Over the past several years, the Redskins have been the least hated of the Eagles NFC East rivals. Owner Daniel Snyder has comically overpaid for aging stars, both in money and draft picks, only to find that this strategy does not work in the NFL. Even though the results have been clear, Snyder has continued to push forward with his checkbook, not his scouting department, and the Redskins keep spinning their wheels around .500. However, they do have a good amount of talent on their current … [Read more...]

It is pointless to do a full NFL Preview for a couple reasons... We have a decent Eagles fan base, but not an avid NFL fan base like we do the NBA I have trouble with football previews (though I always do them) because unlike baseball and basketball, there are entirely too many positions that I cannot personally assess because there are no metrics to measure performance. Unless I watch every game of every team several times I'm not going to be able to tell you my personal opinion as to who … [Read more...]

The Phils are now 6-1 on their parade around the bottom of the NL and look to add to that as they travel to PNC Park to face the 20-games under .500 Pirates. The Phils are now 7 up on the Braves (who have San Diego) and 8 up on the Marlins (who get the Mets), and sit only 1/2 game behind the Dodgers for the best record in the NL. Our magic number is 33, and I will track that for the rest of the season as best I can. Just in case you don't know, Magic Number = Phillies' wins + Braves losses (or … [Read more...]

Once again, we have more proof that the entire Phillies team reads this blog regularly. The Phils took my advice and took advantage (quickly) of weak schedule, sweeping the D-Backs while the Marlins lost 2 of 3 to the Astros, giving us a 6 1/2 game lead. In possibly their most dominant series of the year, the Phils outscored the Snakes 25-5 en route to the sweep. 2009: 69-49 2008: 64-54 2007: 63-55 Player(s) of the Series: Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth (10 for 25, 10 runs, 6 HR, 13 … [Read more...]

The Phillies close the season October 2-4 with a 3 game series at home against the Florida Marlins. I want that series to mean absolutely nothing. A good start to reaching that goal would be for the Phillies to take advantage of their next 10 games, all against low level competition. We start with the 54-65 Diamondbacks who are missing Justin Upton, then 4 games with the 55-63 Mets, who are missing everyone, and we are lucky enough to likely face their 4 pitchers not named Johan Santana, and … [Read more...]

J.A. Happ just completed his 21st start as a Phillie and thus far has surpassed everyone's expectations. I have always been a supporter of Happ and thought his Minor League numbers warranted a little more hype than he got, but I never thought that he would get off to a start like this. I originally was just going to post how his numbers stack up to previous Phillies draft picks through their 1st 20 starts with the team, but after doing some research, I wanted to share this as well. Since … [Read more...]