Daily News - Bill Conlin

Bill Conlin: All Feliz ever did for Phillies was show up for work every day

WHEN I'M KING of the world . . . The Phillies will give Pedro Feliz a little more respect than being tossed onto the market like a Cash-for-Clunkers auto . . .

Bill Conlin: Phillies face music with noteworthy effort in Game 5

CLIFF LEE had just given up a first-inning run. That's like Tim McGraw starting off "I like It, I Love It" with a belch. It's like a Charlie Manuel sentence without an "At the same time" to bridge conflicting ideas.

Bill Conlin: Ghosts of World Series past haunt Phillies

ELIMINATION. It is the biggest word in baseball's minimalist lexicon. And the baddest. For the runner-up in the most grueling journey in team sports, there truly is no tomorrow. The night you lose for the fourth time in a World Series, there is an exquisitely painful finality. The winners half-drown themselves in champagne, most of it spray

Bill Conlin: Comparing Phillies, Yankees lineups the right way

IN A WORLD SERIES comparison, a Tale of the Tape tradition dating to 1903 has matched the combatants by position.

Bill Conlin: Manuel's champs have it all over Green's

Bill Conlin: Twenty-nine years to the night that Tug McGraw flung both arms skyward in a joyous leap, then turned to await Mike Schmidt's airborne arrival, the 1980 Muleskinner stood on the mound.

Bill Conlin: It takes a while, but Phillies' dramatic rally in ninth pushes Dodgers to the brink

WHAT A DIFFERENCE a night makes, 24 little hours and six fewer runs. But the champagne will be on ice tomorrow night nevertheless with a home clinching in order.

Bill Conlin: A welcome return to Utley's routine

THE NFL has the Wildcat. Not to be outdone, MLB has enlivened the National and American League Championship Series with the Wildthrow.

Bill Conlin: Phillies, Dodgers have a history

BEFORE THERE WAS Black Friday - Oct. 7, 1977 - the Phillies endured Soggy Saturday and Sunless Sunday. Sunday was the day general manager Paul Owens and manager Danny Ozark learned the real difference between a team that would win 101 games for the second straight season and a Los Angeles Dodgers team of similar talents.

Bill Conlin: Phillies' manager's moves could go down in infamy

WILL TERRIBLE Thursday be remembered by Phillies fans as a pitching version of 1977's Black Friday? The question hangs like a cloud of frozen breath in a walk-in freezer after an excruciating, 5-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies. It will be answered this weekend in a Denver ballpark where the fans will turn blue long before those mountains on a chilling Coors can.

Bill Conlin: Phillies were in their element - wind and all

IT WAS THE DAY the ghost of Candlestick Park came to South Philly. The Hawk that rushed off the Pacific, funneling through a gap in the Coast Range and rushing downhill off a steep bluff buttressing the worst ballpark in major league history showed up in The Bank, helter-skelter hot-dog wrappers and all. The only thing missing was 50,000 empty seats.