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Ryan Howard put good wood on a baseball and sent it to the deepest angle of Great American ballpark. Off the bat, it looked long gone, but it ricocheted off the top of the center field wall. That summed up the day for the Phillies: nothing seemed to go their way.
Kyle Kendrick retired the first ten batters he faced, but fell apart quickly after. In the fourth inning, Scott Rolen smacked a two-run shot to left. Since leaving the Phillies, Rolen has given his former club all sorts of fits (.350 AVG career vs. Phillies) and troubles. But that is typical for most ex-Phillies; it's nothing out of the ordinary.
The Reds kept chipping away and tacked Kendrick for six runs (five earned) in 6.1 innings.
Meanwhile, Johnny Cueto cruised along, surrendering just one run in eight innings of work. He got plenty of help from his defense, as the Reds backed him with numerous spectacular plays and web gems, showing why they lead the majors in fielding percentage.
The Phillies finally added a couple runs with two outs in the ninth inning. Raul Ibanez sent Bill Bray's breaking ball into the right field bleachers for a meaningless home run. It can't hurt his statistics.
There is a little concern regarding Chase Utley, who was mysteriously removed for a pinch hitter in the ninth inning. It was later revealed that Utley had his thumb wrapped, and will have an MRI tomorrow. Utley, who made a fielding error, injured his thumb by sliding head first into second base.
"Hopefully [Utley] isn't seriously-seriously hurt. But for him to leave the game, that in itself says something. That's the last guy is going to take himself out of the game," Shane Victorino said (via Ryan Lawrence).
There is no word on the severity of the injury, but if Utley were to miss time, that would be a huge blow for an already snake-bitten clubhouse. Placido Polanco would normally be the replacement, however he remains out of the lineup due to elbow problems. Losing any player of Utley's caliber is tough, so hopefully he does not miss a significant amount of time.
The Phillies' 7-3 loss showed that the Reds are legitimate contenders. They currently sit in first place in the National League Central, when in previous seasons they were towards the cellar. The Reds finally have a healthy mix of young, talented players and proven veterans. If the Phillies are going to contend, they have to beat teams like the Reds, who also have a chance to make the postseason.
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This team is a mess.
No leadoff hitter.
2 outfielders who don't hit.
Lack of homer power in the lineup.
Bottom of the lineup is a disaster.
They NEVER come back when they get down,
Face it, this is not the 2008 or 2009 team.
I completely disagree, we have Rollins just coming back who is starting to draw a few walks and a few hits a game. Gload and Valdez are filling in just fine in the bottom of the order and to say that Victorino and Ibanez CAN'T hit is exasperating. Just because they may not be at the top of their game does not mean they cannot hit. Also, the Philthers were 6-12 in interleague play in 2009 and just finished this year over .500 in interleague play. They have a better record leading into July this year than they did last year and on one last note Chooch should be back within days. Everyone is panicking just because Atlanta and NY might actually be good this year.
Ibanez cannot hit. The 6 hole is a black hole. Deal with it.
i knew the naysayers who are fans of other teams would be back. but take heart, the phillies are turned in the right direction and are gonna be in striking distance at the all star break. they will alsi have their yearly slump outta the way. It will be good for them to have a few days off to recover their health and refocus on the task at hand. Though, they are older and wiser, i don't doubt their determination
Hey jonnyboy……these are phillies fans saying this stuff…….
A few things first KK only struggled cause he was sent back out, I know he was leading off the top of the next inning but his pitches were getting up in the zone, should have pulled him and trust the pen to hold them down for 3 innings. Second, the reds are a good team and made some big plays on D. Plus the blown call on Raul's DP turn the tide in my opionon. Not sure Howard scores there, but that would have changed the game, had the Cueto on the ropes and he got a reprieve. This was not a bad lose really, it got ugly in the 7th. But they hit the ball hard, as long as Chase is not hurt, they will be fine. If Big Joe can come out tomorrow and keep the Reds in the ball park and pitch like he did the last time out, the Phillies will score some runs. Win Tomorrow and Doc wins on Wednesday.
What is the word on Chase anyone know
Chase is a guy who doesn't usually take head-first slides, which makes it even more of a shame if this injury keeps him out of the lineup. I absolutely love the way he plays the game, but that was a poor decision on his part. On the replay, it didn't even look like he was running hard into second until three-quarters of the way to the bag. Not vintage Utley in any way.
Umps with some crappy calls tonight.
Ibanez has one of the highest batting averages of anyone on the team over the last few weeks. Sadly he doesn't have much power and can't seem to go to the opposite field. Most of his hits are bleeders in between first and second. He has become as big of a GIDP nightmare as Valdez. Oh and his fielding isn't getting any better. All that said, I think he will end the year hitting around .260, which for a 6/7 hole guy isn't that bad.
J-Roll needs to keep working counts, in some games he has done that, in others he is back to his first pitch free swinging ways.
Lack of power is clearly an issue. As are the injuries. Then again, no one believed the Met's sucked last year because of injuries but rather because they were just that bad. The Phillies have been pretty lucky over the last few years in regards to injuries, seems like they are paying for them tonight.
Hopefully Blanton can continue to build off his last two starts.
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The team is certainly not in a mess, not firing on all cylinders but its foolish to expect them to be in a full out sprint at this point in the year.
As it stands the Braves and Mets weren't able to fully capitalize on the Phillies putrid run and now the teams trying a few different things to work out the best line-up. I frankly think Ibanez is getting a raw deal, he's overpaid and has underperformed this year but he was brought in to be a role player and not an all-star candidate. Contenders have to pay for role players like Ibanez, Polanco, Moyer, Baez to support the guys on your roster your paying the big money to. The Mets are a prime example of this, they were strong when they had an abundance of role players and when Minaya allowed the depth to leave or traded them to be replaced by journeymen they were just a mediocre team with no direction.
