The Phillies were extremely loose in the clubhouse before today's game. In fact, I talked to Geoff Geary at length about his home and neighborhood in the San Diego suburbs.
The mood in the clubhouse just got much more loose, I'm sure, when Tom Glavine and the Mets fell into a quick, 4-0 hole with just one out in the first. When they posted the score here the crowd exploded with cheers, which was odd because they were handing out awards to some Phillies' employees in an on-field ceremony.
The poor dudes thought the cheers were for them.
Instead, everyone was fired up for the Mets' potential demise.
SNY's Matt Yallof is heading to Philadelphia for tomorrow's game... if it occurs. Matt is one of the finest dudes ever to work in the media business -- at least that I've been able to find. He's not like most TV guys (that's a high compliment) in that he thinks stories through like a writer. When he produces something for TV, he wants to tell a story, which is something that is lacking in a lot of TV reporting these days.
There are others like Matt, but not very many.