That Balls Outta Here » memorial day http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Phillies Ask You to Still Consider them Contenders Despite Hellish Weekend of Terrors http://thatballsouttahere.com/2012/05/29/phillies-ask-you-to-still-consider-them-contenders-despite-hellish-weekend-of-terrors/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2012/05/29/phillies-ask-you-to-still-consider-them-contenders-despite-hellish-weekend-of-terrors/#comments Tue, 29 May 2012 17:37:08 +0000 Justin Klugh http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=9389 Everybody wants a quirky, likable, talented, young team to get behind.  It helps get us through the summer months, as we are dropping A/C units on our toes or watching our children sweat to death.  Solar power?  More like solar terror!  Am I right?  No, I am not.

But not every city is blessed with 25 fiery upstarts and grizzled vets who gel together to form the perfect beast.  Most of us get dreadfully mediocre squads of variously motivated fellows, all claiming they want to go all the way when they know the furthest they’ll get is about late July when the wrong guy’s hammy will explode and start a chain reaction of injury and bad luck not seen since I tried to change a tire in Fishtown.

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