Dreaming of Phillies Spring Training, Phillies future lineups, Prospect: Samuel Aldegheri

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] n welcome into the phly Phillies podcast where we're not the Eagles and we can finally kind of be uh put out of our misery with that football team after last night's performance we're not here to talk about them but Renee that was absolutely embarrassing and some uh wholesale major changes I would think are coming uh the way of the Philadelphia Eagles world uh in the coming week you know I've noticed consistently each week for the last five of six weeks uh every time I find myself laughing at another team the Eagles find a way to embarrass us a little bit more but the good news is we are now looking ahead to spring training in the Phillies and the Philadelphia Union and we've got the Sixers and the Flyers and we're just gonna it's now our time to uh let go of the Eagles for a moment we won't talk about them for a while uh yeah they can't hurt us anymore hpal put us out of our misery and uh I was talking with different people last night I'm like okay you know what this it's fine end this season clearly there's a lot of mess going on regroup for next year and put us out of our misery so we don't get dragged in another week because next week against Detroit would have been even uglier oh yeah they would have gotten dragged next week against you know this is what happened against Tampa Bay much like the Giants much like the Cardinals put us out of our misery let's end the mess and now let's look ahead because according to our lovely updated and we had to go back and recalculate guys we're trying to make sure we're on our p's and q's we've got 28 days until pitchers and catchers report and we've got 72 days until opening day Philly's Braves so we're getting closer I know it's a gross snowy day out today but uh the exciting thing is it's almost spring time somewhat yeah and um the lovely um uh slush rain SL snow Tyler said what do you think of her thumbnail today I came up with a is it spring yet and I was like perfect cuz this weather makes me really yearn for Clear Water Florida and seeing the sunshine and the Tiki Bar it'll be interesting to see what jerseys they're wearing since they're not going to be wearing the red ones this year in spring training that'll be a little bit of a different feel but yes 28 days until pitchers and catchers report and what' you say 708 72 72 until a Thursday 3:00 game when the Phillies and Braves Square off at Citizens Bank Park uh so we have a lot to get to today we have Devon Cook is going to be joining us as a guest uh he's in the mid Central maybe Michigan area yeah I feel like we're not allowed to complain about the weather we in places like Michigan because they're getting hit way worse out after talking with her Lawrence last week I I I don't think we can uh complain about our baseball team compared to theirs perspective Jamie you know we've been Detroit's On The Rise a little bit we've been checked a little bit lately of like in Detroit I know a couple friends of mine actually got snowed in Detroit for the uh Lions game so it could always be worse uh baseballwise it definitely could be worse hashtag free herb but I know I see Bernardo welcome to the chat nice to have you here John Chris spiral out Martian you know a lot of folks in the chat there were a couple more that were scrolled that were up above I will say though quick John he said it's below zero yeah please let us know where you are that's below zero now I don't feel bad at all spiral out is reminding us happy third T Thursday happy third Tuesday of the new year happy first snow day of the new year yeah how could how could the happy third Tuesday we should like with happy first snow day in Philly because other places have already gotten snow I will say Jamie and I don't know if you and Tyler saw this but I did not see this where were the people dropping rock salt there was like no salt on on the foods I saw nothing is it invisible this year all of a sudden because I literally was and I saw it on my sidewalk cuz my building does our steps and everything and like our sidewalk area and then from there build here they might want to there's nothing think about some salt out there I S like what H and we all knew it was going to snow it was like a sidewalk ice skating ring coming L like slipping and sliding I mean I always thought you were supposed to put some rocks all down as the snow is starting and then you do it again overnight I heard nothing I saw nothing I don't know if anybody else got anything but uh yeah I got a you know when I get home the one downside of uh suburb life compared to the city life is uh a lot more shoveling in the suburbs yeah although it I'm not going to lie though even though it sucks to have to shovel out your driveway it also sucks on the city in the city Side CU you get snow like not today you get plowed in but you get plowed in fortunately that was not the is I'm actually very lucky in that uh I share a driveway with my neighbors we have a um I know the penis driveway told us the penis shaped driveway and they're uh they're a big they they have two snowblowers so they usually do our whole driveway and like our main walk inside phenomenal but we still have other stuff we have the shovel and so yes we're all thinking of clear water today and don't forget if you wanted to join us we're going down March 15 through 18th St Patrick's Day in the sunshine uh how could that be a bad time we're going with uh our buddy Vince from Philly sports trips so if you have any interest or capabilities of getting away to Florida with us in mid-march uh please consider it and hop aboard we'd love to have you uh you can head to all PA H l.com our own John Foley was there last night at Wicked Wolf hanging out with us uh he's going to be going out and about to some of these Phillies events in town uh some of the community events this week that they're doing I think he's going to a place uh Community Center in Northern Liberties today because I believe Rob Thompson uh and a and a player or two are going to be there and there's another event tomorrow John's gonna be going to uh so make sure you're checking out his writing on all phly.com as well of course you know the Flyers are rolling so you got Charlie's great writing there Zack burman's fresh off a flight from Tampa right down the hall he's going to have some great content coming out this week so make sure you're checking out all the writers and of course the Sixers are kind of rolling uh so let's get to a little bit of Phillies news today before we get to our guest and our Guess That Swing and our daily positivity uh not a ton happening in the baseball world right now Jeff passen uh you're on the clock you got three more days you told me there was going to be activity between the 12th and the 19th this is not what I call activity jie it's like that invisible Rocka it's not there yeah