An awful night for Rob Thomson.

Not the Titanic music after four games. That's how it rolls around these parts. Well, you're holding lines

I'm holding the line. At least Kyle's playing the music. I'm letting people vent man

I mean I'm not a dummy. The water is rushing into the boat. I'm not a dummy. One thing I do know grab those lifeboats

Douglas. Yeah, one thing I do know is not to get in the way when Philly's fans fill in the way they feel just

Just let them vent right here, but you kind of got the couch. Yeah, you're poking a little bit when you're then you're holding the line

Why am I poking? I'm holding the line. Yeah, because it's almost like, you know you guys worry. I'm holding the line over here

I understand I am the therapist in this situation. You're the therapist. You can't eat a victory. Yes, I'm the therapist

I'm the therapist in this way. Come on. Let Kyle into that building as soon as I was number five nine two nine four nine four

You nailed it. Look at that. Come hang out with the stationery on don't ask me that

It says it everywhere

Ninety four W. It says it everywhere

Above Kyle's head. I had to make sure that my

We got a couch. We could come as a right to get yeah, and we do have a couch

I don't think the professional in the room supposed to be yelling the way we do

Well, yeah, she would be able to help us. I don't know where she is

You don't want to talk to her? No, no, she's fine, but she's the afternoon call

Well, she was originally a mid-day show call. I think until you yelled at her, she stayed on our show

And the greatest moment is getting potted down. Well, she potted her down. She never returned. All right, two one five five nine two

Ninety four ninety four. That is how you join the show here. All right, before we go back to the phone lines here

Can we unpack top resign a little bit here because top red quite a night last night

It didn't last very long, but he had quite a night

So first we had the ejection so first inning it ends well, they thought it ended right with the player first base

Harper scoops it out

They end up calling him safe or was that it was Taiwan or it said there was the play of first base right

Safe or not on the foot on the back. He was safe. Obviously the nationals player was safe and the runner then

You know kind of ran around third and kept going the fillies played it out to where they tagged him out at

In the middle of third baseline

So topper is to me coming out really to argue whether or not he should be allowed to go back to third base

Which I'm with topper on this is that I don't love that rule

But you can't go out after replay and argue anything so topper throwing out the game here's topper explaining the ejection after the game

I

View on that is

the third base coach is waving him

He doesn't stop till he gets about halfway or three quarters away by that advertising down third baseline

And then he ends up going past the advertising. So there was clearly intent to score

Tied did the right thing because if we tell him keep playing umpires tell us to keep playing

He touches the base. They call him out. He still throws the ball to the plate

He's gonna be out no matter what so I

Guess my question would be if

If Tide doesn't throw the ball to the plate and the runner keeps running and touches home

Home plate and they go to review and he's saved as he scored

I actually look, I think topper is struggling right now, but I understand his point on that

The one thing I did wonder though he knew he was gonna get thrown out of the game

I'm wondering if topper starting to stress. Let's have a little stress here

I wonder if he's starting to kind of early for the season for that

I wonder if he's feeling a little need to spark the team. Maybe he gets thrown out there a little

I don't know I don't know what he's thinking there because he he has to know as soon as he comes out of the dugout after a

Replay review he's going to get thrown out you can't argue the replay review now

The spirit of that rules seems off to me like that runner

Was out either it was gonna be out either way. I mean they had him they had him dead to rights in the middle of the baseline

So topper explaining his ejection

But that was the only thing topper said last night here is topper a couple times on a couple players

Tell us of fibs here who do you want to start with Taiwan Walker? Let's start with Taiwan who clearly did not have his best stuff last night

Even though she's ugliest predicted six and two thirds of two run baseball

In terms of thirds of ten hits they bet they rocked him like a baby nevermind. Let's hear

Topper topper Douglas over here. Tell my time one as far as our pictures were concerned

I thought that tie had good stuff he was 94 strong strikes mixed in his pitches

I'm not sure how many balls they hit hard, but there wasn't many all night long

There was a lot of it was a lot of bloopers. Yeah, he's not wrong. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear about his good stuff

It's ten hits. You know what that makes me think

Why can't we accidentally get hits if it's so easy?

