A Few Phillies Links for You, Afternoon Delight Edition, June 22, 2010: Divine Spark! White Whale!

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 22, 2010 2:49 PM EDT

Phillies waiting for return of their spark, Rollins. Yes! The joyful spark of hope and glory returns to the lineup. gaypanda)

European Anthem - Poetic English Translation from Original German (via

Transactions occurring as I type. Out in twitterland, it seems that Zagurski is getting a callup.

Bill Conlin: It's Biddle the Batboy with Phillies in the Gulf Coast League. Arr! From hell's heart, Bill stabs at metaphors:

The Phillies' GCL starter yesterday was a wiry righthander from Samana, DR, named Lisaberto Bonilla. He is 20 and out of the Academy, the Phillies' Dominican Summer League team. Last season he was 6-2 with a 1.41 ERA. "He has a chance to be a good one," D'Armas said. Samana is the whale-watching mecca of the Atlantic. Most of the whale population of the North Atlantic migrate there in the winter to Samana Bay, where they mate and do whatever large aquatic mammals do in warm waters.

Yesterday, Lisaberto had a whale of a fastball.

Phillies-Indians Preview. Warning: Unknown Pitcher (Mitch Talbot) alert tonight! Woop woop! See also our sibling site, Let's Go Tribe, during the midweek series.

Polanco maintains lead, but margin narrows. All-Star voting continues. Second place at 3B is not Scott Rolen.

Bob Ford: Phils in need of a dependable closer. Great, something else besides Cliff Lee for long-time listeners, first-time callers to propose the Phillies trade Domonic Brown for.

Dan Gross: It's Always Sunny at McElhenney's Tavern. Utley and Howard to appear in the show. Imagine the idea of a man-crush on Utley!

Phillies prospect Cosart wants to prove his worth. The story behind this Lakewood pitcher's signing.

Darren Daulton to be inducted into Phillies Hall of Fame. If anybody had any sense of humor, they'd schedule the ceremony in 2013.

NL East:

Federal Baseball: Nationals 2, Royals 1. Washington's six-game losing streak comes to an end.

Minors: Bocock sparks IronPigs' Rally over Norfolk. So! This really happened.

Threshers blank Manatees. The inscrutable Trevor May strikes again!

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Dobbs is gone!

Allah u akbar!

by FuquaManuel on Jun 22, 2010 2:56 PM EDT reply actions

u gotta link?

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 22, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Dajafi’s got ya.

by FuquaManuel on Jun 22, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions

odd, I was waiting for something as I was writing up links, then boom! went the dynamite.

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 22, 2010 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions

also explains why the “Publish story” wheel kept spinnin and spinnin with no result.

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 22, 2010 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I propose December 22, 2012 for Daulton's induction ceremony

(the Long Count ends its cycle on December 21)

Honor is no substitute for victory.

by The Dark on Jun 22, 2010 3:20 PM EDT reply actions

Darren Daulton to be inducted into Phillies Hall of Fame. If anybody had any sense of humor, they’d schedule the ceremony in 2013.

The induction itself isn’t evidence of a sense of humor already?

by jemagee on Jun 22, 2010 6:52 PM EDT reply actions

Dutch has his faults, but he was a very good catcher for the Phillies for a decade. He’s not good enough for the MLB HOF, but in the pantheon of Phillies backstops you only have to be better than Bob Boone and Bo Diaz to become legendary.

by Cormican on Jun 22, 2010 8:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Seminick was not too bad, but point well taken.

by Wet Luzinski on Jun 22, 2010 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions

I personally would rather see Lieberthal up there before Daulton – crazy aside (and poor interpretation of mayan prophecy by all the doomsayers) – the whole stain / taint of the 93 team and the ‘juice’ – there’s got to be better optioins throughout the history of the team before Daulton?

by jemagee on Jun 23, 2010 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions

I also prefer Lieby and have mixed feelings (at best) about the ‘93 team. Still, Dutch was a pretty good player, it’s not like they’ve nominated Lance Parish or Gregg Jeffries to the Phillies Wall of Fame.

by Cormican on Jun 23, 2010 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t know who is on it and who isn’t but in terms of ‘derservingness’ – would you say daulton would have been your next choice for enshrinement?

by jemagee on Jun 23, 2010 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Also not knowing who is and isn’t on it, I can’t say. I should look that up before getting further into the discussion.

by Cormican on Jun 23, 2010 2:14 PM EDT up reply actions

Looking at the full list, I don’t think Dutch is the most egregious member.

Enshrined Philadelphia Phillies
Robin Roberts 1978
Richie Ashburn 1979
Chuck Klein 1980
Grover Alexander 1981
Del Ennis 1982
Jim Bunning 1984
Ed Delahanty 1985
Cy Williams 1986
Granny Hamner 1987
Paul Owens 1988
Steve Carlton 1989
Mike Schmidt 1990
Larry Bowa 1991
Chris Short 1992
Curt Simmons 1993
Dick Allen 1994
Willie Jones 1995
Sam Thompson 1996
Johnny Callison 1997
Greg Luzinski 1998
Tug McGraw 1999
Gavvy Cravath 2000
Garry Maddox 2001
Tony Taylor 2002
Sherry Magee 2003
Billy Hamilton 2004
Bob Boone 2005
Dallas Green 2006
John Vukovich 2007
Juan Samuel 2008
Harry Kalas 2009

by Cormican on Jun 23, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions

Wait

How did Juan Samuel get there before Manny Trillo?

by jemagee on Jun 23, 2010 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Tony Taylor and Larry Bowa seemed more destined to the wall of pretty good to me. These things are always just popularity contests, and Dutch was exceedingly popular. Go look through the list of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees it reads like a who’s that of 1950’s/60’s one hit wonders. I try not to lose sleep over these things.

by Cormican on Jun 23, 2010 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions

I just put up a fan post who you’d like to see – and I just think if you were on the 80 starting line up and not named pete rose you should be there :)

I ignore the rock and roll hall of fame cause they put it in the wrong palce, quite undeserving (and seriously – put it in a place people like to come for history anyway as opposed to the arm pit of the universe)

I think it’s a nice thing to talk about – a fun distraction – i’m not really taking it that seriously though

by jemagee on Jun 23, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions