April 4, 2024 • 27 mins
Luke Arcaini reacts to another brutal loss to the Cincinnati Reds immediately following the game on the Luke & I Postgame Show!
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Yo, yo, what's going on? Get some people in here. How
are we doing? And let's runit? Breaking ball popped up, shadow
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right, chic going off Castiano's comingon the Phillies Championship. This is Luke
and I on the Phillips brought toyou by Fox Sports The Gambler. Oh
man, it's another ugly one,that one that one almost hurt more than
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than the Grand Slam the other night. Just just an offensive disaster all around.
U. Zach Wheeler goes out,gives you six innings, ten strikeouts,
and you put that up for yournumber one. This is Luke and
I on the Phillies postgame show,number two that we've done so far,
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brought to you by in the Clutchdot com, the only place to get
your Philly Hoodies, shirts, headbands, all that jazz used code Arcade.
Luke at checkout for ten percent off. Just a bad one. That one's
frustrating. Just couldn't just couldn't getanything going all night. Bats were out
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after just such a weird day.Obviously, game was supposed to start originally
at one oh five, then getspushed back last night during during last night's
game to to four oh five.Then pushed just seven o'clock, then pushed
to seven point thirty and and thenpushed to eight o'clock. So the Phillies
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wearing their cream jerseys under the lights, I I I, I mean,
I don't really have the stats toback this up, but I'd have to
assume that's the first time the Phillieshave ever worn their Caream jerseys under the
lights at Citizens Bank Park. Forfor all of that, for us to
go through all of that, justto just to watch this box score that
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they put up today, So Iwant to I want to kind of dive
into this a little bit here becauseit was bad. Kyle Schwarber another nuke.
We're gonna get into Swarber because helooks healthy, he looks slim,
he looked quick, he looks reallygood. After Kyle Schwarber, oh for
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four, Trey Turner one for four, Bryce Harper one for four. J
T. Real Muto, Bryce andStott went over for three. Nick Castianus
went over two with two walks,Brandon marsh one for four, wit Merrifield
one for four, Johann Rojas onefor two. Alec Boma over two is
a pinch hitter, just can't happenif the Red struck out fifteen times tonight
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and and you and you lose thegame. For one, if you're in
here, I want to hear yourthoughts. Uh. That was that one
was brutal. Like I said everywhen I got in here, I want
her for me more than the walkoff Grand Slam the other night. Just
you can't. You simply can't wastea Wheeler start like that. It just
can't happen. And I'm getting tiredof this this starting this season with with
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these guys that we're paying so muchmoney just just basically playing like shit.
They're playing like dog shit. Theythey're coming out these this this first month
of the season and they're just goingthrough the motions. Listen. I love
Bryce Harper. Last night was unbelievable. If it wasn't for that game,
he'd be like one for like eighteenCassi Honust just looks brutal. Trey Turner
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looks brutal. JT had a goodstart. He kind of cooled off.
Bom had a good start. Hecooled off. Brandon Marsh. Brandon Marsh
is the only guy hitting over threehundred on your team. Wiz Wit seems
like a winner. Yeah, he'slike two for fourteen this year so far.
I'm gonna need wiz Wit to tohit a little more baseball since before
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we give him a cool nickname SeanBernard checking and wiz Wit whatever. If
once he starts hitting baseballs, thenhe can have a nickname. But I
want to dive in really more tojust just it's just ba at baseball.
One thing that stuck out early wasthe errors Bryson Stott and I listen,
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I can't get too mad at stopBryson Stott just doesn't make errors that that
that is a that was a rareoccasion for him tonight, uh, to
to get out there and and makethat sort of error in in that that
sort of situation which did lead tothe two run RBI for man Carnas and
Strand. And then while the realMuto ball didn't necessarily mean much, the
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real Muto pop up that was thatwas dropped. Just stuff like that,
just just miscommunications, not talking.Casianus looks slow, and right field just
can't get to any ball right now. Casianus needs a day off. Casianus
needs to sit on the bench fora game, not necessarily as a benching,
just I think as a as amind clearer because he this has been
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pretty brutal uh so far for himthis season. Yeah, I I completely
agree, Johnny Uh he said,emphasize getting off to a hot start,
and we have no approach at theplate in the offense is dead. I
absolutely agree. The only the onlyperson right now with any sort of approach
at the plate is Brandon Marsh andhe basically only gets to really do it
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against right and while while Marsh hassort of started to get a few chances
more to hit lefties since the bigfreak out the other day, he still
hasn't looked great against lefties. Gotthe chance tonight, didn't didn't really make
much of it, had the flyout. Foul territory just just hasn't really hasn't
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necessarily made the chances yet against thelefties. And I think that will come
eventually with with facing these lefties more, hopefully, But it's just you pay
these guys like the all we've talkedabout and and all they talked about Rob
Thompson, all winner was was theonly thing they said that the top thing
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that that that this locker room andand and team said was that we need
to get off to a hotter startthis year. When's the hot star coming?
