, yep.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: Because he went through that little, funk had had a
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: handful of starts where we're kind of holding our breath, thinking,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 4: oh is this like second half of last, year, right
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: there's something wrong with his back, again like what is
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: going on with this? Guy and and then since then
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: he's kind of he's he's taken that step forward. Again
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: SO i think down the stretch in the last month
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: he's gonna have to be a big, part AND i
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: think he will.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Be, yeah three point zero seven e RA a as
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: of us recording this not too, shabby you, know given
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: that given some shakiness here and, there for. Sure so
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: he wants to get. Paid, yeah, absolutely don't they? All
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: don't they?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: All?
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Yes all, Right well to end it here the? Bullpen,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: okay you have high hopes for the? Bullpen who's that
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: guy that you? Think, okay things are gonna be, great
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: things are gonna be. Fantastic what are your?
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: THOUGHTS i don't know if there's. ONE i think as a,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: collective based on you, know the the trials and tribulations
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: that we've all endured, this ye you know the personnel
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: changes they made just you, know just from in the last.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: Month you, know they've Got alvarado back for the rest
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: of the regular, season brought In, duran brought In Robertson
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: ross And. Romano they're Out romano for. Now, anyway Maybe
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: travino can figure something. Out you, know the the the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: makeup of it just looks better than what they've. Had
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: they just have to. Execute it looks like a pretty,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: good pretty good. Bullpen.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Now, yeah it's gonna be interesting to see With travina on, paper,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: yes but With, trevino With Lou trevino coming in, here you,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: know the hometown story could be really. Great just in
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: terms of the actual story, itself it's gonna be gonna
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: be really interesting.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: If it's one of those things that works out.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Right, yep absolutely Absolutely again, folks He's Michael fisher from
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• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: Michael great having you. On thank you so. Much let's
• 1:02:08
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• 1:02:10
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• 1:02:11
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