CalvinBall wrote:the williamsport team from my understanding.

pfizer owns the property. they are really interested in the plan to build a stadium and rent it to the phils.


shhhh.

joe table wrote:I remember thinking after the Wakefield game, "wow, the Giants scored 1 run the entire series against the As. That really puts our hitting troubles this weekend in perspective"

Charlie Manuel hates team meetings. In fact, the Phillies manager will only call them as a last-resort measure. Manuel felt his team had reached that point Wednesday night after being shut out by the Mets for the second straight night and getting blanked for the third time in four games.

"He just asked us to play with intensity," center fielder Shane Victorino said. "It's not about losing and winning, it's about losing the right way, conducting ourselves the right way. That was the brunt of the conversation. There was no reaming or yelling at anybody. It was just an understanding that if we're going to lose, lose the right way."

The meeting didn't have an immediate effect. The Phillies were shut out again Thursday night and their lead in the National League East is down to 1 ½ games over the Braves. It marked the first time they had been shut out in three straight games in 27 years. The Phillies have scored just 15 runs in their last nine games. While teams always looking dead when they are not getting runners on base, Manuel senses the Phillies' problems are deeper and the result of a lack of energy and effort.

"How we play baseball, the energy we have, who we have, that's why 45,000 people come to Citizens Bank Park every night to see us play—who we got and how we go about it," Manuel said. "If anything changes and if the energy and effort and how we go about the game changes and we slack off and lose games, that crowd is not going to be there. That's what draws people to the ballpark, because we win, because they like the way we play and how we go about it. We've been playing baseball the right way for three or four years now, and we want to keep that."

WheelsFellOff wrote:Gasp! The Curse of Pat the Bat!

The funny thing is, before Saturday, the prevailing wisdom was that all those pitches had taken their toll on Halladay. He'd allowed 27 hits in his previous three starts -- none of them wins. And the seven runs he gave up to the Red Sox last Sunday were the most any pitcher had ever allowed one start before throwing a perfect game.

But Halladay made a little mechanical adjustment before this start, after a suggestion by his 47-year-old teammate/sage, Jamie Moyer. And what happened over the next couple of hours ought to end the is-Roy-Halladay-overworked debate.

kruker wrote:

The funny thing is, before Saturday, the prevailing wisdom was that all those pitches had taken their toll on Halladay. He'd allowed 27 hits in his previous three starts -- none of them wins. And the seven runs he gave up to the Red Sox last Sunday were the most any pitcher had ever allowed one start before throwing a perfect game.

But Halladay made a little mechanical adjustment before this start, after a suggestion by his 47-year-old teammate/sage, Jamie Moyer. And what happened over the next couple of hours ought to end the is-Roy-Halladay-overworked debate.

Stark