Odds And Ends: Myers, Stairs, LA Times, History
Posted by Tim Malcolm, Wed, October 15, 2008 11:52 AM | Comments: 88
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Some more odds and ends as you prepare for game five:
- Todd Zolecki reports Brett Myers was in the bullpen during the ninth inning of game four, in case he needed to relieve Brad Lidge.
Lidge worked an arduous, one-out eighth. Having Myers ready was a very smart move. He would’ve been my emergency choice, as I even thought about him out there when Lidge started the ninth.
- Jim Salisbury has the final word on the Matt Stairs home run.
Read if you want to revisit that titanic blast.
- Ross Newhan, a fantastic columnist for years and Hall of Famer (and father of major leaguer David Newhan), wrote a special column for the LA Times saying the reason the Dodgers are down 3-1 is because the Phils are … simply … better.
Thank you, Ross. Sure, the Phils have seen a few lucky bounces, but they’ve won because they’ve hit in clutch situations, pitched well enough and managed strategically enough.
- Bleacher Report points out each time the Phils and Dodgers met in the NLCS, the winner lost in the World Series.
Meh. If I’m worried, I’m worried that the Rays boast a bunch of hitters who don’t seem fazed by the bright lights, and a pretty good starting rotation. And the Red Sox can still come back. That said, I’m focused on game five tonight. Don’t bother me with World Series chatter.
Posts: 0 Dennis
Dodgers fans are awesome! Looks like they all jumped ship already, tickets on Stub Hub for tonight… As low as $13! Pathetic!
Posted: 12:11 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 JimC
If I have to hear that I Love LA song between every inning tonight I’m gonna have to turn the radio on again
Posted: 12:18 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
Holy sh*t Dennis! I just checked Stubhub tix for today and you’re absolutely right! There are plenty of $13 tickets!!! Are you kidding me???!!!
$13??!!!!!
Posted: 12:19 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Clare
Whaaaaaaaaat!? Mahahah, that’s sad.
Posted: 12:30 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Gabriel
top decks 9 or 11, $8… HAH what a bunch of mutts
8 bucks for playoff tix?! why not just hand em out with a magnet for the 2009 dodger schedule hahah those fans are garbage
Posted: 12:32 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
Anybody wants to go to LA today for the game?
Posted: 12:39 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
http://www.palinaspresident.com/
Posted: 12:43 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Manny, I’d totally go if it wouldn’t cost like $500 to fly there.
Posted: 12:43 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 JimC
Haha my boss just asked me to stay till 12 for work tonight when I’m supposed to get out at 9. What a joke I just laughed at him
Posted: 12:47 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I woulda laughed too Jim. I’m cutting class tonight for the game.
Posted: 12:54 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
Will there be a DC-viewing place for tonight’s game? Cause I wanna go.
Posted: 12:56 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
Phil: best website ever
Posted: 12:59 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 MP
My senior citizen co-worker bitched me out for saying I was watching the Phillies over the debate – I explained the Phillies make it this far into the postseason less often than we vote for president
Posted: 01:23 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Jesse
WAHOOOOOO LETS GO WHOLE CAMELS!
“CONGRATULATIONS! You have been selected for the opportunity to purchase tickets to a potential 2008 World Series game scheduled to be played at Citizens Bank Park.
We are pleased to offer you an opportunity to purchase up to three tickets to a potential game of the World Series on first come, first serve basis (subject to availability).”
I Believe.
Posted: 01:25 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Chase Andrews
Got that message too. Ordered my Game 4 tickets today, so yes, I am wrapped up in World Series chatter. Finish it tonight!
Posted: 01:30 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Larry
Can someone write an article about how the loss of Rowand was supposed to keep the Phils from making the playoffs, but Victorino and Werth provide the production and leadership that was lost with Rowand?
Posted: 01:31 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Grats JEsse and Chase!
Posted: 01:32 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RK
anybody watching the game tonight in any of the Lansdale, PA bars?
Anybody living in the city will have a great time if they clinch tonight.
Posted: 01:36 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck
Hey MP, I got crap too for putting the Phillies ahead of those clowns running for president. And I’m a political junkie that would usually NEVER miss a debate. Priorities, eveyone. Priorities. GO COLE!!!!
Posted: 01:38 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
You should also just tell your senior-citizen coworker to vote for Obama.. unless of course you are rich.. $$$
I already voted for the Dems cause i’ll be rocking Acapulco on Nov 4th ya’ll
Posted: 01:40 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck
Larry, Vic and Werth are so much better than Rowand and Rowand is a fine player that I was disappointed to see leave. Shane has become almost superhuman and Werth, to me, is a calm, reassuring figure that the Phillies need. I love Werth’s style of play (what an arm). Someone said about the comparison between Rowand and Victorino that Rowand would crash into the fence and want you to know that he crashed into the fence but that Victorino just crashes into the fence and makes the play. Thought that was a pretty insightful statement.
