Rollins remains unsatisfied after MVP year

I am not saying they are overrated; I am just saying that if Hanley Ramirez played in New York they would have to implement some sort of tithing system

Braves Blast :: Atlanta Braves Blog found this 3/7/2008 on www.philliesflow.com

I’m generally against anything that makes the Mets better offensively, but it might be worth it if it meant we got to see Mets’ fans have to bring a tenth of their goats, cows and comeliest women and leave them at the door of ...

MLB Poetry Preview: Philadelphia Phillies

The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae found this 3/10/2008 on sports.aol.com

As part of our season preview, FanHouse asked bloggers from around the internet to write a poem previewing their team's upcoming season in a series entitled MLB Poetry Previews . It's like high school English class, except about baseball! Today, we ...

Phillies Season Preview

Jayhawk Fan posted 3/11/2008 from www.epiccarnival.com

The first thing to understand about this year's Phillies team is that last year's team is unprecedented, in 100+ years of the franchise. Remember this, when you hear how Cub Fan or Indian Fan or Whatever Fan has suffered, and lo, they have suffered... the Phillies have spent entire decades without getting anywhere near a pennant race, on multiple occasions. If you were to make a ...

Rollins: A little swagger is good | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/12/2008

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 3/12/2008 on www.philly.com

Here is an excerpt from an interview with Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins that appears in the April issue of Men's Journal, which goes on sale today. The National League MVP talked to the magazine about, among other things, people calling him cocky, ...

Large Board: Top 50 Players in Fantasy

coryh64 posted 3/12/2008 from mvn.com

For new readers, the Large Board is a weekly-ish countdown of the game’s top fifty players, a concept in no way borrowed from Brandon Funston, proprietor of Yahoo’s Big Board. It’s designed to assess trade and draft value, as well as spark debate, or, as I said in the original incarnation: spare me no slander!