I think it's a cool idea but iffy execution, to be honest. Some of the guys are in a really fun-looking conversational mode but some of them are posing for and looking at the viewer and some like Dysktra are just standing there in baseball card poses. Howard looks great but the guy he's talking to isn't listening to him so the pair just looks awkard. Green looks silly. Cole looks photoshopped in. On the other hand, Charlie and the Phanatic, Harry and Richie, Rollins and... Bowa?, Maddox look great. It's halfway there.

I think I see Ozzie Virgil in the background getting raped by Eddie Waitkus.

mozartpc27 wrote:RickyBo really hates Marshall Harris, doesn't he?

Doesn't everyone?

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

1 wrote:it's on the wall in the entrance to the diamond club. the clock in daulton's locker reads 12:12 or something like that

also, notice the rose on the table...

Phillies “Dream Team” Painting Possibly Coming Soon To Fans (from May 2010)

One of the artist's replies...

it’s pretty tough to finalize a list like this. you could include 100 players and still feel like someone has been left out. this is not an official top 25. it is a cross section of greats from the past 125 years of this amazing club. they are just symbolic of the talent that has walked through the Phillie’s clubhouse. can you imagine the stories they would be telling each other?! I loved doing this painting. there are a whole lot of hidden secrets in this image. Go to my website to see the full story. http://www.jcap.com.au

For example…There is an apology letter written to Alice in Richie Ashburn’s locker. And an alarm clock in Dutch’s locker with the date (from the mayan calendar) he believes we are all going to be beamed up. all in good fun.

I you.

Werth making a case that he's too valuable to let leave Phillies

"Ownership has done a great job of increasing revenues over the past few years," Werth said. "I got here in '07 and we won the division. I don't know exactly what the payroll was, but I know they've steadily increased it. That formula has turned out to be a winning formula. They've done a good job of bringing in the key parts, keeping guys here, locking up the guys that we have. It seems like it would be good business going forward to continue to keep that type of formula, a winning formula - strategically, keeping us together to continue to win and create a dynasty-type situation. I mean, we all know each other, we play good together, we feed off one another. We have unbelievable chemistry.

"This is an unbelievable place to come to work every day. To not be able to continue that would be a disappointment. But, at the same time, this is a business and for that to happen, I think we all know what will have to transpire."

In other words, the Phillies face two questions:

With the amount of money they already have spent to maintain a championship-caliber team, can they afford to re-sign Werth?

With the amount of money they already have spent to maintain a championship-caliber team, can they afford not to?

No doubt reading from a prepared statement Boras drafted.

philliesphhan wrote:I also think they had some thing on baseball-reference a few months ago about how many times certain teams had the best record in MLB, and I don't think the Phillies ever did, not even just for the NL.

The Phils had the best record in the NL in 1977. The Royals, however, won one more game (102). I think we showed them who was boss, however, at some point later down the line. The details on that are fuzzy.

FTN wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Floppy, Gammons says we can flip the switch. And that it done got flipped.

Gammons is out of touch, tbh

He got through a whole article without mentioning OPS or Boston. Success.

This has to worry ya though...

"Halladay is as good as anyone on the planet, and right now he's their third best starter," said one scout.

ek wrote:utley responds


"I have never ever attempted to break up a double play with the intent to injure someone," he told MLB.com. "I understand what it's like to be taken out. I've been kicked, kneed, elbowed, spiked and even flipped upside down. And as much as I might not have liked it at the time, I understand that it's all part of being a Major League second baesman. Second basemen have had to deal with this for over 100 years. And with that said, we as a team play the game hard and play it to win. That is not going to change."

I need some tissues

ek wrote:Polanco wants to get another cortizone shot in his elbow once we clinch. Will miss a few days

Celebratory cortizone shot?

WheelsFellOff wrote:

ek wrote:utley responds


"I have never ever attempted to break up a double play with the intent to injure someone," he told MLB.com. "I understand what it's like to be taken out. I've been kicked, kneed, elbowed, spiked and even flipped upside down. And as much as I might not have liked it at the time, I understand that it's all part of being a Major League second baesman. Second basemen have had to deal with this for over 100 years. And with that said, we as a team play the game hard and play it to win. That is not going to change."

I need some tissues

Just go in the shower, it'll wash down the drain.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I think it's a cool idea but iffy execution, to be honest. Some of the guys are in a really fun-looking conversational mode but some of them are posing for and looking at the viewer and some like Dysktra are just standing there in baseball card poses. Howard looks great but the guy he's talking to isn't listening to him so the pair just looks awkard. Green looks silly. Cole looks photoshopped in. On the other hand, Charlie and the Phanatic, Harry and Richie, Rollins and... Bowa?, Maddox look great. It's halfway there.

