Welcome in once again to Breaking Balls National Edition.

So I said the other day that we are trying to expand our content here,

baseball content a little bit at 985, the Sports Hub.

And one of the things we also wanted to do is beyond just the city limits of the city of Boston,

get into some national issues throughout Major League Baseball and storylines, really,

entering the 2026 season that I think are worthy of following.

And let me just say, for those of you who don't follow Boston sports regularly,

may be interested in baseball.

I've been covering baseball or sports in Boston for about 35 years now and had a Hall of Fame vote for a long period of time.

And I'm, you know, always been interested in the sport as a way to say it.

So thank you for watching.

Thank you for listening.

I'm going to try to hit on most of the big markets throughout the course of the year.

We'll have guests, things like that. At least that is the hope here as the year goes on. So a couple of things,

again, interesting storylines to me that are going to come up or have already come up during

the course of this year. So I want to start in Philadelphia. I think Philly and Boston are very

similar in a lot of ways. Passionate fan

bases, northeast cities, a lot of history in both of those markets. I would say passionate

fan bases, sometimes angry fan bases. That's also a factor. So to me, the story in Philly

certainly is the fact that they brought back the entire team. And really it feels like

there's this little spit match or pissing match going on between Dave Dumbrowski and

Bryce Harper. A clash of massive egos in Philadelphia. It would be interesting to see how that

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