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All our outfielders bring something to the table. Where's Matt Badigan? I don't see any Kormans? He'll catch up. I hope. It's not Harvey Day w/o BatMags Howard tells Harvey " No, not in my house". And thats a fine catch by Byrd on the rail.

Edgy MD wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I want Downtown Brown. Awful lot of Byrd lately. I'm hoping for both. I don't see where Eric Young has to be an everyday starter. I think Young has the potential to be just what we need in the outfield and in the lineup. I'll be very surprised if Byrd is with us after the trade deadline. Someones gotta need what he can bring.

Nice. Young singles. Murph singles. Wrights sac fly gets Young to third, and he scores on a Byrdy sac fly. That's workin it. 1-0 Mets.

I'm really liking this Young trade. With him and Lagares out there its like we have a whole new engine under the hood.

And that's why you don't save the closer. And not that Parnell couldn't have blown things apart just as easily ... but supposing someone were to put it to the manager this way: In which situation is it more difficult to succeed and has the greater consequence for allowing a run -- Preventing the home team from scoring and winning from a tied game? OR -- Preventing the home team from scoring and winning in a game where they're trailing? You won't get a straight answer of course, you'll get a run-around about how the situation dictates how pitchers pitch and about comfort zones and all that. The sad part about it all is that all 30 ML managers would give you the same gobbledy-gook. (Joe Maddon might give you smarter-sounding gobbledy-gook but I still think he'd do things the same way) The extra sad part is that, unlike many closers (say like Franco, Looper, Wagner, Rodriguez in our recent past), Parnell was NOT a guy specifically hired to be a closer, so there should be no agreements (unspoken or otherwise) broken, no missed bonus clauses for saves, and no agents calling bemoaning the fact that his guy was used in the dreaded 'Non-Save' situation. He wasn't even the closer until Frank-Frank couldn't recover in time; the job more or less fell into his lap in February. And the the REAL sad part about it all is that the Phils were not only reeling by the 9th inning but had run through their pen at least as bad as we had through ours and were left with just two recent call-ups to man the fort for who knows how many innings. Throw up one more Zero on the board and I definitely liked our chances.

Young 2 Valdespin 2 Murphy 1 Quintanilla 2 Satin 1 Edgin 1 Rice 0.3 Aardsma 0.7

I knew that Torres would fail when I most wanted him not to.

Wow! Huge KaBoom by Valde (I have a KB for him but can't find it) Bigger RBI by Murph as Wright turns on the jets. Mets it.

Aardsma gets it done. He didn't look good out there. They showed a close up of his face and I thought he was going to start crying. But he holds em. GJ sourpuss.

Don't mind me. I'm on a dump on the ump kick. Come on Aardsma, get thru this unscathed.

Edgy MD wrote: That inside pitch before the flyout was a ball. He got that right. Phillies announcers and GameDay both thought so, anyhow. Gary or Ron pointed out that the pitch was exactly in the same spot as the outside strike called on Murphy. To me consistency is the most important trait of a good ump.

Swan Swan H wrote: Brown is retired on some routine Mayberry RF D. Ha. You are firin' on all cylinders. We will have top of the order in the 9th. Keep things in order Rice. Hold them here.

Edgy MD wrote: Bastardo getting it done. Damn him and that wicked slider. It's got some bite. Oh man, that was a strike to Brown and this home plate ump is awful. Brown pops out to right.

Edgy MD wrote: I couldn't tell as they went to the commercial break. Did Murphy get tossed? Nope. And he went on for a while. That tells me that the ump knows he sucks.

You tell him Muffy.

jeezez these fuckin umps

Valde puts it in play (6-3) and another run scores. GJ Jordany. 7-5

YOUNG WANTS A WALLPAPER! Bases loaded double plates two.

Josh should grow Shamsky like sideburns. Take some pressure offAthem brows. Satin walks and we got ducks all over.

Q's line single to right makes it 7-2 as Buck lumbers in to score. 1st & 3rd. No out. Satin and his eyebrows at the plate.

Ha! Young's arm sucks. (love the glove)

Swan Swan H wrote: Pfeh. They're making it easy to head out for dinner then down to the beach to check out the Supermoon. I hear ya. Pettibone is boned. Bad back. Phils go to the pen. 7-1. Can we abuse their pen half a dozen runs? I don't see why not.

*sob. Buck sucks.

Gee gives us 5 innings, only 67 pitches. No beer for you Dillon. That sucked.