Phightins

Annoying game today. Terrible defense was the difference. The second half of the double header was rained out. Anyway, matchups for Brewers series: Tomorrow: Jamie Moyer vs. Randy Wolf Saturday: Joe Blanton vs. Chris Narveson Sunday: Cole Hamels vs. Doug Davis On ESPN Sunday night.

Onto game 7...

Lol @ Fleury being overrated. He was bad tonight but he is an young elite goaltender. I will sure as hell take him on the Flyers. But with that said, holy [expletive]. Hopefully the Flyers can finish their series off on Friday and make it a 7-8 ECF.

They were not stealing signs. Charlie rarely gets pissed off, but he was piping mad at the allegations. I have no idea why Mick Billmeyer thought he could use binoculars from the bullpen and not look suspicious, though. Should have been smarter. But even if they were, it's not like they made a difference. Mick put the binoculars away in the 1st inning after the ump told him to, and the Phillies scored 9 runs after that. Jim Tracy just had some serious sand in his vagina because they lost the game (and it carried over to today when he got tossed for going haywire over a call that was clearly correct). And FYI...Shane was on the phone to tell Mick to put the binoculars away, apparently. Anyone who thinks Billmeyer could see the signal with binoculars, tell Shane Victorino the pitch via phone, and then have Victorino signal to the batter what the pitch is all in a matter of 1.5 or so seconds before the pitch is thrown is just stupid.

O hai Matt Hubbs

Add Carlos Ruiz to the list of key players injured. Super.

My first home game of this series that I will not be attending. Probably for the best though....as Fly3rs knows my luck is not the greatest.

I think Van Gundy already said he was not interested.

Hockey wouldn't work. There are only 4 or 5 of us who are regulars in there.

Mind is [expletive]ed...

http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/Bruins_fans_Beer_popcorn_condoms_oh_my.html Those Boston fans sure are savages.....every last one of them! Even you ECN.

Hey Kyle I wonder where you found this....HMM

The Phillies are getting an extra 3 home games (well technically the Phillies will be the "away" team). The 3 game series against the Jays that was supposed to be played in Toronto is being moved to Philadelphia because of that G4 Summit in Toronto the same weekend. I heard about this yesterday and MLB just announced it today...

It would be really nice, but as everyone is saying it is probably a waste of time. I think it could definitely work for football and baseball, but it's a stretch. And OTR Football already failed. As ECN mentioned, if we get 10 or so more regular contributors to each of those forums, divisional forums could absolutely work.

I don't see the Nationals sticking around. Not this year. Next year it would not surprise me to see them fight for a playoff spot to be honest if everything goes as they are planning, but they are not ready.

Thank goodness Claude Giroux is alright. Should play Wednesday. Brian Boucher has injuries to both knees....not so good. Michael Leighton looked alright for a guy who has not played in 2 months, but I feel so bad for Boosh.

Back to the Wachovia Center for game 6! What a game tonight...the injuries keep piling on, but they still managed to play IMO their best game of the postseason. I am still concerned about the 3rd D-pairing, most of Boston's sustained pressure came with Krajicek and Parent on the ice. But still, gotta keep it rolling on Wednesday.

So happy we're back in business.

Apparently all of the Phillies players said off-the-record after the game that they wish they could have gotten 5 minutes alone with the idiot, since they think that 3-4 minute incident [expletive]ed up Cole's rhythm big time. Adam Wainwright said if he was a Phillies fan, he'd want to kill the idiot for doing that since it looked to him like Cole absolutely lost his mojo when that happened.

Ernie Harwell passed away tonight. Everyone knew it was coming, but still very sad. One of the all time greats.

Unfortunately, unless they put plexiglass up all around the playing field, fans will always be able to get over the railing (in most parks anyway). So yeah, some idiot ran onto the field again tonight. Didn't get tased though, but Cole Hamels (who was pitching a gem in the 9th inning at the time) lost all rhythm after the incident. He wound up blowing his lead. Coincidence? Who knows, but I know that I and almost every other fan in attendance was hoping the cop would reach for the taser and accidentally pull out the wrong gun, and execute the dumb [expletive] right there on the field. There was a "taser him!" chant going, and the guy got booed off the field.

Going to the game tonight. Will be interesting to see if anybody acts out of line knowing the stadium cops are packing tasers.

The taser was 100% unnecessary. The kid can't do anything about it since he did break the law and yeah technically the cop could have used the taser if he wanted to, but really, the kid was just a nuisance and not a threat. There's a little thing known as running and tackling, and maybe if the Citizens Bank Park security guys would put down the donuts once in a while they could get better at it. They only did this because the kid was embarrassing them and they could not keep up. They don't show these on TV and usually YouTube clips only show the very end, but if anybody has ever seen this happen in person, it's really quite hilarious. If the guy on the field can run, these things last a long time. That is why the taser was used. This happens a lot on dollar hot dog night (such as last night). Lots of high school/college aged kids tend to go to those. They used to have "college night" which was essentially the same thing, but idiots like this guy would do stupid [expletive] all the time so there are no "college nights" anymore, but Dollar Dog nights have taken their place. But yeah, the CBP security is not [expletive]ing around anymore. Not after the vomit incident and the kid who died at the park by being an idiot last year. As I mentioned in the Phillies thread the other day, the guards were very anal over the weekend and I was actually wondering if there was some connection. But this confirms it, they mean business.

Honestly, I hate to say it, but the Mets are actually solid this year. I do not like their pitching at all outside of Santana, but that lineup is very very strong, and will only be better when Beltran gets back (although that might be a good thing for the Phillies, considering how much Angel Pagan kills us).

Matchups for Phillies-Cardinals series: Tomorrow: Jaime Garcia vs. Joe Blanton Tuesday: Adam Wainwright vs. Cole Hamels Wednesday: Brad Penny vs. Kyle Kendrick Thursday: Kyle Lohse vs. Roy Halladay Big Joe's 2010 debut tomorrow night.