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Starting Today: 2008 Season Preview

Spring is over â€” well, spring as in the Florida version of it. Actual spring is just beginning, but forget the details, spring training and all that jazz has finished.

Tonight the Phillies play the Blue Jays at Citizens Bank Park. Cole Hamels pitches for the Phils. Yesterday Adam Eaton and Tom Gordon got rocked against the Tigers in the Grapefruit League finale. That’s not what you want â€” not those guys.

The tune ups in frigid Philadelphia begin today, and after two of them, the Phils will head to Allentown for a big inter-franchise game against AAA Lehigh Valley. The season proper begins Monday.

Starting today, I’ll be giving you Phillies Nation’s 2008 Season Preview

. Today and tomorrow I’ll look at the Major Leagues. I’ve been talking to bloggers representing all of our NL East rivals, and I’ll have previews of those teams. I’ll also provide my season preview for baseball, excluding our Phillies.

Sunday I’ll look at the Phillies â€” will they repeat or flounder?

Check back in throughout the day for more of our 2008 Season Preview.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.