Victorino Wins Final Vote!
Posted by Amanda Orr, Thu, July 09, 2009 05:23 PM | Comments: 86
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UPDATE (5:25 PM): Shane Victorino wins the 2009 Final Vote! Good job, Phillies fans!
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Shane Victorino found the secret for getting more votes: a walk-off single. Coming into Thursday morning, Victorino took the lead for the Final Vote balloting. Victorino has a very slim margin over Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants.
Assuming Victorino wins, Pennsylvania would like to tally more votes than Hawaii. Governors Ed Rendell and Linda Lingle teamed up so that if Hawaii wins, they will send pineapples to PA. If Pennsylvania wins, they will send cheesesteaks to Hawaii. There has been no conformation that Rendell will do a hula dance if Hawaii wins.
Even if Victorino does not win the Final Vote, he could still make the team because Carlos Beltran will be unable to play.
The Phillies and Tigers partnered up, so vote Bran Torino! Voting ends today at 4:00 p.m.
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UPDATE (3:00 PM): Victorino has maintained his lead through 2:00 p.m.
Posts: 0 Keith
go Victorino! we’ll get one last update at 2PM.
Posted: 01:04 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Kevin
Anxious to see the 2pm update. Hopefully Phillies fans are still pushing in these final hours and can hold off the Giants fans. I am somewhat concerned as we are in the typical lunch hours on the east coast while Giants fans are plugging away.
Enough commenting from me, back to voting!!!
#votevictorino on Twitter!
Posted: 01:21 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Phil
Baseball America’s top 25 prospects came out and Dominic Brown is 17, Michael Taylor and Kyle Drabek are 23 and 24 respectively. Jason Knapp is in the top 50 somewhere too. This all looks promising for the Phillies future.
Posted: 01:22 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Winks Tiddley
Pineapples travel nicely. Cheesesteaks travel badly. This means that Shane will win. It is all very logical.
Posted: 01:41 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Dave
What Rendell needs to do is lock himself in a room with the rest of the PA legislature and get a budget figured out and stop fucking around with Pineapples and Cheesesteaks. Go Victorino!
Posted: 01:51 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 John
I just voted exactly 1,000 times, and my boss doesn’t care! He voted 50 times himself! Doing what I can to help.
Posted: 01:51 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 ryan
ewwwww. i would not want to be eating those 6000 mile away cheesteaks. but I have been to Hawaii, and those pineapples are the best and sweetest thing you will ever taste in your life!
Posted: 01:56 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Mazinman
That “Vote Again” button is now engraved in my mind. I really hope that Shame wins after all that.
Posted: 01:57 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Keith
hmm is the 2PM update up yet?
Posted: 02:03 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Jay
Its still Bran-Torino in the lead according to @Philaphillies on Twitter. Barely, apparently, so keep voting! Thank god its my day off, voting at least once every minute.
Posted: 02:13 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Mike D.
Voting as fast as my browser will let me. Come on Shane, come ON!
Does voting end at 4 PM Eastern, or Pacific (as some deadlines end on Pacific Time)?
Posted: 02:18 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Jenn
Voting ends at 4pm Eastern time. I’m not moving from this chair until then. My eyes are crossing, but who cares…GO SHANE!
Posted: 02:21 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Jay
Sorry, it was the @philliesnation twitter re-tweeting @MLB twitter
Posted: 02:23 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Brian
I have emailed everyone I can think of to vote. I even got one chick that wrote me back. A Darlene from a flooring store. Sounds like a hot Phillies fan…YUMMY
Posted: 02:35 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Billy
You should send me her email.
Posted: 02:36 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Jeff
Go shane
Posted: 02:37 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Brett
Has anyone seen the comments on mlb.com about how Charlie has to decide how long to play Pujols for and who will be Beltran’s replacement? The commenter is saying that best case scenario: Victorino wins final vote, Charlie selects Jayson Werth as Beltran’s replacement, and in the sixth, Charlie pulls out he outfielders that aren’t Ibanez, and we have an all Phillies outfield. Fingers crossed, haha.
Posted: 02:41 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Darlene
go Phillies. I loved the Phila. parade, keep up the good work!
Posted: 02:47 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Keith
I’m thinking Victorino might start if he gets in.
Posted: 02:47 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 CZ
I don’t see that happening. Werth will not get selected. If Shane wins the vote I would put my money on Sandoval to get the nod…if not him then it would be Kemp (an actual CF).
Posted: 02:49 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 CZ
FWIW – Halladay: 6.1 IP, 9H, 3ER, 8K @ Tampa. Still pitching in the 7th over 100 pitches.
