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I'm skipping you one minute for a pillow. Please go away. Let me sleep for the love of God. You're listening to Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR with Preston Elliott. You will listen to every damn word I have to say. And Steve Morrison. Words are like bullets lost. Casey Boyd. Lay off me. I'm starving. Kathy Romano. I'm going to destroy.

Nick McElwain. I'm just not the hero type. And Marissa Magnata. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. And now, Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. All right.

And it's on, people. It is official. We, the Preston and Steve Show, are broadcasting live from Clearwater, FLA. Here we are at Bay Care Ballpark in the outfield and right next to our wonderful little home of Frenchies.

And we're ready for a full day, man, in a couple of days, actually. And we have a first ever Preston. The actual stadium lights are up. So we've never had it like this. Brilliant. All right, we're going to take our first look at traffic and see what's going on so far as we dive into things. Kath, what you got for us? Wait, no, we do weather first, don't we? Yeah.

Let's take a look at the weather forecast first and foremost. Things are all out of whack here. All right, so at home, we're going to go up to about 53 degrees today, and we're going to have partly cloudy to cloudy skies. Temperatures are going up over the next couple. So tomorrow, partly cloudy, high of about 61. Pretty decent day. Saturday, clouds and high 62. Sunday, we got 70 degrees, but we have some afternoon thunderstorms, and that breezy condition is going to come back as well. So heads up on that. We're cooling off after that.

And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano. Our day is Thursday, March 13th. Good morning, Kathy. Good morning. In the news this morning, the owner of Jersey Kebab, the popular Haddon Township, New Jersey restaurant, was released on bond Wednesday evening, two weeks after she was arrested by ICE agents.

When Emeneh Emenet arrived home to South Jersey, she was met by family members and friends who were ready to celebrate her return. She's just relieved now, her son Mohammed said, and appreciating that she's here to enjoy this moment. Immigration officials arrested Emeneh and her husband, Jalal, at their restaurant on February 25th. Jalal was released that day with an ankle monitor to care for one of their sons, but Emeneh was taken to a detention center in North

Jersey. A deportation hearing for a man that was previously set for next week has been canceled. Now, the family's attorney is working to get the couple's cases heard at the same time. Muhammad said while his family pays taxes, they are not eligible for any benefits like Social Security because they haven't been granted permanent residency. He believes their story is evidence that the immigration system is flawed. Kathy, how is this affecting the kebab supply in

In Jersey. Well, actually, there's a GoFundMe for them because they've had to shut down their restaurant. Okay, that's what I was wondering if they had to shut it down. They did. There's actually started a new thing called Kebab Fund Me, which is actually a whole other thing. I like kebab. I'm a fan of kebabs. Definitely. Is no one else hearing a commercial on their headphones? Nope. Nope, I'm not. Oh, yeah, Nick and I are. Oh, lucky. Lucky, good for you. Is it for a kebab place? No, I don't know what it was. Yeah.

Are we on the air? Ryan, checking back at the studio. We're a little confused. Yes, we are on the air, Kathy. Continue. Take your headphones off if you need them. Yeah, I'm going to have to take my headphones off. Okay. But, like, if you go to, like, a casual place, you get a kebab. But if a fancy place, you get a Robert. Excellent. Excellent, man. Hey, he's back, everybody. You put an E-T-T-E-R-S. As we turn to the show. You didn't get through it. He was literally deported by Italy. You didn't.

You had a little hitch there. Yes. We find your Robert joke is very funny. Put him on the next flight. Come get him. Get him out of here. So, yes, the couple's restaurant is shut down and the community has set up a GoFundMe for them.

Robert. All right, stop it. I'm going into a serious story. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office has named a person of interest as the search continues for a college student missing in the Dominican Republic. This development comes as new video is being shared in the investigation. Doesn't this just take you right back to Natalie Holloway? It absolutely does. This is all I keep thinking. Her name has been invoked so much since the beginning of this. And so many of the things are the same. Yes. Yeah.

Yes, it's like a very similar story. Video obtained by a Dominican Republic news outlet shows 20-year-old Sadiq Shah Kanaki walking with friends and a young man at the RIU Republica Resort around 4.30 in the morning last Thursday, March 6th.

Authorities say Kanaki, her friends, and the young man walked towards the beach. While her friends returned later, Kanaki and the young man remained behind. Kanaki is a University of Pittsburgh student and a permanent resident of Virginia. The young man in the video is Joshua Reeb, and he's been named as a person of interest in her disappearance. Video shows Kanaki walking with her friends and Reeb before she disappeared. Authorities suspect that she may have drowned.

But the FBI is leading the investigation. They're saying that Reeb is cooperating with the investigation, but right now he's being named as a person of interest.

Fire crews are making progress containing a wildfire in Gloucester County, New Jersey. The blaze grew to 150 acres Wednesday night, but officials added that it was 50% contained. The flames are threatened, have threatened about 20 structures, which is down from 60, which was earlier in the night. Proposed Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue remain open to local traffic. The Office of Emergency Management has been activated. No injuries have been reported, and the cause of fire remains under investigation. Kathy, they're talking about building a firewall made out of Caroberts? Yes.

You're going to go back there. You're bringing it back up. All right, in sports this morning.

The Sixers lost again, falling to the Raptors 118-105 last night in Toronto. AJ Lawson scored 28 points and Jared Rhodes set career highs with 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Raptors to the win. Andre Drummond returned after sitting out Monday night in a loss at Atlanta due to illness, but the Sixers were without eight players, including Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, Paul George, and Kyle Lowry. The sixers were without eight players, including Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey, Paul George, and Kyle Lowry.

The Sixers are back home tomorrow night with a game against the Indiana Pacers. Tip-off is at 7 o'clock. The Flyers, who have lost five straight games, continue their homestand tonight with a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The puck will drop at 7 o'clock. And here at spring training, the Phillies were off yesterday, but they'll be back in Clearwater this afternoon for a game against the Braves. We will all be attending the game after this broadcast.

The first pitch is scheduled for 105 and the Eagles are still the Super Bowl champs. And that's what I have for you this morning. Thank you very much, Kathy. And as we stated at the beginning, we have successfully made it to Clearwater and we are here at...

Baycare ballpark in our regular haunt for the past several years now right next to this great tiki bar called Frenchies in the outfield. We're directly across from the bullpen and as Steve said we've got the stadium lights on as we came up the guy working the security is like you want me to turn those big lights on? We're like yeah man go for it. We can't see. Yeah we can't see anything. We got another you know almost an hour or so before the sun comes up but

So far, so good. We all got here last night. Our friend Vince at Philly Sports Trips had an event where the crew that is on this trip was going on a booze cruise last night. So we didn't even get to the hotel. We went straight to the boat. Yeah. And we went on and we met everybody there. Everybody is so fired up to be here. We literally walked into applause. Yeah. Which was wild because...

Everyone was so excited, and so many of them, obviously, through MMR and fans of the President Steve Show. But if I had a bit of energy, I would have loved to have gone at them. Yes, same. But I couldn't. When we walked in, I was exhausted. I was not expecting, like, everyone to be. I thought everyone was just going to kind of be hanging. They were all, like, sitting, ready to go, staring at the door. It was great.

And we saw pelicans off the back of the boat. We did. We saw so many things. So many pelicans. You guys seen the alligators? No. The pelicans were eating the alligators. Yeah, we're going to leave that for you, Robert. But I did see, so I went out to dinner after we got back to the hotel and checked in and everything like that. I saw, Steve, the booze crews out on the bay. Oh, really? Going south from where Clearwater Beach is to Sand Key. I love that. I sent Vince a photo. I was like, hey, hey.

It's you guys! Yeah, yeah. But it was a long day yesterday because we literally got done with the show, spent about a half hour getting our stuff together. We got in the car, we went to the airport.

We're on a boat in Florida. We spent the day. A few of us went out to dinner last night. Then got settled in. Get up way too early. Coming here for this event. We're looking forward to it. Today is going to be a great day. The weather is fantastic. It's a little bit chilly as we get started. Once the sun gets going, we'll be cooking nicely.

And our whole crew, Casey, made it successfully back from Italy. Congratulations on that. Thank you. I think I landed in and around the same time as you guys, which is amazing. And you talk about feeling like a jet setter, but you are. You left, went to Italy, and now you're here in Clearwater. It's pretty amazing. Yeah, I was in Italy. I was in Germany for a few hours. You're like James Kerbobber. Kerbob. James Kerbob. No. Kerobber. Sorry. James Kerobber. Oh, dear God. Okay.

But it's a beautiful start to the day. We've got a full moon coming up on this glorious morning. Wow. And, yeah, we'll get this going. We have a number of guests that are going to be on the program today, as in years past. We love getting a chance to mingle with some of the players and get things going. Because when we're done, the game.

happens. And then we head out into the stands and enjoy the game, and we're looking forward to that today. And this is a very popular game day. I mean, this stadium is going to be absolutely filled, wall-to-wall red, as people are ready to get the season going. So we're going to have, joining us today, every year we have Larry Boa come by. Love Larry Boa. So we'll spend some time with Larry this morning. We're also going to get Garrett Stubb

Hey!

Good friend Brandon Marsh is going to be here. So looking forward to him. And I have an idea of something to do with him that will test his skills and see how far his arm has come. Time to put up a shout-out. And then we're also going to have play-by-play announcer Tom McCarthy on the program, too. He's a regular. So we'll just kind of get going.

Give you the feel for what's going on in spring training and get us ready as the boys of summer are prepping for hopefully a championship season. We'll see about that. Yeah. I don't know. But other than that, we have stuff planned because tomorrow morning we're broadcasting live as well. We'll be at Coco's and the gang yesterday. Everybody is on board. And we met tons of people.

on the plane last night at the hotel that were not part of Philly sports trips that are planning to come out for the live broadcast tomorrow morning too. So we're looking good. It's going to be a lot of fun. But we will get to business as usual when we do have the gaps this morning. So we'll take a quick break. We'll come back in a moment. We'll get into the stupid question and some entertainment stories. So we're doing it once again live from Clearwater, Florida for spring training. Back in just a moment on MMR.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right. Thank you, Kathy. So we're going to do the stupid question, and we're going to take a winner via text since we're on a remote location, and it'll be the easiest way to do this today. So if you know the answer to this question, make sure you text in to 39333, the answer.

And we'll contact somebody randomly and give them a prize, which, by the way, a pair of tickets to see Volbeat and Hailstorm, Saturday, August 9th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, by the way. So in Clearwater, Florida, the majority of the downtown area is owned by the Church of Scientology. I was reading this, that they own the majority stake of property in the downtown area.

Clearwater area. So I'm going to ask a question that has to do with the Church of Scientology. And this is the question. Who is the extra or was the extraterrestrial ruler of the Galactic Confederacy? Ah, yeah. All right. Text if you know the answer. Text that. According to the Church of Scientology, who is the extraterrestrial ruler of the Galactic Confederacy? Real quick, Rodney, by the way, Nick and I are still hearing other sounds.

All right. So you guys are hearing not my voice or you're hearing stuff on top of that? It's a commercial or it's music. Is the show you're listening to better than ours? It's pretty good. Okay. Yeah. It's lower now. It's much lower, but we still hear it. All right. All right. So I'm going to mention some birthdays while we await your answer. Today being the 13th day.

of March and a big one in the world of acting. It is Sir Michael Caine's birthday today. Michael Caine is 92 years old. I failed you. Yeah. I failed you. Yeah, he's great and he is taught acting for many, many, many years. Yeah. He, uh, there, uh,

Lately, there's been an onslaught of Michael Caine impressions that I see on social media pretty regularly. Who's the guy? Oh, man, I'm trying to think. Yeah. He's in... Tropic Thunder. Yeah, yeah, he's terrific. Coogan. Steve Coogan. He and another guy do that back and forth, Michael Caine, and it is brilliant. And the nuances that they each do are actually very legit. Yeah. They're...

One approaches him younger Michael Caine. Another approaches Jaws 4 Michael Caine. Rob Brydon is the other guy. That's the other guy, yeah. It's the best. So Michael Caine, 92 years old today. The great Billy Crystal is a year older. He turns 77 today, most recently in the Super Bowl commercial when Harry Metella and the Oscars. The Oscars, yeah. Is anybody watching that show on Apple Plus or Apple TV? I watched the first episode and...

And I knew that it was going to be a darker, you know, it wasn't a comedic role for Billy Crystal. And I just watched one episode. It didn't pull me in enough. I think I will go back to it. But I haven't talked to anybody who's watched it or really enjoyed it. And that's not the time. Critically, it's actually doing pretty well. But I don't know anyone who's watching it. Who knows? Think Silence of the Lambs slash City Slickers. Oh, okay. Very good.

Curly's Gold. Curly's Gold. Right, right, right. I was actually very late to this. Hannibal's Gold. Hannibal's Gold. I only watched the City Slickers for the first time within the last three years. What are you crazy? I know. What are you stupid? What are you?

I did say Carabra. What did you think about it? I enjoyed it. It's a great movie. It's a lot of fun. I was just curious if it is a little dated or not. No, no. The fight with Daniel Stern and his wife is great. I hate you!

It's the best. Yeah, it's great. All right, so Billy Crystal is 77 today. We also have here Chris Klein. You remember him from Imagine Pie? Yeah, magic. Casey absolutely hates that. I love it. He's also in that cruddy remake of Rollerball. Yeah. Yeah, his star did not sail as everybody thought it was. He's a good-looking guy. He's a decent actor, but it didn't take for whatever reason. You know what he's really good in? That Ryan Reynolds movie with Anna Faris. Yeah.

Just friends? Yeah. He actually plays a scumbag. He is 46 today. We also have actress Grace Park. Steve, she was in Battlestar Galactica. Yes. Love her. She is 51 years old today. In the world of music...

Taylor Hanson. Oh, my God. Has his birthday today of Hanson fame. The singer, right? The three brothers. Yep. He's not the youngest, but he was the main lead singer. We had them all in the studio. We met them, right? Yeah, yeah. And then one of them had a heart attack. That's right. I think you're right about that. The older brother. Taylor is 42 today. God, they were children when they started. They were. Literally. 42.

From Jersey Shore, Sammy Giancola. She was the hot one. I mean, they were all pretty good looking. They were all super hot. She was the best looking one. She was actually good looking. Yeah. She turns 38 years old today. There was another one I was going to mention. Who's Jamie Bell? Jamie Bell? The actor? Yeah. Yeah. The actor? He was in Billy... Billy Elliot. Billy Elliot. Okay. He grew up to do something, too.

It says Snowpiercer and Fantastic Four. And he was married to Evan Rachel Wood for a couple of years. And then he got engaged to Kate Mara, by the way. And they married. They got married. So I guess they're still together. So he turns 39 years old today. All right. So I don't know how we're going to award a winner today.

We didn't think this through. Marissa's right behind you. Okay. Marissa, do you have a name for us? All right. So the question that I had was, in the world of Scientology, who was the extraterrestrial ruler of the Galactic Confederacy?

And the correct answer from Zion Nilsson of Philadelphia is Zinu. Hey! Zinu. Zinu. And so we're going to set them up with a pair of tickets to see Volbeat and Hairstorm. Saturday, August 9th, Freedom Mortgage Pavilion. And tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. Ticketmaster. You can go to WMMR.com for the pre-sale information and another chance to win tickets.

pit tickets over there. We got a lot of good text answers. Most people guessed, you know, one person did guess Robert Peter Skywalker. Great guess. Robert Peter Skywalker. Vader Skywalker.

All right, well, let me get into some of the entertainment stories. We'll start with this. Judge Lisa Sokoloff is reportedly frustrated with Wendy Williams' behavior and wants her moved to a potentially more restrictive facility. Oh, jeez. Questioning how well she has handled her current level of independence. They actually want her sealed the way Han Solo was. Wow.

uh, carbonite. I don't like how what's going on here. Wendy has been speaking to the media about her guardianship, uh, currently, uh, calling her current facility, a luxury prison, uh, despite warnings from the judge to stay silent. Uh,

The judge warned Wendy's lawyer in an email that TMZ says they got to see. And apparently the judge wrote, I have always contended that Wendy will be given the independence that she can handle. I question how well she has handled the independence that she has been given.

So Wendy has been speaking to the media lately, claims that she's being unfairly restricted in her movements. And she also said, is said to have passed a mental competency test, which some people think at least cast doubt on if she needs guardianship. And some people close to Wendy believe the judge is acting in pure retaliation for Wendy speaking out about her guardianship situation. So we will see where this goes. Can't do that.

Ayo Edeberry has called out Elon Musk on her Instagram story for spreading a false rumor that she would replace Johnny Depp in a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot. What? And she says, just remembering when I got some of the most insane death threats and racial slurs of my life for a fake movie reboot of a movie I had never even heard of because of this man. She wrote this while sharing a screenshot of the post from Musk saying,

sharing the fake news story about her. Are they moving ahead with that movie? What? The new Pirates of the Caribbean? I don't know. On the lighter side of things, though, she shared a DM that she got from a New Girl writer, Camilla Blackett, who joked that Itabiri would make a great Captain Jack Sparrow. She said, okay, but

what if I said that you eat this up a little bit and said it's not the worst fan casting. I see the vision kind of. You are literally Caribbean. Meanwhile, franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer has confirmed, Steve, that a new Pirates of the Caribbean movie is in development.

Yeah. That said, details on how the next entry in the pirate franchise will shake out aren't currently known. And Depp is supposed to be part of it. Oh, really? That's the word. And why not? I mean, he made that thing. Milk that cow until it's empty. Yep. Actress Sydney Sweeney and her fiancé, Jonathan DeVino, are reportedly living apart with the actress, staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel for nearly a month.

And according to TMZ, Sweeney has been spotted around the hotel with friends and a bodyguard. But DeVino has been noticeably absent. They're not going to get married. That whole thing about, first off, you remember the news came about two weeks ago that they were putting marriage plans on hold because their careers are so involved. Right. And she's seen out and about a lot without him. And you know how it is. You know, you've got your finger on the pulse. Yes, of course. And although the couple owns two homes in Los Angeles...

Their Bel Air fixer-upper may explain why Sweeney has opted for a hotel stay. I'd want a Bel Air fixer-upper. Adding fuel to the fire.

DeVino did not accompany Sweeney to Paris this week where she attended Miu Miu's fall 2025 fashion show. Is that how you say that? I think so, yeah. According to, she told Glamour UK in 2023, everyone is always so curious about who I am with and what

like, but I think it's important to have something for me. It goes beyond that. We're also interested in her jugs. Good point. Are you done with that story, Preston? No, but almost. Sweeney and DeVito...

Have been together since 2018. They got engaged in 2022, though they've kept most of their relationship private. Their romance failed public scrutiny in 2023 when Sweeney's parted fair rumors with anyone but you, co-star Glenn Powell, due to their flirty on-screen chemistry and offset interactions. However, Sweeney quickly shut down that speculation with sources insisting that she and Davina were still strong. She used an entertainment news term, Preston. I would have bet my left nut that they had something going on

When you saw footage of them together... And if it was a construct for the movie, then good on them. Because it looked like they were into each other. All right, I'm now done with that story, Nick. Listen, we all make mistakes a lot every day, every show. And sometimes I want to point them out, and sometimes we just keep the show moving forward. But you're going to find this one out eventually anyway. Oh, what did I say? You didn't do anything wrong except every birthday that you had, it's tomorrow's birthday. Are you... So you're going to have the same list of birthdays tomorrow that you had for today. And we just...

Play that back instead. Wait, are you serious? You would have found out within the next half hour or whatever, and you certainly would have found out when you were doing prep for tomorrow's show. Preston, Preston, can I make you feel a little bit better? Yeah. You said Mew Mew, right? Well, no, no, no. I'm looking at this. Okay, here's where the mix-up is. So I use a prep service to get the birthdays.

And it says Thursday, March 14th. Today is Thursday, March 13th. So they messed it up. Yeah. I thought maybe you grabbed the wrong stack of papers tomorrow. Nope. Nope. But happy birthday in advance to Taylor Hanson and Jamie Bell and...

Chris Klein, he's turning 42 tomorrow. Why don't you do tomorrow just do a list of belated birthdays. Yeah, we should do today's birthdays tomorrow. Alright, we'll do that. We'll plan on that. Let's go with this story about Mike Boogie Mallon has been arrested again. This is from the Big Brother cast. Yeah, just five weeks after he was arrested for allegedly shoplifting. And we recently told you the Big Brother Season 7 winner

was booked for misdemeanor theft for reportedly stealing from multiple CBS locations. He must be going after those signature brand cookies. In California. Is that what they have at CBS? Yeah, they're really good. The reality show alum's most recent run of the law was for criminal contempt disobeying a court order.

