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1:00or call 800-745-RIDE. That's commuterconnections.org. Testing season is right around the corner, and this is when confidence really matters. When kids take time to review key concepts and strengthen their skills before assessments, it can make all the difference. IXL helps reinforce what they're learning right now, so they walk into every test feeling prepared, capable, and confident. IXL is an award-winning online learning platform that helps kids truly understand what they're learning, whether they're building math confidence, strengthening reading and writing skills, or reviewing science concepts. Designed for students from pre-K through 12th grade, IXL delivers personalized interactive practice that adapts to your child's level and pace. It's an easy, effective way to support learning as the school year heads into its final stretch. Studies show kids who use IXL score higher on tests, proven in all 50 states. IXL is used in 96 of the top 100 school districts in the US.

2:02Make an impact on your child's learning. Get IXL now, and listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at IXLLearning.com slash audio. Visit IXLLearning.com slash audio to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price. Are you ready, Hugh? Yes. I don't know this song, so I can't get too excited. That's OK. I just want to know if you're ready for opening day. It starts with Texas. You know, you kind of coined that phrase. It starts with Texas. Yeah, it is. It starts with Texas. 415 today. When the lineup comes out, I'm guessing within an hour. So we will get that for you. The Phillies and the Rangers. Welcome back. It's the midday show live at Citizens Bank Park Broadcasting from the DeBora Heart and Lung Center Broadcast. But DeBora Heart and Lung Center, the Delaware Valley's only heart hospital one hour from now. The afternoon show will join us. We'll cross over for an hour leading into a shortened version of their show. They'll take you right up to the game today. 215-592-94-94. Our Twitter question sponsored by the PI Dental Center. Your smile is the first thing others see.

3:02When they meet you, learn about and schedule your evaluation. PIDentalCenter.com. What do you feel more today? Excited for the season or wake me up in October? 72% excited for the season. That you know what, though, 28% saying wake me up in October. That feels like a big amount for opening day. That's disappointing. So if you have a pulse, how are you not excited today for a baseball team that is World Series aspirations? I just, you can have doubt. You can have, I mean, I think we all have question marks with certain parts of the team, right? You know, the offense, the back of the lineup, the outfield, even the underbelly of the bullpen. It could be very good. We'll see, though. I believe in Doron and Keller. Everybody else comes with their own question marks. Most bullpen and baseball do. But the team, whether you are, you are way over expectations or even just around expectations, the team is supposed to be and projected to be one of the best teams in all the baseball. I just don't know how you walk into a season with 162 games, not feeling excited for a team

4:05that is at least projected to be this good. Well, that's not how I feel, but I feel like I can channel the inner Phillies fan when I answer this. It's because of the ultimate outcome at the end of the season, which I don't think is fair, because I think you enjoy the ride. Because nothing's guaranteed, I honestly feel like, you know, you should enjoy the ride. But there's a lot of people who feel like, in order to protect their feelings, their way to see how the team is hidden or whatever the other stuff is and see what it looks like in the post season. I don't think that's, I don't think that's the right way of looking at it. The way that I think you should look at it is that this team every year has a chance to go. And that's something that when you talk about, say just for example, Colorado fans, they know every year that they're not going. They're dead. You know what I mean? They know every year that the best that they can hope for, that they'll have a nice shining young start that's gonna get traded somewhere and he might be able to win a world series

5:07and they'll live, I can't actually do him. But you're talking about a team that is consistently one what 87 and 90 games in the last three seasons. Yeah, it's 87 to 95 and it's 96, yeah. Always has an opportunity to win one. I think that's important, man, because that's what I talk about when you talk about the Eagles and everybody else in the town, be relevant. And I know I said in a joking matter, but the Sixers, get in. You never know, it's a little bit different in NBA, I understand that. But getting it in anything is possible. I'm glad you brought the other two sports up or other sports up because the format of the post season to me matters on whether or not the regular season matters or you get really excited. Like some people have moved the Phillies into the Sixers mode, not so much the current Sixers, but where we were with them a couple of years ago. I can't do that because baseball, the format of the post season, first of all, they let six teams in now. That's different than the old days when it was four or whatever it was to. Six teams get in. So it's pretty likely the Phillies will make the playoffs. And the other thing is the format is, it's a crap shoot.

6:09It's a joke. It really is. And it's about getting hot at the right time. Yes, basketball and their outlier, sure. But basketball is typically the best choice. It's typically chalk. Typically chalk, right? So even if the Sixers had some hope, like, come on. Did anyone really think there would be any of the top teams? Yeah, if you're playing, I get that, but you're still in it. You still have a chance to anything can happen. But anything is possible. I understood more of the Sixers fatigue three, four years ago because it was like, they're not winning the title. Just like, we know this. You can't do that with baseball. You just can't. Like if you told me last year, the Blue Jays were going to take the Dodgers to the brink before the season started, or even halfway through it, it says, come on. But they did. The Phillies in 2022, if you told me they'd be up 2-1 on the Astros, I would have said, come on. But then they were. It's the nature of the game. So I'm excited for opening day, 2-1-5-5-9-2-9-4-9-4. You're a call on that. And win total. I'm at 91. He was at 95. 95. And what was that bowl prediction from you, Douglas again? 30. I think bone. 30 of them, thank you. 30 doubles. 30, 30, dingers.

