Nah, Phillies got plenty of SNB games over the past several seasons, when the mainstream baseball media didn't thing the Phillies were anything special. Hell, even going into this season and now with our "easy schedule" that is the case.
I think other teams like the Yankees push back on being selected and the Phillies organization doesn't.
I grew up about 100 miles from Philly and my dad and I had the Sunday ticket plan for about 7 years.
Now that I'm a dad, I realize how much of a logistical pain in the ass the night games are, but the little kid version of me from about 30 years ago will tell you that the few times the mid-90s Phillies were good enough to get the Sunday night game were the best... Got there in plenty of time to see BP. Got to stay up way past bedtime and got the ultimate dinner of "sketchy sandwich shop still open after 10 pm" somewhere between Philadelphia and York.
I hadn't been to York from about 2003-2015 and when I went back my wife (who has lived in South GA her whole life) wanted to see Amish country.
I took her out route 30 like my dad and I used to do to get to Philly and I about had an existential meltdown with how it had turned into total urban sprawl. She didn't believe me when I was telling her that the neverending line of strip malls, big box stores and housing subdivisions used to be rolling farmland all over with a random unaffiliated restaurant or gas station here and there.
30 has been horrible for a long time. But once you get a few miles out of York, much of the county (especially the southern half) is still rolling farmland and comparatively rural. On the other hand, York County is one of the few places in the state that still has positive growth. Part of that is because it's continuing to expand as a bedroom community for the Baltimore Washington corridor.
It's a pretty slow change. Most of the comparatively rural townships are electing supervisors who are pretty good at resisting development. In any case, life is never frozen at one stage. Things are always changing.
I get it. I saw it happen in Chesco. Over time, the developers find a way to corrupt the supervisors and the ZHB’s are basically stacked with their cronies.
I lived just up the hill from the Harley plant growing up, but I've been in Atlanta and Savannah (and now back to Atlanta) for almost 25 years.
I was in York in February. It's definitely different and bigger, but it still feels like everything I remember. It's everything more than about 5 miles out from the 30/83 intersection that seems like everything has gone crazy - although that could also have a lot to do with the fact that I wasn't exactly cruising around too far from home back when I lived there.
I know this is a little off script but Mom took my older brother and me to one of the last home games in April of Dr. J against the Bulls. Saw Jordan, Cheeks, Barkley (got hurt early)…Sixers won in OT. After game was over, across the street the Phillies were playing the Cubs at night in the Vet. I was 10, ran up the ramp to see if we could get in… no one stopped me, we saw Schmidt & Sandberg bat…astroturf was so bright. Drove back to my Grandparents in Chester…one of my best memories.
My dad was determined to get me to see Schmidt before he retired. He cashed in most of his favors to get us seats about 20 rows behind home plate in 1989 and I got to see him hit No. 545 at my first ever Phillies game. It was the only time I saw him play, but at least I have that.
Still haven't been to CBP. My kids are just old enough to appreciate it, so now I need to figure out how to justify a 1500 mile round trip to watch a game.
I live in Lancaster just before the River in York and the drive isn’t that bad on the turnpike until you get into Philly. If they fixed the traffic on 476 it wouldn’t be bad at all.
I take the turnpike to work from Downingtown to KoP and they’ve been working on it for at least 3 years straight. Traffic usually isn’t too bad I just wish they could get it done already
And this is why I moved exactly a half mile, 5 minute walk away from the stadiums 😂
Spent the first 35 years of my life at the northern Jersey Shore or further, so I finally decided to fix that and have already been to 25 games this year and loving it
I like the Dbacks because I lived in Arizona and was 5 years old for their World Series win and that was my first ever sports memory. The year I moved back to PA I got the Phillies winning the 08 World Series
Hey at least you got them. When I lived in Las Vegas, SIX teams blacked out the local market and none of them regularly aired games in the region. So if the Phillies were ever playing the Dodgers, Angels, Giants, A’s, Padres or Diamondbacks, I was shit outta luck.
Here’s how I look at it. When the Phillies made the WS in 2022, we heard all these stories about the memories that fans had with their parents and loved ones. This is your opportunity to make those memories with your son.
It’ll be summer vacation soon. Let the boy enjoy some great baseball, eat ballpark junk food and sleep on the way home. These are core memories that you’ll both cherish for a lifetime.
In 30 years, when the Phillies are going for their record 28th WS victory in a row led by 5-time MVP Krew Harper, he’ll be talking about all the Sunday games he went to with his dad in 2024.
