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The Phillies Need Some Offense Out Of The Gate! (PST Episode 561) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Hey there, everybody, it's Jeff. We wanted to let you know we
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  recorded this podcast episode on Wednesday, April tenth, twenty twenty four. By
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  the time you hear this, some things may have changed. You're there,
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  but we hope you enjoy the show. All right, everybody, you're listening
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  to the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast
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  show in the world, just about eleven years strong. Right here, I'm
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  Jeff Warren. I'm here at my good buddy Eric Leonard, Eric Man.
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  How you doing unemployed? Is ever? Jeff? Yeah, lad off a
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  few weeks ago. If you haven't listened to the show, yeah, man,
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  it is weird. You you wake up, so we lit all had
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  jobs. You wake up and you're like, oh, I gotta go to
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  work. I remember, I remember, right eight the five. Yeah.
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  But when you don't have that routine, I mean, unless you're a complete
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  maniac, like a gg Allen kind of lunatic, you do start to get
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  a little weird not having a routine, and you kind of you figure out
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  your routine eventually within the confines of not being employed. Yeah, you know,
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  the laundry, kitchen, cleaning, the dog. But just that kind
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  of stuff if you exercise. I haven't done that quite yet. But it's
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  just weird. It's it's a strange time, especially in a man's life at
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  the age of forty seven with two kids in a house, and you try
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  it and then you feel guilty all the time, like if you just kind
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  of sit on the couch and do nothing. That is exactly correct, That
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  is exactly correct. I've only been all right, since I've been ten years
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  old. I've only been unemployed once in my entire life, and I was
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  at the age of I think it was like thirty nine and was for four
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  months until I've found the current job that I have right now. And like
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  you said, there's a guilt associated with it where you're just like walking around
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  doing laundry. You're you know, you're doing the dishes and stuff, and
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  it's stuff that needs to get done, but it's weird to be doing it
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  at ten thirty in the morning. Yeah, and then I always find myself
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  reporting back to my wife. Put it for eight jobs today. Yeah,
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  I'm not just sitting around watching reruns mister Red, Well, that might be
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  my guilty place. No, our topics now, yes, stretch still like
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  all those weird channels like a Comet and TV Land TV not even TV like
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  like the antenna TV. Yeah, like my parents watch who are like they
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  watched Dragnet reruns and crab Dragnet. Yes, I don't even see mister Red
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  on any of those things. Man, is it still in the air.
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  I don't think so. I don't know why I pulled that out. That
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  was back maybe back in the nineties, got him getting hold. I feel
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  like that one got canceled because they like shoved glass and the horses hind oh
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  God to make them do the lip thing. Yeah, these were a different
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  Absolutely, we got a great show for you this week, decent amount of
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  topics. We got some listener feedback that we're gonna be getting into right off
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  the bat. And then it's kind of like just not talk about really sports
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  too much at all, a guilty pleasure as of late for Eric and I
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  from an entertainment perspective. And then we wanted to get into the women's college
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  basketball national title game between Iowa and South Carolina that you're an average of eighteen
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  point seven million viewers and another record, and we've been talking about women's basketball.
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  We've been talking about women's sports a lot on this podcast platform. We're
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  gonna continue doing that here, of course, on this show. And then
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  from there some sixers talk, and then Eric found a fantastic thread from a
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  minor league baseball player named Josh Gessner who was a member of the Philadelphia Phillies
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  back in twenty nineteen, but he's drifted around the miners. He put up
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  He put up a really, really eye opening and very cool thread on Twitter
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  Twitter slash x if you call it x. And then when we're thrown down
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  on the table this week, we got Tim Kelly from Phillies Nation dot com.
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  He's gonna join us for a quick look at how this Phillies team has
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  been batting and pitching during this first leg of the season and what's happening with
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  the team. So let's get into this week's show. Let's get into some
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  listener feedback from one of our good friends who's written us every now and again,
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  Francis Sweeney. He said, Hey, guys, hope you're all doing
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  great. Just got back from seeing the Phillies play the Nats down in DC
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  over the weekend. Felt like a home game on Saturday. With the number
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  of Phillies fans there. They've really built up the ballpark area and the stadium
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  staff made it very easy to bring our toddler infant in all the kids gear.
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  It is a great easy weekend trip for any listeners who haven't had the
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  pleasure of seeing a game there yet. And separately, I got tickets from
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  my wife and I to go to the Flyers upcoming Saturday night game for the
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  Wayne Simmons tribute retirement night. He was one of my favorite Flyers for so
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  many years and I'm honored as a fan that he chose to retire as a
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  Flyer. Really hoping the Wells Fargo Centers packed to the brim so we can
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  thank this legend the way that he deserves. That the team can go out
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  and grind out hopefully a much needed win against the Devil's. Have a great
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  rest of the week, and thanks again for work putting the pod together,
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  Francis. So Hey, Francis, buddy, thank you so much for writing
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  us here and some good subject matters here. I don't know how much Eric's
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  gonna be getting into the Flyers talk and Wayne Simmons stuff too much, but
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  maybe maybe maybe the Phillies stuff, Buddy, I do have some Wayne Simmons
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  thoughts. Oh nice, all right, Yeah, Well, I gotta say
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  I've been down to I've been down to DC for a NAT's Phillies game in
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  the past, and it really is amazing because he hit the nail on the
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  head. It is like a home game for the Phillies down there almost all
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  the time. And it's not That's not to say that the Nats fans are
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  are are crap fans by any stretch of the management. I don't know.
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  Maybe they are, maybe they don't take that much of an interest, but
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  man, Phillies fans, they just come out down there, you know,
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  right off a Capitol Hill. It's a pretty cool stadium and in ballpark,
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  lots of development has happened over the years and it's a great place to watch
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  a game. Funny enough, my my wife and daughter were in d C
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  Friday through Sunday, down there with Francis for what down there with Francis.
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  Yes, you know, they were there for why we always travel my daughter's
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  dance schedule. Yep. And uh. And my wife actually text me she's
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  like, the Phillies must be in town, because holy hell, there's she
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  said, there's Phillies people everywhere, and I was like, and I quick
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  looked. I was like, yeah, they are. And I wasn't surprised
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  because it is a quick it's not a it's not a bad drive. It's
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  much like when they play the Orioles or you know in Baltimore. Yeah,
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  I've never been in the stadium, but I've heard the same thing that it's
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  it's it's it's kind of a cookie cutter stadium. But but from like the
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  new generation of of of of stadiums, and I've heard the same thing,
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  and Jeff, God blessed Francis. I I've I've taking a toddler, I've
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  taken a baby to uh to a baseball game. I've taken a Phillies to
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  Phillies games. It's not easy, dude, you you there's so much gear
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  you're packing. And real quick story, my my daughter's first Philadelphia Phillies baseball
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  game. We we we did the real deal. We took we took the
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  broad Street line down the subway from Suburban station. Came up and I was
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  like all proud. I was, so I let her. I let her
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  walk like up the sidewalk a little bit, and within like like a minute,
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  I'm like, oh yeah, everyone's really moving fast to the stadium.
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  And as I went to go kind of grab her hand, all of a
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  sudden, she kind of started tumbling forward smack hit her forehead against the side,
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  and there's a great picture of after the game, we're back in the
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  hotel and uh, I'm sitting behind her with a beer going eh and my
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  daughter is a huge shiner on her, this big, big raspberry in the
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  middle of her forehead. That was her first experience, and she fell asleep
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  about the fifth inning. I think it was. Yeah, but I I
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  know what Frances is talking about, like, you just want to find is
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  you just want to find some kind of event that you can take your kids
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  to, and especially when they're a really tiny and if it's a sporting event,
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  it's even better. Absolutely, it's it's I remember I remember the twins
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  first time we actually took them to Coca Cola Park Leigh Valley Iron Pigs Triple
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  A game, and I was just I always had these high expectators, these
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  ridiculous high expectations for my kids. I'm like, all right, it's a
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  new atmosphere, it's a new environment. They're gonna be all psyched. They're
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  gonna be excited to be here and stuff like that. Now done by like
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  the third inning, they're like tired, tired. You're walking around the stadium
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  so much. They got their little legs, you know what I mean,
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  They're freaking tired. It's third inning. And I'm like, I'm like,
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  all right, come on, we got six more, Like we got six
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  more to go? What are you doing here? Nope, sleeping? Six
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  more might as well be two years to a tiny ki Yes exactly. Yeah,
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  well Wayne Simmons really quick. I mean, I think it's fantastic stick
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  that the Flyers are of course doing this here. I mean, he's one
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  of my favorite old power forwards from this Flyers organization. And look, fifteen
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  years in this league. He's thirty five years old right now, and he
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  just really held a special place I think for so many, so many fans.
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  I mean, just known for his clutch goals, just he had this
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  uncompromising toughness all the time at the end of the day, quality player,
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  quality person and teammate. Everybody loved him as a teammate and just like like
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  a really good role model off the ice. And it's when he was traded.
