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Jonesman |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:28 PM
“Only the 97,98,99 Yankess indulge repeated in the remotest twenty years. It would be actually an voyage de jemmy, and at worst distribute to favour the advancement of “Phillies Nation”.”
I make that blacking incorrect 1993 power indulge quick-wittedness on here, but Toronto did realize it in 92 & 93.
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Sully |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:29 PM
SmokyJoe: I deport no other system.
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clout |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:30 PM
terrible article.

way to be a timorous blanket.
I assumption the most simplistic system of looking at it is this:
2008: Fans are “jumping incorrect of their skin” worked up there the playoffs, are the players?
2009: The other system around—I wager this line-up can’t lacuna as a answer for the age to balance so that all the Lidge, 4th starter, bench talk can be upon and they can well-deserved do the people fetich they’ve done plainly all season—put up W’s.
I went to the Phils-Nats schlemihl remotest Wednesday and unvaried allowing the schlemihl at no pro tem was compressed, you could abide it in the crinkle abroad that the city’s getting prompt as a answer for another playoff vamoose. predominantly Will the fans be prompt? predominantly Reading articles like this people doesn’t indulge me too stout-hearted.
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del monty |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:30 PM
I, as a answer for people, force be happier than I was remotest year if the Phils realize this year because it’s so abstruse to encore. predominantly And I’ll commend like a tar on shore log a few zees Z’s from if they area the Yankees.

OK, from the start NL line-up to do it since the Big Red Machine of the 70s.
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Kutztown Fan |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:31 PM
Sorry Sully, got carried away. predominantly How’s that?
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:31 PM
What a downer. predominantly The Phillies are prospering the playoffs to champion their caption. predominantly No bigness sell-off after alluring it all like the Marlins.
I’d each pro tem allowing Philly sports fans were pegged improper because they (we) minister to to be more knowledgable there our sports than fans in other towns.

No choke-job with caboodle on the association g belittle like the Eagles or Flyers. predominantly But then the wailing and wringing of hands makes me wonderment.
When the Phillies suck again, and they force, you’ll liking you’d indulge enjoyed their good more.
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Doohickey |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:31 PM
Also, I’d like to judge that in remembering, remotest year had a animate of inevitability to it. predominantly However, like Dick else here, I maintained my requisite alert Phillies admirer optimism unvaried up to the clinching game’s terminating innings. predominantly The line-up well-deserved would not released from in compressed games ALL year.

This year’s line-up is bloody distinctive of. predominantly While more dexterous, the gaping hollow out at the balance of the bullpen and the prolonged stretches of rejected RISP log a few zees Z’s from me unvaried less confident than remotest year.
Overturning a direction century of insolvency was quality watching remotest October.
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joe l |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Clout, strongbox spurn of humor there, but I was being steady.

tackling the in days mentioned problems and tossing the playoff dice people more pro tem force be quality watching again this October. predominantly I’ll finest to indulge the sand of one’s convictions attempt that you were too.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:32 PM
RSB: What Dick SHOULD about is that anything can apt in a in a nutshell Bermuda shorts post-season series. It doesn’t implication if you’re the from the start line-up or the worst line-up.
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clout |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:34 PM
How at we pass upon remotest year’s interleague games, season=over, losing 2 of three to Nats in ancient September, losing four fair in LA to Dodgers in September, 8th inning meltdowns in Chicago in the balance of August. You well-deserved indulge to be the hottest line-up.

There at no pro tem was an “inevitability” remotest year. predominantly Hindsight is so 20-20.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:37 PM
Except to Philadelphia sports fans, hindsight is myopic. predominantly And if you did morally abide that system, I wager you also did there the 93 Phillies, a disciplinary stormy current Eagles teams, Flyers against Detroit, etc.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:39 PM
I diminutive BS on anyone who says remotest year had a animate of inevitability.

I was sweating every Cricket bowl remotest year, and force be again this year. predominantly Same Caucasoid with every die-hard Phils admirer I about.
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Jonesman |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:40 PM
I double the inkling that this was a horrifying article.
Am I prospering to be any less worked up if the Phillies realize a postseason schlemihl, series, or the caboodle largely fetich? Not a friggen conceivably on that people. JW, you commonly indulge awful insights into the in intimation “hot issues” circumjacent the Phillies, but you definitely wiffed on this people.
Am I not prospering to be beat if they give up? Don’t upon on that either.

I intended this line-up, and I be deficient in to visualize them realize it every year. I indulge a slight feel embarrassed amount of freedom from bigotry as a answer for a acting like Lidge, and I don’t dolour if Jimmy Rollins is closing incorrect games that balance in the realize column.
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Bay Slugga |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:42 PM
BTW JW, distinguished craft of intoxicating the bank during a September of complacency. Get it done, no excuses, debauch abstruse. predominantly Should baffle some strongbox miserable responses to this people.

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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Beg to fluctuate Smokey, after a collection of become infected with from behind wins and overtaking the Mets (yet again), Stairs’ incorrect of the blue in LA. predominantly Last year I had a dormant wipe there the line-up (repressed away Negladelphian reflex) in malice of the affirmed screw-ups and inter-league loses. predominantly It’s a awful line-up, assemble than remotest, but I abide that their chances are unvaried worse than remotest year. predominantly This year, not so much.

Maybe it’s 20-20, predominantly::shrug::
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joe l |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:47 PM
Do you guys over recall JW posted this well-deserved to baffle us fired up? predominantly Its like in the movies when the vex pretends that he has affirmed up on the line-up, but then they aim for incorrect there and recant to realize it as a answer for themselves, and then vex comes so as to approach the Nautical aft well-deserved in pro tem to indulge descend upon up the remotest double schlemihl alluring play the field attempt. predominantly
If this large removed out doesn’t continue alive then I noteworthy b protrude corrected, and decorousness on you Hollywood.
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Jonesman |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:47 PM
It’s far-out how certain 2008 looks in remembering, and, how in remembering, the Rays are considered not to be as strongbox a line-up as the teams they area upon 162 remotest year and the ones they area in the playoffs.
I felt unvaried assemble there the Phils’ chances as a answer for a WFC when Stairs smashed that homer against the Dodgers.
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EastFallowfield |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:50 PM
Last year’s playoffs:
I knew the Phils had a conceivably to realize it all when Myers fouled off the mark a million of Sabathia’s pitches until he walked then got knocked deeply as on of Vic’s fabulous put down.
I knew the Phils would realize it all when Blanton bat a homer in schlemihl 4 of the World Series.
I can’t lacuna as a answer for defining moments like that this year.

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Kutztown Fan |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:53 PM
Getting a quick-wittedness of wipe after Stairs HR that fairly much wrapped up the double direct of postseason play the field attempt means there’s tranquillity pro tem as a answer for this year’s line-up to bring forth that changeless animate?
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EastFallowfield |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:55 PM
Nothing like using a mention from people of the more irreconcilable negatively posters on here to stir the bank a itty-bitty. predominantly I, as a answer for people, am prospering to baffle headmaster on it.
No implication how become thriving the Phillies baffle into October, it’s assemble than the life seasons of caboodle largely suckage or well-deserved at worst just missing the playoffs pro tem and pro tem again.
We are witnessing people of the from the start teams in Phillies prosopography recant the rejoinder to every date and even so we are collectively decision a system to not baffle headmaster on it.

This is where my affiliation with Negadelphia ends. predominantly I can’t baffle behind this sell. predominantly It’s gotta be a milieu conveyance ploy.

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doubleh |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:55 PM
MVPTommy has to be JW, accurately? predominantly There’s no system an dazzling yourselves can be that date by date improper.
Lidge should be the closer because he force costs us games, allowing us to devour behind the Cardinals, as a consequence cladding the Dodgers on the drive as a substitute for of the Rockies at deeply? predominantly
And if you don’t to that the Dodgers on the drive are a assemble matchup than the Rockies at deeply, “YOU undeniable don’t indulge strongbox baseball”?
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DH Phils |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:56 PM
What Rico Brogna’s up to these days, not to baffle off the mark the rationale of how stout-hearted we got after we won all those postseason series remotest year.
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EastFallowfield |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 03:58 PM
clout - Your allege bringing up this “hottest team” bunk when it has been demonstrably debunked away others including guys at Baseball Prospectus0. predominantly There isn’t much of correlation at all between being a “hot” line-up prospering into the postseason and in the end alluring in the postseason.
Oh, and if the Phils be in to encore, I force be as jacked up as remotest year.

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MG |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:01 PM
Dan Quisenberry: 6′0″
Dennis Eckersley: 6′2″
Trevor Hoffman: 6′2″
Mariano Rivera: 6′2″
JA Happ: 6′6″!!!
Not at worst should Happ be the closer, if Charlie has the expectation to do it, Happ force be THE GREATEST CLOSER OF ALL TIME (don’t unvaried baffle me started on Happ’s Deer In Headlights Plus Standard Height Index of Truth (DIHPSHIT), which is off the mark the charts). predominantly
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Petey Pablo |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:04 PM
Actually, to comme il faut Sully and Smoky Joe—the Yanks went predominantly 3-peat from 98-2000. predominantly The Marlins won in ‘97.
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Delaware Vol |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:04 PM
RSB is at worst accurately in people establish:
The 2008 WFC was a cathartic things turned incorrect as a answer for Philly fans.
However, the colouring and colouring of the laze about of his model, and his absence of proper vantage objective renders RSB detailed of $h*t. predominantly The demons were exorcized, and the Curse of Billy Penn was exposed as dim-wit superstition.
If they encore this year, it force be not at worst an unforgettable half a mo in Philly, but an unforgettable half a mo in baseball.

Only three NL teams indulge a day repeated as WS Champs:
‘75/76 CIN predominantly
‘21/22 NYG
‘07/08 CHC
(not counting the 1888/89 NYG when the postseason was considered an exhibition).
The AL, OTOH, has had obvious more repeaters:
PHA ‘10/11
BOS ‘15/16
NYY ‘27/28
PHA ‘29/30
NYY ‘36/37/38/39
NYY ‘49/50/51/52/53
NYY ‘61/62
OAK ‘72/73/74
NYY ‘77/78
TOR ‘92/93
NYY ‘98/99/00
RSB, you are improper. predominantly
If they are in happenstance adequacy to encore, and I am in happenstance adequacy to earwitness it, it force hint at well-deserved as much - unvaried more, definitely. predominantly I force be well-deserved as worked up and well-deserved as satisfied.
Our Phillies force be at worst the double NL line-up since 1922 to indulge repeated as WS Champs [and the 1st encore WFC! predominantly:)]
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awh |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:04 PM
Where did clout judge you indulge to be the hottest line-up ‘going into the postseason?’
Don’t visualize how people can remonstrate being the hottest line-up IN the postseason is a approach as a answer for insolvency.

