sports.yahoo.com - 10/5/2008
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Last night in the Phillies locker room, as Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell tried to explain their lineup's struggle at the plate, I noticed a curious thing: Plastic covering had been tacked above the rows of lockers, ready for a champagne celebration that had never come. If the Phillies want to ...
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Brett Myers and the Redneck Recking Crew Advance to NLCS
The Fightins —
... Joe Blanton and the bat of Pat, the Phillies defeated the Brewers 6-2 this afternoon and will advance to the National League Championship Series against the Dodgers. During the post-game celebrations, Yahoo!’s crack reporter Kevin Kaduk (proprietor of Big League Stew), was on hand with his trusty camera phone and forwarded along this gorgeous shot of Brett Myers with a Bud Light in the clubhouse of Miller Park sporting the Redneck Recking Crew t-shirt.
The same one that BLS’s David Brown spotted Joe Blanton in last night: ...
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Phils celebrate with eye toward NLCS —
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As far as champagne celebrations go, Sunday's affair at Miller Park was relatively brief. So not long after the Phillies had put the finishing touches on their NLDS victory over the Brewers, they pondered both their past and their future in a rather ...
Suppan laments one bad pitch in loss —
Major League Baseball News 10/5/2008
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Crew's run comes to an end in Game 4 —
Major League Baseball News 10/5/2008
Jimmy Rollins, Pat Burrell and Jayson Werth swatted early home runs off Brewers starter Jeff Suppan to send the Phillies to a 6-2 win in Game 4 of the National League Division Series that eliminated Milwaukee from its first postseason in 26 years.
