Get ready for spring with Scott Franzke and Larry Andersen

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Speaker 1: I'm Franski, Hi, Larry, I got and this is the Phillies.

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Speaker 2: Show, Ruben Amaro Junior, Jim Salisbury, Todd. So it is the Phillies Show. Phillies Pitchers and catchers have their first workout next week in Clearwater, Florida. We're trying to get in the mood. We're trying to warm up and we think today will help. We had a fun talk the other day with Scott Franski and Larry Anderson, a lot of great stories, a lot of laughs, just like we had on Wednesday with Tom McCarthy when I mentioned that we hit ten thousand subscribers on YouTube. So if you're watching us on YouTube now, we're trying to get to fifteen thousand, so hit the subscribe button on YouTube. We appreciate all of your support and without further ado, everybody, Scott and La Scott in La, thank you so much for coming on the Philly Show. You guys look great. Franski, Scott, you got the Philly Show cap on. Yeah, you've got the Golden Ale T shirt on with Concha Hock and brewing. Guys look amazing. Thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Now you guys get it.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys get excited for spring training right around now? Or what are you looking forward to about spring training opening up next week?

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Speaker 1: Not seeing Snow. It's a great call, That's that's my thought right now. I've had enough.

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Speaker 3: Being close to bellor country club.

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Speaker 1: Like have you?

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Speaker 2: What do you got a lot of people been talking about the Phillies off season, of course, and what they did and what do you make it. Let's get your opinions on the Phillies off season. A lot of people have a lot of strong opinions about this offseason.

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Speaker 1: What do you guys think, Larry Gott.

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Speaker 3: What what? What did they do well?

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Speaker 2: They they resigned Al and j Trio Mitel. We can do a recap they signed.

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Speaker 1: Some of us on the call might need a recap of their off season.

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Speaker 4: Shallow shallow thoughts about that?

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Speaker 5: L A No, I mean, obviously the I think the one big splash they were hoping for with the ship didn't come about. But I was I think, like a lot of people, I was disappointed. I mean, I would love to have seen him that. I don't know if that would have changed real Muto's situation at all, if they still if they still would have, you know, brought him back. I have no that's I think it's important to have him back, but to have that bat, that right handed bat in the middle of that lineup, I think I think everybody was hoping for that and excited if that was going to happen, and I was one of those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that would have helped. I do think that having some kind of fiscal responsibility is not the worst thing in the world. And I mean, the reality is is that the Mets way overpaid for the guy. In my estimation, it might work out just fine for them, but that's a really big ticket. And you know, again, I think the Phillies made a pretty aggressive, pretty fair offer, and it always takes two to make a deal, and he chose a different route.

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Speaker 5: So the other thing too is you can walk after a year or after the second year. It's yeah, I just you know, kudos for him to get that, But I wouldn't have done it if I was a Phillies I wouldn't have offered him that same thing.

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Speaker 4: Eli.

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Speaker 6: If I could ask you, as a former pitcher, and you know you were a pitching coach as well in the system, having real mudo back, don't you see a benefit in that?

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Speaker 4: Because he's so good with the staff.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean that was that was the thing I was saying. If you know, if they signed him, if they signed a ship, would they still have brought him back because I think it's important to get him back. Just I know he had a down year offensively or I think he did, and I would I would think he would have.

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Speaker 3: Would say that too.

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Speaker 5: But his value to me, I mean, the value of adding a catcher back there that everybody believes in and everybody trusts is I.

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Speaker 3: Think is huge.

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Speaker 1: And and that you know, you.

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Speaker 5: Listen to Sanchez, a Christopher or Zach any of them. You know they talk about how good JT is back there calling the game. And when you have that and you have that confidence in that guy, that that makes all the difference in the world.

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Speaker 1: Wonder what it was like.

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Speaker 6: Did you ever have a catcher Larry that maybe you didn't have that trust in chemistry with and did it affect your performance?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 5: For me the last seven eight years of my career, when I was ninety percent sliders or cutters, it didn't make a big difference. But there were there were catchers that I got used to.