so yesterday the international signing period wrapped up uh and all and all the Phillies ended up signing 21 players now I have the list of names here in front of me Renee um you got this is this all 21 two four six8 10 12 1 there's only 13 on my list here do you think I good math good math do you think I will uh get 10 right yeah yeah you believe in me I do because um it's Venezuela Dominican Mexico Cuba and that's it those are the four countries okay so you got to like really lean into it all right you got this Jamie come on highe Cesar MOA what do you think are you looking at the list cuz you're the Spanish minor here you have to check me moika moika there's an eye in there I don't know you got the heck Zar moika uh yet again another catcher out of Venezuela I mean this guy just sounds like he's going to be a Hall of Famer Julio palano Jr right-handed pitcher from the Dominican that kid's Got What It Takes I can tell you already just based on the name uh Anderson Nava a catcher again from Venezuela Winfree Castillo sounds sick that guy's got Gap power I can just tell an outfielder from the Dominican yamir Fuentes there winfer by the way winfer winfer is it it's an Fe makes the Earth L fur now winfer that what did I say winfer winfer yeah well okay I got the hard part right putting letters in people's names like if you pronounce it wrong that's one thing but you're just putting letters in that don't exist I was so worried about the w n start to it that I just for just for clarification I just went e have been that hard but you are literally just adding letters wree it's literally just wre you minored in Spanish this is very hard for me it's just W for Castillo I would like a little bit more Castillo not Castillo stink on the end of it so try that one again winfer Castillo another an outfielder from the Dominican uh he's an outfielder in the Philly system so the chances of him panning out are pretty much non-existent uh yamir Fuentes catcher out of Kuba okay Jorge man a left-handed pitcher out of Mexico Merson Casanova a shortstop out of the Dominican Republic I mean that guy's got to be mailers that's quite a name well kasanova oh Casanova is this guy just like a walking sex machine because his name sounds like it Ibraham Ruiz an outfielder from Venezuela again you're changing some letters I just read Ibrahim ibraim that's yeah Ibrahim none of these are they're difficult to me Renee all right this one are you sure it's not Ibrahim I have you're I'm taking this on this is the cross I bear so you guys don't have to get it wrong I'm just going to get them all wrong how we get this Ruiz is literally exact as it's spelled this one I'm toast on no you've got this one you've got this one I believe in you I don't think so Jo s [Laughter] quenes Jo Joe S like Joseph only Joe S Quinones an outfielder from Venezuela this is what we needed for our Tuesday I'm gonna go with hos kones that's much better I think you nailed it think you nailed it not what I said go with Renee uh he is an outfielder from the Venezuela from the Venezuela uh he's he's an outfielder in the Philly system so the kids got no shot guys please said help uh Jose Familia a short stop from the Dominican Republic you better have gotten that one right Christal baa okay okay I'm impressed with the I heard in there yeah a little short stop from the Dominican oh Lord uh David fritas I do it David fras I would probably go FAS freas David actually probably David David he is an outfielder so again no shot of developing into anything um and then oh boy if you get this name wrong Renee Reish okay I actually don't know what the last name is but the least you got the right the first name right Rene um although it's more like Renee but it's fine um I would go I would go re re I think the Y is a little silent all right so all in all I did not get 10 crying and he a rightand so sweet for me so sweet and yes everybody I did get a Starbucks today I was up late I needed the extra I'm not keeping track of scoreboards because you're an L on the Starbucks and you're an L on the name I needed the espresso today because it was a late night jopro yeah I needed that so there are some of the hilarious names I Cann Now Pronounce of the international signing period uh that wrapped up you spent way too much time in Sports Talk Radio with these name pronunciations pretty bad pretty B yeah I just I I'm I'm deaf when it comes to it's really bad I hope you guys enjoyed that as much as I did because that was really rough and it wasn't they weren't that difficult John Dickerson says Renee well it's not the way there's no Accent on or anything so I think this one's more Rene okay I'm GNA concede to you because I know nothing uh yeah so but there is usually a Renee you is it wrong that I'm as pessimistic about Philly's Outfield prospects as uh as I am no because cuz I fully believe they can't develop them there's no reason to be optimistic we've got no nothing like what would we be optimistic about what have we seen in the past that would make us optimistic exactly yeah um I will say that also reminded me um this is my last thing on that football team that I saw some tweets about and I wholeheartly agree with this so I want to just put this out there because we need to make sure that uh we're all sticking to this no more Eagles chance at Phillies games um that's done we don't want to hear Fly Eagles Fly at Citizen Bank Park at or again just like I don't want hear Jamie to butcher names again but SP liked it he said can we do this once a day with other teamid and the sad thing is we didn't even have all 21 you only had 13 I would love to hear the full list because I feel like you were rolling by the end developing your Linguistics where you know you were leaning into a little bit more but uh Winfrey and Joe swe were definitely the favorite Joe swe for sure um okay so all right I'm I support that no Eagles chance at Phillies games yeah who started that last night because I did see a tweet do you know I saw several tweets about it 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it's great that it's it's funny that that's where we are uh the Flyers nobody would have expected this Flyers uh being a team that's so fun to watch and exciting um I see a lot of Rocket money talk in the chat too okay you guys are funny everybody's got jokes today I like it um all right Jamie so Hae um you're just gonna call you Hae um there's been some a lot of rankings that have come out I know we touched on it a little bit yesterday and I wanted to just share Justin Crawford's rankings MLB's been putting out a lot by position also they've been ranking prospects and they ranked for the prospects it was an Executives Prospect Poll for most speed now for this one Justin Crawford did well represent sitting at the top of the list uh with 19% of the votes love to see that we saw various prospects getting some love but for Justin Crawford you know these are small wins you know it gets