Remember his VH1 Storytellers though?

DO I?!?!

i lied. i celebrate his entire catalog

Saw him open for Hootie at the Troc

The Blowfish had to stay in their van.

black flag rose to popularity during the rollins years, but most fans laud the 'david montgomery' era

WheelsFellOff wrote:You prefer his solo work?

Acoustic set or bust.

The stuff that this front office cares about and doesn't care about is so appropriate.

As soon as I see hayes's byline, I usually close it. But I actually tried to read that one. I got about five paragraphs in. Utterly no idea how SOMEBODY WHO DOES THIS FOR A LIVING can be less informed than any of us are. Or how he has a job.

Quite possibly one of the dumbest people alive.

Woody wrote:

my cousin mose wrote:warsz c'mon with that avatar dude

seriously

What

dajafi wrote:As soon as I see hayes's byline, I usually close it. But I actually tried to read that one. I got about five paragraphs in. Utterly no idea how SOMEBODY WHO DOES THIS FOR A LIVING can be less informed than any of us are. Or how he has a job.

Quite possibly one of the dumbest people alive.

I had exactly the same response.

WheelsFellOff wrote:I remain caustically pessimistic.

you rang?

actually though, I think we're going to turn a corner this winter

Kind of like the little kid in the 3-wheeler turning a corner in "The Shining."

Warszawa wrote:

Woody wrote:

my cousin mose wrote:warsz c'mon with that avatar dude

seriously

What

makes me sad in pants

Brantt wrote:I don't know John Middleton, but I know two people who know him very well and they say the Phillies are his passion all day every day. Once they won in 2008 and he got a taste of what that was like, he badly wanted more championships and recently has become "sickened" by the product on the field.

Just like us. Gotta invite him to the next BSG tailgate... he'll bring the cigars.

.695: Ryan Howard's OPS as a cleanup hitter in 2014. There are 318 players since 1914 who had a season of at least 600 plate appearances in the No. 4 spot. Howard's OPS ranked 316th.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phi ... o96Qfy7.99

So you are saying it could have been worse?

He was an RBI man. What if we had someone good hitting cleanup? More WARS right there. Not to mention the fWAR.

JFLNYC wrote:

.695: Ryan Howard's OPS as a cleanup hitter in 2014. There are 318 players since 1914 who had a season of at least 600 plate appearances in the No. 4 spot. Howard's OPS ranked 316th.

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phi ... o96Qfy7.99

Ridiculous. I hold out hope they were just wringing all the water out of the towel but that remains to be seen

it was always more than a little strange that they were willing to platoon him, but not willing to move him down in the order when he played.