00:00Today, your Philadelphia Phillies are zero and zero.
00:04No slumps, no blown saves, no October heartbreak hanging over their heads,
00:12even if we all still feel it a little bit.
00:15Because the last three years have been strange.
00:18They have not ended the way we wanted them to end.
00:21The team's been really good, really good, sometimes great.
00:25They've given us October baseball, read October crowds, memories we'll tell stories about for decades.
00:32We've seen a team make a World Series.
00:35We've seen stars become close to legends in this city, but we've also seen something else.
00:41The feelings that we were close, but not finished.
00:46A team that's been talented enough to win it all, yet still walking away in the end, wondering what went
00:53wrong.
00:54And that's why today matters.
00:55Because opening day isn't about pretending the past didn't happen.
00:59It's about believing that the future doesn't have to look the same.
01:04Every year, even in life, you get these moments.
01:07A new job, a Monday morning, a New Year's resolution, the first workout back at the gym where you swear,
01:14this time it's going to be different.
01:16That's what opening day is all about.
01:18Hope without evidence, optimism without guarantees, a fresh start we choose to believe in anyway.
01:26Because the Phillies, they made some changes this offseason.
01:29Some big, some subtle, maybe not enough for everybody, but it could be exactly what they needed.
01:35But baseball, it doesn't start on paper.
01:38It starts today, 162 games, over six months, thousands of pitches, countless moments,
01:45and somewhere in there, a season that will define how we remember this group forever.
01:51And here's the truth about baseball, and it's why we love it.
01:54Because it also pertains to life.
01:56You don't need perfection.
01:59You just need another chance.
02:01Another at-bat, another inning, another season.
02:04And today, every fan walking into Citizens Bank Park believes the same thing.
02:10Maybe this year, this story will end differently.
02:14Maybe the lessons have finally paid off.
02:17Maybe the heartbreak becomes fuel.
02:19And maybe the team that's been knocking on the door finally kicks it down.
02:25Because opening day isn't just the start of baseball.
02:28It's permission to believe again.
02:31And in Philadelphia, belief is where everything starts.
02:35And let's go!
02:37I'm already fired up.
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