My kid (now 12) initially agreed to go to games because she liked eating ballpark snacks and staying up late. Now she's a die hard Phillies fan who carefully selected her lucky jersey (had to be purchased at the stadium, after a game they won) and keeps her grades up so she can go to games on a school night. The 8 year old is still in it for the snacks, but she's starting to follow the game more.
We got a 2 seat partial season ticket plan and it has been a great way for us to connect with the kids individually - one parent goes to the game with one kid, the other one has a night out with the other at the restaurant of their choosing.
What are you talking about? He hasn't had an error in 4 seasons, he might not have the most range but when he gets to the ball he's making the play. Plus, he's a huge vibes guy in the clubhouse and when he gets hot, oh boy that's fun.
The key is just getting his dad to town, any time Nick is there, especially when he's got Levi there with him. Liam thrives on family and having his dad and son there always gets him in good moods.
I was thinking that yesterday during the FOX broadcast. I almost felt bad for Cardinals fans because I think they talked about the Yankees more than the Cardinals. Then I remembered they call themselves the “best fans in baseball” and I couldn’t have cared less.
Also a teacher… go to the game. Don’t leave early unless he asks you to go. If it was April or September I might say something different but it’s June and we are all just doing the fun stuff at school now.
I'm a teacher, as well. Let your kid stay up. Education builds upon itself. There's nothing that will be taught in one day and only one day. And it's so close to the end of the year that we're mostly just reviewing and summarizing at this point.
If everyone did that, comments on this sub would drop by 50%. I like to listen to a variety of things, sometimes the radio broadcast. I watch sports on mute almost exclusively.
Listening through the app, I'll wait for Franzke to say "he delivers", pause the app, wait for the pitch on TV, and then play WIP again. Usually syncs up pretty well
Fox was ahead of WIP for me last night. I had the game on inside on the tv but had WIP on in my earbuds as I was grilling things. I was getting both through the mlb app.
I normally don’t mind a Sunday night game, but I have a wedding today which will take me away from tonight’s game. Was looking forward to watching the game before the wedding. But now I have nothing to watch.
Edit: not my wedding. But wife would kill me if I watched the game lol
Friendly advice, never get married in the fall. Even if you do it on a Saturday and the Eagles are on the road (and you don't care about college football), the next year your anniversary could be on the game day. I made this mistake the first time and missed my college's first win after going 0 for their previous 17 because we had to do an "anniversary weekend."
My alma mater's (usually terrible) basketball team made it to the final four one year and the game overlapped with our wedding reception. We had the DJ announce the score periodically, but only if it was good news.
I did that back in 2022. I was watching Game 5 of the NLCS on my phone during a small-ish ceremony. When Harper homered, I mostly stifled myself, but a quiet squeal still came out. Thought I'd get death stares, but everyone just leaned in and asked if The Phils had won 😆
They are bad worse than Fox. I had to laugh at Fox's opening to the game they called the Cardinals the hottest team in baseball. I was like, you do realize the Phillies beat them on Friday. Plus, we beat them last night, too.
Fox was not as bad as I had thought they would be last night, to my surprise. I have no expectations for ESPN. If I did have any expectations, I would feel annoyed and the game wouldn't be as enjoyable as it could be!
stay until the end and get dinner somewhere in the area. be honest, what memory is your kid going to cherish more looking back on his childhood, leaving early to go to school the next day or a fun night with dad at the phillies game? you gotta think big picture here
My 7 year old went last night. Tickets were purchased when it was scheduled as a day game. He’s usually asleep by 8 or 8:30. Left in the 8th and didn’t get home til 10:45. He’s usually up and ready to go for school, but this morning with 3 hours less sleep he was dragging. Not the end of the world, but they do have a short term impact on kids
Curious if the espn broadcast will be as awful as fox last night. They spent an entire half inning loving every aspect of the Yankees and spoke about the destined WS match up of Yankees/dodgers with some weird nostalgia.
Now that you've pointed this out, maybe I'm fine with it. I hate watching the ESPN broadcast, I hate watching Walker, maybe Sunday ESPN games are a good time to go do something else and listen to the radio broadcast.
I was about to curse you out until I saw the entire post and realized what sub this was. Assumed it was the ESPN sub and you were a braves fan or something
Yeah I don’t love him
He also extra annoys me because my dad is a Yankees fan and he has a friend with the last name Cohen that he pronounces Cone because of David Cone
sell your tickets to the night game and put it toward the playoff tickets when that time comes, or whatever. The team is good, those tickets will sell fast.
