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Playing the Rube: A Baseball Experiment – Chapter 18: No Soup For You

The Phillies won a world championship in 2008.

Then Ruben Amaro Jr. was named general manager.

The Phillies didn’t win another world championship.

Tim Malcolm and Dan Walsh wonder if they can do better. So, we continue “Playing the Rube,” a bi-weekly series with accompanying podcast in which Tim and Dan attempt to steer the Phillies to more victories, starting in 2009, through the deep simulation game OOTP Baseball ’18.

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CHAPTER 18: NO SOUP FOR YOU

As we near the all-star break, our 2009 Phillies are atrocious, nearly 30 games under .500. How are we still employed?

Well, long as we’re here, we’re going to make things interesting. In this episode we’ll make a trade, make a long-awaited roster move, and answer several calls for the same trade, over and over again (one team is looking to trade us a very familiar face).

Plus we have a good week on the field! Finally!

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Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.