Either way, it’s a great feeling.

Add in cheese steaks, pork roll sandwiches, soft pretzels, Yuengling and Taskykakes, and what’s not to like about the Phillies?

It’s a stupid article.

In 2008, it was another nail-biter of a season, where, with 16 games left, the Phillies were not even going to make the playoffs, being 3.5 games back for the division and the Brewers were having a good year. Next thing you know, the Mutts went 7-10 to end the year while the Phillies went 13-3, stole the division, beat up on CC, then Matt Stairs hit a bomb, Pat Burrell hit a big double, Pedro Feliz hit a HUGE single, and we were all watching a parade.

In 2009, the Phillies seemed to get better, especially when they picked up Lee at the deadline. But the bullpen let them down…game 4 of the World Series was a KILLER. In the end, the Yankers were just the better team.

In 2010, however, it was such a HUGE letdown that I can’t imagine being too overconfident right now. Yeah, I will admit that nothing this team does can shock me because the staff, as I have said all year long, is historically great. Not just great…historically great. And, most importantly, they are pitching that way. There is no letdown EVER with these guys.

The biggest problem with Bryant’s article is this…he makes it sound like you can’t expect to win and still have fun. I expect the Phillies to win during the regular season. And I will probably expect them to win when the playoffs start. But I’ll also have fun rooting for them as I have since I was 5. Just because I get mad when they lose doesn’t mean the ride wasn’t fun. And just because I won’t watch the World Series if they aren’t in it doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun enjoying the ride.

I have to admit, this season has seemed kind of boring. The games sometimes seem like pre-season football games. Just a tune-up for the bigger games to come. It beats the hell out of the losing years, when they were pretty much out of it by June and there was nothing to look forward too. Someday we will suck again and look back at this time as the glory days. This is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of team. This is probably the best era in Phillies history, and it’s hard to imagine ever topping this run in the future. We need to enjoy it while it lasts.

While I have to remind others in my fanbase of how spoiled we are becoming, I remind myself that we are witnessing the finest stretch in the Phillies’ 130 years of being a franchise.

PS- when I saw the headline, I was certain that this was a CC posting. One other certainty was that every Braves fan had to be bored of the regular season at the same point you shared due to their postseason shortcomings.

i have no problem if Phillies fans want to be Yankees Fans South. Builds character.

Now this year comes around and LEE is back! The Phillies have 4 legitimate aces and are the best team in baseball. Maybe now a super power is born. That might be mundane to fans of teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, and the Braves of the 90′s bc they always had good teams but to Philly this is the best it has ever been and extremely fun. Maybe if this keeps up it might become less fun in 5 years but right now I couldnt enjoy baseball more.

Bryant has to have forgotten that the Phillies have lost more games then any sports franchise in the world. Not in Baseball, not in America, in the world. There is no way 3 years of good baseball and 2 years of dominance can become boring to a fan base that has had to deal with as much losing as the Phillies fan base has had to endure. So even though the premise makes sense and it seems he put some thought into it, he obviously didnt take the same care or time when choosing the team to base his premise off of.