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Broadcast on:: 13 Sep 2024
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With the NL East crown within reach, the Phillies welcome their division rival, the New York Mets, to town for a 3 game weekend series. The Magic Number for the Phillies to clinch the NL East is now 9, which means it could be as low as 3 by the end of the weekend. Plus, Phillies play-by-play announcer, Scott Franzke, joins the show at 8:25 to discuss the series and the Phillies future Playoff run!

(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - What's up everybody? Welcome to Philly, Philly. We're live on a Friday morning. Philly Philly with John Marks. We're here, what's up? Not a football Friday because the Eagles aren't playing until Monday, but nevertheless still a football Friday. Lots of talk about a Phillies Friday as the Mets come in the town for a weekend series. Scott Fransky on the call. That's right, he'll be on the show today coming up in about 25 minutes, 8.25. Lots of talk about with the Phillies and I have something on the Phillies in the open coming up in a second. So don't go anywhere. But normally Tyler's really comes on with a, and we get the kind of a news update on what happened the night before and the day before. I'm not gonna wait for that because I woke up this morning to a Tonga by Aloha, the news of him going down with the concussion. And by the way, Philly Philly with John Marks on PH.L.Y. Sports has always brought to you by Bette Parks. Check out the Bette Parks app, get all your lines, including the Eagles minus 6.5 right now, Monday night against Atlanta. All right, so I had watched every other primetime game since the beginning of the season. And hey, it's only the week two. So I'm not looking for an award or anything like that. Thank you, Tyler. Thank you. And I was watching the game last night till it sucked and you get into the second half and I don't need to stay up until midnight to watch a blowout. And that game was essentially a blowout. So I lasted a couple of drives, maybe a driver to into the second half. I was already fading and I was out. So I wake up this morning. If you're just waking up and you haven't seen, Tua took a shot on, it was a fourth down play. They were in the red zone, but they were also down big at this point. Not that they're not trying to come back, but that's why I wasn't watching it. And we have it actually, Tyler. Can we roll it for all the people that didn't see it or just wake it up and haven't seen it? So here's Tua talking about a Loa. Going forward on fourth down. Go ahead and roll it. And 21 points, fourth and fourth pressure. Tua said something's going to run for the first down and takes a shot at the six-year line. Hamlin hit him and Tua. - And you can see right away, and that's how Michael's on Amazon Prime. We thank them for the audio and video. Right away, like if you're paying attention, you can kind of see that he's shaken, but it's really when you look at the reverse angle, you can see exactly what happened. And you had that and like I don't need to see this anymore. The last time that we had it, last time that you saw it, he was in that, what do you call it, the pose, the fencers pose or whatever, what'd they call it? I had it. - Yeah, I think it's called the fencing. - The fence, so like his arms locked up, his fists locked up or whatever. Look like he got knocked out. This is the third, probably the fourth concussion in the last couple of years. But we're also talking about that last bad one that he had where it was really, really scary to see on the field. So you had that last night. You obviously left the game. It's just like, so here's what happens from here. Here's what's gonna happen today. It's probably already happening right now on the get ups and the whatever the other debate shows are. And it's a Friday, that's what you're reacting to what happened last night. Concussions are always a big deal, especially when you watch it on national TV. You already had people last night, Des Brian came out on Twitter and said he should retire. I saw a number of people that came out, Tony Gonzalez on the post game show said he should retire. He just signed a huge contract literally weeks ago, right? Weeks ago, he signed a huge contract. And it's not just as easy as to say, "Oh, well, he should retire." That's gonna be the discussion today. He should retire. And you know what, he probably should retire based on the head trauma that he's had the last couple of years. But yeah, it's tough to watch, it's tough to see. I don't know, I don't know too personally. I don't know if he was close to retiring before. I don't know if he's going to retire right now. If I was to venture a guess, I'd say no. He takes a significant amount of time off and then maybe tries to come back. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know where his head was at. No pun intended before. I don't know where it's gonna be after this. But doesn't it just feel like that this isn't gonna be the last time? What two are needed to do? And you're playing the game, you're not trying to think why you're playing, you're just trying to play and react, but you gotta protect yourself better. And on that play, if you watch the replay or you look at it again, he already had the first down. There was no reason for him to dive head first and he initiated contact. Demar Hamlin, by the way, was the one that you can say delivered the hit, really to deliver the hit into him. And the end of it hitting his head. So, and when you look at the replay, it's like, oh, you can see how he got knocked out. It was just an awkward and odd way that his helmet went in, but he led with his helmet into a defensive player who was not big enough to do that. He's had injury history, not even the concussion stuff. You gotta be smarter. If that means that you turn into a player that is throwing the ball away and ducking at the first sign of pressure, then you gotta become that guy. But if he is gonna continue playing, he can't take unnecessary risks like that. And it was just, it's horrible to see because he's a really, really talented quarterback and player and you wanna see him be out there. And it's one thing within the pocket to take a hit and to take a shot where he can't defend himself. You didn't see it coming. He's waiting to the last second to throw the football. He takes a shot. It's another thing to dive headfirst into a defender after he already had the first down. He's gotta protect himself better. But it's scary. The fencing posture with Toa. He was out. He had the, as he was like trying to get up and he was like half out. He, we saw that the last time. So it's scary, it is scary to see. Nobody wants to see that. And I saw the reaction of, of players after the game. And I didn't realize so many podcasts or, or players have podcasts and they go on after the game. Chris Long screen light podcast. He does a mini post game show. Shannon and Ocho, they do their, I guess that's the whole thing is what they do. They, they react to post game. So they were talking about it last night. This is gonna be the story. And there's gonna be a lot of, a lot of athletes that are saying he needs to retire. There's gonna be a lot of former players saying he needs to retire. Really this is, this is gonna be Toa. I don't know how I, how I were to react these 