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Told you so

POSTED: Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 7:35 PM

Attytood from May 8, 2008:

Prediction: Jim Thome will be bashing home runs for the White Sox long after Ryan Howard's long, long "rehab" stint in single-A Lakewood.

June 26, 2012:

Ryan Howard's return to the Phillies could take another important step Wednesday.

The first baseman will be examined in Philadelphia by team doctors and if cleared, he will play for single-A Lakewood Thursday, which would officially begin his minor-league rehab assignment.

Just call me Carnac the Magnificent. Even Thome is still bashing home runs...but right here in Philly.

It was funny trying to dredge up the 2008 post, and seeing again how often I blogged about sports back then (remember, as recently as 4 years ago blogging was still "beneath" the sportswriters at the Daily News and Inquirer, so I had the playing field all to myself. Even then blogging was passe...but I digress). In That Championship Season, I used to blog the Phillies 2-3 a week, now it's been 2-3 times the entire year so far. So here goes...

It seems like the Phillies are at some kind of tipping point. There's a palpable change in mood with Utley and now Howard coming back and maybe Halladay fairly soon. I don't think it's because the hobbling Utley or Howard are going to bat .375 or hit homers in four out of five games (that's J-Roll's job) but I do think they are leaders, which is what this motley crew needs more than anything right now.

Do I think the season's over? No...I think there's an 80 percent chance the season is over, and a 10 percent chance they make the new one-game wild card playoff only to crush our mortal souls yet again. And I think there's a 10 percent chance of pure magic, of October pieces that begin with "Remember what it was like back in June when we thought the season was over..."

Isn't it pretty to think so?*

* Plagiarized.

Will Bunch @ 7:35 PM Permalink | 22 comments

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Comments (22)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:28 PM, 06/26/2012

It's going to be a while before Howard and Doc get back. By the point they do, the team might be so far buried that it can't climb back. They need to gain fairly significant ground in the interim. It's going to be hard to climb over some 5 teams ahead of them in the race for the 2nd wild card.

— Talking point sleuth

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:46 PM, 06/26/2012

On the other hand, they're only 4.5 games out in the wild card (and winning tonight). The teams that are ahead of them in the wild card, like the Mets and the Pirates, aren't exactly the '27 Yankees or anything.

— will

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:12 PM, 06/26/2012

...nevermind.

— will

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:42 PM, 06/26/2012

You two baseball historians apparently forget what the Cards did last year.And the injuries,ya know,you can just blame Bush.Safer ground,there.

— Yankee Air Pirate 12

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:57 PM, 06/26/2012

Never thought of blogging 2-3 times a week about fast and furious did you Will?

Go Phils

— Timo3004

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:16 PM, 06/26/2012

I am The One I've been waiting for.

— Mr. Smith

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:36 PM, 06/26/2012

The Phils just need to win one more game per week than the Nats (or whoever is in first).

— palmyra21

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:38 PM, 06/26/2012

Making predictions for the season after 75 games? You're quite the prognosticator. I look forward to your prediction for Election Day the morning of the election.

— AvoidSundanceVacations

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:20 PM, 06/26/2012

Every day of baseball is a day closer to football

— MilesLong1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:48 AM, 06/27/2012

In the words of the genius Gary Matthews: "If the Phillies score more runs than the Pirates they're going to win." "Three run homers are better than solo shots because you score more runs that way."

— fredgwynne

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:01 AM, 06/27/2012

At this point in the season in 1983, the Wheeze Kids were several games under 500 and 5 games back. It ain't over till it's over.

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:10 AM, 06/27/2012

I don't think it matters whether Utley or Howard come back, they still have that god awful bullpen.

— jmc

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:31 AM, 06/27/2012

"And the injuries,ya know,you can just blame Bush." . . . . Nah, after 3.5 years, Obama should own those injuries. I blame it on those illegals he's smuggling into the game.

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:33 AM, 06/27/2012

"Making predictions for the season after 75 games?" . . . . Yeah, Will, with only 87 games left, what could possibly change?

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:42 AM, 06/27/2012

I don't make early predictions in sports. Anything can happen between now and September. Only fools and drunks make such predictions. Which of the two are you, Will?

— DonQ

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