Phillies Get A Break From MLB
Posted by BMT on 11th May 2010

It looks like the city that all 4 major sports leagues have been intentionally conspiring against for the past 100 years may be getting a break after all. The late June series the Phillies would have played in Toronto against the Blue Jays has been moved to Philadelphia on account of security concerns surrounding the G8 summit in Toronto. This means that Roy Halladay’s return to Toronto will be postponed at least until next year (unless the teams meet in the World Series). It also means that the Blue Jays will lose the competitive advantage of playing at home against a much better Philadelphia team.
In the grand scheme of things, nobody really cares much about this other than the 250 Blue Jays fans in Toronto. One viable solution would have been to play the game at Coca-Cola Field in Buffalo, New York (pictured above). Buffalo is more or less right across Lake Ontario from Toronto and it would have been fun to see the Jays travel to downtown Buffalo on a giant hydrofoil. It also would have made sense because Coca-Cola Field was built as an expansion-ready Major League park with a capacity of 18,000, well in excess of the 15,207 fans the Rogers Centre in Toronto is averaging this season.
After all, when the Astros-Cubs series wasn’t able to be played in Houston a few years back because of a hurricane, MLB moved it to a “neutral” site in Milwaukee, not to Wrigley Field. Clearly MLB now loves the revenue-generating Phillies and hates the scum living north of the border. And throwing the G8 into the mix means that world leaders are now on the Philadelphia band wagon. So no more bitching about how everyone hates us, folks.
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Lost in last night’s 22-1 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds was the great performance of Cole Hamels (on the mound specifically, not at the plate). Hamels’ line looked like this: 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB and only 92 pitches. More importantly, Phillies’ starters have recorded wins in each game of the current 4-game streak.