It will be 2009.

I really hate to see 2008 go, or at least the part of it that involved my Phillies going all the way for the second time in the organization’s 126 years history. But, I’m also looking forward to the year as the Phillies try for their second divisional threepeat in the team’s history as well as trying to become the first National League team since the Big Red Machine of Cincinnati did it back in 1975-76.

As for me, sorry about the lack of content but at the moment I just do not have the time to write. But, next week I should be able to continue my year-by-year look at the team’s long history with a look at 1886, year 4, as well as my new feature, which will be a look at the players, owners, managers who have contributions to the team’s history. Also, I hope to put up a new report on Charlie Ferguson, seeing if I am right about my ending comment in the short bio that I’d wrote about him actually getting into the Hall of Fame if not for his early death after four years of pitching for the Phillies. I have already finished putting together a projection to see how he would have done after being in the majors for 10 and 15 years if he was not converted into an everyday player, as Babe Ruth would be after he has started hitting monster home runs in the late teens of the 20th Century. I just need to make a comparison between him and other Hall of Fame pitchers from the same period of time and I should be set. Keeping my fingers crossed.

With all that, have a Happy New Year, folks, and may 2009 be a whole lot better for you than 2008 ended up being.