Milwaukee Brewers + Zack Greinke = Awesome!!

RW81233

P.S. Go Brewers

The Juggler

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

I never said it wasn't a football town.

And numbers don't lie - the leading ratings for all sports media(CSN, sports radio, merchandise, etc) in this city since '08 has been the Phils.

And this has been a "football town" - in your concept of the term - since Buddy. When they consistently starting winning. And who started it? Vermeil and his Super Bowl appearance. No one gave a flying fuck about the Birds compared to the Phils prior to then. There's a reason 2 million people showed up to a Flyers parade.

the merchandise crap is all because the team has been winning. the majority of phils fans will go away after this era of phillies baseball has ended (which might not be a bad thing...going to games last year was painful at times).

the eagles will always sell out and run this town. no matter how bad that team is, people will always show their support. the same can't be said for the phillies.

Again, there were blackouts in 1998. Only 12 years ago, so that's not true. It comes down to winning. You think these Phillies fans just appeared out of no where? I can tell you of people who haven't been to a game in 20 years but can name you the shitty teams of the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s. The point is it comes down to winning. I just think I'm talking to the wrong guy about this stuff because you already have a predisposed image of a "phillies fan" of today as well as the city as a majority(read:south jersey) when it comes to eagles fan behavior, aka a football mentality.

you know what constitutes a blackout jp? selling 55,000 seats instead of 60,000. when there was 1, maybe 2, eagles blackouts the phillies were getting 20,000 to their games. eagles were getting way more to attend bullshit preseason games than the phils were getting in '98. just sayin...

that said, people here LOVE their eagles as well as their phillies. i don't see the big deal. tis a football and a baseball town to me. god love it.

Jearlpam0925

The Jeagler wrote:

you know what constitutes a blackout jp? selling 55,000 seats instead of 60,000. when there was 1, maybe 2, eagles blackouts the phillies were getting 20,000 to their games. eagles were getting way more to attend bullshit preseason games than the phils were getting in '98. just sayin...

that said, people here LOVE their eagles as well as their phillies. i don't see the big deal. tis a football and a baseball town to me. god love it.

I'm not into specifics, you're missing the entire point of what I'm saying. This is really not that hard.

The Juggler

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

you know what constitutes a blackout jp? selling 55,000 seats instead of 60,000. when there was 1, maybe 2, eagles blackouts the phillies were getting 20,000 to their games. eagles were getting way more to attend bullshit preseason games than the phils were getting in '98. just sayin...

that said, people here LOVE their eagles as well as their phillies. i don't see the big deal. tis a football and a baseball town to me. god love it.

I'm not into specifics, you're missing the entire point of what I'm saying. This is really not that hard.

no i think we actually agree with each other. i'm just pointing out that even during the eagles down years (which have been few in our lifetime), they still had a huge following.

Gary Carter

The Fixer wrote:

chicago and NY are both baseball first towns. no doubt

as someone who was born and raised and probably will die in ny, pathetic i know, i can honestly say that ny is a baseball town. do we love our hockey, yes we do, do we love our basketball, sure do, do we love our football, sure do, but baseball is our passion and we live and die for it. baseball is what creates heated family arguments here in ny. the back pages of the newspaper and sports radio made sucha big deal bout jeter saga you woulda thought the pope sinned. not comparing jeter to the pope but you get the point.








btw-i didn't go to my college classes the day after game 7 of the 06 nlcs cause i was so sad and didn't wanna get outta bed. that's how heartbroken i was.

The Juggler

metsfan wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

chicago and NY are both baseball first towns. no doubt

as someone who was born and raised and probably will die in ny, pathetic i know, i can honestly say that ny is a baseball town. do we love our hockey, yes we do, do we love our basketball, sure do, do we love our football, sure do, but baseball is our passion and we live and die for it. baseball is what creates heated family arguments here in ny. the back pages of the newspaper and sports radio made sucha big deal bout jeter saga you woulda thought the pope sinned. not comparing jeter to the pope but you get the point.








btw-i didn't go to my college classes the day after game 7 of the 06 nlcs cause i was so sad and didn't wanna get outta bed. that's how heartbroken i was.

i went awol for 2 days after the tampa loss

RW81233

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Here's my problem - you keep splitting the city up into Phillies fans, and Eagles fans. It doesn't work that way for me. There isn't such thing as two different kinds of people.

that's kind of my point. prior to '08, there were tons of people here that were eagles fans and didn't give 2 fucks about baseball. now everyone is a 'die hard phillies fan'.

doesn't look like we are gonna agree. You think philly is a great baseball city and I don't.

I guess we should give this thread back to the brewers fans

Ah, well. I just think you're bitter that people who you don't like are raining on your little part of South Philly that you thought would be just for you. And it kills you to see these douches in the stands.

I cannot disagree that we can both take over a thread. Hey, RW, NOW your point has been made.

wait for it...merry fucking christmas to everyone...it'll be my last as a non-parent. Got fucking shitfaced for old times sake, and it has been worth it.

En La Clandestinidad

patrickredeyes wrote:

HEY THIS ISN'T A PHILLY THREAD. LOL

Thanks for at least trying to get this thread back on track!!

RW81233

Finally we got everyone back, Hart hitting in the #2 spot, and all the pitchers through a rotation - this team is fun.