Like I, I don't know whenit's coming for me, because it
is sure it is surely not hereyet. I'll tell you that. Because
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the Phillies are now. Uh theyhave two wins, four losses, third
in the NL East. Zach Wheelergets the first loss of the year.
Zach Wheeler should be two and o. Zach Wheeler should be two and oh
right now. Bad bullpen opening dayand no offensive support tonight. He has
a point seventy five e r Aand two starts. He only allowed one
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earned run tonight. Zach Wheelers lookedgreat. You you have to give this
guy some sort of offense and theygave him one run tonight and the Marsh
two run homer on opening Day.Once again, this is the Luke and
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into two players here, because alloff season, obviously the biggest talk of
the off season was that outfield spot. Is it Johann Rosas? Is it
with Maryfield? Right now? Itdoesn't look like it should be either of
those guys. Wit Maryfield had ahit tonight in the ninth inning. Other
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than that, I mean he's beenhe's been terrible this year, really really
bad. And this Johann Rojas thing, Listen, I I get it.
I I have been a big JohannRojas supporter so far, but I and
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I don't what I don't get.What I don't get right now with Rojas
is I don't get the approach.It looks like he's going up there and
trying to kill the baseball. Theythrew him a ninety two mile an hour
fastball middle middle in that sixth inningwhen he had the chance, and he
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wasn't even close. But the reasonhe wasn't even close was it wasn't it
wasn't the it wasn't batpath, orit wasn't any sort of angle. He's
he's swinging as hard as he can, and I don't I don't know what
it's gonna take for for him towho is I don't know what it's gonna
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take for him to not do that. Is it a benching? Uh?
Maybe? Is it Kevin Long doinghis job and telling him that, dude,
you're the ninth hitter. You mighthit like three home runs all season.
There is absolutely, excuse me,no reason for Johan Rojas to try
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and be hitting the ball into thestands of Citizens Bank Park in the nights.
They look like a team that's agingquickly. See, that's tough for
me. I I wouldn't necessarily sayaging. Listen, I still think they're
a good baseball team. They are. It's not going to be still h
They are a good baseball team.They are a they are a top of
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the of the National League baseball team. They are going to go to the
playoffs. They are going to wina few playoff series because that's just what
they do. They're they they area good baseball team. But it's it's
just a it's just another frustrating startto the season. They're just digging themselves
in this hole that they simply justdon't have to be in. They they
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can they can like just go fivehundred and That's all I talked about all
off season on the podcast. Justgo when you get to June first,
just be five hundred. I don'tneed you to be I don't I don't
need you to be twenty five gamesover five hundred. I don't need you
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to go like twenty and four inMay. Just play five hundred baseball.
That's it. If you go intoJune five hundred baseball, a few games
back at the Braves, that's fine. Like, I don't need this team
to be twenty five games over fivehundred going into June and July. Granted
it'd be awesome, but I thinkwe can all, especially now, we
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can all expect that's not gonna happen. This team struggles in the beginning of
the year, and they struggle immensely, like they are a very average baseball
team the first few weeks of theseason. It's happened since the second that
Bryce Harper got here. And Idon't know why, and and and and
and that's not something necessarily just onBryce, but ever since Bryce Harper,
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this this basically new era right ofPhillies baseball. It's just it's the slight
starts. It's get hot in thesummer and over the last two years,
it's get your way back into theplayoffs once again. If if you guys
have any thoughts, I figured youguys probably did. I want to know
who you're most frustrated with right now. If there's one player right now on
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the Phillies that you are the mostfrustrated with, I want to know who
it is, because mine, honestly, guy, I think is Trade Turner.
I'm just I'm a little annoyed rightnow with Trey just everything this this,
this, this whole past offseason ofof the the the slow start from
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last year, to the ovation,to the run to tray mashing in the
playoffs too, to talking all offseason about hopefully I'm not gonna need this
this standing ovation again this year,and man it you simply need to play
better baseball. And it's not justTrey, but you're you are the three
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hundred million dollars shortstop. We signedyou here for eleven years to play shortstop
and hit two ninety to three hundredwith twenty something home runs and ninety RBIs.
The past two years just bad starts. And I get it, They're
gonna get in a groove. II I am one of the most optimistic
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Phillies fans there is. I knowthey are going to get in a groove.
