Devan on Phils Locker Room

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00:00you feel in that clubhouse um so it's hard to say because it's so like baseball is just a

00:08different it's totally different from like being in the Eagles locker room right because the Eagles

00:11also I mean Nick Sirianni also said yesterday football is one of the only sports where they

00:14practice more than they actually play where baseball they're playing a game every day so

00:18when you're in the clubhouse it's always you know pretty quiet a little bit awkward I did

00:24talk to Kyle Schwarber um before Monday's game and kind of asked him like it's as a leader of this

00:30team is this a moment where you are gonna give these guys like a rallying cry a met like are you

00:37the guy that's gonna tell everyone to you know whatever the message is step it up whatever it

00:42may be let me say the message real quick before the before you continue that story the message should

00:47be now you better get your head out of your ass I knew that essentially yeah and I'm really glad

00:52that we found the drop board now uh 8 45 a.m right on time there Joe but he basically was like

00:58no I mean we have individual conversations and I think that that kind of sums up the overall feel

01:03of the clubhouse where you don't really get this sense of urgency I think that they're frustrated

01:08and Rob Thompson admitted that but they also know it's a long season and I hate I hate the saying

01:15it's just baseball that's just baseball but that's just baseball like they're going through a lull

01:21right now I certainly think they need at least one other player whether it's a bat you know

01:27watching a guy like Kyle Tucker coming here from the Cubs I think he's exactly the type of guy that

01:31the Phillies would need I think they tried to get him didn't land him like a lot of they tried to

01:36trade Alec Boehm so it's not like they're not trying to make moves they certainly need some sort of spark

01:41though yeah no I I agree and they I think they need an outfielder desperately and you know even when

01:47they had the best record of baseball which I think was as recently as about two weeks ago

01:51hard to believe yeah it wasn't long ago that's baseball yeah yeah but they weren't doing it

01:56because of their bats they were doing it because of their pitching yeah starting pitching starting

02:02pitching they were doing it because of their and the irony is the starting pitching really hasn't

02:06even been that bad the last two weeks now it's not been as good Lizardo was a disaster twice

02:10Mick Abel last night was not good I do think they're feeling the effects of no Nola the classic

02:15no Nola not the no Nola this year the calming presence just every day put it this way guys

02:22the last five years yeah their three best players have been Zach Wheeler Bryce Harper and Aaron Nola