This is the High Hopes Podcast.

It's a bunch of baseball nerds talking about the Philadelphia Phillies on radio.

and sports radio 94WIP.

Yo!

It is another edition of the I-O-S podcast.

It's one of those editions where it is both sweet and bitter. I don't know if there's actually a phrase for that but

Look all I know is Friday night watching meaningful Phillies baseball again even though they lost the game was

About as happy as I've been in a long time it was just glorious and

Obviously the weekend did not end glorious. We'll dive in it all Fransi. What's up about? Well only 57 more games until Macklin attack is fired.

So, I mean, that's the silver line, right?

You were the one who was like, hey, give me a top 10 pick.

Let's go.

Yeah, listen.

I don't know, man, like, are you surprised?

Like, like, it's just funny because it's like it could not have been more on-brand

for the issues that we thought.

It was like watching last season, It was like the exact same thing and

and the bullpen and the failure to convert runners from scoring position and you know the fact that it was like big inning or nothing at all.

And it was just like such a carbon copy. I just feel like we've already, like we should be a mid-season form because this is we know exactly how to handle this team because they're the same team

Yeah, I gotta say the

The 20-20 Phillies sure look a lot like the 2019 Phillies like it like eerily scarily like the

2019 Phillies besides like DD you know DD and Zach Wheeler he's been great

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