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Phil Sheridan became an Inquirer sports columnist after covering the Eagles for seven years. He brings a seasoned and reasoned point of view to a landscape of frustrated fans. But Sheridan knows where they're coming from, being a Philadelphia native and a graduate of Temple University.
 
 
Phil Sheridan Posted 07/02/2009
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It seems funny but sad now that the Los Angeles Clippers were ticked off last July when the 76ers lured free agent Elton Brand away with an $80 million contract. The Clips thought they had Brand's word he would re-sign with them.
Along with a numbing series of baseball games, the Phillies may have lost something they needed to lose on this road trip.
Scott Bradley was behind the plate in 1990, when Seattle Mariners teammate Randy Johnson pitched his first no-hitter. Johnson endured the tense ninth inning, when he faced Detroit's fourth, fifth, and sixth hitters - Cecil Fielder, Chet Lemon, Mike Heath - to complete the feat.
Maybe the best way to explain Donald Fehr is that he was very good, maybe even too good, at his job. It's just that he could not or would not grasp what his job could have and should have been.
As the Phillies staggered through a horrific homestand - bad baseball interrupted by players in the emergency room and on the disabled list - a small voice in the back of your mind grew louder and more shrill:
In a very real sense, it was Gary Papa's job to be taken for granted. He was supposed to be there, always, when you flicked on the Channel 6 news to catch up on the day's events and weather and sports news. He was supposed to be there along with Jim Gardner and Dave Roberts, and was supposed to look and sound the same, night after night, year after year, decade after decade.
Maybe the motivation was to get out of the office for a day. Whatever the reason, thousands of them streamed from the parking lots into the Wachovia Center yesterday to get pumped up by Zig Ziglar and Steve Forbes, Colin Powell and Rudy Giuliani. Oh, yes. And Charlie Manuel and Donovan McNabb.
The NFL Players Association was smart to choose a David-sized executive director to replace Hall of Fame lineman Gene Upshaw. The looming battle with the gargantuan and heavily fortified NFL might be won with a well-aimed stone.
The Eagles did the right thing by Donovan McNabb. Now it's up to McNabb to do the right thing by the Eagles. To his credit, the franchise quarterback fully grasps what that right thing is.
Not so long ago, it was a pretty good baseball argument: Phillies or Mets? Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins, and Chase Utley or David Wright, Carlos Delgado, and Jose Reyes?
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