Gameday: Phillies (54-62) vs. Brewers (52-64)
Posted by Pat Gallen, Thu, August 16, 2012 07:49 PM | Comments: 52
2012 Gameday, Posts
Philadelphia Phillies (54-62) at Milwaukee Brewers (52-64)
Cliff Lee (2-7, 3.85) vs. Marco Estrada (0-5, 4.36)
TIME: 8:10, Miller Park
TV: CSN
Weather: Partly Cloudy, 70
Media: Twitter and Facebook
It’s own to beer town for the Phillies, but all the talk today has been about what happened yesterday in Miami.
On a routine grounder to shortstop, Jimmy Rollins completely dogged it and was thrown out by 20 feet. It’s one of the lapses in judgement we’ve seen from Rollins over his tenure here in Philly. It did not go unnoticed as fans went at him on twitter and gave him the business he probably deserved. Do you think he deserved it?
How about we get Cliff Lee his 3rd win of the year? How many will he end up with?
Lineup: Rollins SS, Pierre LF, Utley 2B, Howard 1B, Brown RF, Nix CF, Frandsen 3B, Kratz C, Lee P
GAMEDAY BEER: Yuengling Lager
You know it, and you know it well. You call for it simply by saying “I’ll have a lager.” It’s a staple of the Philadelphia region and really never lets you down. From time to time I’ll order one if a beer list isn’t tickling my fancy. It’s just there. It never wows you. It’s like the Juan Pierre of beers. He won’t blow you away, doesn’t hit for power, but always gives a decent showing when you need him. -Pat Gallen
GO PHILLIES!
Posts: 0 Ken Bland
I am told by the magic of advertising that the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup.
Lemme translate. The best part of the game post being up these days, is the out of town scoreboard. Dateline, Pittsburgh….
“Time to hit the O portion of the alphabet, and write a belated Ode to Sterling Joe Blanton.
Sterling Joe possesses in his image representation of one of my proudest off season thought processes. Way, way, away back in 2011, roundabouts February, you might recall a collection of starting pitchers that coupled with a pre injured Chase Utley, were supposed to parlay a magnificent season ending with a parade down Broad Street.
In scientifically, logically, and uniquely evaluating the upcoming 2011 season, with truly far less hallucination than the average fan, to this day, I remember speculating that Sterling could win 18 games.
Oh, brother.
What’s the proudest level of pride one can feel for that gem of a sense.
Not that Sterling didn’t have his moments. “Swing and a long drive”, crowed Harry during the Fall Classic of Ott8. What a drive out of the Bank it was. And Joe threw a seemingly (well, at the time) valuble CG shutout the day after the Phils 15-13 loss in the ATL this year. 88 pitches, no less.
Last year, when he offered signs of 18 game potential to the mentally incompetent, Joe went through a string of first inning troubles. The string was so long, Joe’s streak was said to have more string than The Mummers. Then he bravely pitched through elbow troubles.
This year, patience exited stage left on Joe. He threw some very good starts, but he gave up more homers than anyone who had the misfortune to face me back in wiffle ball days. Marketing types bragged on Joe’s league leading K to BB ratio. Wonderful. His ERA was cinquo. In any language, that el suckos.
Today, still a relative newbie in Dodger blue, The Sterling One had a line that would no doubt equal Mike Martinez if they tried his hand at pitching. 4.1 innings, 7 hits, 3 of which were dingers TO THE FREAKING PIRATES!, 8 runs, every one of ‘em earned. 3 walks, and 3 K’s, if you are ratioing at home. Thank the Lord above Vin Scully don’t do road games no mas, or he’d have died of a heart attack watching that there stellaracity.
But it was all fun watching him. Well, not all. A fraction of it was, at least. But the fun is what I’ll mostly remember. SSSSoooo long, Joe. And thanks for the fun you provided.”
Posted: 08:05 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 3566 Lefty
Do you by chance write Obit’s for a living? You’d be good at it. :-)
Posted: 08:08 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 TheDipsy
If I were Charlie I woulda stuck my foot so far up Jimmy’s ass yesterday it would came out his mouth. “I talked to Jimmy about it and he seemed fine” Charlie said. Of course HE seemed fine. Charlie IS too close to these guys. It worked for awhile and, like all approaches, it eventually gets stale. God, what I would gave given to see what Billy Martin would have done. Charlie’s handling of the situation is just unacceptable, especially when you have a potential mutt problem in Dom Brown. If Jimmy can get away with it…….
