CFP wrote:I was also looking for Nolan Ryan in there, but Frank Fitzpatrick is an idiot so

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Eight Belles cruises in Ark.; female filly is Derby hopeful

MarkdlV wrote:Don McKee now has a daily column on philly.com

pacino wrote:Fire Joe Morgan's new piece is hilarious. It just RIPS a dumb father and son column about 'gamers' in baseball. FWIW, Bonds = not a gamer. Jeter = gamer

So now we have, gamer qualification-wise:

Play to win
Big plays
Hard-nosed
Good attitude
Hang in on double play
Hurt yourself
Catch balls
Make your teammates better
Multiple positions
Switch hitter
You make people smile

Here's my new theory: literally anything you do can make you a gamer. You like Neapolitan ice cream? Gamer. You play the harpsichord? Gaming it. Civil War reenactment buff? Game on.

CFP wrote:I love that website.

Columnist Jay Mariotti seems to pride himself on making enemies. He has been called a "pissant" by Jerry Reinsdorf, a "hiney bird" by Hawk Harrelson and much worse by Ozzie Guillen.


Now Mariotti is taking body blows from his own colleagues at the Sun-Times. The situation heated up to the point that Editor-in-Chief Michael Cooke stepped in last week to symbolically separate Mariotti from fellow sports columnist Rick Telander, after Sun-Times editors refused to run columns Telander filed for the Wednesday and Friday papers.

The conflict started after Mariotti wrote last week of Guillen: "As you may have noticed through the years, I am the Blizzard's only critic in the Chicago media, mostly because my soft colleagues either fear Guillen's wrath, enjoy how he rips me, work for one of the Reinsdorf-controlled broadcast outlets or are afraid of getting on the chairman's bad side."

The next day, Sun-Times national baseball writer Chris De Luca led his column this way: "The same critics who avoid ever stepping into the White Sox's clubhouse are calling the Chicago media soft for not skewering manager Ozzie Guillen. They want Guillen fired yesterday. Sounds tough, but the rhetoric comes up a little, well, soft."

Telander also believed Mariotti had unfairly impugned his reputation and fired back in a Wednesday column that got spiked, according to media insiders. The paper explained to its readers in a box that Telander was taking the day off.

Telander filed an altered version for the Friday paper that, according to sources, mentioned the "bleatings" of "mini-dictators" who are "terrified of accountability."

"I'm a big boy and I can handle this," he said. "The people I feel sorry for are the hard-working, talented journalists at the Sun-Times like Chris De Luca, Joe Cowley, Toni Ginnetti, Gordon Wittenmyer, Carol Slezak and Greg Couch."

Sources said Telander also asked for an apology from Mariotti. He has yet to receive one.

Understood but unsaid of course is that it ain't much better when your $8.5 million Opening Day starter is pitching for Reading and dreaming of being a closer again, or when your fifth starter - signed for an $8 million salary - has peekaboo stuff to go along with his peekaboo control.

But that's the state of the Phillies these days, a malaise that has impaired any thoughts of momentum building, a malaise that seems to have every member of their vaunted lineup pressing, or in hitting coach Milt Thompson's words, "Trying to do what they know how to do."

Uncle Milty wrote:

Wizlah wrote:It's not just me, is it? Sam Donnellon is a complete and utter 110 on the $#@!-wittage scale, is he not?

Understood but unsaid of course is that it ain't much better when your $8.5 million Opening Day starter is pitching for Reading and dreaming of being a closer again, or when your fifth starter - signed for an $8 million salary - has peekaboo stuff to go along with his peekaboo control.

But that's the state of the Phillies these days, a malaise that has impaired any thoughts of momentum building, a malaise that seems to have every member of their vaunted lineup pressing, or in hitting coach Milt Thompson's words, "Trying to do what they know how to do."

It's like he's trying to right a hard-hitting article about the most startlingly obvious reality, and make it seem that the phils suck.

arsehole.

Who wrote the hard-hitting article he's trying to right? Doesn't really matter. Trying to right the Phillies '08 is like trying to right a listing titanic.

picking over a slab of grilled chicken with his right hand and twirling a canister of Copenhagen in his left.