Phillies Offseason Thread 12-13

[SD]

I think 85 was the year the Phils had Dave Stewart. They shipped him off to Oakland where he didn't accomplish much other than 4 consecutive 20 win seasons and a World Series MVP.

[SD]

I believe Johnny Wockenfuss was on the team that year...

Pitching staff:  John Denny - Shane Rawley - Kevin Gross - Charles Hudson - dang I'm fogetting somebody. 

Carlton was hurt that year... basically when he started off the cliff.  He only played a short part of the year.

I think the 5th starter was Jerry Koosman

[Geowhizzer]

I believe Johnny Wockenfuss was on the team that year...

Pitching staff:  John Denny - Shane Rawley - Kevin Gross - Charles Hudson - dang I'm fogetting somebody. 

Carlton was hurt that year... basically when he started off the cliff.  He only played a short part of the year.

I think the 5th starter was Jerry Koosman

That's it.  Had to be the end of the line for him.

[Don Ho]

Holy crap!  That's right, Koosman.  He was like 90 years old.  I saw him pitch for the Mets when I was little kid in the the 70's in Candlestick when they played the Giants.  Mid June, night game, maybe 8K in the house and we froze our asses off.  That was such a shtein hole of a ball park.

[Don Ho]

Papsmear looked like dog shtein in middle relief today. 

Papelbon allowed five hits, six runs, two walks, two home runs and struck out two in two-thirds of an inning in his Grapefruit League debut. He threw 22 pitches (13 strikes) and walked off the mound with an 81.00 ERA.

"I felt good," Papelbon said. "Just as long as I'm repeating my delivery. I'm more concerned about repeating my delivery throwing the ball out front ... that's really it. Everything else kind of falls by the wayside as the spring goes on."

 

[MDS]

so ever so quietly mlb uploaded like 1000 classic clips a few weeks ago. most are from the 90s and late 80s, when the phillies were god awful, so there are limited videos.

i think this is most of them: http://mlb.mlb.com/search/media.jsp?query=classic%20philadelphia%20phillies&c_id=mlb&start=1&hitsPerPage=12&hitsPerSite=10&trackVal=1

my favorite in the bunch is tony barron face planting into the vet turf: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25537131&c_id=mlb

apparently this is all of them: http://mlb.mlb.com/search/media.jsp?mlbtax_key=classic&start=1&trackVal=First&hitsPerPage=12&hitsPerSite=10&c_id=mlb

[Munson]

Dom Brown murdered a baseball today

[Geowhizzer]

Just good to hear Harry again on Tommy Green's no-hitter in 1991.

[Don Ho]

Todd, good stuff.  I could watch that shtein all day.

[PhillyPhreak54]

so ever so quietly mlb uploaded like 1000 classic clips a few weeks ago. most are from the 90s and late 80s, when the phillies were god awful, so there are limited videos.

i think this is most of them: http://mlb.mlb.com/search/media.jsp?query=classic%20philadelphia%20phillies&c_id=mlb&start=1&hitsPerPage=12&hitsPerSite=10&trackVal=1

my favorite in the bunch is tony barron face planting into the vet turf: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25537131&c_id=mlb

apparently this is all of them: http://mlb.mlb.com/search/media.jsp?mlbtax_key=classic&start=1&trackVal=First&hitsPerPage=12&hitsPerSite=10&c_id=mlb

Beautiful.

I remember many vividly. The Uncle Milty catch in SD in '93 was awesome.

[MDS]

they added some more videos today

i wish these things were organized. like this could be filed under "steroid shots" http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25626939&c_id=mlb

[ice grillin you]

was reading an article on this woodward/white house beef and came across this nuggett from well known phillies fan david plouffe

Obama adviser David Plouffe suggested that Woodward — who along with Carl Bernstein grew famous for coverage of the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration — was past his prime.

"Watching Woodward last 2 days is like imagining my idol Mike Schmidt facing live pitching again. Perfection gained once is rarely repeated," he tweeted Wednesday evening.

[Munson]

Not to turn this into a politics thread, but now that the emails are out there for everyone to read, i'm getting a big laugh at how hard the right tried to make a controversy out of it.

[BigEd76]

So this Ruf experiment in left is going well huh

[MDS]

say hello to a laynce nix/AAAberry platoon

say hello to 3rd place