7:1030 home runs. Yeah. You know, you know, I like it. Homeers. You know, it's contract here, Joe. Over the wall. You know, it's funny. When I said it, Tuck looked at me like, are you drunk? No, Tuck. I'm not drunk. Tuckers in here with the studio. Tucked bagwears in here with us. I just looked at them like, bagwears. No. Peggy. I said, bagweil didn't. Yeah, baggy. That's fine. Because I butchered Tuck bagweil now. He's Tuckered bagweil. I like bagweil better though. We might call him a great player, yeah. We have a lineup, guys. We have a lineup. All right. I'm looking at. I got it here. OK. Philly's opening day lineup. I believe it's the exact lineup we saw in their final spring training game on Monday. Hugh, the first Philly's lineup of the 2026 season leading off at shortstop trade turner, batting second. The designated hitter is Kyle Schwarber. Batting third, the first baseman Bryce Harper. Batting fourth. The aforementioned 30 home run guy. Court of Hugh Douglas. How many home runs he got to hit one the day? Well, that would go up. So I'm thinking like two or one.

8:10I'm thinking either. I'm thinking two seems a little lofty for the first game. For Alec Bohn? Yeah. Right after gate. I'm going to give me one. I think I'm going to put some money on this. OK. So the cleanup hitter, Hugh's 30 home run prediction guy. Alec Bohn hitting fourth, the five place hitter today. In the five hole is the second baseman Bryce. It's not he's my bowl prediction guy. I think he's going to start the all-star game right here in Philadelphia. The six hitter. The new right fielder, Adolis Garcia, batting seventh. The left fielder is Brandon Marsh. Batting eighth, the catcher, JT Real Muto. Batting ninth, the center fielder, Justin Crawford. So the first lineup for the Phil C. is in turner Schwarber Harper. Bohn, Stott, Garcia, Marsh, Real Muto, and Crawford. I was going about to ask you, what do you think of Bohn getting the first crack at cleanup? But I already know what you think. You think it's a home run? I think you got one out of 30. You got to think on that one out the part. I'll tell you, man, if we get a home run today, you're going to come in here and pick up the car. Yeah, if we get a six, four, three, double play, I'm going to remind you of your prediction.

9:12All right, let's go back to the phone calls here. And then I want to get to the starting rotation here and how great they could be this season. Jeff in Wilmington is up on WIP and he's pumped up. What's up, Jeff? Opening day is my favorite day of the year. When Chris called in the morning earlier today, I'm from the Middletown area. So I can remember every single opening day in Little League all the way up to Big League in high school and I even played junior college. So it's a big deal if you're a player. And I don't know, man, I just get excited for it. I'm going to enjoy every single game this year. I want to get to October, but I can wait. Yeah, and you know what it is, Jeff? I think as the season goes on, what we'll figure out what this team is, like their strengths, their weaknesses, who's having a good year, who's not. And we'll kind of start projecting, like that's, it's one of those things you start projecting what October could be and what they need. Like that's just a natural flow of the season. But we'll get there, that that comes in time. Today is opening day and I agree with you. It's just, there's something different when you wake up on opening day.

10:13And Kyle can give Chris my number. I'll be in Middletown on Saturday. So I'd like to meet up with him. But anyway, here's my prediction. 97 wins and an appearance in the World Series. But here's my bold prediction. I see two of the Phillies pitchers flirting with 20 wins. Luzardo and Frances. Well, you know what that is? That is pretty bold because there's just not many pitchers anymore. They just get that many wins. It's just the nature of the way. They handle bullpins now and all that. But Jeff, if there is a team that could do it, the Phillies typically let their starters go deeper than most teams. They're pretty old school now. They'll let them go six or seven if they're pitching. Well, so it wouldn't surprise me if we get a 20 game winner. It's kind of rare now. I mean, even the best pitchers, like, you know, they win 10, 11, 12 just because they don't pitch that many innings. It wouldn't shock me if a Phillie pitcher did it. This was a Harper's team, too. It's still his team. Schwarim might be the main guy as far as it in the home runs. But this was Harper's team. And he's got to prove it this year. I think you know, Jeff, good phone call, man. We appreciate it there.

11:14A pair of 20 game winners, too. That's a big prediction. That just happened much. That means there's some, some, some hell of a pitch. Well, it is. Let's talk about this pitching staff. All right, so we know it's a strength of the team. And I think there's a, a sense here that it could be not just a good rotation, not just a very good rotation, but a truly great rotation. Larry Anderson, talk it to the afternoon show about the starting pitching and why he's so high on the team because of those five guys. Barring major injury to our rotation, our pitching staff. I still think we've got a good shot in a year we've had. I really do. I mean, when you look at Sanchez, Luzardo, you know, barring the hiccup, he's, you know, I think he was still in the top 10 and say, young last year. He was seven, I believe, yep. Seven, that's what I thought. So you know, Sanchez, him, Wheeler comes back. I mean, I, I, I seriously think Wheeler is going to be back sooner than than people were thinking. Yep. And I, you know, other than the Phillies, just want to be very cautious with them, very,

12:16ununderstandably so. But, you know, I really, the way what I've seen, I think he, they could have pushed him if they wanted to and if he wanted to, they could have pushed him a little bit and had him ready for the start of the season. I really, I really believe that. I don't think they should have. Right. But I mean, that's, that's how good. When I saw him throwing on the side and that was three weeks ago, I, I remember, look, and I might have said this to you guys then, I looked at Francia. I'm like, didn't he just have surgery in the fall? Yeah. You know, but that's how good he looked. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. What if comparing car insurance rates was as easy as putting on your favorite podcast? With Progressive, it is. Just visit the Progressive website to quote with all the coverages you want. You'll see Progressive's direct rate, then their tool will provide options from other companies so you can compare. All you need to do is choose the rate and coverage you like. Quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates,

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16:24Well, the emergence of wheeler quicker than we thought changes the outlook on the rotation. It could be truly a great rotation. And it has been up there in recent years. It's not like this is coming out of nowhere, but we're reaching a point now where it's funny how fast it flipped. Like, three years ago, two years ago, the rotation was wheeler, nolla, right? And then it was, okay, the emergence of, we'll paint or arrive soon. It was the emergence of Christopher Sanchez. Sanchez. What's happened in the last year or so? And it's happened fast. It feels to me like Sanchez and maybe Luzardo, we'll see how, if he can be consistently excellent. They've kind of ascended to the top. While you still have wheeler who's coming off the surgery, so we'll see how he is. And then nolla's kind of falling back. It's like those top two have given way to this new young pair of guys. Like, it happened faster than I thought, but we could be looking at a rotation where Sanchez and Luzardo are their best every turn through. And if wheeler could be what he has been, it's the best top three in baseball. You know what, and you know what's funny?