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Speaker 3: That I like throwing to better.

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Speaker 5: Uh, just the way they set up, the way they received the ball. I'll tell you one thing I would not have liked at all is catchers being on one knee as a pitcher. For me, Now, some guys it doesn't bother, it doesn't affect, but I think it would have affected me a lot, because I like to look at the whole body as a as a as a target, and the glove in the middle of the body is the bulls eye, and so when you could you're locking on that bulls eye. If you miss, you missed in a smaller area. But when you, like when you got down on one knee, it's like it just gives a different look to me. I'm sure I obviously would have had to get used to it, but I certainly originally wouldn't have liked it.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Scott, tell us what you think about I know we talked about a little bit.

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Speaker 3: The about his partner.

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Speaker 4: I want to know a little bit about his partner.

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Speaker 1: No, tell me, I think Stocker is just tremendous.

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Speaker 3: I really waiting for you.

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Speaker 1: He's really grown into things here.

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Speaker 4: What do you look forward to most?

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Speaker 7: Honestly, I know that you stay pretty much the entire spring. I know, maybe you pop back for family matters and stuff. But tell me what you look forward most to spring training.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, for me, the first couple of games is always exciting, you know, just to kind of get in the flo again. Spring training can get a little bit long. You know, from a broadcast standpoint, you're trying to make it interesting. You're trying to find stories about you know, different players and a lot of whom you're never gonna see during the regular season, you know, non roster guys who are going to fill out a triple A or a double A roster. But I mean, I do think you get excited about seeing, you know, the upper echelon talent, you know, the Crawfords and the Millers and Painter and guys like that. You kind of want to. I think there's some excitement and some buzz about things like that. But for me, it's it's just kind of getting in the warm weather and getting in the flow again. I mean, I joke sometimes, but I usually say the first couple in the last couple of games you get excited about because one is just getting started, and two you know the real thing is going to get started when you get to those last couple of days.

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Speaker 3: And to add on to that, Scott, I've got my vanilla folder already filling up.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure it's chocked full of notes. There's no doubt.

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Speaker 3: What's the vanilla.

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Speaker 4: What's the vanilla folder all about? I've never seen.

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Speaker 5: That that has articles and uh and uh probably examples of players coming to camp, a little background on them and what they've done, and that type of thing.

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Speaker 3: Some some real golden nuggets there.

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Speaker 1: It really it really works great in the flow of a game when Larry goes, ah, let's see, Uh, I had this note here about Uh, wait a minute, I can't really see it. Yeah, so this guy, it's kind of.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of it's like that scene in Major League where Bob Buker goes christ I can't find it.

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Speaker 8: Help.

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Speaker 1: That's about what it's like. About what it's like, Well, you.

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Speaker 4: Know you guys, Scott.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned how the middle of spring gets to be kind of tedious at times, and one of my favorite spring training stories or moments was the Phillies in Atlanta. Uh, midweek game at night, there's at Disney, there's a rain delay, and you are on the you were in the booth taking phone calls from listeners with Matt Gelb and uh, I remember that, I'll give you a little prank call. And here it is.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Todd? Is it Todd?

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Speaker 4: Here?

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Speaker 1: Next up?

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Speaker 5: I come from?

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Speaker 3: Call him from Sydney, Australia.

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Speaker 2: I want to know why they called Matt Gelb the Koala? Mit, I'll thanks.

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Speaker 3: Can we trace that call?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I think, Uh, I think we should absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Matt Gelba from the athletic we call him the Koala. So I decided to call him in my Australian accent and uh, I was in right. I was literally in the room right next door. Are you guys obviously in the in the press box while you guys are on the broadcast with So.

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Speaker 1: I think I think that goes right right along the lines of you're you're the first thing you're trying to do, like you you want to be entertaining on the air, and you know you want to get through these games, but number one is you got to entertain yourself. So that I think that follows right in there. And moments like that, uh, which you can certainly do in spring training and have a little bit of fun with that. Maybe you wouldn't get Away with during the regular season, although although I've heard way worse callers on that show, So.