20, isn't he 26 years old still? Tyler, I mean, he's not, he just, he just signed his second contract. He was still under his first, first contract in the NFL. Yeah, he's 26. Yeah. So yeah, like, here's what I would say. Hey, he's set for life. He just signed a huge contract. I don't think he can necessarily just retire without playing things out to get his money. I know that a lot of the money is guaranteed against injury. But you just can't say, hey, I'm retiring. See ya. Like there's, you have to go through steps and things like that, but you just, you worry about the head injuries. And it, he's not big enough. He's not fast enough to where he can play in that manner. Even if he, even if he protected himself a little bit better, you're still worried about him taking those shots. So there's that. One thing before we get into the news with Tyler here, I'm trying to make a pledge today. And Scott Francis is going to join us in about 15 minutes or so, 8.25 if you're watching live on YouTube or Roku. I'm making a pledge today. Yesterday, Tyler, we talked about it a little bit and the Phillies have the best record in baseball by a game over the Dodgers. The Phillies are 30 games over 500. They haven't, I didn't see if the Mets played last night. They have an eight game lead in the analyst as the Mets come into town. Yeah, the Mets did not play last night. They were idle. So they've an eight game lead over the Mets and they've been fantastic as of late the Phillies have. They have great starting pitching. They have a great bullpen now. They're every day lineup are at their nicked up, but they have veterans and they've productive veterans. I'm making a pledge right now. I got to get out of this hole. Oh, I'm so anxious with this team. Here's what happened the last two years and like, oh my God. Like, will they be hot? Will they have too much of a lead? And they won't have their foot on the accelerator when the season ends and then they'll have a buy and then they won't have played a competitive game in weeks and I got to get my head out of my butt with that stuff. All right. Tyler's early. I am making a pledge today to be positive John and to not, I repeat, not continue with this rhetoric and with this narrative of holy crap. I'm worried about this team. But at some point you got to enjoy the ride. And I'm a huge Phillies fan. My first memory in life, and this is the truth, my first life memory is the Phillies winning the World Series. I don't think I remember anything else from life than 1980 Pete Rose bouncing the ball on the vet turf after he saved Bob Boone and grabbed the pop fly. My first memory of life, I love the Phillies. So I'm making a pledge today to enjoy the run and not be show anxious. And I'm hoping other Phillies fans can as well. I'm proud of you. Thank you. I think that's a big step. Now here's the thing. You can sit here and say that July was just a bad month. It was a bad month for this team. They really, really, really struggled, right? Yeah. Pitching was down across the board, starting rotation ZRA was up almost a full point or was up over a full point. ERA ZRA was close to it as well. Excuse me, bullpen ERA was close to it as well. Productivity had slipped. Runners in scoring position in July was not a pretty relatively pretty bad. They sucked after the All-Star game. It was a rough month. The latter half of August was much better when on a-- have been on a really nice run of series in which you've either split the series. Like, should they have won the Marlon series? They absolutely should have won the Marlon series. Taking two when you win Thursday and Friday night and only coming away with those two, it's difficult to swallow at times. But you sweep the rays, you win the series against the Braves, you win the series against the Royals, you win the series against the Astros. You've been on a run now of pretty good form as of late. Oh, yeah. I think that the concerns of July are tangible and they were real, but they have also, I think, subsided a little bit over the last three or four weeks. 9 of 11, 14 of 18, right? Like, that's a large enough sample size to-- I don't care who you're playing. You're playing bad teams or good teams. And I'm pledging it, which means I'm going to try. It doesn't mean that you're not going to have to help me out occasionally and the people aren't going to have to be like, number what you said, get off the ledge with the Phillies. This is going to be a-- John, sit down. We've written some letters for you. Dear John, you said you were going to be positive. Positive, John. They lost two of three to the Mets and you are no longer positive. But I always want to be positive. Negativity's not in my nature. Sometimes it's just inevitable that you're going to end up going down that road. I think when you're as attached to these teams as we all are, negativity's going to happen. Sorry, I'm already getting anxious thinking about it. Stop it. Scott Fransky, we'll talk to him about this coming up there. Being a Sixers fan has been a miserable life experience for the last six years, despite the fact that they've been a perennial playoff team. Being a Sixers fan sucks. It's tough, right? You see what I mean? I don't enjoy that. The Phillies don't deserve that treatment. They have a "One World" series, but the Phillies aren't the 76ers. No, I don't like being a Sixers fan. I don't. It's not fun. Not fun. I used to-- with Elliott Shore parks, I used to argue with him, where he would talk about how successful the franchise has been. And I say, I know they haven't gotten it a second round. I'm like, I haven't had fun being a Sixers fan the last five or six years. All right, you have fun during the regular season when they have a great game and whatever else. But I don't know. All right, updated. Someone happened last night there, Tyler Zoule. Yeah, not a whole lot to get into pretty light slate of Major League Baseball. So we'll start with last night's game. I know you talked about the bigger story is to his injury and potential health risks down the line. But the Bills did win this one 31 to 10. It was, as you mentioned, kind of a blowout from the start. James Cook scored twice. Josh Allen only had to throw the ball 19 times, right? Through the ball for 139 yards and one touchdown, they were on 24 to 10 at half. It was 31 to 10 at the end of the third. Cook had three touchdowns total, I believe. Yes, receiving corrects. Yes, three touchdowns in total for James Cook. They improved the 2-0. The Dolphins are now 1-1. That was obviously the only NFL game on the slate last night. Yeah, so the Bills, and I was bullish on the Bills going into the season, which is funny because I was not. Yeah, and it's two games, but sometimes addition by subtraction works and you lose digs and it's like, all right, well, who's going to be the wide receiver? Josh Allen's an amazing talent. For sure. And I always felt like that they made mistakes. And Joe Brady coming in as their offensive coordinator last year and their play caller, they need a more balanced offense. They can't rely on, hey, Josh Allen, you go out and throw the ball 50 times. And then you are only running back as well. So the running back, yeah. Yes. And he, he's so damn big. I don't know how he stays healthy with the amount of contact that he was taking on, but your offense can't be. I'm just telling you, you can't just