Phightins

Five game winning streak. Briere came back strong tonight with 2 goals. Emery is 10-3-1 with a 2.18 GAA. Looking good, but the schedule gets really tough right now. The NHL schedule makers really need to be replaced, speaking of that. It took the Flyers 41 days to play their first 15 games, and now in the next 17 days they will play 10 games. How does that work? Haha.

Well I am sure the Yankees are/will be interested, I just don't see them giving up as much as the Red Sox would.

My guess is he will stay put or wind up in Boston. I think the Red Sox can/are willing to make a better offer than anybody else, and Anthopoulos doesn't seem to have the fear of trading him within the division that Ricciardi had.

I wouldn't say the Mariners are terrible exactly.

I personally think the drop from 23rd to last over the past three seasons is due to the departures of Kevin Ollie and Calvin Booth.

That was pretty bad lol. One way or the other, the Sixers did not deserve to win this game.

I am not ready to give up on him but this team as a whole is frustrating the hell out of me.

Speights is fantastic.

It really is not dumb at all. Is it also a coincidence that December is when the intensity kicks up as the playoffs near? May very well be a coincidence, but Romo will need to prove that himself.

Good point. Surprisingly he has only been back once though. Seems like he has been gone forever but with all the trades he has been involved in/weird scheduling he has only played one game back here. I was at that game though, and it was pretty freaking sweet lol.

We absolutely have to get Dalembert off this team...wow. Not like that has ever been said before, though..

Yeah, it's supposed to be the best defensive guy at each position. Doesn't necessarily mean errors, though. Some guys (like Derek Jeter) don't make a whole lot of errors because they just don't have the range to get to a lot of balls, and have a chance to make an error on it. So really you need to watch the players to be able to tell who the best are, and the writers who vote on this clearly do not haha.

They did not even sell out the playoff games against Detroit and Orlando. Anyway, you gotta think that Ed Snider and all the big guys with Comcast are getting concerned about this.

Red Sox would probably try him out at third, I'd imagine. Speaking of third, the Phillies are apparently interested in Chone Figgins and Mark DeRosa. Well no surprise why they are interested in Figgins and I am sure there are 20-something other teams interested in him as well. I would absolutely love Figgins in this lineup, but realistically I see no way it happens. I have thought all along that DeRosa would be the frontrunner. Power righty bat and very versatile (could be plugged in at 2nd and shortstop to give Utley and Rollins days off without losing much production, which we have not been able to do for the past two years). I am not as high on Adrian Beltre as I was, I would honestly rather bring back Pedro Feliz. I would be fine with DeRosa and thrilled with Figgins, haha. But the Phillies have not had a legitimate "prototypical leadoff hitter" since Lenny Dykstra. Kind of hard to imagine how good they could be with a rock like Figgins up at the top. I am dreaming.

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I would never be able to live in either place, that is for sure.

Yeah. Well I am not saying Utley should have won but Hudson is the closest thing to a surprise on that list. He is a damn good second baseman but I'd have thought that him getting benched for the last part of the regular season would have hurt him.

Apparently Edwin Jackson is being shopped as well. If they are willing to trade those 2 they better be getting some serious value.

Come say hi to me and Matt lol.

Not that I really value the gold glove too much, but Jimmy Rollins and Shane Victorino each won one today. However, I think they do deserve it. I think everybody who won in the NL deserves it, which is a change from the norm. Usually there is at least one glaring mistake.

Means that if you listen closely on Friday, you will be able to hear everything Matt says loud and clear on TV. It is pretty pathetic though. The other three teams in the city are doing so well attendance wise but the Sixers are doing worse than the Phantoms (minor league hockey) used to do. I don't know if I can blame Stefanski, though. They are just stuck in one of those ruts that only seem to happen in the NBA, and nobody in the area really cares. Just barely good enough to make the playoffs and get rocked in the first round, but not bad enough to get a draft pick that will make that much of an impact. Repeat process year after year. By far my least favorite thing about the NBA.

Time to get back on track.

Derek Jeter....awesome hitter, awesome guy, absolutely not a gold glove shortstop. The voting process is pretty messed up. Rafael Palmeiro won the gold glove for 1B a couple years ago despite being a DH for 145 games and only playing about 10 games at first.

Brag about what? As I said in my initial post in here, I am not trying to be a smart [expletive].. Fish was trying to portray him as a clutch QB, and I pointed out that I'd like to see him win big games down the stretch/in the postseason first. What is wrong with that? Unfortunately for you, it is a valid point. And if you cannot see how laughable your post saying "well at least Romo didn't choke deep in the playoffs" is, then I don't know what to tell you.

You are right, he choked in the regular season instead. The fact that McNabb has even been to multiple conference title games and a Super Bowl shows that he can at least win games after Thanksgiving, something Romo has yet to do. I think this is a tired argument but when you make stupid points like that one, I can't help but laugh.