HR 2: Justin Crawford 2 Hits In MLB Debut

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3:01It was the very first pitch that he took. That was great. His first hit bat. It was awesome. Yeah, very decisive. And it was awesome to see. It was 20 people in the stands. Was it 20 in the Crawford? 40. 40. Yeah. In the Crawford contingency. It was cool seeing Carl there. Like just as a baseball fan. James does a fan of that too. Me too. I loved him. He was an awesome athlete period, but a great baseball player. Did you say he was the best player in the 08 raise and played the Phillies or one of the top two were three? One of the day him in Longoria. I think with the top two guys for sure. And then you know, Christ coming out of the bullpen long term and stuff. But yeah, he was a great play. He's like one of the like historic high school athletes. I think he was a, I got could have played three sports professionally potentially. He was that talented, Natalie. It was cool sitting there watching him with his phone. Yeah. Taking his son. And also wild. Like Justin is such a mix of his mom and dad. It is like he looks like both of them. It's really wild. Good stuff. Let's listen as we broadcast from work on it today.

4:01Good morning to you. We're going to get to the cause in just a moment. Let's listen to Justin Crawford after the game. On the emotions of it all. Here's what Crawford said. Would you make any energy out there in center field? Great. The fans. Would that mean to you? Oh, it was awesome. Everything I honestly pictured at. I knew this place again rocking and it was. So it was cool being able to hear it for the first time. And I'm excited for many more. So you got some butterflies. When were you getting them? Was it, you know, before you were getting your name called? I probably read it before I got my name called. Got on the line. I settled down a little bit. And then once I ran out into the center, I felt it was going time. Good stuff. Yesterday. Let's go to the phones. You can react to a very successful day one for the fills. Obviously, back is struggled. So-tuted, bright so-tuted Garcia. But for the most part, players played very well. Fills now want to know. To the phones. 215-592-94-94. We're going to get to this Jürgen's audio from yesterday. Very interesting stuff on his back. It's talk to Tim and Swedes, bro. Good morning, Tim.

5:01Oh, the boys are back in town. I love it. I love it. Swarver. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. I was hoping Crawford would not- Not going to be many booms. You're not going to get many booms from- He might get a sonic boom. It seems like he- Might be fast, but he's got the knack to get on base early. I love seeing that. Man. Can you imagine with his- Right. Just- All those years, we had Rojas that I'm just fingers crossed. Please, one time this game. Can you just get on base? Because I know you can actually do something with that. Now we got Justin Crawford who's got the good sense, the baseball sense to get on base where Rojas couldn't figure it out. And by the way, it's all percent after the game. He thought the Crawford's activity on the base pass made a difference. Oh, 100%. You could see what the third base one was doing. And it was- It was pretty impressive. Love it. All right, Tim. Go ahead, pal.

6:01That's all good. Um, yeah. I was happy to see that Crawford is right away. No. Got that confidence, got his first hit. So I'm really hoping to see, like, so get a lot more hit, gain more confidence. And maybe one time we'll see him go, you know, out the park. But- Sure. Maybe one time. Maybe more than one time. Yeah. And Brandon Marsh also looked a little more confident. Two doubles. Yeah. Had his beard trimmed up. Little tighter. That was good. Yeah. Brandon Marsh performed well. He did a nice job. Tim, give us a body part in a title. Okay. My wife forced me to watch this movie with her. But I thought of a song, um, Hungry Eye. Oh, sure. Yeah. That's good answer. Hungry eyes. You got it, my man. All right. So let's talk about another body part. I don't know if there was ever a movie called Back. Um, but there was certainly a notable back on the Eagles' offensive line last year.

7:02And that was Cam Jürgen's back. He struggled with it. It was very obvious he didn't play it to his normal capabilities. And if you remember, this goes back to the 2024 playoffs when he got injured in there. And was supposed to win the NSC championship game not play. So they dressed him in case they ran into a problem. They did win. Did you say you was a back up in that game? Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah. So Dickerson started that game. He had heard it center versus Washington. Jürgen's who was dressed, but they were open and not play went in there. Obviously played well enough Eagles won the game already had a big lead. But the back probably got rattled around more. He played in the Super Bowl, but he was then very ineffective last season. All right. Let's listen to Jürgen's. As he was on the Boston with the boys podcast, talking about the back. And it's not going to make a lot of sense why he struggled so much. Listen to what he said. It's tough, uh, that Super Bowl we won. I mean, I had a herniated, I had a herniated disc and then right for the playoffs. My disc like broke off and got wrapped around my saddickner.

