Is his mom dead

assume so

All the more difficult for her to care

ANYwho

She would be proud of that, but she's too busy during the games trolling Montreal subways looking for street saxaphonists to bone like Russell's father

VoxOrion wrote:I like that Stark wants to be this amazing "it's just like you were there" writer, but he misses the mark most of the time. Obviously written in a hurry, I think he manages to pull it off this time (as long as you aren't too cynical while you read it).

Not bad, but he seems to be infected with the Plaschkeitis, a.k.a. One Sentence Paragraph Syndrome.

But really I'm glad going up 3-1 hasn't caused us to lose our edge.

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StuffedShirts had an epic 39 page game thread

MAGIC

The Phillies were so moved by what Rollins did that they toasted him with Don Julio in a private room within their clubhouse after Monday's game. They talked about winning "one more," reliever Scott Eyre said.

When asked how many times he had been part of a toast like that, following a non-clinching game, Eyre said, "None. That's a first for me. That was exciting."

Rollins was asked about the tribute afterward. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said. Then he flashed that familiar smile.

these were jobo's only thoughts on the game. really.

thoughts from the game.

Feliz got back footed. Manny was running. Setting himself, Feliz gets Manny. Error Feliz

Manny inexplicably gave a run away to the Phils when he did not hit the cut off man.

Blanton was done in the sixth.

Finally, this was the game, of all the games that cements the Phils for all time as the team to beat. They will go to the WS. They will probably win this time, AND they WILL BE BACK NEXT YEAR.

stevemc wrote:

mozartpc27 wrote:Ha, I thought about the taking third thing too, but then I figured he figured if they tried to throw him out going to third, he could do the whole getting-caught-in-a-rundown-on-purpose thing.

i just watched a replay and there wasn't a soul covering 3B. Blake had already turned his back and headed to the dugout when Jimmy rounded 2nd.

Grotewold wrote:But at least Scully knew right away it was a huge hit. Franzke was a little slow on the uptake, though he made up for it post slide. Also Scully is 100.

I listened to Franzke's call this morning before coming into work. Thought it was a classic--the build and almost (?) intentional under-playing, then going absolutely bat shit. Sounded like Kermit the Frog having multiple orgasms.

dajafi wrote:

Grotewold wrote:But at least Scully knew right away it was a huge hit. Franzke was a little slow on the uptake, though he made up for it post slide. Also Scully is 100.

I listened to Franzke's call this morning before coming into work. Thought it was a classic--the build and almost (?) intentional under-playing, then going absolutely bat $#@!. Sounded like Kermit the Frog having multiple orgasms.

Anderson's cheers in the background are a thing of beauty. It's become his "thing" and I love it!

and unlike the Stairs HR, he wasn't choking on food

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stevemc wrote:MAGIC

Ruiz, who is not fast, scored from first. Without a play at the plate. Think about that.

dajafi wrote:

Grotewold wrote:But at least Scully knew right away it was a huge hit. Franzke was a little slow on the uptake, though he made up for it post slide. Also Scully is 100.

I listened to Franzke's call this morning before coming into work. Thought it was a classic--the build and almost (?) intentional under-playing, then going absolutely bat $#@!. Sounded like Kermit the Frog having multiple orgasms.

I was thinking about this on the way into work as well. I think sometimes "volume" gets mistaken for "excitedness." It's natural for human beings to assume - even if it isn't exactly true - that if they are trying to say something and there is a lot of noise going on around them as they are trying to say it, they have to speak more loudly; in other words, when people speak, what usually determines the volume of their voice is their judgment about how loudly they need to speak in order to be heard over any other noise in the environment in which they find themselves. A broadcaster, of course, could probably always be heard over the crowd, because he has a microphone and the crowd doesn't, but nevertheless the natural instinct is to yell in an attempt to overcome the ambient noise takes over in some situations. So, for example - and perhaps I will upload this later for everyone to listen and hear my point - if you listen to Harry Kalas's call of Joe Carter's home run in the 1993 World Series, he sounds kind of "excited," like he's T-Mac calling an ultimate GS by David Wright against the Phillies, but that's because really what he is doing is trying to make himself heard over the din in Toronto as that ball left the yard. Harry was not a happy camper, I'm sure, but he sounds more excited than you would otherwise think plausible - knowing what we know of Harry - because he has to say what he is saying so loudly in order to be heard. Conversely, there is a game from 2002 that I taped the replay of that took place in Montreal, in which the Phillies scored 8 times in the top of the ninth to turn an 8-3 loss into an 11-8 win. The big blow is a Pat Burrell 3-run home run to make it 9-8, and Harry's call on it sounds unusually subdued; but again, I think that's not because he isn't excited, but rather because, with only a few thousand people in the stands at Stade Olympique who were also suddenly quieted by the turn of events, Harry instinctively used his "inside voice" to call the home run.

How this relates to Franzke: as we all know, the crowd was sort of dead until the big moment arrived. At the beginning of that play, he was speaking at a volume level that had been required all game to make himself heard over the ambient noise. But as it unfolds, and he becomes unconsciously aware of how much ambient noise there is all of a sudden, he keeps adjusting that volume level up, up, up. Some of it, no doubt, is also pure excitedness, but I think the best way to explain why he doesn't sound excited at the beginning of the play is because he isn't loud yet, and he isn't loud yet because he hasn't had to be for most of the game to that point.

My point is: I think Franzke was plenty excited right from the beginning, but he got louder as the play went on in part to adjust for the rising level of noise in Citizens Bank Park; inasmuch as we associate "loud" with "excited," then, we interpret what we hear of last night's call as Franzke somehow not understanding at the beginning what a big deal this was. I think he understood all along, it just took him some time to get his voice adjusted to a level loud enough that he felt he would be heard over the suddenly-much-louder crowd.

Smart take. Makes a lot of sense.

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Great picture.