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Prospect Kingery named to AFL Fall Stars Game

Good morning! It’s November, and there’s no Justin Timberlake meme for that.

The news:

Phils second base prospect Scott Kingery was named to the Arizona Fall League Fall Stars Game, which is Saturday.

Kingery is hitting a pedestrian .261/.292/.370 in 46 at bats in the AFL.

Meghan Montemurro has a nice piece looking at Terry Francona’s road to managing in numerous World Series. That road started in Philadelphia, of course, where he had the reigns of some bad teams.

Montemurro claims the bullpen was a major flaw of those teams. It was, but we shouldn’t forget that, well, the teams were bad all the way through. Besides a few star players, Francona’s teams were generally bad, products of a low payroll despite being in a big market.

The Phillie Phanatic and Mickey Morandini hosted a Monster Mash Halloween Bash for patients at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Very cool.

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.