Phillies Breakfast Links, October 28, 2009: Let's Play Some World Series!, Maui Mommy, Mayors Actually Doing Things

by WholeCamels on Oct 28, 2009 8:31 AM EDT

Philly, NYC mayors make community service wager

I like this a lot more than the stupid cheesesteaks and bagels crap they usually pull. Will Bloomberg just pay his robot twin to make the trip?

NJ Gov. Hopefuls: You’re Out!

I knew I hated all of them: Tubby, Beardo, and Broke. Withholding my vote!

"Desperate" Phils Fan Offers Sex for Tix: Cops

Whatever she's offering, I'll... oh forget it.

In the Right - Obama, Corzine and the World Series

Location: The Lincoln Financial Services Field, which is a Tiger Woods three-wood away from the Citizens Bank Center where the baseball game will be played.

LOL what?

Friends CC and Lee oppose each other in Game 1

OK, quick, what does "CC" stand for? Cream Cheese? Cup Cakes?

Proud parents off to see Maui's Shane Victorino in World Series

Mahalo!

The World Series and New Jersey: where Yankees land meets Phillies country

Did you check the Pine Barrens?

Our pick: Phils over Yanks in a slugfest

Sorry about all the rotten things I said about you this season, Atlanta.

Pedro Martinez Brings His Show Back to the Bronx

I love the Yankees quotes. They just hate hate hate hate Pedro so much.

Rollins defends prediction of Phillies in five

Buncha crybabies, "OH WAAHHHHH!!!! The mean man said mean things about our Yankees!!"

World Series rivalry splits family loyalties

D-I-V-O-R-C-E!!!

The education of Brad Lidge

Well then, get some help, Brad.

Phillies will win World Series - The Daily Collegian Online

I appreciate the guy's premise, but just look at that photo. He looks like a villain from an 80s college sex comedy.

Michael Taylor: Adjusting To Mexico

Phillies prospect Michael Taylor's latest blog post from a Stanford blog.

Perkins: World Series a bitter pill for Indians fans
I feel somewhat guilty, but remember when this crap used to happen to us?

Keith Olbermann thinks the key to a Phillies upset is Dennis Werth

Oh, Keith.

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"OK, quick, what does "CC" stand for? Cream Cheese? Cup Cakes?"

Carsten Charles. I’d go by CC too, if that were my name. Carsten Sabathia just isn’t intimidating.

"When you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you is
Believe"

by The Dark on Oct 28, 2009 9:09 AM EDT reply actions

it scans well for fan chants, either supportive or derogatory.

CAR-sten CHAR-uls! CAR-sten CHAR-uls!

by Wet Luzinski on Oct 28, 2009 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Cubic Centimeters. like 1000s of them

by pjnc2003 on Oct 28, 2009 10:27 AM EDT reply actions

Taylor

Personally my stomach has finally adjusted to new food and a new routine as I spent a good part of my first 10 days here under the weather. Not to mention jut getting my body back into playing shape with travel and odd hours. I am continuing to learn new words and ways to communicate in Spanish. Although, I spend a lot of time feeling foolish, I am getting better by the virtue that I can not get any worse.

I had been mildly disappointed with Taylor’s numbers so far in winter ball (small sample size yada yada), but hadn’t considered the possible impact of Montezuma’s Revenge. That would be no mere excuse.

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 11:31 AM EDT reply actions

Captain Cheeseburger, says my friend the Twins fan who long feared that CC would eat Nick Punto.

by dajafi on Oct 28, 2009 11:31 AM EDT reply actions

it just never gets old!

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions

Cotton Candy

Per Luzinski’s criteria above, it also scans well for fan chants…

COT-ton CAN-dy!

"When you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you is
Believe"

by The Dark on Oct 28, 2009 11:35 AM EDT reply actions

Last year, the chants were primarily “C-C” but there were also some occasional chants of “Fat-Boy”.

Possible at-bat music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4omxgeiwMw

Any other suggestions?

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Fonda ain’t got a motor in the back of her Honda.

by Wet Luzinski on Oct 28, 2009 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions

Terrible News

Apparently Peter Gammons picked us to win last night. My confidence is now shaken to the core.

