Update: It Was So Bad That I Think I’ve Circled All The Way Back Around to Being OK

This feels weird to admit but a part of me is relieved the Phillies’ playoff run is over. I love them more than anything but that was a miserable 3.5 hours tonight. I don’t think I enjoyed a single minute of it. And I didn’t have it in me to do that every night if the run continued.

Watching Philadelphia sports the last seven calendar days

I’ve been waitin all day for Thursday night Head inside the stove, snuff the pilot light

As it’s settling in I feel more and more terrible for Kerkering and more and more mad at the "stars" on offense. Orion made an all-time horrendous mistake. But the bats never should’ve put him in that position.

Normalize not letting the Eagles hurt you tonight. Our nerves have been through enough as is.

Trea, Kyle, and Bryce own every bad situation the team’s been in.

Honestly, as annoyed as I am at Kerk I'm more pissed at the offense who yet again failed to show up. Let's be real, even if he threw to first and got out of it it would've been a continuous cycle until someone blew it because no one was hitting.

Welp, that’s the season.

This game is making me feel like I’m having an out of body experience (bad)

Kyle Schwarber I am on my knees

Or we could go 3 up, 3 down in the inning. Technically that was an option too.

It’s time for Kyle Schwarber to send a baseball to the moon.

Respectfully I don’t know how some of you have the energy to be upset about whatever the Eagles are doing right now

Baseball where the balls and strikes are completely unchallengeable in any way is an untenable sport. It’s 2025, we have so much technology, we can’t be letting razor-close playoff games be impacted by a bad call.

Time to get their bullpen, boys.

I am ready to start having fun now please

I’m terrified of how much hope I am feeling right now

Maybe Wood is just Taylor’s version of an extreme test to make sure Travis can’t be scared off. Like when I sat my fiancé down to watch all four seasons of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, interspersed with extended monologues about how pop culture undervalues complex narratives about women’s romantic lives.

OK that is half-funny since we’re up 8-1, but can someone seriously sit Harper down and tell him to chill?

I forgot what it was like to breathe easy in a playoff game

They’re trying to end me.

Sure, give him an extra strike because he was "taking too long" to get to the plate. It’s not like this is a playoff elimination game with 2 outs and the bases loaded. No, fans want to see strict umpiring.

…was that bunt a giant bird flip to Phillies fans? Why would else would they do this

Phillies postseason baseball tonight mood board

The Bunt Decision is destined to be one of top 5 worst debates in Philly sports history and I'm already sick of hearing about it

She really gave us an album about "the life of a showgirl" that was in fact just a regular-ass album with worse lyrics, then told us on the final song "you don’t know the life of a showgirl, babe, and you’re never ever gonna." Not with that effort we won’t!!

idea: we collectively bully taylor swift by telling her she doesn't know how to make a concept album, thus igniting a fire in her to prove us all wrong and make TS13 the concept album of the century it's a first draft but there's something there, let's workshop this

Aaron Nola has an opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable No really whatever he does is going to be incredibly funny

oh no

I like Topper very much and I'm in so much pain saying this but I actually think he deserves to get fired over that bunt. Could cost them the series, the whole season, this era.

Oh please, announcers. The Dodger bullpen isn't suddenly "nasty." We can just make shit look like gold.

Blow it up trade everyone idc my heart is full of hate and despair

it's the hope that gets you.

Someone needs to grab Trea by the front of his jersey and shake him

I have been a Casty lover, I have been a Casty hoper, I have been a Casty defender…and now I’m just so over him.

Why is Bohm batting fourth? In what world? Do we have a death wish? Did Topper lose a bet?

Every pitch of that inning felt like I was being clubbed on the head.

Still Life with Dead Birds (and a Basket of Oysters), by Germain Ribot, 1860-80

Jonathan Gannon’s team melting down is a nice little pick-me-up after that weekend

My favorite artist laying a goose egg of an album to start the weekend did the vibes no favors

Is it weird if my brain is in "let the Birds lose one, they deserve it" territory?

Is this going to be a wish-I-smoked-cigarettes Philly sports weekend

Well I feel like absolute horseshit.

I didn’t like Robertson starting the inning when the decision was made and I don’t like it in retrospect. 2 on nobody outs was a shitty situation.

Giggling like a schoolgirl at that backwards K

Bryce bud you gotta stop pressing, let the game come to you

Oh yeah I feel like I’m gonna hurl

What do we think the first post-Wood family dinner with Mama Kelce is going to be like

I wonder if Kylie will have the balls to sit her down and tell her the album is Not Good You know she’s the only one in that family who’s up for that