Nola meeting the media

Steaks asking him about comparisons to Greg Maddux and watching him growing up as a kid. Nola was 4 months old when we beat the Barves in the NLCS. Feelin old again

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Can you imagine if someone told you in December 2011 that we would blow for the next five years and get nothing for Halladay, Lee, Utley, Howard, Papelbon, and Brown?

On top of the awful returns for Pence and Victorino and the diminished hopes with Hamels.

It's really kind of unbelievable, above and beyond Amaro's shortcomings

This was pretty much the least #Grote post I've ever seen. For this post to come from you... it just takes me to a dark place.

I'm actually feeling up beat, between our young players and prospects and our perhaps unrivaled financial flexibility in the years to come.

But that 2011 to now thought occurred to me earlier and shook me. A lot of bad luck mixed in there to be fair, but (bad) Jiminy Cricket

the ending of the 2011 season was about the most devastating way for a dynasty to come to an end. fuck you forever chris carpenter

That's why Branch Rickey used to say it's better to trade a guy a year too early than a year too late.

DAMNIT. I'm going to be at the game on Saturday. Thought I'd get to see Cole one last time in gray and red.

Say what you want about Francoeur but I'd sooner watch him play than that turd Brown.

PS: Just noticed that Brown's "slugging" percentage is .234.

1 wrote:DAMNIT. I'm going to be at the game on Saturday. Thought I'd get to see Cole one last time in gray and red.

I'm going to be at the game Friday so this news can only be considered great

Buchanan to LV, Williams back. fkkkk

Pretty cool blurb from our 'ol "retired" friend Ted Silary (www.tedsilary.com):

July 19
Did you notice? . . . In today's Phillies-Marlins game, as Elvis Araujo pitched in the sixth inning, all nine Phillies on the field were minorities. The others: LF Ben Revere, 2B Cesar Hernandez, 3B Maikel Franco, 1B Ryan Howard, RF Domonic Brown, CF Odubel Herrera, SS Freddy Galvis, C Carlos Ruiz. Not sure if that has happened before, but it did today. Big moment for guys, like me, whose earliest heroes were players such as Tony Taylor, Wes Covington, Tony Gonzalez, etc. Meanwhile, in September 1971, in a game against the Phillies, the Pirates were the first team to use an all-minorities lineup.

Wtf just let Buchanan stay

JFLNYC wrote:Say what you want about Francoeur but I'd sooner watch him play than that turd Brown.

PS: Just noticed that Brown's "slugging" percentage is .234.

His swing is so different from 3 years ago. It's like he chose to get rid of all load time and any chance at powering through his swing so he could still have no contact.

td11 wrote:the ending of the 2011 season was about the most devastating way for a dynasty to come to an end. fuck you forever chris carpenter

I walked out of the bar and just sat on a bench staring into space.

Soren wrote:

td11 wrote:the ending of the 2011 season was about the most devastating way for a dynasty to come to an end. fuck you forever chris carpenter

I walked out of the bar and just sat on a bench staring into space.

I had SRO and was right behind the first section behind the catcher. The air just went out of the city that night.

2015 phillies team wrc+ and nl rank by month (with babip so you can make your own luck adjustment):
april 66 15th (babip .261 14th)
may 70 15th (babip .303 6th)
june 88 10th (babip .293 12th)
jul 102 7th (babip .324 4th)

that's a somewhat encouraging trend. on the other hand, baserunning has ranked 15th, 15th, 13th, and 15th, while defense has ranked 14th, 15th, 15th, and 15th. ouch.

pitching-wise, i'll use siera (hat-tip to matt!).
relievers have ranked 14th, 11th, 7th, and 1st. (4.23, 3.53, 3.30, 2.64)
starters have ranked 12th, 11ths, 15th, and 15th. (4.48, 4.07, 4.39, 4.89). rip cole. sigh...

something that makes me go "hmmm..." is the fact that the best starters over the past month (sss warning) have been hamels, severino, buchanan, and morgan (3.63, 3.80, 4.60, 4.77). williams was 4.64 before going on the dl, but i would rather extend his rehab or put him in the pen and go with the younger guys for now...

time for a poll...

slugsrbad wrote:

Soren wrote:

td11 wrote:the ending of the 2011 season was about the most devastating way for a dynasty to come to an end. #$!&@ you forever chris carpenter

I walked out of the bar and just sat on a bench staring into space.

I had SRO and was right behind the first section behind the catcher. The air just went out of the city that night.

I was just at my house watching it by myself. It took me hours to get to sleep. If I'd known how bad the next 4+ years were going to be, I doubt I would've slept for a week.

Sadly, that's still one of the most vivid non-WFC memories from that dynasty.

Ibanez and Utley had those two long flyballs that just fucking died out there. Meanwhile some turd Giant hits a fucking popup to RF that goes out to fuck us over in 2010.

i strangled my cat

It was close to Jurevicius Buccaneers bad... that was the worst for me... no way the Eagles could lose that game lol

I've been at the last two knockout games for the phils. very depressing both times.

Titlehungry wrote:It was close to Jurevicius Buccaneers bad... that was the worst for me... no way the Eagles could lose that game lol

Barber running it back was a dagger in my heart.