Handsome Joey Saves called up

Rube sent intern to train station to make sure he didn't have to walk to cab stand

Not your best work.

must be my low blood sugar

Savery has been awesome at LHV in his first six innings. He will be great. And I mean GREAT.

Rob Maaddi ‏@RobMaaddi
Carlos Ruiz hit by a pitch in extended spring game today. Taken for X-rays. #Phillies.

oh cool

X-rays negative

But the waffle cone didn't make it

Mike Adams said Friday that he wishes he "felt a little bit better."

me too mike, me too

Peeked into Ruben's office tonight. He wasn't there, but if he was, I'd tell him about this thread.

Scored 8 runs tonight, boston bomber in custody, EEM is gettin hitched, everything is right in the world again

FTN wrote:

Mike Adams said Friday that he wishes he "felt a little bit better."

me too mike, me too

hard to believe he's not 100% coming back from an injury that has ended multiple careers

FWIW, his FB VELO is 89.5 mph. Down from 92.7 mph in 2011 (pre-injury).

good signing

yah he's been a real train wreck

Grotewold wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:All those people who gave me a hard time for saying this team will not walk enough or have enough power to score runs consistently

Yeah no one did that. It was more asking you who else was available (other than Swisher) and saying Josh Fields sucks.

MB you do have a fairly thin skin. For ages you've moaned about groupthink lovin' Ruben Jr, and often claimed you were the only one who didn't like what he was doin'. It's like the Ibanez deal scarred you for life. Feels like you're monomaniacally going on and on about OBP like it's the only thing which counts in a player's makeup. You come across as balanced as someone banging on bout RBIs.

Wizlah wrote:

Grotewold wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:All those people who gave me a hard time for saying this team will not walk enough or have enough power to score runs consistently

Yeah no one did that. It was more asking you who else was available (other than Swisher) and saying Josh Fields sucks.

MB you do have a fairly thin skin. For ages you've moaned about groupthink lovin' Ruben Jr, and often claimed you were the only one who didn't like what he was doin'. It's like the Ibanez deal scarred you for life. Feels like you're monomaniacally going on and on about OBP like it's the only thing which counts in a player's makeup. You come across as balanced as someone banging on bout RBIs.

except, of course, that RBIs are a lousy stat.

But I agree I've gone on too much about it and that sometimes I have a thin skin about some things. And I agree that there are others that feel the same way, though most of them don't go on and on like I do. It's not that I'm obsessed about OBP. It's only recently that I've said much about it on any sort of regular basis. But when the GM is actively saying it doesn't matter and backing that up with crappy signings that show he doesn't think it matters, then I feel the need to point out what an stupid opinion that is. If I'm upset, it's only because I hate to see the opportunity to transition to a new core being so soundly ruined. I'm not upset that other posters don't think OBP is important, I'm upset that our GM, who should know better, sees it that way.

Anyway, it's nice to have you back posting. You were missed, I think.

edit: btw, the Bite me thing really was just a joke.

Phillies scored eight runs in three innings tonight with only two walks and they made Garcia throw like 99 pitches so Monkeyboy can bite me and bite a random monkey to boot lol, omg.

Just kidding. Monkeyboy is making good points. But ima gonna believe these here Phils will do some,damage this here season.

Number of runs the phillies score in the 1st inning without Utley's walk: 0

I love Galvis