The Daily Caller

Here are Joe Sheehan’s baseball predictions for the 2011 season

It is going to take awhile to think about the Phillies as the overlords of baseball, the team that can outspend and outrecruit all of the others

Cody Ross joked it was easy for San Francisco Giants fans to chant ‘Cody! Cody!’ during his stellar postseason because his name was only two syllables

This morning, it is possible for the Phillies to look themselves in the mirror and see a team with a real chance – not just a puncher’s chance, but a real and viable chance – to get back to the World Series again

The Giants went up two games to one in the National League Championship Series on Tuesday because of a heaping helping of Matt Cain

Last night, in a 2-0 victory over the Reds that sent the Phillies to their third consecutive National League Championship Series, Hamels was as good as he has ever been. Probably even better

The Phillies are thrilled with their chances of putting an early stranglehold on a division lead that 2 months ago they trailed by seven games

They beat the Nationals, 5-2, winning a game started by Kendrick for the first time since Aug. 31. And so it goes. After all, this is September and these are the Phillies

The next time Cole Hamels steps onto a mound to start a game, he will be facing the Braves in the cozy confines of Citizens Bank Park, a division title on the line

It was impossible to predict what all of it would mean come October. But the implications for the here and now are perfectly clear

The season is a quarter spent. Many baseball people say it takes 50 games to get a feel for a team; that arbitrary milestone looms in a week