The Phils are primed to be in as good a position to contend as the last two years and it's on guys like Cole, Lidge, Werth, Madson, Happ to be ready to take it to the max when the wins and losses really do matter.
Did anyone hear the comment last night that the Phillies have only had their regular full lineup together for 5 games this season? Man, I knew the injuries were bad, but I didn't realize they were that bad. On a side note, I read this morning that Fausto Carmona might be available at the trade deadline. He's a sinker baller who might fair well at the Bank. Opinions anyone?
Say what?
The Mets had about the worst injury season in MLB history last year.
Based on what was happening pre-injuires last year and what is happening this year, (pssst , they are better than the Phillies ) I'd say it's fairly obvious they sucked because of injuries.
That injury "stat" is really misleading.
The only prime time regular player to miss significant time is Rollins.
It's not the injuries. it's the lack of production and/or consistency from the healthy players ( Ibanez…Utley…Howard…Werth).
And yes I know -Howard's average is good. But his power numbers are significantly down.
No, that "injury stat" is not misleading. Rollins missing significant time fouls up the entire order of things, because it forced Victorino into a role he's not made for and also changed the bottom of the lineup. When that is coupled with Ruiz being out, Polanco being out, Castro being unable to sub, it makes a HUGE difference. There have been games the Phils have played with three subs in the lineup. There have been games with career minor leaguers behind the plate. If that's not "significant," I'm not sure what is. When a team loses just ONE key player per game, it changes everything. Lets face it, Gload as leadoff hitter isn't exactly normal, and Valdez batting second isn't either.
I've never figured out why players slide head first. It's a proven formula for hand and wrist injuries.
Its like clockwork that the day after a loss everyone is running for the nearest cliff. There is still a LONG way to go in the season, and only 3.5 games out this is still anyone's division.
The fact that the Phillies have endured all kinds of injuries this year and are they only 3.5 out of first. With how bad things have been they should be almost 8 or 9 out, but the reason they are still right in it is because how good this team is still is. So they lost ONE game to a first place team on the road. That's shocking, yeah right. I say they bounce back tonight behind Big Joe and then close this series out with a win by Doc.
"And yes I know -Howard's average is good. But his power numbers are significantly down."
Here are a few others whose power numbers are down: Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder, Hanley Ramirez, and Derrick Lee (who some would rather seem to have than Howard). Those are just a few examples. And go figure it's starting to heat up and so is Howard's SLG%. He's slugging .648 this month. His power is really fading away.
Phillies just won something goofy like 9-of-their last 13 games … Rollins comes back, Moyer is pitching well
… and we lose last night, to the 1st place Reds, with Cueto on the hill .. and SURPRISE!! … we get to read comments about how this team sucks
the daily-flip-flop stuff is ridiculous.
The Phillies THIS YEAR, have had more significant injuries than any other team in baseball , and we're still 6 games above .500 right now … which I guess isn't good enough for the NEW fans (the ones since Sept 2007) who wanted the Phillies to clinch the 2010 World Series title this month
Here are the players in MLB that have 15 or more HRs, more RBI's and a higher batting average than Ryan Howard:
Howard is at .296, 15 HRs, 55 RBI
Josh Hamilton = .346, 18 HR, 57 RBI
Miguel Cabrera = .335, 20 HR, 66 RBI
Vladdy = .327, 15 HR 60 RBI
Paul Konerko = .296, 20 HR, 56 RBI
Here are the guys with less RBI, but 15+ HR, and a .296+ Batting Avg:
Cano = .359, 15 HR, 53 RBI
Justin Morneau = .350, 15 HR, 49 RBI
Joey Votto = .312, 16 HR, 51 RBI
Adrian Gonzalez= .306, 16 HR, 50 RBI
Kevin Youkilis = .306, 15 HR, 50 RBI
Pujols = .305, 16 HR, 52 RBI
Scott Rolen = .301, 17 HR, 53 RBI
So to say that Howard's "POWER NUMBERS ARE DOWN" is pretty dumb, because his numbers are right there with the best players in baseball
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14 lbs in 5 days isn't bad. May have to take a look. Nah, think I'll have another beer.
I still think there are too many people who think baseball is like football – every game being a "do or die". Somewhere in the low 90s takes the division. Looking at one game, or even one series is meaningless – you need to watch the trends.
The starting pitching is good enough – 2 aces, Moyer having an incredible year, Blanton progressing – will be typical Blanton by Aug (2 – 3 runs in 6 or 7 innings), KK a decent bottom of the order guy (gives you a chance win, doesn't wear out the pen by getting shelled in the 2nd). The bullpen is a little on the thin side, but good enough, maybe grab another scrap heap guy – will also have either Happ or KK there in a few weeks.
I don't care about the bottom of the order. While his power is down a bit, Ib is at career average – stay there, he'll be fine. Vic is a perfect #7 hitter – streaky, but is enough of a threat that you have to be concerned about him, comes through when you least expect it, plays solid center.
It's the 1-5 (except Howard) that concern me a bit. Rollins looks like the calf problems are behind him, and he is maintaining plate discipline – hits will come. PP is the best #2 hitter in baseball, but is banged up. There isn't another good option to bat 2nd. Utley was just starting to come back around – hopefully the injury isn't serious. Howard has been very solid – no complaints there. Werth's streaks have already been well documented. We can live with any one of those guys hurt/out/slumping, but it gets tough to score runs when its 2 or more.
The Reds are for real, need a pen though. Look for them to bring up Chapman.
I like where we're going, and if Rollins and either Utley or Polanco can stay on the field, still looking at being within a few (possibly in 1st) by the all-star break.
Zagurski could stand to lose a few.
