"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard...is what makes it great." The quotation is from A League of Their Own.
Well, the Phillies have definitely made it hard---if not impossible. Today's 8-5 come-from-behind loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates put them about six games behind the Atlanta Braves. Joe Blanton blew a 5-2 lead in the seventh, and the bullpen let it blow up after that. The season is not over but really there is just too much for this team to overcome. No matter how well the call-up 'Piggies are playing, each day's starting line-up looks like a Triple-A roster. Blanton, who appeared to have worked out what was ailing him, fell right back into it in the late innings, as he has been prone to do.
At the start of the season when I saw this series on the schedule, I knew it had disaster all over it. Still, in May I thought hard about going out to Pittsburgh for one game this week, but gave it up.
Gane time temperature tomorrow in Philadelphia promises to be 98F. I'd skip it but the numbers of games left to me are finite and dwindling fast.
