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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Phillies (83-75) at Nationals (70-88) 7:05 pm EDT

PHI: J. Lieber (9-10, 4.92)
WAS: M. O’Connor (3-8, 5.04)

NTNgod Posted: September 28, 2006 at 03:05 AM | 67 comment(s)
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   1. PatrickInTheWoods, Apostate Posted: September 28, 2006 at 10:48 AM (#2190360)
I dunno. I just don't know.

O'Connor's a lefty, isn't he? That's usually a problem.
   2. PatrickInTheWoods, Apostate Posted: September 28, 2006 at 12:46 PM (#2190481)
"I saw Larry Bowa singlehandedly run Scott Rolen out of town my rookie year," [Estrada] said

Well. Isn't that an interesting tidbit? I guess we kinda knew that, but still. This is why I hated Ed Wade (and/or Monty), he chose Larry Effin' Bowa over the second best thirdbaseman in team history.
   3. Sometimes it Rains (sj) Posted: September 28, 2006 at 03:26 PM (#2190583)
So, I will be in the luxury boxes today, I hope the game is 10% as entertaining as last nights game
   4. Urban Faber Posted: September 28, 2006 at 08:30 PM (#2190813)
SJ getting a little bonus time in the box. Long rain delay.
   5. Traco Bucco Posted: September 28, 2006 at 08:51 PM (#2190830)
It's still pouring in my neighborhood, which is also RFK's neighborhood. If they get this one in, it will be another "in the midnight hour" finish (at least).
   6. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: September 28, 2006 at 09:03 PM (#2190854)
Any idea when this is going to take place? If I lived right in the city, I'd be thinking about heading on over, but then, I have to get up at 6:30 for my commute...
   7. Traco Bucco Posted: September 28, 2006 at 10:02 PM (#2190976)
The rain is still at a steady clip. The word from MASN is that they're going to try to get the game in, no matter how late it starts. If I didn't have to be at work tomorrow at 0730, this would be pretty cool.
   8. Bob Koo Posted: September 28, 2006 at 10:49 PM (#2191025)
If they get this one in, it will be another "in the midnight hour" finish (at least).

Make that an "in the midnight hour" start.
   9. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: September 28, 2006 at 11:08 PM (#2191042)
What would be interesting would be to play starting at about 4 am, and then the players could sleep afterward and have turn-around to the night game no worse than a day game after a night game. It would work fine, except that no one would be in the stands.
   10. Baseballing powerhouse Crispix Attacks Posted: September 28, 2006 at 11:11 PM (#2191046)
I wonder if SJ is going to be in the luxury box for the whole game.
   11. Urban Faber Posted: September 28, 2006 at 11:31 PM (#2191064)
I wonder if SJ is going to be in the luxury box for the whole game.

Does he have to be awake for it to count?

And ... we're under way at RFK.
   12. Urban Faber Posted: September 28, 2006 at 11:46 PM (#2191077)
I can't wait for the Phillies fans by the dugout (approximately 40% of the people in the ballpark) to get on Burrell.
   13. Repoz Posted: September 28, 2006 at 11:48 PM (#2191079)
Maybe it has something to do with my being illergic to teal...maybe it has something to do with Dan Schlossberg's open shirt making me openly retchified...but Jeff Conine has got to be shot in the mouth (in a Richard Meltzerly sort of way, of course)!
   14. preterite Posted: September 28, 2006 at 11:49 PM (#2191080)
nice
   15. Urban Faber Posted: September 28, 2006 at 11:54 PM (#2191088)
Fabulous catch by Logan to rob Burrell.
   16. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:02 AM (#2191098)
And Church with a little midnight mass ... 1-0 Nats.

Phillies basically have to win this one.
   17. Cutter Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:06 AM (#2191102)
Are they passing around thermos' of coffee in the dugouts yet?
   18. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:14 AM (#2191107)
Phillies lose and they're done, barring a complete Dodgers collapse. I don't see how LA does any worse than win 2 of 3 this weekend. I think the Phillies need to win out to force a playoff game Monday.
   19. frannyzoo Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:14 AM (#2191108)
No coffee...MLB has relaxed the no-"greenie" rule for this game. I expect Victorino to be psychotically climbing the center field wall by the sixth.
   20. Adam B. Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:24 AM (#2191113)
I have to be awake to get my daughter to pre-school at 8:30a. Damn.
   21. Anthropophagus Mets Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:29 AM (#2191118)
I have to be awake to get my daughter to pre-school at 8:30a. Damn.
Pull an all-nighter. Those are always fun!
   22. Cutter Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:37 AM (#2191128)
Pull an all-nighter. Those are always fun!
Beat me to it.
Yeah, it will be something you won't forget when the Phillies tie it in the ninth with a Burrell homer and then Gordon blows the save to send it into extras. Come to think of it, you'll probably be able to listen to the end of this game on the radio when you bring your daughter to school.
   23. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:38 AM (#2191129)
Thanks to O'Connor and Lieber this game's going quickly. Might be over by 2 EDT.
   24. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:42 AM (#2191130)
And we're tied up. Maybe the next 4.5 innings won't go so fast.
   25. Adam B. Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:43 AM (#2191132)
I regret not staying up for the Padres doubleheader with the Mitch Williams GWRBI. I may have to gut it out tonight.
   26. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:45 AM (#2191134)
That one really did end about 4 AM, didn't it?
   27. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:47 AM (#2191137)
Can this game threaten the 4:40am game from 1993? I was awake for the end of that one... but I was a much younger man then; I don't think I could do it now.
   28. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:54 AM (#2191139)
Church might have been safe there. Tough to tell on that angle. He must not be very fast though.
   29. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:56 AM (#2191140)
No, I think he tagged him just before Church got his hand on the plate.