8:03So it was just like, oh my god. It was hard to walk. I don't know how I was playing. Like it was it was easily the worst month of my life. But then also like kind of the best month of my life because we won the Super Bowl. But it was just miserable, dude. Just the pain and then getting surgery and like trying to get back for the next year. And you know, it's always tough having a surgery in the off season. But when you have back surgery, it is tough. Like it takes a good year to come back from that. And like I'm starting to feel really good. But dude, just all year just trying to get through that just a tough year with the back. But it's feeling so much better. So at the very end there, you get two lines. I'm starting to feel really good and it's so much better. So at the very end, great news. But John, but John, it makes sense why he would have struggled with that. He looked completely different. And now we have a better understanding of why. And I'm just telling you, I've been so lucky with my back personally. But when I've had back issues, you know, and all I'm talking about is like a tweaked muscle.

9:05If I've had like a back spasm or something and tried to play with that, it's just excruciating. You talk about just getting into your pads. It's impossible. You can't bend over to put your sock on. You can't use the restroom. You can't function when your back is tweaked. And what he's talking about, he's talking about a disc that's wrapped around his sciatic nerve. Like, can you imagine sciatica? Like we're talking, you've got pain radiating down your legs, one or both of them. And now you're trying to bend, you're trying to explode, you're trying to uncoil on people. How on earth are you supposed to do that? It sounds terrible. But my question is, like, should he have been even playing? Like he didn't, I mean, I know. Well, it's a great sacrifice. Devin, we have that many times. Right. He didn't have a great season.

10:05I get that. But like, they had Brett told who could have gone in. I understand. They have a rookie and Drew Kendall. But like, the knowledge that he had obviously was more important than the his ability to play at the highest. He really struggled though. His ability to make the calls and make sure that the guys knew who they were blocking. That matter more than him having a dominant game. It makes sense. And again, at the very end, I mean, good news, as he's telling you, he feels a lot better. So you really hope to get a healthy jerk. And we'll see if they can get a healthy Dickerson. They certainly should get a healthy malata. They got to get, you know, a healthy lane. They got to get a bunch of these guys back to the performance level they had been at before. But I thought that was some notable. No guarantees on that. Now, no guarantees, but notable audio there, Jürgen. It's 2-1-5-5-9-2-9-4-94. Coming up, the ballpark experience from yesterday. We'll get into that. Plus Kyle Schwarber reflective after the game. Highlights of some of the key moments from the game. Plus Elliott Stewart parks at 7-30. Pizza hammer at 7-45.

11:05And your phone calls. The day after the fills get off to a 1-0 star. Jota Cameron, John Richey. From Borgata. Along with Ria Devon, insults are a 94-WIP. The leftie kicks the pitch. Swing it at Miss. He struck him out. And the Sanchez emotion clapping his glove. He's got 10 punchouts on opening day over the Rangers. He waves to his family in the crowd and the crowd waves back. And Sanchez with a dandy today in game number one. Well, big time performance by Christopher Sanchez. A dandy. A dandy. A dandy. I love that. He comes not only one of the best fill it up. Yeah, athlete one of the most reliable hitters kind of go up and down. Jwell certainly goes up and down. But this guy Sanchez, I mean, he is ace his man. And incredibly he might not even be the race. Depending on how wheeler comes back. Man. So it's a good spot to be crazy to say that.

