Kershaw Chowder
Two months is a long time. A lot can happen. Your favorite ball club, for instance, can be humiliated in the playoffs by a team that would barely go on to win — if the term can be used —…
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Brotherly Love
This is what happens when you show up at Citizens Bank wearing a Jayson Werth shirt. A caring fan buys you a Hunter Pence shirt. Typical act of love from one Philadelphian to another. Best fans on Earth. (via…
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The Enemy Within
It is, by all accounts, a marvelous time to be a Phillies, as American McCarver’s resident Philadelphia booster Mike Monteiro is fond of telling you loudly and repeatedly long after you’ve begged him to stop. The Phillies are on…
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Adding Jim Thome to Phillies for Stretch Run
As Thome’s career is winding down, — he turns 41 this month — the thought of adding him to the Phillies bench for the stretch run at the August trade deadline has crossed some people’s minds.
It’s…
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The Bullies
The bullies were in town last night. And, like all bullies, they took a perverse, unthinking pleasure in pounding the unholy crap out of anybody and anything they could get their meaty, lummox hands on: the Dodgers, the Dodgers’ fans,…
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Three Out of Four Ain’t Bad
So the return visit of the Phillies to San Francisco didn’t produce as much tension as the series in Philly, unless you could two tight well-pitched games and a brawl during a blowout. Okay, so maybe it did produce…
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About That Stolen Base…
Errata: Quite a few Giants fans wrote in to point out that at the time of the stolen base the Phillies were up 8-2, not 6-2 as I wrote. I apologize for the mistake. We had a lot of runs…
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Fight! Fight!
Last night’s brawl from the Giants/Phillies game was the first thing I saw when I turned on ESPN this morning. (video here)
When hockey is your favorite sport, fights in any other sport seem lame. Mostly because they are. Especially…
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Better
In a few hours, the Giants and the Phillies will start the third of seven games they’ll play over the course of a week and a half, three in Philly and four in San Francisco. As the authors of…
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Richie Allen Chaser
I’m sorry, I can’t stand to look at the site and see Derek Jeter’s smug face up there. So here’s a photo of Richie Allen having a smoke in the dugout. And an accompanying piece from the excellent Paul…
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