An inadvertent Phillies mailbag

Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC ImagesIt’s not the easiest time to be a Phillies blogger. As the lockout drags on, we’re slowly running out of things to talk about. This time last year, I was writing player previews for the Phillies bullpen. Today, all I can think about is that clip from The Simpsons Movie where Homer has a cymbal-banging monkey in his brain.

Actually, scratch that. I wish I was thinking about something as whimsical as that monkey. Instead, my brain looks more like this:

So, with my fingers itching to write something about the Phillies but my brain as empty as an MLB stadium on March 31, I reached out to the Twitter-verse for help.

This is the time of year we’d usually be…