2013-14 Phillies Offseason Thread

[Sgt PSN]

The season itself was great.  It was easily the most exciting season of any sport in my lifetime simply because that team was so bad the year before and there was no reason at all to expect them to even contend for the postseason, let alone actually going to the WS.  It just really sucked seeing it end the way it did.  I'd have preferred watching them lose 9-1 than on a walk off hit/homer. 

[smeags]

gotta agree with igy on the blue jays team back then. they were a sick team.

[Sgt PSN]

Yeah, I don't disagree with that at all.  They were the defending champs and if I remember correctly, they had the top 3 batting averages in the AL...which I don't think had ever been done in the modern era.  Just a sick offensive team. 

It just really farging sucked having it all come to an end after 1 swing of the bat.  At that point I was just really excited that the game would go into extras and that the Phils could win and force a game 7 and then bam!....game over, series over and I was just like wtf just happened?  I'd have honestly rather the Phils been down big because then it gives you a chance to accept the reality of the situation as the game moves into the latter innings of the game so that when the final out is recorded in the top of the 9th, you're already prepared for it. 

[smeags]

oh yeah ... horrible way to lose the game/series. magical season fueled by "special vitamins: 

[MDS]

i was only 6 when it happened so i never got to really enjoy that run...but when you look at it, it was probably the biggest pile of bullshtein in modern baseball history

the team stunk. they had no business winning 90 some odd games and getting to game 6 of the world series. the whole thing was ridiculous. they were awful for the decade before and after it. it just didnt make any sense. which is why them losing in that way really isnt the worst thing.

the ride was fun the part...the losses in 2009 10 and 11 were much worse because those teams could have actually won and probably should have.

[SD]

They were all on roids and caught lightning in a bottle.

[smeags]

They were all on roids and caught lightning in a bottle.

no doubt ... kruk & david west may have been the only two who werent roided up.

[MDS]

hollins and dykstra clearly were. probably dutch.

inky had the same diet as a kruk--beer, cigarettes, fried chicken and pizza--so i doubt he was doing it.

[ice grillin you]

They were all on roids and caught lightning in a bottle.

a bottle of bud

[Rome]

Saying 1993 was all luck and roids is retarded and belies the facts.

Whatever, though.   The 6 yr old at the time has it covered.

[ice grillin you]

it was flukey not lucky....but if you dont think roids powered them thru that season you are nuts....they partied till dawn after every game...they only way you rebound from that on a consistent basis is by taking something very un-natural

[smeags]

stop - take away the roids that team doesnt sniff the playoffs.

also - if atlanta was in the phils division they dont make the playoffs that year.

[SunMo]

i didn't realize the phillies were the only team using roids that year, crazy

[ice grillin you]

i didn't realize the phillies were the only team using roids that year, crazy

no but they were the only team with a locker room full of alcoholic coke sniffers so they gained a far bigger advantage from the roids....i also have no doubt they led the league in juicers

just because they might not have been the only team doing it doesnt change the fact that without roids they dont go near the postseason

[Rome]

They were incredibly selective and patient hitters and when they did hit they lined the gaps with extra base hits.    They also had three starters with over 200IP and 24 complete games as a staff.

Roids were huge but they were huge on every team.