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This is it, Phillies fans. In just under an hour, the Phillies will begin their quest for their second World Series title in three years. You've heard all the Three Aces hype, and you've heard plenty of professional prognisticators pick the hometown 9 to once again hoist the Commissioner's Trophy. But we here at CP want to know how you all think it's gonna go down. So we're breaking out the old Predictatron cuz we want you, CP readers, to call the post season.
Friend of the Clog Brian Hickey weighed in earlier, channeling his inner Moses Malone (and trust me, he's got one): "Fo-Fo-Five-Parade."
And CP sports columnist/erstwhile CP Sports Complex blogger E. James Beale, who'll be putting his press credentials to good use blogging here before and after each playoff game, makes this prediction about the Predictatron: "Prediction: EVERYONE goes with the Phils. Philly hasn't had this much confidence in our city succeeding athletically since Will tricked Carlton into settling their feud with a game of HORSE."
That, of course, was a reference to Will and Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel- Air (and from what we can gather, a completely fabricated one at that), not a reference to Steve Carlton.
We're gonna go conservative and say: "Five, Four, Six, Parade (and also Funner, Funnerer, Funnerest)."
What say you? Have at it in the comments.
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Pasted right from Craigslist. The missed connection here refers to Carlos "Chooch" Ruiz and a thrown friendship bracelet.
You are my favorite baseball player. That being said, I made you a friendship bracelet in Phillies colors. When you drove out of the CBP parking lot after the game on Sunday, I may or may not have thrown said bracelet at your car. I was kind of drunk and it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Please accept my apology and the bracelet as I will try to mail it to you. Also, please give my apologies to Valdez because he drove out right after you and I also threw it at his car.
Sincerely-- N.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know our fans are totally loopy. But really, TAUNTR, do you have to make a game about it? "WILL PHUCK FOR TICKETS" along with everything else purposefully misspelled with a "Ph" is not clever, damnit. Saddam Hussein as a Phillies fan is kinda funny though. So is the "Mature: Contains Philadelphia" tag.
OK, fine, the game is a little fun. Play it here.
phag...awfully clever eh?
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Youtube commenter MrKickyourazz sums up the situation sharply: "That is mast up.Kids shoud not be? drink."
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he handles the beer bottle so expertly...
I think my brain just exploded when reading this post. Awesome work.
It is now three weeks since the Phillies were caught using binoculars in the bullpen, and since the game in question the Phillies have lost 10 of 18. No, it's not an incredibly miserable stretch, but what's been especially suspicious is the way they've lost (and won) recently. Following a four-game win streak in which they pummeled the Brewers and the Pirates, the offense shriveled up like Jose Canseco's junk, scoring 12 runs in nine games against the Red Sox, Mets and Marlins. That the Phillies needed an unearned run to avoid making Roy Halladay the next Harvey Haddix speaks volumes.
There are three theories bubbling among people who comment on web sites that we find interesting:
1) The Phillies WERE stealing signs and now, absent the crutch of knowing what pitch was coming, are forced to actually guess.
2) The Phillies were the first team in decades to face two knuckleball pitchers in a row (in Boston's Tim Wakefield and New York's R.A. Dickey), and that flutterball double-dip has screwed up the team.
3) Losing Jimmy Rollins and Placido Polanco at the top of the lineup is finally catching up to the team.
What say you, interwebs reader?
While the hometown 9 have started a season off right for a change not a huge feat when your first 6 games area against the Nationals and a Lance Berkman-less Astros, but hey they start off the home portion of their schedule today at 3:05. Of course, they get three more against those Nationals before they face anything resembling a challenge: three against the Marlins and then three against the Braves.
Which means there'll be lots of late liquid lunches and knocking off early around the Delaware Valley this afternoon to catch Cole Hamels square off against Jason Marquis.We will, of course, be stuck at the desk listening in on 1210, something we normally only do when Glenn Beck is on.
Go Phils.
After a long, boring pre-season, the Phils kick off their 2010 NL title defense today, in Washington DC, at 1:05, with Roy Halladay on the mound.
I'll be listening here at my desk on 1210 AM and following along on the GameChannel live tracker.
Where are you watching/listening?
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No. 5 was traded. Long live No. 5.
As you've likely heard by now, Donovan McNabb's been dealt, heading down I-95 to suit up for the dear old Washington Racist-nameds.
As curious as this seemingly sudden but talked-up-for-weeks-(or-years) move is trading one of the most successful QBs of the decade within the division for good-but-not-great picks what's even more curious is the timing.
