High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast - Don't Let The Phils Win Game 3

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

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So it's the day of game three. They're playing tonight. We'll be up late watching and talking about the Phillies. Check us out in the post game. Hopefully it's fun. That'd be cool. We got all kinds of things to talk about. Nick Castiano loves to talk, all kinds of stuff.

How you doing, pal? Feeling good. Oh, really? Are you? Feeling good. Feeling good. Feel better, please. Just let you know.

Feeling a little dangerous. Feeling a little dangerous. I don't know. know if it was the destiny tweet i saw yesterday about how they're going pure powder blues well the powder blue is the only like if you there's one thing that gives me any sort of confidence out there it's a powder blues that's it yeah so powder blues is a big confidence builder i have watched i have watched the kevin milar comments 16 times this morning already just don't let the phyllis won game three don't let the phil's win game three you got sanchion game four and who knows what happens in game five

By the way, Lazzardo game 5 and 58 degree weather with Shohay on the mound. You think he's coming here in cold weather and beating this baseball team? I need this baseball team to just win a game tonight. Just win a game tonight. Win a game tonight and anything can happen. You have a little bit of Uncle Mo back on your side, a little bit of Uncle Moe back on your side and just extend this thing one game at a time. I'm ready for the comeback of the lives.

I can't see it. I can't believe you've gotten here, is it? So you feel good about Aaron Nola leading that comeback? So here's how I feel about Nola's tonight. He either is going to go out and get shelled in the first inning. And it's going to be like four nothing. I believe he has a 7.94 ERA in the first inning this season. That feels a little bit off.

It's pretty high, dude. Ria just mentioned it on the show. something like that i'll look it up when you talk well he i it's shockingly high the nola stat that i hate the most is is his um is his road numbers like his road numbers this year have not been as good as uh i think previously he's been all right on the road but this year he's kind of a disaster 794 794 there it is in the first i mean just saying 15 earn runs and 17 nines not bad it's all right hold on what is for hold on Rea was right

Don't doubt the Ria stats I never saw it's Oh good What's his worst The fourth is six good 13 and a half 15 earned runs and 10 innings It wasn't about doubting Ria

But I did remember looking at Like his first two times Through the order not being as bad So that's where I'm a little surprised That it's that high But I mean it does check out He's had some absolute stinkers in the early in the early games yeah so all right all right so first time through

opponents have a 381 slugging percentage with a 693 OPS I guess it's even with the first endings wow so it's not bad yeah second time through it's 255 average with a 797 OPS so that's pretty bad that's pretty bad that's starting to tick up that might not sound bad when you're listening but that's bad and then and then third time third time through hitters are getting 315 with a with a thousand OPS that seems bad yeah seems like that's the so one time through the lineup is that what we're shooting for like shooting for two we're shooting for two um so yeah so can I can I just real quick let me ask you a question before we move on from this because like like and I think the vast majority of Phillies fans this feel this way and that I get

it if you're going to pitch Nola you start it I get that you don't pull them out of the bullpings He's never done it, like, whatever. Why pitch Aaron Nola? Why not just hand the ball who it seems like he's, I get it. If Ranger's not healthy and he doesn't pitch him, then it was a lot of concentration for nothing he couldn't pitch. But it certainly seems like we're going to see Ranger Suarez tonight for an extended period of time after Aaron Nola.

Why not just give the ball to your best pitcher? Get a lead. Let Ranger go as long as you can and figure it out from there. And guess what? Sorry, Aaron Nola doesn't pitch in this series when he's got a six ERA on the season. And it's been one of the worst pitchers on the team. Like how many guys have started a playoff? off game of the above six ERA.

I'll bet you the list is real small, Jack. And I'll bet you of the ones on the list, the vast majority of them are like good pitchers who were hurt all year and had like one start or two starts and then get a playoff start. Wow. I'll bet you it's pretty rare, dude. Well, Nola also has been hurt for majority bar.

No, but he's pitched a fair amount of the season. You know, like enough. You're right. He was out for a fair amount. But me, Nola's pitched a couple months, you know? It's not like, I was talking one start is what I'm saying.

