Phillies now also want him to learn first base. Are you a third base man, left fielder or first base man or all of the above. I would say i can do all of the above, you know, my goal, it is to be an every day outfielder. Reporter for ash toy play he needs to hit which was a struggle last season. The his. 245 batting average and 12 home runs is not cutting it. On top of the position change and demotion it was all eating away at him. Mentally when you do a couple Different Things and you are going through stuff, you are not having the success you should be, that is when it gets tough. Reporter after beating himself up and many sleepless nights, asche says he has a clear mind in clearwater and all of the confidence in the world. I have shown glimpses of being a middle of the order bat and glimpses of being a guy who shouldnt be in the line up. You have to produce or we have to move on. Im betting on codey to be successful. Reporter chase utley gave asche a lot of advice last year along wi
Hear. What should we be excited about with this team. He likes all of the names that are there. That is threw my right from the jump. You need a score card for the names. It is a different camp, dues is. It is exciting in that you will see these new players and these Young Players that are targeted to be starters now. From that perspective, the old phillies are out and then this new crop of phillies. They will not be any good but it gives you a level of excitement and interest that hasnt been there before. The old guard is still there, some pieces, chooch, ryan howard. Ryan howard made a brief appearance in camp, he speaks to the media on tuesday. What do you want to hear ryan say on tuesday. I want to hear him say he is after this job fulltime, because the notion is he is a straight platoon player. I hope he says, this is a year where i will compete for fulltime job. I think i can hit. We know he probably cant. He will turn into a platoon but like to hear him, exude some confidence th
Were out and about, you probably noticed we will have left over clouds, this morning but we are expecting sunshine today. In southern delaware, salisbury, maryland, ocean city maryland just a few light showers insignificant but they are there. 42 degrees right the now. Little bit of the wind chill, feels like 37, sunrise at 6 45. It is not the coldest morning we have seen. Temperatures will drop to lower temperatures then that we had over weekend as we get through the day today but still not bad. Thirtyone in mount pocono. Thirtyseven in trenton. Thirtyfive in lancaster. Fortyfive in millville. We are in the mid 40s to start the your day in wildwood. Not bad. Wind shifted to the north woes in the the wake of the rain which was, of course, a associated with a cold front. So, through go, your northerly breeze out there we are off to a cool start. We will probably be at around 40 degrees as we walk out the door this morning. Fortyfive by lunchtime. Reaching our high of 50 degrees by 3 00
Of sunshine today but not the as mild as it was over weekend with northerly breezes between five and 10 miles an hour. If only it the stays this tranquil all week. But no, we have some rain and lots of it on the way for middle of the week. We will talk bit coming up in a few minutes. At 5 01, lets say hi to bob kelly. Hi bob kelly. Good morning, monday morning kick these covers off, live look at 422 as you get ready to roll out of the bed and roll out of the driveway. No problems. Light volume so far this morning. A you will that melting snow leaving behind clumps of dirt, leaves, and all kind of crazy stuff. I noticed that on my way in this morning. Be ready for that through the neighborhood or big snow that they pushed off to the on and off ramps, out there like along 202, or 422, we will see a big pile of dirt out there this morning once the snow melts. Vine street expressway, looking good, no problems at all, this morning coming in or out of the city but some changes over the weeke
Now it is cool tore day because we had rain last night but not that much cooler. We have a nice day ahead. Fifty. How about eight out of ten. Yeah. Yeah. It is looking much better then it was last night, when the rain rolled in. We are off to a cool start with bus stop buddy. He still has winter jacket on but you dont need blanket coat today. We have got a few cloud left over but we do expect plenty of sunshine and sun will rise at 6 45. It is 40 degrees right now, were heading to a high of 50 by even of the day, mostly sunny, not as mild as we can end but 50s still good. 35 degrees tonight, increasing cloud getting ready for mid week rain we will break that storm down for you coming up. So it is monday, bob kelly, how is everybody doing. That is case on monday 6 01. Kick covers off and lets get to the sun beginning to rise over downingtown, a live look at 30 bypass, in problems, or delays at the moment, coming in from the suburbs, looking live, downtown on the vine street expressway,