8 Reasons to Believe in Ryan Howard, Chase Utley This Season

As of this writing, the Phillies are three games under .500 and nine games out of first place.  Roy Halladay is on the disabled list, Cliff Lee does not have a win yet.  

Bleak stuff.  

And here comes a slideshow on why you should hold out hope for Ryan Howard and Chase Utley not for 2013, but for THIS SEASON.  There is a risk to sounding like the purser on the Titanic in putting this together.  

That’s not lost on me, but indulge me anyway.

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