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Speaker 8: I was kind of wondering along those lines, what was some of the between the two of you guys. Do you have a particular story or something that was like really really entertaining, something that happened during the game or in game, out of game, whatever, some story that you guys were talking about that that made you chuckle.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you have different ones.

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Speaker 1: Well, one of the one of my favorites is always Larry's burp is on Air Belch. It was the first year of the new park in in Lehigh Valley, and Phillies fans will probably remember. We used to come out of spring training and we'd do a couple of games exhibition games at Citizens Bank Park, the on Deck Series, and it was kind of a soft opening for all the concessions and everything else and kind of getting getting your feet wet on the season. But this particular year, we did the on Deck game and then on a Sunday we had to go up to Lehigh Valley on a Sunday morning to do an exhibition game the Phillies against the Iron Pigs.

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Speaker 4: I think I might have been the GM at the time that.

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Speaker 1: You might have been responsible for this happening.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you can, guys get pissed off of me about this.

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Speaker 1: And Larry was, yeah, I'm not sure it was totally directed at you. But he wasn't real he wasn't real thrilled about being there. Now, keep in mind, this is like seven eight spring training. You know, Larry was a little bit of a different cat back then. And Saturday night was a big, big night in Larry's house, you know, or on South Street.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: So, you know, he had a lot of people to see. He'd been in Florida for two months, he had to catch up with some old friends, and so I guess he was probably out a little bit on a Saturday night, wouldn't you say, Larry? Perhaps, Yeah, perhaps he had a few social sparklers, as he liked to say. So we drive up to Lehigh Valley and it's the first inning, first second inning, something like that, and the equipment setup is all different. So Larry's not really even sure, he's just you know, whatever, And he goes and he turns down the volume on this little mixer we have out in front of us, and then proceeds to let out this massive belch. Meanwhile, I'm calling a pitch and I say, I'm pretty sure as Victorino was up, and here's the one two pitch to Victorino and the belch comes out, and I look over at Larry and I'm like and then Larry looks at me and he realizes now what he's done, because he goes and he realizes that instead of turning down his microphone, he has turned down his headphones. So while he didn't hear the burp, everybody else heard the burn and Larry think, how.

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Speaker 4: Long did it take you to get back on the air.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank goodness, Victorino actually struck out on that pitch and it ended the inning because I was in tears laughing trying to send it to break. And Larry of course has the ultimate response, which was do you remember oops? It was close? You said yeah, you said oops, and then you said sorry about that, folks, And I cried laughing all the way to the commercial break. So and then of course Larry after the break had to come back with a little bit of a mea culpa and say, you know, I'm sorry, I didn't you know at all?

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Speaker 7: So funny and if you know Larry, he can come out with the maybe the loudest urbs.

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Speaker 1: They are.

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Speaker 4: They are Guinness book worthy tight belches.

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Speaker 9: They're very impressive, and I'm impressed even to this day. I've heard many over the years in the clubhouse and out of the clubhouse, and they are pretty spectacular.

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Speaker 1: Can you still burn the alphabet? Larry?

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Speaker 3: No, I can't.

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Speaker 5: Can't get quite that far, okay, but it took me a long time to work up to that.

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Speaker 4: It's something to strive for for you young folk.

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Speaker 6: You guys have such a good you.

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Speaker 4: What about your story?

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Speaker 5: I don't know if I have one story to me. The biggest chuckles I get. It's just when one of us says something. It might be off the air or in between innings, and then you come back and.

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Speaker 3: It'll be something that will either Kat says that or something happens. It just cracks us up.

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Speaker 5: And I got to turn my back to him, but all he can see is my shoulders just going like this because I'm laughing so hard. And then I kind of look back at him and he's half crying laughing, and then I got to turn back and I start laughing more, and it's just it's I think the hardest part is trying to end that laughter and get back to the game because people don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 3: And I have to admit there's there's been more than once or twice where we've probably gone two pitches without saying anything, which probably shouldn't happen.