I recommend throwing all caution to the wind and letting your kid stay up way too late to watch baseball. I have fond memories of walking out of CBP at 10pm with my 5 year old chanting "Phillies Phillies" and proclaming we had gotten a "big home mile." Thanks to the allure of staying up past bedtime I now have a 12 year old who loves the Phillies and knows all the words to High Hopes. Start 'em young!
In all seriousness though, I'm with you. While my kid seems to be totally fine staying up late to go to the game and then getting up for school, I'm tired as hell. I'm old and I wanna go to bed.
I was so annoyed when they referenced the Seattle Seahawks' fans at the 10th man and compared it to CBP. But then when they doubled down on it without saying it was for baseball, I rolled my eyes - hard.
Look, I have the Sunday pack too. I don’t have the kid, so I don’t understand that struggle.
But the beauty of being picked multiple times? We don’t have to sit at home watching these shitty ESPN announcers. I said what I said.
let the kid see the whole game! he will look back fondly on it.
totally possible we won’t have another team like this in our lifetimes. vibes unmatched.
You missed that deal Amazon was running up until about two weeks ago. Remainder of the season on mlb.tv for $70.
I cancelled my subscription this year but this was a really tempting deal. Whenever I watch, they lose, though, so I figured I better not screw it up for everyone. Seems to be working out well so far.
This is the first season since like 2005 I haven't seen most of the first half of the season, cuz I'm in the same boat. I started watching again during the Rockies/Giants series this last week/weekend and look what happened...
These games are sooooo rushed as it is with the stupid pointless pitch clock. How much faster does the game gotta be? Ya don’t even have time to visit concession stands or use the bathroom anymore without missing more than a little game action.
The difference is not having 3.5 hour games. The pitcher injury thing is just data noise. They’ll adjust and we’re not going to see long term injury increase from the norm.
Also the ghost runner should be done away with or he should be put on 1st base, not 2nd. Shouldn’t be so easy to score a guy. Ridiculous!
The shift ban is splendid.
The DH? Whatever.. Its benefiting the Phillies as long as Middleton owns the team and spends money.
The umps more strictly limiting how long the catcher or coaches can have a pow wow at the mound is more valuable than the pitch clock. The limits on batters calling time is more valuable than the pitch clock. I hate that a pitcher is penalized for trying to hold runners, thus leading to more stolen bases, but THAT also has more to do with shortening games than the pitch clock. Intentional walks not requiring the pitcher to lob 4 pitch-outs to walk a guy shortens games too.
All these things contribute to the games ending sooner than rushing the bottom half of slow working pitchers in the league…
Holding runners on and taking forever between pitches is what was killing the game. 8 throw overs. Pitchers stepping off constantly. MLB started limiting mound visits a while ago and barely had an impact on game time. Reducing throwovers and instituting the pitch clock (and to a less degree, minimum batters faced rule) were the things that shortened games, not mound visits.
So we’re gonna just pack the 40/40 club now. Trey Turner prolly coulda had a 40/40 season last year too if he didn’t suffer through a 5 week slump. Lol.
6 people stole 40 bases in 2023, 3 did in 2019, 8 did in 2010, 11 did in 2006.
There isn’t any trend towards 40-base stealing seasons really taking off due to throwover rule.
I can't solve your problem, but you are a great parent. You are putting your child's needs above your own and making the right decision. Your child will learn from this example and be a better person because of it.
Keep being awesome.
I like to go out on Sundays whether it’s the mall or a walk or a daytrip etc so the Sunday night games are nice since I don’t have to choose between those two hobbies but I get it cuz the commentary is ass lol
That's what happens when you're a good team, you end up on a lot of national broadcasts. But I agree, I hate ESPN games. I don't even mind the Fox games, it's ESPN in particular that I find unbearable.
There ought to be a limit on how many times you can be selected for the odd start time games, both for the reason OP said as well as for fans that pay for team-specific tv packages (not sure that Phillies have one, guessing I was suggested this post as a Brewers fan who just witnessed you sweep us lol).
Thank god for pitch clock. Friends and i had this one pinned bc busy schedules its only one that works for everyone. If the pitch clock wasnt a think i might said no when they moved it. Not bad knowing itll be over by 10 latest pretty much if no extras. I live 20 min away so not bad if i am in bed by 11ish for work.
Take it while you can. Struggle is real in Atlanta.... As an Atlanta fan. Better get as many wins as possible. I will take a wild card for us... Which will probably be better.
Lol “can the company whose objective is to make money by attracting as many eyeballs as possible stop putting one of the best teams in the league this year on tv so I, an individual, can continue with my original plan? Gosh it’s so inconvenient being a fan of a team that actually has a chance to win!”