Howards numbers are WAY down.You're comparing apples to oranges; Other guys' stats are irrelevant. It's him v him.
Scroll down to the 162 game projections.
POWER NUMBERS in baseball are way down …. pitchers are now dominating hitters in ways that haven't been seen in 20 years .. Howard's numbers are WAY DOWN from what? He usually doesn't hit his power surge until after the all-star break anyway.
The point I made last week though was last year, people bitched that Howard wasn't a good enough hitter ..
Right now he's hitting .296 … and his "POWER NUMBERS" are up there with the rest of the best in the game
Nobody is going to hit 50 HRs this year.. probably due to all the supplement stuff that they dont allow anymore. guys are afraid to take stuff that was "safe" in years past because a false-positive still gets you 50 games, and labels you a cheater for your entire career .
Also… where is the link for the 162 game projections? (there are 1,563 links on that page)
#2 …. I dont know how much that would mean anyway, three weeks ago, Ubaldo Jimenez was projected to have a season ERA under 1.10, with 37 Wins this season
a month ago Matt Capps was on pace to break the all-time record for Saves in a season
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i love how people bitch about his power numbers being down when he's almost hitting .300. then when he hits .250 but his power numbers are up he strikes out too much and is a liability.
barring injury i'd put a large sum of money that if howard hits over .290 for the year and will have 125+ RBIs and 40+ homeruns.
thats FOUR of the weight loss posts.. just a few more, and I'm a winner
Injuries are a huge problem, but that happens when you play in the WS two straight seasons. A lot of extra games and a shorter off season. That's why a repeat appearence was/is such a big deal. 3 in a row would be a miracle.
Let's recap the injuries closer, set-up man, #3 starter, #4 starter,3 other RP's, leadoff hitter, 3b playing hurt most of the year, Catcher…
Only 3.5 back. Phils are right there. Hyward just went on the DL and some of them older Braves who have been resting during theoff season will start to break down. Just have to hope Chase's injury isn't serious.
off season = post season. Also, Cueto pitched a very good game good pitching always beats good hitting. No need to panic.
Well forget Howard, then. BecauseI would agree, he isn't the one who is responsible for this team's lack of offense.
The numbers for Ibanez and Utley are markedly off from last year.
I would agree, even if Howard's are down, he is a second half guy.
Utley and Ibanez are not.
Utleys' 2009 numbers dropped from 2008, but not by that much . This year the drop is going to be steep.
Low 20's in homers, 75-80 RBI
Paltry for a #3 hitter.
The reason? I have no idea. Only one one answer ( unfortunatley ) makes sense.
i am so soso sick of people bashing ryan howard.ryan is actually hitting for a higher avg this year which is what everybody complained about for years,he still hitting hrs,still got the r.b.i.s,what else do u want??"??with out ryan this team would be 10 games back !!!!!
You could see this coming with regard to Ryan and his "power" numbers being down. Fans have been b!tching about his low BA every season since he's been up…."Oh, he strikes out too much, swings for the fences all the time. Why doesn't he try to hit more for average than power?" So….NOW his BA is up, HR's down, and people are STILL complaining. There are just Ryan Howard haters out there, and they'll never be satisfied with anything he does. Jeez….
I think Utley's numbers are easy to explain.. he's not a power-hitter
he's among the best All-Around players, but that is including things like Head-Heart-&-Hustle … he's never going to lead the league in the Triple Crown catergories, but he's one of the best players in the league.
Ibanez … played a longer season than he ever has before, complete with a second-half injury, and an offseason surgery.. He hasn't looked as bad as everyone wants to believe
but in reality, he'll be closer to his career average of 22 HRs, than his career high 2009 total of 34 HR… he's got 6 right now, I think he gets to 20 HRs
.260, 20 HRs, 80 RBI … all of those are conservative predictions, and I'd definitely take that from our #6-#7 hitter every single year
Mark, assuming you're talking 'roids. There is not an athlete on the planet who would surprise me if they were found to be using PEDs, Chase included (although he has pretty good hair for a roider). To state that only one answer makes sense is ridiculous, and un-American (innocent until proven guilty).
There are several possibilities, including – off juice, off speed, injury to any number of locations, newly married (which could have multiple sub-issues), eye issues, aging, lost drive to succeed (more unlikely than peds, but possible), no longer stealing signals, as well as several other universal causes – change in the ball, weather, widened strike zone,…
Power is down across the league (see Don M's post, at this point last year, 4 guys from the Phils were above Hamilton's homers, plus a bunch of others around the league). Personally, as long as the playing field is even, I don't really care what the cause is, but I have a hard time believing 90% of all hitters were juicing last year (think it was less than half even in the PEDs prime). Utley hasn't consistently looked right at the plate since April, but he has also played 170+ games two years in a row at a demanding, high contact position (while catcher may have a harder impact,there is at least 5 take out slides at 2nd for every play at the plate).
17 of Raul's 40 HRs as a Phillie came in his first two months with the team. He's hit 23 in the seven months that followed. The splits after those first two months are well documented and show no signs of changing. I don't see Ibanez getting to 20 HRs this season…he'll be lucky to hit 15.
I'm Ted Bell.
@bfo – Werth is fine. He shot off like a rocket; hit the slump when everyone else did; and is out of it now. Unfortunately Ibanez follows him & tends to bat into situations that either cause a double play or get Werth out & leave Ibanez on 1st (which makes me lose my voice yelling at the tv).
I love Chase Utley (aka 'God') as much as the next guy. I honestly wasn't worried about his hitting b/c I thought it would pick up later. I respect him as a player & a person. But on top of what you all have been talking about, his errors are up this season. I can only think he's tried to compensate & has developed an unfortunate tendency to hog the ball, backing up into CF & RF a LOT. Unnecessary – considering the calliber of players in CF & RF. They don't need help, and nobody likes a ball-hog. He does this to the point of causing collisions. He's lucky they both watch for him now. If he played on my HS team, someone would've called him out by now. Knock it off.
