Tag: sports

  • Enjoying the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies

    Love when my reg­u­lar morn­ing reads include Beer­lea­guer, Crash­burn Alley, Phillies Nation and more of my favorite Phillies blogs. Fol­low­ing the games on Twit­ter is a treat, although Chris @LONG_DRIVE isn’t in mid­sea­son form, yet. Miss check­ing the Fight­ins for all the great flubs. I caught a bad typo on the new Phillies score­board at…

  • In Praise of September Baseball

    I know many of you enjoy the start of foot­ball sea­son. It con­jures thoughts of fall: crisp air, sweaters, chili and Sun­days with friends, hud­dled around the TV. I love those things, too, but I feel like Sep­tem­ber base­ball gets lost in the fray. It’s the per­fect time of year for casu­al fans to get excit­ed.…

  • My Phillies Moment on WHYY

    The World Series Trophy Orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by J T. Ramsay As a new base­ball sea­son approach­es (Helen and I are head­ed to the ball­park this Fri­day, as well as twice next week), I just hap­pened to find a record­ed snip­pet I gave to WHYY out­side of John­ny Bren­da’s on WHYY’s Unob­struct­ed View blog. If I…

  • The World Series Trophy

    The World Series Trophy Orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by J T. Ramsay I final­ly down­loaded my pic­tures from my moment with the 2008 Phillies World Cham­pi­onship tro­phy on the 44th Fl. of the Com­cast Cen­ter. It’s hard to artic­u­late how thrilled I was to be in its pres­ence. It’s not some­thing I’ll soon forget. Helen and I…

  • World Fucking Champions

    World Fuck­ing Cham­pi­ons, orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Black­mail Is My Life. You can bet that I’ll be get­ting this framed in an 8x10. Thanks for a great sea­son, guys! We’re going to miss you, Pat, warts and all.