Archive for August, 2009

Bring on the Giants, who are more stressed than we are.

Bako’s HR? The Braves have eight of 12? BEES?!

You see what happens when you don’t put Brad Lidge in?! …is what every Phillies blog would say if it were the reason we won last night.  No sir, or ma’am, it was thanks to the heroics of Ryan Howard, a guy who, let’s face it, is pretty questionable in the clutch.   But the big guy delivered tonight, and it’s all we can really ask of him. Ryan Madson proved that you can close the door, but a solid pitcher can dead bolt it. In that vein, tonight we’ll see another one of our hit-erasing starters take the mound, [...]

Brad Lidge continues to shiv us while we’re not looking and we continue to thank him for it.

AVAST, LANDLUBBERS. HA-HA-HARRR….
We’re playing the Pirates. Get it?!

I don’t know which was more jarring, the initial loss to the Mets or the headline on Phillies.com, “Bruntlett sending jersey to Hall of Fame.” The triple play was awesome, Jeff Francoeur slamming his helmet down hilarious, but I still think that the most satisfying part was who the hero was. Eric Bruntlett is a guy whose skills are…questionable. This is the most high profile moment of his career and it happened in the same inning that he was a big part of two fielding errors. If I were a suspicious/crazy man, I might suggest that he got runners on base purposely, [...]

Its not that we mind coming to town While the world of the Mets has turned upside down. As their players are wounded, Or hit in the head, Or falling down steps, Or possibly dead. I remember the days when we were both at the top. When we both had great defense, And all our bats still had “pop.” Our division was home To two teams, not one That could taste the post season, And were still having fun. As we stepped in and out of each other’s way, Swapping turns in first place, It seemed to change by the day. [...]

I had just finished tweeting some snarky comment about the Phillies failing to produce runs, when Ryan Howard and Jayson Werth burst into my living room and put my head through the monitor. They of course did this in the form of smashing back-to-back dingers off a guy who may have been Cy Young-bound if he’d kept up his pre-All-Star game performances. The Phillies assault on baseballs didn’t stop there.  Who thought that Cliff Lee would take to hitting so naturally?  The man’s got four hits since joining the National League, and you can tell, he flat out enjoys the [...]

Negativity? Not in here, pal.

This weekend, I actually said the phrase, “I wish there was some way that the pitchers didn’t have to handle the ball.” While making no sense, it was stated directly after Brad Lidge’s little circus routine on Saturday that cost us the sweep.  Bobbling the ball hit right back to him, and  then mistaking what was probably a hot dog vendor or small child in the stands for Ryan Howard, we watched our hopes for a blanking of the Braves sail past Howard’s glove. Lidge calmly loaded the bases and then wiped them clean again with an embarrassing error that, [...]