Because I am following the NGSW II on this website I decided that from time to time when I have nothing better to do, or because I just want to I will follow the same topics they have to write. One, because it will be a good tune up for when I finally get my #### together and enter in NGSW III. This week’s topic, I don’t know if you saw or not was “The best of” and “The worst of”. So I decided that I would do “The best of” and “The worst of” of the Philadelphia Phillies. The desire to put Charlie Manuel and Ed Wade in “The worst of” and end there is overwhelming however I will do my best to explain it all, on the heels of a blowout o####lorified Triple A team in the Nationals.

The Best of…The Philadelphia Phillies

-The Oakland As. That’s right the Phillies before you know becoming the Phillies were actually the As, however the As were moved out west, and we became the Phillies. But without the Philadelphia influence there would be no meaningful As/Angels games, no brawls, none of that, nope it’s our workings that lead to us. I assume the check is in the mail Oakland.

"Wait a second this isn't Oakland?"

 
-The Philadelphia Fans. We get a bad wrap. Booed McNabb, threw snowballs at Jimmy Johnson, countless players, and of course Santa Clause. We booed Michael Irvin when he lay in great pain on the cement of the Vet, I say cement because we all know that wasn’t a suitable playing surface. The booing of Scott Rolen, the throwing batteries at J.D. Drew but when the team is doing well, when you hear everyone chanting “Ryan Howard” CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP and all that you know that we really just root really hard for our team to win, for our team to be the one to pull it out. If you are from out of town and wanna see your team go to the hotel and wait for them, because coming into our house, to see YOUR team is something that is considered a mortal sin, and God won’t forgive you, he’s a Philly fan at heart. Hell his son Jesus was alive the last time we won a championship.

"Yep even to a Phils game people wear Eagles jerseys and start that dumb chant."

 -The 1993 Phillies. If there every was an anti hero it was this team. They were doomed from the start. Curt Schilling as a starter? ARE YA KIDDING? Mitch Williams, “The Wild Thing” HAHAHAHAHA? However when push came to shove the 93 Phillies dusted off their gloves and hats and pulled out all the stops. Whether it was Darren Daulton leading the team in homers, Kruk leading the team in Batting Average, or “The Dude” Lenny Dkystra chasing down fly balls and what not in center field. Who can forget Mitch Williams going nuts after every save? Or the scene when we won the NL Championship against Chipper Jones and the braves? I’ll stop there because we all know what happened in the Series, and it shouldn’t be repeated.

"This is the best movie ever made in Philly, forget Rocky. The Dude could take Sly any day."

The Worst of…The Philadelphia Phillies

-Ed Wade. Bonehead GM, who the players, coaches, fans, grounds crew, media, everyone hated. Made the worst deals or non deals you could ever think of. Many hold him responsibly for us not having Scott Rolen or J.D. Drew at this point in our stay in Philadelphia. www.fireedwade.com was actually a website and still might be. Hands down he was the nemesis of the Phillies until finally he was heave hoed. I think the city applauded that move actually.

"Two things that should never be together. Ed Wade and the Philadelphia Phillies."

-Charlie Manuel. He goes here because of the “what have you done for me lately” question. And here is the answer…NOTHING. Called up Cole Hamels, who is on the DL. Moved Madson to the pen because he was horrible, but let him pitch 8 innings against the Mets giving up the late inning home run that won the game for “The David Wright for MVP crew”. He’s an okay guy but makes bonehead moves.

"The Hot dog cart is over there? Are you sure?"

-Scott Rolen. The guy didn’t wanna play here and we all knew it but he hit the ball out of the vet, imagine him playing 80 some games at the Bank, he would have 45 home runs a year, at the least. He basically gave the Phils a reach around and didn’t even take them out to dinner first. He wanted more money, wanted out of Philly. When the Phils laughed at him he threatened us with not playing. That was all it took. The fans booed him, threw home run balls back and then eventually the Phils traded him to the Cardinals.

"Before a guy named Ryan Howard this was OUR last Rookie of the Year."

-J.D. Drew. The Phillies top choice in the 1997 draft, and guess what. He never showed up. The media say we chased him away, #### that he didn’t want to play here in the first place. He went to the Braves after crying. Well that’s all it took for us again, we threw two batteries at him, the fans got ejected, that was that, and now years later it’s “Oh Philadelphia fans threw batteries, it’s not safe.” Oh save me that same bullcrap.

"He is running away from the Phillies. He never even showed up."

-The Philadelphia Fans. Yep, they make an appearance here as well because when you are down, they will get on you. Take Jon Liber, last night the crowd booed him and then he got hurt I think there was some cheers for him getting hurt actually. Billy Wagner, fans heckled the #### out of him all the time. Hell go look at the visiting bullpen, people get ejected from there left and right. Hell go look at me and my friends yelling at Soriano playing left yesterday. We are the worst and the best all in one.

 "These fans are yelling at the old lady in front of them."