A huge mistake to keep the game at 10:07. But, the Phils can shut everybody up by winning the damn thing.

I want to play already but it might be good to have an extra day off to give blanton/happ some more rest. plus we might be able to bump lee into game 4 start if we need to

I’m still confused, 5 days from Lee’s last start is Monday – him starting game 4 is just the normal rotation isn’t it?

Game 3 being postponed probably helps happ and blanton be available if pedro starts out weak.

I’d still start pedro – but just short leash him.

Hell 3 innings pedro, 3 innings happ, 3 inning blanton.

I have class until 9:45 on Monday night, so this is just wonderful for me.

This helps the pitching staff so much. I’m happy.

We might all be missing the boat here. This doesn’t help the pitching staff all that much if Pedro pitches 2 innings, Joe Blanton comes in for 1+, Happ for 0.1, Myers for 0.2, Eyre for 0.2, Durbin for 0.1, Kendrick for 0.1, Bastardo for 0.1, Madson for 1, Lee for a situational lefty out and Hamels to pinch run…. Oh, and of course we can’t forget Brad Lidge for the final 3 outs – he was our closer last year, he’s our closer this year while we put last year to rest.

Now that I look at it, that only gets us through what, 7 innings? We really should’ve carried 15 pitchers, no?

The roster makeup is really absurd, considering Charlie clearly doesn’t want to use several of the 12. Maybe he should have just carried his 5 starters plus Madson?

But as we saw last night you need to have a specific ninth inning pitcher…so you’d need at least 2 non starting pitchers.

Per Zolecki

Pedro said he doesn’t know if he’s starting Game 3. Stay tuned.

Vicente Padilla pitches a good game against the cards so the dodgers have at least 3 days to get ready for the NLCS…

feh

Can’t say I like the idea of starting a game at 7 o’clock local time if the temperature is that cold to start, but at least they don’t have the early game again on Sunday. By the way, if game four starts after the Yankees-Twins game, at 8:37 ET, isn’t that creating a pair of tired teams for a possible game 5, which would start back in Philadelphia less than 24 hours later? I don’t see how they can schedule game 4 for anything other than the early start or, if the Twins-Yankees is over, maybe their time slot of 5:07 would work. Whichever way it turns out, at some point there is going to be a short turnaround: game four around 2:00 PM ET after a Sunday game that probably ends around 1:00 AM. Try getting a decent night sleep then. Even if game 4 starts later, if there’s a game 5, there’s a long flight before any chance for a full period of sleep. There might have been some advantage gained by postponing game three today, but now we’ll see how well the team performs under less than ideal circumstances.

Since the Cards-Cogers time slot is open Why Not switch the Phil’s game time