But clutching accidentally hit a home run the other day

We did Taiwan's getting accidental hit it all over the ballpark

And we can't even make contact with the baseball. Yeah, he also

It also was a lot over the plate. He left that part. Yeah, yeah, right

The stuff was good sure his velocity was was good. It wasn't bad 94. It's good for him

But it's over the plate and they're hitting the baseball

So that was a nice little fit. This stuff is just a part of it. Yeah, so let's call that an omission of the truth by topper

How about this one little fib on rice Harper rice Harper who's won for 16 to start the season here's topper on his

Starplayer, I'd like a swing

You know, he's just swinging through some pitches right now that'll that'll change in time

I mean trying to be positive man. I mean I get it and I also get the fact that I ain't nobody trying to hit it

Yeah, I'm positive. I don't want to hear. Yeah, I think nobody trying to hit it today

But I do get it. It's it's almost like we react to baseball

Like it's a 17 game football season, but I I'm not I'm not

Mad or anybody for that

I'm just saying that's that's how it is and that's why we that's why we're here

We got the couch we can we can talk to people and they can you know vent vent and you know talk about firing people probably ain't going

Happen the day, but we can talk about it. We talk about firing people. Yeah, what do you think? Yeah, that's just go for it

Fire well

Sin is that if we if we're gonna if since y'all back me to the corner, you brought up fire

No, that's it. That's what's gonna happen. That's what's gonna happen

We're gonna start talking about if this keeps going we're gonna start talking about his need to roll

Well, I said last week he starts to season on the hot seat not a good start. Yeah, that's the manager's butt's getting a hot by the day

Yeah, that one right there. You you're not fine Bryson those guys. Well, you can't yeah, not so it'd probably be

It'll probably be topper

I'm not I'm not looking to fire, but I'm just saying this continue ahead

I'm just he dead. I'm just saying y'all kind of back me in the corner. No one

No, you know, you know, you know, I'm just saying. It's all it's brings up firing topper. I'm not trying to fire topper

But I understand the overreaction that we're dealing with you

It was a brooch. It was a little bit

I mean, it doesn't help that that Bryce and Schwarble

They went down not swinging

Doesn't help the price couldn't catch the ball first the Turner dropped a a just toss to him at short stop

That looks like you're sleepwalking. What was that you everybody got mad because you made a smoothie

Well, no use on my braces. No

You know what let's cool it with the with the tick tock lattes for now

Through four games this season

and we have as many vanilla latte tiktoks as base hits this year, one one.

Yep. Okay. That ratio is not worth it for me, guys.

It's like I need more out of Bryce Harper. All right. One more topper situation yesterday.

And this was before the game. He chose not to play Justin Crawford.

His reasoning was giving him a day off. Correct me if I'm wrong. Yesterday was March 30th.

March 30th. Yes. He's 22 years old. He's probably the best young athlete on the team,

just in terms of athleticism and, and you, right? And, and last year,

this is interesting to hear because, you know, some guys are platoon players, right?

We know Brandon Mars, just can't hit lefties, even though he started in centerfield against

lefties last night. We know they don't really trust Stott against lefties.

Certain players fall into that, that kind of thing in their career.

Justin Crawford, I don't anticipate that, especially based on his minor league career where he hit

lefties very well. Here's Crawford. I believe this was him last year talking about,

perfect, almost preferring or like feeling comfortable against lefties. Here's Crawford talking

about lefty, righty, and if it impacts him. I mean, I don't want to be out there every day.

Um, I actually, for me at least, I feel fairly pretty comfortable with lefties, honestly.

Um, I actually think at times I feel more comfortable seeing lefties. It's going to make

something weird. But yeah, I mean, I'm ready to go to work and hit whenever my name is called.

So just give me all the time ready to go. That's wonderful. So, uh, he sits

Justin Crawford yesterday for two for rest. What do you think of Crawford sitting against the lefty

last night? Well, that's Topper's job to try to do us best for the team. You know, it doesn't

help when the young cat, you know, is out there saying that he wants to play though. I will let him

play. I mean, that's the only way you get better, especially when you're talking about somebody

who you feel is going to be an integral part of the team. And to your point, he's the only one

out there for the most part. The last couple of days, he's been trying to play small ball.

Well, also, I don't see the point of sitting him against a lefty when Marsh becomes the option

in center. He can't hit lefties. Like if they had another outfit on the bench that could play

center field that hit lefties, okay, that's fine. Like it almost would be like another platoon.

Well, the way they'd do it in a left, the way they do it in a second. All right, I'd be okay with

that. They don't have that player on the roster. So I don't get it. Like if Marsh is my next answer in

center field, I'm not sitting Crawford. I'm losing defense, losing speed, losing speed. And then

offensively, when you look at Marsh, what he does against lefties, I don't even think he's much

better than Crawford. I don't think if the two of them played, he'd be, it just doesn't make any sense.

