Some Phillies Links for You, October 12, 2010: Giant Fun with Tim the Enchanter, Exeunt Cox and Wagner

So it’s not classy if you don’t cheer for Bobby Cox but it’s classy for Bobby Cox to chew out umpires a minimum of 158 times?

Then they would criticize the manner in which we did said kissing of the ring. Might as well just take the crap as we get it, because I don’t think we can win no matter what we do.

A team that can’t sell out an elimination game, no less.

The Church of Cox and Cult of the Chop exhbit several characteristics associated with religious fundamentalism such as 1) counter-modernism, 2) assertive, clamorous, violent behavior, 3) belief that they are ‘the Chosen’, 4) the belief in only one correct way of life, and 5) the following of an inerrant charasimatic leader to whom obedience is mandatory.

Good to hear that. I was curious how it would be in Philly. I don’t know how they figure this in, but wouldn’t it still be a factor that NBC is available to everyone with a TV while you need cable or a dish to get TBS.

That’s according to what I inferred from reading ZWR. Pretty sure the MLBPA works in conjunction with MLB when selling anything that relates to the players. They also have more lawyers who work closer to the ground than MLB’s, so it would stand to reason they have time to find this stuff on local blogs.

And “only” $18 (plus shipping & handling).

But that is how Roy said it. Didn’t you hear him carefully use the “ph” instead of the “f” when he spoke that immortal line?

This.

Also, I understand MLB generally wanting to protect its IP, but come on. This is a league that can’t get their shit together enough to give us Giants/Padres the last weekend of the season because a meaningless Yankees/Red Sox series is on… they really think that stepping on their fan base is the most pressing issue to deal with right now?

Exactly. It’s not enough that they had to steal from one of the funnier Phillies bloggers out there, but they had to completely destroy the humor already inherent in Roy’s statement. This is the finest example I can think of in which a joke is put through the corporate grist mill and just destroyed. Poor ZWR.

It’s an epidemic that’s almost as bad as the “ill” shirts.

Oh no, don’t get me wrong; from a curiosity perspective, I think it’s pretty compelling to read about how these ratings are compiled. The fight I mean is the one you usually see talked about on football blogs (PFT is a pretty strong offender here) by which football is shown the be superior to baseball because more people watch it. It’s just a point of view that misses the mark, I think.

Yeah, some use it as an excuse to bring out the tired “I hate baseball, it’s so boring,” “Where’s the loyalty” crap. It’s just an opportunity for them to bash another sport or team in the city.

Admittedly, I’ve seen it on both sides (Phillies and Eagles fans bashing the other).

And rereading, I see I misread. Again, I think it’s interesting to see how everyone did…drawing conclusions from those findings that bolster a kind of weird self-superiority is what irks me.

I agree…I don’t understand why it has to be one, or the other, why it can’t be both. The Phillies will always be my preference over the Eagles but if a Sunday comes around where they are both on at 1pm and the Phillies came is meaningless(relatively of course) then I will watch the Eagles game. Doesn’t mean I am picking sides, but obviously 1 Eagles game is more important than 1 Phillies game.

Well yeah there is not a whole lot they can do since MLB is apparently stuck on the idea that they have to have one game per day when the LCS roles around. But I do think it’s interesting that the NLCS has two games occurring on a Sunday(if it goes 7 games) where as the ALCS has none.

But there can be only one.

I always thought it would be cool if New Orleans had a baseball team. But I would spare them the misfortune of taking on the Braves.

Well, some of the attendees may scream some of that stuff, but with any hope the cost of the tickets will keep some of the riff raff out (like the drunken 20 somethings who can’t hold they liquor).

“Twink” perhaps? Or “chicken”?

I am torn about this game— I want nothing but good things for Cliff Lee, but I would rather face the Rays than the Rangers in the WS- the Philly media would be totally awful if given the chance to write about Cliff Lee vs. Roy Halladay.

As for the Yankees, me too… that and I hate them (I harbor a personal fantasy every year that they will be the first ever 0-162 team.

They don’t want to give the Rays life? I got nothing. Don’t they have a closer with a great arm?

And what’s funny is they traded Escobar for precisely this sort of thing if you are to believe the rumors.