yea. we’ve been F’d in the A enough by the umps. ’bout time we got a makeup call.

about fuckin time a call goes our way. and it sure looked to me like longoria had some experience with fists in dudes asses there. generally it’s reversed, i believe.

I heard somebody say they should put Moyer’s toilet seat in the hall of fame, just like the bloody sock from schilling.

It’s about time one bad call went in the Phillies favor. The universe is in order and Philly is going to have our first baseball championship since 1980. It’s a beautiful thing.

CAN YOU SAY INSTANT REPLAY ; HOW ABOUT 3 AGAME PER TEAM

At the moment of the tag the umpire’s eyes are looking at the base not at the point of the tag.

I was laughing when it happened thinking about all that Rollins has done for this team over the years and if they get this thing done, as it really seems they will, that shot will be one of defining moments of his career.. having some guy shoving a mitt half way up his ass.. so much for justice.

Phillies suck, they were lucky to get out of L.A… Ryan Coward sucks, Chase Buttley sucks, and Jimmy Ballins sucks. Hopefully the Rays will come back and win this Series, they are deserving of it, but most likely it will be handed to the Phillies (isnt that a female horse?) by the umps.

Maybe so, Im not a Rays fan, but they have one of the lowest payrolls in baseball, been dead last in thier division since they became a franchise. It would be nice to see the underdog win it for a change.

With the Phillies and Rays in the World Series, I’m extremely nuetral. But have to say this is one of the worst umpires series of any sort in years. Not only are the umps blowing the calls on base, but they are using multiple strike zone within one game. Just teribble and unfair to the players how inconsistant thiw Umpire Squad is. They should be dumped for the B team before game 5.

Hey wildbunch… what makes you think that the Rays are the underdog of this series? A large majority of sports writers and Vegas odds makers gave the Rays much better odds of winning it all… You are probably a butthurt bandwagon Rays fan though, so you don’t know a GD thing about baseball…

And yes, the umpiring in this whole series, on both sides, sucks horribly…

But anyway, to say that the Rays are more deserving of this than the Phillies if absolutely ridiculous. The rays have been around for 10 years, the Phillies have been around for over a century and are the most losing team in all major professional sports… and you are saying that the Rays are the feel-good story? Dream on man, you are delusional.

I do agree with you on one thing though… it IS about time the underdog won it for a change…

The umpiring has not been too good in this series. Rollins was out but no one can argue that it affected the outcome. Of course the national media probably won’t recogniize the Phillies as a good team. They’ve been too busy talking about Ray hawks and cowbells to notice that Philadelphia is playing better than the Rays all around. People like Wildbunch don’t know anything about baseball if they think a team like LA had a chance. Everyone jumped on the Dodgers bandwagon when they beat the Cubs. They must not have watched the games or they would have seen that the Cubs lost because they played terrible baseball. It doesn’t matter what you do in the regular season if you don’t bring it in the play offs. The Dodgers only made it to the playoffs because of Manny. The Dodgers didn’t have the depth to beat a team like the Phillies. As far as the Rays deserving to win, I won’t disagree but the best team will win and right now the Phillies are playing the best. The Rays are a great story but maybe now people will finally respect Philadelphia for a change and recognize that the Phillies are playing the best baseball because they are a very good team who has come of age. This is only the beginning. The Phillies are built to win for quite a few years. One more win!

Its funny when fans get all butthurt, I am not a Rays fan or a bandwagon Rays fan, I am a fan of the game. I am a N.L. fan, but yes the Rays are a feel good story. They are deserving of it with the for-mentioned lowest payroll, and not to mention of of the youngest teams in baseball. Its nice to see that you dont need a bunch of over-priced guys to play a kids game. The Phills will probably win the series, but it dont mean they deserve it. I think Cub fans would disagree with your theory that the Phills are the most losing francise in sports.

