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

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  • RW81233
    RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    It's going to be a long...long year. The Phillies are the least fearsome title defender since the Anaheim Angels.
  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
    3-3 after 6...well...it COULD be worse but the pitching better get their heads out of the asses
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • jamminpearls
    jamminpearls Posts: 7,078
    petrocs wrote:
    3-3 after 6...well...it COULD be worse but the pitching better get their heads out of the asses
    ibanez has been a nice addition i wasn't sure about him. i like what charlie did by batting him 6th and werth 5th. Pitching really needs to wake up Myers is the only one who has looked like a major league pitcher. 3-3 is ok with me the future looks bright to me. Go World Champs!!!!! :D
    Go Birds!!!!
  • Blind3
    Blind3 Posts: 1,149
    Harry's passing is definitely going to cast a shadow for a long time to come. C'mon Phils, time to win one for Harry the K !!! Gone , but he'll never be forgotton. Like Gene Hart and Richie Ashburn before him.
    "Buy the ticket,take the ride"
    Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

    "If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better"
    Johan Cruijff
  • B.Kutys
    B.Kutys Posts: 119
    RIP Harry...
  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
    We win the world series again this year....for Harry
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    What a tough game to play today

    Listening and watching the Phils will never be the same

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qTMYMBMy3g

    RIP Harry you were the best
    My drinking team has a hockey problem

    The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill



    A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
  • chromiam
    chromiam Posts: 4,114
    to those in the Philly area.. Harry's final broadcast (Sunday's game vs Colorado) is on Comcast Sportsnet now (7:30PM EST on Monday)... enjoy...
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  • An era has ended, like Gene Hart before him, we've lost another great voice of Philadelphia sports. Harry rest easy. We miss you.
  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
    Does anyone else wanna punch Reuben Amaro in the head? Jesus...why in Gods name didnt we go after pitchers this off season? did anyone really think Moyer and Blanton were going to cut it for another season?
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    petrocs wrote:
    Does anyone else wanna punch Reuben Amaro in the head? Jesus...why in Gods name didnt we go after pitchers this off season? did anyone really think Moyer and Blanton were going to cut it for another season?

    Well, the Phils have the 4th highest payroll in baseball right now at $129 million (behind the Yanks 201, Mets 149 and Cubs 134). How much more would you have liked them to spend?

    I didn't agree with the Moyer signing and wanted them to get D Lowe. But Moyer is kind of a folk hero here now and there would have been a lot of outrage if the Phils let him go.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
    I wouldve been quite fine with letting Jamie Moyer go for Lowe
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    petrocs wrote:
    I wouldve been quite fine with letting Jamie Moyer go for Lowe

    Same here. Hopefully Moyer has a good game tonight because I'm taking my dad to the game.
    - Busted down the pretext
    - 8/28/98
    - 9/2/00
    - 4/28/03, 5/3/03, 7/3/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/9/03, 7/11/03, 7/12/03, 7/14/03
    - 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 10/1/04, 10/2/04
    - 9/11/05, 9/12/05, 9/13/05, 9/30/05, 10/1/05, 10/3/05
    - 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 5/30/06, 6/1/06, 6/3/06, 6/23/06, 7/22/06, 7/23/06, 12/2/06, 12/9/06
    - 8/2/07, 8/5/07
    - 6/19/08, 6/20/08, 6/22/08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 7/1/08
    - 8/23/09, 8/24/09, 9/21/09, 9/22/09, 10/27/09, 10/28/09, 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    - 5/15/10, 5/17/10, 5/18/10, 5/20/10, 5/21/10, 10/23/10, 10/24/10
    - 9/11/11, 9/12/11
    - 10/18/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 11/30/13, 12/4/13
  • petrocs
    petrocs Posts: 4,342
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    Bring on the Mets bitches!!!
    Shows:
    9/24/96 MD. 9/28/96 Randalls. 8/28-29/98 Camden. 9/8/98 NJ. 9/18/98 MD. 9/1-2/00 Camden. 9/4/00 MD. 4/28/03 Philly. 7/5-6/03 Camden. 9/30/05 AC.
    10/3/05 Philly. 5/27-28/06 Camden. 6/23/06 Pitt. 6/19-20/08 Camden. 6/24/08 MSG. 8/7/08 EV Newark, NJ. 6/11-12/09 EV Philly, PA. 10/27-28-30-31/09 Philly, PA., 5/15/10 Hartford,5/17/10 Boston, 5/18/10 Newark, 5/20-21/10 MSG
  • DrockNJ
    DrockNJ Posts: 43
    petrocs wrote:
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    Bring on the Mets bitches!!!


    nice...i'll be at the game on Sat just hoping it doesn't get rained out...
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Nice !!