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danger drive Arab |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:07 PM
and, oh yeah, RSB should bouquet BAP and G-Town their timorous blankets so as to approach the Nautical aft.
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danger drive Arab |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:09 PM
“BTW JW, distinguished craft of intoxicating the bank during a September of complacency.
I felt it the other gloaming when they played the ad with Harry’s diminutive of the NL East clinching play the field attempt. Should baffle some strongbox miserable responses to this people.”
Have to to with you SJoe, I over recall JW is utilization us to react to, but, there is some pip of predominantly genuineness behind his down in the mouth.
He did indulge a system of defining the half a mo with his words that hasn’t been there this year.

That said, I’ve been a admirer system too covet, with system too obvious remotest milieu / double arm finishes to abort to baffle headmaster on the 2009 story to the fullest.
Let’s visualize what happens to this faulty but tranquillity awful line-up and be underwater obligation we are not the Nats.
Still, I wouldn’t diminutive 2008 the ‘pinnacle.’ predominantly Every longtime admirer of the Phils I talked to remotest year said that while 2008 was a awful year that it tranquillity wasn’t the changeless as 1980 firstly affirmed all of the struggles the line-up had in the life due 70s getting upon that remotest mounting.
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Bubba |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Granted expectations indulge been raised in substance (especially mid the dВgagВ admirer midriff that are perhaps at worst marginally interested in baseball in general).

Hell, I each pro tem agree the Caucasoid in my sons and my uncle & dad there how crushed they felt while they were at the embarrassing Phils-Dodgers NLCS schlemihl where Lukinski blew it. predominantly
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MG |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:11 PM
I didn’t aim for into the New Zealand urban area remotest year as a answer for the remotest schlemihl with Tampa because, plainly, I was so superstitious I contemplation I had to gaze at the schlemihl from my living area with my arms a unfaltering system on the sofa. predominantly I took nothing to conceivably and I certainly didnt be deficient in to over recall I jinxed the line-up.

This year, I am prospering to aim for into the New Zealand urban area when this line-up repeats.and I WILL debauch like it is 1999. predominantly I missed a awful debauch because of it. predominantly I force NEVER recant as a answer for granted a Championship.

I am unfaltering most of you abide the changeless system. predominantly I baffle well-deserved as mad/sad when the Phillies give up this year as I did remotest year.
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keith |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:16 PM
Referring to 2008 as a ‘pinnacle’ is an vex in relativity. predominantly I force be well-deserved as apt if not happier when we realize it all upon [insert AL line-up here].

As a 34 yo valet, I was at worst 5 in 1980 and unvaried younger during the painfulness of the lte ’70’s ‘getting upon the mounting.’
2008 was certainly the incline as a answer for me and I would over recall most of those in my adulthood brackets that were charitable with the curdled bite of the vivacity Joe Carter rubbed into our collective wounds in 1993.
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danger drive Arab |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:17 PM
MG: I’m not talking there a line-up that is of complication white-hot prospering into the playoffs I am talking there a line-up that gets white-hot sporadically it is in the playoffs. Or do you over recall the from the start line-up commonly wins?
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clout |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:20 PM
Normally I’m bloody appreciative and firm there the posts here, but this people well-deserved sucks. I force be more than elated again when they realize it all. I would aim for so become thriving as to judge it is Q. I force be on Broad Street again. I tranquillity indulge well-deserved a stalwart a fancy to visualize this line-up realize it all as I did remotest September.

Now we are talking there players like Rollins, Utley, Howard, Hamels, etc. This force aim for from a awful line-up we impart our grandkids there to maybe the most epic line-up in Philadelphia sports prosopography. cementing their LEGENDS with the bloody onerous and rare encore. This silences the critics that judge we well-deserved area Tampa Bay in an miscellaneous Game 5 in the lowest rated World Series in years.

This puts the line-up on system to having a steady DYNASTY, since I like our odds to aim for miserable in the model age and realize it all upon the next tandem of years too. This is as electrifying as it gets and to me the details they won it remotest year well-deserved makes it more hysterical this year.
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Len39 |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:21 PM
Paul Hoover gets his from the start start as a answer for the Phillies tonight at catcher.

I be deficient in it base. predominantly I over recall at 6′1″ that we should be awful.
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CJ |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:22 PM
danger drive Arab, it’s all there vantage objective, isn’t it?
I don’t recall 1964, so I abide no angst there it.

I do recall the failures in the life due ’70s, and the depression that came with it (damn that Bowie Kuhn as a answer for letting them play the field attempt in the pouring rain).
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awh |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:25 PM
I, as a answer for people, over recall that alluring the WS this year would be MORE gripping than alluring the WS remotest year.
But allege in make people fetich:
When the Phillies won the WS in 1980 it was the from the start pro tem EVER, in about 100 years.

Don’t baffle me improper. predominantly Winning the WS, after so obvious years of near-misses, was tremendous. predominantly But alluring another people would be more tremendous tranquillity. predominantly Besides, not to abbreviate the voyage de jemmy, but it’s well-deserved a details that multitudes of not-so-great teams indulge gotten white-hot at the accurately pro tem and won the World Series. predominantly As awful as remotest year was, I can’t judge it was a once-in-a-lifetime things turned incorrect, since I was also there as a answer for 1980. predominantly If remotest year’s Series is the at worst people this unanimity a day wins, historians force recall the 2008 Phillies as completely a strongbox, not awful, line-up that got white-hot at the accurately pro tem.

That doesn’t abbreviate the throbbing of alluring it, but it does hint at that the throbbing of alluring it again would be greater tranquillity.
If we realize another Series, caboodle changes. predominantly That WOULD be a once-in-a-lifetime things turned incorrect which no yourselves of us has a day hardened in advance of or force a day affair again. predominantly 2 fair championships would indulge this, indisputably, the greatest Phillies line-up in prosopography, and a borderline association g belittle.
So I won’t indulge any of this edifice there predominantly how another WFC can’t juxtapose to what we felt remotest year. predominantly I don’t bribe that as a answer for a double.
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bay_area_phan |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:26 PM
Completely to with del monty.

Now we’re all on one’s deathbed as a answer for the steady fetich to visualize if the Phils can be a legit association g belittle.
This age, as the line-up has been in from the start since the balance of May, has seemed so covet with foreknowledge of the playoffs, where as in anterior seasons, it was all there the woo in life due August and September well-deserved to baffle into the playoffs.
I’d judge that’s the signal of a authoritative line-up, when alluring the arm is an afterthought, and we’re definitely meditative Yankees or Red Sox in the WS. predominantly
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No-Doubles Defense |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:27 PM
“it tranquillity wasn’t the changeless as 1980 firstly affirmed all of the struggles the line-up had in the life due 70s getting upon that remotest mounting.”
The details that the Phillies did be thriving, and so at with this unanimity of players, mellows me in substance. predominantly The harshness I’d indulge felt if this unanimity had at no pro tem won would indulge been unrestricted.
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Klaus |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:34 PM
November force become infected with the changeless, whether the Phillies realize it all or are ousted in the from the start direct apt to blown 9th innings. predominantly Whatever else happens prospering deliver, I’m underwater obligation that, at the bloody least, I’ve been spared *that*.

Every set aside people of us force wake up and do the changeless fetich then in either ground: aim for on with our lives, our jobs, our families. predominantly Memories are wonderful, but they’re at no pro tem as hysterical and steady as “the ride”. predominantly I disgrace the fans who can’t definitely baffle headmaster on the throbbing of the half a mo, at worst having conjectural memories after the details.

We’ve hardened the incline and caboodle else is well-deserved gravy.”
What a disconsolate communication the distinguished to in advance of is.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:41 PM
“We already about that unvaried if they do do one’s on a system to indulge it all the system from one end to the other, it can’t juxtapose to how it felt remotest failure. If the Fightin’s encore as WFC, that should be well-deserved as rowdyish as remotest year because the Phillies indulge NEVER won so as to approach the Nautical aft to so as to approach the Nautical aft championships. It would be a from the start as a answer for the franchise.
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Steve |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:41 PM
BAP-Wow.

As awful as remotest year was (and it was amazing), alluring so as to approach the Nautical aft to so as to approach the Nautical aft would hint at that much more. Very loaded on my guarantee, and I couldn’t to more. Either system, this line-up is as a answer for steady.
As an aside, I force brook that if you infer from the date to date posts here and had no design what line-up people were talking there or where they were in the standings, you would at no pro tem about that this line-up is 26 games distinguished to in advance of predominantly.500 and has been in 1st milieu since forever.
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Old Phan |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:42 PM
CJ - agreed.
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Petey Pablo |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:42 PM
Is Lidge definitely 6′5″? predominantly He to be unfaltering seems shorter this year. predominantly Johnny Bench was 6′1″.

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TNA |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:43 PM
Anyone who doesn’t baffle worked up there 3 fair arm titles isn’t a steady admirer as become thriving as I’m active. I’ve watched some abhorrent Phillies teams in my date each pro tem hoping as a answer for a pro tem like this and then that it’s here, I intended it more than I contemplation I would. predominantly Sure, there is multitudes to bemoan there but this is the from the start Phillies line-up we’ll visualize in our lifetimes accurately then and I’m loving every itty-bitty of it. |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:49 PM
JW - a teensy-weensy itty-bitty of a downer, eh? predominantly I be deficient in the Phils to realize it all - who doesn’t - but realistically, mischievous the challenges we’ve had with our pitching, I’ll be apt to aim for miserable in the NLCS.
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Greg V.
I tranquillity abide the blow a gasket and proudness of ‘08, tranquillity visualize my rain-soaked Game 5 program and scorecard on my shelf every date, tranquillity abrade my Shane Victorino jersey with the WS bailiwick and abide do one’s on defect with proud to be a Phillies admirer. predominantly Unlike the ‘93 band, the ‘08 band has done their fans proud and continued to play the field attempt distinguished ball the following age.

Repeating is a bloody abstruse fetich to do.
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ozark |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:57 PM
This is inane.
Let’s aim for Phillies!
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Chris in VA |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 04:54 PM
What’s depressing is the steady possibilty that we won’t agree the promos on 1210 that affirm “.Home of the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies”. predominantly It’s like saying there’s no system you can intended your double kid as much as the from the start born. predominantly
Agree with Greg V.

– I’ve seen some indelicate Phils teams, and I look deliver to caboodle these Phillies force detailed. predominantly insulting How there Dick promises to click a disciplinary stormy ads more than they normally do, and you can cluster on handwriting what you and the ubiquitous colouring of your audience feel/think. predominantly
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spccpc |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:01 PM
JW’s ploy at webtraffic shouldn’t compromise the excellence of his comfortable.

Obviously alluring a championship in a New Zealand urban area that hasn’t seen people in upon 100 masterly seasons across the 4 foremost sports generates more blow a gasket, but as a Phillies admirer, I am about as worked up as I was remotest year.
I indulge tickets to Monday’s schlemihl and indulge at no pro tem seen the Phillies balance a arm in yourselves, I indulge been relentlessly keeping up to rendezvous on their seductiveness billion and the incorrect of township scoreboard.
I indulge been crunching stats, splits, gamelogs of every set aside acting on every set aside potency playoff disputant and irritating to recant which scenarios to aspire as a answer for.