17:25I was just thinking this about Aaron Nolla, like in the past as I've been here. He's had some Rocky stars, but he's always settled down. So how, I guess the question I have is, is how much are we willing to deal with that? You know, because he had a pretty good showing it when he was playing in the world baseball classic. But he has a propensity to go back to that old norms. So how comfortable are we with him getting up to like a Rocky star? Well, I'll say it this way. I think Nolla, by accident, he's going to be better than last year, right? Because last year he was bad. It wasn't just like, he was poor by any standard, not just a down Aaron Nolla year. If he's what he was two years ago, you'll take that. Because to me, he's not as important as he used to be. He's just, he's the fourth starter now. Now he's a very expensive and famous fourth starter. He's one of the best in Philly's history, but he's the fourth starter now. So basically what we're looking at, wheeler coming back, being what he was, which he looks pretty good. Yeah. How much are you expecting from Painter? Like to stay in the fifth, like, is there anywhere in any world that you see him potentially

18:29moving up in the start rotation? I mean, yeah, I mean, good. I mean, once in a while you get a guy that has that surgery and then like the second year they start to pop a little bit. Yeah, it's like they're not themselves the first year, so I still think there's a chance he is what he was supposed to be. Because it feels like that is cool, right? Like the way people talked about him three years ago to the way they talk about him now, it has changed. People don't talk about him as much as the best prospect in baseball, the best arm and baseball. But it wouldn't shock me if that kind of conversation comes back if he performs. But I look at him, can he be a fourth, fifth starter too? Like I don't need Nolan and Painter to be great, but what you said about wheeler feels like the linchpin. This, if wheeler is himself, then I think Nolan and Painter can just kind of ease into things. Yeah. You have three guys, you're like, wow. What you're looking at that are, that are clutch. Yeah. But it could be a truly great rotation. I mean, I think so and I think, I think for me, the way that wheeler we had a chance to talk to him, the way that he basically approached his rehab and everything. He's like, hey, I'm not gonna press or press or myself. I'm just gonna let it come to me.

19:29And it sounds like he's in a good spot. He's in a good space right now. I have one concern about the starting rotation. What's that? And it's really, it's a double whammy, but it's one thing. The concern I have here is health and depth. They're not very deep in the starting rotation. Like they have Taiwan, right? And Taiwan is, that's a good six starter to have, right? Because he'd go in the bullpen if he didn't, too. He said it's a million games, like he's fine as a six starter. But you look at, one of the reasons why I think the mess are gonna be in this thing is they have like nine guys that could start games. We don't really have that. They got a deep roster. Yeah, right. They can withstand, if one of the starters goes down a month or two. Yeah, we can't, we're not in that safe space. We're not, especially, like we know the starting pitch is gonna have to carry them. I look at it as, if you tell me right now that Sanchez, Luzardo, wheeler, give us close to 100 starts combined. Like the three of them all pitch 30-ish, 90 to 100. I feel great. But if we have some injuries, I remember last year we brought Mick Abel up and he helped out. We don't have that guy at Triple A that's just ready

20:31to come up and pitch. So if I have one, if there's one thing that holds them back from being a truly great rotation, it's if these guys missed some time. Nolan missed time last year, although they were kind of freaky injuries. Painters coming off, you know, never being a big league or so we see his body all the time. He had an up and tumultuous time down there. And Wheelers coming off the surgery. So until we see him fully back, we don't know. So I'm with LA on this. The health is the question. If they are healthy and you tell me those guys all pitch most of the year, I'd be shocked if they're not one of the three or four best rotations. I can see that, definitely. I'm with you on that. Yeah, it could be one of the best we've seen around here. Really, really have her, which is saying a lot because it's fully sped some great rotations. All right, we're getting set to be joined. By guy, you hear with us every opening day. It's just a tradition. It's an opening day tradition, just like the baseball. Dan Fitzpatrick, the president of Citizens Bank, joining us, Dan, good morning. Good morning. Great, great to be with you and Jelem. Listening all the time, I never call, but this is nice to do it in person. That's right, yeah, so what's the feeling?

21:31Do you still get the goosebumps on opening day? Absolutely, opening day is special. It's such a, you know, it's the festival of the city. Everybody comes together. Everybody leaves work early. You come to the ballpark. And so for all of us, citizens are just great. Exactly. And Citizens Bank Park is a special place and always a particularly electric on opening day. Yeah, tell us about, you know, once again, another year of the partnership. And the stadium continues to evolve. Here was in the new era team store, the new new era team store. It looks great. The Hall of Fame Club, it's a park that is now, this will be what, you're 23? It's 23rd year. 23rd year of the park. And I never, every year I come in, I never feel like the park is in its 20s. It still feels to me like a newer park, but it's still with that vibe that it felt like in the beginning. Absolutely, Johnny. It's the oldest stadium in the National League East, but the nicest stadium in the National League East. I agree with that. Yeah, I've never been in Miami, but the other ones I've been in. Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's an intimate setting that's great for the player, great for the home team, right? It puts a lot of pressure on the visitors. And again, it's also the amenities for family-friendly thing.

