Posted 6:27 PM by Gene

Well, they're at it again here in PHILTHYDELPHIA: the mindless noise-making (I have to live near a RENDELI), the I've-just-won-the-lottery screaming over a bunch of mercenaries and a zillionaire owner who would move with the slightest notice if the price were right. And please don't BLATHER about CIVIC PRIDE; I see the fruits of CIVIC PRIDE every time I take the El to work through RUINED NEIGHBORHOODS. Certainly I am resigned to all-night celebrations when the LORD JE -- I mean when the team wins the BORE; but there is one way to put the celebration to a halt -- with four words:

HOW ABOUT THEM FLYERS!!!!!!!!!!

I can recall when the city went into near-riot mode when they won the first of their two Stanley Cups. With the NHL on the brink of extinction we should know no team and no league can be forever; that championships can be forgotten; but that the basics will endure: that our government will still be mismanaged, and people will still find it in their hearts to murder other people.

And if this article is to be believed it's a truly PYRRHIC victory. We'll soon have 4.4 million square feet of empty office space in downtown west of Broad -- but we DO have great restaurants -- and the IGGLES!!!!! Idiots.