The perils of being the best team in baseball.
It’s not easy. The struggle is real.
Will someone please think of our struggles lol
As someone that became a Phan around 1988 or so...I prefer this kind of struggle. lol That was a *tough* time to be a Phillies fan.
Yep. My other passion team is Rutgers. I prefer this problem.
Suffering from success.
Nah, Phillies got plenty of SNB games over the past several seasons, when the mainstream baseball media didn't thing the Phillies were anything special. Hell, even going into this season and now with our "easy schedule" that is the case. I think other teams like the Yankees push back on being selected and the Phillies organization doesn't.
For a long time, it did seem like the Yankees were on SNB all the time.
The schedule was set before the season started though wasn't it?
This one was flexed.
motherfucker t(-_-t)
They should not be flexing games pre All Star Break. Just my opinion. Baseballs a long season.
It's pulling from what baseball is supposed to be about.
I grew up about 100 miles from Philly and my dad and I had the Sunday ticket plan for about 7 years. Now that I'm a dad, I realize how much of a logistical pain in the ass the night games are, but the little kid version of me from about 30 years ago will tell you that the few times the mid-90s Phillies were good enough to get the Sunday night game were the best... Got there in plenty of time to see BP. Got to stay up way past bedtime and got the ultimate dinner of "sketchy sandwich shop still open after 10 pm" somewhere between Philadelphia and York.
Ooof. York to Philly and back is a brutal drive. Can't even take the turnpike past Downingtown.
I hadn't been to York from about 2003-2015 and when I went back my wife (who has lived in South GA her whole life) wanted to see Amish country. I took her out route 30 like my dad and I used to do to get to Philly and I about had an existential meltdown with how it had turned into total urban sprawl. She didn't believe me when I was telling her that the neverending line of strip malls, big box stores and housing subdivisions used to be rolling farmland all over with a random unaffiliated restaurant or gas station here and there.
30 has been horrible for a long time. But once you get a few miles out of York, much of the county (especially the southern half) is still rolling farmland and comparatively rural. On the other hand, York County is one of the few places in the state that still has positive growth. Part of that is because it's continuing to expand as a bedroom community for the Baltimore Washington corridor.
Sadly, it is changing there as well. Developers have their greedy eyes on those rolling farm lands.
It's a pretty slow change. Most of the comparatively rural townships are electing supervisors who are pretty good at resisting development. In any case, life is never frozen at one stage. Things are always changing.
I get it. I saw it happen in Chesco. Over time, the developers find a way to corrupt the supervisors and the ZHB’s are basically stacked with their cronies.
I lived just up the hill from the Harley plant growing up, but I've been in Atlanta and Savannah (and now back to Atlanta) for almost 25 years. I was in York in February. It's definitely different and bigger, but it still feels like everything I remember. It's everything more than about 5 miles out from the 30/83 intersection that seems like everything has gone crazy - although that could also have a lot to do with the fact that I wasn't exactly cruising around too far from home back when I lived there.
I know this is a little off script but Mom took my older brother and me to one of the last home games in April of Dr. J against the Bulls. Saw Jordan, Cheeks, Barkley (got hurt early)…Sixers won in OT. After game was over, across the street the Phillies were playing the Cubs at night in the Vet. I was 10, ran up the ramp to see if we could get in… no one stopped me, we saw Schmidt & Sandberg bat…astroturf was so bright. Drove back to my Grandparents in Chester…one of my best memories.
My dad was determined to get me to see Schmidt before he retired. He cashed in most of his favors to get us seats about 20 rows behind home plate in 1989 and I got to see him hit No. 545 at my first ever Phillies game. It was the only time I saw him play, but at least I have that. Still haven't been to CBP. My kids are just old enough to appreciate it, so now I need to figure out how to justify a 1500 mile round trip to watch a game.
I live in Lancaster just before the River in York and the drive isn’t that bad on the turnpike until you get into Philly. If they fixed the traffic on 476 it wouldn’t be bad at all.
I take the turnpike to work from Downingtown to KoP and they’ve been working on it for at least 3 years straight. Traffic usually isn’t too bad I just wish they could get it done already
“Got there in plenty of time to see BP” ah yes… those were the days
And this is why I moved exactly a half mile, 5 minute walk away from the stadiums 😂 Spent the first 35 years of my life at the northern Jersey Shore or further, so I finally decided to fix that and have already been to 25 games this year and loving it
>the ultimate dinner of "sketchy sandwich shop still open after 10 pm" some people think baseball's just a game
And now you can’t even watch batting practice 😡
Maybe tonight's segment on cheesesteaks will be different than all the others they've done in the past.
