Comments on: Carrasco Basks In Futures’ Spotlight

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:59:34 +0000

I will listen to what he has to say, but like gammons, the agents and teams spin stuff to him to influence the trade market or the free agent market to their advantage. he does know a lot about baseball though, so i do liek him.

the mid-level guys are usually right the most.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:56:41 +0000

Ken Rosenthal is wrong most of the time, but he is a knowledgeable guy about the game and is a Phillies fan. I like him.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:45:10 +0000

Agreed, the baseball tonight crew has been serviceable. I dont mind them except for tim kurkjean and steve phillips get on my nerves on some occasions. gammons also gets fed tons of disinformation by teams and runs with it like all the time. gammons has been trying to will the phillies into getting paul byrd, which would be a disgrace.

rosenthal is wrong about half the time too. olney and stark are generally more accurate.

ESPN is total garbage, its not even really news. its the same as the evening news, just going and shoving an agenda down your throat in brainwashing fashion.

espn only covers the sports it has contracts to broadcast. they dont broadcast the nhl so they act like the nhl is some fringe thing. they have contracts to cover nascar and they act like nascar is the greatest thing in the world.

whoever wins the championship, according to espn, in any sport they cover, automatically becomes the greatest team of all time.

its so bad.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:33:27 +0000

I like John Kruk and that’s about it.

By: Don M

Don M — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:48 +0000

I was pretty sure he was going to wreck it with his crappy nicknames…Justin Mor”no soup for you”……. I thought he was going to ruin all the stuff..

I can’t stand anything on ESPN anymore to be honest with you…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:43:37 +0000

Agreed. Berman is the very worst national guy. Big, fat, buffoon up there huffing and puffing. He helped ruin the NFL for me too. I want that piece of trash as far away from a baseball frield as possible.

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:40:55 +0000

At the Home Run Derby, they should let the local radio or tv announcer of that stadium make the calls. Just imagine Vin Scully, Harrk K or even Michael Kay for last night — even though “See ya” is a bit annoying, it’s way better than the big fat douche, Chris Berman. I used to like Berman in the 90′s – and I still like him for the Fastest 3 Minutes – but not for the derby, he’s a piece of shit.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:39:44 +0000

Definitely not. Theyre not winning the world series unless some miracle happens, so just go get someone to make sure you at least win the division again. Burnett if its for cheap, Blanton, someone like that.

Erik Bedard is not getting traded.

Ive been calling for A-list guys, but they TOTALLY missed the boat on that. The only two legit A list guys were Sabathia and Harden. Bedard got taken out of the running.

Now if they dont get Burnett, whos a tweener between A and B, then youre best bet after that is Joe Blanton and guys like that. Ugh.

Im so mad at Gillick, he sat back and gave away the national league to the Cubs or brewers basically. Just totally sat there and did nothing. They couldve gotten one of those guys.

Now you got nothing and the best you can hope for is AJ Burnett? hah. Its better than not having him, but its not remotely close to matching the Cubs/Brewers moves.

By: Don M

Don M — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:30:19 +0000

2 things I strongly disagree with:

NJ – Its not Howard’s fault that people aren’t often on base when he goes yard… a bunch of times its to lead off an inning…AND he leads the NL in RBIs, so obviously he’s doing a nice job of hitting with men on base and doing more than “going deep on a regular basis”

Sauce- Victorino OFFENSIVELY is definitely underperforming this year… he and Rollins are both supposed to be the table setters, and up until this weekend, Vic had been pretty crappy at being on base and being dangerous… he hasn’t really been all that good on the bases as of late either.. and couple Caught-Stealings and he got picked off twice in the past week I think.. and he always looks at Lopes shaking his head, and then Lopes nods like “yea, you were out”..

the 3-4-5 have been dangerous all year, but its the 1-2 that need to be on base more often.