to excited to see that Justin Crawford is a prospect that Executives fi has the most speed and we'll take those small victories because we need them so also across various lists but that's uh very interesting because Justin Crawford isn't even the fastest Philly am Mar on Boy by all reports and uh calculations and you know they monitor speed and first to home and you know home you know home to First and all that and am Mar on Boyd is faster than Justin Crawford so the Phillies could have two of the uh uh Speedy Gonzalez's wait did Speedy get canceled can I not make that reference uh I think Speedy was cancelled um but yes anyway like 19% of the votes but it is interesting it's nice to have that much speed coming up in the system um so you know that's that's a positive that's all it is I know you know I'm surprised he's number one when he's not even the fastest on his own in his own club that is interesting but we're looking for uh we're looking for small victories and there's one that Justin Crawford got 19% of the votes with Enrique Bradfield Jr Enrique at number two at 16% um also different ones um Andrew payer's been getting some love even though he will not be pitching this upcoming season he got some votes for best fastball best secondary pitch Orion kirking was in the mix for that uh for best secondary pinch pitch as well as Andrew painer so you know as MLB networks's rolling out these different like usual polls and rankings good to see some live thrown this way yeah and uh you know MLB um oh what does it say the note from Tyler MLB literally compared Boyd to Billy hamt the prospect right up on Marian Boyd was with exceptions like uh Austin Riley the history of drafted High School hitters coming out of Mississippi has been a bit spotty Boyd fits in the Billy Hamilton mold as a Speedster with the same questions about offensive impact that was Billy Hamilton's problem his entire major league baseball career was like if this dude gets on at like a 280 clip he's goingon to steal a 100 bags but he just couldn't hit and he couldn't get on base and it's it's why he's you know really bounced around over the last couple of Seasons but if you're being compared to one of the fastest guys to ever play the game I think you're the fastest Prospect in your system yeah you should be you should be um yeah um interesting though uh and another thing Baseball America is coming out with their top 10 Phillies list today at two o'clock uh but one of the things they did which uh I'm new to the baseball America account so uh I haven't seen all the services it offers one of the things it offered today in their preview of uh this upcoming top 10 list was a 2027 Phillies projected lineup um this is pretty interesting so they have 2027 yeah 2027 it's not that far away um it's not that's the sad part yeah unfortunately I've been seeing a lot of those memes recently where it's like um you know what is it The Wonder Years was the same distance away from 2001 you know like Oh no just like those horrible or things where it's like the Jetson predicted the future and we're actually living we're in the Jetson's land we're literally living in the Jetson land wasn't the Jetson like 2024 2025 and that's the thing there's been shows and movies where they're like oh they talk about the future and we're in the future and that's kind of yeah so the 2027 projected Phillies lineup is JT real Muto catching interesting uh first base Bryce Harper I think that's a lock Bryson Stott second base I think that's a lock Third Base Aiden Miller who will talk about in the down on the farm uh segment in the top five uh as your third baseman at age 23 Alec bone will no longer be here uh short stop Trey Turner at age 34 will still be holding it down and then this is this is pretty funny to me that the entire Outfield is uh Philly's prospects if Dave dumbrowski and Preston madingley and Sam fold all fix the Phillies Outfield homegrown problem then uh build a statue of them because this Outfield has Justin Crawford in left field Johan roas in center field and Gabriel ring cones Jr in right field all under the age of 26 if that happens uh I I'll just start growing hair again um I'd be shocked if the Phillies get a future Outfield of all homegrown Talent uh the designated the designated hitter Baseball America you're drunk on this one I don't know what you're you're talking about here Derek Hall I I would be shocked if Derek Hall is like here next year let alone in 2027 it gets better go through the pitchers the pitchers uh so Zack Wheeler has moved on apparently by 2027 the number one starter is going to be Aaron Nola at age 34 Andrew painer at age 24 as your number two starter number three starter Mick Abel at age 25 Number Four Ranger Suarez number five Christopher Sanchez and the team's closer Orion kirarin oh oh oh all right so there you have it there's the 2027 lineup everybody get excited uh the Derek Hall thing is just like the rest makes sense and I do think Aiden Miller is going to be the future third baseman but like Derek Hall uhuh what okay um listen I think the overall 2027 projection is just a very weird thing I know SP kind of like but it's just weird I don't know if I did because made think we're obviously we're going to see changes we should by 2027 in the roster so some of these names will not be here there might be some new names in here um but it is it kind of makes you it's like in a movie when they just randomly fast forward to the end and you see like everybody three years later and you're like oh this is how it turns out um but this makes me intrigued I don't love this lineup um I think it's not great for three years from now but again this is projected with the guys as of now that are either prospects are already on the team that would still be there in 2027 but John Middleton loves this lineup because it would obviously save him a cheap lineup yeah I mean I he you need some some homegrown players here and that's why bow and stot and and you know Johan right now are so valuable to this team because uh they're very very cheap so uh you know I I'll be shocked if the nfield is is complete completed of Philly's homegrown players uh but we'll see there uh so we'll be joined by Devon Cook here in a minute uh who works for MLB bro.com I guess we'll do the down on the farm segment right before we get to them uh and today's down on the farm Report is number 19 Sam Al gadari I dang it I did this pre-show Al Deary Al Alig Gary Right Tyler Alig Gary yes but I you're Alig Gary I was even doing like the Italian and and you still I had Al theary Samuel alary yes he is from Italy he was brought in uh by the Phillies in the international signing period uh prior to 201819 the Phillies paid $210,000 to sign Al Deary in June that year uh he was 18 at the time he didn't pitch after signing though he did come to Florida for instructional League he's a six foot one 180lb pitcher and a strike thrower with a fast ball that has been