s the 2008 Phillies season progressed, closer Brad Lidge was perfect in his save opportunities. Which, if you know something about the team’s fans, worried them to no end. “Something has to go wrong,” we (and I include myself among them) thought, “and he’ll probably blow a save at a crucial time.”
“This is Philadelphia. This was the Phillies. From save number one on, it was a given he’d blow the next one – especially at the end of the season and, of course, in Game 5 of the ‘08 Series. Why would we have expected anything else? Of course, because this is Philadelphia and they are the Phillies,” said my friend and devoted Philadelphia baseball fan Chuck Darrow, who has seen more than his share of disappointments, bad baseball and bad luck.
