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Pat Burrell came into pro baseball a Phillie and he’ll leave the game one, too.
Burrell, who was selected by the Phils with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1998 draft, will sign a one-day, minor league contract with the club and officially retire a Phillie during the team’s series with the Boston Red Sox in May, the team said in a statement Thursday.
Burrell, 35, will be honored pregame on Saturday, May 19, by throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Citizens Bank Park.
Burrell played for the Phillies for nine seasons. He ranks fourth in franchise history in home runs (251), eighth in RBI (827) and ninth in extra-base hits (518). His last season in Philadelphia was 2008, when he helped the Phillies to a World Series title. His last hit as a Phillie was a double that led to the winning run in the decisive Game 5.
He spent the last three seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays and San Francisco Giants
 You’re #1 Pat!
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Pat Burrell came into pro baseball a Phillie and he’ll leave the game one, too.
Burrell, who was selected by the Phils with the No. 1 overall pick in the 1998 draft, will sign a one-day, minor league contract with the club and officially retire a Phillie during the team’s series with the Boston Red Sox in May, the team said in a statement Thursday.
Burrell, 35, will be honored pregame on Saturday, May 19, by throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Citizens Bank Park.
Burrell played for the Phillies for nine seasons. He ranks fourth in franchise history in home runs (251), eighth in RBI (827) and ninth in extra-base hits (518). His last season in Philadelphia was 2008, when he helped the Phillies to a World Series title. His last hit as a Phillie was a double that led to the winning run in the decisive Game 5.
He spent the last three seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays and San Francisco Giants
You’re #1 Pat!
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1. Lowry Seasoning Salt Posted: April 12, 2012 at 02:35 PM (#4105062)2. Learn what a pull-quote is. Hint: Copy/pasting large swaths of an article, or the whole article, is lots more than should be quoted.
2. Its a pretty short article. How much should I have included?
Thanks for the helpful advice.
Yes, there are some knuckle-dragging neanderthal who call themselves Phillies fans, but they represent a tiny portion of the fan base and attract all the attention. I'm really getting sick of how it's okay for everyone to describe us all that way.
That would clearly be enough.
didn't phillie fans boo santa claus? i'm not being snarky, but i've heard this before and always wondered if it was true.
but your overall point is pretty valid. we've seen bad behavior everywhere, but philly has one of the worst reps.
Yeah, but different fanbases do stupid things better than others. When the Sox play the A's, do the Sox fans bring out signs that say "Where's your live-in maid Coco?" or "Got booze?"
And on the flip-side Sox fans arn't smart enough to throw batteries in anonymity. They take full-fedged swipes at right fielders from the first row in front of 10 million people. Or throw pizza slices at each other because they're too stupid to remember which team is batting.
but your overall point is pretty valid. we've seen bad behavior everywhere, but philly has one of the worst reps.
Which they have mostly earned. Nothing like winning to rehabilitate one's image though. When the Eagles and Phillies were bad they got a lot of knuckle-dragging neanderthals showing up at the game and they most certainly were not a tiny portion of the fan base at the stadium. Secondly Philadelphia media loves to just seriously hate a bunch of good ballplayers and either the fanbase feeds off that or the media feeds off the fanbase. Either way a bunch of times the locals both fans and media will treat the most visible players nationally horribly.
yes, with an explanation
So we say "It just seems like Phillies fans are worse, from what I see in the news." Not everything gets into the news. It's like saying "Sure, all politicians are probably corrupt hypocrites to some extent, but Rick Perry seems like the worst." Our perception of what sort of thing is a constant problem with society depends on the media outlets we consume and what those outlets find easy to write about. "How can the crime rate have decreased since the 80s? I don't buy it. I see stories about muggings and shootings every day." Yeah, it has decreased though, in an objective reality.
There as a Freakanomics podcast on this not long ago. Apparently Santa Claus couldn't make it so they literally pulled someone out of the stands and put a Santa suit on him. Even the guy admitted "I would have booed myself."
But on the flipside it doesn't take just one incident for a town to get a reputation. Therefore Philadelphia has had to work at getting that reputation for a long time.
As it says on the BTF submission page, "Quotes from linked material should be limited in length as much as possible. Post enough to get the point across; don't post the entire article." In this case, I think the article headline says all that's needed.
Its just standard html code. You can do a quick google and look up image tags if you ever want to do it.
I have to say, headlines like Police: Phillies Fan Assaults, Vomits on Cop and Family don't exactly help Philly's image. And this was from one Phillies fan to another.
I don't submit a lot of articles but with something this short it can be tricky to not include the whole thing. I also think articles should be submitted with some sort of excerpt, just the headline alone seems spamish even when it is not.
My first thought when I saw the headline.
Stupid, yes, but this is my all-time favorite sporting event crowd moment.
tripon, you've met me. you know i'm a fossil. talk to me like i'm a 4-yr old.
There as a Freakanomics podcast on this not long ago. Apparently Santa Claus couldn't make it so they literally pulled someone out of the stands and put a Santa suit on him. Even the guy admitted "I would have booed myself."
As jmac's linked article points out:
1. It was an Eagles game
2. It was 43 years ago
3. The inept Santa was a proxy for an inept Eagles management
As others have stated, the Philly fans have more incidents than any other city.
There was a wonderful moment in Phillies fandom history last night. Not ready offensively Freddy Galvis, who is skipping AAA even though his bat would be stressed at AAA, came to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs. The fans start chanting "Freddie, Freddie" to cheer him on. Galvis then got his 2nd hit of the year, a 2 run double capping a 5 run inning. (The Phils had scored 8 runs in the first 4 games). Galvis is the team's RBI leader with 4 now.
Get ready for David Wright's retirement announcement when he gets back from the "finger" surgeon.
I think the one that sealed it is when the city had to install a night court session at the Vet during Eagles games.
When you're arresting so many people at a sporting event that you can't transport them all to the regular court, you've got something special.
I don't think you guys are nearly as bad as Vancouver fans.
The people in the photo look like they're standing to me.
But I also don't give a ####. I'm not a Phillies fan because of them. I don't go to the game to be with them. The fans that I do interact with online aren't like that.
Chipper?
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