***The Official Philadelphia Phillies 2012 Thread***

Johnny Abruzzo

The Fixer wrote:

10 hits and 2 fucking runs. can't wait for the pen to blow this one. this has 'loss they should have won' written all over it

Ha, I'd call it a win that had loss written all over it. Nice to see a makeup call from that Greg Dobbs "foul ball" HR last year. I was arguing with stupid Red Sox fans at the park the next day about that. Not that the Marlins had anything to do with it, but that's how it goes.

Romero is horrible. Somebody take him to the GNC.

pearljgirl2010

going to the game tonight...maybe Werth will do something good...and maybe we'll win without having to go into extra innings :-)

smarchee

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

Romero is horrible. Somebody take him to the GNC.

haha, took me a sec to clue in what GNC was, good stuff

pjhawks

how the hell is this team only 2 game out of 1st and only 4 games away from the best record in the National League? As much as I hate Charlie got to give him credit for keeping this team on track - next guy up philosphy i guess. it works.

JC Romero - agree with the post above - you should never walk somone intentionally with Romero on the mound. the guy just can't throw strikes. he needs to be a one lefty batter pitcher and thats it.

You would think a team with a lousy bullpen would struggle in extra inning games, yet this team has won 10 straight extra inning games. baffling season.

mike sweeney equals the new geoff jenkins - man did he look excited and just happy to be there last night in the dugout. he was going nuts. i guess never making the playoffs does that to a guy.

Johnny Abruzzo

pjhawks wrote:

how the hell is this team only 2 game out of 1st and only 4 games away from the best record in the National League? As much as I hate Charlie got to give him credit for keeping this team on track - next guy up philosphy i guess. it works.

JC Romero - agree with the post above - you should never walk somone intentionally with Romero on the mound. the guy just can't throw strikes. he needs to be a one lefty batter pitcher and thats it.

You would think a team with a lousy bullpen would struggle in extra inning games, yet this team has won 10 straight extra inning games. baffling season.

mike sweeney equals the new geoff jenkins - man did he look excited and just happy to be there last night in the dugout. he was going nuts. i guess never making the playoffs does that to a guy.

This team's resiliency is amazing. They've been a MASH unit all year long and they're sitting here making this nice run, with a ton of home games coming up.

I don't know why you'd still hate Charlie. I thought he messed up the '05 season (playing Bell too much), but you gotta hand it to the guy, he knows how to keep a club going.

pjhawks

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

how the hell is this team only 2 game out of 1st and only 4 games away from the best record in the National League? As much as I hate Charlie got to give him credit for keeping this team on track - next guy up philosphy i guess. it works.

JC Romero - agree with the post above - you should never walk somone intentionally with Romero on the mound. the guy just can't throw strikes. he needs to be a one lefty batter pitcher and thats it.

You would think a team with a lousy bullpen would struggle in extra inning games, yet this team has won 10 straight extra inning games. baffling season.

mike sweeney equals the new geoff jenkins - man did he look excited and just happy to be there last night in the dugout. he was going nuts. i guess never making the playoffs does that to a guy.

This team's resiliency is amazing. They've been a MASH unit all year long and they're sitting here making this nice run, with a ton of home games coming up.

I don't know why you'd still hate Charlie. I thought he messed up the '05 season (playing Bell too much), but you gotta hand it to the guy, he knows how to keep a club going.

Still think Chuck makes some baffling moves. and I hated him starting Pedro in the playoffs last year including twice in the world series - who starts their 6th starter in the playoffs and world series?

16 out of 19 at home - should be a lot of fun down at the park over these next few weeks - better weather hopefully (not 1000 thousand degrees) and hopefully keep the run going.

Cliffy6745

You guys caught a hell of a break last night.

Johnny Abruzzo

pjhawks wrote:

Still think Chuck makes some baffling moves. and I hated him starting Pedro in the playoffs last year including twice in the world series - who starts their 6th starter in the playoffs and world series?

