fryingdutchman
06-13-2007, 05:08 AM
Ahhh....the Philadelphia Phillies.
My team...who I've followed since I was playing tee-ball. The team I screamed myself hoarse for in 1980 when they won it all.
The team that had Mike Schmidt, who I idolized to the point that I cut out self-adhesive number "20's" to put on my batting helmet so it looked just like the one he wore.
A team that has seen legendary players come and go...and a team that has placed its fair share of players into the pantheon of greatness in Cooperstown.
And yet, they now stand on the precipice of a dubious milestone.
10,000 losses in franchise history. A blurb from earthimes.org:
PHILADELPHIA, June 12 Fans of the Philadelphia Phillies are bracing for an approaching milestone -- the team is 14 losses from being the first to amass 10,000 losses.
The team, which only took home one World Series title in its history -- in 1980 -- has lost more games than any other team in professional sports during its 125 years of operation, the Elias Sports Bureau said, and is rapidly approaching the 10,000-loss mark, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
"I didn't know this until a week ago," Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel said Monday. "It means they have had a team here a long time. I don't think we need to celebrate it, though." The Phillies have a long, if uncelebrated, history of losing benchmarks: the team lost at least 103 games each year from 1938 to 1942 and in 1962 the team held a 6 1/2- game lead in the National League before it lost the pennant by losing 10 of its final 12 games.
"We might be first to 10,000, but we are first in something," Glen Macnow, a host at WIP-AM in Philadelphia and the co-author of "The Great Philadelphia Fan Book," said in the Times article.
So there you have it. Sickening....saddening....MADDENING!
Charlie Manuel is a fucking idiot. He's been the manager for how many seasons now? And he "didn't know this until a week ago"????
Other teams with a history equal in duration to the Phillies aren't even close to 10,000 losses.
Any other frustrated, suffering Phillies fans out there?
What do you think?
My team...who I've followed since I was playing tee-ball. The team I screamed myself hoarse for in 1980 when they won it all.
The team that had Mike Schmidt, who I idolized to the point that I cut out self-adhesive number "20's" to put on my batting helmet so it looked just like the one he wore.
A team that has seen legendary players come and go...and a team that has placed its fair share of players into the pantheon of greatness in Cooperstown.
And yet, they now stand on the precipice of a dubious milestone.
10,000 losses in franchise history. A blurb from earthimes.org:
PHILADELPHIA, June 12 Fans of the Philadelphia Phillies are bracing for an approaching milestone -- the team is 14 losses from being the first to amass 10,000 losses.
The team, which only took home one World Series title in its history -- in 1980 -- has lost more games than any other team in professional sports during its 125 years of operation, the Elias Sports Bureau said, and is rapidly approaching the 10,000-loss mark, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
"I didn't know this until a week ago," Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel said Monday. "It means they have had a team here a long time. I don't think we need to celebrate it, though." The Phillies have a long, if uncelebrated, history of losing benchmarks: the team lost at least 103 games each year from 1938 to 1942 and in 1962 the team held a 6 1/2- game lead in the National League before it lost the pennant by losing 10 of its final 12 games.
"We might be first to 10,000, but we are first in something," Glen Macnow, a host at WIP-AM in Philadelphia and the co-author of "The Great Philadelphia Fan Book," said in the Times article.
So there you have it. Sickening....saddening....MADDENING!
Charlie Manuel is a fucking idiot. He's been the manager for how many seasons now? And he "didn't know this until a week ago"????
Other teams with a history equal in duration to the Phillies aren't even close to 10,000 losses.
Any other frustrated, suffering Phillies fans out there?
What do you think?