And suddenly that unnecessary steal at 2nd last night. If he'd just stayed at 1st…and finding out that he's injured on top of it just makes me angry at him. He's always trying to be a hero. Stop it. I understand he was playing 'all out', but it wasn't needed. Now he's cost the entire team.
What's with all the weight loss ads?
Phan, agreed – looks like Chase is overcompensating. There is a part of me that hopes he has a hand injury serious enough to put him on the dl for 15 days, but mild enough enough that it will be solid when he comes back. While not as variable as Vic, Werth is a streaky hitter, usually gets covered up by the other hot bats at the time. As much as I'd like to see it, I realize he's not going to hit 0.365 with 70 hrs, but 0.285, 35 hrs will work out quite nicely.
Through it all, I firmly believe the Phils are the team to beat in the NL. In their recent run the last 3+ years, they've never played well with a big lead, but always stayed in striking distance. I expect nothing less this year. In the east, they still have 4 of the best 8 positions players and 2 of the best 5 starters.
Utley & Howard make huge sums of money from this team & have for yrs (as does Roy Halladay now I might add).
Howard has just signed far in advance of anything anyone might call necessity for an even larger sum of money – for a team that now refuses to pay the other players that fans here would like to keep on this team. At an advanced age for a baseball player he has an Option wherein he will be paid $10mil whether or not he does a darned thing for the Phillies. That, by anyone's measure, is insanity.
THAT contract and the money calls attention to Ryan Howard and anything he does. THAT is why people focus on every small thing he does not do. THAT is why nothing he does will ever be enough. He alone is the one who wanted the money. He alone signed the contract and took the paycheck. He seems to be suffering the scrutiny just fine. It goes with the territory. If he didn't want it, then he shouldn't have taken it. My sympathy lies elsewhere.
Anyone consider the fact that Howards power numbers are down a bit because for a good while Werth wasn't hitting for sh*t and thus Howard wasn't seeing anything worth hitting either because pitchers would much rather pitch to Werth over Howard?
Cause that seems rather likely to me…
Also…Ken Griffey Jr. on his best day probably weight 30 lbs less than what Howard does now and he didn't have problems hitting home runs.
Im confused … Howard deserves "blame" for hitting .296, 15 HR, 55 RBI to this point?
Outside of the intelligent people that comment on this website, I would imagine that everyone, everywhere, at every stage of baseball, and especially within the Phillies organization would say that Howard is having a GREAT season to this point
Ryan Howard was going to get paid that much money by somebody… and the Phillies decided to keep him here instead of letting him walk. And it cost them money to do that.. Now, a similar market, St. Louis, will have to pay Pujols more than the contract that Ryan Howard just got, and whoever wants Prince Fielder will have to pay him something more than $100 M too
the Phillies figured if they were keeping Howard, they might as well drive everyone else's payroll up too
By reading some of these comments from some of these so-called "fans", I would say that Chicken Little is about to make another appearance to declare what he always does…..
Smart money says that in year 3 or 4 of this deal, Ryan Howard is going to be a BARGAIN for the Phillies…
He works his a$$ off every off-season, reports to Clearwater IN SHAPE, works on his fielding, works on his hitting, is a team leader.
Has the numbers so far this year to prove it…
And yet the guy is getting blamed for having "down" numbers. And the Phillies are getting blamed for keeping him here.
Why wouldn't it be a good bet….based on his work habits…and his history of production…that Ryan Howard will be producing what his contract is worth….or EVEN BETTER….in 3, 4, 5 years???
I agreed with Don M and Georgie regarding Howard's "power numbers". You will always have whiners complaining over nothing. Personally, RBIs are more important than how many homers Howard hits. Howard continues to be the team leader in RBIs and is among league leaders in the Year of The Pitchers. It's great that he has improved in making more contact, less strikeouts and hitting close to .300 for BA. His defensive fielding has also improved this season and last. Still..the whiners are out there…oh well.
If Utley is the ball hog and backing into the outfield too much, as Phan seems to think, why are his errors on infield grounders and throws? He hasn't made any that I know of when crashing into Jason Werth, and Werth hasn't made any crashing into Utley. Same goes for Victorino.
Personally, I think that today the weight loss ads are some of the most intelligent comments being posted.
Some of you guys are real losers. They just took 2 out of three from a real good Blue Jays team, and had one of the best June's in a while, and you're complaining about one loss to Johnny Cueto? Really?
next thing you know, people are gonna be mad that he is rumored to have ditched that smoking-hot white chick teacher/cheerleader
… and started dating Selita Ebanks
So regardless of his HR total.. Ryan Howard is definitely having an outstanding year
George: I said he was over-compensating for the infield errors by backing into CF & RF. Werth doesn't crash into Utley. Werth is in RF. You can see them calling the balls. Utley waves them off, George. It's not right. And it's JaYson, not Jason. Just saying.
I wasn't the one complaining about Ryan Howard. I never have. Please read and understand before you attack.
I was attempting to explain why – perhaps – others might. People have always and will always use the paycheck as an excuse to dissect a players performance. That's gone on before this site and it will go on after this site. I didn't make up that theory. And as I said, I don't have much sympathy for him. He's crying all the way to the bank, as they say. I don't really care. And he still has fine numbers (whether or not Werth hit). In point of fact, both he and Werth have fine season numbers so far. None of the griping, whining or whatever you all want to call all of the prior posts seems to bother Ryan Howard, nor should it. Who cares.
Utley and Polly going on the DL later today.
Now I know how the Met's felt.
I can't wait to see our infield of Howard, Rollins, Valdez and Castro…
Now would be a great time to call Garret Atkins and see if he has anything left in the tank.