And the parade of relievers begins.
   30. Adam B. Posted: September 29, 2006 at 12:57 AM (#2191142)
We've got four innings to go, but many relievers could still come in. God bless Pat Burrell.

here's the 4am game
   31. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:03 AM (#2191145)
That was Trevor Hoffman's fourth game as a Padre. Guess it got better ...
   32. Cutter Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:11 AM (#2191153)
Lieber in trouble here.
   33. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:12 AM (#2191156)
I can't believe how many people are still there. That's outstanding.

Zimmerman beats the throw as Howard and Lieber mess up the play. 2-1 Nats.
   34. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:13 AM (#2191157)
Wait, the guy didn't score? OK, bases loaded, nobody out and Vidro up. 1-1.
   35. Cutter Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:14 AM (#2191158)
I thought noone scored.
   36. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:15 AM (#2191160)
Logan must have misread that one. No way Howard throws Logan out at the plate going toward second. But maybe he thought it was hit closer to the bag.

One out, Manuel coming out. Fultz in.
   37. Anthropophagus Mets Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:15 AM (#2191161)
R. Zimmerman singled to first

Was that Howard's fault or Lieber's? No tv here.
   38. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:16 AM (#2191163)
Both. Howard a little more. He hesitated, looked home, then finally lobbed to Lieber who caught the ball but wasn't on the bag yet.
   39. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:17 AM (#2191164)
CHOLLY WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! Your pen is shot, Lieber has pitched well... don't you have to let him at least go one more batter to see if he gets a DP?

So now your burn out your pen totally going into the most important 3 games of the year.... Great.

If this is how Cholly would manage a playoff game in a similar situation, I don't want to see him ever manage in the postseason.
   40. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:18 AM (#2191168)
And that relief move didn't work.
   41. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:21 AM (#2191173)
George Lombard - the guy who was in the Braves system about five years ago? He must be 30 by now.
   42. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:22 AM (#2191177)
Lieber sucks ####.
   43. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:25 AM (#2191178)
Well, 9 outs for the season. Way to go Cholly "Little Tony La" Manuel. You focking putz.

God I hate how much that man manages by "the book." The main problem is Cholly's "book" is titled "The Big Little Book of Managing Baseball," complete with illustrations and a funny little cartoon you can view by flipping the pages really fast and looking in the upper recto corner.

!@#$%^&*
   44. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:27 AM (#2191180)
Big little books were awesome. I loved those cartoons.
   45. TerpNats Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:32 AM (#2191186)
Where's Mitch Williams when you really need him?

(To bat, of course.)
   46. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:35 AM (#2191188)
Mitch Williams, v.September 1993 would be probably be better than anyone on the current bullpen staff outside of maybe Gordon and Geary. This team would kill for Mitch Williams.

I hate Cholly so effing much it isn't even funny. And now I have to hear this half-wit speak for another year. Will no one rid me of this meddlesome skipper??
   47. Baseballing powerhouse Crispix Attacks Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:40 AM (#2191193)
Pinch running Roberson for Burrell failed to do any good, for the 138th time in 139th attempts...
   48. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:43 AM (#2191195)
And now we get the PHing stylings of Mr. Simon, followed by the last gasp of the 2006 season.

The rain in Philly feels like the tears of a million Phillies fans who know the team will not win as long as The Curse of Bill Giles is on the team. To reverse the curse, they will need to burn Bill Giles alive on a pyre in the middle of the Delaware, along with 6 black cats, Ed Wade's dialing finger, and David Montgomery's fat stupid arse.

Trade everyone. Trade this team for the Royals. Hell, at least I won't have to watch the same players do all the same shite next year they've done for 5 years running now. I'd have new players to kick around and bitcch about. Complaining about the same things over and over and over again for 5 years gets old and tiresome.

