“You know, like that bubblegum, that’s not old school… that’s good school”

“stay classy” will go out of style in the year 2008

Really, will H.? Seriously?

Which will also expire around early 2009…thankfully.

I could do better than that, and I’m dead.

Hey Jordan,
The KC Royals can always use some fans. Go root for them!

Did Dominic Brown change his name to Domino? Is he being sponsored by that brown sugar?!? Geez the kids amazing already!!

clearly jordan is another commenter just trying to make people mad. No one over the age of 17 talks (types) like that.

I vote for Domino Brown being his new nickname, cause he sweet like broooooowwwwwn shugah.

Not that I’m on Jordan’s side, but I just came up with about 15 nicknames for Mike Moustakas too …

I like you, Greenman. You think like a pro.

This Domino Brown Sugar has so much potential…I smell Domino Sugar promotion nights at CBP, his at-bat song being “Brown Sugar” by the Stones…if only Bocock was a regular on the big squad…free dildos for all!

No, because they still scored 6 runs.

Run AVG when you make a thread is 0.01.

I don’t know what y’all be hollerin at but when thems Phillas lost ’cause Doc be blown up in that inning, I kicked my dog. Hard.

Keep making them Chris. When they go on a 1,000,000 game winning streak and win the Superbowl all the luck would have came from your game threads.

@ adam eaton your a fag knee grow

So now we have established Charlie Manuel cannot sit down and chew gum, let alone walk and chew gum.

Totally off topic here, but can someone help me out with the order of the Iron Pigs rotation? I can’t seem to find it. The Pigs are here in Indy this week and I was trying to figure out their starters so I could determine what games I was going to go to.

And also, Jordan is a fucking dumbass.

I want the trade deadline to end, the stupid rumors are just annoyinh at this point. I just heard Ibanez+Cash to Seattle for prospects to give to Texas for Lee.

While we’re at it we should throw in Werth for Ichiro and then a Dobbs/Baez/Blanton package to Houston for Oswalt.

Funny you mention ’cause apparently, the team has yet to master the art of providing offense to Halladay and Hamels as well.

There just has to be a hex on this season. There’s gotta be a reason why all this talent is just not performing. Halladay isn’t looking much like the best pitcher in baseball and Werth….well, I just don’t know what to say about him. Guess he’s just feeling the pressure of an impending trade??

Maybe Ruben has something magical up his sleeve? Maybe they all got in the hot tub time machine and went back to 1979???

Halladay *WAS* looking like the best pitcher in baseball.

Coming into last night, he was third in the majors in ERA at 2.19.

I probably shouldn’t mention I plan on naming my kid Domino Brown…

Naming my kid Bake McBride

One a y’all better come over here and get ya dawg off ma lawn.

Bring a wheelbarrow. He’s about a 100 lbs.

If the Phillies win the world series this year, I will honestly name my kid Danys. No joke.

Careful Scott. I saw Enrique Iglesias on some morning show (this is what happens when you don’t have a radio & all you want is the weather). They were reminding him that he said if Spain won the World Cup he’d water ski naked in Biscayne Bay. And oooh – NOW, he takes it back. He was all kinds of sorry he’d ever said it.

Phils – 2010 World Champions of 3rd Place in the NL East.

Be proud my friends.

Lynnie: Hm, old world Scots? Nice. The only glitch could be if you have a girl.

Lynnie: …. or GIRLS, as in several in a row. Hm.

How about simple GINA? Sheesh.

Greg has a favorite “news” article that was in the NY POST?! Wow. News. You sure? The mind reels. I promise you guys, Greg didn’t complete 8th grade.

Phan, I’m aware of the consequences, but I have so little faith in them winning the WS this year that it’s a risk I’m completely willing to take. If they somehow are able to come back and win a world series, I will happily name my first born Danys.

if her plate music was anything i’d be a very impressed parent at a tball game

will: I might or might not be leaning toward “Twat Thon”.

Stuck Phan: In that case, I’d simply forego the “MacLynnie” and use “NicLynnie” instead.

Well, ScottGraham, Jason Donald hit the ball that the umpire called safe at first thus breaking up that kid’s no hitter when he actually deserved one….so yeah, he’s got that goin’ for him.

Jordan, I am a big fan, sir.

I don’t come here to read someone hoping a ballplayer and father of two is killed in a car accident, so I guess we’re even, huh, Jordan? And I really don’t think that qualifies as “talking about baseball”, anyway.

jordan, you’re trying too hard

lynnie, twat thon works for me. although i thought a twat thon was the DNC picking up phones to take donations for the next election.

Now that would be kind of funny.

@Jordan… please, just go away. It’s getting really lame, really fast.

