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Around this time of the year, I usually write up a thing on the start of the baseball season, offering reasons to worry about my beloved Phillies if there's too much optimism or offering hope if there's too much pessimism. This year there's a strange mixture of those two things, so I'll just say this:

Today is Sunday. The next time there will be a Sunday without a Phillies game will be October 7, at the earliest. That's a happy thought, whether they have 90 wins or 90 losses by October.