00:00People aren't so sure home field advantage would be good for this Phillies team.
00:03What do you mean by that?
00:04Yeah, we were actually having this debate in the press box
00:07about whether it's that important for the Phillies to have home field,
00:12say, against the Cubs.
00:14And the reason is these fans are scarred now.
00:18They're so scarred from the way these Octobers have turned out
00:23that just try to imagine the energy in the park.
00:27First game, first round, if literally anything goes wrong.
00:34We've been there, right?
00:35We know what that feels like.
00:38And the players feel that tension.
00:44Go back and look, Bill.
00:47The series that the Phillies have won in October,
00:51almost all of them have come when they didn't have home field.
00:55They didn't have home field in either of the series that they won against the Braves.
00:59They didn't have home field against the Cardinals in 2022.
01:03They didn't have home field against the Padres in the NLCS
01:07when they went to the World Series.
01:10The only series they won when they did have home field
01:15was against those 84-win Marlins,
01:19which was what the wild card ran in 2023.
01:24This is not the NFL.
01:25It's not the NBA.
01:27And teams with home field actually have a losing record
01:31in that wild card series since 2022.
01:37I mean, you think it means a lot
01:41and it's something to play for?
01:44Sometimes you're wrong.
01:45And I don't think it's a disaster
01:49if the Phillies finish behind the Cubs and go to Wrigley.
01:52I really don't.
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