12:05Yeah, I know what is? Cause he really is probably one of the five or seven best pitchers. Major League baseball. Well, they say that is change up is the, yeah, lot of people believe that. hit and all the people believe that so your thoughts on day one for the fills look my main thing was I'm just sitting there watching the game thinking big time contender big time contender which is a beautiful thing also good to see you know the guys that will be here for a while play well that would include Sanchez that would include Crawford now not good to have a guy like JT of course locked up for three more years 15 million a year you know go for obviously price second half of his contract go oh for four for the most part don't you think people feel positive with everything you know not everything not a lot of negativity about the stasis yes of the offseason yeah yesterday should make people feel a little bit better about the perceived stasis yep of the team and I I don't know what what do you think well I got

13:09to tell kind of back there can he just said stasis that's one can it can it has an idea John of putting together the best of your unbelievable words and we're gonna start flagging to make it say can I what a good idea clever use just stop the other day so yeah we'll start flagging today okay yeah I was yesterday can I won't stop the show every time normally I'll just text her but I just thought I'd make a point now I hear you John I mean look people were very down on the fillies and they have a really good team they got to play better in October but yes there was a but strong where you more positive with the way things looked yesterday all in all kind of what I expect it I mean you know for the most part look I mean I look Christopher Sanchez it was a very positive exact that game until we're in the ninth inning yeah we got the side armor just kind of let it go a little bit it it felt so controlled it felt so much like what we were hoping for yes great and then son that was a great performance aside from sure brace hard so everyone can weigh in on on the

14:09fills first they flyers win yesterday still five points back got work to do 11 games to go six is off another day they're back at it tomorrow they need some wins down the stretch also to try to be the six or five seed and avoid that playing and by extension playing easier team in the first round let's go to the phones from work out of today Dennis the new town hi Dennis hey good morning everybody how we doing doing well Dennis great first day right great opening day I'll make a few points and then Joe you and I are gonna hey y'all it's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair ever order furniture online and wonder what if like what if it is a bit uh little to the right yep should have gone with Wayfair or what if it doesn't hold up that's so far was four days old should have ordered from Wayfair or what if it's that material that makes that noise it was a sofa I swear with Wayfair there's no what it just style you love quality you can trust and furniture that actually fits your life visit Wayfair.com or download the Wayfair app Wayfair every style every home on Ike

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18:15that on your Saturday show but i love the fact that the nine number nine hitter and a number one hitter gets on and the top of the line up brings them home i think you're going to see a lot of that i think it adds it adds some speed to the bottom of the top of the line up but uh... one through two for our b i's so good good stuff well tennis i'll say this last year so they didn't do it yesterday didn't do a double-steel but last year they were doing more double-steels and they previously had it was one of those small ball type things i think robsompson was trying to lean into last year in year four i'll tell you right now i will be stunned if the crawford turner combination uh... don't have the most double-steels of any combo that could be fun in a long time that will be a lot of fun i mean that it wouldn't surprise me if they have ten to twenty of them this year yeah and would surprise me that was a month i was back to work is going to be up most of the time it's a ten

19:15i'll bet i'll take that bad if you want to do it right now on uh... ten ten box ten on ten ten ten on ten i'll get ten double-steels i get a piece of the winning for a sprint ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Christopher Sanchez if you're a hitter it's just plain unfair arm arm motion an arm speed the same with every pitch he throws you don't know what's coming out and he's so long to like it's just the balls getting out of his hand closer to you when you're a hitter you know yet on top of you quickly know that about it last thing and then will have this quick conversation i think uh... when i want to hear about cam jargon i think about how great jason kelsi was sure i mean like i don't i don't remember him getting twisted like that but but there's also lucky enough that i said i don't want to push the kelsi point aside but there's also just good and bad luck in sports i mean well there is there is kelsi got injured i mean the knee right yeah but it was played through it yes other than the one year

20:15all right um... hey joe what's the problem danis from from from what a ryan raider to a st. jose prep walk yes sir take the win just take the win you know go on some late night tv shows to some radio interviews uh... don't don't take a challenge from from like if you're going to take a challenge from anybody it's got to be spiked because i think at the root cause there's no challenge there but there's a little tension there oh there's a lot of tension and look at but then it's but then it's look at look at that guy the only thing maybe he could beat me would be like a frickin bike race i mean look at that well well you're a champ you can decide to correct me me whoever you want correct on your timetable so i'd like it take some time off relax all right i just take the win i take the win and run danis give me a title a title of the body part in it uh... a very uh... early song uh... by the beetles

