Guess what time it is. It is time for a semi-emergency, immediate-ish, draft reaction addition of the

High Hopes Podcast. I am Jack Fritz, riding solo tonight because I would have felt like I was doing the listeners of the

I Hope's podcast and injustice by not coming on tonight getting a

podcast in your feeds talking about Alec Bone who in my opinion should

actually be going by the name

Alec Baum, just so we can say it's another bomb from Baum.

What the Phillies did tonight?

And I don't think it's an understatement to say this is that they drafted their next cornerstone

in third basement.

I for most of the pre-draft pre-draft process.

I liked Alec Baum.

I pretty much was convinced he was gonna be the pick

and that was cool with it.

I thought I think he's gonna to be a middle of the order impact

that for a long time in the league. And the one thing that was kind of holding me back and this is just me being me is that I've grown up playing

against guys like Alec Baum that carry themselves the way that Alec Baum carries

himself in the field which is just like this

classic baseball bro like not really worried about the fundamentals and I know that sounds

so like old guy takey and whatever but he just he just carried himself in a way that I don't like going against that guy on the field

like I never really respected that kind of player but in watching him more and listening to some of his interviews, some of that was probably

just my pre-cancy notion. I was not going to do a podcast tonight, but tonight of the station,

we were running the Stanley Cup finals

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