And A Turned Ankle

Chase Hamels, the Phillies' fragile superstar, turned his ankel in last night's game. "A mild sprain" said today's paper. But you can't imagine the chill that ran down the spine of Phillydom when he went down. Brad Lidge, our other pitching hero from a year ago, is already sidelined with a bum knee. Here in Philly we expect the worst to happen. And when it doesn't we celebrate enthusiastically. However, the worst usually does happen to us and we have history on our side to believe it will again.

• We were the first capital of the United States. Lost that one.
• We were the country's financial capital. O for two.
• Then we were its Second City. - Heard of Chicago?
• Ben Franklin was ours, right. Nope - Boston's.
• With our ancient history, we must have produced many Presidents, right? - O for five
• Well our baseball team is 129 years old. Must have won a lot, huh? - Two World Series Championships.
• Must hold a lot of records, though. - Yeah 10,000 losses.

See what I mean?