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Speaker 1: He agreed, Well, yeah, and but what what so what happens? Because we've had there's a lot of broadcast boots that are our glass on either side of you, like on the side so you can look through to the next booth. Well, one thing that glass does is it provides a nice reflection. So even if let's say I turned to the side because I don't want to see Larry behind me laughing, I then see his reflection in the mirror, you know, in the glass, and there he is giggling away, laughing. And uh, you know, while he can totally lay out and not say anything and turn off his microphone, I'm supposed to keep things going, you know, when the pitch comes in and whatnot. So so, yeah, there have been lots of lots of days where I have to ride that button the cough switch to to to keep it quiet.

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Speaker 6: Nevertheless, neverss, when did you Scott. When did you guys kind of realize he's been together what twenty years?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, when did you realize you had a special chemistry going?

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Speaker 1: Was there a moment? I wouldn't say there was a moment, but I think we could sense pretty early on that. You know, we got along off the air and we had fun off the air and you know, joking around with each other. And you know, I think, you know, Larry's got you guys know what kind of a personality he is. He's just he's so much fun to be around. He doesn't take himself too seriously. And I think that's something that that we both have tried to to stay with and the idea that you know, we can have some fun, we can poke fun at each other. And you know, there's a lot of guys in this business that you know that will bristle it that kind of thing, you know, Oh you made me look this way, or you made me look bad or or whatnot. And I don't feel like it's ever really been been that way for us. I mean, you know, we we're we're famous for saying things like, yeah, I'm not hanging on your every word, you know, on the air, I don't, you know. I mean plenty of times I've said things, you know, analyzing a play or a situation or whatnot, and then Larry will be right behind me and say the same thing. And then you're like, yeah, you're not hanging on my every word. I guess.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna get worse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it can only get worse from here. But but I think I think it was pretty early on that I recognize that, you know, that this was a guy who it was going to be a lot of fun to be around. It was gonna be a lot of fun to broadcast with. He was gonna make the game fun even when a particular night wasn't very much fun. And I think that's a really really valuable trait for a club broadcaster who's doing that many games that you know, I mean, you guys, you guys have a better appreciation for it. You know, certainly, Ruben, you do. You know, Harry and Whitey one of the reasons people loved them so much as they they were still able to love them even when the team stunk. And I think that says a lot about who they were as as broadcasters and entertainers that they were able to make it fun and interesting even when the team wasn't And we all go through that those phases where the team isn't very interesting and you have to find other ways to to be entertaining. And I think we both had a similar view towards how to do a game in that respect. So it was it was, it was a good match.

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Speaker 5: I'm very lucky I got Oncet to me. I think opened my eyes when we started working together and and hearing him talk about like this, we're here to entertain people. You know that we're he said, basically, we're in the entertainment business. And I think that it kind of turned the light bulb and I had turn it on, which not easy to do, but but it it helped me to realize that, hey, we can have fun. We can we can we can make it entertaining and when the when the team isn't that good and and there was some scarce years there, some some.

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Speaker 3: I guess, underachieving years, but to.

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Speaker 5: Go out there and still be able to enjoy it and to entertain the fans and when the games, you know, like I just feel like when the game's close.

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Speaker 3: And I think Scott kind of helped me along with that was that the game will take care of itself. It's a close game.

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Speaker 5: I mean that's you don't have to do anything, you don't have to entertain because that game itself is entertaining the people. But when it's not, then it's you know, we can kind of gave me a little leeway. I guess you would say to try and inject a little more humor into the broadcast.

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Speaker 3: And I think that that meantal to me. It did a lot for me.

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Speaker 7: La, you have played a lot of roles, obviously in the game of baseball player.

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Speaker 4: You were a coach in the U in the minor leagues.

