Phillies fans brought their rally towels Monday night

 

(Phillies fans wave their rally towels at Nationals Park. Photo of TV/MASN by Nationals Enquirer staff.)

As promised, Phillies fans have turned Nationals Park into Citizens Bank Park South Monday night.

On TV, if you simply take away MASN's Bob Carpenter and Ray Knight, the game has the look and feel of an away game for the Nats. It's all "Let's Go Phillies!" chants and rally towels, big cheers for the home away team as the innings tick down towards an inevitable clinch of the NL East.

This Tweet from the Washington Post's Adam Kilgore  sort of sums it all up quite nicely:

 
 

Wait, is that bald guy in the Phillies shirt with a big shit-eating grin on his face Stan Kasten?

 
(Photo of TV/MASN by Nationals Enquirer staff.)

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Comments

[Anonymous]

Depressing. But that is what a real major league baseball team looks like. I hope the Lerners were watching tonight.

[Zeus]

The Lerners were watching... watching the cash register drawers fill up. All else is immaterial.

[Lou]

The Phillies have been building a franchise since 1883. Phillies fans have been Phillies fans since the day they were born. You need longevity and a winning team to build that kind of fan base.

[theblitz]

I'm a die-hard Nats fan now, but I was born and bred in Philadelphia and lived and died with the team in the 70s and 80s. While there is this generational thing about growing up as a Phillies fan, learning it from your father, passing it along to yur kids, and carrying it as a badge through good times and bad, let's not forget there has been LOTS of bad times for the Phillies. This is a franchise with a history of futility, except for the past few years. It was only 2007 when the team lost its 10,000th game and was reviled as "the losingest team in pro sports." http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/19778628/. Have faith and look forward to the day when the tables are turned.