Guys, send good vibes, plz to our first base coach, Davey Lopes and his family. He'll be away from the team for six weeks, as he's having surgery for prostate cancer. The word cancer is just scary, but as Jamie says in the article, good thing they seem to have detected it early enough.

Cole Hamels: The Phillies don't love me cuz they won't ( Read more... )

Three tickets in nosebleeds: 30 dollars
Two-night stay in a shoddy hotel 2 miles from Shea Stadium: 277 dollars
One round-trip fare on AMTRAK, Philadelphia-New York: 86 dollars

Rooting for the Marlins at a Mets game while wearing your Phillies jersey and hat, with two great friends in tow: PricelessUghhh I still can't remember the sprucing-up I ( Read more... )

I fucking hate Wordpress right now. I was editting my post for NNFJ about the 08 Braves rotation and my case for why the Braves could unfortunately win the division, and when I click on "Save and Continue Editting" I get some page about "Can not publish" (?!) and it ATE everything I had written. I spent 20 minutes fixing the intro and feeding in ( Read more... )

CLOBY ♥

Buchholz and Ellsbury have been in this together for a while. About three years ago, they showed up in Lowell, Mass., Ellsbury polished at Oregon State, Buchholz raw from Angelina College, a Texas juco. Both were first-round picks, and the Red Sox decided to room them together.

When they walked in, the beds were sheetless, the room ( Read more... )

Guys! I just got Opening Night tix for the RPhils!

Although who I'm going with is still up in the air. It will be one of the stockboys from work. Which one? I'm not sure but it's leaning heavily on Ernest right now. Since today Cole told me he may be unavailable due to possible incarceration. Hm.

I don't care who I'm going with, so long as ( Read more... )

-Our first topic of conversation is not baseball.

( No, it is basketball. )

What the fucking fuck?


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-ayrdaomei emailed me a Times piece on Joe Girardi, that, I don't know if it's just TToTM or what, but it did make me cry a little. blinding_voip is going to kill me, but, I really want to see the Yanks do well this year at least for Joe's sake, considering all the BS he took in Florida. I don't mean like win 100 games but. Not suck terribly, at least ( Read more... )

"I heard Rickey Henderson got like $50,000 for giving up a number," Kruk said. Williams gave Kruk two cases of beer. Williams wanted No. 28 because his wife had lots of jewelry with 28 on it. That's gotta be classy stuff, Letterman said, those No. 28 earrings. The story continued. Kruk didn't miss a beat. "Yeah, [Mitch] got divorced, and he ( Read more... )

-I'm a little sad here! MLB Radio is making programming changes. So, only a week and a half left of my fave show "Under the Lights". And of course, I work on its very last night. So my next Thursday call-in for Know Your Franchise will be my final one. :C ( Read more... )