Your Phillies Update

[Perknose]

At this point, the Philadelphia Phillies remain undefeated and unscored upon for the entire 2011 season!

Developing trend? Who am I to say! :biggrin:

 

[KGB]

They also are winless.

 

[Perknose]

They also are winless.

It's a matter of perspective. I prefer "undefeated." :awe:

 

[Numenorean]

The only thing good about the Phillies is that Halladay is doing wonders for my fantasy team.

 

[NoStateofMind]

The Braves and Phillies games will be some of the best baseball to watch this season. Go Braves!

 

[Lean L]

At this point, the Philadelphia Phillies remain undefeated and unscored upon for the entire 2011 season!

Developing trend? Who am I to say! :biggrin:

fail

 

[davmat787]

At this point, the Philadelphia Phillies remain undefeated and unscored upon for the entire 2011 season!

Developing trend? Who am I to say! :biggrin:

Confidence is fine, and to be expected with that staff, but just hope they and your phans don't go all south beach and pronounce yourself WS Champs already.

That said, after watching Cliff Lee's all too short stint in Seattle, he became one of my all time favorites. His work ethic, attitude, and ability are amazing. And I attended every one of Randy Johnson's home games in 96, and have watched plenty of Felix Hernandez' performances, and Lee is right there IMO.

M's still don't have their first game for another 8 hours, but am enjoying the HOU-PHI game on ESPN right now.

lol @ Fransisco dropping the ball, but it sure looks windy too.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

At this point the Phillies are on pace to go 0-0-162 and will neither score nor allow a single run over the entire season. Apparently they think they're playing soccer.

 

[PimpJuice]

At this point, the Philadelphia Phillies remain undefeated and unscored upon for the entire 2011 season!

Developing trend? Who am I to say! :biggrin:

Until they lose today....

 

[BrokenVisage]

At this point I'm about to break my fist punching a wall because they won't allow "free" radio broadcasts of the game online and where I work there's no way I'll get a strong enough AM signal even if I had a radio that did AM.

 

[davmat787]

Yo OP, you might be interested in the Official ATOT 2011 Baseball thread, no need to start a thread everytime Roy Halliday gives you a boner. Don't mind me, just a frustrated M's fan.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2150197

 

[KeypoX]

you know your talking about baseball when the fans are most excited they havent even played a game yet. Its all downhill from there.

 

[BrokenVisage]

WTF? Why the hell did they pinch hit for Halladay in the 6th with no one on??

 

[BudAshes]

They are losing now, against the craptacular astros.

 

[davmat787]

WTF? Why the hell did they pinch hit for Halladay in the 6th with no one on??

Pitch count + coldish weather + opening day + down by 1 == pinch hit maybe? Channeling my inner Loopin 'Ella says so at least. :biggrin:

 

[davmat787]

They are losing now, against the craptacular astros.

Anyone else think the overly contrived "hill" in CF of the 'Stro's park is really lame?

 

[BrokenVisage]

Wow, our bullpen can't even handle the bottom of the Astro line-up, what an F'ing disgrace I don't care how many aces we have.

 

[ElFenix]

did you see the way fat boy wallace took 2nd? awesome

fat boy myers is at bat looking to bunt


bunt accomplished, wallace looked like he was going to stop for a cheesesteak on the way to 3rd tho.

 

[TheVrolok]

It's like watching the Giants/Phillies all over again. Philly is getting down right out played.

 

[davmat787]

Wow, our bullpen can't even handle the bottom of the Astro line-up, what an F'ing disgrace I don't care how many aces we have.

When do you think Utley will be back for you guys? Seems like scoring runs could be a major problem over the length of the season, which can stress your pitching staff of course.

 

[ElFenix]

myers is a 6 inning pitcher. he can go 6 innings every single game but not much more than that. i guess the BP is terrible so no real sense in yanking him on the first day of the season?

 

[BrokenVisage]

When do you think Utley will be back for you guys? Seems like scoring runs could be a major problem over the length of the season, which can stress your pitching staff of course.

No one really knows, Brad Lidge will probably be back before Utley at this rate and it's not the sunniest of dispositions for him as it is. Since he's not getting surgery it's just a matter of how well his knee feels from day to day, once he says he can play through the pain and they see it's not affecting his movement they may bring him back, but with his history of not revealing injuries they'll probably play it slow unless things start falling apart fast, which *shouldn't* happen with a rotation full of streak-stoppers.

 

[Perknose]

Confidence is fine, and to be expected with that staff, but just hope they and your phans don't go all south beach and pronounce yourself WS Champs already

.

Not to worry. I'm a fan, not a fanboi, and I'm well aware that the Phillies have significant holes in offense, defense, relief pitching and the crucial but often overlooked vegan stadium vending choices.

lol @ Fransisco dropping the ball, but it sure looks windy too.

Windy or no, he's also a "hands of stone" defender, kind of the anti Jason Werth.

Hey, in all seriousness, the Phillies season could go way south in a heartbeat. Baseball is one of the less predictable sports to forecast, imho.

162 games is a death march of a season, and every flaw in every player or team will be exposed.

 

[Perknose]

When do you think Utley will be back for you guys? Seems like scoring runs could be a major problem over the length of the season, which can stress your pitching staff of course.

Also subpar defense, which we have generally not been used to.

 

[PimpJuice]

OP backtracking.......