Rhys Hoskins joins the show!

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Speaker 1: Hi, This is Kyle Forber and welcome to The Philly Show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, Ruben Tomorrow, Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd's Ally. It's the Philly Show. It's Friday, May thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Hope everybody is doing well. Phillies open a three game series on Friday night against Reese Hoskins and the Milwaukee Brewers. Gym and and we had we have Reese on the show today. We talked to him earlier this week. Good to see a familiar face, you know, we know he was We always enjoyed talking to Reese. You know, yeah, he was always one of the go to guys in that clubhouse. And you think back Jim like he was kind of like thrust immediately into the leadership role right in twenty seventeen when he came up, We're all sudden, you know, through all the rough times, We're like, listen, we gotta go. Let's go talk to Reese, get his state of the team.

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Speaker 3: He's off the bat, one.

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Speaker 4: Of the big young hopes of the rebuild, and he became a kind of a pillar of the rebuild.

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Speaker 3: Team that ended up in the World Series in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 4: But you know, always a class class act, a smart guy, always a gentleman, very accountable player. You know, he had a lot of big hits for the Phillies, and it's easy to be at your locker when the reporters come in and talk about the nights you had a big hit. But he's also at his locker when the team wasn't going well, when he might have had a bad night. Very accountable guy, very straightforward guy. So always enjoyed my dealings with him. I remember the first time I really heard his name was from Charlie Manuel, like in maybe like twenty fifteen. Charlie had spent some time watching the minor leagues and he said, you know, they got a kid down there who this kid really.

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Speaker 3: Knows how to drive in runs.

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Speaker 4: And it was a pretty pretty good scouting report because Reese didn't know how to drive in runs and had you know, I remember when he came up in twenty seventeen, I think he had three o fers and he's kind of scratching his head. And then we went to San Diego and he hit two bombs in that big ballpark, firs first two big league home runs, and one of them came off the bat like a five iron like with a beautiful draw landed in the left field seats. And he goes on to hit eleven home runs in his first eighteen big league games. So really great debut, some real memorable moments. Obviously, I think we all remember the Batspike, and we had some fun talking to him about that, and we you know, we talked about some other memorable times in his Phillies tenure.

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Speaker 2: Well, you had a great I mean, the Mariano rivera closer of questions. You brought up the fact that I love this question and I don't want to give too much of it away, but you brought up the tradition he started with the Phillies, which was given the rock and roll sign to the bullpen after home runs. And I wrote about that story a couple of years ago. Before the twenty twenty three postseason, when Reese was coming back from his ACL surgery, there was some some thought like a small chance that maybe come back and play in the World Series. So I said, hey, you know, he would love to come back, obviously, but even if he doesn't come back, you know, you're still going to see some Reese's influences on the field, and you know he started that tradition in June of twenty eighteen, Remember he broke his jaw at Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Because I'll never forget that.

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Speaker 2: No yet, he breaks his jaw, he's on the injured list. He's in the clubhouse after the game. One day, they're blasting rock and roll music and Hector Narris comes up to him and gives them like the rock and roll salute. And then the next day, I guess, or the next couple of days later, Reese, in his first game back from the injurlist, hits a home run and so he flashes the rock and roll signs after the bullpen, and the bullpen goes crazy, and next thing you know, Reese is doing it every time he homers. And now, Jim, you see it everywhere everywhere, ever, not just the Phillies. I saw Cody Clemens brought it to Minnesota the other night when.

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Speaker 3: He eats everywhere market Field, It's everywhere. I saw it the.

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Speaker 4: Other day on ESPN in the NCAA Women's softball tournament. There you go, So it's it's everywhere. You know, you salute the bullpen after you hit a home run. You know what they're happy for you, I might as well give him a little love back.

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Speaker 5: Exactly exactly.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I remember writing that story.

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Speaker 2: It was a very fun story to write and talking to Schwarburn Harper about how you know, just a thing you do now, you know, you hit, you play for the Phillies, you give the sign to the to the bullpen, so you know, and Reese is having a really good season for the Brewers. He's bat in two eighty two, three eighty four on base eight forty three ops, seven home runs, twenty nine rbi. So and he's helping the Brewers who have kind of they come into this series playing pretty decent baseball. They're twenty nine and twenty eight, they have won four in a row. He's playing well, and uh so you know, Friday night you have Quinn Priest, or right hander for the Brewers, is one and two with a four two three Arra facing Taiwan Walker. And then Saturday afternoon, four o five start, you've got Chad Patrick two two nine seven Arra facing Jesus Lozardo. So those are the first two matchups of this series. So it should be should be a good series, should be good to see Reese fans that you know, obviously fans.

