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.

Hurt, the swing of his life.

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

From W.HYY, it is firing season.

No, sorry, guys, it is hitting season here. I'm John Stolness from the Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. I swear I wasn't planning on starting the podcast off with that. It just felt organic. It came from within. And so it just went with it. And I felt like it was appropriate as we are conducting an

emergency podcast here after the Phillies announced on Tuesday morning that they have indeed

decided to relieve Rob Thompson of his managerial duties. He is gone after 28 games here in

2026, but after parts of four seasons with the team, but 22, 24, 25, parts of five seasons with the team, as I'm doing the math in my head, mostly filled with tremendous success, but obviously disappointing and off to an awful start here this season.

So we are back for a quick roundtable edition of the podcast, emergency style to talk about the decision by

Dave Dumbrowski and what that means for the team and just our general reactions to it.

Justin Clue and Liz Rocher joining me here once again, Justin, of course, from Baseball Perspectus.

You can follow him on Blue Sky at Justin Clue, that's right.

And of course, he's author of Summer of the Cheap Weeners.

Make sure you get that at brooklinebooks.com.

And Liz Rocher, editor of Sabres Baseball Research Journal, here with us as well.

Follow her on X and Blue Sky at Liz Rocher.

Justin, how you feeling, pal?

You know what the 1941, Phillies didn't do 28 games into the season?

I'm guessing.

I'm guessing.

They didn't fire their manager.

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