That Balls Outta Here » forbes magazine http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Fri, 24 May 2013 23:30:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Study Confirms that Phillies Beloved by All http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/08/04/study-confirms-that-phillies-beloved-by-all/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/08/04/study-confirms-that-phillies-beloved-by-all/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:12:14 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=6415 Hunter Pence proved that a Phillies player can go from zero to beloved in the time it takes to put a catch phrase on a t-shirt.  All he had to do was have some marginal success and we’d excuse him for doing anything wrong, even the stuff we swore we hated about Domonic Brown.

But our freakish whimsies aren’t on trial today, which is good, because they’re pretty much 100% indefensible.  No, today we can say with Forbes Magazine-esque confidence that the Philadelphia Phillies are the most praised and wondrous baseball players in all the land.

E-Poll and Nielsen Sports conducted a survey to gauge the favorite players of the American people, and four out of the top ten are already posters on your wall that you cut into heart shapes:  Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Chase Utley, and Ryan Howard.

“The Phillies in a way have become America’s Team, they work hard and they win.”

–Stephen Master, VP of Nielsen Sports (more…)

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