The New York Times' Tyler Kepner is the latest to take a long look at the Phillies new right fielder. But he also ties it in quite nicely to last night's ceremony and statue unveiling honoring Harry Kalas, another great who arrived here from Houston.
It was a simple line about the current state of baseball in our city that was my favorite part.
These are the glory days for one of baseball’s most tortured
franchises, a place where players come to escape losing, not to wallow
in it.
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“This is nice,” Pence said Tuesday, “but I definitely don’t know what I did to deserve this.”
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