Phillies’ firing of Joe Girardi is the latest chapter in same old story as embarrassing era drags on - The Athletic

What’s wrong with the Phillies? The same old story. The details and protagonists may be different. The result is not.

Earlier this week, I got a text from a friend in Philadelphia, my childhood home. He asked something that has become a rite of passage, murmured across the Delaware Valley in the weeks after the Eagl… [+7024 chars]

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