If it was me, he would play every night until he told me he couldn't play because that's,

I would want that speed in the lineup. Of course. And the defense. Yeah, I definitely want that

speed in the lineup. And you're not getting the upgrade. Yeah. I want that, you know, bad on the ball

type situation. Yeah, another tough night for Rob Thompson here. Let's go to James in redding up

on WIP. Hey, James. Hey, how you doing, guys? Good, James. What do you feel? So I was actually

at the game last night myself. And I just want to say, I think we all would have rather seen

Dylan Moore pitch over K1 Walker last night. That was pretty horrible. Well, it was bad. Yeah, it was.

Yeah, Harper is definitely in his film too. I don't know what's going on with him. I don't know if

he's just not happy here. I'm sure you guys can go around on social media to have the picture,

you know, his, I don't want to say his mug shot, but his pictures up before starting to season,

how he was smiling, smiling, smiling. And now all of a sudden, he's just straight base,

just like Cassie is now smiling out in San Diego. Do you got to see that picture going around?

I did not, but I mean, I saw I've seen Cassianos that he, you know, he got to the

Padres. He does look a little bit more, I don't know, a little more pep and a step,

a little more youthful and a step. Those manager carry the stick. That's true.

Craig Stamman did and Topper did not. Craig Stamman, Roosevelt. Yep.

Yeah, definitely. I know. I know it's early in the season, just like everybody else says, but I think

it definitely looks scary so far, but I think we're definitely stressing it just a little too much.

If you look at the World Series team, Blue James, they just got beat 14 to five by the Colorado

Rockies last night. So like, we just got beat bad by the Washington Nationals, but

baseball is weird. We're going to go in there tonight and we're going to score 15 runs to watch.

Well, James, I would feel a lot, Jay, if that happens, I will take a sigh relief and we'll come

in here tomorrow and we'll celebrate and I'll feel a lot better. James, good phone call.

And that would be great. And that's a fair point, right? It's, this happens to a lot of teams.

And I said a few minutes ago, if, if this was July, it'd be annoying, but it wouldn't be like,

oh, no, right? Because it would be a part of a long season for games and the midst of a whole

thing. It's the first four games to you. That's the problem. It's the first four games of the season.

Yeah. And it's, it's, there's a lot of optimism going into this. There's a lot of

trepidation as well because of what happened last year and the fact that this is, this is,

this is all the fillies doing in a sense because you didn't really do anything in off season.

And you sowed everybody on the young guys coming up. Like the unfortunate thing about all this

tomorrow night, uh, Andrew Painter tonight. Tonight, tonight, tonight, my bad tonight starts with

this start man. And that's unfortunate because thanks a lot. No, I'm saying, maybe, maybe it's

fortunate though. Maybe it's, it's unfair situation to put this young man in. Yeah. It's unfair.

I'm sorry. I thought it was tomorrow night, but it's tonight. Uh, what do they say? He got to go.

He, like, this is one of those moments where he's going to be looked at with, with a lot of

scrutiny and it's not fair, but that's, that's the nature of the beast. I mean, again, tonight,

life's not fair. Yeah. Also, I mean, no, I'm not, I'm not saying it's not, but it's, it is what it is.

Also, can the top three in the order give him some support? How about a couple runs in the first

set? All right. How about this for fair tonight is not only a must win, but it's a style points game

for the fillies offense. Of course it is. Of course it is. You can't, you can't lose a

series to the Rangers and a series to the freaking nationals to start your season. You got caught

a robber. You can't do it. Can't do it. You guys ready to watch Aaron Nolan pitch a course

field this weekend? I'm not either. So that's on the horizon. Yeah. The not fair thing. I,

listen, it's a, it's pressure. It's not, it's pressure on painter. Sure. It's, I get it.

It's pressure on Andrew Painter, but the bottom line is this they need to hit the problem is the

last couple games. Just the starting pitching has to be good. You last night it was bad. They're

not hitting. It's those top three. And I'm sitting here four days in. I'm, I'm just not sure

they're going to be okay. Two, one, five, five, nine, two, 90 for now. If we're set is up on WIP. Hey,

Seth. Yeah. Hi, guys. Hey, Seth. First I was at the game last night. I brought my girl and it was

so bad. She fell asleep. It was indescribably bad. Is your girl, dude? The pitching was bad.

They're hitting with undisciplined and the fielding was atrocious. And, and against the

nationals, I was like, butch task. And he said, who are these guys? And I will go there when

they need to fire Rob Thompson. They should have done it after the series against the Dodgers.

