2012 - Philadelphia Phillies, At Least Cole is Staying

[Rome]

It was an inauspicious debut.  There.  I said it.

CLIFF LEE starts tomorrow night.  Orgasms.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/fat_drunk_and_endearing_a_look_at_the_93_phillies_season/page1

Philly Mag is great.

John Kruk, first baseman: I've never seen guys that could be playing grab-ass two minutes before the game and then as soon as the National Anthem is done be ready to kick some ass.

John Kruk: Our pitchers would think, If I don't hit him, Dave Hollins will kick the crap out of me. So I should probably hit him

[MDS]

wait i just thought of something

sarge isnt doing the post game interviews or any of the around the ballpark shtein anymore. so basically hes earning what im going to assume is a healthy 6 figure salary for talking to tmac for 3 innings.

like what does he do before the game, during the first 3 innings, after? hes obviously not keeping score, talking to execs, getting info.

what the hell. how is that a job?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Victorino
Polanco
Rollins
Pence
Nix -1B
MAAAyberry
Ruiz
Galvis

[ice grillin you]

i like a pitchers duel just like the next man but jesus is this team once again going to be painful to watch this year

[ice grillin you]

send him juanny!!

[Eagles_Legendz]

send him juanny!!

Awful decision with galvis on deck even if he gets a hit here.

[ice grillin you]

that was baseball 101 no?

juan coaching like hes scared....as if its the nlcs 7th inning....not the 4th inning of the second game of a season

and thats not even getting into the fact that it was freedy bottom of an order that is horrible anyway and cant score runs

[Munson]

IGY's gonna be absolutely unbearable in this thread this year isn't he?


But yes, awful decision to not send him

[MDS]

yea that was dumb as hell. a good throw gets nix by 50 feet but galvis' chances of getting a hit were roughly 0%.

as it turns out the throw was a mcnabb worm burner and nix may have beaten it.

[ice grillin you]

cloliff lee

[MDS]

this is like bad cape cod league ball

1 run is borderline in insurmountable

[ice grillin you]

thats why you have to make that play...its 1000% unfair to him but the fact is you have to be perfect every night in everything you do on this god forsaken team

[PhillyPhreak54]

I fell asleep...I see I didn't miss much.

When will they score more than 5 runs? July 4th??

[MDS]

a fun (for me) frame of reference:

today charlie bunted with his 3 hitter to get runners and 2nd and 3rd with 1 out

in the high school games i cover teams bunt with their 3 hitter

so basically the phillies are a high school team, with great pitching