This is the High Hopes Podcast.

It's a bunch of baseball nerds talking about the Phillies on Odyssey in Sports Radio 94 WIP.

Man, it's good to be back at Citizens Bank Park.

Welcome in, Jack Fritz, hanging out with you here on the final outsponsored by Regency Furniture.

Affordable, never looked so good, Phil's win.

A much-needed win. It got a little tight there.

But ultimately, they powered through and come out on the home opener with a win.

And just the overall takeaway real quick on the game is that one, it is so nice to be back at Citizens Bank Park.

I was down there earlier today.

Was there for all the pre-game festivities?

I was talking to people outside of the stadium.

John, Ike and I and Jillio and Hugh were in our little booth down it outside like Section 125.

And it felt like we were back to post-season baseball.

And it felt like we were right back to last October, last November.

Where just the feeling was infectious.

And it didn't feel like I was walking into a stadium that was dealing with a 1-5 baseball team

and where it felt like the sky was falling.

It felt like we're home now.

Everything's gonna be okay.

Everything's gonna be okay because we know how that team plays at Citizens Bank Park.

And we know it's a different level of atmosphere.

When this, this Philly's team is in front of that crowd and is revved up and fired up and ready to go.

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