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Relief Pitching — Phillies have none — real clutch hitting — still lacking — Ryan is becoming more like a “McNabbBaseball Clone” every time I look at him — good but just not great — lacking something that would move him into “the great ones!”

this team SUCKS

THEY SUCK AND WILL FINISH BEHIND THE METS

drtyjerz, how’s your brother mikemike doing?

Hopefully Halladay can give us a complete game tomorrow.

This comment thread is pretty hilarious, good work all around everyone

Steve – come on – how can you say that Howard is not great? Do you know how many teams would like to have a cleanup hitter that hits 45 HR’s and 130/140 RBI every year. Everybody, please back off from the ledge. It is really early.

Have to love how a lot of these jackass trolls come out of the woodwork whenever we have a bad ending to a game like this.

Thanks for breaking up the succession of negative comments with platitudes, maxhole. Wish I could rx myself Valium right now. To Scott in D.C. of the prev. thread, Charlie has trouble thinking *in* the box. KK finally shows some stuff; the offense gives us a lead.. Madson should be hanging his head, and probably his likeness will be hanging in effigy somewhere in S. Philly tonight. Before the season began I saw the Braves taking the division. I really hope I’m proven wrong, ’cause – and this is directed at somone named Ruben – yours is really the image to be hanging in effigy. It’s not just anger, it’s disgust.

It’s a 162 game season, good lord people. This will not be the only losing streak, nor the only blown save, nor the only walk-off surrendered. Pull yourselves together, it’s downright embarrassing.

The first few comments have got to be a joke. One bad loss and people are predicting third-place finish. Jesus, y’all calm the F down.

Obviously this was a tough loss. First real tough one to swallow this season. There will be others. We need a good outing from Halladay tomorrow after a night like that.

On the plus side, a nice effort from Kendrick. Too bad it was wasted. But that bodes well for future starts. Just like Hamels’ good outing on Sunday. In the long run, those are big positives.

So, cheer up. It’s only April still and the typical April Phillies have finally shown up. They’ll get hot. And they’re still the favorites.

when the team goes out and lays a turd like they did tonight, expect philly fans to spew some hate. its real, driven by the true feelings that puke-stain performances like tonight’s inspire. that “it’s a long season” positivity after something as ugly as tonight just doesnt do it for me, feels empty.

I was so looking forward to celebrating a fabulous KK outing.. I’m not losing sight of *that*. But “cheer up” falls a bit short right now. Maybe tomorrow; it’s another day.

Yoy people are NUTS!! Please, for the love of Christ, calm down everyone. Sh!t like this happens ALLLL the time….look at last year….and we went to the World Series.

You people need to seriously get ahold of yourselves. And BurrGundy, if you’re there, I responded to your childish temper tantrum in the other thread. Grow up. Seriously. All of you are downright embarrassing.

Chuck, “All of you are downright embarrassing.” All of us are? Are you sure?

And so what. If it’s a 1-0 loss, then it’s a 1-0 loss. STILL doesn’t mean jacksh!t. We’re STILL the team to beat in this division!! You all need to just relax and appreciate what we DO have….instead of bitching about what we don’t.

FYI for the people about the jump off the bridge, you do realize, if the Phillies win tomorrow, they are back in SOLE possesion of first place right? Didnt think so. Did you also realize the Phillies had a LOSING record at home going INTO the All Star Break. Did you also realize the Phillies had a LOSING records against the Braves last season? I didnt think so. Be pissed, but calm down.

Nobody said we were going wire to wire this year. The Braves are a good team. So are the Marlins. But the Phillies are BETTER. Start believing that.

“HE SUCKS”

Yeah, until he wins games for us ….then he’s basically God.

Typical front-runner.

LOL, just checking Chuck. I think it will take Charlie FLIPPING OUT to get this team to buckle down and do what they did in the first week, which is have plate discipline, and reduce striking out. Lets not forget J-Roll is still out. Coincendnce that the Offense died when J-Roll went out? I dont think so. Vid is filling in pretty good as a lead off, and Castro as Short, but I think go back to normal and offense will do better.

bobby, you are an idiot. He hits homers in the 5th, so of which are 1 run games. Did you know if Howard hit a homer in the 5th inning and the Phillies win by one, HE helped win the game. Get a life.

Here’s the thing….Lidge comes back…..do you automatically just put him in closing situations?? At fist, I thought no….that you need to ease him back. But, now, unless Madson seriously does a 180….I think Lidge is the guy.

Let’s be reasonable. This is one loss in the first month of the year with both the Phils and the Braves still trying to find themselves. Tougher losses we’ve seen over the years. This team has the character to overcome it.
With that being said, it should also have the talent to overcome it. Tonight’s loss brings to light the ongoing bullpen issues, as everybody’s said. If the Reds or the Padres are out of the race in a few months, Francisco Cordero or Heath Bell could be on the block – and could be here too. Madson isn’t right for the closer’s role, at least at the moment. The best we can hope for is that Lidge will come back strong. Let’s let that hope carry us through this tough night. If he doesn’t, then the front office can’t hesitate to move on. It seems like a while since the ninth inning was fairly secure – it shouldn’t stay that way if this team wants to be back in the Fall Classic.
When the dust settles – and even if the Phils loses a season’s worth of games like this – I still will love this team, as we all do now.

It is just a shame that the relief pitching blew this one for Kendrick and the team against a team that most Phillies fans love to hate. The win was in the bag. Madson and Contreras threw the ball right down the pike on the home runs. Cannot do that, especially against a hard hitting team like the Braves I agree with those who post that Madson is no closer; he is a setup relief pitcher. Most teams probably would have won that game against the Phils in the same situation facing the poor quality relief pitching that Atlanta seen tonight. Just one, early game but still sad, sad, sad.

jeff, I’m not gonna get mad. I’m just amazed that you CONSTANTLY have NOTHING good to say about the Phillies…..EVER.

If “Jr ruined” pats team”…then explain to me how they got to the World Series last year??

I’m as pissed off as the rest of you, but I try to remind myself that winning even 2/3 of the games you play in a season almost never happens. Last season we started far worse, our team wasn’t as good overall, and we still made it to the world series. I don’t see any reason to be genuinely afraid (yet) this year.

This is a long, long season folks…..full of plenty of ups and downs along the way. And remind yourself of this: You’re NOT the fans of the Orioles or the Pirates or the Padres, among others.