22:35You know, the yard, the wiffle ballpark down the hall, added some new playgrounds. You gotta make sure it's family-friendly, but also electric when the ball, when the game starts. No question about it. Damn, if it's Patrick President, instead of spending with us, as he joins us every opening day to get ready for the season, we got some beautiful weather and we got big expectations, Dan, what's your feeling on the team this year? As, boy, it's like they keep knocking on the door and they keep, you know, getting to a point where we feel like this could be the year, it hasn't happened yet. And they bring a lot of guys back, but also some new young players incorporated it. I love the new players, you know, Justin Crock, I love Crockford going right in that starting line up in center field. I think that's an awesome ad and think about this. So I think the pitching is as good as last year and the ball pens better. So I think we're in great shape. And I think about, you know, that Dondro series, I mean, it was nippin' tucked, we didn't have wheeler. You know, you're kind of spotted in one game without wheeler. If we get wheeler healthy back in May, it's gonna be a great year. And then, you know, we're gonna turn it up in October again. Right October will be really tough on the opponent again.

23:35No question. Do you have any bow predictions? Because we like to do a little bow prediction right here. One of mine was, I said, Alec Bomb was gonna hit like 30 home runs and he blew us away with that one. When he said 30, I was like, whoa. I'll go with 95 RBI's, but maybe not the home runs. Okay. Two years ago, we had the big RBI year, which we need. And, you know, again, you know, Bryce needs some protect. The line up's gonna be really interesting. How topper, you know, lines it up here. Because, you know, you've got to make sure that Harper gets the pitches. Yeah, of course here. And the other thing that I find interesting within this run we're having here is, we have a real villain now. Like the Dodgers, I respect the hell out of them. They're a great team. I mean, obviously back-to-back World Series champs, but as I kind of look forward, I kind of like that everyone is ready pegging them to win the World Series again. I like that they're the bad guy. And you think back to last October, Dan, those games here were so tight. Absolutely. The Phillies never seem to fear them. The Dodgers got the best they won, credit to them. But if they face off, it feels like the Phillies are one of those teams that like, we think we can beat you.

24:35I like them. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. The Dodgers think they're the best team, 700 million dollars can buy. Yeah. I mean, the ownership in John Middleton is passionately committed to winning. So we have a great team as well. And I think the left-handed pictures we have, Control O'Tani. Wheeler controls O'Tani. I mean, that's the thing. We neutralize him better than any team in baseball. Why we match up? Well, and that's the thing. We've won the season series the last two years. There's no reason. And again, you can look at an umpire call in one play. And it's just that one or two plays here there. If we can reverse that, it's different. And hey, the reality is we played the World Series in the first round in playoffs last year. It felt that way of being short. Yeah, I felt when that series started, I was like, the winner of this is going to win the whole thing. And then it played out that way. So you mentioned the call here, call there. The ABS system. That is new. What's your thought on it? So I was anti all this new technology baseball. Kind of like the old rhythm of the game. But the more you see it, the more you kind of come around to it, what do you think of it? Are you excited to watch it? And for me, the strategy is going to be the most interesting. Not so much the, oh, he's right, he's wrong. They changed the call. When teams challenge a call.

25:37Yeah, that's going to be the big thing. I'm all for it. Because I think too many big moments happened on bad calls. And where I sit there, the interesting thing, we sit right behind the home plate. And we also have the TV monitor. So we get the box. So I do remind the umpires when it's agreed to. So not on the edges. That just are OK. But there's been some really bad calls that have changed games. And again, it's been going on for 100 years in baseball. So I like the tradition as well. But I do think it's time, given what's happening in the NFL and that precision. Let's have precision and make sure we get calls, right? But to your point, it's going to be the strategy when you use it. Yeah, and your point on the technology, that really, if we as fans can see it's wrong, they can't ignore it. So they had to kind of catch up with us. Because we're seeing a million angles every single time. Then you mentioned the left-handed pitchers. We're going to see Christopher Sanchez today. The feelings have been built in an interesting way, with a lot of stars that they imported, whether it be a tray with JT or some big signings. But to be a great team, you also need to develop players. And that tray they made for Sanchez,

26:37hard-thrower from Tampa Bay. It took him years to figure it out. And when he first got here, I was like, all right, I see something, but I would have never guessed that he could become what he's become. They just reward him a new contract. Of all the stories that they've developed, this story, they have developed another homegrown ace. Oh, it's amazing. Because I mean, he was throwing 100, but wasn't a pitcher. And they said, no, you have to become a pitcher. And you know, he still goes to 98 when he wants to and needs to, but that change up is just almost unhittable. You know, when the best pitcher, you're back to, you know, having a cold hammer, a better version of cold hammer. Could be. Could be. He's really, he's really great. But as great as cold hammer. And that's saying a lot, because cold is a borderline hall favorite. Absolutely. But that's how good we all think Sanchez is. Hey, he's incredible. He's going to pitch today. Dan, we appreciate you hopping on, as always, another great season here at Citizen's Bay Park. And let's plan to do this again next opening day. Now, we appreciate all you guys too. Keeping us entertained and informed on sports and Philadelphia. So thanks so much, guys. Appreciate it. Appreciate being a part of it.

27:38Dan fits Patrick, the president of Citizen's Bank. All right, 2-1-5, 5-9-2, 94-9-4. We've got a lot to do, rest of the show. Ike Spiker, you're going to jump on here with us at 1 o'clock. Your call's coming up. Win total. I'm at 91. Use it 95. Bull predictions. Use going 30 home runs for Alec Boom. I got Bryce's thoughts starting the all-star game here in Philadelphia at Citizen's Bank Park. Excitement level opening day end. Come to the other side. I was going to throw some over-unders at us as well by sell predictions for the Philly's next right here, live at Citizen's Bank Park on the midday show, Sports Radio 94, WIP. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. What if comparing car insurance rates was as easy as putting on your favorite podcast? With Progressive, it is. Just visit the Progressive website to quote with all the coverages you want. You'll see Progressive's direct rate, then their tool will provide options from other companies so you can compare. All you need to do is choose the rate and coverage you like. Quote today at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust Progressive.