".260, 20 HRs, 80 RBI … all of those are conservative predictions,"
So he's going to double his homer production in the second half?
I would say that is a very LIBERAL prediction.
"I like Ben's bat," said Manuel. "You're always looking for somebody to produce and you never know. The more you hit, the more playing time you're going to get and you can beat people out. [Ryan] Howard, [Shane] Victorino, they proved you can beat people out."
So, Ben Fran to start taking some of Raul's playing time?
I have been saying this….but…now's the time to give Cody Ransom a shot.
Maybe he's not the second coming of Ryne Sandberg or Mike Schmidt….but didn't he MORE than adequately fill-in for A-Rod last year??
Big blow for the Phills. I wonder if they're gonna make a trade like they did for Tadahito Iguchi.
at PHAN..
that's why i started that out with the IM CONFUSED.. and then asked a question about it..
I'm 99% sure that Ryan Howard knows he's having a great season, and everyone around baseball knows he's havinga great season … so a few people on blogs or sports-radio upset that he only has 15 HRs instead of 18 right now … wouldn't bother him
My point is that, I really can't believe that there are actual, knowledgeable Phillies fans that aren't VERY IMPRESSED and VERY HAPPY with Howard's season thus far
you really don't think that Ibanez is showing signs of being healthier and getting his swing back?
with 88 games to play, I would be shocked if Ibanez doesn't reach 20 HR and 80 RBI on the year
especially now that it looks like the Phillies will go back to
Rollins, Victorino, Werth, Howard, Ibanez, as the top 5 in the order
Thanks Don M. Sorry I didn't mean to lump you in with others. I'm not an inflammatory type and don't write things just to wind people up. I wouldn't start now.
Because,…. Francisco or Brown is ready to step in, hit over .250, and drive in runs like those of the League Leaders??
I think i just get too pi$$ed off about this site anymore …
EVERY SINGLE TIME the Phillies lose.. the next day is like the end of the world, and the bandwagon gets so much lighter from everyone jumping off
I've recently read negative things about … Ryan Howard, Raul Ibanez, Jayson Werth, Jamie Moyer, Cole Hamels, Jimmy Rollins, Shane Victorino … as though these guys aren't proven winners!?
Are some of them on the decline? Yes of course.. but I'd rather have a proven guy on the decline, somebody that's already accomplished somethng at this level, then to start releasing players and saying prayers that Domonic Brown at age 21, or whatever will step-in and be ready to contribute
Rollins isn't going to be the 2007 MVP ever again .. but that doesn't mean he's not an above-average player who can help us win a World Series again.
Raul Ibanez won't match his 2008 numbers ever again, but that doesn't mean that we should dump him and give his spot to a rookie
Pat Burrell had seasons where he didn't even hit .220 ….. people still love him to this day … why Ibanez gets such a bad wrap is beyond me.? Maybe if people didnt jock him so hard last year when he was so hot, they wouldn't feel so crushed right now, when he's average
i totally agree don
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Every time you hold a door open, you're attempting to solve one of those "a train leaves the station going west at 120 mph" problems, only in this case, the station is an entryway to a JC Penney, the conductor has shitty depth perception and no sense of timing, and the train is another human being who may be jogging up not to catch the door, but to nail you with a flying dive tackle. Why do we even bother anymore? Almost every public doorway has a handicap assistance button that will swing the thing open automatically if somebody is so distressed by the concept of portal-wrangling that they need external help with the issue. So I propose that we do away with the institution altogether: Starting today, everybody needs to turn around and carefully force every door they pass through shut afterward -- even if other people are actively trying to slip through it at the time. You just stand on the other side of that glass and determinedly wrestle the door to a complete, full-click latch while looking the other person directly in the eye the entire time.
It's the only way to avoid an awkward situation.
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Let me tell you a purely hypothetical story about a veritable mountain of a man named Bobert Rockway. Bobert was at his office one day, taking the elevator down from the weekly meeting of the World's Greatest Detective Society, when a small Asian lady stepped into the car with him. The pair waited in polite silence as the ride progressed uneventfully. Suddenly, Bobert's stomach grumbled -- being the bastion of public service that he is, Bobert is often too busy knockin' out supervillains and knockin' up supermodels to grab a reasonably timed lunch -- and, after a few seconds of silence, the diminutive woman turned to our hero and said, "Did you just fart?"
Somehow, Rockway restrained himself. He did not laugh in her face and tell her, "No, honey, I have man-farts." He did not jab a finger in her accusatory eye and inform her that "When I fart, you'll know it." He did not go on to elaborate that "When I fart, the fire alarm will go off. When I fart, confetti rains from the sky like a fucking Rip Taylor bit. When I fart, it's like somebody says the secret word on a kid's show: Everybody stops what they're doing and just. Starts. Screaming. My farts have flashed veterans back to 'Nam."
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"Charlie's deployed gas -- get your masks on, boys!"
He just smiled pleasantly and said, "Nope, my stomach growled. Missed lunch."
The Asian lady turned away from Bobert, visibly disgusted, and said, "Yeah. Right."
This is not a unique situation. There are entire comedy bits about this exact scenario: Somebody moves a chair across rubber, or their leather jacket squeaks just so, and then they have to awkwardly explain to a roomful of witnesses that what kind of sounded like flatulence was but sound and fury, signifying nothing. My question isn't "Why do we persecute these people without evidence?" Nor is it even "Is not a man innocent until proven guilty?" My question is: Why do people even ask? I'm genuinely curious what answer would make somebody happy in that situation. Do they really want personal confirmation of whose guts they're inhaling? If you inquire after a fart, and the offending party says "no," what are the other options? "Oh God, it must be a natural gas leak -- let's get outta here, gang!" If they look you dead in the eyes and simply answer "yes," how does the ensuing conversation go? What if they follow it up with "Welcome to the wrong side of my butthole" -- do you shake their hand because, damn it, you don't condone the act, but you have to admire the honesty? Some questions are better left unanswered, and when it comes to a stranger's intestinal musk, maybe we just embrace the enigmatic nature of life and try to take shallow breaths until the mystery passes.

