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Chef Chad Durbin serving up another meatball

The Phillies managed to urinate away two 4-0 leads this weekend, dropping two of three to the (impressive) Royals at Citizens Bank Park. The Phils would have been swept if Kevin Frandsen didn’t do his best Jimmy Rollins.

Let’s hit it!

 

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The roundup:

Wheels

Mind you, David Montgomery said nothing funny here

During the opener on Friday, David Montgomery joined T-Mac and Wheels in the booth. Wheels slobbered all over his longtime boss like the best brown noser your office has ever seen. He even went so far as to just repeat what Montgomery was saying… because that has to be right!

Montgomery: Kyle Kendrick’s just another guy to root for, isn’t he?

T-Mac and Wheels in unison: Yeah.

Montgomery: He really is.

Wheels: He really is.

Until you score. Until you score.

As if Wheels’ overzealous fluffing of his boss wasn’t enough, there was T-Mac, reading from the Phillies PR script. So David, what are you looking forward to most about the start of the new season?

Thanks, Tom. I’m guessing that, next time, you’ll leave out the fact the that the Phillies didn’t sell out on Saturday and Sunday?

Philly Mag put together an exhaustive list of calorie counts for food at Citizens Bank Park.

Oh hey speaking of Philly Mag… they had a very bad week last week. In the most recent issue – the one with the lengthy article about Chase Utley – Anthony Gargano wrote an engaging story about a former Marine sniper who struggles to deal with the fact that he killed thousands. Problem: the guy made most of it up. Both Philly Mag editor Tom McGrath and Gargano issued apologies (conveniently on Friday afternoon just before the Phillies home opener…) admitting that major red flags were ignored for the sake a good story. Both McGrath and Gargano also owned up to what amounts to recklessness. But this line, from McGrath, raises an eyebrow:

In a series of conversations on Wednesday and Thursday, Boudreau, who claims a residence in Chester County, acknowledged that much of what he had told Gargano over the preceding several months—information he had also confirmed to Philadelphia magazine’s fact-checker—was either embellished or flat-out fabricated. While he continues to say he served in the Marines—a fact we are attempting to officially confirm with the Marine Corps—he acknowledged that he was never a sniper and that many of the incidents he described to Gargano never happened.

How, in the world, do you let a story about a Marine get published without ever checking to see if THE GUY WAS EVER A MARINE? And the fact-checking process used the subject of the story as its main source? You can at least understand the writer and editor getting duped by a subject – it’s neither the first nor last time that will happen – but before printing a lengthy feature on a Marine, no one at Philly Mag ever thought to, you know, call the Marines? Eeps.

The Comcast-NBC-ized version of Daily News Live, Philly Sports Talk, will debut on CSN today, and they want you to know about it:

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Great article by Matt Mullin of Philly.com on the NCAA being exposed:

Monday: Did you see that kid’s bone sticking out of his leg?

Tuesday: Did someone say Rutgers?

Wednesday: Auburn had to cheat their asses off to steal a title from Alabama, huh?

Thursday: Sure, Mark Emmert comes off as extremely likeable, in the same way Napoleon did.

Friday: Did you hear that the head of Pac-12 officiating resigned?RUTGERS!

In a series of Tweets eulogizing the 2012-2013 Sixers, Adam Aron admitted that the last few weeks of basketball – for which the Sixers are happy to take your money – was just filler:

Sixers lose Bucks win. No playoffs. What we all have known for a while is reality. 100% focus on next season. Much work to do in the summer. It was not the season we wanted or expected. But now is the time to look ahead. We will work tirelessly to build a winner for Philadelphia. Thank you for fan support all year. Many showed love; many roasted us. But even criticism prompted by the passion we all share — TO WIN.

But don’t worry, Sixers fans, if you have tickets to the April 14 game against the Cavs, the last home game, there’s still a big deal before the game:

There might be an outdoor hockey game at Dodger Stadium.

Only in Florida: woman accuses boss of ejaculating on here leg, firing her. In that order.

John Cena beat The Rock to win Wrestlemania, got booed.

Finally, Melissa McCarthy is hilarious, and she played an even more evil version of Mike Rice on SNL. Video after the jump.