Phillies Season Thread 2013

[Sgt PSN]

Been to San Fran a couple times already.  So I'm good. 

[BigEd76]

here's the schedule

-- Open at Texas
-- Home opener vs the Brewers
-- Three west coast trips (COL/LAD/AZ in April, LAA/SF in August, SD/OAK in September)
-- 19 out of 27 at home in May
-- In Pittsburgh for July 4th again
-- 19 out of 26 on the road in late August/most of September before finishing at home against the Braves

[Sgt PSN]

DFW in early April actually might not suck.  I mean, it's Texas so it's definitely going to suck but the weather should be decent.  I've been to Dallas at least a half dozen times.  No real desire to go back, but their ballpark is 1 I wouldn't mind visiting.  Might have to plan a trip to Austin to visit my sister and then just make the drive up for a game. 

[MDS]

early july in milwaukee? cubs at home that weekend, albeit not against the phils. still....FAT CHICKS FROM WISCONSIN

[Don Ho]

For the away series, Toronto is the only city I'd be interested in going to.  Been to LA and Dallas and who the farg visits Oakland on purpose?

I was just at Oakland Alameda Coliseum last week.  Saw the Rangers/A's game on Tuesday night.  The place is a shtein hole. Makes the Vet look like the Taj Mahal.  What was mind boggling was here was a game for first place and the announced attendance was 18K.  I think that was a little generous.  Great crowd as far as enthusiasm.  Lots of spirit and very knowledgeable.

[Geowhizzer]

A's should have never left Philadelphia.  They deserve to play in front of nobody.

[Rome]

ha - my father was old enough to remember the a's and when they were in the world series every year in the early 70s he would routinely boo the farg out of them on television.

philly.

[MDS]

your pops was born in the 1920's?

[ice grillin you]

more importantly romey remembers the early 70's?

[Sgt PSN]

I like how Romey talks of the 70s like it was eons ago. Pretty sure everyone's parents here remembers the 70s since that's the decade that most of us were born, except Munson and Jewvenile.

[ice grillin you]

Pretty sure everyone's parents here remembers the 70s

no ROMEY remembers the early 70's...not his parents...his dad apparently remembers the 20's

my father was old enough to remember the a's and when they were in the world series every year

the last time the a's were in back to back world series was 1930 and 31

when they were in the world series every year in the early 70s he would routinely boo the farg out of them on television.

i suppose his dad could have told him he booed them on television in the early 70's but this sounds like a first person account to me

[QB Eagles]

the last time the a's were in back to back world series was 1930 and 31

Say what?

[ice grillin you]

a's used to play in philadelphia....im pretty sure romey wasnt talking about his dad remembering 1974

[QB Eagles]

Pretty sure he's saying his dad remembered when they were in Philly and still hated them even when they were in Oakland but ok.

[Rome]

Oy, really?   Okay...

My Dad was born in 1929 and remembered the Phillies when they played in Philly.  He was an A's fan as a kid.  They left and when they became successful in the 1970's he hated then because they rolled out of Philly.   He also hated Reggie Jackson because he was a loudmouth colored fella from C-ham.   

He and MDS's pops would have been tight.