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• Football, Baseball and Brotherly Love - Philadelphia Is Sports Heaven
• By Dan Graziano 11/02/2009 11:30 AM ET
• PHILADELPHIA -- Mike Alvarez is a lifelong Philadelphian with a Cole Hamels haircut and a vintage maroon Phillies cap who spent his Sunday in a parking lot. Alvarez didn't have tickets to the ... More »
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• Mets-Phillies Is New Yankees-Red Sox
• By Dan Graziano 6/09/2009 11:45 PM ET
• NEW YORK -- Blasphemy, you'll say, but think about it. What are you going to remember about Tuesday night's Yankees-Red Sox game? David Ortiz's third home run of the year? Nick Green's second? Maybe ... More »
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• Thanks, Harry the K
• By Dan Graziano 4/14/2009 1:45 AM ET
• Long, busy day -- the kind of day where you feel like you never stop writing. Which is okay, because my job is fun. But now that it's over, and it's late, and I'm back from the ballpark, I feel like I ... More »
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• Jimmy Rollins Has a Rendezvous With Karma
• By Mullet 4/10/2007 3:10 AM ET
• Mets fans have been waiting for this for a long time. Ever since Jimmy Rollins made his proclamation about the Phillies being the best team on paper, the chips on the shoulders of Mets fans ...
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• Questions for Phillies and Marlins
• By Mullet 4/08/2007 11:45 PM ET
• Can we really be at a crossroads after one week of the season? Well here we are ... Philadelphia and Florida: the corner of Slump St. and Closer Ave. Will it be the road less traveled, or the path of ...
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• Rooting For Ryan Howard Has its Limits for Dontrelle Willis
• By Mullet 4/08/2007 4:00 AM ET
• Dontrelle Willis likes Ryan Howard. Hey, who doesn't like Ryan Howard? But he doesn't like Ryan Howard enough to let him hit bombs into the upper tank. Willis retired Howard three times, and Howard ...
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• Marlins Draw Fans, Phillies On the Board
• By Mullet 4/07/2007 3:00 AM ET
• The Florida Marlins drew their largest crowd in two seasons on Friday night for their '07 home opener (perhaps in large part due to the Marlins cheerleader outfits ... an improvement from three years ...
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• I Went to a Phillies Game and an Eagles Game Broke Out
• By Mullet 4/06/2007 6:00 PM ET
• What do you get when you take some rowdy college students who are interested mainly (solely?) in drinking their faces off, give them discounted tickets to leave more money in their pockets for beer, ...
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• On Deck: It's Matsuzaka Time
• By Tom Fornelli 4/05/2007 11:11 AM ET
• The Fanhouse's look at the day's most intriguing matchups Kansas City Royals (1-1) vs. Boston Red Sox (1-1)-2:10PM Est. The wait is finally over. Sure, you saw him in spring training, but we're ...
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• Edgar Renteria Is Bad at Bunting, Good at Hitting Home Runs
• By Eamonn Brennan 4/02/2007 9:57 PM ET
• It wasn't all that long ago that Edgar Renteria was considered among the top three or four shortstops in the game ... and if his Opening Day performance forecasts anything (hint: it usually doesn't), ...
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• Pat Burrell Salutes You With the Bird In Time for Opening Day
• By Mullet 4/02/2007 9:00 PM ET
• The bird was actually a friendly gesture towards former manager Terry Francona during Saturday's final exhibition game. Burrell had just taken Red Sox hurler Daisuke Matsuzaka deep in the third ...
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• Bringing Home the Hardware: Most Valuable Player Awards
• By Matt Watson 4/02/2007 11:30 AM ET
• Who's going to bring home the hardware this year? AOL Sports polled four experts and one "expert" for their predictions -- yeah, I'm the guy in quotes. Throughout the day, I'm going to explain just ...
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• Jimmy Rollins Feels Disrespected, Wants Hardware
• By Mullet 3/30/2007 4:03 AM ET
• Jimmy Rollins has big plans for this season. He has proclaimed his team to be the best in the division on paper. Then, he revealed his goal to have 200 hits. Now we find out his motivation may stem ...
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• Billy Wagner Is Sensitive
• By Matt Watson 3/19/2007 10:15 AM ET
• Mets closer Billy Wagner still likes his old teammates in Philadelphia, but he couldn't resist from taking shots at his former team's notoriously fickle fans in a recent interview. From the ...
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• Jimmy Rollins is Saving His Hits for the Regular Season
• By Mullet 3/15/2007 12:59 PM ET
• Jimmy Rollins is feeling frisky this spring. First, it was his proclamation that the Phillies, finally, are the team to beat on paper in the N.L. East. Now, he is resuming his role as Carnac and ...
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• Look at All These Rumors Running Aaron Rowand Every Day
• By Mullet 3/11/2007 12:31 AM ET
• Is this what Aaron Rowand gets for slamming his face into a fence and breaking his nose? Trade rumors have been following Rowand around lately, from the one about the White Sox for relief pitching, to ...
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• Curt Schilling Remembers John Vukovich
• By Mullet 3/08/2007 11:08 PM ET
• John Vukovich passed away on Thursday from complications caused by an inoperable brain tumor. Vukovich was a member of the 1980 World Champion Phillies team, and was a coach during their latest World ...
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• Phillies Winning 101: Move Brett Myers to the Bullpen
• By Larry Brown 3/01/2007 4:55 PM ET
• I guess if you haven't won your division since '93, you might be open to creative solutions -- and the Philadelphia Phillies certainly are kicking one around. The Philadelphia Inquirer says moving ace ...
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