Jinx

This is a screen capture from a Phillies Season Ticket television ad last fall. See the guy on the left? He's a total jinx. And he's me.

Yesterday I launched this blog, and not coincidently my favorite player in baseball lost his 35-game hitting streak on the same day. I am a jinx, as I noted in my inaugural post, but I will press on, because the main theme of this blog is the Phils' unprecedented run to a futile playoff birth.