Hey wildbunch… you really are a fucking idiot… the Phillies franchise has over 10,000 losses… more than any other professional sports team, period… They have only one World Championship in over 120 years of service…

I wasn’t just pulling that statement out of my ass… it’s a fact, you prick.

You really truly don’t know a god damn thing about baseball, and it’s clear you are NOT a “fan of the game”.

ha ha listen to you whiners, I couldgo on all night long, its a funny thing to get poor fans of poor teams rialed up.

Amen to that eddie

Wildbunch:

Cubs:
138 years… 2 World championships, 16 NL penants, 5 division titles, 1 wild card.
total record as of end of ’07: 9985W – 9459L

Phillies:
125 years… 1 World championship, 6 NL Penants, 8 division titles, 0 wild cards.
total record as of end of ’07: 8853W – 10028L

Maybe you should do some fact checking before the shit rolls off your tongue…

I’m not saying I’m proud of how losing my team is… I just thing that it’s about god damn time we got our time to shine.

I’m sorry that I thought you were a Rays fan… it’s clear to me that you just “love the game”, or maybe you just love trolling.

Night guys its been fun. Good luck to your Phills for the rest of the series.

Good night Wildbunch, it’s been fun having you with us tonight. I give your trolling a 7/10, I would definitely consider making you look like an idiot/asshole again…

You all are idiots and don’t know crap, so just shut the F#$% up and get a life

Rollins loved where that clove was placed and he was out!

It is phunny to see the comments from the Phillies phan base saying Evan Longoria is g*y and calling him Eva. This coming from dudes that where shirts for guys named…Chase, Cole, Shane and Jamie. Seems like the Phlaming Phillies instead of Phighting Phils…ew…Philadelphia fans are so intimidating…bunch of Phunks…..Just like the Eagle fans that have their face paint run on their way home as they cry yet again….It would be really great to see the Phillies collapse and the whole nation is rooting for it…..Maybe Chase and Cole can hold hands together in the Philly g*yborhood….hahaha…LOL….

Buncha typical filly whiners..waaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaa WAAAAAA..it would make a difference in your argument if he had actually been safe, he was out by a MILE. And i would enjoy watching this team choke the series more than i watched the BEAGLES stink up the Super Bowl.

GO GIANTS!

well this is a make up call from the night before when moyer and howard got that rays guy out at first but the ump called him safe…..the funny thing is i think it was the same ump. the sad thing is that j-roll’s ass is going to be all over the news!

GO PHILS!

whats with all the foul language allowed in the comments

Go Tampa!!!!!!!! Phillies are awesome!!!!

Everybody complains about the umpires maybe they should give it a try I know it’s not easy but nobody’s perfect. Would you like cheese and crackers to go with that wine

All of you people?? what comments all of you can go to hell for talking like that you are nothing but a bunch of babies

I think this is the worst comments that I’ve ever read. You people, calling Rays fans a bunch of ****. How sad this country has become. Have you nothing better to do. It’s a GAME. That’s all. These great players on both teams are blessed to play a game for a living and making a good living at that. The umps have made horrible calls against both teams. You get over it and move on. These two teams have made it to the World Series. I’m a Rays fan, and I’m excited for my team, and if they lose the series, I am still just as happy. They did what they weren’t expected to do. I know of no sports writer that picked the Rays, or Phillies to get where they are. Get a life people. IT’S JUST A GAME!!!!

Who really cares who wins this WS. Like anyone seen that you would see the Rays vs Phillies in the fall classic. Next Year it will be all back to the same way it always is. Twins, White Sox, Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Dodgers, Cardinals, Mets, Diamondbacks, and maybe Phillies. But I bet ya the Red Sox or Yankees win it next year they always do. I am Glad Jamie Moyer finally after 100 years has a chance to win Championship

OK Let’s get with it BB. You finally have instant replay Such calls as this (and others that we know of) show that it is time to be used in ALL baseball games.
I think it is needed more in championship games where a missed or wrong call can result in a loss for a team that would have won if it had been right.
Walter. Fans are just that — fanatics. “my team right or wrong”

Hey Jim… are you trying to say that that call at third cost the rays the game?