He blew that series with terrible managing. When we had leads in every game and should have won

and he stuck with his starters too long, this team needs a culture change. It has to come from a

new manager who's got a big personality and take some of the heat off the players. Like when

the Astor's brought Dusty Baker in to take the heat off the players after the trash can, you know,

debacle. They need somebody else. And Thompson, he's out of the how many players you want to watch

some moves. But I think he's got to go. Well, Seth, I'll tell you this. And we appreciate the

phone call. He, you're not the only one that said this. I mean, he was the first one. I think

I'd WIP to bring up firing topper since the season started. So it started with you, Douglas,

bringing up firing topper. He is really, that's what it is. Well, I mean, you were the first.

I think you were. No, I wasn't. I'm the first since the season. Yeah. I mean, you got, you're

going to handle them sufferable. Well, but you know what I'm saying? I understand that that was

going to be the, the natural progression of this. I don't want to fire topper. Why don't

I want to fire him today? But he is. He's also called for senior liar. Yeah. Well, it's been,

it's been a tough. I've misremembered. You've had a called jail in hot guard. You've had a tough

couple days. No, I really haven't. Well, the time one, Taiwan prediction yesterday went down.

And you can fly down the face. Wow. But the last time I checked like he was professed by two

gems. Oh, yeah, brown still. Well, we'll get to you in short. Oh, yeah. I'm here. I'm here. Oh,

we know how to count. Unfortunately, yeah. It's a shame. All right. So as far as topper thing goes,

this is the thing in whose fault this is, this is the Philly's fault. It's not ours. It's not

huge fault for thinking about firing topper. It's not our last callers fault. It's kind of

huge. Okay. But it's whatever. It's mostly the Philly's fault because, you know, I think when you

have an off season like they did, you don't get any sort of grace when the season begins. Like,

just imagine if they did bring in boba shit, who by the way last nice started to wake up and had

a couple of runs batted in from the Mets win over the Cardinals. So like he's going to wake up. He's

going to hit. We know he's a good player. Like if the Philly's a broad and boba's shit, we'd say,

all right, come on. Turner, Harper, Schwarber, Berbershot. It's going to work eventually. Just give it

it. Just breathe. He'll they didn't do anything to fix the team. They didn't do anything to make him.

So, so we had that excitement last week of opening day. We kind of buried all that bad feeling

of the winter. But now when they're not playing well at all, that stuff didn't go away. We just shoved

it in the closet for a few days. And now it's all falling out again. Yeah. And that's what it is.

The chickens have come home the roots because everything that that we talked about and what we

complained about last year, you know, swinging for the fences, not, not, not hitting, not having

timely hitting is come home the roost early. You know, especially when you talk about the way

that we were beat yesterday, you know, when you talk about the bloops and everything because

the top wasn't lying. But it was like 13 of them thing. I mean, good. Google it. Yeah. Well,

it's it was a joke. I mean, and then I know teams do this around baseball. But to watch a position

player pitching the fourth game of the season, it's just not a good luck. It just is not. Are you

sure the flows are going to be okay? I'm not Tyler and Monco is up on WIP. Hey, Tyler.

Hey, what's going on, guys? Good morning, Tyler. Good morning. Hugh, you might want to be the

the skipper because you can tell us the truth and say that Taiwan had a bad game. He can't.

Now that's not my job. No. Well, also, if you want the truth from here, you got the wrong guy.

What are you talking about? He was able to say it. Oh, he did not. He did not. I am now imagining

Hugh Douglas as the manager of the Phillies. Imagine if we got to come in here every day and critique

Hugh's manager, he'll move. What is he doing? He's an idiot. Get this manager out of town. He's

terrible. Go ahead, Tyler. You know, everybody's saying we're four games into the season and I get

that. But I honestly feel like we're not four games into the season because, you know, if in the

off season, we got rid of coaches, we got rid of training staff, we got rid of, you know, we

blew the core up did whatever. We're four games into the season. Right now, it's the same team

it's been the last three years. And we're learning the same thing over and over again. Brown

hall day. These guys can do not hit reliably enough. They're inconsistent. And that's why I

can't just chalk this up to, oh, we're four games into the season because we're not. It's the same

team. The only thing I got to look forward to is Justin Crawford and they aren't even blind.

I know. And they sat him last night. When I hear rest, Tyler, for a 22 year old, I'm like, hold on

a second. Rest. It's a ridiculous reason to set him down. It's ridiculous. And like I said,

this is the same team. They're expected trying to beat the definition of insanity. And it's not

working again. Well, yeah, so far it's not. It's a long season. I love the Phillies. So I'm going to

watch. But man, I don't, I don't believe in this team. I honestly don't, I don't, I don't, we

might not even make the playoffs. I hope we do. But if they can't be consistent or show some

fight and some grit and just it seems like they're just laying down, I mean, come on.