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  I was sad. It was time, of course, as many of
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  us who follow the Flyers knew, it was time for him to be traded,
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  and we were all hoping that he would get that Stanley Cup, and
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  you know it was. It was sad, but I'm glad he's coming back
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  to Philly to retire as a Flyer, signing that one day contract with the
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  team. And just like Francis, I hope the Wells Fargo Center is going
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  to be absolutely jam packed to the top and last row up there at the
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  at the Wells Fargo Center. So I don't know, I'm I'm looking forward
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  to following this for sure. Yeah, I know, I don't. I
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  don't speak too finally of the Flyers on here. It's more so a joke
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  because I just don't follow hockey that much. But I was. I was
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  following the Flyers back when they picked him up in twenty eleven. They picked
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  up Braden Shiny, Wayne and and in exchange for Mike Richards, I believe,
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  yeah, And it was it was a huge turnaround for the for the
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  team, Like they got young all of a sudden, and Wayne Simmons came
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  in and he was just one of those like I like this guy, like
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  he's kind of an asshole. He's kind of a tough guy. He's talented,
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  like he might become more than just got a big defensive kind of assholeea.
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  And he really did in his entire career. And he was part of
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  that really fun team that just beat the shit out of the pang Wins in
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  the twenty twelve playoffs. Yeah, he was part of that. And I
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  was living in Pittsburgh at a time, man, and I was like the
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  only Flyers fan I felt like in the entire city. And I remember that.
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  I remember I remember the Flyers has taking it to them in that series,
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  and he was part of that, and just just fond memories of him.
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  And I almost felt like he could have been almost like a Rod brindanmore
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  kind of player if his offensive a little more offensive skills had developed. But
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  yeah, not one of those guys. It's not a bad thing to say,
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  Yeah, not at all. Really good flyer had a good career here
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  and just a good career fifteen years. Man, he made a made a
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  shit ton of money. He did say that, yes, yes, rightfully,
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  so rightful, Like he just he's a guy too that had a lot
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  of respect for Flyers fandom like the Flyers fans in general, and the Flyers
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  fans for the most part, you know, just respected him too as a
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  player. So hope you enjoyed that time Saturday night. Francis not sure when
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  you're gonna be listening to this podcast, but if it's before, we hope
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  you have a great time. If you live to us after, we hope
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  it was a great time for you. So let's get into our next subject
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  here, Eric a guilty pleasure as of late from an entertainment perspective, I
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  wanted to put this on the agenda because I feel like I need to talk
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  about this. I feel like I need to talk about my guilty pleasure with
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  regard to a podcast that I have been listening to and every single time I
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  have it on in my car, I want somebody to slap me in the
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  face. It's like, I just want somebody to come through the window and
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  slap me as hard as possible. But I'm loving listening to this for some
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  reason. It is then Aaron Andrews and Carissa Thompson podcast called Calm down,
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  honestly, and please ladies out there, this is no offense. They are
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  just a bunch of hens. Just talking and yapping it up and just do
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  that oh yeah, oh, oh, I know, oh yes, you
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  know, like after every line, after every single line. But their stories
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  are compelling. Their stories are very compelling. These are two very powerful ladies
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  in the world of broadcast, especially in terms of the NFL. They are
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  they lead privileged lives, but it's interesting to hear the trials and tribulations that
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  they do go through within the course of their lives. Some things where you
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  kind of take a step back and say, man, I'm kind of glad
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  I'm not them, but other things where it's like, really, this is
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  what you're complaining about. And I just love listening to this podcast for some
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  reason, and I really should be slapped in the face for it, because
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  it's just it's nothing really that I've listened to. But again, these ladies
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  are compelling. Their stories are compelling. I've this is my guilty pleasure here.
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  But it's a way of life that you didn't even know existed, right,
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  So it's kind of a kind of a portal into that, and I
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  honestly don't know what it is like. Do they talk about life on the
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  road with the NFL during the season, They did like I only started listening
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  to this podcast probably about maybe five six weeks ago, but they put some
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  reruns on recently. I call them reruns. By the way, Jesus,
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  they're old, I know, like put the reruns on the television. I
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  gotta get in three thirty they're gonna play the podcast rerun of the Yeah,
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  what a jerk I am. They put on some older shows when they just
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  weren't making content. It was from the season, but they have been on
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  since and they're like talking about Aaron Andrews has a baby, and the baby's
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  getting ready to turn one year old, and they were having a conversation.
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  I swear to God, Chris Thompson says to her, please don't do what
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  one of our friends did and spend thirty thousand dollars on the one year old's
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  birthday. Just please don't do that. And I was absolutely blown away by
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  the fact that they would, even of course they know people in this world,
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  they know people in this in this arena. We're dropping thirty thousand dollars
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  on a one year old's birthday. Was never gonna remember it. It's like
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  nothing, you know, And it was just I'm amazed listening to it.
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  It's it's amazing listening to this stuff in this world that these ladies live in.
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  I can't relate. I'll say that I can't relate to anything. They're
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  good looking ladies too, I can't. I can't relate to good looking.
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  I got my nerd goggles on. Here. I'm in my little studio area.
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  I'm wearing my Eagles shirt, and I'm looking real chubby and stumpy here.
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  And you have your your noodling guitars behind you. Yeah, so you
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  do a noodle a little bit of boo. But I can't. I mean
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  my daughter's first birthday party we had in our little house in Harrisburg. We
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  had forty people over fifty and we're laying on top one another because our house
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  was so small. I can't relate to thirty thousand dollars, I know,
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  but it's it. But again, I see where you're coming from. At
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  the same time, it's like it's a it is a window and a life
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  that who the hell would even know that existed. It coming from our perspective,
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  plus work, and you love the NFL. Yeah, so obviously.
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  But I understand why I wouldn't fee guilty. I wouldn't feel embarrassed, but
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  it is. It's it's almost it's not awkward, but it's like I understand,
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  like where you be like, will I listen to this and your buddy
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  buddy viewers would be like, hm, okay, yeah, maybe saying some
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  other choice words to me that we aren't going to say right now on this
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  podcast platform. Okay, but this is where I'll get to mind. But
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  like, this is I had this discussion earlier with somebody. I'm like,
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  what the hell is a guilty pleasure? Though? Like, do I feel
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  guilty for watching or listening to it or liking or liking or do or am
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  I embarrassed to tell people that I like it? It's both? Is it
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  both? I think it's both. I think it is both because I get
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  that because that's what I was just saying with the Calm Down podcast. Yeah,
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  part of me is embarrassed about it. I'm embarrassed about it from a
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  cultural standpoint because a forty six year old man shouldn't be getting a lot of
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  enjoyment from two of the most powerful women in the NFL who are just henning
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  it up about their lives. But I but I do. And part of
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  it there's an embarrassment to it, and part of me feels guilty kind of
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  for liking it so much. It's I'm like, I got a lot of
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  podcasts here in my freaking app here that I could be listening to and watching.
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  That's your that's your go to, and that's been that's been myf go
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  to. It's like my top three go to recently. Yep. I think
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  where I struggle with this one is I'm forty seven, and it's almost like,
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  listen, I like what I like, Yeah, fuck yourself if you
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  don't just like exactly. I think that's where I and my wife said earlier.
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  I asked her, what is your definition of it? We're kind of
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  the same page, but she did say I think I think another element to
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  it might be if it's beneath you, like in terms of if it's beneath
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  you mentally intellectually. I got another aspect. Okay, I don't think that
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  show would be would qualify for that, but yeah, so mine mine,
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  Uh, the one does absolutely qualify and being intellectually below me. Man,
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  since I've been unemployed, I watch bar Rescue Non Star really right, But
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  here's the thing I'm not. I'm not I don't feel stupid saying it out
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  loud, right, I mean, even as the past few seasons you watch
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  and you're like, oh my god, it's not even real, Like half
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  of this is fake obviously, right, I think some of these bartenders are
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  actors. I don't think they're even work at the fucking I wonder that that
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  exact. I was actually gonna ask you that, because you've been watching it
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  here, it's seemed like I've only seen like I don't watch it or anything
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  like that. I've seen clips here and there, but it's like, are
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  these people acting here? Yeah, some don't even feel like they're actually like
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  part of the family or part of the bar. They're just actors trying to
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  get in the Hollywood and yeah, but yeah, it is absolutely below me,
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  and there are probably certain people in my life I'd be like, I
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  won't admit that I watched this crap, but I watch way too much of
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  it because there's some channel on Hulu it plays it almost twenty four hours a
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  day. Yes, that is definitely on there. But then I went to
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  TV and music or movies. Those are my three big things, right,
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  No movies I've watched recently where I have a guilty pleasure. And this goes
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  right in my wheelhouse because again, I'm unemployed a lot of free time.
