Phillies’ Secret Rubber Duck Strategy

The Allentown Morning-Call explains:

”Basically we were playing Milwaukee,” Manuel said Tuesday at Tropicana Field. ”The game wasn’t going too good and I walked out to the mound.

”After the game, Chase Utley came up to me, and said ‘Get that rubber duck out of your [butt]‘ and he meant he thought I was tight. And I thought to myself, OK, that’s good. So when we clinched over the Dodgers, I wanted our players to be loose coming into the World Series. So, I bought them rubber ducks and every time they look up in their locker and see that duck, it means for them to go play like they always have.”

Oh, and, yes, every newspaper in America treats us like we’re four years old and changed “ass” to “butt.” Only reporters like me have the journalistic integrity to print unedited Charlie Manuel quotes such as, “This motherfuckin’ buckeye! Good luck, my fuckin’ ass!” That’s the kind of quality no-holds-barred reporting you can get from a man like myself.

The rubber ducks are a fun story, but as such will probably get really tired, really fast. Possibly even by tonight, but by Game 2 at least. Jeannie Zelasko is going to say quack so many times the Mighty Ducks jokes I’ll be making at the bar won’t even be funny anymore. Or still, I guess. Yeah, still.

‘Til then, here’s more from The 700 Level. Video’s from The Fightins.