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Phillies Mid-Season Report Card

With the baseball season heading into the All-Star Break, it’s time to handout the mid-season grades for the Phillies as they make the turn and look to defend their title in the months ahead.  After a major rough patch in … Continue reading

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Phils Show Why They’re Better

We here at BSB have always believed that there is a fine line between courage and stupidity, between guts and foolishness.  The Phillies toed that line a couple of times tonight in Queens and, after they came out on top, the game … Continue reading

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Live Blog: Phils-Yanks, Cavs-Magic

Happy Memorial Day Weekend, BSB Readers!  In honor of one of the better holiday weekends on the calendar, I’ll do a somewhat half-assed Live Blog this evening.  Really, with summer getting it’s unofficial kick-off, I think half-assed is the right … Continue reading

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World Series: Game 2

Obviously, it was an ugly loss in Game 2.  Between the abysmal situational hitting, the fielding miscues, a base-running blunder, and the two horrendous calls by home-plate umpire Kerwin Danley, the Phillies took a game that should have been a … Continue reading

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2008 National League Eastern Division Champions

This year is going to be different.  Last year, the Phillies won an emotional pennant race with the Mets and it almost seemed as if they had accomplished their goal.  This year, they are hungry. Last year, they ran into the … Continue reading

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More Ridiculous Stats

1). In 738 career plate appearances with the Phillies, Jayson Werth has grounded into exactly ONE double-play.  This is amazing to me.  Yes, Werth can run.  And, yes, he is more of a fly-ball hitter.  But, one double-play in two … Continue reading

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Key Questions for the Phils

This week, Phillies players from all over the country and Latin America are packing their bags and heading to Florida for the start of Spring Training.  It’s always an exciting time because it signals the return of baseball and even … Continue reading

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