Some Phillies Links for You: March 25, 2010

by WholeCamels on Mar 25, 2010 8:04 AM EDT

I want to go to the zoo with Roy Halladay: Please watch this and then vote for ZWR at The Phield
I have nothing else to say. The brilliant, dada-esque "I want to go to the zoo with Roy Halladay" strikes yet again.

Phillies manager Manuel misses mouthy Myers
I detect the slightest sarcasm...

Phillies' Rollins biding time till start of season - mlb - SI.com
Fluffy, inconsequential piece about Jimmy Rollins.

Phillies lefthander Happ benefiting from offseason work
J.A. Happ will still almost certainly regress somewhat, but if he can mitigate the damage he'll still be a very valuable pitcher.

On Baseball - Skepticism and Optimism Meet With Mets

"The Phillies have done great, I understand," Francoeur said. "But, God, they have not had the injury bug. Not one guy has been out the last two years. Bless them, I’m not praying for them to be hurt, that’s great. But you feel it’s got to kick up sometime."

Jeff Francoeur - Prince of the Dicks

A healthful change-up in what fills up the Phils | Philadelphia Inquirer | 03/25/2010

OM NOM NOM NOM

During spring training, the Phillies feast on healthful choices, including egg-white omelets, whole-wheat waffles, and Kashi cereal for breakfast; lean proteins at later meals; and low-fat yogurt parfaits and granola bars for snacks. There's fresh fruit, naturally, in the Grapefruit League.

Whiz Kids cast a spell on Phillies fans that endures 60 years later | Philadelphia Daily News | 03/23/2010
First in a series - It's hard for us to understand today, but winning a pennant was pretty special in those days, particularly because only one team from each league played postseason ball.

Phillies to Rock Retro Unis on the Road, Not Home
I WANT THE POWDER BLUE ONESIES, DAMMIT

Victorino takes on new hitting approach
I hate this idea that you have to "change your approach" when you hit in a different spot in the lineup. Production is production. Shane Victorino has been pretty productive the past few seasons. Why mess with it?

Schmidt seeking expanded role with Phillies
Facial hair consultant? Seriously, if that game the other day was any indication, Schmidt would be a great addition to the broadcast team.

Crashburn Alley " Rollins Was Better Than You Thought
It's a couple days old but, Bill at Crashburn Alley breaks down Jimmy Rollins. Conclusion: 2009 wasn't that awful.

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OMG. The secret of our success is out! The key to teamwork — Kashi Good Friends cereal !!!!!!!!

by Boundforbeach on Mar 25, 2010 8:29 AM EDT reply actions

I disagree

Cinnamon Harvest is the way to go.

by ThinMountainAir on Mar 25, 2010 8:33 AM EDT up reply actions

I’m glad Jeff Francoeur went to the Mets. I was afraid I’d have to stop hating him so intensely when he left the Braves.

by zfg on Mar 25, 2010 9:15 AM EDT reply actions

Zoo with Roy

Brilliantly stupid

by Cormican on Mar 25, 2010 10:11 AM EDT reply actions

Dada-esque? And a photo of Jacques Derrida on a thread yesterday? What is the world coming to…

by Steve J on Mar 25, 2010 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions

I’m glad someone picked that up…touche to you.

by FuquaManuel on Mar 25, 2010 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions

Jacques Derrida! Ah, the space between words and their meanings…he’d have a field day with one of these threads.

"Tortorella’s got it all wrong ... Gaborik shouldn’t be messing with our skilled player." -Peter Luuko

by doubleh on Mar 25, 2010 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions

like “step down,” mayhaps.

by Wet Luzinski on Mar 25, 2010 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I hate Derrida. Indeed, post-modernism/post-structuralism is the itchy asshole of 20th century intellectual history—the more you scratch, the worse it gets. But that is another discussion, for another day. Still, whenever I hear “deconstruct” in any context, I instantly think of Derrida.

by FuquaManuel on Mar 25, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions

I had an entire class on Deconstruction and Religion in College. It was all Derrida, all the time. So much navel gazing…but it beat the shit out of science class. THEN he came to the school and delivered a semi-lecture and pretty much refuted everything our professor was telling us he was trying to say from the get go…which made us even more confused.

