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“Just When I Thought I Was Out….
Posted on 18 Jun 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
…they pull me back in”. (cue heart attack) As the Phillies’ “slump” becomes ominously longer and longer, I have found myself resigned to the fact that a team can’t make it to the World Series, or even the playoffs, EVERY single year. I have had the best three years of my life in terms of baseball fandom. I must keep telling myself that it was only a year and half ago when I was one ...
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Perfect. Absolutely Perfect.
Posted on 30 May 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
In my last article, I wrote that the Phillies needed a player to step up and bring a jolt to the slumping club. Someone answered. Up until Saturday afternoon, there have only been 19 perfect games thrown in the modern era of baseball. Last night against the Florida Marlins, the Phillies’ Roy Halladay made it 20. The Phillies’ huge off-season acquisition proved once again why he was the #1 t...
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I Went To A Funeral, And A Phillies Game Broke Out
Posted on 28 May 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
I attended the last of the three-game series against the New York Mets at Citifield on Thursday night, hoping and wishing and praying that my presence alone would break the Phillies out of the ridiculous slump they are mired in right now. It didn't work. Even though I did have a wonderful time taking in the game, even with the two hour rain delay, watching these Phillies in person was painful. ...
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Why Interleague Play Must End
Posted on 24 May 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
This weekend, the Philadelphia Phillies lost two out of three to the Boston Red Sox. And once again, I lost my patience with the idea of Interleague play. Of course, it’s very easy for me to say as the Phillies have a tumultuous relationship with this regular season “novelty”. Since 2005, the Phils have gone 30-51 against American League teams. So you will excuse me if I don’t get too e...
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Let’s Hear It For The Pitchers
Posted on 8 May 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
For all the notoriety that the Phillies’ offense garners year in and year out, this week belonged to the pitchers. Let’s hear it for them. Let’s hear it for Joe Blanton. Big Joe returned from the DL to make his first start of the season against the NL’s best team in the St. Louis Cardinals. The beleaguered rotation needed Blanton to return, and while he got the “L”, he pit...
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Tase Of Our Lives
Posted on 5 May 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
As everyone knows by now, a 17-year old Philadelphia Phillies fan ran on to the field at Citizens Bank Park on Monday during the first game of a four-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals. What made this incident notable was the fact that the police officer used a Taser gun to bring down the field-crasher. The standard method to subdue these folks is the “rundown-ok-I've-made-my-poi...
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For Moyer, Mighty Moyer, Was Advancing To The Bat…
Posted on 3 May 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
As I watched what transpired in the bottom of the 4th inning of the Phillies-Mets game last night, I immediately flashed back to Game 2 of the 2008 NLDS against the Milwaukee Brewers. It wasn’t the playoffs, but it was eerily similar. If you remember, notoriously terrible-hitting pitcher Brett Myers worked a nine-pitch walk from one of the best hurlers in the game, CC Sabathia… probably one...
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Ryan Howard is Treating Everyone to Subway
Posted on 27 Apr 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
All of the worry surrounding Ryan Howard not being a Phillie past the 2011 season has been officially taken care off. Before their game against the Giants in San Francisco Monday night, the Phillies opened their checkbook and signed Howard to the largest contract in the franchise’s history: 5 year, $125 million, taking effect in 2011. They have a $23 million club option in 2017 with a $10 mil...
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Cliff Lee who?
Posted on 17 Apr 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
Behind another masterful performance from the 2010 NL Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay, the Phillies took the first of a three-game set against the Florida Marlins Friday night. (Yes, I’m already bestowing the award to the ex-Blue Jay. I’m sorry, but I don’t think there has been this type of a frightening, dominating starting pitcher in the NL since Randy Johnson. When Roy loses a game ...
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Jimmy Rollins to the D.L.
Posted on 14 Apr 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins was placed on the 15-day disabled list on Wednesday with a Grade 1/Grade 2 right calf strain. He injured it literally minutes before the Phillies' home opener against the Washington Nationals on Monday. After he was announced in the starting lineup and took his place on the foul line for the pre-game introductions, Jimmy strained the calf while sprinting in th...
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Hope May Spring Eternal, But Lunacy Springs In The First Week
Posted on 9 Apr 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
Nothing makes me chuckle more than the reactions of fans and critics during the first couple weeks of the baseball season. A team or player has a rough start? Time to panic! A light-hitting second basemen hits three home runs in his first two games? Time to be on the official 73 watch! Now the reason I say “chuckle” and not “ROTFLMAO…” is because I am ever-so-slightly guilty of...
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What do the Phillies and Jack Bauer have in common?
Posted on 5 Apr 2010 by Bryan Sargent.
They both kick ass. What does “24” have to do with baseball you ask? The answer will be explained later. I spent a beautiful Opening Day watching the Phillies taking on the Washington Nationals at an ex-pat Philadelphia bar in New York City called Wogies. Yuenglings, cheese steaks and most importantly, and emphatic 11-1 victory to start the 2010 season = A Perfect Day. Roy Halladay delivere...
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