ayo lets go phillies get me a fukkin tastykake

u do know Phillies gear gets you an "asshole" chant now at Citi

Hey Morbs, what's your policy versus rooting for Phillies injuries versus poxes on your team (usually leading to you throwing epic hissy fits)? Just sayin dawg. Be careful with that karma imo.

I pretty much don't "root for injuries." I like Utley.

(esp as he's underrated, if a perennial All-Star can be)

i'll just wear my iggles gear.

YOU'VE BEEN OHLENDORFED

shit, at this rate they'll give Rollins another MVP

i'm a bit surprised that for a supposedly elite player rollins has never OBPed .350+ for a season

it's pretty obv from his style of hitting

his elite status has a lot to do with position scarcity too, for a while there NL shortstop was like the worst position in the majors

OAKLAND, CA's JIMMY ROLLINS

<3<3<3

FUIUD

you don't like IUDs?

Sorry that all baseball players don't fit your archetypical Richie Cunningham dork-hunk model, Doc.

^senile

Ruben Amaro is such a dumbass

Jayson Stark of ESPN.com reports that the Phillies are working on a "major deal" for a starting pitcher and would move Jayson Werth in a "companion trade."

Why dont you trade for Cliff Lee lol

ha!

trading werth actually makes sense since they're not gonna resign him + they have domonic brown languishing in the minors

doesn't solve the ibanez problem but oh well

i think the lee trade actually had some legitimate logic behind it... but in retrospect it kinda sucks, esp cuz the prospects they got back aren't exactly lighting the world on fire

am reading alot of insane banter online about whatever deal is supposedly happening. which makes me think nothing will happen.
i should probably go to bed.

yeah i mean... what starting pitcher would constitute "a major deal"? dan haren? that doesn't make sense bcuz there is no way the d backs would trade for werth and no way that the phillies could give them fair value in return w/o giving up brown

so it must be roy oswalt? that really isn't that major tho cuz it should be pretty easy to get him

ted lilly maybe?

marlins aren't trading nolasco to the phillies

i dunno why amaro feels the need to make these break-even trades when the phillies should be in win-now mode. you'd think he would have learned something from the halladay/lee thing.

if they trade werth for oswalt and dom brown doesn't hit right away then they're in trouble

fuck an amaro. although i still like how ryan howard is being (over)paid with money halladay left on the table. idiot.

Werth for Jonathan Sanchez?

yay Phils back to gettin shut out

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius)

da-da-da-da-da-da

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2010/0729/fan_g_oswalt_d1_200.jpg

Today's game was EPIC.

Agreed!

I've never seen a pitcher called for a balk for faking a throw to an unoccupied base before. That's the kind of weird shit that has been happening to the Dodgers this year.

After hitting the two-run double that capped an incredible Phillies rally, Carlos Ruiz tried to escape his teammates. But that wasn't happening. Not on this night.

He ran away from the happy mob of players sprinting from the dugout. Brian Schneider and Mike Sweeney were the first to tackle him.

"And then it was a big mess," Ruiz said.

I don't know if I should 'aw' at how much they clearly love each other, or gag.

On the current frontpage of Philly.com sports: TO ERR IS HUMAN. 3 ERRORS IS THE METS.

that's way beyond grade level

i laughed, i cried

This is brutal. (Bottom of the 8th v. Giants, Giants just got charged for a balk, now it's 8-3, came into the inning 4-3.)

Oh man, this game.

Ibanez had a great catch this inning (Nationals game), caught the ball like an inch off the ground.

which means that it was hit, what, 2 feet in front of him?

Nah, he did some serious running/diving

heart-breaking 8th inning there

yeah, i saw that. was he out of the base path?

i'm glad they are losing as it helps my team.

this game is going forever

14th inning

yeah, keep switching over.

why do the Astros give them fits?

what just happened?

top of the 15th!

they have to bring in a pitcher because someone got thrown out, so what happened?

howard got thrown out

+ it looks like oswalt made a catch for an out lol

bottom of the 15th!

how the hell do you run out of position players?