Phightins

Chase is officially back!!! Greg Dobbs DFA'd...again.

On another note, Bobby Thomson (hit the "shot heard 'round the world") died today. One of the more legendary moments in baseball history.

LSU was hit pretty hard also. Both football and baseball programs.

Reds sign Yasmani Grandal. First big draft signing of the night. The deadline is midnight tonight, and there are still a bunch of high picks unsigned. Should be a fun couple of hours, especially as it pertains to Mr. Harper.

The Cliff Lee-David Price matchup is living up to the hype so far.

And now the Mets are looking into voiding K-Rod's contract. Never a dull moment.

K-Rod has a torn ligament in his thumb that is supposedly from the assault incident, and he needs surgery. Woops!

Well done, Kyle.

Kevin Slowey had a no-hitter through 7 and was pulled because of elbow tendinitis. Jon Rauch came in and lost it.

Perhaps we can get this sticked and get the offseason thread taken down? Anyway, it is almost here. SI.com released their early power rankings the other day. I do not usually put much stock into "power rankings", but I have several issues with this one. Hard to argue with Pittsburgh and Washington being in the top 3, but IMO they have the Blackhawks way too high and the Canucks a little too low. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/allan_muir/08/13/offseason.rankings/index.html

Yeah. Few things in life are more annoying than blacked out sporting events, regardless of the reason.

It is blacked out for you because you are in the region. Try "Fox Sports South".

TBS shouldn't be allowed to broadcast Braves games for their game of the week. Nothing worse than homer-ism in a national broadcast.

Nothing worse than being stuck in mediocrity in the NBA. Causes the Sixers to look for improvement by raiding the.....Nets front office?

I would pre fur if you just called me a moran, idito.

Alex Rodriguez is having a decent game.

This is precisely why I will never even consider betting on baseball. It is a beautiful game because of how unpredictable it is.

I wouldn't reach over the fence. My favorites are the balls hit down the line, when there is a good 2-3 seconds between the time it's called fair and the time it gets over near the stands, and some idiot still reaches over the railing to grab it.

He could have pitched tomorrow against Misch and the Phillies offense would still find a way to get shut out.

Cole Hamels' last 2 starts...15 IP, 2 ER, 19 SO, 2 BB (one intentional). And he is 0-2. W-L is almost entirely meaningless. In fact, Cole Hamels has not had a win since July 11th. But in the games since then (6 starts)... 42 IP, 10 ER (2.14 ERA), 50 SO, 9 BB, 0.97 WHIP. Run support FTL.

Good news! Chase Utley is way ahead of schedule. Playing in a single-A game tomorrow night, likely to be back later in the week.

Cole Hamels is as dominant as he as ever been. Frustrating as hell that he is always up against really good pitchers and the Phillies can't score for [expletive] on days that he pitches, but again, W-L for a pitcher is meaningless.

Only half-watching, but Kolb was very impressive from what I saw.

Un[expletive]ingbelievable. This team's inability to score for Cole Hamels is absolutely absurd.

Major League Baseball stadiums should seriously give IQ tests to fans who want to sit in the first row down the lines and in the outfield before letting them sit there.