Denial is not just a river in Egypt people… The Phillies are the bonafied real deal…

Mike: Your should wash your mouth out with soap. Using the most vulgar language doesn’t make you a smart sports person, it just makes you sound ignorant. An intelligent person can get their point across without having to resort to vulgarity and denigrating those who don’t agree with you. You really need to get a life, I count 6 responses from you in the middle of the night. Perhaps a good night sleep will make you less cranky.

Carol, the word is “their” not “there” and “you’re losing” not “your losing”. Perhaps a review of the dictionary and a return to spelling class might be a better way to spend your time. Another one with the vulgarities.

These blogs are supposed to be fun. You can disagree and call the other person’s team a dog, etc., but it should be a place to express opionions, not foul up the internet with blather and vulgarity.

At least he wore a glove before that very public rectal exam.

The only way the Phillies can win is by constantly receiving “bad calls” by the umpires…(pick-off-balk of Pena ??, non-tag of Rollins…). This WS was a set up from the beginning,…Phillies fans; enjoy your hollow victory.

You all sound like a bunch of Cubs fans complaining about Bartman! Or is it, by the looks of this photo, Fartman? Get your gloves out of your Aces and play ball! This is a 7 freakin game series.

Hail to the redskins

PattheFan:
All I’m hearin from your direction is “BAWWWWWWWWW, BAWWWWWWWWWWW”

I’m also glad to see that you got your degree in Internet English 101. Your ability to correctly spell and punctuate sentences is both unimpressive and irrelevant in this particular blog. You want to police the comments in a blog? Why don’t you start your own blog up where you can call the shots, and you can take points away for poor spelling and punctuation, and give extra credit points for 10 dollar words like “denigrating”. I’m sorry, that last sentence was a run-on, I guess I must need to go back to school or something. Why don’t you do us all a favor and go be better than the rest of us someplace else; We can definitely do without all the histrionics.

And people, for real, this is a Phillies blog… I don’t know if you realized that or not, but it’s a Phillies blog. If you don’t want to read our POV, go elsewhere.

Also, who ever said that this blog was a “SFW” type or family friendly blog? Go back and look at the posts here. On second though, don’t. It will clearly be more than you can stomach…

I don’t think that the bad umping is really having a whole lot of effect on the outcomes of theses games, but if anything, that kind of thing can definitely be demoralizing. As of now, the Rays are playing good ball, and it’s hard to say why not, but these calls certainly were game-breaking mistakes. I do however have to say something to all the people who say that at “at least these umpires are out there doing” and “if you think you can do better why don’t you get out there?” It isn’t my job to ump these games, and yet the calls are being blown blatantly enough to be seen in real-time. Sure, these guys probably have it harder out there than we think, but it is their job to make these calls, and this is the World Series. I’m not a Rays or Phillies fan, but I would like to see some good baseball before this season is over, and at this point the umps need to get into the game and quit blowing calls. Bad calls are not good for baseball, clear and simple.

I’m a Red Sox fan that was at game 7 in Tampa, and I was amazed at what a-holes rays fans were, or at the very least, what a-holes the people that bought a hat with a TB on it in the past two weeks. I have been to many games in opposing stadiums where the the Sox lost and haven’t been taunted and accosted like I was at the Trop. I’d say act like you’ve been there before, but we know how that doesn’t relate to new found rays fans.
Late in the season, with your team in first place, you losers didn’t even show up to see what is actaully a great baseball team. (by the way, the rays team was better in there series and did deserve to win, it’s the so called fans I have a problem with).
Sooooooo, I am very happy to see real fans, eventhough they despise my teams most of the time, you have to acknowledge what die hard fans Phillies fans are and enjoy that real fans will be celebrating when it is all said and done!!!
GO PHILS!!!