Like, it's like, oh, he had a bad start in his eye. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's looked healthier. recently so i think the fastball started to tick up a little bit i guess all right so let's try to look at it from their perspective on one hand maybe rager maybe it's not even the the leg maybe it's the back acting up again and they feel like he can't get through seven or can't get through six anyway so if you're i guess if you could be looking at through there that is possible look at for

through their lens what is their best chance of getting six quality innings tonight or seven quality innings. Is it a Nola Ranger piggyback or just giving the ball a Ranger? And I think that their calculus here. I also don't think they thought they'd be down to O. I agree. I think that they thought this was going to be at least one one. So that stinks. So I guess from that perspective, that's what they're thinking. And maybe Ranger is more banged up than they thought. And again, it's not like Rangers last two outings, I don't think, looked all that inspiring either now. But I know, Three outings weren't good. I know it's a 1.43 ERA in the post.

1.43 Aaronola 4.02. Yeah. So I really think it comes down to, and again, the thing that they have to factor in, which makes it tougher, but it's not, it's not a part of the conversation, is you do also maybe have to have a game tomorrow. So it's not, I know you can't worry about tomorrow, do whatever it takes to win the ball game today. But if these guys can go out there and give you seven,

And it leaves you in a much healthier position tomorrow if it can get to that game. But again, you have to get to that game. So it's a really, really, it's a tough situation. This is where you feel the loss of Zach. Yeah. I mean, Jack, that's exactly right. This is where you feel it because you'd be one game back. You'd be have Lazzardo pitching tonight.

You know, I mean, that's a completely different thing. You would have you probably win game one. No offense to Sanche. I love him. He didn't get it done in that spot. And he wasn't horrible or anything. But, you know, he didn't get through six. Like I think Wheeler probably leaves the game seven thinning after seven with a three nothing or three one lead or something.

Like it's a different situation. So you definitely feel it. And look, I think you've made about what's funny is what you're saying makes more sense in the way Rob Thompson explains it. You know, Rob Thompson has not been as eloquent as you in explaining why he's like, well, I don't want him to come out of the bullpen and blah. Oh, and by the way, I do trust him. Like it's like it just seems like it's it seems like when the way he explains it. it because he is not explaining it as logically as you are, it feels like that the things that we are worried are a factor, like the fact that Aaron Nola has a five years and $125 million

left on his contract, the fact that they don't want to, you know, bury him and they don't want to not have him pitch in the playoffs. Like I know, but that like that stuff filters in and it's a factor because we've seen dumb stuff like that before. Yeah. And I think, I think the way Thompson has talked, I think he's usually a very honest and good talk. I agree. I think he's been And it's not the, obviously, not the reason they're losing, but I think he's been a disaster of the podium. Yeah, I thought. I just had awful.

Awful, awful, awful. I mean, saying you're playing for the tie, like so many things have just been really uncharacteristic of him at the podium. The moves is a different thing. But at the podium, it's crazy. Well, to me, I feel like he's just lying. I think he lied about disguising the wheel play against Mookie. You think it should have been off and Stott and Cassiano's didn't,

Eric Stott didn't recognize or something? Maybe he's just covering up for Stott, you know, That's what I mean. Do you think he's covering for Stott? Could be. Could be. But you can't say he disguised it well when they ran it when it was an O-O-O-O-account and then showed it on the first page.

We saw it in the building. When we were in the building, you could see them running the wheel route. Like it was. And then the, and then the more impactful wheel route, the Jayland to Seeklon wheel route. No, definitely the, definitely the dog, it's like a close. I don't know if the Eagles ever had a wheel route as impactful. I mean, the Corey Clement catch and the Super Bowl wasn't really. a wheeler. I was kind of started, but then he went over the middle.

Like, I don't know the Eagles have ever had a more important wheel route than that wheel route. The Dodgers pulled off. And it was so funny, and Mookie said this, and he's dead right. He said, I don't know what the reaction is. Such a simple play. Like, I mean, the wheel route because it's because what do they think they're not going to cover third? That's what you don't understand. So, do you think they're just going to give you third base? Do you think that they're saying, all right, you executed a bun in the field of play? Congratulations. We're just going to get that at first. Cassiano is given third base.

Like I don't understand what the alternative was. When they're saying we didn't know they were going to do wheel route, like what did you think they were going to do, not field the bun, give you third bait? Like I don't, Jack, like what is the alternative there.

I don't understand what they're talking about. Well, the wheel route's a super aggressive play because like it's just a play where it's pretty much do or die. It's a do or die. Because you have no encumbering second. You need the first basement or the third base. Whoever the ball doesn't go to us to sprint to second base.

