Comments on: Overmatched Again, Phils Drop Another To Mets

By: Nathaniel Silevinac

Nathaniel Silevinac — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:39:06 +0000

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By: Vernon Dozier

Vernon Dozier — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:56:09 +0000

The good thing is that the Mets have their own problems to worry about. Delgado & Castillo are at the end of the line. Alou is good when he plays, but that isn’t often. The bullpen is horrible. The Braves are suffering through injury after injury. Neither of those teams is good enough to run away with it.

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:59:26 +0000

Question: why did the phils call up 2 complete scrubs for rollins and snelling? they are hitting 222 and 186 in AA and AAA. you gotta be kidding. why wasn’t jason donald brought up to start??? this is a joke. a complete joke.

LETS GO SIXERS!

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:34:23 +0000

I knew it was going to happen – why does the organization always feel the need to dumb down the severity of injuries?

This one is going to hurt big – I don’t think we win another game in April.

By: Vernon Dozier

Vernon Dozier — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:08:22 +0000

Rollins was just placed on the 15 day DL…

By: Mets Fan

Mets Fan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:56:05 +0000

wow i cant believe that one guy doesnt agree, he is the 1% everyone is talking about

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:48:25 +0000

Prediction: Jimmy Rollins doesnt start until May. When he does he struggles for a long stretch….the Phils offense is lost without him and we never regain our footing. I hope I’m wrong…..but without a healthy Rollins the team looks like it has alot more holes than it does with him.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:27:18 +0000

I’m glad you mentioned Jenkins swinging for the fences. That’s exactly what I thought. I think he’s trying to win over the fans. He needs to put some good, controlled at bats together because nothing’s happening.

By: VonHayes

VonHayes — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:33:46 +0000

One more comment. Go read the Metsblog. Really, go read it. From what I see, they are almost surprised that the Mets pen held up the last two days. Read the running dialogue from during the game yesterday. Its was 4-1, and someone wrote ‘We almost took the first two.’ The point is, nobody is distinguishing themselves, and you just have to hang around long enough. Get ready by getting a starter and two relievers!

By: VonHayes

VonHayes — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:29:41 +0000

Trade Howard for pitching. He will hit; an AL team will give up quality to get him, even right now. Pitching, pitching, pitching. If you are jonesing for a 1B, get Texieria next year.

By: Vernon Dozier

Vernon Dozier — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:22:01 +0000

Utley signed a seven year deal and will be here through 2013. He won’t be a Met for a long time. (In fact, a lot of people look at him as the Phillies firstbaseman after Howard is dealt.) Where does this “not paying their players mantra” come from? Should they just open the checkbook and give everybody as much as they THINK they’re worth? This whole town complained when Burrell and Abreu received big deals and didn’t perform to expectations. Understand that the Red Sox, Yankees, and Mets have ownership in their cable networks which creates a huge revenue stream. Additionally, both New York teams move into new stadiums next year which will further increase their revenues. The Phillies will never have that much money coming in.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:21:49 +0000

I lived in Pittsburgh for 6 years for undergrad and grad school. the phillies owners do the same thing the piratesowners do except their self imposed limit is higher than the pirates’ is. the pirates wont spend more than 50 million, but usually its more like 20-25 million, including one year when their payroll was 7 million. thats outright theft. the phillies owners are billionaires and they make a killing off of this franchise. with CBP the payroll jumped from like 85-90 million to 100 million to 110 million. this ballpark makes as much as anyother park in the major leages in ticket sales, as the phillies rank highly in the league in that category. they can afford to have a yankees/red sox payroll. easily. they outright refuse to do that because they want to pocket that additional 70-100 million of our money outright. of course if they won a world series by making smart personell decisions and forking over the necessary pitching money theyd probably increase their profit margin by a significant amount anyway. greed can blind even the shrewdest of businessmen.

By: Richiola

Richiola — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:51:32 +0000

As a Phillies fan I get the sickening feeling that Utley and Hamels will one day be playing on one of the NY teams…..

