Batting Practice

[SCUDSBROTHER]

LOL..Dodgers making you sweat huh DECLANS-H? LOL...I still think you gunna win. They just gunna make it close though.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

LONEY=WAY COLD

MARTIN= COLD

Garciaparra=ICICLE

As long as that's true, they will have trouble coming all the way back on you. Those are outs you can kind of rely on.

[declansharbor]

I dont know Scuds, Ive seen the Phils play long enough to know we lose games like this. and yes, Im sweating this one out(and hurting, a few spills at softball tonight. cuts, bruises and swamp a$$, the whole nine yards)
I will give the boys in blue alot of credit, they are a MUCH better team than I thought they were.(Ethier being a real shock to me) I hope the DBacks fizzle down the stretch and your team takes advantage, it would make for more interesting October. (although baseball takes a BACKSEAT to football come Sept.)

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Ethier is super hot. He does that sometimes. Martin is coming out of his awful slump. Bout time. I think they gunna threaten like bigshots tonite, but truth is they are gunna come up buck short. They aren't laying down though. They don't lay down against you guys. Weird...I think they don't fear your pitching staff as much as they do some others.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

We thought Ethier was gunna be a great player. It hasn't worked out that way. He has great patches, but he ain't great. He isn't a consistently good hitter. He is consistently good at making the pitcher work though. He will help tire a pitcher out. This here is a foul ball hit'n boy.

[declansharbor]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

We thought Ethier was gunna be a great player. It hasn't worked out that way. He has great patches, but he ain't great. He isn't a consistently good hitter. He is consistently good at making the pitcher work though. He will help tire a pitcher out. This here is a foul ball hit'n boy.

Its a quality that makes everyone else around you better. Underestimated part of the game IMO.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by declansharbor

Its a quality that makes everyone else around you better. Underestimated part of the game IMO.

He's a real all-around baseball player. He could be a difference-maker someday in a big game for a ring. Like Gonzo did against the Yanks. I'm talking down the line with a better team. He just kept fouling pitches off of Romero last night( until he got a mistake.) He should be playing every damn game for us. Shows you how doofus Torre is.

[declansharbor]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

He's a real all-around baseball player. He could be a difference-maker someday in a big game for a ring. Like Gonzo did against the Yanks. I'm talking down the line with a better team. He just kept fouling pitches off of Romero last night( until he got a mistake.)

Patience at the plate, along with good hand eye coordination makes for a NASTY ball player.

Chuckles was high last night. He takes Burrell out for a defensive, ahem, upgrade (again). If Burrell was in the game, the play at the plate was alot closer, if not an out. Charlie "foot shooter" Manuel...Thank God he's a players coach and they play for him, unlike Bowa. A bunch of nancies that team was a few years ago...Couldnt take Larry in their faces all the time...Longball Larry...lol..(Curb your Enthusiasm reference)

[declansharbor]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Ethier is super hot. He does that sometimes. Martin is coming out of his awful slump. Bout time. I think they gunna threaten like bigshots tonite, but truth is they are gunna come up buck short. They aren't laying down though. They don't lay down against you guys. Weird...I think they don't fear your pitching staff as much as they do some others.

We have nothing to fear besides Hamels and Lidge, and they are both touchable at times...We are an easy team to study on film..If you could only see the real Utley, as he's mired in this slump. He usually goes in a short one and snaps out of it, not this elongated $hit. He is a HBP magnet standing as close as he does...

Rollins need to learn how to work a count, he is coming up smaller than a shorti hoagie from Wawa this year. Then again, he'll never have another year like last one, I should have anticipated the fall off.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Joe coddles most of these guys, but he is really p-i-s-sed at Beimel.

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Joe coddles most of these guys, but he is really p-i-s-sed at Beimel.

Takes an awful lot for Torre to turn on a player!!

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Originally Posted by docicu3

Takes an awful lot for Torre to turn on a player!!

I think he might be a pothead type...LOL...Too much of a party boy for Joe Tea Drinka. Ever since that guy cut his hand in a drunk celebration of the '06 Wildcard, he has been a bit of a outcast(LOL.) THAT HURT(NOT HAVING A LEFTY RELIEVER AGAINST THE METS.) Even though Joe wasn't here, baseball guys really have no respect for somebody who left their team in a bad spot. He hasn't been that good since then, either. 2 years ago, he was money. Now he is unreliable. Like you saw him do just tonite. He a fck up.