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A Few Phillies Links For You, August 10, 2010: Killer Cole and Roy, Chooch Grown Up

Crashburn Alley - The Transformation of Cole Hamels
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Carlos Ruiz is the heart and soul of the Phillies
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Bo is no beau as girlfriend is hit by foul ball | astros.com
She's better off.

CJ Wins All, Astros Take Down Braves 10-4 - The Crawfish Boxes
Thank you, Astros!

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Ruiz may have been overlooked by the rest of baseball until this year but he definitely made his bones among Phillies fans for his play in October.

Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!

by EREX21 on Aug 10, 2010 8:01 AM EDT reply actions  

more so the second half of last year.

by Bilzo on Aug 10, 2010 8:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

I really don’t understand why Chooch doesn’t get more attention? Is it because of the other guys on the Phils team suck it away, or is it that the Phils don’t really get as much attention as the other prominent teams (see NLDS afternoon starts)?

I have to think that if he had on pinstripes, we’d be hearing about him on ESPN on a much more frequent basis.

by Bilzo on Aug 10, 2010 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

not blue ones

Kolb - a heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor - Wikipedia of course
I've been waiting my whole life for an Eagles Championship
RIP JJ

by sports00fan00 on Aug 10, 2010 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions  

I actually really like our alternate day game uniforms without the pinstripes …except for the blue hats. I wish we wore our regular hats with those even though it wouldnt technically match the original uni’s they are replicating.

in 07 (i think) when we started wearing them we still used the red batting helmets and I thought it looked great.

by PSUcup1 on Aug 10, 2010 9:27 AM EDT up reply actions  

Because he doesn’t put up amazing offensive numbers in the home run and RBI category, that is pretty much all ESPN seems to care about.

Looking forward to the Kevin Kolb era.
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!

by EREX21 on Aug 10, 2010 8:34 AM EDT up reply actions  

& Brett Favre

Kolb - a heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor - Wikipedia of course
I've been waiting my whole life for an Eagles Championship
RIP JJ

by sports00fan00 on Aug 10, 2010 8:41 AM EDT up reply actions  

I don’t think it’s such an injustice. He wasn’t really ever a great hitter until the tail end of last year. Before that, he was an OK hitter by catcher standards but no better than that. And he appears to be a good defensive catcher but he isn’t Yadier Molina or anything.

by taco pal on Aug 10, 2010 10:03 AM EDT up reply actions  

Besides, the fact that Chooch flies under the radar just makes him that much more endearing.

by taco pal on Aug 10, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions  

he doesn’t get any attention because his offensive numbers are nothing to trip over… yet. i bet my boss that he’d finish this year above .285 (this was in april…) because as i watched the first few games, he really looked like he was starting to get it (at the dish). also his playoff #‘s are so good that you have to infer the guy has a clutch factor, and i knew that he would translate that experience to non-october games very soon. which he’s done all year long.
just once i wanna start a ‘vamanos carlos!’ chant… i’ve tried probably about 50 drunken times and nobody gets it… it literally translates to ‘lets go carlos’. we chant that for everyone else right? i want chooch to hear it in his native tongue dammit!

by PHIGHTINPHILS on Aug 10, 2010 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

Just watched the replay of Chris Johnson’s four-run single—it was magnificent.

by essman on Aug 10, 2010 8:05 AM EDT reply actions  

my mother was passing through last night, so after we finished dinner (wife gets home at 9..so it’s a late dinner) I turned on the Astros-Braves game when we saw the Astros had taken a lead. Tuned in right at the pitching change, saw the Heyward short-hop catch (seriously….he should’ve been able to throw a guy out @ second on that) followed by the little league grand slam. We laughed and laughed, and then decided a 6 run lead should be good, so turned it off.

by Bilzo on Aug 10, 2010 8:19 AM EDT up reply actions  

Man, did they ever s**t the bed in that game.

by taco pal on Aug 10, 2010 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions  

Anyone else have a feeling

that Andre Ethier is gonna have a big night tonight?? KK’s been really good his last 3 starts so I cant help but feel he is due for rough outing. And as stated in the article Ethier hits him well.

But I also have a hunch that we bomb the psycho tonight!! haha

by PSUcup1 on Aug 10, 2010 8:54 AM EDT reply actions  

!!?

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

by FuquaManuel on Aug 10, 2010 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

That video of the dude ducking out of the way and letting his ladyfriend get whacked is pretty hilarious. David S. Cohen he is not.

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

by FuquaManuel on Aug 10, 2010 9:43 AM EDT reply actions  

Actually, I thought she took it pretty well. If I had done that, I’d still be living in a shitstorm of grief.

by Boundforbeach on Aug 10, 2010 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions  

It was unclear what relationship stage we were looking at. Sometimes they act docile at the courting stage.

by taco pal on Aug 10, 2010 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions  

have to check it out when I get home. stupid work filters.

by Bilzo on Aug 10, 2010 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

That video is hilarious. Who says chivalry isn’t dead?

by Cormican on Aug 10, 2010 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions  

I would have massaged her arm.

by essman on Aug 10, 2010 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

Well if there is one pitch that Dubee can teach it’s the change-up.

by j reed on Aug 10, 2010 3:03 PM EDT reply actions  

More amazing to me is the fact that Halladay is still learning and mastering new pitches at this point in his career— perhaps that is what makes him so great- that he is still learning and trying new things.

by dannijd on Aug 10, 2010 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

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