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Amaro Karenina: Rockies 5, Phillies 2

On the field the Phillies played a dull game forward unto an ineluctable loss. But in the clubhouse unfolded a totally real drama that only we at TGP could report.

Amaro Karenina: Chapter 1

All good teams are alike; each bad team is bad in its own way.

All was confusion in the Phillies clubhouse and on the field. Cole Hamels—loving nicknamed ‘Darya'—had found out that his long-tenured teammates were having an affair with the hired gun baby-sitting a spot in the rotation, and had announced before the season that he would be happy to leave for a competitive team.