While it's unclear what he's accused of violating specifically, People magazine obtained court records showing his former Big Brother co-star Will Kirby took out a restraining order against him. I wonder if he's stealing drugs, if he's trying to lift things from behind the counter. Like meth?

Yeah. They have a meth line at CVS. They don't sell meth at CVS. Where do you keep your meth? Steal drugs to make it. Come on. Did you not watch Breaking Bad? No. Do they use Sudafed? What do they use? What's behind the counter now, right? They changed it. It's whatever's in Sudafed. I think it was, yeah. There's an ingredient in Sudafed. Sudafedrin. Is that it? Okay. Hence the name. Yep. So...

Malum was previously arrested in 2019 for felony stalking of Kirby and was found guilty in 2021 for this most recent offense. He entered a not guilty plea and has a court date of March 20th. How could you stalk someone with such a benign name like Kirby? Kirby. Come on. It's, you know, that little character, I think. Yeah. I had a bird named Kirby once. That's awesome. I love bird.

That's all. Yeah. Okay. Let's just end. Startling revelation. Did you say you love that bird? I love that bird. Okay. It was great. You know how it's always darkest before the dawn? Yeah. Also coldest before the dawn. Yeah, you're right. It's pretty chilly. The wind caked up. It's getting colder. Yeah, it's pretty chilly. It's actually snowing. We should be seeing daybreak in about 20 minutes, I said. I hope so. Yep. All right. So a John Wick experience.

is now open in Las Vegas at Area 15 just off of the Strip. They're dead!

Chad Stahelski. Oh, wow. The director and creator of the series. The director, yep, helped create the experience alongside his team at 8711 Entertainment. Wow. Guests who go through the whole thing will have to complete a mission inspired by the movies and may rub elbows with the various crime bosses, assassins, and continental staff as they were to complete their task. Preston, there is a sequence in the fourth movie called

That is, John Wick goes into this building, and the other guys he's up against have these incendiary sort of shotgun rounds. So they'll shoot, and they'll set the person on fire. So when he goes in, the camera elevates up above, and it is clearly an homage to video games. Because you're seeing an aerial shot as he goes from room to room. And I think this is what they're looking to replicate. Okay.

So the place is really big, coming in at 12,000 square feet. Wow. And has two themed bars and a retail shop. So according to Jennifer Brown, the head of the experience, they said that the most important part of creating this experience was entrepreneurship.

Honoring that and making sure that our guests truly feel like they are a part of the world of the films. The experience delivers wholeheartedly on the promise, and we are excited to share it with fans. Why don't they just convert the E.T. ride to a John Wick experience? I'll blow your goddamn head off. Don't touch that E.T. ride. It's such a good ride. I love it. They are, though, right? Universal. It was fun. They're ass-canning it, though, aren't they? Are they? Are they? Yeah, that's the word. They're tearing down the E.T. ride for another experience. I thought we talked about it.

Okay. Yeah, it's for the John Wick experience. It's the final. It's the oldest ride in the park. As you leave, John Wick says goodbye, Prestica. Or was it that they were updating it? No, I thought they were getting rid of it. No, they were changing the smell. Remember that? Apparently there's something about the smell of the place that people love. I don't know. Nick's going to look up and verify that for us. It's seen a resurgence in popularity due to the likening of the DreamWorks land in the area and a new larger sign for the ride.

So it's popular again, and that's this year. All right. I'd heard there. I do. You know, that's one of those real practical rides. Preston, when you are on the ride and you go over the miniature...

It is so cool. It's old school. It's retro, but it's really enchanting. They did close it for refurbishment, and they put a little shine on it and opened back up. There we go. Opened last year. All right, good. Glad to hear that. Closed it to make it better. Yeah. All right. Smell good. Actress Sadie Sink.

Spider-Man 4

Plot details for the next Spider-Man movie have not been made public at this time. That'd be really cool. And then there's rumors, Preston, that they're going to incorporate her co-star and character from The Whale, Brendan Fraser. Oh, really? To play a web-slinging whale. Okay. The third movie in the franchise, 2021's Spider-Man No Way Home, with Tom Holland's Peter Parker, erases identity from the world, leading his girlfriend and best friend to forget her.

that he even exists. So apparently Spider-Man 4 is going to hit theaters in July of 2026. Let me ask you guys a question because I know you guys are all huge fans of that. But, um...

I felt a certain way at the end of that movie that only rivaled how I felt with Tony Stark's death at the end of Endgame. You're talking about No Way Home? No Way Home. The guy who lost his tech and his friends? Especially when he lost his friends and he goes into the diner or whatever at the end of the movie and he...

Maybe try... He sees the cut on MJ's head and realizes he's only going to have a world of hurt for them if he replicates what he did before. Right. Which is the right move to make. And it's an adult move. It's what a hero would make. Yeah, I love it. I think it's a great end to the film. But even still, like, man, it really, at this point, however many years later, it cuts so deep. Well, it does. He walks out with his coffee and his kebab and he's...

It's Ka-Robert. Ka-Robert. All right. So we now know when the sequel to this is Spinal Tap will drop. Spinal Tap 2 The End Continues will hit theaters on September 12th. So it's going to be a fall release. Christopher Guest, Michael McKeon, Harry Shearer will all reprise their roles in the sequel. And Elton John, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, and Trisha Yearwood are all making cameos in it.

That's Not All. The indie studio also has the rights to the original film, and they'll be releasing a newly restored version of the original in theaters this summer as well. Have you seen it recently? Not in a long time. That movie never ages. It is always as sharp as ever. Love it. And it's just a master class in...

in the pregnant pause. Yes. We'll have to ask our buddy John Brazier who works with the Phils and he'll be here in a little bit. It's one of his favorite movies of all time and he got to walk around with Rob Reiner at the ballpark because Rob's a huge baseball fan. Yep. All right, so we finally have a look at the trailer for Apple TV Plus' upcoming drama series Your Friends and Neighbors. The show has already been renewed for a second season. It stars Jon Hamm.

as a former hedge fund manager who steals from his neighbors and discovers their secrets as does so. And Amanda Peete is in it, Olivia Munn. There's a bunch of good names in this show, and the show is going to premiere April 11th, so there's a trailer out for that if you want to see that. This is a new show or a returning show? It's season two. Yeah, it says season two, second season. No, I think the first season is about to air, but it's already been renewed. Oh, okay, yeah.

They're actually doing a new thing. They're debuting with the second season. Well, speaking of second season, Kathy, Netflix might not be done with The Perfect Couple just yet. Oh, okay. Liam Schreiber and Nicole Kidman. Yeah, the book, the Ellen Hildebrand book. Yeah, so they're working on a second season, and the second season will apparently be based on Ellen Hildebrand's other novel from the Nantucket series. It's called Swan Song, and this means the project would take the series...

in an anthology direction with a whole new cast and story every single time. So kind of like White Lotus and maybe there's going to be ties. I don't know. All of her books are based in Nantucket. Everybody's in Nantucket. It's funny because I love her. I think she's a great author. I read a lot of her books and I tried to read Swam Song and I got like a quarter of the way through and I was like, I am not

enjoying this. I put it down. Not that it means it's not going to be a good movie. Are they all... Because that first one was a whodunit plot. Are they all like that? No, they're not all like that. There are some of them, but no, they're not all like that. They're basically...

They're all just this, you know, she paints this picture of Nantucket, which is gorgeous. And wealth and all that. Yes, and all of that. And she, I think I've told you before, she's from Oaks, Pennsylvania. So she, in most of her books, she references the Philadelphia area. Oh, cool. Nice. So, Kathy, were you watching White Lotus on the plane yesterday? I was, yes. On your phone? I was, yeah. She was adorable. And then she got all sleepy and she curled up. Aw.

So this means that the project, back to this swan song, would take the series in the anthology direction, like I said. And writer and director, producer Joanna Callow is poorly attached to the project in addition to show running. But Netflix hasn't officially given it the green light as of yet. And no word on casting. But if it's anything like The Perfect Couple, like I said, Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber and a bunch of others were in it, it should be a star-studded lineup.

Like its predecessor, Swan Song is set in Nantucket, like Kathy said. But this time, the drama...

The drama revolves around the enigmatic Richardson family. They move into a lavish $22 million summer home, throwing extravagant parties and stirring up intrigue among the locals. But when their house burns to the ground and the most essential employee goes missing, the entire island is up in arms. Isn't there a part of the story where they hire the Three Stooges to do some plumbing? I...

Things go awry. It's possible. I don't really know, Steve. You know what? Yes. Yeah. I'm going to go with yes. The Three Stooges make a show. It's really kind of a plot tangent, but it's interesting. I like that they're doing this, though, that they're making some of these types of books into movies. Yeah. I would like to see them start doing greeting cards into Netflix films. It's always very inspiring. No, because, listen, White Lotus...

and the perfect couple. It's got a vibe. There's luxury, and there's corruption, and strange but interesting people. So this should be pretty cool. I think it's a good formula. All right, Joey Tribbiani.

is back in the spotlight as the Friends spinoff, Joey, is finally available to stream. The official Friends YouTube channel just dropped the first two episodes. Morgan, the first time the show has actually been online since it originally aired, dude, 20 years ago. Wow. Just months after Friends ended its 10-season run. You know, that show was not bad. It was actually pretty good. The problem is when you have a character like that, he works best as a supporting character. Totally. Yeah.

I mean, because, you know, he's goofy, dumb, adorable, but that can't be the main character all the time. Because you need that character. If it's going to be a main character, you need them to, like, evolve. Right. And when you're the side, the secondary or whatever, you can still... If they had done, like, a Flowers for Algernon thing and made him brilliant. Yeah. But you know what they did with Frasier, Steve, is that they surrounded Kelsey Grammer with other great actors and characters. Yes.

Frasier was able to live on for a long, long time. Joey just didn't have that. Yeah, so the series obviously followed Matt LeBlanc's beloved character moving to Los Angeles to chase his acting dreams. Originally debuted in 2004, but was canceled after two seasons. According to the co-creator Kevin S. Bright, he said Joey was deconstructed to be a guy who couldn't get a job and couldn't ask a girl out. And he said about the show's downfall, he said, I felt he was moving in the wrong direction and

There's no word yet if the rest of the seasons will find their way onto YouTube or Max, where Friends currently lives, but they're giving this one a shot. Why not? It's sitting there. All right. I believe we have clips to play. All right. Ryan Shuttleworth is running things back at the studio. The great one. So we appreciate Ryan doing this for us. So we're going to go with this one first. Creator, and we don't have a regular drum roll here in Clearwater. Completely different timpani.

Creator and writer of Invincible, Robert Kirkman, has been writing the comic for over 20 years. This is not the story of Vince Papala. No, no, no. So in this clip, he talks about how keeping the story fresh, how he keeps the story fresh for the show. Hit it, Ryan. You know, it does seem like one long job for me.

We're telling the same story again, but like Simon says, we get in there and we dress things up. We change things. We truncate things. We expand things. It's finally getting around to writing a second draft. Shut up, Demi. The season three finale of Invincible premieres today on Prime Video. So you guys are watching it? It's so good. My son turned me on to it, and it's dark. It's kind of like the boys in cartoon form, but it's like a world where superheroes exist.

and how does humanity respond to that all right next clip here we go the star of reacher alan richson is known to be a strong guy and in this clip he talks about finding someone even bigger than him to be cast in the show let's go ryan i was scrolling reddit and i saw this post where somebody was just following him at a comic-con and it was like he was like almost comedically large

And so I reached out to Nick Santora, our showrunner, and I was like, dude, I think we may have just found our poly. Dude, a new episode of Reacher is streaming on Prime Video. I mean... So that has started. Enjoying it very much, Preston. You know how big he is. Yeah. This guy is like twice his size. I think he's literally acknowledged by Guinness as the world's largest bodybuilder. Whoa. Yeah. All right. Um...

How are they parsing this out? Is it episode by episode? Yes. They give you like the first three. So I thought they had dumped everything and were zipping along and like, I just keep going. But yeah, they're doing, they're doing. And in fact, the new one drops, I think tonight, as you said, right? Okay. All right, cool. So I'll, I'll give it a couple.

weeks and then also diving in on that. That show's great. And again, the thing about him is his reliable badassery. I mean, you know he's... Without question. There's a scene, it's very funny, he's coming out of he's been swimming and he's just wearing his underwear and this cop is helping this female cop and she's walking up to her and she just goes...

F me. Yeah. Yeah. He's awesome. All right. And that's the last bit of the entertainment report for this Thursday morning. We, if you're just tuning in, are in Florida. We're broadcasting live and we are at Baycare Ballpark. We're sitting in our regular spot right here at the bullpen, which, by the way, so I was looking around and I'm like,

I'm like, this stuff looks different. It looks slightly different. I thought these standing shelves in front of us, these ledges were new, but Marissa and Casey said, no, those have been here forever. What do you think it is? Well, so I was talking to Rodney. After the hurricanes came through, this place got damaged.

And so they had to do a lot of upgrades. So that's why you kind of see fresh colors and some railings. And there's a whole section behind the ballpark that's new as far as like their dining area for the team members. And I thought it looked, I thought it had a sheen to it, a nice, not a Charlie sheen. Yeah.

But a nice shine to it. I think they've updated things quite a bit. So the ballpark is even more glorious. And we're just waiting for the sun to show its face. 40 minutes. 40 minutes till sunrise? Yes. Wow, look at you. How did you know that right off the top of your head? Because I'm freezing, so I looked it up.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thank you very much, Kathy. So we're sitting in a regular spot right next to this amazing spot called Frenchies. It's a tiki bar that's out in the outfield here at Baycare Park. And we are adjacent to...

The bullpen. It's such a beautiful ballpark, and it's a great place to see a game because you are so much closer to the players than the big league parks. Talking about franchise precedent, it's very telling of the experience that you'll get here, which is such an intimate one. There is a mesh net on the other side to catch the balls that are knocked over into the area. It's a home run ball. And people, Steve, will hang out at that bar and stop.

paying attention to the ball game after the second or third inning, if they've even paid attention in the first couple innings. So it's not an uncommon problem for balls to fly out towards Frenchies. Do we have any idea what the distances are? And do they compare to Central Bank Park? I'm not really sure. I think that when they built it, Preston, that they wanted the dimensions to be as close to the ballpark as possible. It looks like it's, does that say 320 over there in the...

Right field pole. So what's the longest distance at Citizens Bank Park? 409 to left center, which they renamed men in honor of... Kebab. Karabert Alley. Karabert Alley, yeah. For those who missed it...

Kathy was talking about kebabs in a story, and Casey said, yeah, when you go to a fancy restaurant, they're called Ka-Roberts. Yeah, exactly. So we will be referring to that all day. All day and for the rest of our lives. Yes, yes. Hey, he just got back from Italy. I just got back, guys. That's his excuse. All right, so we're awaiting our first guest, and so we'll just kind of hang out until then and chat about whatnot. Oh, here's something I found out. Travel tip.

If you happen to be leaving and you need identification, make sure you check and see that it's not expired.

We are... That blew my mind because, you know, that's something... Well, explain what happened. So we got to the airport here in Florida, in Tampa, and we were going to go get our rental cars. And so we're pulling up, and I was going to drive. Nick had the... We had two rental cars, and I pull up behind Nick after he had checked in, and they let him know that, you know, us, the people behind Nick, were with them, the same group. So I pull up, and the guy's like, okay, you're all set to go, except for...

To me, your driver's license is expired. And I'm like, you what? By the way, there was sort of a meticulous thing that had to take place because this was a corporate arrangement and we had to be sort of intended to Nick and make sure everything was cleared. And we cleared all those processes and we're sitting there. And so we're ready to go. And the last thing he goes, your license expired. And look on your face.

Because that's something you don't... You're not always looking at your license and you don't... No. I don't... Hey, that's what my wife pays attention to. Yeah. I don't pay attention to that stuff. Right, right. And so my first reaction, though, I turn to Kathy. I'm like...

How am I going to get back home? How did I get through security? How did I get on the plane in the first place? And fortunately, Kathy looked it up and found out that you have a year after it expires to use it as an identification with TSA, right? Yeah, it says you can use an expired license as long as it's within a year. That kind of blew my mind that something could be expired and they would still accept it. Yeah. Yeah.

So anyhow, that was just one of the little things that happened. And you had a key of coke on you, too. Listen, I didn't want to tell anybody about that. No, so we made it with a few bumps along the way, and that was one of them. But listen, forget all that. Yes. We've got a friend who's here before us in our microphone, and he's become a regular guest on the program when we are broadcasting from Clearwater. Ladies and gentlemen, the great Larry Boa.

Right in front of us. Good morning, Larry. Good morning. Good morning. Good to see you again. Can we call you the new star of the PGA? No, no. That was last year. I know, right? I assume since then. The clubs didn't work too good this year. Oh, really? No. If you don't remember the story, Larry got his first ace, a hole-in-one, last year at spring training. That was amazing. And then this year, everyone says, oh, I got Larry on my team. We should do all right. And I went...

It wasn't very good. It's an unforgiving sport, isn't it? It is. It is. And you think with that ball being still that you could hit it. Right. Because when you're playing, it's going 98. Yeah. You're trying to find out, but it didn't happen this year. Oh, that's too bad. Did you guys have a group outing? We did. We have that. Of course, John Middleton does that every year for us. Yeah.

Guys that have never been with the Phillies, this is their first year here. They can't believe how great an organization this is. Yeah. With John and Dave Dombrowski. Yeah.

We've just got to win a few more games. We've been short the last three years. We're there, but we haven't gotten over the hump. Hopefully this year, that will motivate us a little bit. There's a lot of good teams in this league. Yeah, yeah. A lot of really good teams. Actually, a little later this morning, we're meeting Jordan Romano. We've not met him yet, and he's a new addition to the team. Have you had any time with him yet? Yeah, Jordan's ready to go. He came off injury last year. He's been pitching very well this year.

this spring. And, you know, that gives you that experience at the back end of the bullpen. I do think that this team is motivated a little bit more. I don't know. People say, how can it be when you come up short two or three years in a row, you start to realize the window doesn't stay open that long. And we got a bunch of guys that are still right there. And I think

Barring injuries, you know, injuries are very important. You see the Yankees, they lose two starters already. Yeah, it's wild. If we can stay injury-free, I think we have a chance to be very successful. Let me ask you to that point, and with the injuries and all that stuff, and this is something that I've been reading about, do you believe that a substantial amount of this process, Larry, is really...

solidifying the camaraderie with the team and, and like the, the golf and, and, and the, the ability to just get along and, and, and draw inspiration from each other. Is that a major aspect of spring training as well? No question. I, you know, I really believe when you have guys that combine and play together and they, they like literally like each other down there in the clubhouse, that goes a long way. You know, I, I really think that, uh,

You're with the baseball team more than you are with your family, if you think about it. I mean, you start in February, and if you do happen to get to the World Series, you're talking about all the way until middle, end of October. And if you don't get along, those little things show up. We call them warts. The warts come up. The last couple of years, I know Rob Thompson does a great job as a manager. Their coaching staff's great. But we have a bunch of guys down there that are veterans that...

the cohesiveness, they keep that together. And when these kids come over from the minor leagues, they blend right in. They feel like they're wanted. You know, a lot of times you go into a clubhouse and the veterans...

make the kids pay your dues. They shun them a little bit. These guys, they let everybody come in. They greet them with open arms. And I think that has a lot to do with our success. And you're going to start seeing the rewards in the minor leagues, too. We've got some good kids down there. Nice. Larry, when you were playing, who did you hate the most on your team? Cup. Wow. We played on a few different teams. I didn't hate anybody, but...

Jay Johnson I really like, but he always was a jokester. And his timing sometimes wouldn't be real good. Like, we'd lose three or four games in a row, and he'd come in and...

I got my attention. I said, hey, Jay, I love what you do, but we need to win some games. But I didn't hate him. Did you ever key his car? No, no, I never did. Larry, so you mentioned being a prankster. Did you ever get the hot foot in your career? Yeah, I did by Tug McGraw. Really? Wait, what's the hot foot again? So they literally take a pack of matches when I was coaching and stick them on your shoe and light them on fire. Right when you go out, you're running out and

And then all of a sudden you get down by 30. Exactly.

