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I don’t know if I feel “completely fine.” We have 3/5 starters for the second half…. I won’t feel that better until the Myers/Eaton pitching situation is resolved. I don’t want to trade our CC or our future catcher because they will be part of our roster in 2 years. To me, everyone else in the minors is fair game.

Other than salary concerns, is A.J. Burnett really worse than Adam Eaton? At least I have seen A.J. “on” in 1/2 his starts, and he wouldn’t have to face tougher American League hitters. I’m sure he would waive his no trade clause to come to a first place team. I wouldn’t pencil it as a loss everytime he takes the mound… With Eaton, I’m praying somehow he keeps us in the game to the 5th inning where our bullpen can take over.

I’ll even take my chances with Myers and Happ. But I won’t feel better until we eliminate Eaton from our rotation.

Chase, you can’t bring Golson up and sit So. The guy has a lot to work oin in the minors. If he’s riding the bench in the majors then he’ll be useless in the future. Let the guy develop his game better.

They’re going to use Burrell’s contract to bring in a big name pitcher.

So Kendrick and Moyer aren’t good enough to pitch for the Mets ??? …. you suck at life..

The Mets are winning because they have NO PRESSURE on them right now at all.. they have basically the same CHOKE team as last year, Billy Wagner is the best closer in the game (the best at blowing saves I mean).. They don’t scare me one bit because when the games matter, they will collapse again

I agree there Don, the Mets have nothing to lose at this point with a new manager, of course they’re going to do well, lets see how they do now that they’re in contention again. I agree that things could be better here in Philly, but if you told me at the beginning of the year that we’d be in first place at the All-Star break I’d be pretty damn happy with that. Let’s hope that we get us some pitching help to take us through the second half, but for now let’s all step back, breathe, and enjoy at least 3 more days in first place.

lets also remember who the muts have been beating. a struggling phils team and 2 teams from the west. give them credit for winning games they should win, but hardly call them a dominant team after these 3 series.

for those people who say the phils should have taken a much bigger lead in the division by now- i think it is better to look at the last month and see how we have maintained first place. if we play like this for July and August we won’t be thinking about October, but if we improve i’ll bet that we have a bigger lead.

bring in another pitcher and look for the offense to click. we’ll be there fighting in the end.

Ms its not the teams that they are beating that is impressive… You are right the Giants and Rockies are not the Cubs and Red Sox but it is impressive in the way that they are doing it… They are not outslugging teams, they are doing it with dominate pitching and that is what wins late in the year as you saw in the playoffs last year… I know i am being repetative but good pitching always beats good hitting and I think its essential for the Phillies to get another arm in order to really feel good about where they are at.

Mark, you’re obviously trolling. You’re saying our rotation is god awful. It’s not god awful. It’s decent. If you take Eaton out it’s actually pretty respectable.

Do you Mets trolls have anything better to do?

BTW, is this the longest 4 days of the year or what?

Maddux would get whiplash in CBP. So would Byrd and Wolf. We need a K guy if we need anybody.

It really is possible that Myers and Happ could be the answer. Eaton is the only guy…….. I just cringe when I think about him.

I’m a Phils fan but the Mets starting pitching is head and shoulders above the Phils’ starting pitching. King Cole is the ONLY pitcher in the rotation you feel you feel safe will bring you a win. Moyer and Kendrick, I love ‘em but they’re both decent as end of the rotation guys at their respective points in their careers. Santana, Maine and Pelfry are showing that they can have their dominate days (is any of this news though? Maine and Perez, especially Perez, have been hot and cold in their scouting reports) when they’re on. Perez on his most wild day is still better than Myers. Pedro, well lets just say that I would love a 3 time Cy Young winner as my 5th guy.

Our bullpen is much better than the Mets but if you’ve got Adam Eaton given you an 8 run deficit in the 3rd inning, what does that matter?

That said, the Mets have shown you that they’re streaky so all these proud Mets fans beating their chest, you know that you’re not as good as you’ve been these last few weeks. You know that Ollie, Maine and Pelfry won’t be as unhittable when they’re not facing bottom lurking teams. Enjoy it while you can.

Our heart is bigger than the Mets……..excluding Eaton.

It appears that Joe Blanton is officially on the market. The A’s got what they wanted for Harden, which may make it possible for the Phillies to acquire Blanton without dealing Carrasco or Marson.

Blanton is probably a number 4, 3 at best. He’s definitely a “B starter”, and without much room to work on the market, this looks like a fit for the Phils.

Here are his stats so far:
5-12, 4.96 ERA, 62 K’S and 35 BB’S in 127.0 IP

Who does that remind you of last year? Kyle Lohse? That’s right.

Kyle Lohse, 2007 Reds stats:
6-12, 4.58 ERA, 80 K’S and 33 BB’S in 131.7 IP

If I’m going to make a guess at what the Phillies are going to do, it’s going to have to be Joe Blanton. Another B starter who, at best, will get you a NLDS.

Im not excited at all about maddux. Hes a different version of moyer and they cant afford another guy like that because the bullpen is alreayd tired

Yeah Geoff, like we said, we need another solid 1 or 2 guy — Blanton’s not it, not even close. He’s a B starter, he won’t get us shit.

Yo Rivlez, either bring something new to the table, or shut up.

Kyle Kendrick
W-L 8-3 ERA 4.47 K 47 Walks 32 WHIP 1.46

All I have to say since when is a 4.47 ERA and a WHIP of 1.46 good? That is just terrible. I’m a Met’s fan but I don’t hate the Phillies. I love baseball. I honestly believe that the Phils are 2-3 people away from being GREAT. 1 Great start to go alongside Cole Hamels(Terrible he is not in the All-Star Game and a shithead like Wagner is) and another good bat in that can produce 25 HR 100 RBI and have a good OBP and bat second. Victorino is good but needs to pick his OBP up to be more effective at the top of the order. Burrell is having a REALLY good year and so is Utley but not as of late. Howard has basically carried the Phils the last week by himself. Who knows what will happen in the end but I think it’ll be interesting to say the least.

They should have had Brett Myers pitch to Utley!

You can tell Utley wants no part of the HR Derby

aw man, did you hear roy halladay rip the blue jays organization? saying hes sick of being on a mediocre team.

he might be trying to talk his way out of here really fast.

And for the record, I’m not nearly as confident about the second half as Tim. The Mets are scary, for all the reasons people have already enumerated.

Geoff, Roy Halliday in a Phillies uniform would change everything. It ain’t happening, but still, one can dream …

theres so much like 30 or 40 somethings on this team that are just old junk that they need to clear off the roster and before everyone jumps all over me here im only speculating what id to if i was going to blow part of it up and be sellers.

but at this point: ill bet if they dont get burnett this week then theyll end up with blanton because bedard will cost too much. i also dont want gillick making a trade with seattle because he is going to buy them next year and be club president. thats beyond conflict of interest.

The difference b/n Blanton’s 2-8 and Lohshe’s 2-7 is that The Reds sucked and the A’s don’t. Happ is a better option than Blanton.