I get it. But they would. And that's an area. but they're with especially with Cassiano's the second base like especially with Cassianas the second base so know your personnel so maybe if it's tray or stott or someone there maybe it's different and they just concede it but especially with that you have the opportunity to go get a slow-footed runner at third base but um and then the other thing that annoyed me and you mentioned it a little bit there but like playing for the tie but also the saying the bullpen

was in a healthy spot oh what was that you you already burned durandstrom banks Kirkering. So unless you went Duran another inning and then Robertson, is that considered healthy or Ranger? Like that's what we're calling it.

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So Ruben Amaro brought this. He, of all the things that happened in the game in game one, the thing that Rubin Amarro kept coming back to yesterday was why do you have a 12th pitcher on the roster? Like what are you thinking in a five game series and you have great starting pitching? Like when is that guy ever going to pitch? What situation is Taiwan Walker going to go in? Like maybe if they use Nolan Ranger night and it goes to extras and you have to pitch a 17 inning game,

you get Taiwan in there. Like, then again, you still at Walker Bueller for that spot? Like, it's crazy to me. One of those two guys, one of those two guys instead of an extra bench player who could have, who could have made a difference. Like, it's, it's a problem.

You could have had almost anyone out there run the bases on Saturday instead of Cassie. Stubbs. You, Garrett Stubbs is on the roster. I'm not kidding. Like, Garrett Stubbs on the roster, he's a better option there. Like, and you probably would have had someone better. But I'm going with like the lowest guy you could add on the roster who would still be a better option running that play than Nick Castiano's.

well and that's where that's where you start having the concerns about are they doing this because of contract status and like that's the only freaking taiwans like there's no reason for they've essentially have four starters in the bullpen and one's never pitched out of the bullpen and nola and and then Taiwan and bueller i think they think could be more of a true traditional bullpen guy like totally there's just there's just no point to having tywin on the roster and it could have cost on on on monday simple as that I mean simple as that and rojas getting hurt did hurt that it did i think that it could have been different if he were available i agree but they're you're telling me there's not someone at lehigh valley fast if not yeah i mean i you know jesus crawver had a concussion but he's pretty fast like all these guys are fast like what do you imagine miller had almost 60 deals like what are we talking about could you imagine aiding coming into pinch run let's go come on man 60 bags i think he's he's he's hurt right now which thanks but yeah they i don't know if anyone again the point is it doesn't like it doesn't matter it's anyone but nick kessie kessie Castiano's is the point. It doesn't matter who it is.

I don't want to jump too far ahead or, or, you know, be the more bearer of bad news. But they did take Aidan Miller off the air as in a fall league roster due to injury. I saw it. I wasn't even going to go there. I just, I know. I just want to, I want to make sure we're focused on the important things as we're heading to. Which, you know, starting tomorrow, it might be that type of conversation that we're having on this back. Doesn't that sound disappointing? Doesn't that sound disappointing tomorrow? It could be all over. It sounds ridiculous. Honestly, it sounds ridiculous. And I know the Dodgers are good and all that.

But like if the season's over after three playoff games, like that's, that's a disaster. And let's get to this because let's say they lose tonight. Uh-huh. You know, obviously we'll deal with other stuff as he goes on. But if they're not losing tonight, I don't want that to be clear. They're not a hypothetical that won't happen. Do you think Rob Thompson gets fired? So I almost need to see Rob Thompson get fired before I predicted Rob Thompson gets fired.

But I think it has to be on the table. I said the same thing on the on the air yesterday yeah you're the the first person I heard saying in Bruce Bochie we're hearing all day on Monday you were putting it out there on Tuesday I mean dude I got so so so I have so many manager ideas I'm like I'm already you have no idea how how many I've just been cooking up in this brain I think I have an idea yeah so again I don't want to do this yet I'm just laying the laying the groundwork for if they do do it so so one is Bochy by the way and two is Tony Vitello, the Tennessee Balls Head Coach, who Bryce Harper is. There we go.

Who Bryce Harper is very, very close with. And I think it's starting to generate some major league interest. And I'm obsessed with like the Pat Murphy type Brewers who I think the game is actually trending towards being played like college baseball in a way. I know there's been some big home run hitters. And it was a great home run year. But I think for the majority, like I think you're seeing better defense. I think the the market inefficiency now. is better defense playing baseball. You're seeing the Brewers and the Blue Jays are examples of that. And Blue Jays last night.

