176 One-Line Game Summaries for the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies

As we continue to celebrate the Phillies' World Series win into mid-November, there is still no shortage of good material. One of my favorite items we've received is a link to a series of scanned notebook pages containing one-line summaries of each game the Phillies played this year. This was sent to us by a gentleman named Phil Lee, which is quite the coincidence if it's not just a pen name. Here's a sample from the notebook, which can bee viewed and downloaded in its entirerty here.

The story behind the notebook, after the jump.

This year, thanks to mlb.com, I watched about 155 phillies games. Also, this year, fortuitously, I kept a log of all the Phillies games in a notebook I carry around.

Each day I tried to sum up the previous day's game in one line. When I started I didn't think I would actually keep up with it, I was wrong. The Phils kept winning and I kept writing it down.

It's been really great reviewing it now, what with being world champions and all, but there are lot of good ones in there...APRIL 15-BAT BURRELL FOR PRESIDENT, GAME TYING HR B9, W4-3 or JULY 23-REYES & WAGNER, DOUCHES, L3-6

I scanned it and threw it up on a blogspot page, http://phillieslogbook.blogspot.com.

Oh and it's color coded, red=win, blue=loss. Man there is a lot of red!

Anyway, I thought you might enjoy.

Hell yeah I enjoyed it. What a great souvenir to have from the best season of our lives.

Comments

[Nick B.]

This is incredible, love it.

[Andy]

Ahh yes, what a birthday I had this year...May 6: "Eaton no good, 14-6." If that's what it takes for titles, consider me signed up for a lifetime of shitty birthdays.

[Andy]

Or perhaps that which I thought was a 1 is an L? Now that I look closer it's probably an L. Either way, what I remember is that Eaton was pitching my birthday and I made sure not to let myself remember too much of it.

[Kale]

Everything in red is a win, everything in blue is a loss

[The Phunyun]

These will no doubt show up in the impending insanity trial of Phil Lee.

[MPR529]

i used to do this type of shit as a kid. of course, there was a lot of BLUE when Lee Elia and Nick Leyva were coaching...

[my buddy Hoppe]

News Flash: Sports Induced OCD Leads to Regional Fame Via Internet

[gootman]

I am Jack's Phanaticism.

[Jim Phelan]

Believe it or not I did the same thing in paragraph form...I gave it to my daughter as if it was a time capsule or family heirloom...I'm not so sure it wasnt...go Phightins'

[Billy]

Very cool

[Scott B]

coolest (or lamest) thing i did was cut and paste a ton of photos from various websites around the web after the phils won the championship and put them into one album for future viewing when i was feeling down.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2246820&l=91f4a&id=25805530

[jms]

I like my birthday: MATT STAIRS LEGEND!

and my personal favorite: Rollins to Utley to Howard to October.

[Clare]

What an unbelievable memento. What a treasure.

[theKrisheim]

that is fucking awesome

[Jennifer]

That is really great. "It happened. I can prove it." Thank goodness. Part of me still thinks this is all a dream. A wonderful, wonderful dream.

[Daniella]

Two wins on my birthday (after you count that long ass Game 3 rain delay)
I always wanted a world series championship on my birthday...maybe next year ill get tickets to go with it

[drew]

this is crazy cool...