Kyle Schwarber’s and Bryce Harper’s history-making weekend
“Just get us in.”
Bryce Harper said that’s the Phillies’ motto for the 2026 season. Just get into the playoffs, and let’s see what happens. Well, if Kyle Schwarber and Harper hit like they hit this weekend against the Mets, it feels like anything is possible. They made history on Saturday with Harper hitting for the 11th cycle in Phillies history and Schwarber hitting three home runs.
Harper fell a triple shy of the cycle on Sunday.
Schwarber hit another homer on Sunday. He’s on pace to hit 62.
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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Bryce Harper and welcome to the Philly Show.
Speaker 2: Phillies win two out of three this weekend at Citizens
Speaker 2: Bank Park, and if you were there, you got to
Speaker 2: see a little bit of history a weekend nobody will
Speaker 2: forget if you were there, of course, if you watched
Speaker 2: on TV, of course. Ruben mar Junior, Jim Salisbury Todds
Speaker 2: a lucky It is the Philly Show. It's Monday, June
Speaker 2: twenty second, twenty twenty six. We have so much to
Speaker 2: talk about, so let's go. It's time for first pitch.
Speaker 2: First Pitch is powered by Parks Casino, Pennsylvania's number one casino. Jim,
Speaker 2: you were there this weekend. How much fun was that
Speaker 2: to watch.
Speaker 3: Weekend at Schwarbies Weekend? It was. We've had these feelings
Speaker 3: many many times since Citizens Bank Park opened in seven
Speaker 3: to eleven stretch and then recent years, those those nights
Speaker 3: when everything is just electric and they're pounding the ball
Speaker 3: all over their place and the fans are, you know,
Speaker 3: just packed in that place and loving every minute, a
Speaker 3: minute of it, and you know, the Mets come down.
Speaker 3: We finally see him seventy five games into a season,
Speaker 3: which is late on Friday night, and they beat the Phillies.
Speaker 3: The Phillies bullpen lets it get away. But the next
Speaker 3: two nights they like turned the forest up, the fawcett,
Speaker 3: you know, the hose, and the offense just came gushing.
Speaker 3: Schwarber absolutely fantastic, with three home runs on Saturday night,
Speaker 3: another one on Sunday night. Oh, by the way, he's
Speaker 3: up to twenty nine and on pace for sixty one.
Speaker 3: And Bryce Harper very very interesting story. He had been slumping.
Speaker 3: You know, you guys know he often just always takes
Speaker 3: his batting practice inside in the cage where he has
Speaker 3: a very specific routine. Well, he pops his head out
Speaker 3: on Saturday and he hits outside because he just kind
Speaker 3: of said he forgot what it felt like to hit
Speaker 3: a home run. So he's out there launching balls into
Speaker 3: the second deck, carries it over into the game where
Speaker 3: he hits for a cycle. And then on Sunday night
Speaker 3: single double home run, another home run he very interestingly switched.
Speaker 3: He usually uses a thirty four inch bat that is
Speaker 3: either thirty one and a half ounces or thirty two ounces,
Speaker 3: depending on how he feels in the cage. In his routine,
Speaker 3: he works out with a thirty five ounce bat, a
Speaker 3: heavy bat. Well, he brought that into the game and
Speaker 3: he used it two nights in a row, and he
Speaker 3: did big damage with a big war club. He's a
Speaker 3: big man. You can do that if you can still
Speaker 3: generate bat speed. He's not gonna do it all the time,
Speaker 3: but depending on how his body feels, he might mix
Speaker 3: it in a little more long story show. We talk
Speaker 3: all the time about your big boys. Have to be
Speaker 3: your big boys, you big boys? Were you big boys
Speaker 3: on Saturday and Sunday night?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Really nice to see them Shorb and Harper do the
Speaker 4: damage that they did. Of course, the three home runs
Speaker 4: from Shoreber as well. It begs the question, my friends,
Speaker 4: why not hit more outside?
Speaker 3: Imagine imagine that.
