Tonight is important.  Not just for the members of the Phillies and their pursuit of another World Series victory, but for the City of Philadelphia.  While tonight may just be a game, it is a game on which the attitude and ethos of a city hangs.  It is a battle, and it is only fitting [...]

Dear TBS Executives,
I just wanted to let you know that I am not going to miss your baseball coverage as the Phillies head into their second straight World Series.  I might also add that they are doing so despite your best efforts.  The fact that the Phillies are the defending World Champions seems to have [...]

For those of you who did not catch the game last night, my heart is still pounding.  As we get ready for another slew of playoff baseball – here are three amazing articles I wanted to pass on.  Let’s go Phils!
Phillies wind their way back to NLCS (ESPN)
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=4555103
Don’t Be Deceived: The Phillies are Formidable (NYTimes)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/sports/baseball/14phillies.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Sure [...]

Following last night’s 9th inning, I have to admit I am feeling really quite shaky about my Phils. As much as I would like repeat, I think I am going to have to slide back into that Philadelphia spirit of bitter resignation.  Not that we are out, mind you, and not that I am not wishing that [...]

When I wrote about Eric Bruntlett’s amazing beard at the start of baseball season, there is no way that I would have been able to guess that he would have two personal artifacts in the Baseball Hall of Fame by August.  While his “Elmer Fudd” winter hat from the 2009 World Series will only rest [...]

No, it is not As the World Turns or The Young and the Restless - simply baseball.  Not all that surprising; not a horrible crime to admit to, but an addiction none-the-less.
Emily is away for three weeks singing in Italy and has left me three weeks of bachelorhood. I re-ordered my Netflix queue for a Jarmusch [...]

Even though I can claim a 1-11 record of games I have attended while wearing my Phillies Jersey(s), I could not pass up on the opportunity to wear my World Series Champions Jimmy Rollins one to the first Phillies-Mets battle in the new CITI T.A.R.P. Field.  The only win that I could record while wearing [...]

It has only been two weeks since the baseball season started.  This is my first year doing fantasy ball (ESPN) and I am starting to think that I am a jinx.  Some of my players have had some pretty awful starts to the season (Cole – ok he has only pitched one…) and the ones [...]

It is not an especially unique beard.  It cannot lift things or win fancy beard competitions. It is just a wonderful beard that happens to fit very nicely into a alliterative phrase. Eric, I would like to say right now that I apologize for using your beard as an exclamation to express awe or shock, [...]

A fortuitous discussion about nicknames is the simplest way to explain the birth and purpose of this blog.  I had tried to blog in the past but lost patience with my film review site and any attempts at a personal blog were dashed by the double punch of solipsism and pretension.  The idea of writing for an [...]