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Phillies Plan to Watch the Grass Grow

In what will surely go down as the most influential and prescient move of the Andy MacPhail era, the Phillies have opted to change the type of grass that covers the Citizens' Bank Park field.

Late November and early December constitute the driest period of the baseball calendar with regard to exciting news. We find ourselves getting excited about trivial waiver claims--Dan Otero, James Russell Terrier--and minor trades--Jeremy Hellickson--not on their own merit, but because there exist no other baseball-related items of any merit whatsoever.

It is with great joy then that, as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, Phillies President Andy MacPhail has made a literally groundbreaking and earth-altering decision: He has decided to change the species of grass that will comprise the verdant expanses of Citizens' Bank Park.