say, hey, quarterback, go bail us out and you're our offense. It doesn't work like that. More balanced. They run the ball very well. James Cook's good. I mean, he really is. So this looks like a different team. We'll see. We'll see. But I've heard a lot of people saying, I don't know if they make the playoffs, bull. This, this team will be right at the top of the AFC. I think they win the AFC. I think a lot of people's concern and probably justifiedly so is when you do lose Stefan Diggs. Who's your number one receiver? Lost a lot on defense. Is it Khalil Shakir? Is it, you know, are you going to rely heavily on Dalton Kincaid? Is your tight end? Lose a lot on defense as well. There was a lot of turnover with this, this organization. But I think that you're right when you can maybe simplify things a little bit, get back to basics a little bit more. Maybe it does wonders for a team. Now you talk about, you know, Josh Allen being a talent and you're 100% correct. We talked this week about Jalen Hertz's decision making. Josh Allen throws some passes sometimes where you go. Sure does. What were you thinking? Who are you looking at? Big interceptions and fourth quarters in red zone. Yeah. No, you're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You know, different, different skill sets, obviously. Josh Allen much bigger, much stronger, cannon for an arm. But, you know. Stupid decision. There's decision making a time. So far this year, he's been protective of the football like a second half of the week one and yesterday, protective of the football didn't throw a turn. You didn't commit a turnover yesterday. They should be the front runner to win the division. But a lot of people's concerns, myself included, was the turnover they had this year. Yeah. Lost a lot on defense. By the way, I don't, I don't know if they have enough talent to be a Super Bowl team like you had mentioned. It's one thing to grind out regular season wins, but it's another to all right. Now you're playing the elite teams. Do you have enough offensive firepower? Sure. I don't know if they do. Now the dolphins on the other side of it, they're one in one. They really weren't impressive in their first week, the win. And now if you're going to have Skyler Thompson, who knows how long to is going to be out for? I think Ryan Fitzpatrick said after the game, put them on injured reserve that at least gives say like, listen, you're not coming back for four weeks and you're not going to make decisions based on how many wins you're trying to get and try to save your season. But Skyler Thompson's your quarterback, you can, even for four weeks, this team is not making the playoffs. Yeah. You would be in a serious uphill battle at that point and I had Tyree kill in fantasy football, freaking crappy quarterback. I've what's his name up in Green Bay, Josh, Josh Jacobs as a running back and freaking Jordan loves going down for a couple of weeks. So I like, you know, not a lot of games played baseball either yesterday, Thursday kind of a typical day off for a lot of teams. The only game that really mattered in terms of, you know, standings watching was the Brewers played last night. They shut out the Giants three nothing in the final game of that series. So as it stands, the numbers for the Phillies don't move in terms of locking up a one or a two seed. They still are nine games, the magic numbers, nine games to win the NL East. It's also nine games to make the playoffs at this point, but it is 12 to at least clench a buy. That is, of course, would be the, the separator between them and the Brewers. It's 15 to clinch the one seed. That's the separator between them and the Dodger. So not a lot of movement in the, the national league, because not a lot of games last night. Right. Yeah. Fills and Mets. It lie. Here's the line. Here's how it lines up this weekend. Tyler, uh, cantana against Aaron Nola. That's tonight. Kobe Allard comes back here against a servino and then David Peterson against Chris Sanchez. So you need a good, you need a good Aaron Nola start. You win tonight, you go out tonight and Nola has a good start. You get the, you win the first game of the series, takes the pressure off of all the other games, especially with allergoing games, especially with allergoing game too. Yeah. I think, and then, you know, when you are directly playing the team that the magic number is based around, you're not chopping off one game with a win or one game with their loss. You win. You chopped off two. You go from nine to seven. That's why I've been saying for a while, like what I love to see five and two, six and one, of course I would with the seven games against them. You go four and three. That is, that's eight games right there that you have chopped off over the, just against the team you're, you're directly competition with. Yeah. I'm not going to have, I'm not going to have the, we'll just, yeah, if you win one game, it's okay. Let's win two or three. I get it. No, believe me. I understand. No two or three. Now on Monday when we come in here, if they do lose two or three, I don't know how I'm going to react. I'm probably not going to go crazy unless they look really bad. But you all will be happy. And I get that. No. No. I'm not related to anything to do with Philly, just one of those games in college football that I get, pay for play, right? I understand if you're going to go to the big house or Ohio State or whatnot, but how about pay for play where you go down to South Alabama and lose by 77 points? South Alabama beat Northwestern State yesterday in FCS school, 87 to 10. Now after the first quarter, it was 24 to 10. South Alabama then put 28 up in the second quarter, 28 in the third quarter and amisely seven points, which I assume came from their, you know, you don't want to run up to score back up players, but they win the game 87 to 10 last night over Northwestern State. Well, listen, I'm a big Northwestern state. Oh, I knew you were the dean. Are they the demons? I think they're the yes. They're the demons. It's a great pull by you. If that is the case. Oh, it's because I Google it. It's the only reason I know why. So let's see. Don't admit that. Uh, yeah, so apparently they're canceled. Their season got canceled last year after they lost their first, let's see here, uh, that lost, lost, lost, lost, lost, they lost ever. I think their first five and then I'm guessing they canceled the season. They had their last five games canceled. Wow. And they're all in three to start this year. So it's not gotten any better. Maybe they'll cancel it again. Did you have any players in Fannie college, fancy football in any of those teams? You know what? I didn't. No. The last time I had a row, I think a relevant skill position player from South Alabama, Jalen Tolbert was there. So it's been a couple of years. Look at G.O. Lopez, the starter for South Alabama 15 for 19 257 yards and four touchdowns. That's a very efficient day for the kid. His quarterback rating was very high. It was like 800 because college football quarterback ratings are the dumbest things ever. Let me do the Scott Francis coming up in three minutes. I just wanted to give a shout out to Anthony Beck to his, the pride of Delco former, former jet, former buccaneer, former first round draft pick, went to West Virginia. His son, Rocco Beck is the starting quarterback for Iowa State. I watched the game. They played Iowa. I watched the game last Saturday. They were brutal in the first half. They came back in the second half and won the game. So shout out to shout out to Rocco and to Anthony. I know Anthony's doing the jet schemes now. He's the radio. The mic quick for the jets. He's in his first year this year, but I've been following him. I'm friends with, I'm friends with Anthony's brother-in-law and it's his, Kevin's sister married Anthony. So, yeah. So I've been following Rocco since he was in high school and it was good to see him get that win. He's doing a great job. All right. Well, let's, as Scott, he's going to join us coming up here in a second. Scott Fransky is the fills and the Mets here. Start a series tonight. Let's, uh, let's talk about traveling a little bit here. If you're a Philly sports fan, maybe you were in Brazil, maybe you're going to one of these other games. 