Breaking ball and a cold. Strike three. Third strike out for Zach. He's going to just watch it go. A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

And there's a high fly ball. Deep right field. Hopper watches it fly.

From W. H.Y, this is HITN Season of Philadelphia Phillies podcast.

My name is Justin Clue.

I write for baseball prospectus, and my book, Summer of the Cheap Weeners, is available for pre-order now and will be out in February 2026 from Brooklyn Books.

With me is Liz Rocher, the editor of Sabres Baseball

Research Journal. Hello, Liz. Hello. I'm actually did not know that your book is available

for pre-order, and I'm literally doing it right now. This is not the first time that a podcast co-host

has learned information about the book or that there is a book while we're recording a

show. So this is, I'm glad I'm doing this because the marketing push is clearly already effective.

I'm glad, yeah. My God, the cover is so awesome. Everyone look it up. It's perfect. It's on Goodreads.

You can go look at it and tell Goodreads that you want to read it. It just makes me look more popular, which I know is what we all want to do. So thank you. Hey, Liz,

you catch that Mets game yesterday? Actually, a very good friend of mine was at it with his

almost two-year-old son. Good, good. I'm glad they get exposed to this early because this is, this is the life you've chosen

for your very young child.

I hope that registers with you, parents of Mets fans.

Look, I'm not, I'm not upset at all.

I'm glad about what's happening to the Mets.

Of course, the Mets are closer to 500 than ever now that they lost yesterday to the Washington

Nationals, a truly bad baseball team, whom the Phillies also fairs fair split a series with

that they should have won. But the Mets lost nine to three to the nationals yesterday, sinking

to 60 and 67 on the season. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and

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