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Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

Hittin' Season #780: Bryce Harper Arrives in Clearwater (and Still Wants a Contract Extension)

Hittin' Season: A Philadelphia Phillies podcast

WHYY

Sports, News, Phillies, Philadelphia, Baseball, Sports News

4.7693 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 780 of Hittin' Season, hosts John Stolnis, Justin Klugh and Liz Roscher discuss Bryce Harper's arrival to Phillies spring training and the continuing push from his camp for an extension on the end of the remaining 8 years of his contract. Also, is Harper or Trea Turner a better MVP bet? And this week's Phillies Where Are They Now features a guy whose calling card was to urinate in MLB center fields. Yep, that's right.

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0:00.0

From W.HYYYY and Billy Penn, it is hit in season.

0:24.3

Hey there, podcast, pals.

0:25.6

I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight and Billy Penn.

0:28.5

You can follow me on Twitter at John Stolness.

0:30.8

Coming up, the position players are starting to arrive in Clearwater.

0:34.2

Bryce Harper makes his triumphant entry into spring training and talks a lot

0:39.3

about playing first base and contract extension. And we're going to find a similar theme here

0:44.5

with a lot of these players as they're reporting to camp. A lot of storylines that we've already

0:48.4

talked about a lot during the course of the winter. So the beat writers are going to have an

0:52.3

interesting time trying to find some new angles just as we are talking about the Phillies. But more and more players are starting

0:58.0

to show up. So we're going to talk about the first few days and joining me to talk about it, Justin

1:02.1

Klu and Liz Rocher. Of course, Liz Rocher from Yahoo Sports. Follow her on Twitter at Liz Rocher.

1:07.3

Hello, Liz. How was your weekend? How are you? Um, well, I'll admit I've been better.

1:12.7

The Brewers, the Brewers tweeted out a video of Reese Hoskins and, uh, it hurt me. I'm in pain.

1:22.4

Uh, I'm in mourning. I'm upset. Yeah. It wasn't even the Brewers.

1:28.1

It was John Clark.

1:29.3

It was John Clark who tweeted it out.

1:31.0

It's just, uh...

1:32.7

What's John doing?

1:35.0

How's that helping us, John?

1:38.2

He's taking a break from his busy work at the airport, I guess, where he lives all the time.

1:43.6

I don't know what else he does when he's not doing that.

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