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Phillies need to pickup the pieces

A trip out to the West Coast for the Phillies has brought nothing but quiet bats, losses, and Jimmy being Jimmy. Or was that Manny being Manny? Oh well, when your making $8 million this year and millions before, I guess you can say whatever you want to when your Jimmy Rollins. I think a lot of these ballplayers lose sight of who actually comes out to see them. It isn’t millionaires for the most part, they’re too busy making money to actually go out and see the team, no it’s hard working people who have to put their season tickets on credit cards and pay on time just to keep their season seats. So, are you going to support that fan, Jimmy? No, I didn’t think so. I’ve always liked Jimmy and I continue to be a fan of his but get off this subject and get out there and start getting the job done on the field!

  Well, moving on, we have a swept team looking for salvation in San Diego tonight. This team needs a win, as the Mets won against Pittsburgh and look like a team turned around. The Phillies need to win every time the Mets win just to stay up with them, the minute the Phils lose when the Mets win, they start digging that winter hole that they can crawl into in October and miss the playoffs.

   What happened? J Roll seems to be off on a temper tantrum, Utley curses at the fans that boo right on national tv, the whole team isn’t hitting almost like Ryan Howard’s average every game and Myers looks like he’s going to kill someone out there on the mound when he’s pitching. This is certainly going from bad to worse, they need a bit of lightening up a bit, bring a clown into the clubhouse or something, a comedian perhaps. The team needs to take a load off their mind, and just relax and play baseball. 

    I predict the Phils knock the seams off the ball tonight and win big in game one in San Diego!

   The team did lose 6 straight already this year in June, I don’t think they break that streak. They need a win though and start taking every game seriously but relax and have fun.

Phillies vs. Manny (bad act) Ramirez and the LA Dodgers

The Phillies are out west in Dodgerland after a tremendous win on
Sunday in a game that felt like it took forever to play with the 1:47
rain delay right from the scheduled start time of 1:35pm yesterday.

The team needed Chase Utley to snap out of his hitting funk, he sort of
did with the homerun that sealed the Phillies victory but I hope that’s
the start of Utley getting hot again. He seemed to have a lot on his
mind as he came up to bat yesterday at Citizens Bank Park.

Meanwhile, the Mets and the Marlins get a double dose of losing today
and it puts a little distance between the first place Phillies if the
Phillies can come up with a couple wins in LA, namely winning tonight
the first game on Monday August 11.

Is the Phillies still a
powerhouse playoff team, I am not that convinced that they are. They
have been winning but not in a convincing fashion. They have sputtered
terribly offensively lately and have sputtered a number of times this
year for unknown reasons. It just seems that they are not all that
happy as a team out there sometimes.

The 1993 team had fun
along the way, this team seems uptight about something, there are some
really long faces out there perhaps the team should start watching the
Phanatic and just relax a little and have some fun.

The Dodgers are now home for a 10 game homestand with the Phils coming in for the first three of them.

Game One vs LA:

PHI: Kendrick (10-5, 4.37 ERA)
LAD: Lowe (8-10, 4.10 ERA)

Rich Baxter – Fightin Phillies

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