It's one hundred and sixty two gameseason. They are going to be
fine. And I and I amso confident in that that they're going to
be fine. They're gonna win abunch of playoff series. I still think
this team can win the World Series. But it's just bad starts. So
you got yeah, we got NickCastillanos, Nick Castianos and Trey I mean
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yeah, yeah, I think thoseI think those are are definitely the the
top two right now. And it'sjust frustrating because those are the guys that
in a season like last year whereyou lost Bryce for that first month of
the year, Like if something likethat happens to Bryce or to jt or
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to even a guy now like AlecBohm, Bryce and stop. If there's
guys that you need to step upin your lineup, it's Nick cas excuse
me, it's it's Nick Castianos andit's Trey Turner. Those those are the
two guys that want are making thisbig chunk of money, right But those
are the two guys that are arehitters. They are they are hitter first
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players in your lineup that need tobe mashing the baseball, and they can't
get off to this bad start.So I know the offense is evan,
but I do want to talk aboutZach Wheeler real quick. The sweeper looks
gross. Uh, this new splitterlooks gross. He he just looks really
good. Six innings, three hits, ten strikeouts. You and your Marte
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has been a guy who who hasbeen shredded, uh the last year bye
by a lot of Phillies fans,and at a point there it was it
was a bit of right Philly.So but man, he looks electric.
Uh. He he looks He lookslike a pitcher that wants to keep a
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spot. Uh. He looks likea guy that knows that he wants to
be here and knows that if heproves himself, he's not going anywhere.
I think Marte is here to stay. I I I think I think this
year is going to be his,his sort of year to kind of not
necessarily break out. He's not goingto be this year's Jeff Holton or could
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he be? He's not gonna bethis this breakout righty with him with like
a one three r a but he'sI think he's gonna be a fairly valuable
righty for you. He he looksreally good, he's throwing hard. Everything
that he's doing now looks really goodout there. And and and let me
tell you as as the the leaderand founder of the Junior Marte support group,
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he's been fantastic. Another one's GregorySoto, a reliever that I was
that I was very high on cominginto this season. I said all off
season that if Gregory Soto gets ridof the blow up innings, he will
be the second best pitcher in thebullpen this year, second or third best
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pitcher in the bullpen. And andhe's looked great so far. Uh,
just one inning the night, onehit it was a slack double down the
line, like eight inches off theplate. It was. It was a
dumb It was a dumb double thatthat should have never been even in the
box score or down in fair territory. And then other than that, three
strikeouts looked really solid. So itit is nice to see Gregory Soto just
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kind of pumping that back out there. I mean, let's dude, we
know he throws hard. He thedude throws Guess the thing for me obviously
with Soto is is one can youget rid of the blow up innings?
And two, uh can you locatepitches? Uh? Sir Anthony another disappointment.
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Yeah, he's in such a weirdlike development or that's not the right
word, but it's just something aboutSir Anthony just just feels off. Again.
I don't I don't really know whatit is. It's just the location.
Sir Anthony is going to live ordie by locating his pitches and and
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if and and if he can,then he's practically unhittable. When when his
pitches are are are on the cornersand they're painted around the zone, Uh,
he he's practically unhittable. But whenSir Anthony can't locate fastball or or
can't throw an off speed over theplate, he's brutal. And that's that's
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every reliever. But for some reason, it just feels way worse with Sir
Anthony Mattadelphia checking in get Rojas offthe team. Yeah, I don't know.
This is my issue right now isthat I think once again I set
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all offseason this team needs to goout and sign a corner outfielder and we
and they wanted to prioritize utility,and they wanted to prioritize pitching depth.
And that's okay because because that that'ssomething that this team has struggled with in
the past. But I think we'restarting to run into this problem now that
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we don't know what's going to happenif Rojas goes down, and what the
direction of this team and this outfieldgoes once you lose Rojas, because right
this bat is bad. It's it'sbad right now and and there's not many
signs that say it's going to everbecome elite. But if you get rid
of Rojas, your corner outfielders,Brandon Marsh goes back to center, then
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you have to play wit merriorfield hit goes Martian center, and then you
have to play Wit and Christian patJay I I don't that is not a
I can't watch that sort of platoonevery single day that they they have a
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need and they still have a needfor a corner outfielder because the second that
this is a give Kingary a chance. Maybe I don't even know. I
haven't even checked his his stats.He's probably hitting like one ninety now that
now that nobody's watching them, Ijust they don't have depth. They it
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seems like they do, right butthe second that one of the these guys
goes down to the minors, yougo from having an opening day outfield of
Nick Castianerson right, Johann Ross's gloveand center and Brandon Marten left to wit
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Merrifield who's like two for fourteen,Christian Pace who's played one game I think
this year, and Nick Castianos wholooks like he doesn't want to be here
right now. This outfield's a problemright now. It's a big time problem.