And then you look in the dugout and Tug, he was early in the game because he's usually down the bullpen. He's over there cracking up because I got you. Because I told him one time, I said, you can do all that stuff in the dugout and the clubhouse. Don't do it when I'm going out to coach third. That's what he did. That was motivation for Tug. What was the most creative prank you ever saw? The most creative prank on a player? It wasn't a prank. It was something a guy did. It was bad.

Back in the day, there was a guy named Roger Freed who was a big power hitter. And Frank Lucchese, who was our manager at that time, had him pinch hit. And, of course, in the ninth inning, he pinch hits. Eighth inning. It was the eighth inning. He pinch hits. Gets a base hit. Eventually scores. Now, when he pinched hit, usually he was done for the game. So he pinched hit. We happened to bat around. And he was on deck again. And everyone said, where's Roger?

Somebody went up. He was in the sauna eating pizza. He got a base hit. He thought he was out of the game. Oh, my God. He had to put his pants on. Oh, my God. It was unbelievable. He came out like, are you kidding me? We batted around.

but I'll never forget that because this guy, he had a lot of fun. He did a good job for us as a pinch hitter. He wasn't an everyday player, but when that happened, I went, oh my God. That's what I was learning. Larry, I know you've got a million stories, but I was told one yesterday that I'd never heard before, and the

punchline to this story is something that Preston is going to love. Okay. So tell us about your first game and what happened and who you faced in that game. First of all, coming from Sacramento, California, that's where I was born and raised. Never been out of California. Philly signed me. I go to spring training and I didn't get drafted by anybody. I didn't get a big bonus. So I was just trying to make the team and

I was playing for Spartanburg, South Carolina. The manager was Bob Willman. And I had a real good spring. And he said, you're the starting shortstop. And I went, wow. Coming from Sacramento, not drafted, didn't play high school, got cut. I said, this is great.

So I go to Spartanburg, and the very first game, I get up four times. The one thing I could do, I put the ball in play. I didn't strike out a lot. So I struck out four straight times. And I'm sitting in my locker. I can remember this like it was yesterday. And my head's down, and Bob Wellman puts his arm on me. He says, you all right? And I says, I called him Skipper. I said, Skipper, if professional baseball is like this, you guys might as well give me a ticket back to Sacramento. I said, I had no chance tonight.

And he puts his arm, you know, he's tapped me. So this guy's going to be special. He's going to be special. And I'm thinking, you know, the manager's doing what he's supposed to. He's trying to be positive with me. Hang in there. Things will get better.

He said, this guy's going to be a great pitcher. And it turned out to be Nolan Ryan. Oh. I went, wow. But I did get even with Nolan because in 80, I got the hit that started the inning that eventually led us to get to the World Series. So payback, it took a long time. But you got it. But I finally got even with him. Just real quick. In 1980, that's when I became a real baseball fan. It was because of that team. And it was because of the comeback to get to the World Series. The Phillies...

Didn't make it in 76, 77, and 78. And then in 80, you guys get over the hump in probably the greatest NLCS of all time. Five-game series. All of them extra innings. All of them extra innings. Yeah, and back and forth. The Astros were a great team with Nolan Ryan. And then you guys got over the hump that year. Do you see parallels with that 80 team? I do. I try to explain that to these guys. You know, we came up short three years in a row.

The one difference is that Rooley Carpenter, who was our owner at that time, a great owner, a great owner, and he was really close to us. We literally had a meeting before spring training, and he told us, he says, guys, I love every one of you guys like you're my sons, but if we don't get to the World Series this year, I'm going to have to break this team up. And he planted that seed early, and we started thinking about it. You know, he's got a point. You know, we've come up short, short, short.

And eventually we got over the hump. But I try to remind these guys, three years in a row we did the same thing. And hopefully this can happen to this team this year because we need another parade. I know the Eagles just had one. Congratulations to the Eagles. But we need another one with a baseball team. And if we can stay healthy, I see good things down the road. Do you see a parallel with the Eagles? I do. I mean, to me...

It seems sort of hand-in-hand with what they went through. There's no question. And you know, in 80, I'm sure people know that, and the listeners know, a lot of them do. I know it was a long time ago. But every team got to the finals. We were the only team to win it all, but every other team got to the end. And they didn't get it done. So when you get teams that...

that win a lot, it does a lot for the city, man. Invigorates the city. Everybody likes each other. Nobody honks their horn at you. You know, so the city feels the vibe. When things start happening positive on professional sports teams, the city gets a good vibe. Yeah, and I was just talking about this with my friend Brian, who was at the 80, when you guys won in 80, and he went with his father. And he's like, you know, it's the longest...

lasting memory of that. It's going to be with him forever and ever, and it's something that he wants...

to do with his son as well. And so I don't necessarily think that that's what you guys think about when you're out there on the field. You guys are out there to accomplish a goal. But the collateral effect of that is the collective memories that you're creating for these families, which is cool. No question. That's a great point because I didn't realize how big it was until we were in the parade. And you saw tears running down people's faces. They're saying...

I wish my dad would have been here. My grandfather watched all the games. He wasn't able to be here. He's watching this from above. It does. It affects everybody. You know what's funny about this guy, Brian? He does this with his father in 1980. In 2008, he was given a ticket. He gets to the game. His wife drops him off. His son was in the car with him. He drops him off. He goes to get his ticket. The person that was with him

had two tickets. He goes, here, take two tickets. And so he calls his wife. He's like, you got to come back. She's like, I can't, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And long story short, it ended up being a two-part game and he ended up giving the ticket away to some rando on the street on Patterson Avenue somewhere. And he could have

use that ticket for part two. That was the game where it was rained out for like three days. That's when we beat Tampa Bay, right? Yeah. And he could have. And so he's like, please, just, you know, for my friend Brian and his son, can you please get it and bring the championship home so he can have that memory. We'll make a lot of people happy if we can have another parade in October. What's the biggest difference at spring training for the players than when you played? I think

I think in particular this year, you know, there's so much into the technical stuff now. Okay. You have so much the analytic people. There's a lot of good analytics. Don't get me wrong. And I believe I'm old school. And there's some of it maybe I wouldn't like, but...

I wish we had a lot of this stuff. Can it get in the way now and then? It can if you let it. I think down below, when these kids first sign, sometimes I think, this is just me, that we give them too much info right away. And as you progress through the system and we figure out who our prospects are, you give them more information. I think that's a big difference. Another difference here this year...

Basically, this team is picked. We've got two, maybe three spots open. So guys go about their business a little bit different. The veterans know that they're going to be the starters, and there's a big-time job for the three extra guys that we're going to carry. Oh, but not a lot of competition to make the big league squad? And I think sometimes that eases guys' minds a little bit. Oh, I can relax. I'll take my time getting ready.

But this is a pretty good base. I mean, if you take a look at our team, we have an all-star catcher. He's made the all-star team. Of course, the first base was made the all-star team. The shortstops made the all-star team. Bones made the all-star team. We got guys at every position. Schwarber's made it. Castellanos has made it.

We've got all-stars everywhere. Pitchers, Wheeler, Nola. Again, it's a matter of health and a matter of getting the job done in October. We just have come up short. Whether it be a pitch called, a play we didn't make, a guy not getting a hit, or a pitch hanging a breaking ball. Little things. And, you know, we've got to get over that hump. What are your feelings on, speaking of pitches not being called properly, Robo-Ump's?

I'm not in on it yet. I'll say that. Okay. The biggest thing I like is the pitch clock that they've incorporated. Maybe I'll get used to this, but I see a lot of guys shaking their heads, mostly hitters. Yeah. I wouldn't want to be an umpire right now. No, no. They put that box up and people don't understand that.

The angles sometimes from the camera are different. Everyone says, oh, he missed that pitch. So not only do they have to watch 200 and some pitches a game, after the game they go behind in the clubhouse and the people that are judging them, he has to go over every pitch again. Oh, really? And I think if you take that box away, it would alleviate some of the...

I don't know, differences that people have with umpires. Again, technology can assist, but it can also cause issues. Would a younger Larry Boa playing, would you be accepting to the things that would come down as far as modifications to gameplay? Or was the reflexive response, what the hell are they doing? No, some of the stuff I like. I don't like the fact you can't break up a double play anymore. Yeah. That was, I mean, we used to...

pick ourselves up in left field. These guys tried to literally come in and knock you out. Now if you touch a shortstop or second baseman, it's an automatic double play. And I don't like the collisions at home plate. They said...

You can't touch the catcher. You've got to have a lane. If a catcher wants to block home plate, let him block it. That's my philosophy. But the other stuff, I like the shift rule, the no shift rule. I think that's good. I don't like the idea if you throw over the first twice and you do it again, it's a balk if you don't get him. I'm not in on that. And I definitely don't like...

A man on second in the 10th inning. Let's play the game and see who wins. Larry, there's on my Instagram feed, for some reason I've gotten into where it is...

It's showing me classic baseball games and moments when managers get in the face of umpires. And some of them are mic'd up and ones that I've never heard before. And there's some really good ones like Joe Torre going out. And finally you can hear what they're saying. I mean, you have an idea of what's going on. I would have loved to have been able to hear what George Brett was saying when they called the pine tar off. Oh, my God. Yeah.

That was a good one. Yeah, that was a really good one. I don't think I've ever seen a more angry face than I've ever seen. Was that 1980? Was that the same year you guys played him in the World Series? No, I think it was either the year after or the year before. Because when we played him, he didn't do it. He had the so-called hemorrhoid series. Yes, hemorrhoids. Absolutely. But when that's happening, how in the dugout is everybody...

Are all eyes on what's going on when the manager is getting in with the ump? Usually. Not all the time. Usually a manager will go out and he knows he's going to get ejected from the game because maybe the team's playing flat. Maybe you're in a five or six game losing streak, so you try to ignite the dugout a little bit. I mean, not all the time, but...

Most of the time, it's premeditated. Okay, yeah. And you don't want to know the words that you say. Right. There's always one word that no matter what, you can be really calm. But if you fire the one word out, you're gone. It always sounds good. And you know it. You know before it comes out, you know, okay, I'm going to say this. There we go. And you'll be gone. Yeah. It seems to me that sometimes that process, that they're sort of laying on the sword a little bit to show the players that,

That you care. That you care. Right. And would you agree that more often than not, that's the maneuver? Yeah, there's no question. You know, maybe the team's down a little bit. We lost a couple close games, gave away a game, and you look in the dugout and there's this sort of like nonchalant, and you say, you know what?

I need to get this thing going a little bit. It's hard now because if you think about it, you can't argue balls and strikes because they go to New York. They have replays on the bases. They go to New York. So it's really hard to get kicked out of a game unless you're hot for them. You can go out on balls and strikes. That's automatic. If you go out and argue balls and strikes, you're gone. So if you really want to get kicked out, I guess you'd wait until...

An umpire screws up some balls and strikes. I have a two-part question. You and Charlie Manuel, both managers for the Phils, who got tossed out more of games and

When Charlie Manuel would get angry, could you understand a word that he said? I could fill in the blanks with Charlie. I know where he's going with it. Okay. But in reference to who got thrown out, I don't even think it's close. I think I did. Charlie gets upset, but I don't think he gets as upset as I did. What if you had like a family commitment? Would you get yourself thrown out? Yeah. Like, I got to

me at this wedding. That's not a bad idea. I've got to be somewhere in about an hour. Let me go out here and see if I can remember one game in Florida. It was Eric Gregg. It was a sunny day. It was hot. It was in August. I mean, sweat coming down everybody. Definitely, we weren't playing good.

And I went out and argued with him about a call or something. And he looked at me and he says, Bo, he says, if I got to be out here in this heat, so are you. You can scream at me all you want. You can throw the four-letter word out there. He says, you're staying here as long as I'm here. He was not going to do it. Okay, I got you. That's funny. Larry, do you live down here now? I have a condo down here, but I'm still in Philly. I come down here occasionally.

Of course, I come down early for spring training. Then I have to come down and watch our minor league team here for a week. So I'll come down in the middle. You know, I remember the first year that we came here to do this live broadcast and we looked out over the field. We can see guys walking out there right now. And I remember looking out for the first time and I saw like there's like 50, 60 guys wearing uniforms. I'm like.

Damn, the team has expanded here. And I didn't realize that the minor leaguers were here as well. You know, and it's wild because I see the comparison. I'll see these guys working out over here. And then I'll see the guys in the show over here doing their thing. And you sometimes forget.

how many people there are in the world of organized baseball that don't get to the dance. A lot. And it's amazing to me, you know, the level of talent that you have to notch up to make it to the, and the difference between the two. I agree. You take a look at our 80 team, and we had Schmitty at third, I was at short, Manny Trio was at second, Pete Rose was at first. And if you're in our minor league system,

You know, you have to be, to me, to get to the big leagues, you obviously have to be good, but you have to be lucky. You have to be in the right place at the right time. When I came up, the Phillies were rebuilding. They knew they weren't going to win. They were going to go with young guys. And if it was a team when I came up that was supposed to win, I might have never played in the big leagues. I might not have got an opportunity. So guys, they get caught up in it a little bit because they look at this team now. There's not a lot of openings here. But I try to tell them every day you take the field,

When the season starts here, there's 20, 30 scouts watching you. So you might not play for the Phillies, but you might get the attention of other scouts on other teams. So it's a selfish situation, but you've got to think about, hey, I've got to impress other people besides the Phillies. Again, I wouldn't want to be a minor leaguer right now with this team because –

It's solidified. Every position is solidified, really. And you've got some young guys, too. Yeah, we do. We've got some good kids coming up. But there's a couple guys that are free agents this year. We have to make decisions on JT and Schwab. And those are going to be tough calls by the front office. And I guess that's why they get paid all that money to make these calls. Yeah.

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out. As an old school guy, what are your thoughts on the Savannah Bananas? You know what? I think it's very entertaining. I really do. Do you think it's good for the sport as a whole? Especially young kids. Yeah. You know, when kids are four and five, six years old, they...

boring sort of baseball sort of boring and the way the savannah bananas play they do all if you hit a foul ball and the fan catches that you're out yeah yeah i think it's very entertaining yeah i don't know if i'd want to watch it seven days a week let me ask are there any things of the way they play that you'd like to see incorporated into the act you know dance routines and whatnot yeah i don't i wouldn't be very good at that but if i have a couple guys that would be really good they're

They're here this weekend. Are they? Yeah, they're in Tampa. Oh, they're here? They're in Tampa. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, wow. Yeah, and they've been doing a good job of, you know, in each city that they play in, they'll bring back some of the superstars, the retired superstars. Oh, that's cool. And get them out and, you know, like sign them for a one-day concert. Shane Victorino did something with them a couple of years ago. We had at the Citizens Bank.

Yes. Ryan Howard. It was close to being sold out. Oh, it was huge. I was a little disappointed they didn't let Ryan hit the ball. They got, struck him out. I'm saying all these people are here to see Ryan Howard. Throw him one of those cookies where you just lob it in. The guy, he probably said, oh, Ryan Howard, let me try to get him out. Yeah. Yeah. Probably. They, we,

We talked to some of the players, and they were talking about how, you know, with the Savannah Bananas, that they are, you know, I mean, there's a bit of performance, but they still want to play the game. Yeah, it's very entertaining, believe me. Excellent. Well, listen, Larry, we're glad you had some time to come by and see us again. It's always great to catch up with you, but we're looking forward to, you know, being here and seeing this thing happen, and hopefully a great season. Yeah, and hopefully we have a parade. How long are you guys down for?

We're here to, well, some of us are here through the weekend. I'm sorry about the weather. Yeah, right? It's going to be nice. Thank you for coming by here, Larry. It's good to see you. You guys take care. Larry Bala! We're actually going to take a break right now because we have more guests joining us shortly. We'll come back. We'll get the bizarre file.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. Thanks, Kath. Okay, the plan was we were going to do a bizarre file, then we were going to have Jordan Romano, new closer for the team, on the program. But he's running a couple minutes late. There's some traffic issues. So what we're going to do is we'll just do the bizarre file here. We'll break him, we'll come back, and then we'll get Jordan on as well as the other guys. So let's get right into it, Ryan. Let's fire this thing up. Let's do the B-file.

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was arrested and charged last week after allegations that she mutilated the corpse of a registered sex offender. I know. And even law enforcement is kind of like that quoted in this story. So the allegations were outlined in a complaint letter from the Texas Funeral Service Commission accusing 34-year-old Amber Page, Amber Page-Lautermilk,

of mutilating the corpse with a scalpel and threatening other employees to not say anything. They're threatening the other employees, but these scalpels... So...

Yeah, I know. A probable cause of the affidavit alleges that Laudermilk stabbed the body of Charles Roy Rodriguez and mutilated his genitals with a scalpel. She cut his Johnson off. Yeah. Is what she did. Rodriguez died in a Houston hospital in January of natural causes. The alleged incident happened at Memorial Mortuary and Crematory. So Constable Alan Rosen...

said in a statement, this case is about two troubled people, the victim, who was a registered sex offender, and the defendant, who was accused of viciously attacking his dead body. No matter what one thinks of his life, the law requires that he be treated with dignity in death. Which is true. Watermilk was allegedly in the presence of an embalming student during the incident and threatened the student to not mention what they had seen. Hey, let's cut his nuts off. Okay.

What do you say? Come on. Don't be a pussy. Other employees who knew of the incident were scared to speak up. So Rosen said, I don't know of the suspects. Pass. Hey, lock the door. But we have the utmost empathy for anyone who has been the victim of a sexual assault or is the family or friend of someone.

who has been the victim of sexual assault. The facts clearly indicate that she was angry, and I hope after this is resolved in the courts that she gets the help she needs. Do you feel better now? So a warrant has been issued for her arrest. Yeah, that's a gray area. I know. I completely, I mean, you know, that's such a...

Horrible crime. Yep. Crimes. It's not a gray area. I mean, she broke the law. Yeah. But I probably wouldn't have said a word. Yeah. Yeah. So in Pennsylvania, in Chambersburg, police are looking for a man that they say broke into a person's apartment and hit the victim in the face with a frying pan.

Chambers... Luckily, I had a frying pan. Police said the attack happened on Valentine's Day. Wow. At an apartment. Don't you usually get flowers? The court document states, once a victim opened the door, three males forced their way into the residence, physically assaulted him by punching him in the face and head, and also striking him in the face with a frying pan.

The pan was observed with significant dents in it. Damn. Wow. Dents in the frying pan. Way to go. The victim suffered severe swelling and fractured cheekbone. Two of the three assailants were masked, according to investigators. And they said the unmasked man was identified as Abamil Alardin, and he has been arrested.

In York, Pennsylvania, a suspect who shot another woman also accidentally shot herself on Monday night on the street. Police said the women were arguing around 9.30 when the suspect identified a 53-year-old woman went to a vehicle to get a gun. She then shot the other woman. Police say that 33-year-old Autumn Real was shot in the shoulder and somehow the suspect also shot herself in the hand.

How the hell did I do that? As a paramedic was assisting the woman who was hit in the shoulder, Rial spit in the medic's face, too. Oh. So she's charged with aggravated assault and harassment. Why are you spitting in the face of the person who's trying to help you out? The two women knew each other, according to investigators, and so far police have not charged the woman who they say shot Rial. So I don't know what the hell is going on there.

So, all right. I'm pretty sure this took place in Philadelphia. A TSA officer patted a man down and felt something and asked if the man had something hidden. The man then reached down the front of his pants and he pulled out a live five-inch turtle that was wrapped in a small blue towel. I saw that. I saw that.

I saw the turtle. And it's not... It wasn't teeny tiny. No, it's a good size one. So the man told security personnel that the reptile was a red-eared slider turtle. The agency did not respond to questions about whether the man explained why he had the turtle in his pants. So I've heard of having crabs. Yeah, right? Port Authority police questioned the man and took the turtle. They say they plan to contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local animal control officers. Goddamn, my turtle hurts every time I piss.

The man missed his flight and was escorted out of the checkpoint by police, and it was unclear whether he is facing any charges.

Oh, this is pretty wild, man. So the body of a woman was caught in the nets of a fishing boat off the coast of Massachusetts last week. Officials now believe that she was someone who was buried at sea. Wait, you can do that? Yes, I did bury people at sea, but you have to have them wrapped up. Was the body just...

loose? No, no, but they caught it in a net. Wow. Wait, so you can dove a body in the sea? You can do a burial at sea. Yes, you can. I'm asking. Yeah, didn't they dump Bin Laden's body in sea? Didn't they do that? I don't know. Maybe you're a Navy SEAL, you can do what you want, but I mean, I think that...

