Some things that have annoyed/amused/intrigued me lately:
*Re: The Phillies nice win over the Mets Friday. Nobody I heard mentioned that Johan Santana - who averages 200 innings a year and over 100 pitches a game - left a 2-2 game after eight innings having thrown 95 pitches, with a lefthander, Ryan Howard, leading off the ninth. The night […]
Entries Tagged as 'Phillies'
Some people…
July 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Tiger · Barnstormers · golf · dumbness · Phillies · baseball
Love of the Chase
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Despite himself, Chase Utley seems to be having his moment. Everybody digs the Phillies’ second baseman, including the all-star voting public and this guy. Now he’s been named one of America’s 25 fittest men by Men’s Fitness magazine.
Phil-ups
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
The Phils scored seven runs in the first two innings last night against a pitcher who was throwing 97 with movement. That made 42 runs in a stretch of 20 innings. Things are going fairly well right now.
In more substantive news, tonight’s start might be a crucial one for Adam Eaton. Kris Benson threw 75 […]
Cut to the Chase
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
After Chase Utley crushed a three-run homer against the Mets on ESPN a couple weeks back, Joe Morgan said, sort of flippantly (I think), that Utley has a chance to be the best-hitting second baseman ever. Since then I’ve read and heard some similar things, so I thought I’d look at Utley vs. some of the […]
Cole Hamels is 24 years old…
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
… it’s April, and he was over 100 pitches headed into the eighth inning in Milwaukee last night. Given that, you’d hope the Phillies’ ridiculous 5-4 loss to the Brewers might shut up the “pitch counts don’t matter,” crowd, or at least give those folks pause for thought.
Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.
The irony is this […]
Tags: dumbness · Phillies · baseball
weekend redux
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Evidently a Denver sports bar held some sort of contest Monday night and the winner got to write the lede of the AP Rockies-Phillies game story:
“Now that there’s no playoff pressure, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies with relative ease.”
Oh sure, NOW you win in Colorado, you choking pieces of sewage…
On second thought, maybe a […]
So the Phillies…
April 6th, 2008 · No Comments
… are down 4-1 in the sixth today in Cincinnati, and Chase Utley leads off the inning with a single. Ryan Howard strikes out, but then Pat Burrelll singles. First and second, one out, Geoff Jenkins up. Jenkins is lefthanded, so Reds’ manager Dusty Baker removes starter Edinson Volquez, who’d been terrific, in lieu of […]
weekend redux
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
The “controversy” over Brett Myers and not Cole Hamels starting opening day for the Phillies is a good example of why spring training is too long. People have to reach hard for things to write and talk about. No, it doesn’t matter who starts opening day. What’s the over/under on how many regular season days will it take […]
Tags: high school basketball · dumbness · Phillies · basketball · baseball
After the hoopin’
February 24th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s been a long day and long week of hoop-related activity, so what am I doing now? Writing about basketball while watching basketball (Memphis-Tennessee) in the newsroom. Envy my life, minions.
Not to step on the quasi-diary of the District 3 high school tournament that will be in tomorrow’s paper, a spare observation or two:
Local teams’ […]
Tags: Vegas · college basketball · boxing · high school basketball · Phillies · basketball
Pedro Feliz?
January 29th, 2008 · No Comments
The AP story on the Phillies signing Pedro Feliz, written by Rob Maadi, includes the following sentence: “He’s an upgrade over the trio of Greg Dobbs, Wes Helms and Abraham Nunez.”
That’s not a quote. Those words are Maadi’s. How often do you see such straightforward, undisguised opining in a standard, just-the-facts wire story? And if […]