And it's and it's the reason theall off season that I said they
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need to go get a corner outfieldbat. They needed to go get Adam
duval They needed to go get TommyFam something I don't. I hate Tommy
Fam, but I would take TommyFam on the Phillies right now. I
would love Adam Duvall in the Phillies. That means he doesn't have to kill
us, because you know that dudeis gonna hit nukes against us this year
now strictly because he's on the braves. This team needs another outfielder and they
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need one fast. Once again,if you guys want to get your thoughts
in here comments. We're live onTwitter, YouTube, all that jazz right
now. This is the Luke andI postgame Show. I do want to
circle back to Kyle Schwarber though.If you guys have your complaints, keep
filing and man, I want tohear them all. But I do want
to get back to Schwarber because KyleSchwerber looks like the slimmest and healthiest that
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I have ever seen him. Itis, it is really really fascinating.
He's running the bases like I havenever seen him run the bases. He
looks quick, He's getting jumps offof bases. He stole third base the
other day. He just he justcasually stole third base. It was his
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first stolen base since the twenty twentytwo World Series when we got a free
Dorito's Locos Tacos in in Houston.Kyle Schwarber frustrates me. I want to
hear why, because Kyle Schwarber's beenI think the best player so far in
the lineup this year. It's rightnow with Schwarber, it's he's not trying
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to pull the ball. He tookhis empick over the offseason. Yeah,
that's I I can't Kyle Schwerber,which is something I never thought I would
say. Kyle Schwerber right now islike one of your most is if if
not so far through these first sixgame he's probably your most valuable hitter.
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When it comes to all around hitting. He's hitting the ball all over the
field. He has more hits toleft and center field combined than just right
field. He's he's he's hitting theball all over the place. He's not
trying to kill the ball. Iput a tweet out today of of his
swing, I believe it from lastnight's game, and a lot of people
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got man of me because they said, that's not what a two strike approaches.
I am here to tell you thatthat's exactly what a two strike approaches.
Just because he has to adjust doesn'tmean that it's still not a two
strike approach. Big shout out towhatever the loser that was that was down
to my replies. That just keepscalling me genius. I don't really know
who it is, but that iswhat you call a two strike approach.
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He is shortening the swing, he'snot swinging his hard, and he's putting
the ball in play wherever it needsto go. So kysh Erber's been probably
the best Philly other than maybe ZachWheeler for the bullpen, you could say
Jeff Hoffman, but for me rightnow, it's Schwarber. Cassianis just said
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postgame he needs to get used tothe new scoreboards. I man, I
really hope that's not true. True. If it is, I mean,
I get it, and maybe thelights I don't. I don't know how
that would be down from his view, Can we get it? I do
want to make just double nick uh. Yeah, I mean, it's it's
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been it's been a it's been reallybad for Castianus. I think we'll find
it right and I and I keepsitting here saying all this, and and
it's true right now in the moment, but I mean, in a month
or two, they'll be rolling,just because we know they will, and
I and I know right now isfrustrating. It's it's extremely frustrating. I
still think tonight was more frustrating thanthe uh uh the opening game of the
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Reds the other night with uh Brogdenout there. I I still think tonight
was the worst game of the seriesso far. So if you guys have
any last final questions. I justwant to kind of run through those.
If you do, I do wantto look real quick around the league.
Tonight. Rockies are in a barnburner right now, nine to eight in
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Chicago, Top nine. I sawj Cave hit a two run double off
of Hector Nurse earlier. Dodgers alreadyup three to one. They're just really
good. The Orioles walked off theRoyals. The Angels destroyed the Marlins.
We're now zero to eight since theBryson Stopt Grand Slam in Game two of
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the Wild Card last years destroyed theirfranchise, the Minnesota Twins. They beat
the Brewers, the Rangers beat theRays. The Red Sox a one nothing
absolute barn burner with the Athletics.Today. The Yankees beat the Diamondbacks,
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the Guardians beat the Mariners, Padresbeat the Cardinals three to two. The
Nationals got the victory over the Pirates, giving them their first loss, and
the Detroit Tigers are still the lastundefeated team once again. Wait wait,
I saw Nick Povetta random, Butsometimes I wish Nick Povetta would have done
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as good he's done in Boston andPhilly. Yeah, let me tell you,
I was I Nick Povetta was likeone of my favorite Phillies when he
was here. I I miss Nickevery day. I think this rotation misses
Nick right now. I think NickPovetta over Walker would would do wonders on
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this team right now. But otherthan that, that's all I offer tonight.
