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19 comments
Kingman 26
10/19/2009-9:24am at 9:24 am (UTC -4)
The Phils are good….
trs86
10/19/2009-9:32am at 9:32 am (UTC -4)
You turning into MC now? Sounds like a classic MC headline. Pelfrey is a pitcher. Mets are struggling. Parnell throws LH, uh I mean RH.
trs86
10/19/2009-9:39am at 9:39 am (UTC -4)
Have to do this:
You gotta Phillies complex? Always mentioning the Phillies on a Mets site?
LOL
Anyway, Phillies, Yankee’s and Angels are all very good.
Kingman 26
10/19/2009-10:14am at 10:14 am (UTC -4)
LOL!
The Phil’s ARE good! VERY good. Maybe not good enough to merit their own completely unnecessary apostrophe like the Yankee’s, but they are awful good.
And yeah, I am sure they will never manage to compete next year, as we have now given them the playoff’s three year’s in a row, right??
trs86
10/19/2009-10:20am at 10:20 am (UTC -4)
Point is Kingman’ we already know they are good. What’s the point of stating it over and over on here? Isn’t that the same as some authors making post to say they don’t like them?
And you know I am not one to say that we gave them the division. They had to play like mad men in 2007 to catch us even with our demise and they were plain better than us in 2008.
metsfan4decades
10/19/2009-9:53am at 9:53 am (UTC -4)
Bah….
Phils have great offense, period.
They have no BP to speak of whatsoever.
Their starting rotation has one ace, one young kid who should be an ace but looked more like a #4 this year, one solid #3 (Blanton) and not much else.
They have no bench at all.
If they want to compete in the NL East in 2010, I think they’ve got some work to do over the off season. However, I’d like nothing better than to see them stand pat, believing it was good enough this year, should be good enough next year…..
trs86
10/19/2009-9:58am at 9:58 am (UTC -4)
Honestly, I don’t think they will have to do much to COMPETE in the NL East next year. However, I don’t see them breezing through it like this year regardless of our off-season moves.
metsfan4decades
10/19/2009-10:09am at 10:09 am (UTC -4)
Well, by compete, I probably should have said ‘repeat’. Poor choice of words on my part.
Not much competition in the NL east in ’09. I don’t think that’s going to be the case in 2010.
Kingman 26
10/19/2009-10:16am at 10:16 am (UTC -4)
Well, they sure will never repeat in 2009 unless Lidge is perfect again…oh wait…
trs86
10/19/2009-10:22am at 10:22 am (UTC -4)
Compete and win are 2 different things. And I believe before you started the Reyes sucks Phillies are god briggade you too said they would not win the division this year if their BP stunk.
They survived the NL East this year with their own host of problems and hats off to them.
But still I get this impression that for some reason I am supposed to like them. I hate them even more than the Yankees so that’s not happening.
Kingman 26
10/19/2009-10:42am at 10:42 am (UTC -4)
“The Reyes Sucks and Phils Are God Brigade.”
Now that is something I most definitely am not a part of.
“The Reyes Should Frigin Grow Up and We Should Recognize a Good Team as Baseball Fans Brigade.” Yeah, that sounds about right.
metsfan4decades
10/19/2009-10:23am at 10:23 am (UTC -4)
Who said that?
I think between Lidge and Madson they had 19 blown saves. Not sure about the rest of the BP.
If the Yanks and Phils are the WS competitors, Phils are sunk. That entire BP can’t keep guys off the base and runs from scoring. And if that’s one thing that Yank offense does well it’s score runs in late innings. Unless the Phils starters pitch complete games, they’re going to have a big problem with the Yankees….
trs86
10/19/2009-10:28am at 10:28 am (UTC -4)
I am not counting out either team there. I would not bet against the Phittin Phills or the CASHman Yanks.
metsfan4decades
10/19/2009-10:59am at 10:59 am (UTC -4)
LOL – the CASHman Yanks.
Good one…
trs86
10/19/2009-10:16am at 10:16 am (UTC -4)
I can’t say yet. Mets a few moves to make before they can match the Phillies. Marlins, who knows if they can find defense and bullpen and do their normal sell off. Braves are still desperate for offense with Chipper being another year closer to shattering and McCann going blind. Nationals will still be the Nationals.
darknova306
10/19/2009-9:59am at 9:59 am (UTC -4)
Don’t forget their ‘grit’! *sarcasm* :p
Kingman 26
10/19/2009-10:15am at 10:15 am (UTC -4)
They have more grit in their pinky toenails than Hudson has in his entire foot.
stickguy
10/19/2009-10:29am at 10:29 am (UTC -4)
Did I click on the phillies blog link by mistake?
anyway, the Phils of course do have some holes, or risks, like every other team. If they get hit by injuries to key guys like the Mets did, they could collapse too. Take out Lee, Howard, werth and Ibanez next year for a big chunk of time, and they won’t be winning that many games either.
At least I was prophetic in one area. I wanted the Phils to get Hallady and clear cut the farm, hoping he wouldn’t last. Instead they traded nothing but secondary prospects (and one A ball hard thrower that awas already hurt) for Lee.
CaseStreet
10/19/2009-11:11am at 11:11 am (UTC -4)
Hey! There shall be no support for the Phils (a.k.a. the land where old players become great) on this thread, even if they are smacking Jeffie’s Dodgers around and have won the division the past 3 years.