2009 Philadelphia Phillies - Season's Over, Time to Move On

[Rome]

As usual the Phillies are making a guy who should be selling insurance for a living look like Cy Young.

2-0 Marlins, bottom of the fifth.

The wife-beater ain't pitching bad, though.

[Rome]

Choooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooch!

2-1 fishguts.

[BigEd76]

5-1

loss

[Rome]

Pathetic display.

[SunMo]

oh my mathew

[Rome]

Howard swings at a ball two feet out of the strike zone to end the rally.

[Don Ho]

that pitch Howard swung at was headed for the third row 

[Don Ho]

iceholes

[MDS]

do they like losing home series?

[rjs246]

Caring about baseball games in May!

[MDS]

Caring about lacrosse games at all!

[PhillyPhreak54]

Game, set, Todd.

What the hell is up with these jitbags at home? The Marlins come into town sputtering at a 9-24 clip after 11-1 to start and they take 2/3.

Ibanez has cooled a bit; his AB in the 1st was bad. Then all the RISP left out there was maddening.

Myers left with hip inflammation.

Nats come to town...the best medicine to help up the win totals.

[PhillyPhreak54]

ScottLauber - MRI scheduled for Brett Myers tomorrow. He seems very nervous about it. Hip problem has been on-again, off-again for the past month.

farg.

Brett Myers is nervous.

Myers left tonight's game against the Marlins in the sixth inning with what the Phillies are terming "right hip inflammation." But the pain, which Myers describes as a "sharp pinching that runs from my hip down to my knee sometimes," was more persistent tonight, especially when he pitches from the stretch. He's scheduled to undergo an MRI exam tomorrow, and minutes ago, Myers expressed concern that it may be something serious.

"Today was the worst it's been in the whole month," he said. "It was pretty bad out of the stretch. Sometimes it'll kind of give way. It's kind of hard to finish pitches when you don't have your back leg pushing off. Against the Yankees, I was feeling it, but it wasn't too bad. It was maybe once an inning. But tonight, it was every second or third pitch that it was bothering me. Hopefully, there's nothing serious with it, and there's some treatment I can do to get rid of it.

"For the past couple of years it's bothered me, but it hasn't been that bad. It was hard to put pressure on my back leg out of the stretch. It usually will come on one pitch and go away for a while. I felt it probably in the second inning in warm-ups, and it kind of went away. I felt it again in the third inning, and in the stretch, it got pretty bad. I was going to try to get through it and keep the ball down. But stuff started flattening out in the stretch. You've just got to try to power through it.

"I'm kind of nervous because I've never been hurt really bad. I don't really like needles either. It's when I put pressure on it out of the stretch or when I push off. More than anything, I feel it as my leg is following through. It was doing it probably every two, three pitches tonight, which it hadn't done in the past. It's kind of hard [to diagnose]. It's not like I can put my finger right on it, unless I feel it. You can tell the trainers anything you want. I've been doing exercises for a month trying to get rid of it. Tonight it was acting up.

"It usually happens every year about a month after we get into the season. I've always thought, 'Fine, it locked up one time. I'll get over it. Just keep pitching.' Tonight, it was doing it every couple pitches, and I knew something wasn't right. Today was definitely the worst it's been."

Keep this in mind: If Myers has to miss a start or go on the disabled list, Kyle Kendrick pitched tonight for Lehigh Valley. He allowed three runs on nine hits and didn't walk a batter in a victory at Buffalo, and for the season, he's 4-3 with a 4.25 ERA.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Some Charlie quotes...I like the one about him asking the fans to get on them...my boy Chuck.

"You know when I came to that conclusion?" Manuel asked. "When we took over Yankee Stadium on Sunday. We did. [Phillies fans] were louder than [Yankee fans] were. We took over Yankee Stadium. We were talking about that on the bus coming home."

"Of course, they love us and everything, but maybe they should get on (our players) a little bit,"

[ice grillin you]

only in philly could the fans get criticized for booing to much and not enough

what is so hard to understand that fans arent going to be as tough after you win a title...its natural

not to mention the fans at philly games now are mostly johnny come lately 20 year old bandwagon girls from marlton and out of town college students