Hi Jordan. I’m other mens’ penises. I believe you know me very well.

are you guys done jerking off to each others comments yet?

swift,

you know whats really lame? twitter. did you really link your twitter page through your name? no one gives a shit what you tweet or twat or whatever the fuck you call it. oh and having a nickname like swift for all of your internet buddies is pretty fucking lame too. i bet you have your girlfriend call you swift when you’re talking dirty in bed. oh wait….you probably don’t have a girlfriend. send out a tweet, maybe one of your dumbass followers will get you laid.

Lots of love here this afternoon.

Jordan, *I* don’t link my Twitter! I link my NEW BLOG THAT’S UPDATED DAILY!

http://paviliondeck.com

*cheesy smile*

Who’s up for coffee enemas and a slip and slide? Who’s with me?

Chris bring the open game thread back, I’m bored. I think yesterday’s loss kind of proved we suck either way,

J-Roll has certainly played his caliber of defense and I’m confident his bat will come around.

So would batting Ruiz 2nd, 3rd, 5th, or 6th be a plausible idea?

hey remember when shane had that chin hair half goatee with the halfstache on top? i’m pretty sure that’s when we used to win. this evil goatee has got to go.

Jayson Werthless: Rally killer

100!

Damn Comcast and their faulty on screen menu… I didn’t realize the game started already…

What team are the Cardinals playing tonight?

I love when this team plays in St. Louis

well there goes the no hitter

I’m not expecting a great start from KK, so we’ll to keep the offense going.

Re: #25: Chris – your posting of a game day thread was never an issue. Please post to your heart’s content.

However don’t even think of photoshopping any pitcher’s pix. The jinx is still in effect.

The Phillies record when you don’t post a game day thread has no bearing on the jinx.

The jinx is only relevent with regards to the win – loss record of photoshopped pix.

There may be a way to appease the jinx but it requires a live chicken, and a few other assorted essentials I am uncertain of.

Re: #27: Will H. – Don’t tread where you know not of what you speak. There are forces at work here greater than mere man can fathom. The jinx has made itself known, to ignore it is foolhardy. To ridicule it, is to do so at one’s own peril.

Solo shot imminent.

Jayson. Werthles.

dude needs to stop smokin weed for at least 3 weeks

It’s as if Jayson doesn’t want to be on base. He accidentally gets on and then gets picked off to make up for it.

L.A. hates Fred Bird

Did I somehow turn on the gay version broadcast? Wheels and TMac keeps talking about poo-holes. Don’t get me wrong, I like it, just a little confused.

Jayson’s gonna be pissed that K2 is showing him up like that. WTF is this taking pitches crap.

I just wanna go on record and say that Chooch is the best Phillie. If you disagree you are wrong.

nah id call that a fortunate run only because it was a hit. a groundout RBI is a garbage run. although dont mistake garbage for bad.. i’ll take 9 garabe runs a night

Is it my radio, or does it sound like there’s a wind storm in the baseball capitol of the world?

Chooch is the best Phillie by far

hey!! Jayson didn’t fuck up………..he may still have some trade value left

In the bottom of the fifth, the Cardinals will have two leadoff hitters, which will allow more players on base for Albert Pujols!

Dear Uncle Cholly,

Is it hitting season yet?

If it isn’t, can we make it such, please?

what the hell? did we finally decide to start hitting tonight?

What trade rumors is LA talking about? And what’s he saying?

Did anyone tell Ryan they were in St. Louis? He should have 8 HRs by now.

MoyerIsMyHero, he’s basically saying unless you can get another Halladay, why trade for a 5th starter, since nobody out there is better than Kendrick. Basically, “if they can’t hit, we don’t need them”

Also, Raul looks good in that 3 hole.

Someone let Shane know he does not have to swing at every low and away changeup. It’s not a fastball every time Shane.

Thanks Eric, I’ll let him know. But what if it IS a fastball every time? What then?

willH – how dare those fans not pay money to go see Hawksworth v. Kendrick. Seriously, these kinda matchups make me want to cancel my cable package. Awful.

Blake Hawksworth is still a top 10 baseball name.

Eric, it’s the 2 time defending NL Champs against the highly touted championship contender Cardinals. That place should be PACKED and it should be a playoff atmosphere regardless of pitchers. Plenty of ballparks sell out for two mooks pitching.

who remembers that 3 run lead

Greatest player in our great sport

WTF this place is a little league park. What a joke.

Eric, I completely understand the risks of calling up Brown. But if Ibanez isn’t producing, is it better to let him not produce or take the risk of Brown not producing?

Eventually you are going to want Brown to play in the majors. Whenever that is, he could go 5 for 50. What’s the difference between doing it now and doing it next season?

fucking garbage team.

