Panic Time

[soupcan]

My pj's are soft too.

I'm not ready to jump out a window yet anyway.

Last night that game would've been tied and we would have had a 50/50 chance to win it.

Night before was the first time in something like a season and a half that they lost a game they were leading by 2 runs going into the 8th right? And if not for Castillo misplaying that throw and the swinging bunt off Rowand's bat we prolly woulda won that one. Aberration.

Both teams have been in position to win the last two games, the Phightin' Phils just got the breaks. If the Metsies got the breaks and won the last two nobody would be panicking. They've played well enough to win. Sure the 'O' has gone dry but it'll be back.

Look at the good stuff - Glavine & Perez pitched great, Delgado popped one and had a couple of hits, Wright's Wright, Marlon's a force off the bench, LoDuca's back, etc., etc. Lotsa reasons to stay positive.

They'll pull it out today and everything will be as it should.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]They've played well enough to win.

That's the part I don't buy. Last night's game didn't come down to just a bad decision on the basepaths, it was a result of home runs on 0-2 couts, walking the pitcher, and getting picked off first base twice.

On Tuesday, the swinging bunt was bad luck but the stolen base play was just sloppy shit. bad throw, bad receiving of that throw and bad backing up of the play. Not to mention a completely worthless effort from the offense. We didn't play well enough to win that game, not even close.

Monday? Didn't even try. Looked a lot like a continuation of Sunday.

[metirish]

Willie was rightly very critical of Perez walking Moyer,just can't be doing that,

[soupcan]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: ]They've played well enough to win. That's the part I don't buy. Last night's game didn't come down to just a bad decision on the basepaths, it was a result of home runs on 0-2 couts, walking the pitcher, and getting picked off first base twice. On Tuesday, the swinging bunt was bad luck but the stolen base play was just sloppy shit. bad throw, bad receiving of that throw and bad backing up of the play. Not to mention a completely worthless effort from the offense. We didn't play well enough to win that game, not even close. Monday? Didn't even try. Looked a lot like a continuation of Sunday.

I don't mean to excuse the losses. They've played well enough to win AND played well enough to lose. But so have the Phillies. The difference in the last two games were the Castiilo error/swinging bunt and last night's intereference call.

Yes, they should have socked away both those games earlier so it wouldn't come down to those incidents. But the Phillies were walking the tightrope as well. They're not blowing us out of the park (save for Monday).

My point I guess is that if they'd played the exact same way they did the last two games and Castillo doesn't make the error and Rowan's ball doesn't go fair, maybe they win 2-1. If Marlon doesn't get overzealous and they win by scores of 4-3, then no one here is pulling their hair out because they didn't win convincingly enough.

On the flip side they are not losing convincingly.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]They've played well enough to win AND played well enough to lose.

I don't like those odds.

[soupcan]

Hey man, I'd love for them to be thumping teams to death too but in the big picture they've been really good in close games this year. Sometimes the ball bounces the wrong way.

How about this - Howard, Burrell, Rollins and Utley are having a good series, Reyes, Castillo, Alou and Delgado are not, and the Phillies have still had to scratch it out the last two nights.

[Willets Point]

Fuck this team.

It's a good thing I have plans for October already.

[Elster88]

Cool see ya next season.