Yeah, Kathy, you have to go through certain steps to make sure that it's approved. This is a game changer. I might want to go to sea. Really? Oh, I got to think about this. Okay. Yeah. So the fishing vessel caught the wrapped body with its nets about 40 miles off the coast Thursday night. Mermaid! The crew... We caught a mermaid! She's beautiful!

The crew returned to the Boston Fish Pier on Friday morning and they were met by U.S. Coast Guard and Massachusetts State Police who took custody of the remains. She doesn't look like Arielle because she doesn't have a jaw. The chief medical examiner found that the woman was in the 60-year-old range, had numerous cancerous tumors. That's not Arielle. And the

body had been embalmed and appeared consistent with the burial at sea, the office said, adding that there were no indications of foul play. Officials did not share any details on the circumstances of the woman's apparent burial, and they said we consider this manner non- suspicious and closed, and the woman is unlikely to, like, they're not even going to identify her. They're just...

I think it was catch and release, to be honest. Yeah. To tell you the truth. She was too small. I have a friend who lives in St. Thomas and she's lived on St. John for a bit, too, and there's not a lot of space to bury people. So burials at sea are really common for people that live in the Virgin Islands. And so I want to do the exact same thing. Kathy, you and me, we're going out together. So I would wonder, though, so for each country, for example, if you're doing it...

by United States protocol? Is there a way the body has to be prepared and wrapped? Probably. Not sure. What if you like water, but not like open water where sharks are? Could you be buried in a lake? In a pool? Or in a pool? You can pick a neighbor's pool. Who's that? That's my neighbor. He died about five years ago.

We use them as a water weenie. All right. That is all we have in the Bazaar File. I thought you guys might like that. Yeah, that's a wild one. All right. So we're taking a break. Is that what we're doing? Yes, sir. All right. When we return, we should have a nice line of guests that are going to be joining us. So we'll get our Phil's Players on when we return. We are at Spring Training, folks, in Clearwater, Florida. Just feels like we're in the Alps. It does. We'll be back in just a moment. Stay with us. We'll be right back.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you very much, Kat. So when we come to Clearwater, we have usually a couple things happen. We have some old friends come by. We have some new friends come by. We have a new one who we are meeting just now, and we would like to welcome to our microphone, ladies and gentlemen, he's a closer for the Philz, Mr. Jordan Romano. Hey!

Is joining us. How you doing, man? I'm good. Thanks for having me on. You got it. Now, we had debates back and forth about your last name because this is Kathy Romano, yet Romano is the pronunciation you go with. Yeah, you know, I'm Canadian, so in Canada we say it's a little different. So up there it's Romano, down here it's Romano. I've been down here so long I just kind of go with either one. Either one, you'll just answer two. Yeah, it's all good.

I saw you walking up and you're in shorts and a t-shirt. I was like, do you need a sweatshirt or something like that? You're like, no, I'm from Canada. This is nothing. Right. What parts of Canada? I'm just outside of Toronto. Okay. I ask that as if I know the geography of Canada. I know. I know. I know. But the main thing I know about Toronto is I'm a huge Rush fan. So, yeah. So, I know Getty and Alex and Neil. That was their home, their place. Did you play hockey at all? Oh, yeah. Played hockey up until I was 16. Yeah.

I don't know if I was tough enough, though. Was that a professional? Was that a possible career trajectory for you? You know what? No, probably not. When did you realize it wasn't going to be? Probably 15 when I didn't like going to practice in the morning. It was too cold. Early morning practice? Yeah. Before school, it's freezing. Man. Kathy's doing that now. Her son plays hockey. And the younger you are, the earlier practice times are. All right.

Yeah, it's early, it's late. He actually just got to play pond hockey for the first time because we had a really cold winter. And he kept saying, he actually said, can we move to Canada so I can play pond hockey? Like, we'll stay until it gets cold here. Yeah, so it was really cool. But I actually was pretty disappointed because...

Not that he's focusing on hockey. I love that he loves the sport. But this is the first year he's not playing baseball. And I love baseball. I love watching baseball. So I was a little disappointed that we're done with baseball. Yeah, hockey's fun too, though. Growing up, I actually had an ice rink in my backyard. Oh, cool. That was kind of cool, yeah. My dad would...

make one every year for us. So it was pretty awesome. Jordan, since our first time meeting you, just an introduction about us. Our radio program has been on in Philadelphia. We've now been in our 28th year of being a radio show. So we're not a sports show. We're more just kind of like a lifestyle show, but we are sports fans. So our questions aren't going to be

Too many X's and O's for you and stuff like that, just to give you a heads up on this. But I've always had a question about being a closer in that position in baseball. So unique amongst any other position in the game in that your performance is a short amount of time compared to some other players, you know, the regular field players and so on. Yeah.

How does one become a closer? Did you start off with that in mind when you started pitching first, or do you just kind of get out there and see what you're like and where they want to put you? Yeah, you know, coming up, like when you're in the bullpen, when you're a reliever, you want to be a closer. For most guys, you don't want to be the closer. It's kind of like, you know, it's the toughest spots usually. Yeah.

And yeah, you know, I was just pitching. And if you're pitching pretty well, usually you get put in that spot. And, you know, I was thrown in that spot and I was really happy. But then I realized how stressful it was. Yeah. I mean, it's like, dude, you got to bring us home. You know what I mean? It's on you. The implied statement is don't F this up. Yeah. And every time you play. And a lot of times it's like, you get one inning, dude. Yeah. And let's see what you got.

And let me ask you about that. What do you think would be a more successful way to close out a game? A three-pitch inning or a nine-pitch inning?

You know what I'm saying, right? Yeah, yeah. You know what? In that last inning, a crowd likes strikeouts. Yeah. You know what I mean? You're saying nine pitch inning? Yeah, they like strikeouts. It gets them fired up. So, yeah, nine pitches is good. All right. So, what's the fastest you've ever topped out at? 101. You average in the mid-90s, right? Yeah. I mean, that switches...

It's mind-blowing. How old were you when you first got into the 90 realm? I was probably 23, 24, so it took me some time. Everyone throws really hard now, a lot of 18-year-olds. But yeah, it took me a little while to kind of develop it. Were you a paper boy who was actually killing people? Yeah, I was pretty good in snowball fights growing up.

So what is baseball like in Canada? Because, you know, I had a friend of mine who his grandpa lived two doors down from me and he was from Winter Park, Florida. And it blew me away that he played baseball in December and in January. I was like that, like, because I love playing baseball. And like, I just don't like you're so lucky. But like,

Your window of ball playing is really, really small. What are your seasons like? Yeah, you know, so when I went to high school, we didn't have a team. Okay. Yeah, so, I mean, it's popular. It's growing, but it's not as big as hockey and some of the other sports. But it's a lot of indoors, a lot of indoor baseball. So, you know, growing up, I was at the facilities. It's snowing, freezing outside. You go indoors and work, so...

That's why I loved it when we got to travel down to places like here and you get to play outside. It's like, oh, it's December. We're outside. It's a big difference. I'm fascinated by the process of being a teenager who's probably one of the best in your high school despite the limitations of your high school and the ability to play. And then you get to like 18 and 19 and it starts to look like you have a shot at, if not the majors, certainly a role in the minors. And now you're 31. And I'm 49. Casey's 49. Looking back...

31 seems like a lifetime ago, but for you, it's like midway probably through your career, right? So what's your mental state when you reach late 20s, early 30s, as opposed to when you first make your way into the bigs?

I'll say one thing. You got to do a lot more for that body. Yeah. I'm sure. Once you... I noticed at 25 and then 30, you just got to do a lot more. A lot more Tim Hortons. Yeah, a ton more. But no, it's good. You know, I feel blessed. You know, 31, still playing. Honestly, when I was...

Playing at 16, 17, I thought I'd be done after college, you know? So, yeah, every day I get it. It's just kind of like a blessing. Just keep going. Just want to keep adding more days on it. But just keeping in shape. Now, you had a surgery early on. Was it Tommy John? Is that what they call it, this surgery? Yeah, so 10 years ago I had Tommy John. Actually, last July I had another elbow surgery. So every time with you, and this is your instrument, this is your everything, when you're told that, I mean...

Is it terrifying? Is it this is just the nature of the beast? How do you approach something like that when you get that news, especially with what you do, that you're going to have to go through that process? Yeah, you know, it's tough, right? I've been through a couple surgeries and you know, for the most part, you're going to get back. But yeah, it's what I've been doing for, you know, as long as I can remember now, it's all it's what my days revolve around is just throwing. So when they say you can't throw.

It's tough, you know. It's really tough. But, you know, luckily I had some good teammates, good trainers, coaches. You know, they kind of help you through that. But it's tough regardless. You know what? I'm not picking up. As I'm hearing you speak more, I'm not picking up a lot of Canadian delivery. I was thinking the same thing. And we've talked to a ton of hockey players over the years.

And, you know, yeah, it's kind of like this. You don't seem to have that pentameter. Yeah, well, I've been down here more or less for 10 years. And whenever the Canadian comes out, I get made fun of. You are Canadian friendly, which is, yes. So I kind of keep that under wraps because I'll hear it when it starts coming out. Or you go back home then and it just flies out. Oh, yeah. When I'm with my buddies back home, it starts going.

Nice. I do want to ask about Tommy John's because oftentimes people come back stronger after the Tommy John's. And people have often joked about getting it just so they can come back stronger, even if they didn't need that. Do you know anything about the biology behind it all? You know what? So I was one of those guys. I came back a little bit stronger. And I think it was for the most part you have one year where you're not throwing, so you could just –

Work every day. Strengthen your shoulders. Strengthen everything that was kind of lacking. So I think it's more that. You just have a year to work out, get stronger, and then your elbow's fine. And then you usually throw a little bit harder. Do you swim and stuff for your shoulders? You know what? I did swim a lot.

But then it was starting to hurt my shoulder. So no more. Because you're swimming in ice up in Canada. Yeah, I'm going to break through the ice. Hey, I wanted to ask about being a professional athlete because I got some information on here. And one of the things was standing out. I was looking at the contract that you signed.

I was raised to never discuss my salary with other people. You guys live with it completely transparent. And I know it's just part and parcel of doing this, but is that ever weird? People being in your business and knowing exactly what kind of money you make?

Yeah, it's definitely a little weird. You know, I think I'm kind of like a more low-key guy, you know, and it's super weird just things like, I remember I got a haircut a couple years ago and it was in the news. You know, I was like, this is crazy.

Well, was it a bad haircut? It was fine. It was fine. So just stuff like that. Tragedy struck us. Yeah, it's a little weird. You know, you just do like normal day-to-day things. And like, I don't know, people seem to, you know. But there will come a day when you'll get a haircut and no one will say anything. And then you'll go, hey. You know, I'm kind of waiting. It'd be refreshing. You know, you can just do what you want. It's a good thing when you have that sort of...

That level-headed approach. Like, you meet people who don't... They don't savor that aspect of it. The fame or the cameras or whatever constantly in your face. It's the love of the sport. So, as you go through your career, you're not going to be crestfallen when it goes away, right? I mean, that to me seems...

the proper way or at least the best way to go through an athletic career. You know what? I actually do think about that. I know this doesn't last forever, and it's easy to get kind of lost in it a little bit. You know what I mean? But, yeah, I mean, I feel like if you don't get so caught up in it, it'll be an easier transition when it's done. Do you turn to the older players and to people who, I mean, you're obviously along, but, I mean, the

it seems like you have a wealth of knowledge to draw upon about the, you know, the nature of the beast with like Larry Bowen, all these other players and Charlie and all these people around to give you their sage advice. Will you seek them out if you have issues? Yeah, for sure. I feel like that's kind of shaped me just talking to the older players. The guys have, you know, been there and done that. But another guy, I feel like that keeps me kind of ground is my brother. I have an older brother. So, yeah,

Whenever I'm thinking about doing something, purchasing something, I'll be like, hey, Chris, what do you think about this? He's like, don't do that, man. All right. What was the last thing he suggested you not purchase? I was trying to buy a nice car. You deserve a nice car. A little sports car. And he's like, no, man, just wait. You don't need that right now. He's like, you don't deserve it right now. Don't deserve it or don't need it. He's like, wait until you do something cool. You make it far in the playoffs world.

series. That's nice. He looks out for you then. Born and raised in Canada, you played for a Canadian team, but you have Italian heritage. Was that how you got to play for Team Italy in the World Baseball Classic? My grandparents, my aunts, and my dad, they were all born in Italy. It's three hours east of

East of Rome. Okay. I'm trying to think of a city. It's a little town. I literally just came from Italy yesterday. Really? Yeah, yeah. But I was all the way up north. He was hanging with your family. Okay, yeah. No, you know what? I still have family over there. I've actually never gotten a chance to go, but still have family over there. Yeah, a lot of families. I can tell you a hotel to not stay in. Do you have kids?

No, no kids. Just a dog. Just a dog right now. But real quick, when you find that out, is that a choice that you get to make because you wanted to play for Team Italy? Were you recruited by Team Canada? How does that process happen? You know what? Yeah. So I was in the minor leagues at the time and I just wanted to play for Team Italy. I thought it would be cool for my grandparents. They're very proud Italians and seeing me with the jersey on and made my dad really proud and then

crowd. So I just wanted to kind of like, you know, honor that side of the family and that heritage. So it was an awesome experience. We played in Mexico, won a couple games too. So it was pretty cool. Who was the toughest opponent in the World Baseball Classic? We faced Puerto Rico and they were nothing short of MLB All-Star team. Really? Yeah. Really? Yeah. I mean...

Carlos Correa, I remember, Lindor. So really good players. And I was out there. I was in the minor leagues at the time facing all these guys. It was quite a shock, but it was still fun. Did you hold your own? Yeah, I got pumped. Are you a U.S. resident?

I haven't... A citizen. I meant citizen. Sorry. No, no. Not a citizen. Not a citizen. Yeah, I was wondering, any of the professional teams, when you come from another country, if you eventually become a citizen. Yeah, you know what? I haven't thought too much about that, but no, not a citizen. I have a Florida driver's license, though. Okay. So you can drive? Yeah, I can drive down here. Did you set up in PA yet? Last kind of final stages of it. Okay. Looking for a rental house, but you know, when...

When they hear play for the Phillies, they want to boost it up a little bit. That's where keeping low key comes in handy. Just tell them you're my brother. Yeah. Kathy's got a rep in town. She's cool. She knows what's up. Her family is legendary for throwing their seed all over the country. Oh, my God. Actually, Kathy. Well, we could be related. You could be. Kathy's actual brother is a realtor. Yeah, he won't bump it up for you. You're like family. What?

What do you do for recreation outside? I mean, obviously, we were talking with Larry about his and the golf atmosphere that is pervasive down here. What are your other hobbies? What keeps you engaged when you're not playing baseball? Yeah, I like to, again, I like to golf down here. You know, a lot of buddies golf, and I like to play a lot of Call of Duty.

Oh, call the duty. Both Preston and I are playing Sniper Elite. It's a great game. Yeah, and I just like it. A bunch of guys that I've played with, a lot of my boys back home, my brother, we just all get on the mic and play. Okay, so you have large teams, large... Yeah, we have about 10 guys, and we know we rotate, you know,

Six or seven guys will be on every night. So we just get on and it's just catching up, you know, so it's pretty fun. Is your brother your only sibling? No, I have two younger sisters. Oh, okay. Anybody else athletic?

You know, my sisters were more smarts. They got the smarts. Okay. But I think that's so cool because my son will hop online and play with his friends. And, you know, especially for somebody like you who you're nowhere near where you grew up. But all the people that you know and love are, you know, thousands of miles away. And it's still a way that you can, you know, not only connect but like... Kill Nazis together. Yeah.

And who doesn't love to do that? Come on, man. Have you got any favorite spots in Philly that you've found yet? You know what? So I've only spent a few days in the city, actually. So, yeah, I'm just getting to, you know, I'm excited to go up there and learn the city a little bit. Nice. See what there is to do. When you're playing for Toronto, well, first of all, when you were playing for the Blue Jays, did you come and play in Philly at all? Did you have any away games? Yeah, we always played there two games a year. Right. And we'd always have an off day, so, you know, walk the city a little bit.

That was my question. Yeah. So, like, do you get to know other cities and outside of Philadelphia, Jordan, who now plays for the Philadelphia Phillies, what is your favorite city to play in? Ooh, favorite city. I honestly, I'm not even just saying this because I'm here. The favorite, my favorite ballpark in being there was Philly because it was so tough to play at. The fans, I mean, just electric. Yeah. Our bullpen, you know. Yeah. Our bullpen's right up there and we were getting worn out. So...

I was like, this is awesome. It'd be nice to be on the home side. I've heard, I forget who it was, and we've gotten a number of players and veteran players of various sports, Philadelphia sports have said it, that there's this notion that people who don't come here for fear of the fandom don't know what they're missing because...

If you're on their good side and if you're performing and you don't try to fake it, the benefits and the adulation and the warmth and the sincerity is unlike any other place. And John Kruk was saying... Do you know John Kruk at all? He does play-by-play. And he played for the Phillies for a long time. He was saying he felt bad for people that never got a chance to play in Philadelphia, ballplayers, because they're missing out. It is such... Look, when the plays...

when the team's playing well, uh, we embrace this team so strongly with so much love. And, um, it's just, it really is a wonderful atmosphere when they're not playing well. It's not as much of a wonderful atmosphere, but that's the same thing in every city, but it's just, I think it's more embraced when the team's playing well. And I think you'll feel it, you know? Yeah. That's, uh, that's kind of why I decided to come here. You know, uh,

At this point in the career, you know, I wanted that. I wanted that, you know, there's high expectations. I got that for myself. So I kind of want to experience that atmosphere, you know, on the home side. And you also heard you had a cousin in radio here. That's right. Listen, don't forget to put me on the family list for tickets this year. Excellent. Well, listen, Jordan, we're looking forward to the game today. We're looking forward to a great season. And it's really nice to meet you, man. Thanks for sparing some time and coming by here with us. Yeah, nice to meet y'all.

You got it, man. All right, let's hear it for Jordan Romano, guys. Thank you for being here. What are we doing next? I don't even know. Things have shifted here a little bit. So our buddy Brandon Marsh is working his way up. So Jordan, don't tackle him on his way here. And then so we're going to chat with Brandon for about 15 minutes or so. And then we will have Garrett Stubbs immediately after Brandon Marsh. There'll be a little crossover from those guys. Do we need to take a break or are we going to hang until he gets here, do you think? Chris, how much time for Brandon?

30 seconds. We will keep going. All right. We'll let Jordan get on your way. I'd love to get a picture with you, but we're live on the air right now. Okay. Let's yeah. Yeah. We're going to do this risk it over here. Yeah. Jordan, can you come back here? If those of you who are on the radio, just bear with us for a moment as take a picture. We want to get up and this is a family reunion for Kathy. We got to have you go in the middle. You know what? You're right, Steve. You got to get next year. This doesn't happen often. You get a family reunion like this. All right. Here we go. Smile, everyone.

We are smiling. We are smiling on the red. Excellent. All right. Thanks, Martin. We're dancing. Have a great season, brother. How tall are you, by the way? 6'5". 6'5". Big dude. Excellent. All right. So, yeah, Brandon Marsh is going to be coming up here in just a moment, which is really, really cool. And fortunately, we've had a chance to spend some time with him before. Well, we have a moment present. Let's send some love Philly sports trips away because a lot of what...

We're doing here this week is because of their generosity and their help. We'll be at Coco's North tomorrow. If you're going to come, by the way, that is open to the public. I get that question quite a bit. But our show will be free and open to the public. So swing by Coco's North in Clearwater Beach. And Philly Sports Trips is taking deposits for 2026. So if you're hearing this broadcast today, want to join us next year? You can put a deposit down for 2026. Preston, I just thought if we're at Coco's tomorrow and you get proofed your license is invalid.

If I get proofed? Yeah. Oh, you're going to get carded. Oh, if I get carded? Oh, man. Son of a bitch. Oh, my God. And you do look so young. You might. I know. I know. I know. Well, you know what? You guys just sneak me some food. I can get you a fake one. Yeah. Yeah, if I have to. You can get me in. There was a moment yesterday where we were trying to figure out what was going on with the rental cars, and Casey, you missed this because you hadn't landed yet, but

There were two white crossover SUVs. Preston and Kathy and Steve got in one. And then I got in one, a different rental car with my wife. So we were trying to coordinate. So I walked back down to where the two rental cars are. And I go up to the window of one of the white rental cars.