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  Yeah, now, this one's a I'm gonna say it's a guilty pleasure,
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  but I don't really think it is. You tell me what you think.
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  I've been listening to Nalie Merchant a lot. Is that I'm gonna give you
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  one of these guitars. You gotta start playing here, buddy, we gotta
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  get your music. She she writes great songs. She has an awesome voice.
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  She is a great songwriter. I'll tell you, yeah, she absolutely
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  is incredible. I'm listening to her solo stuff. I'm listening to stuff you
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  do with Billy Bragg and we'll go back in the day and the Mermaid Avenue
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  records, and I'm just like, holy hell, she is a al timer.
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  If she had come out in the late seventies of the New York scene,
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  she would like Patti Smith. Yeah yeah. And I just listened to
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  her now, and I just I respect like she writes the kind of music
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  and I'm kissing her ass now And it's not like it's not even a guilty.
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  I'm trying to justify that this is obviously it's a guilty pleasure, right,
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  Yeah, but she writes music for like her age, Like she keeps
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  like, I'm fifty now, I wrote this song. I'm fifty two now.
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  I wrote this song because that's where I'm at my life. I don't
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  know. I respect that he's an awesome voice. I like her music,
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  and if I certain people may be like, I'm going to see Pig Destroyer
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  in a couple of weeks. Yes, a great grindcore band. I went
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  there and be like, what are you into, man, Natalie Merchant.
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  Yeah, but listen to Natalie Merchant as of late. You know, she's
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  very uncompromising with her sound. I might get some weird looks. Yes,
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  so there you go. By the way, I can't wait to go to
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  the Picture Destroyer show with you. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be
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  fun. Yes, I you know what, it's weird to mention Natalie Merchant.
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  I think as as a guilty pleasure. I think music in general anymore
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  as we're getting older. Maybe when we were back in our twenties, especially
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  when you were on you and I were at Penn State and were in college,
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  there was definitely like I remember the one time, I remember one time,
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  and I actually, I don't ever think I told you this. You
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  admitted that you were listening to I Go. You admitted you were like listening
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  to Andrew WK. I think at one point for his first record, first
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  record, right, the one where he's got the blood coming out of his
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  nose and stuff like that. And I remember I didn't even say anything to
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  our buddy Dave, but I was just like, oh my gosh, what's
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  happening, Derek. He went from Soundgarden to Andrew. But I got a
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  little judgy about it, at least inside, you know. But like after
• 21:42
  the year, after so many years, though, you go back and you
• 21:45
  listen to that, it's like, you know what, it's not terrible.
• 21:48
  It's not terrible at all. You know. It's music is so fucking subjective
• 21:53
  in so many different ways. And shit that I used to listen to back
• 21:57
  in the day was and I can say that now like it was crap,
• 22:02
  but some of it was good too, and vice versa. There's stuff that
• 22:06
  I listened to now, Like there's a band that I've been loving with you
• 22:08
  and I've talked about. The band is called Knocked Loose, and my wife,
• 22:11
  bless her soul, she has been really good with a lot of the
• 22:15
  metal stuff over the years. She's gone to shows with me. She hates
• 22:18
  it. She goes, I can't do this, Jeff. She goes,
• 22:21
  I can't do knocked loose. I can't do it. I told her,
• 22:25
  do you want to go to the show with me? And she goes,
• 22:26
  you can go alone to this one. Yeah. As you get older,
• 22:33
  there does a demarcation line does get formed, especially the kind of we like,
• 22:37
  like death metal, grind It's really difficult. I imagine dating back in
• 22:45
  the day, if you in your like early twenties and like you take a
• 22:48
  girl to see grind core, if she's into it, then you she's a
• 22:53
  keeper, yes, But then you get older, it's like this is my
• 22:59
  thing. No one else want to hear this. I get it exactly.
• 23:00
  Yeah. Yeah, I like the Natalie Merchant that I kind of made a
• 23:04
  joke to say, like she you know, she's uncompromising with her sound.
• 23:07
  But really there's something to be said for that too. There really is.
• 23:11
  There's something to be said for being as old as she is still making music,
• 23:15
  still being relevant within the genre, and like not compromising your your style
• 23:21
  and who you are as a musician. I think I dig that she's she
• 23:23
  just is who she is. She doesn't give it like I and that kind
• 23:26
  of it's that that really is like a punk Ethos kind of thing. She's
• 23:32
  just make that kind of music. I will say, when you and Dave
• 23:34
  admitted to me that you like the first Nickelback record in the mid two thousands,
• 23:41
  I was. I don't know if I said like I was horrified.
• 23:48
  I'll just say that Dave's the one who said he liked it. She said
• 23:52
  I listened to it. Maybe Now that's a guilty pleasure. That really is.
• 23:56
  Yeah, I'd love to know you're guilty pleasure out there, folks.
• 24:00
  Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com. We'd love to read your email here
• 24:04
  on the show, and it'd be fun to really hear some of the guilty
• 24:08
  pleasures out there for sure. But before we go to our break, we
• 24:11
  want to get into the women's college basketball national title game between South Carolina and
• 24:17
  Iowa again drew eighteen point seven million viewers. Another record. Here's some Here's
• 24:22
  some of what this sporting event beat out in terms of viewership. Every World
• 24:29
  Series game since Game seven of the twenty nineteen World Series, every NBA Finals
• 24:33
  game since Game five of the twenty seventeen NBA Finals, every daytona five hundred
• 24:38
  since two thousand and six, every Master's Final Round viewership since two thousand and
• 24:44
  one, all but four college football games in twenty twenty three, and that
• 24:48
  came from the athletic those numbers right there. It was an amazing sports spectacle,
• 24:57
  and it came down, really came down to the last few seconds coming
• 25:02
  down to a foul and whether or not a foul should have been called.
• 25:04
  Regardless of that, it is amazing not just what Caitlin Clark has done,
• 25:10
  but but what these coaches have done and these other women that are on the
• 25:15
  team as well. South Carolina just just an unbelievable and unbelievable run. And
• 25:22
  if they do it next year, holy holy shit, it would be amazing.
• 25:26
  With just what women athletics are right now. I love it. We
• 25:32
  are both you know, you know, we're both girl dads, you know
• 25:33
  what I mean. I just love to see where women's athletics are going right
• 25:37
  now here in twenty twenty four. It's not just like pull the curtain back
• 25:45
  too in that number. Sorry, we're talking to Sunday at like what three
• 25:51
  o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah, that game, and that's a massive,
• 25:56
  massive share TV share for that time, for that time period. Hell,
• 26:02
  the Friday night Final four. I don't have the numbers on that, but
• 26:06
  I heard the numbers were phenomenal for that. It's a Friday night. People
• 26:08
  are out, yeah, not staying in. I have a feeling like a
• 26:11
  lot of sports bars like people galluinated, like like gravitated, sorry, gravitated
• 26:18
  the TVs. Yeah, watch those final four games I watched. I watched
• 26:22
  the men's Final four, and I watched the men's championship. And the fact
• 26:26
  that we're even like talking about the women's finals. In the final four,
• 26:30
  Caitlin Clark is a huge part of that, probably the biggest piece of it.
• 26:33
  Let's let's be honest, right, but so many good storylines came out
• 26:40
  of that South Carolina girls team was girls team. I'm sorry, I still
• 26:42
  have a girl in my house, but the South Carolina women's team. Man,
• 26:47
  just we're thirty seven to zero. Don like notough. Not enough to
• 26:52
  said about Don Staley Philadelphia needed. By the way, Yes, I hear
• 26:55
  she's getting a statue of some sort somewhere. She's sure is a fucking Rocky
• 27:00
  statue. Okay, the guy's not even real. There needs to be a
• 27:03
  Don Staley statue. Let' let's be honest, like multi multi championship winner.
• 27:10
  I don't know if you saw on h on Twitter, Instagram. The practice
• 27:14
  squad got rings, yes, and the practice squad is all guys that practice.
• 27:18
  It's her girls and her women. My god, what the hell wrong
• 27:21
  with me? And uh like just just just an incredible again, the fact
• 27:26
  that we're talking about a third topic end of the show. It was a
• 27:30
  fantastic game. The skill level. I talked about this a couple of weeks
• 27:33
  ago, the skill level as a coach of basketball, Like I tell my
• 27:37
  boys now watch Yukon boys or men's men's team and watch the women's game.
• 27:45
  That's the skill level I want you guys to have exactly. That's that's gonna
• 27:48
  that's going to get you possible college s college ships down the road. It's
• 27:52
  not the way that like, I mean, I like Alabama they made the
• 27:56
  Final four, but that ain't it. Like it's just not just not the
• 28:00
  best basketball I've ever seen running down the court. Let's shoot a three and
• 28:04
  do that five hundred times. Pretty amazing, it's gonna be kind of cool.
• 28:11
  I I some of the this is how big the sport has gotten.