But yeah, I think it's just to eat to slap up again. Now, well, the people won't. I mean,

you can feel, well, they are expecting it. But people won't. You can, you can, Tyler, you could

phone call. You could feel it already. So a couple of things Tyler said there that are interesting.

He said it's the same team. So he's, he's right. But it's the same team a year older and older

team a year older. Like when I, I don't know this about each of these players. So I can't say with

conviction. But at some point, every player in his 30s just hits a wall. And every year we,

we take these same players in other year, there's a risk that we've gotten to that year. And you

don't, I think it was last week we had spike an icon. Spike said something that you don't know when

that year's coming until it happens, right? And you don't. And it's tough to predict it. And if

I'm not sitting here for games and it's saying, Tray's done and Bryce is done and chore, I don't

think that. But is there a chance one of them is hit a full wall? Yeah. And if that happens,

then where is the offense coming from? And then the other thing is, you know, in years past,

they've gotten out to some slow start. 22 was slow, 23 was slow. But I mentioned they got hot.

They got hot because in 23, Tray had a month and a half in him where he was, he was going crazy.

He went crazy. There's a 33 year old Tray able to do that again. I don't know. We're going to find

out. Bryce usually has a month or two each year where he just goes bananas. We know June Schwarber.

Last year was different months of Schwarber. If they don't have those months in them where they

just go crazy and they carried the team, I'm not sure where the offense is coming from. There's

pitching questions. We're now putting a must win on a, on a young pitcher at a night in Andrew

Painter. It's ugly. And again, it bothers me that we had to watch a position player pitch last night.

It's just an ugly look to start the season. We are four games in. I got to watch Dylan

Moore on the mound. It's a joke. I mean, we did that in 23 with Harrison. We did it in 18 with

Gabe Kaplan, the third game of this season with Pedro Flora Mone. It's a joke when that happens.

Why are you laughing, man? No, I'm just laughing because it's just like, I feel your passion,

man. And that's why, you know, today I come in in here. I mean, there's no excuse for this.

Like I said, I know it's a lot of baseball left to be played, but this is, this is therapy session

because everybody's upset about this. It was, it was, you were promised something that

hasn't changed. You know, somebody would somebody say, Groundhog Day or, you know, definition of

insanity. And we were, we were told that it was going to be different in a sense. And it's not.

I just was like, we sure was going to be okay. Like if I was sure it's going to be okay,

then I know you just chalk it up to a bad day, bad couple weeks. I don't, I can't sit here today

and tell you with conviction, I'm sure this whole thing is going to be okay. 215, 592,

94, 94. Oh, we got a lot to do on the show today. Got something. No, I was about to say,

I think Shorba will be okay. Of all of them. Of all of my things, Shorba will be okay. I like,

Bryce is still up in the air, you know, and, and we got pain on the mouth the night. That's a lot

to ask from the young. I need zeroes, kid. Zeroes on the board. Yeah. Yeah. It's a must win.

It's not a must win, but it's well, hold on. Hold on. It feels like a must win. It's a, it's a,

it's a can't lose if anything else. It's absolutely. It's a, it's a go out there,

and don't mess this up. It's a must win here. You can just say, it's not a must.

It's not just two games. Do you know what it's going to be like and hear if it goes again?

Oh, I know. Okay. I'm definitely not going to work tomorrow. So it's a while. Okay. You got to stop

threatening. Yeah. Why not? Why? Why? If you threaten to knock on the work, then you know,

it's a must win. That's good point. That's a good point. If it goes south, why would you not

come in? I like how it's a must win. I like how, I like how when I'm on the, the, the Twitter,

and I say I'm not coming to work. Yeah. Instead of them asking me, the guys, I know. He's right here.

He's my, I guess he's my hammer. He's never serious. I love you all. No, not me. Not about work.

You, you, you almost think something we have to work on holidays. You're the last person

we call it a work for no reason. Yeah. I don't buy that for a second. You'll be here. We know

that. I like my job too much. I ain't really working. Well, the next segment might have to work.

You might have to work in this next one. Next, we'll check it on the Otter's meetings. The latest

on AJ Brown. Once again, the story of the league, Ellie, it'll join us at noon today and the latest

on the Otter's meetings, including the potential push for an 18 game schedule. Today, Jeff Laurie speaks

and we're going to find out how steadfast he was on holding the line. We got some more detail of

the Rams interest a few weeks ago on AJ Brown. And I have a new theory on the AJ situation. In

fact, I, I think we have reached the end before we realize we've reached the end. I'll tell you

about that next two, one, five, five, nine, two, nine, two, nine, four midday show on sports radio,

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