How 'bout them Fightin Phils. I'm sick of talking about them. They lost again last night. Myers came out of the 'pen, it didn't matter. Loss to the Nats.
D.C. Sports Bog had some fun before the game with Charlie Manuel and thinks the Phillies would be a great team to blog about. He must not watch too many of their games. They're painful.
There are some great Charlie Manuel quotes and Agent Steinz seems to have transcribed Cholly more accurately than most of the papers usually do. My favorite:
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"When I first started as a manager in this game I used to grab guys,
I'd slam them on the wall," he said. "Really. I mean, that was no
problem. I had no problem doing that. And you know, like, I'm older now
and things like that, I'm 63 years old, but at the same time, you know,
like, I've still got that same passion, I've still got that same
fire....People don't know me and they don't take the time to know me.
They see me around the ballpark and they kind of look at, 'Well,
there's Goodtime Charlie,' or you know, like, 'Take-it-Easy Charlie,'
'Laidback Charlie,' 'Uncle Charlie,' 'Grand-pa Charlie,' whatever."
Go read the rest of his post to find out what the difference between 'Uncle Charlie' and 'Grand-pa Charlie' is.
>>Charlie Manuel Explains All [D.C. Sports Bog]
But hey Philly fans, the Sixers won their season finale! Willie Green scored 37 points. Remember when we thought the Sixers had a GREAT chance of getting Greg Oden? Now it stands at less than 1%.