• 28:15
  This is actually a good thing. I hate to say this, but there's
• 28:18
  controversy now. Right. The old heads of the w n b A were
• 28:23
  like, look, come to the league, baby, we got you.
• 28:26
  We're gonna we're gonna kick your ass and stuff. Right, Diana Tarassi was
• 28:30
  kind of an asshole in some of the interviews recently about Kalin Clark. But
• 28:34
  honestly, but that's good for the sport, okay, And the fact she's
• 28:38
  gonna get be the first pick. Everyone's gonna be gunning for her. She's
• 28:41
  gonna have probably a tough rough season, but I might I'm I'm actually gonna
• 28:45
  watch Indiana fever. I think I'm gonna watch some of their games because he's
• 28:49
  on the team, and that I hate to bring this up to but CNN
• 28:56
  posting a picture of Caitlin Clark to announce it South I only have won the
• 29:00
  national championship. It's like, what are you doing? Are you deaf as
• 29:06
  hell? Exactly? Yea, But again, it's all part of the narrative
• 29:10
  that was not there a year ago or two years ago, that oh my
• 29:12
  God, everyone's talking about this now. It's just it's it's unfortunately it's tied
• 29:18
  into the sport, but it's actually unfortunately like it's part of the it's part
• 29:22
  of the nucleus now for that sport to move forward. Don Staley talking about
• 29:29
  she doesn't care about trans people playing or whatever. Again, all good for
• 29:33
  the sport. And it absolutely incredible that to think twenty years ago that two
• 29:38
  guys on a pot, two middle aged men on a podcast, we're talking
• 29:41
  about women's basketball. Yeah, unheard of back then. I did not think
• 29:45
  eleven years ago when we started this podcast that we were going to be talking
• 29:49
  about women's college basketball. I did not at all. But it's part of
• 29:53
  the culture now. It's not going anywhere anytime soon. It's going to be
• 29:56
  sticking around. So I hope you've been enjoyed what you're listening to here at
• 30:00
  the PSD podcast Show. Subscribe on whatever podcast platform you are on, and
• 30:04
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• 30:07
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• 30:11
  to hear from you over email Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot com. Just
• 30:15
  like Francis shot us off that email earlier. We'd love to hear about your
• 30:18
  guilty pleasures, what you're thinking about with regard to women's college basketball, the
• 30:22
  Sixers, baseball, everything. So uh oh, yeah, we've got some
• 30:26
  We got some NFL talk coming up down the road as well. We got
• 30:30
  the draft, Eric, the draft is coming. All I care about is
• 30:36
  that we all get together and hang out and watch it. Yes, yes,
• 30:40
  absolutely, all right, folks, We're gonna take quick break, pay
• 30:42
  some bills. We will be back in just a bit with some Sixers talk
• 30:45
  and some minor league baseball talk and some Phillies talk. Stick with us,
• 30:48
  We'll be right back. All right. We are back, and now would
• 30:53
  be a good time, Eric, to get into this Philadelphia seventy six Ers
• 30:56
  team. They've been bouncing back since Joe l. Embiid has been back on
• 31:00
  the court. I think what's amazing with this team at this point, after
• 31:04
  the garbage that we saw from them time and time again when Embiid was out
• 31:08
  and injured and getting back trying to get back to form, is that this
• 31:12
  is a team that could possibly move up to the number three seed by the
• 31:17
  end of this siege, the end of the season, which is now really
• 31:21
  really tight in this Eastern Conference logjam here, or they could just completely crap
• 31:26
  the bed and suffered through a one off playing game. It's gonna be like
• 31:32
  really really close with these standings at this point. But Joel embiid Man getting
• 31:37
  back into form. I mean, yes, he was playing Detroit's terrible defense,
• 31:41
  put up thirty seven points recently eight assists. He did have five turnovers
• 31:45
  in that game, but he also scored thirty points in less than twenty three
• 31:51
  minutes this past Saturday in Memphis against a Grizzlies team. Yes, that was
• 31:56
  injured as well, but it's good to see him getting back to shape.
• 31:59
  Dan to be Melton on the court for the first time this past week two.
• 32:01
  It's nice to see him back on the court. So, I don't
• 32:06
  know, things are quote looking up for the Sixers. I don't know.
• 32:09
  You're the basketball guy, what are you thinking at this point? So the
• 32:14
  two games left Orlando and my god, who's they play some crap team the
• 32:20
  last game of the year. I forget who it is. I don't think
• 32:22
  they can get the three seed at this point. The Knicks, I think
• 32:27
  they could for some reason. It's close, but I'm not sure if they
• 32:30
  can. I think the ideal my brother and I were taught texting my buddy
• 32:36
  Mack and I two. I think the ideal spot is that six hole,
• 32:38
  Yeah, which is still open. I'm on ESPN the app right now.
• 32:44
  I'm trying to figure out they don't update their stuff like the night of,
• 32:47
  so they might be like, right, tied for the six hole with the
• 32:52
  Racers, but tonight the Miami and I think, yeah, Miami lost and
• 33:00
  someone else lost too. But regardless, if you look at the team itself,
• 33:05
  I know it is Detroit, but who cares? Like they look fantastic
• 33:09
  that that's the perfect game for MBA to come back and kind of play himself
• 33:14
  back in the shape. And I heard people on Twitter. I saw people
• 33:17
  on Twitter like complaining, why is he playing? Why is he playing so
• 33:21
  much against a bad team? But their next game is only Fridays. It's
• 33:25
  a three days you know, three days of rest and Meltain's back. I'm
• 33:30
  telling you right now, besides the Celtics, no team wants to play the
• 33:35
  Sixers in the playoffs. No, Like this is the first time in ages
• 33:37
  I can think about like, we're actually the scariest team besides the top seed
• 33:43
  that going into the Eastern, going into the Eastern playoffs, no one wants
• 33:46
  to play a healthy embid. No one wants to play Maxie. Thank you
• 33:50
  for saying this, by the way, because like these idiots on Twitter x
• 33:53
  whatever, you know, So just just sit about for the rest of the
• 33:57
  season for what for what? They can make a run here. There could
• 34:02
  there could be a spark when we least expect it. They could possibly get
• 34:07
  them to the Eastern Conference finals. It could happen. It could it could
• 34:10
  happen. And right now, if you wind up in the seven hole somehow,
• 34:15
  and he played them walking in the first round with a limping Yiannis Ye
• 34:20
  who was just announced a couple hours ago that he's he's done for the regular
• 34:22
  season. He's a bad calf strain, is what they called it. He's
• 34:28
  seven to one, dude. His calf is like as long as my my
• 34:31
  leg Okay. A calf strain is not a good injury for a guy that
• 34:37
  relays on like mobility and and and and and getting up in the air yep.
• 34:44
  And in the past and Be has kind of owned him at times.
• 34:46
  So I again, this is kind of weird, Like we're usually we're usually
• 34:52
  sitting in the two or three spot, and like we go in and we're
• 34:57
  scared to death as six rus fans. Yeah, the first time, it's
• 35:00
  like, oh, we're hot, we're going in. We're going into the
• 35:02
  playoffs as like like kind of the under the radar team who's kicking everyone's ass.
• 35:08
  Melton's back, Buddy, he'll come off the bench. I love the
• 35:13
  way have Buddy, He'll come off the bench. Just hit three quarters.
• 35:15
  That's fantastic. We have a real genuine number two in Maxi. If they
• 35:22
  beat Orlando on Friday and they and they went out, I'm hoping they get
• 35:27
  that six seed. But if they wind up in the seven to play the
• 35:30
  Bucks with a limping Yannis in a wide open, wide open East, besides
• 35:37
  the Celtics, really they play the Nets, by the way, that's the
• 35:38
  last game on Sunday, and they should beat them. Yeah, Nicks,
• 35:44
  Nicks without Randall, Cleveland just all over the place. Orlando. There's no
• 35:46
  freaking way Orlando is going to go in confident into the playoffs. Pacers are
• 35:51
  all over the place. We're the one team that has like everything going for
• 35:55
  it, and we just happen to have a seven to two and seventy pounds
• 35:59
  monster who could put up forty five points in twenty rebounds and just completely destroy
• 36:04
  your your, your your season. I'm optimistic. Hesitant, of course,
• 36:12
  it's been a word. Yeah, kind of like going into the playoffs like
• 36:15
  a Philadelphia team, like we're underestimated, we're but other teams are a little
• 36:21
  scared of us. So first, I prefer that as opposed to like all
• 36:23
  the pressure being on you to perform as the two or three seed. Well,
• 36:28
  that's what's been happening over the past how many fucking years now, that
• 36:31
  pressure's been there and they get folded. Well, they've folded to the pressure
• 36:36
  in the second round every freaking year year. That pressure is now off.
• 36:39
  Joel Embiid is now healthy quote healthy, I should say, you know,
• 36:45
  I mean he's coming. He's not. It's like we're not at that point
• 36:47
  in this season where we're like, Okay, he's going to be getting injured.