Rocky Johnson, I guess you have selective vision (if there’s such a thing). I seem to remember a certain “Strike Three! Take your base!” call and a completely missed hit by pitch call the other night on Jimmy Rollins, not to mention the clear out at 1st base on Saturday night.

Summary of what’s going on in here:

Phillies win.
Butthurt TB fans cry.
Internet English lessons from Professor PattheFan
More crying.
People only remembering blown calls for the Phillies, not all the ones that went against them.
People try to argue that one blown call would make the difference in a 10-2 game.

At the end of the day/beginning of this one… only one thing matters:

The World Series stands at Philadelphia 3, Tampa Bay 1.

Umpires being on the take. Absolutly. Baseball has been fixed for years.

After reading these blogs, I suddenly realize that the majority of baseball fans are just a bunch of dumb, illiterate bumpkins. It affects my love for the game.

thanks tony

Russell Says:
October 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am

After reading these blogs, I suddenly realize that the majority of baseball fans are just a bunch of dumb, illiterate bumpkins. It affects my love for the game. (pun intended). Dumbass.

would you like a little glove with that philly cheese steak?

The umpires have done a REALLY bad job, but some bad calls cost more than others. Just adding up the bad calls against each team is meaningless. The question is “How did it affect the game?’ and that is impossible to tell — even for the players and coaches. I don’t like instant replay, but if we get it, you can blame the umps for potentially changing the outcome of too many important games. Thanks, guys.

Is drunk trolling a new sport?

The trolls here didn’t get here by accident – you came with an intention. If you don’t like the Phillies or their fans, GO AWAY! There’s a little “x” up in the right hand corner – click it, and all of the evil Phillies fans having a good time because we might actually win for a change will disappear, just like magic!!!

Grow up, people, please.

As a Boston fan, I am partial to neither the Phillies or the Rays, however, due to past experiences with people from Philadelphia (one of the dirtiest cities in America FYI) Eagles fans, are the biggest group of asses i have ever come in contact with… Phillies fans are all thrilled they’re winning, who wouldn’t be… I am ecstatic when Boston wins, but will never insult another team (besides the Yankees) who is deserving of credit… the Rays from from worst to first, and all their young players are all finally coming together as one, can’t we just respect them instead of calling them all gay… I hope the Phillies do win, just to shut you all up… Tampa fans are classy and deserve to win this…

DarkDragon says basbeall has been fixed… thanks for that bit of unproven information there pete rose… the only sport that was fixed was basketball, and that problem has been dealt with… you can’t fix a baseball game… you can’t tell a pitcher to give up homeruns, and fielders to make errors… completely false, and ignorant… definately not a sports fan… moron

Tampa fans are classy? I’m guessing that’s sarcasm because they are anything BUT classy. I am praying Philly wraps it up next game so nobody is subjected to those STUPID annoying cowbells. If they had ANY class they would have been supporting their team all season, not just the last 3 weeks. Even when they were blowing everyone away, Crapicanna was still empty. No, they do NOT have class, just crass.

Classy as in polite… go talk to one, nicest fans around… maybe beacuse they are all retired persons but still… as far as the cowbell thing, it’s a sign of support… more entertaining and original than the dumb towels Phillies fans wave around, the Steelers made that famous, try doing something original… what do you think you’re too late for retard?

Towels are quiet and make a great presence, cowbells are loud and obnoxious -not entertaining.

KnowItAll:
Go pick up some Preparation H for your sore butt… I’m sorry that your team is off playing golf somewhere right now, but we’ll take it from here… We’ll finish what you couldn’t…

Also, our fans may be the “most obnoxious”, but I can think of another group of fans that are just as bad… They hail from your neck of the woods. Maybe you have heard of them: The Boston Red Sox fans. Not only some of the most obnoxious fans in all of professional sports, but far and away one of the largest bandwagons too.

