Cliff Lee Trade Reaction

After a few weeks of pining over Roy Halladay, it appeared as though any move the Phillies could make that didn’t involve Toronto’s ace would be construed as some sort of failure. I know both myself and Mike did little to veer the train of conventional thought away from that avenue.
But here we are, proud [...]

I just need to vent

I’m just pissed right now. I think that Ruben Amaro might be the dumbest person ever to walk the face of the earth. When J.P. Ricciardi asks you, “So, Happ, Drabek and Brown for Halladay?” the correct answer is “Absolutely.” I had no idea that Ricciardi was going to ask for so little. I can [...]

Phillies Need to Pull the Trigger on Halladay

I completely believe that the Phillies can win the World Series without Roy Halladay. They’ve got the best offensive second baseman since Joe Morgan, three All-Star outfielders, a former MVP at shortstop who’s coming around after a three-month-long slump and the best pure power hitter in baseball at first. As a team, the Phillies are [...]

Mets Find Relief Solution in Gambon

The New York Mets, unable to find a plug for their still-leaky bullpen, announced a historic signing Monday afternoon when they unveiled their latest free-agent signing: right-handed pitcher Sir Michael Gambon.
“We noticed that Raul Ibanez, one of the most dangerous hitters in the NL East, bears a striking resemblance to Lord Voldemort,” said Mets GM [...]

Meet Your New Savior: Neil Sellers

My apologies for not having written more frequently this week. I’ve just started a new job (my first-ever 9-to-5 adult job) at an information technology magazine. And another apology, because between sifting through several metric tons of technobabble all day, every day, and reading How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen, an absolutely captivating compilation [...]

Bruntlett, Ruiz need to go…Yesterday

There are a couple of weak links on your 2009 Philadelphia Phillies. They go by the names Eric Bruntlett and Carlos Ruiz, two men who, rather mysteriously, still have jobs playing Major League-level professional baseball with the Phillies.
Bruntlett, who came over in the Lidge trade and, yes, scored the winning run in Game 3 of [...]

Apparently his fashion sense went about the same time as his fastball…

No one’s been a bigger fan of the Phils’ pursuit of one Pedro Jaime Martinez than I have these past weeks. Now that we’ve got him, it would be ungracious of me to complain now. I mean, he even gladhanded a little this afternoon (soon to be yesterday afternoon. It’s going to be fun. But. [...]

J.A. Happ is the ultimate trade bait

I know, it stings to hear things put so bluntly in reference to Philly’s latest cult hero, but that’s exactly what J.A. Happ is at this moment.
Excellent trade bait. Happ currently sports a 6-0 record, a 2.90 ERA, and a whole lot of love and affection in Philly, in addition to a link with Roy [...]

BF stands for Bob Ford and also Butt Fu……

The Inquirer’s been pissing me off recently. There were a few things in this morning’s sports section that warrant reactions ranging from a mild admonition to public flogging. I was originally going to write about Allen Barra’s column claiming that Mike Schmidt was the greatest player of all time until I realized that he had [...]

Coste DFA’d; Werth DTF

So the inevitable happened; when the Phillies brought Raul Ibanez off the DL, they DFA’d catcher and noted author Chris Coste. Coste, OPS-ing only .724 and playing sparingly since the arrival of Paul Bako, was suddenly expendable and the Phillies severed ties with the aging cather/right-handed pinch hitter.
While Coste was not nearly as important to [...]