Maybe the Phillie fans are getting just a bit carried away with the success of their team?
The summerization:
"Simply put, the expectation for a top-tier football team is wholly different than in baseball -- the expectation is that the team will win all games. When the top-tier football team loses, something went wrong. In baseball, when the team loses, that's just a fact of life.
But what I've perceived over the past month for the Phillies is a complete change in perception. We fans, and to some extent the team, have morphed our perception of the team into that of a top-tier football team. When the Phillies lose, it's a shock. Charlie Manuel is second-guessed. The roster is re-analyzed. The world's alignment just seems off.
The expectation we have now is not simply that the team is going to win a really high percentage of its games. The expectation now is that the team is going to win every game.
That's just not possible in baseball. But, given how amazing this team is playing this year and particularly right now, that's where we find ourselves.
In other words, this franchise and this team have completely altered the basic principles of this sport and being a fan of a team in this sport."
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They better savor the winning now...
because in 4 years it’s going to be mid-90’s ugly…
This x1000
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by TurnerTheBurner on Aug 19, 2011 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
When they’re paying mid-to-late 30’s Halladay, Lee and Howard like $70 million a season.
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by The Keith Lockhart Era on Aug 21, 2011 7:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Imagine...
…how full of themselves they would be if they won 14 division titles in a row?
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Clarification
I mean OUR OWN rotation.
by crimsonqueen9 on Aug 19, 2011 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions
“In other words, this franchise and this team have completely altered the basic principles of this sport and being a fan of a team in this sport.”
They can also warp time and space
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby
He realizes they've still lost 35% of their games... right?
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They will win the World Series.
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by ChopMaster on Jun 25, 2011 7:25 PM CDT
by justincredubil02 on Jun 28, 2011 9:50 PM EDT reply actions
by ChopMaster on Jul 2, 2011 12:53 PM PDT
Bet they don't.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
They should ask Ryan Madson...
…what their weak point is. Not sayin’, just sayin’.
Funny thing is
There have been other teams with better records. They aren’t on pace to win as many as the 01 Mariners (which was fairly recent) so I don’t see why they are so high on themselves. Sure, they are playing great, but in the past two decades there have been 2 teams that played over .700 ball and the Phils are currently playing at .650. Reality check time.
by baseballbrett13 on Aug 20, 2011 11:23 AM EDT reply actions
no, no, no....
Didn’t you read this?
They have completely altered the basic principles of this sport and being a fan of a team in this sport."
Don’t you get it?
Who needs all that stuff in the past? The fact remains: PRINICIPLES HAVE BEEN ALTERED!
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
by sddbaker on Aug 21, 2011 1:48 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Whole Camels says that we’re missing the point… I’m not sure what the point is.
(If the Phillies lose) ..the world’s alignment just seems off.
In other words, this franchise and this team have completely altered the basic principles of this sport and being a fan of a team in this sport.
Those are pretty telling comments of how their fans think.
You'd think I was Travis Tritt struttin my FINE ASS on down to Florida
Oh well...
if WholeCamels says it, it must be true, because no Braves fan has even a fraction of the mental acuity of every single person who has ever posted even a comment of TGP — their blog lord?…I bow down.
Why do they care what I think anyway?
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
When did Mitch Albom start writing
for TGP?
"Jason Heyward was a Greek philosopher reincarnated as a baseball player." - Don Sutton
by UMDBHIK on Aug 21, 2011 12:43 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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