Phillies Nation

You’re on target when you said this series with the Astros and their potent (overachieving?) offense will come down to the “battle of the bullpens”. Hopefully, the Phillies have the edge with their pen.

I posted earlier from team reports that Manuel and Milt Thompson have kept after Howard to keep his hands back and let the pitches come deeper into strike zone. This gives him a better “read” of the pitch. He appears to be more consistent with that and getting great results as evident by those opposite field extra base hits and HRs.

BTW, watching the televised game (Comcast), the cameras caught a shot of Pat Gillick and team president, David Montgomery in the stands. It made me pause for thought and wonder if they are there for more than just a visit. ;-) Gillick does have a little history with Houston as scouting director for a brief period around 1974.

We are not a good team right now.

How about Wheels calling the HR by Burrell ??? That was pretty cool…. I remember watching vs. the Astros a few years ago… Burrell was up with bases loaded.. it was on both CSN and ESPN…. I decided that if I watched it on ESPN he had a better shot at hitting the salami.. and he did… I guess he likes that park a little bit because of the extremely short porch in LF. Good call sitting him last night vs. Oswalt who can be one of the best in MLB when he is on… HUGE confidence boost for Burrell to come through in that spot.

They said Werth was day-to-day on the radio last night in the bottom of the 8th… at least he didn’t come out right away, but you could tell something was wrong… hopefully he can rest for a few and be back in soon. Big win for our boys last night!!

I’m a bit ashamed to say it, but WIP mentioned hearing it this morning, and then a caller called in to say that he had heard it as well.

I wish I had more to give you…but since I couldn’t find anything more, I figured what better to place to inquire than here.

Harry is a legend… but you gotta admit, he often goes 5-10 seconds without saying anything at all… he’s starting to yell about “…AND A LONG DRIVE…” which turns out to be a warning-track fly ball. Wheels does get annoying sometimes when he pretends that he knows it all… BUT he does know more than most.. has a great memory of games and situations… knows the rules better than anyone else in the booth. I think Scott Graham was good on radio, or at least his voice was very good (rumor has it he was a D!ck to work with and thats why they didnt renew him)

Tom Mac has all but been named as Harry the Ks replacement.. its a shame that they have him interviewing random people and talking about random things during the games.. it seems pretty awkward everytime.. but hes pretty good, and Sarge is getting better…. I could listen to LA full-time because I think he’s funny and def loves what he’s doing

I’m in agreement that it doesn’t seem likely that we could get Zimmerman for Feliz and Carrasco. As to the reason why they’d trade him, the thought seems to be that the team isn’t pulling in any fans whatsoever in the new park, and all the money they thought they’d be getting with the new stadium isn’t coming in.

My opinion: I’d make that deal (Feliz and Carassco).

At the risk of offending some “Harry the K” worshipers, just an opinion and nothing more.

I think Kalas is long overdue for retirement. Rarely, if ever, he offers any insight to the game. He’s increasingly making misjudgements in calling plays (“long drive” becomes a pop-up) and pitches (even losing pitch counts). His almost inaudible monotone delivery lulls a listener to dozing. Thank goodness for Chris Wheeler and his thoughtful knowledge and as Don M posted…”he does know more than most.. has a great memory of games and situations… knows the rules better than anyone else in the booth…”. Tom McCarthy does provide interesting facts and anecdotes but it’s often unrelated to game situation at hand. Mathews needs to sharpen his elocution in his delivery so one can better grasp his apparent knowledge of game situations. Ok, that’s it. I’ll probably get some bashing.

On the Radio… Harry is the man… he sets the scene of a nice, relaxing evening at the ballpark.. doesn’t talk too much, lets you hear the crowd in the background, the crack of the bat, etc…

But he’s just too slow to keep up with the constant changing angles and TV cameras… you need something telling you who, what, where, when, why with every shot… like if they show the bullpen and you can’t see the number, or name.. Wheels knows who it is before Harry knows the camera went there. He’s a living legend.. I just think that he is too slow for the game on TV… laid back and easy listening radio could serve him well for another 10 years… where he gets to paint the entire picture himself!

any zimmerman updates or what?

Never trust what goes over the airwaves from WIP. ;-)

Кто как думает, повлияет ли кризис на итернет? Я так подазреваю что безусловно, подвижки уже есть.И это очень печально(((