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Good morning. Good afternoon and evening baseball fans. Welcome back to the

Arsenal baseball show. It is Wednesday. This is Carl. This is the nationally show. I am joined by

my nationally partner Chris Clemer and a very special guest, General Smitty. This is the Philly

show boys. I'm very excited for this one. I'm not. You just got back. We should set the stage. You

just got back. You went to Philly for the weekend. Matt's, Matt's losses series. I'm looking at

Smitty before the show. He's got this big shit eating grin on his face.

For big series wins. Smitty, take it away. Hey, look. The Philly's haven't beat the

Metz in a series since I believe late 2021. They've been beaten, battered, abused, specifically last

year, and even a couple of weeks ago they got swept up at City Field. You know, it's a

lot of fun. I think the Kevin LeWoon feeling feels good to win one. Yeah, Philly's the better

team right now. It's just they are. I think a lot of teams are better than the Metz.

Philly's are playing like that great. Yeah. That's what he's playing pretty well. I think

that's one thing I didn't quite get. The Philly's since June have been really good. I don't

really understand the negativity around. I felt in the stadium a little bit. People were getting

really frustrated easily. I think like this team's been pretty good. The Friday team was such an

efficient win. They won five to one and just did everything right. The Metz made a couple of

mental mistakes. Philly's took advantage. I know the Metz won a pitching miss a pissing and

pitching mismatch on Saturday. And then Sunday we shit the bed and you guys didn't let up.

Hey, look, I want to be a Debbie Downer on the Philly's. They had a great West Coast road trip

to get it back above 500. But it's kind of the same shit different day with this team specifically

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