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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Woody » Fri Jul 26, 2013 13:40:06

Trent Steele wrote:http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dodgers-could-be-last-team-to-strike-gold-with-local-tv-deal/

Looking for a way to blame Amaro for this


Should the Phillies be worried? Perhaps. Sports Business Journal (subscriber only) reported last week that ratings for Phillies games on CSN Philadelphia through the first half of the season have dropped 36% from 2012. And while Philadelphia is the fourth-largest TV market in the country (after New York Los Angeles, and Chicago), the Phillies sit outside the Top 5 MLB teams in average TV ratings and average audience size. (Top 5 in ratings are the Tigers, Cardinals, Reds, Red Sox, and Pirates. Top 5 in audience size are the Yankees, Tigers, Red Sox, Mets, and Dodgers).


If the roster wasn't dog dick people might actually watch? Hard to come home from work and get pumped up for 4 Laynce Nix plate appearances
you sure do seem to have a lot of time on your hands to be on this forum? Do you have a job? Are you a shut-in?

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Trent Steele » Fri Jul 26, 2013 13:48:37

Woody wrote:
Trent Steele wrote:http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dodgers-could-be-last-team-to-strike-gold-with-local-tv-deal/

Looking for a way to blame Amaro for this


Should the Phillies be worried? Perhaps. Sports Business Journal (subscriber only) reported last week that ratings for Phillies games on CSN Philadelphia through the first half of the season have dropped 36% from 2012. And while Philadelphia is the fourth-largest TV market in the country (after New York Los Angeles, and Chicago), the Phillies sit outside the Top 5 MLB teams in average TV ratings and average audience size. (Top 5 in ratings are the Tigers, Cardinals, Reds, Red Sox, and Pirates. Top 5 in audience size are the Yankees, Tigers, Red Sox, Mets, and Dodgers).


If the roster wasn't dog dick people might actually watch? Hard to come home from work and get pumped up for 4 Laynce Nix plate appearances



Perfect. Fucking idiot is going to cost us like a billion dollars.
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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby smitty » Fri Jul 26, 2013 14:08:29

bleh wrote:
Bill McNeal wrote:if we just had a few decent bats and like one more decent arm in the pen we'd be right in it.

I'm with you. Buy!


A less stubborn GM would have released him months ago. Ruben Amaro, though, signed him for two years and, by golly, is going to keep him the whole time.

He's released players early before (Durbin and others I think), so I don't think that's fair.


Yeah. There have been some others. Qualls. How bout that Cuban guy? Bayez? The Phillies are probably like most, if not all teams, in this regard.

Nixxy is godawful though. Would rather see Susdorf start and maybe pick up some clown like that Dickerson guy or maybe even Angie Dickerson.

The good thing about our situation now is they can't do much to hurt the team and can add a lot just by subtraction. It's new math.

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby smitty » Fri Jul 26, 2013 14:09:31

Trent Steele wrote:
Woody wrote:
Trent Steele wrote:http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dodgers-could-be-last-team-to-strike-gold-with-local-tv-deal/

Looking for a way to blame Amaro for this


Should the Phillies be worried? Perhaps. Sports Business Journal (subscriber only) reported last week that ratings for Phillies games on CSN Philadelphia through the first half of the season have dropped 36% from 2012. And while Philadelphia is the fourth-largest TV market in the country (after New York Los Angeles, and Chicago), the Phillies sit outside the Top 5 MLB teams in average TV ratings and average audience size. (Top 5 in ratings are the Tigers, Cardinals, Reds, Red Sox, and Pirates. Top 5 in audience size are the Yankees, Tigers, Red Sox, Mets, and Dodgers).


If the roster wasn't dog dick people might actually watch? Hard to come home from work and get pumped up for 4 Laynce Nix plate appearances



Perfect. Fucking idiot is going to cost us like a billion dollars.


I know. A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about some real money.

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Trent Steele » Fri Jul 26, 2013 15:34:52

Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports that the Yankees have been told by the Phillies that Michael Young is "not yet available and might never be."
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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Soren » Fri Jul 26, 2013 15:35:59

I fucking hate Ruben. He's indefensible at this point.
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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Woody » Fri Jul 26, 2013 15:36:19

Way to play hard to get, Rube!
you sure do seem to have a lot of time on your hands to be on this forum? Do you have a job? Are you a shut-in?

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Napalm » Fri Jul 26, 2013 15:38:29

i dont really believe that. dont be so gullible guys.

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Wheels Tupay » Fri Jul 26, 2013 15:40:11

Napalm wrote:i dont really believe that. dont be so gullible guys.


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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Bill McNeal » Fri Jul 26, 2013 15:42:38

I'm not quite a grote level optimist and I can see a case for just holding on to most of the guys through the end of the season, but if Young isn't traded before the deadline I am going to be fucking pissed. I don't care if the return isn't good, even if its a lottery ticket, get it, there is no reason for my10 to be on this team. None.

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Shore » Fri Jul 26, 2013 15:45:52

He's heard us, everyone. He doesn't want to get rid of any more Young talent.

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Fri Jul 26, 2013 16:11:41

Soren wrote:I fucking hate Ruben. He's indefensible at this point.

This is like the grote and smitty bat signal.
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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby JFLNYC » Fri Jul 26, 2013 16:15:03

:lol:
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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Trent Steele » Fri Jul 26, 2013 17:42:24

Morosi says zero interest in Douchebag Closer around the league. Great signing.

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby CalvinBall » Fri Jul 26, 2013 17:42:36

Have we talked about the Luke Gregerson rumors Olney was slinging?

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Bill McNeal » Fri Jul 26, 2013 18:01:50

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby LongDrive » Fri Jul 26, 2013 18:03:35

Kofi must be a huge fan of the team.

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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Fri Jul 26, 2013 18:13:36

Trent Steele wrote:Morosi says zero interest in Douchebag Closer around the league. Great signing.

Womp.
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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Wheels Tupay » Fri Jul 26, 2013 18:15:47

Maybe we should wait until the trade deadline before we become whiny bitches? Or at least not take every single rumor like it has been written in stone.
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Re: Where's Ruben Amaro? (Phillies random thread)

Postby Luzinski's Gut » Fri Jul 26, 2013 18:16:50

Pretty clear that Amaro has shot his bolt with this team.

The team was constructed to win in 09, 10, and 11. The injuries didn't help, but the aging was foreseeable and nothing was done to address it.

So we're stuck with Rollins because of the 5/10 clause, Utley should be traded but won't because we're too sentimental, Young should be pawned off for a reasonable prospect, Lee should be available and quite frankly anyone not named Dom Brown and Cole Hamels should be available off of this club.

The bloom is off Rube. What the fuck you going to do about it now that you maxed out the spending and the prospect pool is two to three years from making any impact at the MLB level?
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