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Speaker 7: I offered you a job to be the coach in the big leagues, and you denied me. I was wondering, is this role like your most Internet, I mean, you've done this role probably longer than all of them now, but is this the Is this the role that you enjoy the most.

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Speaker 4: I've enjoyed the most. I mean, obviously being a player is pretty special.

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Speaker 3: Too, I haven't. I've thoroughly enjoyed this role.

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Speaker 1: But my.

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Speaker 3: To be honest, my true love was coaching.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 5: I just absolutely love talking the game, talking with pictures.

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Speaker 1: I guess your offer wasn't good enough, Reuben.

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Speaker 4: Apparently I didn't give him enough.

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Speaker 3: Well in that regard.

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Speaker 5: And I do recall we're in Atlanta and we went off and I think it was Sanburg office at the time, and you asked me that, And at that point I was trying to scale back a little bit. And it wasn't long after that when I just stopped doing road games. And so it was, and that's what it was. It was an honesty. It was just I didn't want more on my plate at that time. As much as I loved it.

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Speaker 1: What I was.

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Speaker 5: At the time was able to do, was be able to spend time on the road and be down on the bench talking with the pitchers, and I did it a lot, and I just I love talking it. I loved talking pitching all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this about Larry, and a lot of people wouldn't have any reason to know this, but like seeing him. He has turned out on many different occasions to show up at a practice and help either my son or my daughter's little league teams, and watching him work work with kids, you just get. I mean, I'm not making a comment about your age, Larry, but even at your age, still with an ability to relate, to connect, to make it fun, to make it interesting, and also make it worthwhile, right and give kids something to work for. And you know, I've he's cross paths with our you know, my kids teams many many a time, and he's just got such a big heart to do stuff like that. And to just watch him in that environment, you can see how much he loves that aspect of the game. And you can you guys have probably seen it just in your day to day, you know, back when he would you know, travel more often and be sitting in the dugout and a pitcher would pull up alongside him and they'd sit in the dugout and they'd talk for twenty minutes, forty minutes, an hour or whatever and just talk the game. And you can see how much joy he gets out of that part of it.

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Speaker 6: I concur in in sort of my own realm when I was a young writer, you know, walking into the clubhouse for the first time, Larry was just so professional, so gracious, so kind to young young reporter. I mean, he he didn't care if you were from the Washington Post or the Mayberry Gazette. He was going to treat you with respect and that's off Larry to that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I knew some I had some good friends in Mayberry specifically.

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Speaker 1: That's great.

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Speaker 2: Hell, how much longer do you want to broadcast for?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: How much longer do you see yourself?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah right, I keep I keep backing him. One more year, you got one more year, you got another year in you Yeah, yeah, it's Scott.

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Speaker 6: Do you knowing that Larry is very opinionated about umpires and for the listener, very entertaining when it comes to his opinions about umpires. Do you ever, like you know, egg him on when maybe there's a questionable fall?

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Speaker 1: Who me?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Would never what why would I do? I'm a professional. I would not stoop to such levels.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that, I tell you. Yeah, I think that goes back to uh part of the entertainment value of it, all right, and there are days when maybe that has more.

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Speaker 1: Value than others. And so yeah, I've probably been guilty of that once or once or twice, once or twice.

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Speaker 4: What percentage of the jokes that you guys tell are you know, for public consumption?

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Speaker 7: And what are what percentage are they for jokes between yourself?

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Speaker 5: I would say a good seven or eight percent for public consumption.

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Speaker 3: That high pushing a little bit.

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Speaker 6: I often will get sort of an inside choke when I'm listening and I'll text Scott.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you guys being around us, you guys know what a lot of them are and you know, so you know, nevertheless, you might hear that stuff on the air.

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Speaker 9: And.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, again, first first order of business, we're gonna try to have fun. And and this is our job, and we have a responsibility and and we don't try to shy away from you know, telling the stories that are happening on the air, but we also have a job to try to keep people listening and try to make it fun. And I think I think a lot of that starts with us having fun. People. If if it sounds like we're having fun, then people are more apt to be want to be a part of that. That's the way I've always looked at it.

