Eddie Michels is a regular contributor of Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network. Eddie began a radio career in Fulton NY where he covered the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team (Toronto Blue Jays - AAA). Eddie is a regular guest on the Rocket Sports & Entertainment Network. Eddie is an official scorekeeper and freelance MLB writer who covers the Toronto Blue Jays.

The 71st Time, Spring is in the Air

The Philadelphia Phillies opened their 71st spring training in Clearwater on Tuesday with a bit of giving back to the community.  Prior to the players taking the field a St. Vincent de Paul van pulled up on the side of Spectrum Field and waited.  A few minutes later a Phillies employee came out with unopened […]

Phils Hitting Coaches Springing Into Action

  Even though spring training doesn’t start for about a week Rob Ducey (LEFT), hitting coach for Class-A Clearwater and Phillies hitting coach Matt Stairs get an early look see at some of the talent in camp.  

Brighthouse Field? Spectrum Spectrum Field?

If you look closely it still says Bright House Field but check the two smaller signs.  They say Spectrum West for the entrance.  With just about three weeks till the Phillies open their spring training what park are they playing in? (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTOS)  

$10 Million Howard

For a gentlemen who is out of work at the present time Ryan Howard appears to be living pretty good in his $25-million dollar home on Bellaire Beach.  Howard, who played for 13-years with the Philadelphia Phillies hitting .258 with 382 homers along with a Rookie of the Year on 2005 and MVP in 2006 will […]

Softball at Vanech

Women’s slow pitch softball is filling the Vanech Complex in Dunedin, Friday through Sunday.  The tournament is broken up into 55 and over, 60 and over, 65 and over along with 70 and over.  The players from the northeast, upper mid west and the south are filling the complex for the weekend.  The Vanech Complex […]

Comier Aces Campers

Facing four different squads of fantasy campers at the Phillies Phantasy Camp at Bright House Field in Clearwater former Canadian major league pitcher Rheal Cormier threw 12 shutout innings.  This after catching seven innings on Saturday when his team didn’t have a catcher.  Afterwards Cormier said, “If my shoulder hadn’t gone out when I was 40 I […]

Comier does it All

  Former major league pitcher Rheal Cormier does it all during the Phillies Phantasy Camp in Clearwater on Saturday.  With none of his campers able to don the tools of ignorance Cormier slapped on the gear and caught a full seven inning game left handed.  Cormier, it’s learned, caught the final four innings of a game […]

USO sends Veterans to Phantasy Camp

  The United Service Organization (USO) in the Philadelphia area have sent two servicemen to the Phillies Phantasy Camp in Clearwater Sean Foley and Tony Conty.  The serviceman are veterans of Iraq and Afganistan and stationed at Ft. Indiantown Gap, Pa.        

Blue Birds Running the Dogs Out

The large dog park at the Louis A. Vanech Recreation Park in Dunedin is going to be one of the many victims of the expansion of the Toronto Blue Jays spring training complex.  This park along with a smaller adjacent dog park are going to be eliminated when the construction takes place sometime later this year […]

Spring is in the Air, Spring Training that is

  Phillies Phans lined up early on Thursday the 5th to buy the team’s single game spring training tickets at Bright House Field in Clearwater.  The line was a bit shorter than previous springs according to one knowledgeable employee who said more fans are buying their tickets on line.  Also the stadium might be getting a […]