Phillies fans got a glimpse of cold, hard reality this week.
Friends, we are fans of the worst team in baseball.
After all the hoopla surrounding the emergence of the new face of ownership in John Middletown; and the new boss of operations, Andy MacPhail; and the new interim manager for the rest of the season, Pete Mackanin; unfortunately they still have to play the games.
The Phils entered this series within spitting distance of the equally inept Milwaukee Brewers.
It has not gone well.
The Phils have dropped three straight to the Brewers. They now sit at an atrocious 27-53, 17 1/2 games in back of the NL East-leading Nationals, who toyed with the Phils last weekend.
In the meantime, the Brewers have put some daylight between themselves and the bottom rung in baseball, where the Phils currently reside.
After three straight wins at Citizens Bank Park, the Brew Crew are at 32-48.
Milwaukee bludgeoned troubled Phils' starter Aaron Harang last night. After a promising start to the season, Harang has gone off a cliff. It was his eighth straight loss, and clearly his worst outing of the season. Harang surrendered eight runs on 14 hits in five-plus innings.
The Phillies .338 winning percentage puts them at the bottom of the baseball heap.
And deservedly so.
There is really only one interesting thing left about this team. That would be who Cole Hamels will be dealt to, and for whom.
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