But the truth is, there’s not a whole lot going on, especially if you’re following baseball, a sport that is not in season.  Until Prince Fielder goes somewhere, the headlines won’t be set on fire on MLB.com, and so with the internet sitting here, unused, writers sometimes have to scare up some horseplay to keep people coming back.

Sometimes, that horseplay goes too far.  Sometimes, it forces them to tap into a walled off section of their psyche, where their greatest fears lie snickering and slithering wait for them to drop their guard for even a second.

Casey Feeney of CSN was the first writer in the Phillies blogosphere to succumb to his own insanity this winter, and it was a doozy. (more…)