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  • 81
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  • RW81233
    RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    ahhh....as your resident fraud i have the tix. Didn't get sunday tix b/c Direct TV didn't come with a deal. First time I've been disappointed with them it 3 years.
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
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    Oh boy. Just looked at upcoming pitching probables. Monday is an all-timer. Nats vs. Mets and the immortal Wang-Dickey match-up.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    everybody hits.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    no matter who is in the lineup, all year long, this team just keeps winning and winning and winning. it's unbelievable.

    cole hamels is a beast.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    The Juggler wrote:
    no matter who is in the lineup, all year long, this team just keeps winning and winning and winning. it's unbelievable.

    cole hamels is a beast.

    Maybe he can get back in the CY convo.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    From ESPN Stats and Info, how Hamels won:

    A) The Brewers laid off his changeup, swinging at just 12 of the 28 he threw (43 percent, lowest swing rate of the year). That forced Hamels to try the fastball, which still has not quite recovered velocity since his DL stint. It averaged below 90 mph for just the second time this year. More than half of the fastballs (32 of 63) were swung on, and all but three of those swings made contact. Fortunately the defense was behind him; of the 19 at-bats that ended on fastballs, only three were hits (including the two homers that eventually knocked Hamels out of the game).

    My understanding is that the only thing that "knocked Hamels out of the game" was the 27th out.
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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,516
    Welp....so much for the Brewers being a challenge in the playoffs. Honestly, I'm the last one to get too confident, but seriously, if we don't blast through the NL this year I'm going to be one highly upset mofo.
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,907
    so other than games after clinching a playoff spot when could have been the last time the Phils played a game with Howard, Utley and Rollins all not in the lineup? has it happened at all since all 3 have been in the majors?
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    pjhawks wrote:
    so other than games after clinching a playoff spot when could have been the last time the Phils played a game with Howard, Utley and Rollins all not in the lineup? has it happened at all since all 3 have been in the majors?

    I read 2004 this morning. It's like it's not even the same team. Those 3 and Hamels (maybe Madson) would be our core guys I guess. Like 'em or not. ;)
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,907
    Johnny Abruzzo wrote:
    pjhawks wrote:
    so other than games after clinching a playoff spot when could have been the last time the Phils played a game with Howard, Utley and Rollins all not in the lineup? has it happened at all since all 3 have been in the majors?

    I read 2004 this morning. It's like it's not even the same team. Those 3 and Hamels (maybe Madson) would be our core guys I guess. Like 'em or not. ;)

    last night's lineup reminded me of the bad old days of the 90s (not including 1993). should make you appreciate what we have in our core after seeing a lineup like that again.
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,516
    http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phi ... ed_it.html

    Not a big Conlin fan, but he does have insight. $5 mil to spend on draft picks? Jesus. That IS going to end up biting them in the ass.
  • RW81233
    RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Welp....so much for the Brewers being a challenge in the playoffs. Honestly, I'm the last one to get too confident, but seriously, if we don't blast through the NL this year I'm going to be one highly upset mofo.
    You guys are definitely better, but beating Chris Narveson with your backups is hardly evidence of domination. If we meet in the playoffs Narveson will be a middle-reliever that would give us an inning or two or mop up after you score 6-8 on one of our starters. The pitching matchups in this series certainly seem to be on your side (of course that's the case with 4 top end starters), but you will never have seen Grienke for good or ill by the time the playoffs roll around. Dismissing the Brewers as weak would be like me saying well we put up some runs against Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay at the start of the season so we have nothing to worry about in regard to the Phils. Admittedly the Brew Crew has gone on this run against a very weak schedule in the 2nd half vs. a tough one in the first, but they've also done it without Ricky Weeks (maybe he secretly sucks but I don't think so).
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    RW81233 wrote:
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Welp....so much for the Brewers being a challenge in the playoffs. Honestly, I'm the last one to get too confident, but seriously, if we don't blast through the NL this year I'm going to be one highly upset mofo.
    You guys are definitely better, but beating Chris Narveson with your backups is hardly evidence of domination. If we meet in the playoffs Narveson will be a middle-reliever that would give us an inning or two or mop up after you score 6-8 on one of our starters. The pitching matchups in this series certainly seem to be on your side (of course that's the case with 4 top end starters), but you will never have seen Grienke for good or ill by the time the playoffs roll around. Dismissing the Brewers as weak would be like me saying well we put up some runs against Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay at the start of the season so we have nothing to worry about in regard to the Phils. Admittedly the Brew Crew has gone on this run against a very weak schedule in the 2nd half vs. a tough one in the first, but they've also done it without Ricky Weeks (maybe he secretly sucks but I don't think so).

