MLB Preview: Philadelphia Phillies

"World Champion Philadelphia Phillies."That's what the receptionist says when you call the team, and you can feel the actual genuine happiness as she does it, despite clearly having this as part of her office routine for the past six months. It's also something that still seems a little unreal. I mean, really -- the Phillies? They didn't have an ungodly payroll, a freakily productive farm system, a witch doctor GM, a tradition of championships... none of that, really. If it weren't for the century of combined failure from the four Philadelphia pro teams, it would have just seemed well, entirely random.But last year exists, and the Hangover Year potential is strong, of course. It's also not helping that the team that many came to love has been more or less scattered to the winds to date, with Chase Utley rehabbing his hip, Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard toiling for the national laundry in the WBC, Pat Burrell exorcised to Tampa Bay and the usual split-squ...