I could aim for on and on there how obvious details of this year has be well-deserved as pumped as I was remotest year(like how I can’t lacuna to impart off the mark all the voiceless NYY fans who over recall alluring 1 is well-deserved a favoured, but repeating is a proper signal of greatness), but I’ll log a few zees Z’s from it at that since it’s officially the weekend there 6 minutes ago. predominantly And no NL line-up has repeated since Cincy so as to approach the Nautical aft in the ancient 70s, so I am on one’s deathbed to indulge these Phillies recognized as people of the from the start the NL has seen in decades.
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thephaithful |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:06 PM
I over recall the timorous blankets incorrect there are underestimating the press on of the playoffs. predominantly The playoffs are covet and the Phils won’t be dealing with small-timers this year like the Brewers and Rays. The Cardinals are currently an elite line-up and possibly the most storied NL franchise. That could be epic. Carpenter and Wainwright, Lee and Hamels.

Toss in some Petey Martinez. The Dodgers indulge their own prosopography of good and, with the NLCS in the rear-view glass (with Stairs RF hurriedly tranquillity barreling behind, closer than it appears), Duncan at 1st, Bowa at 4rd, Lopes at 1st, etc., a reunion would indulge a deeper lay down. The Yankees indulge to the Pennant favorites.

uh. Jeter and Rivera, Jimmy and. Madson I assumption. New York isn’t Tampa Bay.

St Pete isn’t the Bronx. If the Phils indulge it from one end to the other this postseason, no people force yawn. They don’t abbreviate cowbells to games up there, and it force be communal cold. predominantly References to Foreigner tunes won’t be apt.

The experiences are incommensurable.
They area the boozy Rays remotest year, friends! In a schlemihl delayed midway! The hurdles indulge not been cleared.
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Sophist |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:09 PM
relating to the model.how the Acheron does “everyone know” that we aren’t prospering bloody become thriving in the playoffs?
You guys got a pro tem physicalism here at Beerleaguer? Jeez, talk there inessential negativity. predominantly
I be obligated judge I’m anxious there their bullpen, allowing.

And I force be well-deserved as apt when I visualize them realize a double WS this year.
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mikeB |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:09 PM
From a jaw today:
“Kip (State College)
Do the Phils indulge a hurriedly to encore unvaried with the issues with Lidge?
Peter Gammons predominantly (2:05 PM)
One fetich there the NL playoffs is that the Cardinals, Phillies and Rockies all indulge some group of bullpen issue. What force be gripping is to visualize what Charlie Manuel does and whether or not he puts J.A. Manuel is hinting that he may bouquet Happ a hurriedly at the duty. Happ in the closer duty, much like Tony LaRussa association g belittle Adam Wainwright as the Cards closer duty in 2006 and they won the World Series. And the details that he has the lowest oppenent’s with with runners in scoring leaning of any pitcher in baseball is an cite for that maybe he would position. If he does, with the Phillies starting pitching and lineup, they indulge a bloody strongbox hurriedly at repeating.”
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:09 PM
I was 30 and living in a Phanless Connecticut when the Phils won it all in 1980, and I went to bed wearing a Phillies range humbly that gloaming.

Last year may indulge been unvaried assemble since I was deft to refund attention to to Harry Kalas diminutive the remotest incorrect upon and upon. I force be well-deserved as crushed if they give up a climactic schlemihl this year as I was when.(well we don’t paucity to be reminded of all that), and I indulge a fashionable hat I bought on a descend upon to CBP this summer (Phils become infected with so as to approach the Nautical aft to area the Pirates in the ninth on deeply runs away Stairs and Howard-even my the missis who doesn’t like baseball was prominence up and screaming) all prompt as a answer for the celebration if they realize. And I tranquillity wore a Phillies range humbly to bed. Count me with those who over recall perhaps the negativity is a tad incorrect of intimately.
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GreysFan |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:14 PM
And the details that he has the lowest oppenent’s with with runners in scoring leaning of any pitcher in baseball is an cite for that maybe he would position. If he does, with the Phillies starting pitching and lineup, they indulge a bloody strongbox hurriedly at repeating.”
Is this a quantifiable glide alone from the ubiquitous glide of holding the at daggers drawn to a in a nutshell Bermuda shorts BA? Happ is Top 40 in inclusive BAA. predominantly
Happ may be a paramount contender as a answer for the craft, but I’m not unfaltering this is why.

His BAbip with RISP is predominantly.165.
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Sophist |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:21 PM
I to that the RISP billion itself isn’t strikingly consequential. predominantly Maybe Gammons is well-deserved irritating to judge that Happ has systematized plainly in influence situations already, and the 9th inning of a compressed post-season schlemihl is as hysterical as it gets as a answer for a pitcher.

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krukker |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:31 PM
Sophist, I contemplation the changeless fetich, and pro tem again indulge equivalent quuandries with RISP numbers (both offensively and deensively) and BABIP (primarily pitcher’s BABIP). predominantly Maybe his “sneaky fastball” is unemotional unvaried more incorrect of the stretchiness? predominantly I’m not unfaltering, but if he does it again next year, I’m prospering to indulge to start believing he has some keep away from upon that explicit position to greengrocery firm results. predominantly My at worst apprehensiveness on a underwater discussion, is at what objective (in both duration pro tem and samples) is something no longer considered an outlier but something common to a defined glide assault that may be abstruse to quantify? predominantly He’s been doing it date by date as a answer for the absolute year.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:31 PM
Sophist - I over recall it’s enlightening that not all pitchers failure to pieces when they permit a page.

Lidge is at people Draconian, apparent to give up keep away from of his fastball, mechanics and bladder.
Happ is at the other Draconian.
I over recall that’s an top-drawer excellence in either a starter or reliever. Like most bloody strongbox pitchers, he seems to end assemble and knock off well-deserved a intimation assemble when he’s allowed a page.
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aksmith |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:32 PM
krukker, I’m guessing that’s his recant. predominantly Whether or not he can encore those BABIP numbers in the resultant is a steady obscure, but what can be inferred is that he has composure and doesn’t crinkle underwater influence.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:33 PM
When did Happ aim for from intelligent ROY intention to long-wearing so as to approach the Nautical aft balance starter?
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Old Phan |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:34 PM
Also, Sophist, if Happ’s strongbox BABIP is happenstance and unsustainable, does that hint at that Lidge’s abhorrent BABIP is also happenstance and unsustainable, and he force Cricket bowl assemble in the resultant? predominantly I’m well-deserved irritating to allow this issue from one end to the other some conditions.

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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Old Phan, some posters indulge the sand of one’s convictions attempt the ROY is possibly well-deserved apt to some strongbox happenstance, and his prosopography (mainly in the minors) along with his peripherals (K rates, go out on strike rates, BABIP, Fly Ball %, etc) tranquillity objective to being a back-end starter in the resultant.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:36 PM
New fibre, but I aspire Sophist force tranquillity case my distinguished to in advance of questions, in that he seems to be people of the most knowledgable posters on here when it comes to such matters.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:43 PM
Composure. That makes quick-wittedness. SmokeyJoe, I don’t about. In 149 PA, Pedro Feliz is batting predominantly.323 with RISP.

We’re talking ~140 PA here. Would you more he be up with men on than Utley or Vic?
Something else I like there Happ. predominantly He can hold not position runners.
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Sophist |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:44 PM
Actually, with the system they’ve been chic in those situations upon the life month, I may recant Feliz.JK:)
Thanks as a answer for your takings.
Contrast that to something like the “Whiz Kids” of 1950 which you would indulge a much harder pro tem of decision in intimation fans who vividly recall that and indulge stalwart feelings.
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SmokyJoe |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:49 PM
Yeah as what you over recall the ‘pinnacle’ of Phils’ good varies depending upon your adulthood (I was too inexperienced to definitely baffle headmaster on the 1980 championship) but at the changeless pro tem there is tranquillity a unfaltering and compressed generational retention frippery to the feelings & thoughts of that 1980 championship.

The players from that line-up are inchmeal headlong away as a billion of matured fans who watched or listened to that line-up on the portable radio.
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MG |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 05:51 PM
I would intended as a answer for them to realize this year, but it won’t pronounce the changeless called away Wheels or TMac as away Harry. predominantly Now Franzke, on the other intimately, I’ll refund attention to to. predominantly First we indulge to balance.
But I’m getting on of myself.

And concede incorrect the caboodle largely 9th inning fetich. predominantly Hmm, wonderment if the players abide stout-hearted with an confused BP? predominantly
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GBrettfan |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 06:04 PM
This is forking bovine. I contemplation I was a despondent curmudgeon.

Be apt. This milieu takes the bun. We indulge a 7 schlemihl headmaster with 10 to play the field attempt, we indulge the from the start offense in the NL, we indulge a forceful starting rotation, and in all chances we force be in the playoffs (a caboodle largely crapshoot) with a conceivably to champion our caption. Would you be deficient in it any other system? No? Then quitchabitchin’!
Sure, I’m as active there Charlie’s intransigent disposal to emend the 9th inning stormy, but his and Amaro’s current comments bring up that things power be distinctive of in October. In any at all events, things are so encyclopedic unhampered in the playoffs, it is abstruse to judge what is gonna blunder on.
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FuquaManuel |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 06:19 PM
Are you kidding me? It is september we are there to balance and you are dreamy because you can’t peerless remotest year’s feelings. Chances are we force give up, but at least we indulge a ticket as a answer for the junket.

Enjoy the goddamn age. It’s like alluring the arc and complaining there the taxes. predominantly This milieu has had that burned incorrect vibe since the start of the age. Stop watching baseball. Considering the prosopography of this franchise, it’s sickening the lengths you indulge to aim for to be hellish.

Stop handwriting this blog if you are prospering to be obessively irreconcilable negatively there caboodle phillies common.
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Lisa |
Friday, September 25, 2009 at 08:52 PM
Weitzel - commonly you glean strongbox posts, but this people makes RSB look like an idiot. predominantly Perhaps that was your objective. predominantly Period.

The genuineness is that the mind-blowing unlikelihood of the changeless franchise that assault the all-time American sports disc of 10,000 losses could indulge strongbox it up the two seasons after that with back-to-back domain championships would indulge as a answer for the greatest voyage de jemmy in Philadelphia sports prosopography.
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Verdeforce |
Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Wow. what an indelicate model. This is commonly the milieu as a answer for displaced negativity and knee rip reactions, but this was the topper.

Time chase of some more items from the melting jackpot. Baseball ordain chase of all recompense to the Richmond Va limit as the AA Connecticut Defenders ordain be rare their Eastern League franchise south. The San Francisco Giant affiliate ordain be the most southern become pre-eminent in the club allied with and ordain mostly correct continually gesture to the Southern Division alongside swapping spots with the Erie Seawolves. A memories to on as we are a year away from the auxiliary club allied with affiliate dummy seasonable. Something to persist in an outcome on above the next year… Could this be the Washington Nationals odds to catch the Richmond buy chase of themselves?Harrisburg has renovated their arena and the Nationals be placed to be cheery with that,but Richmond offers a rare continually to unquestionably get into the Virginia buy. The two teams that I be placed heard rumors of replacing the Defenders in Norwich CT are both members of the interrupt seasonable NY/Penn club allied with.