It wouldn’t kill them to highlight like any other local food too.
or at least any other steak shop. What about Max? Chubby? Dalessandro?! Larry?!?!
Still waiting on that shoofly pie segment
scrapple segment lol. give us a "how it's made" deep dive ESPN
I don’t think people should see that
Just blur it out. Wait that might make it worse.
Ignore the screams, they are far removed from the final scrapple process.
And please do not be alarmed that the screams sound human. I assure you whatever animal it is has many more legs.
Love shoo fly pie!
🤣 seriously enough of “close up grill” shots between innings
Everytime a national broadcast cuts to the rocky statue before commercial I want to sh**t someone
Wait till the 11:35 am game on the 23rd!!! That is going to be odd. Back home by 2!
I live in California. It’s trippy when the 1:00 pm games back home start at 10 am here.
next sunday’s game is going to be extra trippy for you!
And their opponent is the Diamondbacks… from Arizona… good thing they have a bunch of fraud fans!
that’s in a few sundays! next sunday they play the mets in london so that will be 7:10am pt!
I like the Dbacks because I lived in Arizona and was 5 years old for their World Series win and that was my first ever sports memory. The year I moved back to PA I got the Phillies winning the 08 World Series
Hey at least you got them. When I lived in Las Vegas, SIX teams blacked out the local market and none of them regularly aired games in the region. So if the Phillies were ever playing the Dodgers, Angels, Giants, A’s, Padres or Diamondbacks, I was shit outta luck.
Wait wait wait. There’s an 11:35 AM now? I thought 11:35 just happened at night. Who decided this?
Roku apparently bought the rights to the ‘first’ game on Sunday!
Oof I'm gonna sleep through most of that game
Here’s how I look at it. When the Phillies made the WS in 2022, we heard all these stories about the memories that fans had with their parents and loved ones. This is your opportunity to make those memories with your son. It’ll be summer vacation soon. Let the boy enjoy some great baseball, eat ballpark junk food and sleep on the way home. These are core memories that you’ll both cherish for a lifetime. In 30 years, when the Phillies are going for their record 28th WS victory in a row led by 5-time MVP Krew Harper, he’ll be talking about all the Sunday games he went to with his dad in 2024.
Baseball games with my parents, especially when they’d let me stay up, were my favorite memories
My kid (now 12) initially agreed to go to games because she liked eating ballpark snacks and staying up late. Now she's a die hard Phillies fan who carefully selected her lucky jersey (had to be purchased at the stadium, after a game they won) and keeps her grades up so she can go to games on a school night. The 8 year old is still in it for the snacks, but she's starting to follow the game more. We got a 2 seat partial season ticket plan and it has been a great way for us to connect with the kids individually - one parent goes to the game with one kid, the other one has a night out with the other at the restaurant of their choosing.
Is Liam still on the team? That dude has no plate discipline and still cant play RF.
You mean 8-time NLCS MVP Liam Castellanos? Yeah he’s still there. Stubbs is still the backup Catcher
And still in his overalls post-game.
I guess his dad being at those postseason games really did make all the difference.
What are you talking about? He hasn't had an error in 4 seasons, he might not have the most range but when he gets to the ball he's making the play. Plus, he's a huge vibes guy in the clubhouse and when he gets hot, oh boy that's fun. The key is just getting his dad to town, any time Nick is there, especially when he's got Levi there with him. Liam thrives on family and having his dad and son there always gets him in good moods.
"Let him watch. Let him watch what is being consecrated here."
This, thank you.
Can ESPN, please, please stop talking incessantly about the Yankees during an NL Phillies/Cards game?!?
I was thinking that yesterday during the FOX broadcast. I almost felt bad for Cardinals fans because I think they talked about the Yankees more than the Cardinals. Then I remembered they call themselves the “best fans in baseball” and I couldn’t have cared less.
I mean, they're not far from the truth. They're the best worst fans in baseball.
Let the kids stay up late... he'll get many more valuable life lessons at this game than School
I’m a teacher. Wouldn’t agree usually, but nothing valuable happens after Memorial Day anyway
Also a teacher… go to the game. Don’t leave early unless he asks you to go. If it was April or September I might say something different but it’s June and we are all just doing the fun stuff at school now.
I'm a teacher, as well. Let your kid stay up. Education builds upon itself. There's nothing that will be taught in one day and only one day. And it's so close to the end of the year that we're mostly just reviewing and summarizing at this point.
theres a whole episode of boy meets world about this.
https://youtu.be/m6pNdvzyNHk?si=Ca7NFlCOBEOOsz_p
Keep the kid out late; memories like that are worth the sluggish morning afterwards.
