"Understand something. Sabathia is a left-hander, maybe the most overpowering lefty in baseball, and he surrendered three home runs all regular season to lefties. And he has surrendered three home runs in two games to Utley."

If there was one glaring lesson from last night's game, it was how quickly a dominating pitcher can get humbled. Joba Chamberlain looked like he was at the top of his game, blowing away Jayson Werth and Raul Ibanez with 97 MPH fastballs. After getting ahead of Pedro Feliz with two swinging strikes, Phillies hitters had missed on the six of seven swings they had taken against Chamberlain that inning. And then Feliz hit one out of the park to tie the game.

Fast forward to the ninth inning, and Lidge had no problems dispatching Hideki Matsui and Derek Jeter. All three strikes to The Captain were of the swing-and-miss variety, as Lidge showed the stuff that caused Manuel to still believe in his closer. And then, after getting to within one pitch of ending the inning, he allowed the next four guys to reach base and lost the game.

Forget hindsight - at the moment of their failure, both Chamberlain and Lidge looked great. There was nothing to suggest that a problem was lurking. They were throwing the hell out of the ball, and then they got hit. Trying to predict the future is really hard.

Lee Traded with OF for 4 ProspectsI just saw this on Foxsports.com. Check it out for yourself.

And do I make this trade with the Phillies running away with the NL East? Absolutely. Sure, the Phillies can win the NL East without Halladay. But can they win the World Series? That's the question people should be asking.

anyone have insider that can give us the latest word if were at least at the table for trying to get Halladay ?

UPDATE: The early line on Halladay
Roy Halladay | Blue Jays
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Please fire the Brewers 3rd base coach - stupid idiot

"I was aware of his hitting abilities," Takahashi said through an interpreter.

Charlie Manuel on Brad Lidge, who blew his sixth save of the season today in LA: "He'll always be my guy."

The Phillies have been scary good with the bases loaded this season. They are hitting .519 (14 for 27) with three doubles, four homers, 11 walks and 46 RBIs. They also have a .625 on-base percentage and a 1.074 slugging percentage.

Rays/Phils on MLB TV right now