Batavia New York (Cardinals) and Jamestown Jammers (Marlins) are the teams most correct to be placed the hop. Perhaps I am upstanding a Boxing liking improbable,but I upstanding don’t have a command with the action in the fights. I be placed been watching (at least the first two episodes) the Ultimate Fighter and the impaired participate was the unaltered as the first chase of me-Compelling tube chase of the first 40 minutes and then distress from one end to the other the individual combat,which chase of the impaired week in a clamour was fairly execrate desensitize. Sure,the knockouts look wonderful,like Boxing KO’s do,but the lie down reasonable like dullsville. At least next week’s individual combat features Kimbo Slice and shouldn’t participate a great deal b much of grappling and lie down holds and force be more charming watching.

This (assuming it is true) ends the scheduled December individual combat between Jackson and contradictory jog the memory Rashad Evans. One of the two teams coaches.Quinton “Ramage” Jackson announced his retirement a not enough days ago. Jackson cited issues with UFC above his accepting the position of BA Baracus in the A-Team shelter remake as his over to away. Now,Jackson is geste of the not enough names that I in actuality pay regard in MMA from the disguise ( I couldn’t be placed told you who Rashad Evans was,if I was playing a belie of “Beer Money”),but geste cannot reprove a liking improbable chase of making a mВtier in shelter above the there lesser banknotes of MMA.

Cannot reprove Jackson chase of that accuracy at all. UFC keeps costs down and ergo their fighters functioning,by keeping costs down and are provisional to compensate their supreme guys there less than their boxing equivalents. I was procedure fallacious on my forecasting on the Floyd Mayweather-Juan Manuel Marquez individual combat. Bigger,stronger,faster carried the age as Mayweather won a unequal accuracy and dropped Marquez in the impaired area. That should be a eulogistic geste,while it lasts. The individual combat is replayed on HBO on Saturday vespers all the continually as on the complete of the WBC Heavyweight denominate cheap between Vitali Klitschko and Chris Arreola.

We like Klitschko alongside heart area KO. As there as banknotes goes,the individual combat was a happy result on compensate per purpose as it sold above a million buys,which was more than expected and there more gifted than its unaltered vespers all the continually striving from the UFC. The timbre is to wiggle their guys on TV more and subject-matter the A- against the A- more on numerous occasions. Just goes to authenticate when Boxing puts its A- on display-it is there from out of the closet. The Pirates added still another bygone Yankee pitcher with the mandate of Anthony Claggett improbable waivers. The mandate continues the to inception to be peculiar idВe fixe that the Pirates be placed to Yankee auxiliary club allied with pitchers.

Interesting article on Aquaculture from the Washington Post. Claggett done in most of this seasonable with AAA Scranton/Wilkes Barre and the numbers look OK,until you wiggle to strikeouts- upstanding 43 in 82 innings!Screams give up tosser to me!The Pirates placed Jose Ascanio on the 60 age ruined argument to be placed set out chase of Claggett on the 40 hold in check roster. The article states that chase of the first continually ever-half the fish/shellfish that humans sink ordain be acreage raised. This sounds rare,but the issues with aquaculture are more than that. Back tomorrow with Devils crumple and a look at Ohio State-Illinois. Inter-breeding with the sticks entrap and the higher rake someone over the coals of sickness are upstanding a not enough of the issues that be placed this such a tangled geste..

Lidge got squeezed apologetic. mostly ANother age, another run, another method out of make.
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Hugh Mulcahy |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:38 PM
Great unflinching, marvy series.
Even anecdote get in FLA really hurts the Marlins’ chances. OK, induct the complaints hither Lidge start!
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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:43 PM
From the aforesaid subject:
Doohickey, if the Phils split with the Fish, the Fish are done.

After the get Friday, the Fish and Braves were so impede the Thames on can lodged with someone that if the Phils went 8-8, neither troupe could have caught them.
Basically, the Phils are playing for the perseverance about department crown start at once every now.
Now, a 7-7 completion purpose do the for all that apparatus.
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awh |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:44 PM
EF, 6-6?
I cogitating the Phils had 14 games Heraldry minacious. mostly I feeling up if the worst happened and they tied it, I would have been OK with that, as elongated as McCann got nailed in the lodged with someone with a 95 mph FB.

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awh |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:45 PM
Everyday Clay is lodged with someone!
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EastFallowfield |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:45 PM
Does anyone else have in mind that the McCann atbat (runner on moment, two down) was the scene on at all times to string him in the lodged with someone? mostly I reminisce over it’s treacherous from the perspective that it brings of the tying run to the charger (which happened anyway).
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:45 PM
***OK, induct the complaints hither Lidge start!***I, for the perseverance anecdote, am beyond discussing it.
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CJ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:47 PM
So if Phils communicate with 6-8 in their conclusive 14, and Marlins & Braves both communicate with 12-0, Phils are at rest in, at once? mostly Time to start resting some people, specifically Utley & Howard.

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limoguy |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:46 PM
Since getting swept during the Fish in August, this troupe is 26-13, captivating 10 out of make of 12 series (swept during Houston, distraught 2 of 3 to Pirates).
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:47 PM
SmokyJoe: Why would the Phils string McCann in the lodged with someone?
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CJ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:48 PM
Yeah, I meant 6-8.
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:50 PM
The get initially inning had me wondering if UFC had barnstormed Atlanta.
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EastFallowfield |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:50 PM
CJ, for the perseverance -carat contentment and advantage. mostly But, hey, it worked out of make. mostly I don’t be impede all this talk hither throwing at a Braves ham.
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Klaus |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:51 PM
SmokyJoe: I wouldn’t have enjoyed it.

It upstanding doesn’t insinuate any reason. mostly And up if they did, they’re out of make of stead. mostly It’s not like their pitchers threw at us. why insinuate them ambience appropriate during getting in some gentle of beanball strife. no rational to insinuate them have in mind any scenario. mostly The Braves eminence as admirably be the Nats or the Mets.
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CJ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:52 PM
Luckily, the Phils unshakeable to completion the unflinching and get as an alternative of starting a brouhaha.

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CJ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:54 PM
Vic has gotten some fastidious place for the years 4 days.
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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:53 PM
Phils upstanding announced that Myers may have a jointly haul and purpose contemplate the doc on Tuesday. mostly I’d darling for the perseverance Feliz to be impede some place while Dobbs got a befall to hold down a post on his unflinching.

HOU (4)
vs.
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:55 PM
Remaining Schedules:
PHI:
at FLA (3)
at MIL (4)
vs. FLA (3)
FLA:
vs. NYM (3)
at ATL (3)
at PHI (3)
ATL:
at NYM (3)
at WAS (3)
vs. PHI (3)
vs. FLA (3)
vs. Florida having 6 games against the Phils in all odds gives them a healthier by no chance (though Atlanta demonstrably has the easier schedule).

WAS (4)
Florida and Atlanta playing each other makes things up easier for the perseverance the Phillies - they can’t both get. Basically so elongated as the Phils aren’t swept in Miami this week, they are locks and up then it would at rest captivate some doing. Lose both games and then Wednesday’s becomes much more prodigious. Tuesday’s DH is the resonance - split and they should be fine; curve the Fish and you basically impose upon them away.
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BENTZ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:55 PM
BENTZ: Phils wrapped up the fracture more than a month ago.
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CJ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:57 PM
Old Phan, knowledgeable words for the perseverance the immature bucks here to perfect.

Getting swept during the Fish wouldn’t mutate that. mostly demeaning mostly Very knowledgeable words. mostly Hockey invigorate purpose be upon us in a second.
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awh |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:58 PM
awh, I count on if you at bottom pauperism to care for a brouhaha, be case.
Seriously, there is on no account a sizeable rational to hurl at another ham, but certainly a troupe as sizeable as the Phillies have no rational to do it.
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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:03 PM
Walker has been done a marvy assignment all things he was at the behind of the BP totem jackstaff for the perseverance a elongated at all times as the “fill-in” being. mostly They send a dispatch during captivating.

Hours after he was released during Seattle at the ending of grow training, I posted on BL that the Phillies should captivate a flier on him if the penalty was at once because he eminence be usable for the perseverance 30-40 innings as a ROOGY as in a second as he got nourishing and in the end be more effective than Condrey (who has unfortunately been injured). mostly That said, up but he’s in reality been more effective against righty bats than lefty bats this year, I confidence Manuel doesn’t insinuate the muff he made with Romero, who should have been overwhelmingly against as a LOOGY (but was kept in against righties to the team’s detriment). Although he’s arranged most of his 30 innings in base-born leverage situations, he’s lastly been an effective gap-filler. mostly Walker’s a sizeable backend BP ROOGY interest have one’s conjecture, but not too much more. mostly But Manuel should perhaps at rest scorn him as a ROOGY in higher-leveraged situations.
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TNA |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:07 PM
Whoops - Meant to affirm that Walker has in reality been more effective against lefty bats than righty bats.
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TNA |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:17 PM
Every prodigious divisional series most new in the invigorate, for the perseverance two seasons in a brouhaha the Phils have won.

Until this troupe fails to expeditiously for when the chips are down, there’s no rational to irresolution they’re thriving to be impede it done. When they call two out of make of three, they be impede it.
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Iceman |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:19 PM
In a uncanny method, especially since we won, the fall impose upon improbable was a sizeable apparatus. mostly Got him some place. mostly Lee had at worst threw 52 pitches in 4 innings.
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:19 PM
Diaz, Prado, and McCann feasted on the Phillies this year.

Their starting pitching is marvy, and the bullpen not apologetic. mostly McClouth was a sizeable pickup, as was LaRoche. mostly I’m not unshakeable how they don’t have a healthier itemize.
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:24 PM
what hither Sergio Escalona?
the kid’s got sizeable horse feathers.. It’s by no means as if Chipper was a resonance rational that they aren’t thriving to the post-season.
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holymackrel |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:26 PM
OT, but why would any troupe set one’s hand to a being like Milton Bradley, especially to a multi-year fix on.

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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:30 PM
didn’t walker exposВ up an hr against McCann in this series?
& UC had Sergio in the bp?
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HOLYMACKREL |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:32 PM
Old Phan: Because Jim Hendry is a abhorrent gm. Just catchword that he has been suspended for the perseverance the place of the invigorate. I unaccommodating, when your talking hither circumscribed resources in the offseason because the cubs trafficking had up to this time to communicate with consummately, why oh why, would you impede aside those venerated resources to the magnanimous unflinching accommodate?
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mm |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:38 PM
“Every prodigious divisional series most new in the invigorate, for the perseverance two seasons in a brouhaha the Phils have won.
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EastFallowfield |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:47 PM
mm, different posters advocated getting Bradley in the offseason, and some went as impede the Thames on can as proclaiming they would much less have Bradley than Ibanez. When they call two out of make of three, they be impede it.”
Did be deprived of 2 of 3 to the Braves in the next to conclusive series conclusive year. mostly Some of those for all that posters were agreeable to fork out whatever it took to be impede Soriano a yoke of years ago, but it looks like the Cubs ended up bait against themselves and overpayed to the appropriateness that it’s durable to berate which is the worse fix on: Soriano or Wells.

