Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here.

Swam on, get it, crossed, and the Phillies are going to lead it.

Harper, the swing of his life.

The O2 pit, swing and a miss, stuck him out.

From W. H.Y.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 finally have baseball games to talk about.

The Phillies have you done their spring training, fake game schedule as we're recording here on Monday morning, two games under their belts during their

in grapefruit league play. And so we'll talk about some of the stuff that we've seen so far in

these first couple of games, some injury issues with one of the rookies that we were most

looking forward to seeing play here early on, early on. John Middleton speaks. He did an interview

with Scott Lauber. We'll talk a little bit about that. And then we'll talk a little Olympics. When does baseball? When do these Major League players get their turn as the World Baseball Classic is actually getting ready to get started here in a couple of weeks? So we've got a full roundtable here on this week's edition of the podcast. That means Liz Rocher. That means Justin Clue. That means

yours truly all here to discuss the fills as spring training is now with games being played

officially underway. Liz Rocher is, of course, the editor of Sabres baseball research journal.

You can follow her on X& Blue Sky at Liz Rocher. Liz, how's it going? How are you feeling?

Baseball is back. and my feelings in life are unrelated to that right now. Let's just say that. Baseball is here to be a tonic for you, Liz. Baseball is here to be a tonic, and I'm trying, what I'm doing is trying to just roll with it. My decision right now is just, we're going to roll with whatever the Phillies are doing. Are they losing? Yeah, I'm into it.

Let's do it. Are they winning? I'm also here for that. Let's do it. Whatever they're doing.

It's better than a snowstorm. Oh, God, yeah.

I mean, let's be honest, the Northeast is experiencing their own little hellscape up in Pennsylvania and New York. I mean, here, I know the three of us are kind of more south. I'm in Northern Virginia. You guys are in Maryland. So I think we all escaped the brunt of it. At least I know I did. But yeah, it's apparently, things are happening up where a lot of these people are listening to the podcast from what i can tell um i've also got justin clue of baseball

prospectus an author of the new book summer of the cheap weaners uh if you're wondering what the

phillies were doing during the nineteen forty one joe demasio 56 game hitting streak wonder no

more because you can read all about it in justin's new. It is out. People have it. People are reading it. It is terrific. Make sure you follow him on Blue Sky at Justin. Clue. Justin, how are you feeling, pal? That's what we're doing at Dirty Ending HQ is making sure there's not a Philly season. You aren't aware of the events of starting with 1941. This is part of a

much, much larger project. You will be made aware of the Phillies history. You will not just think

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