00:00Let me just say this. I just did a column for our site on The Athletic Today, what we learned
00:06from
00:06the trading deadline, and talked to a bunch of executives around the league. This was really
00:10interesting to me because one of the questions I asked was, who's the biggest threat to the Dodgers
00:15now? And the team that got the most votes was the Phillies. I doubt you've had a single caller to
00:24your station since Monday afternoon who shares that sentiment. But it was really interesting
00:29to hear guys from other teams talk about that, talk about Dave. The Phillies, the one, two,
00:36three starters, they're the only team that could really match up with the Dodgers, however
00:41they line up, whether it's Scoogle, Yamamoto, Otani, Snell, whatever it is, right? The Phillies
00:48have a better closer than the Dodgers have. The team on the field is obviously really flawed,
00:54but 78 Phillies starters have started an all-star game. The only one who hasn't,
00:59is Bryson Stott, who is a good player. So the Phillies are a really flawed, imperfect team.
01:08I don't think anybody disputes that. But can they match up with the Dodgers if everything's
01:16going right? If Kyle Schwarber ever starts hitting poles out of the yard again? They're to me and
01:23to other teams around the league, the one team that could match up.
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