My favorite part about the Mets natural position and posting discourse is that it often comes attached to “should of” with Willson Contreras, who changed positions in 2025 and who has a grand total of two 500 PA seasons

The irony is that the Process got a bunch of young fans to buy into the Sixers again and then the Sixers have systematically dismantled the reasons why fans got invested in the first place

JUSTIN CRAWFORD TIES IT UP WITH HIS FIRST MAJOR LEAGUE DINGER 🤯

I go back to 2023 when the Phillies waited months for Painter because they wanted to do whatever it took to prevent TJ and what we have seen since proved they were right in trying whatever it took. He ended up needing surgery anyway but their process at the time was correct

Andrew Painter’s Four Seam Fastball: Athletics 12 Phillies 1 From @anthonyesbensen.bsky.social www.thegoodphight.com/philadelphia...

Whoever that guy was, he did not look comfortable in front of a camera

Worst General Manager of Hockey Operations hire in the history of professional sports*

There is no good way to comp this so this post is meaningless but Run differential first 7 games post Girardi in 2022: +35 First 7 games post Topper: +12

The thing about them winning 6 of 7 under Mattingly (and 7 of 9 since Wheeler came back which I really think is the potential turning point in their season) is that how much different are things outside of the SPer regression to the mean most people expected?

As someone who loves watching introductory press conferences and knows the best part is that they’re as easy of a home run as a team could have The Leafs are FUCKED

The Trent Baalke Jags

🐍🐍🐍

The Sixers are actually playing fundamental basketball and the Celtics are like 3 3 3 3 3 3

dying at this page of baseball quotes from the latest print edition of @theonion.com

Your favorite outfielder's favorite outfielder

I’m back with more great immaculate grid answers for you that include a guy that was sort of the Forrest Gump of Phillies history and another guy that was drafted one pick after Reggie Jackson www.thegoodphight.com/philadelphia...

I went into what Andrew Painter has been doing over his first month in the big leagues and potential adjustments @thegoodphight.bsky.social www.thegoodphight.com/phillies-ana...

Bowlan has one of the best FBs in the majors so naturally you only want to call it 15 times in 31 pitches

"how are Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz doing this year" is the new "who was president in 2020"

Donnie Don’t 3-0

Schwarber is gonna break Bonds’s record

Banks and Shugart are 2 of the guys you would ask to go 2 innings in a bullpen game scenario where you don’t have a traditional long man

Others have said this but they have a bullpen game later today and this is already a depleted pen so pulling Sanchez there is just weird

From the category of things that were obvious but no one listed. Justin Crawford and ground balls: 2025 (AAA): 59.4% .352 BABIP .050 ISO 89.0 mph 2026 (MLB): 61.3% .289 BABIP .000 ISO 86.8 mph He is having some bad luck on line drives, but there is a reason the GB rate was highlighted.

Promoting Justin Crawford home run odds? I know gambling companies want to steal money but you can’t do better than that?

With tonight's loss, the Mets (10-20) stand alone with the worst record in Major League Baseball.

Well it's been a couple months since I ran a promo, so let's piggyback on the mess of this week. Use code DONNIEBASEBALL at patreon.com/philliestherapy for 25% off a month or annual sub. We need to finance a bulk order of couches for our session room.

(Good Don Mattingly decision to pull Luzardo) Really good Orion Kerkering inning

Rob Thomson showcases his impact on Phillies organization in farewell From our newest contributor, Jeff Kerr! www.thegoodphight.com/mlb-news/809...

Ok so Cora was very obviously the plan and they didn’t get him. That’s pretty funny

How long until we get a clip of Castellanos talking about them firing Thomson?

With @ken-rosenthal.bsky.social and @jaysonst.bsky.social: The Phillies offered their managing job to Alex Cora. He turned them down. Much more to come on this: www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

“I feel like we have the right people here,” Kyle Schwarber said, “and we got the right people to figure it out.”

This seems more like an act of desperation rather than a club forcing your hand like in 2022

Breaking: Phillies fired Rob Thomson From @anthonyesbensen.bsky.social www.thegoodphight.com/philadelphia...

Article english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

To expand on this having slept on it: ✅ There’s mystique for managing the 2018 Red Sox, fair. ✅ / 😬 His Astros tenure shows, uh, killer instinct. But also … ❌ Would an elite manager let the Devers situation play out as it did? ❌ There’s no recent evidence of genius, across 2 front offices.

I don’t see firing Rob as a move that makes the team better. I really don’t see firing Rob and hiring an outside manager unfamiliar with your org right as you need to pull things together is going to make you better. Maybe they do a panic thing, but I think a lot of national writers love drama.

So after 13 against the Cubs and Braves they now go Giants, Marlins, A’s, Rockies, Red Sox, Pirates, Reds. There is a path for a run now that you are no longer exclusively playing two of the best teams.

For One Night: Phillies 8 Braves 5 From @anthonyesbensen.bsky.social www.thegoodphight.com/philadelphia...

Ik it’s Boob but the fact that a national writer (that definitely knows people and is connected to the league) is making that connection then it’s worth noting

The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora, hitting coach Peter Fatse, bench coach Rámon Vazquez and game-planning coach Jason Varitek, sources tell ESPN. While the Red Sox won today, they are 10-17 and in last in the American League East. Massive change is coming in Boston.

The 10th straight loss brought a new type of failure: What happened in the sixth inning when the Phillies didn’t have a lefty ready to face pinch-hitter Michael Harris II? Everything is magnified right now: www.nytimes.com/athletic/722...

Dombrowski didn't fire Rene Lachemann until after game 86 (39-47) He fired John Boles after 48 games (22-26) Joe Girardi after 51 games (22-29) None of those guys had the same success as Topper while working with Dave. There is a very real chance Thomson is managing the entire season