The first game of Pete Mackanin's managerial life in Philadelphia ran into the train that is Max Scherzer.
Every once in a while, you just have to tap your hand against your head and tell yourself to snap out of it.
"It's just sports," they say. "It's just a game," they say. Yet on days like these, it's just hard to put any sort of comprehensible wording together that can really express how one can feel about your favorite sports franchise.
Ryne Sandberg is no longer the Phillies' manager. Pete Mackanin is. Sure, Larry Bowa is still here, but thank the great Lord he's not in charge.