If Jim Bowden had a handle on modern baseball would he not have a job?

Guess they're giving up?

As opposed to the yankees/red sox now the phillies are in the same 'stratosphere' as the evil empires?

ESPN Blogger who tries to replace Neyer compares 2011 phillies to 'best' NL teams of all time, position by position, phils come in '3rd'

Just a nice story about how Charlie is awesome.

Yes, it's probably over dramatized, but it's fun, and steve zaillian is awesome (if you haven't seen searching for bobby fischer (or that kids chess movie) you're missing out on a lot, including one of laurence fishburnes best roles

In an attempt to save the organization from complete anhiliation once the robot apocalypse does begin, the forward thinking Philadlephia Phillies will have a robot throw out the first pitch at tonights game against the Brewers of Milwaukee (04/19/2011)

The phillies, as a whole, welcome their new robot overlords and would like to remind them that as a trusted sports organization, they could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground robot factories.

Seems Manny had some issues under MLB's drug testing policy and decided to retire instead of dealing with it.

If a guy tests positive for something illegal (if it is something illegal) why do the authorities not get involved as well? (This isn't about Manny, just a general question I had)

I know there are lots of comic book geeks hanging out here and this might be the worst idea Stan Lee ever had - so I had to share

Buck Showalter thinks Jeter is a girl and that Theo isn't smart.

So, yeah, this is under the 'olymipc' section of ESPN and from the USADA, but Americans rank PEDs #1 as the most serious problem facing sports today.

Thus lending credence to the be loud and be scary (regardless of facts support your argument) tactic taken by so many organizations sports and non, and fed upon by an idiot media.

Also implies this would be less worrisome if players were allowed to use steroids.

Stupid anti steroid policy

Sigh. No more facing Oliver Perez the starter

Seems every game listed but one has either the yankees red sox or phillies.

4. Is there anyone on this team who is underrated? He's not underrated in any sense of the term in Philadelphia, where "Chooch" shirts have become commonplace and everyone knows about his love of ice cream. Still, the efforts of Carlos Ruiz(notes) (pictured at the top of this post) still probably go unappreciated on a national level. The 32-year-old is coming off a career year that saw him notch an .847 OPS with eight homers and 53 RBI, all while producing the type of solid defense that saved Roy Halladay's no-hitter in the playoffs. He's bound to get more face time as the director of the rotation this season and he's definitely earned the attention.

Get your kid to cry on youtube, meet a famous(ish) guy.

Michael Young meets with sad rangers fan

It's so easy. Give em howard, some prospects, give albert 10 years 30 mil, dominate the national league

Rob Neyer would never have been able to write about this when he worked for ESPN, and it's FUNNY damn it

youtube video destined to make Michael Young the devil

Phils at 87 wins (best in NL) yankees out of playoffs

Stark gives the phillies a B+ for lack of bullpen upgrade and lack of right hand power bat

Still need that right handed bat

Is now the best of times or was 74-83 better?

This site seems to update the MLB 2011 draft order accounting for all comp picks in signings when they happen.

He's forgiven for being associated with the fake big 5 school