It's also nice watching Vladdy. Yeah. Watching Vladdy step up and judge. Oh, how much fun is that? I know. And he's seen great players get a shot in the playoffs and then grab it is super cool. Yeah. I mean, they play great defense, you know, they, it's the same idea.

Like, Vladdy hits home runs, but they're not a home run driven team. Like, they, they, they slap the wall around, you know? So, so I just think, with Thompson, my thing with him is that regular season and managing 162, very, very good at it. I think he keeps an even keel, doesn't get too high, doesn't get too low, but you're seeing these mistakes keep piling up. And I think the thing that really irked me, or has irked me so far this series, is just watching a team that also has stars on it. Like, they have stars on that side, but they just play a more fundamental brand of baseball. Like, they do winning things. And it's

almost like I watched this team and they're like, I don't need to do that dumb stuff. Yeah, totally. You're right though. And honestly, though, like, let's go back one year, right? Let's go back to the comments. And I know they tried at the beginning of the year and they did some stuff with being better with plate discipline and Trey, you know, this year. But like, let's go back to what these same

guy said after last year. Oh, you know, well, when you're up, and Bome just said it, by the way, again, Alec Bome after game two literally said the words, I don't remember why I swung in situations. Like, he said that. Those are words. that came out of his mouth like alec bone told us the moment is too big for me like flat out said it

to us which is crazy but if you think about these guys the comments whether it was castianos's comments booms comments turner's comments last year all this stuff about hey like when i got there i'm gonna hit man when i get up there about you know it's hard for me to to control not swinging and stuff like that like what like they told us who they were last year and and it seems like that's the way they go about their business with like and look who you sent that video was at kevin palar where he was talking about he's right where it talks about like these guys don't feel like they have to go up and have an approach and have an offensive philosophy and take pitches and work counts and do these things they go up and they're like I'm Bryce Harper I'm going to smoke I'm

Kyle Schwerber I'm going to smoke it like like and that seems like that bears out with the eye test what he's saying bears out with the eye test well and you know I think Boa said it today with Clark but these guys like especially Schwerber and Harper like they always look like they're trying to hit the home run like they always look like they're trying to just it's my moment. I'm going to own the moment. And that's what we saw, like, a lot of 23, like, beginning of the year where they were doing dumb things in the base past. Because there's, I don't know if you're aware of this term, but it's, it's one that the younger folk like to say. But the Phillies offensive approach is just aura farming.

They're just, they're just, I'm aware of the term, sadly. They're just, they're just looking for the moment all the time. And that's my hope in going out to L.A. There's a couple things i feel hopeful with in going out there one i do think getting away from cp and and almost playing hopefully carefree will help this team and and i also hope that there was a time in it was like early august it was right before the wheeler injury and right before deron got hit in the foot where they were just they're playing bad baseball again and they're doing the stuff that we hated they were they were chasing there they were back to like being one of the biggest chase teams in baseball they weren't walking they were striking out all the time and then rob thompson had a

meeting before the series down in washington and they recommitted to passing the baton and i think that that's what this the rest this series could be is okay well we try to do it that way and it didn't work let's get back to what has really helped us play good baseball for the majority of this season is the past the baton trust your guys around you i think i think harper has a huge issue with that because once again i don't believe he trusts the guy hitting behind him don't blame him but like i i think that that is that is one of the things that is hurting this team is they have gotten away from from what they have done for a large portion of this season that has had them playing the kind of baseball that had this city believing again

also huge if they can get baiter out there you know i got not confident i'm not super confident either i love that dude man i mean oh he's what a stud man comes off he comes off the bench rip that single and you just knew he was man yeah i had all the faith in the world and he's like one of the few guys i had all the and it's a shame because you talk about the guy hitting behind like i actually would advocate for him to clean up if he were healthy and ready to play you know just because you trust him more i would i would move j t up there tonight i mean jt has been other than kepler probably their best hitter in this series, right? I know.

Big game game cap, buddy. But, I mean, I would. Wouldn't you? I mean, are you going to roll bone out there again? I mean, it's like, we're not talking about elite options here. I get it.

But like J.T. J.T. hit there the majority to see it. I hit forth more than anyone else. And he's been good. Like, he's been good. JT. in the ninth in that spot. It was like, come up, boom. Rip a double down the line.

