MLB: Mets - Phillies Battle Royale

The Mets and Phillies play a three-game series at Shea starting tonight. I still have nightmares thinking about how the Phillies crushed the Mets dream of a National League East pennant last year. Last year the Mets could not take care of business with the Phillies. The Phillies were a cockroach the Mets could not kill. I'm not one of these Mets fans that hate the Phillies. The Phillies have been terrible for so long, I take pity on their fans. I have two friends, Duff and Tim, who are life long fans of the Phillies. Duff grew up with a Bake McBride poster over his bed and Tim owns an autographed jock strap from Larry Bowa. Tim likes to wear the jock strap into the office when he has to make an important presentation.