    :lol:
    http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/col ... _fans.html


    Gonzo: Poor Mets, poor fansBy John Gonzalez

    Inquirer Columnist

    Dear Mets fans,
    It's been a while since you last came to visit. You weren't missed all that much. We love to hate each other, sure, but it was kind of nice without you.

    This is your first trip to town since last August. Philly has been a little busy since then. There was the World Series and the parade and the ring ceremony and, man, it just hasn't stopped. You probably saw most of it on TV since you didn't have much else to do after September. You remember all the pageantry that goes along with being a world champion, right? No? Well, maybe you have some faded pictures of 1986 in a shoebox somewhere.

    This might be overstepping our relationship, but can we tell you something? You guys seem awfully haggard. It looks like you haven't slept much lately. Guess choking away two straight division titles will keep you up at night.

    It has to be brutal to be a Mets fan. The Fightin's got off to a typically slow start and still managed to finish the first month of the season with an 11-9 record. That's where they were at this point last year - two games over .500 - and we all know how 2008 worked out for the Phils.

    Meanwhile, the Mets enter the series having lost seven of their last 10. They're three games under .500 and looking sloppier every day.

    Their season certainly hasn't gone over well with the New York media. Stories about the Mets are frequently peppered with words such as "pressure" and "anxiety" and "failure." And the headlines are even more vicious:

    A Strange and Sad Season

    Mets Remain Amazin'ly Powerless

    Mets Can Produce Only More Frustration

    And the best of the lot . . .

    Ya Gotta Be Kidding

    Things have gotten so ugly that David Wright has been openly booed at Citi Field. (A little advice: that kind of behavior is so unbecoming. You should try to be more like us - cool and calm and supportive.) A blogger for the Newark Star-Ledger even wrote that Wright is "the face of panic in New York's slow start." How far the all-star has fallen.

    Jerry Manuel has also taken a lot of heat. Last week, one of you guys made national news when you held up a homemade sign. It was an orange poster board with black letters and a simple, direct message: "Fire J. Manuel." The Mets fascist security guards didn't like that very much, and they confiscated the sign.

    On top of all that, you're forced to pay outrageous prices to watch bad baseball at Citi Field - the not-so-impressive new park that the team plunked down next to a shanty town of shabby auto body shops. Even visitors from Detroit would find that area crummy.

    While you're here on your mini-vacation, try to relax. Have a Schmitter and a few lagers and forget about your troubles at home. Soon enough, you'll be on the Jersey Turnpike again - headed back to New York to watch the Amazin's bungle their way through another season. That's an awfully grim fate.

    For once, we won't blame you guys for making the trip down to Philly. Generally it bugs us. But if we had it that rough, we'd want to get away, too.

    Sincerely,

    Fightin's fans
    My drinking team has a hockey problem

    The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill



    A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
  • PJSerf
    PJSerf Posts: 637
    Love that Inquirer article!

    I'm heading down tonight. Hopefully they get all the games in this weekend without too many problems.

    Go Phils!!
    "If you love someone, set them free... if someone loves you, don't fuck up" - EV
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    DrockNJ wrote:
    petrocs wrote:
    2987_1134064920345_1488961943_30328173_6632313_n.jpg

    Bring on the Mets bitches!!!


    nice...i'll be at the game on Sat just hoping it doesn't get rained out...

    Woah Dude !

    Whats with that creepy eye ?!?! :o

    Kinda looks like Vinnie from Doogie Howser :D
    My drinking team has a hockey problem

    The ONLY thing better than a glass of beer is tea with Miss McGill



    A protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers
  • RW81233
    RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    Nice !!

    :lol:
    http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/col ... _fans.html


    Gonzo: Poor Mets, poor fansBy John Gonzalez

    Inquirer Columnist

    Dear Mets fans,
    It's been a while since you last came to visit. You weren't missed all that much. We love to hate each other, sure, but it was kind of nice without you.

    This is your first trip to town since last August. Philly has been a little busy since then. There was the World Series and the parade and the ring ceremony and, man, it just hasn't stopped. You probably saw most of it on TV since you didn't have much else to do after September. You remember all the pageantry that goes along with being a world champion, right? No? Well, maybe you have some faded pictures of 1986 in a shoebox somewhere.

    This might be overstepping our relationship, but can we tell you something? You guys seem awfully haggard. It looks like you haven't slept much lately. Guess choking away two straight division titles will keep you up at night.

    It has to be brutal to be a Mets fan. The Fightin's got off to a typically slow start and still managed to finish the first month of the season with an 11-9 record. That's where they were at this point last year - two games over .500 - and we all know how 2008 worked out for the Phils.

    Meanwhile, the Mets enter the series having lost seven of their last 10. They're three games under .500 and looking sloppier every day.

