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The 3 back of the Mets is a little misleading. It’s 4 in the loss column.

wow… asshats here threatening to kill Met fans… and you dirtbags call Met fans classless?

Yea, give Utley the day off…PLEASE

Though he wasn’t THAT bad today…he singled and he scored

If the Phils end up in the playoffs, Jamie Moyer is as much responsible as anyone. Don’t get me wrong, Howard has been nothing short of amazing in September. But it’s expected from him. You expect Howard to hit home runs. You don’t expect the Old Man to beat Ben Sheets on three days rest.

It’s an example of the kind of grit this teams needs to have – the grit that got them in the playoffs last year. He’s setting the standard, and already guys like Myers are following his lead by agreeing to pitch on Sunday.

i met gotta. sorry

Lets not take away Feliz and his performance today offensively either. And whenever Moyer pitches as well as he did tonight … I remember him joking right before the trade deadline about signing another 3 year deal … and at this point …who wouldn’t?

Wow… that Moyer is something else! Hard to believe he shut down my Mets and then the Brewers all within 4 days!

If the Phils make it to the post season, they will have to thank that guy.

looking at Utley numbers . In his last eighty at bats one homer, seven rbi. I just can’t believe something isn’t wrong with chase. He is a hitting machine he must be hurt or it could be mental. All I know is that this isn;t the player we all have seen play for years.

No, not at all Don. Still don’t think they’re gonna make it. Hope they do, just don’t think they will.

I think if you go back and check, this is the FIRST good pitcher theyve beaten ALL SEASON…its about time!

you just watch hoping thye surprise you and they kind of did last night. im not even going to say that behind sheets and sabathia the brewers dont have much because that slop will probably shut down the phillies for the next three games.

if the phillies win the first three the brewers might get desperate and throw sabathia out there for a no hitter sunday.

now, with the season on the line it was good to see ryan howard and jimmy rollins play good baseball…again, ITS ABOUT TIME they beat somebody good. instead of getting all these phantom hone runs and rbis against the washington nationals and the atlanta braves.

now, if they cant beat manny parra and dave bush then they dont deserve to be in the playoffs, because those guys are horrible.

You are right, as always, the Phillies and Gillick are fantastic. We will win out and take the World series title. In fact, why even play anymore games – just give us the trophy now.

we could say the same thing. all of a sudden all is forgiven and everything is resolved and all their holes are fixed because they beat a good pitcher for the first time this year.

so what if jimmy rollins is back there, im tired of it. this is the era of the shortstop. theyre growing off trees now. its probably a good idea to go with a younger one.

all those gold glove plays doesnt change the fact that he only started playing respectable baseball ONE WEEK AGO.

i dont need flashy primadonnas out there who tell us that the fans are responsible for the team playing poorly. you are professional athletes, you have to be ready to play on your own and your making millions of dollars to do it.

sseriously, I DONT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT HOW GREAT JIMMY ROLLINS IS, I DONT WANT THAT PIECE OF SHIT PLAYING FOR MY BASEBALL TEAM ANYMORE!

but thats so american, in the age of drive-by media you forgot all of that stuff as soon as the commercial break hit, didnt you

you attach too much to names. rollins, howard, so what.

championships: 0. recent WS appearances:0 playoff appearances: oh yeah they did make the playoffs last year ,they were eliminated so fast that i forgot.

theyve gotta achieve something significant in baseball before i begin to respect them to the level that you do. I DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT MVP AWARDS, they mean nothing. theyre stuff for sportswriters to debate about.

they have achieved nothing. theyve done nothing. theyve won nothing.

in and of itself that isnt bad, they arent the first bunch of phillies to win nothing, but they ACT like they already won something. thats the problem i have. thats what the eagles did and its what made me hate them. i still hate them, not the players, but the coach and the ownership/management.

so are at least semicompetent general managers….

I would have to say Lidge for Phillies MVP. No offensive player has been consistent enough. Without Lidge, we’re screwed.

Howard is on fire. Funny how he seems to always do this, he’s cold early in the season, then heats up at the end.

And honorable mention for the Ashburn has to be Madsen. He did a great job last night.

right… but like Billy Beane.. and other wise baseball men say, the save is one of th easiest stats to pile up.

The fact that you get three outs with a 3 run lead shouldn’t be that hard for ANY pitcher in baseball…. I forget what the success rate is, I want to say moneyball listed it at like 97% chance that you’ll win with a 3-run lead and no runners on to start the last inning..

Not to take anything away from Lidge, cause he’s been excellent.. but I think Moyer has impressed me more than Lidge this year.. but I agree that we wouldn’t be in contention without Lidge in some clutch spots this year!

“properly encouraged to do the right things” doesn’t mean steadily bitching to us in capital letters all day everyday that they NEED TO TRADED OR RELEASED IMMEDIATELY.. does it?

Again, I understand your frustration, I really do.. but I often think that you say things just to rant, and can’t honestly believe 90% of what you post on here.

If you really believe your previous stuff about SS growing on trees.. and that Rollins’ being a Gold Glove shortstop doesn’t significantly help this team… and we should bring in a younger one… ..anyway.. I just can’t see how somebody could honestly believe that

Shortstops only grow on trees in the NL. The AL only has 2 short stops even worth talking about. Jeter and Young.

everyone gets all hyped up because of a few percentage points here and there that seperate jimmy from the rest. i mean, do you really give a damn if your guy has a 96 % Fp or a 98% FP? that really doesnt make a difference. its the ERRORS that hurt. fielding percentage is such an over blown bullshit statistic. it only matters if a guy is well below the pack. because most of the shortstops are grouped around the median and there really isnt much of a defensive dropoff if jason donald cant get to as many balls as jimmy. if the team isnt good enough to overcome little nuances like that they deserve to lose.

cut down on donalds errors and i will seriously take him over jimmy ANY DAY. hes not a complete asshole, so thats a big plus. i would do whatever it takes to get that asshole rollins out of here in the offseason. even if it meanst paying him off and releasing him for no return. id be completely ok with that. f him.