And there's a guy who's quite handsome, beard. And I was like, Preston, we're going to go this way. Not Preston at all. And we were watching him do it from the next car over. We're just sitting there looking at him. There's a crazy person at the window. Just let him go. Just let him go. I hear Kathy laughing. I'm like, oh, crap. Nick, step forward. Sorry. We're moving some stuff around right now as we go.

When we got here this morning, so we have some tents over this broadcast area, and apparently they caught a lot of condensation last night. Like crazy. And so they had to move the tents for the time being, so now we're scooting them back and getting them in place. Although I just want the sunlight. I don't care. I know. At this point, yeah, I'll take it for now, at least for the next hour or so as we're finally starting to warm up. Although a breeze is picking up.

But, you know, whatever. And, Kathy, you're blind. I can't see you. I was trying to ask a question. I thought you were pointing to me. I wasn't quite sure what was going on. Sorry about that. Brendan's walking over now, Preston. All right, cool. Here he is. Yeah, I see him, actually. So he'll get over here in a moment or two. And then, yeah, like Nick was saying, tomorrow morning we are broadcasting from Coco's and then –

The rest of the weekend, we're just kind of hanging out. Some of us are headed back, but some are going to stay for the weekend and spend a little time here. I can't wait to have... Last year, what's our friend's name who owns Cocos? Oh, Glenn. Glenn. Glenn Such, yeah. Yeah, Glenn was... Because I like tequila. You guys know that. And he makes his crushes with vodka. And he was like, oh, you like tequila? Yeah.

I'll make you one with tequila. It was early, so I just took a couple sips, but I think I'm going to have one tomorrow. All right. Yeah, they're advertising it now. Over here. Yeah. Tequila Crushes. I saw. Tequila Crushes? Yeah, he makes them with tequila. All right. I'm on board. All right. Somebody got swole over the... Our next guest is stepping up, looking all swole and hot this morning. The sun is coming up.

Ladies and gentlemen, Brandon Marsh has arrived. The sun hit me. You look beautiful. I tell you what, when you were walking up here, you resembled a UFC fighter walking into the octagon. I was like, who is this dude? Tell my man Cam down there that you just said that.

How you doing, man? It's good to see you. Doing great. Doing phenomenal. It's been a great spring thus far. How about you guys? We're hanging in there, man. We made it here in one piece, so we're happy about that. You guys look forward to getting down here, or is it like, ah, back to the ground? Back to work. No, so I love coming down here. So the off-season, I spend out in Arizona for the most part, Atlanta with my mom, but...

I love coming down and seeing the beach, getting a change of scenery. Because during the season, we really don't get out to too much. So it's always just... It is definitely a grind for you guys. 162 games before the postseason. Yeah. That's a lot. When do you first pick up a ball and actually throw? I mean, when is that first time that you'll do that motion? So the last couple of off-seasons, I haven't picked up a ball until, I'd say...

after Christmas, to be honest. Just let the arm rest. I feel like the arm, you can ramp it up. Not too quick, but fairly quick. We've heard over the course of years...

From athletes, and then the mindset has changed that you kind of maintain a base level of training all year round. So it's not a shock to the system. But you saying letting your arm rest, do you find that with baseball, that's something that has to happen for you to work properly as an athlete? Yeah, I can only speak for position players. Yeah.

pitchers, I feel like they're throwing the whole time. The whole time. I feel like these guys never stop just because they really can't. They get here and they're thrown into games like that and need to be 100%. Yeah, they would stand to reason. Position players, I think you do. You have the luxury to

you know, take a month, month and a half off of throwing and hitting as well. Just letting the back and body just rest from all the rotation and stuff like that. So, yeah, as a position player, I feel like you get a little bit more rest in the offseason. Pitchers are just nonstop. It's weird because we talk about

We'll do dumb things like, you know, Preston, you lean back to get something out of the backseat of the car. Something pulls. You're like, God damn. But with you, anything like that is... I mean, because you're in good shape and you stay at it, do you have those moments? I feel like most definitely. Everybody has moments like that. I just feel like just from all the work we do here, you know, sometimes the body gets super fatigued. Yeah. But...

Yeah, I wouldn't say nothing like big or... Like picking your nose and pulling out your bicep. Maybe the bottom half of your trachea. Right, right. It just gives me a headache. What the hell happened? Did I need that, Loogie? But definitely, definitely reaching back to the backseat. Yeah. Grabbing a phone charger or, you know, maybe a, I don't know, whatever, a bag of seeds or something, you know.

You might tweak a little something. Yeah, you don't want to keep the seeds on the passenger seat with you. Brandon, my nephew is named Luke. He's a ball player, and you are currently his favorite baseball player. Let's go. And so I told him we were going to see you, and he sent me 14 questions. We don't have to get to all of them, but there are some really good ones on here. Wait, how old are you?

Is he? Luke is now 12 years old. He had leukemia. He's doing great. He's in remission. He's my hero. I love the kid. And he's a really good ball player. And he loves following along with the Phils. He lives down in Virginia. But he's super excited that you were going to be on the show today. So I'm just going to ask a couple of them. The first is, do you ever think there's going to be a two-way athlete in professional sports again? Somebody like a Deion Sanders or a Bo Jackson? Oh, yeah.

The first person that came to mind was Travis Hunter, but that's just two sides of the ball. Which I would almost consider that to a athlete as well. It is, but I don't think there's any professional football team that would allow that. Well, we got a dude named Kyle Schwarber who can go play middle linebacker right now. Uh, but that's a really, that's a really good question. Uh,

If he is, you know, maybe he or she is not born. Okay. Yeah, yeah. We don't have to get to all of them, but here's a good one. Have you ever had lice in your beard and or hair? Wow. Wow. Oh, my God.

Or crabs. I mean, you take your choice. I feel like even if I did, I'm saying no. Yeah, totally. This is where you say, yeah. I always looked a loose woman. To answer the question, honestly, no. Okay. No, I take good care of the hair. I try to. Two more quick ones. One, do you hate the Braves? I don't like the Braves at all. I'll tell you that. I grew up a Braves fan, and now they're the enemy. So, yeah, nothing...

I don't hate anyone, you know, but definitely the Braves are on the bottom. Just sharks, that's it. Just sharks. But the Braves are definitely on the bottom of the list. I forgot you guys have that in common. You hate sharks. Are you a fisherman?

I mess around a little bit. Yeah. This spring, I really dove back into it a little bit because I grew up fishing. You do deep sea? Do you do deep sea stuff? I don't like the water like that. Yeah. Are you like bass fishing? No, we're trout. Okay. No.

Nothing that can eat you? No, no. Even though my buddy did catch a shovelhead the other day. It was pretty. What is that? I don't even know what that is. A shark? Yeah, like a little mini hammerhead shark looking like thing. Oh, no kidding. So you've been fishing here? Yes, ma'am. Yeah, we've been fishing here over in Dunedin, Bel Air Bridge, down in Clearwater, and

Over here in Tampa. He just called you ma'am, by the way. I didn't call you ma'am. He's very nice. Yeah, I mean, he recognizes you're maternal. Stop it. I'm like a year older than him. No, no, no.

Perhaps in some multiverse. Have you tried bone fishing down here? That's supposedly very, very difficult. I have not. Okay. I have not. They're a difficult, very hard-fighting fish. They're not real big, but apparently they're a big sport fish. Okay. You'll see a lot of bone fishing in porn movies. Well, that too. Nick, you had another question from Luke. I'll have to look into it. It's a whole category. Yeah. I got ten more questions, Preston. Yes. Who's your favorite teammate this year?

Ooh, that's a tough question. Yeah. You can't answer that. Man. Well, who's your least favorite? I mean, I love all my guys down there. I live with Bones, so he doesn't kill me. I'll say Bones.

So, all right, do the position players usually hang out with each other? Like, do the outfielders hang with the outfielders? Although, you know, your outfielder, Boehm, is third base, but, you know, the pitchers kind of keep to themselves? I would say normally, yes. I would say normally, yes. But this team, this team's been...

Totally different in that aspect ever since I walked into this locker room. Everybody loves everybody. It's position player, pitcher, everyone's all in it together. American, Latin, German, Japanese, everything. There's a timeout on the field and a lot of times the infield will go in and then the athlete. Would you get in trouble if you were like, I don't want to hang out. I want to go hang out with these guys in the infield during this timeout. Would anybody look at you sideways if you did that? I wouldn't do that.

Those infielders are weird. I'll stay on that. My brother's mother-in-law, they call her Mimi. You're her favorite player as well. I didn't have any questions, but I need you to sign this. I got you. Do you want any Luke questions? Yeah, yeah. All right. Who's going to win the NL MVP this year? NL MVP.

Got to go with my man Hart. All right. And I'm going to ask you just one more on Luke's behalf. But do you set personal goals? And if so, do you think you're going to hit 20 home runs this season? Attaboy, Luke. I would say that is, I mean, that's one of the goals for sure is to, you know, get over the mark I was at last year. I've climbed a little bit every year since I joined Philly.

But, yeah, I'm not a big homer guy. So, you know, I love hitting homers. I feel like all of us do. But being an 8-9 hole guy here, I just got to get on first and let the big guys drive me in. Right, right. I do set goals for myself. I try not to have as much expectation as possible because I know how hard the game is and how random it will throw stuff at you. But, yeah, I would say...

If I hit 20 homers, Luke's getting a big hug. The skullcap. Is that the fanatic riding a dolphin? It sure is. Can people purchase that or is that for players only? It's in the shop. That's awesome. What about this sleeveless hoodie that you're wearing right now? Is that part of the training regimen? That's part of the strength and conditioning staff. Really? Yeah, they did it right. We got a white one, a red one, and...

I love it. It's like a good little get ready. Yeah. You know, it's like, it doesn't get in your way. No. It's not too much. Yeah. How come there are no Brandon Marsh beard necks in the store over there? You know, like five guys. You could have your own beard. You should. Oh, yeah. You should have something. Your own beard oil or something. I don't use any oils or anything. You don't? No.

That's all natural. Straight brush out the shower. Wow. I always feel bad, though, when I see people wearing a beard net. You know what I mean? I'm like, oh, you poor thing. You have to wear that thing. But I don't want it. Well, they make them wear it. I know. There's a guy in five years. That's a polo or something. Yeah. I know it's purpose, but. But beard hair doesn't fall out like normal hair, does it? I don't know. You said beard hair doesn't? Does it? If you go like this, will you have, you won't.

No, no. I mean, you might get one or one maybe, but I also don't, I said I take care of my beard and hair earlier, but I take care of my hair. My beard is just there. By the way, question number 10. What is beard care routine this year? Nothing. Shower and brush. Okay. Oh, do you use soap or shampoo in your beard? I use shampoo. Okay. Do you have any suggestions? Crew, three in one.

Definitely. That's my favorite shampoo, and that'll work in your beard, too. It smells good. I use it all over my body. You didn't need to know that. Too much info. Too much info. I need to hear all of Luke's questions, by the way. Oh, all right. All right. These are actually really good questions, so. Yeah. Well, the first one is, I know what the answer is. Would you ever consider shaving your beard? And I know that it has a sentimental value for you. Yeah, I don't think anytime soon, unless, you know, Topper...

Dave came up to me. Not playing for the Yankees. Well, they let go of that as well a little bit this offseason, too. I saw that. They relaxed the policy. But, yeah, no, I don't see myself shaving anytime soon, even though it does get in the way from time to time. When does it the most?

Sometimes hating it gets stuck under my right armpit. Really? Really. So I got to like do this weird move. I believe him. Yeah. It's like sometimes when you're like, belt loop gets stuck on a cabinet knot and you're like, how did...

How did that happen? The door handles that are like a lever. I hate them. Have you ever gotten your pocket caught on one of those things? Dear God. I have them all over my house. It's like a cursing frenzy. You're going to have backup stores ready to go. You wouldn't be able to do it if you tried, but if you're just walking by, it happens. Hey, what time do you guys have to be here? What time are you required to absolutely be at the clubhouse on a game day?

Here during spring training? So I think report on the schedule says like 8, 8.30. Okay. But guys like to get here like 6.30 to 7.30 just to tub, get treatment, work out and stuff like that before you have to do anything on the field. You say tub, is that a cold plunge? Cold plunge, hot tub, cold tub. Are you a fan of the cold plunge? I love it, yeah. I think it's a good like wake up. Yeah, yeah. You know, just early mornings. I'm not a big morning guy. So getting in the cold tub and just...

doing a quick dip in there, it wakes me up pretty quick. I tried cold plunging earlier this year. It was hard, and I actually had to put booties on the second time I did it so I could last a little bit longer. Do you put anything on your feet? No, no. And how long? I just let it rip. I usually go three hot, two cold. Is that something for game day? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I would think so, right? Do cold plunge post-game. That or some other type of recovery. Everyone

raves about it and a lot of people who are really people who I you know are athletes and I respect what they're saying I have to give it a try because they say it's an exhilarating feeling most definitely you think of it like this Stubby Stubby's on his way you think of it like this it's like you get here at 645 715 whatever you get straight in the cold tub baseball is very very hard but I feel like

That's not... Sticking your whole body in the cold times. That's the hardest thing you're going to have to do all day. So if you get that out of the way... Right. You're good. The rest of the day... Yeah, you're coasting. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, yeah. I love that. Even if it's not the hardest, I think... I make it seem like it's the hardest. Yeah. At 7 o'clock in the morning, you do not want to be in there. No. No, not at all. It was pretty cold this morning when we got here. We were complaining for a couple hours. Yeah. I complain too. Yeah.

Well, listen, Brandon, it's great to catch up with you. And we're looking forward to the season, obviously. You know, we're excited about what you guys are going to bring. And still, I still think you guys, of all the years that I've watched this team evolve, you...

this group, this group of guys, this particular team seems to have the most charisma and you seem to gel more than any other team I've seen. It's a special, special group and I know I don't have a ton of experience at this level. I got a little bit and a lot of the guys in the locker room can speak for this more so than me, but we have such a special group. Just, you know, from top to bottom, everyone loves each other. It's just, it's

I think Cassidy said to me today, actually, I can't say that. And partially just because I forgot a little bit. It was basically just one goes down, we all go down together for lack of better terms. Yeah, I think you guys will be like a reunion team. I mean, like you guys will get back together. That's what it feels like every time in spring when we come back. Yeah, right? That's so cool. That's awesome. Thank you guys for having me. This is awesome. You got it.

It's great to see you. Thank you. Brandon Marsh, guys! Should we do a group photo with him? Can we do a picture with you? Since we're not taking any breaks right now, we have to do this live on the air. Yeah, if you'll come around this side. We'll get stubs in the chair. Yes. And he asked that Brandon be moved along. No, I'm kidding. Alright, so here we go. We're doing a photo real quick.

Fabulous. Thanks. All right. Oh, yeah. He's got a sight case. He's got to get the ball signed. That's for who, Case? That's for my brother's mother-in-law, Mimi. Your brother's mother-in-law, Mimi. Excellent. Dude, you are the man. Thanks, Brandon. Appreciate it, man. Yep.

All right. Up next. We got them moving through here. Yes. It's been awesome. Conga line of superstars. All right. So a make good for last year. We were supposed to have them in the seat and something came up, but we're stoked to have this now, ladies and gentlemen. Garrett Stokes.

He's here. I got to move this mic down. I'm shorter than pretty much everybody. Well, we've slowly been going down because we had Jordan Romano on first. Good start. And then so slowly we're coming down inchwise on the way. He was a super nice guy, man. Full of maple syrup. Totally.

Is that the secret? Yeah. Oh, man. How you doing, bud? Good. Doing great. When did you get down here? Been here for... Well, just as long as anybody. Pitchers and Catchers report, I think, was February 11th or 10th or something. February 11th. Wow.

Yeah, so we've been here for a minute ready to get going. So by the time it's over, are you ready to go? I think everyone's ready to go by the time they get here day one. Oh, okay. Really? We get here day one and obviously you got some things that you got to handle to make sure your body's right. That's why we're here. But yeah, day one, everyone's ready to get a real game under their belts. The anticipation gets to be a little bit even more now coming these last two weeks before season starts. When you talk about the real game and we just had this discussion about

the importance of these games and the importance of, you know, working on one thing during a game. And people look at the results, but the thing that always looms in the back of my mind, and it does happen, we were just talking about it earlier, the potential for injury. So you want to work on things, but you don't want to overwork. And how do you psychologically, when you take the field...

run those two tabs at the same time. Yeah, spring training is about getting your body ready. Obviously, everyone wants to perform at any time that they're on the field. But yeah, the performance part of it is just one little piece that gets your confidence up. You can start performing while it gets your confidence up. I watched Brian McCann one year ago who was 0 for 27.

Or something like that. Yeah. And then had a great year. Yeah. That's wild. That's amazing. Yeah. It goes both ways. But yeah, spring training is to get your body ready for the season. You got to make sure you get your feet underneath you and no injuries happen. Right. I'm going to ask about getting your body ready because I just started taking yoga this year. And one of the poses is basically... I see a move. Well, one of the poses is basically a catcher stance. Yeah. Do you do yoga? And like how... Because...

It hurts. It hurts. Like bending your knees. The yogi squat. Yeah, the yogi squat. I used to. Okay. I'm a pretty mobile person. Okay. So I stopped doing yoga. I started going to Pilates a little bit more. Pilates. Okay. Just getting the stability stuff going. Plus my wife likes it. Okay.

We go in there to those classes and I like it. I used to love yoga from not just the physical side of it, but going in there and mentally just kind of decompressing a little bit is nice. So I'm glad to see you. I get to see you in some tights and yoga, getting sweaty in a hot yoga room. What I found is I like to wear loose clothing and it's not a great... No, that's good. My shirt's coming over

my face and everything. It gets real soggy quick. Yeah, the ladies make fun of you. Yeah. Nobody makes fun, but no, no, I have pretty good balance on my right foot, not as good on my left foot. Okay, we all know why men are actually good at yoga classes. All right, have you farted in class? Because yoga lends to that. The lady next to me, the first class, I swear to God, she ripped three of them. Oh, no. Yes. I would have left. I would have left by then. No, listen, you know me and farts. You're proud of them. I don't have you, baby. Eric started to...

I get it. I love the happy baby. You always do that towards the end. You're like... You lay on your back and essentially you grab your feet and your legs. Steve, like a baby would grab Steve while he's laying on his back. I always think what the instructor is

viewpoint is at that time of class. Class is almost over, too. That's why you like it. You're like, alright, happy baby class is over. It's like a sea of taints. Sea of Taints is a great band, by the way. Garrett, I follow you on Instagram. I follow your wife on Instagram. That wedding that you guys had is Cabo, yeah? Yeah, Cabo. Unbelievable.

Unbelievably beautiful. And it also seemed like it lasted like a month. How long were you guys down there? We were down there for two weeks. We were down there for a week for the actual wedding part of it, destination wedding. We had four different events.

And we got down there two or three days before the events actually started to get a little acclimated or just get the drinks flowing early. And then we went to Tulum and Playa del Carmen after that for our honeymoon. Wow. It was an incredible couple weeks. Family, friends. It was a hell of a party. It was really cool to see you guys sharing each other's photos and your now wife just doing an awesome job at talking about how beautiful the place was. It was...

Look, I don't really know you. I certainly don't know your wife at all. But it was a lot of fun to follow along. And I mean that in the least creepy way possible. Well, we put it... We've been talking to people around, too, that have come up and like, Oh, my God, we saw your wedding. I was like, dude, it was...

the best party that I've ever been a part of. It was fun. We keep making the joke that we're going to have an anniversary party and have everyone back down and just do it all over again. Destination weddings are the best. Any teammates make it down from the event? Cassie was down there. Jeff Hoffman was down there. And then some of my old teammates, Matt Chapman, well, not teammates, but Matt Chapman and

Some other guys around the league came down and spent the week down there. But when guys have families, it's tough to get down there and have the kids. We had a no-kids wedding, too. I don't know how other people feel about that, but when there's kids running around during ceremony and also during reception when we're doing some...

when the swapping starts you can't have that can't have that no i'm i'm all for the the no kid wedding if you want to do it it's your it's your party yeah did you program your own wedding music ah it's funny enough i did yeah yeah so the dinner part or the party part or both both um

Our grand opening, you know, you have, or what is it? Yeah, your, when you come into the reception. Yeah, grand entrance. I curated with the Armentani brothers our own grand entrance song. It was pretty awesome. What song was it? It was a mix of, well, it started out with a toy story. You got a friend. Randy Newman. Yeah, it was sick.

Started out with that and then went into some Jimmy Cooks.

