Tuesday, September 30, 2008

What is a Philly?

I've been a fan of the Philadelphia Phillies since I've been born basically. They won the world series once. It was on my birth day. My real birthday. The exact day that I was born. That means something to me. For some reason, I don't really know why. I have always followed them, not by choice but by destiny. I don't want to turn this into a blog about sports, but this post is going to be devoted the Fightin' Phils.

They won the NL East this year. They will probably do that exactly twice in my lifetime. The Phillies suck, let's face it. They're always bad to milidly horrible, but this year they won their division. They're so good this year that they may just win the World Series. And if they do there most certainly will be a follow up blog to gloat and brag.

Does anyone know what a Philly is? I think it's a term used to describe a female horse. Why would you name your team the "Female Horses" though? The best player on the team is the mascot. He's the nuttiest craziest mascot in the business.



The Phillies are one of the oldest franchises in baseball. They're so old and they've been bad for so long that they actually have the most losses ever. In any professional sport. That's something to be proud of, don't you think?

It all starts tomorrow when they host the Milwauke Brewers. It's really october. It's really here! GO PHILS!!!

2 comments:

Earhart said...

Wikipedia says:
After being founded in 1883 as the "Quakers," the team changed its name to the "Philadelphias", after the convention of the times. This was soon shortened to "Phillies."[3] "Quakers" continued to be used interchangeably with "Phillies" until 1890, when the team officially became known as the "Phillies."

The female horse is Filly with an F, unless she's older than four, in which case she's a mare.

JReed said...

I can't believe you actually looked it up...you must really care *tears up*....about wikipedia.