    What got me about last night's game was the Brewers' defense is atrocious. If they give the Phillies extra outs/bases in the playoffs it's lights out, especially when they are trying to eke a few runs out of Halladay/Lee/Hamels.
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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,907
    RW81233 wrote:
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Welp....so much for the Brewers being a challenge in the playoffs. Honestly, I'm the last one to get too confident, but seriously, if we don't blast through the NL this year I'm going to be one highly upset mofo.
    You guys are definitely better, but beating Chris Narveson with your backups is hardly evidence of domination. If we meet in the playoffs Narveson will be a middle-reliever that would give us an inning or two or mop up after you score 6-8 on one of our starters. The pitching matchups in this series certainly seem to be on your side (of course that's the case with 4 top end starters), but you will never have seen Grienke for good or ill by the time the playoffs roll around. Dismissing the Brewers as weak would be like me saying well we put up some runs against Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay at the start of the season so we have nothing to worry about in regard to the Phils. Admittedly the Brew Crew has gone on this run against a very weak schedule in the 2nd half vs. a tough one in the first, but they've also done it without Ricky Weeks (maybe he secretly sucks but I don't think so).

    what is Weeks' status? I actually like him as a player.

    Gotta keep this Brewers team in the ballpark. I don't see a lot of rallies coming from the lineup against the Phils pitching.
  • RW81233
    RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    Weeks was available to Pinch Hit yesterday and they went with freaking Josh Wilson, and yes our defense is really hit or miss. A good week and they are all over Sportscenter, a bad one and well you saw it last night.

    Wind blowing in at the Bank would be beneficial to you guys, actually any wind at all against a team that plays many of its games in a dome would be beneficial (see also: Yovanni Gallardo's near bomb off Hamels in Game 1 of the '08 NLDS and Mike Cameron's flub job in the bottom of the 4th with 2 outs and Yo nearly out of a bases loaded no out situation (one created because Ricky Weeks can't catch a fucking sac bunt throw to first)). Sports are funny like that if Yo homers we all know Hamels pouts and crumbles, Philly fans get on the team and say they suck so bad they couldn't even beat a guy who tore his ACL 6 months ago, CC gets to pitch at home, the Phils fall apart, and this thread is infinitely funnier and more like the Eagles thread. Oh well.
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,238
    some d-bag troll wandered into our giants thread. I told him they'd be 3 and out. make it happen. :mrgreen:

    on the other hand, I guess any traffic in that thread should be encouraged. :lol:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    imalive wrote:
    some d-bag troll wandered into our giants thread. I told him they'd be 3 and out. make it happen. :mrgreen:

    on the other hand, I guess any traffic in that thread should be encouraged. :lol:


    would you say OLE?
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,238
    The Juggler wrote:
    imalive wrote:
    some d-bag troll wandered into our giants thread. I told him they'd be 3 and out. make it happen. :mrgreen:

    on the other hand, I guess any traffic in that thread should be encouraged. :lol:


    would you say OLE?
    having not yet listened to the new single, I have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

    seems like the brewers guy can at least debate without excessive smilies :mrgreen: (one...it's only one)
    If I had known then what I know now...

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    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,516
    RW81233 wrote:
    Jearlpam0925 wrote:
    Welp....so much for the Brewers being a challenge in the playoffs. Honestly, I'm the last one to get too confident, but seriously, if we don't blast through the NL this year I'm going to be one highly upset mofo.
    You guys are definitely better, but beating Chris Narveson with your backups is hardly evidence of domination. If we meet in the playoffs Narveson will be a middle-reliever that would give us an inning or two or mop up after you score 6-8 on one of our starters. The pitching matchups in this series certainly seem to be on your side (of course that's the case with 4 top end starters), but you will never have seen Grienke for good or ill by the time the playoffs roll around. Dismissing the Brewers as weak would be like me saying well we put up some runs against Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay at the start of the season so we have nothing to worry about in regard to the Phils. Admittedly the Brew Crew has gone on this run against a very weak schedule in the 2nd half vs. a tough one in the first, but they've also done it without Ricky Weeks (maybe he secretly sucks but I don't think so).

    Dude, forget about Narveson for a second....we fielded our worst lineup this season and trounced your boys.

    And then there's tonight.....I wonder what the excuse is for that one....

    Again, if we don't make it to the WS there's something seriously wrong.
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