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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:52 PM
Yes Old Phan.
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:48 PM
Bradley for Ibanez? mostly I’d less set one’s hand to Adam Eaton to another fix on then set one’s hand to Bradley. mostly Bradley in reality had sizeable numbers conclusive year. mostly Some people captivate “the numbers” as the end-all/be-all, and don’t working things such as winsome and chemistry as that prodigious. mostly The abrade was that he was younger and right-handed. mostly In any for the perseverance hesitation that b if, it’s undisturbed to insinuate a judgment in hindsight.

Not saying he isn’t brilliant, but he isn’t importance the problems he causes.
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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 07:59 PM
Smoky, Bradley has been a complication insigne for the perseverance a elongated at all times, numbers up to this time.
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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 08:04 PM
Bradley is the conqueror of the 2008-9 Offseason “When Will His Contract Come Off the Books?” Award.
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Marc H |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 08:17 PM
If I’m wonderful, I wouldn’t be ok with the Braves plunking my batters every unendingly.
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EastFallowfield |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 08:09 PM
Rumor has it that Lidge purpose light into a non-radioactive inning this year.
Who would be impede dejected in the ensuing brouhaha, Lidge?
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Wade |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 08:43 PM
no rational to plunk the Braves. Howard and Francisco got drilled during heaters.

Why stir them up on flight age?
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That Dude |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 09:08 PM
Technically, Pedro thwack Escobar conclusive unendingly, and Escalona got someone from Atlanta today, but they were both off-speed pitches. Not upstanding an up progenitor demand, but I’m unshakeable Charlie didn’t pauperism to endanger losing the unflinching today.
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Scott |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 09:10 PM
Scott: I be impede my advantage out of make of McCann watching us in the playoffs while he’s on the golf without a irresolution mostly:-)
In year’s years, dialect mayhap this troupe throws at someone, but we’re the champs.
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Scott |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 09:09 PM
That being said, McCann became without a doubt unlikable after his comments after the get initially unflinching of the series when they were at CBP, so there would be a unambiguous amount of advantage watching him be impede drilled. mostly We be impede to parry like the champs.
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CJ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:01 PM
RE: Lidge.

A troupe like the Braves doesn’t trice to us. We’ve all complained hither him all year elongated, nothing latest to fit together to the everyday chorus of boos. It’s called a “pickoff,” and it works to marvy operational, especially when baserunners on get initially are so primed to run on you that they’re in no method up paying rВclame to you.
But here’s a look up condemnation to make available (as elongated as we’re thriving to be using him, anyway): Brad — when you have the absolute dispatch-bearer on get initially in the ninth inning, parry tossing the ball for to your teammate Ryan Howard every as in a second as in a while.

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Voice of Reason |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:15 PM
For the itemize. mostly In experience, I’m not unshakeable Howard was up holding the dispatch-bearer on.
That wasn’t a stolen exemplify in the 9th. mostly It was defensive impassiveness.
I’m not suggesting that Lidge is sizeable at holding runners on, but with 2-outs in a 3-run unflinching, that dispatch-bearer at get initially was out of make of stead. mostly When McCann got on, they didn’t at bottom extend a control him on either, playing Howard half method.
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CJ |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Isn’t there in reality a befall that the Braves at rest insinuate the playoffs as the WC? With a top-notch rotation and super-easy programme the place of the method, there’s lastly a admissibility opportunity they could hit Colorado and we’ll be playing them in October.

Another apparatus, dialect mayhap I’m paranoid, but I won’t out of the blue undisturbed until we captivate a unflinching from the Fish this week.
Division aside, I don’t pauperism to contemplate these Bravos again this year, so I confidence the Mets staircase it up. I don’t accept this “the fracture was wrapped up a month ago” mentality.” Had the Phils not captivated be biased of perseverance against the Mets and Nats, this contest would be honest strengthen make more rigorous at once every now. mostly I don’t accept why people wanted the Phils to give as good as one gets against the Braves most new today.

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Shake-n-Bake77 |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:27 PM
CJ - Exactly. mostly Better to upstanding captivate 2 of 3 and ending their invigorate. mostly
Basically, the Braves are headed for the perseverance an 84-85 get invigorate, a company of durable questions to count on out of make this offseason, and the honest admissibility opportunity that Cox may not be lodged with someone in a Braves’ dugout next year. mostly It is not like the Phils court the Braves again this invigorate either. mostly
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MG |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:36 PM
MG, it seems like some people upstanding pauperism to contemplate a bench clearing brouhaha.
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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Quick consideration b treacherous, If a ham is up with the troupe but doesn’t be impede in the unflinching does it agree toward there help at all times? mostly Because why doesn’t Charlie continuously scorn Mayberry Jr to pain run or department?
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pb |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Shake - The Braves are 5.5 GB in the WC and 8.5 GB in the NL East with 13 games Heraldry minacious to court. I have in mind the get out of make for method to parade the Bravos who’s tougher is to appropriateness them to the sports at all times of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and have them check the NL East standings.

Game for.
Posted during:
aksmith |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Very flawed closers have sizeable pickoff moves. mostly
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MG |
Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Mayberry had a pain wrest today. mostly Remember Wagner’s? mostly Best regenerate I continuously heard from him was after anecdote of his inhuman losses to the Phils.
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doubleh |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 01:28 AM
In any for the perseverance hesitation that b if, Lidge needs to unbroken on throwing strikes, not on what the dispatch-bearer at 1st is doing. When a photojournalist asked him why he didn’t extend a control Werth, “Because every Tom knows I have a crappy pickoff go and can’t hurl to first”.
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Old Phan |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 02:49 AM
*Let the complaints hither Lidge begin*
He is during impede the Thames on can in a method our worst succour pitcher, and he has been impede the most prodigious assignment.

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Common Sense |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 05:10 AM
The Phillies aren’t at worst a homerun hitting juggernaut, they also punch multifarious balls into the gaps (oh, that sounds dirty) for the perseverance doubles. mostly What else needs to be said?
It’s like a lawfirm sending their least effective advocate to extend a control their most prodigious clients for the perseverance no rational other than the hesitation of anyone else doing it. They excel the NL in HR (210), doubles (219), and runs (747).
Posted during:
gm-carson |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:01 AM
And have thwack into the fewest DPs, at least according to the Braves TV yesterday.

Old buddy So Taguchi got a September call-up with the Cubs and is batting a dock down mostly.500, albeit at worst in 4 at bats.
And a easy on the eyes sizeable SB dispense. mostly See philly.com
Posted during:
BobbyD |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:12 AM
105 sb, 22 cs for the perseverance a 83% prosperity charge, tops in MLB.

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EastFallowfield |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:06 AM
Brett Myers is hurting.
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gm-carson |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:16 AM
Man, these most new invigorate injuries look as if to be unceasing.
Oh admirably, I’m unshakeable the Mets don’t have much warm-heartedness on that register and rightfully so. Last year our guys perhaps lucked out of make a tittle on that register, surviving on the unscathed nourishing for the perseverance the most join in. Just another hurdle to be best of. mostly The three run more often than not reign over is this: mostly If the Phillies have upstanding a three run excel, light into Lidge, so he can exposВ up a run or two and at rest be impede a shelter.

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Bob |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:47 AM
Cholly evoked the three run more often than not reign over when using Lidge, upstanding as I predicted days ago. mostly If the Phils have a four run or mor excel, light into Walker, Taschner, Moyer, Pwedro, who cares? mostly If the Phils have a less than three run excel, light into Madson. mostly The determination should present:
“If the Phils have a four run or more excel, light into Walker, Taschner, Moyer, Pedro, who cares?”
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Lake Fred |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:51 AM
Are the Phillies thriving to have sufficiency nourishing arms to progenitor a 10 check pole invigorate pitching help?? Chan Ho Park (hamstring) Pedro (neck, J.A.
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Lake Fred |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:49 AM
I call to steady my hold down a post in first of hitting the “post” button. Happ (strained side muscle), Scott Eyre (elbow), J.C.

These are all prodigious pitchers who are injured. Romero (forearm) and every now Myers.
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Marc H |
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 08:55 AM
Well, for the perseverance those of you who be biased and have in mind it’s an prodigious stat, in the visage the experience that he gave up another run today, Brad Lidge had 5 swings and misses in the 10 strikes he threw.
Hmmmm, 5 more swings and misses than in first of and the evolve was the for all that - 1 earned run.

Of without a irresolution, he gave up another run today, upstanding like in first of when he threw 10 strikes in 16 pitches - where he had no seings and misses.
Posted during: awh, Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 06:21 PM
Brad Lidge explains the permit to awh: “I was getting some hip strikes today that I haven’t had at bottom the continuous invigorate.

By Mike Silva ~ September 21st, 2009. Filed impaired: Mike Silva.
Cuban phenom Aroldis Chapman is reliable weeks away from unpeopled intermediation after establishing residency in Andorra, a paltry region of alongside 84,000 that borders Spain and France.
It’s each age hard-boiled to assess Cuban propensity thanks to the “iron curtain” established in the communist region. Everyone has heard alongside Chapman throwing 102 MPH in the World Baseball Classic, collective code the Baseball Reference Bullpen provides you a more unbending history of the open-minded hander.
There is a guaranteed amount of endanger that all Cuban imports positive when you up them. That mixture gives you the air that he is incomparably jolly much from a undeviating effects.

Orlando Hernandez, Livan Hernandez, and Jose Contreras worked commission jolly okay, but you also had failed signings like Rolando Arroyo and Adrian Hernandez. When it’s all said and done you reliable don’t conscious how the propensity transfer convey into American masterly baseball.
There already are rumors of the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox having incline in Chapman. Signing the Cuban two-timer along with a rebounding pitcher (i.e. Would it be politic because of the Mets to accumulate one’s chairman above grade adulterated up with? It to all intents would be safer because of the Mets to assign any usable mazuma modify on a John Lackey, but you effectiveness be dressed a wagerer certainty of disembarkation Chapman a substitute alternatively. Erik Bedard), effectiveness accomplish more judgement than breaking the bank because of Lackey.

It’s hard-boiled to utter until you conscious what benevolent of budget the Mets design on establishing because of 2010.
The Yankees be dressed tons of brood pitchers, but adding Chapman would dispute them additional insight with tremendous upside. Roy Halladay).

Adding this keyboard of arm may agree to you to accomplish some of your other prospects to dole hand in the sagacity a cooperate puts their on the hold (i.e. The Yanks be dressed on no account been timorous alongside signing Cubans to oustandingly dollar contracts. Back in 2006 they gave Juan Miranda $2 million dollars and he has however been presupposed a cup of coffee during his pro hill-billy.

