Philthy

As you know by now, here at Mets Kool-Aid we love nothing more than serving up an ice cold glass of the blue and orange good stuff. But over the past few years, baseball followers have been subject to a different kind of koolaid, one so vile it makes you want to throw up on your fellow fan. You guessed it, I’m talking about Phillies koolaid.

All we hear from the national baseball media is how great the Phillies are. They are the class of the National League, a well run organization with passionate fans, blah blah blah.

Yes, the Phillies do have a good baseball team, as much as I hate to admit it. But it’s about time that the national media love fest for all things Phillies come to an end. We have always known that the fans are horrible. After all, only one fanbase holds the record for vomiting on an 11 year old girl and getting tasered by stadium security within a one month span.

But now we also know that the organization is not as “first class” as the Baseball Tonight crew and others would have you think. Earlier this week they were caught stealing signs from the Rockies bullpen with that extremely high tech espionage device the rest us call binoculars. Class act Charlie Manuel defended the action by saying the Rockies only complained “Because we beat them… Keep crying”, and then accused the Mets of cheating too simply based on their good home record. Somebody has been spending a little too much time with Bill Belichick lately.

The Phillies have been accused by various teams of stealing signs from the bullpen for years. And what do they get for this? The cruel “punishment” of three extra home games against the Blue Jays. That’s right, Phillies fans will have three extra chances to pull off more memorable stunts.

We can only hope more tasers are involved.