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Bat hamels 8th

And the hits just keep on coming! I’m turning this one off.

wrong guy got moved down to the six spot

hamels is the only guy that gave vlad the chin music. thats what i expect to see done to him. scare him off the plate a little. then blow up the bat next time out.

its good to see utley get out of the slump. i think theyll win this game if they can get to the bullpen.

however these two series should set to rest the argument that the phillies have to go load up at the deadline to even be able to compete with those two teams. on top of that, in the offseason they have to spare no expense and boost payroll to stack this team as best they can. you just cant expect to win if you dont attract elite players.

elite players want long contracts and big money. if you dont buckle down and accept that reality, and stop trying to nickel and dime your way out of that, then youll never win anything.

the general manager just is not good enough to work with this payroll.

ruben amaro also isnt good enough to do that.

so, there are three options in the future.

1) boost payroll to cover up for amaro’s inadequacies.

2) hire someone REALLY good. someone who knows wtf they are doing. billy beane definitely does but hes not going anywhere. someone like him. he can work within a budget and build good teams while maximizing talent and balancing “cap”space.

3) combine steps 1 and 2 but leave amaro out of it. grow a set of balls and try to make your business succeed by taking calculated risks

anyway, ill enjoy the ride this season and well see what happens. ill continue demanding action when i feel it is necessary. but this should all be clear as day now. we know what we need to do to get to where the angels and the red sox are. spend money in the offseason (you have to) and make good moves in season.

the guys that are here simply need to improve their play and do it consistently.

i hope they can get to weaver today. thats the minimum i expect here for the rest of this game

Noone cares about Sarge’s family album or the fact that T-Mac likes everyone loves Raymond. Who hires these guys? Sarge is good when he’s not talking about how great his son is and Harry Kalas is so old now and makes bad judgement calls. Chris Wheeler is annoying. They need better announcers.

see i like the sarge and t-mac and kalas. wheeler is a little bit of a dufuas.

t-mac is misused talent. someone like dei lynam needs to be out in the stands doing goofy reports. t-mac needs to stick to the game. whne he sticks to the game hes a very good announcer. kalas is kalas. the sarge knows tons of baseball. i think he gives you some good stuff sometimes.

i agree that they are misused.

i think whoever the producers of this broadcast are totally suck.

yeah those marlins scouts are awesome. i think mike arbuckle needs replacing

As long as we get to Francisco down 2 runs in the ninth we’ll be ok in this game.

Funny how Charlie finally alters the line up…

to the only line up that could be worse than the previous one!

Yes indeed. Good pitchers make them look really bad. They just arent patient enough and they get overpowered. shields shpould be scared to death to throw to ryan howard but hes not. Theyre even farther away from being able to win the world series than i initially thought.

that was a stupid idea. steal second base to theyre forced to wlak rollins and make so taguchi try to get a hit off of k-rod.

Yeah Geoff, I see what you’re saying — but I think getting the guy in scoring position outweighs an 0-12 Taguchi. But either way – we’re not going to win this game.

and Taguchi pops up to end the game..which means if the marlins win, tehy’ll be tied for first

Haha! I would have bounced once I heard the name So Tagguchi announced. What a joke this past week has been. Time to make the beer of the day the whiskey of the day! Beer isn’t doing the trick!

This team better be getting reamed out in the locker room right now!

the mets need to be blown up and rebuilt. if the phillies allow the mets to catch and pass them charlie should get fired and THIS team should get blown up (save 5 guys) and rebuilt!!!!! amaro fired, arbuckle fired, AND real owners invited to buy the team. that is how disgraceful it would be to me. that is how fragile things are. you think this team is as good as advertised? obviously not. the mets are garbage. they should keep santana wright and maybe reyes and maine the rest of the mets can go for prospects.

with the talent in this lineup and cole hamels and the bullpen theres no excuse to fail to win a weakened nl east.

if they cant do that then heads need to roll hardcore.

i have a conference in DC tomorrow through wednesday. so ill only be able to follow on the internet. maybe thats a good thing

I’m sure the 98 Yankees and 01 Mariners didn’t go through stretches like this.

the ’01 mariners went through a stretch like this in the playoffs for god’s sake!