2007 Philadelphia Phillies Thread - DIVISION CHAMPS MOTHER fargER!!!!

[Geowhizzer]

I used to listen to Scully when he did the NBC Baseball Game of the Week back in the early-mid 1980s.  I think it was him that did Nolan Ryan's fifth no-hitter.

[MDS]

Looks like it's back to .500 unless they can get to Saito. Yay!

[PhillyPhreak54]

I woke up in time to see the last inning. Wonderful.

[Rome]

I like the single-announcer thing the Dodgers have going.  Scully is a legend, of course, and he's still a fantastic announcer but the absence of constant chatter is what's most appealing about their broadcasts.

It's just a guy describing the events of the game and tossing in the occasional anecdote.  After listening to Diarrhea Mouth and Mumbles all season, these past few games have been very refreshing.

[SunMo]

i think the quality of Harry's game would immediately go up if he were allowed to do what Sculley does.  you wouldn't have wheels there to call out his every mistake and he wouldn't feel the need talk as fast as i'm sure he does with a 3 man booth

[MDS]

Or they could get rid of Wheels and Sarge and put LA on TV for 9 innings.

[PhillyGirl]

i think the quality of Harry's game would immediately go up if he were allowed to do what Sculley does.  you wouldn't have wheels there to call out his every mistake and he wouldn't feel the need talk as fast as i'm sure he does with a 3 man booth

I agree with this. Harry was great on ESPN the other night when they actually let him talk. I loved hearing him in a booth with 2 people that APPRECIATED him and weren't CLEARLY trying to take his job...ahem...Wheels.

[Rome]

I don't think there's a Phillies fan out there who doesn't despise Chris Wheeler.  I think it says a lot about the Phillies front office that he continues to be a lead broadcaster on their telecasts despite nearly every fan who watches hating his guts.

It's like how they make the worst possible decisions on the field.  Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the game could do a better job of constructing the team and making on-field decisions, yet they stick with doing it "the Phillies way."

The broadcasters suck.  The team is mediocre.  Yet they continue on without listening to the concerns of the people who pay the bills.  But why should they?  Hell - we're dumb enough to keep supporting them by watching the games, going to the ballpark in record numbers, buying jerseys and other crap from them.  Why should they change when we, the fans, refuse to?

[ice grillin you]

i bought a ticket plan this year

i do turn the sound off on my laptop tho when its the phillies tv feed of the game

[Wingspan]

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that I don't care what the phillies do. It does nothing but piss me off when i think about how they run their business. However, I do like going to baseball games so I am not really going to boycot it either.

I think of it now as going to the movies. It's entertainment. Executive producers take ticket and dvd money and make bad movies with it all the time. It's exactly what the phils do.

[Geowhizzer]

Somehow, the Phils of the 2000s have mastered being JUST good enough to:

- prevent a full fan backlash
- delude themselves into thinking they're only a good break or mediocre starting pitcher away from the playoffs

[Don Ho]

what keeps me positive is the notion the Phils would have been in the playoffs the past few years if they were playing in the NFL, NBA or NHL.  {insert sawed off shotgun into mouth} 

[ice grillin you]

phils signed savery and will send him to the ny/penn league this weekend

[Rome]

Phils sign top pick Savery

INQUIRER REPORT

The Phillies last night signed lefthanded pitcher Joe Savery, their first-round selection in this year's First-Year Player Draft, to a contract and the 21-year-old will join the Williamsport Crosscutters (New York-Penn League) in Lowell, Mass., tomorrow.

The contract includes a bonus of $1,372,500 plus a college scholarship. 

Savery, a junior, was the 19th overall selection in the first round out of Rice University, which went to the College World Series. The Owls finished third in the nation.

As a pitcher at Rice, the 6-foot-3 Savery finished 11-1 with a 2.99 ERA. In 18 starts, he allowed 82 hits and 41 walks in 93.1 innings. He struck out 61.

A college scholarship?  Huh?? 

[Wingspan]

He probably wants to finish his college degree. And he wants to play pro ball.

My guess is he went to college on a full athletic scholarship, which he will now lose with the phils contract, so the phils are in a way guaranteeing that he can finish college.

There are different tax rules for that too, which probably had something to do with why it's singled out that way.