Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here. Swam on. Get it crossed. And the Phillies are going to lead it. Harper, the swing of his life. The O2 pit, swing and a miss. Struck him out. From W.H.Y. It is hitting season. Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Coming up, the Phillies regular season is over. The number two seed in the National League, they have the week off as the wild card round gets underway on Tuesday. But we'll take a look back at the 20-25 season here on this edition of the roundtable,

and we will take a look ahead at this wildcard weekend. And the teams that the Phillies

would be playing, depending on who wins, and we'll get into all kinds of postseason picks.

Well, you know, we'll just, this is an episode where we're going to be taking a look at this

October tournament coming up here and whether or not the Phillies, can they do it this time around?

Coming up short, three straight years is this the year they finally do it.

Joining me on this edition of the Roundtable, Liz Rocher and Justin Clue, Liz, of course, you know, as the editor of Sabres baseballball Research Journal, you can follow her on X& Blue Sky at Liz Rocher. Liz, we're on the eve of the wildcard round. The Phillies are going to be able to take it easy this week. They'll have some stuff going on, but we're going to settle in and watch some teams, some teams play some playoff baseball this week. How you feeling?

I'm excited. The Phillies are not involved in any of it. I can enjoy it and breathe. There's no Astros. There's no Mets. It's like it's, uh, it'll be like a little vacation for me, a fan,

not for the players. Yes. This is like an amuse bush for us, uh fan, not for the players.

Yes, this is like an amuse-boosh for us this week as we get a little taste of the playoffs

before the Phillies are slated to get underway on their game one of the NLDS

will be on Saturday, so that'll be the Phillies first game action.

But until then, Justin Clue from baseball prospectus and, of course, our hit in season, Patreon podcast,

The Dirty Inning, and Absolutely Hammered. Follow him on Blue Sky at Justin Klu.

Justin, yes, Phillies have that buy. So how do you plan on spending the week?

Are you watching every one of these playoff games?

You're just going to just mix and match a little bit, dip in and out?

How are you approaching things?

I'm curious to see how the Reds do with their kind of like playoff weasel atmosphere.

Or the rats.

They said rats.

Their whole thing is comparing themselves to rats.

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