Mark Eckel on WIP had an interesting point last night: all four Philly pro teams have, in the last year, gotten rid of or suffered an injury to one of their best players and subsequently gotten better: The Phillies (Bobby Abreu), the Eagles (Donovan McNabb), the Sixers (Allen Iverson), and the Flyers (Peter Forsberg). Barbaro's stable probably improved after he shuffled off as well. Eckel doesn't seem to know, though, about the Ewing Theory, and since I didn't listen for long, I didn't catch if any of his callers mentioned it.
If it keeps going like this, Philly need only get rid of Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, McNabb (again), Brian Westbrook, Andre Miller, Andre Iguodala, Simon Gagne, and Scottie Upshall, and you might as well get ready for that parade.
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 8, 2007 04:34 PM