This is the High Hopes Podcast.

It's a bunch of baseball nerds talking about the Phillies on radio.com in Sports Radio 94, WIP.

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Another addition of the Hios podcast.

Jack, I was getting to the point where I thought they just might all be great years.

I thought, you know, it was a new era, all the yos would be fun. I wouldn't have to do the whole

thing. But alas, we're here. Aranola is still Aranola. Somehow the bats have gone cold.

Good times, pal. What a start. Especially because like, I don't know about you, but I was

so excited to record this podcast Monday night. Like, if we had recorded it Monday night,

it would have been such a magical, beautiful thing. Less magical. Less beautiful. How are you, pal?

Nevertheless, here we are. Here we are. It's quite annoying that we already have to do

one of these podcasts. We're back. We talked about we're back when the Phillies were back, but

that was that was that was bowl crap. Like, we're back now. This is this is what we do right here.

Three and three. Three and three. It's, you know, we're right on track. I just don't know why it has

to be this way. Like, I swear to God. Like, I literally, I swear to God if this lineup was in

any other city, they score like 10 runs a night. I really do believe that. Like, I think,

it just doesn't make any sense to me why they can't score right now. And like, I don't, I do not

care that they scored six runs today. Like, it was mostly garbage time. Like, mostly when the game

was out of reach, like, I just, I don't care. I don't view today as a positive offensive game.

I know they came back on Monday. I don't view that as a positive offensive game. It showed that,

hey, we can score quickly. Like, awesome. Is that going to last for for 162? It's just, I think it's,

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