KENDRICK STOP BEING LIKE HALLADAY

Egads

No pitching. Kendrick sucks cock tonight

BONK

Hey Charlie–come get him, you are 3 batters too late

Fuck you KK

are you physically kidding me?

Anyone know why the Phils pitched to Pujols with an open base when he already hit a hard one off of KK?

DFA someone, bring up Carcillo

Wondering how many ways we can lose? Well show you.

I blame T-Mac for talking all that 5th inning bullshit at the top of the inning…….he’s bad mojo

LMAO!!!

LOL, yeah T-Mac’s new name = B-MOJ

No Eric, I meant he’ll be called up after they’re already out of contention – just so he can get some major league ABs before next season. If anyone realistically thinks Domino Brown is going to change the fortune of this team they’re sadly mistaken. The problems go well beyond needing a bat, but they are subtle problems. It’s the little things that this team ISN’T doing this year that they have done the last 2 or 3 years: baserunning blunders, too much patience at the plate, not enough patience at the plate other times. Obviously, injuries have played a factor as well, but that’s part of the game.

I got your fucking idiot hangin……..why don’t you come and school it jit bag

Great game……losers! Lmao

T-Mac is too busy sucking Ruben’s knot to know what’s going on

For the record, my slip n slide is fueled by K-Y and titties, not enemas

Ahhhh…Kyle Kendrick’s night is complete. THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!

KY and titties…lots of pictures of titties. Got it.

over. done. No fucking pitching

The key to beating phillies is sending out kids who dont have homeruns…clearly

The Phillies use Lifebuoy…

Holy. Fuckaroni. Again.

I don’t know whats worse. Losing your crack rocks to your younger brother, or the situation the Phillies are in.

Ok, is this some type of reverse promotional giveaway where the Phillies give all the opposing batters a homerun? Whatever it is, it’s making my head hurt real bad.

Thanks for the homerun derby. I missed it last weekend!!!

Eric, you’re always first to correct people when they criticize others, but you make good work of criticizing just about everyone. silly

I love coming on here – listening to you girls crying about another beat down. F’in LOSERS!!!!

Nobody biting on the Baker Bowl reference?

*gasps* I just made a blog dudes!!!!! what a better time to check it when the phils are losing

eric i keep a chart, we’re up to 2.5

I’ve given up on this team.

Who’s ready to punch Victorino in the face?

I don’t even know why i’m wasting even a fucking second to even half-follow this piece of shit game.

This team doesn’t even deserve to be above .500 and certainly doesn’t deserve to be in 3rd place.

They belong in the basement, and not to even be given a glimpse of sunlight.

Just leave em locked down there for a while, until they beg and plead to come out of it for air!

REBUILDING PROCESS HERE WE GO!!!!!

Victorino has one serious issue and I’m surprised that no one in the media has said anything about it yet. No, I’m not talking about his horrid shirts. I’m talking about him deciding that he’s a 4 hole hitter and swinging for the damned fences all the time. I mean, come on, Shane. We all see how many HR’s you have, but you’re not getting paid to hit COT-DAMN home runs little man! You’re paid to hit line drives and bloops. Hell, take a pitch. Just because Cholly puts you in the lead off spot doesn’t mean you have to go all Jimmy Rollins on us (sidebar-I think Jimmy has come a long way from that crap even though he swings at the first pitch like his name is Randall Simon.(Sub-Side Bar-Anyone remember how Nunez used to ALWAYS take the first pitch…..?)

I’ve never seen a team ground out so much.

We are a bad team right now but these message boards are ugly…where have my fun-loving Fightins commenters gone? We will come out of this…if its too late for this year then so be it but any comment about rebuilding is pretty hilarious. Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, and Roy Halladay would probably disagree. I bet Dom Brown would too.

bigmiles take 45 mins and read all 244 comments, we’re still here.

And Halladay probably already regrets coming here, Cole can’t wait for his contract to be up, Chase probably thinks some West Coast team like the Padres or Giants looks good right now, and Ryan Howard probably would like to DH for the Red Sox or Yankees.

And Joe FAT FUCK is pretty much a penciled in loss already… and Moyer has to face Carpenter!

I predicted the Cards sweeping us, and i’m sticking to it.

Even Cole won’t be able to save us

13 hits and 4 runs confuses your fanbase

9th inning. We’re good for 2 or 3 solo shots here…..

@CUT- I laugh. But not out loud.

