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

Cliffy6745

When I see the Phillies in San Fran, it looks like I'm set up to see both teams 5th starters. With 5 of the best pitchers in baseball, I get to see slop.

Seeing Boston play Texas at Fenway 2 days later.

The Fixer

The Juggler wrote:

...opening day and all is right with the world.

prediction for today:

freddy galvis: 4 for 4 with 4 grand slams. BOOM.


go phils!

I'll be happy if galvis gets the ball out of the infield this year

lineup picking up right where it left off

halladay is unreal

papelbon is such a douche. the epitome of turd

The Fixer

Cliffy6745 wrote:

When I see the Phillies in San Fran, it looks like I'm set up to see both teams 5th starters. With 5 of the best pitchers in baseball, I get to see slop.

Seeing Boston play Texas at Fenway 2 days later.

april = rain outs. good chance you'll luck out

with those lineups it prob doesn't matter who pitches. you'll be outta there in two hours regardless

Cliffy6745

The Fixer wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

When I see the Phillies in San Fran, it looks like I'm set up to see both teams 5th starters. With 5 of the best pitchers in baseball, I get to see slop.

Seeing Boston play Texas at Fenway 2 days later.

april = rain outs. good chance you'll luck out

with those lineups it prob doesn't matter who pitches. you'll be outta there in two hours regardless

Word. Rain out would help. Hopefully not my game though.

Cliffy6745

New Belgium picked Asheville over Philly. Fuckers.

Wobbie

Cliffy6745 wrote:

When I see the Phillies in San Fran, it looks like I'm set up to see both teams 5th starters. With 5 of the best pitchers in baseball, I get to see slop.

zito....unless we can figure out some way to unload his ass.

neilybabes86

raaaauuuulllll

The Fixer

2 games, 2 runs. nice to see the sticks in playoff form

Seriously though, I know it's only two games but this lineup is going to be brutal to watch. Hopefully Utley and howard can get back on the field by June.

Also, it took manuel two games to annoy me. once the runner got to third why not load the bases????????? they got lucky when blanton hit the one batter to put a guy on first (I couldn't believe they weren't walking that guy). Also, a sac bunt in the first inning by your 3 hole hitter?????? god he's an idiot. I swear there are little league coaches with better in-game strategy. give sandberg the job already.

hopefully they can score more than a run tomorrow and worley pitches well enough to win the series

rough day for philly sports. 0-3. flyers game meant nothing and there weren't any fights (vitali vs harry z was a disgrace so that doesn't count).

eeriepadave

Why can't we win in Pitts.? Relief pitching choked. Least we scored some runs

eeriepadave

eeriepadave wrote:

Why can't we win in Pitts.? Relief pitching choked. Least we scored some runs

i started dozing off during the game, thought we had more hits than 5 :oops:

The Fixer

HIRE RYNO!!!!!


Charlie Manuel‘s in-game strategy reared its ugly head again, calling for several more bunts and opting to pinch hit Laynce Nix for an otherwise effective Vance Worley in the top of the seventh inning. To that point, the only damage against Worley was a Pedro Alvarez solo home run; Vanimal had struck out five and walked one in his six innings. Nix grounded out, but Pierre salvaged the inning with a two-run single to right field. Michael Stutes replaced Worley and promptly gave the two runs back to the Pirates.

Kyle Kendrick, rather than David Herndon or Antonio Bastardo, came on to pitch the eighth inning. He quickly surrendered a lead-off single to Andrew McCutchen before retiring Neil Walker and exiting the game. Bastardo came in to face the left-handed Nate McLouth, but McLouth was replaced by right-hander Yamaico Navarro, who promptly drew a walk. It looked like Bastardo would end the threat, striking out Clint Barmes, but Matt Hagues hit a game-tying, two-out single to left. Bastardo struck out Michael McKenry to end the inning.

The Phillies went down in order in the top of the ninth, so Manuel sent Herndon to the mound in the bottom of the ninth with the score 4-4. While that is somewhat defensible, Jonathan Papelbon still should have been warming up throughout the inning. He never did. Herndon allowed a lead-off double to Casey McGehee, who promptly moved to third base on a sacrifice bunt by Alex Presley. Herndon managed to strike Jose Tabata out, bringing up McCutchen.

