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

Johnny Abruzzo

Cliffy6745 wrote:

haha, that is very true and I haven't heard the whole album either.

Thanks, man. Been a rough month or so. I think most people in this thread can guess from a few of my posts, but we lost my old man pretty suddenly. Hasn't been fun but we are getting through it. Baseball season will be a welcome distraction, even though he was as big of a Yanks fan as me.

Damn - I thought he was really sick - didn't know he was already gone. I'm really sorry. Be sure to toast him during every game this year.

Cliffy6745

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

haha, that is very true and I haven't heard the whole album either.

Thanks, man. Been a rough month or so. I think most people in this thread can guess from a few of my posts, but we lost my old man pretty suddenly. Hasn't been fun but we are getting through it. Baseball season will be a welcome distraction, even though he was as big of a Yanks fan as me.

Damn - I thought he was really sick - didn't know he was already gone. I'm really sorry. Be sure to toast him during every game this year.

Thanks, man. I plan on it, going to be strange having a baseball season without talking to him about it pretty much daily.

The good news is, he was never really sick. They found a brain tumor, planned the surgery a week later hoping it wasn't cancer, the tumor hemmorrhaged an hour before surgery, they did the surgery but he never woke back up and we lost him about a week and a half later. He was never in pain and the tumor was agressive brain cancer so he would have only had 6-12 months if the surgery went perfectly. He never knew it and was never in any real pain. It fucking blows, worst feeling ever, but I am happy things happened the way they did given the inevitable outcome. Just happened so fucking fast, pretty much 6 weeks or so ago, things were perfect.

Johnny Abruzzo

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

haha, that is very true and I haven't heard the whole album either.

Thanks, man. Been a rough month or so. I think most people in this thread can guess from a few of my posts, but we lost my old man pretty suddenly. Hasn't been fun but we are getting through it. Baseball season will be a welcome distraction, even though he was as big of a Yanks fan as me.

Damn - I thought he was really sick - didn't know he was already gone. I'm really sorry. Be sure to toast him during every game this year.

Thanks, man. I plan on it, going to be strange having a baseball season without talking to him about it pretty much daily.

The good news is, he was never really sick. They found a brain tumor, planned the surgery a week later hoping it wasn't cancer, the tumor hemmorrhaged an hour before surgery, they did the surgery but he never woke back up and we lost him about a week and a half later. He was never in pain and the tumor was agressive brain cancer so he would have only had 6-12 months if the surgery went perfectly. He never knew it and was never in any real pain. It fucking blows, worst feeling ever, but I am happy things happened the way they did given the inevitable outcome. Just happened so fucking fast, pretty much 6 weeks or so ago, things were perfect.

Va fancul cancer. :twisted:

Cliffy6745

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

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Va fancul cancer. :twisted:

Big time. A big fuck you.

The Fixer

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

haha, that is very true and I haven't heard the whole album either.

Thanks, man. Been a rough month or so. I think most people in this thread can guess from a few of my posts, but we lost my old man pretty suddenly. Hasn't been fun but we are getting through it. Baseball season will be a welcome distraction, even though he was as big of a Yanks fan as me.

Damn - I thought he was really sick - didn't know he was already gone. I'm really sorry. Be sure to toast him during every game this year.

Thanks, man. I plan on it, going to be strange having a baseball season without talking to him about it pretty much daily.

The good news is, he was never really sick. They found a brain tumor, planned the surgery a week later hoping it wasn't cancer, the tumor hemmorrhaged an hour before surgery, they did the surgery but he never woke back up and we lost him about a week and a half later. He was never in pain and the tumor was agressive brain cancer so he would have only had 6-12 months if the surgery went perfectly. He never knew it and was never in any real pain. It fucking blows, worst feeling ever, but I am happy things happened the way they did given the inevitable outcome. Just happened so fucking fast, pretty much 6 weeks or so ago, things were perfect.

Wow, that's a shame. Kind of figured that's what you were going through, but I had no idea that it was such a sudden thing. Best wishes to you and your family.

FenwayFaithful

Cliffy, I'm so sorry to hear that about your Dad. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this time.

jamminpearls

@Buster_ESPN By the way: Rival scouts trailing Phils convinced that Placido Polanco's injury will be a major factor for him and affect his availability.

Awesome!!!!! I knew the Utley injury was serious from the jump and have a bad feeling about this now. This might be the worst spring i can remember.

Cliffy6745

Thanks for the nice words, fellas.

Jearlpam0925

Ahhhh, the week of weeks - headed to NYC tomorrow for one of LCD Soundsystem's last shows, Phils On-Deck (BS) game on Wednesday just for the hell of it to get to the ballpark, Felice Bros. at The Church that night(Cliff, 90% sure this is happening), unfortunately not making the Opener due to some class shit but will be catching it on the tube, then Cliff Lee Day on Saturday at the ballpark, followed by Sunday's game as well. Gonna be a good one!

