Comments on: World Series Preview Part I : Opening Thoughts

By: cp

cp — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:17:24 +0000

Qestion for anyone . If saturday is a rained out and you have tickets for ‘game 3′. Is the game three ticket used for the next game on sunday or are your tickets now for the makeup date?

we have to travel a bit.

By: Philly Fan from NY

Philly Fan from NY — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:41:19 +0000

George Steinbrenner is the owner of the Yankees.

Tuan is not a philly fan.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:54:19 +0000

Who is Tuan??!!

By: Chase Mutley

Chase Mutley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:56:31 +0000

Who is George Steinbrenner?

By: Tuan

Tuan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:20:28 +0000

rofl the reason you Philly bitches see roaches in Tampa is because you guys are staying at your snow-birds trailer parks. There’s a reason why George Steinbrenner make his home right here in Tampa.

As for you fools that think that your Phillies is #1. The Rays have a better record than your Phillies playing in the toughest division in all of baseball, enough said.

By: mikemike

mikemike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:42:29 +0000

My son is a electrician and his boss who is in his fiftys is retiring this month and moving his family to tennessee. Said the house he is getting and the slow pace and cost to live there is great. I thought to myself it has to be a culture shock to go from philly to deep south,

By: MikeB

MikeB — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:43:19 +0000

mikemike, I was stationed with the Air Force at MacDill AFB for three years back in 1987-1990. MacDill is just south of Tampa on a peninsula. Know what you mean about roaches as big as rats. Palmetto bugs and they had wings. Would come into buildings thru any opening they could find and up from the drains in showers and bathtubs. Were rattlers and an occasional alligator too. Will always remember the constant stench that would come off off of the bay. Had nice malls and shopping areas in Tampa but will always remember the constant threat of crime in that city. Many residents had bars in front of their windows in their homes for security and security gates in front of their doors and driveways. Tampa they can have. Truly, the constant heat is terrible down there.

By: Philly Fan from NY

Philly Fan from NY — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:06:50 +0000

Go Phillies!!!!

The Phillies will win no matter what, but I think they should change their rotation.

Game 1 Cole Hamels.
Game 2 should be Joe Blanton, he deserves it.
Game 3 should be Brett Myers, he is better at home and he can hit.
Game 4 should be Jamie Moyer, he is struggling a bit and maybe needs more rest to get ready.

Once again. GO PHILLIES!!!!! THEY ARE NUMBER ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: phan in TN

phan in TN — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:11:32 +0000

@Greg, I’m next to Knoxville. I’m from Philly originally and my wife & I just moved here from Georgia.

I don’t pretend to fit in with the Vols fans around here. I still mumble and slur with my nj/philly accent.

By: SJ Mike

SJ Mike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:03:28 +0000

Fox has a continuous countdown until Game 1 first pitch. It is torture.

By: Greg F.

Greg F. — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:01:23 +0000

Hey, phan in TN, this is another phils phan in TN, Memphis to be exact. We love our Phillies in Tennessee!

By: JT

JT — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:25:25 +0000

Typical Philly front yard = http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/87061203_bab1f3f3f8.jpg?v=0

MY St Petersburg front yard = http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y172/emanji/front.jpg

Typical Philly back yard = http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/~dminh/nyphilly/images/nyp-15.jpg

MY St.Petersburg back yard = http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y172/emanji/mypool.jpg

BTW if you think my pictures are hax job. I have this to say to you.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y172/emanji/IMG_2131.jpg

By: phan in TN

phan in TN — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:22:15 +0000

is this site slowing down for anyone else?

By: Joephilly

Joephilly — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:17:36 +0000

the espn poll says the rays will win? then its a good thing its play on the field that decides it not opinions of people who dont know crap about the team weve watched for the past 7 months. thet picked the dodgers too didnt they?

By: Chase Mutley

Chase Mutley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:57:29 +0000

I don’t know about anyone else but I’d love to hear more from Tuan. He sort of puts into perspective how much more there is to life than sports. When you ride around on the back of a truck all day picking grapefruits, I suppose it is that easy to wear sports statistics and the accomplishments of others as your badge of honor.

By: mikemike

mikemike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:42:19 +0000

Its great Tuan must be one of the two or three dozens fans the rays have. they needed bells to get the cows who live there. to go to the games they thought they were dinner bells. the dopes.

By: mikemike

mikemike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:39:23 +0000

There is no one who loves florida more than me. The only reason I didn’t move there is my wife hates the heat. but I have friends there and up until recent times would go down there 5 or six times a years. But if you want to see a toilet its tampa bay roaches are as big as rats, I would never go back .

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:28:53 +0000

LET’S GO PHILLIES!

I want to be there for a Phillies sweep in game 4!

By: Bobby in Boston

Bobby in Boston — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:28:31 +0000

Wow. I just read the Rosenthal column. He really doesn’t know anything about baseball, does he? He picked the BREWERS to beat the Phils? Oops. He must, like most national broadcasters, not think much of the Phillies. Buck and McCarver didn’t show us much love, either. And thanks, TBS, for giving us the Brewers play-by-play guy for that series. Oy. The Rays are the popular choice, I suppose because of homefield advantage and vaunted AL superiority, but it seems clear that these two teams are evenly matched and it should be a tight 6 or 7 game series. With the Phillies winning, of course.

By: SJ Mike

SJ Mike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:22:27 +0000

Stark wrote another good article.

Five Reasons to Embrace Phillies/Rays Matchup
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2008/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3653757