21:17i want to hold your hand sure they want that it's good call right there but uh... two one five five nine two ninety four ninety four let's look ballpark experience james how was your ballpark experience it was awesome uh... you know again i will say and i really mean this it wasn't just the nicest day for an opening day it was among the nicest days i've ever been in a ballpark man like that seventy five and sunny it was perfect out yesterday so i think that added to everyone's mood was just high you know felt like everyone was happy to be back and after what was you know and i complained reocplained we've a lot of people been upset with the offseason it did feel like a lot of people were able and you know it's opening day but to kind of put the offseason in its place and and step forward and i hope that that continues yeah i'm with you so you feel more positive moving forward i was already becoming more positive car i don't i don't take anything away from one game i just i was already feeling more positive as the season came about so it just kind of confirmed how i felt

22:17it's like that your honey for five months and then came to your set no no no no i still think it was a horrendous offseason i'm just able to separate us no it says the same i am able to separate the offseason from the team and their chances to win like you know you still want maybe not shwerver member chat is like i don't know i want shwerver with that money no no no no i said jt i say i know you said shwerver i'm the one who said shwerver no i heard him say i don't know that i'd want shwerver back for this season no at the beginning of the offseason i said if if they're going to just re-sign everyone i would consider just blowing it up but consider it that means i don't know i consider it yeah i but i didn't i didn't say i would do it Joe i said i would try to x out shwerver i honestly and look in long term it might still be the right move like i'm excited yeah chance to win this here but if you don't win that i don't think that's a crazy it's not a crazy game like shwerver is wonderful but and again i like the shwerver signing in a vacuum i think shwerver age as well like i am no issue it but i think there's a decent chance in if it doesn't go the right way

23:18in two years cow shwerver can be playing for another team let's bring it somewhere else yeah let's listen to shwerver because he talked after the game yes it was interesting he was replaced really good at meeting the fans mindset in a way that people appreciate because he doesn't shirk he doesn't shirk the ills of how they failed in october but he also maintains some positive energy that he's honest but positive he is this was this was good shwerver yesterday after the game after his big game and obviously a big game for the team reflective on the past but also looking forward to the future those keep people up at night still you know i i still think about you know not even this last year different ones right that we've lost but i think that's the drive that's the determination that's what keeps you coming back and keeps you hungry to come back for every year and right first first day is always going to get you excited it's going to give you the butterflies but you know those games keep you going through you know august september and looking forward to getting that position and getting back

24:20into those positions to hold up a trophy in the in the find your way there so like we said we got we got a group here that we feel is you know a really good group and we just got to continue to do what we do a day at a time and play our brand of baseball good stuff from cow shwerver yesterday in a lot of ways let's go to the phones you can react to day one for the fills mike and del ran right now hi mike hey good morning guys thanks for having me back on the air there you go you bet Mike hey just uh Joe just the daily reminder i will kill you all right no problem just gonna make sure i say that every time i call in um not if not if he doesn't challenge me that was exciting yesterday um you know just for the opening catch like it just made me forget about like how how terrible the winter was and all the snow and this man i really wish i was there yesterday i wish i was there so much that i just i bought tickets for Tuesday's game for my son's eighth birthday so we're gonna take a nice take a great that's gonna be amazing does he know good weather not yet no he's not gonna know like a lot of secret birthday and he's

25:24Tuesday Tuesday is Andrew painters first start i believe so that's a good one Joe see what he said there i'm gonna surprise and to take him out of school that is a big deal yeah when you have after new games i'm not taking him out it's just done oh okay when he's done oh you're gonna surprise i'm when he's done yeah yeah did anybody not feel like swarper was gonna hit that home run like i just i don't know why i felt it like it was coming it was just set up so great and i was just such a great day i'm so excited so many issues i also got tickets for april 30th what does that sound like for a zag wheeler start huh sounds like a week and a half after he makes his debut oh really yes oh really you can get you can get his second or third start mike he's pitching tomorrow in the minors like dude snuck it's not gonna be april 30th i mean look i don't know for sure for sure but it it sounds like it's gonna be mid april well either way excited to be getting the game again it's great wait wait wait mike are you rooting for zag wheeler

