00:00Okay, so the teams in the division, we could start there in the National League East. It seems like, at
00:05least from what I'm reading, that Bryce Harper and Dave Dombrowski have had their moment cleared up here. They met
00:13in person. I don't know that Bryce Harper's ever going to forget these comments that were made about him, but
00:19at least for the time being, they have made peace.
00:21So I guess I would ask you, Ryan, do you think that Dombrowski really had any intent behind this to
00:27fire up his quote-unquote franchise player, or do you think that, simply put, this was much ado about nothing?
00:34I don't know. I think Dombrowski's always been pretty candid, and maybe this was a case when he talked about
00:41Bryce Harper not being elite, where he was just a little too candid.
00:44I don't know if he was so measured when he made those comments to think, this is going to light
00:49a fire under him, but I do think in some ways, even if Bryce Harper has tried to say that,
00:54you know, he's definitely expressed that the comments bothered him, but at the same time, he's saying he's not using
01:01it as fuel.
01:02I don't think those two things can line up. I think that there's a little bit of extra fuel under
01:06his fire, so I think for the Phillies' sake, it's only going to help get a better Bryce Harper.
01:11I don't think that there's going to be some big rift, though. I don't think that this means that Bryce
01:15Harper and the Phillies are on their way to some type of a separation.
01:18It was just a story that will be pushed to the back burner, but I don't think it was the
01:23worst thing for Bryce Harper's offseason to have a little bit of extra fuel in the fire.
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