Phillies Breakfast Links: June 11, 2009.

by WholeCamels on Jun 11, 2009 8:51 AM EDT Comment 12 comments

Werthwhile catch, Utmost hit lead Phillies over Mets in 11 innings
If you didn't hear, awesome comeback win for the Fightin's last night. My favorite part was the look on David Wright's face when he saw Jayson Werth catch that ball. Looked like he was about to cry.

New York Mets' Mike Pelfrey has heated exchange with Philadelphia Phillies' Chase Utley - NJ.com

"He's a guy that I look at who always takes his time in the box," Pelfrey said. "I don't know if he's thinking or what in between pitches, but I was ready to go, and he wasn't. ... And I was mad." It was a rare angry outburst from the mild-mannered Pelfrey, and one the Mets were happy to see.

I love how the Mets place such an emphasis on appearances and attitude and words and not, you know, winning baseball games.

Mets show Phillies lefthander Cole Hamels to be all talk
Notice a little something barely mentioned in this story? Oh yeah, WHO WON THE GAME YOU DOUCHELORD?!?! Again, WORDS WORDS WORDS WAAAHHH HE HURT OUR FEEEEEELINGS!!!!

[HDTV] Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings (Lyrics) (via sporadicmedia)

Poll: Yankees top team among NJ baseball fans | AP | 06/11/2009

"Fifty-two percent of adults polled said they were "very interested" or "somewhat interested" in Major League Baseball. Among those fans, 44 percent support the Yankees, 21 percent favor the Mets and 20 percent back the Phillies."

THIS JUST IN: Geography influences sports rooting interests!!

Stavisky lifts R-Phils
Former first round pick Joe Savery has his best outing of the season (6.1 IP, 0 R, 4 H, 5 K).

The Fightins " More Raul Ibañez Steroid Nonsense!
Great post by meech. I agree with him for the most part, but I reserve a little more "blame" for Gonzo and Rosenthal for exploiting an issue that never would have been distributed very widely and using it as an opportunity to take potshots at bloggers. If the "Steroid Era" (ugh) has taught us anything, it's that basing rumors and feeding off innuendo based on a player's performance, particularly after 50 goddamned games, is ludicrous. If you want to be taken seriously as a blogger/journalist, you need to be prepared to be called on accusations like that, even if they're just "hinted at" in the headline.

Johan Santana's 'protest' to be taken out OK with Jerry Manuel
For crying out loud... that must be the most fun clubhouse ever.

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Hamels went with the subtle "Patrick Roy" tactic:

_After the game, Hamels downplayed his comments about the Mets, saying he didn’t think the Mets were any more amped up to play against him because of it.

“I don’t think it’s a big deal because they’re comments about 2007-2008,” Hamels said. “If I really wanted to show that out, I could just hang out my World Series ring. I don’t live in the past. This is 2009. It’s a new year and they’re going to play as hard as they can and I’m going to play as hard as I can against them."_

Smooth. Bad ass. Cole Hamels.

Remember the Phitans

by RememberthePhitans on Jun 11, 2009 9:13 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

worth repeating

by taco pal on Jun 11, 2009 9:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

choke artists

The Mets had a 4-1 lead into the 7th inning that they managed to piss away. If anything, did they help confirm Hamels’ notion of the Mets as “choke artists”?

by EaglesPhan53 on Jun 11, 2009 9:17 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ibanez

Personally I would say this is about 95% Gonzalez’s fault. If he had been responding to a statement made on a widely read blog, that would be one thing. But this jrod character is pretty obscure and what he wrote just wasn’t newsworthy – he might as well have been a random bulletin board commenters on philly.com. Gonzalez wrote that column about the jrod post because he was looking for something that could be read as an Ibanez smear. He didn’t have any genuine interest in commenting on newsworthy issues. He just did it because he knows Ibanez is a fan favorite and because his m.o. is to get attention by being a demagogue and indulging his readers’ senses of grievance. He’s basically the scummy kid on the playground who’s always whispering in other kids’ ears “Did you hear what he said about you? Are you going to take that?”

If Gonzalez hadn’t gone looking for the blog post, nobody would have ever known about it. So basically, he purposefully ran Ibanez’s name through the mud so that he could then portray himself as the great Ibanez defender coming to the rescue. He shows all the signs of being a really horrible person.

by taco pal on Jun 11, 2009 9:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree with your second paragraph 100%, but I would assign a lot more blame to JRod for irresponsible journalism in the first place.

I’m with Meech:

Yes, you tried to do your homework, JRod. You tried to write a cogent response to speculation that you heard from other sources. (btw, who are these "sources"? Your fantasy baseball friend?) But when you found ZERO evidence of these performance enhancers, you should’ve stricken all of that steroid talk from your article. It’s in the HEADLINE for chrissakes. The article could’ve been easily written to find out which factors are contributing to Ibanez’s hot play of late. In it, you could’ve used your park factors, pitching matchups, new lineup — all that shit. But the fact of the matter is you used that info to try and find out if Raul is on steroids. And that, my friend, is irresponsible.

It’s fine that he didn’t find that Ibanez’ surge is explainable by park effects; but instead of looking at other factors, he effectively says, in weasel-worded terms, that it might be steroids.

by phatj on Jun 11, 2009 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I have no love for jrod, his post sucked. I just think that without Gonzalez’s intervention, he would have been too much of a small fry to care about.

by taco pal on Jun 11, 2009 9:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Mikey Miss said something that made me think—what if Gonzo reprinted what this JRod wrote because it’s what he himself wanted to write about Ibanez but knew he couldn’t? Food for thought.

by doubleh on Jun 11, 2009 9:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

SI has a nice article on the Raul controversy: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/joe_posnanski/06/11/raul.ibanez/index.html

by Larry Skywalker on Jun 11, 2009 3:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

There are no nice articles on this artificial controversy created by an idiot Philadlephia writer

"Someone created the box score," Morey says, "and he should be shot."

Blocked shots — they look great, but unless you secure the ball afterward, you haven’t helped your team all that much.

by jemagee on Jun 11, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree

This is all on Gonzalez. Unbelievably obviously so.

If I write in this reply that I heard somewhere that Chase Utley eats kittens for lunch every day, do you think I’ll be on Outside the Lines next week?

by David S. Cohen on Jun 11, 2009 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

wha!?

Utley’s mewcing?

by BigPhillyStyle on Jun 11, 2009 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He actually does eat kittens. I have proof and I am willing to sell it to the highest bidder. Mr. Utley, that includes you (otherwise this dirt is going right to the wifey, and I am sure she will be just thrilled).

by FuquaManuel on Jun 11, 2009 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs