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Someone Sent Rob Thomson a Bamboo Plant to Turn the Phillies’ Hitting Around

Kyle Pagan

By Kyle Pagan

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Photo: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports

Someone looking for a job sent a bamboo plant to Rob Thomson’s office hoping to bring the bats to life:

OMG!

COULD IT BE???

IS THAT? THAT’S BAMBOO BRAD’S MUSIC!

Thomson didn’t say when he received it, but the present does seem to coincide with a four-game winning streak in which they’ve scored 30 runs and notched 54 hits, 16 doubles, and have an OPS of .969. The bamboo could be bringing good luck. We’ve seen it before.

Quick backstory if you don’t remember the origin of Bamboo Brad. Brad Miller bought a “lucky bamboo plant” in Chinatown and brought it into the Phillies clubhouse one night after the Phils were in the middle of a seven game losing streak:

That night the bats came alive and the Phils recorded the most hits in a game at that point of the season. They immediately went on a four-game winning streak with two walk-off wins against the Mets. Fans were bringing bamboo into the games. It was a great moment in an otherwise forgetful season. So if someone wants to gift Rob Thomson some bamboo to turn fortunes around I’m all for it.

If the Phils win the Taijuan Walker game to sweep the Astros I’m getting some bamboo.

Kyle Pagan

Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com

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