Liberty Ball

Hello everyone, and welcome to my slice of the world wide web.  My name is Jason Carver, and despite not living in Phlladelphia for several years, I’ve remained a Phillies fan.  My most distinct Phillies moment was in 1980.  Tug McGraw struck out Willie Wilson and jumped up to celebrate the franchise’s first (and unfortunately only) World Series win.  I was nine at the time and I remember celebrating with my dad.

Just to give the story on how this blog started out.  I have an interest in the business of the sport.  One of my weekly reads is the Hardball Times and last year they started running a Business of Baseball Report.  I got talking to the author, Brian Borawski, who also writes on his own site, Tigerblog and when he told me he was putting together an informal network of sites with a historical slant, I became very interested in getting on board.  So he helped me design this site, and here I am.

So throughout the season, I’ll be keeping track of the 2006 Phillies, but I’ll also be going back and looking at some teams and players from the past.  Hopefully you’ll enjoy it.  And I’ll have the comments section open so feel free to pipe in (or correct me) whenever you want.

I also hope to meet some of the other Phillies bloggers.  I linked to a few that are still posting regularly and all of them are great reads.  If I missed you, it’s not because I don’t like you.  It’s because I just haven’t found your site yet.

The Phillies are off to a good start this spring.  They’ve beaten the Yankees twice.  I know spring games, especially early spring games, don’t mean very much, but winning is better then losing.