Remember those Hutch helmets that came with the halloween costumes we all wore when were between 7 and 10? Remember how they looked on us then? You don’t? Then look at the picture again.

What a loser.

The thing about these helmets, it looks like any pitch to the head will knock it right off unless your head is like Barry Bonds. And I’m just going to add that I think he looks cute.

I saw Rowand do that too…pretty funny. Too bad we couldn’t score

ears are overrated

He looks like the Great Gazoo!!! LOL!!!1!!11!!!

/Don’t wanna be a hypocrite.

haha, he already gave up the helmet. That experiment didn’t last long.

its actually not as big as david wrights.

also, in his last AB he switched back to his old helmet

More padding is only going to raise the helmet anyway. This isnt Project Runway.

Another one in the win column. 23 games over .500, 8 game lead in the division. If the bats can get it together the way the starting pitching has of late, the Phils are going to be a real threat in October.

i think the whole team run out of that helmet from the tunnel during pregame lineup intoductions

shane dressed up as his bobblehead statue!

does anyone else disagree with what Uncle Cholly did in the bottom of the 7th? He pinched hit Stairs for Pedro. At that point in the game, the Phils were up 2-1 with a runner in scoring position (on 2nd). And Pedro had been pitching like a machine. Cholly pinched hit Stairs, which I can’t understand. Stairs hasn’t had a hit since the All-Star break; why put him in? And Pedro was on cruise control. Why take him out? Pedro was well under 100 pitches and taking him out meant that Madson was going to have to come in. Madson has been decent lately, but I think when a guy is throwing like Pedro did tonight, leave him in there and let Lidge close out the ninth. Sure, it would have been nice to have a few insurance runs, but I don’t think this was the correct call. And for those who saw what Stairs did; it proved my point.

4 times a game, I mean.

Wheels wa son fire with Wheelerisms in the 9th.

I heard “no doubles-defense”, “drop the bathead on it” and my new favorite, “As you said Tom…”

THAT’S RIGHT WHEELS THEY FOUND SOMEONE WHO TALKS MORE THAN YOU AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GOOD LUCK SAYING ANYTHING NOW GET BACK TO JERKING OFF TO LINCECUM’S STRIDE……

fin

@sems: You most certainly weren’t the only one. I had to mute it by the 2nd inning because I got tired of hearing how Lincecum isn’t a very tall pitcher.

gonzo i didnt want to be the guy to point that out..

seems pretty corney for a guy to attempt a mysterous comment and spell the very first word wrong. it sure takes away from its impact

somebody doesnt get the joke…..

is he really? lol. what makes you say that?

eminencegirl, based on what?

Shane usually has that look of Charlie Brown-esque intensity in his plate appearances but with that helmet, he looks even more intent as though he is trying to make up for that thing encasing his head.

@ Let Pedro Pitch – I was at the game last night keeping score, and when they made that move I was initially appalled. But looking back over my score sheet and thinking it over a little more, Pedro would have had to come back out and pitch against a pinch hitter and the top of the Gigantes line-up. He was on a roll, yes, but he hasn’t gone this deep into a game in a very, very long time. It would have been a fucking shame for him to pitch such a gem only to come out and surrender the lead in the 8th. All things considered, I think you have to make the move Cholly made there. Granted, Stairs has sucked the proverbial big one, but with Dobbs out, he’s the guy in that spot — better to try and get him rolling now rather than wait, so he can drop bombs in the NLCS again this year.

Now to the real point — Shane does not look even anywhere close to ridiculous as D-Wright. Wright looked like friggin toadstool from the mario video games. Shane just looked like he was sporting the latest advancements in safety technology. Plus, he’s also not a douche like Wright, so that helps.

#1 he runs the bases like a chicken with its head up its ass

#2 he speaks like he has the intelligence of a piece of lint

#3 have you seen his taste in fashion?

I still love the guy, but he’s a moron.

@Tim i was at the game wednesday and he came out to some hip hop crap. it made me sad.

@eminencegirl I’m afraid you’ll have to provide more than just “…he just doesn’t know how to use his head at the same time” as evidence that Shane isn’t intelligent.

Sure, his interviews are more entertaining than enlightening, but that certainly isn’t an indicator of his I.Q.

Eminencegirl, sounds like someone got Vic’d over, no questions asked…if ya know whut a mean.

You must really pay attention to these guys’ base running techniques or be judging him on that steal that he got caught on with two outs and Howard at the plate. I think he’s a good baserunner (like the rest of the team) and that he actually gives a solid, if not conventional, interview. Those Ed Hardy shirts had half the team under it’s malevolent grip last year….it is wrong to single out the Flywaiian.

Yeah, I agree about the boneheadness/lack of maturity thing. And I don’t think my comment about lint was so much about IQ as his (what I would call) baseball intelligence. He’s a great ball player, but boneheaded base running errors and risking injury on plays that are less than game changing speak volumes sometimes. Like I said, I LOVE THE GUY, sometimes I’m just ashamed to admit it.

I just dont see it. Utley has done some pretty dumb things too but he gets a pass no matter what. He compounds mistakes which i’ve never seen Victorino do. Fact is, if you watch these guys enough they’re going to mess up. What makes you think Shane doesnt have a good baseball IQ? Hes a smart player who takes risks from time to time because he knows what his roll on the team: sparkplug. The late-game stealing base thing was the dumbest thing we’ve seen him do.. but other than that im drawing a blank at what makes shane ‘stupid.’ i’ll say hes a little nutty if anything

Somebody get the guy above me a bridge to live under, cause we got ourselves a TROLL.