Phillies offering 9-9-9 Challenge bundle pack at Citizens Bank Park for the postseason

Ryan Conway
October 3, 2025
Phillies
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Citizens Bank Park unveiled their postseason offerings for the Phillies’ 2025 Postseason run. This is always an exciting day, but there’s one item that, when I saw it, almost made me fall backwards out of my chair.

The Phillies are just asking for trouble with this 9-9-9 Challenge pack:

Phillies are offering a 9-9-9 challenge of hot dogs and beers for the postseason. pic.twitter.com/Z0wKMaQFh8
— Dan Gelston (@APgelston) October 3, 2025

9 beers. 9 hotdogs. 9 innings. This is the only way a Phillies fan can enter Valhalla.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea. The execution, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired. Plus, I don’t even want to think about the price tag on this monstrosity. It has to be $150+ at least.

9 beers and 9 hotdogs all at once is great in theory. I think I’ve had semi-erotic dreams about exactly that. But the logistics of it just don’t make any sense, especially in a packed Citizens Bank Park.

My first concern is the degradation in quality of both the beers and the hotdogs. Sure, cold fall baseball weather means the beers won’t warm up as quickly as they would in the summer heat, but this a double-edged sword.

The cold weather will pretty much ensure the hotdogs are ice-cold by the time you finish your first or second dog. Warm beer and cold hot dogs does not a happy Phillies fan make.

But even if we made it so the beers and dogs magically stayed the perfect temperature, I have zero clue as to how anyone will be able to wield this massive package in the absolute animal box that is Citizens Bank Park.

If you’re in a suite, it’d be fine. But you probably already have a fridge of beers and hotdogs on a roller ready to rock. You’d only purchase this in a box for a photo op.

The real fans have no chance of this bundle lasting the entirety of the game. That thing is going flying and hitting a kid in the dome the second something remotely exciting happens.

Now, I want to be very clear. 9 beers and 9 hotdogs in 9 innings is simply not difficult. That’s just what I do alone in my apartment when I get home from work every day.

But, unfortunately, the 9-9-9 Challenge is yet another aspect of the beautiful game that’s been ruined by the pitch clock. There’s just not enough time to get up from your seat, grab your tools, and return enough times over the course of an artificially shortened baseball game.

The Phillies are obviously offering a solution to this problem, which I appreciate. But it seems the solution will only create more problems. Only time will tell.

In the official release, the dogs are described as “fun-size” and are paired with “petite” beers. Neither of those are really what I’m looking for when it comes to eating and drinking. If I was looking for either of those things I’d call my ex-girlfriend, and I think she’d agree that we’re all better off if I don’t do that.

But, while I have you (if I still do) take a look in the left corner. The Pumpkin Spice Affogato sounds like the perfect digestif after taking down mountains of dogs and a river of ale.