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Speaker 3: He's a fan favorite.

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Speaker 4: They give him a great ovation when he came back last year, and I expect they'll do so again. And then you know the umpire, will y'all play ball and you'll try to beat him.

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Speaker 5: Up exactly right.

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Speaker 2: So if you can't be before we get to Reece, I guessay. If you're not, you can't get to the ballpark this week. And you got to stop by Delco. Come by Mike Neck of the Woods and Delco. People say Delco is a lot They're right. We have a lot of everything, Jim. You know, family fun festivals, great restaurants and bars, gardens, history, trails and outdoor activities. Take it from me. I'm a Delco dad. Check it out for yourself this weekend. This weekend Saturday, grab the kids head to Tyler Arboretum for the Family Explorer's Animal All Stars event. Learn all about local wildlife and have some family fun. It begins at ten am. You need to pre register, so make sure you do that. Tyler Arburreta now a Sunday, June first. This is right by my house. My wife's been here. She loves going to this thing with the kids. That's the Chow Delco Annual Italian American Festival on Sunday, Like I said, at Rose Tree Park from eleven am till five pm. You got Italian music, you got the bacci courts, you got kids, feel of fun, and of course lots of Italian food.

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Speaker 5: It is on.

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Speaker 2: My wife has been there. She went last year. I think I was on the road and I could not make it, but she's like, we gotta go.

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Speaker 3: I might go to that in order of some Nochi bolonaise.

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Speaker 2: So there you go.

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Speaker 3: Well, always stop by Delco. Visit Delco.

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Speaker 2: That should that Both of those events will be great if you're looking for something to do this weekend, if you can't get to the field or before the Phillies game. Stop So Jim, let's check it out. Reese Hoskins, here we go, and Reese, thank you so much for joining the Philly Show. It's uh, it's great to have you on my man.

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Speaker 5: How are you doing great? Yeah? Great?

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Speaker 6: Here, it's nice to see three fine gentlemen again. See you guys soon. But it's good to catch up. And yeah, we're good here, man, We're just we're in the middle of the season. Rhythm of its it's picking up and the summer is the summer is the famus.

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Speaker 2: And it's I mean, life is completely changed for you now, right your dad.

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Speaker 6: You know, completely changed. Yeah, see it through a different lens mostulations. Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I keep telling people that it's the best thing I've ever done or been as a dad, But it's also the hardest thing I've ever done. But so rewarding every single day, I think, especially at this age she's six months now, it seems like she's picked up something new pretty much daily, which is just so cool to see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is awesome. I mean, so we're taping this on on Tuesday and you're the Brewers are coming in town on Friday. Is it going to feel any differently? Is it gonna you know, if you thought about it at all, what's going to be like coming to Philly for the second time, you know, as a member of the Brewers, or is it going to be kind of no big deal At this point.

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Speaker 5: I think it will be different than the last time. For sure.

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Speaker 6: Definitely had some butterflies, so to say, you know, last year, just going back for the first time, walking in the different clubhouse for the first time, seeing everybody again this year is a little.

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Speaker 5: Bit more just business as usual.

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Speaker 6: I think I haven't thought about it too much really up until this week, mostly for the fact that Phil's are a great team and we got our work cut out for us there when we when we when we come.

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Speaker 5: So I'm sure it will be great.

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Speaker 6: It always is, you know, playing that Citizens Bank would be great to see all that bunch of familiar faces and hopefully beat up on a bunch of old friends.

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Speaker 2: I was looking at your numbers, I mean, you seem to be swinging the bat really well, like the traditional numbers are are are pretty solid, and you're on base is where it usually is. Uh, slugging is up for highest in a few years. And even then you look at the advanced metrics, you know, it seems like you're hitting the ball harder, you're not chasing anything, which is we never really did anyway. But I mean, is it just a matter of your you're removed further away from from the surgery, you know, what can you what can you tell us about about the your offensive game right now?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's mostly that just time is our best friend. I think when it comes to injury, obviously, to get physically back into the shape or what we feel like is normal, but also just mentally not being not being a rehabber, right Like, I just got to be an athlete and a baseball player this past offseason, and it gave me a great base I think going into spring, I've made a little bit of an adjustment in terms of a load at the plate, and I think it's just giving me a little bit more time to see the ball better and earlier. And I think that's just getting me into good counts. And you know, I've said this in the past, but I like my chances when the pitcher has to beat me in the zone. So I'm getting myself into good counts right now and not missing those pitches that are showing up in the middle.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Reees, let me follow up a little bit on that one. Was kind of curious, what is that is there? Can you talk about the specifics of that adjustment or do you feel uncomfortable do whatever?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, It's just I've kind of gone away from the late kick a little bit. The first couple of weeks of the season a little up and down. I felt like I was having good at bats but not getting great results, missing too many pitches in the middle of the plate.