• 36:52
  He already went through it, folks, he already. Thank god,
• 36:54
  he went through it already, and he's looking damn good right now. So
• 36:59
  I don't know. I'm optimist too, man, I'm optimistic, and we're
• 37:01
  home for the last two games. Yeah, right, we have Orlando coming
• 37:04
  in. I'm sure Orlando in their locker rooms, Like, let's do it,
• 37:07
  let's take him to them. Yeah, yep, who the fucking their
• 37:12
  roster can guard embad? I know they're a good defensive team. I love
• 37:16
  Jonathan Isaac's defense is fantastic. He can't stop. He's Isaac is what seven
• 37:23
  feet tall, one hundred and ten pounds, Simon stick legs, bird chess
• 37:30
  just like myself, right, he can't stop Embiid. Like, I love
• 37:35
  that. That's the team we have to play, and they're above us.
• 37:37
  We can send a message. We might play them in the first round.
• 37:39
  You know, it's absolutely possible. I can't believe how optimistic I'm about this
• 37:45
  team. It's kind of the perfect situation. It's been the This is the
• 37:49
  first time in a long time of going in like all right, like you're
• 37:53
  truly underestimating us. That's fine, not that phony, like we're the two
• 37:58
  seed, but nobody believed in on us. Like yeah, stop everybody,
• 38:01
  this is the first time, like in a long day. I'm very excited,
• 38:05
  and this maybe the first year I go in like whatever happens, happens,
• 38:08
  Yeah, talking on it's me the worst two by the way, being
• 38:12
  unemployed and watching the NBA playoffs because I have nothing to do, say,
• 38:15
  I got a lot of time to think. I'm gonna sit there, I'm
• 38:19
  gonna walk the dog for two hours, like, oh my god, the
• 38:22
  Melton played twelve minutes. By the way, I love how you just called
• 38:28
  yourself bird chest. I remember Whenlen used to call you, well, I
• 38:31
  combined, he called me bird chest, you call me cinnamon stick legs.
• 38:36
  Yes, and uh many a time, folks on the show We're out there,
• 38:42
  Jeff used to walk up to me, and Jeff's a stout guy,
• 38:45
  and he would just grab me by the hip and just pick me up over
• 38:49
  his shoulder in one motion like it was nothing. I'm six three. He
• 38:57
  just picked me up. There you go. All right, all right,
• 39:02
  let's move on to our final topic here before we get to what we're thrown
• 39:07
  down on the table and this, Eric, I appreciate you contributing to the
• 39:12
  agenda this week. This was great. This is great. I mean,
• 39:15
  this is legitimately a fantastic thread here. Well, I saw a tweet and
• 39:20
  I sent to you and said, here's a topic. That's my contribution to
• 39:22
  the show. That's it. That's it, folks, it's great. Should
• 39:28
  I read this whole thing? I mean, it's not like that long.
• 39:30
  I mean it's kind of long, but it's not that long. Should we
• 39:31
  just kind of read what this is? I mean the highlights? I guess
• 39:36
  the highlights. Okay. So, as I mentioned at the top of the
• 39:38
  show, a minor league baseball player named Josh Gessner. He in twenty nineteen,
• 39:45
  he signed a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, and he wrote right at
• 39:49
  the top. Five years later, I haven't played in a single major league
• 39:52
  baseball game, and here's how the minor leagues worked. And he just went
• 39:58
  through the process. He went through the process, just talking about how you
• 40:01
  know, you're competing against your teammates essentially, and despite competing against each other
• 40:08
  or you know, it really doesn't feel like it. You spend more time
• 40:12
  with your teammates than you do your family and your friends, and you just
• 40:15
  become best friends with everybody even though you're competing against them. You also just
• 40:20
  talked about how you know there were basically what there is. There's five five
• 40:25
  hundred plus minor leaguers for seven hundred and eighty spots in the big leagues,
• 40:31
  and new players are coming in each year. You got the draft every year,
• 40:35
  so there's this tremendous amount of turnover and just again the competition to actually
• 40:40
  try to make it to major League baseball. And it was it was a
• 40:44
  fascinating read, Eric, because even though he signed with signed with the Phillies
• 40:51
  for what one point two million dollars, he he still doesn't play in a
• 40:54
  Major League Baseball game. And I believe the minimum you can make and made
• 41:00
  league baseball, which he did put in one of the uh SECU Yeah,
• 41:05
  I think it was seven hundred and forty thousand, and he's like, you
• 41:07
  know, a couple of years can change your life here or there. And
• 41:10
  there's a lot of luck involved in this too. And that's what I really
• 41:14
  took away from this particular thread, Eric, was that Lady, luck is
• 41:19
  part of professional sports. And if you are in professional sports trying to get
• 41:23
  to the top level, whether it's the NBA, NHL, NFL, or
• 41:29
  Major League baseball, major league soccer as well, you know, there's some
• 41:32
  luck there because there's a lot of talent. Man, there's a lot of
• 41:36
  athletically talented individuals. This guy is one of them. Josh Gasner is one
• 41:40
  of them, but man, he just he just hasn't been able to get
• 41:44
  to the majors here. Yeah, a couple of takeaways from the thread.
• 41:50
  Number one, I think he's like he might be seeing his career. He's
• 41:54
  looking forward and thinking like, maybe my career is like telling stories. Yeah,
• 42:00
  in a story that has not been told many times, like the real
• 42:02
  how minor leagues actually work? Like how many movies are there about minor league
• 42:07
  baseball, like Bull Durham. There's not a lot, right, it's kind
• 42:10
  of a league league. Yeah, but it's one of those things like no
• 42:19
  one's ever really pulled the curtain back on how that works. And we tend
• 42:22
  to focus as fans on like the first round picks, the top prospects.
• 42:27
  But if you go to minor league baseball games, man, like, Okay,
• 42:30
  I'm going to see I'm going to see this guy and this guy,
• 42:32
  but there's like freaking sixty other guys out there. Yeah, and they're all
• 42:37
  doing a job. And that was another one of my takeaways is there's a
• 42:44
  huge there's a huge like population out there of people are like you're playing You're
• 42:51
  playing a game, like it's not a real job, you know, Like
• 42:54
  like you should just be happy, and it's like, no, it's a
• 42:58
  fucking job. It's hard job. Well, he said really really quick.
• 43:01
  He did say in one of the posts, he's like, he's like,
• 43:04
  sometimes you just you hate baseball. He said in twenty twenty one he had
• 43:08
  a bad case of the throwing yips. By the way Josh Gessner's picture,
• 43:13
  he said he had a bad case of the throwing yips. He said basically
• 43:15
  I couldn't throw a baseball remotely accurately at all. It's like he just lost
• 43:20
  it. And then he said, I not only hated my job, I
• 43:22
  dreaded it like it's a job. But how many of us can fucking like
• 43:30
  relate to that, right, Yeah, dreading your job, hating your job,
• 43:34
  succeeding at your job. Like, like, I just took a lot.
• 43:38
  I took a lot out of this thread and on a personal level,
• 43:42
  like I've been there where I've been like I wake up, I'm like,
• 43:44
  I fucking hate my job. Oh my god, I don't want to do
• 43:46
  this today. Or I wake up like I got this, I'm awesome.
• 43:51
  Yeah, Like it really it was like a ten ten tweet thread that just
• 43:58
  hit me in multiple directions. I was just like that was the big part,
• 44:02
  Like like it is a job and the guy busted his ass and and
• 44:07
  like it was really revealing. He talks about the mental aspect, the emotional
• 44:12
  aspect, the physical aspect of that job. Like a lot of us don't
• 44:15
  have to deal with the physical side of that, right, Like we just
• 44:17
  go to work. I when I sit at my desk and take calls for
• 44:21
  seven hours, it's not like I get up and go, oh my God,
• 44:23
  threw my arm out. I get Tommy John because I had calls today.
• 44:29
  Like it's really it's really really difficult. And one of the big things
• 44:34
  that struck struck me too is like we talked about the yips, he actually
• 44:37
  posted a video of him trying to throw a baseball. Oh, it's just
• 44:39
  awful. It looked like Len. It looked like Len. Yes, awful,
• 44:44
  awful athletic, just throw of Len. And it made me sad And
• 44:47
  I don't know, I really really felt it and like and the same at
• 44:52
  the same time, you're you're having fun, you're playing us, you're playing
• 44:57
  a sport that you love, and you're friends with all the guys on the
• 45:00
  team. Meanwhile, they're all going like in the back of their mind going
• 45:07
  I'm gonna make it. I want to make the team, dude, I
• 45:08
  want to make seven and forty thousand a year, and I got to beat
• 45:13
  you out to do it. But I love you. Yeah, like it
• 45:16
  just the the confusion the like. But you're also young, so like,
• 45:22
  like you don't I don't think it as good. You don't get caught up
• 45:25
  as much as in the mental battle with your teammates at that point. I
• 45:30
  can only imagine, like if we're like you and I at forty seven,
• 45:36
  forty six having families trying to compete for the same job at like, i'd
• 45:40
  be like, fuck you, motherfucker, you know, But you're young and
• 45:45
  like in you're best friends of those guys, right, And I just it
• 45:51
  shed a light on that that athletics are an actual job. There's a business
• 45:55
  behind it, and uh and again it just really I hope the kid makes
• 46:00
  it, but he might he probably won't. And that's a huge takeaway too.