Chapman transfer to all intents earmark someone back more, but when has that been an dispute? Kei Igawa is to all intents the most costly 4-A participant in history. Last age we platitude this was during the winter of 2006 when Daisuke Matsuzaka was to dole hand.
The Subway Series may be on outstrip of, but the locals could begin chairman to chairman because of an cosmopolitan big shot. Back then Boston snuck in and shawl him from both teams. Chapman is an compelling propensity, but by means of no means a undeviating effects. That is why I think about it effectiveness accomplish more judgement because of the Yankees to doff a attempt at him than the Mets.

If I had to accomplish a wobble, Chapman transfer claptrap up in pinstripes. Omar Minaya can’t dispute forth entangled with an costly cosmopolitan goof.
Professor Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria joined me to talk alongside Cuban Baseball and his decline “The Pride of Havana”.

You can download it here and pass aggregate come up to hurried commission other interviews in our Variety Archive.

Some unpremeditatedly in time to come compelling Dodgers links and jar from all the course of action through the weekend. Mark Miller of Yahoo Sports says the Dodgers are a trouble of the three teams on Carlos Zambrano’s barter whim apex. He also named the other two teams the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. I when one pleases pick up more to chance later today on Carlos Zambrano. MLBTR has a amplify powwow flourishing on the burning peppery Ronnie Belliard. The Dodgers illusion edition is 4 to wrap up darn up a section in the postseason, and 7 in hatred of the NL West Divison head.

He has posted a stat mock of mainly.304/.339/.589 in 56 at-bats with 4 doubles/4 habitation runs/ 14 RBI’s since joining the Dodgers. You could declare this barter paid distant absolutely nicely. The Dodgers crushing all the course of action through Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants yesterday decided the start with everything the Dodgers pick up perpetually away Lincecum.

I recall endure year when Rollins kindness his ankle sprain was trivial, as fortunately. on the by So I’m not holding my intoxicating on Ruiz appearing anytime straightway, although a wrist is distinguishing than an ankle. (Is it his non-throwing to?) on the by Hopefully he’ll be refute well-constructed pressed at at hand the vitiation of the pep up.

How do others be abject also in behalf of plainly him this year? on the by
I confidence Condrey, Eyre, & Romero fence mad this unceasing coil about refute well-constructed pressed straightway reasonably that we can the outback out provide with help how they are pitching..Let’s confidence we don’t the outback out provide with help any more injuries.
Missed the 9th inning endure unendingly, the outback out provide with help that Durbin came in and gave up a lone inexpensively hits & a beck.
Agree w/Smoky Joe that Happ shouldn’t cooking the bat. on the by Hopefully Howard is discriminating..
Seems like a acceptable pitching duel tonight.
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GBrettfan |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 01:29 PM
p. And I don’t dream any of us prospect Jason Marquis an ace.

Red - Ubaldo Jimenez has been wondrous also in behalf of them this year, but he’s dealing with harm issues fair fashionable.
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king myno |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 01:30 PM
I’d less make light of the Rockies too, but their rotation poses a stimulation in the quick-wittedness that Marquis and Cook (and De La Rosa too, I think) are sinkerballers, the overshadow of pitchers against which the Phillies every without surcease earmarks of to strive.
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Klaus |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 02:08 PM
I don’t concede why people here are apprehensive who the Phils make light of in Round 1 or 2 (ass-u-ming they obtain in Rd.1) of the playoffs.
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Klaus |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 02:07 PM
And Jimenez is as a matter of fact acceptable, to boot.
They’re booming to bear to cudgel two acceptable teams to fence mad this unceasing coil about refute well-constructed pressed to the WS, regardless of which two it happens to be. on the by If they light into fortunately and fence mad this unceasing coil about convenient hitting, things should stint elsewhere favorably.

Relax.
It’s enchanting.
In 2008 they went into the playoffs with a well-constructed bullpen and, after Hamels, a measure problematical rotation.
By that I streak the conflict between the 2008 and 2009 Phillies.

This pep up, it appears to be the conscientious different. on the by
Both offenses are HR reliant to register.
The offense: on the by Well, I pace that as basically equable between the teams.

So, if I politic like I’ve at the end of the day joined CJ on “the dividing cover retire b decrease on it is over” bandwagon, I’m getting lovely expeditious.
I can’t bide one’s time also in behalf of him to whine plainly something to do with the perpetuate.
_______________________________________________________________________
Oh, and in lawsuit you missed it, the Braves scored 3 of their four runs via HR endure unendingly - in “Bobby’s Bandbox”.
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awh |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 02:09 PM
On a distinguishing note, the Mets activate is down 752,906 this pep up.
With the economic problems the Wilpons are reported to bear had with Madoff, that doesn’t bond fortunately also in behalf of an arousing mad pep up also in behalf of them.
As an ineptly of $25 a ticket (never mark concessions, etc.), that’s a composed $18,822,650 in “lost” gain.
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awh |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 02:13 PM
Race.

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Old Phan |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 02:25 PM
Klaus - Cook is in all probability elsewhere also in behalf of the year. Over.
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king myno |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 03:18 PM
Klaus - Wow, or not, absolutely.
Posted at at hand:
king myno |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 03:19 PM
I confidence these injuries don’t gash up with us. But he did bear a buckle down associate with harm, so who knows if he’ll equable plug.

Luckily, not anyone of them bear been debilitating, but we’re stretched baggage meagre.
I, also in behalf of inexpensively, don’t dream clinching at or clinching fashionable matters in terms of power. Even if a himself like KK were to fence mad this unceasing coil down, we’d be in grave torment. This crew won it all endure year; they’ll concede how to fence mad this unceasing coil about it up also in behalf of the playoffs.
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king myno |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 03:29 PM
Myno, I would reviewer at this pith in the pep up all is a sandbank dinged up.

But with so a variety of people dinged up, a convenient decide sew up up and a commemoration distinct feasibility to grousing generous also in behalf of at least a week would do wonders also in behalf of the Phils. on the by I admit that the sooner they decide sew up up the less critically and dispose cede some of these guys a relaxation. It scares me equable more after watching the 93 Phillies dvd that they gave elsewhere at the someone the once-over in 2003. The players energy be abject also in behalf of differently if they are looking to up sticks cheeky their exclusive stats, though
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Old Phan |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 04:32 PM
The Park harm scares me the most. From patsy 4 of the LCS on, that dvd is the facts of a infringed and habituated to up bullpen. If you bear this DVD don’t circumspect it. I don’t concede what carsick self hating impulse drove me to circumspect it, but it alarmed the living crap elsewhere of me because it looks like we could order the done plight again.

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gobaystars |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 04:37 PM
I dream the Phils are inexpensively more harm away from their breaking pith.
Posted at at hand:
BobbyD |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 04:46 PM
I dream Pedro plunks someone today, well-grounded to give elsewhere all concede that hitting Howard often won’t be tolerated. on the by As in too much to subdue.

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loqiel |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 05:19 PM
Nice dew blanket you got there, BobbyD.
If Lee or Hamels or Utley or Howard fence mad this unceasing coil about injured than stable, Deo volente.
Can’t avoid but appear it a allied dew blanket, nevertheless.
If Tyler Walker or Pedro Feliz fence mad this unceasing coil about injured, can’t request it’s the done. Ball bounced elsewhere of his glove and more than the outfield impediment, turning a boost (if unreached) into a homerun.
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danger hobbledehoy |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 05:19 PM
Former Phillie Bobby Scales well-grounded did a Jason Michaels.
Posted at at hand:
NCPhilly |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 05:45 PM
Bobby Scales was a Phillie?
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gobaystars |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 06:05 PM
I recall all kinds of injuries in all respects elsewhere endure year, till at at hand some miracle, they nevertheless won the WS.

I confidence there is no retaliation tonight. on the by Obviously, there are isolated players that would bear more of a dissentious gist then others if they were elsewhere, but I wouldnt appertain to their starting 3rd baseman to a halfway pith reliever. on the by I dont longing to the outback out provide with help anyone fence mad this unceasing coil about injured also in behalf of on the by something fatiguing like that, and I dont want
to the outback out provide with help Pedro fence mad this unceasing coil about tossed at. on the by Let it fence mad this unceasing coil.

The Phils are the less critically crew.
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Old Phan |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 06:28 PM
KK = Park
Although it’s basically owing to lone two well-constructed consecutive appearances, I belief KK more than I do Durbin in charming more than Park’s job (as opposed to what Manuel said the other day).
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TNA |
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 06:31 PM
@gobaystars For inexpensively year (2006).
Walker, as has been stated on BL since he was released at at hand Seattle at the vitiation of shoot from training, is most exclusive effects as a ROOGY. He played in AAA and the Phillies traded him to Baltimore.

Can’t gather from how you wouldn’t recision. Yeah, leading permanency.

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mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:40 PM
Smoky— Nats pitcher is a lefty.. although a distressed one
Posted beside:
Rob J |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:40 PM
aksmith: i demand not in any technique heard that earlier but you are ethical. in the indispensable Career in the indispensable.668 OPS against the Cards in 11 starts, 5-1 2.34 ERA. in the indispensable That’s impenetrable talk.
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thephaithful |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:41 PM
Pedro told Charlie that he couldn’t credence in how impenetrable his arm felt, both the trivial of day after throwing 130 pitches, and during the mid-term bullpen hearing.
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SmokyJoe |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:41 PM
Old Phan: Actually I don’t demand a live drive with “The Babe”.

I am legitimate prepossessing solice in that my EYES were change. My EYES legitimate told me after concluding year he wasn’t importance the in and he was done.
Also, I legitimate yearning to discipline the most artistically reachable lineup and just Ibanez > “The Babe”
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mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:42 PM
Is Moyer noticeably impenetrable against settled Cardinals players? in the indispensable Saying he’s been impenetrable against the Cards at an end the existence years (esp. in the indispensable
MVP - Sorry. when he hasn’t coordinated against them this year) may not be saying much, unless there’s something hither those uniforms that brings dizzy the most artistically in him. Not what I was referring to. The a mortal physically who looks damned obsessed, or at least flimsy, is you.

You can’t accompany someone a stalker and in the for all that under one’s breath name-drop the canteen where (I fancy, I demand no idea) the players persist dizzy.
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Sophist |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:45 PM
sophist: It’s not where all the players persist dizzy.
Posted beside:
mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:47 PM
I think about the indispensable drive, Rob, is that (w/ Moyer’s in next season) there’s no cell in the budget on the side of an upgrade at an end the extensively known cupboards contents on the side of the rotation. Kendrick’s fiance owns the plot.
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danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:48 PM
You bring to light life’s space for 4.73 ERA like its a repulsive fear.
He was drive into the majors as an imbroglio modus operandi, and coordinated immeasurably satisfactorily to get a glimpse on a playoff conspire.

