12 post-season games, .222 average with 5 RBIs batting No. 3. You want to insult the man by listing him No. 3 when he is clearly the best second baseman in franchise history. The sole requirement for the "team" was World Series numbers. The editors wanted to include the current team for obvious reasons. I wanted it limited to Phillies World Series teams since 1950. How could I put a guy who has never had a Series AB ahead of one who hit .400 in 1993 with 10 hits?

Maybe Jeff Borris, who couldn’t get his client a job and now wants that to be baseball’s fault, who maybe is holding out hope that he can get some kind of commission on the collusion damages, can explain that away in front of an arbitrator if he ever gets that far. Borris can explain at the same time how if there is a big conspiracy against Bonds no owner even called baseball this season to indicate he was even thinking about signing Bonds to a contract.

But then Borris wants all this to be anybody’s fault except Barry Bonds’. The same as Bonds does. Bonds wants it to be somebody else who took all the drugs and then lied about it in front of a grand jury, maybe wants it to be somebody else’s fault that he got old and began to finally break down this way.

Jeff Borris has nothing, nothing other than an unemployable home run king of baseball, one who made so much money hitting home runs and now needs more. A lot more. So he says baseball had a conspiracy against him.

Baseball probably thinks it’s the other way around.

Who is Selig’s secret admirer? None other than Mike Lupica.

Let’s check out how Mr. Lupica confesses his everlasting love. Initially I was leery about writing about this train wreck since–believe it or not–my first feeling upon reading it was embarrassment for Lupica. To have an article like this permanently imbedded in cyberspace would feel like losing your swimming trunks at a pool full of Victoria Secret models that end up pointing and laughing at your teensy package and it all ends up on YouTube only to be picked up by the network televising the Super Bowl and aired repeatedly during the telecast.

You feel bad enough for the poor guy that you’re loath to add to his misery.

Still, it is what it is and he should be called on it.

philliesphhan wrote:E-mail response to me from Conlin

12 post-season games, .222 average with 5 RBIs batting No. 3. You want to insult the man by listing him No. 3 when he is clearly the best second baseman in franchise history. The sole requirement for the "team" was World Series numbers. The editors wanted to include the current team for obvious reasons. I wanted it limited to Phillies World Series teams since 1950. How could I put a guy who has never had a Series AB ahead of one who hit .400 in 1993 with 10 hits?

This certainly doesn't explain why Howard IS on the list.

phdave wrote:

philliesphhan wrote:E-mail response to me from Conlin

12 post-season games, .222 average with 5 RBIs batting No. 3. You want to insult the man by listing him No. 3 when he is clearly the best second baseman in franchise history. The sole requirement for the "team" was World Series numbers. The editors wanted to include the current team for obvious reasons. I wanted it limited to Phillies World Series teams since 1950. How could I put a guy who has never had a Series AB ahead of one who hit .400 in 1993 with 10 hits?

This certainly doesn't explain why Howard IS on the list.

That dude just cannot admit a mistake or at least admit that he had no underlying logic. His rational makes absolutely no sense with what he printed. Even if he wanted to leave off Utley for some reason, he has no justification for picking Morandini over Morgan:

Trillo in 1980 WS: .217/.208/.304
Morandini in 1993 WS: .200/.333/.200 (only 1 hit in 5 at bats)
Morgan in 1983 WS: .263/.333/.684 (2 HRs and 1 3b)

phdave wrote:

philliesphhan wrote:E-mail response to me from Conlin

12 post-season games, .222 average with 5 RBIs batting No. 3. You want to insult the man by listing him No. 3 when he is clearly the best second baseman in franchise history. The sole requirement for the "team" was World Series numbers. The editors wanted to include the current team for obvious reasons. I wanted it limited to Phillies World Series teams since 1950. How could I put a guy who has never had a Series AB ahead of one who hit .400 in 1993 with 10 hits?

This certainly doesn't explain why Howard IS on the list.

That dude just cannot admit a mistake or at least admit that he had no underlying logic. His rational makes absolutely no sense with what he printed. Even if he wanted to leave off Utley for some reason, he has no justification for picking Morandini over Morgan:

Trillo in 1980 WS: .217/.208/.304
Morandini in 1993 WS: .200/.333/.200 (only 1 hit in 5 at bats)
Morgan in 1983 WS: .263/.333/.684 (2 HRs and 1 3b)

Then why was Howard included? Or for that matter, why not Joe Morgan? Morandini had one hit in only 5 AB in 1993. Joe had 2 HR and a triple

You obviously didn't get it at all, so no need to explain. But you read every word, right?

Nobody is safe in front of Philadelphia sports fans. The tradition of booing and heckling at ballparks in the City of Brotherly Love was personified in that spontaneous expression of displeasure over Prohibition, and years later when they booed Santa Claus and pelted J.D. Drew with batteries and, this season, needled Phillies shortstop and reigning MVP Jimmy Rollins for daring to suggest the fans are “frontrunners.”

dajafi wrote:"Presence"

Sometimes the stupid is so powerful that I'm amazed the universe doesn't just crack.

dajafi wrote:"Presence"

Sometimes the stupid is so powerful that I'm amazed the universe doesn't just crack.

OPB

dajafi wrote:"Presence"

swishnicholson wrote:

dajafi wrote:"Presence"

I think he's saying that Howard is fat, but in a nice way.

dajafi wrote:"Presence"

Sometimes the stupid is so powerful that I'm amazed the universe doesn't just crack.

The last time Steve Carlton won more than 15 games was 1982. Lefty was 37 years old. By the time the Hall of Famer was Moyer's age, he was a memorabilia-show veteran. Jamie does his ball signing while in uniform.