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Myers did not hit jeter he missed and threw behind him

Actually, Tim, Myers didn’t hit Jeter. He threw behind him. We really don’t know if Chase was hit intentionally, but Burnett did hit him high and near his head and on the succeeding pitch after J-Roll homered. Certainly, the ump put it in his head that it was retaliation. Thus, Brett, was given his one shot to retaliate back. The ump immediately warned both benches (properly, in my opinion) and there were no more incidents…I think that the starters are finally coming around (except Park obviously) after pitching that extra month last year, in addition to having an off-season that was shortened by that same month’s time. This is one reason why it is so hard to repeat. Cole’s pitching well again. Brett’s pitching well again. Country Joe and Moyer are starting to come around. let’s see how Happ does today on national TV…I think the team is rolling, and as I’ve said before, the line-up is much better having Raul fill Pat’s black-hole spot and a healthy Pete Happy. Also, Ruiz is becomming a very good 8-hole hitter. I feel that this year’s team will run away with the division. The Mets have holes all over their line-up, rotation, and middle relief. The Braves don’t score many runs and have a suspect bullpen. The Marlins get no motivation from playing every home game in that huge empty stadium. And the Nats, well, they’re the Nats.

Doug are you kidding, did you watch Blanton starts , lasted 5 inning 6 walks no location. stop trying to say there pitching is coming around that is a insult to us who follow this team. unless you are joking, its hard for me to take that statement serious, moyer is terrible, we lead the league in hr given up and close to first in era. why do people not come on here and face reality, this pitching staff need help

Burnett was throwing with intent to hit Utley. That pitch was aimed squarely for his head, and it just so happened to be right after he gave up a HR, he was blowing off steam and trying to intimidate the Phils.

Myers was fantastic. The two runs he gave up in the 8th were meaningless since Madson was closing against the bottom of the order with a 4 run lead. Charlie was willing to trade a few runs to keep the bullpen fresh.

This is going to be a good series. I’m one of the non purists who really enjoys interleague play.

Who was it that said they were at the game last night and wearing a Dykstra jersey? ’cause I saw you on TV!

Very impresive job by Myers overall considering how hot the Yankees were coming into this game. This is the kind of performance that could trigger contract extension talks.

Little Guy, I kinda enjoy Dipsy’s prognostications…

Jeff of Nova thanks for some one making sense. If a pitcher gives up 5 runs I don’t care if it one inning or two 5 runs in 5 innings it terrible. How can someone say it’s only one inning. and how about 6 walks. And what is a debbie downer. is that when you don’t post whatever the guys on the team do its great. I just don’t understand if you point out a problem guy think they have to say it not bad because that makes them a fan, if you disagree you aren’t a fan. I swear sometime I Think its people who work in the fo trying to post to make it seem, better than it is so they won’t get critisize.

Just to point out you have to look past the numbers and the problem with us ‘fans’ is we scrutinize ‘the numbers’ without the inside track and our views are almost always heavily prejudice. Good fan analysis needs a litle bit of perspective and realism of whats going on around the league.

There are a lot of back-end of the rotation pitchers not pitching well at all (including Jon Garland).

today’s lineup
SS Rollins
2B Utley
LF Werth
1B Howard
DH Ibanez
CF Victorino
3B Feliz
RF Mayberry
C Coste

I don’t think that’s a typo Werth is in LF

That’s the Myers that can win 20 games? Lmao. Chan Ho Park could actually win 30 if he pitches like he did against the Mets that one time. I know our rotation is horseshit, but don’t get excited about a performance like this, especially since he allowed 3 frigging homeruns. He got lucky. Case and point.

NJ I Posted cook’s numbers and they are bad, Am I looking at someone different. on the road he 5.78 era. 233 hits in 216 innings last year, what is so great about his guy.

It’s gratifying to see another solid performance from Myers to add to a growing list of effective starts from the rotation. Moyer is coming around and Blanton is showing signs (if one overlook his 1 inning of struggle in last outing) of establishing his rhythm. Of course, Hamels is Hamels as our ace. Looking forward to see how Happ handles the pressure of pitching in homer friendly Yankee Stadium against a team that leads the majors in HRs.

Hey Bruce, Todd Zolecki the Phils beat writer on MLB.com has posted the lineup for the Phils today and pb has it right.

clktwr14 (is 14 your age?), I wouldn’t get too hung up on the steroids mess. If your views represent the majority then that subject will rear it’s ugly head on every player having other-worldly stats this season including ..yes..Ibanez. He has 16 HRs on May 23rd (40 games). Last season he didn’t get his 16th HR until Aug. 4th. If he continues at this pace, he would have 64 HRs at season’s end. Are their any rumors or questions regarding Ibanez from the alleged “majority” that represents your views on steroids?

How can A Rod or any of these guys records stand, when baseball knew that they cheated. Performance drugs gives you better vision, hand to eye corration, its proven, stops you from fatigue, Now all the guys who did it the right way are being passed by cheating athlethe. What a message we are sending to the next generation, I hope baseball’s commissioner who knew this was going on but ignore it because of the attention it was getting, the fans were going to games. So again for the sake of money will are degradeing ourself in our history of this great sport.

Bruce, Ibanez on Steroids? So because he is on a hot streak with homers, he is on steroids? Come on man seriously? Chase Utley had an extremely WICKED may and June last year, was on the same pace, are you saying he did steroids last year for a month and a half? You do realize it IS possible for a player to do well and NOT so steroids. Rollins apparently has also gotten his swagger back as well. I was EXTREMELY critical of Rollins and all of his talking, with NO production, but he has come on strong lately. Hopefully he can keep it up!

I knew that inevitably someone would mis interpret my last post on steroids. I’ll be brief here and simply state that I never said Ibanez may be on steroids. My point is that steroids is continually put on the front burner as a “hot” topic due to more revelations of players with name recognition (A-Rod & Manny). This is turn becomes tabloid news for every media unfortunately. In the meantime, as fans we try not to let those distractions ruin our season of enjoying our favorite team and players. However so long as certain fans raise doubts about a players’ other-worldly season, that ugly subject can’t be put to rest for any length of time. And I use Ibanez’s current stats as example that may provoke an uninformed fan to ask the unmentionable. ;-)

I can get that explanation Bruce, but with the first post, it honestly made you sound like one of those “uninformed fan to ask the unmentionable.” Thats just how it sounded. As for “strengthed the eyes”. It was more likely mental. Like taking a placebo, if he think it will do something, and really make yourself believe it, it can make you believe that something really happened.

I would like to find out what people think. Now that it is know bonds use steriods, if in peoples minds is it fair he is the alltime homerun champ. Can you justified a man on steriods who has a big advantage. Getting the record over a guy who play by the rules,and had values we were raised on to be honest, and work hard, not cheat. The players association and major league baseball turned there back on honest player who made this game great. When I see the players who cheat getting rewarded it make me sick. but maybe it’s that my family had values.

I never and will never in my mind consede that Bonds is the HR champ, Henry Aaron is still the leader and all the HRs Bonds has hit since 97-98 are tainted. A-Rod is another one that’s record will not break Aaron’s because his HRs are tainted by his use.