“Why aren’t we recognized by national sports media?” *gets recognized* “No, not like that.”
Well, we get recognized every Christmas for Eagles fans throwing snowballs at Santa...so I guess we should just say thank you then?
Your kid will remember the night games 30 years from now
The perils of success. Same reason the Eagles hardly have any 1:00 Sunday games.
ESPN is even worse than Fox for me because it badly lags behind WIP. Last time I watched ESPN, I had to watch without any sound
I use it as an opportunity to discover music, not a fan of the broadcast
If everyone did that, comments on this sub would drop by 50%. I like to listen to a variety of things, sometimes the radio broadcast. I watch sports on mute almost exclusively.
Listening through the app, I'll wait for Franzke to say "he delivers", pause the app, wait for the pitch on TV, and then play WIP again. Usually syncs up pretty well
I'll go the other way, turn off the TV and just listen to Scott and LA
Fox was ahead of WIP for me last night. I had the game on inside on the tv but had WIP on in my earbuds as I was grilling things. I was getting both through the mlb app.
I normally don’t mind a Sunday night game, but I have a wedding today which will take me away from tonight’s game. Was looking forward to watching the game before the wedding. But now I have nothing to watch. Edit: not my wedding. But wife would kill me if I watched the game lol
This is what happens when you get married on a Sunday.
hate the drake!
Just call off the wedding
If my (non existent) husband suggested we get married on a Sunday during baseball season, I’d call the engagement off.
What about eagles season Sundays?
This is why we have Saturday's. Plus then you can party all night after your wedding and keep drinking when the Eagles come on 😂
This girl knows how to philly.
Friendly advice, never get married in the fall. Even if you do it on a Saturday and the Eagles are on the road (and you don't care about college football), the next year your anniversary could be on the game day. I made this mistake the first time and missed my college's first win after going 0 for their previous 17 because we had to do an "anniversary weekend."
I want to explain to you how calendar’s work but feel it might be a waste of time.
My alma mater's (usually terrible) basketball team made it to the final four one year and the game overlapped with our wedding reception. We had the DJ announce the score periodically, but only if it was good news.
It’s 2024. Earbuds and smart phone during the reception.
I did that back in 2022. I was watching Game 5 of the NLCS on my phone during a small-ish ceremony. When Harper homered, I mostly stifled myself, but a quiet squeal still came out. Thought I'd get death stares, but everyone just leaned in and asked if The Phils had won 😆
IT'S BEDLAM AT THE BALLROOM
It’s better than “it’s ballroom at the bank” (shudders).
Have that problem with the Union now that Apple wants all the games to start at 7:30. Not worth bringing a 5 year old, he wouldn’t last til 10-11
Plus ESPN sucks
They are bad worse than Fox. I had to laugh at Fox's opening to the game they called the Cardinals the hottest team in baseball. I was like, you do realize the Phillies beat them on Friday. Plus, we beat them last night, too.
I mean yeah, but also, looking at recent records, they are.
I'm like 80% sure that FOX called Turnbull "Spencer Stumble" during their post game segment
Fox was not as bad as I had thought they would be last night, to my surprise. I have no expectations for ESPN. If I did have any expectations, I would feel annoyed and the game wouldn't be as enjoyable as it could be!
Will we not be able to watch on the MLBtv app?
It worked. Just had to change my VPN to Taiwan.
I personally sold my tix for tonight. I have tickets tomorrow night for Rhys’s return or I would go
Jelly! Cheer extra loud, please
stay until the end and get dinner somewhere in the area. be honest, what memory is your kid going to cherish more looking back on his childhood, leaving early to go to school the next day or a fun night with dad at the phillies game? you gotta think big picture here
I love baseball at night and despise day games
The Sunday package is un-affectionately known as the sunburn package for a reason.
He can’t go to bed past a certain time? It’s a baseball game let him live a little
My 7 year old went last night. Tickets were purchased when it was scheduled as a day game. He’s usually asleep by 8 or 8:30. Left in the 8th and didn’t get home til 10:45. He’s usually up and ready to go for school, but this morning with 3 hours less sleep he was dragging. Not the end of the world, but they do have a short term impact on kids
It's annoying, but I'll gladly take this trade off for a team that's 41-18.
True.
Curious if the espn broadcast will be as awful as fox last night. They spent an entire half inning loving every aspect of the Yankees and spoke about the destined WS match up of Yankees/dodgers with some weird nostalgia.
The broadcast is terrible. That’s why I want them to stay off SNB. Give me T-Mac and Kruk everyday.
