Some Phillies Links for You, June 8, 2010: Phenom Phrenzy, Boozy Babes, Draft Stuff
by WholeCamels on Jun 8, 2010 8:15 AM EDT
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PrintThe Fightins " Anybody wanna see a little kid drinking beer at Citizens Bank Park?
MEECH POSTED THIS FIRST! MUST CREDIT "THE FIGHTINS"!
Another famous Philly fan: Child with beer bottle at Phils game | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/08/2010
Oh my God we're just a nation of sissies. A kid (maybe) took a sip of beer, when his adult companions weren't looking! HORROR!
EC's Bedrosian drafted in first round - The Times-Herald
Facial hair status unknown.
Biddle overwhelmed by selection to hometown Phillies - MaxPreps News
Nice story, but will he produce? Mid-90s fastball from a lefty is a good start! Congrats, Jesse!
Phillies' Rollins straining to get back to speed
If there's one thing that undoes the Phillies this season, it will be this.
R-Phils beginning to show signs of emerging from lengthy slump
One day, perhaps Philadelphia can publish a similar headline, minus one letter and one punctuation mark.
Cosart wins again, but left off All-Star team | APP.com | Asbury Park Press
Cosart (7-1, 3.34 ERA), the 20-year-old No. 8 Phillies' prospect, took a two-hit shutout into the sixth inning when he allowed a pair of broken bat RBI singles. He ended his night with seven strikeouts, three walks and hit a batter, leaving with a 6-2 lead.
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The Fightins " Charlie Manuel gets hit in the face with a baseball in Japan
Another excellent FIghtins' Find.
Diamondbacks 7, Braves 4: [Twitch] Arizona [Twitch] Wins! - AZ Snakepit
Thank you, Snakes. Your efforts shall be remembered.
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Wow I like those quotes from Biddle… sounds like a really humble kid who knows that he has a lot of work ahead of him.
I took a look at Biddle’s public facebook page and it was jarring to realize the extent to which this kid is literally just a kid. It almost feels weird, in the aftermath, to be calling him by his last name like he’s some kind of public figure (which he is). I have little cousins who are his age, and I certainly don’t consider any of them to be old enough or mature enough to be public figures. I remember feeling similarly when I saw Kyle Drabek’s Myspace page a few years back, but it’s even more acute now.
I don’t know why I don’t get the same reaction from seeing guys like Lebron James (when he was that age). I guess it probably has something to do with the cultural divide.
I think certain phenominal atheletes develop the ability to look a lot more grown up a lot faster— it is easy to look at Lebron and see a mature athelete— after all, that is what he looked like on the court. Meanwhile, Biddle still looks like a kid— his skills are unfinished, and he was drafted based on what he will develop into. When you look at his Facebook page, you see a kid like your cousin, one that has a lot of growing up to do, and will do it at least somewhat in the public eye.
The craziest thing for me was realizing I have friends who played ball with him. He goes to school across the street from my sister for goodness sake.
I know TINSTAAPP and all, but it’d be really cool to see the kid in the big league rotation one day.
It means that pitching prospects are so risky that you should never count too heavily on one to make it to the big leagues and fulfill his potential.
It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to develop pitching, just that you should do it with the understanding that you’ll need to collect a lot of prospects in order to come up with a few successes.
Not sure if this is behind the paywall or not, but here’s one of the original articles about it. It’s pretty much sabermetric gospel at this point.
by David S. Cohen on Jun 8, 2010 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Basically… I am betting on 3 more games before they recover (6-16 to go with last year’s 4-14 and the prior year’s 2-12… ) Unfortunately, that puts them into interleague play…. ugh. I think I am going to make like the bird in your picture and hide until they put together a three game winning streak.
Shame Cosart was left off, I’ve been following him so far this season and his future seems very bright.
SS Villar did make the team though.
MLB video
Interersting about MLB video in the beer-drinking-kid article: "Patrick Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball, said he had seen a video clip of the incident, but he declined to comment about it. Courtney did say that the league sought the removal of the clips from YouTube because it was “unauthorized use of in-game footage.” He said it is done frequently with people posting broadcasts."
Yet my video is still up.
I’m sure it was an oversight, and not because they would be selective about their enforcement of copyright for P.R. purposes. (koff)
I talked with a lawyer friend right after my catch. He works for a big entertainment company and enforces their IP rights. He said no way MLB asks to take my video down because it casts baseball in a good light. He said the big companies (like his) will always enforce their rights when infringements make them look bad, but never when the infringements make them look good.
This is exactly what’s going on here.
by David S. Cohen on Jun 8, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Beer is probably better for you than soda. Not that you should willingly give it to your child, mind you, but one sip isn’t going to kill anyone. Just another reason for people to crucify our fanbase, and a lame one at that.
"Tortorella’s got it all wrong ... Gaborik shouldn’t be messing with our skilled player." -Peter Luukko
Yeah— at least Beer comes from something that is good for you— wheat… not that I reccomend giving either of them to your toddler (seen too many obese babies with bad teeth and coke in their bottles), but I had more than one sip of wine or beer (at home) when I was small, and I think that I turned out ok… this video making it all the way onto the front pages of places like ESPN saddens me— it almost feels like kicking us while we are down, between the team’s struggles and the legitimate PR nightmares the Phillies have been dealing wtih this season (one fan puking on another, fans jumping onto the field)… enough is enough— all of this obhsucres the fact that most Phillies fans are wonderful, passionate fans, and instead turns us into buffoons… Would this have even made ESPN if it did not happen in Philly?
Which I guess means a whole season of Valdez and Castro for us… With cameo appearances by J-Roll just to get our hopes up.
by dannijd on Jun 8, 2010 11:24 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Let’s hope for a better outcome. In reagards to position players, we’ve been blessed from the major injury bug. Regardless of what happens, I hope that RAJ will see the value of a better bench esp. as the team ages.
I used to do the hope thing— then I was at the game where J-Roll re-injured his calf… he did not even appear to be running full out (while it is true that he was running away from where I was seated, he still did not look as fast as I have seen him run in the past). It took a lot of the wind out of my sails for his recovery— I now look at the team as being Castro/Valdez at short… any games/ production we get out of J-Roll will be an appreciated bonus.
One thing that I read this past offseason is that the team actually has trouble attracting bench talent due to their tendencies to play their starters for extreme numbers of games— good bench players are attracted to other teams where they will get more playing time. Any chances that what we got represented the best that the Phillies could get given their tendencies?
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