ST. LOUIS — Rhys Hoskins can picture it. A packed Citizens Bank Park. Rally towels in the hands of 43,000 screaming Philadelphians. The scene will resemble what so many were privileged to say was the standard in the late 2000s- early 2010s.
Philadelphia was a baseball town back then. The place ran a 257-game consecutive sellout streak during a recession. The players of that era had a connection to the city that will go unmatched. We sometimes pretend it still is, but the reality is that the Phillies needed to be better to recapture the hearts of a football crazed sports city.