Phightins

Andre Iguodala Lou Williams Thaddeus Young Riley Cote Chad Durbin Scottie Upshall All of these guys are on Twitter. Mike Richards, Riley Cote, and James van Riemsdyk are all on Facebook as well. I could find more, these are just the ones I "follow" or am "friends" with.

The entire thing was a mixup. As everybody knows, Andy usually likes getting the ball first, so his plan was to do the onside kick had they lost the coin toss, but had they won the coin toss (like they did), the captains were supposed to say they wanted to get the ball first. Todd Herremans was one of the captains. He had heard some special teams guys talking about this before the game, so when he got to the coin toss he got confused and deferred the decision when the Eagles won the toss. He was supposed to just say the Eagles wanted the ball. But whatever, got the win and that is all that matters.

Annoying. Seems like we are keeping a lot of these games against good teams close, but just can't pull any of them out. At least they are competitive, I guess. Still looks like this will be a long [expletive] season.

The Armstrong/JVR thing happened during the five minutes I missed for a Wawa run, so I cannot comment. I have not even seen a replay yet. Most of the beat writers I follow on Twitter seem to think it was brutal and Armstrong absolutely deserved the gamer, and they are usually pretty objective. I will say that the officiating was pretty inconsistent tonight. Did not lose us this game though, Johan Hedberg was just awesome. Flyers played a pretty good game from top to bottom, I thought, but this was one of those games that you just have to chalk up to the opposing goaltender. Pretty bad timing, since we could have used the two points really badly.

I am not going to argue with you about this again, but I will say that if Jared Ross is an idiot, then so is Patrice Bergeron. On another note, I hate referring to any athlete as a "warrior" because I think that is ridiculous, but I can't think of many words more appropriate to describe Ian Laperriere.

Kind of a joke that Patrick Kaleta only gets two games, the same penalty Danny Briere got for his far less brutal hit.

Going to be there!!!! :glasses: Of all the hundreds and hundreds of Philadelphia sporting events I have attended over the years I have never been to a regular season Eagles game, so I am pretty excited.

Just get him signed up. This season is beyond a disaster at this point, just do something to fire up the fan interest a bit. After sitting in yet another quarter-full arena tonight I would absolutely love to see that place packed and actually caring about basketball again.

ESPN is a joke. Just throwing that out there.

I was at the game. Honestly, the first thing I thought of when I saw the Kaleta hit on Ross was the Randy Jones/Patrice Bergeron incident. Kind of ironic that you have such a different view of this. Anyway, your blind hatred for the Flyers is starting to shine through. It is okay, lots of people hate us, but it's pretty funny that your hatred towards Philadelphia skews your opinions now almost as much as your blind loyalty to Boston.

Haha yeah I am not expecting good things from the Sixers.

Will be attending this game. Should be a fun day. Flyers/Sabres at 1, then dinner in the city, then heading back over to the Center for this.

Link SWEET

No Lou, possibly no Brand. Could be a long night.

He played with it last night, they did not realize how serious it was until today.

Phillies sign DeWayne Wise and Wilson Valdez to minor league contracts.

Haven't found an official source yet, but it is all over Twitter. Hooray.

The good news is that Arron Asham will probably be back tonight. The Flyers loaned David Laliberte back to Adirondack, which suggests that Asham is ready to go. I was hoping that they'd keep Laliberte around anyway, at least until the Briere suspension is over. This means that Riley Cote will in all likelihood be in the lineup tonight and on Friday, which completely sucks. He is a waste of a roster spot at this point.

Tim Lincecum may ask for $20MM+ in arbitration. For those of you who are not familiar with how the arbitration system works, just know that this is absolutely unheard of. When Ryan Howard asked for $10 million a few years ago, everybody thought that was astounding. But then again, it's not like there has ever been a pitcher with two Cy Young's before they even got to their first arbitration case. I am just trying to imagine where this goes from here, if he keeps this up.

Sixers blow. /thread

Alright, I just saw the hit. It was pretty bad, I can understand the suspension. Just horrible timing. About half of our forwards belong in Adirondack.

Phillies sign Juan Castro. Looks like we found our Eric Bruntlett replacement.

Danny Briere has been suspended for 2 games. I honestly do not remember seeing the hit, so I cannot comment. But I do know that this is about the last thing we need right now.

Three consecutive losses later, it looks like the jinx is in full effect.

Up top. Got a deal from Drexel, I think I told you about it. Kramer will be there too, though.