Phillie and Michigan band together for All Star Game 2009 Final Vote

Careful readers will realize that the author of this blog is a Phillies fan but also a Detroit Tigers fan. Today is the last day of the All Star Game 2009 Final Vote and I have been exhorting both Phillies fans and Detroit Tigers fans to vote online at MLB.com. I have asked the Detroit fans to add Phillie Shane Victorino on the National League side to their Tiger Brandon Inge American league Vote and asking Phillie fans to add Inge when they vote for Victorino.

Right now Inge is leading the American League vote by 9 percentage points, but Victorino trails Pablo Sandoval by 2 percentage points. I suppose my and others linking of Inge and Victorino has been noticed at MLB.com. From the article -

"The latest voting alliance has been formed by the Tigers and Phillies organizations, two of baseball's most storied franchises. They are encouraging businesses located throughout Michigan and Pennsylvania to allow their employees time today and Thursday to vote for Inge and Victorino."

I hope it works. Brandon really deserves to be an All-Star, he has been having a great year and picking up the slack for his Detroit teammates. I also hear he is a really nice guy. Shane Victorino deserves the honor as well, for last year and this.

Please go vote for Inge and Victorino, you have until 4pm today.

Inge



Victorino



Vote today!

Phillies lose 8 to 1, we stink!

Phillies Lost yesterday. Th only good news is that we are only 16 games away from being the first franchise to lose losing 10,000 games over its lifetime. Go Phils.

There was no love for Barry Bonds in the park yesterday as he was heckled every time he walked out to us in the outfield and every time he went to bet. No home runs from Bonds either he went 0 for 4 and apparently had no home runs in Philadelphia. 10 more home runs for his record but not here.





Apparently this liberty bell lights up when the Phillies hit a home run. I did not get to see that yesterday either.