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Power Outage
Posted on 13 May 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Not even in our worst nightmares could any Phillies fan have forseen such a fate. The last place Phillies (16-19) celebrating a series victory over the even-more-last-place San Diego Padres (12-23). If not for the efforts of Cole Hamels (5 hits, one ER in 7 IP) and a 3-2 victory, the Phillies might be trailing the NL East-leading Washington Nationals by more than six games. So, as of ...
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Pitching, Defense and… Not Much Else
Posted on 19 Apr 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Nobody but nobody gets excited about the standings over the first two weeks of the regular season. Anything before Memorial Day doesn’t seem to have meaning though all 162 games are supposed to count evenly. April is the honeymoon month of the long Major League season as fans are simply happy to get back to the ballpark and enjoy the sights and sounds of meaningful baseball. Weather gets warm...
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2012 MLB Predictions
Posted on 2 Apr 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
More than ever, it seems anyone's guess about who will be winners and losers for the upcoming 2012 MLB season. Injuries, weather, schedules, surprise prospects, new stadium effects on statistics, El Nino or barometric pressure indices all have an effect upon whether it becomes a year for pitchers, hitters, baserunners or mascotts. What is certain is that baseball still boasts the longest, most...
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Peters Principle: What’s Next
Posted on 1 Apr 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Jason Peters the five-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, will undergo surgery Tuesday after rupturing the Achilles tendon in his right leg while working out in Texas. Peters, 30, suffered the injury on March 27, the team said in a statement. Apparently the injury occurred while Peters was participating in his usual offseason workout routine and is similar to that s...
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2012 Phillies: Bruised but Better than Ever
Posted on 25 Mar 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
The 2012 Phillies are now a mere one week away from their Citizens Bank Park debut and we’re still not sure who will show up. This team won 102 games in 2011 but bowed out in the NLDS to the eventual champion St. Louis Cardinals – marking the third straight year the Phillies have lost to the eventual champions in postseason (2010 San Francisco Giants NLCS and 2009 New York Yankees World...
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Clearwater Chaos or Signs of Spring
Posted on 10 Mar 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Working out the kinks and essentially re-learning the game of baseball seems an archaic concept in these days of 24-hour news cycles, year-round strength training and the modern multi-million dollar athlete. Bygone days of doughy, rough and tumble big leaguers struggling with medicine balls while working out in long johns and borrowed hunting caps may truly be fodder for newsreels but th...
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Serious Safety Issues
Posted on 4 Mar 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Much of the offseason talk in Philadelphia has been regarding the likes of Peyton Manning, Plaxico Burress or the possibility of trading up to draft Robert Griffin III – but no story has been more overhyped than that of DeSean Jackson. While it is Jackson’s way to be divaesque, self-centered and generally a royal pain in the ass (as most of Drew Rosenhaus’ clientele) there is a more compe...
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Hope Always Springs Eternal
Posted on 26 Feb 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
It has been 130 seasons – the longest tenure of any franchise in professional sports playing in one city, under one team name. Since 1883 the Philadelphia Phillies have started a season with hope and optimism and in those 130 seasons there have been a grand total of two championships, 7 NL pennants (with World Series losses in 1915, 1950, 1983, 1993 and 2009) as well as having the distinction...
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Does Trent Edwards Tip Eagles Hand?
Posted on 25 Feb 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Manning? Flynn? RGIII? No one is saddened that the Vince Young Era in Philadelphia has ended but the Eagles QB position has been a bit of a Merry Go Round following a decade of stability. Less than a year ago the news was that Vince Young was headed into town to replace Kevin Kolb as the Eagles backup QB. Kolb had once been the starter supplanting the departed Donovan McNabb but was sidelined w...
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Peyton’s Place
Posted on 1 Feb 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Despite enduring his third neck surgery, Peyton Manning claims that he is not seriously considering retirement. Manning is the face of the Indianapolis Colts (since relocating from Baltimore in 1984) franchise and the reason for the city of Indianapolis hosting Super Bowl XLVI in the stadium that Peyton and Irsay built… and yet… Tom Brady and Eli Manning will square off in the Super Bowl th...
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Time for NL to Reconsider DH
Posted on 28 Jan 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
Ever since 1973, American and National League baseball has played by two sets of rules. In either league, three strikes is an out, three outs to an inning and 9 innings to a game. You will see no deviance regarding the infield fly rule and aside from ground rule doubles (which are defined by all 30 stadiums individually) the game basically appears identical. Despite the fact that nowhere else o...
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Phillies Spring Training Primer
Posted on 27 Jan 2012 by Christopher Rowe.
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard. Well in the 21st century that might be altered from “scorecard” to “Iphone or Mobile Device App” (there’s an app for that) but you get the idea. Modern MLB Free Agency is an annual frenzied flurry of activity and even the most ardent fans may have difficulty keeping up with the fluid roster of their favorite team. Gone are the days whe...
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