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She showed me the screen on her phone: "We are at the game two hours early. Some things never change."
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As a child, you probably at some point read the story The Mitten. It's about a mouse (or a mole, depending on the version), who makes a home out of a lost mitten in the woods. Then, because the mitten looks so inviting to all the other animals of the forest, and because the mouse is a coward who doesn't know how to say no, every other species tries to cram in, as well. Finally, the mitten becomes so stuffed with wildlife that it splits at the seams and shreds into a bunch of unusable pieces. The moral, of course, is don't help the homeless, but The Mitten also makes a nice analogy for the way we sometimes ruin language, as well.
Surely we can cram in one more metaphor. It's such a big mitten, after all.
As words pass in and out of popular vernacular, we'll occasionally land on one in particular that we collectively love so much that we'll try to ascribe more meaning to it than the word can hold. We'll overuse it, misuse it, bastardize it, shoehorn it into conversations and generally exhaust it until what's left is no longer even a word but only a sound our faces make, abused to the point of worthlessness. When that happens, the most humane thing to do is put an end to the misery and just kill it. What follows are four of those popular words that lost all meaning after we accidentally loved them a little too hard. I'd like to request that we drag them out this one last time, fill up the tub and hold them underwater until they stop moving. Or just quit using them, either one is fine, really.
Like the common cold virus, the meaning of "hipster" has always been in a perpetual state of mutation, which makes it tricky to pin down. The word "hipster" existed long before the 2000s but really gained traction in the last 13 years. The more modern use of the word originated as a way to describe a group of self-entitled, middle-class urban kids rallied behind a Neverland approach to fashion, strong liberal opinions so long as they're convenient and a fundamental misunderstanding of irony. But we were careless with the word. We had so much fun yelling it at people with coonskin caps, waxed mustaches, or one-man bands that only play dictator speeches through a hollowed pumpkin that gradually hipster started to swallow more and more subcultures until it finally became an all-encompassing shorthand for anything or anyone deserving of hatred.
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Horses aren't blonde. Nice French hat, hipster.
Today, no one is a self-proclaimed hipster but everyone has been accused at least once of being one, which is a pretty good indicator that no one knows what the hell it means. Go ahead and try typing "hipster" into a Twitter search and see how generously the word has been slathered over everything in the last 24 hours. When everything can be denounced as "hipster," then the insult loses all its bite and the word is useless. So let's kill it. Let's ease it into a bathtub of warm cheap beer, slit its wrists with '80s snap bracelets and drop in an electric record player warbling out an Animal Collective song on limited-edition vinyl. It's high time we get back to work finding more articulate ways to attack each other. Oh, speaking of attacks ...
Anonymity has afforded us all many luxuries online: We can self-diagnose embarrassing medical conditions, stare at human genitals as long as we like and, above all, we can burn the beliefs and convictions of other people to the ground with no consequences. "Trolling" started as the bold, philanthropic effort of a few miserable people to share that misery with the rest of the Internet, using one hand to type and the other to firmly grip their own genitals in a climax of pure, wet sadness.
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Drink it in. Not literally, of course, that would be terrible for you.
It was all achieved by inciting outrage and fury in comment sections around the Internet, usually through deliberate racism, sexism, and ignorance. But gradually, the definition of "troll" broadened to include all the people who were genuinely racist, sexist, and ignorant, too, because no one could tell the difference; even the trolls had vastly overestimated the moral fiber of human beings with Internet access. Finally, once all the bigots adopted the word, as well, "troll" just meant anyone who didn't agree with you, which, if you spend any time in the comment sections, including the one below, is pretty much everyone. On just about any YouTube video, you can watch at least one heated argument devolve into a collaboration between enemies trying to land on a practical definition for "trolling."
Today, it includes any act that could potentially enrage someone else, online or off. The word has left the keyboard and leapt into the mouths of stupid people in their everyday lives. Trolls looking for heroes have confused "trolling" with satire, claiming Jonathan Swift and Stephen Colbert as some of their own. Even pranks and protests have fallen under the umbrella of "trolling" now. In the ultimate example of confusion, the following video shows trolls creating a sign that says "troll" in order to troll a religious zealot by labeling him a "troll."
Nobody knows which side they stand on anymore because no one actually knows what the word means. When it can be used to describe everyone everywhere doing something potentially disagreeable, it's time to euthanize it and start relying on more descriptive words.


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The story behind a monumental decisionFebruary 04,2013Provided Photo
The Adam-Pirie Quarry is the source of Rock of Ages dark gray granite.
This first in a two-part article on Vermonts granite industry, the latest in a monthly series, is provided courtesy of the Vermont Granite Museum. Its origin springs from my and my wifes decision to design and erect our monument before our deaths and differs from previous historical articles in that it describes the current operations at Rock of Ages. The story of our monument is told from design to quarrying to finishing to setting in the cemetery.
By Paul Wood
Our monument is of blue-gray (Round Seal) granite from the Rock of Ages Adam-Pirie Quarry a mother lode of granite with an apparently inexhaustible future supply.
The monument is a double tablet with double exaggerated serpentine top. The exaggerated serpentine (with a 5-inch drop) resembles 19th-century slate and marble tablets. The monument measures 60 inches tall (with 18 inches below ground) by 44 inches wide by 6 inches deep.