clocked kind of middle of the pack at 91 he's now 22 years old uh last year he split time between Clearwater and the Jersey Shore 20 appearances as the uh graphic shows you there 19 starts he won 83 and 2/3 Innings with a 4-2 erra uh very respectable 10.65 K per nine and his walk rate dropped from 133% in 2021 and 22 to a 9.6 does that say Tyler in 2023 uh so an encouraging sign there really good strike um strikeout rate uh from all the scouts reports he might have the best control of any Prospect in the Philly system uh he he has command and control and his stuff isn't overpowering you know he gets in that 92 993 range with his fast ball uh but his his you know bread and butter is the command in the control yeah and I like the different reports that I read on him there were a few different articles plus he was interviewed and he was talking about um just his opportunities and experiences now the great things about Sam aligar is the fact that he has uh started at a young age playing baseball following the footsteps of his older brother Matia and he really Rose through the ranks of Italian B baseball quickly and in in Italy baseball is not as prominent it's it's typically football which is soccer over in Italy so he was talking a lot about how he's trying to help change the narrative around baseball in Italy as being the leading Sport and you know a lot of people don't really know baseball in Italy and he's trying to really bring baseball to Italy um he's from Northern Italy for that for anybody curious but he from a young age really started to get a lot of attention from other managers and Scouts and made a great impression on Philly Scout Claudia scado uh after pitching for the aouri during uh his team the aoui during the Prague baseball week and from there he's really kind of grown I know a lot of reports on him his grades fast ball out of 50 curveball out of 45 slider to 50 change up 50 control 45 overall 40 and uh there's been some good information that's come out on him his his story kind of reminds me of a movie to be honest when I was listening to his interview and his deep Italian accent and talking about B growing up playing baseball in Italy and how at one point when he was um you know given the opportunity to come play with the Phillies his dad was like you know you don't have to play you can you can stop you can give up and he's like why would I give up now you know this is everything I wanted so it was It was kind of great to see his story but then in terms of his actual pit performance and what he can do um he fits the Prototype of the pitch ability of a left-hander as Reports say he has a potential to have four usable pitches none of them really jump off the page his he'll throw his fast ball on the 90 to 95 m per hour range with solid spin rates that result in some solid carry he has distinct breaking pitches with the slider perhaps ahead of the curve and mixes in a a decent change up so that part's been encouraging he's not strong in one specific area but it seems like just kind of consistent across the board but his walk rates have been high in the early stages of his career and there is confidence though that he can become a more consistent strike thrower with reps the right instruction and you know the right opportunity so a lot of uh potential and could develop but I overall was just kind of like this reminds me of a little bit of a not a Hallmark movie but like could be a classic little bo Netflix movie yeah it was giving you know I was watching him in his interview I was like this this just seems very movie esque to me so I wish him the best because as a young talent coming out of Verona you know hey maybe he can change the landscape of baseball in Italy yeah I mean uh not a ton of Italians uh have come over to Major League Baseball with much success uh we'll see if that does happen everything I read about the kid it's just kind of like I don't know like the stuff isn't great but he but he gets results uh he has decent command but like his breaking pitches are decent his speed is just okay maybe on the lower end of decent yeah um so we'll see I I would say after reading all this I'm a little pessimistic about his chances to to see honest as you talk about there's only been seven players born in Italy that made it to the big leagues um and then do you have the list of those seven no but the most recent Alex lyy who played in 2013 but there have only been four pitchers in the big leagues and the last one 1950 so definitely in some un uh you know as a player coming out of Italy Uncharted Territory in a sense of you don't see a lot of baseball players coming out of Italy I don't have the list of seven but maybe one day I'll actually John squ says shy laou is Sam alary in the Italian FL thrower see sounds like a movie I'm getting movie Vibes hello Patrick Lynn welcome in everybody in the chat uh Mickey Durkin says there's very good wine in the Verona region there is so great wine I mean I would imagine if I was a minor league um er that was potentially you know house sharing with Sam uh he would be a good one to team up with because you're probably going to get some good wines some good home recipes you know when they're cooking um so yeah I would I would probably try to sh jack up with Sam a little bit and get some of that that good pasta cooking and good and that's why I was like it's giving movie Vibes because I don't know what's going to happen with his career in the major going have like a a clear water Threshers like cooking class and throwing each everybody'll be getting everybody on to some new wine and they'll be feeding everybody great pasta but he might not making the majors but it still is a cool story especially with his dad like you don't have to go play and he's like but this is what I want I just picture the whole and now I'm plugging sh I want your li like that wait what that's a movie line come on you got to know wait can you say that again I don't want your life oh oh come on Tyler you're not going to let me down on that one are you oh no I don't know it's a Varsity Blues right thank you oh no fire that pig skin boy you know come on Renee maybe I do Renee Jamie that's bigger than Varsity Blues that was kind of a very famous scene there in the what late 90s early ODS I don't know when that movie was okay oh Paul Walker was in that movie Paul Walker comes up in my family all the time I don't recall a seist actor getting remembered as much as Paul [ __ ] Walker I'm sorry you know that he died and all that but like he is talked he's getting rap songs written about him every year the anniversary of Paul Walker's death everybody's like oh Paul Walker Paul you stop this right now he remember you stop this right now how dare you I'm not TR it's just like Paul Walker like geez I think it's the most overhyped remembrance ever first of all let me just this moment to say today is also Aaliyah's 45th Heavenly birthday happy birthday to her she was really