High Hopes Chapter 2: John Middleton's great expectations
High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast
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🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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James Seltzer and Jack Fritz discuss John Middleton's appearance on the WIP Morning Show and what the Phillies owner had to say about this team becoming one of the all-time greats.
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| 0:00.0 | We had John Middleton on the show today, and I know he had said a similar quote. |
| 0:04.0 | I can't remember what article it was, but, um, you know, it made the rounds athletic |
| 0:07.7 | or something like that. |
| 0:08.4 | It was in an article a few months ago, but he said it on the show again. |
| 0:12.6 | And it was, you know, talking about his goals for the team. |
| 0:15.6 | And he had two lines that stuck out. |
| 0:17.6 | The first one was, you know, when I talked to this team, if I say I want you to win a |
| 0:22.1 | world series, he's like, that's not good enough. |
| 0:24.8 | He's like, this team should win multiple world series. |
| 0:27.8 | And he said, when I look back, when you look back at the history of baseball, |
| 0:31.5 | when you talk about the great teams in the history of the sport, he's like, I want |
| 0:35.6 | this Philly's team to be on that. |
| 0:37.1 | Like that is such a grandiose and lofty thing to say and a goal to have. |
| 0:44.0 | And, and again, they have to go out and prove it and stuff, but like the pieces |
| 0:48.7 | are there. |
| 0:49.3 | The pieces are there for this team to, to do what the Astros just did to win two |
| 0:53.8 | world series in a five year span or whatever. |
| 0:55.8 | Like they obviously again, win one, win one. |
| 0:59.4 | And we would send the same thing about away and they had the chance and all that. |
| 1:01.9 | But like, but it is, it is really exciting to look at this group of what's here now. |
| 1:06.6 | The next few years with these guys, everyone under contract already. |
| 1:11.0 | Like the, the sky is the limit with this group. |
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