Other Philadelphia Sports Thread IX

C'mon.....you know that you shouldn't underestimate it.

 

You're right. I should have thought that the Dark Forces extended to candy & gum. My bad.

 

Forgive me if this has been covered already -- but what in heaven's name are the defending MLL champion Philadelphia Barrage doing without a home ground? I mean, there are stadia in the area from Princeton, N.J. to West Chester, from Doylestown to Newark, Del. which would be IDEAL for the team and not too expensive to rent for five or six games. WTF is going on here? Is the great Body By Jake Experiment at its nadir?

 

I was wondering if anyone else noticed that during the European Championship broadcasts the announcers are talking a lot about the NBA finals. I know why they are doing this, cross promotion of ABC's other tournament, but I think it is a good thing for other reasons, besides seeing that Tommy Smythe not only knows next to nothing about soccer, but other sports too.
Having announcers talk about other sports makes soccer seem more like a sport that belongs with the other sports that we watch and love and not some foreign visitor only watched by people out of the main stream (see WIP).

 

Oh thats six in one, a half dozen in another.

 

It's not just that they don't have a stadium; they don't have an ownership group, since the owners got kicked out of the league.

So the league is running them, and the league is going to run them in the way that makes most sense for the league. That's why they'll be playing their "home" games this year in towns that are being considered for expansion franchises next year. After which, they'll either get sold off to one of those cities or go back to Villanova.

 

David Bell for life

 

I thought it was Ugeth Urbina that got life.

 

I think they get a car insurance discount due to his AARP membership.

 

Jamie Moyer has actually been dead for five years now. It's really just Cole Hamels in a wig.

 

because he is a vampire, and he will kill everyone.

"Um, Mr Moyer? It's time for you to sleep in the soil of your home country."

 

When is this putrid Phillies team going to start hitting? This is rediculous how painful it is to watch this team struggling to score runs. Yuck!!!!

 

Will the Phillies just do all the fans a favor already and cut Kendrick. It's sickening to watch him pitch.

 

The Phils' offense is pathetic and disgusting.
I don't think they'll EVER be able to score 25 runs in a game.

 

wow, you guys are a tough crowd! haha, I'd say the team they have now rates pretty high if you rate them by the "phillies scale".

Not the front office and ownership side though, I'll concede that they're terrible.

They are certainly an aggravating team to watch though, but we're Philadelphia sports fans, we should be terribly used to that. It's been that way as long as I've been alive