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Looks like you have your unshaven, normally you're a clean shaven, guy, Scott. Yeah, some days, you know, it's a radio thing, you know? But you're doing more TV in September with TMac doing NFL stuff. I think I'm only doing a couple more this tomorrow and Sunday. I think that's it. I don't think he's doing any more after that. I mean, he will, but probably after the season. Right. All right. So let me tell you where I am as a Philly fan and you used to listen to me when you were driving in the park and you would hear my nonsense on WIP. I'm very emotional when it comes to the Phillies. Really like any other team, the anxiousness that I get from Phillies playoff baseball is not like anything else that I ever experienced as a sports fan. And you would expect the Phillies to the best team in baseball, the 30 games over 500. They have an unbelievable starting rotation. Their bullpen looks like that it's, it's locking down. I pledge today, Scott, that I'm going to take the anxiousness out of being a Phillies fan because I, I can't, I can't stop looking at what happened last year and what happened the year before with being the hot teams entering the playoffs. The Phillies aren't the hot team entering the wall. They could be hot, but they're going to have the buy. They're, they're not going to be, have their foot on the accelerator and like fighting for their playoff flies to get into the playoffs. Do you sense this from a lot of the fan base? Cause it's not just me. It's almost like we just want the playoffs to get here because we don't want to think about everything that could happen in the playoffs. Right. I, I think one of the things that people want the playoffs to get here is because the way guys have been dropping like flies, you're like, you're just worried somebody else is going to get hurt. For games that don't matter, hold on. Now again, they haven't finished anything. They, they feel like they've still got a lot to do. But the reality is, is that you're going to win the division. The numbers say that. I mean, unless there's an epic, epic sort of a falter or collapse. So you mostly would just want to get there healthy. And that's the big thing is trying to get there healthy. And whether they're the hot team or not, I mean, I get what you're saying. I just think that nowadays the way the baseball playoffs are constructed, you just, you're going to live, you're going to have to live with some of that anxiousness because until you survive in advance, you haven't survived and you haven't advanced, if you know, and whether it's a three game wild card series of five game division series, seven game LCS, the Phillies should know from the experience of the last two years that, you know, after one of the two games at home against Arizona, it's not over until you win the four, right? Yeah. You've survived in advance. So I think there's always going to be some of that anxiousness, maybe more so for you because that's your personality, but correct. So they eat the starters still have a couple of starts left, but now you start to look at him and say, all right, how are they going to line up the rotation? Zach Wheeler. It's obvious he's, he's going to be your starter is going to be your number one. From there, you wonder what Rob Thompson's going to do. I guess you can just put Nola, you can put him in the number two, but now you have kind of a quandary with Chris Sanchez and, and with Ranger Suarez, especially the way that Rangers pitched since the injury and the fact that Chris Sanchez pitches much better at home than on the road. How do you think it lines up and would you be surprised and we know Rob's a players guy. He's kind of an old school guy. They do, they do use analytics quite a bit in the Philly's organization, which is a good thing. But do you think it's, it's, it's, it's Wheeler, Nola. And then it's a decision between Sanchez or Suarez or, or do you think that they take in the some, the other, some of the other things into account when lining up the rotation? Yeah. I think it probably, I mean, they will look at it all, right? All those things you mentioned, who's pitching the best. There's no question that Christopher Sanchez is pitching better than Rangers for us. I mean, that's just obvious. And the other part of it is, I mean, there's a lot of ways you can phrase it, if you will. You know, we're going to let Sanchez go on this day in game three or game two because we want him at home and, and we have no worries about Nola. We like having Nola as a big game guy in game three or what, you know, I mean, you can sell that any number of ways. I think, and I, and I also think, um, while Nola is, you know, he's, he's got the track record. He's got experience. He's got, um, so many years with the Phillies, he's got all that tenure with the Phillies, but you know, you saw him this year, he was like, yeah, Wheeler should start opening day. Absolutely. And right. I don't think, I don't think Nola cares. He wants to pitch. Um, I don't think he cares necessarily when he pitches. I think there will be some matchups to be, to be considered, you know, whether it's a team that, um, you know, you feel like you're going to need a lefty, another lefty, um, you want the lefty to be facing twice, for instance, rather than logs. Um, you know, and, and by, I mean, the real wild card is Sanchez, what you do with him is I think right now he's pitched as well as, as anybody, I think he's pitched certainly as well as Nola. He's pitched better than Ranger. So, um, I think what they decide to do with him is, is to me, it's pretty intriguing, honestly. