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Another edition of the High Hopes Podcast, Jack, if you had told me Friday morning that we would be doing this pod and not be completely despondent about it, I wouldn't have believed you.

Because that game on Thursday was maybe even more embarrassing than the 13 and nothing lost to the Reds.

Like the lifeless embarrassing performance against a team that lost 8 straight games in your freaking ballpark, not even showing up for it.

And then Nola gives up the three runs shot in the first the next day.

And we're like, well, this is going to freaking suck, like what the hell?

And then they battle!

We get a Clutch Swarber Homer.

We get a big hit from it, Mundo Sosa, Nick Castillano, sitting bombs, Brandon Marche, the best hitter of baseball.

Frixie, we're back!

We're so back.

And a Thursday night, I understood it.

It was like, what a despondent, brutal, awful.

What are you guys doing kind of performance?

Well, they just came out lifeless.

And I said after the game, they looked like a team that had just played two games on Tuesday, played a big game yesterday.

They get to return home for the first time in like eight days.

And they get to face Ryan Feltner, who had like an 8 ERA and a rocky steam who lost 8 straight.

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