Phillies Nation

I will still be cheering on Thursday night, when I go to the game. But if I’m alone in this pursuit I may give up after a few innings.

Everyone but Rollins.

i’m glad this caught on

Unfortunately, I bet only 5,000 or so of the 40,000+ fans going tonight have even heard of this campaign..

If it got started the day after Rollins made the comments, it would have picked up more steam.. but I bet he gets a standing Ovation or something if he strikesout, or Flys out to shallow left, jogging with his head down all the way to 1st as he’s done all year.

Booing has proven not to help. That’s why Jimmy spoke up. I don’t agree with everything he said, but he made some good points. If you claim to love this team as I do, then why not cheer your butts off for the Phils…including J-Roll. I understand all the negativity, I feel it too and vent it often on my blog, but it’s time for a change. Let’s give applause and positivity a chance and maybe we’ll be pleasantly pleased with the outcome.

thats a BULLSHIT excuse and a BULLSHIT argument.

Philly has a strong and rich history of booing everyone. Pro-bowl quarterbacks, all-star closers, the redcoats and tonight we will start a new chapter-booing nl mvps

Although to be fair, 10 000 loses would make anyone bitter

haha.. people used to boooooooo Billy Wagner when he hit 99mph instead of 100..

Cheer it all – what’s the worst that could happen – we lose???? I don’t agree with what Rollins / Howard said, but something’s gotta give – can’t take the apathy from the recent level of play. So cheer away!!!

I called out Don M. haha

It really seems like he didn’t mean to say ‘front-runner,’ that he meant something more like ‘demanding’. Front-runner has all the connotations of not giving a shit if your team loses, but then coming back when times are good again, and I think he knows, after years here, that that’s not the case.

That said, he’s a guy that’s given us years of service. He’s had a bad year this year, unequivocally, and it’s been underscored by an attitude that seemed like something we’d never see from him as late as May of this year. But the one thing that we as Philly fans need to learn to do is remember the past a little bit, to grant the guys who’ve brought us to where we are now (one of the best teams in the NL, even after this summerlong gag) an exception. We’re never gonna stop booing or being outright dickheads, but this you’re-only-as-good-as-your-last-at-bat attitude has got to be crushing to the players. In the end, skin thickened by $15 mil contracts or not, they’ve got to feel something.

That said, this was absolutely not the time for him to start whining. The rules about speaking in baseball are simple: when you perform on the field, you can perform in front of the mics, too.

Go Phils. Please, please stop sucking.

I hope this campaign thing actually works. It would be hilarious to watch all the fans go nuts for the usual Ruiz GIDP or Howard K. I think with the fliers being passed around combined with simple word of mouth we’ll be able to notice a significant difference in the crowd tonight.

Resorting to gimmicks is never a good sign. Good teams don’t need tricks or slight of hand. Why not just sign Chriss Angel to a contract?

“resorting to gimmicks”? you mean like a manager getting thrown out of a game to excite his team. Sorry I care more about wins then acusations of gimmicks

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We are still so very close to 1st place in the division….I dont see why most bloggers here are so negative all the time….J Roll is correct…Philly fans in all sports go too far….players success goes in cycles..teams go in short cycles.
.the mets won quite a few in a row to get into first..but look at their bullpen( talk about sucking.)
its now our turn.

“We are still so very close to 1st place in the division….I dont see why most bloggers here are so negative all the time….J Roll is correct…Philly fans in all sports go too far”

I completely agree, although I don’t call myself a Philly fan but rather a Phillies fan. I have a different favorite team in all major sports rather than the one in Philly.

Ill take the phillies and the flyers. i dont pay attention to the nba so rule that out. if you made me choose in the nfl id say the steelers because even though i grew up here, ive learned to hate the eagles more than any other team. Brian Westbrook: youre too good for this team, you should have left them years ago. you deserve a chance at a championship, you deserve better.

but i also dont care all that much about the nfl either.

Tonight is the beginning of a massive offensive tear by the phillies.

personally, i’m not a big boo guy. i’m sure j roll gets killed with boos tonight at the game.

theyre going to just have to do that. just…explode for 6 weeks. demolish teams. thats the most realistic shot they have. i dont think they can treat water anymore. they have to swim…

Richie Allen…Boston pitchers are home grown or given a ton of money, hence why they are there.

Also I have been to games where the heckling (of opposing teams) is out standing but at other games everyone justs sits there quietly and doesnt get in to it.

To me the whole atmosphere at the ballpark has changed since CBP opened. Where going to the Vet was primarily for watching a game, CBP seems to be more of party central that just happens to have a ballgame going on.

Granted I’m an old gray beard and probably stuck in the past a little too much.

I’ve been a Phils fan for 55 years and I have to admit Rollins is right. However when I am at the park it has been my observation that the majority of the fans are not booing at all. Yes there are always a number of big mouth Jackasses in any crowd, but it has always been that way. Unfortunately they are the ones to get noticed! I also think he is protecting an under performing team by taking the heat himself. The fans memory’s are very long in Philly and he has now opened the door for more abuse in the future.