Nationally, the Phillies fanbase consistently ranks in the top five—and by some measures, top three—in terms of passion, knowledge, and intensity. They are regularly cited alongside Yankees fans, Red Sox fans, and Cardinals fans as the gold standard of baseball fanbases. The difference is that Phillies fans get docked points in the popular ranking systems for the edge, the confrontational reputation, the incidents. Strip that out and rank purely on how much this city cares about its team—how deeply baseball is embedded in the culture, how many generations of the...
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ADAM ECOM’s first BASEBLOG after the ‘26 ASG in Philadelphia, is penned as ‘’An Open Letter to Philadelphia’; and makes clear his view of Philly’s execution as host.
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