When I was growing up I really liked Boston. Larry Bird was still playing for the Celtics, the Patriots sucked and the Bruins were … well a hockey team. And then there was the Red Sox. First and foremost I am a Philadelphia sports fan, but in the days before Interleague play it felt ok to like an American League team, and I often told people the Red Sox were my second team. I even had a t-shirt of the “Killer B’s of Boston” which had caricatures of Wade Boggs, Tom Brunansky, Ellis Burks and Tony Pena (the Backstop). But then the Patriots won a Super Bowl in 2001, and the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and suddenly Boston fans turned from passionate bad-luck sports fans into … well, Yankee fans.

None of the Boston teams really have that a player that you hate (although you can’t really like anyone named Coco Crisp). Instead it’s more of the smug attitude that comes from the …

It’s gone largely unnoticed because the Phillies are leading the NL East by four games and beating teams 20-2, but there’s a big problem at the top of the lineup. Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino, the Phillies 1-2 punch that is supposed to set the table for this explosive offense, have gone a combined 22-105 (.210) in the month of June. It’s kind of tough for the big guys to drive in runs if no one’s on base.

The Phils are tied for the fifth best record in baseball at the moment and are starting to pull away from their rivals in the NL East. But in the next week the Phillies will take on the top two teams in the AL (Red Sox & Angels) and how they perform is going to be important in either solidifying their place as one of the top teams in baseball or showing them to be a fraud. If the team is going to compete Rollins and Victorino are going …

Selena Spice … Phillies Fan

Warning: Potentially NSFW

After today’s Phillies loss you probably need a bit of a pick me up. Uh, this should do the trick – video of Selena Spice wearing a Phillies t-shirt … briefly. I have no idea how old this is, but she is wearing a Jim Thome shirt. Clearly it should be an Utley shirt since that’s what I see all the hot chicks wearing.

After doing some, ahem, “research” it turns out this girl is a bit of an internet legend. She also seems to go by the name Andrea Rincon sometimes as well. Yes, shockingly enough, her real name isn’t Selena Spice. Anyway, according to Chickipedia (yes, Wikipedia for chicks), Spice/Rincon is 21 and from Columbia. Muy Bueno!

Now we just need to find out if she can get out of the first inning without giving up any runs, since Adam Eaton can’t.

As the Phillies take on the Cardinals in game two of their series, we’ll get a chance to see what might have been if the Phils had signed Kyle Lohse during the off season. Although Brett Myers and Adam Eaton have looked better in the last couple of starts, Lohse and his 7-2 record this season would have looked really nice in a Phillies uniform. But would he have been worth $21 million? Uhhh, probably not.

Lohse confirmed in Jim Salisbury’s column today that the Phillies offered him a 3-year $21 million contract shortly after the end of last season, but Phillies assistant GM Ruben Amaro says Lohse and his agent Scott Boras (who doesn’t he represent?) had no interest. But Amaro also says they continued discussion until January before finally pulling the offer off the table. And why did they pull the offer? Because they signed Pedro Feliz and Geoff Jenkins.

“Their expectations were different from ours,” said Amaro. “We ended up signing [Pedro] Feliz and [Geoff] …

Hey, it’s a buyers market right? That’s what I keep hearing as we tumble towards a depression, oops I mean recession, no wait - economic slowdown. So, while some big names are losing their homes (Lattrell Sprewell, Evander Holyfield, Ed McMahan), Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider is snatching up a New York City condo for $7,340,000. Yo Ed, this is awesome timing. I need a place to crash next week when I’m in NYC looking for jobs. Ed?

15 Central Park West, the building in which Snider reportedly bought the condo, is not just some run-of-the-mill co-op in New York. We’re talking some pretty big names here. OK, so maybe most aren’t big names to me, but when I see that he’ll be neighboring with people who are CEOs of companies like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup I know we’re talking serious cashola.

But the 75-year-old Snider won’t be the only sports related figure living in 15 CPW, New York magazine The …

Charlie Manuel sure is a prankster isn’t he? Before last night’s final game of the Phillies/Marlins series, Manuel posted the lineup card and put a “2″ next to Jason Werth’s name. Now, if like me you lacked any athletic skills and had to get on the baseball team in high school by being the scorekeeper you know that a “2″ is for catcher. And you probably also know that Jayson Werth is an outfielder. Oh Charlie Manuel, you so crazy!

So Chris Coste had the night off last night to visit his wife who had just given birth to their second daughter, which left the team with only Carlos Ruiz to play behind the plate. But it turns out Werth was drafted as a catcher out of high school (likely before he grew that vagina on his chin) and is the emergency catcher on the team. Werth, of course, played right field last night but he had fallen for the joke initially.

“I thought it was …