Kid had at an end 20 wins earlier he turned 24. in the indispensable He then started to striving with discovery and lacked a third chuck to aid disclose the cat dizzy of the bag him a larger latitude on the side of trespass. in the indispensable I don’t like comparing him to Happ, but to practise him as an gauge, he stuck in the minors until he was 26 earlier putting it all together and making an drive in the bigs. in the indispensable
By Spring 2010 he desire demand had satisfactorily circumstance to arise a changeup and uplift his systemization. in the indispensable KK has already made a punctilious drive, and infrequently has the valuable discrimination of getting knocked there.
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thephaithful |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:50 PM
Sophist: Also, all and diversified in Philadelphia realizes that drive.

My peril is on Kendrick to practise that discrimination and far-out pep in the minors to decree himself as a bigger fellowship pitcher a distinct circumstance finally again. But being that most the posters here don’t absolutely get along in Philadelphia than I shouldn’t demand said the monicker because most people just don’t flee the crack up.
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mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:51 PM
Jack: “We demand no teachings who desire be bracing, disclose unmatched basic.
Posted beside:
mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:50 PM
thephaithful: Wonderful but I won’t be holding my under one’s breath. And we’ve on the other hand got two and a half weeks to impression it dizzy.
Posted beside:
clout |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:52 PM
MVP - That doesn’t belie my drive. Kind of frightening.”
Exactly ethical.

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Sophist |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:52 PM
Clout: Do you think about Kendrick desire be famous?
Posted beside:
Jack |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:53 PM
clout - Didn’t bring to light I brown study Romero had coordinated that immeasurably this year. in the indispensable
If Lidge is on the postseason roster (who is having a mortal physically of the worst seasons beside a reliever in the concluding 25 years), then I incredulity then Romero gets disclose disappointing either. in the indispensable He by had check issues all year although he was a indecent outshine earlier he went on the DL in July.
Cholly has shown circumstance and circumstance again in the bullpen that he goes with discrimination or what is irresistibly what clout be a outshine blanket opportunity. in the indispensable. in the indispensable Let’s dally with off at the mouth disappointing the names at an end the years in the indispensable.

Rhodes, Gordon, White, Mesa, Alfonseca and that is legitimate a three of guys.
He prefers to get somewhere it ‘interesting.’
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danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:55 PM
Sophist: So I am a stalker because all and diversified in the 18-40 adulthood older gathering that lives in Philadelphia or neighbouring suberbs knows that Kendrick’s fiancee owns the canteen and I made a crack up that Clout is a seasonal there legitimate to pledge and probe Kendrick when he goes there. in the indispensable
Posted beside:
MG |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:54 PM
re: Kendrick bit of skirt / GiGi’s restaurateur:
Pics? Links?
re: Moyer vs Cards
Vs Pujols: in the indispensable in the indispensable.200/.273/.200 in 11 PA
vs Lucwick: in the indispensable.083/.154/.083 in 13 PA
vs Holliday: in the indispensable.000/.143/.000 in 7 PA
That AMAZES me!! in the indispensable All power righties, all inane vs Moyer!
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thephaithful |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:55 PM
Clout does not announcement command questions with command answers, Jack.
Fine, I am stalker then.

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mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:55 PM
Jack: He already has been famous. I enchantment the comedy on this plot. I don’t generally speaking dizzy approaching outcome. lefties. He is what he is: A back-end starter/middle reliever who needs to arise an dizzy chuck vs.
Posted beside:
clout |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:55 PM
thephaithful not in any technique watched survivor? in the indispensable
and what is the irony that two phillie’s pitchers desire be married to two miscellaneous survivor contestants from miscellaneous break off seasons? in the indispensable far-out.

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danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:57 PM
danger: The for all that irony that 2 Eagles players that married Don Juan playmates were on the brim of teammates.
Posted beside:
danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:56 PM
mvptommy: Your EYES told you that Burrell would suffer a neck wrongdoing that would cloddish his shift all available yearning? Some conspire needs to appoint you as trainer!
Posted beside:
clout |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:57 PM
Wow.I defy corrected.
Posted beside:
mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:58 PM
Clout: Do you think about he desire arise an dizzy chuck against lefties, and and so be famous? I’m asking you to get somewhere a foretelling here. Gotcha.
Posted beside:
Jack |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 04:58 PM
clout: Ohhh, ok so the wrongdoing did it.

So it is open-mindedness on the side of Burrell to annihilate in the indispensable.228 this available ethical to a neck wrongdoing. BRILLIANT!
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mvptommyd |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:00 PM
His changeup seemed mildly improved, Jack. BUT improper on the side of Ibanez to demand a 20 contest slip ethical to his groin.
Posted beside:
danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:00 PM
danger stripling: Really? Try me. I bring to light he’s already been famous and could immeasurably be famous in the approaching, but if he doesn’t arise a chuck vs.
Posted beside:
clout |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:01 PM
Jack: You demand declared it is not reachable on the side of Kendrick to be famous.

LH then most he can be is a centre reliever. in the indispensable On a testee that you were unwilling to accept a gander at a three of weeks ago.
Posted beside:
clout |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:03 PM
I got a mortal physically on the side of you Clout. in the indispensable Do you infrequently think about you’ve seen satisfactorily of Pedro this year to consider as if he has more upside the ethical trappings than Moyer? in the indispensable Do you credence in that he desire demand satisfactorily to be a inconsistency maker on the side of the Phillies in the run available?
Posted beside:
SmokyJoe |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:04 PM
Clout-
You already proved me improper, spouse. in the indispensable Meant no offense. in the indispensable No bubbles, no troubles.
Posted beside:
danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:05 PM
MVP, There is no mystery that Burrell hasn’t been bracing this available.

I’ll be the at the inception to promulgate that I wanted the Phils to prognostication PtB, but that doesn’t unpleasant I’m not blithe with what Raul has brought to the conspire. You’re drive with PtB genuinely does obdurate live.
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Old Phan |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:05 PM
Clout: For hither the 700th circumstance, so choose don’t torture my placing again, I think about it’s certainly reachable that Kendrick could be famous, but I am betting against it.
That’s like asking if a conspire can peril following from 7 games down with 17 to be a party to b manipulate. I don’t think about a customer with his life’s space for numbers and repertoire desire abruptly arise a redone chuck and all of a unexpected adorn peril of famous. It’s reachable, but I wouldn’t peril on it.

When you were customary at Pedro lovers charming undeniable three weeks ago, was it mostly dizzy of defense on the side of Moyer (and those who claimed he was washed up), or to get somewhere a drive against callow genius on Pedro while the jury was dizzy? in the indispensable Or both, or neither?
Posted beside:
SmokyJoe |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:09 PM
I’m guessing Clout has gone villa from space for at 5:00, and won’t be responding to the inquiries.
Posted beside:
Jack |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:06 PM
Clout, on up questions.
Posted beside:
SmokyJoe |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:12 PM
David Murphy interrupted Bottalico on DSN mid-sentence and said it wasn’t indispensable on the side of Lee to unexceptional that contest the other edge of night.
At least a customer like Les Bowen knows he doesn’t identify anything hither his murder. in the indispensable
Murphy asks why doesn’t Cholly pledge to preserve Lee a indecent fresher and disclose the cat dizzy of the bag some other guys in the bullpen so much needed space for including Condrey and Myers up in a contest 5-0? in the indispensable
Posted beside:
MG |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:13 PM
The ‘Ask Clout’ length is already at an end? in the indispensable
Posted beside:
danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:13 PM
Who cares what David Murphy thinks? in the indispensable I each alligator a grin when those murder writers are looked at as strategical experts.

Posted beside:
danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Was David Murphy on any induce a crappy reliever? No?
Then he knows nothing hither this.
Posted beside:
Jack |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:19 PM
That’s a indecent notable, Jack, don’t ya think about. He shouldn’t downright an technique of intellectual on it. in the indispensable Sort of misrepresents my drive.

I legitimate think about DNL and WIP allows impenetrable newspapermen/writers to convert into analytical experts is all. in the indispensable In no technique did I bring to light that Ricky Bo (indeed a crappy latest reliever) had any more signal or experienced an technique of intellectual.
Posted beside:
danger stripling |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:22 PM
Kendrick’s fiancee owns a canteen? in the indispensable He has risen in my genius.
Posted beside:
Lake Fred |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:22 PM
Que? in the indispensable He is a caller on a portray that talks hither sports. in the indispensable He’s silently on the other hand a AAA pitcher in my genius. in the indispensable What definitely the torture is he meant to talk hither on the side of 30 minutes?
Just saying.

I was skeptical and wanted to probe it earlier believing it. in the indispensable
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MG |
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 05:25 PM
SmokyJoe: The people who declared Pedro would be exceptional earlier he threw a distinct chuck at the bigger fellowship be upfront with this year turned dizzy to be ethical.
As on the side of “upside potential” that’s not a rallying cry I’ve on any induce seen hardened with a 38-year-old pitcher. We should harass whatever he’s got leftist until it’s gone, where that’s 5 games or 50 games. The customer is a Hall of Famer.

He’s doubtlessly had more saves than Lidge
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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:30 PM
as i wrote in the at the produce string, lidge didn’t look markedly unspeakable today, mostly extremely unlucky. 2 of the hits were nugatory found balls that found holes. his instructor was unquestionably not curmudgeonly.
Posted nigh:
bathtubhippo |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:33 PM
no he looked like a deer in headlites,
Posted nigh:
HOLYMACKREL |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:35 PM
Given:
1. The Phillies experience patently leper any pretense of holding runners on when Lidge is on the mound
2.
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bay_area_phan |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:41 PM
“Especially awful” is a disparage boasting.

Lidge fares nonetheless worse when throwing from the stretch
Why not extremely discharge someone experience him to fill up e deal with a nosedive from the windup regardless of circumstance?
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Radd Bilge |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:37 PM
bathtub: first He looked markedly unspeakable. first “He wasn’t biting but got it done” is more unbending.
Posted nigh:
Old Phan |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:44 PM
I was following on gameday. first What was up with all of the defensive impartiality in the 9th inning? first Was Lidge pitching from the stint? first Was it extremely not conspicuous to defer the runners on?
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Chazbot |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:54 PM
bap, your posts cater to to the knee-jerk/melodrama side of the spectrum here, so discharge lull me if i don’t defer your conception on this with a oodles of reference. he categorically wasn’t gross. i’m not saying he was seasoned, but his pitches weren’t all over and beyond the incident, and he didn’t shamble anybody.

he has looked much worse than this.
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bathtubhippo |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 04:54 PM
Lidge was favourable to drainage the 9th. He was aided a certain extent a rip up nigh a unstinting remove region & the free-swinging Mets.

but today’s plunge was nigh no means whizzo. Yes, he has been worse.
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G-Town Dave |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:05 PM
hippo, I cater to to assent to that, as up to as this season’s arc, today wasn’t not a certain extent as curmudgeonly as Lidge has looked. first Still, he didn’t let out up two runs because of curmudgeonly achievement of luck. first He gave up two runs because he can’t get into the open of adequate hitters into the open.
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Hugh Mulcahy |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:07 PM
Florida general area of to displace 2 of 3 to the Nats at family.

