reminded me of endy chavez' AB vs lidge in that game wagner gave up the homer to biggio

21McBride wrote:Heyman

The Phillies used two arguably cheap dingers to win the opener of the NLCS, which is one of their very favorite formulas at Citizens Bank Park.

then this, from the print version of The Sporting News (which seems bent on copying ESPN the mag); some dope named Ryan $#@!

Make a decision about free agent Pat Burrell. He has power but has hit higher than .260 and driven in more than 100 runs just twice in his nine-year career. Jayson Werth can do that at a fraction of the cost.

then who plays left?

Ramirez' home run barely got into the petunia basket. It's funny how the national media and out of towners can't grasp the fact that both teams actually do play in the same park during the game. I've always thought that the Phils' power hitters hit most of their home runs way over the wall whiole the pitchers are victimized by more cheap homers than the Phils hit. The Phils power guys hit a lot of long home runs.

The other thing regarding Burrell is the guy has been right around a 125 OPS + for four straight year. He is a poor fielder and doesn't run well at all but he sure is productive at the plate. That is really what they have to replace and they don't have anyone on their roster right now who can do what Pat does.

FTN wrote:

Yet when asked whether he could explain his recent struggles here, Billingsley mumbled an answer about a quality start, then seemed to reference his outing in Chicago before saying, "Never mind."

best.answer.ever.

He was also blaming Russell Martin for his performance since he calls the pitches.

21McBride wrote:Heyman

The Phillies used two arguably cheap dingers to win the opener of the NLCS, which is one of their very favorite formulas at Citizens Bank Park.

With every game the Philles win closet Mets fan Heyman becomes more and more bitter

if the Phillies do win the World Series, hopefully MLB steps in and takes it from us because of our home park. Its like a performance-enhancing drug, remember

FTN wrote:correction

"No, I was just screaming 'agh, rah, agh, rah.' I was just so happy I hit it," Ramirez said.

Someone please inform Manny that "talk like a pirate day" was a few weeks ago.

Ace Rothstein wrote:reminded me of endy chavez' AB vs lidge in that game wagner gave up the homer to biggio

i forgot about that abortion of an AB. god was he terrible here

Also this is minor but am I crazy or did it take Dobbs basically forever to score on that Ruiz double

Lets not forget Wertz swinging at the ball that bounced 3 feet in front of the plate in the LH batters box against Suppan. That was one for the ages.

FTN wrote:correction

"No, I was just screaming 'agh, rah, agh, rah.' I was just so happy I hit it," Ramirez said.

Reminds me of David Draiman's vocals from Disturbed.

Anti-CBP people need to look at facts:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/stats/par ... eason=2008

ek wrote:I don't think he could see the ball. none of those guys could. the sun was shining directly in their eyes in the top of the 1st

true....but Game 3 was dave bush not suppan

i know it wasnt you that said it but i dont know how to quote two posts

ok, i dont care who it was against. everyone knows the AB.

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you don't care "WHOM" it was against

Thanks Drugs

Speaking of drugs, I'm tapping my forearm that there's no game today

Grotewold wrote:Also this is minor but am I crazy or did it take Dobbs basically forever to score on that Ruiz double

You're not crazy. He's really slow. Plus I think he stumbled. He's not used to running that far I don't think.

The Red Tornado wrote:

MattS wrote:

The Red Tornado wrote:I think I saw a dead guy right after the game

some poor fellow fell over the railing leaving the game and fell at least 35 feet to the concrete below (from about row 7 or 8 on the 400 level to the concourse of the 300 level.

I just missed seeing his fall by about 30 second but saw him lying there and not moving, I hope the guy was merely unconsious

i saw the same guy. i don't think he was dead. they gave him an IV, and he seemed to be moving his fingers and his legs a tiny bit, but his eyes were shut. they were running a lot of tests on him, but i couldn't see much. i didn't wait around too long. very sobering though after the big win.

glad to hear that

there was already a whole bunch of people helping him so there wasnt anything I would do except get in the way

My friend who was with me at the game has a wife who is a nurse and she was speaking to a fellow nurse who thinks that she was working on this guy. (but honestly how many people fell that night at CBP?) Unfortunately, the guy's a vegetable now.

Take the info with a grain of salt obv.