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 12:06 PM EDT reply actions

Meanwhile, for those of you who picked the “under” on Jim Caple – sorry, but surprisingly enough, the “over” wins!

Once again, the writers quoted in that article are disappointingly respectful to the Phillies. How are we supposed to properly work up our sense of grievance with this kind of weak effort? The only writer who craps on the Phillies is Bob Nightengale of USA Today, who notes that “Phillies don’t have the pitching to shut down the Yanks.” But I’ve never even heard of Bob Nightengale.

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Paul Hagen’s comment made me laugh. It was kind of surprising how many of the commentators took jabs at the team they picked to win.

"When you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you is
Believe"

by The Dark on Oct 28, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Wait wait wait… wait. Peter Gammons picked the Phils to win the game tonight or the world series?

Because this link would indicate otherwise:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4600814

by Phils 2036 World CH on Oct 28, 2009 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions

Whew! Thanks for that – that was a close one. I was going off a secondhand report about something Gammons had supposedly said on TV yesterday.

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Sheesh, I know the Yankees are favored, but… 21 out of 23?

And Rob Neyer, who I generally like: “The Yankees would have won 110 games if they had played in the NL East.” So… what does that have to do with a 7-game, head-to-head series?

by PhillyFriar on Oct 28, 2009 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Phillies might've won 110 in the AL Central

So what exactly was the point he was trying to make?

by wildcatlh on Oct 28, 2009 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions

That comment by Neyer is really just an insult to the NL rather than a profound reason for his prediction.

I suppose had the yanks been in the NL east the “real” world series would have been during the NLCS.

by Phils 2036 World CH on Oct 28, 2009 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions

Keith Law seems to think we need to beat Sabathia three times in order to win. We don’t have to go 7-0, Keith.

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Doug Glanville with another nice column in the NYT today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/opinion/28glanville-series.html

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 12:14 PM EDT reply actions

Smart dude. I always liked Doug, not surprised one bit he’s a good writer.

by Cormican on Oct 28, 2009 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions

The funny thing is that in college, he studied engineering. He probably never even had to do any writing after high school.

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions

Untrue. At Penn he was a systems engineer who studied under Dr. Vukan Vuchic (http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~vuchic/), who is a prominent figure in the area of urban mass transit engineering. His senior thesis studied the issues/impact on sighting a new Phillies stadium near Center City. A fair amount of writing (especially for systems engineers) is involved in these kinds of works, from my Penn engineering friends and family who have endured them.

by Wet Luzinski on Oct 28, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, but dude – that’s engineering writing. That’s different. It was probably all graphs and sh*t.

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Another link from the What Might Have Been

Department.

MLB better be mindful of the fact that the Rockies have a pretty good team.

by Wet Luzinski on Oct 28, 2009 1:36 PM EDT reply actions

seriously

They were a couple bounces and a Ryan Howard line drive away from being in the NLCS.

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on Oct 28, 2009 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Can you imagine how big of a ratings sink a Rockies-Angels series would have been?

No insult intended to the franchises, but would anybody outside of Colorado care about that series?

"When you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
And all I ask of you is
Believe"

by The Dark on Oct 28, 2009 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions

People in Orange County, I guess?

by taco pal on Oct 28, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Offseason moves being unknown, of course, but psychologically I have to give the edge to the Rockies in the NL West in 2010. The Dodgers ought to be heading for an implosion after building a team specifically built to beat the Phillies that didn’t.

by Wet Luzinski on Oct 28, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions

And the Rockies get Jeff Francis back. A Jimenez/Francis/Cook/Hammel front four, with the lineup they have (with Gonzalez and Fowler primed for full-season breakouts), looks pretty formidable.

by PhillyFriar on Oct 28, 2009 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions

now that would have been hilarious

possibly two games postponed by snow, roflmao

by SmilingJPhilsPhan on Oct 28, 2009 1:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Not just that

Likely 3 games during which the temperature at game time would have been below 30. That would be some miserable baseball.

by Cormican on Oct 28, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions

I love that picture of Victorino. Looks like he’s about to use that bat on somebody’s head or something. Oh flyin’ hawaiian. You’re always good for a fun screen grab.

Let the beasting begin.

by TransplantedFan on Oct 28, 2009 2:38 PM EDT reply actions