Speaker 4: What is interesting about it is there is something mentally
Speaker 4: that I think is important to see flight of ball,
Speaker 4: to see the ball back spin. There's a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of things that are associated with it. I didn't live
Speaker 4: in this era. I didn't play in this era where
Speaker 4: guys take batting practice outside maybe once or twice a
Speaker 4: week at even I mean, and again, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of guys Otani and so many different guys that don't
Speaker 4: hit outside.
Speaker 1: But I think there really is something to it.
Speaker 4: Lighting your eyes, adjusting the ball coming off the bat,
Speaker 4: seeing the result of what you're trying to do, not
Speaker 4: just off of a net or in an iPad, and
Speaker 4: I think that that's an important piece of it, and
Speaker 4: being under the synthetic lights of a cage.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. I'm glad that they
Speaker 1: busted out, and.
Speaker 4: Let's see what happens from here on in, because they're
Speaker 4: creeping up on the Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Bravos and a six and a half out. They were
Speaker 3: a month ago on May twenty two, they were ten
Speaker 3: and a half out. Today is June twenty two, and
Speaker 3: they're six and a half out.
Speaker 2: They have the seventh best record in baseball right now.
Speaker 2: I think they had the fifth best record in the
Speaker 2: National League, behind the three division leaders of course, Atlanta, Milwaukee, LA,
Speaker 2: and I think the Cardinals are like two hundredths of
Speaker 2: a percentage point ahead of the Phillies, so essentially tied.
Speaker 2: But yeah, after that nine to nineteen start, they now
Speaker 2: have the best wreck Since then, they have the best
Speaker 2: record in baseball. They're playing well. They're playing they have
Speaker 2: a lot of flaws, but they're playing well.
Speaker 3: Fan grafts, Yeah, a lot.
Speaker 2: Of teams that flawed. Fran Grafts has them an eighty
Speaker 2: one percent chance to make the playoffs, six point one
Speaker 2: percent chance to win the World Series.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's going to creep up. It's going to creep
Speaker 1: up too.
Speaker 4: As long as they're starting pitching stays healthy, their top
Speaker 4: three guy, four guys, As long as those four guys
Speaker 4: stay healthy, that that number is going to creep a
Speaker 4: little higher. And they're per percentage of making the playoffs.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say it's one hundred percent, but
Speaker 4: because there's so many things that can happen as far
Speaker 4: as health, right, but I got them at one hundred
Speaker 4: percent if they stay healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't argue. I don't see it's it's difficult
Speaker 2: to see a scenario where they all stay healthy, everybody
Speaker 2: stays healthy on this roster, and they don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 5: I mean, way too much mediocrity across the across the league, right,
Speaker 5: And you know, like you said, Jim, the Phillies have
Speaker 5: their flaws, but they do have some pretty good hitters,
Speaker 5: and they do have some really good pitching.
Speaker 2: They do have holes, but you watch, you watch a
Speaker 2: weekend like this, and that's why there is that quote
Speaker 2: from Bryce. Let me see if I can pull this
Speaker 2: quote up. It says, just get usin. That's our motto.
Speaker 2: Obviously our goal is to fight and claw back and
Speaker 2: win the division. But we just want to see get
Speaker 2: in the postseason and see what happens. And I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's it, right. I mean, you see a weekend
Speaker 2: like this. Yes, it's against the Mets. That they're not
Speaker 2: they're not a great team. They don't that they don't
Speaker 2: have tons of great pitching, but you get in. If
Speaker 2: Harper and Schwarber get hot in the series, they could
Speaker 2: beat up.
Speaker 4: On Can I just say something about the Mets being
Speaker 4: that horrible and that expensive?
Speaker 1: That horrible and that expensive. So yeah, it's something there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a good team.
Speaker 3: More same more rip away, Reuben, We know you love
Speaker 3: to rip the Mets.
Speaker 6: Well know, the reality the reality is, I mean Stern's
Speaker 6: people talk about Stern just being the more on the planet,
Speaker 6: but the reality of it is that they've not put
Speaker 6: it get together a very good roster.
Speaker 1: They just haven't. And that's that's the truth.