Like had the triple in the first game that got them run. Like, looked like the moment is too big for him when Alec Bohm freaking told us the moment's too big for it. Yeah. The one thing I'm thinking about, I probably, it kind of depends on Bader's health, but would you de H him and put Schwerber and left? So I, I get it. I don't think he cat in that outfield, right? Like, it's such a big outfield. And I just want Bader's bet in there. I want Bader's bet in there. Yeah, I know, but especially, oh, man. And Martian Center and Kepler, right?

You're not going against, I get it, but like you're going against, like, if you're going to Aaron Nolan Ranger, I mean, that's a lot of pull balls by right hand to hitters to let me. That's what I'm saying. Like, they can turn on those. Like it just feels like a, like, and I think that would be their plan, right? Like if someone's left, they're going to try and get the ball left field as much as they possibly can. Like, I get it. I get it. And I would, like, it's worth thinking about.

I'm not, I'm not, but I don't know that I can get there. What if Bader's like 90%, but he can't play center field because you don't want to hurt the groin just to be a left? Maybe. Maybe left's an option. If he's enough to run the bases, can he play left field, put Martian center and just hope for the best?

Yeah, that could be a plan. I know. That could be a plan. But I would strongly consider Shorebur and left. If you can, if you can, if you feel comfortable with the ability of Bader to at least run the base, I want, I need Bader's bad in the line.

I need bidders bat in the lineup. They got a final way to do it. So we'll say. We'll say. Yeah. And the question is Kenny on the bases, too, because obviously couldn't do that in the ninth either. So I'd use two players for one spot.

And again, well, well, it was a minor decision and it ultimately, it didn't matter. Ultimately, but you know, you did have to use two players for one spot. No, but what I meant what I was going to say was that it's a minor decision and it's very, very, very hindsight being 2020. But he pulled Sosa with two outs in the seventh with no one on first thought. If you know that Bader's on one leg and you know you don't have all these options to pinch running, once again, you have the Taiwan Walker on the roster thing, that could have, you didn't have to pinch hit. I actually heard a good argument too, though, the flip way. And I agree with you.

I wouldn't have. I think I would have thought, Ed. But another good point made to me, if you know you're going to pinch hit stock, because they had, um, it was a Cheyenne warming up. If you know you're going to pinch it, stop for Sosa, why not put him in the field. Stop might have gotten to that ball up the middle that Sosa could know. I'm not saying he would have, but he might have. Stott's great at going to that side up the middle. It was the scoring hit up the middle, the two run hit or whatever it was.

I was definitely walking around at that point. Yeah. So I think there's a chance that stock could have gotten to that ball in the middle. Like that was a point of buddy made to me. And it, again, it's just, it feels like when Topper is making these decisions in the moment, whether it's because he's getting, because it's the moment's too big for him or whatever it is. He's not thinking about all the potential outcomes and all the players and all the things. it's just like a momentary choice

with that specific decision and it's coming back to bite them, you know? Yeah, I, I, and the thing that has annoyed me is I've seen a lot of, as teams, heartless, gutless. Yeah, I don't, that's not it. I don't feel that way at all. I think they've shown decent fight.

I think, I think, I think, they were down four nothing. They fought back yesterday. Like, they made it a game. Like, it sucked the way they lost, but they fought. Like, I don't think that's it at all. it's it's it's just the little things that are coming back to bite them it's the little things it's

managerial decisions it's obviously you're sorbren harper you need them to be better like that's flat out that's obvious but it's the but sometimes you're not going to have your stars go three for four like i just you have the dodgers haven't yeah but see here's the thing and i and i and i they've a deeper lineup and stuff i'm just saying like the dodgers are winning without their big guys kicking ass it's it's it's the biggest thing from going like bone to t oscar like if you just went to the big four then it's totally different like that's the thing that's that's where it kills you is that they have that one extra real dude and the phillies have three dudes and then they have a bunch of pretty good players and like that's one of the things that is imperatives finding another true

dude like just another true dude uh to add to the middle of that line yeah but you also need your dudes to be dudes like that is not it's not wrong to say that you know it's not it's not it's just you have to like the when you're playing a team as good at the dodgers you just got to be up on everything and they haven't been up on everything and that's where i put it back on the manager with like little things slipping through the cracks and and costing you simple baseball games not seeing the wheel play on not understand the situation Cassino's understanding how slow he is

and that he can just go back to the bag if he wants and it could be a totally different situation. Stott, who is a really, I think he's a really smart player. Stott not realizing like you can pull it back if you see it happening and slug-bunt or

just take another pitch. Yeah, it was a 1-0 count. It wasn't an 0-1 count. Letting the moment get to a big form. And the Pilar comments are great. And it really, it's, I'm just, I've never been, the Kevin Long drives me nuts. We've never been huge fans. Yeah, we've always kind of.