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Speaker 5: So instead of the late.

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Speaker 6: Kick, I kind of just went back to the way I used to hit in college, which was an early toe down or foot down kind of toe to heal move. And again, like, I think it's making my move, my my move a little bit more repeatable. My head's moving less, which again that just makes me see the ball better. So yeah, nothing nothing too earth shattering, really. I think I'm just a little bit simpler at the plate and that's become a lot more repeatable.

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Speaker 5: Day in and day out over a long season.

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Speaker 7: And how hard was that to do it in season? I mean, did you actually make that adjustment in season? And because a lot of the times, you know, like you, I don't want to mess with this right now. In seasons it's sort of a different.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that can be a slippery slope. I think just because it was simplifying in a big way instead of making things a little bit more complicated with what I was already working with, it made it a little bit easier. I had been messing around with it in the cage and batting practice for a couple of days prior to initiating in the game, and we found ourselves, you know, kind of up big in the game early against the A's and I came up with two outs and nobody on and just said, let's let's see what we got, and of course I ended up I ended up hitting a home run. So I was like, okay, well that's that's some early results. And then later on in the game, we're facing a pretty nasty right hand or arms and elbows flailing at you and a big sinker ball ended up getting a base hit to right field and that at bat, which was pretty much all I needed to see. So we just continue to explore that and trying to make it normal now. But again, I just think simplifying has really been my best friend.

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Speaker 4: That's really interesting stuff for you. So it's great to see you, buddy, because I remember the leg kick. It was born in the batting cage in Clearwater at the stadium in Clearwater when you were I thinking a ball or no. It was instructional League after your first year with Andy Tracy, Joe Jordan and those guys, So.

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Speaker 3: It really served you well for a whole bunch of years.

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Speaker 6: Right, Oh, one hundred percent and you know, I think, to Ruben's point, it's hard to ditch the date that you brought to the dance, or that maybe even got you to the dance. But I was just sick of missing being late basically, So my my goal is just to be on time more. But yeah, certainly right, Like the leg kick was written about and talked about a bunch, and I really think it helped me propel into, you know, being an established player in this in this game, but now having some experience and knowing what it's like to hit in the big leagues, especially with you know.

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Speaker 5: Stuff the way that it is now.

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Speaker 6: From the pitching standpoint, sometimes you gotta make adjustments, and that's what this game calls for.

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Speaker 5: So I just decided it was time.

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Speaker 4: So, you know, you mentioned when the pitch is in the zone, you like your chances. And as Todd mentioned, we're taping on Tuesday, a few days before you come to town with the Brewers, and you know, pitching the zone, and like I said, it's Tuesday, and oh, Spencer Strider.

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Speaker 3: Strider is pitching in Philadelphia on Tuesday night.

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Speaker 4: And when I think of Spencer Stryder, I think of you not missing in that in that playoff series, hitting that humungo.

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Speaker 3: Home run and.

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Speaker 4: And then that unbelievable, cathartic batspike that you could feel all the way up to Center City. And when I think of that kind of iconic moment, I think Chase Suttley. We had him on the podcast a while back and we asked him about, you know, his WFC and where's the coolest place you ever heard somebody yell that to him? And he said, in a clothing store in London and on a ski slope in Switzerland. So I'm wondering, like, anywhere interesting somebody has brought up that hallacious batspike.

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Speaker 6: Definitely not as cool as a ski slope in Switzerland, but that's okay, And Chase is a little bit cooler than I am, and I'm cool with that. Maybe some common ground that you know, I can find with the people of Philadelphia.

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Speaker 5: I got.

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Speaker 6: I got a congrats and an awesome moment from a New Yorker while we were playing the Mets last year in a coffee shop, you know, just saying hey, that was incredible, as somebody else who doesn't like the Braves was pretty was pretty cool from a baseball standpoint to see that happen and just the emotion that you were playing with. So maybe not as cool, but maybe more unlikely. Let's say that, so that that's pretty cool, but.

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Speaker 3: A cool moment.

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Speaker 4: I mean that you gotta does that still that moment still make kind of the hair on the back of your next stand up.

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Speaker 6: The playoffs, Jim, you know, like that's yeah, it's the It's what we played for as athletes. I still think the coolest part about the whole thing was the fact that it was the first game at Citizens Bank, and you know, a decade playoff game in over a decade there, so just a lot coming together in one moment, and you know, pretty memorable because of it.

