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"All Geeked-Up for the Deadline..."

Newtown Square, PA • United States • 45 Years Old • Male

Bring Out Yer Dead...NOT the Phillies

The National League East as portrayed by Monty Python:

MLB: Bring out yer dead.
The Mets: Here's one.
MLB: That'll be ninepence.
The Phillies: I'm not dead.
MLB: What?
The Mets: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
The Phillies: I'm not dead.
MLB: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
The Mets: Yes he is.
The Phillies: I'm not.
MLB: He isn't.
The Mets: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
The Phillies: I'm getting better.
The Mets: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

A 7 game lead with 2 1/2 weeks to go in the season. Pretty nice place to be. Bring out yer dead.

Wait a second, I'm not dead.

Yes you are...you have no pitching, your bullpen is in shambles, your left fielder can't hit his weight, your star 2nd baseman broke his wrist, your first baseman set a major league record for most strikeouts in a season and your manager wouldn't know a double steal if it bit him on the @ss. You'll be stone dead in a moment.

I'm getting better. Oh, by the way...I just won the National League East and have home field advantage throughout the playoffs. My Ace pitcher is healthy and just threw a gem in the clutch, my 1st baseman just crushed another meaningful homerun and is on a tear, my 44 yr old hometown crafty veteran pitcher tossed 5 1/3 innings of one run, 5 hit ball to clinch, my left fielder is somehow hitting and my shortstop is not only prophetic but just put together one of the best MVP caliber seasons this town has seen since Mike Schmidt.

Bring out yer dead...you must mean the Metropolitans? Those guys in blue and orange that had the 7 game lead with 2 1/2 weeks to play? The ones that got swept by the Phillies not once, but twice? The ones that lost 2 of 3 to the Nationals and were swept by the Florida Marlins? The one with future Cooperstown shoe-in hurler Tom Glavine who got sand kicked in his face by one of the worst teams in baseball? The ones with Jose Reyes and David Wright and Carlos Delgado? Oh...and that mouthy closer? Yeah, the Mets. Stone dead.

Tell Major League Baseball that the Phillies are not dead. Oh...and their getting better.

p.s. - If Jimmy Rollins doesn't win the National League MVP, then *edit* Matt Holliday must have pics of the Commissioner with farm animals.

Go Phils! (and that from a Red Sox fan)

SYF

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