The off-season is a funny time for baseball fans, especially when your pro football team is not setting the world on fire. Following last year's World Series win by the Philadelphia Phillies, one player stood out in my mind in the off-season: Chase Utley
The Philadelphia Phillies are set to open its free agent signing as soon as next week with the signing of free agent utility man Juan Castro, late of the Los Angeles Dodgers...
The latest out of the Philadelphia Phillies camp is that they want to feel out the market before they move in free agency...
SI writer Jon Heyman stated that the Phillies are still the main suitors for the services of speedy third baseman Chone Figgins...
At 6'11" and 260 pounds, Darryl Dawkins was an imposing figure on the basketball court as the center for the Philadelphia 76ers in the mid-1970s...
When Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro declined the $5.5 million contract renewal of incumbent third baseman Pedro Feliz, he suggested the Phillies could upgrade the position...
Less than a week after the New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies in six games to win their 27th World Championship, the Hot Stove League has begun in earnest. Even before the general managers meeting in Chicago on Nov...
Looking at news coming out of the Phillies camp days after their World Series loss, two transactions were announced by the player and/or General Manager Ruben Amaro...
If in a loss everything would have a Phillies hue, perhaps if Chase Utley would have hit a two-run home run in the late innings of Game Six, and his Reggie Jackson breaking performance could have earned him the World Series MVP in a losing cause...
As I sift through the rubble that was the New York Yankees 27th World Series title, being a Phillies fan, I feel not shame, but respect for our conquerors. A 7-3 victory in Game Six gave the Yankees a 4-2 victory Wednesday night in the Bronx...
Following the Yankees 7-4 defeat of the Phillies on Sunday night, I had all but conceded in my mind that the 2009 World Series was over. The Yankees had erased a 4-4 tie in the eighth inning to score three runs off Phillies closer Brad Lidge...
I am not going to blast Brad Lidge, but he is not on the same planet as Yankees' closer Mariano Rivera. Then again, no one else is. The key moment of this game is shown above...
I'll admit, as a longtime Phillies fan, I am more familiar with failure than I am with success. I even predicted a 6-3 Yankees win Saturday afternoon, because as much as I hoped not, I knew Andy Pettitte would pitch better than Cole Hamels...
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All the bright spots and the warts have been exposed after two games in the 2009 World Series. Mariano Rivera, perhaps the brightest of all stars, pitched a two-inning save to preserve a 3-1 Yankees victory over the Phillies on Thursday night in New York
Shane Victorino in a cheerleader skirt graced the front page of Tuesday's New York Post with the headline, "Gotham Trembles." The paper called the Phillies "The Frillies...
It was midway through the season when I said on Bleacher Report that I wanted a Phillies-Yankees World Series. At that point, I stated that the Yankees would win in six games. Now that I am here, I want it all...
As I watch the New York Yankees fight the Los Angeles Angels and Mother Nature for the chance to win the American League pennant and advance to the World Series, I realize something, albeit elementary...
In the end, it was a lot like 2008, when the Phillies beat the Dodgers in five games. Once again, Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton stared down Matt Stairs in Game Four and blinked. He walked Stairs on four pitches...
Just when you thought the Phillies could not make things any more exciting, drama struck again Monday night in Game Four of the 2009 NLCS...
First off let me give kudos to Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee—who pitched an eight-inning shutout in an 11-0 whitewash of the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday during Game 3 of the National League Championship Series in Philadelphia...
For Phillies fans, the joy of Game One of the NLCS was gone, when the Dodgers walked away with a 2-1 victory Friday. The series is now tied 1-1 with Game Three in Philadelphia on Sunday night...
Every baseball fan knows the history: The Philadelphia Phillies, on their way to an eventual World Series title, in the 2008 NLDS series, beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games of the best-of-seven series...
I saw and heard the strangest thing early Monday morning. At about 2 a.m. EDT Monday, I saw a stadium full of about 50,000 people strangely quiet. No, I did not wake out of a sound sleep...
No one who ever wore the number 80 did it with as much style and grace than former San Francisco 49er wide receiver Jerry Rice. In 1999, he was ranked No. 2 on “The Sporting News” list of the 100 Greatest Football Players, behind only Jim Brown...
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