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Happy feeling surrounding Phillies

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Friday, November 28, 2003

PHILADELPHIA -- It seems like something that should be happening someplace else, someplace where they haven't witnessed 17 losing seasons in the last 21 years. The headlines keep on coming, one after another, filled with way too much good news for a franchise that seemed to fall off the planet one day in the summer of 1984: PHILLIES SIGN JIM THOME. PHILLIES TRADE FOR BILLY WAGNER. PHILLIES SHOW OFF NEW BALLPARK. PHILLIES COULD TAKE CONTROL IN NL EAST. All around them, in Pittsburgh and C ...

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