Here we go, it's the last game of the season! The giants at home should be an easy home victory. Hurts back at QB (please don't get hurt!), the Giants have nothing to play for, Dallas in the shadows, what could go wrong? Do I go to the dark side? My worst-case scenario is the Eagles losing, Hurts getting injured, and the Cowboys clinching the divis...

When the Phillies got into the playoffs, I have to admit I was lukewarm when it came to expectations. I've always been of the thinking that a team limping into the playoffs was kind of a waste. I'd rather just get the pain over early and move on to the next sport. In this case, let the Phillies be done with, and let's move on to the Eagles.  W...

Today, I'm still somewhat in disbelief that the Phillies are going to the World Series. Will somebody pinch me? I'm way out in Oregon, out in the woods, with a temperamental satellite feed attempting to watch the series in between buffering of the feed.    In part, I'm anxious about the Phils and in part worried about the feed. ...

What a weekend! Starting Friday afternoon, early evening, I'm feeling like a dark cloud is descending on Philadelphia fans. Here we head into the top of the ninth with absolutely no offense. This supposed power lineup had shown no life up until this point. As I'm watching, I'm thinking to myself, "well, will this series even get to game 3." An...

So if I go back to the beginning of the baseball season, I began to have visions of the Phillies' playoffs run starting in 2007. Though 2007 had its embarrassing moment when on July 15 they lost their 10,000 games. However, they rallied at the end of the season in the closing days of the season to win the NL East title. Only to be swept i...

As September moves along and the Phillies continue to fight to end their long drought of missing the playoffs, I don't know how many late-inning games I can handle.  Big reason? The bullpen! You know, I wish I could go through the ninth inning where the opposing team goes down 1-2-3. Instead, we are faced with my latest bullpen member fac...

After the other night's game against the Mets, when Bohm was seen saying, " I f-ing hate this place", the national press couldn't wait to jump on the Philly fans about how they would react to Bohm's comment.  Right away that went back to their same old script...Eagles fans throw snowballs at Santa. When in doubt bring out the old cliches....

First, let me say when the Phillies made the deals to get Schwarber and Castellanos this year I was drooling over the idea of what this lineup would look like. In my mind, I flashed back to '08 and '09 and what a fearsome lineup they had.  In the past few years, I thought of getting the MLB Extra Innings package but was hesitant...

Now that it appears that the talks between the Sixers and Kings have died out, what can the Sixers do with Simmons? I say let him sit. All things said, I think the current lineup for the Sixers may not go far in the playoffs, but if Simmons were playing the same thing can be said. Simmons can play a role during the regular season, but pla...

After watching the Pats and Eagles go down so easily, my one last hope was a loss by the Cowboys. It was time to get out the rosary beads, light a candle, rub a rabbit's foot...whatever I could to tempt the football gods to come down hard on the Cowboys. If I had to end the weekend with a Cowboy win I'd be disgusted with a lost weekend. I'm debatin...

After finishing off the season going 9-7, the Eagles went into the playoffs without many expectations from the football world.   Now realistically I knew that was way over their heads. If you look at their end-of-the-season schedule and record, you had to know it wasn't very impressive. The closest you could say was a good victory was the...

It was about 10 years ago when I came up with the idea of creating a website related to Philadelphia sports. I registered the name, phillysportsguy.com, but let it linger up until now. I kept telling myself, I was going to get started and then would put it off. Finally, a few weeks ago I began to build it on my computer and when I had made enough p...

I have to say in all honesty, I never was on the Wentz Wagon.  There was just something about him that didn't sit right with me. When I heard him speak, for some reason my B.S. detector would go off. I go back a few years ago when he got injured and was replaced by Foles. What seemed like the Birds not having receivers to throw to, Foles was f...

I'm getting ready to watch the game last night. I spent earlier time earlier in the day watching Villanova pour it on in the second half to defeat Depaul, 79-64. It ended in time to switch over to the Chiefs/Broncos game. I have to say, I'm definitely not a Chiefs fan. I used to like them until Andy Reid became the coach. Sorry, still too many resi...

As any true Eagles fan, you probably guess my feelings about the Cowboys. Especially on days like today when they will face off in Philly tonight. There is a lot of back and forth about tonight's game. Rest the starters? Don't lose momentum, keep starters going? If it was any other team I would say rest the starters but at least go with the starter...

When my son was little, he used to always ask me, "Dad, why are you so down on our teams?" I would try to explain to him the long painful history of being a Philadelphia sports teams fan. Going back to my very young years of the Phillies blowing the pennant in 1964, watching the sorrowful Eagles through the late 60s and through most of the 70s. The...

As a kid, who grew up in South Jersey, I started my early life becoming a big sports fan. I was in first grade when I first started to get interested in sports. My first love was baseball. A group of friends (Dicky, Joey, Georgie, and myself) became baseball cards and coins fanatics. Part of our time would be spent cashing in soda bottles and whate...