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31:49Is it hard for you to listen to because Garrett Sous was designated for assignment? No, no, I'm still right with it. He's still got a chance to come back. Well, I'm your guest. We all better hope. I mean, what are we going to do without him? I mean, the chief vibes officer, we still hold not hope for him. Who is? We. I mean, haven't we evolved past the need for Garrett Sous? Some of us. Some of us. It's just a $300 million team. You asked me who I said we. Like, I don't know the body. I just said we. We? Yeah. We as a people. We as a people are not clamoring for the return. It feels like it is. It feels like it's a problem. I'll probably go back to AAA and be an iron pig. All right. There's no clamor. There's not. It feels like it's a clamor. It's not. It feels feels like it from where you from all over the place. Uh-huh. We evolved. Overwhelmed. We are a DJ in the club. Evolve is a word that we don't use a whole lot. That's true. We devolve. We devolve. I think many listeners say that. I evolve. I evolve. I evolve. Do you devolve and shrink?

32:51I have not. I have evolved. That feels like a good question for the audience when they ask you. Evolved or devolved? It's joining WIP. I've gotten a lot better at certain things in my life. Mm-hmm. See, you know, you don't say everything that comes in mind readily. I've been working on that. Ain't had a whole lot of Twitter beat. That's evolution. But that is. But in terms of evolving as a talk show host. In some ways, you have. In some ways. In some ways. In some ways, you're getting stuck in one. During one of our interviews today. Well, I couldn't. I couldn't. No, no, it's not that. I would just read like this. But the problem is that you put yourself in a spot to giggle. I'll just be able to tell. I popped on my Twitter feed and I just started looking at comments and things. And I just started like that. We told you to get out of the comments section. All comments. That was to me, people, though. That was to me, cats, actually. Sure. All right. You know what people might be getting mad at these? Or they might love them? I don't even know what we're going to hear. Kyle's got some overunders. Some buy sells to throw us. Kyle, let's hear them. Some of these are for lines that we got from actual sports books. Some of these I just completely made up in my head.

33:51Kyle Quinn line. Yeah, Kyle Quinn line. All right. Let me do not even a line. I'll just ask you. Okay. Better chance to win the rookie of the award. Justin Crawford, Andrew Painter. Justin Crawford. Yeah. Wow. Really? I think it's going to be because of this. He has a real path to playing every single day. I think just naturally position players have more of an advantage because they just put up, you know, when they're pitted against each other, right? MVP or a rookie of the year. It's not like Sai Young. It's not like it's separate for the pitcher in the hitter. So I give that like up usually to the position player. And I think his defense and base running are going to give him some value that people will look at and say, wow, especially if he has an eye-popping number. If he steals 40 bases. And I need to see it with Painter. I mean, he was not good at AAA last year. Yeah. And it was, you know, it was like he was really hot. And then we stopped talking about him. And then he struggled a little bit. So yeah. I will go across it as well. Okay. Well, both of us. All right. Philly's finished the season with over or under one and a half starting pitchers.

34:55Top five Sai Young voting. Over. I'm going to say under. It's that's really hot. I mean, that's too out of it. Let's just put some guys that we know we're going to beat it. Right. We're just going to reserve a spot for Paul Skins, right? Let's just put him in there. He's the best pitcher in the National League. Oh, you told mine. Okay. So that only leaves four spots in the whole league. And that, I mean, look, we haven't mentioned a Dodgers pitcher. You know, whether it be Yamamoto, Otani has talked about trying to get a Sai Young this year. So I mean, I just going to put a Dodgers pitcher that's going to finish top five. Skins, a Dodgers pitcher. I mean, that doesn't leave much wiggle room for anybody else in the National League. Logan Web is an excellent pitcher. The brewers always seem to have big arms. I know I'm acclaimed for the mats. If he's healthy, might kind of just come out of nowhere here to be good. Yep. I'm going to say one. I'm going to say one here. All right. You got two or one over, over under one and a half. I'm going to say lose Zilla. And I'm going to go Sanchez. So you got two. So you go over. I said over. Yeah. I said it. Yeah. Yeah.

35:55I think it's a matter of two of the three Sanchez, Lazardo. Maybe Wheeler Wheeler might be a stretch, but that would probably be the path there. All right. Let's stick with the pitchers. Stick with Zach Wheeler. Coming off in the TOS. Over or under three. Earn run average this season. I'm going to go over. Now, I don't think it's four. And I don't think it's. Yeah, but it's going to be it. I think he's going to struggle a little bit. He might struggle. Yeah. I think we see a little bit, a little bit different. Now, he was in the twos, right? Two, eight, two, seven. He's been in two, probably two, three. Maybe at some point with the Phillies. But he's also had a few years here where he was in the threes. If I had a guest right now, I don't know, between three, three, and three, five, something like that. I mean, he's usually a two plus, like a, in the twos. But I don't, I mean, that's why I said it at three, because I'm not, I'm not trying to set the expectations at normal Zach Wheeler. Yeah. But I think three is a solid number. The three, look, if he pitches two, two, eight, three, you're right. I would take that in a heartbeat. It's especially just considering we don't know, right?