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:27:59 +0000

Yeah, absolutely not. There’s no one even left to negotiate with that deserves Carrasco, Marson or even Golson.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:20:47 +0000

Theyre haggling over details. carrasco, marson, and golson are supposedly off limits in all trade disscussions. I would seriously try to make this trade only giving up B prospects. you dont give up A prospects unless its for CC sabathia or rich harden

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:15:53 +0000

Burnett for real? Man, I’d give them So Taguchi and Mike Zagurski for him, that’s it.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:43 +0000

it sounds like they are getting burnett too, by the way. theyre just trying to get him to let them off the hook for that 24mm in the alst 2 years without giving up carrasco

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:01:47 +0000

I like some guys to be loose, but without someone like Rowand it seems like their mentality has become decidedly less serious.

Although, Chase Utley, the most serious guy on the team, drops the F Bomb last night at the NY fans, i like it.

Nobody is letting the Phillies off the hook for Eaton’s and Jenkins salaries. Its like a combination of the Silva signings, basically that we are going to have to pay them off to get out of here. The jenkins signing is already proven to be bad and theyre stuck with it for years now. Terrible, crippling move when you pair it with Eaton.

Victorino isnt worth much more than the contract that they just gave to feliz. i like the feliz contract, its a low-risk, cheap contract. if they cant get that to victorino, then its time for him to move on down the road.

By: Mike T.

Mike T. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:48:50 +0000

Right on, sauce.

By: Lewisauce

Lewisauce — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:31:40 +0000

I agree with NJ. Vic gets a lot of unwarranted heat from the fans. He’s been playing pretty well all year (at least since Charlie talked to him in May). The real problems are Rollins and — I hate to say it — Utley. Utley hasn’t been himself since June 1. Rollins hasn’t been himself all year. K-How has improved, but still … there are problems at the top/heart of the order, but I think Vic is generally not one of them.

That said, he’ll never be a superstar who deserves a big payday. So all this talk of paying him a lot to keep him is off base. When his arbitration years are done (I think next year?), you can keep him around for roughly Pedro Feliz money, possibly less.

It’s not a worry, not anything you need to really factor into payroll. The real payroll issues are Burrell, Hamels, K-How and No. 1 Pitcher to be Named Later. (In the “We can dream” category, finding a way to jettison Eaton’s and Jenkin’s salaries would be awesome, but it ain’t happening.)

By: NJ

NJ — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:29:35 +0000

Vic gets a raw deal from a lot of you guys, he’s shown increased maturity this year as a player and who was it calling Jimmy out in the clubhouse the other week…? This guys taking the brunt of the abuse for the holes in the offense when some of the big names on this team float on by. Rollin’s has been aweful, he only shows up in the game the odd night and this teams set-up for him to be the catalyst. Howards hot streak is being raved about but where’s the situational hitting from him? As said before how can a guy be playing well if most of his longballs are coming with the bases empty and if he’s not hitting a longball in that situation he’s straddling the mendoza line. Granted the guys above have to do a more consistent job of getting on base for him but he’s got to show more than just going deep on a regular basis.

Going back to the theme for this post, lets get feeling good about CC and Marson for ’09. We have a lot at stake finding the right time to bring these guys up and lets have them finish the minor league season, taste the clubhouse in Philly and have them ready to make an impact in ’09.

By: That Guy

That Guy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:32:25 +0000

Couldn’t agree more Geoffy. They are printing money at CBP. They could honestly afford A-Rod but they are not baseball fans, just businessmen. They have no rooting interest in the phillies, just the bottom line.

By: That Guy

That Guy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:27:50 +0000

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:08:10 +0000

Almost every player on the Phillies needs to get better at the plate. Most of all ROLLINS! He used to be very impatient at the plate, then last year he was patient and he was great, and now again this year he is shitty again. Patience at the plate usually comes through experience. He’s getting there. He hasn’t even played a full season yet. I think Victorino is going to become a really good player in time. He’s already showing signs that he has amazing potential.

As far as his maturity, the whole team is like that. I think he has ADHD or something. He’s always so hyper. He is full of energy. He is the spark plug this year that Rollins was last year. Come on Utley, the most serious guy on the team made Pat Burrell Man or Machine shirts? That’s hilarious and immature. I like the idea that they’re loose in the club house and like to have fun. Baseball is about having fun.