Anybody who is genuinely scared right now need to chill the fack out. It's a loooooong season. So buckle up, gentlemen, it's gonna be the bee's knees for the next 6 months.

Nothing's won on paper so let's just enjoy it! :thumbup:

The Juggler

what's the word gentlemen? we gonna have enough players to field a team this spring?

Jearlpam0925

There's the newlywed. Alright, before I go to bed - here's my look of how they're going to start the season....

1. Rollins - SS
2. Victorino - CF
3. Polanco - 3B
4. Howard - 1B
5. Ibanez - LF (depending on lefty/righty)
6. Francisco - RF (depending on lefty/righty)
7. Ruiz - C
8. Valdez - 2B

BN - Schneider - C
BN - Gload - LF/RF/1B
BN - Mayberry - OF/1B
BN - Martinez - CF/2B/SS
BN - Young/Castillo(?)

1. Halladay
2. Lee
3. Oswalt
4. Hamels
5. Blanton

LRP - Kendrick
MRP - Herndon(?)
MRP - Baez
MRP - Bastardo
SU - Madson
SU - Romero
CP - Contreras

By the sounds of it, it looks like Ol' Naugahyde will be the closer since Dubee wants to keep Madson in the 8th inning role because he's a spaz.

I highlighted the two spots that I expect them to go with over what I'd like. I'd like to see this Stutes character up in the majors, but the dude isn't on the 40 man and no reason to start spending options when you can use it on Herndon. The other bolded spot is that I think they'll go with Castillo, even though I'd rather have the pop and youth of Young over Luis. I just figure since they can keep Orr, Barfield, and Young in the minors that they're going to start with Castillo on the roster. I just don't think it's worth it at all now with Castillo, but what the hell, it's not a lot of money to cut him at any point in the season, so we'll see.

And that's what I would do with the lineup. Get the fastest guys at the top, and have Polly hit third since even when he's injured he puts the ball in play, hence that should produce some runs and keep guys on base.

I think Francisco takes the opportunity at RF and makes the most of it. I think it's flat out his position by the all star break.

Now that's not a 100+ win lineup, but it's still a winning lineup. We'll be fine.

The Juggler

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

There's the newlywed. Alright, before I go to bed - here's my look of how they're going to start the season....

1. Rollins - SS
2. Victorino - CF
3. Polanco - 3B
4. Howard - 1B
5. Ibanez - LF (depending on lefty/righty)
6. Francisco - RF (depending on lefty/righty)
7. Ruiz - C
8. Valdez - 2B

BN - Schneider - C
BN - Gload - LF/RF/1B
BN - Mayberry - OF/1B
BN - Martinez - CF/2B/SS
BN - Young/Castillo(?)

1. Halladay
2. Lee
3. Oswalt
4. Hamels
5. Blanton

LRP - Kendrick
MRP - Herndon(?)
MRP - Baez
MRP - Bastardo
SU - Madson
SU - Romero
CP - Contreras

By the sounds of it, it looks like Ol' Naugahyde will be the closer since Dubee wants to keep Madson in the 8th inning role because he's a spaz.

I highlighted the two spots that I expect them to go with over what I'd like. I'd like to see this Stutes character up in the majors, but the dude isn't on the 40 man and no reason to start spending options when you can use it on Herndon. The other bolded spot is that I think they'll go with Castillo, even though I'd rather have the pop and youth of Young over Luis. I just figure since they can keep Orr, Barfield, and Young in the minors that they're going to start with Castillo on the roster. I just don't think it's worth it at all now with Castillo, but what the hell, it's not a lot of money to cut him at any point in the season, so we'll see.

And that's what I would do with the lineup. Get the fastest guys at the top, and have Polly hit third since even when he's injured he puts the ball in play, hence that should produce some runs and keep guys on base.

I think Francisco takes the opportunity at RF and makes the most of it. I think it's flat out his position by the all star break.

Now that's not a 100+ win lineup, but it's still a winning lineup. We'll be fine.

i like it....sorry--that's about all the analysis i got at this point. but what you said makes sense.

did you see the o/u on rollins' batting average is .257? i might dabble on that one. if he stays healthy i think jimmy gonna's due for a monster-ish contract year.

booomm11

ohh Fightins' baseball :-D

Jearlpam0925

Love the over on Jimmy's avg. as well. I don't think he's going to explode and have an MVP year or anything, but if he stays healthy (which I think he will) and plays around 150+ games, he'll have a better avg. than that. Book it.

pjhawks

not excited about castillo. he is a dog. i hope they don't keep him. still think there is a chance they make a trade either for Michael Young or someone else. got a bad feeling about Lidge. if Lidge is out for any length of time have to go with Madson over Contreras to close in my opinion. Madson free agent after this year so if Lidge is out for awhile i think you need to find out once and for all if Madson can close long term. just get the games started. spring training has been one long period of aprehension on what can go wrong next. let's get the games going boys.

anyone want to do some predictions here with maybe 5 or 6 quesstions regarding the phis? things like wins, how far in playoffs, pitcher with most wins, etc. - what do you guys think? here are some questions I think we could make predictions on. if anyone else can think of anything that might be good throw it out there - i'd say just phillies related for this thread.

