00:00So you really believe Middleton and the Phillies were all in on Bichette and everything like that,
00:04right? You're totally bought in. Absolutely. Okay. So that means they have $155 million
00:09that the owner was willing to commit to spend because they gave $45 million of it to JT.
00:14So there's $155 million. That means they've got a ton of flexibility. And Andrew,
00:21listening to you over the years when we didn't work together, you were always willing,
00:26even though on the air, you would always say you didn't especially like it,
00:31but you were always willing to play the, well,
00:34I'll see what this Sixers team looks like at the trade deadline. Okay.
00:39So what you're going to have to do with this Phillies team is say they have one of the highest
00:44odds to get to the national league championship series.
00:48They have one of the better odds to get to the world series out of the national league.
00:52And the owner already signed off on committing $200 more million to this payroll that a lot of us
01:01didn't know that was going to be there. Now you got to subtract what last year, what JT made. So
01:06it's really not 200 million, but just for sake, that means he was significantly going to upgrade
01:12this payroll this year. So that means they will take big swings on acquiring players and acquiring
01:21contracts if need be. The thing is, is the owner played. We do know one thing.
01:28John Middleton publicly played his hand that there was 200 more million dollars they were willing to spend.
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