Breaking ball and a call. Strike three. Third strikeout 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. Huffer watches it fly.

From W.HYY,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.

We're going to wrap up the first half of the Phillies 2025 season here on the first part

of the podcast.

Well, I don't know, memories of the first

half grades. We'll talk about some of the players that made an impact, both good and bad,

during the first half of the season as the Philly sit in first place at the All-Star break

by a scant half game over the New York Mets. But the main thrust of the show as the All-Star game is taking place this week, the Midsummer, not the Mudsummer Classic, the Midsummer Classic, although if it's wet enough, I suppose the Mudd Summer Classic might happen.

We're going to do a little All-Star trivia here, Philly's All-Star trivia in particular on this edition of the podcast.

So strap in everybody should be a fun episode.

On the roundtable. Justin Clue and

Liz Rocher here. Justin Clue from baseball prospectus, follow him on blue sky at Justin Clue. And

Justin, I have to remember not to put periods in between the first and last names of people on blue

sky when we're, when we're putting out, putting out social media posts because I've been

ghosting you basically for like you and Liz for like every post on blue sky because I don't know how to

do it I don't know what I'm doing. Oh, that's interesting. I guess I was kind of wondering what was

going on there. Wow. See, this is what happens when you skip the weekend social media seminars,

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