Went into some levels by Vici. Wow. And then Big Rings. Yeah. And it was like a whole mix of those songs. I did the same thing for my wedding. I did when they announced the bridal party, and then they announced the husband and wife, and then I did all of that, and then I did all of our dinner music. But when it came to the party, I let the DJ do that. Yeah. We had the DJ do his own thing also, but I had...

A lot of influence. I had a vision of how it was going to go. Why did you insist not be played?

Uh, I didn't, I don't have too many, like, I like so many different variations of music. Uh, but we honestly, we didn't want to go the traditional, like little John and like, uh, Cupid shuffle. So we didn't have like some of those that were like, all right, the typical wedding songs, like kind of ditch those. Right. Um, but yeah.

We had anything from Bohemian Rhapsody at the end. Was there an electric slide? Drake. We kept those ones out of there. We kept it more of the house. We had a lot of rock in there too. Singing along with that. We had country in there. It was a roller coaster ride. When you did the Grand Entrance, was there any choreography? No. No set choreography. There was plenty of very...

odd dancing going on. And it's, you know, it's the beginning of the night. So there's no...

involved yet. Right. And you're more self-aware. Everyone's a little stiff when they're making those moves. So during our ceremony, though, we did have a moment where we said our vows and we had shots passed out to everybody. Tequila shots passed out to everybody. During the vows. During the ceremony. That's great. Right after the vows, our rabbi was one of my best friends who we had as our rabbi.

He said his piece. We said our vows. And then at the end of the vows, we all took a shot at tequila. That is very cool. It's been two or three seasons now since you hooked up with the Armentani brothers because you were doing stuff in the clubhouse. How did that start? Was that through Instagram? Was that just through Philly? Yeah, it started on Instagram. They reached out to me.

I want to say, yeah, like three years ago. Right. When we got to Philly, Reese Hoskins knew them a little bit. And they were just fans. They were just good guys. Loved being around Philly. Loved the Phillies. Loved the birds. That's so cool. And they didn't ask anything of me. They were just being cool guys. And I...

listen to some of their music. It was really good. And I asked them if they wanted to put something together for the fills. And I mean, they jumped at it with no questions asked. I think we're like kindred spirits here because a lot of what I do for this show is, you know, I set the mood with music, you know, for, for certain segments and stuff like that. And then, um, I became friendly with a guy. His name is Jake. He does, um,

like music and stuff are in Fox Sports. So when you hear a song going into commercial and stuff like that, he's the guy who picks those songs. And like, I don't know, that's just kind of like how my mind works. I'm like, I would love to be the guy who does all the music at Citizens Bank Park or at Lincoln Financial Field. You know what I mean? Yeah, the creativity part of it gets tough because you want to keep it fresh and new. Obviously, Dancing On My Own has been around for a couple years now, but you want to,

bring in some fresh like feels you got something the next season you got something for 25 yeah do you want to reveal it now or do you want to sit on it for a bit uh we can sit on it okay i think we're going i'll say that it's i think that we're going back to more of a grungier oh rock vibe newer age like there's some you know there's some house involved in it but uh

Going back to some of the more classic rock pieces that give that more like... Now my mind is reeling. Yeah. Well, you know who you're talking to. I mean, this rock station has been in Philly for 58, 59 years. So if you need any CDs, we have a lot of them.

I wonder if we still have a CD player in the locker room. In the locker room? Yeah. By the way, a great follow on Instagram, Garrett. You did the thing, I don't know if it was still in the season or not, but you were just walking around Rittenhouse Square. I think it was a Lackalome Coffee. Yeah. And it was...

funny for me because you know you're on the Philadelphia Phillies you're a really recognizable guy but even in Philly there were people who had no idea who you were no idea and you it was fun it's great yeah I enjoy that piece of it you know I don't I don't see myself as any uh star anything uh but walking around Rittenhouse and when people do recognize me it's it is pretty funny and then also when people don't and I'm handing out coffee they're like why is this dick just right

who does this guy think he is you know it is fun doing that kind of stuff and I like being out in the city I love downtown Rittenhouse area I've been there for the last three years and it's just a great vibe restaurants are incredible too do you ever get confused for anybody while you're out and about

They kind of know you, but they're just average Jewish white guy. Yeah. Aren't you the average Jewish white guy? Exactly. That's, that's my look walking around Philly. Uh, not much to it. You know, five, 10, maybe a little shorter. We're going to go with five, 10 Jewish, pretty average Jewish white guy walking around Philadelphia. Oh, we got, um, a little insight into a little more insight into what it's like for the pitchers here. Um,

as your part as a catcher, what's your goal and how are you helping them get ready? Being a catcher is a pretty unique perspective. It's funny, I talk to the pitchers, they're like, I haven't seen the position players in two weeks. And then you talk to the position players, they're like, I haven't hung out with any of the pitchers in two weeks.

And I get to do both, right? And for the pitcher side of it, it is really nice working with Caleb Cotham. He's an incredibly smart guy, always looking for new innovative ways to help the pitching staff. And I think that him and I both work well together, including JT and now Mark Lowy, of just finding new ways to get each pitcher for whatever it is that they're best at and capitalizing on that and then adding some sort of new pitch or delivery or whatever it may be to just...

make sure that they're maximizing whatever it is that they're good at. And I think that we have a very good dynamic that goes on and new innovative ways that each of us thinks. And then we collaborate together and try to just push that person to either think outside the box or...

or just make sure that they're honing in on whatever it is their strengths are. As a kid, catcher was my favorite position. I think it was mainly because of the equipment as a kid. I just saw that at school. Yeah, the word in July. Right, yeah, see how fun that is. But now, as I've gotten older and watched the game and learned more about it, I also think that the catcher has this

This role that is so important because of your communication with the pitcher, but also the chatter that may happen at the plate with the opposing player and so on. And how much of a skill is that a learned skill from other catchers, or do you just figure that out as you go along? Which part? The chatter, you know, all that takes place. So...

I love the pitch clock. I think it's great for the sport. I think the pace of the game is so much better. It's also better on everyone's body. But I think a lot of new viewers are able to watch and engage in the game because of the pace of the game now. So I think that's great. One thing that the pitch clock has taken out is that fun...

feel in the box when a guy walks up. Maybe you've played with them before. Maybe it's the first time. I remember when Albert Pujols walked up. It was kind of a little kid moment. I don't like to have moments like that on the field necessarily because I want to beat

Yeah.

with the guy at the plate, it's time to call the pitch. Yeah, you can't really have as much. What about the signaling and that being gone? Do you miss a little bit of that? I don't. Oh, okay. So my first start, or one of my first starts, maybe it was my second or third, was with Garrett Cole.

And he had nine different sets of signs. Wow. And I'm a brand new guy to the league. I'm trying not to, one, mess up the scouting report, get these guys out. And then on top of that, I've got to remember all nine different sets of signs that we're going to use that day. He's going to change them at some point. I'm going to have to change them at some point. And so my mind was going a million miles a minute. Now with the pitch calm...

You just press a button and there's the pitch. And you don't have to worry about anything else. At some point you get so frustrated that you go, are you a fastball? Is that what... Yeah. And with a guy like Garrett, you can't have that moment where you're like, what was... He's like, are you serious? And I'm a rookie, so you better be dialed in. You're going to get crucified. It's not 100% of the time where the pitcher's calling the pitch. How often do you get to call it or does the manager ever...

jump in and say? Yeah, the bench never is jumping in and having any peace in that. But we'll... You know, the pitcher... I would say we're calling...

if not 100% of the pitches. At least we're calling the pitch every time to them and then they'll have an opinion and shake or whatnot and we'll move on to another pitch. So back when I was an all-star catcher for Folsom Baseball in 1989. Little League. Little League. Stud. It was. Not Little League. This was travel ball. Oh, my bad, my bad. Oh, travel. I'm going to throw you out from my knees, Oh, no, no, no. You're,

No, I'm sorry. The coaches were calling. That's serious stuff, okay? But dude, every now and then, I'd throw the ball back to the pitcher and miss him by like five yards. And the coach would look at me and he'd just be like, just give me this. I'm like, I didn't mean to do that. When was the last time you actually...

I did it in the bullpen the other day. I haven't done it on, I mean, knock on wood. I don't want to throw this out there. You just jinxed it. But, yeah, I haven't done that on a field, I don't think, ever. But I did it the other day in the bullpen because I was messing around. I just flicked one and actually smoked Tyler Phillips right in the pits. Yeah, he was standing behind Nola while he was getting ready. Dude, I love his glove. Did you guys see Tyler Phillips' glove? No. Oh, he got a new one. It's like Go Birds on it. Oh, wow. He's really throwing throws.

Oh, that's so cool. Garrett, I saw an interview with JT Romuto talking not that long ago about visiting Zach Wheeler on the mound. And he said that when he goes to the mound, he doesn't really have much to say to Zach because Zach's not going to listen anyway. And if the manager comes out or the pitching coach comes out, whatever they say, Zach's not going to listen. Is that the same for you?

Yeah. I mean, when wheels is on the mound, if you're going to go out there and take a visit, it's, it's, it's just to take a breath. You know, there's nothing that guy's been around the league for, I don't know. What is it? 12, 11, 12 years. Long time. I don't know what the exact number is, but a long time. He knows what he's doing out there. Uh, he doesn't need anybody else to tell him how to get back in the zone. What kind of look do you get? Like if you're walking out there, is he, is it death? If I'm walking out there, it's, it's,

Usually, I mean, I would think, and I think he would say the same, it's an appropriate time to walk out there. And same with JT, same with Koss. I mean, you don't go out there just because you want to go and have a chat with Zach Wheeler during the middle of the game. He's an intense guy when he's out there on the mound. It's usually because...

ending's gone a certain direction or it's gone long and he just needs a breath. And you just walk out there and you're like, hey. Or you stand out there and you really do need to catch his breath. Listen, I know you're here to do a job, but all this other stuff, sitting here with us, it's

Is it just part of it? Or is it a nice little... He's asking if you like us. Yeah. Me in particular. Hey, look. This is the stuff for me that I think makes Philly what Philly is.

And that's a city that is actually engaged in their sports. You don't get that everywhere else. For better or worse, right? Philly gets the bad rap of the boos and the negativity and all that. But when you are...

in the city and a part of one of these teams, you feel not necessarily the pressure of it, but you feel the love that you get from the city when you are playing well and when you are maybe not even playing well, but they can see how much effort you're putting in to what

the Phillies are and the Eagles are every single day and the Flyers and so on and so forth. But you feel that love from the city. That's everything. And this stuff right here and them getting an inside kind of feel for who we are as people, not just the players out on the field. I think, one, they love that.

us as a team love to show people that. I think people have seen that at least the last three years. That's the only time that I've been here. I don't know what it was like before that. But them getting an inside look at the locker room and who we are as people I think only brings this city even closer to these teams.

This place has been a lot more fun since you got here. I will tell you that much. Yeah. I've had a lot of fun, too. Nice, man. Are you playing today? I'm in there tomorrow. I have a night game in, I was going to say in New York. Right.

Some of us are going. I think I'm going to go to the game. Are you guys going to go to Mons Venus afterwards or no? I don't think so, but it is interesting that that's where the Rays are playing this season. Yeah, it might be an upgrade. Drop again and build it.

Steinbrenner is actually one of the better spring training facilities out there. It's a really cool spot. I don't know what their home side looks like. Probably pretty sweet, but it is a cool stadium. It's the replica of, I think, the Polo Grounds or the old Yankee Stadium. Yes, yeah. Cool.

I think it's the old Yankee Stadium because it's got the trellis up there. Okay. So it's a cool spot. Looking forward to it. Excellent. Listen, man, great to catch up with you. Thanks for coming by here. We appreciate it. We appreciate you guys. Thanks for having me on. Garrett Stubbs, guys. From your fills. Man, that was quite enjoyable. All right, here's what we're going to do. We're going to take a break. We're going to come back in a moment. We've got more from Clearwater Spring Training, the Preston and Steve Show on the road. And we'll be back in a moment. Stay with us.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. I think Garrett Stubbs has rivaled Kate Flannery for a number of cursors. Yeah. Dropped an F-bomb, dropped a couple S-bombs. Yeah, great guy. And so we may go to the Stubbs switch. Or the Flannery Stubbs switch. Yeah.

No, that was great catching up with him. We haven't talked to him in a little while. That was the first time having him here at spring training live. And, yeah, he's just a great guy, man. You were observing for anybody who's sort of envious back in Philly about the temperature down here. It is erratic, to say the least. It's wild because we thought, okay, the sun's coming up. This is it. We're going to warm up. It's going to be great. Well, now the wind has kicked up. Uh-huh.

And it's chilly out here, man. We got full sunshine in Florida and I put my jacket back on. Yeah, I came prepared. I had sweatpants, sweatshirt, and then I do have shorts with me as well. And your dirty socks. And my dirty socks. I'm so mad at myself. I just grabbed socks and I thought they were the clean ones, but I gave them. And I was going to offer them to Kathy because her tootsies are cold. My tootsies were cold. And she's like, are they clean? I'm like, yeah.

they're clean. And then I was like, I better check and make sure they're clean. And then I sniffed them. I was like, oh man. But you're wearing sandals. Why'd you bring socks with you? You're going to do socks and sandals? If it was that cold, I would have done that because, you know, tomorrow morning, I'm doing socks and sandals tomorrow morning. It was cold today. Yeah.

Let's see. So we are going to be checking in with Tom McCarthy in a little while. He is going to be our final guest of the day. And then when that's done, when we're done with the program, I mean, they're going to be opening up the ballpark. And, you know, we get the game underway today, playing the Braves. And they play the Yankees tomorrow.

You know, you've mentioned it, and we were talking about the Braves and if they're the most hated team or whatever. But you observed a while ago, and it was the case for the longest time when in the early days of cable TV and super stations and TBS. Yeah.

They were kind of made the de facto secondary team for a lot of people because those games were carried across the country. Yeah, them and the Cubs, Chicago, would beam those games to areas that you normally wouldn't get. So, yeah, it's definitely an interesting dynamic. Not anymore. No, not anymore. So we got a little time to chat about things other than baseball. Casey returned from Italy.

Overall, your impressions of the country? I enjoyed it. It was definitely not enough time to get a real...

of what Italy is all about. And I was really only in one area of the country. I was in northern Italy. I landed in Milan. And I took a train from Milan to Verona, which was about two hours or something like that. And I settled in Verona from... What time did I get there? I can't even... What day of the week is it right now, guys? Thursday. Okay. So I was basically there Saturday and Sunday and Monday...

And then we ended up over in Padua. And I think it's Padua and maybe the English is Padova or it's the other way around. But what... All right, here are my impressions. I was excited to eat the food. Aside from like the charcuterie stuff, I thought the food was just okay. Yeah. The gelato was really good. Did you think it like...

I was kind of shocked when you said this. Yeah, they like their pasta al dente. That's his main complaint. Is that just all you didn't like? But did you like the taste of the sauce? Did you eat their pizza? Yeah, so the pizza I thought was really, really good. But not for nothing, man. The pizza scene in Philadelphia...

It's damn good, man. Well, it's also... It's American-style pizza. That's the thing. It's not... Yeah, like the pizza over there is different. How was the lo mein? I didn't try the lo mein. I... But believe it or not, I did want to try, and I talked to you guys about this on Monday. I did want to go to a McDonald's just to see if it said Royale with cheese. And did they? I never made it to a McDonald's. I never made it to one. Did you see any? I did. There was one that was just a few blocks from our hotel, but... Ronaldo McDonald's? Yeah. It's just...

I mean, it's a first world country, right? But it just has like, I don't know, it's got these weird vibes to it. Like the toilets flush differently. They don't have like, they're like buttons that you push. Kat, the toilet in our first hotel room

I stood and looked at this thing. I'm like, where do I flush? I didn't even know where I flushed it. That was the coffee maker. Oh, that's why. That's why. Did you have, was there a bidet beside it? Yes, and I bideted for the first time in my life. I bideted. I bideted. What did you think? I bidet-liked it. Isn't it great? Yes. And you can, listen, it's no Robert Kebab, but I'll tell you this. If you get that little attack, I swear to God, I love this little toy.

$40 Amazon attachment to my toilet. It is a bidet. And once you bidet, you don't go bidet. But I will say the bidet... All bidet and all bidet. The little installations that you put on your toilet here are different than what... You know, it's obviously the same concept, Steve, but... They're much more powerful over there, are they not? It's just...

You know what? It's not that it's powerful. It's almost like a larger soft flow. It's a larger stream. Yeah. Right? It's meant to dislodge your eggs. Yeah. It didn't... I didn't think it was... I didn't think the pressure was too bad. Right, right. I will say, though, I was unprepared. So I...

And then I was like, oh, I have to dry off. And I don't have the right stuff to dry off. So I'm drying off with toilet paper. By the way, the toilet paper there is a little bit different. And the tissues and napkins. Yeah. But so. Yeah, they usually leave like a towel next to it. Yeah, there was no towel there or anything like that. So, Steve, when you bidet, do you use a bidet towel?

What I do is I use toilet paper just a little bit, but very little because you're just basically drying off with it. Yeah. But it was a really neat experience, and I was glad that I got to be there with my son. My son actually acknowledged my existence while we were there, which was really, really nice because it was a lot different when we did this rugby tour in South Carolina last year. You were left alone. I was exhausted.

ghost until he needed money. You know what I mean? They were playing on Wednesday when last we talked and they were playing a more formidable team. How did they do? They did well. So apparently the messages that I got from the coaches and parents was that it was a more formidable team. It was a rough match the entire time. St. Joe's Prep ended up winning. They won 15-8. My son was

the one who ended the game. So it's weird. I'm still learning about the sport and I really do really like the sport of rugby and I'm getting to know it a lot better now. So the game's over, right Steve? So let's say they play for an hour, two 30 minute halves, right?

And the game's over. It's an hour. But the play still goes on until there's a change of possession. And then once there's a change of possession, it's important for the team that possesses the ball, especially if they're winning, to kick the ball out of bounds. So my son was the one who did that, and he was the one who sealed the victory yesterday against another team. And prep

Rugby is a nationally recognized team. And they're really, really good. And, you know, last year they played in the national championship tournament in Indiana. And I think they're going to be invited, hopefully, to play again this May. But American Rugby...

is not as good as European rugby. So the fact that they won that game yesterday was pretty good. And then they do have one more match. I don't know if that's today or tomorrow. Now, having traveled with you before many times throughout the years, one thing I know that you like to do is when you go to places you haven't been to before, you like to talk to local people and spend some time learning about

the area, you just shook your head. You didn't do that? I didn't. Language. Language barrier, man. I would have thought for sure you would have found an Italian person who spoke some English and kind of tried to figure out who they were. It's funny you say that because I was saying when I was at that club Imola in Italy, the first match that they had on Sunday I guess,

I was disappointed that I didn't interact with the other parents at all, really. You know what I mean? The other team, you mean? Well, the other... So that was the cool part, is these kids, they go out and they battle for an hour and a half together, and then they all...

What do they call that? Hospitality, right? So when you're the home team, and we do the state side as well, when a team comes and plays at your field, you provide them with food afterwards, right? So they all come over to our side where our bench is, and we have hoagies or whatever. They kill each other on the field, and then they go, here, want a hoagie?

Yeah, and that's how they do it. I know at the collegiate level, what they'll do is they'll kick the crap out of each other for an hour. Oh, yeah, and then they go out drinking. And then they go out drinking. That's where Shoot the Boot and all that sort of stuff comes from, drinking beer out of a boot. But it was so neat, and I have some really great pictures of our players and their players all sitting down and getting to know each other. And we brought, not jerseys, but shirts for them, and they gave us gifts and stuff like that. So there is this real cool respect thing.

that all the players and coaches have for one another. And I really, really dug that. But, Press, I didn't interact with the parents, and I was upset with myself for not doing it. But I also, like, I mean, I was part of a couple of different conversations, but I really thought I would...

try and connect like that and I just didn't and I don't know why. So in general though the trip good? Italy good? You want to get back to it? You didn't get to go skiing as you'd hoped to do? No and you know what man but you never went full blown sick right? Well yesterday I was not

Yesterday and the day before, I wasn't doing all that hot. Yesterday, when I got off the plane, I couldn't hear out of my right ear. Okay. I just couldn't hear. It was so weird. We all had dinner last night. The whole day. And I was like, am I yelling? Because I couldn't tell if I was. Yes, you are. I was yelling? No, no. I was kidding. But I couldn't. It was basically, it felt like somebody had their finger stuck in my ear. Probably Kathy. It was probably Kathy. Yeah.