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's really the one question that you have entering the postseason. And it's got, it's a great point that Nola may be on different teams or different guys you would worry about the, the starter being like, hang on a second. You're saying he's better than me. I'm not starting a game three, but with Nola, he would just kind of be like, yeah, all right. Like, yeah, I'm probably better on the road or Sanchez is better at home. And he would just, he'd be fine with it. I, I, I, I think the fly, I definitely think the Phillies should, and then you're breaking up the righties and the lefties, I would start Sanchez game two. He has been to tell me, tell me if you, if you see when, when Cole Hamels was at his best, his, he could throw two pitches, he's getting strikeouts on changeups. Similar velocity when Cole was kind of in his prime, 93, 94, 95 Sanchez, probably has a couple of ticks more on his fastball, but the change, the changeup is the perfect pitch. He throws it so well. He's reminding me a little bit of Cole Hamels when Cole Hamels was pitching really well just with those two pitches. Yeah. I think the thing, the one thing for me about Chris that, that still is coming is the ability to slow the game down when stuff goes wrong. And we've seen it lately, you know, like, I guess it was the last start. I mean, every inning he's got a base runner to deal with, right? He's got a lead off guy on whatever, but he pitches through it. And I think it's, it's somewhat constructive to see that and to watch him deal with that because I mean, one of the things that the great pitchers do, especially in October, is they're, they have an ability to slow the game down. And it's harder to do now pitch clock, it's harder to take, you know, take a breath and take a timeout, collect your thoughts and deal with it. But that's the one thing that, you know, NOLA has been there before, NOLA has a little more experience in that regard and even Ranger as I think a little more ability in that regard, you know, up here, and I'm not saying Chris won't get there or isn't maybe there, but we just haven't seen it as much. So I think that's one thing that they probably would, would look at him and would watch carefully as the games are going on to see how he's handling those situations. Yeah. And he's, he hasn't proven like cold during those runs that he's able to handle those big moments in your mind. We don't know. He could look like a different pitcher coming out, national TV, game two over the morning. I mean, Rob has been saying for a while, Rob even told me as early as late as last year, he said, if this kid talking about Sanchez, he said, if this kid figures it out, he's got really, he does have the best stuff of anybody on our staff. And he said, I'm telling you, if he figures it out, all the other things that go with it mentally and, and, and consistency wise, he said, this kid's going to be really, really good. And it's proven to be true. And what a bonus, right? And I, when he first came up, I didn't know if he was a major league pitcher. You saw the velocity and stuff, but everybody's got velocity these days. He's figured it out pretty quickly and it was an all star share, which is crazy. Yeah. I think he's one of the great sort of development stories. And again, I know they didn't sign him and I know they traded for him as a, but he was a minor leader and, but they've had to do a lot of work with him. And not just work with his stuff and with his pitching, but work with his nutrition and work with his strength and work with his stamina and endurance and he's a much stronger kid than he was when they first got him and they sort of tore him down and built him back up again. And, you know, now they're seeing the real fruits of it because he really is a complete pitcher in that not only does he have command, he's got the velocity back, he's got great stuff with that power change up. So he's, he's looking like a huge, huge win for the organization as a whole. I mean, talk to bottom all the, all the different areas that deal with a player. He's looking like a real win for the organization. And starting pitching so expensive. And I know they signed them to a long term contract. They bought out his arbitration years, but starting pitching so expensive. And when you get a guy that's like this, it's like, wow, it's going to make you good. And by the way, he's pitching on Sunday, David Peterson. So that'll wrap up the series. We'll talk about that in a second, but just one of the reasons why that I said this morning was like, I need to stop with this anxiousness entering the playoffs. This bullpen Scott looks as strong as it's, it's been maybe since the, since the run of the world series in 2008, especially with getting, with getting a step as, as the closer. So you have your closer, Hoffman has been great all year long, much better in an eighth inning than an eighth inning for me and strums been unbelievable. And we're not even mentioning kirkering and some of the other guys. So it cost them last year, Kim will cost them last year. It was shaky the world series year in the, in the, in the series against the Astros. Alvarado is now back seven straight scoreless appearances, three straight one, two, three innings. If you have Alvarado back and you have those guys, man, if these starters give you six innings, the field is going to be tough to be. Absolutely. I mean, because, you know, obviously if they give you six, if they give you somewhere anywhere near seven, it means it probably prints pretty well. But it also means, you know, with all the extra off days and whatnot that are built into the calendar, you can pretty much use those guys, you know, every game and if a starter has trouble, if a starter looks shaky early, you are deep enough that it allows you to, I mean, we don't mention Jose Ruiz, they love Jose Ruiz right now. He is a guy who's going to go in and kill an inning and not be afraid and he'll take the ball in the third inning if you need him to, or he'll take it in the ninth if you need him to. So that they do have a lot of weapons and on the view, I think it's as neat as any bullpen they've had. I mean, you know, go back to last year. I know Kim will get a lot of the, the, you know, the heat for it. But go back and look at those games in Arizona and almost every one of those relievers that came in came in to get a guy that they didn't get. And that might have been Sir Anthony in the fourth inning. It might have been Soto in the sixth inning, but all of that has a domino effect throughout the game. And then all of a sudden you're left with no other choice at the end. So I do think that they top to bottom or way better as a bullpen. You know, like you mentioned, Alvarado being back and it looks like he's back. Would that be in the case? I think they're a way better bullpen than they were at this time last year. Yeah. Thompson had, he had lost confidence in a lot of those guys by the Arizona series. You remember that he went kirkering over Sir Anthony in a big spot. It might have been the game that that might have been the game they blew stuff in Arizona and kirkering really wasn't ready for the situation. I think he, he, he walked a couple of guys, but yet he, and he's, he's pitching way better now than at any point we've seen it. I mean, it's efficient. It's crisp. It's all strikes. It's getting ahead in counts and forcing teams to chase. Um, you know, that sweeper is great, but it's not as great when you're down too up because it's a pitch that doesn't always finish for a strike and you're trying to get chase with it. And he's, he's what I think he's, uh, light years better than he was at this time last year. Great. All right, Scott fransky, you have the Mets coming in the town for three. I think there's going to be a lot of Mets fans in citizens, bank parks going to feel like old times when the Phillies and Mets were both good, got pretty rowdy down there at the bank. Yeah, it did. I mean, when I first got here, you know, it was always, uh, it was always among my favorite games of the year, the Phillies and the Mets. And, uh, I think I read that they're going to finish with both with winning records for