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Speaker 2: I can't I think I might have asked you this in the past, but we're where is the bat? Do you have it displayed somewhere or somebody just kind of keeps it in a box in the corner, and like, you know, when I'm done playing baseball, I'll throw it up on a wall in the trophy case or something like that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's I'm in the middle of a move and a remodel back home, so not displayed, but I know exactly where it is and I'm sure at some point it will end up on a wall so that you know, that story can be talked about as much as we want. Really, but yeah, know exactly where it is. Use it throughout the playoffs, because how can you not after that and ended up I think switching in the World Series, getting some new wood and told Phil, hey, let's let's make sure we know where this one's at. I want, I want to make sure I have this one so it's back home. But yeah, eventually we'll end up on a wall.

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Speaker 5: Hey.

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Speaker 7: The Brewers obviously have a great fan base.

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Speaker 2: They love their their their brew crew.

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Speaker 7: I'm just kind of curious as far as fan bases are concerned. You know, there's Philadelphia and there's other cities. How do these two compare and what you're feeling when you when you try to when you're connecting with them.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think I think their love for their team is they're they're both admirable fan bases in that regard.

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Speaker 5: But it's.

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Speaker 6: Obviously know as a home player, I only know two. But I get the impression that it's hard to compare fan bases to the Philly fan base for good and for bad.

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Speaker 5: Really, but.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean these people up here in the Midwest and Wisconsin, they they love their sports. They're they're they're die hard in different ways. You know, every day game we have tailgators from well when when we're pulling up to the ballpark, people are there, it's just, yeah, it's just different, not bad by any means or in any way, but they do love their sports up here, and we definitely feel that we had a great crowd yesterday, got to have the roof open. Summer is coming here in Wisconsin and the people look forward to that.

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Speaker 5: We definitely feel that on the field.

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Speaker 2: How would you compare Rob Thompson to Pat Murphy. Seemed like different guys, but two guys maybe both enjoyed, you know, playing.

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Speaker 6: For Yeah, definitely different, but both just baseball baseball guys at their core. Obviously a ton of years of experience from on both sides. Murph a ton of experience in college baseball, and I think we we tend to see that sometimes with his emotions on his sleeve, but we love that as as his players. We know exactly what we're getting as soon as we walk in the clubhouse, stores about where he's at and what he expects of us. Whereas Thomps and I think this maybe has a little bit to do with the type of clubhouse that each manager has. But you know, Thomps is super level headed, trust his guys that they're gonna, you know, do what they need to do to prepare for the game that night, and kind of just goes out and let and lets some of that happen, steps in when he feels like he needs to. But Murph is is ready to you know, light a fire under us that really at any moment, because that's just how he approaches his life with with intensity. But also, you know, I think both know how to keep a room light when it's needed, and that's you know, super helpful over one hundred and sixty two game season when we really can get lost in the in the.

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Speaker 5: Shuffle of the day to day.

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Speaker 6: So both both amazing guys, different, but I feel pretty lucky to have played for both.

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Speaker 3: I know you're focused on your team and your season.

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Speaker 4: Do you ever use a like a half a glance to keep track of the Phillies and your old friends, keep in touch with anybody and how they're doing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I do.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Jim, I'm I'm a baseball fan, so I I just I watch, you know, what's going on around the league. Really, I know they were just in Sacramento, so I had a few conversations with guys about, you know, places to check out or or coffee to go get or food to go get. I haven't talked to them since they've they've gotten back, but I'm sure I'll get a chance to just catch up with how it was playing there on a field that I've played there before in high school and actually a little bit in college too. So yeah, I mean, I know they're they're right at the top of the National League, if not the league in terms of record. I know, you know, the normal culprits are doing their thing, and we're we're.

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Speaker 5: Getting there, getting.

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Speaker 6: A lot of help from a lot of players up and down the bench and the lineup too, so we know that it's a complete team. I'll try to stay in touch with a couple of guys that I became good friends with over the years. I'm all here from Schwarber. I'll hear from JT every once in a while. I'll hear from Brandon Marsh every once in a while too, So yeah, it's always great to see old names pop up on your phone and get a chance to catch up.

