re the phillies deja vu in article apr cabell vcu edu csc imd cabell vcu edu ian m derby writes after reading my local paper today i found out that the phillies started the season at i am not as old as but i ve heard many talk about the serious choke job the phillies did that season they were ahead of the cardinals by games that season in mid august they managed to lose a bunch from then on and the cardinals took the division games ahead and lost it i hope this season is much different strictly from memory i think the phillies were something like ten games up with to go lost in a row and of last to lose to the cardinals seems impossible but thats how i remember it i also felt at the time that johnny callison of the phillies lost the mvp as a by product of their swoon jerry p s in a single team out of won the pennant no divisions
