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.HY, Y, it is hitting season.

Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolnes from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Come out. Phillies, take another series, this one against the Colorado Rockies at Citizens Bank Park. Four series in a row under Don Mattingly, the greatest manager who ever lived. And so we will talk about the stars of the series against the Rockies. And, you know, hey, listen, not a lot of bad stuff to talk about with the baseball team. All of a sudden, incredible a thing. This is the same baseball team that a couple of weeks ago lost 10 games in a row. Same season. Yes, we're going to, after the Phillies have this parade this year,

we're going to look back on April and see the 10 game losing. I'm sorry, I'm just being silly. That's not, I'm not actually going there. I'm not actually going there. No, but joining me here on, not yet, not yet, but joining me here on the round table, Justin Clue and Liz Rocher. Justin Clue, of course is from baseball prospectus.

He's the author of the book Summer of the Cheap Weeners.

You can follow him on Blue Sky at Justin Clue. And if this is not enough, Justin, for you, you can also listen to the Patreon podcasts that he hosts, absolutely hammered, and the dirty inning over at the hit in season. Patreon, Justin, how you feeling, bud? Speaking of which, it's going to be sort of an outdated episode. Well, I guess they're all pretty outdated. They're all outdated. What are you talking about? It's going to be thematically outdated in that we did an episode. We're going to record this week on the 1999 losing streak. That was the comparison to the Phillies 2026 losing streak. that is now such old news. It's going to sound like we're going out of our way to be super negative about the team. But that's kind of what we do at the dirty inning. And I think we'll find a way to enjoy it regardless. Yeah. That's generally speaking how it goes over there. You know, it's where it's the Misery Loves Company podcast.

That's really what it's all about. That's beautiful thing. Plus, you know, you can look back at Philly's history and point, and it'll be endless debate depending on when you were alive, but you can point to the best, see, the worst season, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's all these other, like, emotions you can feel outside of anger, sadness, and happiness, which is largely how these are siloed into.

There are the Philly seasons that are like the more peripheral. other like emotions you can feel outside of anger, sadness, and happiness, which is largely how

these are siloed into.

There are the Philly seasons that are like the more peripheral emotions, like disappointment,

a subgenre of sad.

1999 is one of those types.

It fills in one of those sub-emotion years in that, the disappointment of this 1999 team is just coming

off the page of every newspaper covering their exploits, especially near the end of the season

when they underwent this losing streak. So thankfully, we're not talking about Affilius team

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