Like, look at this idiot. Doesn't have my fingers in his ear. But here's stupid. Listen, there were like 45 or 50 rugby players and parents and some siblings and stuff. And so the logistics of getting all of those people from Philadelphia to

Yeah.

It was, I'm telling you, like straight out of The Shining. You send pictures and you and the pictures don't even do that. And I thought I knew that because pictures always make it look a little bit better. Yeah. And it looked like a dive. It didn't look it didn't look good at all. So I get to the hotel and again, now 150 people are getting off of these buses and all getting to the hotel at the same time. So there's a little bit of a line to check in. I'm like, I need to find a bathroom. Right.

So I'm walking around this hotel lobby, this labyrinth of a hotel lobby. I can't find a bathroom anywhere. Steve, I walked into this one area. It was a combination of The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Because I'm like, what the freak am I looking at? It was just this...

dark alley. And I go and open this door and there was just all this... I don't know if it was trash, but I was like, I gotta get out of here, right? So I turn and I look down the alley and I see a body. A body? Yeah, standing. They were alive. Okay.

Steve, I saw this dead body standing there. You saw a figure. A figure. Thank you. Hang on, Steve. There was one scary movie where, I'm thinking One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but it wasn't that. Give me a scary movie that is in... I'm thinking of The Body in the Italian Alley. Yeah, and that's what... Well, either way, I was like, I got to get the heck out of here, so I beelined it out of there. Now, I haven't even seen my room at this point, Steve.

And I'm already like freaked out. So we get into our room. By the way, with the picture you showed us, the carpet was all worn. I like it's ripped. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. What got me was the bed spread on the two single beds. So we get to our room and actually had a physical key, you know, which I was like, oh, these things work.

We get into the room. It was charming looking. It was old and rustic or whatever. We would go out to the balcony and...

All of the balconies are basically connected to one another with just one little bar that kind of separates it. You can either walk over or climb underneath. Easy to rob the room next door. The windows barely locked, right? And it was a furnace in there. They had furnaces in every single room. It was so hot in there, so we opened up the windows. And then...

I'm just like laying there just trying to like relax, you know, because we were going to go out to dinner. And you just hear like it was just this ominous like... That you heard from the outside. And it never stopped. It was just...

Did you determine what it was? No, I didn't want to investigate. I was too scared. Was it the dead body making noise? Dude, so, and then... Where are the kids? Where are the kids? Did they also stay at this hotel? We all stayed at the same hotel. The kids all bunked together, so it was like three or four per room. Did they care? No, I don't think so. It's an adventure. Some people, they walked in, looked around and said, nope, and they went and left and went to another hotel. So when you sent those pictures, I was like, I'm

I'm going to be angry if he stayed here. Like, I would have walked in. Listen, and I just would have walked in, seen that, and gone, no, there's got to be another hotel down the street. I'm going to check. We got there. We got there around like 5 or 6 o'clock at night or whatever. And I was leaving at 4 o'clock in the morning. So it was pointless for me to try and go find. And then we also had to do the parent-player dinner that night. You know, so...

Was it in the ballroom of this hotel? No, no. So that's another cool thing that they do is they do this parent-player dinner where the night or two before, the parents will draft players. And the rule is you can't take your own kid out to dinner, right? So you have to pick other players. So me and my team of parents, we picked these three players to come out to dinner with us. And one of the other parents found the restaurants. We all met there. And then a couple of other players and parents were there. It was really, really nice.

But, you know, we got back to the hotel, like, close to 11 o'clock, and I had to, you know, I had to get up at, like, 3 to catch a cab to get to the Venice airport. I couldn't fall asleep because when my wife was laying down, a mosquito flew into the window, and then she started going, eee! Eee! Eee!

Oh, no, it's an Italian rage virus. So she shut the windows, and I understand why, but then that made it so hot in there. Not only was it hot, but even with the windows shut, I could hear it at the...

That was muffled? Yes, it was all muffled out there. All right, I got one question about all of this. When you left, did you leave your family at that place? Yeah. Oh. Listen, I just talked to them. They're all still alive. Okay. Yeah, they're all still alive. You slipped a couple of bucks to the body in the alley and said, could you look out for my family? But my day of travel, and I'll say, you know. Did you sleep on the flight?

A little bit. So when I left the hotel, it was 11 p.m. East Coast Standard Time. Right. When I got here, it was 5.30 the next day. It was a long day of travel because I...

Drove to the Venice airport and then I flew from Venice to Frankfurt. I had like a two, three hour layover in Frankfurt. And then... Was that the longest you've ever flown? Then 10 hours from Frankfurt to Tampa. That was the longest I ever flew. I was really proud of myself because I actually didn't ever get up out of my seat for seven and a half hours I sat in that seat. I was really proud of myself for actually staying in one spot for that much time. Wow. Like a big boy. I was like a big boy.

Do you guys know Steve raw-dogged it on the way here? I did. Did you? I raw-dogged it. Yeah. He literally stared at the seat in front of us. He just stared. That's basically what he did. For two hours and nine minutes. What'd you get out of that, Steve? Nothing. He didn't do it on purpose. He just didn't bring anything to do. I didn't want to take anything. Of course. What did I get? Milk.

She doesn't hate the window. I got the middle seat. Super nice woman to the left of us. Very sweet. Like thin, little, petite thing who could have easily sat on the inside. But I can kind of compress my gorilla body up pretty well. He did. But I said, listen, I don't want to open up the bag. I don't want to start a movie. It's only a two-hour flight. And Preston, you said on the amount of times you've flown down

That was the shortest flight I've taken from Philly to Tampa. And I've been here three times in the last four months, and I'm going again next month. It's usually about two hours and 25, 30 minutes. It was two hours and nine minutes. I timed it. It was great. Did you have a window seat? I did, of course. Yeah, all window. Except we got, not only did I get a window seat. Oh, yeah. It was over the damn wing, and I couldn't see a freaking thing. Marissa had a window seat. Yeah.

So my window seat on the way there, on the way into Italy, I had the wing. And it was a gigantic plane, too. So the wing was huge. But at one point, I did get to see the Alps when the wing fell off. When the wing fell off. But, like, I didn't care. It was still beautiful. That was a great picture. Yeah. But the plane, it was a 242 seat. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, it wasn't, like, you know, super...

crowded or anything like that. Some people were checking in earlier this morning and wanted to know if you had any intent on going back to the hotel that you stayed in last night. Well, I've been pointing out one of them that we keep driving by, the Econo Lodge. We passed by the first one. Not Comfort Central. I would stay at the Econo Lodge over that one that we stayed in last night. Well, not the other one, though. The one in St. Pete. You would...

There's no way. I don't remember that there was two. Was it the same trip, Preston? It was the same trip. Yeah. The first night I stayed at the Econo Lodge and then came here. I was going back to visit my mom and sister in St. Pete, so I wanted to stay a little bit closer to them. And then I stayed in St. Petersburg or in the general St. Pete area. That was the one with the prostitutes. Which one had the roach? The second one.

Not one roach, multiple. On the pillow, you would say. They put on a performance of death of a salesman, an all cockroach. I think they call them palmetto bugs here, which makes it a little more exotic and acceptable. Was that the worst hotel you ever stayed at? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. Ever. You know, remember when we stayed at the George Bernard Shaw...

That was ratty in Ireland. That was ratty in Ireland. Yeah. That was... The shower had no shower curtain. Yep. Nothing. It sounds kind of like Casey's experience. Yeah. I think, anyway. Yeah. The worst one I ever stayed in, though... And I stayed in many. One of the most bizarre... I told you about this yesterday. We got put up in a hotel site unseen one time. And I kid you not...

There was a bunk bed for Claire. Stop it. I swear to God, Claire and I slept in a bunk bed. These beds that we stayed in at the last hotel were tiny. They were like little kids beds. I mean, a lot of stuff in Europe is smaller than in the U.S. Yeah. Okay. That's what I noticed. I had the only time I ever had a walk in, turn around, walk out. I'm not staying here was actually in Kissimmee, Florida.

And we walked into the room and it hadn't even been, they checked us in and it hadn't even been cleaned from the people. Wow. So we walked in. Really? And they were like, oh, yeah, well, go ahead. You can take your stuff in and then we'll come in. And we were, nope. I turned around. I was like, uh-uh. And we drove down the street and tried to find something else. I don't blame you. First, we're in

I love my room that I got at the Sheraton. I didn't get the Kathy Romano suite. I know, and I didn't get it either. But I did get a great room with a great view, and I'm really satisfied. I like that hotel. It is a great hotel. And honestly, the Bonvoy program and everything, it's just terrific. Yep.

I was just happy to be in an American hotel. And by the way, you guys sent me that picture because I went to Lake Garda and you guys sent me that picture of a castle and you were like, oh, this is beautiful. And when I saw the picture, I'm like, I'm standing right at the base of this castle right now. Yeah. And then you sent that picture of you there. Yeah. Amazing. All right. Well, listen, you had a successful, cool trip. We're happy you're back. We're,

Glad to be where we are now, which is in Clearwater, if you're just tuning in. We've had a great time talking to players this morning. We have another day of broadcast happening tomorrow. I want to go ahead and take a break because Tom McCarthy is going to be coming along in a little while. And I've told the Phil's team doctor he's a big fan. He's right over here. Oh, very nice. He wants to stay high and meet us. I've got a tightness in my shoulder. Let's check on that. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back from Bay Care Field or Bay Care Ballpark here in Clearwater. And we're getting ready for the game.

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Now, back with more of the Preston and Steve Show podcast. All right, thank you, Kat. So, I think we're just going to, yeah, we're just going to get him right into the Bizarre File. That's what we're doing now. So, Ryan Shelterworth, hit it for me, please. Now, WMMR presents Preston and Steve's Bizarre File. Bizarre.

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got an automated call from an auto garage that almost left her needing to tune up herself. Louise says the voicemail from the garage, which was inviting her to an event at the business, included offensive language and inappropriate content. Why don't you bring your sweet ass down and have a fun time? The garage blamed Apple's

AI-powered dictation software for the mix-up. Oh, wow. But if it was a bug, it was a giant one. The voicemail was almost impossible to understand, but parts that came through were real winners. A transcription of the call read in part, Trail of you will be told to see if you have received an invite on your car if we you've been able to have sex...

and not what we should call and just keep trouble with yourself. That'd be interesting, you piece of S. Give me a call. It sounds like the prep that you read sometimes, Prev. It's unbelievable. And then it asked if there was some of the improv that she's become known as. Louise said she bought a car from the business years ago. Experts are suggesting everything from the caller's Scottish accent to background noise. The fact that it would include...

The sexual talk and the S word. Yeah. What would compel AI to compose that? Don't know, man. Do not know. All right. Here's a story out of England. A religious TV channel has been fined close to $300,000 for giving UK airtime to an evangelist that was selling Miracle Spring Water.

It was stuff again. My mom probably bought some. It was claimed to cure illnesses such as lung cancer and diabetes and produce huge financial windfalls. I got to look into that. Yeah, Britain's communications regulator, Ofcom, penalized the operator of the Word Network, a religious channel aimed at the Christian community, after an investigation into the program Peter Potts.

Popoff Ministries. During two episodes of the show, fronted by the U.S. televangelist Popoff and his wife, viewers were repeatedly asked to order the minister's Miracle Spring Water. Popoff, who has previously been rebuked by U.K. regulators, made claims about the product's supposed miraculous powers and aired testimonies from members of his congregation as he invited viewers to order it. So wait a second, it does not cure lung cancer? It does not, not as far as I know.

Those providing the testimonials claim that pouring the water over their hands brought about recovery from illnesses such as lung cancer, diabetes, and intestinal disease, as well as curing drug addiction. What would you expect to pay for such an amazing miracle? Well, others said they subsequently came into large sums of money. One person said they got $64,000 and started a new business opportunity and got a new home. And they were delivered from their student loan debt. By the way.

This very same... This must be the commercial template that they used because I saw this very same commercial, I think was airing on the country music TV channel, CMT. Okay, yeah. Because I've seen it on there. I mean, they're... Same thing. They're just robbing you blind. The parent company subsequently said that it had taken the decision to change the contract relating to the Peter Popoff ministry so that it would no longer air his content in the UK. They could stick with the one claim that it made your hands wet, though. Right. Uh...

Growing up, we had all of this. We had holy water. We had special water. We had oil. At one point, we all had, from my mother, bags of dirt. Bags of dirt? Steve, they were Ziploc bags of dirt. From where? Gethsemane? No, from somewhere, a holy site. I forget where it was.

But someone went, you know, my mom's friend or whatever, and I'm not joking you, in my end table at home, I had a Ziploc bag of dirt. And every time something, you know, some sort of allergic reaction I had, my mom would go, get the dirt. Oh, my God. Put a little bit of the dirt on it. It will help you. Really? And then it would

go away and she'd go see see oh yeah or it just ran its course now eat your sand kathy you know when you walk into a church and they have that little dish of holy water and you we have one of those when you walked into my house there was a little thing next door next to our front door oh we know on the wall yeah as a kid one of my favorite things coming in and out of church was the holy water we should get our moms over the holy water our moms together yes yeah yeah

All right. Chachi, the Rocket Man Valencia, was expecting an uneventful flight, just as he experienced hundreds of times before. But when you're choosing to have yourself shot out of the can in the wind, you can have other ideas. And he said afterwards, I know the mistake that we made. We figured it out. And it was a judgment call, probably. So the mistake happened at the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival in Indio, California.

Valencia, with the assistance of his wife, was hired for a weekend of performances just as they've done hundreds of times before. He said, so when I got shot out, the wind completely caught me. Yeah, hello. Okay. And the cameras captured what happened next. He was propelled into the air and a left to right wind carried him off course. He hit the right...

edge of the net. Oh my God. Tumbled to the pavement, knocked out cold, woke up in an ambulance 20 minutes later. He broke a wrist. He said, I got a few broken bones and I have a bleeding liver. I did it. Why don't we take a five minute break? He said, if it wasn't for my wife who was here, I don't know how I could have survived really. It's just so hard to move around, he said.

What could have caused this? He says, this is what happens when you do this for a living. I saw a human cannonball live one time. It was at the circus, and it was pretty damn cool, man. Yeah, it is always interesting. The mechanism there, you have to have your body held in the right way because you can die. They can kill you easily. What do they use, gunpowder? Yeah.

But no, I saw it. They shot that guy across the Wells Fargo Center from one end to the other. It was badass. Yeah. All right. A former Border Patrol agent.

Has admitted that he ordered at least two female border crossers to show him their boobs. In one case, telling a woman that she wouldn't be able to enter the U.S. until she complied. Is that part of the thing now? Shane Milan pleaded guilty to two counts of deprivation of rights. Admitting that he demanded multiple women lift up their shirts...

and exposed themselves to him as he conducted virtual hearings at the Eagle Pass Crossing in Texas. All right, I'll let the camel toe. Let's see that. He was based actually in Jefferson County, New York, but conducted interviews via webcam. And during one such interview, Milan told a woman with a one-year-old child that he needed to see a tattoo on her chest.

And when she claimed she didn't have one, he demanded that she lift up her shirt and prove it. And she complied. But later in the interview, he demanded she lift up her shirt again. Did he ask in an official way? When she said no, Milan told her that he wouldn't sign off on her paperwork unless she agreed to show him her bare chest again.

And when she did, he reportedly told her, okay, welcome to the USA. Wow. Yeah. Milan admitted that while acting as a border patrol agent. He willfully deprived multiple victims of their constitutional right to be free from unreasonable searches. Listen, did we take some liberties? Yes. And he also, listen, he also searched the internet for various Spanish translations, including phrases like,

I will need you to lift your shirt and bra also, please. And to verify, I will need you to lift your shirt, please. And they need the flop. And he faces up to two years in prison and a $200,000 fine for that little stunt he pulled. And that is where we will wrap up.

The Bizarre File for you this morning. We have yet another guest who is here to chat with us this morning. Happy to have him back as we're headed closer and closer to game time. You know him as play-by-play for the Phillies. Ladies and gentlemen, Tom McCarthy is here with us. I feel like I'm auditioning for American Idol. I'm standing in front of...

We're judging you. I don't really have a singing voice. I don't know. Ave Maria. That'd be a tough one at this time in the morning. You know what I love, Tom, is watching the NFL season and flipping through the channels and then all of a sudden there's Tom McCarthy on an NFL game. And it kind of seems like there's, from my perspective, no rhyme or reason to it. And we're here to talk baseball and then a little bit about the Phil's.

But how does that happen for you? Do you get assigned to games weeks in advance? You know, it's funny. We were just talking about it because Sunday, obviously, is Selection Sunday, and I'm working for CBS and Turner. So everybody keeps asking where I'm going, and I said, I have no idea. So I won't know until Sunday at some point. I'll probably know when you guys see the teams come up.

That's probably when I'll find out. You know, I keep thinking, am I going to Seattle? Am I going to Wichita? I have no idea. How hard is that if you're doing this right now to prepare for that as well? It's a speedboat race. Like, I have Saturday of the A-10, and I have no idea who's going to be in the semifinals. So I've got charts on eight teams that I've been doing the last couple days. But I've done a lot of their games this year, so that's a little easier. Yeah.

But for the NFL, they usually tell us like Monday, 10 days out where we're going. So usually on that Monday, I'll know not the...

the upcoming Sunday, but the following Sunday. You do any kind of broadcasting and any kind of prep. We all do levels of prep. For you, you kind of have to keep a constant state of prep packets at the ready, right? It's funny because I haven't done a basketball game because we have a lot of stuff going on here. I haven't done a basketball game in about two weeks and I feel lost. I really do. I've done a lot of 8-10 games, so Saturday will be fine, but I truly feel like

I'm kind of jonesing to do a game, even though I've been doing these games. But it's good. I like the prep. Yesterday, I came back in. I went home for a day, came back in, and I was working all day doing stuff for tomorrow's game here because we have that prospect game tomorrow.

and getting ready for Saturday's basketball. So I like those kind of days. Right, right. It keeps me rolling. So you're here tomorrow? Are you going to Tampa tomorrow night as well? No, I'm not going to Tampa tomorrow night. I'm actually going to D.C. tomorrow night after the game. I'm flying out at like 6.30. I've not been to the Tampa Stadium. It's Steinbrenner. Yeah, it's nice. Preston and I are thinking about going to the game tomorrow night where the Phillies are going to play the Yankees. But we chatted about this a little bit earlier. The Rays are going to have their entire regular season there. It's crazy. I mean, if they play it right,

I mean, it's going to be home run heaven. What's the capacity? I think it's like 10,000. 10,000. 11,000. That's crazy. They don't have the same setup that we do here as far as the berm. They do have some areas like that, but the ball is going to fly out of there in the summer. Yeah. I mean, absolutely fly. Is it an upgrade from St. Pete? I actually like the dome. I mean, for a dome. I mean, it is a dome.

But I actually like the dome here. It's just it's somewhat antiquated compared to some of the other new places. Right, right. I don't think they're ever going to get anything here. I think they're going to wind up having to move, honestly. I really do. Really? As far as attendance goes. I just don't think they're going to get the funding to get a new stadium. What city...

Nashville, Portland. Portland is, you know, they want it. Nashville really wants it. They actually unveiled a new logo yesterday for their potential major league team. It's just, you know, the Nashville Sounds is their AAA team, and they unveiled a logo for their hat. It's actually a pretty sharp hat. You know, you go around the country in various leagues, and you're like,

why doesn't Pittsburgh have a basketball team? Well, they did the Pisces. Remember the fish that saved Pittsburgh? That's right. I thought about that. Yeah. A horrible movie. Yeah. Nashville, yeah. I mean, that is definitely an up-and-coming area. I don't see Portland. Nashville, I mean, you guys, it's a great city. But it's funny. You watch NHL franchises move. I think Atlanta has lost two different franchises. They have. Yeah, they lost the Thrashers and the Flames. And the Flames. And, you know, look, I watch...

90% of the Phillies games every year. And it just makes me sad when they go and play in Miami because it looks like a cool stadium and there's several hundred people in attendance. It's a shame. And they don't even have the cool aquarium behind home plate anymore. No, it's a shame. It's a shame. It is a nice stadium. The roof's always closed so it's even drearier because there's nobody there. It is a shame. It is a shame. Sounds depressing. Yeah. I will tell you that these guys, they joke about it all the time. I always...

