Just a Few Phillies Links for You, May 25, 2010: Obsessed!, Successful Phestival
by WholeCamels on May 25, 2010 8:34 AM EDT
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PrintNew York Mets aware of slide by Philadelphia Phillies, out to show they can top NL East leaders
Talk about "obsession" and "inferiority complex..."
After Yankees Series, Mets Turn Focus to Their Bigger Rival, the Phillies - WSJ.com
This reads like something out of the Inquirer three years ago with the teams reversed.
Vomiting Phillies fan from Cherry Hill is due in court | - NJ.com
I hope the CSI cats examined the "evidence" and found Ben's Chili Bowl remnants, thus proving he was from DC and a Nationals fan.
Fans turn out for Phillies Phestival
Awesome stuff.
Five pressing questions about Phillies | Philadelphia Daily News | 05/25/2010
4 How much concern should there be over shortstop Jimmy Rollins?
A lot. It's not just that he has strained his right calf twice now. It's that he has done it in mundane ways. Limbering up before a game. Running to first on a basehit. So even if he comes off the disabled list in 2 weeks and it doesn't bother him again all season, it's got to be in the back of the Phillies' minds that it could pop again at any time.
After shaky start, Flande finds his groove for R-Phils
And Domonic Brown smacked a two run home run. The kid is good.
Mets' Dickey makes first of two starts tonight
Great, another knuckleballer...
Manuel not crazy about interleague play
You tell 'em, Charlie.
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Romero (the human being) - ALS fundraiser
I know FM and I have had our frustrations with the guy, but from all accounts he is a decent human being. This also softened me up a bit:
The event touches Phillies pitcher J.C. Romero in a special way as he lost an uncle to the disease.
“To me personally, it means a lot,” Romero said. “It’s something that I believe I have to give back for the grace I have received. It’s nice to see so many people knowing the money that is being raised.”
Flande
is looking good. But then I saw this:
“(His) location was better (after the second), that was the only difference,” catcher Tuffy Gosewisch said.
With that, I am now formally starting my lobbying campaign for PhillyFriar to make stuff up about a catcher named Tuffy Gosewisch for his prospect reports, even if he has no shot. Talk about a t-shirt ready name!
Philly-Tuffy
Phila-Tuffyia
Are You Tuffy Enough?
I have just got to get to Reading this year, and pronto.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 9:56 AM EDT up reply actions
I had to ask one of my classmates if she was related to the manager, since her last name’s Roadcap. She’s never heard of him (unfortunately)
Honor is no substitute for victory.
There are Roadcap’s everywhere apparently.
"I remember being three and I wanted to be a baseball player, that's all I ever really wanted to be. That and Spider Man." -Raul Ibanez
by Jose and the Contrarians on May 25, 2010 10:21 AM EDT up reply actions
There are some good ones on the other affiliates as well:
The IronPigs have Nate Bump and Ehren Wassermann
Williamsport has Mike Bolsenbroek, Colin Kleven, Reginal Simon, Micheal Dabbs (I swear, I copied and pasted), and Fabio Murakami
Clearwater has Heitor Correa, Jesus Sanchez (we HAVE to make him a closer), and Korby Mintken
Honor is no substitute for victory.
Indeed. I thought I was combining two different names, but that’s really his name – Fabio Yudi Murakami, from Brazil
Honor is no substitute for victory.
Perhaps the Phillies can start to mimic Brazilian soccer stars and just refer to players with whatever one name they’d prefer: Fabio, Outman, Jesus, Bozied
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Isn’t there some strange connection between Japan and Brazil, as far as immigration goes?
(Or I could be entirely inventing that, based on the Brazilian soccer player Alex who got naturalized so he could play for the Japanese national team.)
by PhillyFriar on May 25, 2010 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions
I think there are Japanese people in several South American countries. Here’s a Wikipedia article about Brazil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Brazilian
I like this poster:
“A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Brazil. It reads: ’Let’s go to South America (Brazil) with the family.’”
Tuffy is captain of the All Name team. I’m a fan of the last t-shirt, definitely.
Reports have Gosewich as basically the perfect minor league catcher — good receiver, communicator, game caller, etc. Just can’t hit worth a damn. Seems like he embraces his role, though, and guys like that can be crucial to the development of young pitchers.
by PhillyFriar on May 25, 2010 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
I did look up his stats because I had to. Looks like just the guy to groom a AA club and to make good “stuff” determinations, as it appears his defense is real good. But yeah, it sucks he hasn’t hit a lick yet, and is getting old.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Jason Bay talks about "baseball."
yeah, sure pal, “baseball.”