The Dipsy
Posted: 08:13 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
WTF???
Posted: 08:25 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
Re JRoll: Yeah, this isn’t exactly the first time Jimmy has failed to run out a pop-up. I remember a couple of years ago, the Charlie Manuel bobblehead commercial made a joke about that.
Posted: 08:27 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
Here’s the commercial. Sound stinks so you have to turn it way up, but it’s hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEXI_3GdBLQ
Posted: 08:30 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Wow that was almost too the moon.
so much for dealing lee in the off season.
Another anchor.
@ Dipsy.
As far as I am concerned I would hire a drill instructor from Parris Island to manage the rest of the year.
I wouldnt even care if hes ever seen a baseball game in his life.
Charlies coddling of the marquee players has been a big part of this.
Buit thats who he is. And with a young up and coming team it was great.
But with an old crippled fading over paid team.
It just makes you want nautious.
Posted: 08:28 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Ken Bland
Yous guys are too hard on Jimmy.
I predict he hits for the cycle tonight.
A flyball, a popup, a groundout, and a strikeout.
Teach you guys a lesson.
Gelb tweeted to see who could name the 6 players who have started in CF for the club this year.
I did my civic duty, and corrected him. It’s 5 players, plus my mainest man, Mike Martinez.
Posted: 08:32 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
Let’s see if Lee can undo the damage he’s already done.
Posted: 08:41 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Nice steal!
Posted: 08:58 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
This is what motivation will do to a player?
OK then, Jimmy can you play like this more often
Posted: 09:00 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
It’s time Andrew!
Posted: 09:01 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
HAHAHAHAHA!!! I’ll take a run any way I can get one!
Posted: 09:03 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
Me too Tracey – but now its Doms turn
Posted: 09:05 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
Oh good grief…
Posted: 09:23 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
OH BABY!!!!
Posted: 09:42 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 3566 Lefty
Do you think that next year they might let us just play the Brewers 162 times?
Posted: 09:49 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
162 games vs the Brewers?
Braun would hit over 600 in a single season.
No way!
And time for what Brooks?
Shots?
Posted: 10:19 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 364 Morris Buttermaker
The Brewers games have been the most entertaining games of the year.
Posted: 10:19 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Why cant the Phillies get a good announcer like Ueker?
I do enjoy Sarge.
But the rest of them stink on TV this year.
Even more than before.
But maybe I just notice more cause the team sucks this year.
Posted: 10:21 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 364 Morris Buttermaker
C’mom Tom. Get the Melky Cabrera batting title thing right. They will add 0-For’s to his at-bats to get him to the league minimum for at-bats. If he still has the highest average, he wins the title.
Posted: 10:32 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 psujoe
Lee is pitching really well tonight like the starters have in recent games. He’s not going anywhere. Just need 2 bull Pen arms to add to paps, Lindblum and the returning guns.
Posted: 11:02 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
oh, Lindbum –
Here it comes
Posted: 11:09 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
Windbum or Lindbum? Hmm.. hard to remember I do know there is a bum out there now
Posted: 11:12 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
What a formula for a screw up – how crazy is this
Posted: 11:13 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
(sigh) the bullpen strikes again.
Posted: 11:16 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 364 Morris Buttermaker
This Lindbum guy is a perfect addition to the Phillies bullpen.
Posted: 11:16 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
and there we go. obviously we just dont pay these guys enough money to do their jobs get 1 stinking out.. one stinking out… what a screw up
Posted: 11:16 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
And I’m thinking – he could walk the run in, there could be an error, an extra base hit to clear the bases or God forbid a GS – the Bum went for the high road!
Posted: 11:17 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
The good news. I have Corey Hart in fantasy.
The bad news is this team sucks and I am probably going to lose my Mets bet.
Even with the mets winning at a .200 percentage since the all star break.
How does Ruben Amaro go into 2013 employed?
Its really disgraceful and until hes gone.
T Mac and Wheels can wax poetic on these fossils and cripples nightly.
But in the end there is no shot.
Not with that dummy running the show.
Posted: 11:18 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Hope its the good stuff Brooks.
