Some Phillies Links For You, October 15, 2010: Core Work, Ode to Sweeney

falling on someone and breaking their back is pretty good, but I still think intentional vomiting wins out for sheer offensiveness.

nice try Mets! our horrible fans are still the horriblest!

I thought that being drunk was a prerequisite to chanting “Let’s Go Mets!” Cheering for the Mets is something akin to beergoggling at closing time and taking home whatever can walk. A certain amount of alcohol is, of necessity, involved in the exercise.

It’s not as bad if you wait until mid-day, but I find sports radio in general in this city to be wanting. In chasing the ratings, they cater too much to the crowd that’s only into others being humiliated and disinformation.

arificially sports-flavored comedy

Conceptually, I’m a fan.

Yeah Cataldi is a moron. I listen in the mornings for the LOL’s.

Yup, Mike Sweeney was with the Wilmington Blue Rocks in 1995, so I’m sure I saw him then.

The situation seems kind of analagous to when the Marlins got Daulton as a rent-a-player when they won in 2003. Except maybe for the playing time part.

Yup, great piece there from MCC. Everyone simply assumes that because the Phillies have, say, a 60% shot to win this series, that they’re therefore a lock. We all know that baseball is far too random to make any such assertion.

(Also, doubleh, I don’t know if Grant qualifies as an “analyst” in the way you mean, but he makes precisely the point you wish for below.)

Yeah, I’ve gone from “we’re in trouble,” to “we’ve got this” to “we’re screwed” again in terms of analysis. Bottom line: no one knows how this is gonna turn out. I just wish one analyst, one! Would mention that the playoffs really have an element of luck involved as well as skill. The team that simply “wants it more” does not win. Whoever “wants it more”? What is that?

He’s just a douche-serf serving the almighty douche-Lords of ESPN.

Zolecki kind of suggested that on the radio this morning too, citing the Sabathia-Victorino game from 2007 as a precedent. Cataldi, of course, totally ran with it consistent with his normal “oh you Philadelphia fans are the best fans in the world and nobody understands you except for me because I am your champion” routine. Makes my stomach turn.

Is it wrong for me to hope that Lincecum pitches a dominant game tomorrow just to spite WIP (provided, of course, that the Phillies still win it against the pen)?

I guess the fans in SF are to busy with wine and cheese to cheer.

They all have X minutes to fill or X column inches. Many of them are also all probably anticipating this starting just as much as we are. Thankfully, a universe of baseball fans will not be analyzing my idiot tripe with the detail with which we parse theirs.

This is nothing new or original, but it bears repeating:

In the media, you have to say/write something. You have to interest John Q. Public by addressing his ignoramus view of baseball or you won’t get advertisers, and you get canned. It’s not about being correct, reasonable, or accurate.

There’s big where it counts and big when it counts. So we’ll see. On to Moscow, little man.

Well the stimulant abuse is right – chewing tobacco, greenies and coke but the only thing hummingbirdesque about baseball is a players’ heart rates after drinking coffee laced with speed.

this quote also got me from the MecuryNews:

Ishikawa drew an important pinch walk in Game 3 of the Division Series at Atlanta, leading to the tying run in that comeback victory. As he prepared for his trip to the plate, Burrell talked him up on the bench.

“He was telling me, ‘You got this, you’ll get it done,’ " Ishikawa said. "It’s putting nothing but positive thoughts in my head.

Pat Burrell, mine own Mr. Positive!

This is some good wood.

“Alright scoutnerds, I’m only gonna show you this once. And I’m no Brett Favre, so a bat’s gotta do…”

I don’t need no STEENKING BADGES

I think this may be one of those “truth is crazier than fiction” moments, WL.

Afta you round 2nd it oughta look l like this.

“so allow me to show you how we came up with term ‘webelo’…”

Hmm. Well F him then!