Once again, thanks, thank youguys for hanging out. This was
the Luke and I Postgame Show.We're gonna be doing a bunch of these,
Uh, just come hang out talk. These are these, these are
these are gonna be chill. We'renot gonna do anything crazy formal. We're
just gonna hop on here and andand chill. I want there's nothing better
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than after a loss, just gettingyour words out and ranting. And that's
that's kind of what I'm doing here, and that's basically what I want you
guys to do. Uh. Soonce again, UH the Luke and I
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I. My name is Luke Arcaneyand we I will see you guys next time you
Yo, yo, what's going on? Get some people in here. How
are we doing? And let's runit? Breaking ball popped up, shadow
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right, chic going off Castiano's comingon the Phillies Championship. This is Luke
and I on the Phillips brought toyou by Fox Sports The Gambler. Oh
man, it's another ugly one,that one that one almost hurt more than
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than the Grand Slam the other night. Just just an offensive disaster all around.
U. Zach Wheeler goes out,gives you six innings, ten strikeouts,
and you put that up for yournumber one. This is Luke and
I on the Phillies postgame show,number two that we've done so far,
(01:15):
brought to you by in the Clutchdot com, the only place to get
your Philly Hoodies, shirts, headbands, all that jazz used code Arcade.
Luke at checkout for ten percent off. Just a bad one. That one's
frustrating. Just couldn't just couldn't getanything going all night. Bats were out
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after just such a weird day.Obviously, game was supposed to start originally
at one oh five, then getspushed back last night during during last night's
game to to four oh five.Then pushed just seven o'clock, then pushed
to seven point thirty and and thenpushed to eight o'clock. So the Phillies
(02:02):
wearing their cream jerseys under the lights, I I I, I mean,
I don't really have the stats toback this up, but I'd have to
assume that's the first time the Phillieshave ever worn their Caream jerseys under the
lights at Citizens Bank Park. Forfor all of that, for us to
go through all of that, justto just to watch this box score that
(02:24):
they put up today, So Iwant to I want to kind of dive
into this a little bit here becauseit was bad. Kyle Schwarber another nuke.
We're gonna get into Swarber because helooks healthy, he looks slim,
he looked quick, he looks reallygood. After Kyle Schwarber, oh for
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four, Trey Turner one for four, Bryce Harper one for four. J
T. Real Muto, Bryce andStott went over for three. Nick Castianus
went over two with two walks,Brandon marsh one for four, wit Merrifield
one for four, Johann Rojas onefor two. Alec Boma over two is
a pinch hitter, just can't happenif the Red struck out fifteen times tonight
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and and you and you lose thegame. For one, if you're in
here, I want to hear yourthoughts. Uh. That was that one
was brutal. Like I said everywhen I got in here, I want
her for me more than the walkoff Grand Slam the other night. Just
you can't. You simply can't wastea Wheeler start like that. It just
can't happen. And I'm getting tiredof this this starting this season with with
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these guys that we're paying so muchmoney just just basically playing like shit.
They're playing like dog shit. Theythey're coming out these this this first month
of the season and they're just goingthrough the motions. Listen. I love
Bryce Harper. Last night was unbelievable. If it wasn't for that game,
he'd be like one for like eighteenCassi Honust just looks brutal. Trey Turner
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looks brutal. JT had a goodstart. He kind of cooled off.
Bom had a good start. Hecooled off. Brandon Marsh. Brandon Marsh
is the only guy hitting over threehundred on your team. Wiz Wit seems
like a winner. Yeah, he'slike two for fourteen this year so far.
I'm gonna need wiz Wit to tohit a little more baseball since before
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we give him a cool nickname SeanBernard checking and wiz Wit whatever. If
once he starts hitting baseballs, thenhe can have a nickname. But I
want to dive in really more tojust just it's just ba at baseball.
One thing that stuck out early wasthe errors Bryson Stott and I listen,
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I can't get too mad at stopBryson Stott just doesn't make errors that that
that is a that was a rareoccasion for him tonight, uh, to
to get out there and and makethat sort of error in in that that
sort of situation which did lead tothe two run RBI for man Carnas and
Strand. And then while the realMuto ball didn't necessarily mean much, the
(05:13):
real Muto pop up that was thatwas dropped. Just stuff like that,
just just miscommunications, not talking.Casianus looks slow, and right field just
can't get to any ball right now. Casianus needs a day off. Casianus
needs to sit on the bench fora game, not necessarily as a benching,
just I think as a as amind clearer because he this has been
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pretty brutal uh so far for himthis season. Yeah, I I completely
agree, Johnny Uh he said,emphasize getting off to a hot start,
and we have no approach at theplate in the offense is dead. I
absolutely agree. The only the onlyperson right now with any sort of approach
at the plate is Brandon Marsh andhe basically only gets to really do it
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against right and while while Marsh hassort of started to get a few chances
more to hit lefties since the bigfreak out the other day, he still
hasn't looked great against lefties. Gotthe chance tonight, didn't didn't really make
much of it, had the flyout. Foul territory just just hasn't really hasn't
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necessarily made the chances yet against thelefties. And I think that will come
eventually with with facing these lefties more, hopefully, But it's just you pay
these guys like the all we've talkedabout and and all they talked about Rob
Thompson, all winner was was theonly thing they said that the top thing
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that that that this locker room andand and team said was that we need
to get off to a hotter startthis year. When's the hot star coming?
