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OK, OK, OK already: It’s impossible to win latter-round NBA playoff games with Ben Simmons as the point guard. Hard to believe those knobs that stick to the back of cellphones are necessary.

In that acknowledgement of a bi-polar baseball season, here’s to Joe Girardi, who was criticized with cause for months, yet has managed to improve the Phillies’ overall defense, overcome an unreasonable blast of injuries and keep his team in an unlikely pennant race.

It may be decades before such a collection of adrenaline-teasers surfaces again. In the meantime, enjoy the 2021 Phillies and their rarest of abilities to both infuriate and entertain. Either way, the system will work, the final record will be the final record, and how it happened eventually will be lost in the swirl of history. For the rare ones, it will require more dramatic gravitational pulls. For most teams, that will be a gradual revelation. The sport is engineered to expose the truth after 162 games, and not 161, either.

They also will have been tattooed as a team that blew 26 saves and which too often played the final three innings of the game with defensive disinterest. They will have won the right to be remembered as late-inning heroes, ever able to win with eleventh-hour rallies and an endearing refusal to surrender. When the season is over, and that will happen soon enough, the Phillies will have earned two deserving yet conflicting reputations.

Those rolling advertising billboards that are dragged through city streets by gas-wasting trucks … I don’t get them. An All-Star, a member of some great Flyers sides and the strongest puncher in an extended era of great Flyers fighters (a legitimate hockey value in his time), Holmgren has had success as a player, assistant coach, head coach, scout, general manager and executive, all while demonstrating a deep, sincere appreciation of a proud organization and what it has meant to its community.

The list of ideal candidates is telephone-book thick, though the constellation too long clearly has been missing, in alphabetical order, Danny Briere, the Flyers Wives, Simon Gagne, Mike Keenan, Pelle Lindbergh, Lou Nolan, Mikael Renberg, Kimmo Timonen and Rick Tocchet.īut if the idea is to correct the most lingering situation first, then the choice for a likely one-man Class of 2021-22 must be Paul Holmgren. For the first time since 2016, the Flyers are about to add to their franchise Hall of Fame.