Bay said. "A lot of it is focused in here, on what we’re doing, but guys peek around to see what the others are doing to see where we stand.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 10:15 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
ah, young Padowan. Under each comment, in red, are the words “up” “reply” and “actions” When you click on “actions” you get an additional two options, “Rec” (or recommend) and “Flag” (to bring something inappropriate to the attention of the Great and All-Powerful Oz for site removal). So, with each comment you read, you can Search Your Feelings.
In the SBNation world, this is rougly equivalent to a high five or a FIST BUMP! although the word fist usually conjures up other images. Long story involving Chip Caray.
I see you’re relatively new round these parts, but have been carrying your share of ongoing discussion, so I figured it’d be the right courteous thing to orient ya.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe some of the Flyers rubs off on the Phils in this series with the mets and shut them up.
I wasn't even a year old but I stayed up to be outside the Vet with my Dad and Mom when the Phillies won the World Series 1980.
You guys aren’t fans of Interleague play?
New Yorker looking for sports talk and debate!
by Gelatin on May 25, 2010 11:48 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
If by “you guys” you mean “the guys who aren’t fans of interleague play” then, yes.
by phatj on May 25, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"you guys"
Was directed towards anybody who felt like answering the question.
Nobody in particular.
I never really have a problem with Interleague play, but I have a hard time dealing with no DH when we play in a NL ballpark.
What’s so bad about the DH that draws the NL away?
New Yorker looking for sports talk and debate!
by Gelatin on May 25, 2010 11:55 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
DH
For the record, I think the NL needs to adopt the DH, but not for any reasons beyond the competitive disadvantage presented to the NL during Interleague Play and the World Series.
I don’t LIKE the DH. It’s unnatural and sort of perverse, and implies that pitchers aren’t baseball players.
That said, I’m sick of both running the likes of Ben Francisco out as DH during Interleague series in AL parks, as well as seeing players like Hideki Matsui as the first bat off the bench when playing in NL parks.
So I resign myself to adopting the Designated Hitter in the National League. The toothpaste is out of the tube, so to speak; the AL is never going back.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
by WholeCamels on May 25, 2010 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Nah… the AL has been around for how many years without the Sr. Circuit taking up the DH????
I don’t like it either, as I feel that pitchers batting is part of the natural order— your best nine against mine… nobody said anything about a 10 man baseball team! While I do not like the fact that the AL has some better pure bats off of the bench, my aggravation with that has been somewhat quelled this year by the struggles of many DH’s to hit— if all you do is swing a bat for a paycheck, I expect more production than I do from those who play the field!
I actually enjoy watching the AL teams struggle with their pitchers hitting… I just want to know how it is that AL pitchers manage to look completely stupid with a bat in their hands— did they go through their entire baseball careers without ever having to pick one up?
This is the only argument I've ever heard
for adopting the DH that makes any sense to me. I loathe the DH and everything it stands for (and wish the AL would do away with it), but I can’t really argue with that logic.
I have mixed feelings with it… on one hand, I love the fact that it brings certain opponents into Philly where I can see them play (for example the Sox, who I rooted for for a time in law school). On the other hand, the Phillies struggle mightily with it, and the scheduling system can cause interleague play to really imbalance the divisional schedule— meaning that the Phillies, with a tougher interleague schedule have to put up a record to compete with a team like the Nationals, who get to play the Orioles 6 times in a year.
I can't stand Interleague play.
Every year you hear about how unfair it is. The scheduling is flawed and you always hear about whether or not the DH is a good idea.
It does nothing but start trouble within the world of baseball and it seems to become clearer every year that the DH is in the AL to stay, and the NL will either have to introduce the rule, or live with it.
I don’t agree with it, but it is what it is. I say introduce the DH to the NL. I like the rule, I wouldn’t have a problem with having a DH and a pitcher bat, but their is no compromising in baseball.
New Yorker looking for sports talk and debate!
by Gelatin on May 25, 2010 12:18 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Steve Phillips would trade Strasburg for Oswalt
No further commentary required.
by taco pal on May 25, 2010 12:50 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
He also thinks banging people you work with is a swell idea too. Not that it doesn’t work out for a few people, but strictly from a playing the percentages standpoint…
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
The link, from a commentary perspective, is heartily rec’d. Bravo, Dan Steinberg.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 1:01 PM EDT up reply actions
ESPN’s Rob Neyer made a good point about this
In the blog, he stated that while this deal is not a good one for the Nationals, who are still a couple of years from truly contending, it would be a deal that makes sense for a win-now team that feels that it is a pitcher away from making a run. His argument was that because of limits on the number of innings Strasburg can pitch this year, his impact on the playoffs would be highly limited. Further, there is no guarantee that he would not regress next year, similar to the Rays David Price. So, he says that (money aside) a win-now team should do the deal, as they would know what they are getting in Oswalt, who is able to pitch the workload now, and about whom there are few questions.
