My Phillies have now won one game in a row
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I think getting the #1 pick is as safe a bet as you can get. I really think (hope) that the veterans will be gone after this year and the team will be loaded with younger players for next year. I expect next year to not be a good one, but how else do you really know if the "kids" can play? My hope is that after a year of looking at the youngsters the Phils (with tons of money) enter the free agent market big time. In short, I hope one more year of pain 
But who knows?
But who knows?
Ah, better days, Gambit. Ol #50 there can probably still get that floater up there and not break the 55 mph speed limit. We can use him to take some of the strain off Francouer out of the bullpen.
Well, I hope the return of your "better days" is not anywhere near as long as was that of the Pirates. There are few things worse in sport than watching a bad baseball team over 162 games.
I really agree. Crawford, Tucci, Quinn and all of those arms. We should have traded Hamels for Seager last year, if we could somehow still pull that off OMG. Or for a younger version of him from somewhere else.
No high priced talent is going to sign with the Phillies as long as Sandberg is manager. Though I think it is a certainty he will be gone at the end of the year.
Help out your PA brothers!!!!!!!!!!!!
A FG and a TD and lets hope the extra point is not moved back 20 yards and we are in business.......
A FG and a TD and lets hope the extra point is not moved back 20 yards and we are in business.......
I knew the Phils were going to be lousy this year, but their ineptitude is reaching epic proportions. They're playing like they want to get their manager fired or Sandberg is managing like he wants to get fired.
I’ve also been a life-long Phillies fan and have learned over the years (I remember as a very young kid having the picture of the 1950’s Whiz Kids over my bed) that you just have to take the bad with the worst. This Phillies team is beyond redemption and will be bad for years to come. I continue to look fro reasons for hope or even moderate interest, but see nothing. There are certain things hard to fix, like stupid. I understand the team is beyond hope, but little that’s done in the field or front office makes sense. Here’s some recent egregious examples:
1. Ryan Howard has an OPS of .820 vs. RHP and .542 vs. LHP. He should never see the field against a LHP. He’s now just a one-trick pony situational player.
2. Get what you can for Hamels. Pap, Chooch and any older player that has no future with the team. Branch Rickey said “Trade a player a year early rather than a year late”, a message that Amaro never got. Both Utley and Rollins are below the Mendoza line, and Utley’s trade value is now zero.
3. Bringing Aumont up for a start yesterday was the expected disaster as he just doesn’t know how to pitch in the big leagues.
I’ve read several ratings of the Philies farm system and they are rated around no. 20 in most of them, so there is also a lot of work to be done before the talent pipeline delivers quality players.
I do not believe there is a quick fix to getting the Phils back to relevancy as going the free agent route has its drawbacks. If there is a plan, it should be for sustained growth to ensure some more strong runs that we had during the 2004-2011 period. I’ll can’t stop being a fan, but my interest this year has a more than usual morbid tone.
