Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
WHEN I'M KING of the World . . . Winter will be canceled . . . Unless it is Australian winter, of course. Maybe it's the post-World Series blahs, the knowledge that all there is to sustain many of us until pitchers and catchers report are three teams going nowhere. Look, if Eagles fans aren't offended by the "Wh
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
THE LAST thing you want or need when rooting for a professional sports team is the No. 1 or 2 selection in the draft. Earning a pick that high is right up there with being tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... coaches with 10-year pins.A cult of coaches has sprung from the litter of assistants fathered by Bill Walsh, father of the so-called West Coast offense - so-called because defensive coordinators have forced countless mutations on the Walsh original, the almost balletic attack in which a nimble and accurate quarterback was the trigger. Walsh put great weight on a big back and agile tight...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
HIP SURGERY. Chase Utley needs hip bleeping surgery. The news could be worse. The second baseman could have complained in July about the click-click in his right hip, the twinges in his groin and buttocks areas that eventually turned his eye-blink-you-missed-it, Spalding Guide swing into the jab of a cricket batsman defending the wicket against a bowler with a wicked lefthanded offspin. Chase could...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
THIS IS THE season for the heroes of the greatest October in Phillies history to take a prolonged victory lap. They're entitled. Hell, take two laps.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
WHEN I'M KING of the World, Champions Edition . . . The 2009 Phillies will be spared the front-office agony of the 1982 Phillies . . . When manager Dallas Green learned that new president and CEO Bill Giles had no plans to offer him the general manager job, he jumped at the Chicago Cubs' offer to run the s
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
IN THE long-time-comin' week ahead, an African-American will be elected president if the polls are close to accurate. And a baseball man with a dark-skinned Cuban father born in Mexico and a local mom raised in the Jewish faith will become general manager of the Phillies.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
TWENTY-EIGHT years vanished in the heartbeat it took for Brad Lidge to deliver one final, unhittable slider to Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
'ONE DAY it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain . . . and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath.'' - Forrest Gump, describing Vietnam rain
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
JOE BLANTON wasn't supposed to be pitching last night. Not according to the army of bloggers, e-mailers and fantasy-team managers who trampled each other deserting Jamie Moyer's corner.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
IN THE WAKE OF the Phillies' Division Series knockout by the Colorado Rockies last October, volunteer general managers swarmed cyberspace like a cloud of locusts devouring a wheat field. I don't know what kind of sound locusts make while dining, but this irrepressible swarm emitted a shrill cry that sounded something like, "pitching . . . pitching . . . pitching . . . "
The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Here is an excellent article by Bill Conlin over at Philly.com, talking about the hip injury of Chase Utley. Needless to say, Utley was likely playing through pain during most, if not all of the season. Just another reason why he is one of my favorite players of all-time.Order the !
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... all days Event search:Type in the name of the event, or event type, e.g. 'live music' SPORTS Bill Conlin: These Phillies are not going to be in players-looking-to-break-the-bank mode. Not in the looming face of a dreadful year of economic chaos and almost certain upheaval and deprivation that we all face. OBITUARIES JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - She died just how she wanted to - singing...
Market Wire - Energy and Utilities: Oil and Gas (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... October 21, 2008 in a filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, William P. Conlin was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company while retaining his position as Chairman of the Board. The appointment of Mr. Conlin as CEO, replacing the interim President and CEO Kenneth W. Mann, is commensurate with the Company's commitment to creating a new and invigorated...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
(AP) Fans, Philly Get Soaked as Selig Starts Game 5 Before Monsoon Phils Out-Foxed: Bud Takes the Ball Out of Hamel's Hands 'I Don't Mind All the Rain Talk,' Sincerely, Home Plate Umpire Jeff Kellogg Bill Conlin: On a Rainy Night in Philly, MLB Drops the Ball "Phillies fan and climatologist extraordinary Joe Bastardi had fired off an angry 6:30 p.m. update to his blog on AccuWeather's...