16 out of 19 at home - should be a lot of fun down at the park over these next few weeks - better weather hopefully (not 1000 thousand degrees) and hopefully keep the run going.

Starting Pedro in Game 6 didn't seem like a bad idea at the time, considering how he pitched in his first 2 playoff games. The huge mistake, which everyone could see coming, was leaving him in to face Matsui the 2nd time around. He was managing the game as if the Phillies could easily come back, and not as if they were facing an elimination game.

Cliffy6745 wrote:

You guys caught a hell of a break last night.

Yep, and we ain't apologizing for nothing!

polaris_x

winning with howard in the lineup ... interesting ...

jamminpearls

Why Charlie didn't give Oswalt the option to finish the inning was confusing. If that was Halladay he would have sent Charlie back to the dugout in a hurry. We deff got a break and i'll take it great call Bob. Chooch is a machine, he's come a long way.

pjhawks

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

10 hits and 2 fucking runs. can't wait for the pen to blow this one. this has 'loss they should have won' written all over it

Ha, I'd call it a win that had loss written all over it. Nice to see a makeup call from that Greg Dobbs "foul ball" HR last year. I was arguing with stupid Red Sox fans at the park the next day about that. Not that the Marlins had anything to do with it, but that's how it goes.

Romero is horrible. Somebody take him to the GNC.

and don't forget the Utley homer in Washington that hit the foul pole and was called foul in september that one year - jeez what year was that? might have been 2007? was back in RFK for sure.

The Fixer

pjhawks wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

10 hits and 2 fucking runs. can't wait for the pen to blow this one. this has 'loss they should have won' written all over it

Ha, I'd call it a win that had loss written all over it. Nice to see a makeup call from that Greg Dobbs "foul ball" HR last year. I was arguing with stupid Red Sox fans at the park the next day about that. Not that the Marlins had anything to do with it, but that's how it goes.

Romero is horrible. Somebody take him to the GNC.

and don't forget the Utley homer in Washington that hit the foul pole and was called foul in september that one year - jeez what year was that? might have been 2007? was back in RFK for sure.

I was thinking about the utley non-hr last night too. of course wheels mentioned the dobbs thing 1,842 times and didn't say anything about the utley play.

The 7-9th innings really pissed me off. This team makes way too many mental mistakes (a MLB team should NEVER make 3 outs on the bases in one inning -- this is a reflection of the manager). And the manager is still an idiot. Strategically, he has to be one of the worst 5 managers in baseball.

Still can't believe they won. Lucky as hell.

pjhawks

The Fixer wrote:

I was thinking about the utley non-hr last night too. of course wheels mentioned the dobbs thing 1,842 times and didn't say anything about the utley play.

The 7-9th innings really pissed me off. This team makes way too many mental mistakes (a MLB team should NEVER make 3 outs on the bases in one inning -- this is a reflection of the manager). And the manager is still an idiot. Strategically, he has to be one of the worst 5 managers in baseball.

Still can't believe they won. Lucky as hell.

agree - i wanted to shoot Werth when he got picked off. Werth needs to sit for a few days (if that is even possible with this lineup) - he looks mentally gone. i think he is down in the count 0-2 every at-bat.

swept the series because of chooch and the marlins pathetic defense. Uggla should give money back for his defense - man you think Howard is bad defensively - Uggla missed at least 3 routine plays in this series. Even the one line drive last night he caught should have been a double play but he messed that up to.

The Fixer

pjhawks wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

I was thinking about the utley non-hr last night too. of course wheels mentioned the dobbs thing 1,842 times and didn't say anything about the utley play.

The 7-9th innings really pissed me off. This team makes way too many mental mistakes (a MLB team should NEVER make 3 outs on the bases in one inning -- this is a reflection of the manager). And the manager is still an idiot. Strategically, he has to be one of the worst 5 managers in baseball.

