Cole Hamels to Bryce Harper: It's a Respect Thing

A World Series MVP caliber pitcher winds up and throws a fastball right at the teenager beaning him in his backside.

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NL East Preview 2012

The countdown to first pitch is here.

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The Phillies Demise: On an Almost Perfect Autumn Night for Baseball

The team that would do anything to win, did. The team that could win everything, lost.

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From Philadelphia Phillies’ Fans to Gary Smith, Thank You!

Smith, in his time spent covering the Phillies, seems to have realized that although this team is undoubtedly special and unique, it is not their superstar pitchers or managements’ willingness to buy championships that makes Philadelphia the greatest place to play, it is their fans.

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Celebrating 3 Greats at First Base

With the recent retirement of Matt Stairs, John Kruk making the Phillies Wall of Fame, and Jim Thome hitting his 600 homerun, the lefty field position finally had its day.

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The Phillies' Trade Deadline Dilemma: Stand Pat or Sell the Farm?

Over the past decade, the Phillies have gone from being sellers, unloading an ace pitcher Curt Schilling for four lower priced prospects, to buyers, giving up their own highly regarded yet unproven talent for top of the rotation pitchers Cliff Lee and Roy Oswalt.

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Beware The Yankees Cliff Lee Horse

This seems too easy, too nice, too fairy book ending for Philly, and I’m telling you right now, I am not buying it, even for 120,000,000 million.

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For Love -- or Lust -- of the Game

there are female fans out there who base their love of the Phillies – and baseball in general – on something greater than bulging biceps or a chiseled jaw. The romance of baseball is what keeps the true fans of both genders going back… not the fantasy of a baseball romance.

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