Posted: 01:47 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Gabriel
that palin website is easily one of the funniest things i’ve seen all day (i’m the kind of guy who sees funny stuff all the time)
i cant even eat i’m so stoked (well that and my girlfriend is making pork tenderloin tonight) … careful with the WS talk boys and girls, didnt’ you read the phillies.com article on the 10 teams who have come back from 3 game deficits in the past? the annoying bosox did it last year against the indians and in ’04 against the spankees… lets win tonight and THEN let the floodgates open…
Posted: 01:47 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Gavin
Gotta win Game 5 first. I’m worried about Hamels b/c he had 2 or 3 big starts finishing off a series during the regular season and lost all of them. I think everyone’s counting their chickens before they hatch.
Posted: 01:49 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RK
Vic showed the difference the other night when he put his hand up to feel the wall to make sure he did not run into it and drop the ball. Rowand would have slammed in the wall and possibly lost the ball.
Posted: 01:49 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RK
Gavin,
Hamels did blow some regular season games but I think he finally decided he wa a big game pitcher and will do well tonight. That being said we definitley all have to try to focus (it is tough) on only tonights game.
Posted: 01:51 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Fran
i diddnt get world series tickets. If anyone is buying them can i please purchase 2 off you if your not buying all 4?
Posted: 01:52 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
Rowand plays balls-out hustle all the time.. and did it because that was the way he was taught to play the game.. very similar to Utley
Victorino covers more ground, and has a better arm… making him in my opinion, as good, if not better than Rowand..
And he was like $9,120,000 cheaper than Rowand this season too… another smart move for the Phillies UNDERRATED and UNDERAPPRECIATED front office..
Give them credit for putting this team together.. We would be better with Sabathia and Harden, yes… but would’ve given up the world for them.. and neither of them looked great in the playoffs.. so its easy to look back and say what they should or shouldn’t have done… but because we are where we are right now.. we need to give them the credit they deserve
Posted: 01:53 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
I have come to realize that Hamels IS a big game pitcher, he just chokes against our division particularly the Mets.
Posted: 01:54 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 ryan
that’s genius having myers as a possible second closer out there in case lidge gets worn out. definitely a great idea for the world series. maybe brett could be a 8th inning guy in the right situation.
Posted: 01:56 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
True Don M…Blanton has looked better this post season than Harden and Sabathia have.
Posted: 01:57 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
We don’t need an 8th inning guy. Mad Doggggggg is our 8th inning guy.
Posted: 01:58 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Gabriel
CC went what? 11 -2 with the crewers? and a loss to us in the postseason? blanton was 4 – 0 but we won like, 10 out of 14 or 15 starts and he’s pitched two decent games for us in the postseason… gillick is either really smart, or a warlock
Posted: 01:59 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck
Blanton should be ahead of Moyer in the rotation.
Posted: 02:01 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Chuck
Yeah, I’m in the same situation as Fran. Any extra tix……let me know as well. Thanks.
Posted: 02:03 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
Yea I’m willing to pay $1 more than whatever price Fran and Chuck offer… Like The Price is Right.
BUT seriously… obviously we’d like our chances better if we had another picther more top-rotation-ish than Blanton… but we would have sold our farm to get one of those guys..
Since we were all on board with hanging on to Carrasco and Marson, etc.. we have to be happy with how the move worked out.. leaving us our top farm pieces in the process, you can’t ask for much more
Posted: 02:07 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 maxhole
anyone else hear that meyrs suffered ankle sprain? guy mentioned it on espn this morning
Posted: 02:08 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RK
Myers turned his ankle rounding second. One of the reasons we need them to win tonight and give him plenty of rest. It did not sound like a big deal.
Posted: 02:12 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RK
I am willing to pay $5 over Fran and Chuck :)
Posted: 02:13 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 RK
I am willing to pay $5 over Fran and Chuck because I am big spender :)
Posted: 02:13 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Ryan
I got World Series Tickets!
WOOT!
I’ll (hopefully) be at Game 4 with my brother and father. Let’s close out the NLCS tonight!
Posted: 02:14 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
You could only purchase 3 tickets to the World Series, and I’m sure noone would want to go alone.
Posted: 02:15 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Phil
Where are your seats Ryan?
Posted: 02:15 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
$6
Posted: 02:15 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Don M
Not to mention any names.. but
The two teams that are currently leading their respective Championship Series’… are both allowing 3.5 runs per game to their opponents through 8 postseason games.
The AL team is averaging 6.5 runs to their opponents 3.5.
The NL team is averaging 4.375 runs to their opponents 3.5.
yikes
Posted: 02:19 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Eb
SORRY BARACK THE ONLY CHANGE UP WE WANT IS FROM COLE HAMMELS
Posted: 02:20 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Eb
I got tickets for game 3
Posted: 02:20 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Jamie
I’d love to see Tampa clinch tomorrow night at Fenway. Way to really stick it to the Sox and their fans.
Posted: 02:24 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 Manny
You are all very lucky. I’m not. Poor me.
Posted: 02:24 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
won’t happen jamie
Posted: 02:28 PM on October 15, 2008
Posts: 0 redsoxfan
Eb they have to get there first. if hamels loses, you have to hope that Myers or fat man can win.
Posted: 02:30 PM on October 15, 2008