Phightins

He is getting 7 years and $126 million. Congrats to him. I am going to miss him, but he can't be blamed for taking the $$$. Doesn't make it hurt any less though .

So, he goes to a division rival and since they have a top 15 pick we don't even get their first round pick. Awesome.

Jayson Werth is close to signing with the Nationals. My heart was just ripped out of my chest.

Wow...

A win is a win, but today was ugly.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g96/philsphan1210/Picture1-25.png Wonder what's up.

Epic fail.

So he can't cause damage during the early innings? I understand what the Cardinals are doing, they want his bat and are willing to sacrifice the defense, but he is a tremendous liability no matter how long he is playing the outfield.

It really isn't. I'm not sure if you were around here a couple years ago when people were making new threads for every trade/signing, but like IllWill said, it was way too messy. It's much more organized this way.

3-1! Also, Rasheed Wallace was sitting in front of us! He was wearing a Reggie Leach Flyers jersey. Pretty sweet.

Poor Colby Rasmus will be getting a work out on every fly ball.

WOW. Cardinals sign Berkman. Does not look like a good fit at all, interested to see how this works.

He didn't. Thanks for the jinx, it was much appreciated!

Supposedly the salary cap will go up by as much as $2 million next season. This is fantastic news for the Flyers, potentially. May be the difference between keeping and losing Ville Leino.

With that said, the Red Sox lineup is going to be absolutely loaded, especially if they sign J-Dub too (ugh, the thought of that hurts). Adrian Gonzalez has a perfect Fenway Park swing, and for the first time in his career he will have legitimate protection. Just the thought of this is scary.

Pretty sad for the Padres. They had a great season, but are now trading their best player (and a guy who is relatively local) for financial reasons. And IMO they didn't get nearly enough.

Going to this. Which means the Sixers will probably win. 2-1 so far this season!

Sounds like Adrian Gonzalez-to-Red Sox is getting very close.

The outpouring of tweets about him is kind of crazy. His name is now on the US trending list. I knew he was a great writer, and from watching him on TV all those times he seemed like a great dude, but I honestly had no clue what kind of impact he had until now. Also, Rich Hofmann, perhaps my favorite current sports writer, absolutely nails the obituary. http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/20101203_Phil_Jasner__Sixers_beat_writer__dies_at_age_68.html

Nice of AI. And yeah, he was pretty big around here. He was a regular guest on the "Daily News Live" TV program that I have watched since I was a kid, so that's how I got familiar with him. All of his fellow writers have tons of respect for him.

I think he was sending a message to Turner, who has been awful lately. In fact, I think the original plan was to start Nocioni, but for whatever reason Nocioni did not play at all tonight. I guess he got banged up in warmups or something, I haven't heard any updates. It was nice to see Turner play well off the bench though.

This one stings. Normally, I haven't concerned myself with Sixers wins and losses this year, but I was really hoping they could pull this one out, especially with Phil Jasner passing away a couple hours ago. Absolute disaster of a game in a disaster of a season.

It is as if the Sixers are trying to lose. This is super disappointing. The first half was so encouraging. Find a way to win this one for Phil Jasner .

FYI, my favorite Phil Jasner memory will be how AI always sarcastically called him "Philip" in press conferences. Really funny.

There should be a nice tribute to him in the paper at some point this weekend. Looking forward to it.