Listen to Bryce Harper, and listen well. Last season, as memorable as it was for the Phillies, is over. Gone. Done. History.
“I’ve kind of said it’s a new team,” Harper said before Sunday’s game in Oakland. “It’s a new group, a whole different group of guys. That’s kind of how I feel about it.”
OK, fair enough. But wait ... did you hear that? The walls are thin in the dank bowels of Oakland Coliseum, but it sure sounded like the house beat of “Dancing On My Own” — the Phillies’ 2022 victory anthem — piercing out from the visiting clubhouse all weekend long.