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Better yet, you just don't see how your team can ever get any better...only worse. Well fret no more dear "supposed" losers. There is a new magic number in futility in sports- 10,000. That is how many loses the Philadelphia Phillies major league baseball club has amassed since it began in 1883. Can you even fathom that many loses by a professional organization? They do have 8,810 wins. That means they will have to go unbeaten over the next seven seasons just to get close to being a .500 team on their overall record. But they can claim winning the 1980 World Series when they beat the Kansas City Royals. But fear not Phillies fans. The Atlanta Braves should be joining you in that exclusive club in about three or four years. But for now Philadelphia is home to the biggest losers. Unless you count the Washington Generals. They are the "official" opponent of the Harlem Globtrotters. They have won only six games out of 13,000. The next British invasion Before the Adidias ads hit television and before NBC dedicated an entire hour of prime time TV to welcoming his wife to the United States, did anyone really know who David Beckham was? I mean really. Hardcore sports aficiondos know that he is the premier soccer player from England and that his wife is Victoria, formerly known as Posh Spice of the pop group The Spice Girls. I heard they may actually reunite sometime soon for you music fans. Beckham signed a 5-year contract that will pay him a paltry $32.5 million per season. The Los Angeles Galaxy hope that he can inspire Americans to start loving the sport enough to go to the games and he should be a huge crowd pleaser. He does have to learn that we call the game soccer on this side of the pond and that football is played on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and requires a helmet. His wife was allowed to throw out the first pitch at a Dodgers game recently and had no idea what she was doing beforehand and had no idea who Tommy Lasorda was when she met him. It is a prefect marriage for them and the Hollywood scene. Maybe he will be more successful than Pele' was when he came to this country in the early 1970's. Speaking of football... It is just a few weeks until the first official practices start as teams get ready for the upcoming season. It seems as though school just ended but we have two weeks until teams take to the gridiron. We had some very successful teams in 2006 and it looks like we could see similiar success. Plus we have a slew of football players that look like they can play at the next level who will be using their senior season to lock down scholarship offers. So far teams have been using the summer months to work on conditioning as well as passing camps. The members of the AISA get a week's head-start on the AHSAA schools as they start on July 26. In the coming weeks we will have photos and stories preparing fans for the first games.
Enjoy the last few days off. That's all folks.......
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