• 46:05
  Like I think the highest he ever made was what a A ball?
• 46:07
  A ball? Yep, yeah, and you think about like him times what
• 46:14
  ten thousand? Yeah of those? Right. I got to minor league baseball
• 46:17
  games all the time and I never really think about that, but I think
• 46:21
  the next Senator's game in Harrisburg, I go to with my with my son,
• 46:24
  I'm gonna sit there and go like, man, he's gonna make it,
• 46:28
  and maybe him and all these guys are going to be what working lumber
• 46:35
  yards exactly ours, Like, yeah, that's it, that's the reality of
• 46:39
  it. It's a lot of fun to watch them in that moment, but
• 46:43
  like, what are their lives going to be in ten years from now?
• 46:45
  Exactly? What I thought was pretty compelling about this thread, too, was
• 46:49
  he tweeted that he said something like, you get every chance to reach your
• 46:53
  potential. The organizations provide you with every resource, coaches, technology, knowledge,
• 47:00
  and support, and he said teams spend millions on getting their minor league
• 47:04
  players better, and it means that talent only goes so far. Talent only
• 47:10
  goes so far. So if talent is only going so far, you begin
• 47:14
  to realize, probably sooner, that it is the job that you were just
• 47:17
  talking about, that it is the job, and there is a grind to
• 47:22
  it, just like we all have that grind every day when we're waking up
• 47:24
  in the morning, we go to that job. Well, some of us
• 47:27
  do. I'm sorry, no dig And it's like that grind is still there
• 47:36
  and yes, people I it. This is very eye opening because there's so
• 47:39
  many folks out there. We know, we see it all the time.
• 47:42
  Oh you just playing a sport for a living. What do you what are
• 47:45
  you complaining about? Like, shut up, it's a grind. It's a
• 47:47
  grind for everybody. Fuck those losers. Yes, that was my number one
• 47:53
  thing I said after I read it. I was like the fucking asshole and
• 47:57
  social media going, oh's is just a game? Like, fuck you,
• 48:00
  dude, this is not a game. It's a fun There's a picture of
• 48:04
  him with his buddies enjoying baseball, and then the next picture is him in
• 48:07
  a fucking hospital bed because surgery. Like it's no joke, Like this is
• 48:13
  a real thing. And as a parent too, like I took away like
• 48:20
  you talk about like work hard, work, hard, work, hard,
• 48:22
  work hard, right, and eventually talent does went out. You know,
• 48:28
  luck is huge, but talent doesn went out and you go on the back
• 48:31
  and this is like really revealing as apparent, Like when do I say,
• 48:37
  like how do I put this? Like like it's okay that you've reached your
• 48:44
  full potential here, it's okay, maybe you should stop like this not or
• 48:49
  reevaluate. You know it sounds like just like stop just like reevaluate. Maybe
• 48:52
  you have like I better watch what I'm gonna say here, But like there's
• 48:58
  there's one of Addis that my daughter Addison is. I don't think. I
• 49:01
  don't know if I've said it on the show, but she's actually gonna be
• 49:04
  getting back into gymnastics. She took a year off. I know I've mentioned
• 49:07
  that on the show before. She took a season off, so she wanted
• 49:09
  to explore some other things. She's getting back into it, and she's gonna
• 49:13
  be on a team with a girl that she was teammates with before. Eric
• 49:17
  this girl just not as good. But this girl works her tail off,
• 49:22
  gets extra practice help, like actually gets the private lesson help and stuff,
• 49:29
  and she's still not as good as my daughter, you know what I mean.
• 49:31
  And it's like you get to the point where Butsha, my wife and
• 49:35
  I have talked about, like when do you get to the point where it's
• 49:37
  like, Okay, are you really enjoying it to enjoy the sport or are
• 49:42
  you doing it because there's some other driving force that tells you you need to
• 49:45
  get to a certain level, but you're never gonna get to that level.
• 49:49
  And I feel bad for this kid because like it's been like six years and
• 49:52
  it's not gonna happen. But we know this at this point. I know
• 49:55
  I coach and I see kids that are like really into it, yeah,
• 50:01
  and they're trying, and you coach him up and you're just like, it
• 50:07
  ain't gonna happen, but don't stop. Yeah, Like it's just I took
• 50:09
  a lot of I took a lot out of this threat, like parenting wise,
• 50:14
  what the sport is. It's an actual job because I'm unemployed, Like
• 50:17
  I it really hit me like in a couple of places in my personal life
• 50:22
  right now, and that's why I send it to you. And I was
• 50:23
  just like, man, this is not heartbreaking. It's actually like kind of
• 50:29
  uplifting at the same time, like but but leveling, like like wow,
• 50:31
  this is real life, dude, Like, this guy is not bullshitting.
• 50:35
  And I think he if he doesn't make the major leagues, I think he
• 50:37
  kind of might might have found his his groove and uh, and I think
• 50:43
  that might have been might have been his goal because maybe he thinks like I'm
• 50:45
  not going to make it so like maybe trying to find something else is damn
• 50:47
  good storyteller, I'll tell you that. Yeah, on on freaking Twitter here,
• 50:52
  for God's sake, Steller, If you write a book, I would
• 50:55
  absolutely read it. All right, Yeah, good deal, All right,
• 50:59
  buddy, I'm I'm gonna let you go again. Folks, we would appreciate
• 51:02
  if you would subscribe to the show. We hope you're enjoying the content out
• 51:06
  there. You know, we were hearing that and I'm not making fun saying
• 51:08
  this, but there is a specific sports platform that just got rid of all
• 51:14
  their podcasts out there, and we're probably gonna have a few of those folks
• 51:17
  on within the next few weeks for sure. Just by the way, I'm
• 51:22
  just baffled. I'm baffled. We got to talk about this at some point.
• 51:25
  You know, we're just SB Nation, and we love our sp nation
• 51:30
  sites here on this show because there are fantastic writers, because SB Nation used
• 51:36
  to be a place for fans to write and fans who are absolutely passionate about
• 51:42
  the sports teams that they loved. And of course, at the end of
• 51:45
  the day, money gets in the way. Greed gets in the way.
• 51:49
  Some of these podcasts were so damn successful. I'm talking BGN Radio Bleeding Green
• 51:55
  Nation Radio with Brandon Lee Gout and BLG good friend of the show, not
• 52:00
  doing it anymore. But it amazes me the short sightedness of the corporate world
• 52:06
  at times. And of course we know a lot of us who have worked
• 52:08
  in the private sector. I mostly work in the nonprofit sector now. But
• 52:14
  at the end of the day, it's all about money, it's all about
• 52:15
  greed, it's all about you know, bottom lines and all that shit and
• 52:17
  stuff. But it's really really sad that there's a lot of really good podcasts
• 52:22
  that are going away. Eric, Yeah, I was in the private sector
• 52:24
  and have my ass I completely get it. Yes, it's fucking pathetic,
• 52:32
  so much talent out there and people that know what they're fucking talking about.
• 52:36
  I listen to the Big Sports podcast and it's kind of incredible how much they
• 52:44
  don't know for real. Yes, And I hope, I hope, I
• 52:49
  hope those people find a spot and not like their own spot, like like
• 52:52
  we have right here, as opposed to like doing research for the majors and
• 52:58
  like pulling stats and giving those people lines like like the Howard Stern show back
• 53:04
  in the day, Like Howard wasn't saying those jokes. He had joke writers
• 53:07
  handing him stuff exactly. I'm hoping these people like find their place because they
• 53:14
  fucking deserve it, and we've had a lot of them on the show.