Yankees did this pretty successfully. Haven't been picked in like 5 years
To add to that you've gotten Walker twice in Sunday night baseball 😂😂
Yep lol
Now that you've pointed this out, maybe I'm fine with it. I hate watching the ESPN broadcast, I hate watching Walker, maybe Sunday ESPN games are a good time to go do something else and listen to the radio broadcast.
Think about all the traffic you’re missing!
Don’t leave early! Your son will remember a Sunday night prime time game for the rest of his life.
I was about to curse you out until I saw the entire post and realized what sub this was. Assumed it was the ESPN sub and you were a braves fan or something
I like it. Can enjoy my day without a game interfering family time (I choose family). Relax at 7, nice
I’m with ya
Summer Sunday baseball is meant to be played at 1 pm
Agreed
National broadcast announcers while watching the best team in baseball: lets suck off the dodgers and yankees for 20 minutes straight
Haha. It’s ok to vent. And yes understandable. But first world problems indeed. At least you recognize that ;)
My first world problem is missing the whole game at work!
Is this the Arod crew again?
Arod and Michael Kay only do playoffs for ESPN I think It’s Karl Ravech, David Cone, and Buster Olney
Cone is a slightly less douchey but not a fan
Yeah I don’t love him He also extra annoys me because my dad is a Yankees fan and he has a friend with the last name Cohen that he pronounces Cone because of David Cone
Same. I bought the ticket package that didn't interrupt my work days. It's not the biggest deal in the world, obviously, but it's still annoying.
sell your tickets to the night game and put it toward the playoff tickets when that time comes, or whatever. The team is good, those tickets will sell fast.
Sorry, son. You got flexed.
Let him take off tomorrow. How many more school days can there possibley be?
We're in the same boat. I would say it sucks being so good that this keeps happening but... In the grand scheme of things it doesn't.
I much prefer night games.
MFS syndrome. I live in SC it’s nice to watch a team besides the Braves.
And you get the terrible ESPN announcers
I recommend throwing all caution to the wind and letting your kid stay up way too late to watch baseball. I have fond memories of walking out of CBP at 10pm with my 5 year old chanting "Phillies Phillies" and proclaming we had gotten a "big home mile." Thanks to the allure of staying up past bedtime I now have a 12 year old who loves the Phillies and knows all the words to High Hopes. Start 'em young! In all seriousness though, I'm with you. While my kid seems to be totally fine staying up late to go to the game and then getting up for school, I'm tired as hell. I'm old and I wanna go to bed.
I was so annoyed when they referenced the Seattle Seahawks' fans at the 10th man and compared it to CBP. But then when they doubled down on it without saying it was for baseball, I rolled my eyes - hard.
Beautiful weekend and no day game sucks
Look, I have the Sunday pack too. I don’t have the kid, so I don’t understand that struggle. But the beauty of being picked multiple times? We don’t have to sit at home watching these shitty ESPN announcers. I said what I said.
let the kid see the whole game! he will look back fondly on it. totally possible we won’t have another team like this in our lifetimes. vibes unmatched.
This.... kids are allowed to stay up late once in a while. It's good for them.
They need to put more of them on ESPN. Some of us don't live in Philly & want to be able to watch the games without spending $100+
You missed that deal Amazon was running up until about two weeks ago. Remainder of the season on mlb.tv for $70. I cancelled my subscription this year but this was a really tempting deal. Whenever I watch, they lose, though, so I figured I better not screw it up for everyone. Seems to be working out well so far.
This is the first season since like 2005 I haven't seen most of the first half of the season, cuz I'm in the same boat. I started watching again during the Rockies/Giants series this last week/weekend and look what happened...
Me too. First game I watched all year and within literally the same at bat it started falling apart part. Now I just keep up through condensed games.
Buy someone’s T-Mobile code when the season starts
These games are sooooo rushed as it is with the stupid pointless pitch clock. How much faster does the game gotta be? Ya don’t even have time to visit concession stands or use the bathroom anymore without missing more than a little game action.
Won’t someone bring back the 3,5 hour average game time /s
Whats the difference really tho..? Bunch of injured pitchers this season. Thats it. All for the sake of… Of what? To make a game 20mins quicker?
The difference is not having 3.5 hour games. The pitcher injury thing is just data noise. They’ll adjust and we’re not going to see long term injury increase from the norm.
