Halladay Derby Heating Up

I admit I am still missing baseball a bit.  I know I’ve heard a few people lament over a similar feeling.  Yes, baseball is a long season, an everyday grind, but there is something comforting in that, isn’t there?  On Tuesday nights like these, you miss the day-to-day activities of the baseball season.  I’m not [...]

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Brad Lidge was Robbed.

 
What has become of baseball if you can’t blow 11 saves, compile a silky smooth 7+ ERA, and get some Cy Young consideration.  Brad Lidge  received no votes.  I demand a recount.  Not really, I just wanted to take one more parting shot at Lidge before we forget about him for a while.  Tim Lincecum [...]

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The Hot Stove: An Alternative to Andy Reid Bashing.

The baseball offseason is getting ready to get underway, and this is exciting because we get to hear terms like “Hot Stove” and “Winter Meetings.”  We also get to see outlandish contracts flung at mid-level free agents, and instead of dissecting the previous year with tremendous hindsight, we can move into projection mode.  Who’s going where?  [...]

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Matsui Finishes Off Phils.

Get the party started Connecticut.  The Yankees won the World Series on Wednesday night with a 7-3 win over the Phillies.  The game turned on the performance of Yankees DH, Hideki Matsui, who drove in six of the home team’s seven runs.  His mastery of Pedro Martinez, and the Phillies ignorance of the fact, allowed the [...]

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Game Six.

So it’s game six tonight at the new Stadium.  The Phillies rough around the edges victory on Monday earned them the chance to head back to New York to try to make the Yankees and their hometown fans sweat a bit more.  The pitching match-up for the contest tells most of the story.  For all the [...]

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Inquirer/Macy’s Still Have the Faith.

So, an ad ran in the Inquirer today congratulating the Phillies on their second straight World Series victory.  An embarrassing error for the paper, but in the end, perhaps this was the last day that this ad even has a chance to be relevant.  The question is, if the Phillies happened to pull off the miracle, and [...]

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Yanks Push Phils to Brink…

If only the Phillies could score as often as Jorge Posada goes out to the mound.  My, my, my.  That’s just an annoying aside, though.  It doesn’t change the fact that superior pitching and clutch hitting has put the Yankees in a commanding position in this series.  It was a dreary weekend at Citizens Bank Park.   [...]

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Yanks Bounce Back.

Game two wasn’t all that different from game one, just the other team came out on top as the Yankees evened the series with a 3-1 victory.  It was another night of good starting pitching.  In this case, A.J. Burnett was better than Pedro Martinez, and the Yankees were the team that knocked a couple [...]

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Every Little Thing He Does is Magic.

So, it was best case scenario for Phillies fans in game one.  Cliff Lee out pitched C.C. Sabathia, and the Phillies earned a relatively stress free 6-1 victory.  Things seemed to fall into place for the Phillies at every turn, but that was mostly the work of Lee who showed the poise of an assassin.  [...]

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Thanks Cleveland!

Nice try Andre Agassi.  Trying to make me think about writing some tennis.  I think not.  You’re going to have to better than some meth.  I’m desensitized.   Meth?  Whatever, might as well say you had an extra espresso before each match.  Not buying your book.  Unless the pictures are like super sweet. 
Nope, it’s game one of [...]

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