1) Number of Phils regular season Wins
2) Phils pitcher with most wins
3) How many rounds in playoffs Phils WIN
4) Number of games Chase Utley plays
5) Number of Home Runs by Ryan Howard
6) Does Joe Blanton get traded during regular season
7) Jimmy Rollins final batting average

we could put a list together and save them and see how everyone did come november (at the parade ) - Let me know what you guys think.

neilybabes86

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Love the over on Jimmy's avg. as well. I don't think he's going to explode and have an MVP year or anything, but if he stays healthy (which I think he will) and plays around 150+ games, he'll have a better avg. than that. Book it.

how can u be so ceratain he wont get hit in the hand and break it...

Jearlpam0925

neilybabes86 wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Love the over on Jimmy's avg. as well. I don't think he's going to explode and have an MVP year or anything, but if he stays healthy (which I think he will) and plays around 150+ games, he'll have a better avg. than that. Book it.

how can u be so ceratain he wont get hit in the hand and break it...

You gawd damn MUSH!

Well, yeah, a lot of weird shit could happen.

The Fixer

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

There's the newlywed. Alright, before I go to bed - here's my look of how they're going to start the season....

1. Rollins - SS
2. Victorino - CF
3. Polanco - 3B
4. Howard - 1B
5. Ibanez - LF (depending on lefty/righty)
6. Francisco - RF (depending on lefty/righty)
7. Ruiz - C
8. Valdez - 2B

BN - Schneider - C
BN - Gload - LF/RF/1B
BN - Mayberry - OF/1B
BN - Martinez - CF/2B/SS
BN - Young/Castillo(?)

1. Halladay
2. Lee
3. Oswalt
4. Hamels
5. Blanton

LRP - Kendrick
MRP - Herndon(?)
MRP - Baez
MRP - Bastardo
SU - Madson
SU - Romero
CP - Contreras

By the sounds of it, it looks like Ol' Naugahyde will be the closer since Dubee wants to keep Madson in the 8th inning role because he's a spaz.

I highlighted the two spots that I expect them to go with over what I'd like. I'd like to see this Stutes character up in the majors, but the dude isn't on the 40 man and no reason to start spending options when you can use it on Herndon. The other bolded spot is that I think they'll go with Castillo, even though I'd rather have the pop and youth of Young over Luis. I just figure since they can keep Orr, Barfield, and Young in the minors that they're going to start with Castillo on the roster. I just don't think it's worth it at all now with Castillo, but what the hell, it's not a lot of money to cut him at any point in the season, so we'll see.

And that's what I would do with the lineup. Get the fastest guys at the top, and have Polly hit third since even when he's injured he puts the ball in play, hence that should produce some runs and keep guys on base.

I think Francisco takes the opportunity at RF and makes the most of it. I think it's flat out his position by the all star break.

Now that's not a 100+ win lineup, but it's still a winning lineup. We'll be fine.

I think they keep martinez, castillo, and young...going with 6 bech guys to start the year. which is stupid

As for the lineup...I'd like to see

Rollins
Polanco
Ibanez
Kong
Francisco
Victorino
Ruiz
whatever scrub plays second

The Fixer

pjhawks wrote:

not excited about castillo. he is a dog. i hope they don't keep him. still think there is a chance they make a trade either for Michael Young or someone else. got a bad feeling about Lidge. if Lidge is out for any length of time have to go with Madson over Contreras to close in my opinion. Madson free agent after this year so if Lidge is out for awhile i think you need to find out once and for all if Madson can close long term. just get the games started. spring training has been one long period of aprehension on what can go wrong next. let's get the games going boys.

anyone want to do some predictions here with maybe 5 or 6 quesstions regarding the phis? things like wins, how far in playoffs, pitcher with most wins, etc. - what do you guys think? here are some questions I think we could make predictions on. if anyone else can think of anything that might be good throw it out there - i'd say just phillies related for this thread.

1) Number of Phils regular season Wins
2) Phils pitcher with most wins
3) How many rounds in playoffs Phils WIN
4) Number of games Chase Utley plays
5) Number of Home Runs by Ryan Howard
6) Does Joe Blanton get traded during regular season
7) Jimmy Rollins final batting average

we could put a list together and save them and see how everyone did come november (at the parade ) - Let me know what you guys think.

sure

Jearlpam0925

QUESTION - So I guess I needed to renew my membership and I did last night. My shit expired at the end of January, but I had till the end of April to retain my membership #. Do you think I'll be able to buy a pair of tix from the presale tomorrow?