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This is the Michael Kay Show podcast. I got to get more K. Listen live weekdays at one on the ESPN New York app and your smart

speaker. And a good afternoon. Everybody, this is indeed the Michael K. Show. We thank you for joining us

on Tuesday. It is April 28th, 2026, me and you for two. Those are the rules of engagement engagement it's the fastest two hours in sports talk

radio and here we are you know the the password to get in as the co-host it's 1-800 919 3776

1-800 919 3776 so n's play game 5 tonight.

We will cover that in-depth in the second hour of the show.

We've got Fred Katz, who does such a great job covering the entire NBA for the athletic.

He will join us at 2 o'clock.

So I promise we will get to that.

We start off with Rob Thompson being fired by the Philadelphia Phillies

and the impact that it has on Carlos Mendoza and the Mets. And here it is. So the best fit

for Alex Corr was Philadelphia. Dave Dombrovsky, the president of baseball operations

of the Phillies, loves Alex Corr. He's the one who hired him, loves him, loves him from

Alex Corr. He is not an intrusive analytics driven ahead of baseball operations. He's very, very old school.

And you might say, well, that's not great for the Phillies because most of the sport has advanced to the point of analytics being very important.

I'm sure that they deal in analytics, but he's not pushing it on his manager.

He let Rob Thompson manage, and Rob Thompson made the playoffs all four of the years that he was there.

Rob Thompson had the highest winning percentage in the modern era of any Philadelphia Phillies manager ever,

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