• 53:15
  And that story was really disheartening, and I believe me, I felt it
• 53:21
  as an unemployed person. Yeah, exact timing, I get it. Yeah,
• 53:25
  yeah, Look, I said a few weeks ago on the show,
• 53:30
  I'm honestly forgetting if it was when I had you or len on Eric that
• 53:34
  you know, we've been approached by companies over the years asking us to come
• 53:37
  on their platform. That was that was you, right? Yeah, yeah,
• 53:40
  And believe it or not, I'll say this probably it was probably a
• 53:45
  good what seven eight years ago or so. BLG actually was trying to get
• 53:52
  our podcast. He was doing this on his own, was trying to get
• 53:55
  PSD podcast show onto the SB Nation platform. He was actually trying to do
• 54:00
  that and we and I had some conversations with one of their guys at the
• 54:05
  time. I'm honestly forgetting his name, and it did. It ended up
• 54:07
  not working out because they were like, we don't know how you're gonna fit
• 54:10
  in too much because we're just niche down with all these teams. We have
• 54:14
  BGN Radio, the Liberty Bawlers guys, they have their podcast, you know,
• 54:19
  John Staliness, Justin Klue, Liz Rocher with the Good Fight. When
• 54:22
  when that podcast was over there, uh, the Hitting Season podcast was called
• 54:27
  the Felski Files. Back then, anyway, we weren't as niche, so
• 54:30
  there wasn't necessarily a place for us. And then fast forward this past this
• 54:34
  past year, at the end of the year, we we got an offer
• 54:37
  and I was just like, no, man, I want to stay independent,
• 54:38
  why folks, because things like this happened. Fucking SB Nation just got
• 54:44
  rid of a ton of great talent, Like I just don't want that happening
• 54:46
  to us. I just don't so much like Nally Merchant, let'skeep let's keep
• 54:52
  the punky thos all right, man with the ogs and just really are like,
• 55:00
  actually, I've had a few people say that, and it's embarrassing in
• 55:04
  a way. It really is. Fuck that it's cool, Like I dig
• 55:07
  that we I dig that I do this. I'm gonna be a fucking douchebagger.
• 55:12
  I dig that I do this. In my basement looking at wood paneling
• 55:15
  in my six or my doctor j poster right here, yes, right,
• 55:22
  and all my little uh Eagles Eagles guys right here. Yes, I like
• 55:25
  that, and I don't want to answer to somebody else exactly. All right,
• 55:30
  well, why don't we take that break here? Where's it get you?
• 55:36
  Exactly? Yeah? I work for a private corporation. They fucking went
• 55:39
  exactly. And you did a damn good job there too. And I'm not
• 55:43
  just saying like we talk about our jobs, we talk about what we do
• 55:45
  in our personal life, professional life and stuff. But it's just it doesn't
• 55:49
  dude, that's like its own show. We should just do our we should
• 55:52
  just say Fox Sports and we'll just talk about the corporate world, private sector,
• 55:55
  pollup sector. I will name names, dude. Yes, all right,
• 56:00
  I'm gonna let you go, buddy at Brick Pollett on Twitter, give
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  Warren. I'm gonna let you go here. We're gonna take quick break.
• 56:12
  We'll be back in just a bit with some Phillies talk. All right,
• 56:15
  we are back. Let's talk about this Philadelphia Phillies team. What they're doing
• 56:17
  right out of the gate. That's what we're thrown down on the table and
• 56:22
  now on the table joining us now. He is the editorial director and he
• 56:29
  writes a lot of great words over at Philliesnation dot com. You can follow
• 56:34
  him on Twitter slash x at Tim Kelly Sports. He is a great,
• 56:37
  great follow and again does great work over at Philliesnation dot com. Tim Kelly,
• 56:43
  Tim buddy, how you doing it? Thanks for jumping on. I'm
• 56:45
  doing good. It's good to be back. It's great to have you back
• 56:49
  to talk about this Phillies team right out of the gate here in twenty twenty
• 56:52
  four. Been an interesting season. I mean, look, this team's getting
• 56:54
  some criticism in certain areas, some of it well deserves, some of it
• 56:59
  not well deserved. And they're also doing some good things here and there too,
• 57:02
  So I mean, let's get into our discussion. And I guess one
• 57:06
  of the biggest themes of this Phillies early season really seems to be the fact
• 57:09
  that you know, they are struggling offensively every now and again. I mean
• 57:14
  today here on April tenth, on Wednesday, the offense ended up coming through
• 57:20
  as the Phillies got that win over the Cardinals, but like, it's just
• 57:23
  been a little bizarre to watch some of these power batters at the plate doing
• 57:28
  minimal damage to other teams at times. So I'm wondering, Tim, do
• 57:31
  you think this is just the early season thing or is there more going on
• 57:37
  here than what we may not actually be seeing. What are your thoughts.
• 57:40
  I would tend to think it's more of an early season thing. But when
• 57:44
  the Phillies talked this spring, they talked a lot about wanting to get off
• 57:46
  to a quicker start. Yeah, they're around five hundred, so it's not
• 57:51
  a disaster, but they haven't jumped out to a start that makes you think,
• 57:53
  oh, this is the year that they're gonna usurp the Braves and win
• 57:57
  the divisions. So there's two ways of looking at it. I would say
• 58:01
  the track recker tells you Nick Castillanos is probably gonna get on track, but
• 58:05
  he hasn't been very good so far. Bryson Stott has not been good so
• 58:08
  far. That's pretty surprising to me, and Trey Turner has been very mixed.
• 58:13
  So I think there's some clear areas where they need to be better than
• 58:15
  they've been to this point. But I would tend to think that that will
• 58:20
  come through. I just want these guys getting on base too. You know.
• 58:22
  Yes, the criticism and perhaps the challenges too that Nick Castianos is having
• 58:29
  is I think well deserved at times, but there are times like last season,
• 58:32
  you know, he was getting on base in terms of walking and taking
• 58:36
  those walks. I want to see a little bit more of that with some
• 58:37
  of these guys too, when they're looking at certain pitches as well. Again,
• 58:42
  I kind of think it's coming down to early season, just kind of
• 58:45
  getting into the flow of things. I think there's a lot of folks out
• 58:46
  there where you got they need to put push the brakes a little bit here.
• 58:52
  The weather has been I know the weather every not grey early on,
• 58:54
  but I don't remember any year where it has been this bad early on.
• 58:58
  That entire homestad was brutal. Today in Saint Louis was brutal. And it
• 59:06
  doesn't look like the next couple of days on this ten game homestand are going
• 59:08
  to be great either. So I think that that's a reality, especially for
• 59:13
  a team that's predicated on heading for power. Yeah, as we're moving along
• 59:16
  here, you know, we're a couple of weeks here into the season,
• 59:19
  and you know, outside of that lack of offense, we were just talking
• 59:22
  about him, what has been the most surprising, the most surprising aspect of
• 59:28
  the season so far? Again, this is a team that has only played
• 59:31
  what ten eleven games here at this point, But what has been the most
• 59:35
  surprising for you? Even from a positive or negative wherever you want to go
• 59:37
  with this, what are your thoughts? I would say it's positive that Zach
• 59:40
  Wheeler has been so good through the first three starts. He has a one
• 59:44
  to eighty nine YAR. The last few years, he's gotten off to a
• 59:46
  little slower starts. Last year kind of the first half was slow, the
• 59:50
  second half he was borderline cy Young level. So in that sense, it's
• 59:53
  positive. But the Phillies are zero and three in games he started, and
• 59:58
  he has an zero to two record despite an ERA under two. So it's
• 1:00:01
  it's surprising obviously that they have not hit for him. I would tend to
• 1:00:06
  think that they will, but you need to win games Zach Wheelers on the
• 1:00:08
  mound. It's it's pretty simple formula. Absolutely for me. It's some of
• 1:00:13
  the ways and in games that we've seen the bullpen kind of perform that's been
• 1:00:20
  a little bit surprising for me. I mean, I honestly thought this was
• 1:00:22
  going to be a bullpen that was a top three bullpen, and they may
• 1:00:25
  be. I have not looked at the numbers. I have not seen any
• 1:00:28
  of the analytics with regard to this. Doesn't necessarily feel at this point that
• 1:00:31
  this bullpen is perhaps a top three in Major League Baseball. We've seen some
• 1:00:35
  good spots and we've seen some crap too, So I think the guy or
• 1:00:39
  away to me, they're going to get Kirkering back this weekend. It sounds
• 1:00:43
  like and Matt Strom and Jose Alvarado both had blow ups on opening Day but
• 1:00:47
  have been very good since then. Jeff Hoffman out a blip on the radar
• 1:00:52
  first game in Saint Louis and then came back today and was very good.
• 1:00:58
  So I think generally it's a pretty deep group, but I do still question
• 1:01:01
  whether they had that one ace level reliever. I think that maybe is an
• 1:01:07
  area to focus on for the Phillies this summer. Absolutely well. As we're
• 1:01:09
  moving along here, Tim, you know, so many of us fans are
• 1:01:14
  saying that Brandon marsh he should be starting just about every day here, if
• 1:01:17
  not every single day. Based on his performance right out of the gate here,
• 1:01:22
  I mean after ten games played, he was batting three forty four,
• 1:01:27
  three home runs, and it's just it was remarkable to see that type of
• 1:01:30
  baseball play from him this early this season here. What are your thoughts on
• 1:01:35
  Brandon Marsh here as an everyday starter and how can the Phillies perhaps maybe handle
• 1:01:39
  his playing time a little better or should they? Well, I think they
• 1:01:43
  have to give he should be playing every day against righty's, that's obvious.
