Welcome on in to a brand new high hopes podcast. I am joined by a guy who would never try running on

Jorge Alfaro. John Marks, welcome back Johnny. How was the how was the beach?

The beach was great. Never ever ever would I try to run on

Jorge Alfaro unless they had a really slow plotting right-handed

starter to where I could get a huge jump off from like Steve Trachell numbers trash all was garbage

But other than that man you're right beach was great if you hear fireworks in the background

It's because everybody in my neighborhood is is blowing off fireworks.

So yeah, hijack.

Good evening.

While they are blowing up fireworks, we are inside recording I-host because,

because John, we have a fun baseball team how much fun are you having

getting back into like good competent night in night out

Phillies baseball yeah man that's not our style to brag here at the High Hopes Podcast, but you know.

Never.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, we were kind of in on this early, beginning of the season, all three of us,

between me, you and James, all had them right there as the second wild card.

And I don't know if I thought if I thought they were going to be this good with

starting pitching.

I thought the lineup would carry them and they're coming on a little bit here as we get into July,

but you said it, man, it's just a fun season.

It's a fun, it's a fun atmosphere, it's fun to see the young players growing and succeeding and everybody hates the manager or hated the manager

or you gotta rip them oh you're gonna be honest with people and I'm glad they're winning right in those people's faces because he's done a really good job he has

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