2012 - Philadelphia Phillies, At Least Cole is Staying

[Don Ho]

I'm sure this will come as no surprise to anyone on this board:

The Phillies are dead last in baseball with a 38 percent success rate when batting with runners on third and less than two outs. They have batted 117 times with that situation and only 45 have yielded a run in some way, whether it be via a hit, groundout or sacrifice fly.

That is the worst rate for any team since at least 1948.

Situation that.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Well Don, I'm shocked. I mean they fired Milt Thompson awhile back for The Guru Greg Gross. And surely he would emphasize situational hitting, right?

Grit starts his rehab tomorrow.

[Don Ho]

Milt Thompson was the first person I thought of.  Hopefully he's giving the double middle finger salute to Heir Smugness.

[PhillyPhreak54]

8.5 games out for the first time in five years.

Ruben Amaro is God.

[MDS]

besides the asinine choke contract play armchair gm and tell me what he was supposed to do to make them good this year

maybe at some point down the line you realize they never had a shot. you want lee. you want halladay. you wanted pence. you wanted oswalt. you didnt want to pay werth.

this is what you get.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Please.

His bullpen moves? The LF situation?

[MDS]

that wouldnt make a god damn difference in the world. they would still suck. maybe they wouldnt be an abortion, but theyd be in the least mediocre.

for the 1000th time please understand that this thing is over and was over after the choke job last year in the nlds. they gave it a shot, it didnt work, you take your lumps and you move on.

right now its basically 1999. we are on training camp countdown, just like the good ol days of greg jefferies and mark portugal.

[PhillyPhreak54]

No.

[MDS]

so what...trade cesar hernandez for kevin youkilis and try to win the world series?

are you drunk

[ice grillin you]

it also doesnt help that they have the best young franchise in baseball in their own division who also have as much money

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

This team is significantly worse than I expected them to be.

[Sgt PSN]

This team is significantly worse than I expected them to be.

Me too.  My overly optimistic view of them in the beginning of the season was that they'd be a .500 team until Grit and Choke came back and would be in position to make a 2nd half surge.  I guess that's what they did for the first 2 months, but they simply aren't good enough to even sustain mediocrity for more than 60 days.  And when you add in Lee and Doc injuries, it's just a recipe for disaster.  Meh, whatever.  It was a good run.  Sad thing about it though is it should have been a great run. 

[Munson]

[MDS]

world series train allllll aboard

first stop: a team with mike fontenot and micheal martinez in the same lineup

[PhillyPhreak54]

They're getting smoked by the goddamn Twins. The shteintingly awful TWINS!

I walked in and turned on the TV as soon as Kendrick gave up the 2R shot.

farging shteinbags