High Hopes: A Phillies Podcast - High Hopes Chapter 2: Where do the Phillies stand in the National League?

Episode Date: December 22, 2022

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Also, if you want full spin zone on why I'm actually happy that he's a Met. Oh, you're happy? Yes. Watch this. You know what else it means? It means that the Giants won't make the playoffs again, which means our path to making the playoffs is like second or third best team in the division because Bryce is missing half the year.

That much easier. You're pretty much eliminating the Giants. So it's like what? Padres, Dodgers, out West. The Diamondbacks are a little frisky, but they're not ready. The Cubs are not ready yet. The three in the East. Yeah, the three in the East and the Cardinals.

And the Cardinals. There we go. And the Brewers. Like the playoffs. Why even play the season? Exactly. Honestly, like I was going to say half kidding. I'm like 5% kidding.

Why even play the season? We know it's going to be in the playoffs. See, and that's why even play this season we know it's gonna be in the playoffs see and that's why i don't i wish it didn't happen to baseball just because like you know what's because then it does it's like well what's the point of playing 162 but i know that us saying this is going to end up coming back and being like oh that was a bad idea when we said this so we've never said anything that came back to bite us ever i would like that last part of the podcast uh not in the episode um the phillies are we cannot lock in a playoff spot for this team at all they got to go out and get to earn it and win more than anything what do you think they're

is there overrunner out for next year yet because i wonder what it's gonna be set up no they're not out yet yeah well it's gonna be fascinating i mean i No, they're not out yet. Well, it's going to be fascinating. I mean, I would guess it would be Mets, Braves, Phillies in terms of win totals, which is pretty wild because I think the Phillies will probably be. If I had to guess, I would guess it's probably similar to where it ended last year, not where it started, but I would guess they're in the 86 to 88 range would be my guess. Braves are probably like 90 and the Mets are like 92 or Braves like 89 and Mets are 91 something that maybe Mets are like 93 Braves are 100 and some games last year 106 they both did I know but they're never as high as you

think maybe they will be but like the Dodgers have been the biggest lock in betting for like six straight years. It's like every year, it's like, oh, 96, 98. They're like, they went 110 or 106 or whatever. It's like, of course they're going to. I think last year they were like 103 or 104. Finally. They had not been over 100 any of the years.

They were like 103, 104. And it's like they were still in over. Of course they were. Of course they were. Yeah. If I had to guess, I would guess 88.5. That's what I would say.

I think that's fair. I'll go 88 even. Nice. There we go. That's good. We're only a half game separated. Except that we don't play the NL East as much next year. Maybe that'll help the win. It could be. It's good news.

What do you got in the take bag, buddy? news. It could be. It's good news. All right. We got to take back, buddy. I feel like we're firmly in take back territory. Are we? Honestly, I don't know. The fact that we've talked for 35 minutes with literally having nothing other than Steve Cohen spent money as our topic for today, I think it's pretty impressive. I don't know if I can stretch much more.

I don't really have much more on my plate. You got some talk to me. I'm letting you set the agenda now I'm not saying end the podcast I'm saying talk about what you want to talk about Well do you really want me to talk about What I want to talk about Or do you want to keep this village related Because what I want to talk about

Is how I took Trey Young Someone's missing threes for me right now No no no no No no no no I would just like to point out that for the first time Young. Someone's missing threes for me right now. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would just like to point out that for the first time on this podcast, I feel like I've actually won. Well, I haven't won yet, but unless he doesn't

play this. Well, hold on. You might have just really, really, really ruined this. I took Trey Young to score 30 points and hit five threes. It is halftime and he has

29 points and six threes. We're happy over here. He's totally not playing in the second half. If he doesn't play in the second half, I am never doing a podcast again. What kind of odds is it for 30 and five plus threes? I think that five ths is plus 700.

Holy crap. This is a big bet to win. Did you parlay them or put them separately? Separately. That's still pretty good, man. Look at you. Yeah. We need James Harden to start heating up too.

I haven't won a bet since baseball season so yeah no no see here see here's what you did here's what you did is that i'm not one of that i'm not one of that to say it's all i've been from like 300 dollars of my account to nothing i was zero dollars no because your problem was that you got all cocky you know you're like oh i figured out gambling meanwhile you're just riding hot streak no i yeah i was riding hot streak i knew i was riding hot streak i never expected to not lose the money i just thought i would maybe leave a little a little more slowly than i lost it would have been cool um so the other day was brandon marsh's birthday and i sometimes just forget the kids like he's like 24 years old. You know what I mean? He never gets talked about as one of the younger members of the daycare or whatever.

And for all the things I'm excited about in 2023, second year of Brandon Marsh, more removed from the Angels. Another offseason with Kevin long. Um, seems like a great dude. Like him signing, um, it was the older ladies, uh, pillow of Brandon Marsh and like him getting word. It was great.

It was great. And I can't wait James, you know, for a full season of gold glove caliber center field defense. Like we joke in the offseason how we don't worry about defense in the offseason because it's like well what's the point but then really when it hits the regular season oh it kills us it kills it's just there's nothing worse um so seeing another year of brandon marsh i have forgiven him. I'm lying. I haven't forgiven him for his performance in game five. I'm trying to forgive Brandon for his performance in game five

and just put the ball in play. Just choke up one time. Just hit the ball on the outfield. Just do a job. One time. It's Ryan Presley. No one's going to throw. But regardless, I'm excited about second year of Brandon Marsh.

288 last year as a Phil. It's like, it's I view Brandon Marsh as an angel, much like my GPA, my freshman year and three, three post-freshman year, JPA, Brandon Marsh,

future all-star post. Love it. What, what, what, what, again, especially a throwback to the last pod,

you know, continuity between buds, bringing this whole thing together.