hot she was beautiful and so talented I don't overhype anybody that if you pass away you deserve to be overhyped you pass away tragically Suddenly at a young age that's not overhyping yeah anybody that dies at a young age and especially in the middle he's in the middle of filming Fast and Furious I actually just watched that movie recently racing and they and they were show and oh and I ended up down a rabbit hole of how they finished the show the movie without him and had his brothers playing him it just sad what the hell has Paul Walker ever done that like every year I have to say oh my God Paul Walker pass was Khalifa writing rap songs likeing Paul Walker did we what the hell did he do he was in Fast and Furious I watch was Varsity Blues you watch that Paul Walker Paul Walker was he he was hand I mean I'll give him that he's a handsome fell but Jesus he was only like uh 40 when he di remebrance T out of control oh my gosh it was so tragic when he passed away because also he passed away like in a car anding but that's what made it worse it's because it's like you are in all the Fast and Furious and in real life your real life person passes away street racing like that's weirdly ironic I can't imagine being bring in Devon on this one I I can't imagine being a father and going out street racing he's in Fast and Furious he's a he's a rich man he's got all these nice cars he lives in California that's what they do stupid yeah like Patrick Glenn where's the rap song for Heath Ledger I don't see Heath Ledger remembrances every year but godamn Paul Walker let us not forget Paul Walker passed away a year ago Walker was a was handsome too by the way but I think it's how he passed away there's plenty of young people that die but I have to hear about Paul where did Paul Walker even come from to start this conversation because you talked about Varsity Blues and I looked it up was in the movie your fault so technically you brought up Walker Break you did this Paul Walker all right let's bring our guest in and see what he think 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their MLB analysts he joins the show now as the S Skype symbol uh so welcome in Devon we will uh try and work out this technical issue and check back in with you in a second there uh as we cannot see maybe you can drop and reconnect Tyler uh and this oh well we hear Deon we can't yes we can hear you we can't see you this is okay I'm try back in but hello guys it's aure but yes let me try Okay sound okay actually the sound is fine and sound is great I mean we'd like to see your face but it's okay if you wanna if you want to just stay in chat it'll be like a a radio Callin type of vibe I wanna I want to ask though we're gonna start with Paul Walker when Devon comes back in because we need to settle this debate once and for all I just think it's weird I just think you're weird Jamie I don't think I'm weird at all I think I'm seeing very clearly yeah John sequella was Paul walk Walker part of the Illuminati was he a stonemason like oh no I love a good Conspiracy Theory what what is up with this walker reme fully fully lean into the Illuminati a lizard person I never really thought he was part of the Illuminati as a sacrifice I never thought that far into it but um you know I I will say I do feel like I do feel like Paul Walker deserves all the remembrance from what Joy Ride I just I look Joy Ride what the hell is that you didn't say Joy Ride no you can't say like joy ride a classic it's a classic no has anybody in the chat seen Paul Walker's Joy Ride by the way this guy was addicted to racing maybe give it up why do I feel like this is Nicholas Cage all over again I don't I don't have a problem with Nicholas Cage what H oh you have a problem with Ghost Rider oh well no I had a problem with you saying that Ghost Rider was a great movie that was my problem Nicholas Cage is fine he's harmless he's he's he's kind of fun wow yeah okay anyways all the Fast and the Furious is okay she's all that classic movie from the 90s no never saw it Oh my gosh he's not a main character in that though so I'm not going to he's probably just a hot beef cake that's like eye cand oh my gosh all right I don't know um exactly what kind of list I don't know on your endif is writing song Fast and Furious because everybody loves those movies I mean I know there's like 19 of them but like he a lot of movies actually aren't they all just the same hours takers oh that was a great movie that's a good movie takers where they're like robbing I think you're definition I'm takers was with Idris Elba Chris Brown Michael elely Paul Walker when they were like bank robbers uh Matt Dylan it was such we need to have a movie watching party clearly because some of us aren't watching movies a three out of five on IMDb I mean some most of this cast stinks takers yeah no it does not Chris Brown that's such a good get out of here Chris Brown cannot be good I just read that I just read those names and they still say it stinks yeah matan's okay alone's a beast Who Matt who okay he's fine my gosh Hayden christens I was not prepared for this today guys I was not prepar for let's check the Rotten Tomato Perry Oh rest in peace to him too you know matth Perry is Friends takers has a one and a half I'm not going by Rotten Tomatoes it has a one and a half star rating on Rotten Tomatoes I'm not going by Rotten Tomatoes that means because here's the thing the only people that go audience score is 62% I'll give you that the only people that go on Rotten Tomatoes are the people that don't like a movie I have never ever ever ever gone and raided good or bad any movie that I watch have you um no exactly it's trolls that are bored that for whatever reason didn't like a movie and then they go and give it like zero Stars well Pleasantville another great movie oh my gosh I am Paul [Music] Walker oh boy there's a lot of Paul Walker movies I didn't realize he's in all these movies man this is why this is why I remember him it's all your fault yeah I blame you all right well I think we're having some issues with Devon unfortunately so let's move along into some other news because I could stay on this rabbit hole all day of Paul Walker Paul Walker was never in a Hallmark movie guys but he actually make would have made a great Hallmark movie main character he's totally giving main character Vibes yeah bad actor that does the cheesily uh romantic man that's you know would be he'd fit in nice for that like small town love story all right you guys are uh you guys are rough American Pie you know what Tyler if Devon is not working out it is okay we will move along we will try to see if we can get him another time because time is ticking here too and we've got some trivia to get into plus we've got some other stories around the league now we got do guess that we got to get out of here you want to talk about some some we're just going to run through some quick cute stories one one is I love a