Hey Mike,
Obviously you don`t travel much. I do travel. When I travel during baseball season the only time hotels place extra security is when the yankees are in town. I have asked why and was told because the yankees create so much damage and scare away guests. During the ball season frequent travelers ask if the yankees are in town, If they are the travelers book a room at a different hotel. It affects the bottom line for these hotels.
So don`t you say one bad word about RED SOX fans. I have been one ever since I can remember and was always there for them win or lose. Sure like any true fan I would be upset when they lost,what true fan wouldn`t be. I for myself never took it out on the opposing team or the fans of said team. I did tell the umps what i thought of thier umping skills but then who doesn`t.

Franklin appears to be the most intelligent man posting on here… along with myself… Win or lose the sox are my team… bandwagon… ha… makes me laugh..

Everyone here needs to grow up. There are @ssholes in every city. When the Red Sox were in Philly two years ago there were a bunch of drunk Boston fans walking around yelling obcenities and taunting Phillies fans. I happened to sit next to some friendly Red Sox fans and we had a good time talking about baseball as fans of opposite teams. People need to stop acting like cavemen and show some class. Go Phillies!

I don’t understand how I am being classless… I have nothing against the Phillies… it just urks me to watch people harrass professional athletes, just because they wear a different uniform… i agree with the grow-up statement

I didn’t intend to imply you were classless, Knowitall. I was trying to address all the people on here that don’t understand what being a good sport means. Name calling and questioning someones sexuality makes you look like the idiot. I’m not even sure why I’m trying to bring reason to a place where some people aren’t even capable of it.

If the Phillies are an example of a NL team, then I am definately glad to support an AL team. The nasty disrespect that they show is a poor example set for thier rude, nasty fans! In all the AL games I have watched, never have the teams or fans acted like animals! All games have thier ‘booing’, or ‘towel waving’, ‘bell ringing’ behaviors and that is part of the game. But to call names, throw beer on fans, call nasty names, and chase women into restrooms? Come on…this is a game, and all this behavior does is bring down the integrity of the game. It’s too bad that in a city that is the seat of our democracy, they have not educated the people to be proud and supportive without sinking to the level of scumbags & hooligans!

sher545: TB fan for 1.5 months and counting. You obviously have never seen a Red Sox or Yankees game have you?

This is a classic example of trolls trolling trolls…. I will admit that I am one of the trolls trolling other trolls… I’m trying out for the National League Troll All-Stars. How am I doing?

Sorry to misinform everyone Brian… I didn’t think to consult Wikipedia before I made a statement… 90% of America understand the point I was trying to make and the relation between the Phillies towels, and the “Terrible Towel” in Pittsburgh… the other 10% are probably from Canada…ehhh

Just because I wasted too much time that I’ll never be able to get back, im gonna make a comment or two for the record.

@ the term Red Sox Bandwagon. If you are from the Boston/New England area and are a Red Sox fan and have been all your life, you obviously are a fan. But there was no “Red Sox Nation” before 4 years ago, and everybody jumped on the bandwagon from other parts of the country when they all rooted against the evil billion dollar payroll Yankees who had a 3-0 lead.

@Ben Dover. 2 votes for best comment, but this one from one of the so called trollers is honorable mention: “what do you think you’re too late for retard?”

And IMO debating whose fans are the best/worst is completely pointless, especially if you’ve never been to that stadium or even that city. It’s the same as debating whose teams are the best/worst except without stats and records to support any arguments. Loudness is about the only thing you can use to maybe determine something

oh, in answer to ‘how am I doing?’ ……pitiful

LOL Sports Hernia.

DJ…

I find them entertaining.

You…I don’t find you entertaining at all.

The Um[ires of this World Series should ALL get day jobs,because they all ” SUCK ” at their night jobs.

Mrs. Burrell…

Well, he can’t make it TOO obvious.

Good point. He’s clearly a criminal mastermind. Tim Wilke (originally from Michigan) loves the Phils so much that he made some stratigic moves to put them in a position to absolve this city of its horrible sports history. Wow, what a guy.

Get a life PHIL will win

well its over