Speaker 4: Uh and and and you know the New Yorkers would
Speaker 4: expect it a lot more from this team. Obviously they've
Speaker 4: had some health issues, Lindor being out as big. But still,
Speaker 4: I mean, they spent a lot of money on this
Speaker 4: roster and changed it up and changed all the staff
Speaker 4: members and blew everything up except to the manager.
Speaker 1: And this is what you got reality.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's funny. In the off season, the
Speaker 2: Mets won the off season, I guess over the Phillies, right,
Speaker 2: because they got Boba Schett. They shook things up. They
Speaker 2: got Freddie Paralta. Phillies stood pat.
Speaker 3: And Philly's hung ten on Peralta.
Speaker 1: What's that they Parolta?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, exactly. I'm gonna I based this off a
Speaker 2: nothing because obviously Freddy Peralta was a great has been
Speaker 2: a great pitcher over the years. But the reaction when
Speaker 2: the Mets got Freddy Parolta this offseason, like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: they've got their Zach Wheeler. Chris, I didn't get it.
Speaker 2: I just didn't get it. I mean, he's very good.
Speaker 2: A lot of teams would love to have him, but
Speaker 2: for me, it just didn't make didn't fit.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like, like I said, this is not Garrett Cole,
Speaker 2: this is not Zach Wheelers. Is not Christopher Sanchez.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's not. He's had success and he's bounced back.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Todd.
Speaker 4: He's a good pitcher, really good pitcher, but he's not
Speaker 4: an elite one. And uh and you never know how
Speaker 4: guys are going to react pitching in New.
Speaker 1: York Milwaukee, in New York, it's different.
Speaker 4: And guess what with that kind of with that kind
Speaker 4: of expectation man.
Speaker 1: Stepping forward?
Speaker 3: That was first we talked about how I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh, Jim, go Jim, I'm sorry, no, go.
Speaker 3: All right. Rumen was talking about New York's different than Milwaukee,
Speaker 3: Milwaukee's different than Philly as well. Last weekend, I'm in
Speaker 3: Milwaukee and I'm walking I had I had travel problems,
Speaker 3: so I got there like an hour before the game,
Speaker 3: and I'm walking through those acres upon acres of parking
Speaker 3: lots and everybody's out there tailgating. And there was a
Speaker 3: woman walking through with a Philly shirt on, red pinstripe
Speaker 3: Philly shirt on, and a couple of guys went boom,
Speaker 3: and then she looked at him like this, and they apologized.
Speaker 3: That would never happen in Philly or New York. They
Speaker 3: apologized for.
Speaker 2: Ah, gee whiz. You know we're just yanking on your
Speaker 2: chain there, lady. We mean no offense, you know, all right?
Speaker 2: That was first pitch powered by Parks Casino, Pennsylvania's number
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Speaker 2: this weekend and it's Monday, right, so we've got to
Speaker 2: talk Manco Manco Best Week.
Speaker 1: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: Let's get the ball rolling here, Manco Manco Best Week,
Speaker 2: because you want the best of the best, and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's not gonna be many surprises for Manco
Speaker 2: Manco Best Week. I mean, you guess you guys could
Speaker 2: throw us a curveball here too. But are we thinking
Speaker 2: to anybody other than Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber for
Speaker 2: best Week?
Speaker 1: No nice combo.
Speaker 6: It's a nice it's a nice So it's one of
Speaker 6: those pizzas that you have both, you know, pepperoni and
Speaker 6: sausage on it.
Speaker 1: You know you have both pepperoni and sausage. Harper and Schwarber. Harper.
Speaker 3: I mean, I will say this, there were the last
Speaker 3: two nights and those were just electric nights. They outscored
Speaker 3: the Mets twenty five. A lot of and a lot
Speaker 3: of little around the Edges contributors Bryson Stott made two
Speaker 3: brilliant defense yes, one Saturday one Sunday, both early in
Speaker 3: the game, Both saved druns. Both were like difference making
Speaker 3: momentum changes where if the Mets got those early runs, yeah,
Speaker 3: you never know, it might have a game, might have
Speaker 3: a different feel. So hats off to Bryce and Stott
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 4: Great call, Jim, and little means a lot. We've talked
Speaker 4: about this, We've talked to this with Charlie manually. He
Speaker 4: says that a lot. That's not a little play. Those
Speaker 4: are big plays and they changed the entire momentum of
Speaker 4: the game in so many different ways. Huge for the
Speaker 4: starting pitchers, Huge for the offense because now they can
Speaker 4: work clear and easy and not.
