Obama’s on the Phillies bandwagon, so make room. The Presidential hopeful announced his fanhood’s candidacy for Philadelphia last Saturday, while maintaining his White Sox fan standing. Obama’s move is similar to Sarah Palin’s puck-dropping ceremony as the candidates try to attract voters using Philadelphia sports.
Swing state fever! Catch it!

And yours isn’t. He was responsible for giving the Phillies a 3-1 lead over the favored Dodgers and you aren’t. His two run bomb gave the Phillies a 7-5 lead and yours did not. That’s why Matt Stairs is the king of all he surveys this morning and you, unfortunately, are not.

Thanks to the bat of Chase Utley and the pitching of Cole Hamels, the Philadelphia Phillies have a 1-0 lead over the Dodgers in the NLCS. Is this a sign of things to come? One blog certainly hopes so.
That was an incredibly satisfying game. Watching Hamels and Lowe duel it out was [...]

The NLCS starts tonight as the Dodgers and the Phillies square off. Only a trip the World Series is at stake. Most seem to be favoring Los Angeles in hopes of seeing Manny and Joe go against the Boston Red Sox, the other presumed favorite. In fact, thanks to Tim McCarver and [...]

Baseball got the real season started yesterday and what did we learn? After getting dominated by Cole Hamels, 3-1 (Hamels had nine strikeouts) it looks like the Brewers might need CC Sabathia to pitch the remaining games. Everyone of them.
Game 2 between Philly and Milwaukee is today at 6:00/5:00 Central. The pitchers [...]

Now that the Chicago White Sox finally took care of their regular season business, the mad dash for the World Series title — otherwise known as the Major League Baseball playoffs — begins tonight in earnest as three of the four divisional series are scheduled to begin. There are a ton of storylines to [...]