the only the 10th time and, you know, since the Mets came into existence, um, so they've been, they've been rivals for a long time, but the fact that they're both good makes a big difference and it adds a lot of energy to it. And, um, you know, I mean, the Mets are the closest pursuer. I understand it's still a distance away, but, you know, if they came in and won three, then all of a sudden, then your anxiousness would go through the roof, I think. My pleasure. Well, if they lose two or three this weekend, it's good. We'll see. We'll see. But yeah, wait, wait, this is, this is the last, this is the last, the last hoop you have to jump through because they play set, they have seven games against the Mets before the end of the season. So you can see how it would turn the Mets win a couple of games this weekend. God forbid they, they win them all. And then all of a sudden the totally changes everything, but yeah, we always talk about what, oh, seven and seven, seven and a half with 17 to play or whatever. And one of the reasons they're able to do this, because they had a lot of games head to head, just like this and they want them all. They went into New York and swept and then I think went to St. Louis. Maybe they had some crazy games there, but yeah, it's, it's head to head stuff that matters. Those, those, the games at Citizens Bank Park that year, in the afternoon, some, some memories I'll always carry with me. It was such, he's hadn't been good for a long time. And then that's the way you get into the playoffs. That was, that was so much fun. How's, how's life with Larry? How's he doing? I haven't talked to him. I'm sure he was very upset when, when Cassiano's got thrown at, I heard some, I heard some of that back and forth with you guys. Yeah. Well, you know, I think he was, he was happy to be umpires handled it the way he thought that they should, which was diffused in the situation, eject the pitcher and move on. And they didn't, you know, there wasn't a whole lot of fanfare beyond that. So, yeah, he's good. He's, he's great. We took him on the road for a regular season road trip, something he hasn't done in eight years, I think. And it was fun to see him wandering around and trying to figure out what the bus time was and how to get from the hotel to the ballpark. And, you know, all the hotels have changed, you know, we've changed hotels from the last time he was out on the road. Oh, no. But he'll travel in the playoffs. Right. Well, you'll have to, that's just more work for you. Now you have to make sure he knows what time the bus is coming and yeah, you got to walk him on the bus. It's really, what's really good is that Greg Murphy is on the staff and Greg's a very detailed oriented and he can, you know, shepherd him around, make sure he's there. What was the way I saw it? I saw a picture of all you, all you knuckleheads in a car. Were you driving down the, you're driving down the Anaheim for the road trip? We were going from somewhere in California, driving down. I think that was, uh, San Diego and Anaheim or Anaheim and San Diego. I don't know. We just, well, it's like an hour and a half or two hours. Yeah. I mean, it was a couple hours. I mean, we would have been on the bus or in a car. We could leave a little bit earlier if we get, if we get a car and stopping in an outburger and stuff like that. So that was, that was the basic idea there. Well, Scott, I appreciate a few minutes, man. I know you're very busy. Great. Great to go. How's the family doing? How the kids doing? Everybody's great. Um, just, just got back dropping off all at school and my son started high school last week, which is crazy to me that it's going by quick. So I was saying, I was thinking about it last night. So I remember, I remember when, when he was born, it's got, you've been here, you've been here too long. We're getting too old. It's got, he's in high school. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of crazy. You know, they're, they're, they're excited, they're gearing up for another run through the playoffs. It, that's been some of the, the most fun for me the last few years in October is seeing the kids be able to experience it and seeing the kids, you know, you know, they grew up and they didn't see the fillings win really. Right. You know, my son kept saying, Hey, if they ever go to the playoffs, can we go? I'm like, Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, and they finally get a playoff bid and it turns out all three games are going to be in St. Louis on the road. So I got to buy four plane tickets and get them out to St. Louis at the last minute or whatever. Not this year. Well worth it for them to be able to experience it and see it and, and, and see what it's all about. They're, they're Philly, Philly fans all the way for sure. Yes. So they were too young to remember the first, the first run, I guess, huh? Yeah. I mean, my son was, was born in 2010. So he was, he was an infant in the, at the, in the infant, you know, in the baby waiting room or whatever, when, when Doc threw his playoff no hitter, but yeah, you know, memories of those days. Wow. That's amazing. He had memories of, you know, a hundred 99 losses or whatever in 2016. Pete McCann and losses, the Pete McCann and error where that's, that's, it's like me. I was a, I was a mid 80s, late 80s, Philly, like I remember the world series. I was very young, but I'm a Steve Jelts, Don Carmen, Kenny Howe, Philadelphia, Philly's fan. I'm a lot like your son. I grew up doing a lot of bad Phillies time. So sure. We've earned this. Yeah. He's enjoying the good stuff. That's for sure. Scott. Thank you, man. Appreciate it. Good. Good to see you buddy. Talk to you soon. Right. Say it. All right. There. And I get to do some, some reads here. Phillies have between TMac and I'm going to try, I'm, we're trying to get TMac on next week between TMac and Scott and Crocker and Larry Anderson and Stocker and everybody. Have an amazing broadcast crew. It's a great crew for sure. I have been the biggest, Scott Francke champion for a really, really long time, even, even working at the opposing station from the, the, the flagship of the Phillies. I've always said, like, he's the best. Yep. The best. You know, it's funny though, John. I almost feel like it's a rite of passage for, for us to be brought into bad Phillies teams. So like, you know, you brought up the guys, right? 