Deadspin wrote this post on Phillips. Here is what he said in a chat a few weeks ago:

“Vinny (New York): With a gun to your head, still Seatle over the Yanks for the Wild Card? Yankees are looking pretty impressive, just taking care of most people’s “best team in baseball.”

Steve Phillips: The Yanks looked good beating an undermanned Tigers team, I agree with you. But I think the Mariners will hold on and win the Wild Card. Their starting pitching is just good enough and their bullpen in unreal. They have one of the best defenses in babseball, and they are starting to produce on offense. I think it is too little too late for the Yankees to make the playoffs.”

The Mariners are now 7 games back in the wild card and BP has them with a 0.1% of making the playoffs. Keep up the abysmal work, Steve.