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

[Don Ho]

tomorrow is going to be awesome with halladay and johnson.   

I hope it's on national tv but knowing ESPN they need to make their quota of 25 Red Sox games a month.

[ice grillin you]

12 wins would be a good benchmark number...whats everone else think they should get?

atl - L
atl - W
atl - L

at fla - W
at fla
at fla

at atl
at atl
at atl

at stl
at stl

col
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tex
tex
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cinn
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currently 2-2
remaining record needed for 12 wins = 10-6

[charlie]

tomorrow is going to be awesome with halladay and johnson.   

This game has the potential to be 90 minutes long.

[BigEd76]

I hope it's on national tv

Nope.  Cardinals/Cubs on MLBN (with Reds/Astros as the alternate)

[ice grillin you]

tomorrow is going to be awesome with halladay and johnson.   

I hope it's on national tv but knowing ESPN they need to make their quota of 25 Red Sox games a month.

phillies have been on sunday night baseball two weeks in a row and are next monday nights espn game

yanks sox is this sundays broadcast but i dont think you can complain at all about the amount of coverage the phils get...also espn doesnt have tuesday nite games

[Don Ho]

You're right about that.  Two Sunday night games in a row was shocking.  Did I hear FOX is starting prime time games on Saturday nights?

[BigEd76]

for the next 3 weeks, yea.  This week it's ....shocking.... Red Sox/Yankees


btw grit joined Clearwater and will play tonight, so he'll be back within 3 weeks

[phillycrew]

Madson + Contract Year = Closer Mentality

I said this earlier in the year and was skewered.

[ice grillin you]

because its a ridiculous notion...in fact the whole idea that players can just flip a switch and have big years in a contract year is one of the dumbest wives tales in all of sports and if you look back at contract years thruout all sports youd find there is no correlation btwn those years and vastly improved statistics

[Munson]

Hopefully we'll see Utley by June 1st

[charlie]

because its a ridiculous notion...in fact the whole idea that players can just flip a switch and have big years in a contract year is one of the dumbest wives tales in all of sports and if you look back at contract years thruout all sports youd find there is no correlation btwn those years and vastly improved statistics

link?

[ice grillin you]

watching sports > reading money ball

[MDS]

currently 2-2
remaining record needed for 12 wins = 10-6

lol @ this continuing

so the 3-2 record the phillies had vs. atl and florida coming into this "stretch" meant nothing? and since when does an irrelevent team like st. louis matter, especially for a 2-game series. farg even the 2-gamer against colorado is pointless. its 2 random games in the middle of may.

every single player couldnt give 2 fargs who they are playing yet there you are, charting how they do against these teams like it means anything.

[Don Ho]

Hey look!  People in the stands!!

[Sgt PSN]

Madson + Contract Year = Closer Mentality

I said this earlier in the year and was skewered.

I don't know if you were serious or not, but I said mine in jest.  I mean the guy's had what, 3 or 4 save opportunities?  Big deal.  If we get into late June or early July and he's got 15+ saves with 2 or fewer blown, then maybe the guy is dialed in a little more because he's playing for a new contract.  But for the most part, I actually agree with igy on this issue:

because its a ridiculous notion...in fact the whole idea that players can just flip a switch and have big years in a contract year is one of the dumbest wives tales in all of sports and if you look back at contract years thruout all sports youd find there is no correlation btwn those years and vastly improved statistics

Jayson Werth is a perfect example.  So is Derrick Jeter (although you could make the argument that Jeter has already been caked off plenty).  Still, both of them were in contract years last year and both performed below expectations.  Neither were terrible, but they didn't do anything last year to warrant the contracts they each received.