My first question when I go in, the PR people hate it. The Marlins PR. Roof open? Tom, it's the middle of July. The roof is not open. You are as Irish as the day is long. You will fry if the roof is open. Tom, I wanted to ask about, you know, we were talking about calling different sports. And there's something about the...

the baseball delivery. There's something about the pauses in between that I find very soothing as opposed to a more... Not that baseball doesn't have momentum, but when calling a game, when calling hockey, when calling basketball, there's a little bit more of an up

No doubt. Tempo to it. Is there one that you prefer, or do you have to consciously pull things back to call baseball? I always say that I prefer baseball because, A, I played it. I've been doing it for a long time. I love the game. My oldest son does the Mets games, so he's part of the fabric of it. My other son just retired from playing professional baseball.

It's what was on in my house growing up all the time. But I will tell you that I love the energy about football. I love the hype of it. I love the daily getting ready for a game. The grind of that day is mentally unbelievable. It's such a rush.

Would you ever take it out for a spin and try to do an entire football game with a baseball pentagon? Oh, my gosh. That would be hysterical. Is this on? Is there something wrong with the feed here? But the high energy calls for baseball, like they've got to be the most exciting. They are. I mean, and listen, that's.

That is part of what is... People talk about, let's say, Vin Scully and Harry Callis and people like that. Nobody made the bigger call better than Harry. I mean, nobody did. And Vin was that way too. But his was more drawn back than Harry's was. And there is nothing better than that. Did you have a chance to...

catch there was a viral video that was going around of international play-by-plays of the pick six in the Super Bowl. No. Oh, my God. But I did hear the international play-by-play of our games that was over when we were in London. Yeah. And that dude was really good. Okay. Tomorrow we're having Oscar Budahain on who does the Spanish. He's become a friend of ours. He's great. He's got a nice energetic delivery about him as well. Yeah, there's something about it, man. If you can change the...

The whole tempo of it with the language barrier. I mean, even their calls on their baseball calls. Yeah. I want to ask you about what you think the best sound in sports is. And I'm going to give you some examples. The crack of a bat on a home run.

The swish of a basketball or the sound of a golf ball going into the cup? Oh, boy, that's a good one. So the golf ball in the cup doesn't happen that often when I play. You know, I still think it's funny because as you were asking me this question, I'm thinking...

The swish has to be in there. So for me, really good effects like Rodney can put together for a baseball game or a basketball game. To me, the crack of the bat is still the best one. You really hear it when Harper gets it or Schwarber gets it.

You know, it's unbelievable. Then I go swish, and then I would say the cup. You left one out. A hip check into the boards is pretty awesome. I was going to say, when somebody really gets laid out on the football field, and I like that as long as the player gets up afterwards. As long as he gets up. What about when you're in Italy and you hear...

It's a story from his trip to Italy. Don't worry, Tom, if you don't know what that meant. We never did find out. I don't know what it was. It was just scary, and it never stopped. He was frightened by that sound. Tom, you mentioned Harry Callison, and he passed away 16 years ago. He was actually at that game in Washington. And I...

You can never replace Harry. You can never fill his shoes. But I mean this as the highest compliment. For me, you have. Well, thank you. And it's only because, first of all, you're great at what you do. You're a terrific announcer. The team that you work with, not just the Phil's team, but the broadcast team is fantastic.

great, but when I tune in a Phillies game now, it feels like home again. Well, I appreciate that. Growing up, listening to Harry and Richie and Whitey and... Richie and Whitey were the same guy, but Andy Musser, Chris Wheeler, yeah, that was home for me too. And now you and Kroc and even Ruben...

uh today's cole hamill's first game he's gonna be here yeah so um uh have you done any training with cole thus far so we've done we did one game together we've talked a lot obviously we've known each other for a long time i mean i remember meeting him when he was 17 when we drafted him so we've done one one session in his studio and yeah he was good he's any he's just gonna get

better. And he wants to do it and he wants to be around the game, which I think is awesome. I always thought it was awesome when Jimmy was doing games, Rollins, because you need to have a connection to those championship teams. You know, with Schmitty doing Sunday games and Kruk, obviously, 93. I think it's important to have it. So to synergize with someone you're in the broadcast booth with, do you go through some exercises? Do you sing, I got you, babe? Laughter

Islands in the stream. Yeah. I don't know if Cole would. He probably would like islands in the stream. Islands in the stream, yeah. Yeah. Well, but there's an unspoken, but it is actually spoken, a synergy that you do have to have, as you were saying, Steve. But as doing color, you've got the brunt of doing the play-by-play, but the color guy's got to feel when it's right to come in. No doubt. And that is, you can't.

It just has to happen organically, you know, and you have to have a flow about it. I always feel, particularly on TV, is that I have to adjust to the color guy. I don't want them to adjust to me. I'll figure it out. I will, you know, I'm driving this bus and wherever, you know, you guys go and I'll just, I'll make the left when I think I have to make the left or I'll make the right. I want him to just do it. Yeah. And whatever it is.

It'll be fine as he does it more. The worst thing, I think, is if I tell him, you should do it this way, you should do it this way. He won't evolve. And then he's not being himself. He's being what he thinks you want him to be or whatever. I was going to maybe ask about, correct, but you had mentioned Rollins earlier, and he had said something about this team, about the expectations that are ahead of them or whatever.

And I'm just going to misquote it, but he essentially just said, because they felt that same pressure. And everybody, he said, this is what it was. Everybody keeps talking about the 2008 team.

And up until 2008, everybody was talking about the 80 team because nobody had won. And he said, you just got to go win it. If you want to stop hearing everybody talk about 2008, then go and win it. How do you feel about those words? I would agree with that. I think the great thing about Bryce is that he is such a thick historian of baseball that he wants that parade. He wants that parade.

He wants that moment. He wants that singular, on-the-stage Chase Utley moment. He won't curse, but he wants that opportunity. And he doesn't seem like he needs... I mean, listen, he is the guy that can smack a grand slam when he needs a grand slam or whatever, but I think he'd be happy if anybody else were that guy. No doubt. He just wants to be on the float. He wants to parade down Broad Street.

You know, he saw what the Eagles did. I mean, and that, I think, lit a fire even more. Yeah. This is a good team that we're fielding in Philadelphia. The Braves and the Mets have both upgraded. The contract that happened in New York, I don't even want to say his name because it's kind of offensive. $730 million, is that what he got? It's in that ballpark. You know, the funny thing is he probably would have gotten more if he stayed with the Yankees. All right, so...

In my mind, and I could never be a general manager for about a million reasons, but I think the main one is I don't understand the economics of it. To me, that seems like a waste of money on one player. I'd rather have Bryce Harper and Trey Turner for the same amount that he's going to make in New York. Is that just how contracts are built these days? I just think that's how contracts are built these days. You do have an owner up there that has an exorbitant amount of money. Yeah.

And is a... Just wants to... I think at this point in his life, he's not... He's going to leave a lot of money to whoever it is. But he can still spend a lot of money. I think it's going to be a lot of fun for Phillies fans to hate Juan Soto over the next few years. Of course it is. The best part is that they hated him when he was with Washington as well. And he did embrace it. I think we felt the same way about Bryce. I always tell people that...

I met Bryce when he was like his fourth year with Washington. And I walked away saying, dang it. And then somebody said, what? He's a really good guy. You want to hate him, but you can't. I mean, he was great. I mean, he was great. But every good story has a villain. And now Wancho can be that villain for his coach. No doubt. And I still think, you know, I didn't feel this way last year that we were the team to beat the division. I felt like we were...

We had a chance to win the World Series, and I thought we could because we would match up better in those series. Yeah, yeah. This year, I do feel like we're the best team. I really do. All right. I think everybody made improvements. You know, the Braves are the Vegas favorite to win the division, and I think that's crazy. Well, the discussion of the maturation of the team and that vibe, that energy, and though you don't...

say it in a do-or-die time. This is the time with everyone suggesting you got the right people, the right talent, the right camaraderie, the right vibe. And so, I mean, at the beginning of last year, it looked really good. But, you know, you take what you get. But, I mean...

If people lose bets, can they talk to you? I'll give them a number that they can call. Nice. All right. Well, Tom, thanks for stopping by. It's always great to see you. Appreciate it. And have a good time with Cole today. It's going to be awesome. You guys have fun when you're down here. All right. Appreciate being here. Tom McCarthy, guys.

Yeah. Thank you, guys. With that, we are going to take yet another break. We will return in mere moments. We'll give something away with our lesson question and trash music news coming up next on MMR. Stay with us.

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Now, live from Clearwater, Florida, here's Preston and Steve. Getting towards the end of our broadcast. We've got a few more things to do before we get out of here for the day at BayCare Ballpark, right next to the Bullpen and Frenchie's Tiki Bar. And today's been a blast. I had some really, really fun interviews, and we're continuing on with...

Some more stuff until we wrap and then move on to the rest of our escapades here in Florida. I was just talking to John Brazier and he was saying how we've really had a conga line of really great conversations with the players. And he says, you know, they love being able to kind of be who they are. Yep.

Get the old X and O treatment. Yeah. And that's what we kind of like to do. Well, that's what Stubbs was saying. He's like, sitting down for interviews like this, people get a feel for who they are as people. Yeah, yeah. As opposed to just the team members and the positions and so on. So it's really, really cool. All right. We have a couple things to do, including...

Giving away a lesson question. I don't know what the prize is, but we'll figure that out in a moment. And I don't know what the questions are. We'll figure those out, too. Got them for you if you want. And we're going to take them via text. So, Nick, yeah, what's the question for today? When he was in Italy, what kitchen appliance did Casey mistake thinking that it was actually the bidet? Okay. When he was visiting in Italy, what kitchen appliance did Casey mistake thinking that actually it was the bidet? So text your answer. We'll eventually get your name filtered down to us here, and we will...

Set the winner up with a pair of tickets to see Joe Coy and friends Saturday, October 18th at Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, by the way, for that at 10 a.m. TheOceanAC.com for complete details. So while we are waiting for your answer, we will do the trash. So here we go.

The trash business is a gold mine. 93.3 WMMR with Preston and Steve's Hollywood Trash. All right, Casey's got to say, hang on for a second. He doesn't know who our sponsor is, so. Well, it says Adam Home Services, but I don't have Adam Home Services. Oh, okay. So let's just do this, uh,

for right now. We'll do Camelback for this. All right. And Ryan, get Adam home services and you're going to have to do that from the studio. All right. So we'll mention the fact that it's Camelback Mountain. Was that a baseball? I think so. Wow. Did a baseball just come flying through? No, that'd be awesome if it did though. Okay. It did.

Where? The baseball. Just right through here? Yeah, it was the baseball. It just came flying through here, Steve. Oh, okay. Yeah. We almost died. It's batting practice. And yeah, they can hit it this far when they're being served up softballs. Oh, I love that. Yeah. All right. So everyone pay attention. Yes, please. So Camelback Mountain. You can join Marissa, Casey, and Nick at Camelback Mountain's 20th annual Pond Skim on Saturday, March 22nd. It's going to be the wildest.

End of season party on the slopes. You can go to CamelbackResort.com for details. What's going on this morning, Steve? Well, rapper DGG claiming his ex Haley Bailey is keeping him from seeing their son Halo. DGG says Haley keeping him from Halo shows she has a resident evil in her soul, but he will still wage mortal combat on her.

Spelling her doom. Video games. That's what it's all about. Wow. And Martin Kleba, a little person who voices Grumpy in the new Snow White movie, is furious that Disney canceled the gala premiere over comments made by star Rachel Zegler. Kleba says the next time he sees Zegler, he's going to get a stepladder and falcon punch. Oh, my God.

And finally, tons of special pieces. This is wild, including memorabilia from O.J. Simpson's entire life going up for auction. The collection apparently goes all the way back to O.J.'s first Fisher Price decapitation knife. And that's your Hollywood Drive. All right, thank you. So who do we see about getting a winner? Is that you, Marissa? Are you going to give that to me?

I'm sorry. I'm at the point where I don't care anymore. Well, I emailed it to Ryan Shuttleworth, too. All right, so we got it here. We have Brian Seaman from East Norton answered the question correctly. And Nick, the question was again? When he was in Italy, what kitchen appliance did Casey mistake, thinking that it was a bidet? And the answer is? It is a coffee maker. Yay! Yay!

And so Brian is our winner, and we are going to give him tickets to go see Joe Coy and Friends Saturday, October 18th at Ocean Casino Resort. Tickets go on sale, like I said, tomorrow at 10 a.m. You can visit TheOceanAC.com for the complete details. All right, let's do a little bit of music news, please. Now, Preston and Steve's Music News on 93.3 WMMR.

And if this works out properly, we have Ryan Shuttleworth with our sponsor. Ryan, do you have that?

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called One to One, John and Yoko is now out. The documentary features the 18 months leading up to the couple's one-to-one benefit concerts, which were Lennon's first and only post-Beatles concerts. The doc features newly restored footage from their concerts. Holy cannoli, that was a close one. Casey got it! Casey got it! He got a ball! Woo!

Dude. Where did that... Right over Kathy's head. And thank you to... I think it was Matt who yelled heads up. Thank you. Yeah, Matt. Hey, Matt. Keep that up, please. My eyes are on my script here. He's our ball watcher. Thank you. I wouldn't have seen it. Somebody let me know. All right. So...

The documentary features newly restored footage from their concerts at Madison Square Garden. Almost got hit with a long drive. One to one, John and Yoko also features home movies and phone calls, a reconstruction of the couple's apartment and more. One to one, John and Yoko is going to hit IMAX screens April 11th. So Metallica has always been on the cutting edge of music and now...

They're taking that to another level because the band has partnered with Apple to offer fans an immersive concert experience exclusively on the Apple Vision Pro headset. So starting March 14th, tomorrow, users can access high-resolution 180-degree footage of Metallica's performances of Whiplash 1 and Enter Sandman recorded during the M72 World Tour's final show in Mexico City. It's wild that they're doing this because...

It's my understanding that Apple is either going to wildly revise or actually do away with the headset as it is. Okay. For those without the Apple Vision Pro, Apple stores worldwide will provide demos of the immersive experience. Additionally, an EP titled Metallica, live from Mexico City, features tracks from the concert in spatial audio. What? Is it coming? Yeah.

There's a home run. I believe Alec Bohm is up right now. And Alec is a right. Oh, this is coming at us. This one's coming up. Almost got into the bullpen. Wow. I'm literally ducking under the table. All right. Anyhow, the concert in Spatial Audio will be available on Apple Music starting March 14th. One last story. Hurry up. I know. I'm trying to hurry up.

It's coming. Billy Corrigan of Smashing Pumpkins getting ready to go full opera. A production titled A Night of Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness at the Lyric Opera of Chicago commemorating the 30th anniversary of the band's seminal 1995 album Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness.

The opera is scheduled to premiere on November 21st as part of the Lyric Opera's 2025-26 season. Corgan says that he's excited about merging the storytelling elements of opera and rock music, aiming to offer both Pumpkin's fans and traditional opera audiences a unique experience.

And tickets for the opera will be available to the public starting on April 11th. And that's it. That's all I'm going to do. Run! Run! Okay, all right. Now we will run. We had two of the closest to being hit home run balls hit right by us. And, yeah, they're keeping – that's Alec Boehm who's hitting right now? He was. I think he's not batting anymore. Okay. They're just doing batting practice before the game against the Braves. Yeah. So if it went right over your head, Kathy –

It was right near me, obviously. Yeah. Didn't even see it. Right. Yeah, yeah. All right. So let's take a break. We'll come back in a second. We'll wrap up the show and we will get out of the firing zone and move on to watching the game. So back in a moment from Clearwater on MMR. Got an Alexa device? Tell her Alexa, play 93 free WMMR to stream us live.

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Here comes one. Here comes one. Here comes one. Hold it.

Oh, just short of going over the wall of the bullpen. We're watching batting practice as the Phillies are getting ready to take on the Braves. And we had at least three really close calls. Here's another one coming right at us. Oh, man. Dude, they're getting...

That one didn't quite make it, but we were just getting peppered with him earlier. So we should probably move along. I mean, but what you're describing is the awesome experience of coming here when they're doing this stuff. I mean, you can't believe how close you are to the players. Absolutely. We've had a great time and I would like to thank our guests. We started off with Larry Boa this morning.

And Larry is always the best. We had such a great chat with him. And then we met the new closer for the team, Jordan Romano. Not Romano. Romano. Although he said in the U.S. it's Romano. But you know what?

What a super nice guy. I mean, just so personable. Talking to Mr. Brazier here, John Brazier, and he was saying that he had never really had the chance to learn about him and what a good conversationalist he is and what a great guy. And then we had Brandon Marsh. Yes. Brandon's always great, so we spent a good amount of time chatting with him, getting ready for the season and all. And then last but not least from the team, though, we had Stubbs on, Garrett Stubbs.

Always the best. Wonderful to talk to him and catch up. And then we had Tom McCarthy on for a chat towards the end there. So we have had a full day of meeting some really cool people and having some great conversations. This was a lot of fun. And if Brandon Marsh hits 20 home runs this year, my nephew Luke gets a hug. Isn't that cool? Yeah. Love that guy. We're going to pull for that. We, I believe, back in the studio, have one Mr. Pierre Robert in attendance. Hey, man, how you doing? Good day, Bizballs. Nice to see you, Bizball.

And it is a fine day to be sports and up. You got it, brother. Watch out for those flying spheres. Oh, man. Yeah, but we're all leaving with cool little souvenirs. I've got one in my pocket right here. Is that a baseball in your pocket? It is a baseball. I'm just happy to see you, brother. I'm just curious. All right, so if we can, go ahead and get the letter of the day, Pierre. Yes. All right, here we go. Ryan.

Preston and Steve on 93.3 WMMR. Now, the Daily Letter. All right, and the Preston and Steve Show is brought to you today by the letter... A as in asparagus. All right, and we are going to give away on Friday $500 from Paramount Pictures. Novocaine. You can go see Novocaine in 4DX with seat motion and environmental effects that will put you into the heart of the action.

And you're going to feel it in 4DX. Paramount Pictures, Novocaine, stars Jack Quaid. And that's in theaters tomorrow, by the way. So what's up today, Pierre? Well, we'll have another pair of tickets for Eric Clapton and the Wallflowers on the 13th of September. And Cool Blocks, continuing our block of women for International Women's History Month. A request for a block of Paul McCartney.

And a special theme to wrap up the blocks that will deal with fire and burning. And it will pertain to my Christmas card, which is finally starting to arrive in various homes throughout the Delaware Valley. You could say late. I hear you laughing, Steve.

It might be super early for next year. That's the way to look at it. That's the way to look at it if you're always like, I mean, if you're always me, if you're always who I am. At any rate, by the way, great video that Marissa posted of her departure at the airport yesterday and then Kathy and her having drinks in the bar prior to the jet taking off. And then I saw a little video of

Marissa and Kathy and Steve, you're in the middle seat next to Kathy. Steve, how did you get stuck? You're the star of the show. How did you get stuck in the middle seat? No, I just, it's a short flight. So, and then I, but both the, Kathy hates the window seat. She got the window seat and I got the middle seat, but it actually worked out. But yes, we thought it was kind of funny that we all ended up, at least we did, with the seats we least like. I was just like, oh my God, he doesn't, he's the star of the show or one of the two seats.

Yeah.

You shouldn't be in the middle seat. That flight was as packed as you could get. I mean, there was not one bit of space available. Did you see the Clorox wipes in my hands, Pierre? I did see them. Yeah. Why was that? Are you neurotic about that stuff? There's germs everywhere, huh? Pierre, come on. At this point, you know how I am. Yes, I wiped down my seat, my tray table, my seat belt, all of it. Just lick the floor. It's fine. I don't care what you say. Just drop some food on the floor and drop a slice of pizza on the floor and then pick it up and put it in. The five-second rule applies. Oh, yeah.

Apparently not. A tip from your Uncle Pierre. I will take no tips from Uncle Pierre. And I'll give you rides to the airport. So nothing I say makes any registration on the other side of the microphone to any of the kids. But I understand and I wish you Godspeed and sports up. Thank you.

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Oh, my God. I'm leaving. I'm leaving. I got it. I got it. We almost got hit by a baseball. Did you guys hear that? Yes. I did. I didn't see it because I'm looking down at this copy. But let me finish it. This week, don't miss the classic rock and roll vibe of the Rearview Romantics. Info at thelandis.com. Thank you to Ryan Shuttleworth. Thank you very much to Mike Vito and Roddy Byrd, our engineers. John Brazier from the Philz. That's it. We're done. Ray John, have a great day. Bye-bye. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow.

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