Like I, I don't know whenit's coming for me, because it
is sure it is surely not hereyet. I'll tell you that. Because
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the Phillies are now. Uh theyhave two wins, four losses, third
in the NL East. Zach Wheelergets the first loss of the year.
Zach Wheeler should be two and o. Zach Wheeler should be two and oh
right now. Bad bullpen opening dayand no offensive support tonight. He has
a point seventy five e r Aand two starts. He only allowed one
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earned run tonight. Zach Wheelers lookedgreat. You you have to give this
guy some sort of offense and theygave him one run tonight and the Marsh
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into two players here, because alloff season, obviously the biggest talk of
the off season was that outfield spot. Is it Johann Rosas? Is it
with Maryfield? Right now? Itdoesn't look like it should be either of
those guys. Wit Maryfield had ahit tonight in the ninth inning. Other
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than that, I mean he's beenhe's been terrible this year, really really
bad. And this Johann Rojas thing, Listen, I I get it.
I I have been a big JohannRojas supporter so far, but I and
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I don't what I don't get.What I don't get right now with Rojas
is I don't get the approach.It looks like he's going up there and
trying to kill the baseball. Theythrew him a ninety two mile an hour
fastball middle middle in that sixth inningwhen he had the chance, and he
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wasn't even close. But the reasonhe wasn't even close was it wasn't it
wasn't the it wasn't batpath, orit wasn't any sort of angle. He's
he's swinging as hard as he can, and I don't I don't know what
it's gonna take for for him towho is I don't know what it's gonna
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take for him to not do that. Is it a benching? Uh?
Maybe? Is it Kevin Long doinghis job and telling him that, dude,
you're the ninth hitter. You mighthit like three home runs all season.
There is absolutely, excuse me,no reason for Johan Rojas to try
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and be hitting the ball into thestands of Citizens Bank Park in the nights.
They look like a team that's agingquickly. See, that's tough for
me. I I wouldn't necessarily sayaging. Listen, I still think they're
a good baseball team. They are. It's not going to be still h
They are a good baseball team.They are a they are a top of
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the of the National League baseball team. They are going to go to the
playoffs. They are going to wina few playoff series because that's just what
they do. They're they they area good baseball team. But it's it's
just a it's just another frustrating startto the season. They're just digging themselves
in this hole that they simply justdon't have to be in. They they
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can they can like just go fivehundred and That's all I talked about all
off season on the podcast. Justgo when you get to June first,
just be five hundred. I don'tneed you to be I don't I don't
need you to be twenty five gamesover five hundred. I don't need you
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to go like twenty and four inMay. Just play five hundred baseball.
That's it. If you go intoJune five hundred baseball, a few games
back at the Braves, that's fine. Like, I don't need this team
to be twenty five games over fivehundred going into June and July. Granted
it'd be awesome, but I thinkwe can all, especially now, we
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can all expect that's not gonna happen. This team struggles in the beginning of
the year, and they struggle immensely, like they are a very average baseball
team the first few weeks of theseason. It's happened since the second that
Bryce Harper got here. And Idon't know why, and and and and
and that's not something necessarily just onBryce, but ever since Bryce Harper,
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this this basically new era right ofPhillies baseball. It's just it's the slight
starts. It's get hot in thesummer and over the last two years,
it's get your way back into theplayoffs once again. If if you guys
have any thoughts, I figured youguys probably did. I want to know
who you're most frustrated with right now. If there's one player right now on
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the Phillies that you are the mostfrustrated with, I want to know who
it is, because mine, honestly, guy, I think is Trade Turner.
I'm just I'm a little annoyed rightnow with Trey just everything this this,
this, this whole past offseason ofof the the the slow start from
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last year, to the ovation,to the run to tray mashing in the
playoffs too, to talking all offseason about hopefully I'm not gonna need this
this standing ovation again this year,and man it you simply need to play
better baseball. And it's not justTrey, but you're you are the three
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hundred million dollars shortstop. We signedyou here for eleven years to play shortstop
and hit two ninety to three hundredwith twenty something home runs and ninety RBIs.
The past two years just bad starts. And I get it, They're
gonna get in a groove. II I am one of the most optimistic
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Phillies fans there is. I knowthey are going to get in a groove.
