30 Oct 2008 | Posted in Fantoo Blog Home
In case your were under a rock last night - THE PHILLIES WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!
They were like the olde-time postman: braving rain, sleet, snow and Bud Selig to eke it out in the end. The Rays put up a great fight and they did not go quietly, but the Phils were having none [...]
28 Oct 2008 | Posted in Fantoo Blog Home
Bud Selig got lucky, SO lucky, that the game was tied when they called it in the middle of the 6th inning last night. But he created that luck, in part, on the fly. It’s the Bud Selig way.
Let’s talk rules first. If the game - which had turned into a legitimate, regulation game after [...]
27 Oct 2008 | Posted in Fantoo Blog Home
One game.
One game to wash over the open, frozen tundra of Phillie championship dysfunction. The tundra forged, of course, by 125 years of Philadelphia baseball dotted with one, lonely World Series win in 1980.
They say the 4th win is the hardest. But even after a 10-2 thrashing, the Rays will come out like Mike [...]
26 Oct 2008 | Posted in Fantoo Blog Home
Many of you may have given up last night when the Phillies and the Rays decided to make it an after-hours party, not settling the score until close to 2AM. We at Fantoo did not. Wine in hand, we made it till the final single which drove in the winning run. Maybe [...]
25 Oct 2008 | Posted in Fantoo Blog Home
It’s on, a once-in-a-blue-moon non-sweep MLB series headed to the ‘away’ field. Did we mention that the Phillies are our team, the beloved MLB squad of the Fantoo Girls?
Robin will be headed to Center City in mere hours to take in the Flyers game, next door to Citizen’s Bank Park. There will then be [...]