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.

Opening day for the Phillies, just ten days away.

We are just a week and a half from regular

season, Phillies baseball spring training wrapping up. We're going to get a Phillies World Baseball

Classic check-in and talk over-unders for the 2026 season. This is hitting season. Hey there,

podcast, pals. I'm John Stolen is from The Good Fight, and this is powered by W-H-Y-Y in Philadelphia. We got a roundtable edition of the podcast here talking all things, Philly Spring Training, World Baseball Classic, as we get ready for opening day. And we're going to go down some numbers. We're going to talk about players and numbers, and we're going to ask whether we think these players are going to go over or under these numbers and the team as a whole here in 2026 and joining me on the round table just in clue and liz rocher liz of course is the editor of

sabers baseball research journal you can find her on x and blue sky at liz rocher liz how we feel in

feeling decent it's been lovely to watch spring training games in a sunny climb.

It's been a little dark and rainy here lately.

So that's been lovely.

It's been fun watching the World Baseball Classic.

It's been less fun watching some players.

I don't know who you're talking about. No, I do. Who could I be talking about? No one. Maybe we'll dive into that at some point during the show. We're just a podcast. That's right. Justin Klu from Baseball Perspectus, and he also hosts a couple of our podcasts over at the Hitt Season Patreon, The Dirty Inning, and Absolutely Hammered.

You can follow him on Blue Sky at Justin Clue, and if you haven't gotten his book, Summer of the Cheap Weeners yet, you are misannounced, so make sure you do that as well. Justin, how are you, bud? I don't know what you guys are talking about. I see a team taking the field every night in the WBC who is cooler and ruder and sterner and meaner than any of the other teams in a bad way.

And that's what the tournament's really about.

Not having, you know, a cultural celebration of each other's identities and the sport itself,

but rather isolating and alienating the other teams and then, you know,

taking super strong stances towards not being friendly to them.

That's, that's largely what the tournament's about.

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