26:27to take extra time no is that what i'm here for you fillies fan well no no i when it comes to that i don't if the if the starting five guys in the rotation pitch well for the most part i don't see any reason why they should rush that i do i do if he's not playing ball see it like look at what the Dodgers did last season they had pictures both bullpen and starting who weren't fully healthy and they didn't rush them back because they they essentially played for the fall they waited for the back half of the season i just i know zack wheeler's gonna try to hurry back but i don't think this is Ryan Howard's Achilles and i do think they brought you know Carson's i thought Carson's knee came back too soon i mean look i just my thought is if he's healthy play ball all right mike give me an answer but i got to get to Elliott body part and it's yeah not going for a win just taking the opportunity space balls you got a pal mike good good fun fun all right Elliott on the fillies and on the Eagles we'll talk to LA coming up in just one

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28:28well maybe a little foolish but it was actually Elliott it was that i swear to god take it it was said to me swear to god i mean you were a bigger underdog so i guess it was a bigger upset yeah i can see that yeah that's true that's true uh Elliott Sanchez boy they're very lucky to have this guy for a long time man what a picture yeah he might be the best athlete in philly right now i mean you just take into account his level of dominance the fact no one at the Eagles really had an outstanding year last year i still think joelle went healthy as elite but sanchez unbelievable and also i heard you guys talking about wheeler like what a luxury to have the fact that they've developed them and they can still put out on the mound a legit ace to start the season with wheeler out uh you know we don't talk about the player development of the philly's often but they did a awesome job with what sanchez was when they got him to what he was yesterday yeah no question no question about that all right Elliott let's get to some Eagles things not a ton of new stuff but a few things to touch on so um jurgen's talk to it's charles barkley here with way fair let me tell you

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32:33I'm Spencer and I work at United Healthcare Suspenser why do you care I care because my daughter Adeline has special needs I am motivated by Adeline who inspires me every day I am driven to help families like mine navigate the healthcare system I'm so blessed to lead an amazing team at United Healthcare focusing on the member experience and making that better I'm Spencer and I'm committed to care about his back did you know how bad it was I mean he's talking about the nerve and all that and good news to hear him say that you know he thinks you know it's a lot better what do you thoughts on what what Jurgen said yeah it was obvious Jurgen's has been hurt for a while just seeing him during the week in the locker room I did the players lounge show with him a bunch last year he clearly was dealing something with last uh dealing with something last year now overall the offensive line did not play well I think we can definitely point to injury as to why but the end

33:34results end result they didn't get a get good offensive line play last year the good news is listening to him yesterday it does seem like he is in the best place physically that he's been in you know almost a year and a half or whatever and it's such a huge deal that not only does he feel good now but he gets to feel good in February March April May June July August as opposed to last year he's rehabbing that whole time and entering the season not 100% so their season hinges on the offensive line next year and I think that that was encouraging news here from Jurgen's so of the uh the new additions uh do any feel like they are bigger than depth pieces to you Elliott uh he may know of like Elijah Moore and Hollywood Brown and and those type of players well Hollywood Brown I think we were aware he'll probably be on the team but uh anyone else kind of tickle your fancy a guy who you think could be a real starter a contributor more than a depth piece because it

34:35feels like now that we're like week four of free agency it's not that real any longer yeah I mean I think clearly Tariq Wolland is the player they signed that will have the biggest role he will start they gave him you know almost as much guaranteed money as they did the rest of their free agency class combined so he's the clear class of it but yeah I mean outside of that it really is a lot of depth pieces I will say a surprising aspect of one signing they made Jonathan Jones the 32 year old corner uh that they signed he got two million dollars guaranteed so I mean that's a decent chunk of change for someone who you know when they initially signed them I think projects as at best a depth piece and I thought potentially fighting for a roster spot but he'll give him veteran depth on the outside he can play nickel and it wouldn't completely shock me if they thought he you know in a pinch he could line up its safety but two million dollars is that's like making the roster money so I was surprised at how much guaranteed money he got wow yeah that is interesting and and his and Jonathan Jones is considered a nickel first and foremost so he was he was early in

