2014 Phillies Thread - There's Always Next Year

MDS · June 02, 2014, 01:33:06 AM

54 in 55 update:

number of players put on dl during that stretch -- 4
choke homers -- 4
ben revere starts -- 11
numbers of wins -- 5
number of games they will be back of 1st at the end of it -- 6

homer j's guesses:
Zero (wrong)
10 (low!)
44 (sadly on pace)
27 (lol)
IN FIRST BITCH (lololololol)

QB Eagles · June 02, 2014, 05:38:45 AM

He actually guessed 37 wins, 27 was a typo. Big 32-9 stretch coming up I guess.

They are projected for 72 wins right now... one worse than last year. That sounds about right. The team should be completely blown up, but it won't really achieve anything due to the fact that pretty much every player better than replacement level has a trade-unfriendly contract. It will be up to the new GM to start from absolute zero next offseason. With the right moves they could be back in the playoffs by the end of the decade.

MDS · June 02, 2014, 01:24:06 PM

2019 is really pushing it

they would need to hit on lee and utley trades (likely to be made by ruin, if made at all) and need franco, giles and biddle to be really good (which they are not). otherwise all their "talent" is in lakewood or injured, regardless about 4-5 years away from even becoming competent major leaguers, if they get there.

im a pessimistic person by nature by i get the feeling this is lasting well into the next decade.

QB Eagles · June 02, 2014, 09:44:04 PM

6 hits, 1 run off a dugong. Nice work boys.

Time to watch the Phils blow this two-on, no-out situation with the meat of their order coming to bat.

PhillyPhreak54 · June 02, 2014, 10:04:26 PM

More bullshtein tonight.

Brignac being sent by Mackanin was dumb.

Offense stinks. Grit and Choke failed in the 8th

And now Diekman is gonna let them blow it wide open

PhillyPhreak54 · June 02, 2014, 10:06:12 PM

And they're last in the league with only 7 sac flies

PhillyPhreak54 · June 02, 2014, 10:16:36 PM

Hahahahahahahahahahah

Aumont gives a granny to Wilmer Flores.

11-2

I'm done. That's it. This game has been my final straw

Don Ho · June 02, 2014, 10:27:45 PM

Honestly, is there no one they can bring up that is better than Diekman? The guy is the worst pitcher on the planet. Aumont being a close second. You can't get any lower than those two.

Don Ho · June 02, 2014, 10:30:51 PM

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on June 02, 2014, 10:04:26 PM
More bullshtein tonight.

Brignac being sent by Mackanin was dumb.

Offense stinks. Grit and Choke failed in the 8th

And now Diekman is gonna let them blow it wide open

Even with the excuse that this is one of the worst lineup/bench/bullpen in the big leagues, very disappointed in Sandberg & Co.

PhillyPhreak54 · June 02, 2014, 10:41:43 PM

Aumont is a farging waste of space.

He shouldn't even be in the independent league.

24-31 and I'm done. Get back to .500 and let's talk. But I doubt it.

May 4th they were above .500 and a game and a half out. Worst record in the bigs since.

Lazy corksucking losers

MDS · June 03, 2014, 12:22:13 AM

ben revere has the lowest walk percentage in baseball, among qualified batters. he bats leadoff.

carloz ruiz is 10th in baseball in obp. he hits 6th or 7th.

hof brown has the 5th-lowest ops in baseball (slightly ahead of nate scheerholtz. SCORE ONE FOR ROOB!)

the. phillies. suck. its not about effort, its not about working harder or giving more of a shtein. they just suck.

SD · June 03, 2014, 06:09:28 AM

Vorp

QB Eagles · June 03, 2014, 06:36:55 AM

HOF's the biggest liability on the team this season and that's saying a lot. He farging sucks.

ice grillin you · June 03, 2014, 07:00:26 AM

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on June 02, 2014, 10:16:36 PM
I'm done. That's it. This game has been my final straw

lol...like 72 hours ago you were still saying playoffs were possible

ice grillin you · June 03, 2014, 09:30:49 AM

Long weekend in Philly falls one inning short of record

The Mets completed their five-game series at Philadelphia with an 11-2 victory over the Phillies and this time they needed only nine innings to complete the win. But with the three middle games of the series lasting 14, 14, and 11 innings, the teams fell one short of the all-time major-league for most innings in a series of five games.

The Yankees and Tigers played a total of 58 innings over five games in June 1962, including a 22-inning Sunday marathon. The only other five-game series to span 57 innings was played by the Pirates at Chicago and it was so long ago - June 1916, if you're wondering - that the stadium we now call Wrigley Field was known as Weeghman Park.