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The long awaited collaboration between The Fightins’ Dash Treyhorn and myself.

Music Credit: The Blood Brothers – Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers

My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The Phillies fans have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of tweeting our opponent, Mike Meech of the Fightins, to congratulate him on defeating us in the second round of The Phield.

In a contest such as this, his site commands respect for its unique style and clear voice. The Fightins has long stood as the funniest and most esoteric Phillies blog and it’s of my considered opinion that it is the best fan-run baseball blogs on the internet.

Meech and his crew have cultivated a large and dedicated following that have made their voices heard loud and clear at the polls today. It’s with absolute sincerity that I count myself amongst the vast group of people that call themselves fans of The Fightins.

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It’s the match-up we’ve all been waiting for. The Fightins Vs. Long Drive in The Phield. So do your part and vote for your favorite. Just remember, a vote for The Fightins is a vote for baby killin’.

(Song Credit: Queens of the Stone Age – You Think I Ain’t Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire)

Vote for Long Drive in The Phield because it’s Roy’s Choice™.

We all here at LONG DRIVE really, really appreciate all of our readers both old and new. The Phield has been an awesome opportunity to help grow this blog and its readership and I want to thank The Committee for putting it together and all the Phillies fans reading this and all blogs for being out there. Y’all are the best.

So anyway, please take a second and retweet, email, IM, Facebook, Xanga, or whatever else the kids are doing these days the link to a friend or two and give us a hand. And hey, if you don’t want to vote for us? That’s cool, thanks for stopping by and checking us out anyway.

(Song Credit: Fugazi – The Argument)

VOTE OR DIE!

Check out the bracket, and follow @ThePhield on Twitter.

(Song Credit: Turbonegro – All My Friends Are Dead)

Fuck the Mets! OH YEAHHHHH!

Seth is a real American hero. Not only is he an EMT keeping my ass safe in York, PA but also one hardcore sum’bitch when it comes to our Phils. Cut the dude and I’m pretty sure he’ll bleed in red pinstripes.

Out drinking Saturday night in Hershey, some Mets fan had the audacity to enter the same bar as our hero. Being the righteous Philadelphia sports fan he is, Seth was honor bound to go bust some balls. Decked in his finest throwback tee, Seth cut down the lowly Met fan with the same precision he uses to suture stab wounds on crack dealers in York.

After laying the verbal smackdown on the orange-wearing interloper, Seth brags of his accomplishment on Twitter:

I saw a Mets fan at the bar. I promply walked to him and said “fuck you sir”. Mission accomplished!!!!

When I issued the challenge “Video or it didn’t happen,” Seth came through and delivered big with this gem. Keep in mind, he already told the dude to fuck off, this is him going back WITH A CAMERA for more. Video after the jump…

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I was lucky enough to score this interview with Meech from The Fightins. What he said shocked me.

Take a look:

Or: Not Another Beard Post

See what I did there?

Did you guys know that this Jason Worth character grew a beard this off-season? Also his hair is kind of long, too. As a matter of fact, he closely resembles Jeff Bridges from that one movie he was in!

We all know Werf hasn’t been very forthright with information about his choice of coiffure; preferring just to let his mane speak for itself (which it has, at length.) My good pal Dave Brown was ballsy enough to ask Jayson if he could touch it, just to prove that it was real. Spoiler alert: hell no.

But just how far has Beard Mania™ gone? Well, pretty gosh darn far. Far enough that the bigwigs at the venerable Topps Trading Card Company have taken notice and may consider preserving the legacy that is Jayson Werth’s Beard in a very, shall we say, personal manner. Check out how after the jump.

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We’ve almost made it though the horror that is the off-season. As Phillies fans, we’ve been blessed with a productive winter: We’ve swapped Cy Young winners, resigned some of our biggest names while some of our dear friends moved away. Our boys got got hitched, dropped some pounds, and we have some new faces wearing red pinstripes for the first time. One thing that’s for sure that if you’re anything like me is that the whole ordeal was absolute torture. I spent the entire time mashing F5 on my keyboard refreshing my browser on all of my favorite blogs trying to devour any scrap of news related to Our Heroes as fast as possible.

One of many, many, many books I've never read.

But, unlike you, I’ve been keeping track of all that’s being said. I’ve spent countless hours this offseason combing through every Phillies blog seeing who’s being talked about and what’s being said. My electric bill has been sky high as the rack of specialized servers in my apartment combed through the internet picking out data pertaining to the each individual player on the team. I’ve hired a team of interns from my alma mater Shippensburg University to compile this data into complex databases that software engineers put together for me at a cost that is absolutely staggering. (Chris, thanks in advance for approving this expense report. Also, I didn’t graduate from Ship so much as I was kicked out but I don’t know a fancy Latin term for that so… GO RED RAIDERS!)

The result of all of this work is that I can empirically prove which member of the Philadelphia Phillies won the offseason, and the result may surprise you.

Before I post the results let me tell you about the process I (actually) used to gather the data. Google has refined their search engine to a point where it allows for some really specific results. I searched each member of the team by their name (in quotes) and Phillies to cut down on irregularities like results for Ryan Howard from The Office and an author by the name of Carlos Ruiz Zafón. That result was then narrowed down to results created between November 4^th and February 4^nd. Finally, those results were limited to only blog posts. Google then displayed the total number of results rounded to the nearest ten (Unless there were less than a hundred, when the exact total was reported.)

However, simply saying who got the most mentions wasn’t enough for me. They had to be weighted somehow. I needed to put a value to each mention, because not each mention is equal. Of course Roy Halladay is going to be talked about almost constantly… isn’t that part of the reason he got so much money? So I took the number of mentions for each player this off-season and their 2010 salary (big ups to Cot’s Baseball Contracts) and made myself some statistics: Read the rest of this entry »