• 1:01:46
  I think they have to give him some opportunities here and there against lefties.
• 1:01:50
  He was better against lefties last year. Previously had been unplayable. But I
• 1:01:54
  do think it makes sense for those to sometimes be the days where you give
• 1:01:59
  him rest. And you didn't sign with Marorfield. I know he's gotten off
• 1:02:01
  to a slow start, but you didn't sign him to play once a week,
• 1:02:05
  So for now that's probably his best spot to get in. I would
• 1:02:08
  say there's gonna be a decision probably at the end of the month on Johann
• 1:02:13
  Rojas, and if Johann Rojas is not here anymore than that opens up even
• 1:02:16
  more at bats for Brandon Marsh and Christian pache So I think for the time
• 1:02:22
  being they've handled it pretty well. But I would say one way or another
• 1:02:24
  things they're gonna have to give and maybe he'll kind of prove that he still
• 1:02:30
  has some issues against lefties, or maybe he'll prove that he should be playing
• 1:02:32
  more consistently against them. But he's unquestionably been very good so far. He's
• 1:02:38
  a good defender, very good defender in left field. Sometimes in center he
• 1:02:42
  has issues kind of taking command of the outfield, but he has the athleticism
• 1:02:45
  certainly to play center field. So he's been a very valuable player. And
• 1:02:50
  really since the Phillies have gotten him, I know they gave up Logan o'hapi,
• 1:02:52
  who I think is going to be a really good catcher. But Brandon
• 1:02:55
  marsh has been very good. He really has. And I just a piggyback,
• 1:03:00
  I guess off what you were just saying with regard to Johann Rojas.
• 1:03:02
  I've been a huge fan of just like, let's let this kid grow.
• 1:03:06
  But I think you're right. At the end of this month, I mean
• 1:03:07
  there's about two two and a half weeks left until the end of April,
• 1:03:12
  and I find it hard to believe that he may be able to get it
• 1:03:16
  together. From an offensive standpoint. Of course, we all love his defense
• 1:03:20
  offensively in the batter's box. My gosh, he just I mean, he's
• 1:03:22
  had one really nice game, but just other than that, just completely lost.
• 1:03:28
  And I say, at this point, and I will say this for
• 1:03:31
  this entire twenty twenty four season, give Brandon Marsh the opportunity to hit against
• 1:03:36
  lefties at this point where this team is at right now, Let's give him
• 1:03:39
  the opportunity to continue growing. Yeah, And I think with Rojas, it's
• 1:03:44
  one thing. If he's hitting two thirty at the end of April, he
• 1:03:46
  can't be hitting one thirty. I mean, there has to be a level.
• 1:03:50
  It's great, he's the number nine hitter and he is an A plus
• 1:03:53
  defender, no disputing that. The play against Ronald Decunya Junior in the playoffs
• 1:03:59
  last year will be in Phillies history forever. And I think it behooves them
• 1:04:03
  to try and get him to a point where he is a serviceable offensive player.
• 1:04:08
  He's not that right now, and at a certain point, I think
• 1:04:12
  you're not helping his long term development or your short term attempts to win by
• 1:04:16
  having him out there every day. Because right now I think Christian Pasha is
• 1:04:20
  a better player than Oh. Absolutely again, folks talking to Tim Kelly from
• 1:04:25
  Phillies Nation dot com. Give him a follow on Twitter slash x at Tim
• 1:04:30
  Kelly Sports. He's a great, great follow, great great content over at
• 1:04:32
  Phillies Nation dot com. And again, moving along here, you know,
• 1:04:36
  you wrote an interesting piece recently. Again love getting on Philliesnation dot com every
• 1:04:42
  day just to see what you all are writing about. But your piece recently
• 1:04:46
  was about what the Phillies are going to do with Spencer Turnball when Tywan Walker
• 1:04:51
  returns. So I'm wondering if you can kind of get into that a little
• 1:04:55
  bit here with us, Tim, you know, can you talk about what
• 1:04:58
  kind of role you think Spencer will have once Taiwan Walker returns to the mound?
• 1:05:02
  What are your thoughts here? Well, the gist of the piece is
• 1:05:05
  essentially they don't have to make this decision for a few weeks. I was
• 1:05:10
  not in Saint Louis, but it sounds like from the different people I've read
• 1:05:13
  in Saint Louis that the Phillies are going to give Taiwan Walker three or four
• 1:05:16
  starts in the minor league. So that's close to a month until you have
• 1:05:20
  to really make a decision on what happens in that time. Taiwan Walker could
• 1:05:25
  have a setback, Spencer Turnbull could come back down to earth, whatever the
• 1:05:28
  case is. Most of the times, things in baseball figure themselves out and
• 1:05:32
  we end up wasting so much time talking about these potential things that never actually
• 1:05:39
  come into play, and that made the case here. I would say,
• 1:05:42
  though, I would find it hard to believe when Taiwan Walker comes back that
• 1:05:45
  he won't be in the starting rotation. He's someone that takes a little while
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  to get going, so having him as a reliever doesn't really make sense.
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  He's under contract for two more years after this year. I think he's going
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  to be in the rotation now, whether that means you go to a six
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  man rotation, or Christopher Sanchez goes to the bullpen, which I wouldn't do,
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  but who knows, or Turnbull goes back into the bullpen and becomes a
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  multi inning option, which I don't think you necessarily have right now. I
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  think that there's going to be a solution that works for everybody. And the
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  thing to remember here is Turnbull pitched seven starts last year. You missed the
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  entire season the year before because of Tommy Johns. So this is not somebody,
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  regardless of how Goody looks early on, that's going to pitch one hundred
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  and fifty innings and you don't want to burn everything he has available in the
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  first two months of the season. So in a way, it could be
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  a blessing in the skies to have Taiwan Walker come back. Even if later
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  in the season Turnbull ends up in the rotation, you have a way to
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  kind of manage his innings, and if you go to the six man,
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  you have a way to manage Zach Wheeler, Ranger Schwarz, and Aaron Nola,
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  who you hope will be making a deep play helping you make a deep
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  playoff run for the third year in a row. It's a really great answer,
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  and it just verse A two, I think is what turnball is going
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  to help give this team, perhaps in the future, again depending on what
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  happens with Tylan Walker. So as we're ending our conversation and discussion here,
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  Tim just a straight up question of which player on this team is performing under
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  the radar. It may not necessarily be getting the love that they deserve at
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  this particular point in this season. What player would that be for you?
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  Who's performing under the radar here? I would say Gregory Soto. I think
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  he ran into some trouble today in Saint Louis, but generally had been really
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  good up to that point, and last year his numbers don't look good.
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  He ended up with a four to six one ERA, but I went through
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  at this offseason and like eighty percent of his runs that he gave up last
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  year came in like five outings. Now those were five bad outings, but
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  it gives me an idea. He was a workforce last year, among the
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  league leaders in appearances, and I think specifically when he's facing left handed batters,
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  he is almost an automatic. So on the days where he didn't blow
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  up last year, he was setting the side down in order one, two,
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  three, often striking them out. So you've kind of seen glimpses of
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  what Sodo can be both in Detroit and last year with the Phillies. I'm
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  interested to see as this season goes along what type of production he's able to
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  put in, because you see flashes of an elite reliever again, folks.
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  Tim Kelly from Philliesnation dot com at Tim Kelly Sports on Twitter slash x.
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  My friend, it was great talking to you. Thank you so much for
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  taking the time to come on the PSD podcast show. Here get into some
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  Phillies talk. I'd love to talk to you down the road, my friend.
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  All right, sounds good, what a great, great conversation with Tim.
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  And again, folks, as we know, and look, we aren't
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  a show of just like Hot Takes all the time. You know, longtime
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  listeners, you know that. You know, we don't get into that garbage.
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  We don't get into the garbage Philly radio stations stuff, the sports talk
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  radio stuff. We just don't do that. It's early in this season.
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  There's a lot of guys that are trying to get into I don't necessarily want
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  to say baseball shape, but even getting into the rigors of what this baseball
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  season is going to be, it's just gonna take some time, I think
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  for a lot of these guys, the power hitters on this team, to
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  really get into specific form. Who happens sooner rather than later? Of course
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  I know we all do, but I do not have any concerns for this
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  Phillies team as they're moving along here. They're in a division where you've got
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  a lot of different dynamics working in terms of, you know, what's gonna
• 1:09:27
  be happening with the Braves now that Spencer Strider is out for some time,
• 1:09:30
  what's gonna happen with that team? What does it dow from a sports psychology
• 1:09:33
  standpoint to them and ultimately to some of the other teams as well. Just
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  one injury it can make a difference in terms of another team, how they
• 1:09:43
  perform, and how it reflects on your team as well. So it's the
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  beauty of baseball, and we're gonna continue following this Phillies team, what's going
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  on in the NL East and Major League Baseball in general well well into the
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