Phillies Nation

I’m taking a nice night away from the Phils tonight. Going to see Step Brothers, I’ve heard some good things. Hopefully I’ll be back in time to catch the end of the game, if its even worth it. Go Phils.

I love me some Jaimie Moyer. What a story.

Ya, I am breaking my own rule, but I hope there are no posts until the Phillies score multiple runs. Boycott. It’s pathetic.

“Meanwhile, Carrasco (1-1) threw 113 pitches in his six innings, allowing two runs (including the first earned run in his three Triple-A starts) on five hits.

He struck out eight but walked four, and hit a batter, committed a balk and uncorked a wild pitch.”

via mcall.com

Jamie Moyer needs to be the anchor in this rotation next year. I love watching him pitch, he is the Phillies. He is what they should be.

that was some good old school old man pitching for a while. nothing like it.

are they scared to use lidge again? i knew something was screwy as soon as they said “rich dubee fixed his mechanics.”

Moyer always rises to the occasion. He has a good awareness of the total team storyline. He always pitches a gem when we need it the most. He is sort of like Geoff Jenkins except that Moyer is a below average hitter and Jenkins is a far below average hitter.

Looks like I didn’t miss much on here or with the game. At least it’s a win, but all the same problems are still there.

i feel better now that lidge looked fine.

well yeah, the guy has like 250 wins. theres no way that you can be a fraud or a choker if you have that many wins. if he wins a championship or gets to 300 hed be a good case for the hall of fame.

yeah he wouldnt be bad. they still need an insanely awesome dude at the top of the rotation. cole wont be that guy for 2 more years so we need one of those now. or…they could rebuild for when cole is ready, assuming hes locked up then. by then i hope theyve rebuilt the offense.

heres the thing. there is something to the negative energy thing. however, if you cant handle that then dont play pro sports. are they that mentally feeble that they cant get over it? they have to overcome the negative energy with their own positive confident energy. when they do that and perform well they will have overcome those problems.

Geoff, do me a favor. Look at the teams road/home splits. Only our star players hit better at home. I’m pretty sure there’s a reason for that. We shouldn’t be getting all over our good defensive 8 hole hitting catcher before he even comes to the plate. I do say get all over Rollins for not running out a ground ball and Utley for looking like a deer in head lights at the plate. You know what they’re capable of. When this team was putting up 6 runs a game last year, were we bashing Nunez? No…we’d say he was a great defensive 3B. FYI Ruiz has been hitting a little better lately. As for Bruntlett, he’s a utility guy. Does he deserved to get booed for filling in for an injured reigning MVP. Obviously Bruntlett is no Rollins, so don’t expect his production.

I’m not in the philly area this week, I’m on vacation in the carolinas and the media here has picked up on Manuel saying that this padres series is a serious test. If we do not step up now, “we are not champions or men.” I love hearing that from Charlie. I know some people get on him, like myself – I’ll never figure out why he pulls Burell in close games – but this team needs a kick in the ass and that was a start.

1 run . . . really?

yea, a win is a win, but this pitching is not good enough to win on 1 run a night. they were lucky last night, with moyer pitching so well, but tonight kendrick goes at it, and i can guarantee 1 run, 2 runs or even 3 runs won’t do it.

Phil, I agree…as long as he can keep the ball down (and have an ump who actually has a “normal” and fair strike zone).