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There’s a part of me – a small, wrinkly part – that is waiting for Ruben Amaro to pop his head into my office (slash Ms. CB’s room to put shit that, god forbid, might clutter another room) and tell me that I’ve been punk’d, that the 2012 and 2013 seasons were a mere setup to screw with a popular blogger and that, somewhere, in an alternate universe where ponies dance and Howards homer, the Phillies are still playing baseball with guys deserving of more than the league minimum and a comped hotel room.

Twitter responses to the Phillies’ lineup reveal are after the jump.

http://storify.com/crossingbroad/phillies-lineup