Speaker 1: Have to press. A lot of stuff goes on with
Speaker 1: those defensive plays.
Speaker 4: That's why we talk about how important defense and the
Speaker 4: little things are to win a baseball game.
Speaker 1: That's the essence of baseball.
Speaker 2: Little things mattered. Bryce Harper tenth Philly to hit for
Speaker 2: the cycle in franchise history is eleventh time it's happened.
Speaker 2: Our good old friend Chuck Klein did it twice in
Speaker 2: the nineteen thirties, those were cheap e though off that
Speaker 2: Baker Bowl fence and right field Todd.
Speaker 3: Todd hates the old players.
Speaker 2: No, I just like to laugh at how like the
Speaker 2: Baker Bowl. You know, it's like the fence was like
Speaker 2: seventy five feet high in right field, like two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty feet away from home plate.
Speaker 3: But nevertheless, he used to he used to crush that
Speaker 3: eighty two mile an hour heater.
Speaker 2: That's right, he's the Bryce Harper is the seventh player
Speaker 2: since nineteen sixty one to complete the cycle by the
Speaker 2: fifth inning. That's pretty cool. I mean, that's that was
Speaker 2: pretty fun.
Speaker 1: Jim.
Speaker 2: Were you like it happened so fast?
Speaker 1: Dude?
Speaker 3: Did it happened very fast? Because I mean it hits
Speaker 3: came in the third inning and then night he's in
Speaker 3: the same situation like later in the game. He's just
Speaker 3: a triple away right, and you knew he wanted it
Speaker 3: so bad because he makes a very daring, borderline reckless
Speaker 3: base running play to get the third base. They're lucky
Speaker 3: somebody didn't yell cut three. He's dead right, but he
Speaker 3: got it. And they say he said they were encouraging
Speaker 3: him to go for it in the dugout because they
Speaker 3: had a big lead, you could kind of be aggressive.
Speaker 3: And somebody asked him about his base running after the game.
Speaker 3: He said, I'm never going to change. That's the way
Speaker 3: I run the basis. So you can say those things
Speaker 3: when you're winning ball games and it works, But when
Speaker 3: you get nailed, you know, that's when it's it's the
Speaker 3: aggression gets you.
Speaker 1: And he tends to run pretty aggressively, and you know,
Speaker 1: and it almost we joke a little bit about the
Speaker 1: invisible cloak at times, but there are times when you
Speaker 1: can do it in times when you don't, and you
Speaker 1: just hope that when he does it and is aggressive,
Speaker 1: it doesn't cost the team a game because of its
Speaker 1: a certain.
Speaker 4: Situation, like I think he got thrown out at third
Speaker 4: base the day on a steal.
Speaker 1: In a situation where's a strikeout steal, I.
Speaker 4: Strike him out, throw him out and he's already in
Speaker 4: scoring position. You sort of have to make it if
Speaker 4: you're going to give yourself a chance, especially if you're
Speaker 4: not like a prolific base stealer. So there's there's times
Speaker 4: to be aggressive and there's times to not. And I
Speaker 4: know he likes to step up in the big moment.
Speaker 4: All three of these games were national games. That All
Speaker 4: Star Game is a coming. He wants to make his
Speaker 4: mark because he wants to be in that.
Speaker 1: All Star Game.
Speaker 4: He does and if you look at the numbers now
Speaker 4: think it was our good friend Corey Simon said something
Speaker 4: about his OPS being, you know, number one in all
Speaker 4: first baseman in the National League. I think at this
Speaker 4: stage of the game. But Todd you might know more
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 2: Well, I was just looking at it briefly last night.
