Stairs, rips one into the night, deep into right, way out of here. Swam on. Get it. Cross. And the Phillies are going to lead it. Harper, the swing of his life. The O2 pit, swing and a miss. Stuck him out. From W.HYY, it is hitting season. Hey there, podcast, pals. I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight. You can follow me on X and Blue Sky at John Stolness. Coming up, we're going to recap the Phillies series against the Rangers this weekend. We talked about Justin and Liz talked about opening day on the previous podcast. So no need to trod over that ground once again. But we'll talk about the games on Saturday and Sunday,

both losses as the Phillies offense, the bats went quiet and some uneven starting pitching

from Marinole and Jesus Lazzardo. We'll talk about some of the other folks. The defense was

not great in some spots, but okay in other spots. You know, just kind of a not a lot of fun was had this weekend at Citizens Bank Park against Texas,

but we'll talk about it.

And, you know, gauge our worry level, if anybody can be and should be worried about anything,

three games into a 162 game season.

But joining me to talk about it here on the roundtable, Justin Clue and

Liz Rocher. Liz, of course, is the editor of Sabres Baseball Research Journal. You can follow her

on Blue Sky Index at Liz Rocher. Liz, how are you? Did any of you guys watch Sunday night

baseball last night on Peacock? I did not. Indeed, yes.

We usually stay away from Sunday night baseball, but it was on ESPN.

It was obnoxious and annoying.

We watched it on Peacock last night, and it was actually a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

Jason Benetti was in the box, Ryan Roland Smith, the Australian reliever, and one other guy I don't remember.

But they were having fun.

They were enjoying themselves.

They did some fun stats, like something with like relievers with, like stats were relievers with hyphens in their names.

You know, like it's fun, like it, they kind of realized immediately that a baseball game,

a baseball broadcast doesn't have to be deadly serious.

Yeah.

It's baseball.

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