Chris Wheeler Guessing Game This Weekend vs Padres

You know that it must be important if this blog is updated more than once a month! And dang if this isn't the most important thing since trying to get Christopher Wheeler in the Hall of Fame! It's no secret that our muse has a thing for HUGE(like Safeco) ballparks. So another blog is running a contest with the premise being that Chris' fans must guess how many times he will mention the size of Petco Park during the next 3 games against the San Diego Padres.

Can we go with 1? 1st inning of the first game to last inning of the last game??? He won't sleep, he will just keep talking about it for 72 hours. It's why we love him. It's why he is the cornerstone of this franchise.

As The Trade Winds Blow...

...one can watch the Wheels in motion. Yes, our hero Chris Wheeler is at his absolute best when July hits and the Phillies throw themselves into the Wild Card hunt. He puts his nose to the ground and hits the phones to find the ballclub the best offers out there. Wheels was the one whom Ed Wade would go to for advice when up all night in his bunker in Clearwater, Florida. Wade was Wheeler's protege back when Wade started as the Player Personnel Administrator. He knew that to get to the top he had to ride the stallion that was, and indeed still is, Christopher Wheeler. Chris' vast knowledge of gamers, veterans, and screwballs helped to propel the team to several 80-some win seasons from 2002-2005, no small feat for a small-market team such as the Philadelphia Phillies.

And yet he still has so much to give. Word is he has even brought along Pat Gillick this season. Gillick, while accomplished, had yet to garner the all important respect he sorely wanted from Wheels. Deal after deal has been made to win this approval, but it proves elusive. One can only hope that Gillick is listening to the king of trade, the sultan of the deal, the prince of gamble, when he listens to offers throughout this month. To know Chris Wheeler is one thing; to earn his respect...well that's quite another.

God Bless Abraham Lincoln, Lance Armstrong, George Washington, Taylor Hicks, and Chris Wheeler.