Lidge to DL with knee sprain

Per the Phillies official Twitter.

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Does this count as the “mystery injury” or is he really hurt? Either way, unless it is really serious, I think this is a win-win. Lidge gets time off and Madson presumably does a better job than he could have and hopefully by the time he is ready to return, he is effective once again.

by FuquaManuel on Jun 9, 2009 2:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It's Not Like We Hadn't Heard About His Knee Already

by EastFallowfield on Jun 9, 2009 2:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

But

According to both national broadcasts this weekend (and maybe the local one on Friday night too), his knee was 100% now.

by David S. Cohen on Jun 9, 2009 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And according to Lidge himself, he feels great. But on the other hand, can we really expect him to come out and say “yeah, I am hurting, that’s why I suck right now.”

by FuquaManuel on Jun 9, 2009 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well it’s better than just ‘i suck right now and have no idea why’

"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 9, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Official news through the official Twitter. Kill me now.

by SJPhillyVT on Jun 9, 2009 2:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Why?

"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 9, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree. It would have been so much cooler if a horn section emerged from the third base gate of the bank playing a fanfare and Amaro’s spokesperson said: “His Royal Majesty, King Ruben II hereby decrees in the name of the Phillies of the kingdom of Philadelphia by the powers vested in him by God as the sole and dutiful proprietor of the office of Manager General: Sir Brad Lidge of Sacramento, Closer of the highest order, hath herewith been placed on the Disabled List for a duration of no less than fifteen days.”

by FuquaManuel on Jun 9, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs

I don’t think anyone can disagree with that.

by SJPhillyVT on Jun 9, 2009 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This > Twitter.

by Walcott on Jun 9, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So any official announcement, twitter or otherwise that Madson is now the closer?

"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 9, 2009 2:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Weird that they would post stuff like “A highly placed source in the Phils front office says Phils will almost definitley take a high school prospect with their first pick” on their own twitter.

by taco pal on Jun 9, 2009 2:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What the fuck, why has Twitter taken over the whole world? I just found out about it like 2 weeks ago, and now everything is reported through it.

Fuck Twitter.

As for Lidge…whatever, just get him healthy. Madson will do fine in the role, he hits 95-97 pretty consistently now since he only pitches 1 inning, has a solid Cut FB and his changeup is almost as good as Cole’s. We’ll be fine.

by BreckBirds20 on Jun 9, 2009 2:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It’s being reported other places, I received a text alert from 950 around the same time and while i dislike twitter (look at the first four words folks) and wait it’s inevitable demise as you can’t monetize the business – just because you found out about it two weeks ago doesn’t make it useless…or uneeded…i like this a lot better (cause it’s free) than the MLB ‘pay’ service to get text alerts for the phillies.

I think twitter is grossly over hyped but as a way to track a sports team you are interested in – it’s an extremely good tool

"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 9, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Andre Iguodala just ‘broke’ a trade on twitter as well…quite the news man

"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 9, 2009 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think that’s exactly it. I don’t fully understand it, but it’s extremely useful for distributing “breaking” information, and providing links to more substantive discussion of same.

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on Jun 9, 2009 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

And attention whores like shaquille have a whole new outlet to tell us what pointless thing they’re doing.

At least of course until it goes out of business since it can’t possibly figure out a way to make money like most social networking…

Cuban is interesting to follow just cause he’s a nut job

"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 9, 2009 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think that was why it was initially developed

for “breaking” info. It has turned into celebs telling us pointless drivel regarding their day-to-day activities. I don’t have one but I’m all for the news reporting aspect of it, and couldn’t care less about the celeb/social aspect of it.

by Screen Name 20 on Jun 9, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I doubt ‘breaking news’ was why the twit heads intitially developed it – i think it have evolved exactly the way they would have hoped – aside from the fact that monetizing social networking is the brass ring no one seems able to achieve.

"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 9, 2009 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I think you're probably right

I thought I remembered reading something about news companies trying to use it to distribute quick blubs of news…this was before it blew up.

by Screen Name 20 on Jun 9, 2009 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

it just poped up on ESPN and Yahoo they are bringing up © Paul Bako from AA reading

by FMitchellSTFU on Jun 9, 2009 2:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Fox Sports & Rotoworld

oops. Say it’s for reals. Fox reports his spot wll be taken by Paul Bako. Say could this be the power bats off the bench? Ah, no.

by Steve-O- on Jun 9, 2009 2:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i honestly think they wanted to wait until JC came back to put him on the DL… no guy is perfectly healthy if he needs to wear a shoe insert to be comfortable

by FMitchellSTFU on Jun 9, 2009 2:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

who's closing?

madson?
romero?

by sports00fan00 on Jun 9, 2009 2:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If the manager is smart – Madson
if not – god only knows

"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 9, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

hopefully not Bako...

by Screen Name 20 on Jun 9, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thoughts on Bako?

I’m thinking it might have something to do with his mashing right handed pitching over the past 10 days in Reading and the fact that we only have the potential to face 2 LHP over the next 3 days in Santana and Feliciano. And Ruiz has looked so shaky.

Still though, doesn’t Matt Stairs have a corner on that market right now?

(Been lurking for a while, will begin posting now perhaps.)

by Steve J on Jun 9, 2009 3:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs