Monthly Archives: September 2010

Hard to believe

As a kid and throughout most of my teenage years, I was subjected to some pretty awful Phillies teams. One of the only treats when watching the Phightin’ Phils back then was listening Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn call the action. Ashburn died in 1997 and Kalas joined him in heaven’s broadcast booth last year, [...]

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So sad

Like many people that I talked to, I was shocked by the story that Stroudsburg football coach Fred Ross was told he will not be back next year. For a man who has spent 42 years at one school, not only coaching football players, but teaching countless amounts of kids in the classroom and about [...]

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That’s nice, but …

So I never got around to discussing what I thought the Eagles season would be like. And after their performance last Sunday I wasn’t really in the mood to think about them let alone write about them. Now, a week and one ugly victory later, I figured it would be a good time as any [...]

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Hard to believe

It wasn’t long ago that I thought the Phillies’ season was over. They couldn’t hit when they got good pitching and didn’t get good pitching when they hit. Everyone in the opening day lineup except Raul Ibanez and Jayson Werth had spent time on the disabled list, the bullpen was a mess (and still kind [...]

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