Archive for September, 2011

And now we have to trudge on with a flicker of hopeful light , instead of the natural feeling of sloppy, depressing sludge churning within us. Thanks a lot.

The manager put in that guy who used to strike everyone out, but he isn’t good anymore. He gave up some runs. The tall guy hit a home run, but not enough home run so the Phillies lost again.

Charlie Manual’s team has wrapped up a bunch of stuff already.  The Phillies have won the division and have locked up home field advantage throughout the playoffs.  I keep writing this is every recap in order to quell the growing sense of panic that I am sure is welling up inside every Phillies fan.  In every one of us, there is an inner crotchety old man spewing vitriol and reminding us about 1964.  ”Fucking Gene Mauch pitched Chris Short and Jim Bunning every other day!  I’m sure that Charlie will find a way to fuck this up too.”  states the [...]

There are times when words strewn manically across a page/website are not enough to describe an emotion.  Let’s take a look at the word hate.  Hate is used pretty regularly.  People say that they hate all manner of things; hot dogs, eggs, some even use the word about baseball managers that they have never actually met.  

Just because a Major League pitcher takes 14 tries to finally beat one team…

Ryan Howard hasn’t won the Roberto Clemente Award per se, but he leads the voting in the “charming smiles” category; which, Jeff Karstens will tell you, is harder than it sounds.

Who put that quote there? Right after the sentence I wrote that seemed to indicate the exact opposite?!

You’ve probably noticed all those unfamiliar people in the dugout lately.  One of them is John Bowker.  These are the others.

So, breathe a sigh of relief. Go ahead. Breathe it.

Chris Carpenter threw eight innings of shut out ball as the Phillies appeared to be recovering from a post clinch hangover. The offense managed eight hits, but none of them went for extra bases.