City of Pain

I can’t even muster up enough venom to hate Milwaukee. I honestly feel bad for anyone who lives in….Wisconsin? Is that where Milwaukee is located, Wisconsin? Shit, it might be in like Missouri or one of the Dakotas. Seriously where is Milwaukee? Please tell me it’s not in Canada….

Sabathia in game 2 and a possible game 5 huh? Yikes. Sounds like a must win today. Hopefully he’s been having oral sex with a couple of cheese steaks the last few days in the city. Every so called expert is calling for a Phillies win and I don’t like that, even though I agree here. I mean look, they didn’t show up last year. They remember what that felt like. This Phillies team reminds me a lot of the Sixers in the late 90s, the Flyers of the mid 90s, and the Eagles in 2001. Teams that were young, got themselves into the playoffs, had some early exits, but figured it out in the next year or two and advanced. The Sixers and Flyers are going through the same thing right now. The reason the Phillies knew they had to win 75% of their games at the end of this season is the exact same reason they know that just getting in this year is not nearly enough. The ‘let’s get in the playoffs and see how the chips fall’ mindset has been replaced by ‘let get to the World Series’. They know it. Everything else is failure.

Will the bats go cold like last year? Will Cole get some run support? Do the Brewers have anything resembling a bullpen? Can Myers get his dick out of his ass? They better win today, because facing Sabathia down 0-1 doesn’t look like a position I’d want to be in. It’s really scary when the last time the Phillies won a playoff game was when Curt Schilling shut down the Blue Jays 2-0 in Game 5 of the 1993 World Series. Please God, just get us a win today.