Speaker 2: I don't know where Matt Olsen is, Freddy Famin is,
Speaker 2: but I do know that he was top twenty midway
Speaker 2: through the game last night, So you know, I'm sure
Speaker 2: he's I would expect that he's. He's number one in
Speaker 2: OPS amongst first l first basement, and he's been one
Speaker 2: of the best hitters in Major League Baseball. If again
Speaker 2: by OPS top twenty for sure, what's to Warber's fifth.
Speaker 3: So when we talk about his base running, when he's
Speaker 3: super aggressive on the daring, you can argue whether it's
Speaker 3: wise or not on individual situations, but when he's playing
Speaker 3: baseball that way, super aggressive, he's feeling good about himself.
Speaker 3: And when he's feeling good about himself, he's playing well,
Speaker 3: it kind of you know, they both feed off each other,
Speaker 3: and that ultimately is a good thing. When he's playing well,
Speaker 3: when he's feeling about him, feeling good about himself, he's aggressive.
Speaker 3: The whole package is playing well, and he's playing with
Speaker 3: that aggressiveness because he feels good. I would draw a
Speaker 3: line toward Andrew Painter, who's just not getting down the
Speaker 3: mound and letting that ball go because he is not
Speaker 3: confident Harper, when he is running like a madman, he's confident.
Speaker 3: So a confident player is a dangerous player.
Speaker 2: And you know what, this might be a different take
Speaker 2: on that quote because I know his quote about it.
Speaker 2: I'm not changing, I'm going to run balls of the wall.
Speaker 2: I almost feel that was example of him just feeling
Speaker 2: good about himself, a little bit of defiance kind of.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if deep down inside he's like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to run. I don't care if I keep
Speaker 2: running it outs. I don't think he believes that. I
Speaker 2: think that was a moment of like, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: I got there.
Speaker 2: Kiss off if he didn't like it that like that,
Speaker 2: That was my feeling on that quote. More than anything.
Speaker 3: But that was.
Speaker 2: But then Schwarbert, I mean, Schwarber's on pace, Jim, like
Speaker 2: you said, he's on pace to hit sixty one home
Speaker 2: runs this season. So much, I mean, the swing is
Speaker 2: so much fun to why everybody like I just love
Speaker 2: watching him swing the bad again just so short and quick,
Speaker 2: you know, and he's so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when it was going to happen in June, you know,
Speaker 4: at some point he was going to start crushing some
Speaker 4: home runs.
Speaker 1: It was it is hitting season.
Speaker 4: He had gone through some some slumpage where he's swinging
Speaker 4: missed a lot of swinging miss in his game.
Speaker 1: But he's got it rolling right now.
Speaker 4: And uh, for him to be close to thirty home
Speaker 4: runs now at this stage right now, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: Can get any how.
Speaker 3: They know, they all know that June is this month.
Speaker 3: You know, June is like the month of brides, in
Speaker 3: the month of kyleege for even h Zach Wheelers. Talking
Speaker 3: last night, somebody mentioned forwards haunts mister you know short
Speaker 3: sentences goes it's June. Look, yeah, he expects it.
Speaker 2: That's awesome. That was cool. That was manco man best week.
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Speaker 2: I had one. I had one yesterday. I was thank
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Speaker 2: I was dragging, had a Monster Energy. I was like,
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Speaker 2: home with the kids, wife and kids and had one
Speaker 2: and I was it was smooth sailing the rest of
Speaker 2: the night. So one other thing I wanted to mention,
Speaker 2: because this was the first time that the Phillies did
Speaker 2: face the Mets all season long, was just the Yeah.
Speaker 2: I couldn't help but think about every time I saw
Speaker 2: Bobachhet come to the plate. Alec Boom's had I mean,
Speaker 2: very similar seasons for all the you know, the excitement
Speaker 2: and the frustration and the hype of Bobaschett and all
Speaker 2: of that stuff. You know, they're almost identical numbers this season,
Speaker 2: and but Alec Bohm has been hitting the ball very
Speaker 2: well since May ninth. He's been you know, betting two
Speaker 2: ninety seven eight fifty five ops since May ninth. You know,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to that just kept every time I
Speaker 2: saw Bogue stept to the plate, and I'm like, isn't
Speaker 2: it crazy that he's struggling.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: I think one of the most important parts, I think
Speaker 4: one of the most important parts of that whole scenario
Speaker 4: is that once Bobashet was no longer a Philly and
Speaker 4: now and then a met it gotten to the point
Speaker 4: where it was really hell bent that Alec Bohm played
Speaker 4: really well, and he went through some really tough times
Speaker 4: in the early part of the season personally and on
Speaker 4: the field, and and so it exacerbated everybody's feeling about
Speaker 4: the fact that the Phillies were, you know, running it
Speaker 4: back with their lineup, which they were in a lot
Speaker 4: of ways other than their center fielder.
