Last Thursday, the Phillies sell out streak reached 71 straight regular-season games. The last sub-capacity crowd at Citizens Bank Park was July 6 - a Monday night game with no giveaway that turned into a 22-1 drubbing of the Cincinnati Reds.
The Eagles streak stands at 80 - 10 straight full seasons.
The last Eagles blackout on local TV was Jan. 2, 2000 - the final game of coach Andy Reid's first season. Not even the return of former Eagles coach Dick Vermeil with the championship-bound St. Louis Rams could fill Veterans Stadium.
The Phils seem poised to make a run. They're bound to hit at least 74, since the next series - Friday through Sunday against the Twins - has no untaken seats (just the 500 standing-room tickets that go on sale before each game).
Then come three-game sets against the Indians and the Braves. (No fair counting the Blue Jays series in-between. Moved from Toronto for summit-security reasons, it wasn't announced until last month and the Jays are officially the home team.)
If the Phillies sell out Cleveland and Atlanta and get to 80, they'll get an automatic surge. The next six games are already filled - four against the Reds starting July 8, and two against the Rockies starting July 23.
That would bring the streak to 86, easily surpassing the Eagles.
Unless you count Tuesday's sale of Eagles tickets. Include them, and the Eagles have 88 straight sellouts.
Counting playoff games only tweaks the picture, since the Eagles have nine straight postseasons sellouts since 2000, whereas the Phillies had eight last fall.
So, however you add up the games, the Phillies could own the current sellout-streak crown by early August - and 100 in a row, counting playoffs, is a possibility that month.
Sounds impressive, but not to Flyers fans.
The hockey club sold out every game at the Spectrum from Feb. 15, 1973, to Oct 11, 1981.
