This is the High Hopes Podcast.

It's a bunch of baseball nerds, well without the computers.

Talking about the Philadelphia Phillies on radio.

and Sports Radio 94WIP. Yo, it is! and 2018 and if I do say so myself I would say it's been a banner year for the I-O-Spigast James

shelter Jackie Fritz coming your way maybe not a banner off season so far for the Phillies Jack the last show we did we basically just yelled for about 45 minutes

Probably not as much yelling this time, but there is certainly things that we could yell about if we wanted to.

Look the Machado Harper Market is taking time.

Mm-hmm.

We started to see that coming, originally thought it wasn't going to, starting to see that coming. I guess the new new let's start with the news the week and we'll get some mailbag questions later we've obviously

got to discuss the reliever market the rumors about starting pictures one in particular who might cost a lot of money, Jack and I really don't want them

to spend a lot of money on, but let's start with,

I mean, it feels like every show we do until something happens,

it's Harbor Machado.

James, James, hasn't this off been it's been a one big blue balls

it's it

it's been like three years of blue balls leading up to now which is making it even more

blueballing that's what makes it so annoying

it's like we've been waiting for this since 2015 and since the first I forget

what article I don't I forget what publication it came out on but it was like have

you seen the 2018, 2019?

Oh yeah, I feel like Jeff Passin was one of the first ones really beating the drum on it.

And it's crazy how it's all worked.

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