That Balls Outta Here » 100 http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Phillies Overcome Horribleness to Win 100 Games Somehow http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/09/27/phillies-overcome-horribleness-to-win-100-games-somehow/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/09/27/phillies-overcome-horribleness-to-win-100-games-somehow/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:04:41 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=7046

 ”Phillies paused to let others catch up a bit, lost eight in a row for 1st time in 11 years, and still are first team to 100 wins.”

–David O’Brien, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Always refreshing to receive alarmed recognition of glory in an enemy’s chief publication.  So go ahead, Atlanta, and be in awe of the Phillies.  I kind of have been too.  Mainly because of how awful they’ve looked. (more…)

]]> http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/09/27/phillies-overcome-horribleness-to-win-100-games-somehow/feed/ 0 Philadelphia’s Streak of Best/Worst Rankings Ends at Two http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/03/28/philadelphias-streak-of-bestworst-rankings-ends-at-two/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/03/28/philadelphias-streak-of-bestworst-rankings-ends-at-two/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:00:25 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=4743 National media outlets have followed a particular pattern: rank places for things, put Philly at the top or bottom, pump the results into the Phillies blogosphere, wait for the  ”!!!”  Its a standard trick; Drew Curtis covers the topic of horse shit lists masquerading as “news stories” in Its Not News, Its Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News. But just because its merely a fluff tactic pieced together by a low level staffmember and we are aware that it exists solely for the attention doesn’t mean it isn’t going to get a high strung, angrily-typed reaction every single time.

With the irony being that this time, it is just that for which we were ranked: ANGER.  And even more ironically, we weren’t first or last.  So now we can’t even get mad.  But that’s “Burlington, VT”-talk.  We need a little “Detroit, MI”-spirit if we want to make a big deal out of this.  So let’s pretend that nobody lives in our city anymore and we had to wait for Chevy to make a commercial featuring an old hotel valet nodding along with an Eminem song before anybody remembered we were here. (more…)

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