35:44his career but he played a lot of outside the past few years as well I mean he has legitimate you know good experience at both so yeah he he can move around that's huge that's utility Elliott Max Crosby kind of been a little off the radar the last two weeks let's get back to this for a moment so he was initially traded for two first rounders which I thought was an overpay sounds like the Ravens thought it was an overpay all right and and now there's talk like maybe you get him for less than a one which I think is an underpay if it seemed like the Eagles was actually going to trade for Max Crosby what do you think it realistically would take I still think you're probably talking about a first round pick or like a second that with some conditions you know where he plays 15 games and it becomes a first at the end of the day he's still a good player and I still think enough teams would jump into the bidding if it was only a second round pick where you but Elliott sounds like you're saying you think there's damage goods there I mean there's no way Max there's no way there is zero chance a player goes from going to be traded for two first rounders to now potentially being traded for less than a first rounder unless he's damaged goods

36:48there's no way yes well obviously the Ravens thought he was the Eagles would have to make their own medical decision but you know this is not to compare directly to the AJ Brown thing but like when you're trading for an older player that's perceived to have knee problems that's just not a great player to trade for like Max Crosby is still good at football no question about it but how many snaps are you going to get out of him how much are you going to have to pay him and I'm sure the Patriots are asking the same thing about AJ Brown right now right like yes AJ is still a great player when he plays is there concerns about the news how much money are you going to give him can you get a you know somewhat replacement or you know similar level player in the second round this year or first round and then in the year he is AJ Brown so I agree Max Crosby is damaged goods at this point because clearly there's something going on with his knee maybe it's not as bad as to other teams it is to the Ravens but there's something going on there for that trade to be shut down all right Elliott let's get to this we'll wrap on this one we want to get a lot of Philly's calls in here owners meetings next week yeah what's the number one question

37:53you're thinking about asking Jeffrey Lori I mean what what what's the number one thing to to get on Lori on for the owners meetings I don't mean get on but I mean get him on the record about yeah so all right I'm going to cheat a little and there's two things first I definitely think about his meeting with AJ last year what happened how he felt AJ handled it what made him need to go and talk to AJ on the field so that's one but the other big topic is going to be the stadium right like they're least ends with the stadium in 2032 and that sounds like a far a time away and it is in reality but like when it comes to building a stadium it's not that far away so Jeffrey talking about does he want to build one in Philly again would he put a roof on the stadium like all those type of questions I think are going to be asked well I know they're going to be asked of Jeffrey so I'm going to ask them but I think the stadium is the is the biggest is the biggest thing yeah good answers and I'll give you one more then I'd be fascinated does how we talk all some next week yeah do we hear from how we Sunday Nick Monday Jeffrey Tuesday so just the one where they interview them in the parking lot and it's windy with we're lucky one year we did

38:58it in the blazing sun in Arizona about 40 minutes so yeah it's been a different I'll give you one more and I know they're just going to say we don't talk about contracts but it would be interesting just to see how they even react on so what about a jail in extension yeah no I agree I mean Carter or hurts right but yeah but really but really you know what I'll say jail jail in her it's well I think they're both really interesting no but jail in Carter you feel confident will probably get one either this year or next but the thing is are they thinking we're not giving one to jail until he proves a better year in 26 maybe how do they I answer that on camera well I know how he'll answer how he would say he doesn't talk about contracts but he loves jailing the question would be what would Jeffrey say Jeffrey doesn't talk as much Jeffrey I think you know can sometimes be a little more forthcoming in his interview so yeah how Jeffrey responds to it would be very interesting how they're they're going to have to amend their approach to negotiating during the season to make this team the best possible team it can be it feels like we've fallen behind a

40:03little bit the last couple years because we were closer and not negotiating during the season what's about a time you know when when I was that all the young guys who were worth their salt felt like okay if I play well enough maybe they'll come talk to me about the possibility of you know a new deal that's that's the goal that was motivating for everyone now it just feels like that's gone away yeah it's one of the more surprising things how he's done over the past four years to really put such a hard line in the sand of not doing in the season negotiation because it does hurt them like they paid more for Zach Bond than they would have had they signed him after training camp or after week two or three and they insist it is because of locker room or out like they don't want one guy to get paid where other one guy isn't and I guess to a certain degree I'm impressed by it because it's such like an emotional way to make such what a really million dollar business decisions and it's good I guess to do it but look it could cost them to wreak wool and it could

