2011 Philadelphia Phillies Season Thread (choking awful pos team, DIAF)

MDS · June 03, 2011, 01:14:38 AM

he wont be ready until choke is an pound for pound re-creation of mo vaughn

so hes not really blocked by anything. and its nowhere near certain that hes even an mlb player.

ice grillin you · June 03, 2011, 08:23:47 AM

yeah you are not blocked from the major leagues until you are actually ready to be a major leaguer and singleton isnt even a very good high A ball player right now much less being blocked from the show....lets be productive at reading for a year before we annoint

MDS · June 03, 2011, 01:30:28 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6621842

so apparently the phillies are in debt.

how. stupid. can. they be.

PhillyPhreak54 · June 03, 2011, 01:33:37 PM

MAAAyberry sent to the minors. Igy rejoices.

PhillyPhreak54 · June 03, 2011, 01:35:15 PM

Quote from: MDS on June 03, 2011, 01:30:28 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6621842

so apparently the phillies are in debt.

how. stupid. can. they be.

How is that possible?

Rome · June 03, 2011, 01:38:31 PM

It's bullshtein.

MDS · June 03, 2011, 01:44:35 PM

im not even sure what the compliance is for debt but with all the money they raking it and the fact that they didnt even hit the luxury tax yet, its just madness to think they are bleeding cash.

its possible the bucks or middleton or something made a terrible investment but even so middleton has like 10 billion dollars. HE CANT BE IN DEBT. HE IS TOO RICH.

Rome · June 03, 2011, 01:47:48 PM

Exactly. Middleton could wipe out whatever debt they have by writing a check out of petty cash.

If their expenses are outpacing their revenues or whatever that's one thing but for ESPN to suggest they're in trouble financially is bullshtein lazy reporting. In other words, par for the course for those asses.

Munson · June 03, 2011, 01:59:48 PM

Mayberry really wasn't all that awful. Not an everyday guy but he's a good #4 OF

Don Ho · June 03, 2011, 02:19:35 PM

Where is Middleton getting all his money now? I remember he sold the family tobacco business and some budget hotel chain a couple of years ago. What else does he own?

Rome · June 03, 2011, 03:48:12 PM

He sells fake jerseys in the the Wach lot before games.

Straight cash, homey.

Don Ho · June 03, 2011, 04:57:42 PM

Maybe he'll sell me that Harold Carmichael jersey I've always wanted.

SunMo · June 03, 2011, 06:05:21 PM

such a bad decision to send down Mayberry and keep Martinez. not to mention why are they putting on this charade with Gload when he can't do anything.

MDS · June 03, 2011, 06:19:49 PM

ok no

the decision was between AAAberry and francisco. not exactly picking between talented players here but thats what it came down to.

gload is the only left handed option off the bench since HOF brown figures to be starting 75% of the time. surgery would push him out of the year and at this juncture hes still an alright pinch hitter. so he stays.

martinez hasnt exactly performed well but hes first off a rule-5 guy and if you DFA him you run the risk of losing him. might not matter, might come back to bit them. either way, he can play every position and gives them some speed off the bench. most of all, it gives them flexibility to do some different things in game and rest aging players like polanco or jimmy (like on sunday when they threw the game against the mets).

so really, logicially, it had to be francisco and AAAberry and they axed the one hitting .230 with 3 homers, not the one hitting .224 with 6 homers.

both these guys arent really effective major leaguers so i dont even see why anyone even gives a shtein. AAAberry's had 3 years to show he belongs and he never did.

Munson · June 03, 2011, 07:24:06 PM

So tonight is the first night of the "real" line up....

Raul still rolling over to 2nd base.