Michael Barkann

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  • Apr 7, 2020

    How Phillies would have matched up this week against the young Blue Jays

    A beautiful day to begin the week as the Phillies should have been greeting the Toronto Blue Jays at CBP. I don’t know about you, but Toronto will always have a special place in my Philadelphia sports heart because we share the memory of Hall of Fame pitcher, the late Roy Halladay. Halladay played most of his stellar 16-year career...

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  • Apr 2, 2020

    How we would have been breaking down Phillies' home opening series vs. Brewers

    After playing nearly the first week of the season on the road (just as they have four of the last five seasons), today the Phillies open up Citizens Bank Park for the 2020 season. What a beeee-U-T-FULL day it is! Perfect for what would have been opening day.  It’s a crusher, isn’t it? First off, the weather’s usually terrible...

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  • Mar 31, 2020

    How Phillies would have matched up this week against Mets

    Let’s say we’re beginning the first full week of the Major League Baseball season (hey — we can dream, can’t we?). That would mean your Fightin’ Phils would find themselves in Queens, NY visiting the Mets for the first of three games at Citi Field. The Mets, with 86 wins, finished five games ahead of the Phillies (81-81) in 2019....

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  • Mar 28, 2020

    What an opening weekend this would have been for Phillies

    “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.” — A. Bartlett Giamatti Of all the quotes about baseball…

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  • Mar 28, 2020

    Flyers' Game 6 win over Oilers at the Spectrum was The Best Game I Ever Saw Live

    Seventeen thousand, two hundred and twenty-two. In 1987, that was the capacity for a hockey game at the Spectrum (WFC today: 19,537). I would suggest that on May 28, 1987, that number was elevated like a Brian Propp slap shot — because the Flyers hosted the Edmonton Oilers in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. It would be the last…

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  • Mar 23, 2020

    Game 6 Final Version

    I’ll give you the World Series, The Super Bowl, Villanova winning it. As my friend and colleague Michael Gatti wrote Sunday in his great piece about the last game at the Vet, “It isn’t at all the greatest game in Philadelphia sports. It was just one of those moments that’s always stuck with me.”   17,222. In 1987, that was...

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  • Nov 2, 2017

    Player to watch at training camp: Ifeanyi Momah

    The last time the Eagles had a wide receiver 6-foot-7 or taller, he was 6-8, and his name was Harold Carmichael. He was a four-time pro bowler and part of the NFL’s All Decade Team of the 1970s. As far as I know, Harold never had 4.4 speed in the 40-yard dash. Oh he was fast alright — he was…

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