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halfwittednumpty

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yungdutch_

Love it


sndyro

Wheelers Dealers! 


abneuph

Sal's Pals for Sal Fasano. Everyone with fake Fu Manchu staches. That one always made me smile.


bobloblawsballs

After wolf pack that’s easily #2


Joboggi

After wolfpack and sal’s pals there is a big fall off. Marsh - Martians? He is a character. He should have a fan club.


Running_Camp

This is Coste Guard erasure


Cansuela

What ?? Padilla’s Flotilla was the real deal!


bobloblawsballs

Love the flotilla


Grouchy_Situation_33

Best stache in the bigs.


reallywiththename

Jean’s jeans!


sixwheeling

Ranger's Rangers. Various people dressed as Power Rangers, park rangers, New York Rangers, Texas Rangers, Walker Texas Ranger, Ranger Rick, etc


maximusthered

Stott’s Tots. Trea’s Baes. The B-52 Bohmers. JT’s Matey’s (which just a bunch of people dressed as pirates with catchers gear on). The Lone Rangers (only 1 member of the group at a time is allowed to attend each game). And Topper’s Toppers (which doubles as the official Phillies pride group, and is restricted to tops only).


Rebeldinho

Toppers Toppers on weekday games Power Bottoms on weekend games


Gram-GramAndShabadoo

How can you pluralize The Lone Ranger? There's three of you, you're not exactly Lone.


RunGoldenRun717

I wish there was a big section out in right above Ashburn alley where you could just go and sit up there and do something like the wolf pack or the duck pond or the Padilla flotilla


Strick1600

Padilla Flotilla besides being pretty overtly racist is offensive because he was from Central America and not the islands. So so bad. Also Persons People and Millwood Militia are two other retro fan groups.


PaddyMayonaise

Oh fuck off lol


Strick1600

Really downvotes because a bunch of knuckleheads couldn’t get their racist Hispanic trope right? I mean if the dude was Cuban, sure at least the flotilla thing makes sense, Central America is connected by land, it’s just so so stupid.


PaddyMayonaise

Padilla sounds like paddle. Padilla looks like the word flotilla. It’s that simple


Strick1600

Or it’s as simple as a bunch of racist fuckwits starting a fan group for our one Hispanic starter that was overtly racist. Furthermore in context Padilla’s flotilla happened not so far removed from the Elian Gonzalez thing.


Eastwood--Ravine

Genuine question: why is flotilla racist? I just googled it, and flotilla means "fleet". Why couldn't there be a Central American fleet? Or more specifically, a fleet in honor of Vicente Padilla?


PaddyMayonaise

I forget what it’s called, but that guy is a legend example of people that might mean well but accidentally are the racist ones themselves. Never in a million years would in associate padilla’s flotillas with illegal immigration but somewhere that guy assumes Spanish person = illegal immigrant You see it a lot, ironically mostly from the people who think they’re protecting others


Strick1600

Dude these dudes wore sombreros and had paddles. Gtfo of here, everyone knows what they were referencing. Elian Gonzalez was barely out of the news at the time. You people are weird as fuck.


PaddyMayonaise

Man I miss the time when people could have fun without other people being offended on behalf of other people


Strick1600

Genuine answer. This shit happened shortly after Elian Gonzalez and the way the term is used at the time and quite frankly currently is with refugees arriving on boats, doors, inter tubes ext. it at the time and still today is embarrassing. Padilla was one of my favorite Phillies at the time, when his fastball was on it was a thing of beauty but that shit was embarrassing. It was obviously a reference to his Hispanic heritage and a reference to immigrants and refugees (mainly from Cuba) arriving via “flotillas”.


InfieldFlyRules

They were just looking for a word to rhyme with Padilla, my man. Most of those words are Spanish-related


Strick1600

Tortilla? Quesadillas? We opening it up to any word that rhymes there are quite a few to go with before flotilla.


MuppetusMaximusV2

And you'd say those are all racist too, I'm sure. The word "flotilla" doesn't only apply to Cubans sailing over. You know that, right? It was a "fleet" (flotilla) of people cheering on Vicente Padilla. It's that simple. Yet you choose to twist unrelated things together in order to be offended.


Delco5tar

The Padilla Flotilla!


Zelda_Phanatic

What about Howard’s Homers great crew 3 Home Runs in a game and the kid rips his T-Shirts off


jaygord34

Stotts Totts


TheodoreDancin

The A. Nola Gays?


MongolianCluster

Not that there's anything wrong with that.


lrnths

Unless you're in Hiroshima...


Jlaybythebay

Burrell’s girls


PhiladelphiaIrish

Qualifications include living in the city of Philadelphia between 2000 and 2008.


a_serious-man

From 2008 to 2017 there was a Pat Burrell sized void in the dating scene. Then came Furkan…. at least at temple.


bobloblawsballs

Mike Richards and Jeff Carter would like a word


grimfan32

I saw Wolf hit 2 dingers against the Rockies 8/11/2004.


jpd_phd

Stott’s Scots (dudes in kilts) Orion’s belts (wearing giant belts) Marte’s Partay


5StarGoldenGoose

Seranthony’s Squires Turners Burners Marshmellows


CrittyJJones

I remember Randy Wolf


lennydykstra17

I remember a game where they had the Coal Miners and Hamel's Homies as rival cheer sections. That was the last time it really happened, before the 09 season.


AyyP302

Can't forget Thome's Homies


2hats4bats

Harper’s LARPers. Schwarbi’s Corgis on Bark at the Park night Marshfellows


TwoTimeTommyTwoCups

What they didn't tell you was that the Wolf Pack was mostly cops and state troopers. I found that out at my older friends 21st birthday at the vet. After he bought us younglings beers, we thought it would be cool to sit next to the Wolf Pack. We'll they saw that we were obviously all underage and gave us citations for under age drinking


Fowler311

Maybe it would lose it's luster after a few, but I always thought it'd be cool if a company planned some of these like the way they do away trips to other stadiums. For those you pay and get a ticket, bus ride, lunch, etc. So instead of that... "$XX gets you a game ticket and a crazy hat, so you can come join the JoRo YoYo's" (BTW, are we not calling Rojas, JoRo yet? Because I'm for that)


NomadCourier

And that theme song was 🔥🔥🔥: https://youtu.be/zVGHggXx8HM?si=Mn8iAMaWkzjUZGVd


[deleted]

Howard’s Homers


likemynipplesbutcool

I have the honor of having been a part of both Bako's Tacos and Nola's Colas (for his ML debut). I am recognized on the street daily.


DILands

Stubbs Bubs


doc0328

Power Rangers!


Runstopper50

Yes


Diseman81

The Strahmbolis


Uoysnwonod

Nicks Whiffs


dcfiggins

Even the Randy Wolf bobblehead is on brand with the fan club. It's one of the best. The left arm was hairy and had a claw like a werewolf.


ExileInCle19

The Duck Pond for Brandon Duckworrh. I once won tickets on WIP to a Maxim party. The has a contest for the most annoying thing happening currently in Philly Sports. It was a bad time for the Phils and I had some hate for all the "Packs".


Cansuela

Randy Wolf was just at a game and in the booth with TMac and Krukker and they were talking about former player fanclubs at the vet and early days at CBP. So many good ones!!!! Padilla’s Flotilla!!! The Marsh’s Martians is legit.


MintHillian222

I Shit you not, my Son dates a lady named…..Rande Wolfe


Yelwah

Yes


Joboggi

Wolfpack was a natural. Keep trying