good brother-in-law story and this when I saw it came out uh for Major League Baseball they were dropping the news about the latest pair of brother-in-laws that are going to be facing off against each other it was it was adorable Jang Huli and wak go are brother-in-laws uh they both of course now play with San Francisco and San Diego so they're not going to be facing off against each other in the alest and for the two of them there were there was like the whole story that came out Jung Huli was saying he was sleep call came in at night time and it was wuo saying you know oh I'm dating your sister and now fast forward they're brother-in-laws and they're playing against each other so then I did a whole rabbit hole deep dive and there were other brother-in-laws that played against each other in the league very famous ones at that and I thought that's such a cool thing Jamie yeah I mean that's pretty wild to to think about playing my brother-in-law in a professional sporting event that's uh it's pretty cool yeah I mean you've had Brandon Crawford Garrick Cole You've Had Jose beros Javier BZ you've had Manny Machado and Yonder Alonzo you've had Willie Castro and Amed Rosario there's been a lot of brother-in-laws in the league so now we've got another brother-in-law face off happening uh which is cool on the west coast um also out in San Fran just heard Dusty Baker reconnecting with the Giants uh he's getting ready to get started in the front office so from longtime manager to now working in the front office with the Giants Bob night and girl was reporting that I love Dusty Baker um I don't love the Astros obviously but he was always a guy that I was kind of like he just reminds me of a cool older gentleman Uncle type of vibe Dusty Dusty Zoe I mean he's baseball royalty exactly so I'm glad that he's back he's kind of like uh who why am I blanking on the Rangers Bruce bochi like he just goes somewhere stabilizes it makes it great and just gets the best out of everybody uh Dusty's kind of that guy and um you know definitely he'll be in the Hall of Fame if he's not already I for I forget how they handle managers uh but he he'll be in for sure he's a he's a staple of the game definitely and then another thing that came out it's a lot of San Fran news today apparently uh because there's not a lot going on in general but Reese Hoskins and Blake Snell have been connected to San Francisco that was um excuse me in a recent piece Jim Bowen was talking about predictions for where free agents are going to land and he listed the best match for Reese Hoskins and Blake SN both as San Francisco of course we all have been expecting and waiting on the news for San for excuse me Reese to go to Chicago but for both names who are still on the market and still being watched apparently there could be some well According to Jim he's saying they're a good fit but that makes me wonder if there's been any discussions that are happening behind the scenes uh that has led him to connect them together so Reese Hoskins has been seen as the plan B for several teams as Jim was talking about and so um we got an echo there just can you disconnect that of Skype there we go sorry about that guys um but re sorry guys we are having some significant technical problem to reschedule with Devon it's okay uh if you can talk to if you can like close out a Skype so we don't keep yeah no it's it's empty now it's just it was a so what ended up happening was so to give everybody kind of an understanding of what happened we were having a visual issue so we tried to reset the connection then it forced me to join the link like on my phone heard that's why that's why you were getting the echo because it was just reverberating between your microphone and my phone and back out again um so we'll we'll we'll do our best to fix it we'll get Devon back on another day it's all good it's all good no worries it's oh John squella said it's Paul Walker freaking Havoc it was actually just my voice that you guys are hearing echoing through so that was me that was not anything else that you're hearing Mickey yeah that wasn't great that's my fault but yeah it's ree Hoskins has been seen as a plan B for a number of clubs and that seems to be the case still at this time all right as we wrap up though because we're going to move along today is a h somber day uh we've got guest that St we've got Philly's trivia because I have some good trivia for you both I think you're gonna get it today I think today's your day I'm so mad that I missed the Harry Callas patch question yeah that that was that was I actually really expected to get that one but I think yeah because it was so obvious in hindsight I bill Giles what a dumb guess yeah it's okay so you want to do uh raisins and meatballs or gu or trivia trivia okay all right Tyler are you ready I feel like you both could use a win today oh wow okay I won't do the scoreboard I won't do the scoreboard all right trivia question number one this today's theme for our trivia that I'm thoroughly enjoying again shout out to Amazon for this book by B Walker um that I stumbled upon because I just always end up going down rabbit holes on on the internet and so this is famous quotes these are quotes said by Phillies I will give you the multiple choice answers because I feel like it only helps some of these are a little more obvious than others question number one which former Philly once said I never want to look in the mirror and say what if what if I had run harder what if I had dived for that ground ball a Jimmy Rollins B Mike Schmidt C Steve Carlton or D Chase Utley I'm GNA go with d Chase Utley and you are correcto good job Jamie that sounds like such a Chas ISM one point for Jamie 28 for Tyler question number two which current current Phillies player current Phillies player oh well this is actually a stupid okay which current Phillies player once said if you don't have dreams you don't have a life that's my motto was it a Kyle schorer B Bryce Harper C Trey Turner D JT real Muto that's such a Cheesy thing to say so I'm gonna go with Bryce Harper I'm gonna go JT real Muto neither of you submitted with your Sounds by the way I'll go with Bryce it sounds very cheesy and I think Bryce is kind of cheesy in a good way yeah I'm still going JT and JB you are two for two Bryce Harper now the funny part is this book actually came out in 2020 so the actual I changed the names because I clearly you weren't going to get you were G to get it otherwise the names that were originally listed were Andrew McCutchen Bryce Harper Dee Gregorius and Jake aretta uh oh I talked I talk myself Jake arietta's quote would have been something along the lines of uh bleep everybody here except me I'm good you suck I'm the greatest and uh I hated here I uh I I was fully convinced that Dee Gregorius was a great signing and was gonna work out here and he was gonna find his power again man and that um that didn't happen I don't know if you guys remember