"Tortorella’s got it all wrong ... Gaborik shouldn’t be messing with our skilled player." -Peter Luuko

by doubleh on Mar 25, 2010 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions

[Derrida] writes so obscurely you can’t tell what he’s saying, that’s the obscurantism part, and then when you criticize him, he can always say, “You didn’t understand me; you’re an idiot.” That’s the terrorism part.

- Michel Foucault

Personally, I think that’s about the best quote I’ve seen to sum up Derrida’s work.

"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 Mar 25, 2010 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions

It would be even better if it came from someone besides Foucault. This seems like a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Even so, great quote.

Personally I’m partial to Chomsky’s take:

Since no one has succeeded in showing me what I’m missing, we’re left with the second option: I’m just incapable of understanding. I’m certainly willing to grant that it may be true, though I’m afraid I’ll have to remain suspicious, for what seem good reasons. There are lots of things I don’t understand - say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that Fermat’s last theorem was (apparently) proven recently. But from 50 years in this game, I have learned two things: (1) I can ask friends who work in these areas to explain it to me at a level that I can understand, and they can do so, without particular difficulty; (2) if I’m interested, I can proceed to learn more so that I will come to understand it. Now Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard, Kristeva, etc. -- even Foucault, whom I knew and liked, and who was somewhat different from the rest - write things that I also don’t understand, but (1) and (2) don’t hold: no one who says they do understand can explain it to me and I haven’t a clue as to how to proceed to overcome my failures. That leaves one of two possibilities: (a) some new advance in intellectual life has been made, perhaps some sudden genetic mutation, which has created a form of “theory” that is beyond quantum theory, topology, etc., in depth and profundity; or (b) … I won’t spell it out.

And this is why TGP won’t ever win a blog popularity contest…because we talk about stats and post-modernism.

by FuquaManuel on Mar 25, 2010 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions

dang…there should be no strikethrough.

by FuquaManuel on Mar 25, 2010 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Little did I know I was among the majority of people on this blog having spent a significant amount of my time studying philosophy – and postmodernism to boot.

This sounds like typical snarkiness out of Chomsky and not entirely accurate.

But this is probably getting to the point of nauseating pretentiousness…

by Steve J on Mar 25, 2010 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Sounds very much like Martha Nussbaum’s take on Judith Butler: “It is difficult to come to grips with Butler’s ideas, because it is difficult to figure out what they are.”

by David S. Cohen on Mar 25, 2010 9:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Jesus, as if I didn’t already want to piss in Jeff Francoeur’s eye.

“Yeah, I mean…they just never get injured. I’m not saying I hope they get hurt or anything. But God, I really hope they get hurt. Rather, I think its bound to happen sometime…and that would be really great for us.”

Fucking moron.

by FuquaManuel on Mar 25, 2010 10:18 AM EDT reply actions

Karma’s a bitch, Frenchy.

I’m gonna laugh extra hard at him every time he K’s on a changeup in the dirt this year.

by ThinMountainAir on Mar 25, 2010 10:33 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

801 injury days in 2008 and 546 in 2009.

That doesn’t exactly sound like “never get injured” to me. It just looks bad to the Mess because they had the most injury days in baseball. Having an old team and a mediocre training staff will do that to you.

Heck, during the beginning of 2008, we were missing Lidge, Rollins, and Victorino to injury.

So, to sum up what we all knew anyway, Francoeur’s talking out his ass.

"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 Mar 25, 2010 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions

Well, when you suck at the game as much as Frenchy, you need to get a leg up on the competition any way you can. Are the Mets going to start sending out hitmen and Jeff Gillooly types to take whacks at our players’ shins?

"Tortorella’s got it all wrong ... Gaborik shouldn’t be messing with our skilled player." -Peter Luuko

by doubleh on Mar 25, 2010 11:44 AM EDT up reply actions

They're issuing earplugs to their players and changing the in-stadium playlist

From now on, it’s a constant rotation of:
Who Let The Dogs Out
Macarena
My Humps
Mambo No. 5
Wannabe

"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 Mar 25, 2010 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions

Francoeur

I totally hate passive aggression.

What’s ironic is that all of us are rooting for Francoeur to stay healthy, seeing as how he sucks.

by taco pal on Mar 25, 2010 10:46 AM EDT reply actions

Frenchy health=more triple-play opportunities, especially as he now has to face the possibility of hitting to Eric Bruntlett AND Juan Castro 38 times this season.

zut alors!

by Wet Luzinski on Mar 25, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions