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Chase Utley For Some Reason Not Healed Immediately

Ruben is telling us that he’s no going to so sorting through the scrap heap or leaving seductive messages on Michael Young’s voicemail to fix this problem.  Nope, this one’s going to…Read More

So Domonic Brown is 0-for-Spring Training

“I barely ever get frustrated with anything.” –Domonic Brown Me either! Read | Share

Charlie Manuel Contract Thing Reaches New Level of *Sigh*

Yes, I think Charlie Manuel is the Jeremiah Johnson of baseball.  All of the things that happen in that movie I could see Charlie doing in real life.  Living up in the mountains.  Being offered a wife…Read More

Charlie and Ruben are Too Close for Contracts

The off season is a continuing cycle of impatience.  I’ve been ready for baseball to start again since mid-December, which is coincidentally when the Phillies signed Cliff Lee.  Does that mean…Read More

Happy Birthday to The Red Devil

I know, everybody was talking about this today, someone told me.  So I, like a guy clearing his throat in a room full of people talking, am going to now announce something everybody already knows. Read…Read More

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Charlie, Ruben Forced to Talk to People from New Jersey

The new year will bring a stop in Single-A Lakewood for Ruben Amaro and Charlie Manuel, to face what…Read More

Ryne Sandberg Now Officially Back on Phillies Payroll; Jose Contreras Not

You can’t help but feel like we’re watching baseball’s longest running joke chug along…Read More

Unshaven Fury: The Chronicles of J-Dub

Jayson is one of those valuable mainstays of the Phillies lineup which, according to panicking fans,…Read More

Baseball Genius Charlie Manuel Starts Roy Halladay in Game 1

Are you sick of this picture yet. I’m not putting it up here because you’ll find it literally…Read More

Phillies Don’t Blow Already-Clinched Division with Loss

Mike Sweeney demanded hugs the other day, and when he did not get them, he walked around the locker room…Read More

In Weird Twist, Phillies Not Stopped by Kyle Kendrick, Laser

It was painfully early in the game, and Kyle Kendrick had already given up a triple; the unicorn of base…Read More

The Only Way Charlie Manuel Lives

“It’s always good to be first.  It’s the only way to live.” The Phillies backup-everything…Read More

Unable to Stop Astros, Phils Beat Padres for Some Reason

There are a lot of words floating around to describe the Phillies right now.  ”Lifeless.”…Read More

Kyle Kendrick Continues Toward Weirdly Inconsistent Success

I don’t even care about Kyle Kendrick anymore.  I’m no baseball scientist whose going to…Read More

Kyle Kendrick Fights off Rumors of Competence

BOOOOOOOO The sound echoed from the sections just above the Phillies dugout.  Kyle Kendrick hid behind…Read More

Charlie Manuel Assures You, Ryan Howard Not Dead

“He ain’t dead.  Not by a longshot.”  –Charlie Manuel For those of you out…Read More

Joe Blanton, a Pitcher, Surprisingly Not Offensive Dynamo

If you were standing in your living room, pacing like a caged bull being taunted by a gaggle of Main…Read More

Kyle Kendrick’s Pitching Not at All Effective Against Teams with Bats

Go ahead and listen to me blither on with Vito Chirco on Sports Talk Soup again… this time, I say…Read More

Discussing a Phils Loss After Discovering I Did Not Get A Job

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Lead Writer Justin Klugh found out this morning the interesting, sexy internship…Read More

Second Half of Phillies Season to Include More Baseball

“Before the last couple of seasons, I would have said that Jamie Moyer isn’t a Hall of Fame…Read More