Watching the Padres-Rockies game and a promo comes on for NBC10’s local news team. After the usual stuff about fires and weather, all of a sudden the cheesy announcer dude says in his serious voice, “A psychic poodle…a deadly message. Exclusively on NBC.” Wow, I bet FOX and KYW are just kicking themselves or not being able to land the psychic poodle story.
Jams Win (Repped by this dude)
What team did the Phillies lose their 10,000th game to?
Young old and restless wins
Who was the only pitcher in the Phillies bullpen besides the injured Ryan Madsen to have an ERA under 4?
Pics of the winners
Gonna post pics of the winners of last weeks quizzo with questions about the Phillies underneath. One guess per person.
Around the Horn, brought to you by your 2007 New York Mets!!!
-I used to hang out with these guys, the Tangled Thoughts, a few years ago when they still lived in Philly, and used to watch them at Abilene’s. Well, things have taken off since they moved to Cali. They got hooked up with Kurupt and just released their first album. Here’s a few tunes they have on Myspace. I like “Jumpoff”.
–The Metro launched their new blog, Metropolis, today.
–Rudy Giuliani is going to eat at Geno’s tonight to show his support for racism. If anybody wants to go and chant, “Gen-O-pho-bic! (clap-clap, clap-clap-clap) Gen-O-pho-bic!” give me a holler. I’m down.
–Have you heard of Pricasso? The artist who paints portraits with his, um, manhood? (This is SFW, but if your boss walks by he’s going to think you are kind of insane.)
-Steve O. is gonna be playing Andy Reid on Comcast Sportsnite at 7:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. After last night’s game, I think this could be a great opportunity to see Steve O. get beat up on television.
Going to CIty Hall
Yo, I’m gonna check out the rally at City Hall. It’ll be a little different than the impromptu celebration we had on Broad yesterday (more on that later), but it’ll still be fun. I’ll be back this afternoon to do my write up about what was an incredible weekend of celebration, heartbreak, and finally euphoria in the middle of Broad Street. Oh, and if anybody wants to see me follow through on a dreadful bet, be at the Bards tomorrow night. I have to drink Mind Erasers. I told the Kingdom I would never drink another one unless the Phils went to the playoffs.
How sweet it is!!!!
Story to follow whenever I recover from my hangover! How sweet it is! How sweet it is! Here’s a few select calls from Harry in the 9th:
HARRY KALAS: You hear the cheer? You hear the cheer? You know what that is? That’s the final out at Shea Stadium…This is just unbelievably exciting. Wow! What great fans…This is really special to be here and see this. This is quite an afternoon…This is truly exciting…Curve ball, struck him out! THe Phillies are National League East champions!
Closing remarks
If you haven’t played the new online quizzo, check it out! If you have played it, please tell your friends. I think I have an opportunity to really do some fun stuff here, but I really need you guys to help me promote it. I greatly appreciate your help. Should have a new one up next week.
Also, I’m going to the Phils games tonight and tomorrow. Neither is an afternoon special, so they should be OK. Right? We sweep and we’re in, and we can celebrate with an Eagles win over the Giants on Sunday night. Fellas, the fact is that you will not be leaving the couch or bar stool all weekend, so you’re gonna have to agree to take the little lady out somewhere real nice next week. I suggest Chili’s. And to show her how much you care, give her the gift that lasts forever: plastic roses.
Thank you Lazaro’s
The good guys at Lazaro’s hooked it up a couple of weeks ago. We had an open house for the basketball Little League at my YMCA (if anyone is interested in volunteering or donating funds, jerseys, etc., let me know), and the guys at Lazaros (17th and South) gave us a great deal on pizza. Thanks guys! And keep up the good work.
3 Game Season
First off, gotta give credit where credit is due: I regularly check in on Metsblog to see what the hairy necks are up to, and I have to admit, I’m pretty impressed with what this Metsblog writer had to say. Apparently Mets fans are all jumping off the bandwagon, calling talk radio and going ballistic, leaving 3 run games in the 6th inning, etc. In other words, acting ways that the national media says that only Philly fans act. But man, the only thing as fun as coming from 7 games back is coming from 7 games back against the Mets. So now, a conundrum: I kind of want the Mets to make the playoffs, albeit as a wild card. I think a Mets-Phils NLCS would be off the freaking Richter.
Then again, I’m getting a little ahead of myself. The Phils still have to cool off a red hot Nationals team, the same team that kicked us out of the playoff race two years ago. But something feels different about this Phils team, and I’m sensing something I didn’t sense a couple of years ago: confidence. Phillie players (and fans) fully expect to win the damn thing. This particular team has captured this city’s hearts like no team in the city since I moved here 6 years ago, and I even count the Eagles team that went to the Super Bowl, because nobody enjoyed that team b/c they were expected to make it to the Super Bowl (or at least the NFC championship game).
We have a goofy manager that the fans still have a love/hate relationship with (and leaning a little heavier on the hate), a roster that has been ravaged by injuries, a shortstop who said they were the team to beat in March and then backed it up 159 freaking times in a row, a catcher who played in the minors for 14 years, a LF whose career was considered to be over until he suddenly surged back and rescued the team when their star 2B went out, a fun loving Hawaiian, Mitch Williams joining the post game show, etc., etc., etc. Oh, and don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Harry has slipped into his playoff voice these past few nights, and it is spine tingling. I have been a sports fan for over 25 years, and I have to say that this has been the most fun ride I’ve ever been on. I really hope it continues past this weekend.