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Phillies Turn to Captain Hugs and the Ass Hammer for Hitting Guidance

Candidates for coaching job are Mike Sweeney and Matt Stairs; not anti-abstinence crime fighting duo Pete MacKanin was recently fired by the Phillies, leaving a vacancy in their ‘bench coach’…Read More

Can the Phillies Get Lucky Again?

Everyone knows that in order to win a World Series you have to be very good. And you also have to be very lucky. That luck can come in many forms.  Resistance to injury, star players playing at their…Read More

Last Days of the Ass Hammer

My seats used to be in left field, where every Sunday home game we would celebrate America’s past time by hurling unfair and unprovoked insults at whomever was unfortunate enough to be slotted in…Read More

Ex-Phillies Pretty Sure They All Wound Up on World Series Contenders

Maybe it started with Brett Myers and his “sticking it” to the Phillies comments that, oh yeah, didn’t mean what we all thought it meant.  It was more of a “Ha, ha, stick it, Phillies!”…Read More

Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

On this, hallowed arbitration day, it seems like everybody’s getting their name signed somewhere. For the Phillies, the question marks are Chad Durbin and Chan Ho Park.  The Phils need to decide…Read More

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Phils Dump Figgins; Court DeRosa for the Rebound

Well, you can watch as Mark DeRosa’s name replaces Chone Figgins in the Philadelphia headlines. He’s…Read More

Just Kidding About the Cage Match

Oh my lord, are the Giants riding a hot streak. Scrambling for their lives in the last few weeks of the…Read More

Phillies Turning Into the New Michael Jackson

With the tragic death of the King of Pop Michael Jackson now comes some comparisons to the man in the…Read More