Wednesday, October 28, 2009

In Depth World Series Preview

New York Yankees? More like New York STANKees!!! Am I right?

Phillies in 3.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Three Quick Predictions About the Home Run Derby

1. I won't watch it.

2. There will be a number of similar blogs tomorrow that complain about Chris Berman. They will be very similar to the day-after the HR Derby posts from 2008 and 2007.

3. ESPN will work Mike & Mike into the broadcast in a clever, hilarious way.

This is SOOOOO John Gonzalez

From his column today:

Nice to have Entourage back

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

My Ears!

I hate Rick Sutcliffe. He adds nothing to any broadcast that he is a part of (at least when he is sober). But to make life worse, ESPN's broadcast geniuses figure he will be easier to listen to when paired with Berman. I hate you ESPN. Why can't Yahoo start a sports network?

Monday, April 6, 2009

Take Me Back to 2008

Phils lose. Hits would help.

Wish I could add more analysis of the game, but I didn't watch a pitch. In the past I could tolerate Jon Miller and Joe Morgan during ESPN games, though I would have to switch them off at times in order to cleanse my listening pallette. But the addition of Steve Phillips to the broadcast is too much for me to tolerate. So no Sunday night games for this guy. I'll try and catch them on Tuesday. CATCH THEM GET IT!!

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Welcome Back

We are back from resting season. At least I am. Jim still may be on the streets of New York looking for his mp3 player.

So what have we missed? Someone, most likely Adam Eaton, slipped some Krytonite into Cole Hamels' Campbell's Soup. This probably had something to do with Eaton being released (that and the fact that he is a terrible pitcher). Geoff Jenkins also got the boot so the Phillies could flirt with Gary Sheffield. Chan Ho Park will be in the Phillies starting rotation which would be exciting news if it was 2000. Other than that, it was a pretty quiet Spring in Clearwater.

Here are some quick predictions by yours truly:

Ryan Howard will finally get off to a hot start. He'll have 30 home runs by the All Star Break.

Chase Utley will struggle early because he came back too soon from his crazy hip surgery. I don't think I'm going out on too far of a limb with this one.

Brad Lidge will blow a save. In fact, he may blow two.

Pedro Feliz will cause me to consider throwing my laptop into the middle of the street.

Shane Victorino will post a .700 OPS, which will cause the Phillies to make a move for another outfielder.

The Phillies will end up winning 88 games, which will be good enough for the Wild Card. Unfortunately, the Mets will win the Division.

NL Predictions:
East: Mets
Central: Cubs
West: Diamondbacks
WC: Phillies
NL Winner: Diamondbacks
MVP other than Pujols: Prince Fielder
Cy Young: Johan Santana

AL Predictions:
East: Red Sox
Central: White Sox
West: Angels
WC: Rays
AL Winner: Red Sox
MVP: Grady Sizemore
Cy Young: Jon Lester

Unfortunately for most of us, the Red Sox will win the World Series.

Raul Ibanez might not be the player that Pat Burrell was, but he is definitely a much better actor.