Phillies Offseason Thread

[ice grillin you]

they are basically Reading with 3 more starters

[MDS]

they are going to have to play super small ball, which is gonna be loltastic with old farts like polanco, thome and wiggigton clogging up the basepaths. throw in a depleted chooch, an aging jimmy, an incompetent galvis and you have one putrid lineup.

but wait till utley and howard get back!

[Rome]

Get used to seeing this...

[Don Ho]

Sniff, sniff, sniff, sniff.  Smell it?  World farging Champions!

[Rome]

"We're keeping our eyes open on middle infield depth and we might be able to do it internally, but it behooves us to know what's going on out there as far as guys who may be able to help us."

-Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. on filling Chase Utley's void in the infield.


Somewhere in East Texas, Jay's head just rage exploded.

[Munson]

Ryan Madson needs tommy john and is out for the year

[SD]

That's what happens when you hire Boras as your agent. He had his chance to be the closer here but Boras wanted to pinch every single penny he could. farg him and his funhole wife.

[Rome]

Remember that time everyone pissed on the Papelbon signing and cried that the Phillies should have signed Madson instead?

That was awesome.

[Don Ho]

Herr Smugweiler strikes again. 

[Eagles_Legendz]

Meh I like Madson and hope he does well. 

His wife can DIAF, but no ill will ever from me towards him.

[Sgt PSN]

Meh I like Madson and hope he does well. 

His wife can DIAF, but no ill will ever from me towards him.

Same here.  Sucks that he needs the surgery but at the same time, I'm glad he's not with the Phils right now because the last thing this team needs right now is another injured player. 

[ice grillin you]

closer is irrelevant on this team

madson was 32 for 34 last year....paplebon will be a little better or a little worse....

whoever was the closer this year wasnt going to make a lick of difference in where this team finishes...their offense will be horrific and they will miss the playoffs or their offense will be just good enough to make and lose in the playoffs again....this does not change regardess of who the closer is....which is why among other reasons paplebons contract was ludacris

[Sgt PSN]

There's no way to defend Papleboner's contract (We've agreed on that since day 1).  But at the same time, if Madson were re-signed and heading into the season as the closer, that would just be another hole the Phils have to try and close. 

[ice grillin you]

hindsight is 20/20...unless you can show me someone who said a few months ago that madsons elbow was gonna explode

and even then thats taking the shortsighted view that the phillies had two choices...giving paplebon a billion dollars or signing madson

the fact is there were a plethora of closers on the market this year and all of them except paplebon signed for at or below market price and years

its easy to say paplebon was a good signing because madson is hurt...just like it will be easy to say the paplebon signing was terrible in october when he got the phillies nowhere and some of these other closers who signed for much less had just as good a year and are on the golf course with him

[Sgt PSN]

its easy to say paplebon was a good signing because madson is hurt

Except that I didn't say that. Your argument is (sort of) with Rome.