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| Hoodie | Birdland/The Fightins |
| Beat NY: What they can't buy, we're gonna take |
Running a little behind on this, but tell us who's gonna win the World Series and how:
Pedro Martinez will be the key to this Series. The man is a warrior cut from the same cloth as Bob Gibson (there's a reason he wears #45). As Pedro goes, so goes this Series.
Phils in 5, Jayson Werth MVP.
Yesterday our own contributing sports editor E. James Beale sat down with Daily News sports editor Josh Barnett on Marty Moss-Coane's Radio Times to talk about the World Series. Listen below.
[audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/radio_times-10-27-09.mp3]
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| Philly Boy Roy, in his natural habitat |
Last night, in the early moments of The Best Show on WFMU, PBR made a bold prediction: It will only take one game for nem Phightens to humiliate nem Yankees and win the World Series.
This led to a very improbable bet between the showâs host Tom Scharpling of Newbridge, North Jersey and Philly Boy Roy Ziegler of Roxborough.
Also discussed in this clip:
- Lipstick City, Barney Miller and Raul Ibanez guitars
- The appropriate age to begin dropping the F-bomb
- The Cin-A-Bon/milkshake deathwish
- Spinal Tap, Drum Power and WaWa Records
- An army tank driving through a lake of fudge pudding
- The time Peter killed a grip on the set of the Brady Bunch
- Whether pimpinâ is easy or not
- Whether itâs OK to put Peanut Chews into piñatas
- Whose bathroom area hurts
[audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/phillyboyroy_phillies.mp3]
Big victory in Game 1 proves Philly Boy is Nostradamus. I'm displaying my "Roy Ziegler has a posse" sticker prominently.
No daydreaming about the Flyers during the games, Rapa, or it's a cannon full of cheesesteaks to the face!
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As if one Phillies song - last week's blast from NeeKo, "Ill State of Mind" - wasn't enough, here's one that's one that's a little more sporty: "Unstoppable" from Guerilladelphia.
[audio:http://stream.citypaper.net/music/UNSTOPPABLE.mp3]
Guerilladelphia, made up of Don McCloskey, Chuck Treece (Bad Brains, McRad) and Tom Spiker (Kellis) came into effect after McCloskey watched the Phils beat the Colorado Rockies in the first round of the playoffs, then called Treece and Spiker to record what heâd written.
And then the real work began.
- Like phone calls to out-of-town Philadelphia natives G. Love and Kufie (in Boston at the time, they added vocal and harmonica tracks).
- Getting Jay Davidson, Larry Toft and Patrick Hughes to add horn parts
- Playing a raw demo at the North Bowl and snagging Phil Nicolo to mix the victory track.
That teamworkâs even better than what you see on the field. Get it for free at guerrilladelphia.com.
Absolutely amazing,i love the "Roots" and "Rage Against the Machine" style of hip hop flow,do they have a cd?
[...] listen to Guerrilladelphia a few times in a row. You’ll be ready [...]
We wholeheartedly endorse any zeitgeist-riding/meme-fucking that involves turning Kurt Vile's "Freak Train" into a paean to Carlos Ruiz. Extra credit for the Matador/Black Taco logo mashup.
(h/t Jon Solomon)
Last night's game 5 between the Angels and the Yankees was a thriller, a back-and-forth affair reminiscent of game 4 of the NLDS between Philadelphia and Colorado.
It also popped a big ugly hole in the mystique that the American League teams are somehow inherently better than their National League counterparts. This was a game riddled with sloppy play, bizarre managerial decisions and bullpens as shaky and flaky as, well, as the Phils' was most of the year.
How afraid are you of a manager who'll pull his ace starter in the 7th to let Darren F. Oliver (Darren Oliver!) face Mark Teixeira?
How afraid are you of a manager who'll pull his most dangerous hitter — and one who's actually pretty fast — for a pinch runner in the top of the ninth while trailing by a run and when his run would only tie the game?
