MikeB, that was tremendously well written and i totally agree with you.

I have the same amount of faith in my Phils as I did in the 70’s while I sat in section 525 at the Vet with my grandparents.

I realize that my comment is vague about a good division leader should maintain playing at least .500 baseball. I have been a Phillies fan for almost 50 years. I have seen the really good teams that have won over the years; Yankees, Reds, Cardinals, Dodgers, the Phillies and some others. Some of these teams that won their league or division over the years and led that league or division for the majority of the baseball season played good consistent baseball throughout the year. Seldom lost five or six games in a row and avoided the recurring losing streaks and I realize that I am remembering this without researching it. What I remember most is that they seldom had losing strings and lost whole series to inferior teams like the Phillies have this year to Houston, Toronto, Baltimore, etc.. So yeah, I am sticking to what I am saying in that a good division leading team , once that it establishes a division lead and stays in that lead for a reasonable amount of time, should be playing like a division leader, avoiding the long losing streaks and beating the inferior teams by taking the series against those inferior teams (winning 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 4 games in the series). The good teams were dominant back in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and even in the 1990s with the Atlanta Braves and others. Now I realize it is not going to happen that way with every winning team. I guess what I am getting at with the Phillies is I see them play without inspiration and fail against the weaker teams and then I think, well, how in the world are they going to do in the playoffs and the World Series, if they make it that far, against the good teams that make it there? They will drop a series in regular games during the season once in a while and lose every now and then as was posted by someone because that is how baseball goes but in general, they are a division leader and should be playing as such, certainly not like they have been. You can post being as positive as you want and no amount of positivity will change the way they have been playing. I agree with those posting that we need to stay positive with our posts for the team for the future games.

using “whatever” like a teenage girl in an argument

yeesh

man-up folks

i wonder how many of you people are actually from Philly