36:56We haven't seen a pitch in the big league since last year. So I'll go over, but not much over. Okay. And Hugh, you said over too? Yes. Okay. I'll do another picture. Aranola over under four. ERA. Over. Over. But that feels about it. Well, I mean, if he's under four, my goodness. Yeah. This rotate, I mean, the first, one of the first things throughout us were, you know, multiple guys in the top five of this side. Young now, now we're talking, and you said the ERA of, or maybe the number three starter, whatever we think Wheeler is going to be when he comes back, just based on this rotation. At three. Yeah. Hugh, if Nola goes under four, this rotate, it's the best rotation in baseball. If that's the four starter, and he's under a four ERA, it's a credible. Yeah. And that gives you something to be excited about. But like I said, not trying to beat a Debbie Downer, but pitching had, like that has not been the Achilles heels for this team. No, but it needs to be the strength. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. But usually, I mean, he goes back and forth, right?

37:58He's pretty inconsistent. It'll be three, two, eight, four, six, three, three, two, five, four, four, six, three, five, seven. So like he hovers, he goes back and forth from that, that four number. So he does. Yeah. If it, look, if it's four, it's probably one, four, two, four, three. Yeah. And if he goes 30 starts with a low fours, I'll take that. I could see a high threes. It's a good Nola season. That's a good one. Yep. All right. I'll give you one more. And then we'll do some more at the refute calls here. Bryce Harper, are you buying or selling this? Bryce Harper finishes top three NL MVP voting. I'm buying. I'm buying. I'm buying. Hold that line. Hold the line. Hold the line. There you go. Hold the line. Finish you on a positive note. Three, top three. Top three. Top three is big. So. It'll be an optimistic minute spring. It's a, it's a. Spring's a journal. It's a whole spring's eternal. It's the end of the day. It starts. All right. So if we're doing the top three thing, we're just basically saying we know the top three right now. Is it an Otani and Soto? Just pencil those two. Yeah, and Bryce. And then Bryce is the third. Yeah, we go. Well, that's not about right. Well, listen.

38:58If he, even if he finishes third and there were those two guys who wanted to. That'd be great. If he's on their level. Yeah, that's an elite season. Like we talked about. Of course it is. I mean, those guys are basically just a lock for like a 950 OPS and plus. I mean, though, if, and then obviously Otani is going to pitch too, which means he's just going to win the MVP again. But if he's top three, man, that's, that's a bounce back season. All right. And we'll get to some more by cells and overrunners. First though, Lewis is in Florida up on WIP. Good afternoon, Lewis. Joe, you Kyle. Happy opening day. Happy opening. What a day. It is Lewis. You know, we're on that over under my, my hotcake is Aaron Noah's going to be under three, seven, five. Whew. That's some. It's probably one of the better years he's had in the last four years. If he gets to that, that sounds pretty good. Lewis, if we have a foot number four starter under a three, seven, five, the array, it's, it's an, it's the best rotation at baseball. It's kids, the baby time.

39:58It is. Kiss the baby. We haven't heard. We haven't heard. Kiss the baby as much. It's been a while. Yeah, like that. Wow. Yeah. No, baby. Did you get your parlay in for today? No, I'm working on that. You know, I'm trying to see what it, what it's going to look like today. But I, I feel like a Ali bomb home run. Phillies win. Ali bomb home run. That's the, that's to get the juices flowing just a little bit. Yeah, it's just opening day. That's it. I mean, he's, it has a number. It's a number. Forget that. Yeah, numbers yet. You got to take over on the Sanchez strikeouts. And I, you got to take a breakout candidate. Boom. I mean, no, excuse me. Stop. For two plus bases. Oh, I like that. Maybe we throw a stolen base in there with Crawford or stock. First dado. Yeah. Crawford gets on base. You think he's not running. Well, you know what? You're right. You're right. Stolen base. That might, that might be doable. Seems like you're afraid of the stolen base. Well, no, I'm, I'm just saying it's the first game. Yeah. First game. I'm not saying that he's not. Off and running. Okay, I'm with you. I'm, hey, listen, scared. I don't make money, Joe. That's right. So what do you feel about this team, Lewis? What's your win prediction?

40:58I'm going to go with 97. That's a big one. That's a big one. That's a big of a number. And we had someone in the hundreds earlier. But for the most part, 97, you know, the top of the line, which Lewis, that would be the most wins this group has had in any of these years together. I feel good. And for all the, the jimbrones that are going with wake me up, wake me up in October. Stay home when the parade is. I like that. Yeah, you know, and I just, I just don't get it. Lewis, good phone call, man. And we appreciate it. Joe, but I just, I can't go into a season like that because every year is its own thing. Even if they have a lot of the same players. Not with you. And look, the way we're going to feel about the team will evolve over the course of the year, just because you're excited today. I mean, you are tomorrow, the next day or the next day. And just because you are, you know, skeptical right now. Doesn't mean they can't win you over. That's, that's what these seasons are. We all go in excited. We all go in feeling optimistic that all the question marks will go the right way. And then that's how we get to May, June, July. It'll change, right? We'll get good answers. Or we'll get answers like, uh-oh.

41:59We need an L fielder. Or we need a pitcher or whatever, relief pitcher. And, um, and we'll react accordingly. All right, Hugh, I am looking at some of the numbers. I am too. I'm looking at some of the, uh, you know, the parles that they already have set up for you. I'm looking at those. Do you want to know some of the fillies, numbers against Nathan Evalde, the starting pitcher today for the Texas Rangers? Ooh, let's talk about it. All right. So Bryce has had a good career off of Evalde. He's, uh, had 24 at bats. He has hit a home run, 333 batting average, 929 OPS. So he's, he's seen Evalde quite a bit. Um, they used to be in this, I think Evalde was a Marlin when he was young and Bryce was a national, so obviously same division. So he's seen him a lot and has good numbers. So the two guys that have the best numbers off of Evalde are Real Muto and Harper. Just keep that in mind for you. Real Muto and Harper. That's numbers. You know what, Bryce has to be in my parletto. Well, I am after the way you've talked about it. Yeah, he got to be. So I'm going to go Bryce. I'm going to take Bryce. I got to take bone. I got to. Well, you don't.

