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LOS ANGELES - So much for sunny Southern California.
The weather that greeted the Phillies when they arrived here last night was a lot like May in Manayunk. Skies the color of J.A. Happ's pallor. Low 60s. And a sporadic light rain - though, come to think of it, it could just have been liquid smog.
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Typically, Morning Bytes is a freewheeling, free-spirited, free-flowing and, all too often, free-falling enterprise. But occasionally, as happened this week, Jim Cohen, our sports/fried-food editor, insists I write about something specific, even (shudder!) meaningful.
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Now that another Eagles season is well under way, it seems like a good time to answer some of those persistent questions about professional football in Philadelphia. Here is a brief history:
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Why does all this fantasy fury directed at President Obama seem so familiar? Maybe because it sounds like the same kind of skewed logic, stupidity, and - yes - bigotry that has marked a lot of the criticism of Donovan McNabb over the years.
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Recently, I was watching televised scenes from outside and inside one of those health-care forums that are giving me a headache and democracy a bad name.
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Inquirer staff writer. Except for family, that three-word appendage to my name is really all I ever wanted. Oh, it could have been Evening Bulletin staff writer or Daily News staff writer, but as long as I was writing about sports in my hometown, I knew life was going to be good.
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Ed Bouchee is an old man in Arizona now. He has, by all accounts, led a remarkably normal life, given his troubles a half-century ago.
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What I know about readying a football team for an NFL season is roughly equivalent to what I know about Titian, the 16th-century painter
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"Mets Fan Banned for Impersonating Sports Reporter." That was an actual headline this week. Before I go further, a personal disclosure: In my more than half-century following Phillies baseball, I've often had the urge to pass myself off as a Mets fan.
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