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Blanton Agrees to 3-year Extension

Joe Blanton has agreed to a three-year, $24 million contract extension to avoid arbitration. Blanton finished the 2009 season with a 12-8...

JRoll’s Getting Married on Saturday

Top Moment No. 3: NL Pennant!

Top Moment #3: Phillies Clinch Second Straight National League Pennant It had never been done in franchise history. Following an epic win, there was...

Phillies Looking at Eric Gagne

According to the Philadelphia Daily News, Eric Gagne has a tryout with the Phillies this afternoon out in Arizona as the team...

If I Were a Las Vegas Sportsbook

Greetings. You probably don’t know who I am, so let me take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Michael Baumann,...

Phillies Swap Arbitration Figures

The report has come in from CSN Philly’s Jim Salisbury, and the three remaining arbitration-eligible Phillies have let their demands be known....

Top Moment No. 4: World Series Game 1 Victory

Top Moment #4: Lee Shuts Down Yankees in WS Opener Before the start of the 2009 World Series, Phillies fans were peering...

Durbin Avoids Arbitration

Todd Zolecki reports (via Twitter) that Chad Durbin avoided salary arbitration by agreeing to a $2.125 million contract. Durbin signed with the...

Top Moment No. 5: Utley, Lee Keep Phils Alive

Top Moment #5: On Brink of Elimination, Chase Utley and Cliff Lee Keep World Series Hopes Alive It wasn’t a situation that...

Phillies Nation on Twitter

In case you’ve been living in a pre-WFC time, when people didn’t rock Twitter for up-to-the-second news (and other assorted crap), now...

Mathieson May Be Called Upon in Absence of Lidge

Thirty-one days remain until pitchers and catchers enter the gates on Old Coachman Road, with actual nine inning games starting just 13...

Top Moment No. 6: The Day That Harry Died

Top Moment #6: Harry Kalas Passes Away in the Broadcast Booth in Washington This isn’t a top moment because of a particular...

Victorino, Three Others File for Arb

-Shane Victorino, Joe Blanton, Chad Durbin, and Carlos Ruiz are the four Phillies who have filed for salary arbitration, which formally took...

Top Moment No. 7: Bruntlett’s Unassisted Triple Play

Top Moment #7: Bruntlett’s Rare TP Gives Phils a Big W Eric Bruntlett had two defining moments as a two-year member of...

The Total WAR Project, Part III: The Colorado Rockies

Around 60 or 61 A.D., the Romans were colonizing the British Isles, they encountered resistance from an indigenous tribe called the Iceni...

Odds & Ends: Lidge, Contreras, NL East News

There’s eighty days until Roy Halladay (I’m already penciling him in as the Opening Day starter) throws the first pitch of 2010. ...

Year In Review: Brad Lidge

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The Total WAR Project, Part II: New York Mets

IMPORTANT: If you’re reading this post before the Total WAR introduction and Part I have been posted, you’re reading this in error....

2010 Season Road Trips

Here are the dates we are considering for road trips during the Phillies 2010 season. There will be varying levels of organized...

The Dip: The Needle and the Damage Done

This is The Dip, a column penned by our regular commenter, The Dipsy. So Mark McGwire apologized for doing steroids. I guess...

Myers Plans to “Stick It” to the Phils

Look out. Brett Myers is an ex-Phil and already making declarations.  He said in his first news conference with the Houston Astros...

The Total WAR Project, Part I: Atlanta Braves

One of the great 20th-century proponents of Total War, Curtis LeMay, advocated a nuclear version of total war (should it come to...

Phillies Nation Podcast 24: Victor Rojas

Welcome to the Phillies Nation Podcast! Pat Gallen is joined today by Victor Rojas of the MLB Network just hours after the...

The Total WAR Project: Prologue

For the first time in my life, I’d be shocked if the Phillies didn’t make the World Series. I mean, they’ve won...