The tablet is steeled (dusted) on all surfaces. There are two shape-carved lamps of knowledge (the symbol of enlightenment and the guiding light of scientific inquiry that dispels the darkness of ignorance) centered under each serpentine top.
The lettering is cut in Classic Roman font on the front of the tablet and consists of full names and full dates of birth. The full dates of death will be added below the dates of birth.
Since selecting a monument is a once- or twice-in-a-lifetime event, most people need guidance in designing a monument even though they may have seen a monument they like in a cemetery. We were fortunate to have the help and guidance of Steven Benoit, Rock of Ages memorial studio manager.
There are many options type of granite, monument shape and size, finishes, symbols and ornamentation, text (names, dates, verse, etc.), text fonts and sizes, and placement of the lettering and ornamentation. Pre-need customers like us (those who purchase a monument for themselves) make up about 20 percent of ROAs customer base. We wanted to select a monument design that represented our taste and hoped to spare our children this task at a probably difficult time for them.
ROA uses two computer-aided design programs RockCAD (ROA designed) and Monu-Cad to help customers visualize monument designs as they evolve.
There are about 50 letter fonts available in the design software. Although we thought the Classic Roman font worked the best for our names, there are a number of other popular fonts, including Modified Roman (Classic Roman redesigned so all the letters have equal value), Condensed Roman (good for small lettering and tight spaces), and Vermarco (a san-serif font with a condensed value). Sometimes a softer font with more script-like flow is used for a verse.
A draftsman prepares a full-size drawing including lettering and decorative carvings. In our case, the draftsman was guided by a photo of a hand-carved lamp on my wifes parents monument. The full-size drawing was mailed to us for our approval and signature.
Barre is blessed with virtually unlimited deposits of gray granite that in the 20th century became the worlds standard monumental gray granite by which all others were judged.
Although some granites weather poorly and stain deeply, Barre grays carve well, are durable to the elements, do not stain easily, and are cleanable.
There are three grades of granite quarried in Barre based on color and consistency of grain: light gray, medium gray, dark blue-gray.
Barre medium and light gray granite is quarried at the Smith Quarry. Blue gray, from the Adam-Pirie Quarry, is the darkest, has the finest grain, polishes the best, and is the best for shape carving. Medium gray costs about 10 percent more than light gray and dark blue-gray costs about 10 percent more than medium gray.
ROA-branded Barre medium and dark blue-gray granite is warranted against cracking, checking, discoloring or fading backed by a trust fund managed independently from ROA. Light gray is mostly used for markers and non-monumental applications.
Other non-Barre ROA granites that are popular for monuments are American Black (Pennsylvania) and Laurentian Pink (Canada). Some of the non-Barre granites can cost up to twice that of the Barre gray granite due to the low recovery rate of these granites. The recovery rates are approximately 6 to 8 percent for American Black compared with 15 to 20 percent for Barre gray granites.
Recently more stone has needed to be quarried at the Adam-Pirie Quarry since the recovery rate has dropped, and as a result drilling has become a bottleneck. The quarry has gone to two shifts because of the limited work area for high quality stone.
In 1882, James K. Pirie and George Lamson established the firm of Lamson & Pirie and purchased 12 acres of land in Williamstown from a farmer by the name of W.S. Flint. The land was strewn with large granite boulders, giving hints of the extensive granite deposit below that was developed into a quarry and passed into the sole ownership of Pirie in 1902.
This was Barres darkest and most expensive granite with a high percentage of feldspar. Its uniform texture, excellent polish, and durability made Pirie granite highly sought after for monuments. In 1955, the Pirie family sold the quarry to ROA.
The Pirie Quarry is now closed not running out of granite but, rather, the remaining deeper granite could not be quarried economically. In 1974, ROA opened the Adam-Pirie Quarry in Williamstown adjacent to the old Pirie Quarry with virtually identical granite. Butch MacRitchie is currently the supervisor at the Adam-Pirie Quarry.
Quarrying technologies at ROA are constantly changing and improving. The following is an overview of the technologies currently in use at the Adam-Pirie Quarry. (The ROA quarries at Woodbury and Bethel are similar in operation.)
The most important quarry equipment consists of slot drills, lift hole drills, double deep hole drills, down-the-hole hammer (DTH) drills, wire saws, inflatable water and air bags, front-end (wheel) loaders, and a 250-ton steel boom derrick used to move equipment and to lift granite from sumps (new development areas).
The pneumatic slot, lift hole, and double deep hole drills were manufactured by Tamrock of Tampere, Finland. ROA uses water to mitigate airborne drilling dust and wire sawing needs water to both flush away the cuttings and to keep down the dust. The required water is pumped from the adjacent, now-flooded old Pirie Quarry.
Currently, both the Adam-Pirie and the Smith Quarries are supplied by large efficient stationary reciprocating (piston) compressors located in the old central compressor house. There are some energy losses in long pipes from the compressor house but there is the compensating benefit that the pipes form a large reservoir of compressed air.
Since the large stationary compressors are expensive to operate, the plan is to use small screw-type electric compressors in the near future and if more capacity is needed, the less-efficient portable diesel-powered compressors will also be used.
Rotary screw compressors employ two meshing helical screws, known as rotors, to compress the gas. The smaller capacity of screw-type compressor is more in line with the reduced compressed air needs (only a single pneumatic drill may be operating at one time) due to the increased usage of wire saws.
Quarrying at the Adam-Pirie Quarry is primarily carried out with diamond wire saws. A very large block called the bench about 40 feet by 30 feet by 20 feet high is the first to be released from the quarry wall by wire sawing.
For stone thats tight (that is, has no seams, beds or fractures running through it) and wont fall apart, the back, side and bottom are wire sawn to release the block. At the Adam-Pirie Quarry, slot drills and lift hole drills (with 1 and 7/8-inch diameter drill bits) are used to bore the vertical and horizontal wire saw pilot holes, respectively.