It's one hundred and sixty two gameseason. They are going to be
fine. And I and I amso confident in that that they're going to
be fine. They're gonna win abunch of playoff series. I still think
this team can win the World Series. But it's just bad starts. So
you got yeah, we got NickCastillanos, Nick Castianos and Trey I mean
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yeah, yeah, I think thoseI think those are are definitely the the
top two right now. And it'sjust frustrating because those are the guys that
in a season like last year whereyou lost Bryce for that first month of
the year, Like if something likethat happens to Bryce or to jt or
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to even a guy now like AlecBohm, Bryce and stop. If there's
guys that you need to step upin your lineup, it's Nick cas excuse
me, it's it's Nick Castianos andit's Trey Turner. Those those are the
two guys that want are making thisbig chunk of money, right But those
are the two guys that are arehitters. They are they are hitter first
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players in your lineup that need tobe mashing the baseball, and they can't
get off to this bad start.So I know the offense is evan,
but I do want to talk aboutZach Wheeler real quick. The sweeper looks
gross. Uh, this new splitterlooks gross. He he just looks really
good. Six innings, three hits, ten strikeouts. You and your Marte
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has been a guy who who hasbeen shredded, uh the last year bye
by a lot of Phillies fans,and at a point there it was it
was a bit of right Philly.So but man, he looks electric.
Uh. He he looks He lookslike a pitcher that wants to keep a
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spot. Uh. He looks likea guy that knows that he wants to
be here and knows that if heproves himself, he's not going anywhere.
I think Marte is here to stay. I I I think I think this
year is going to be his,his sort of year to kind of not
necessarily break out. He's not goingto be this year's Jeff Holton or could
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he be? He's not gonna bethis this breakout righty with him with like
a one three r a but he'sI think he's gonna be a fairly valuable
righty for you. He he looksreally good, he's throwing hard. Everything
that he's doing now looks really goodout there. And and and let me
tell you as as the the leaderand founder of the Junior Marte support group,
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he's been fantastic. Another one's GregorySoto, a reliever that I was
that I was very high on cominginto this season. I said all off
season that if Gregory Soto gets ridof the blow up innings, he will
be the second best pitcher in thebullpen this year, second or third best
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pitcher in the bullpen. And andhe's looked great so far. Uh,
just one inning the night, onehit it was a slack double down the
line, like eight inches off theplate. It was. It was a
dumb It was a dumb double thatthat should have never been even in the
box score or down in fair territory. And then other than that, three
strikeouts looked really solid. So itit is nice to see Gregory Soto just
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kind of pumping that back out there. I mean, let's dude, we
know he throws hard. He thedude throws Guess the thing for me obviously
with Soto is is one can youget rid of the blow up innings?
And two, uh can you locatepitches? Uh? Sir Anthony another disappointment.
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Yeah, he's in such a weirdlike development or that's not the right
word, but it's just something aboutSir Anthony just just feels off. Again.
I don't I don't really know whatit is. It's just the location.
Sir Anthony is going to live ordie by locating his pitches and and
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if and and if he can,then he's practically unhittable. When when his
pitches are are are on the cornersand they're painted around the zone, Uh,
he he's practically unhittable. But whenSir Anthony can't locate fastball or or
can't throw an off speed over theplate, he's brutal. And that's that's
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every reliever. But for some reason, it just feels way worse with Sir
Anthony Mattadelphia checking in get Rojas offthe team. Yeah, I don't know.
This is my issue right now isthat I think once again I set
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all offseason this team needs to goout and sign a corner outfielder and we
and they wanted to prioritize utility,and they wanted to prioritize pitching depth.
And that's okay because because that that'ssomething that this team has struggled with in
the past. But I think we'restarting to run into this problem now that
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we don't know what's going to happenif Rojas goes down, and what the
direction of this team and this outfieldgoes once you lose Rojas, because right
this bat is bad. It's it'sbad right now and and there's not many
signs that say it's going to everbecome elite. But if you get rid
of Rojas, your corner outfielders,Brandon Marsh goes back to center, then
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you have to play wit merriorfield hit goes Martian center, and then you
have to play Wit and Christian patJay I I don't that is not a
I can't watch that sort of platoonevery single day that they they have a
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need and they still have a needfor a corner outfielder because the second that
this is a give Kingary a chance. Maybe I don't even know. I
haven't even checked his his stats.He's probably hitting like one ninety now that
now that nobody's watching them, Ijust they don't have depth. They it
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seems like they do, right butthe second that one of the these guys
goes down to the minors, yougo from having an opening day outfield of
Nick Castianerson right, Johann Ross's gloveand center and Brandon Marten left to wit
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Merrifield who's like two for fourteen,Christian Pace who's played one game I think
this year, and Nick Castianos wholooks like he doesn't want to be here
right now. This outfield's a problemright now. It's a big time problem.