that but DD did not work out here DD did not all right number three D is kned though he he is Dei but you didn't know that yeah no I did not know that in the Netherlands he got kned do they do like a sword on his head so that's the only way to get kned right yeah I feel like that's a movie show all right which former Philly is quoted as saying to cure a batting slump I took my bat to bed with me I wanted to know my bat a little better was it a Jason worth B Grover Cleveland Alexander C Richie Ashburn or D Matt Stairs I'm going to go with C Richie Ash burn that just sounds like an old head baseball move Tyler I'm going to give you a chance here to get a point I I think he's probably right but for the the interest of guessing somebody else very sexy I'm gonna say mad stairs but I think you're correct and Jamie is correct Richie Ashburn three for three no big deal Tyler you were crack too because you would have said Richie but all right that was that was nice little pick me up yeah um I'm thinking about Paul Walker a lot all of a sudden I don't I can't get that out of my mind but going 3 three was nice that's why that's why that's why Paul Walker has whole memorials and everything yeah because he's on everybody's mind I watched I cried when I still can't believe you didn't know that qu okay I don't want your I still can't believe you don't think Paul Walker deserves to be he can be remembered but like the point it goes to is just absolutely it was one of those things where it was like is this is this a joke is this a movie it was just so it was so surprising were about to say I'll never forget where I was when I found out that Paul Walker died no I never forget where I was where aiyah died because that I was like I was like eight years old when she died and it was very very like that was my first time I feel like really understanding no like one of my first deaths as a child that I remember you know what I mean yeah but Paul Walker I don't remember why I was but I still remember the feeling it was a it's awful I guess I C cried I literally watched fast and Fs like last week and cried at the end really is that it was so sad how they wrapped the movie up and they actually is it over it's not over no they're apparently they were going to drop another one but I heard it got paused or whatever I don't know what's happening there but they wrapped up the end of the movie with like it was like these um scenes that they used of AI basically his brothers were acting as him to fill in from the finish the movie like what are we doing we're making hologram Paul Walkers because they had to finish that was a whole thing Jamie they were in the middle of filming the movie which is why I thought his death was a joke well then don't go out street racing and then they had they were like they weren't going to finish the movie and they decided to finish the movie just Googled the story even though I just told you the story and so then his brother stepped up and acted in his place and then they used his past scenes from previous movies to finish the movie it's so sad Mickey don't disrespect Kiana Reeves like that Ki Reeves is much better than Paul Walker ever was please don't bring Keanu into this actually though that might be pretty accurate because Kean ruse was in a lot of the same types of movies he was no like Paul Walker and Koo Reeves as an actor is up here Paul Walker is all the way down here okay okay I don't know about that big of a gap but I would say I do like ke Neo I just Googled Keanu Walker he's Neo speed on VHS I crushed that movie when I was young oh such a good movie Speed was awesome oh man death great movies all right let's get to another win for me hopefully Matrix John Wick is awesome John Wick is I'm I'm not a huge John Wick fan well it's because it's just like the body count is like 485 deaths of movie it's yeah it's just Constantine was twisted it's kind of it's John Wick is a very much a dude's rock kind of movie so I I understand it was just redundant too by like the fourth one knock knock another good movie speed knock knock yes no idea what she's talking about anymore folks uh but let's get to Guess That Swing for today let's see if I can keep the perfect streak going and yes he was in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure I mean come on that alone is better than anything Paul Walker's ever done uh let's get to you know who's in Toy Story 4 yes he's Duke Kaboom a of course you need that he's Duke Kaboom dang it I was trying to stump you you been like lights out today W I guess eagles's misery really gets me in the Z also the SpongeBob s Pants movie I bet you didn't know that I've never seen that right there we go there's let's get to today's Guess That Swing uh the people will here it comes it's coming for you I am 6 for6 no big deal but kind of a big deal oh brother oh okay oh I don't have an immediate answer and that good you need to get one wrong I'm tired of you being right for everything Well's already will was quick with an answer I think that's a joke answer but you should you should use Will's answer no I'm not uh just tossing out some names um oh that's kind of tough oh I feel like okay wait okay wait I feel like I might know something I have an answer but it feels wrong because I don't think a backup catcher would be used it's anybody dating back to 2006 Jamie anybody Jamie do you really think I wouldn't be sick and sadistic enough to put a backup catcher in at some point no that's that's true and Chris Slimmer it's not Jim Eisen Reich it's 2006 to present day Phillies only all right I now you saying that I'm like all right I'm gonna text you Tyler my answer is in I was between two I think uh I'm not in love with my answer I'm going to text you my answer because I think I feel look like it could be a backup catcher what backup catcher are you think are you going like Chris Coast no it's no we're not having these he's a lefty what is this phona friend he's a lefty so I'm not going Chris Coast I'm going is Lefty you see a righty I see a righty n that's a lefty see I don't know because I always see a backwards I feel like wait Jamie Oh no you're you said you saw Lefty okay I understand I was going to say your answer is left handed wyy okay that makes more sense yeah yeah yeah no that's definitely a lefty and I shouldn't give Renee these tips I mean it's not helping me at all seven seven for seven on the line here I'm I'm a little nervous are you it actually just screwed me up because I was gonna go with somebody maybe it's Paul Walker oh that's a good guess yeah annoying all right all right I'm just going to say an answer cuz I'm going to be wrong whatever jeez Tyler I can't find my texting to text you okay here we go you could just shout it out yeah I'm already J already you can just Shout It Out people in the chat are saying Subs JT vindy does it looks a lot like stubs is that what your answer is I'm not telling you let me see your answer I already