Phillies Nation

ah, Sweet Lou. I think we all forget that he’s only won 1 world series title as a manager (1990 Reds). Do you think he wishes he was still managing Tampa right now?

I like Eyre…hope he sticks around. It’s nice having two lefties you can rely on out of the bullpen. Also I think if Lou was still in Tampa…they wouldn’t be nearly as successful a team as they are under Maddon. It’s that whole clash of personalities thing again…

oh good my friend is back

I’ve been a Phillies fan since before 2004 !!! How bout dem apples…

that rumble you all hear in the distant is the Rhino getting loose – time to eat big fella!

Terry Francona is a HORRIBLE manager… I could’ve won 3 World Series with those teams… he let Manny act like a clown.. and now fans like you.. going on on 5 years now!! CONGRATS!! pretend like he knows what he’s doing..

Of course they want those teams, they are the bigger markets.. Still doesn’t change the fact that you suck at life..

Go read a Stephen King novel with a nice hot bowl of Chowdah and make sure you call to get your Celtics jersey ordered, cause we know you’re a big fan of theirs now too.. and they start soon!!

Redsoxfan,
C’mon now dude..Get a damn life! Noone here cares at all about your views and oppinions. This is a Phillies Blog! If your going to post with us, show us some respect, and stop being a d*ck head. We don’t give a sh*t about your team. When we both make the world series, than come blog with us..Until then go back to your tiny Massachusetts neighborhood, and wipe the dorritto crumbs off your lap, and the twinkie cream from your lips…Oh wait! Thats not twinkie cream, thats Big Papis…..

Every sport? Are you just in denial that you have a hockey team too? Anyway, Boston is on top of the sports world right now, but you’ve already peaked. You guys are going to make the stock market look stable over the next few years.

you just turned us all into Rays fans too… nice work. People used to like the Sawks and their fans, right up until they won and became the most obnoxious fans out there.. what a dork!

Matt – it doesn’t seem like people will ever learn that. Mets fans have a field day in here when they’re winning because people on here just give them ammo by responding.

ok my bad, like to think good of Red Sox Nation and really admire what Henry put together there at a time many owners in sport can’t do what’s right for the team. I come from a place where baseball fans are a pretty rare thing so we tend to be forgiving and passionate for the game more than the cockiness (not forgiving about the Mets though, their so self-absorbed I wouldn’t be surprised if most of their fans chucked out their playboys in preference of the Jose Reyes poster on their wall)

Do you notice how there was none of this nonsense buzz from Red Sox Fans or media yesterday. How they still are expecting that collapse that they were once so used to that they had less fans in Fenway than the Marlins do. I was at Fenway in the late 90′s, they would let you walk in the stadium if you bought a couple hot dogs and beers. What a joke of a team, city, and fans. All of a sudden right, go back to your buckner hole and cry ya babies!!!

just like here.. the Phillies are the new Eagles… For a long time Bostonians weren’t sure who they liked… then the started winning championships and whatnot.. and fans come out from the woodworks..

you know that would happen here too. so no use getting mad that it happens, but its corny to start ripping fans and teams that you aren’t even rivals with..

It’s funny, I remember sitting down on South Street in ’04 and everyone was so ecstatic for the Sox. We could all empathize with Bean Town and thought maybe, just maybe the great tides of MLB were changing and our sweet Phillies had their shot coming. Now, four years later, after coming within a game in the division twice and making the playoffs once, it is time to truly test the mettle of the end result of our years of crying and praying.

I hope that once the Rays beat them in six games, Boston can look fondly to their colonial brothers in arms, realize that it wasn’t so long ago that they were where we are and cheer on a fellow team in red.

A co-worker of mine, a lifelong Red Sox fan in his mid-30′s, and I were talking about the neo-Red Sox attitude the other day. The pink hats. We were talking about how the Sox and Phillies fan base was always very similar up until a few years ago — dedicated and knowledgeable fans from blue-collar cities, never able to seal the deal, and always in the shadows of the New York teams — and how we grew up rooting for each others’ teams in the playoffs because it was really rooting against New York. While he said he wouldn’t prefer the alternative, he can’t stand the new Red Sox fan. That it bothers him to see cocky pricks at the bar talking about the Red Sox like Yankees fans talked to him his whole life. He’s rightfully bitter that these kids will never have the words “Bill Bucker” thrown back at them whenever baseball is brought up.

I would like to think that if the Phillies won it all, our fans wouldn’t be like that, but to be honest I wouldn’t want the alternative either.

(That said, ‘redsoxfan’ is either 13 or a Mets fan in disguise)