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Delusion Helpful When Saying Phillies Will be Totally Fine

Some people are telling you not to worry or whine.  Some people are content with where the Phillies season ended and whereit  will go in 2012.  Some people don’t sleep with a hatchet under their…Read More

Chad Durbin Admits Addiction to Playing for Good Teams

In December 2007, Chad Durbin met the Phillies and it was love at first four-seam fastball.  Chad stepped into a pair of bright red cleats and never looked back, providing the spastic bullpen with some…Read More

Shane Victorino’s Long Awaited World Series Prediction

If you would have told me at the end of last year that Shane Victorino would claim the Phillies will win the 2011 World Series, I would have been not surprised, because Shane Victorino plays for the Phillies,…Read More

Phillies Prospects Do Not Fear Bryce Harper or Miss Families

Welcome to the Arizona Fall League, where, depending on what MLB team you follow, your attention has been for “a few weeks” to “since yesterday.”  The heat is dry, the players…Read More

Phils Spark Trade Rumors with Nonsensical Aaron Rowand Idea

So when you take Jayson Werth out off a roster–and nobody has yet–but when you do, there’s undoubtedly a black hole left in his spot.  A twisted vacuum erupts, and a seemingly endless…Read More

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The 2011 Bullpen Needs You, Scott Mathieson

I already wrote one Election Day special; there aren’t enough lights, colors, or Nat King Cole…Read More

Extreme Offseason Questions, Chapter the Two

And, because I was 40 minutes late to work on Monday, here is the conclusion to my relentless line of…Read More

Out of the Frying Pen, Into the Fire

INT.  GENERAL MANAGER’S OFFICE – DAY RUBEN AMARO, JR. sits at his desk, reading a piece…Read More

Lock and Gloaded

See, this is funny because I was just talking to Michael Jong about how I empathize with him for having…Read More

It’s the Halladay Season… Uh, Again

The offseason is merely days old, and there’s already a few Phillies being kicked off the bus.…Read More