Look, if nothing else, we right here on the Hittin’ Season podcast are nothing if not realists.
When the Phillies are unhealthy, we’ll let you know they’re unhealthy. After they’re good, we’ll sing their praises. After they make an ideal signing or commerce, we’ll trumpet it from the mountaintops, and once they signal Max Kepler as their lone outfield addition, I’ll moan about it till the cows come residence.
Clearly, it’s Tremendous Bowl week. For the second time in three years, the Eagles are taking part in within the Tremendous Bowl and, on prime of every little thing else, it’s a rematch towards their previous head coach Andy Reid and the Chiefs, with maybe the best quarterback of all time, Patrick Mahomes, trying to do one thing no different staff in NFL historical past has performed – win three Tremendous Bowls in a row.
We all know there’s nothing the Phils might do that week to take any significant consideration away from the Birds’ quest for his or her second title in seven years, and but, we podcast anyway.
Even when the Phillies had been to signal the largest free agent remaining, third baseman Alex Bregman, to a seven-year contract and commerce away Alec Bohm, it wouldn’t be sufficient. Exterior of signing a participant like Juan Soto or Aaron Choose, the Phils ain’t making a dent this week.
However there’s something to be mentioned for counter-programming. In spite of everything, how rather more can we presumably speak about this recreation on Sunday? What number of podcasts can a human being take up, how a lot discuss radio can we hearken to, what number of talking-head TV exhibits can we watch about this soccer recreation earlier than we retreat into our deprivation tanks and prove the lights?
Hittin’ Season could be a palate-cleanser for you, as a result of on the most recent episode of the podcast we talked a few well-known laptop mannequin that claims the Phillies have the Tenth-best odds of successful the World Collection in 2025. TENTH-BEST??? I knew we couldn’t belief our AI overlords.
Which gamers have probably the most to show when spring coaching will get underway in a month? Bryson Stott? Alec Bohm? Ranger Suarez? And which gamers will bounce again after a down 2024 season?
And what about Kyle Schwarber on the prime of the lineup? Isn’t it time we transfer him down and let him truly hit some homers with dudes on base? Do we actually must proceed dwelling in a world the place 7 out of each 10 of his dingers is with nobody on base? Actually? IN THIS ECONOMY?
Regardless of it being an Eagles Tremendous Bowl week, there are nonetheless plenty of enjoyable issues to debate about your Phils and America’s Pasttime, so don’t let your pals name you “bizarre” for being dedicated to Hittin’ Season throughout this football-obsessed time.
Come be a part of us for a frollicking foray into Phillies fandom, and provides your self a break from the unrelenting content material machine that’s the Tremendous Bowl, if just for an hour.