Pity The Poor Phillies Beat Writer

It’s not the best year to be a Phillies beat writer, no matter what you might think. First, the Phils are all the way into the World Series, forcing everyone to work even longer. And, once the World Series comes to Philadelphia for Game 3 (Oct. 25), they have to eat at the Citizens Bank Park press cafeteria! This is going to make Marcus Hayes even angrier.

If you click through to the press kitchen inspection page, you’ll see that one of the critical violations is “5-04.2 (A): Approved sneeze guards not provided.” For shame! What if Ken Mandel sneezes and Randy Miller and Scott Lauber are behind him in line? And Todd Zolecki and David Murphy see it and tell everyone? Oh, John Finger and Dennis Deitch sure would have a field day laughing at that.

Former Eagles owner Leonard Tose used to feed the press well, in the theory that they’d write nicer things if they were full. Another theory comes from Rob via IM: “Do you know what that means? Aramark is being super clean but the writers are all fucking slobs.” It is an inspection of the press kitchen, I believe, but his theory is at the minimum sound in principle.

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Thanks, John