    Their season certainly hasn't gone over well with the New York media. Stories about the Mets are frequently peppered with words such as "pressure" and "anxiety" and "failure." And the headlines are even more vicious:

    A Strange and Sad Season

    Mets Remain Amazin'ly Powerless

    Mets Can Produce Only More Frustration

    And the best of the lot . . .

    Ya Gotta Be Kidding

    Things have gotten so ugly that David Wright has been openly booed at Citi Field. (A little advice: that kind of behavior is so unbecoming. You should try to be more like us - cool and calm and supportive.) A blogger for the Newark Star-Ledger even wrote that Wright is "the face of panic in New York's slow start." How far the all-star has fallen.

    Jerry Manuel has also taken a lot of heat. Last week, one of you guys made national news when you held up a homemade sign. It was an orange poster board with black letters and a simple, direct message: "Fire J. Manuel." The Mets fascist security guards didn't like that very much, and they confiscated the sign.

    On top of all that, you're forced to pay outrageous prices to watch bad baseball at Citi Field - the not-so-impressive new park that the team plunked down next to a shanty town of shabby auto body shops. Even visitors from Detroit would find that area crummy.

    While you're here on your mini-vacation, try to relax. Have a Schmitter and a few lagers and forget about your troubles at home. Soon enough, you'll be on the Jersey Turnpike again - headed back to New York to watch the Amazin's bungle their way through another season. That's an awfully grim fate.

    For once, we won't blame you guys for making the trip down to Philly. Generally it bugs us. But if we had it that rough, we'd want to get away, too.

    Sincerely,

    Fightin's fans
    I am a fan of neither team, but three words that I would NEVER EVER use to describe Philly fans are cool, calm, and supportive...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BTej926Pvo
  • DrockNJ
    DrockNJ Posts: 43
    RW81233 wrote:
    Nice !!

    :lol:
    http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/col ... _fans.html


    Gonzo: Poor Mets, poor fansBy John Gonzalez

    Inquirer Columnist

    Dear Mets fans,
    It's been a while since you last came to visit. You weren't missed all that much. We love to hate each other, sure, but it was kind of nice without you.

    This is your first trip to town since last August. Philly has been a little busy since then. There was the World Series and the parade and the ring ceremony and, man, it just hasn't stopped. You probably saw most of it on TV since you didn't have much else to do after September. You remember all the pageantry that goes along with being a world champion, right? No? Well, maybe you have some faded pictures of 1986 in a shoebox somewhere.

    This might be overstepping our relationship, but can we tell you something? You guys seem awfully haggard. It looks like you haven't slept much lately. Guess choking away two straight division titles will keep you up at night.

    It has to be brutal to be a Mets fan. The Fightin's got off to a typically slow start and still managed to finish the first month of the season with an 11-9 record. That's where they were at this point last year - two games over .500 - and we all know how 2008 worked out for the Phils.

    Meanwhile, the Mets enter the series having lost seven of their last 10. They're three games under .500 and looking sloppier every day.

    Their season certainly hasn't gone over well with the New York media. Stories about the Mets are frequently peppered with words such as "pressure" and "anxiety" and "failure." And the headlines are even more vicious:

    A Strange and Sad Season

    Mets Remain Amazin'ly Powerless

    Mets Can Produce Only More Frustration

    And the best of the lot . . .

    Ya Gotta Be Kidding

    Things have gotten so ugly that David Wright has been openly booed at Citi Field. (A little advice: that kind of behavior is so unbecoming. You should try to be more like us - cool and calm and supportive.) A blogger for the Newark Star-Ledger even wrote that Wright is "the face of panic in New York's slow start." How far the all-star has fallen.

    Jerry Manuel has also taken a lot of heat. Last week, one of you guys made national news when you held up a homemade sign. It was an orange poster board with black letters and a simple, direct message: "Fire J. Manuel." The Mets fascist security guards didn't like that very much, and they confiscated the sign.

    On top of all that, you're forced to pay outrageous prices to watch bad baseball at Citi Field - the not-so-impressive new park that the team plunked down next to a shanty town of shabby auto body shops. Even visitors from Detroit would find that area crummy.

    While you're here on your mini-vacation, try to relax. Have a Schmitter and a few lagers and forget about your troubles at home. Soon enough, you'll be on the Jersey Turnpike again - headed back to New York to watch the Amazin's bungle their way through another season. That's an awfully grim fate.

    For once, we won't blame you guys for making the trip down to Philly. Generally it bugs us. But if we had it that rough, we'd want to get away, too.

    Sincerely,

    Fightin's fans


    I am a fan of neither team, but three words that I would NEVER EVER use to describe Philly fans are cool, calm, and supportive...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BTej926Pvo

    yea i can agree with you on that one....we were the ones throwing beer bottles at Santa Claus..
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