World Fuckin’ Champions!
by Bill Baer on Friday, October 31st, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 8 Comments »
Chase Utley is already super-cool, but he wasn't just satisfied being the serious, extremely productive second baseman on the Phillies. Referencing his "Boo? Fuck you!" outburst when he was booed in New York during the All-Star Game this season, Utley ...
Can You Believe It? A Championship in Philly!
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 30th, 2008Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 3 Comments »
The storylines that surrounded the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies going into and advancing further in the playoffs were numerous and unique. If you had no allegiances to any of the other teams or to a Phillies rival, I would think it'd ...
Ahh…
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 30th, 2008Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 2 Comments »
That's a sigh of relief. We kind of need it after 25 years, you know? I'll be writing more on this soon, I just wanted to get a post up and allow anyone who wants to discuss it to do so ...
MLB, Umpires Make Mockery of World Series
by Bill Baer on Monday, October 27th, 2008Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 14 Comments »
The decision to keep the game going until the bottom of the sixth in the nagging cold and biting rain has to rank highly on MLB's list of blunders. There was the 2002 All-Star Game that Commissioner Bud Selig chose ...
Sleeping Giant
by Bill Baer on Sunday, October 26th, 2008Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 1 Comment »
You knew it was going to happen some time: Ryan Howard was going to hit. Someone was going to hang a breaking ball, or feed him a fastball, and he was going to pay for it. It took twelve post-season ...
The Audacity of Dope
by Bill Baer on Sunday, October 26th, 2008Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 2 Comments »
If the Phillies were going to write a book about the first two games of the World Series thus far, "The Audacity of Dope" would be an apt title (my apologies for the lame pun). With runners in scoring position, ...
A Question for Kyle Kendrick
by Bill Baer on Saturday, October 25th, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
Hat tip to With Leather. Kyle Kendrick wrote an editorial for PhillyBurbs.com talking about how excited he was that the Backstreet Boys were going to sing the national anthem before Game 1 of the World Series: I'm only 24, and as a ...
World Series Game 2 Liveblog at BDD!
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Posted in Baseball Daily Digest, Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
At Baseball Digest Daily: Join Joe Hamrahi, Eric SanInoncencio, Bill Baer, Rob McQuown, Michael Street, Brandon Heikoop (maybe!) and [Brian Joseph] who will all plan to join the live blog tonight for Game 2 of the ‘08 World Series between the Tampa Bay ...
Starting the World Series on the Right Foot
by Bill Baer on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Posted in MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | 1 Comment »
With the clock just past midnight Eastern time, Pedro Feliz caught out number 27 in foul territory behind third base. Brad Lidge threw a perfect ninth for the save, a 3-2 victory in Game 1 for the Philadelphia Phillies. Cole ...
Starting World Series Day One on the Wrong Foot
by Bill Baer on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Posted in Media, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, Sabermetrics | 4 Comments »
With a hat tip to Baseball Think Factory, I regret to inform you that not even Day One of the World Series will prevent idiocy from polluting the air waves and ink-and-paper of publications. Daniel A. Cirucci wrote an opinion ...
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