by Kevin Franklin History is riddled with underdogs spitting in the face of the neighborhood bully and administering a humbling beating upon its supposed superior foe. Davey didn’t listen to the oddsmakers before he knocked Goliath to the canvas. Cassius Clay upended Sonny Liston, Joe Namath – Beauty Mist pantyhose and all – led the [More...]
by Kevin Franklin You knew it. You just KNEW it. All the cosmic tumblers were clicking into place. Championship-caliber team? Check. Add arguably the best pitcher in the game? Check. No more Eric Bruntlett? Check. It was all so perfect. Then this: Jimmy Rollins goes on the disabled list (presumably) and Jayson Werth tweaks his [More...]
by Kevin Franklin Sports are full of axioms: If you have two number one quarterbacks, you don’t have a number one quarterback, you can’t teach height and you score on zero percent of the shots you don’t take. Baseball probably has more proverbs than the other three major sports combined, so it doesn’t need any [More...]
by Kevin Franklin Sometimes, you stumble upon a moment where all of your senses are brought to life like an orchestra reaching a crescendo. It doesn’t have to be anything earth-shaking, just a particular sound, like a song on the radio, maybe a smell that reminds you of your grandmother’s kitchen at the holidays or [More...]
by Kevin Franklin Well, if your name is Trent Steele, Chest Rockwell or Max Power, quite a hell of a lot. Some names just give themselves over to legendary status the moment they are notarized. Not to sound misogynistic, but I would gather the father had a lot to do with the first name – [More...]
by Kevin Franklin It’s a Tuesday night folding over into Wednesday morning and I’m sick. I’m sick because there was no Phillies game tonight. Due to fears of an Opening Day rain out, Major League Baseball inserts an open date on the second day of the season. To baseball fans, it’s a tease. It’s the [More...]
by Kevin Franklin 38 “experts” prognosticate on the 2010 end of season awards. Your mileage may vary. Article here. Listed below are the cumulative tallies for which players they expect to win the following awards: AL MVP Evan Longoria, Rays (9 votes) Alex Rodriguez, Yankees (7) Joe Mauer, Twins (6) Mark Teixeira, Yankees (6) Miguel [More...]
by Kevin Franklin April 1, 1974. It was a day like any other for an eight year old kid: stealing money from my mom to buy baseball cards, popping wheelies on my Huffy and grabbing a Pop-Tart on the way out the door to school that morning. But something was slightly different. That was the [More...]
by Kevin Franklin It seems with all the talk about Donovan McNabb’s impending trade out of Philadelphia comes with it his lack of appreciation in this town. While it might be a foregone conclusion the franchise’s best quarterback of all time is on the slow boat to another organization, what is not such a certainty [More...]
by Kevin Franklin We live a cursed life. No, there isn’t a tattoo that burns like a million suns on our backsides during the Solstice, nor do people burst into flame once we get close to them. You see, we are sports fans. Not only that, but the most leprous of sports fans – we [More...]