How afraid are you of Brian Fuentes? Of Phil Hughes? Of C.C. Sabathia for that matter?
[...] MySpace for more. A possible anthem for when the Phil’s beat the Yanks in a scant few weeks (if they even get to the series)? Not to mention, what would Hova [...]
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In celebration of last night's epic walk-off victory with this pretty astounding Sporcle quiz: Name, in 15 minutes, every player to ever appear on an opening day lineup for the Fightin' Phils in the last 22 years.
Why 22? The quiz creator doesn't explain the methodology, but it looks to me that the 1988 lineup contains some of the last vestiges of the Phillies' late-70s/early-80s glory years. Following the lineups through the years is an oft-painful remembrance of the ugly rebuilding years of the early '90s and the ugly rebuilding years of the late'90s/early aughts.
Without taking the quiz first, can you name the player that shows up most frequently, and one of the players who appears just once?
I am the creator, and the reason is because sporcle limits you to 200 answers, which only allows for 22 lineups of 9 players each. But I'll have to start workong on one for prior years.
Thanks for the explanation, Tim. After seeing that 1988 lineup, it seemed to make pretty decent sense to start with the last of the "Steve Jeltz years" as a jumping off point and then tracking the various rebuilding and dismantling efforts that followed. But the 200-answer limit makes sense, too. Can't wait to see more of these. Keep up the good work.
I clicked on the link before I got to the end of the post. 133/199 was my score. I don't want to tell you some of the people I missed. But I will say I got Benito Santiago. Whaaaat??
In case people want to go back further, I've posted this one that covers the opening of the Vet until 1992 (so there's some overlap with the other one, but the Vet really seemed like a good point to start -- it's just a shame I couldn't squeeze 1993 in there to bookend it with that club). http://www.sporcle.com/games/tk926/Phillies_Vet_lineups
The memes are flowing fast and furious here in Red October. In our inbox today: The Cliff Lee Clutch Bar, a send up of the Clif energy bar and an homage to the Phillies' postseason ace.
Still in search of a source of this bit of graphic noodlery, which has been up on the Cliff Lee Facebook fan page since. Oct. 7 but which no one seems to be taking credit for there.
What's the best Phillies meme of this post season?
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I'm a fan of Choochtober. For he is Señor Octubre.
I can't get enough of the black taco. Yes, it makes absolutely no sense but it's magical powers have worked so far. BLACK TACO! GO PHILS!!
Let's keep this simple:
- Who's gonna win the series?
- Who'll be MVP?
- Will the Shane Victorino/Hiroki Kuroda feud continue?
- Will Matt Stairs get another shot at Jonathan Broxton?
Last night's series-clinching 5-4 win over the Rockies, featuring a 3-run, 2-out rally in the ninth, was quite possibly the most tense contest in the Phils' current three-year playoff run.
In response to my exaltations about the game on Facebook, Chuck Meehan dropped this bit of wisdom: "Craziest shit I can remember since the 1980 NLCS."
To those who remember the 1980 NLCS game five — a flip-floppy affair which saw the Phils fall behind by 3 in the seventh inning while facing a height-of-his-powers Nolan Ryan, rally for 5 runs in the top of the eighth, surrender 2 in the bottom of the eighth to tie and eventually win the whole series on a Garry Maddox double in the 10th inning (the fourth extra-innings game in the five-game series) — which game was crazier?
Sorry to say it, but the 1980 game was better, because it was the final, sudden death game of the best playoff series ever, against a hall of famer. As great as last night was, if we'd lost we would have had another shot, at home, with one of our two best pitchers.
Have to give the edge to 1980. Like Kieren said, if the Phillies had lost last night, they still would've had another shot to wrap it up tonight. There was no tomorrow in 1980. That said, last night was definitely an all-timer and will rank right up there in Phillies lore
Last year's three-day game 5?
r U Ryan's brother?
Thanks for asking, ben. I'm not Ryan Howard's brother — though my sister affectionately refers to No. 6 as Li'l Brudder. I am just a guy with an eerily similar name.
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