Grotewold wrote:Supposedly Salisbury said he knows the RH-hitting OF Amaro will pursue to replace Werth. Did anyone else hear/read that?

I have not heard but I hope it's a rehabbed Josh Willingham who I could see the Nationals non-tendering due to $/injury.

Willinham makes little sense to me, unless they really don't think very highly Ben Fran. Although that would make for a pretty good OF situation next year, IBanez, Vic, Dom, Willinham, Bennie

Willingham or Kearns would be fine by me if Werth isn't here next year.

Uggla. Moving him to RF

w00t

Soren wrote:Willinham makes little sense to me, unless they really don't think very highly Ben Fran

I don't think they do

PAT BURRELL

Uggla in LF I would love, absolutely love. He would mash in CBP with his pull tendancies. Although, apprently he has a career .628 OPS at CBP.

Cameron's statement falls into the same trap that Sheehan and some of the other BP folks did last year when they predicted an easy victory for the Dodgers in the NLCS.

They are looking at season-long numbers, without accounting for the fact that August-September numbers mean a lot more than April-May-June-July numbers do when trying to predict immediate future performance.

The Dodgers were a better team than the Phils in April and May of 2009, but not after that. But Sheehan and co. failed to grasp that and instead focused on the cumulative season numbers.

Something similar is going on here with Cameron.

They actually said that LA had a post-season record of 17-8 over the Phillies going into the series, so that's why they picked LA

How is Uggla an alternative for Werth when you consider Werth is going due to salary both short & long term. Uggla received $7.8MM in arbitration last year and he'll command a significant increase with his arbitrator loving 31 HRs this year. No chance.

I also don't trust Uggla in right, or Rittenhouse

The Savior wrote:PAT BURRELL

not ridiculous... as long as we don't have ibanez in left at the same time.

sorry if already posted but IPad/Phone/Touch lovers can enjoy a hand delivered Tony Luke's Roast Pork without leaving their seats. This is pretty $%#^ing awesome.



NICE!

stevemc wrote:sorry if already posted but IPad/Phone/Touch lovers can enjoy a hand delivered Tony Luke's Roast Pork without leaving their seats. This is pretty $%#^ing awesome.



NICE!

It really is. But I wonder how they're gonna handle it logistically. Seems like you'd need a ton of delivery people.

Soren wrote:Uggla in LF I would love, absolutely love. He would mash in CBP with his pull tendancies. Although, apprently he has a career .628 OPS at CBP.

Because he is facing all those BRILLIANTLY UNHITTABLE PHILLIES PITCHERS like Jamie Moyer and Jamie Moyer. I think he probably has a 1.750 OPS at CBP until you figure in his ABs against Jamie Moyer, and then it drops to .628 because he is like 3 for the decade against Moyer for some reason.

Grotewold wrote:

stevemc wrote:sorry if already posted but IPad/Phone/Touch lovers can enjoy a hand delivered Tony Luke's Roast Pork without leaving their seats. This is pretty $%#^ing awesome.



NICE!

It really is. But I wonder how they're gonna handle it logistically. Seems like you'd need a ton of delivery people.

I would think by limiting the options, that makes it manageable at first. Think they'll have the Dominos 30 minute limit? I never get a Roast Pork & Cheese these days only because I never want to stand in that ridiculous line.

stevemc wrote:I would think by limiting the options, that makes it manageable at first. Think they'll have the Dominos 30 minute limit? I never get a Roast Pork & Cheese these days only because I never want to stand in that ridiculous line.

Me neither. Luckily my wife and her friend don't mind missing two innings and will go get me whatever, but in other cases I bring a hoagie.

With this, I don't care how long the food takes to arrive so long as it's still warm.

I derive inordinate joy from Ruiz and Lidge's post-final-out interactions.

Swiggers wrote:Cameron's statement falls into the same trap that Sheehan and some of the other BP folks did last year when they predicted an easy victory for the Dodgers in the NLCS.

They are looking at season-long numbers, without accounting for the fact that August-September numbers mean a lot more than April-May-June-July numbers do when trying to predict immediate future performance.

The Dodgers were a better team than the Phils in April and May of 2009, but not after that. But Sheehan and co. failed to grasp that and instead focused on the cumulative season numbers.

Something similar is going on here with Cameron.

Sheehan can get under my skin as much as anyone, but even he isn't this catastrophically stupid. Cameron is trying to do the "let me stir up a controversy by needling Phillies fans" Law/Sheehan thing, but he is so late for that particular bus that it is just a grim parody of an already pretty ridiculous pattern. Saying the Phillies aren't the favorites in the NL now is like saying that water isn't wet or the sky isn't blue in an attempt to rile other people up who try to argue with you: you can do it, but you've selected a position so absurd that most people won't even engage, assuming instead that you are one of life's unfortunate cases.

If this douche had to lay his own money down to fund a bookmaking operation, do you really think he'd make the Reds or Padres equal favorites with the Phillies? Only if he wanted to go into hiding for the rest of his life in the event of a Phillies NLCS victory.

This is not to say that the Phillies will definitely win the NL by any stretch; as we all know, anything can happen/go right/go wrong in October. But to say they aren't the favorites is just to deny plain reality. if you just want to needle people for the sake of doing so, you need to take up a position that is at least minimally plausible: that the Phillies are somehow not the favorites in the NL isn't it.

CFP wrote:Willingham or Kearns would be fine by me if Werth isn't here next year.

Ugh... these options aren't lighting my world on fire. Werth >>>>>>>>>>> than either of those guys. I'd love to get someone who could... you know... come within 85% of his production.