06/07 Phillies Offseason Thread

[SunMo]

Burrell is in mid-season form...

He comes up, man on third, one out, down by a run, and pops up the first pitch

[Rome]

It's the contacts.  Leave him alone, you big bully.

[Sgt PSN]

Burrell is in mid-season form...

He comes up, man on third, one out, down by a run, and pops up the first pitch

C'mon Mo, that's simply not accurate.  It's never taken Burrell until mid-season to start blowing scoring opportunities.   

[SunMo]

don't contradict me...ever

[BigEd76]

Schilling remembers Vuk

[SD_Eagle5]

Sportsrise reporting the White Sox are interested in getting Rowand back for Boone Logan and more middle relief (meh)

[Sgt PSN]

Meh, indeed. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

I do not want anyone on my team named Boone. Seriously...Boone?! Makes me think of that zesty alcohol you can get for $1.98 and drink outta a brown bag.

[MDS]

How about Jim Ed Warren you stupid hick.

[ice grillin you]

I do not want anyone on my team named Boone. Seriously...Boone?! Makes me think of that zesty alcohol you can get for $1.98 and drink outta a brown bag.

or even worse pat boone who sung the song 'tutti frutti'

holla

[PhillyPhreak54]

How about Jim Ed Warren you stupid hick.

Aww, did I offend the collar popping prez? Boone is the name of a guy who rocks a pair of sandals with his popped pink collar with a fresh new seashell necklace. You know, people of your ilk. Homo.

[Rome]

Just got back from the Phils - ahem - game today in Kissimmee.  Not one of the big four was there (Howard, Utley, Rollins & Burrell) so instead we got Helms & Victorino with Lieber starting.  Lieber actually looked pretty good for the most part and Victorino stole home in the first because Lance Berkman was standing at first with his head up his ass instead of paying attention to what's going on in the field.

A few things I noticed:

Karim Garcia was launching some moon shots in BP.  He hit about five straight out that looked like Howard's homeruns.  He didn't do much in the game of course.

As I said earlier - Lieber pitched pretty well.  His control was good even though the umpire seemed to be squeezing him.

Helms looked decent both in the field and at bat.  He's 10 times David Bell and that's good enough for me.

Coste was the catcher today and did a decent job with the pitchers.

Brian Sanches looked pretty good even though Carlos Lee hit a tape-measure foul ball off him that would have landed in the third deck at the Bank.  Speaking of Lee, he's fat as hell.  He won't last two years in Houston because he looks like he'd be a real liability in the field for them (he was DH'ing today).

I caught a foul ball in batting practice.  I was standing down the right field line and Garcia ripped a line drive that took two hops into the stands and I bare-handed the thing.  I looked cool doing it but my hand is still stinging.  Me = dork.

I met Dallas Green and my daughter got his autograph.  He was sitting a few seats over from us behind home plate and he was surprisingly cordial, especially to the children who asked him for his autograph.  My daughter also got Milt Thompson to sign the same baseball.  They were the only Phillies I saw giving autographs to fans.

The number of Phillies fans in attendance at least equaled the number of Astros fans.  Not surprising at all.  When we entered the stadium the lady usher told me she looked forward to Phillies fans coming to the ballpark because it's always fun to have fans who are into the games like we are instead of the dead-heads who usually sit there (meaning Astros fans) with their hands folded in front of them.   

Flash Gordon looked pretty good except for a ripping line drive triple he gave up on a horseshtein off-speed pitch that my mother could have hit.  Otherwise he was zooming the fast ball in and out.

Nothing much more to say because as I said they had scrubs or backups in there for the most part - but still - it was a
beautiful day for baseball.

Here's some photos from today:


First up is Shane Victorino warming up before the game.





Second up is Chris Coste warming up during long-tosses before the game.





Third up is the Phillies dugout just before the start of the game.





Fouth up is a shot of Lieber pitching to Lance Berkman.





And finally, here's a shot of Dallas talking to Milt Thompson during the game.  Dallas seemed to be asking a lot of questions of Milt and was keeping a log during the game especially during Lieber's innings of work.    Interesting.

[MDS]

good info, rome. its nice being able to drive easily to spring training games, you bastich.

[NGM]

Thanks for the updates Romey.    Its helping me fighting my jones for opening day. 

[Geowhizzer]

Just got back from baking in the Florida sun for 4 hours. 

My wife and I spent the weekend in the Clearwater Beach area, and we took in the Phillies-Tigers game.

Sorry, no pictures - we forgot the damn memory stick for our camera and had to use a cheapie throwaway. 

Here are my thoughts:

1.  Jamie Moyer could not break a pane of glass with his fastball, but he managed to throw five shutout innings by PITCHING.  He was keeping the Tigers hitters off balance his whole outing.  I've never seen so many infield popups in a single game.

2.  Utley hit an absolute BOMB in the first inning.

3.  Fabio Castro dominated the Tigers in the sixth innings, but got absolutely shellacked in the seventh.  Single-handedly cost the Phils the game.

4.  Rollins stole second on Pudge Rodriguez. 

5.  Helms hit a rocket that smacked against the rightfield fence.

6.  Burrell didn't play for some reason.  The guy replacing him sucked even more.  Stay healthy, Patricia.

7.  Saw Bill Giles (he was signing a book he just wrote) - he looks OLD.

8.  Guess who was the PA announcer.  Chris Freakin' Wheeler.