The All right. Welcome everybody back to the PHLY Sixers podcast. I'm Derek, joined today by Rich.

And I'm happy that we have Rich in the studio today

because, you know, I think one of the cool things about PHLI, there's a lot of cool things,

but one of the cool things is that we can sort of like be open fans about other teams more than we

could maybe at the athletic. And Rich and I both obviously grew up in Philadelphia.

I think we have trained ourselves not to be a fan so much of the Philadelphia 76ers.

If they make a title run, you will not see videos of Rich and I reacting like Jamie was last night.

But with the other three teams and the Phillies and Eagles pretty specifically, we get to be a little bit more fans than maybe we used to.

And to be able to sit here

and Rich now is obviously writing about all four teams with the daily newsletter. Go sign up, all p.hly.com. That is free. You don't have to be a subscriber for that. But Rich gets to write about all the teams. We both get to be maybe fans a little bit of the team. We're watching the game three here in studio the other day as we're preparing for our show and just we get to be a little more

open about the fact that, yes, we're from Philadelphia. We love sports and we happen to root for these teams. So it is good to have you in studio and talk about what was a pretty epic last two days here in South Philadelphia. And I know I joked on Twitter that we would only talk about the Phillies on this show.

That's not true.

We are a Sixers podcast.

We will talk about the Sixers as well.

But just a quick reaction to what we've seen.

Amazing, right?

And I don't think I've ever seen a Philadelphia sports team like these Phillies that, you know, pretty average regular

season team.

Like not crazy good, but they're just gamers, man.

And, you know, watching them beat the Braves the second year in a row, watching the Braves just

melt down.

It really is.

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