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by **Woody** » Mon May 10, 2010 12:49:39

Dude, put a chair there

by **philliesphhan** » Mon May 10, 2010 13:06:40

The Phillies are first in all of MLB in attendance per game.

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Mon May 10, 2010 13:11:52

Woody wrote:Dude, put a chair there

by **joe table** » Mon May 10, 2010 13:18:34

Fangraphs recently invented a new stat for ineffective relief pitching performances called Meltdowns (explanation here if you haven't seen it yet). Danys Baez led the MLB in meltdowns last year with 17. Lidge had 15 by comparison

by **JFLNYC** » Mon May 10, 2010 14:55:19

How lucky are we to now have them both?

by **Grotewold** » Mon May 10, 2010 14:55:54

And Madson as the brains of the operation

by **VFB** » Mon May 10, 2010 19:24:05

rotoworld

Larry LaRue of the Tacoma News Tribune reports that veteran Ken Griffey Jr. could be released this month by the Mariners.
Junior, now 40, is batting a miserable .205/.265/.234 in 77 at-bats this season with only two extra-base hits and zero home runs. He's not providing offense at the DH position and has shown a lack of interest in competing, at one point falling asleep in the M's clubhouse in the middle of a game. The fans of Safeco Field still dig him, for the most part, but it's time for a change in Seattle. Griffey is a .284/.370/.539 career hitter with 630 home runs over 21 seasons. Perhaps he will save them the trouble and simply retire.

enter victorino?

by **philliesphhan** » Mon May 10, 2010 19:31:50

To DH?

by **swishnicholson** » Mon May 10, 2010 19:38:49

philliesphhan wrote:To DH?

Bad routes, y'know.

by **SK790** » Mon May 10, 2010 19:41:30

I hate TCN.

by **Soren** » Mon May 10, 2010 19:41:36

...Ibanez!

by **swishnicholson** » Tue May 11, 2010 00:51:00

CFP wrote:I really can't believe we gave Ross Gload $2.6 million over two years.

SHOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM $12.6 MILLION, AMIRITE?

by **Stay_Disappointed** » Tue May 11, 2010 00:57:06

phatj wrote:Just quoting this here for anyone who might have missed it in yesterday' game thread:

Marion wrote:For countless years, I've driven a side street to get to the parking lot.
I would come off the Platt Bridge, onto Pattison, turn left on 20th, then right on the next street, Hartranft. Every week, cops would position their cars in the middle of the road so that traffic could still get through, but you were cautioned to go slowly.

This week, the cop wouldn't let me through. He told me I couldn't park on that street. I told him I wasn't parking on the street, I was going to the stadium parking lot. He said he wouldn't let me through and that the neighbors are pissed off. He repeated himself about three times saying the neighbors are too pissed off about people parking on their street.

I backed out and continued up 20th to Packer and saw street after street blocked with cops. So just an FYI to those that normally do the same, looks like we'll be sticking to the main roads from now on.

I remember when you could park on Pattison around FDR park. Who complained about that?

by **jerseyhoya** » Tue May 11, 2010 00:57:39

HighCheese

Manuel said Contreras would've closed even with a 1 run lead. They were trying to stay away from Lidge. Didn't really get an answer why
2 minutes ago via web

Website · by **Wolfgang622** » Tue May 11, 2010 00:59:48

jerseyhoya wrote:
Didn't really get an answer why
2 minutes ago via web

Straight 92 mph fastballs setting up hanging sliders?

by **jerseyhoya** » Tue May 11, 2010 02:16:47

If we win 101 games this year (on pace for 101 wins), the Phillies will have averaged (w/ rounding) 89 wins over the past decade.

by **JFLNYC** » Tue May 11, 2010 09:23:45

ek wrote:lidge says he should be ok for today. we'll see

So what was the story last night?

by **JFLNYC** » Tue May 11, 2010 09:32:08

Thanks.

by **Soren** » Tue May 11, 2010 09:38:56

by **Trent Steele** » Tue May 11, 2010 09:42:33

It's going to be like this all year with Lidge. They need to take him out of the closer role. Charlie can't get into the habit of not using Contreras because he doesn't know how Lidge is going to feel on any given night. Make Contreras the closer now, at least until Lidge can establish he can pitch for a month with regular usage without breaking down or sucking a la 2009.

According to fangraphs, Lidge's fastball is down to 92.3 mph from 93.6 last year, 94.3 in 1998 and 95.4 in 2007. Small sample size, I know, but maybe that explains why he has thrown his slider an unbelieveable 65% of the time.

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