I am now waiting for the remaining Phillies fans to break out the E-A-G-L-E-S cheer. It's the Phillies' fans white flag.
   49. preterite Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:44 AM (#2191199)
1:45 am..this is like bar room Darts!

:*)
   50. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:45 AM (#2191200)
Not good by the pinch runner there.
   51. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:48 AM (#2191201)
Were it possible, I would take the whole corps of Phillies pinch runner out behind the stadium and shoot them all in the calf, so that Cholly couldn't use them ever again. That's like the 4th time in the past week they've done something completely awful dumb.

Goodbye, 2006. We knew ye, we hated ye, then we sort of loved ye, then we gre hopeful toward ye, then ye broke out heart and spit on it and danced on the broken little bits until they were ground into the Earth like salt.

!@#$%^&
   52. Baseballing powerhouse Crispix Attacks Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:48 AM (#2191202)
I think Simon could have gotten doubled off first base just as well as Thurston did there.

Next inning Clay Condrey will pinch-hit for Burrell and then Lieberthal will pinch-run. Then Brian Sanches will come in to play catcher and Simon will be switched back in to play second base. Do everything you've ever dreamed of, Cholly, the season is over.
   53. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:51 AM (#2191204)
Simon would likely never have been that far off the base.

Utley and Howard come up in the ninth, so they just have to stay within two.
   54. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:51 AM (#2191205)
See, I'm convinced now that the coaching staff's "instructions" to PR throughout the system is "run really fast," and nothing else, because Phillies PRs seem so completely awful bad terrible that there can be no other explanation.

Perhaps Laddy Daady Cholly coaches PRs? That would explain a lot.
   55. Anthropophagus Mets Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:52 AM (#2191206)
I would take the whole corps of Phillies pinch runner out behind the stadium and shoot them all in the calf, so that Cholly couldn't use them ever again.
Sometimes I wonder, "What would Stalin do?" Well, you just answered that question.
   56. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:56 AM (#2191208)
Pitching change!
   57. Baseballing powerhouse Crispix Attacks Posted: September 29, 2006 at 01:56 AM (#2191209)
Sometimes I wonder, "What would Stalin do?" Well, you just answered that question.

Not fair, Stalin would have show trials first.

"Former Comrade Thurston, you stand here accused of wilfully sabotaging the Phillies' season by being given a single task to do and failing to complete it in such a way that cannot be explained by mere incompetence and therefore must be seen as a distinct pattern of treason and betrayal. Do you understand your charges?"
"I do, and I plead guilty, sir."
"Excellent, and fortunately, torturing you to death was legalized just yesterday. You are hereby stripped of your citizenship and sent to Guantanamo."
   58. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 02:02 AM (#2191212)
Here we go ...

Jon Rauch in to try and close it out!
   59. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 02:03 AM (#2191214)
One pitch one out. Howard can't tie it.

Seriously, Jon Rauch?
   60. Anthropophagus Mets Posted: September 29, 2006 at 02:04 AM (#2191215)
Jon Rauch in to try and close it out!
Chewbacca!
   61. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 02:05 AM (#2191216)
Two out. Church runs it down at the wall.
   62. Urban Faber Posted: September 29, 2006 at 02:07 AM (#2191219)
And there it is. Just went past a 2 a.m. finish.

Padres clinch a tie for a playoff spot.
   63. Textbook Editor Posted: September 29, 2006 at 02:26 AM (#2191227)
Season over. Congratulations, Dodgers fans. Enjoy playing those Mets. I would have loved to have seen Pedro pitch in LA and drill someone and then glare out at Tommy Lasorda... Man, that would have been funny.
   64. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: September 29, 2006 at 07:51 AM (#2191265)
You don't think the Dodgers can get swept by the Giants? These are the freaking Dodgers! Choking in San Francisco is what they do best.
   65. Sometimes it Rains (sj) Posted: September 29, 2006 at 09:37 AM (#2191330)
I was at this game. Philly fans were hilarious, to a loud drunk Nats fan, who was heckling the Phils. As he was being escorted away, there was a Chant of "Cub-i-cle" (he was in a suit)

When a bunch of nats fans cheered Ryan Zimmerman (it was his birthday, there were chants of "Utley's hotter"
   66. PatrickInTheWoods, Apostate Posted: September 29, 2006 at 10:06 AM (#2191362)
they will need to burn Bill Giles alive on a pyre in the middle of the Delaware, along with 6 black cats, Ed Wade's dialing finger, and David Montgomery's fat stupid arse

Hear hear. I'll get the gas...
   67. Sometimes it Rains (sj) Posted: September 29, 2006 at 10:08 AM (#2191363)
And I was in the luxury box until they cut off the beer, a full 90 minutes before the first pitch
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