Speaker 1: And you know, I couldn't blame the fans, but the.
Speaker 4: Reality of it is, as as the season goes on,
Speaker 4: as you have to have to have your guys who
Speaker 4: are there perform and right now they are.
Speaker 2: You just you just never know what's going to happen
Speaker 2: over the course of the season. You know, it kind
Speaker 2: of gets me thinking of and your painter, and you know,
Speaker 2: you can't these declarative sentences about can a guy come
Speaker 2: back or not? You know, you know he can come back,
Speaker 2: you know, just like Alec Boom can come back, just
Speaker 2: like can come back. So, looks like Jimmy has frozen
Speaker 2: up on us.
Speaker 1: Yes, he looks locked in. He looks very locked Look
Speaker 1: at him. He's he is, he is locked in. He's
Speaker 1: got it, He's got his game face on right there.
Speaker 2: We might have lost.
Speaker 1: We might have lost. Jim lost Jim. I was stumbling.
Speaker 2: I'm like, is Jim there just staring at me?
Speaker 1: Screeping me out?
Speaker 2: We lost Jim. So Ruben, let's let's go over the
Speaker 2: wild while Jim is frozen. Let's let's finish the show
Speaker 2: up four game series, uh this week in Washington. All
Speaker 2: these games are at six forty five pm Eastern Monday.
Speaker 2: I guess it's gonna be alan roun hell, probably right.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Phillies d fade Bryce Wilson after after
Speaker 2: the game, So I imagine it's gonna be Alan run hell uh. Nevertheless, Seed,
Speaker 2: they're facing lefty Foster Griffin. Tuesday, it's Jesus Sozardo against
Speaker 2: Zach Lttel. Wednesday, Aaron Nola against Miles Michaelis. Hey, there's Jim, Jim, Jim.
Speaker 2: There you are, Buddy.
Speaker 1: Is He's no longer frozen.
Speaker 3: Know what's happening here?
Speaker 2: That's all right, We got you back, Jim. We were
Speaker 2: just going over the Washington series. Six forty five. Aaron
Speaker 2: Nole against Miles Michaelis six forty five. Thursday's Christopher Sanchez
Speaker 2: versus k Cavali. A big, big series. The Nationals have
Speaker 2: some good offensive weapons, James Woods, c J. Abrams has
Speaker 2: had a good year. They've been They've been kind of
Speaker 2: a fun team to watch offensively speaking.
Speaker 1: But it's a series that.
Speaker 2: The Phillies should you know, you got to go in
Speaker 2: there and at least split that series in Washington, don't
Speaker 2: you think?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? They are My runs the game. The highest scoring
Speaker 3: team in the Majors, so the two games over five hundred.
Speaker 3: Scrappy team. The division is tough. Four teams over five hundred,
Speaker 3: so in the Phillies. You know, the last three have
Speaker 3: been in the last six have been in the division,
Speaker 3: and now they're next seven in the division. So but
Speaker 3: they've like I mentioned earlier, they were ten and a
Speaker 3: half back a month ago. Now they're six and a
Speaker 3: half back. That's slow and steady. Pick off a game
Speaker 3: a week, pick off a game every nine days, eight
Speaker 3: and nine, and you never know what this thing is
Speaker 3: gonna look like at the end. This is a season
Speaker 3: like no other. It's a long like that book Jim
Speaker 3: Brosnan wrote a million years ago, great book, The Long Season.
