During last night’s Phillies/Padres game, Brian Giles attempted to catch a foul ball and practically re-created the famous Rodney McCray wall crash in front of a nationwide audience on ESPN. As Jayson Werth’s fly ball was carrying towards the right field wall, Giles gave chase and made a noble effort for the catch, but wound up barreling through the Welk Resorts advert in foul territory. Thankfully, Giles stayed in the game and proceeded to go 0-4.

Go ahead, laugh:

Weh-heh-helllll… looky, looky here! Seems like ESPN up and added some fancy new columns to its MLB standings today. Let’s have a look, shall we?

The first new column appears be each team’s percentage chance of winning their division. As of today, the Fightins’ are almost five-to-one favorites over the rest of the NL East next closest team to defend their title. Strangely enough, the Braves have a better chance, statistically speaking, than the Marlins.

Even better, according to whatever new-fangled calculatin’ gizmos them boys in Bristol have at their disposal, the Phils have a 70% chance of making the playoffs in 2008. I like those odds.

Of course, everything goes to shit if they don’t win the NL East: given their winning percentage against teams contending for the wild card, the Phillies’ chance of a postseason opportunity plummets to a slim 5.7%. Huh.

If that doesn’t light a fire under their asses, I don’t know what will.

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