I have a hard time imagining how any team with Steven Strasburg under its control for the next six years could be a “win-now team” – at least, not an extreme one.
with another number 1 pick in hand, too.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Simultaneously 3,000,000 Mets fans just looked at Omar Minaya and said “Well, at least you aren’t Steve Phillips”
Bilzo Commentary
DH = Bogus. You don’t have it in little league. It’s a blasphemization of the sport created as a freak show to draw in people who can’t appreciate the game. Why isn’t there a designated fielder? At what point do you stop? Should we let that Gosewich guy come up and catch, but be able to pick up some schmo to do the other half of his job (swing a bat)?
Baseball has offense and defense. Every players contributes to both, except AL pitchers and DHs.
Steve Phillips is a maroon.
WL’s ruler and Bay comment are a classic. (yet again)
Romero: I am completely able to seperate performance from personal qualities. It’s completely acceptable to like JC Romero as a pitcher but get nauseated when he takes the mound. By the same token, I love my wife very dearly, but if I was falling off a cliff, I would accept that I was a dead man if I had to rely on her to pull me back up.
What I don’t like about the DH is how calcified it’s become, and there are a lot of factors involved, not least of which the economics. I wish there was a lot more strategy involved – like f’rinstance, you can use one, but have to follow the same pinch-hitting rules as the NL if you change the pitcher. Something- anything- to speed up these godawful tortoise-paced AL games. (Laugh if you must, but all your young asses will remember this post when you’re over 40 too).
Theoretically at least from a run prevention standpoint, it would seem to me that it would make sense to create sub-specialities of defensive catchers and shortstops, but only if you finagled the rule in such a way so that you forced more pitchers to hit.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
The simplest way to make the sub-specialties of fielders bigger would be if the DH could fill for any one player, rather than just the pitcher. If you’ve got a Micah Owens or Livan Hernandez, it might be better to play a defensive infielder and DH for a position player.
Honor is no substitute for victory.
or…you know…just get rid of the damn thing.
(I realize that’s never going to happen, but you can’t make me like it).
Well yeah, that’s the optimal choice. I was riffing off WL’s desire to make the defensive specialists in the field more useful. Alex Gonzalez and his .695 OPS would be more desirable if he could be replaced in the batting order by a DH.
Honor is no substitute for victory.
Can you imagine if baseball went the way of football and had offensive and defensive starters, and people got away from playing both sides of the ball because it was just too hard on them??
Seriously, can you imagine Raul Ibañez showing up for his baseball card shot.
Photographer: “Ok buddy…what’s your name and info?”
Raul: “Raul Ibañez, Philadelphia Phillies, #29, my position is now ’Intentionally Wasted Left-Handed Pinch Hitter Who is Announced then Subsequently re-Pinch Hit For Once the Opposing Manager Brings in a Left Handed Relief Pitcher”
More to the point, does WholeCamels know Richard Hark, the poor schmuck was who was assigned from the public defender’s office? I get that there are worse things to defend, but to be forever googleable because of that misdemeanor seems like a legal buzzkill.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Don’t know the guy. Kind of shocked that he qualified for a Public Defender’s services, though.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
Google indicates that Richard Hark works for a law firm. Could there be two criminal lawyers named Richard Hark in Philadelphia?
It is also possible that Mr. Hark accepts assignments from the Public Defender’s Office. These assignments are given to private attorneys, who are paid a set rate by the Commonwealth for their services. Many private criminal attorneys in the city use thise to supplement their private clients.
Special note to all those lurkers out there.
“Vomiting Phillies Fan from Cherry Hill” is yet another of a growing list of unclaimed, WIP-ready screen names you can use to join the commenting fun here at TGP.
U NO U WANT 2
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions
i do as well. It’s nice to see different teams come to town, or to see the Phils go to a random area. It doesn’t mean as much today, since players move teams more often, but it would’ve been really nice to have Griffey come to Philly in his prime as a Mariner or for Schmitty to have been able to battle with the Green Monster.
Fangraphs with a glowing article about David Eckstein. File under things you never thought you’d see.
The crazy part is that Ecks has the highest UZR of any 2B so far this season. He doesn’t have Utley’s power, but he’s doing a slappy Utley impression so far this year.
Honor is no substitute for victory.
“Slappy Utley” sounds like the name of Chase’s loser cousin, so yeah, that fits.
by Wet Luzinski on May 25, 2010 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Yankee Series in the Bronx
Phillies tickets for sale against the New York Yankees for their three game series in the Bronx at Yankee Stadium are nose diving in the secondary market. As was shown in the World Series, the Yankees can buy players but they are having a heck of a time putting people in the seats as opposed to the Phillies who are packing them in every night. Right now some tickets for the games are below $25 a ticket.
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