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Speaker 5: Do you think it starts to wait for him to get down here to spring training and see how nice it is out down here?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so nice out When do you guys?

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Speaker 2: Do you guys know when you're going to be in the booth for the first game. I know that, like The first grape Fer League game is February twenty first. That's in Bradenton. Though I believe that's my first, that's your first game.

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Speaker 1: You guys, I do have a schedule. I don't know who my partner is on any of those days. So I just make it hard.

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Speaker 7: On you because sometimes you have to slide over for tom and and you know, I enjoy the work that I've done with you in the past.

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Speaker 4: We've done it.

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Speaker 7: Several times now in spring training and maybe even in a regular season game or two.

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Speaker 4: Does that make it hard?

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Speaker 1: You've slummed it on radio before, too, right, I mean been a little slumming. Yeah, did you guys know Todd Jim, Did you guys know I had to interview Ruben as part of my job interview. I had to do a fake interview with assistant GM Ruben Tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: How about go.

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Speaker 4: It's one of the reasons why he has his job. I really loved him. I have to be honest with you.

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Speaker 8: You know, we had tapes of all these guys and he was, you know, one of the big finalists.

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Speaker 4: And one of the reasons why is I just I loved his demeanor.

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Speaker 8: I don't remember remember that interview all that well, though, Scott, you probably remember more about that than I did.

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Speaker 1: I remember, I was it was a fake it till you make it sort of situation. I was. I was just I remember because I mean I didn't grow up in Philadelphia, and I didn't have a huge wealth of Philly's knowledge per se either, Yeah, either either historically speaking necessarily or even you know, current day at the time, which would have been right before six, and so I was just kind of you know, I was. I was throwing you softballs and you were knocking them out of the park, no problem, Scott.

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Speaker 6: How often how often does someone someone mention bedlam at the bank to you? It's such a signature call of your time in Philadelphia. Great call, great moment.

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Speaker 4: You know, how often do you hear about it?

00:30:35
Speaker 1: Not as much today as we used to, I think, you know, but you know, it's uh, it's definitely. I mean, there's probably three that most people, like people want to say, oh I remember this call or I remember that call or whatever, And generally the top three are in some order of at Jimmy Rollins, walk off, double off, Broxton and Hallidays no hitter in the playoffs. So it's usually somewhere in that. But yeah, it's it's I've said before, it's pretty humbling to to. You know, I've had a lot of people tell me some really nice things about it, and you know, so I'm glad it's resonated with him. I've said before that I think people like I think people like to listen back to things like that because they want to relive the moment. I didn't make the moment, you know, Bryce did. I was just along for the ride, you know, Larry and I going crazy over Jimmy's walk off. We were just there. We were just experiencing it like like fans were, and and I think that's why people people connect with the moment. And really the the replay of the broadcast is kind of the the closest approximation to being back in that moment.

00:32:06
Speaker 6: You're right here and Larry in the background going yes, yes, it's so.

00:32:11
Speaker 1: It puts you right there.

00:32:12
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:32:13
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

00:32:15
Speaker 4: I'm just kind of curious for both of you in that vein your greatest moment, just watching a baseball game and calling it.

00:32:27
Speaker 3: Going l A, I just I don't know stairs his home run in La.

00:32:35
Speaker 5: Harper's home run against San Diego at Home in the playoffs was I don't know. It's it's like when you talk about Scott's calls, that there's so many. He's so much to me, like Harry Kallas in a big moment or or in a catastrophic moment. You know, he's so good at relaying stuff to the fans that it just he brings you in and you just.

00:33:07
Speaker 9: To me.

00:33:08
Speaker 5: I just and and even just listening to him in any specific game or any specific big moment, it just it mesmerizes me.

00:33:16
Speaker 3: It really does.

00:33:17
Speaker 5: And it's it's so it's it's so genuine. It's not something that somebody tried to make up and tried to you know, it's just it's it's it's how he is. I just there there's so many big moments that I can just sit back and go.

