Five Questions on the Phillies with The Good Phight

As gold is to Glen Beck.

This is without a doubt the best NLDS preview I’ve read this week. And I’ve read a few.

I’m super excited about this series. And, as always, Whole Camels is my favorite baseball user name ever.

is there a link to the cross examination?

Also, the Metroid reference was beautiful. I guess the Phillies are the life-suckers of baseball.

No, wait, that’s still the Yankees.

in which the Reds wrapped up the final game of the NLDS against the Phillies and I was wondering who they’d face in the NLCS and how they might match up. The dream happened back when the Reds were still see-sawing with the Cardinals for divisional supremacy – July or some such.

Just sayin’.

any plans for a meetup in the large apple? are we all hampered by work schedules?

AJ Burnett will NOT be in the Yankees ALDS rotation. I’ll try to get something up on the front page pronto.

There is a pretty good chance of rain throughout the game tomorrow. If there’s a delay after a few innings that lasts a while, both starters could conceivably get knocked out. That would be incredibly advantageous. Imagine if, from the 4th inning on, it becomes Travis Wood against Kyle Kendrick. I like those odds much more.

 Even if they leave Halladay in after a delay, it’s going to be harder to maintain effectiveness in those conditions.

/graspingatstraws’d

Skyline offers free coneys on Wed to folks who wear Reds gear

Waite Hoyt’s Burgerville. Neat photos. A word to the wise….avoid Burger Beer.

Another report says it will start at 8:07 if the Yankees-Twins series is done

“The hand has affected me a lot, man,” Phillips says. "The type of person I am, I can’t be like many players who can just sit in the clubhouse and not play hurt. I’m the type of person who believes you only have one career, and I just love playing. I just feel there’s so many people out there who would love to switch positions with me. So let me go out and play and have my presence out there. I can win games without my bat. I can use my baserunning and my defense.

Brandon, don’t you have to ask yourself whether your healthy backup would be more productive than you? Also maybe you should consider whether taking a few extra days will get you back up to a high performance level. Finally if you can’t hit, you base-running skills really don’t matter, unless you think that your great ability to run to first on a weak ground ball is key.

I respect the Cardinals, I do," Phillips says now. “They’re a great franchise, a great organization, they have a great tradition. I have many friends over there on that team. But, you know, what I said is what I said. I won’t take it back. I said those things, and it got out. I wish it didn’t, but it did, so I can’t take it back. It wasn’t supposed to be in the paper. Their team wasn’t supposed to hear that.”

Really Brandon? You respect them now? Also they weren’t suppose to hear it, it wasn’t suppose to be in the paper? The day after the quote you thanked Hal for publishing it and told him everything had gone according to plan.

“You (beat writers Phillips isn’t talking to) show me respect, and I’ll respect you,” he says. “If you respect me, I’ll talk to you every day. But if you want to bad-mouth me and then come into my face and talk to me like I’m your friend, you have no chance to talk to me. My mama raised me like that. She was like, ‘If somebody don’t have nothing good to say to you, then don’t say nothing to them. Don’t even talk to them.’ That’s why I am the way I am. It’s my mama and my daddy’s fault.”

Isn’t this what pissed of Molina?

is adorable. Nobody in his small town cares that he’s a baseball star, but they’ll all be jealous of the ’dozer!

The guy makes enough money that he could easily have bought one for himself. I can only assume he’s frugal. Since he’s planning to make some extra money by renting it out when he’s not using it!

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