Reading Phillies Become Good Thanks to Inspiration from Mean Blog

Justin Klugh — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:34:47 +0000

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but those Reading Phils are a hell of a ball club. A hell of an awful ball club! Ha ha ha. I–

**Door is kicked in as Matt Rizzotti, Austin Hyatt, and Michael Spidale burst into the room, furious**

No, wait, it was just a–

**I receive a vicious beating and am left for dead. The remainder of this blog post is typed out over a series of seven very painful hours** (more…)

What Might Have Won’t: The Matt Rizzotti Story

Justin Klugh — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:19 +0000

I recently asked the last question of a live chat with Philled In‘s David Hale, and it was surprisingly productive and without exclamation points. The pressure was on, after Bill Baer had just asked one of his patented “intelligent questions” that probably spiked his traffic by a billion, as usual.

But I had been curious about the topic of Matt Rizzotti prior to the chat, so here I was, alone with my keyboard with a guy answering questions who actually gets to go the Phillies games and talk to the players.

So I asked if the only way Rizzotti would ever see daylight in a Phils uniform would be in a “Ross Gload” role; a bat off the bench without the defensive skills to warrant everyday use, forever blocked by a perennial All-Star at first base?

I forget what Hale said, but it was along the lines “Yeah, probably.”

Meanwhile, Rizz hits a home run so hard his bat explodes. (more…)

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Reading Phillies Become Good Thanks to Inspiration from Mean Blog

What Might Have Won’t: The Matt Rizzotti Story