Phightins

Jesus....wow.

Who, Kobe?

Figgins is very very good, but I think there are some way better bargains out there. Main reason I am happy the Phillies pursued Placido Polanco instead of him.

Nice t-bagging.

What?

That is what I was referring to.

Kobe has been getting way more calls dude.

Wow, that was not a foul lol.

Ok, Richards is still the captain, for now.

Yeah as I said I don't think Richards is a very good captain, not now at least. I'd love to see it be Pronger. But now it looks like this may be a bunch of BS anyway.

And there are now some reports that Mike Richards has resigned as captain. Jesus, [expletive] is really hitting the fan today.

Peter Laviolette will be the new coach. I like it, I think he is precisely the kind of coach they need. Exact opposite of Stevens. Also, I felt like they needed to get new blood in here.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/frequentflyers/Flyers_fire_Stevens.html Saw it coming. Still sucks though, I liked him. Had to happen.

Stevens fired.

It is getting ridiculous, and from what I am hearing Paul Holmgren is about ready to pull the plug on Stevens. Pretty much the same thing happened last year, they coasted through the regular season but had these big lulls at various points, and when the playoffs came around they were just dead. This team is way too talented for this, and now that they made the Pronger trade there are even less excuses. Which leads me to another point, Mike Richards is not a very good captain. Chris Pronger should absolutely be captain of the team. From what I have heard, Stevens has "lost the team" (sorry for using a stupid sports cliche but it is true) and Richards is apparently doing nothing to fix things. Pronger has offered him help and he will not listen. Also after the game yesterday, Pronger was the first guy to volunteer to talk to the media, while Richards basically hid in a corner and said nothing. But, if I had to guess, if this team has another piss poor performance tomorrow night Stevens will be shown the door.

I am sure Scutaro will start at short. I think the Pedroia to SS talk was only if they were to sign Polanco.

Hate to say it because I like John Stevens a lot, but I have a feeling he will be fired within the next week or so.

Because he has not done any basketball activities in a month. He needs a few days to get ready. He seems to think he might not even be ready to go by Monday, but since they sold the game out so quickly after he signed, he better play or there will be a riot.

Well chances are they lose Soriano and Gonzalez so they had to get some cheaper options.

Sounds like he might not even play on Monday.

He is the biggest rat in baseball.

Glad the bastard is back in the NL East. Can't wait until that rat comes back to Citizens Bank Park.

Yeah. This is great. That is some genuine passion and love for Philadelphia right there.

Yeah the line outside the box office yesterday was literally a mile long. Glad I got my tickets on Tuesday.

I like the Polanco signing a lot. Definitely an offensive improvement over Feliz. We now have a legit 2-hole hitter, which helps the lineup a ton. Obviously he will help the top of the lineup, but this will also allow the Phillies to slide Shane Victorino down to either the 6 or 7 hole where he will have more chances to produce runs, and also adds the speed dynamic to the bottom of the lineup which we lacked last year. I am predicting a huge year out of Victorino, for the record. As for how Polanco handles the glove, he has not played third in a while so it will remain to be seen. He was very good when he played 3rd for us right after we got him for Rolen. I doubt he will be as sure-handed as Feliz but I don't think he will be Wes Helms/David Bell level.