And it's and it's the reason theall off season that I said they
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need to go get a corner outfieldbat. They needed to go get Adam
duval They needed to go get TommyFam something I don't. I hate Tommy
Fam, but I would take TommyFam on the Phillies right now. I
would love Adam Duvall in the Phillies. That means he doesn't have to kill
us, because you know that dudeis gonna hit nukes against us this year
now strictly because he's on the braves. This team needs another outfielder and they
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need one fast. Once again,if you guys want to get your thoughts
in here comments. We're live onTwitter, YouTube, all that jazz right
now. This is the Luke andI postgame Show. I do want to
circle back to Kyle Schwarber though.If you guys have your complaints, keep
filing and man, I want tohear them all. But I do want
to get back to Schwarber because KyleSchwerber looks like the slimmest and healthiest that
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I have ever seen him. Itis, it is really really fascinating.
He's running the bases like I havenever seen him run the bases. He
looks quick, He's getting jumps offof bases. He stole third base the
other day. He just he justcasually stole third base. It was his
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first stolen base since the twenty twentytwo World Series when we got a free
Dorito's Locos Tacos in in Houston.Kyle Schwarber frustrates me. I want to
hear why, because Kyle Schwarber's beenI think the best player so far in
the lineup this year. It's rightnow with Schwarber, it's he's not trying
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to pull the ball. He tookhis empick over the offseason. Yeah,
that's I I can't Kyle Schwerber,which is something I never thought I would
say. Kyle Schwerber right now islike one of your most is if if
not so far through these first sixgame he's probably your most valuable hitter.
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When it comes to all around hitting. He's hitting the ball all over the
field. He has more hits toleft and center field combined than just right
field. He's he's he's hitting theball all over the place. He's not
trying to kill the ball. Iput a tweet out today of of his
swing, I believe it from lastnight's game, and a lot of people
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got man of me because they said, that's not what a two strike approaches.
I am here to tell you thatthat's exactly what a two strike approaches.
Just because he has to adjust doesn'tmean that it's still not a two
strike approach. Big shout out towhatever the loser that was that was down
to my replies. That just keepscalling me genius. I don't really know
who it is, but that iswhat you call a two strike approach.
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He is shortening the swing, he'snot swinging his hard, and he's putting
the ball in play wherever it needsto go. So kysh Erber's been probably
the best Philly other than maybe ZachWheeler for the bullpen, you could say
Jeff Hoffman, but for me rightnow, it's Schwarber. Cassianis just said
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postgame he needs to get used tothe new scoreboards. I man, I
really hope that's not true. True. If it is, I mean,
I get it, and maybe thelights I don't. I don't know how
that would be down from his view, Can we get it? I do
want to make just double nick uh. Yeah, I mean, it's it's
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been it's been a it's been reallybad for Castianus. I think we'll find
it right and I and I keepsitting here saying all this, and and
it's true right now in the moment, but I mean, in a month
or two, they'll be rolling,just because we know they will, and
I and I know right now isfrustrating. It's it's extremely frustrating. I
still think tonight was more frustrating thanthe uh uh the opening game of the
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Reds the other night with uh Brogdenout there. I I still think tonight
was the worst game of the seriesso far. So if you guys have
any last final questions. I justwant to kind of run through those.
If you do, I do wantto look real quick around the league.
Tonight. Rockies are in a barnburner right now, nine to eight in
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Chicago, Top nine. I sawj Cave hit a two run double off
of Hector Nurse earlier. Dodgers alreadyup three to one. They're just really
good. The Orioles walked off theRoyals. The Angels destroyed the Marlins.
We're now zero to eight since theBryson Stopt Grand Slam in Game two of
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the Wild Card last years destroyed theirfranchise, the Minnesota Twins. They beat
the Brewers, the Rangers beat theRays. The Red Sox a one nothing
absolute barn burner with the Athletics.Today. The Yankees beat the Diamondbacks,
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the Guardians beat the Mariners, Padresbeat the Cardinals three to two. The
Nationals got the victory over the Pirates, giving them their first loss, and
the Detroit Tigers are still the lastundefeated team once again. Wait wait,
I saw Nick Povetta random, Butsometimes I wish Nick Povetta would have done
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as good he's done in Boston andPhilly. Yeah, let me tell you,
I was I Nick Povetta was likeone of my favorite Phillies when he
was here. I I miss Nickevery day. I think this rotation misses
Nick right now. I think NickPovetta over Walker would would do wonders on
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this team right now. But otherthan that, that's all I offer tonight.
Once again, thanks, thank youguys for hanging out. This was
the Luke and I Postgame Show.We're gonna be doing a bunch of these,
Uh, just come hang out talk. These are these, these are
these are gonna be chill. We'renot gonna do anything crazy formal. We're
just gonna hop on here and andand chill. I want there's nothing better
(26:59):
than after a loss, just gettingyour words out and ranting. And that's
that's kind of what I'm doing here, and that's basically what I want you
guys to do. Uh. Soonce again, UH the Luke and I
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