That's a mighty fine troph - I lost my concentration and forgot what I was going to say

With little more than a month before Adam Eaton, Ronny Paulino and others report to spring training, the Phillies announced a whirlwind tour for that little piece of hardware they captured in October.

(We're sure it happened because we witnessed the crowning and have seen the replay many times on MLB Network and DVD.)

Scott Lauber has the schedule.

I think it's a real nice gesture for the fans, but before Christine starts dropping hints about needing something at the Moorestown Mall in three weeks, I will remind her that she said it was lame when the Red Sox took the 2004 trophy from town to town.

{Hey! The Phillies do a winter tour at malls and other places every year - this year they just have an extra-special guest coming along.}

Seriously, though, like the parade, I'm not sure I'd want to deal with the masses to see it.

In other news: I wonder if the Phillies will take the World Series trophy for a tour. What? I already wrote about that? Oh, I must be like nearly 8 percent of baseball players who got a drug exemption for having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

MLB's Rob Manfred explains the epidemic rate:

"We are all male. We are far younger than the general population, and we have far better access to medical care than the general population," Manfred said.

Doctors don't buy it:

"This is incredible. This is quite spectacular. There seems to be an epidemic of ADD in major league baseball," said Dr. Gary Wadler, chairman of the committee that determines the banned-substances list for the World Anti-Doping Agency.

He recommended an independent panel be established -- WADA recommends at least three doctors -- to review TUE requests in what he termed "a sport that grew up on greenies."

"I've been in private practice for a lot of years. I can count on one hand the number of individuals that have ADD," he said. "To say that [7.86 percent] of major league baseball players have attention deficit disorder is crying out of an explanation. It is to me as an internist so off the map of my own experience."

And J.C. Romero is the cheater in the eyes of Major League Baseball.

{Photo credit: Associated Press}