Phillies Get Tantalizingly Close to Sweep; Then Don’t, 4-3
Say what you will about getting beat 14-2, but you never think you’re gonna win it. A game where you tie it up in the bottom of the ninth, you like to think you’ve got the best of the momentum.…Read More
Series Six-Pack: “My advice? Stick a pencil in your eye.”
The Giants are in town, or we’re going to San Francisco, or who knows. … Do you think Roy is okay? No, he’s not. This is all pretty bad. Here’s Bryan Rosa from Around the Foghorn…Read More
Giants World Series Win Means They’re Kind of a Dynasty, Maybe
OK, great. The team with the stupid beards won another World Series. Let’s all punch ourselves in the face. Yes, the Giants won their second World Series in three years last night with a 4-3 win…Read More
Mitch Williams on the World Series and 1993 Game 6
As I mentioned in a post earlier today, October 23rd is not exactly a red-letter day in the life of Mitch Williams or the Philadelphia Phillies. I won’t recount it. Once already today was enough. But…Read More
Giants and Cardinals Prepare to Play the Most Loathsome NLCS in World History
Like most Phillies fans, I have a hard time letting things go. Things like this… Or this… And this… And finally, this… These moments from the 2010 and 2011 playoffs are why…Read More
Should the Phillies Kick the Tires if Tim Lincecum Is For Sale?
The Phillies have needs. Lots of ‘em. Third base, left field, center field, right field, bullpen……Read More
Giants Avoid Sweep, Enrage Phanatic
He knows something is wrong. Trash cans lay overturned, rat carcasses strewn about his lair. He…Read More
Hamels Bests Cain 2-1
Pablo Sandoval ruined a shutout for Cole Hamels. Hamels had a shut out going into the ninth inning,…Read More
Lee, Pence Lead Phils to Series Opening Win
It has been well documented that the Giants are a huge pain in the ass for the Phillies. There has…Read More
Phils Lose First Series Since June 19th
There are really no high aspirations for a game featuring a ridiculously lopsided pitching match-up.…Read More
Cain Bests Hamels as Author Careens Violently Toward Expletive Laden Rant
I am having a difficult time writing anything resembling coherent, rational thought after tonight’s…Read More
Phillies to Quell Losing Streak with Contractual Gridlock
Nothing helps stop a monotonous cascade to a division’s festering underbelly like a good old fashioned…Read More
Sing a Ryan Vogelsong
LIVE HOTSTOVE.COM WEBCAST WITH ME MONDAY AT SOME TIME I DON’T KNOW YET but it’ll be a doozy.…Read More
‘Scuse Us, Tim, Just Trying to Get By…
Watching Tim Lincecum pitch is like watching an eagle pick off a family of rabbits leaving their…Read More
That King Cole
On a night when the climate seemed to be aware of the calendar’s switch to September, Cole Hamels…Read More
Weekend of Giant Disappointments
You know it’s a different era of Phillies baseball when it’s a bad week because we lost our first…Read More















