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Phillies Dispel Rumors of Weak Farm System by Signing Another Guy

Justin Klugh — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:30:31 +0000

Let me ask you this, fancy-shmancy writer for some website where the margins are all even and the layout is pristine. If the Phillies farm system is so shattered then why do we keep putting guys in it. Hmm? Guys.

You don’t have an answer, do you? And don’t tell me it’s because the question makes no sense. (more…)

Larry Greene is Your Next Player to be Constantly Compared to Ryan Howard

Justin Klugh — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:10:26 +0000

Hello, Larry Greene! Welcome to the next phase of your baseball-playing career. Why, if you’re lucky, you could have an illustrious life in a Phillies uniform, followed by several years of fiery downspiraling until your life is a series of ever-weakening punchlines smeared across the internet.

Will you be a legend? A bust? We all get to find out, and we get to do it together, over the next few years. LOL, internet!

Isn’t this fun?!

The correct answer is "...not for you."

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Jesse Biddle Celebrates End of 16-Inning Game by Pitching

Justin Klugh — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:42:33 +0000

A little less than 2,000 people were missing from the stands of First Energy Park; otherwise they would have equaled the number of attendees to the Cleveland Indians home opener. But, nothing drains people of enthusiasm like a minor league baseball game that won’t end, so even the about 7,700 fans in attendance got sick of waiting for their hero and stomped off into the night.

After 16 innings, they got one. The problem was, he played for the other team and the BlueClaws lost. Fortunately for the fans who’d fallen asleep during the glacially paced tragedy, Lakewood was scheduled to play a double-header! So even though his warm-ups had begun more than an entire baseball game ago, Phillies first round draft pick Jesse Biddle was getting the ball, and all 11 people left watching were aching to see what he’d do with it.

Whatever it was, he could take his time. Anybody willing to sit through 16 innings of minor league baseball clearly wasn’t in a hurry to go anywhere. (more…)