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Happy Birthday Phillies Nation!

On this day five years ago Phillies Nation was born.  I was jealous of my roommate’s obsession with Sons of Sam Horn and wanted a similar home for Phillies fans.  Mostly I wanted one place where I could find all my Phillies information. But at least part of me was inspired by Eric Milton’s excellence…

Milton Perfect though 8 1/3
What a game! Supurb pitching by Eric Milton, and Doug Glanville won’t have anything funny to say about this nailbiter. Phils funnyman nearly cost his team the win, which brings the unoffical total of 5 defensive mistakes in centerfield in the past week.

It was nice to see the Phillies’ young stars, Ryan Madson and Chase Utley, perform well today. Utley had the Phils first two RBIs including a HR. Smoltz just got the save up in New York, that means the Fightins’ are still a half game out.

Apparently they didn’t have spell checkers back then…but how about those young stars, I hope they work out!

Everyone, thank you for all your support this past half-decade.  If you want to check out some more old posts, visit the archives page.
Go Phils!

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Brian Michael

Brian founded Phillies Nation in 2004. He is the owner of Shibe Vintage Sports retail store in Center City and teaches Economics of Sports at Temple University. Brian grew up in Northeast Philly and now resides in South Philly.

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