Infinite Inning 084: The Phillies Can't Hurt Me Anymore

TABLE OF CONTENTSHans Christian Andersen’s Negro Leagues*Why I Was Not at the Winter Meetings*Bill Lange Goes Home Forever*Liz Roscher: The Winter Meetings Social Ramble Ain’t Restful*Martyrs to Baseball*A Late-Blooming Phillies Fan*Can You Earn Your Angry Fandom?*Pessimistic Mets Fans*“Fair-Weather Fans” and Other Accusations of Inauthenticity*More Fannish Pessimism*The “We Really Suck” Chant*How Do You Explain the Phillies’ Free-fall?*“It Feels Like They Don’t Have a Plan”*Carlos Santana, Andrew McCutchen, Jean Segura and other Phillies*When Freddy Galvis Gets Up Your Butt*Our Owner Wants a New Boat*The Star Wars-Batman Analogy to Killing the Gate*Objectivity and Readers’ Imaginary Boundaries*Steve Comes to a Realization*Goodbyes.THE INFINITE INNING ARCHIVE: All episodes available, popcorn extra.THE INFINITE INNING FACEBOOK GROUP: Socialize with like-minded people!SUPPORT THE INFINITE INNING: Visit our Patreon page.The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game’s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they’ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can’t get anybody out?