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LANCASTER COUNTY REPORT: PHILLIES 2025 VS 1964, JIM MCTAGUE, FORMER WASHINGTON EDITOR, BARRONS. @MCTAGUEJ. AUTHOR OF THE "MARTIN AND TWYLA BOUNDARY SERIES." #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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LANCASTER COUNTY REPORT:  PHILLIES 2025 VS 1964,   JIM MCTAGUE, FORMER WASHINGTON EDITOR, BARRONS. @MCTAGUEJ.  AUTHOR OF THE "MARTIN AND TWYLA BOUNDARY SERIES."  #FRIENDSOFHISTORYDEBATINGSOCIETY

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.6

This is CBSI on the world.

0:13.6

I'm John Batchel.

0:14.9

Violence in the world.

0:16.0

What does a senior figure do if there's violence in the world?

0:20.2

You go to a Phillies game. That's what you do.

0:23.0

I welcome Jim McTague reporting on Lancaster County, the best county in the Keystone State.

0:28.8

And the Philadelphia Phillies are only one of two teams in the state that play Major League

0:33.9

Baseball, the other being the Pittsburgh Pirates. But we're going to a Phillies game because it turns out, Mr. McTag and I both attended Phillies games when we were lads. Connie Mack Stadium,

0:44.4

which was, well, compared to modern stadiums, a bandbox. You set behind a pillar or you didn't,

0:51.0

and it always had that aroma of a cigar from last year. However, Jim, a very good evening

0:57.3

to you. Let us not start with Connie Mack. Let us start with the stadium you attended. You went

1:02.5

to see the Phillies who have a good team again, I think, and the experience was compare and

1:08.2

contrast with your time watching the Denver Rockies recently. Good

1:13.2

evening to you, Jim. Hi, good evening, John. You know, both the stadiums are wonderful. The Phillies

1:19.1

fans are more enthusiastic than the Rockies fans because the Rockies have a losing team. The stadium is

1:26.4

compact. It is loaded with concessions, which led me to the conclusion that Citizens Bank Park,

1:34.2

the Philly Stadium, has much in common with a modern hospital.

1:37.9

You can't find healthy food anywhere.

1:40.5

I mean, the concessions, they have submarines sandwiches that are as big as submarines.

1:46.6

They have pizza.

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