42:59I mean, listen, you don't know what you do. Hold the line. You'll, I'm saying, if I'm putting the bone prediction out there, man, I got to believe in my got to first game out. So we'll go him and bone home runs. I got fill these money line. You know me. I'm a money line guy. Uh, what else we doing? Got to put. Who has someone put in there? I don't know. Sanchez. Six and a half. That's the right. This is going great. What do you say? What do you say? Are they good? No, I mean, it's a fun parley. I think I always just workshop in that you workshop in this on the air with us. Oh, no, I am. I am workshop in on that. Yeah, we get it. Uh-huh. Yeah. No, you know how I am. Yeah. Just the Crawford like what? Single double? What? What do we got? I wouldn't. Okay. A hit. Yeah. I wouldn't go. I wouldn't get too crazy with the extra base hits. Okay. Okay. Just a hit. Let's just take a deep breath. Let's go to Terrence. It's right there.

43:59What's up? Terrence. What's up, man? Terrence. What's going on? First of all, 92 wins. Okay. 92 wins. Crawford and Penner will have that. There will be the new young guys kind of like how Cooper and Quenya was. Penner will have nine wins. And Crawford will have 16 home runs. 16 home runs. 16 home runs, though. 16. I don't know if he hits 16 as a whole minor league career. That would be a power search. Yeah. Terrence. He will have an impact this year. Let's tell you this. If he hits 16 home runs along with the defense we think he could play in center field and the base running, he's going to win the rookie of the year. Or be right there with a few of the other top players. That's where I'm putting them. That's where I'm putting them, Joe. We're getting a year. And guys, looking up in October, how many times we get a fool with this man and we end up playing the fool and these guys, they make the run during the regular season and then we see the same thing in the playoffs. Guys, right now, this is Kyle's world was team. I don't care what nobody says.

45:01The last couple of years, he has been the best player. And to me, my buddy's done all these blood transfusions and all the other stuff. He's flattened. There's no right there, guy. His body is not the same. But that's how I mean. That's a player that knows he's in decline. If you have to do all these extra things to get his body wrapped up for his season. And do we see his world doing that kind of stuff? No, we don't see that. And Bryce Harper was born here for power. He was born here to bring that big bet. And he hasn't had the last couple of years. That has been Kyle's World War, guys. Kyle's World War has had these crazy runs hitting the home runs. He has had Magnificent. The last year was one of the best season ever. Oh, yeah. For sure. Right now, we all put the pressure on Harper when the guys collapse. But we could say there are one A and one B pretty much. Because these guys are both, they're both for the stars of the team. They want to keep keeping G. They're both the stars of the team. So, guys, I think we have an October because this reason right here.

46:03We got a long season, guys. We don't know about injuries. We don't know about none of that stuff. We don't know if these guys, the last couple years, they had the pitching. They had the pitching. And this year, I thought the pitching has gotten even better. So it's going to come down again, guys. Can we win these close games? Can we win the mental games? Can we win the defeating plays? Are we able to do that stuff to get us over the hump? Because last year, I don't feel like it was so much tougher. I feel like it was more on the players not being the mental edge and being not not scared of the Dodgers. But have like a mental, mental flops against the Dodgers. So, guys, it's going to be this year. It's going to be waiting until October. I want to see how these guys perform. And one quick thing, guys, on Diana Rossini. I'm one of you, man. I hope she's right about this A day's trade. She's because of that. Let me go look at this season. It's going to look bad, Joe. It's going to look bad on her end if this trade doesn't go through. No, but if it does, it's going to look bad on here.

47:03It's not going to look... No, it's not. I don't think it's going to look bad. It's not going to affect her in any kind of way. This is what she does, man. Yeah, you're right about that. And she's been... Everything that Diana Rossini is doing is... She has the right to because she is plugged in. And her job is... And that's her job. I am... It's not so much her is just how I feel about it. Because she does a hell of a job. So I never want to get on here and make anybody think that I'm poo-pooing the job that she makes. That is definitely not it. This is just the way that I feel about the situation. She does a hell of a job. Well, it also in every trade discussion or rumor, right? It takes two to tango. So if I had to guess, and this is just my guess, that she's probably heard a lot of things from AJ's camp. Right? And maybe about how he feels. And what's going to might happen, what they want to have happen. I'm just guessing that maybe she hears things through that part of the story. You know, none of that matters if how he just says no, right? If how he just says no and doesn't trade him, you can hear anything.

48:03And it doesn't matter. It's all a very, very fluid situation. All right. Can we get a few more of these by cells? Overunders here, Kyle. All right, I know where he's going to go with this one. Okay. Over under 20 homeruns for boom. Over. Well, you had no choice. Yeah, I'm over here. You know, I'm over here. This is madness. What more curious about Joe's? It's an under. Come on. Under 20 for contract, your boom. How many times have you hit more? How many times have you hit more than 20? How many times have you been in contract here, Joe? Well, that's a fair point. And he got a girlfriend that he's behalf of. No, that doesn't help anything. That doesn't matter. He's going to turn to corner. She's going to be like, I believe in you, Alan. Is that how this works? Yes. How about they all get girlfriends to go in the World Series? It's that easy. I believe in you so much. Yeah, he's had exactly 20 homeruns one time. Yeah. What? I can't. Kimo ain't going to kill him. Contract your boom. Contract your boom. You make it sound like that's so easy. Yeah, I do don't. It's not. It's making sound like I can go out there and do that. It is insane that I set the number of 20 and that's the most. He's under it.