00:33:34
Speaker 3: I just like it was like when.

00:33:36
Speaker 5: I first started working with Harry, I just wanted to sit back and everybody said, like you like a deer in headlights.

00:33:41
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm listening to Harry. You know, I don't, but.

00:33:46
Speaker 9: I don't know.

00:33:46
Speaker 3: There's just there's there's so many that that I just.

00:33:51
Speaker 5: I can't say as I listened back a lot, but in the moment I just I just get sucked in.

00:34:00
Speaker 4: About you, uh, Scott, your favorite all time moment.

00:34:06
Speaker 1: That's really hard. Uh, you know, you just I'm really really fortunate to have been in a place where the team has been good. You know, by and large has been good, you know, the great era when I first started, and obviously the recent success. So what we as broadcasters were just long for the ride, and you know, you get to see these things that are this has never happened. I mean, I do remember the night that Halliday through is perfect game in Miami, and I remember that moment feeling sort of unlike anything else I might ever see. There was a lot going on for me. You know, my son had just been born and he was a month old or something like that, a little over a month old, and I remember, I remember my brother sent me a text something along the lines of, you know, you're just so lucky, you know, you you just it's like, you're just so lucky to be in that spot, in that moment. Some people who are in this industry they wait years to see their team go to a World Series and get to call a world series. And they went to a World Series in my third year on the job.

00:35:44
Speaker 2: You know, and.

00:35:48
Speaker 1: You know, so I've just been really really lucky. I do remember that that Halliday Perfect game. I mean, a perfect game is so unique, you know, it's just so unique. And it was fun because we're in Miami, which the stadium is terrible, the booth is terrible. Larry was off the charts nervous, like because he's the old player, superstitious type, and and we're we're we don't have a crew, we don't have statisticians. We're just trying to get to the end of the game and see what happens, and and you're you know, it's building throughout the night and all that stuff, and and I just remember that being a one of those nights where it just felt like a singular moment that would probably never happen for me again, right stuff.

00:36:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, My last one was like, what do your kids think about it when they come across. I'm sure like on social media they ever go like, hey dad, and then they pull up the clip of like Ray Liota doing your call. You know, he's in the shower, banging on, banging on the show Jimmy, Like you do you ever go you know, do they ever show that to you?

00:36:58
Speaker 3: And go ahead?

00:37:00
Speaker 1: No, no, I always, you know, I always my my son's on Instagram or you know whatever. He'll I'll hear him at breakfast he's listening to clips. But he's usually listening to t MA Max clips of the home runs from the night before. So yeah, they're not I don't know that. They're all all over overly impressed with their old man in that regard, I like every other dad. Yeah, I mean I will say. I mean, you know, like in twenty two was when we went to the playoffs, and I had promised my son for three years, four years running, hey, when they go to the playoffs, when they get back there, where you're gonna go. And remember, we were on that really really long road trip and we left and there were times where we thought we wouldn't make it, and then we did. And then sure enough, I'm having to buy four, you know, round trip tickets to Saint Louis because here we are, We're in the playoffs. I got to make good on my promise. So to see them experience it in real time and and the highs and the lows of it all has been a lot of fun, you know, for this stage of my career. To see them see it through their eyes. You know that's great. That's awesome.

00:38:25
Speaker 2: Well, thanks thanks a lot, guys for spending some time with us. We're trying to this is This is great.

00:38:29
Speaker 6: Don't you think, Todd that maybe Larry could take us toward the exit with a nice belch.

00:38:38
Speaker 4: He's gonna have to conjure it up. He used to be able to do it in a drop of a hat.

00:38:43
Speaker 3: If I if I had a soda with some carbonation, some carbonation, I could do it. But without at this point you won't get much.

00:38:53
Speaker 1: That's all right.

00:38:54
Speaker 3: Maybe next time.

00:38:56
Speaker 1: Here's the one too. Pitch to Victorino.

00:39:02
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