Deadline Deals 2006

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Phils acquire Jamie Moyer for a couple-a A-ball arms.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And now Jeff Conine is also a Phillie.

[MFS62]

I really hope both the Cards and the Reds finish with better records than the Phillies. With the addition of Moyer (who is very tough the first few times you hit against him) the Phillies have enough lefty pitching to give the Met lineup fits.

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

They seem to be the only team in the NL that can beat the Mets. I'd also prefer to see Philadelphia miss the playoffs.

That Ryan Howard is a monster, isn't he? I'd love to see Beltran win the MVP, but I think he's probably the third best candidate behind Howard and Pujols. (In that order.)

[duan]

you have to give Beltran a huge lift because he plays (extremely well) an up the middle defensive position and he's a fantastic base runner.

if the season ended today he'd be my MVP, but there's still another bunch of baseball to play.

If Howard keeps hammering the ball and the phillies get into the playoffs then I think he'll win on the "once they got rid of Bobby Abreu" bandwagon.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I also phear Philly, not the team itself so much as the fact that they've played us pretty well this year and we've certainly seem enough of them (we're 10-8 vs. 'em this year).

OTOH, if we're something bad to happen and the Phild get to the WS, it would be xtra sweet to have 'em beat the MFYs after the whole Abreu affair.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It's possible, though, that the Phillies have been playing over their heads a little bit. Will they look as good in October (if they get there) as they do in August?

Perhaps not. Of course, if they do get there, they'll have to have had a pretty good September, too, which would make them all the more phearsome.

I prefer to just roll over the Reds and the Padres in the first two rounds. And then play a team in the World Series that has a home park beyond the reach of the NYC subway system.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Me toodles.

[duan]

for the record I REALLY don't want the Phillies to win the wild card at all. I don't like their ability to put together nasty innings against us. Don't like it at ALL.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

This is post deadline, but the Phillies acquire Randall Simon.

I always think of two things when I hear of Randall Simon -

1) He was the teammate to whom John Rocker once referred as being "a fat monkey." Simon seemed genuinely hurt by that remark; and

2) Simon's tripping of a sausage in Milwaukee in 2003, which caused a huge uproar.

As for the Phillies, it's not a bad acquisition - a bat off the bench for the stretch run.