Yes, perhaps the Eagles operate in their own little bubble and pay no heed to what's going on in the rest of the world, sporting or otherwise, local or otherwise. But it was suggested to me last night by a friend who knows people who know people who would know, that the fact that this trade happened the night before the Phillies open their 2010 quest to return to the World Series for the third straight year may not be coincidental at all. Seems fair to assume that no matter what the Phils do in the first week of the season, this McNabb thing's gonna steal some of the shine time they Phils'll be getting from papers in Philly or DC (where the Phils open their season today), to say nothing of sports talk radio (which is talking about this very issue right now). Apparently, the source was surprised the trade didn't go down the night before the home opener.
My initial thought: No way the Eagles would try to upstage the Phils. My second thought: The Eagles have lost a HUGE chunk of sporting mindshare in this city in recent years and they're one deep Flyers post-season run away from being the No. 3 team in town.
What do you think?
PREVIOUSLY >> Now What? E. James Beale's been predicting this for years.
I have a hard time believing the timing was intentional. If the deal was done on Sunday and they waited, it would have been leaked. If the deal was done earlier and they wanted to wait until Sunday, it would have leaked earlier. And I 100% disagree with your assertion that the Eagles have lost mindshare.
@trace bullet: yeah, I guess my "third thought," which I wish I'd given myself time to get around to, would be that maybe the Eagles timed this precisely when they did so that the news would be buried by opening-day excitement.
Considering that all the attention will be divided into people crapping on McNabb vs. people crapping on the front office for trading him so cheaply and in the division, that seems like a lot of conspiracy for something that isn't likely to earn the Eagles a single extra dime.
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- This will be the Phillies first season with opening-day starter/bona-fide ace Roy Halladay. Do you remember who the Phils' OD starter was the last three years? Yup, Brett F. Myers. Barring injury (knocks on wood), this'll be the first time since the Schilling years that the Phils have had a hands-down No. 1 starter. And he'll be followed by a guy in Cole Hamels with the potential to be a No. 1a.
- Legit contact hitter Placido Polanco will be batting second and will ostensibly add "productive outs" to the lineup's repertoire.
- Moving Shane Victorino to the bottom of the order provides something like a secondary lead-off hitter to the bottom of the lineup.
- The additions of Danys Baez and Jose Contreras to the bullpen provide depth and experience (though quality is not a given).
- The competition for the fifth spot in the rotation is between a 47-year-old who spent much of the offseason in the hospital and a 25-year-old with a high hit rate and a low strike-out rate
- The first lefty out of the bullpen until/if J.C. Romero is healthy (other than Moyer if he doesn't win the fifth starter job) is Antonio Bastardo, who is talented and has an awesome name, but is very very raw.
- Brad Lidge remains the biggest X factor on the team.
- Ryan Howard, Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins are all a 365 days further into their "peak" years than they were last spring.
- Ruben Amaro's propensity lock up with guaranteed contracts players he doesn't need to lock up and for more money than the market's calling for (Brian Schneider, Juan Castro, Ross Gload, Ibáñez, Polanco) may have cost the Phillies the opportunity to go into 2010 with Hallady, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels in the top three spots in the rotation.
- The Mets remain a mess, or, if you'd rather, the Mets remain the Mets.
- The Braves will start 20-year-old super prospect Jason Heyward in their outfield this season and have added former Phillie/Phillies punching bag Billy Wagner to close
- The Marlins young pitching is always terrifying.
- The Cardinals inked mid-season aquisition Matt Holliday and... Brad Penny
- The Yankees have bolstered their 2009 juggernaut by adding OBP machine/walking injury Nick Johnson, 20/20 threat Curtis Granderson and starting pitcher Javier Vazquez (who, it should be noted, has already flamed out as a Yankee once).
- The Red Sox have added perpetual enigma Adrian Beltre, Mike Cameron and Marco Scutaro to their lineup and Angels ace John Lackey to hold down the No. 3 spot in the rotation
- The Mariners now have what could be the best 1-2 pitching punch in baseball with Felix Hernandez and Cliff Lee in addition to adding Chone Figgins, Milton Bradley and Casey Kotchman.
This just in from Brian Hickey: 94-68. They lose in the NLCS to the Cubs, in seven. D. Lee over Hamels. And the Cubs go on to get swept by the fucking Yankees.
I say 93
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In a show of class you hope for from the guy you just traded half your farm system and stand-up guy Cliff Lee for, Roy Halladay ran the following full-page ad in the Toronto Star thanking the city and organization for the support they always showed him. I question his font choice and wonder why he didn't spring for color like a certain former Phillie did when he left town (newspapers are hurting, Roy!), but otherwise I respect the move.
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