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I hope the Phillies don’t do anything stupid and sacrifice the future for this season, b/c this team just isn’t very good. They are 6 games below five hundred for the last two months! Save the prospects and try again next year. We done.

This should be an interesting AB. I really don’t understand why all the Philly fans are so down. Jesus you guys were in first place since April 19th. Just imagine being a Mets fan. You lose to shitty teams and then you go take 2 of 3 from the Yankees and then you go take 2 of 3 from the Angels. It hasn’t been a pretty ride for us either. We are pretty much in the same boat.

Griffin, at what point did you throw in the towel last year?

They will get a good addition to the back-end of the bullpen. I just wonder at what cost???

Done? That’s pretty moronic. they are 1 GB with a better pitching staff than last season. All they need to do is pull their heads out of their asses at the F&^king plate!!! There’s no way this team should hit like this day in and day out. Yes, Jenkins, Ruiz, and Feliz suck (and we knew that going in), but the problem has been more of a Rollins/Utley/Howard one. Someone has go to step up and put this offense on his shoulders. Ain’t no MVP coming from this lineup.

I swear to god, that was one of the loudest “jump off the bandwagon” moments ever.

What the hell is wrong with all of you.. We ain’t winning the World Series this year… we all know that.. but we have a pretty decent team, and they aren’t playing that well right now.. don’t give up yet.

Nothing is over until we decide it is !! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor ?? Hell No!

HAHAHA Look at the first post. Paul is a mind reader.

Paul Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I see that the Phils are scuffling again vs. Perez. Feels like a game that they will lose 3-1 or something low scoring like that…

The whole team stinks. Eff em all. Can’t hit in the clutch and they keep on blowing solid pitching efforts. I am sick of everyone saying it is the pitching. It is these freakin sallies in the middle of the lineup. Oh yeah, and Feliz sux all around. worst base runner in all MLB.

let’s face it, Phil fans, the Mets own us this year. we just suck in all aspects. i don’t understand why we’re getting so upset at Reyes for showboating, either. every team does it, including ours. he is hated for being a great player, not for being a showboat. if it was the mets turn in 2007 to collapse after the allstar break, it’s ours this year. i think this is what we get for talking so much trash all the time.

Well said Dave.

i don’t care if the Mets own us, but I can’t stand to see them win the division. If it’s forgone that the Phils are blowing this thing, I’m pulling for the Marlins.

Would have never guessed that people are giving up on them after a loss. The most up and down fans in sports. I’m not one of them but half of this thread demostrates who the real fans are and the bandwagoners. Any fan who gives up on a baseball team in July is a jackass and should never watch the sport again. Fucking relax, we’re a game out with a series against the Braves coming up, at home. I’ll be at all three since the Phils tend to win when I go to games. Sometimes you have to be supersticious.

Even though the rest of the Mets fans on here sometimes bash Chase Utley.. I would gladly steal, and then sell those BIG, UGLY gold hoop earings that I bought my baby-momma for her BIRFDAY last year..for Chase Utley.. yea. ima tru playa fa sho

They’re gutless. There are teams that you know will scratch and claw to get to a win — and this team resembled a team like that on Tuesday night — and there are teams that you know are content with getting close. There are teams that have players who will fight to get on base, and there are teams where players try to hit every pitch out. There are teams that will make the playoffs, and there are the Phillies.

The culprits are unusual for this team: a listless approach, no one running (yes, Rollins runs, but the MVP never gets on base) and hitting that knows no situation and produces home run derby swings and Little League results. You can fix the latter part with work, but this team hasn’t proven that it wants to put in that work.

They seem, ever since Bruntlett railroaded Yadier Molina at the plate, to be a team that just goes out there for a paycheck. Yeah, there’s no more clicheed barb to throw at a team than that one, but how do you account for guys who can’t and won’t move baserunners, guys who walk off the field with their heads slung low after popping out with a runner on third, without even a hint of emotion, and guys who swing at anything thrown by a pitcher as long as it’s not a pickoff to first?

There seems to be no fun inside of this team, and there sure as hell isn’t any fun in watching them. The Mets are in first now, and they’re not gonna give it up willingly, as we certainly did. Last year’s team didn’t let anybody off the hook, and this year, leaving runner after runner on the basepaths, that’s all we’re doing.

Relax. I’m not saying the Phillies are making the play-offs- but they’re hardly done.

The Mets are a .500 team plus one eight game winning streak. Since the break, they’re 4-3 playing at home versus the Phillies and a notsogood Reds team.

How about the Mets play one month, after the all-star game, at say- three over .500- before we quit?

22 of our next 28 are against teams w/ losing records- so I’m pretty sure, even w/ our struggles, we’ll be a few games over break even. Let’s see if the Mets can play 18-12 over that span before we quit.

Chase Utley: 0 for Series

Lets Go Mets is an ignorant NY fan (those are actually synonyms) who doesn’t have a clue.

trade jimmy rollins now please

Since June 10th, we’ve played 37 games- 31 versus winning teams (only losers were Atlanta and Arizona (one game under) including some brutal good teams (ie. The American League).

That is your swoon right there. An 88 win-team (which, if your rational about the Phils is where they are) isn’t going to play .500 ball against that slate.

But again, 22 out of the next 28 are against losers- and I bet we “look” a whole lot better four weeks from now.

Look at the Rays… they don’t look so hot right now.. all teams have their ups and downs.. we’ve been in a funk and haven’t been able to get a win steak going, despite some very good starting pitching.

I would only trade JRoll for Halladay.. and that aint happenin

Phillies fans are not bandwagon fans…that is a fact. We are passionate fans and passion breeds passionate reactions. When we get slop on the field we damn well have the right to sling it back. I’m pissed with the way the team blew a chance to make a statement and I might wish I could just turn off the switch and not care. However, what makes us great fans is the fact that we don’t know where that switch is…

…if the ship goes down (and it appears to be taking on water at a quick rate right now) I’ll be going down with it!

Go Phils!

Don M. – I have been pissed about the loss today and have been reading this blog and have been even more pissed when I think about our team. Your animal house quote just made me bust up laughing, thanks for that. I needed it.

BTW Chase Utley is a shadow of his former self, like the past two years when he played with all heart and gave everything he had day in and day out, that’s why he became my favorite Philly. Now he seems like he doesnt care.

Also, I got a nickname for Madson. Maddy Cakes, for that pancake he tossed up to Reyes last night.

Neither team has a World Series ring recently, so neither team should talk smack… if anything.. the Mets have a higher payroll, and greater expectations every year.. so you would consider them more of a disappointment.

Well considering the Mets are now in first place its hard to call them a disappointment….the Phillies on the other hand blew a 6 1.2 game lead in a month and could have buried the Mets. That is disappointing. And yes bla bla bla last year Mets blew it in September when it counts…..Yup they did “LAST YEAR”

Actually, adamc254, LETS GO METS, is a well informed Mets fan who attends most games. I don’t wear a “F-YOU” shirt like many classless Philly fans, I don’t swear at the games, I don’t fight and despite Don M’s claims, I do not live in Jersey or look like a Gotti. In fact, I despise New Jersey. I just am amused by the anger you guys have and you obsession with New York. You guys are the little brother who is always trying to beat the older brother.

GO CRY YOUR HEART OUT (I think I’ve read that someone before)