49:03No, see, you see that's your problem. You play too much. Don't do that. That is not funny. That is not funny. Because that's what he bang in his legs. He's getting out of hand. He's getting out of hand. He's getting out of hand. He's getting out of hand. He's getting out of hand. He's getting out of hand. He's getting out of hand. We have unruly fans of citizens banged park. Are the skates open yet? Close. They let anybody in this place. Unbelievable. All right, go ahead. All right, 30 homers for Adoles Garcia. I'm just wondering. That's a lot. That sounds like a lot. Yeah, it's funny though. He's got way more power than both of them. He really did leg, David. All right, if we're getting the under 20 from Bowman, under 30 from Garcia. What? I give Garcia. 22 to 25 soundbout. That feels right. That feels about 30. That feels about right now. I'm going under. All right, stop. 295 batting. Yeah, see now we're getting to the over. That's yoga over. Over. That feels lost. Oh, start. Start. That second base. It feels lost.

50:03Wave to the crowd. Here it's citizens banged park. Are we going to give a bump? I always feel this happens with the team that hosts the All-Star game. Like that city votes more. You ever noticed that? Like the team that hosts the All-Star game. Typically has more starters that year than like other years. Because it's theirs. Yeah. So are we going to make a push? Are we going to try to get our guys into the All-Star game to start? Yes. To represent? I believe so. Now, OK, another part of that question. Are we going to do it fairly? Or are we going to be the silly fan base that just votes everybody in, even if they don't deserve to go? Silly fan base. Yeah. So you're saying like if boom is, just use boom. If boom is clearly not deserving, am I going to look up after the first round of balding? And he's going to be leading at their base? Yes. All right, listen. I'm OK with that. If we want to do this as a station and a fan base, just vote all the fillies in. Yeah. Yeah. I will. I just want to make sure I'm the same page. Yeah, we're going to vote him in. Yeah. All right, let me give you a couple more. These are actual lines. No more colloquine lines. Right, Harper, home runs. 26 and a half. Over. Over. Yeah.

51:03You're having to go. No, because listen. No, I'm not. Wow. I'm not. I was thinking. I was trying to say that's a lot of damn home runs for one. Baseball squad. Well, that's good though. I mean, yeah, that's what I'm saying. If you're going to under for boom and Garcia, then that somebody's got to hit him runs. That's what that's what I'm saying. I'm that's fine. I'm OK with that. That's just I was just thinking of my mind because we we haven't even talked about Schwabble's home run. He's next. Do you want his number? Over on Bryce. Yes, go ahead. Schwabble is at 41 and a half. I'm over. Yeah. Now, I don't think he's going to 56 again. That that might have been. Yeah, but he probably go over. Yeah, but since he's gotten here. His low is maybe 38. So what we looking at like, but he's been. We're close to 200. We've we've we've we're close to like 200. Well, that's what you're 30 from. That's what I'm saying. That's why I was trying to do the math. The quick math. That's a lot of damn home runs that we go. If we hit that many home runs, may we go in the world? How many home runs did they hit last year? Don't know. Well, they had 56 from Schwabble. So that obviously carried the day of whatever they did.

52:04Bryce hit 27 last year. I don't know if they had another 20 home run guy last year. That they did not. So as a team last year, they hit two 12 last year here. Two 12 lessons. Okay. So that's not too long. But 56 were shorter. Yeah. That's not okay. It's not bad. That's not bad. Order of their home runs lessons. Yeah. Okay. Two 12. So I was thinking that was a little lofty. So it's how I would like. 250. Like as a squad. It's a big number. Yeah. I'm being lofty. It's open a day, man. If they had 250 home runs and their starting pitchers they's healthy. They're going to win 100 games. 250 home runs. He was racking up those home runs. I feel I'm feeling optimistic. And I just put my parlay in there. Ooh. If I hit this parlay boy, y'all going to be a tell me none. What's the point? Because I'm going to be living high on the home. What hog? What's the payout? Like $100. You put $135. You had to do the 50 to one? Yeah. I put the $2 down and got me $135. Wow. You even did better than $155. Yeah. Look at me. You know, I'll do that. Where are the legs? What do you got? I got Bryce Harper home run.

53:04Home run. Alec Bonne. Home run. Philly's money line. Justin Crawford. A quarter hit. That's it? That's it. $135. 36. That's not bad. $136. The bone home run is a little challenging. You're going to get it on first at bat. Do you see him in the spring? Kyle, listen. Send them into Frenchies. Kyle, listen. Crawford, who? Kyle, listen. It's opening today. Kyle quadril. See, I feel... Mike don't laugh at that. Don't laugh at that. That's not fun. Is he even a big league or a long word? Is this opening day? It's pitch for Canada one day. It starts with Texas. And I'm feeling... I'm feeling... Good about the day. Kyle quadril. By the way, pitch was 6.07. Yeah. We are going... We are going to draw today. Six runs. Six runs today. At least six runs. You know what? Listen, I'm excited to have Ike spike in here. But this is going to turn into the Alec bone show.

54:05Ike loves bone. I mean, in our fantasy baseball, we were a lot of dreamkeepers. He likes bone. He likes bone. Yeah, he loves bone. He's a bonemer. He kept Alec bone with fantasy baseball. Who does that? I agree. I know. He's the biggest bone family ever. I agree. I agree. He's being challenged now. I'm excited about today, man. I am really excited about today. I think it's going to be a big day for the Phillies today. Hit the ground running. It starts with Texas. It literally does. It literally and figuratively starts with Texas. 215-592-9494. That is how you hopboard. All right. The afternoon show, guys, we're going to join us in the booth here at Citizen's Bay Park. Next, we'll take your phone call as well. Your bowl predicts for the season. I'm going to stop. It starts the All-Star game. He's got bone for 30. 30 item thanks. Hit 11 last year. Jump into 30. According to Hugh Douglas, 91 wins for me. 95 for Hugh. And where do you come down to the level? Excited. Is it, I can't wait for this as we get to open a day? Or are you one of those? And it's okay. If you are one of those wake, be up in October fans.

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