Philadelphia Phillies 2012 Offseason Recap and Preview
I know I haven’t been watching baseball for THAT long compared to most people, but I can’t remember a team ever living up to the hype set in the preseason so quietly as the Phillies did last season....
View ArticleBlast From The Baseball Past: 8/23/08 Dodgers at Phillies: Citizens Bank Park
As much as it may surprise you, I did go to game before I created Observing Baseball. I know, shocking, isn’t it? Really the purpose of these “Blast From The Baseball Past” entries is to document what...
View ArticleBlast From The Baseball Past: 8/24/08 Dodgers at Phillies: Citizens Bank Park
As I have may have mentioned before, this trip is more-or-less still in my memory. So I know everything that happened, but I don’t remember all the details. When I checked the information on this...
View Article8/22/12 Reds at Phillies: Citizens Bank Park
I took a surprise trip to a certain ballpark a little while ago, so I thought I’d start with a Before the Gates Open video: Note: Steve Carlton is *NOT* dead; I was thinking of Robin Roberts when I...
View Article8/3/13 BallhawkFest
After our adventure the previous night that got us back to Washington past midnight, Chris Hernandez and I got up to get to Philadelphia for BallhawkFest a little later than we wanted to. And so when...
View ArticleStadium Profiles: Citizens Bank Park
Overall Grade: B+ Aesthetic Grade: B+ I went back and forth between a B+ and a B for this. On the one hand, it is a nice ballpark that I really don’t have much to complain about aesthetically. But on...
View ArticleMy Favorite MLB Teams
While I’ve always kind of known which teams I like and which I don’t–although even those have changed throughout the years–I truly have never ranked the teams 1-30 as to which I like better than...
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