LOLOLOL
And Rollins is mentoring Brown in the dug out on the catch.
PLEASE
Keep him away from the young players.
Posted: 11:20 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
@Brooks: Well, if you’re going to go down, you might as well go down in flames.
Posted: 11:22 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
Lets show how much we give a * how about a 1 2 3 top of the 9th
Posted: 11:22 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Kyle
Charlie Manuel needs to be fired. Only a bumbling retard like him could screw up as much as he does with pitching and still have a job. Lee was rolling and they pull him on an error. Such BS
Posted: 11:22 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 364 Morris Buttermaker
Cliff Lee pitched well except for the 3 home runs. Lindblom pitched well except for all of the walks and the grandslam.
As you can see, I got the T-Mac app.
Posted: 11:23 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 psujoe
You guys think Mike Adams for 3/18 looks better? I do! Great starting rotation. Nail down 8 and 9 and you’ll win most!
Posted: 11:24 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 548 \"Big Ed\" Delahanty
Lindblom: “Ouch. Very ouch.”
Up to this point, it was looking like a win….oh well.
Posted: 11:25 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Brooks the Whiskey isnt working.
I need to move to something stronger.
Can you get me moonshine from West virginia?
Posted: 11:26 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
Gee, I can see the logic in using Wiggy in place of Nix – sure.
Posted: 11:26 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Loved how Wheeler said well in this ball park what do you expect.
The germans in the 1940s had nothing on the propaganda the Phillies TV broadcasts spew ngihtly.
Posted: 11:27 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
Perhaps after next week some scotch whisky from Scotland – smooth as silk Andrew
Posted: 11:28 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 2042 Tracey
Eh, Wiggy had a good day yesterday
Posted: 11:30 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Ok will have that on tap for the Mets series.
When I will be hanging on every pitch.
Posted: 11:30 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
good effort wiggy, good swing
Posted: 11:32 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Speaking of germans
Kratz up with the bases loaded!
Posted: 11:33 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 364 Morris Buttermaker
Well, there is some good news from tonight’s game. Bernie Brewer has a torn hamstring from running up and down them steps.
Posted: 11:35 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
They gave us a thril Brooksie.
But the Mets won and the Phillies lost.
Sad night in Waldorf.
Theres always tomorrow.
Posted: 11:35 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Andrew from Waldorf
Ivan Hernandez now has 4 wins.
Twice as many as Cliff.
Posted: 11:37 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 Cs
Ryan Braun uses drugs.
Posted: 11:53 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 0 psujoe
Time to maximize the teams return on non returning players. I love Pierre, but would place him on waivers. A bunch of teams want Wiggington as well. The farm has been improved quite a bit with the trades. Build on it. Get even more chips. Frandsen and Galvis will be fine as the utility guys next year.
Posted: 11:56 PM on August 16, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
Name the assets the Phils have in the OF then, name the asses..
More asses then assets for sure
Posted: 10:22 AM on August 17, 2012
Posts: 1996 Brooks
Really Psujoe? I guess when you really look at it, the combination of Nix, Mayberry, Brown and Juan Pierre, your best hitter is pretty much a non-impact player. He can get on base, move runners over (which is more than most on this team) but, he does not produce runs. None of them do.
I suppose some are still monitoring the Brown experiment, that’s fine. There are 44 games left in this season. As much as this site loves to believe that the Phils offense is doing OK, I submit to you one of the least productive OF lineups in the majors today. Look at these numbers for the active roster (now that Pence, who is still leading several offensive categories for the Phils and Vic are gone) –
748 atbats, 88 runs scored, 199 hits, 5 triples, 23 hrs and 64 rbi. The batting average for these 5 is at .266. This is for JP, Nix, Brown, Mayberry and lets toss Shierholtz in there (only 32 atbats, why not). If we shed JP, the ‘production’ we currently enjoy is more atrocious – 446 atbats, 47 runs scored, 106 hits, 27 doubles, 0 triples, 22 hrs and 43 rbi and a .238 batting average.
Look at it upside down, sideways, cross-eyed – it doesn’t matter. This outfield stinks the way the lineup stands. Right now, JP is the best (nee ONLY) offensive weapon the Phils have – to think about shedding him is just making the ship sink quicker.
Posted: 09:47 AM on August 17, 2012