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How pathetic can the offense get? The article is 100% correct, the Offense needs to figure out how to hit the little white thing called a baseball. I would like to think this is mearly the offense doing what they normally do against the lowly Astros at CBP and thats NOTHING. What are the Astros record at CBP, something like 17 and 5 or something ridiculous. Come on, this is Houston. It is NOT acceptable to be swept (which I can almost guarantee we will be seeing how Kendrick is on the mound.) I think the Phillies need to send Kendrick back to the minors before every start, because when they do that, he comes back pissed and is spot on for 1 start, then back to the KK we have come to know and loathe…excluding his Rookie Season. But I guess it could be worse, could be Adam Eaton. On a side note, I sure am glad we offered the good contract to Blanton, and gave Myers the boot. Also glad we got rid of Happ (SARCASM). Oh well, maybe the offense will step up and give Kendrick the 6+ runs he will need for a win, but maybe Kendrick will only give up 3 runs seeing how we are playing the Astros. We should have won the first 3 games…Had we dont that, we would be back in first place.

Now lets just hope the Cardinals somehow lose to the Nats. If the Phillies lose and the Cardinals win, we will be tied with the Cardinals for 2nd in the Wild Card race. Giants are currently tied with us for the top spot in the Wild Card race, and they do not play tomorrow. We will either be in sole possesion of the Wild Card, or be 1/2 game back again. I would say we need to play a BAD team to get some easy wins, but we are playing a bad team. Oh well, so much for that theory. I hope this just the typical slump against the Astros at CBP, and the bats will wake back up.

Everyone sing it with me]

“Don’t worry, about a thing……every little things gonna be alright”

Hey, in baseball, good teams lose to bad teams, and everyone knows that. But what’s frustrating is that this is not the time to slump like this. They Phillies already had weeks of “slumping”. Injuries were kind of a good excuse too. But now everyone is back in the line up, and while it may take awhile for the stars to get their timing back, what frustrates fans who watch every game is the lack of hustle and drive.

Fact is, the Phils looked pathetic in the games against Washington and Houston.

The offense folded in the World Series against the Yankees too.

Charlie was about as frustrated last night as I’ve ever seen him. We have emboldened the Braves by this kind of play…..

Will Howard reach 30 hrs?
Will Utley get to 20?
Will Ibanez get to 20?
Will Worth get to 25?

Stupid questions at the start of the season right?

Realistically folks, don’t you believe as I do that the Phils need to head into the 5th inning with at least a 6-2 lead? And more runs on the way?

This is too much – I am pondering my Post season invoice

@Bob. I am singing very loud. i am a man of faith (LOL) no really I am.

Lets see some fire tonight!!! If Chase is such a quick heal, he should be batting great soon. It took J-roll 4-6 weeks to start doing anything offensively. He is now good for at least one or two good bats per game. Its ridiculous when we are all just begging for one good bat or inning out of our guys in each of the last 3-5 games.

I got worried a week ago when I was at the twins game watching Dan Haren absolutely get creamed by the twins offense. I looked at the score of the phillies game and it was 1-0. You know what I was thinking then, and here we are it is till happening. Barely any runs…It feels like June again for some games, that is for sure. At least Werth got a Homer last night and Yimmy the night before. We didn’t see that much in June

the reverse choke?? mets got caught in 07 when they said during at bad stretch sometime late 1st half/after all-star game”we’re so good that sometimes we get bored” phils look down on their opps. and once again they got what they deserved.

Tough spot for Brown to be in last night. Talk about pressure placed on his shoulders. At some point in his career, however, we’re gonna see him end games like that with some blasts.

These have been some incredibly frustrating games for the Phils. I hope they can pull it together they have been in High Pressure situations plenty of time of the past 3 years. Hopefully experience and perseverance pays off if any group can it should be these guys here. The Rockies are starting to scare me I always said dont count them out the talent is there.

So this series our starters have gone:
7 IP, 1 run
7 IP, 2 runs
7 IP, 3 runs

And we couldn’t even win one of those games. Very pathetic.

I just need a win Chuck to justify dipping into my pockets one more time.

Anyone going down today?

I’m sure glad we fired Milt Thompson.

Every time Shane Victorino swings wildly at the first pitch he should be fined $1000. I’m sick of it.

And the Ben Fran play was STOO-PID. What made it worse was that it came the night after the bonehead mistake by Werth.

Memo to Phillies baserunners: Watch and learn!!

Yet we swept the Astros in Houston earlier. We are now 3-3 vs the second worse club in the NL.

What are the chances of seeing Atlanta drop three in a row again, while the Phillies are playing a 4-A team at home? This was a backbreaker. We’re right back to where we were in May, with the offense a lifeless incompetent mess, and it starts at the top — i.e., with Rollins.

Either he or Victorino has got to go next year. They’re just too similar, in both strengths and vulnerabilities: they both have good speed on the basepaths, pop at the plate, and they’re both above-average in the field. But their batting averages are mediocre and on-base percentages are appalling. Having one of them is useful, but we need a traditional plate-setter at the top of the lineup. Then again, what good is that if the middle of the lineup is so hot-and-cold?

I’m thinking the primary changes we will see are:
Werth gone, Brown starting in RF –
Lidge gone (his arm will fall off) -

Anything else your guess is as good as mine.

How about a version of Utley that we fell in love with.
We will see an average Ryan Howard (no more superstar, even if its in his own mind).
Hopefully we’ll see Vic back to his .290 days.
We’ll probably see an older Ibanez in right, no Ben Francisco, no Romero –
Another 130-135 games out of Poly and
a Chooch that will hit .250 or so.

Lidge won’t be gone….AND….he’s been pitching well lately.

Romero? Good-bye.

Utley and Howard are not major concerns. Both will be fine.

Vic??? Who knows???

Ibanez will be here but that’s ok if Brown is that infusion of youth that the team needs.

I hate to see Werth go…but I agree that he probably does.

I’ll take 135 games from Polly hitting .315.

Chooch. What’s not to like looking at next year?? He’s like the backbone of this team.

Brad Lidge for the month of August (so far!) has an ERA of 0.00
No way to improve that.

Its the sheer innovation they have in finding new areas in which to screw up… I mean, baserunning now? Seriously, guys? Do they have meetings before a series and discuss which fundamental part of baseball they will ignore? I’m not “Its not their year” guy, but things like that make you wonder just who in the hell you’re watching out there.

This isn’t the LLWS, right? These are grown men who’ve been running base paths since they were preteens? Okay, just checking. Because… wow.

Fire GG! Hire Richie “Call Me Dick” Allen.

EVERYBODY SETTLE DOWN. THE TEAM IS FINE! Not good losing to a team that is 10+ under .500 but these guys can and will hit.
And when they do they could get on a massive run that will end on broad street in late october on floats again.
GET A GRIP GUYS!

Just because Jayson Werth doesn’t want to talk about his family in an inteview….and has said that he’s a private person…..he’s now a jerk???

I don’t get it.

They, meaning the Phils.

Precisely why Steve Carlton never talked to the media…because they are agenda driven and they can’t be trusted. Some people have labeled Steve Carlton a jerk and I never got that either. He returns to the park for almost every alumni occasion the Phillies have and he usually comes up to the booth to chat with our 2 nitwit announcers. I don’t blame Werth for not wanting to talk about his personal life. And frankly, we don’t care anyway. We just want him to play solid baseball.

@Biz, we were even as far as games, with a VERY slight lead in the winning percentage, true, HOWEVER, the Phillies lost again, and the Giants didnt play, we are now 1/2 game back. So in other words, we were tied with the Giants, now…Not so much.