NL East

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For Philly fans out there who think the national media despises their teams, a word from the Twitter feed of one Jon Paul Morosi: (Listen to National Baseball writer Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports.com talk about the Phillies and Braves on the Sports Bash)...

Phillies (58-67) vs. Washington Nationals (77-47) The people who back Davey Johnson's Mike Rizzo's someone's decision to plunk Stephen Strasburg from the rotation cite the Nationals youth and depth and promise to be really good for a really long time...

AUDIO (CSN Philly): With the Phillies officially reeling -- Sunday's 4-3 loss to the Braves capped their fourth series sweep this season, their 10th in their last 11 and 25th since June 1, sent them into the All-Star break with their worst record (37-50) since 1997 (when they were 24-61) and with their deepest NL East hole (14 games) since 2002 (then 16 back) -- Charlie Manuel says he's out of

Ken Rosenthal likes to drum up hysteria in Philly. And yeah, this proved perfect timing So, with the Phils the sole holders of last place in the NL East and trailing division-leading Washington

Maybe it's deference. (After all, he did spend his last two years covering the Phillies.) Maybe it's deflection. (If it went down this way, I can't imagine Braves players would be all that receptive of his questions in each of their three blowout losses...

The national league east could be the toughest division in baseball this year. With the Braves, Marlins and Nationals all adding considerable talent this off season and the Mets getting off to a hot start, plus the five-time defending champion Phillies, the NL east could have three playoff teams this season...

Will the Phillies finally play more small ball? After losing two-thirds of the middle of their line-up with Chase Utley and Ryan Howard out for large portions of the season, the Phillies will need to manufactor runs now more then ever...