Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here. Swam on. Get it. Cross. 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 have got a big guest for you here on this episode of the podcast.

The greatest third basement in baseball history, the greatest Philadelphia Phillies player in history.

Michael Jack Schmidt joining the show here this week. We're going to talk to him about an awareness campaign that he

has launched regarding melanoma and youth sports, but also we're going to get his thoughts on

the early season Phillies. We'll get his thoughts on changing a manager at the beginning of the

season. And I also wanted to get his

thoughts on the current playoff structure and what we might be looking at in terms of a labor

stoppage at the end of this season. So we're going to talk to Mike Schmidt about all of that

stuff coming up here in just a couple of minutes. But first, a couple more quick thoughts.

As we are now this Rob Thompson

situation, the firing of Rob Thompson is more in the rearview mirror. The Phillies have played

their first game of the Don Mattingly era. And in Don's first game as manager, the Phillies

wins seven to nothing. They play perhaps their most complete game of the season. Now, I'm not going to sit here

and tell you that it was all coincidence or that there was no coincidence, but one of the things

that you were hoping that a move like this would make for a to let go a man who didn't deserve

to get fired, but something had to change, and this seemed like the most likely outcome,

was that it would shake the team up. It would shake the players up, focus them in a little bit more.

And at least for one night, on Tuesday night, it seemed to do just that. For the first time,

a Philly starting pitcher pitches into the seventh inning, and Jesus Lazzardo pitched seven

shutout innings in this game for his best start of the

season. He has been so up and down, but really one of the snake-bitten Philly starters here so far on

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