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One of one of three is going to be okay. You win two of three, you've really put your foot on the, the gas pedal. I think they can win two of three in this one. I would not call a sweep for either team in this scenario too much going on, too much vitriol divisional race. I think they win two of three, but I, I don't think that either team gets swept. I'll, I'll just leave it like this. I need to see urgency out of this team this weekend. That's fair. I need to see a playoff type atmosphere. Mets fans are going to be down there. You know, the Phillies fans are going to be loud. That's going to be a good back and forth. I need to see playoff urgency. This very easily could be a preview to a, to a series in the playoffs. Yeah. I'm not talking. I'm not even going to mention getting swept. I'm not going to mention losing two or three, which very easily could happen. You got to win two or three against the Mets. You went to a three this weekend. It's over. Like it's pretty much over anyway. The analyst is pretty much over anyway. You can't leave that door cracked for the Mets to get hot because then mentally it's going to get in the Phillies head and it could totally, totally screw the season. Well, we talked about it, right? When you are directly playing the competition, it's, it's two games apiece instead of one. You get this thing down to five by the end of the weekend. I mean, you could very realistically clinch the division by, you know, the end of next week, the middle of, you know, the, the next weekend series. Oh, yeah. For sure. Yeah. Like you said, the magic number is, the magic number is what it is. You went to a three this weekend. Significant. It's significant. Like you said, you, you leave the door open a little bit. I think, you know, maybe a little bit of doubt creeps in just a little bit. You lose two of three. You're still what you, well, you'll be seven up with like 13 to play. The numbers are still overwhelmingly in your favor, but you don't want to put any extra onus on yourself that you don't, but then you have four against them. Sure. If you weren't playing them in that final series, you would say it's over. Like it doesn't matter. This is over. When you're forehead to head, now you worry about a lot of games you can make up a ton of ground. And you're not kidding. All right. We have our, we have our locks coming up here. Now I just want to say this. All right. What was your record last week? So we do three, or three locks and then we pick the Eagles game. So including the Eagles game, which you and I both picked correctly, I was, I was three in one. Nice. You got some, you got some rough luck. I think you got hit with a hook in the bills game, but it was also a kickoff return for a touchdown. You got, you got some bad luck. So a one and three week for you. So technically I was one in three. Really I was better than one in three. I mean, I like in my head, I'm going to, yeah, in my head, I wasn't one in three, but you know, like as far as how I paid out, I was one in three. So whatever, I'm trying to pull, trying to pull these up right now. All right. So we're not going to get the Eagles game yet. All right. So I didn't give you the Eagles game yet. So we'll do that on Monday, but let's, so let's, let's start out with the Cowboys. Cowboys last week, I, I don't know why I didn't pick the game, but this happened with a lot of these games where I was like, why didn't I pick that one? Why didn't I pick that one? The Cowboys were very impressive last week. And the Saints in victory against a terrible Carolina team, they got their win. So when week two, it's kind of a sets of urgency for a lot of teams, both teams one. So you're not desperate to not go Owen to, but the Cowboys are clearly the better team. The Cowboys were rolling last week against a pretty good Cleveland Browns team. I expect them to do the same on Sunday. Let's go with the Cowboys minus six over the New Orleans Saints. So the, the Ravens lost very easily could have won that game. The Raiders stink. They lost as well. So you have two O and one teams that are going. The Ravens are a Super Bowl contender. The Raiders are not. The Raiders are eight and a half point favorites at home. Lamar Jackson doesn't have a great winning percentage as far as covers as favorites. I don't care in this one. The Raiders aren't good. The Ravens are good. And I think they respond to a loss like that until a bar, not playing well. I think they respond with a blowout win. So I'm going to take Baltimore Ravens minus eight and a half over the Las Vegas Raiders. And my last one here. All right. Yes. Again, this is, this is one of these. How do you respond to a loss? The Jets got blown out by San Francisco. That game was not competitive. Aaron Rodgers wasn't even playing in the fourth quarter. They pulled him. One of their touchdowns came from Tyrod Taylor. All right. Tennessee, how's Will Levis is an NFL quarterback there? Tyler's not good. He stinks. Pretty good jets defense. Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers is fine. The jets are going to blow the Titans out. Take the New York Jets on the road, minus four over the Tennessee Titans. That's a three on a week. And if I don't go three and no other three games, Tyler's early is going to give you money or maybe not. I'm giving money. Wow. I don't, I don't have. That's what the carnival barkers all used to say. I was just like, five and over the rest of the season's free and I don't know how they make any money off those shows to be honest with you, but I don't, I don't, I don't have any because they, you get idiots to call and pay, even if they're, they call and pay for it. And sometimes the carnival barkers, they give different games, different results of games in other markets. So they're not actually making the same picks everywhere. So they're hedging their own bets against themselves. Correct. It's actually not a bad model. I mean, it seems like real off, but you don't, you don't hear a lot of the carnival barkers anymore. No, it's probably for the best. It is for the best. Yeah. Yeah. They were some, they were some rough shows. Um, all right. So we, we, we, we flashed your, uh, your picks across the screen here, my three, uh, I am going to go with teams, two teams that looked like garbage to continue to look like garbage. And one team, um, one game that I just think could end up being a really good game. I'm going to start in, uh, in Carolina, um, with the Panthers and the LA Chargers. Now, uh, Harbaugh seemed to implement his Harbaugh football style pretty much right away. The Chargers, uh, the Chargers scheme is, is pretty simplistic. They want to run the ball. They run the ball efficiently. JK Dobbins looked really, really sharp in, uh, in the first game, which is, uh, a little bit surprising to me coming off of, you know, multiple injuries and, and a team that wasn't quite sure, you know, who was going to be there starting running back. They led, uh, Austin Echler go at the end of the year, um, they ran the ball for a really, really efficiently. The Panthers meanwhile gave up 180 rushing yards to the New Orleans Saints last week with a team who, by the way, the Saints were projected to be one of the worst offensive lines in football, uh, this, this season gave up 180 rushing yards to the Saints. And now by the way, the, um, Carolina Panthers are without their, probably their best defensive player, uh, defensive tackle Derek Brown, who's out for the season, uh, this is going to get worse before it gets better for the Panthers. The line is down to five and a half on parks, uh, on bed parks. I'm going to take the Chargers to win this game. And I think win this game, uh, pretty convincingly. I love, I was bullish on the Chargers this year for the Jim Harbaugh reason. We, when you have a bad head coach and you bring in an excellent head coach, now he'll flame out because he's a maniac, but the difference between the difference between the idiot that they had there previously in Jim Harbaugh is significant. Oh, Brandon Staley was terrible head coaching. The NFL is like any other sport and Harbaugh is a significant upgrade. But anyway, we, we got to get through these. All right. So I'm going to go to the, uh, the other game where the team that, uh, just looks like they were terrible last week. I'm going