Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Another Season, Another Phillies Fan Nightmare

The big news in major league baseball is a trade in which the Philadelphia Phillies dumped longtime fan favorite Bobby Abreu and his gadzillion dollar contract on the New York Yankees, but that merely masked the really big news for long suffering Phillies fan like Yours Truly.
Pat Gillick, the general manager for the losingest team in major league history, stated the obvious: The Phils, who trail the New York Mets by a gadzillion games, will not be in the post-season this year.

But then he said something quite astouding: He doesn't expect them to be in the post-season in 2007 as well.
That's where Gillick's candor ends, but mine picks up:
The Phillies are perennial also-rans because they're owned by a shadowy group of investors for whom the team is a plaything from which they expect only a modest financial return but not championships.
And so I continue to bleed Phillies red.

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