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.H.Y. Why, it is hitting season. Hey there, podcast, pals.

I'm John Stolness from The Good Fight.

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Coming up, the Phillies nightmare April continues after Wednesday nights lost to the Cubs.

Eight losses in a row.

The worst record in the National League now, tied with the Mets,

and only a half a game better than the worst record in baseball owned by the Kansas City Royals.

We'll talk about the first few games of this series against the Cubs, and we're going to get real about the 2026 Phillies.

You guys ready for a little bit of reality?

We'll give you some reality about these 2026 Phillies, and we're going to talk to Jeff Warren about it all.

He is the host of the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast and web show.

And we'll get in, we'll get his thoughts on everything that we've been seeing over these first few weeks and especially over the last few days as the Phillies are continuing to flail.

But before we get into all that, just want to ask you all to

please give a five-star rating and a review to the Hit in Season podcast if you're listening to us on the

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All right.

First three games of this series against the Chicago Cubs continuing some brutal play by this baseball team that we all

thought was at least going to be good enough to get to the playoffs here in 2026. And that could

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