There was no reason to pitch to McCutchen. He is easily the Pirates’ best hitter and Walker was behind him in the #4 spot. Despite his batting order position, Walker is a significantly weaker hitter, finishing 38 points behind McCutchen in wOBA last year. Manuel chose not to put up his four fingers for the intentional walk, and Herndon went to work going after McCutchen. On the eighth pitch of the at-bat, McCutchen smoked a sinker to deep center field to win the game 5-4.

81

Bucs own the fillies

Phantom Pain

81 wrote:

Bucs own the fillies

I dont get it

The Pirates have been a pathetic franchise for almost 20 yrs but always win the series

Ridiculous

The Fixer

they should let this offense use fungo bats

Johnny Abruzzo

Charlie is clearly having trouble managing this roster, not knowing or utilizing the various strengths & weaknesses of his players. Also, the refusal to use Papelbon on the road in tie games is infuriating, even if this ridiculous behavior is ingrained throughout baseball. :twisted: He DIDN'T need Papelbon in the first game, with Halladay cruising. He DID need him in the LAST 2 GAMES, but didn't use him because of the asinine save situation bullshit. I fucking hate the save. ARRGH. And yeah, pitching to McCutchen is absurd; he's the only good player on the team.

The play at 1B so far is making Ryan Howard look like Keith Hernandez.

Galvis is way overmatched. Can we get Iguchi back?

The Fixer

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Charlie is clearly having trouble managing this roster, not knowing or utilizing the various strengths & weaknesses of his players. Also, the refusal to use Papelbon on the road in tie games is infuriating, even if this ridiculous behavior is ingrained throughout baseball. :twisted: He DIDN'T need Papelbon in the first game, with Halladay cruising. He DID need him in the LAST 2 GAMES, but didn't use him because of the asinine save situation bullshit. I fucking hate the save. ARRGH. And yeah, pitching to McCutchen is absurd; he's the only good player on the team.

The play at 1B so far is making Ryan Howard look like Keith Hernandez.

Galvis is way overmatched. Can we get Iguchi back?

manuel is inept. its comical. bring sandberg up asap

though with the crap amaro has given them, it might not matter who the manager is

frustrating

jamminpearls

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Charlie is clearly having trouble managing this roster, not knowing or utilizing the various strengths & weaknesses of his players. Also, the refusal to use Papelbon on the road in tie games is infuriating, even if this ridiculous behavior is ingrained throughout baseball. :twisted: He DIDN'T need Papelbon in the first game, with Halladay cruising. He DID need him in the LAST 2 GAMES, but didn't use him because of the asinine save situation bullshit. I fucking hate the save. ARRGH. And yeah, pitching to McCutchen is absurd; he's the only good player on the team.

The play at 1B so far is making Ryan Howard look like Keith Hernandez.

Galvis is way overmatched. Can we get Iguchi back?

Like i said last year take Howard out this lineup and were screwed. And Manuel has been beyond brutal besides starting Mayberry over Pierre in the 1st game.

The Fixer

jamminpearls wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Charlie is clearly having trouble managing this roster, not knowing or utilizing the various strengths & weaknesses of his players. Also, the refusal to use Papelbon on the road in tie games is infuriating, even if this ridiculous behavior is ingrained throughout baseball. :twisted: He DIDN'T need Papelbon in the first game, with Halladay cruising. He DID need him in the LAST 2 GAMES, but didn't use him because of the asinine save situation bullshit. I fucking hate the save. ARRGH. And yeah, pitching to McCutchen is absurd; he's the only good player on the team.

The play at 1B so far is making Ryan Howard look like Keith Hernandez.

Galvis is way overmatched. Can we get Iguchi back?

Like i said last year take Howard out this lineup and were screwed. And Manuel has been beyond brutal besides starting Mayberry over Pierre in the 1st game.

well, if you replace howard with mayberry, wigginton, thome or nix of course the lineup is screwed. you would hope that the GM would recognize this :roll:

Also, the lineup with howard sucked in the playoffs too. It's not like he is going to solve all of their problems

THis team is in trouble in 2012. Tough to win when half of your position players are poop and the decent half are in full on regression.

Gonna be an interesting year

jamminpearls

This team shouldn't see a fastball for a strike EVER!!!

Phantom Pain

This is depressing