submitted Tyler don't spill the beans Great American Ballpark Great American Ballpark Cincinnati Final Answer wait I don't know all right Rene's anwers in Jam's answerers in one of those two answers are correct I did not go with stubs even though it looks like them seven for seven the streak [Music] continues ra and he was on yesterday's show sheet which we didn't get to because he just took a front office gig with the Los Angeles Dodgers always loved Raul wish we got him a little bit younger and maybe for a little bit longer um his near home run in the Giants NLCS series will forever be like the one that just didn't have enough to get out on that one bloody nil windy day seven for seven no big deal Rene what was your guess sub I'm not I'm not what was your what was your guess it was stubs okay it looked like STS I I just threw in some other names those were the two I was torn between here's the thing for the record who came up with this game uh that would be me and who's sitting seven for seven that would be me I'm GNA come up with some games that I'm going to win at all right you do it that's all do it I'll be here cuz now it was trivia that I got satisfaction from I just need to be Eagles miserable to get in my zone and uh you know I was at least getting the satisfaction of you getting completely wrong answers for Philly trivia now you a that and I'm I'm in shambles I've got no victories today boy Raul good friends with Pearl Jam do you know that story no he uh he had Eddie veter and Pearl Jam as guests during the NLCS that year he's good friends with Mike mccre from his time in Seattle yeah how about that little fun fact for you doing so great Jamie it's it's this is a big burden I bear now Renee being seven for seven okay worth than they were winning me or you am I going to go four for 42 for 42 I mean a lot of people are saying that out there rers this be he's on his he's on his Joe deio streak now he's G step in the post show confessional you know guys uh yeah you'll smoke me at Union trivia as spiral out says so if you want to start I'm gonna just guys don't worry I've got some games that we're gonna be playing uh here on the show because I'm tired of I don't like winning Jamie I don't like this I don't like this at all like you're sitting over there very smug with your star it's a mix of um smug Eagles misery I don't see misery um oh no Martian technical annoyances with the show that's nobody's fault just stuff that happens so it's it's a mix of that I will say one thing that's consistent is that we went over an hour yeah of course [ __ ] Paul Walk Damen Tyler thought we were gonna have like a 40-minute show and here we are at 61 minutes in counting all right well that's uh that's time to wrap up then Renee we have some daily positivity to get to uh it was your Oh shoot no oh no I reminded you that your one you added to the show sheet had already been used wow it's a really bad day for me oh my gosh so you're gonna have to on the spot come up with some positivity uh why this year I actually did have one but I didn't why this year's Philly team will be better than last year's well the Mets suck see you later everybody I always love that Family Guy scene where it's like opening day of the Mets and it's like and that Ball's out of the stadium well the season's over all right all right I'm gonna I'm GNA say mine and um I feel like it's perfectly connected to the heartache that we felt last night I wasn't sure if I should bring this up yet but I feel like it's time to drop this is my positivity because we need to Manifest this for the Phillies in all Philly sports in 20124 wait I got get we need less bad losses there's such thing as a bad loss you can have a hard fault loss it's down to the wire it's that final play that final out that is the difference of the game and you're like oh that was a great game you can also have a bad loss where it's over very early and it's a blowout and you don't show up and it looks like you never got off the plane because your team is just not there you look like con's out there your dline can't tackle you can't hit the ball you can't score you can't find you can't get a rebound pick a sport those are bad losses and I feel like it's very fitting after the bad loss we had last night because the Eagles did not even show up philes have had those games as well playoffs especially but even through the regular season I want less bad losses they're very deflating in my opinion it makes you go back to the drawing board and you're like scratching your head like me throw it all away and change everything verus a hard Fa l when you get into that locker room after those types of losses you just you just kind of ask yourself what would Paul Walker do okay what would Paul Walker who are you H me what would Paul Walker do they don't all feel the same Martian I don't like losing I hate hate losing I'm pissed right now that Jim's winning over there's sitting on the throne of Victory and I'm sitting over the dumpster of losses what would Paul Walker do I will say if you have less of those bad losses it those ones that destroy your morale they have you in the locker room not saying what would Paul Walker do but am I making that up Rob Thompson's Canadian it makes sense is he Canadian I I thought he was born inali yeah maybe who who knows I was on a roll R let me just go yeah he was definitely born in Glendale California I was trying to make Canadian TI in there uh but all right you're officially number 11 on the daily positivity list uh we have 13 more to go as we wrap up 24 days of positivity gonna get tougher and tougher here because the easy ones are all gone I feel like I just switched us into the tougher it's time for us to start digging a little deeper it's definitely are gut check positivity yeah thoughts so that is it for us today here on the ho y Phillies podcast we appreciate everybody chiming in hopefully we were a nice distraction from the dog [ __ ] that is the Philadelphia Eagles uh I fully anticipate Nick serani and his coaching staff uh are getting canned this week you can check out Zach and bow stuff on all PHL y they're going to have a busy week ahead of them uh but we will be here distracting you from all of that and talking Phillies as we do uh for Renee Washington Tyler zulie and myself U make sure you're hitting that like button before you're getting out of here uh as you seen scroll across the screen there we have some new merch up on the website as well uh so check that stuff out and if you want to become a Die Hard uh the Discord Channel alone is worth it it's a lot of fun there uh so we appreciate each and every one of you for hopping in the chat being a part of the show uh we love you all and we will be back tomorrow at noon time maybe we'll remember Paul Walker even some more before I'm gonna bring some Paul Walker stuff yeah all right we'll see you all tomorrow do it for Paul [Music] [Applause] we all sitting like the [Music] May