Speaker 3: It's a long season. You will mentioned how Alec Bohm
Speaker 3: started off allfull everybody writing them off. Baseball is a
Speaker 3: game that has to be viewed through a long range,
Speaker 3: patient viewfinder, especially with guys with track records, so you
Speaker 3: don't know where this team is going to end up.
Speaker 3: I've went out the division at this point because this
Speaker 3: how many games left?
Speaker 2: Eighty some odd Yeah, they think like seventy seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're going to reach the half mathematical halfway point
Speaker 3: of the season on Thursday, so you've got a half
Speaker 3: season left. It can be interesting. You've got to get
Speaker 3: in the wildcard because once you get in, anything can happen,
Speaker 3: and the twenty two Phillies are proof of that. They
Speaker 3: get in as the last team in the National League.
Speaker 3: They you know, they limbo under the bar just to
Speaker 3: get in, barely get in. Next thing, you know, they're
Speaker 3: in the World Series. So a lot can happen if
Speaker 3: you get in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that this is a really important series
Speaker 4: for these guys for a lot of reasons. One, Washington's
Speaker 4: feeling pretty good about how as a young player, young team,
Speaker 4: they have to play clean baseball and they have to
Speaker 4: figure out a ways to stop these guys from getting runs.
Speaker 4: They have a trouble stopping runs because their pitching is
Speaker 4: not great and they're swinging the bats well.
Speaker 1: So that's a good sign.
Speaker 4: But it's really about stop and run prevention as people
Speaker 4: talk about now run prevention. They got to catch the
Speaker 4: baseball and they have to play solidly on the defensive
Speaker 4: end in a ballpark that's pretty large, especially in the outfield,
Speaker 4: and we'll see how they handle that.
Speaker 2: So I want to give a shout out. You know,
Speaker 2: we we always run into the people that watch and
Speaker 2: listen to the show, and so like I said, as
Speaker 2: everybody knows if it was listening last week Jim and Rubin,
Speaker 2: We're hosting the show. I took a family down to
Speaker 2: Hilton Head, South Carolina for a few days and we
Speaker 2: took this little boat tour, two hour boat tour, look
Speaker 2: at dolphins, and then the kids got to pig shells
Speaker 2: off the shore. Right, so our boat captain, I'm wearing
Speaker 2: my Phillies show T shirt right, and he goes, he goes, ah, Man,
Speaker 2: you know, I grew up in South Jersey. I taught
Speaker 2: at Mainline High School, Mainland High School or outside of
Speaker 2: a c for thirty years and big Phillies fan. And
Speaker 2: I didn't know if he knew who I was or
Speaker 2: anything like that, or recognize me. I'm literally wearing my
Speaker 2: Philly Show t shirt right, and he's like a huge
Speaker 2: Phillies fan. That game last night. This is Friday. So
Speaker 2: they lost Thursday night. They blew that lead Alvarado pitch terribly,
Speaker 2: and he's like that game last night. He's like, He's like,
Speaker 2: but I'm a huge Phillies fan.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I go all the way back. I go all the
Speaker 2: way back to you know, Clay Dalrymple, Rubin Tomorrow senior.
Speaker 2: You know, I go way back a long time Phillies fan, like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, cool, cool, cool, And then we're now we're
Speaker 2: on the water, and he goes, uh, so you Ruben
Speaker 2: and Jim fixed figured out what's going on with Trey
Speaker 2: Turner and Andrew Painter yet, And I'm like, okay. So
Speaker 2: he was a big fan of the show, big fan
Speaker 2: of the show. Jersey Joe from Dolphin Discovery's boat tours
Speaker 2: in the Hilton Head want to give him a shout out.
Speaker 3: So that was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So great, great, cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's cool to run in it's cool to run
Speaker 2: into people and unexpected nexs.
Speaker 1: Jersey Joe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jersey Joe. Check him out. So guys, we'll be back.
Speaker 2: We'll be back later this week.
Speaker 7: I don't know if Jim's gonna be able to smell us.
Speaker 7: He's frozen up again. He's frozen up again. Well, Ruben,
Speaker 7: I'll say it. Smell you later, Ruben, smell you there,
Speaker 7: my man Todd.
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