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I'm going to bed soon because you can hear us late night tonight. Check us out on WIP, Fritz and I and Tucker will be awake with us hanging. We will be on YouTube as well, live. Check it out. YouTube, WIP, YouTube, you can see our beautiful faces. So do that, if you're doing one of the two. We will be on about 30, 40 minutes after the game ends. Greg Murphy will do his thing.

Then we will be on tune in, check it out. So before we get out of here, let's get to it. For those who missed it, I'm sure most have seen it. But here were Nick Castianos's comments after the game talking about CBP, said, when everything's going good and you're rolling, it's a pain to play here. when you're an opposing team because the environment is amazing. But if we run into adversity and the tide shifts and now we're playing more tight because we don't want to be reprimanded for something bad.

Like, get this loser off my team, dude. Honestly, like, I know we've done to get this guy off my team bit before. I have maybe never wanted a player off my team more than this freaking loser, man. After all we've been through with this guy, after the amount of times that this guy has said dumb things, cause problems, the whole Rob Thompson pulling him and him being a. freaking baby about it. The amount of things that this guy's done after being statistically one of the worst players in the sport this year, Jack, the sport.

This guy has the goal to come to us, fans who spend our money to support this team, who buy merchandise, who give our time. We talk about all the time, the amount of time that you put into a baseball team for a season. Honestly, I can't wait. I can't wait for Nick Cassiano's to be gone. I can't wait. Go to Miami.

go to whatever some crappy team finish out your career because you're a freaking loser a loser sounds like you really feel um honestly i'm i'm so offended that he would have and i don't like look maybe players feel tight whatever i get that that's like you don't come out and take shots at us reprimanding you for doing something bad all right that's what i got so off of that when they win tonight when they win tonight he's going to be starting tonight by the way yeah we'll say uh i just i need stubsy to to to gather the boys and then we i've had this vision tweeted out part of the vision yesterday but i need one of the beat reporters after the game to be like a live by pearl jam is blaring out of the this is what we need yes i just i'm telling you i'm telling you i'm telling you

you i'm begging you i promise it can work those guys all singing a live by pearl jam after a win tonight in the powder blues will save the season it will 100% save the season if they can pull that off stubsy i'm begging you i need one of the beat reporters to tweet out a live by pearl jam is currently blaring out of the philly's locker room and then there's no shots they lose game for And we'll see everyone back here on Saturday. We'll see everyone back here for Game 5 on Saturday. I promise. It's the thing I've never,

I don't think I've ever believed in something more. Then if they win tonight, they play a live that we're getting to a game 5 and we're winning the series. I've never believed in something more. I like this. This is good. I'm with you. You know what?

May as well throw myself behind it because it's probably not going to happen. And thus, there's going to be no way to prove it. But whatever not happened. So, you know, it's pretty good. But what if it does? But what if it does?

But what if it does? I love that. All right. Play alive. We're still alive. Okay. Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm still alive. All right. You got anything else, Fritzie? I don't. I don't. But Knowles is going to show up tonight. That's my official prediction. I, my official prediction is, I hope so, man. I hope so. Look, they absolutely can win these two games out here. They can. They can. If they win tonight, they got Sanchi on the hill. It's freaking baseball. We know how baseball works. Like, they absolutely could win tonight. I just need to see them do it to believe it. You know what I mean? Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't blame you. I don't blame you. Good, good. I understand. And I've completely convinced myself.

So I'm sorry to everyone who just wants the Phillies to lose and get it over with. Not happening. Well, I couldn't believe it. You guys had a poll where, honestly, I said to you, it should be 100 to zero. You guys had a poll. Would you rather see the Phillies lose tonight or tomorrow? Or tomorrow. L.A.

Or win both, but lose at home for game five. And it was like, 70, 30 or something. I couldn't, bitch me 100% of people who wants them to come back here and lose. Like, that's the craziest thing I've ever heard in my life. I don't want to go down there and watch them lose. Like, I want them to fight and all that. But like, no, that's crazy. So don't do that, guys.

Fight back, win, and then win here. And let's freaking go on a run. How about that? Yeah. All started by Live by Pearl Jam. You're damn right. All right. We'll talk to guys tonight, pregame M post.

Until then, he's friends themselves.