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

The Fixer wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

I still suck at quoting

and at the rules of fandom...apparently.

I love how you try to annoint yourself as the authority on fan rules. then you're the first one on the flyers bandwagon.

epitome of a hypocrite

i am the foremost expert on this topic my friend.

as you can see in that flyers thread i even admitted that i could be perceived as fraudulent about jumping on the flyers bandwagon. i am a four for four guy but have never been able to get into hockey despite many tries. so when it's spring time, it's hockey time. (also--i hardly post in that thread anways)

gotta call 'em like i see 'em.

eitherway, you're way off base with your assesment on the college issue here.

metsfan wrote:

As I walking down the escalator from gates 70-76 I heard a let's go flyers chant, so I yelled from the top of my lungs let's go rangers and bout 10 other people joined in and we quickly drowned out the flyers chant. You don't come to rangers arena and pull that shit.

fraudulent

81 wrote:

metsfan wrote:

As I walking down the escalator from gates 70-76 I heard a let's go flyers chant, so I yelled from the top of my lungs let's go rangers and bout 10 other people joined in and we quickly drowned out the flyers chant. You don't come to rangers arena and pull that shit.

fraudulent

Stalking much

What are you jiggy's VP

Five pressing questions about Phillies
POSTED: May 25, 2010 By PAUL HAGEN


The season is a quarter spent. Many baseball people say it takes 50 games to get a feel for a team; that arbitrary milestone looms in a week. As the Phillies get ready to open a series tonight against the New York Mets at Citi Field, here's a look at the questions, concerns and issues facing the defending National League champions:

1Is the starting pitching good enough?

Good enough to make the playoffs? Probably. Roy Halladay is Roy Halladay, despite a tough go of it his last time out. Cole Hamels seems to be getting himself together. Jamie Moyer is having another amazing renaissance and Joe Blanton is solid and dependable.

At the same time, Moyer is 47 years old. So you never know. And J.A. Happ remains a significant question mark with a left forearm strain. So there have to be worries about whether the rotation has the depth to withstand the rigors of a land-mined season and still go deep into the postseason or even make it back to the World Series for the third straight year.

2 Will they add a starter before the July 31 nonwaiver trading deadline? After all, they've made an in-season move (Moyer, Kyle Lohse, Blanton, Cliff Lee) each of the last 4 years.

Don't hold your breath. The Phillies made their headline acquisition for 2010 last December when they got Halladay. And forget all this speculation about getting Lee back for the stretch drive if the Mariners fall out of contention.

If Seattle does decide to trade Lee, who can be a free agent at the end of the season, they'll want a decent package of prospects in return. And don't forget, one of the stated reasons for flipping him in the first place was to begin restocking a farm system that has been ransacked in deals that helped the Phillies win three straight division titles.

In short, the Phillies don't appear to have the minor leaguers it would take to make a deal for Lee or any other top-flight starter.

The best option might just be a return engagement for Pedro Martinez, who, according to reports, hasn't ruled out pitching again.

3 Will Brad Lidge return as the closer?

If he can, it would be a nice boost. But at this point, it would have to be considered a bonus.

Lidge will throw bullpens tonight and Thursday in New York. If all goes well, he could start a rehab assignment this weekend. Lidge said the elbow inflammation that landed him on the disabled list for the second time this season is gone and that he's confident that problem is now behind him.

We'll see. The reality is that it's been almost a year-and-a-half since Lidge has been consistently effective. Until he proves he's back in actual games, it's hard to count on him.

That, and the fact that setup man Ryan Madson is sidelined by a broken right big toe, are why rumors like the one that had the Phillies scouting White Sox relievers Bobby Jenks and J.J. Putz are likely to continue to surface for a while.

4 How much concern should there be over shortstop Jimmy Rollins?

A lot. It's not just that he has strained his right calf twice now. It's that he has done it in mundane ways. Limbering up before a game. Running to first on a basehit. So even if he comes off the disabled list in 2 weeks and it doesn't bother him again all season, it's got to be in the back of the Phillies' minds that it could pop again at any time.

And everybody understands how much Rollins brings to the team.

5 Who's the key hitter to watch the rest of the season?

Leftfielder Raul Ibanez. In his first 62 games with the Phillies, he batted .312 with 22 homers and 59 RBI. Then he went on the disabled list with what was described at the time as a strained left groin. He came back on July 11, played hurt the rest of the year and had surgery to repair a sports hernia at the end of the season.

In 114 games since he came back from the DL, he's hitting .237 with 15 homers and 54 RBI.

Whether he can bounce back will help determine not only how well the offense functions for the remainder of the season, it could well impact how the Phillies approach negotiations with potential free agent Jayson Werth.

I give a rats ass cause I hate everything philly and my 83 year old grandpa is a die hard rangers fan since the old garden. So I do have some sort of connection to the rangers.

1-0 mets

The Jeagler wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

WILL YOU ALL SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!





...Hey, guys. How's it goin?

come on dude. it's a spirited debate about sports frauds. this thread has been both informative and entertaining the last few days

YOU ESPECIALLY.









Carry on...

The Jeagler wrote:

can't believe i am saying this but i actually concur with the mets/cowboys fan on this one. had it been at the wachovia center with people chanting "let's go rangers"--you know the phily faithful would have drowned them out with flyers chants.

nothing fraudulent here. him being a cowboys fan....well....

did you miss the fact that mr metsy started the lets go rangers chant?


suppose you were in dallas and somebody started a lets go redskins chant, would you reply back with a lets go cowboys?

The Jeagler wrote:

81 wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

can't believe i am saying this but i actually concur with the mets/cowboys fan on this one. had it been at the wachovia center with people chanting "let's go rangers"--you know the phily faithful would have drowned them out with flyers chants.

nothing fraudulent here. him being a cowboys fan....well....

did you miss the fact that mr metsy started the lets go rangers chant?


suppose you were in dallas and somebody started a lets go redskins chant, would you reply back with a lets go cowboys?

if it's in your home building and others are chanting another team's name, i see no problem with the locals trying to drown them out with the home team's chant.

whether metsfan is a fraudulent rangers fan remains to be seen. on the surface, though, i don't think we have an issue here...

i agree with the real Rangers fan chanting. that makes perfect sense. but for people that are not rangers fans to start chanting is fraudulent.

Welp....this is what I would call a stone cold losing streak, gentlemen.

I know, I know - feast or famine with this team, but this is just getting downright ridicurous.

First time the Phillies have been shutout consecutively against the Mets since July 17-18, 1998. Your starting pitching matchups for those games at Shea were the following:

Carlton Loewer vs. Hideo Nomo
Tyler Green vs. Al Leiter