2015 Season

And with pitchers and catchers holding their first workout today, let the games begin.


Our year naturally begins with quotes by Hamels on how he'd like to be traded.

Personally I'd rather hear how they're going to try some of the younger players but instead we're getting the old "Ryan Howard is our 1st baseman".


The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over hoping for better results.

+our new third basemen is fat is all i've heard so far, and that their pitching staff is garbage. i think the staff is OK, not great but Ok, the bullpen is a big question mark, but if our offense can hit around their career averages we should be able to score enough runs to help them out

Pablo? I thought I heard he was actually in good shape this year. I don't think it matters when he's slugging away. I'd be more concerned about Hanley in the OF - that's a lot of running for someone who is known for being lazy.

I think having a pitching staff of stars is overrated - we had 4 aces and did nothing.

It would behoove us to hold on to Hamels until July at this point. As teams start salivating for the playoffs they'll be more likely to pay more.

No, he reported with a big ass gut

Ez wrote:

No, he reported with a big ass gut

to me, as long as he hits and gets the balls that are reasonbly within his range I'll be happy. hopefully Xander can move to his right to cover some of them, the sox have a lot of ground ball type pitchers and having a solid infield is gonna be a key for them.

Ez wrote:

No, he reported with a big ass gut

that's pretty normal for him - I think he goes from fat to fatter - I thought he was just fat

still not too bad. I remember his performance from I think their last WS - he was smacking HR's left and right.

He saw snow for the first time this year - I bet he's already sick of it

just ordered my first game tickets (yes,I will still go and see them).

I ordered field level since that's what I like and now my mother is disappointed because I didn't get hall of fame club (I got free tickets for that last year and now she is spoiled by the "special" seats. She loved that it has its own restaurant and food and bathrooms

He's tired of answering the trade questions so Cliff Lee used a magic 8 ball for his press conference.  That guy just likes to have fun.  I'd love to see the rest of them pass it around and make it a joke so the reporters stop asking the stupid questions.

Boston can still use some pitching

give us all your top prospects

It's nice seeing the boys back in action. Right now they are all singing the party line - they love it here and they don't have to suck.

blondie wrote:

pretty much especially a playoff baseball game

I don't remember

blondie wrote:

I don't remember

we were thisclose to beating the Yankees before a game tying homer in the 9th with 2 outs We tied but I guess that's slightly better than losing.

Ryan Howard is batting 1.000 with the first RBI of the season

undefeated after two games

Cliff pitches tomorrow - Since I'll most likely be home naturally I don't see where that game is televised

Hunter pence may have broken his arm

Hit by a pitch. That sucks, he's always fun to watch.

one of our 3450 outfielders rusney castillo has the dreaded oblique strain. he could out for weeks, even months. they just signed him in august to a 72 million contract.

good thing you have back up options

Sooooo, Cliff Lee seems hurt again. It's a shame - if he needs surgery it could be the end of his career.

The Phillies are becoming quite good at putting an end to pitchers' useful lives

blondie wrote:

good thing you have back up options

we could field a second team with just outfielders right now. 28 days til the home opener at fenway, they are spreading black sand on the snow in attempts to melt it down and not destroy the field.


i was snowblowing my driveway for 3 hours friday night just so my wife could get her car in.. i have about 4 feet of snow at the cape right now, my full sized dogs were having trouble getting through it

I suppose they will just vacuum up the sand when they're done?

most of the snow here is gone - I'm left with a 1/2 snow/ice hybrid in the shady sections of the yard. The rest is a really cold swamp.

I may another problem at the end of the driveway - the street was bad and rutted before but now that the snow is almost gone, it looks like it took a couple of inches of blacktop with it. I may need to buy a 4 wheel drive just to get in the driveway I may try to locate a number to call the Twp to see if they'll come out to look at it - I'm afraid it could turn into a sink hole.

blondie wrote:

I suppose they will just vacuum up the sand when they're done?  

most of the snow here is gone - I'm left with a 1/2 snow/ice hybrid in the shady sections of the yard.  The rest is a really cold swamp.  

I may another problem at the end of the driveway - the street was bad and rutted before but now that the snow is almost gone, it looks like it took a couple of inches of blacktop with it.  I may need to buy a 4 wheel drive just to get in the driveway  I may try to locate a number to call the Twp to see if they'll come out to look at it - I'm afraid it could turn into a sink hole.  

or put some snow on the field to help it disappear.


the roads around here are trashed, and it's gonna get worse now with the thaw freeze cycle that we will have for the next couple of weeks. there are frost heaves in roads 2 feet high, and when they thaw the road is just gonna fall apart

here too. I thought it was worse last year but to hear people complain, maybe not

My development has needed to be done for years - PSE&G tore it up when they upgraded the gas lines and it was bad before that. They haven't even done any patch jobs unless an entire car falls through it.

just thought this was funny

blondie wrote:

Sooooo, Cliff Lee seems hurt again.       It's a shame - if he needs surgery it could be the end of his career.

The Phillies are becoming quite good at putting an end to pitchers' useful lives

torn flexor tendon

he's going to try to pitch through it but I think we can just about say that Clifton's time in a Phils uniform has come to an end. The only bright spot is that his 2016 $27.5 million/$12.5 million/buyout option becomes void.

blondie wrote:

just thought this was funny

we're killing the Tigers with singles

we've scored more runs this last inning than in any complete game this season

not that it matters much but we are down to TWO starting pitchers already

elbow
hamstring
back

soon

10 days!

doesnt look like the Tampa Rays are goiing to get a new stadium


how does the Montreal Rays sound

It would be a closer trip for Boston

ExpletiveDeleted wrote:

doesnt look like the Tampa Rays are goiing to get a new stadium


how does the Montreal Rays sound

like the Expos


in other news, we are getting worse the closer the season gets

Hopefully that expands into the first 3 games of the season

I'm sure it will. Even Hamels pretty much loses his first game every season.

Yea, but Bucholz is the opening day starter, so I think they cancel each other out

then I guess the tie goes to.....the team with an offense

I'm going to paraphrase a quote from our GM: (re: Sizemore) He hasn't performed this spring and others have done better but for me, he's on our roster.


of course he is, we're really going for that #1 pick

the two games in Montreal this weekend between the Jays & Reds are sold out

so the Montreal Ex-Rays might be eh!

I hate that they started playing games outside of regular stadiums.

next Monday one of our team's quest to go 162-0 will be dashed

hopefully it will be warmer than it is here, or there will be 25 hamstring pulls and a couple of obliques thrown in

our latest projection is for at least 100 losses

its hard to tell how bad they really are since we are still playing non-roster invites pretty regularly

naturally as I typed that Utley sent a ball over the fence for a 3 run lead in the first

and Howard doubles right behind him

We still want Cole, make it happen Blondie

I know he needs to go - I'd hate to see him wasted here

I think he goes in July - teams are more desperate by then; we'll get more for him

blondie wrote:

I know he needs to go - I'd hate to see him wasted here

I think he goes in July - teams are more desperate by then; we'll get more for him

but if you trade him now, it will be much easier to reach the 100 losses, he may win some games for you and make that endeavor more difficult

the good news is that we never score any runs behind him so most of his starts are losses

1-0 losses but losses nonetheless