41:06cost them any of them one year free agents they have right now because all those players know once the regular season begins like they are going to be free agents next year and that that can be a positive and that they're motivated or you could have twelve independent contractors on the team that know they're looking to the next year so there's some real pluses and minuses to it all right by the way beat the hammer coming up in five minutes we'll take the fifth caller in the contest line caller five you compete in beat the hammer in five minutes two one five nine eight eight twelve fifty eight caller five two one five nine eight eight twelve fifty eight as the hammer goes for three ten Elliott final thing twitter poll question the day brought to us by arm and Chevrolet you can save over ten thousand five hundred dollars on every new arm and Chevrolet equinox EV in stock that's over twenty percent off MSRP visit arm and Chevy dot com Elliott poll question if they get Tyrese maxi back do you think the sixers are a contender in the east yes or no no I don't think they are like they have awesome talent I tend to agree with you a little bit

42:07Joe that they could you know make things interesting but there's no way they're winning three straight series like they have awesome talent but three straight series is too much so no I would say no all right pal have a great weekend Elliott thanks bud yep tuck you there Elliott sure parks beat the hammer coming up shortly let's talk to Ken and send him instant right now hi Ken good morning friends happy friday happy friday can very happy friday after opening day that was beautifully yesterday oh yeah i feel like you know i was wondered i was wondering a little bit this day like i was wondering if john was going to you're trading places right that's you're right of course he didn't pick up on that did he yeah i will any murphy dan acroid right there a little little of that i can i'm sorry go ahead no i was wondering if john was going to rip out of the phone today because his home run was not pulled yeah it was that was a great sign i thought the opposite field hitting yesterday right out the gates was really positive i was actually shock absorbers got out when he hit it in the ball in the ball it felt like a fly out to

43:10short games totally i couldn't leave it i said this isn't going out and then you just kept going yeah going but when they when they showed the replay slow motion and you saw that he hit the bottom half of the ball there was so much back then on that ball it just kept going and going going if it was a typical march opening day what was 50 degrees that ball is dying at the the other team had one that went pretty far to left field also they got caught at the warning track but it was way farther than i thought it would be and before i get to to yesterday with the fillies just real quick something wild ball schemes got hit around the way he did which we've never seen before yeah um you talk about you can't win or win or lose can't win the season or lose the season on opening day uh ball schemes based upon his start yesterday would have to pitch between 175 and 200 innings at a sub 1.76 ERA the rest of the year to finish with a sub 2 ERA for the season oh it hurts it hurts his ERA a lot at that yeah at that it really so what was the two-thirds

44:10of anything in six runs five yeah yeah that's brutal for an ERA is ERA like 67 so yeah now look can smart voters will know it was just one game and they will remember that game and the defense and the defense but i do hear you can it it will make his stats clearly worse than the other was would have been i mean that that is a stat damageer i don't think anybody is saying that uh but he's cooked you know no but but i'll say this it's gonna be for instance very hard for him to be have a worse have it's gonna be hard for him to have a better ERA than Christopher Sanchez for at least the month of April like just i would say i just theoretically could have one of them but it's so unlikely almost statistically impossible and to get back to boom if they kind of highlights why boom is valuable to this team although it is time for him to cut his hair he's 30 years old because you get you get two guys on start the ending right you get Crawford and

45:11then turn her back to back and so you got you got Harper and sugar behind them on base with nobody out and typical of this Philly's cooler lineup they go back to back strikeouts and so when you've got Alec Bohm behind those guys who is the best back to ball guy in the lineup and he is i mean you could say whatever you want to bet on it better yeah yeah sure i mean try arguably but i get your point yeah he does put the bat on the ball so it's because you can't go back to back strike out in that situation but this is this is how this lineup is built on the other pictures pretty good also he didn't pitch particularly well yesterday but he has a legit quality picture all right can i need an answer from your body for the bright atoms take its title on a body part i mean body part in a title i'm sorry go ahead foot loose yeah you know i didn't like that movie that watch that's a great answer for this though i think it's overrated i'm with you i do it too it's okay it's fine it's fine it's all right it's not something i rewatch and rewatch and rewatch

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