Phillies Nation

hahaha fair enough, Lefty. Personally, to answer my own quesiton, I’d pick Cole. He’s only 26! I just wanted to know what everyone else thinks.

Roy will be pretty good at 37.
But yea Cole is now a stud and he is home grown. I have no problem if the Phillies give him a contract similar to what they gave Roy. I actually want that. And I am a guy who thinks Howards contract is 20% too high and wants Werth to walk at anything over 12 million a year.

I am thinking the phils have more money to play with then we are led to believe. Them getting Oswalt meaning 2 years in a row the Phillies got the #1 FA at the trading deadline and the howard contract. Make me believe thats possible. keep selling the place out guys. The fans make all this possible.

Keegan-

http://baseball.about.com/od/seasonstructur1/tp/playoffsformat.htm

the way cole has pitched this year I agree. He is the #2. Does any team have a third starter the quality of Oswalt? This is on historic proportions. If this team is hitting. Meaning at least 8 hits and 4 or more runs a game they are the team to beat in baseball.
Hamels even looks nasty this year where as last year he looked like a guy who should be on a beach in southern cal. Glad I am not the GM or coach because I had enough of him last year and would have sent him packing.

I would go R-L-R also, unless the team I am pitching against hit lefties a lot better than righties. By then its too late to shuffle any way. We are going with a three man rotation in the post season aren’t we? Please tell me we are.

Cole was not hitting that 94-95 last night. He actually threw two curves in a row to their catcher. He’s really starting to bust righties inside now. That’s usually the last hurdle for really good lefties to clear. He looks great. No doubt about it. Perhaps trying to get his pitch counts down will be next.

The Dipsy

Guys i hate to admit this,but i am a man of my word.I visited the “DAVID O’ BRIEN BLOG”today,only to go thru 550 or so comments,and guess what?Thats right nooooo BRAVOMAN!!!I have to say i was not surprized how negative they were about there team.I have been saying all along that they are fair weather fans,me living here now,i can tell you this first hand that they are front runners to the max!If you have nothing better to do go check it out,i promise you will get a good laugh!!!!!

Historically there have been a few really good pitching staffs, but no one can match this one right now.

Off the top of my head- The 86 Muts had three of four really good ones, 71 Orioles had 4 twenty game winners, and the 68 cardinals had a third guy who wasn’t too bad named Carlton.

I want pitchers in the post season if possible to go on regular rest. If that means Blanton starts a game 4 so be it.
now if you are facing elimination then then you do what you have to.
I think the Yanks got pretty lucky last year using the 3. they faced a very mediocre and still out of baseball Pedro Martinez 2 times. That wont be happening this year. If we just had this Cole last year I think we win that series.
The old man has shown in the past that he likes to try to keep the pitchers on reg rest in the post season and I really think its the right way to go. ou can go back and look historicly at pitchers going on short rest. The stats dont lie. Now an elimination game is something different. and obviously any game 7 is by definition an elimination game.

As usual, September belongs to our baseball team.

JAY…wait a second….

not too long ago you could go through any thread on this site and find LOTS of people that were ready to jump off the bandwagon.

And…it will happen again.

It’s just that classic “What have you done for me lately?” syndrome.

Drives me nuts.

This is pretty interesting. Check out the Phillies 7 day change….the best in baseball.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/ps_odds.php

Lefty, Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz easily tops a Halladay/Hamels/Oswalt. I love how a Phillie fan conveniently leaves off the best trio in the history of the game because they were Braves.

You know nothing fat, Phillie boy. I know you have to be fat because Philly is full of overweight thugs who don’t wash their butts.

Last I checked, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz aren’t part of the 2010 Braves.

bravo man, stink butt phillies fans? hahah

your team doesnt have one player who has seen the postseason, aside from overpaid derek lowe and lee.

no one shows up to your games…

we’ll see you in october, I’m almost positive your rotation won’t be maddux, smoltz, and the other guy. you know it’s 2010? not the 90′s…

and after the worst season of injuries ever, even worse then the mets last year, were still right on your tail. howard, utley, polanco, jimmy, shane, blanton, lidge, madson, our entire team is back now! thats the only reason you were in first place at 6:40 saturday night, and won’t be able to say that again until you get another maddux, smoltz, other guy.

get over the opening day heyward homerun, september is a little more important

Ok so this one is back at the dumbest MORON on the board (aka Bravoman). “Ok, y’all are throwing all this at me, but why are we in 1st place then? Why have we been since May?” Hmm, can we say DL? The Braves have who on the DL, the Old Fart Chipper Jones? The Phillies have had Howard, Polanco, Utley, Rollins, Ruiz, Scheider, Blanton, Happ (before the trade), Madson, Victorino and Lidge. Did I miss anyone? So EVERY position player except 2 have been on the DL this season, 1 of those sat out for several games with an injury, 4 pitchers have been on the DL? Hmm, so congratulations for being in first place (BARELY) against the Phillies bench/Minor league team. Wow I would be so proud if I were a Braves fan that I would throw it in someones face that the team can BARELY stay in first place, against the bench/minors of a division opponent, and now with 1 game lead, the only thing helping the Braves is an UNBELIEVEABLY EASY schedule (excluding the Phillies).

jeff and Check, you really must avoid FACTS, Bravoman doesnt like them. It is rather funny though, he goes fromhow the Braves “starting pitching is slightly better” to “Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz easily tops a Halladay/Hamels/Oswalt. I love how a Phillie fan conveniently leaves off the best trio in the history of the game because they were Braves.” LOL. So I guess when he realized the Phillies Starting Pitching was bolstered with Oswalt, and Hamels is pitching like 08 Hamels again, and Halladay is pitching like…HALLADAY, he needs to go back to the ’90. LOL. Pick a decade and argue moron. Arguing with him is like arguing with my 2 year old Daughter.

“One other question…Bravoman? LOL. Real masculine name. LOL. I seem to recall my wife turning on a bunch of chick flics on “Bravo” on TV everytime I leave the room. So you pick the same name as a gay TV channel? LOL. I will tell you when I am surprised.