Other Sports Thread IV

can we change the title of this thread to Misery IV?

Thanks.

 

I don't want to hear about what a home run hitters park CBP is. It doesn't matter what the park's dimensions are when the team can't hit.

 

Chase Utley hit a home run in the bottom of the 11th last night to give the Phils an 8-6 win against the Padres

 

The Phils beat the Padres again today. Utley homered again. The score was 2-0. Utley also scored the other run off of Ryan Howard's sacrifice fly.

 

I can still dream...

NL EAST:
East W L Pct GB
Atlanta 55 44 .556 --
Washington 55 44 .556 --
Philadelphia 52 47 .525 3.0
NY Mets 51 47 .520 3.5
Florida 49 47 .510 4.5

NL WILD CARD:
Team W L GB Left
Atlanta 55 44 -- 63
Washington 55 44 -- 63
Philadelphia 52 47 3.0 63
NY Mets 51 47 3.5 64
Houston 51 47 3.5 64
Chi Cubs 50 48 4.5 64
Florida 49 47 4.5 66
Milwaukee 48 51 7.0 63
Arizona 48 52 7.5 62
LA Dodgers 44 54 10.5 64
Pittsburgh 43 56 12.0 63
San Francisco 42 55 12.0 65
Cincinnati 42 56 12.5 64
Colorado 34 63 20.0 65

 

Interesting how the top portion of the Wildcard standings are the NL East standings with the Cubs and Astros thrown in.

At the begininng of the season, I thought any one of four teams could take the division, the Nats have only complicated matters.

 

Given a choice between the Phillies making the playoffs or Wade being fired which do you want, and you can't have both?

I think I know the answer.

 

Fire Wade. Playoffs in times to come. I have given up on them for this year. Too inconsistent.
Fire Jethro too. Never should have hired that bumpkin.
We will have both, just not this year. We shall not ever make the post season as long as wade is pushing the buttons.

 

I agree, but I worry that too many Phils fans would take the playoff berth.

 

Why worry? It's out of their control. People don't know what's good for them. They want instant gratification.
I would rather develop a consistently good team, like the Braves, one that contends every year and even gives you one championship a decade rather than loading up on veteran hired guns/mercenaries to win one championship this year, only to have a fire sale in the off-season and bring in a bunch of rookies and AA call-ups to rebuild.
But hey, that's just me. Taking the long view is a job hazard of an architect...

 

I never understood rooting against your own team to make the playoffs. if the team makes the playoffs the pieces assembled were good enough to get there.

if you'd reather see one guy fired than 30 something make the playoffs, you just don't get it.

 

The Phils lost in the bottom of the 9th inning yesterday. Lamb hit a walk-off home run. They face Roger Clemens tonight...

 

I get it, oh do I get it. I am old enough to remember better Phillies teams than this get clobbered in the home stretch.
It's not that I am rooting against them, it's just that in Philadelphia, we know the signs of disappointment, we can recognize them coming from miles away, and this has all the earmarks of just such a letdown. It's not that they're bad, it just that they are too inconsistent. They need to hir someone who can put together a solid team and then have that team perform as solidly as they need to in order to win. Not an easy job, I grant you, but Wade is not the man for it.

 

I can't wait.

 

Let me post here what I posted in the old sports thread (sorry for not noticing this one before I posted in the old thread)

I just looked at the Flyers' 2005-2006 season schedule. They have an eleven-game road trip bewteen December 23rd, and January 12th.

WHAT IN THE WORLD??!

That's unheard-of in hockey to play that many games consecutively away from home. Who does that!

 

It's almost entirely an East Coast road trip, ending with two Midwestern cities...it makes no sense.

Dec. 23 at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 26 at Florida, 7 p.m.
Dec. 28 at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
Dec. 29 at Carolina, 7 p.m.
Dec. 31 at Washington, 1 p.m.

Jan. 2 at Boston, 1 p.m.
Jan. 5 at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Jan. 6 at Washington, 7 p.m.
Jan. 9 at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 11 at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
Jan. 12 at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.


Awh man! The Mighty Ducks just picked the kid from Cherry Hill (with the second pick). I hoping the Flyers might trade up for him, but that would have required a lot to give up.

 

Well, two Americans selected in the top three picks...not bad.

 

That's the only reason I could think of that would cause this scheduling aberration. But I have no idea if there is anything already scheduled at the Wac Center.