I did this for the Central race back when it was, you know, a race when Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Milwaukee all still had playoff hopes. The Brewers kind of decided they didn't want a real pennant race so nobody needed my cheat sheets for the division. Let's take a look at the playoff teams shall we??
First up, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Phillies
- Oldest, continuous, one-name, one-city, team in all of American professional sports
- Started as the Quakers in 1883
- Replacing the worst named team in sports history
- Worcester Worcesters
- seriously
- 17-81-1
- The tie was likely a mercy tie
- Became the Phillies in 1890
- The Houston Texans admire their creativity in naming the team
- Made it to 100 ties in 1947
- 100 ties!!
- 115 total ties
- Cubs have 160
- Braves have 154
- so ties used to be somewhat normal??
- First manager was Bob Ferguson
- fired after 17 games
- He got a raw deal, that team was horrible
- -374 RAR??
- for those not into the stats....well that just isn't good
- John Coleman
- 538 innings
- 12-48 record
- -6.5 WAR
- probably better than Suppan
- Seriously this has to be the worst pitching staff ever
- 1901
- made it to 2nd place
- lost most important players to the new American League after the season
- 7.1 WAR Elmer Flick
- 6.9 WAR Ed Delahanty
- killed in a Niagara Falls "incident" in 1903
- Also gone Harry Wolverton Ed McFarland Al Orth and Red Donahue
- Bill Duggleby
- Played 2 games with the A's before returning to the Phillies
- First player to ever hit a grand slam in their first major league at bat
- Holds the Phillies record for hit batsmen
- 1902
- 56-81, 46 games out of first
- could it get worse??
- 1903
- part of their stadium collapsed killing 12 and injuring 232
- that'll do, back off
- 1915
- finally playoffs!!
- "Old Pete"
- AKA Grover Cleveland Alexander
- yeah he was OK
- 1917
- Sayonara "Old Pete"
- Hello 33 straight losing seasons
- 1933
- Chuck Klein
- Triple Crown
- Then traded to the Cubs
- Chuck who??
- 1950
- 91-63
- World Series!!
- Swept by the Yankees
- 1951
- back to irrelevant
- yawn....
- 1973
- Mike Schmidt!!
- 1976
- playoffs
- 0-3
- 1977
- playoffs
- 1-3
- 1978
- playoffs
- 1-3
- 1979
- Signed Pete Rose
- 4th place, no playoffs
- *cough* rigged
- 1980
- well hello, that would be a World Series title
- 1982
- Steve Carlton first pitcher to win 4 Cy Young Awards
- 1983
- World series
- lost to Baltimore
- 1986
- Mike Schmidt wins 3rd MVP and NL record 7th home run title
- 1993
- World Series
- Lost to Toronto
- Mitch Williams
- 2007
- finally back to the playoffs
- swept by the Rockies
- 2008
- 2nd World Series title
- now tied with the equally historic Florida Marlins
- Hey I got an idea....
- 2011
- best pitching staff ever
- Halladay + Lee = World Series title
- we'll see about that
- 5th largest city in the US
- home of the cheesesteak
- and Cream cheese!!
- First subscription library in the US
- First institution devoted to science
- First dancing organization in America, the Philadelphia Dancing Assemblies
- First organized hunting club in America, the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club near Philadelphia
- First continuously serving unit in the United States military, the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry
- Home of the first and second Continental Congress
- Declaration of Independence was signed there
- Possibly home to the first American flag
- Still trying to check sources
- first presidential mansion
- America's first zoo
- 1790-1800
- Temporary capital of the US
- 1793
- Yellow Fever, catch it!!
- Lost the National capital
- and even the state capital
- Welcome to Harrisburg, home of
- wait, Harrisburg??
- they don't even have a chocolate factory
- Dolley Payne Todd loses a husband and newborn baby
- Meets future president James Madison
- delicious snack cakes are born
- Have that ginormous bell thing
- also the ginormous fictional boxer statue
- William Wrigley Jr
- Gum dude
- How many packs do you have to sell to buy the Cubs
- 12ish??
- Kevin Bacon
- 6 degrees of who cares
- Ethel Barrymore John Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore
- Responsible for Drew Barrymore
- Danny Bonaduce
- former child star
- former "celebrity" boxer
- former reality "star"
- former radio host
- "former" drug abuser
- Bill Cosby
- He wears sweaters
- Yeah avoid the Urban Dictionary definition of a Cosby sweater
- Kevin Eubanks
- used to be Jay Leno's band dude
- related: used to be famous
- Norman Fell
- Mr Roper
- Tina Fey
- She's on TV or something
- Larry Fine
- Stooge
- Kate Gosselin
- ew
- Seth Green
- he's done like a lot of stuff
- Sherman Hemsley
- Movin on up!!
- Bob Saget
- The Fresh Prince
- DJ Jazzy Jeff
- Remember him??
- Me neither
- Suzy Kolber
- Boyz II Men
- Cinderella
- I went with the safe for work pic, for the alternative you're on your own
- Joey Lawrence
- whoa
- Vai Sikahema
- average football player
- Jose Canseco destroyer
- Stephen A. Smith
- ESPN blowhard seen in previous video
- Toni Basil
Yikes
- not gonna lie, I watched the whole thing
- I need help
- Daryl Hall
- of Hall & Oates
- I believe he was Hall
- aka not the mustache guy
I'm really having childhood flashbacks doing this
- John Oates
- he was Oates
- Pink
- "rocker" chick
- Joan Jett
- actual rocker chick
- RJD2
- no idea, thought that said R2D2
- Todd Rundgren
- This may be more relevant on a Packers blog
- shameless plug
- Bil Keane
- Family Circus comic writer
- aren't comics supposed to be funny??
- Jack Klugman
- Oscar on The Odd Couple
- also Quincy M.E.
- Bob Saget
- Danny Tanner
- filthy comedian
- Wilt Chamberlain
- legendary scorer
- 31419 points
- you thought I was going somewhere else with that??
- Gloria Allred
- ew
- Adam Carolla maybe or maybe not
Ok that's it, I'm done this went way too long and was way too time consuming.
Whew, next stop Arizona. No way that goes this long
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