So I ate a fortune cookie, and i found a neat little advice
“If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win”

Bullshit, I did that and shit still happens

Chase, Ruiz, Polanco and even Rollins are all busting it when out there. Sure they’ve all suffered a slump this year but much of the problems they’ve had can be attributed to injuries. Howard has been pretty steady all year and has been the most productive Phillie offensively. Ibanez, Victorino and Werth have been so inconsistent it’s maddening, and all I have to do is watch them. I can only imagine how Charlie feels.

L.A. is great to listen to and as an explayer and coach he can say a lot and can back it up without losing clubhouse cred. Let a talking head try that and he won’t get anywhere with the players.

The people waving white flags on this board drive me crazy. The Phils aren’t out of this season by a long shot. Of course they’re playing like shit, but it is JULY. The Phils aren’t 18 games out of first. They’re 5.5 games out of first. They’ve been in holes this deep in September and still made the playoffs. Even in 2008, when they won the WS, they were 3.5 games out of first in mid-September.

I don’t know if you quitters were always frontrunners, or if winning has just made you soft. It doesn’t much matter. Either way, you seem to have forgotten that winning in a competitive division like the East, and winning the NL pennant, isn’t exactly an easy task. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, especially with this baseball team. And after all, the last team to win three NL pennants in a row came 60 years ago! Did you think this would be easy? That it was a birthright? A given? Because it’s not! It’s a roller coaster, and instead of holding on, you’re just jumping off!

Anyway, all of this talk of surrendering has just about driven me nuts. The baseball season is long, and lots of things can change very quickly in the last 2 1/2 months of the season. Moreover, it wouldn’t be stunning if they didn’t win the division or the pennant. If that’s the Phils fate, you just have to hope that they’ll take that one step back just to take two steps forward. Until they’re definitely out of the face, however, try to keep the faith instead of abandoning the team, especially with almost half of the season to go.

I realize that this season reminds lots of people of 1979. I just wonder if this many Philly fans in 1979 had such little faith.

I’ve got to side with Mike P on this one. Kind of. I said it the other day-I’ve emotionally detached myself from what happens from here on out. I’m still rooting for them and I still think they could pull some serious rabbit out before it’s all said and done, but for me to try and say that I’m not upset from what has happened this season is like sitting on my nuts. Kind off.

@ Dubee

I think that was all me. I didn’t understand why they’d bring Kendrick into that Moyer-meltdown game at the time, either. The game was already a disaster. Don’t waste a starter pitching in relief. It screws up their rhythm, and it showed tonight in Kendrick’s performance. This is why they had Figgy.

For the record, I think that DFAing Figgy was the worst decision that Amaro has made all year. He’s the one true multi-inning long man they had, and that’s a handy thing when you have a pitcher like Moyer, who is going to have a 3 IP clunker every now and then.

Anyway, stop waving the white flag, thefightins.com nation! Don’t be a bunch of Mets fans, giving up on a team when things aren’t going so well in July! Show some guts!

@PhillyPhaninChi

I think that’s a totally fair approach. There’s nothing wrong with booing them. There’s nothing wrong with saying that they’re driving you nuts. But declaring that you’ve given up on the team in July, when they’re only 5.5 games out of the division lead, is a pure and unquestionable sign of a gutless frontrunner.

Hey, hey. Shane is drawing the ire of the phans but remember; this is the guy who dove into the third row for a foul ball in the Astrodome….so um, we knew what we were getting. Also, he happens to be the Phillies best hitter for the last two years including a demolishing 13 RBI in the ’08 post season for a Phillies’ record.

That being said, It’s perfectly alright to boo this team…on nights like tonight..which seem to be common anymore.

@ TID

I have to disagree on one thing with that post. Previous years aside, they are definitely not an “overachieving .500″ team. If anything we’re underachieving by a long shot. We don’t have anyone out on the field who is “Overachieving” at this point. The list of Unders, however, is long. Victorino, Werth, Blanton and Ibanez are all underachieving big time. (I’m not including Baez, Herndon, Contreras, Madson or Lidge, because there were no expectations for them or they’re doing just what most of us thought they would.)

Unfortunately I think that negative attitude that you speak of is a by-product of Shane and Werth. I’m not including Ibanez in this one because as much as he sucks ass right now, he’s very professional. Shane and Werth aren’t carry over’s from the Rollins-Utley-Hamels-Howard group. They really aren’t used to this level of bad baseball with the Phil’s.

With that being said, I think that If we can get Utley back to play enforcer again, and we get rid of a sourpuss we’ll be okay.

All in all, I think this is good for this team in the long run and I plan on being a fan long after this season is over.

“Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss. “

@ will.H

I wasn’t checking the site for most of the day, but I caught up on your epic commenting during the game. Well done, man. It’s nice to have good company in countering the bandwagon complex that’s ravaging our fan base.