Posted: 02:53 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Ol Cholly said if he has to pick a outfielder to replace Beltran it is going to be Kemp because he was voted so high by the players and the pressure from the MLB. SO WE HAVE TO KEEP VOTING VIC!
Posted: 02:58 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 jgqergn
Ha,
Werth is not getting in. Also Vic will not start. One of the Outfielders already in the all-star game will start.
Posted: 03:09 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Keith
Halladay not pitching that great today?
Posted: 03:09 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Travis Mount
Sandoval can’t get picked to replace Beltran. The only outcomes are Victorino and Kemp or Sandoval and Victorino (Unless Charlie goes nuts and says FU MLB and takes Werth-The-Price-Of-Admission
Posted: 03:26 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Matt Stairs
maybe Charlie will pick me because I can hit moonshots, way outta of here
Posted: 03:27 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Chuck P
Click (type validation key) tab, space, tab, scroll, click (Vote Now), scroll, click (Vote Again), repeat…
Halladay went 6 innings, 3 ER, 8 K…
Posted: 03:31 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 jgqergn
are you serious Keith, You do realize that Line says that he is pitching in the 7th inning. He has only let up 3 runs. and has 8 k’s. I believe he is pitching just fine. hes not superman for god sakes.
Posted: 03:31 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 jgqergn
kemp plays centerfield also, so Travis Mount, that theory does not make sense. Basically they need at least one centerfielder. So it can be Kemp and Sandoval
Posted: 03:33 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Keith
I didn’t say he didn’t pitch well. I asked if he’s not pitching that great today.
Posted: 03:35 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Keith
I’m all for getting Halladay, if we don’t get rid of Drabek, Taylor, and Happ
Posted: 03:35 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Brian
Hey Darlene. Whats your number hottie.
Posted: 03:49 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Buster Olney just said the Phillies should without a doubt get Halladay if they put a package around Drabek or a package around Donald! He said if the GM gets on the phone and is motivated to get it done it will happen.
Posted: 03:50 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Travis
I guess that makes sense but … w/e VOTE VICTORINO for 7 more mins.
Who here misses Pat Gillick yet?
Posted: 03:55 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 CZ
Voting must be over early, no validation code coming up anymore…drats…
Posted: 03:57 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Keith
we should know any minute now . . .
Posted: 04:00 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 King
DJ what you said is true and we can put a package around just donald that would be amazing!
Are you sure you didn’t hear Drabek AND Donald?
Posted: 04:02 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Ryan J
MLB.com is saying we’ll know between 5 and 5:30
Posted: 04:05 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Mazinman
If Ruben can get Halladay for a package around Donald which does not include Drabek, Happ, or Taylor then you have your executive of the year right there. No further consideration is necessary.
Posted: 04:08 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Geoff
Yeha if he says “package build around Donald” and thats a legit fact then its a done deal…
Posted: 04:10 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Buster was on Scott Van Pelt and Van Pelt just kept going on about how the Phillies would and need Halladay and would be the favorites to win it all without a doubt and he asked Buster what the Phils would have to do and he said a package around Drabek or a package around Donald but not both! That was just on 20 mins ago
Posted: 04:17 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Geoff
Then its a done deal…Ruben Will do it…
Posted: 04:20 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Too late now, but when the validation codes do not appear, hear the visually impaired button, and it plays the code. That was happening to me all day.
Posted: 04:25 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Chuck P
Travis… I miss Gillick right now… I have a feeling that he would be able to get this deal done. Not because I don’t like Ruben but because with a deal like this, Gillick’s experience of working with Toronto’s GM might help.
Posted: 04:50 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Brian of CO
That was 4pm EST correct? Any word?
Posted: 04:54 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Brian of CO
DJ I HIGHLY doubt Ruben will get it done. I think he has the Andy Reid Syndrome. Andy Reid ALWAYS thinks the Eagles recievers are good enough (far from it, except maybe this year) and Im think Ruben will take the We did it last year with this guys and we will do it again stance. Personally I dont think we stand a chance at a repeat without some help.
Posted: 04:57 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 DJ
Andy Reid I think said that cus Arizona and other teams really didn’t want to trade a receiver to the Eagles. But you might be right and this is going to tell us fans a lot about Ruben! Good or Bad
Posted: 05:08 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Alex
phillies r gay
Posted: 05:10 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Philly Geoff
Well said Alex… you dope. Now beat it!
Posted: 05:13 PM on July 9, 2009
Posts: 0 Alex
why the phillies so gay?why cant dey be like the mets?
Posted: 05:18 PM on July 9, 2009