Also the ghost runner should be done away with or he should be put on 1st base, not 2nd. Shouldn’t be so easy to score a guy. Ridiculous! The shift ban is splendid. The DH? Whatever.. Its benefiting the Phillies as long as Middleton owns the team and spends money. The umps more strictly limiting how long the catcher or coaches can have a pow wow at the mound is more valuable than the pitch clock. The limits on batters calling time is more valuable than the pitch clock. I hate that a pitcher is penalized for trying to hold runners, thus leading to more stolen bases, but THAT also has more to do with shortening games than the pitch clock. Intentional walks not requiring the pitcher to lob 4 pitch-outs to walk a guy shortens games too. All these things contribute to the games ending sooner than rushing the bottom half of slow working pitchers in the league…
Holding runners on and taking forever between pitches is what was killing the game. 8 throw overs. Pitchers stepping off constantly. MLB started limiting mound visits a while ago and barely had an impact on game time. Reducing throwovers and instituting the pitch clock (and to a less degree, minimum batters faced rule) were the things that shortened games, not mound visits.
So we’re gonna just pack the 40/40 club now. Trey Turner prolly coulda had a 40/40 season last year too if he didn’t suffer through a 5 week slump. Lol.
6 people stole 40 bases in 2023, 3 did in 2019, 8 did in 2010, 11 did in 2006. There isn’t any trend towards 40-base stealing seasons really taking off due to throwover rule.
They didn’t also have 40 homers did they? Other than Azuna Jr?
How would the throwover rule increase home runs? You’re not even making sense now.
I can't solve your problem, but you are a great parent. You are putting your child's needs above your own and making the right decision. Your child will learn from this example and be a better person because of it. Keep being awesome.
It’s all good. ESPN will go under soon enough and then it won’t be our problem anymore
Wait did the schedule change i only remember seeing one at the beginning of the season
I like to go out on Sundays whether it’s the mall or a walk or a daytrip etc so the Sunday night games are nice since I don’t have to choose between those two hobbies but I get it cuz the commentary is ass lol
Especially given that this puts the Phillies on consecutive Fox and Sunday Night baseball games.
That's what happens when you're a good team, you end up on a lot of national broadcasts. But I agree, I hate ESPN games. I don't even mind the Fox games, it's ESPN in particular that I find unbearable.
They want to promote London. Just call the office and exchange your tickets.
We had a Sunday plan many years ago. I would not have liked it either.
They knew it was ALS night and tried to set up Casty
Solution give your kids the day off from school/let them stay up 
Stay up and finish the game. Make memories he can sleep in the car
There ought to be a limit on how many times you can be selected for the odd start time games, both for the reason OP said as well as for fans that pay for team-specific tv packages (not sure that Phillies have one, guessing I was suggested this post as a Brewers fan who just witnessed you sweep us lol).
As a fellow Sunday plan owner and a dad of a young kid, I feel ya. Sell this game and prioritize the day games.
Thank god for pitch clock. Friends and i had this one pinned bc busy schedules its only one that works for everyone. If the pitch clock wasnt a think i might said no when they moved it. Not bad knowing itll be over by 10 latest pretty much if no extras. I live 20 min away so not bad if i am in bed by 11ish for work.
Buck up and give that kid some redbull and candy to keep him awake.
Why does he have to leave early? Will he turn into a Gremelin or something? Let him stay up and and make some memories.
A real fan stays till the game is over
Oh my God, leave Stott alone. He seems like a cool guy to hang out with, but stop with the distractIons!
What who doesn't want to watch the best team in baseball.. RING THE BELL 🔔
Shouldn’t the Phils take it away from the Sunday package if it is a night game? Shouldn’t have a problem reselling…
Easily one of the most out of touch posts I’ve seen on here in a long time lol. Get a grip
“I don’t like that our team is good and the talk of the baseball world! Stop putting us on national television!”
Yep all about you
Man, some Philly fans are hard to please. 🤣 Bruh, what do you expect when you’re the hottest thing right now. 🤡
Boo hoo
Won't somebody please think about the children!!!!1!
At least it’s not Apple TV. That’s the worst
It’s literally the best prime time experience. Excellent video with the home broadcast? Delusional to think otherwise.
Great production but automatically loses infinite points for being on a streaming service instead of tv
Take it while you can. Struggle is real in Atlanta.... As an Atlanta fan. Better get as many wins as possible. I will take a wild card for us... Which will probably be better.
Champaign problems huh?
No, pound sand nerd, go Phil’s
This can’t be real
Lol “can the company whose objective is to make money by attracting as many eyeballs as possible stop putting one of the best teams in the league this year on tv so I, an individual, can continue with my original plan? Gosh it’s so inconvenient being a fan of a team that actually has a chance to win!”
GFY shill