to pick against the Cleveland Browns again this week. They go to Jacksonville. It is a, uh, a weird line. It's a minus three for Jacksonville who blew a lead last week, um, Trevor Lawrence needs to be more efficient with his wide receivers, Evan Ingram, one catch, Christian Kirk, one catch. Brian Thomas looked really good in his debut, but I think Trevor Lawrence needs to spread the football around a little bit more. I don't think that the jags slip up again this week. I know it's a little bit of a fishy line at home, but I think the Sean Watson right now is just playing some really, really bad football. I'm going to take Jacksonville minus three in this one. Okay. Then the last one, I think could be a really good game into rematch of last year's NFC, uh, divisional round. We go to Detroit where the lions are hosting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The bucks throttled Washington in week one, they won by 27. The lions looked really good in a competitive game against the, uh, the Rams in, uh, in on Sunday night football last week, um, this is a really, really large line, which is telling me that Vegas thinks the lions are going to blow the doors off of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I'm not so sure about that. I agree. I'm taking the bucks on the road with the points. It's up to seven and a half now. I don't think Tampa Bay wins this game, but I think it's a much closer game than Vegas is, uh, is saying I'm going to take the bucks with the point seven and a half. I thought about this one. And I was, I was your exact thought process, which was the books are a good team. Like we can, we can stop pretending. Well, the South stinks, no, Baker Mayfield, he's not a top five quarterback in the NFL, but with good, good pieces around them and he has great weapons. He has good offensive line. He has a good defense. I like the pick. I stayed away from it because it is a lions line. So I just, again, week two, you're like, all right, like maybe the bucks are in his guy. I, the bucks are good team. I agree with you. So that's what I've got. Uh, Chargers minus five and a half bucks, plus seven and a half, the Jags, uh, minus three. Oh, all right. Thank you very much, Tyler. Just wanted to give a shout out to all the diehards out there. What up diehards? Have a great weekend. We appreciate you. Thank you very much. Just looking at the chat here. If you were watching, uh, the screen was frozen at a, at not exactly a great moment. Yeah. I'm sorry about that. I wish I could have done something. Uh, I mean, that's just technology being technology. So some people say I was picking my nose. Others were saying it was an eye booger that I was doing, but I was, I was like this wiping your eye. Yeah. And it just caught you at a bad time. Again, say like I've been watching all of the, I've been going back and watching them. All the, all the shows because I want to see if I'm saying something annoying or doing something that's annoying. I'm not, I have a radio background. I never thought I'd be doing anything in front of a camera or a TV. And it's much different when you have the camera on you all the time and you don't realize you're like, Oh, I look, that's so stupid. So we're working on it. My friend Taylor out there also said to get the laptop off of my lap. Yeah. They say that's not good for, um, you know, it's not good for anything. Now luckily I'm not having any more children, uh, but so just so people know we're going to have a new set. I don't know when or what I want to desk. I want to, I, I, I, I, I do not like the setup that it is right now. Maybe it's good for like, if there's like some of the other shows where they have two or three people, I do not like this setup. So hopefully we're going to have a desk, if not next week, the following week, and then it'll look a little bit different because I do not like having that laptop on my lap. I, I don't. And if I put it down right here, it's very difficult to see. So there you go. But I do need it because, uh, it is difficult to see without it. But yes, we, we had some technical issues, which we're going to have, but Tyler very quickly solved them. We didn't lose the fransky interview, which was the most important thing. Well, that's the thing. He was there. We could see him. We could hear you. It was just you were in an unfortunate, um, an unfortunate position. Uh, and you know what? The funny thing is, John, you, you know, when they say this all the time and, and the fact is you're frozen again, uh, we can't, we can't make this up. You're frozen again. Do you know what we did to fix this unplugged it? Unplug and plug it back in. Watch. We're going to, okay, you're back. We're good. We did it. We literally unplugged it. I tried to fix a camera. I tried to change your shot. Andrew Frager, who's the producer of Anthony show comes in and he goes, just do just unplug it. No work. Of course. It does. My mom on Saturday calls me. She's like, I can't exit on my phone. I can't access the internet. It doesn't work. You know, your father's phones the same way or whatever. And I said, power it on, power it off. Like, and that all we that normally does the trick, like power it on power off, but it's not, it doesn't and yeah, and then she powered it off, power it back on and what he had. Of course. It started working again. So there you go. All right. So we will have, uh, we'll have the picks up there. And by the way, for everybody watching, thank you, we're available on YouTube on demand. I had a, I had a friend text me last night and it was like, you're chosen possible to find. This is, well, you're a bad Googler if my show is impossible to find. But anyway, maybe not everybody's as good of a Googler is me. So if you go to any of my social media pages at John Marx media, J O N M A R K S media at John Marx media, there's that link tree that you click on. You click on the link and then it takes you to the YouTube page to our, our show YouTube page. It takes you to the podcast page. If you want to listen to the audio version of this, boom, Apple podcast, wherever you watch a podcast, it takes you right there. My Instagram, my Twitter, my personal YouTube page. So that's a great way to do it. Otherwise just Google it. All right. Google it. PHLY sports. And that's what it is on YouTube. So we appreciate it. The podcast goes up in a few minutes. So if you're listening on the podcast feed, we appreciate it. And as always, DMS are open emails open, John Marx media at gmail.com or at John Marx media on socials. And we'll be back on Monday. Tyler, have a, have a good weekend as Penn State Penn State's not playing this weekend. That's by this weekend. That means I gotta go. I gotta go to my wife's baby shower now because they don't play. So it's a whole ordeal. So you schedule. Oh, the baby shower is this weekend. Yes. Yeah. It's tomorrow. Oh, yeah. That's fun. So do you get to come? Are you there the whole time? Or do you do? Do you come later? I'll be there. Uh, you know, on unloading the decorations and loading up the gifts and, um, you know, I won't get a free meal out of it too. I might as well take, you know, but yes, I'll be there for the whole time. All right. Yeah. Well, congratulations. Have fun this weekend. Everybody will be back and Monday is going to be a game day. So we'll talk to you Monday at eight a.m. Everybody have a good weekend.