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Roy Halladay Doing Just Fine; Sends his Love

Roy Halladay’s healing process has begun. Unfortunately, unlike his training regimen, it’s not as simple as strapping your family to your back and running an endless series of stairs.  It…Read More

John Lannan Downplays Seriousness of Injury; Out Six to Eight Weeks

John Lannan waved off the “tendinitis” in his knee. “I’ve had it before. I did everything in between starts to prepare for today. It was feeling really good.” –John…Read More

Dom Brown and John Lannan Both Claimed as Sacrifices to Furious Baseball Gods

Nobody was willing to admit what happened to Dom Brown and John Lannan on Tuesday night was a major problem. And when is “denial” not a sign of great things to come?! The Phillies were in…Read More

Phillies Suck, Lose by Nine Runs

It was like Opening Day, but with half the Phillies runs, and also injuries. I have trouble adopting a voice for some of these recaps.  Like, am I explaining what happened to people who watched it?  Or…Read More

Phillies Gameday: Lets Play Two

Thanks to mother nature, the Phillies will play two games tonight (sort of). If your interested in how this impromptu double-header will play out my man Justin Klugh has all your answers. We know for certain…Read More

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John Lannan Blasted by Blue Jays, Wind in Horrendous Spring Training Finale

It was a quiet afternoon in Dunedin, thanks to the stifling bullshit of Blue Jays’ ace Josh Johnson,…Read More

Phillies Gloriously Populate Bottom Rungs of Top 500 MLB Players List

Despite Domonic Brown’s much-noticed springtime warzone, predictions of his breakout year, and…Read More

Kyle Kendrick and John Lannan Asked to Please Just be Normal, Fine Pitchers this Year

As we continue our 2013 Forced Optimism tour of the Phillies, we now turn to the back of the rotation,…Read More

Comeback Squelched as Rays Pound the Life Out of Phillies Bullpen, 15-7

I was thinking the other day how John Lannan’s name is a combination of “bland,” “vanilla”…Read More

Phillies’ Starting Five Still Near the Top

When the Phillies signed righty John Lannan to a one-year contract worth $2.5 million on December 18th,…Read More

John Lannan Reflects on First Taste of Phillies’ Blood

This year, the Phillies put aside the unbridled sense of joy and confusing sense of lust that comes with…Read More

Amaro Decides Enough is Enough, Signs Adams and Lannan On A Busy Saturday

  Ruben Amaro Jr., apparently weary of the continual inaction by Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr., signed…Read More

Oswalt Shuts Down Nationals

It is really easy to forget how good Roy Oswalt is at throwing a baseball.  Robbed of his velocity…Read More

The Phillies Just Scored Seven Unearned Runs

I was shocked that John Lannan was shown in the visitor’s dugout getting all mad and throwing…Read More

Laynce Nix? Really?

Let’s deal in hypotheticals here.  If I were to tell you yesterday, that the deciding game in…Read More

Wow, John Lannan is Not Very Good Against the Phillies

The only thing that John Lannan seems to do effectively is hit players on the Phillies in the arm/hand.…Read More

Halladay Tosses Complete Game in Phillies 3-2 Win

Roy Halladay has thrown 58 complete games in his career.  After tonight, that number climbs to 59.  If…Read More