Only three pilot holes are required to release each bench, joining at right angles at a common point at the lower rear of the bench: (1) a horizontal hole along the bottom of the benchs back, (2) a horizontal hole along the bottom of the benchs attached side, and (3) a vertical hole along the back of the benchs attached side.
Holes (1) and (2) are used for sawing the bottom, (1) and (3) for the back, and (2) and (3) for the side. First, a string tied to a cork (or ear plug) is flushed through the pilot holes with water and then the string is used to pull through the saw wire. The wire is formed into a loop and reeved around a pulley driven by a motor mounted on a track.
To keep the wire under constant tension, a set of gears moves the motor back along the track an adjustable distance from the stone for every revolution of the wire loop. For the horizontal undercut, wedges are used to prevent the wire from binding up.
With the DTH drill, purchased from Marini Quarries Group of Villadossola, Italy and other manufacturers, the drill hammer actually follows the bit into the hole. The drill consists of a hammer at the end of a hollow 2½ to 3-inch steel tube with a slowly rotating carbide button bit that is slightly larger in diameter than the tube.
The drill is powered both pneumatically and hydraulically. With ordinary drills, holes more than 25 to 30 feet deep tend to wander due to the bending of the drill shafts and looseness of the couplings, whereas the DTH drill is much more accurate allowing a pair of pilot holes to accurately meet at their bottoms. Holes that dont perfectly meet leave sharp edges that can cut the fishing string or damage the saw wire.
Holes can be up to 40 to 60 feet deep. Some of these drills are self-contained and mounted on tracks and so they can be driven right up to the location to be drilled. The Adam-Pirie Quarry started to use the DTH drill in 2012 and is using both the DTH drill and standard drills for pilot holes.
The bench, weighing about 2,000 tons, is too large to move and must be further subdivided by wire sawing along the benchs hardway lines the direction of most difficult cutting or splitting.
Pilot holes are drilled horizontally along the hardway at about 5-foot intervals along the bottom of the bench, and then either vertical pilot holes are drilled along the side of the bench to meet these holes or water bags are used in the side channel to slide the entire bench out several inches to make the ends of the horizontal holes accessible for fishing through the saw wire.
The water bags are thin enough that they can fit into channels made by a wire saw. The bench is then wire sawn into eight large slabs measuring approximately 30 feet by 20 feet by 5 fet. Since wire saw channels are only ¾ inch wide as compared to 3 to 4 inches wide for the older drill or burner technology, wire sawing saves a lot of stone about a quarter cubic foot of granite for every square foot of stone sawn. Also, the smoother sawn surfaces allow more accurate quality inspections by the stone grader.
Water bags consist of two thin steel plates welded together around the edges with a small valve in one corner. The bag is inflated by water pushed through a pressure (power) washer.
Water bags are recycled as scrap after a single use since the steel is permanently deformed. Because of the valve, water bags can only go part way into a channel. A water bag is normally placed at the top of a wire saw cut and another at the bottom to prevent a slab from breaking in half.
Each of these slabs is laid over, a process called tipping the line, laying over the line, or turning the cut, starting at the front of the bench and working toward the back. Padding is used to cushion the fall of the slab. Water bags can push stone a maximum of about 4 or 5 inches which usually is not enough to tip the line.
If the line is not too high, a front-end loader with a toothed tipping boom is used to pull the line over. If the line is too high, then air bags with a longer expansion capability (up to two feet) are used to tip the line. Air bags are made of a rubberized fabric-like material and are inflated with 100 psi compressed air. Air bags can be used multiple times until they sustain a leak caused by a cut.
The large slabs can be split with traditional plug drills and feathers and wedges since the splitting is along the easier rift and lift directions. A grader/inspector lays out the slab avoiding discoloration, swirls, beds, and other stone defects to recover the maximum amount of stone possible, up to eight saw blocks if all the stone can be used.
The lower a quarrys recovery rate, the longer it takes to lay out a slab. Each saw block measures about 5 feet by 5 feet by 10 feet (about 20 tons) and is managed by a front-end loader.
Hence, there is no need for explosives except for the infrequent breaking of the hardway lines of a keyway (the first bench removed from a long step-shaped wall), after which quarrying can move horizontally in both directions along the step without explosives.
Explosives are also required for the rare cutting of a sump a swimming pool-shaped hole cut so quarrying can spread out horizontally from a new lower layer. The reduction in the use of explosives has advantages in both cost and safety. The wire saw has made this possible by its ability to saw the bottom of blocks which had previously been detached by explosives.
The Adam-Pirie Quarry was the first in Barre to be reconfigured into a drive-in quarry in which a network of roads was built to allow mobile cranes, front-end loaders and trucks to access the bottom of the quarry.
The front-end loaders go right up to the working quarry face and haul saw blocks to a block yard at the edge of the quarry. Waste piles of small broken up material are hauled away in bucket loaders and back dragged into an area away from the active quarrying.
Each saw block is uniquely numbered as to its quarry location and size. As blocks are needed or sold, they are loaded by front-end loader onto flatbed trucks and transported to the ROA finishing plant or the customer.
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On Easter, as on Wall Street, one needs plenty of eggs in their basket
- 8:37 pm Saturday, March 30th, 2013 by Dian Vujovich
I love springtime, Easter and all the happy trappings and implications the season brings with it. Leaving any discussion about these religious celebrations to others more versed on those subjects, I'll stick to the whimsical in this blog. So, whether it's the Easter bunny or the boatload of eggs—the retirement nest egg type—that we're all supposed to have, this time of year proves to be a good one for counting.
As you can read in the picture caption "Got eggs?" my very adorable pooch Gracie knows all too well the meaning of a well-filled basket whether the eggs involved are candy, [More]