Phillies vs. Astros: Great night for baseball

Shorbaum. So is he the MVP of this team? MVP, Shorbaum. Yes, he is. Yes, he is. All right. Jesus Lizardo yesterday threw a complete game shutout. Who should be the Philly's starter in game one of the playoffs? I think it's him. I swear it's him. I like him. I think it's him. He did wonderful yesterday. He's been doing wonderful out here. I think it's him. All right. I got one last question for you. Do you see what Ronald Acuna did around here this weekend? He was showboating around the bases. Jose Altuve for the Astros. Who do you not like more? I think it's Altuve. I boo every time he comes up. So you're going to do that tonight? Of course I will. Definitely. That's a good fan right here. Thank you so much. Enjoy the game. All right. Go Phillies! So there you go. Loved her. She had great energy, right? Come on over here, guys. How you doing? We're live on the air right now. We'll talk to you about the game. What's up? Go Phillies, baby! Make sure you keep it clean, all right? I got you. How excited are you for tonight's game? First place Astros. Dude, we're going to kick their butts. They killed us in the World Series a couple years ago, and we just got off a bad series with the Braves where we split. Dude, we need to come out for some blood. All right. I got to unpack a little bit about what you said. A split with the Braves. You called it a bad series. You wanted more. Oh, dude. We should have sweeped them. We've been on a tear, and the Braves come, and not good, man. A split's not good. All right. You also talked about the World Series a few years ago. Do you still hate to see these guys when they come? They're cheaters, dude. They're cheaters. Are we serious? They're cheaters. And then let me ask you this, too. Jose Lizardo yesterday, or Jesus Lizardo, great start, complete game, shutout. Who should be the game one starter for the Phillies in the playoffs? We go Lizardo, Wheeler. Yeah, you got to go Lizardo first. I mean, he's the best pitcher in baseball the past two months. Okay. He's amazing. All right. And what are you most excited? Who's your favorite player here? Probably Sosa. I love when Sosa gets to play. He comes up to the bat. He always does good stuff. All right. Yeah. Sosa's been having a great year. Thank you so much. Enjoy the game tonight. By the way, where are you from? South Jersey. Go Dragons. Where? Swedesboro. Swedesboro. All right. Enjoy the game tonight, guys. All right. So there you have it. Fans certainly enjoying what's going on here tonight. But I got to tell you, an hour before the game, our photographer Starling, we're sitting here and we're looking around. It was a slow-arriving crowd. I don't know if that has anything to do with school, you know, people showing up a little later. When we were here earlier in the summer, man, these fans were here. But as you see now, we have a lot of fans coming in right now. They're all coming in at a good time. It should be a great crowd tonight. I think you're going to get a playoff atmosphere for this baseball game tonight. Philly's first-place Astros. And, of course, the wild card in play. The Phil's only up on the first of the Cubs by half a game. So let me see if we can get one more fan. Can I ask you a few questions real quick? Philly's fan. Where are you from? What's your name? Hi, I'm Melissa. I'm from Northeast Philly. Northeast Philly. That's our second Northeast Philly fan. How excited are you for tonight's game? You've got the Astros here tonight. Yeah, I'm excited to see how Andrew Painter does tonight. Are you an Andrew Painter fan? I'm trying to be. Coming around? I'm trying to be. The last two starts were good, so hopefully the next one tonight will be good as well. Who's your favorite player here on the Phillies? J.T. Real Muto. J.T.? Okay, yeah. Real Q-toe. Yeah, it's like my wife. So J.T.'s done a great job with this pitching staff. Who do you think should be the game one starter for the Phillies when they get in the playoffs? I don't know. After the other night, Lozardo. That's a popular answer. After the other night, Lozardo, but you've got to go with Zach. All right, Astros here tonight. I'm sure you remember they were here a few years ago for the World Series. Yes. Do you still hate to see these guys? I do. Yeah, it wasn't good. Yeah, so we're going to beat them tonight. You got a lot of booze in you tonight? Yes, I have always a lot of booze in me. And a lot of cheers for the Phillies. All right, excellent. Enjoy the game tonight. Thank you very much. Yeah, you too. So, like I said, everybody wants Lozardo to start game one. Let's see, everybody hates the Astros being back here. Yeah, I think that pretty well sums up everything here. Should be a lot of booze tonight. Should be a great atmosphere. Let's send it back to you. Yeah, I like the enthusiasm. You know, kids are back to school. That's why maybe the late arriving crowd. Yeah. But, you know, interesting. Painter's got to keep it going. He's been doing well his last few starts. So, I mean, all five starters are getting it going here. And then the Astros, you know, I guess we should probably chime in here on whether we're resentful. I'm more resentful about the cheating than I am about them beating us in 22. Yeah, absolutely, for sure. I think that's what people are still thinking about is that you heard that from some of the fans I talked to here tonight. But I got to tell you, you know, they still have some of the key players that were here back in the World Series. We were watching Altuve warm up. And I still feel that guy. He gets me going a little bit, right? But, Jason, I did forget to point out, when you want to come down, after you've done the show, I invite you to come down. They've got something just special for you tonight. It is Hello Kitty Night. Oh, wow. That is special. That's excellent. You know what? Yeah. Got to get something for our daughters, Scott. Yeah. That'll be huge. Can we see that go boat, by the way, back to the Astros? Can we see that go boat one more time? Because it popped up and we didn't actually get a chance to see where we're at. 60%. 60% of people are indeed still bitter about the Astros, whether it is the cheating or getting beaten. But I think the majority of these people also are team cheater versus team World Series. Because Jose Altuve is still on the team. And he was part of the cheating team in 2017. He beat us in 22. Yeah. He's the last player from that cheating team. But anyway, you know what? Best way to get over it is to beat them, sweep them. That's right. Absolutely. That would be great. And I got to tell you, too, as someone who was a big fan, a teenager at the time, when the Phillies lost to the Blue Jays, I still hate seeing the Phillies play the Blue Jays. Yeah. Especially in Toronto from that Joe Carter walk-off. So, I get it. I get, you know, until they can get by and beat somebody new here and win a World Series, that stuff still lingers for sure. That's fair. Yeah. I'm not as bitter about that. That was just kind of like a lightning in a bottle anyway. It was. I can't be that bitter. All right, Scott, we will let you go. Thanks, Scott. Enjoy some baseball there. And, guys, we will be right back.