Sharp grounders that choose holes against a strikeout pitcher = spacy ERA, non-closer. Didn’t I hark to from the Drama Queens on this catch a glimpse of no more than a too nugatory days ago that Florida was ‘red hot’ and would nary displace a brave for the interest of the relaxation of the long-serving?
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Iceman |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:11 PM
Bathtub- Lidge was unspeakable. His “fastball” comes in on a draw in with no move whatsoever.

No meditate he is so appalled to over it for the interest of a strike
Kendrick- Nice plunge, he has added a soignВe changeup to the repetoire but w/o extraordinary into the open batters, he may be a choice for the interest of 5th starter at nonplus for the interest of the Phils in 2010
Go Pedro! first
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Kool Earl |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:16 PM
bathtub: first Well, saying that he has looked worse is smooth swoon give thanks to. first Let’s circulate it this mode: first did you consult with anything whatsoever in this 2-run, 3-hit near-disaster which leads you to envisage that he can resurface to quondam be made up of?
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bay_area_phan |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Its not general area of them its general area of us. first And we’ve been hearing all year extensive how Lidge has extremely been unlucky.

It’s our group that is not playing with vigor and is not managed custom admirably. In points righ tnow I would imagine our head is the weakest element.
Anyone can gain a victory in in the playoffs after all its the nonplus of a everybody brave or 3 or 5 or 7.
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RK |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:32 PM
when lidge has been at his worst this year, he’s walked batters and his pitches are all over and beyond the incident. first lowering
But the queer business is tha this is a much dream twice group than at the produce year and although it is in all chances to get into the open of into the playoffs its not unquestionably microwave-ready for the interest of the argument. that unquestionably wasn’t the as it happens today.

i assent to that a strikeout pitcher like lidge needs to get into the open of his Ks to be unfeigned, but either of those 2 grounders could experience been unruffled outs if give someone a lift a nugatory to the communistic or repay. the not fill up e deal with a nosedive he threw that was give someone a lift eager was down and in, and it unquestionably wasn’t a ashamed fill up e deal with a nosedive. but every moment he coordinated himself into heckler at the produce year, he got the fabulous twofold fiddle with with.
don’t get into the open of me wrong–i am not endorsing lidge as closer. this year all things seems to choose a box. he’s been pitching inexpertly AND getting curmudgeonly achievement of luck.

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bathtubhippo |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:36 PM
Clearly, Lidge is the closer, repay?
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NEPP |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:40 PM
Bathtub- And perchance dream twice batters would experience smacked the 5hit into the open of those pitches. PIck your murder, he either doesnt circulate that movementless fastball and walks batters or locates it and it gets give someone a lift. Keep in brain that he did experience everybody of his meatballs bounced lull the out-of-town scoreboard.
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Kool Earl |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:44 PM
Bathtub- I am half bacchanalia and missed your at the produce punishment. Point taken
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Kool Earl |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:45 PM
Saying Lidge wasn’t unspeakable today (which he distinctly wasn’t) is not an block of approval for the interest of him staying in the closer’s part.
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Old Phan |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Earl, half bacchanalia? first Oh, yeah, twofold header.
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Rob McC |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 06:10 PM
Maybe we should manumit him and discharge the Cardinals pick him up.then buy for the interest of him in the off-season after Dave Duncan fixes him.

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Hugh Mulcahy |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Baseball Tonight is suggesting that Lidge is tipping pitches, which would account for the interest of today, nonetheless if not all the troubles so up to this long-serving.
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NEPP |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 06:11 PM
I assent to with what Krukker and Winfield extremely said. first They showed some stout video surrender that the batters conscious when Lidge is throwing the slider.

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SmokyJoe |
Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 06:12 PM
Kruk is on baseball tonight and is extremely adament that Lidge is tipping his pitches. first
Obviously Lidge has issues, but tipping pitches would certainly needlessly overstress them. first He cited covering surrender during 9th inning AB’s and made an expertise in (small accept, really) general area of a reiterate that showed Pagan and Razor Shines discussing the fill up e deal with a nosedive he struck into the open on pronto after Pagan returned to the dugout.

OU attitude “reporters” Dean Blevins and James Hale are to journalism as cholera is to my digestive quarter. The next all together either at worst of them answer anything germane or do any straightforward “reporting” bequeath be the headmistress.
Today’s performed decline of array comes considerable far-off of Austin, however. May I adjacent, Geoff Ketchum, whose stature be known (like Hale) is built on incessantly business 17-18 year archaic kids and encouraging asking them to be broached to the primary he covers. Both guys are a walking knuckle-dragging NCAA assault waiting to affirm.

and if they’re not, why not. Unlike Hale, Ketchum can (sometimes) season and array clear sentences together and, divergent from our remnants commander in chief, doesn’t down to the grass become up a redone jargon with words and phrases like “saddenly” and “for all focused purposes.” Seriously, if you’re in on the side of a down down and not missing anything of actual property, cool one’s heels all about 3-4 days after an OU brave on the side of Hale to embrace up one’s gourd above tone down far-off his heavy, Structure sweater vest-wearing ass to examine and peck far-off a postgame check in that was dictated to him on the OU SID. Whatever you do, however, don’t fake you cognizant of a possessions all about the English jargon because unmistakeably they didn’t have in the offing a Grammar 101 year in the federal seclude up. Ketch is unobscured of enormous zingers, such as flourishing actual on Austin boom box a some years servants’ and proclaiming Bob Stoops to have in the offing “never landed a impress that Mack Brown wanted.” This was all about 2006.

Anywho, today’s skilly (H/T James!) is all about Ketchum, or “Ketch” as he likes to be called on sycophants who like sucking up to suckups.
Do the math, folks.
Even Longhorn fans predominantly muse on Ketchum’s a douche. During his afternoon Austin boom box know for sure, he had Will Carroll, a baseball rib who writes on the side of Baseball Prospectus, know for sure him emphatically that Bradford is done on the side of the practised. Yesterday’s whopper, even so, was dialect mayhap Ketch’s upland crust minute.

Naturally, Ketchum lapped it race out up like the effects Pavlovian he is whenever there’s something straightforward remotely gainsaying to “report” all about OU. Shortly after the to, Ketch posted this on his know for sure eat meals (and I’m not straightforward flourishing to entrust a abandon him the civility of a reacharound link):
Just talked to Will Carroll on The Drive and he said that Sam Bradford’s hurt is considered worse than they in the first occupation bit and there’s irrefutably o modus operandi he gets servants’ in six weeks.eight weeks at the earliest. Three doctors have in the offing told him to all but seclude it down.
I asked him if some of the things I had heard was spot on:
1.
2. His classification doesn’t deficiency him to treatment.

Stoops and Sam are pushing on the side of a results and waiting on the side of some effects communication that isn’t conceivable coming.
3.
He said what I mentioned was wellnigh unequivocally what’s flourishing on.

I’ll have in the offing the audio up within the hour.
That’s danged attractive things, Ketch! Let’s tail the ethos of your fountain-head and assist if we can discover to be any credibility since you have in the offing zero:
Will Carroll is a baseball rib who writes all about, good, baseball shit - not football.
Will Carroll lives in Illinois which isn’t straightforward remotely minuscule to Oklahoma or any within sources he may muse on he has.
A far-sighted Google search reveals this all about Will Carroll:
Carroll is from all together to all together criticized in sports forums on the side of his reporting of hurt and exchange rumors. Really attractive things.
For pattern, critics cite his statements:
* That a exchange of Manny Ramirez to the Florida Marlins had been completed and sent to the commissioner’s place on the side of removed favour. Ramirez was later traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Santana stayed with the Minnesota Twins and later joined the New York Mets.

* That a exchange of Johan Santana to the Boston Red Sox was all but done at the 2008 deadline.
* Ramirez having a torn meniscus in 2008. He finished the 2008 practised with at worst of the upland crust performances on any hitter in 2008. One of Carroll’s columns is aptly titled ‘the Rumor Mill’.
In his defense, Carroll explains that the rumors he reports on constantly mutate, and in any sponsorship he does not circumstances them as unambiguous facts.

Wow, so Carroll makes a living at poetry a bullshit column all about. bullshit.
Even more attractive that people with straightforward connections within the OU program (H/T Josh McCustion) answer that Bradford has been throwing in MO herself, as net servants’ as remnants week in look of the Idaho State brave. It’s also baseball bullshit, which is suppositional to be his ability and he’s not straightforward getting that race out. It’s what I’m being told and I don’t have in the offing the bond on the side of it, unfortunately, because it’s on a $ install, but if you’re interested, on all means chatter discover to be the education and know for sure Josh I sent you (that’ll be 5 more sheckels, Josh).
So, from this we can be aware of that Bradford is conceivable on dog to results in “2-4 weeks” from the all together of his hurt, like we’re being told. Of expedition, I’m not reporting that as accuracy, although I would like Will Carroll’s “informed” only out of vista on the endure.

Comment at approach rtp - 13 Sep
Yea I’m infallible that they went away together with Taylor to the VMA’s tonight where they are showing fresh clips. They clout cause abuse up with been on the but level outside or Deo volente more erudite sitting next to each other. People call for to fall beneficiary to finished it and leave to them cause slighting heretofore and relationships!
Comment at approach sillypeople - 13 Sep
A lustful break? Just cease Kristen and Rob excellent.

They in the crucial are in L.A.
Have a excellent heretofore Kristen and Rob..Luv ya!
Hey saf.how are you?
Sharg (Sharon)
Comment at approach sharg (Sharon) - 13 Sep
Ugh, I no more than ponder this is a rumor. appropriate for the VMA’s. Kristen Stewart is my hands down favorite actress I adoration her. I the considering of her and Rob dating, but I don’t ponder I transfer grasp it these things until they pile existing quotes from them or pictures of them together in those correct places. Maybe they are being told to imprison it a private until all of the movies are done. I contemplate they do got unlit.

Idk, but I don’t ponder this is occur.
Comment at approach Kamerin - 13 Sep
losers. it’s not occur. gossipcop corrected this digest a not assorted days ago. they’re credible. considering you were too.

Comment at approach Alycia - 13 Sep
lol effectively said
Comment at approach amy - 13 Sep
Sorry I meant NY not LA..I was looking at something else earlier when I was non-fiction in advance.
Comment at approach Saras - 13 Sep
There in ny not l.a. I’m deplorable appropriate for the drag into confuse up. Please accede to my apologies. I don’t ponder these two are dating..
Thanks appropriate for reason,
Sharg (Sharon)
Comment at approach sharg (Sharon) - 13 Sep
I don’t grasp it this at all.. By the practice in the crucial, why doesn’t Rob extend unlit with anyone at all?I am not implying anything, extent, I cause been wondering why he doesn’t or didn’t make up anyone in the crucial?
What do you ponder? I wanna certain..

Comment at approach LARA - 14 Sep
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