I’m tired of the Phillies not paying for their players. I just can’t believe that Philadelphia can’t afford good players.

Re: who’s fans are more obnoxious – Phillies or Mets fan I agree that each side has their share, and each their share of thug fans. It’s just baseball folks. I want my team to win more than anyone and get sickened by losing to the Mets but in the end, it’s not worth getting into fistfights over and yelling obscenities and throwing objects – for either fan base. I mean are you kidding me?

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:12:36 +0000

Right now, Mets v Phillies fans isn’t even close. Maybe back in the Vet days, it could’ve been but not now. In fact I was almost angry about how nice most people were to mets fans yesterday, many of which were extremely obnoxious. In Shea, it just looked like any time a phils fan cheered, a met fan would then try to start a fight. not the same at the CBP.

Maybe next year Citi field will eliminate the classless type folk, as the CBP sorta did for phils fans when we left the vet. It seems like the shittier the stadium (and cheaper) brings the shittier quality of people. Or at least the ones that want nothing more than a fight.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:11:39 +0000

i agree, 99% of mets fans don’t bother phillies fans at games and vice-versa…one of my close friends is a phillies fan and we go to games together all the time.

I say give ryan howard a break..you know he will break out and start driving in runs in no time..WOuld you rather have Delgado??

By: OZ

OZ — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:59:18 +0000

Mets fans v. Phils fans? – foolish argument. 99% of both sides are surely good folks. its the 1% on both sides that act like idiots, can’t handle their booze, and forget that there are families & kids sitting w/in earshot. more accountability on security to ask them to quiet down, or ask them to leave.

As for Thome, Howard, the Phils wanted to insure tix sales prior to opening up Citizens bank. any fool saw thru that smoke screen. that said, i was still very happy to sign Thome. typical Phils however locked him up for way too long.

Howard was what, a 5th round pick? as idiotic as our ownership is, the cards were not played wrong. are we really complaining that a 5th roudn pick won the RookieoftheYear and MVP in back to back years???

c’mon guys. frustrating but still April. Give Howard time, he’ll be fine.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:42:02 +0000

You think the phillies can afford to pay CC Sabathia, psh…

They have to lock up cole hamels long term because when it comes closer to his payday they wont want to pay him either. you get cole at a 13-15 mm per year rate if you sign him now whereas he projects to command sabathia money by the time he is that age and service time.

You move howard so that you can create free up the money to sign hamels long-term. we know that they have a fake salary cap on themselves but im jusy playing along with their little philosophy about that. howard will return players that can build a championship team who are ready to play now or next year. the phillies dont have the pitching to win this year as they stand now anyways, so you might as well get the pitching first and build the pieces while you can.

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:34:36 +0000

You’re joking if you think Phillies fans are on the same level as Mets fans. Trust me – it’s no comparison, Mets fans lack respect and courtesy – yesterday was completely out of control — I will never look at a Mets fan the same way, ever.

By: Mets Fan

Mets Fan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:31:17 +0000

I know phillies fans complain about how obnoxious mets fans are, But mets fans feel the same way, i was at the Mets vs Phillies game at Shea last week that went into extra innings, and there were plenty of Phillie fans there waving their jerseys, both fans annoy the other because theyre not one of them, its not really that one is more annnoying than the other like most mets and phillies fans say.

By: Mike W.

Mike W. — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:47:36 +0000

Mike T — I was thinkiing the same thing (I was at the game yesterday as well). At the very most I can only go to 1 of 3 game per series, and i need at least a month in between.

I am just happy I was on the lower level pretty close to the field, where there were less of these rodents running around. And the ones right behind me weren’t too bad. In fact, we talked for a while about the differences. He said Mets fans are 100X worse than phils fans. I couldn’t agree more. He said he was happy he could go to a mets-phillies game in CBP without any fear. He then went on to say the exact opposite of eagles games, obviously, but I couldn’t argue there.