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Speaker 7: With them speaking of food and coffee and stuff. I know that you were a frequenter of Plaze's Social club. I've seen me in there once or twice, and I was just there recently. Any plans to go there while you're here ordered? Is it because of the since you're bringing to your your daughter, Is there a chance to get out there?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we were actually just talking about that last night, about a couple of places that we want to try to get to Police He's always at the top of our list, some of our favorite food and the whole city. We're We were actually just curious talking, you know, with with Jamie about whether or not they would they would allow her in there is it's a little bit more of a bar setting, so we'll we'll see. We've already kind of made some contact with with some of the guys there that that we know they always take care of us extremely well, and if not POLICI I'm sure we're going to be well fed. We got a few others on our list. Sally is one that's also in the city, and the Soraya is a is a Mediterranean style place up in fish Town. That that we frequent a lot to or used to frequent. So we'll see where we end up. But those are those are kind of the top of our list whenever we can return to Philly.

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Speaker 4: So well, since you went there, Reuben went to the food topic, broughtwurst or cheese stick.

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Speaker 6: I gotta choose a brought a broch a little bit more classic. I think obviously I had my fair share of cheese steaks, and I can't wait to have one from the visiting clubhouse and we go.

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Speaker 5: But abroad is is.

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Speaker 6: Maybe more easily enjoyed at all times of the day, whereas a cheesesteak can kind of put you on your butt.

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Speaker 5: I'm not ready for it, So I'll choose a broad.

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Speaker 2: Will be you will be.

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Speaker 4: I want to tell reach real quick because this hasn't come up. Todd is a Milwaukee native, grew up. He grew up a brew crew Frian. He's still a Packers fan. You guys want to do any Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: Thing, Well, I mean, I'm just if he if he checked out, like, I don't even know if you have time like Summerfest any of those types of things. Have you gotten down to the lake shore and seeing any concerts or anything like that.

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Speaker 6: Unfortunately, no, just with obviously with our schedule. I lived right down in that summerfest area at the start of last season, so definitely got a sense of, you know, what goes on, Well, that's that's kind of that whole area down there, and really even into downtown is there's something going on outside every single day. Whether it's concerts or some sort of cultural festival. It's just I think a great excuse for the people of the city to be outside. But there's always something going on down there. I learned that pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: That's because the summer lasts like three months, so you have to like squeeze out everything day you can, because if you don't go outside, it's going to be you know, forty degrees in September fifteenth. So so but you know when when when I see you, obviously a lot of different fun Phillies moments come into my head pop in my head. And when I wanted asking you kind of jogged my memory because you talked about running into the New York Fan up in New York. Was that ridiculously slow home run trot at at at City Field? What do you remember about that? And do you does anybody ever still mention that one? Because that one always makes me brings a smile to my face because it was so much fun, and I think it was so much fun for Phillies fans as well, because you know, Phillies Mets.

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Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, I mean rivalries in general, right like that one does not get brought up. It was pretty early on in my career, and something has happened between now and then with myself and the Mets that maybe gets talked about first when that's brought up. But what do I remember, you know, again, getting thrown at a couple of times up near the head area, which none of us hitters like. So I guess found a great opportunity to take a little pettiness back to them, and again all in good competition to disrespect anybody, but I felt like I had maybe earned that a little bit on that one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: One thing I forgot about reeseis you are a trendsetter.

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Speaker 3: And you know where I'm going with this.

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Speaker 4: With the with the high five to the bullpen after a whole run, It's right done everywhere now, I see it in college baseball time, you know, major leagues, minor leagues. It's in college. I'm sure it's in high school ball when a kid, you know, hits a home run, how does that they ought to call that the hoskins? I mean, how does that feel to have that impact on the game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I notice it for sure, and then go back to, you know, the conversations with you guys about where did that come from and how did that start? And it doesn't get I don't people don't talk to me about that a little bit. People in my family, you know, kind of mention that as well. But yeah, it's it's awesome, really like it's it's such a cool thing. Again, I think that we should we should acknowledge those guys out there more often. You know, we're always looking at the dugout. I mean I even notice guys now sometimes on base hits or doubles, they look towards the bullpen first before they look towards the dugout. So I'm always curious to see what guys do, right, Like, what what's their their mode of salute? I guess to say out there, And there's some pretty good ones and creative ones too. So definitely a cool thing, and you know, something that I hope continues continues really you should.

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Speaker 4: You should be you should be proud of that because it's symbolic the kind of teammate you were a very inclusive guy in that clubhouse, bringing people together.

00:29:38
Speaker 3: So that's off.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Jim, thank you.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's a great, great way to end. I mean that that that's you know, just a great weight in. So Reese, thanks a lot for for joining us. We appreciate the time and and to look forward to seeing you on Friday.

00:29:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, guys, time too.

00:29:56
Speaker 2: Thanks again to Reese. Jim, that was great.

00:29:59
Speaker 3: That's great.

00:30:00
Speaker 2: Yep, we will be back next week. Everybody, have a great weekend.

00:30:05
Speaker 3: Smellia.

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