Chuck Klein. He's probably uncomfortable with a black guy in the locker room.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

1 wrote:it's on the wall in the entrance to the diamond club. the clock in daulton's locker reads 12:12 or something like that

also, notice the rose on the table...

Phillies “Dream Team” Painting Possibly Coming Soon To Fans (from May 2010)

One of the artist's replies...

it’s pretty tough to finalize a list like this. you could include 100 players and still feel like someone has been left out. this is not an official top 25. it is a cross section of greats from the past 125 years of this amazing club. they are just symbolic of the talent that has walked through the Phillie’s clubhouse. can you imagine the stories they would be telling each other?! I loved doing this painting. there are a whole lot of hidden secrets in this image. Go to my website to see the full story. http://www.jcap.com.au

For example…There is an apology letter written to Alice in Richie Ashburn’s locker. And an alarm clock in Dutch’s locker with the date (from the mayan calendar) he believes we are all going to be beamed up. all in good fun.

Congratulations to the Phillies for being the 1st US team to embrace this unique concept.

Kewl.

SteveJeltzPhanClub wrote:Anybody ever see this before?

Found this on the artist's website-

From left to right, standing:

Jimmy Rollins joins in the fun with fellow shortstop Larry Bowa who shows his usual passion and enthusiasm for whatever topic is at hand.From Rollins' locker pumps his favorite wrap music.

Behind them Lenny Dykstra watches on with a cheek full of tobacco and looking as pumped as ever. Note the brown stain on the carpet at his feet.

Darren Daulton was known to have a lounge chair in the clubhouse to rest his battered body. He is covered in ice packs and bandages. The one on his left hand is due to him on one occasion putting his fist through the wall of the change room in a moment of frustration. What is that alarm clock in is locker all about?

Chase Utley and 2008 World Series MVP Cole Hamels hold up the Holy Grail after the 2008 triumph. Another world series winning pitcher Steve Carlton places a hand of congratulations on Coles’ shoulder and symbolically hands over the baton form one great "lefty" to another. Also note the VUK patch on Chase’s right arm that all Phillies wore in 2007 in honor of the much-loved former player and coach.

Slugger Ryan Howard jokes with 1930's left hand big hitter Chuck Klein on who hits the furthest. Ryan no doubt is pointing out how small Baker Bowl was and how it favored the lefties. Chuck doesn't look too impressed.

4 famous hitters stand centre stage.

Del Ennis, All star in rookie year 1946 who hit the winning run on Sept. 6th, 1952 v Boston Braves in the bottom of the 17th. with a broken wrist (note the ice pack).He stands along side Mike Schmidt who broke his home run record in 1980 and finished with 548. Richie Allen, rookie of the year in 1964 did it tough, enduring constant racial slurs but still became one the club's best as a power hitter of the 60's and 70's. Johnny Callison another great hitter of the 60's completes the fabulous 4.

4 pitching heroes hang out together in the background: Jim Bunning, Jim Konstanty, Robin Roberts and Grover Alexander. Old Pete shows the secret to his success. He honed his skills on the farm in Nebraska as a boy throwing rocks at rabbits.

Always the livewire, a smiling Tug McGraw hold up his victorious left hand in memory of the series winning pitch in the 1980 World Series. Perhaps he's having a laugh at Bob Boone who drops a ball remembering that famous spill that was mopped up by Pete Rose in the 9th inning of game 6 in the 1980 WS. Tony Taylor gets in on the joke. The ever-present Garry Maddox waits in case of any further spills.

Two old friends reunited again, have a chat, as they always liked to do. In this case a young Harry Kalas interviews Richie Ashburn as he was back in his heyday, 1950. In Ashburn’s locker is a sorry letter to Alice, a fan who legend has it, he hit twice in one game when foul balls landed in the crowd.

SITTING IN FOREGROUND:

The Phanatic sits back and takes it all in. He represents all Phillies fans in his appreciation of the scene that is before him. This surely is any Philly fanatic’s idea of heaven. In typical cheeky fashion he sits himself down right in the middle of a meeting of minds between Paul "pope" Owens, Charlie Manuel and Dallas Green.

Note the rose in the vase in front of Dallas Green. Pete Rose is a Philly favorite and in this scene he is with us in spirit.