From the category archives:

My Home Town

Fascinated by Mitt Romney’s chimerical trip to Wawa? My pal Ryan Petzar breaks it down, for no apparent reason, and with timecode. 

Older Than Jamie Moyer.

by kara on April 19, 2012

Photograph of Satchel Paige, 1968, by Louis Requena/MLB/Getty Images via New Yorker

Phinally

by kara on April 15, 2012

Juan Pierre, Le Phillié

by kara on April 8, 2012

 

by kara on February 13, 2012

What am I, NINE?

by kara on October 8, 2011

Expectations were certain for the Phillies to cruise into the World Series. And then they didn’t. What was a spectacular season spiraled into one of shame and regret. Stunned disbelief gave way to actual, clinical depression. Distraught, deflated, disbelieving, let down. The initial feeling of having to throw up, mellowed into a sensation of having [...]

Look Out

by kara on October 6, 2011

I apparently was really, really proud of my shitty Ginos giveaway shirt.

A Man for all Seasons.

by kara on August 14, 2011

Matt Stairs is – no, not a Lobsterman – a chunk-style, 43 year old slugger, whose unusual career had him suiting up in 13 separate cities for 12 franchises, spanning 19 years. A Canadian, affectionately nicknamed “Stairsmaster” and “Wonder Hamster’, Matt Stairs is an Everyman, and he went everywhere, playing for – ready? — the [...]

The Phils Phinally Come to Town.

by kara on August 9, 2011

I took some of my kids from the office to see the Phillies take on the Dodgers tonight and dressed them in cool shirts .