Comlastic

HAVE YOU noticed that the two teams owned by the city's signature commercial enterprise -- an organization rolling in money, an organization I pay an obscene amount to monthly for the privilege of watching television and e-mailing my friends, an organization that's a true market leader in its industry -- suck? The 76ers have just traded one of the league's very best players, and if history is any guide, it will take them years to recover. Meantime, they have lost nearly a dozen straight games. The Flyers are busy discovering that their own very best player's legacy of injuries didn't stop the moment he stepped off the plane at Philadelphia International. In the course of a few short seasons, they have plummeted from the conference championship series to being truly, heinously awful. Both teams, of course, are part of the Comcast empire, which must regard them as nothing more than cost centers at this point. I spent a couple of years publicly hoping that the Robertses would pick up the Phillies and infuse them with cash. But as has been proven elsewhere and has become abundantly clear here, there's an enormous difference between spending a lot and spending wisely.

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[Bill]

You are so right and I was so wrong about Comcast too. When they took over the two teams in the late 90s, both teams kind of went through a boom time but now both are horrible. I read yesterday that neither team has won in December!