Still can't believe they won. Lucky as hell.

agree - i wanted to shoot Werth when he got picked off. Werth needs to sit for a few days (if that is even possible with this lineup) - he looks mentally gone. i think he is down in the count 0-2 every at-bat.

swept the series because of chooch and the marlins pathetic defense. Uggla should give money back for his defense - man you think Howard is bad defensively - Uggla missed at least 3 routine plays in this series. Even the one line drive last night he caught should have been a double play but he messed that up to.

uggla stinks

gload has made 3 or 4 plays this week that there is no way in hell howard makes

werth should have caught that ball in CF too. he's awful in center.

gotta take 2 of 3 this weekend. hamels and halladay both going, which is nice. of course I'm going tonight and I get to see blanton.

pjhawks

The Fixer wrote:

uggla stinks

gload has made 3 or 4 plays this week that there is no way in hell howard makes

werth should have caught that ball in CF too. he's awful in center.

gotta take 2 of 3 this weekend. hamels and halladay both going, which is nice. of course I'm going tonight and I get to see blanton.

agree Werth should have caught that one. he is not a centerfielder though - can play it in a pinch but surely not an everyday one.

and can you tell me how Greg Dobbs is still in the majors? he can't hit a lick and is actually a worse fielder than hitter. not sure what he brings to this team at all. I'd rather have Ransom - at least he can play a bit of 3rd base. having Dobbs at 3rd is a disaster.

The Fixer

pjhawks wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

uggla stinks

gload has made 3 or 4 plays this week that there is no way in hell howard makes

werth should have caught that ball in CF too. he's awful in center.

gotta take 2 of 3 this weekend. hamels and halladay both going, which is nice. of course I'm going tonight and I get to see blanton.

agree Werth should have caught that one. he is not a centerfielder though - can play it in a pinch but surely not an everyday one.

and can you tell me how Greg Dobbs is still in the majors? he can't hit a lick and is actually a worse fielder than hitter. not sure what he brings to this team at all. I'd rather have Ransom - at least he can play a bit of 3rd base. having Dobbs at 3rd is a disaster.

dobbs is terrible. he saw 7 pitches last night and struck out twice.

good question...assuming victorino comes back in the next 7-10 days, who do they release/send down? schneider, sweeney, francisco, valdez I'd think are pretty safe. That leaves dobbs and brown. I'd rather have brown up, but if he isn't gonna play I can understand why they'd send him down until the rosters expand in september. should be interesting

PureandEasy

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pjhawks

The Fixer wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

uggla stinks

gload has made 3 or 4 plays this week that there is no way in hell howard makes

werth should have caught that ball in CF too. he's awful in center.

gotta take 2 of 3 this weekend. hamels and halladay both going, which is nice. of course I'm going tonight and I get to see blanton.

agree Werth should have caught that one. he is not a centerfielder though - can play it in a pinch but surely not an everyday one.

and can you tell me how Greg Dobbs is still in the majors? he can't hit a lick and is actually a worse fielder than hitter. not sure what he brings to this team at all. I'd rather have Ransom - at least he can play a bit of 3rd base. having Dobbs at 3rd is a disaster.

dobbs is terrible. he saw 7 pitches last night and struck out twice.

good question...assuming victorino comes back in the next 7-10 days, who do they release/send down? schneider, sweeney, francisco, valdez I'd think are pretty safe. That leaves dobbs and brown. I'd rather have brown up, but if he isn't gonna play I can understand why they'd send him down until the rosters expand in september. should be interesting

Mayberry is still on the roster isn't he? Ransom was designated for assignment for Sweeney. So I think Mayberry goes when Victorino comes back. Brown is here for good - no way then can send him out.

Johnny Abruzzo

Sometimes the negativity of this thread gets me so depressed. Did the Phillies lose 12 of their last 14? They must have - everyone on the team stinks.

Ok - who's in next Friday, say 7pm, at Oakmont Pub or PJ Henry's - so far:
Johnny Abruzzo
The Fixer

Cliffy6745

pjhawks wrote:

Brown is here for good - no way then can send him out.

Regular AB's> Sitting the bench in the majors. I would send him down for a couple weeks until rosters expand.