PHOTO OPS: “Sporting his Orange Crush Flyers t-shirt and Air Jordan sneakers, Mayor Nutter proclaimed all citizens to wear orange on Flyers home game days and all residents to ‘Run with the Sixers’ by wearing sneakers all day when the Sixers play at home.” We didn’t understand what the scary bunny from Donnie Darko had to do with this until we started figuring it was Dude’s sly comment on anything having to do with the Schuylkill Expressway.
PHILS: Utley and Burrell are leading the league in all kinds of things but strangely, no mention in any of this MLB documentation about “white girls.” [700Level]
FLYERS: How do you say “ROBBED” in Dirty French Canadian? [DN]
SMELLY OLD JOCKS: Doug Glanville waxes about The Way We Were:

There was a time in Philadelphia when, as a young player, I had replaced the veteran Lenny Dykstra as the new center fielder in town, much to the dismay of the Philly faithful. But I felt I had plenty to offer. Maybe I wasn’t as wise as Lenny in terms of game experience, but I thought I made up for it with enthusiasm, newness and energy.

Yes, but could you beat the shit out of a Met while chewing on a giant ball of aluminum foil? Sayin’. [NYT]
SIXERS: Larry Brown has had enough of your bullshit, Philadelphia. [AP]

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