Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
UGH...
A few randoms from last night's rain-fest:
1. As we stated yesterday, the pressure is definitely on the Phillies to close out the series in game five. With Brett Myers (a mental midget, as my uncle calls him) set to pitch on the road in game six and Jamie Moyer (yes, he's a gamer -- but he also has the ability to get lit up) in game seven, it was imperative that Cole Hamels closed the deal last night.
2. Which brings us to our next point. We're not sure what Idiot Selig should have done last night. It was not raining when the game started. Should Idiot Selig have waited to start the game? What if the rain never came or was less than expected? The problem is the whole thing looks fixed when Idiot Selig called for a rain delay immediately after the Rays tied the game in the 6th inning. Had the Rays not tied the game, would Idiot Selig have allowed the game to continue in the flooded monsoon conditions?!?
3. The weather in Philadelphia tonight is supposed to be cold and...wait for it...wet. If the completion of game 5 gets pushed back to Wednesday, at least that would allow Hamels to start game 7 if, knock on wood, the series gets to that point.
4. Ugh. We are tired and grumpy. If the trio of Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley and Pat Burrell -- hitting a collective .138 (spearheaded by Burrell's impressive .000 average) -- suddenly decides to hit whenever game 5 resumes, that would eliminate the grumpy part.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
One More W...
Well, this doesn't happen to us very often. In fact, it hasn't happened to us since, like, what seems to be forever. One game from getting a Philadelphia sports championship. (Sorry, Arena Losers, Bon Jovi and Jaws bringing a title home via the Soul does NOT count!) True, it was only three years ago that the Eagles battled the Patriots in the Super Bowl. But deep down inside, we knew there was no way they were going to beat New England.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wow!
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Twelve games to watch today
Boston College at North Carolina -- Daddy Butch's kids are good at home, a little shaky on the road. Coach Jags' guys are just plain shaky. UNC 24 BC 21.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
The Legend Continues...
A few weeks ago, we got an e-mail from SJHJR24 detailing how he enjoyed reading about "the legend" of The Playmaker. (He was undoubtedly just being polite!)
Anyway, the legend continued last night. The Playmaker's Packer flag football team trailed 25-20 with three minutes to play. Two incomplete passes later, we faced a third down with just over a minute to play. (Flag football = running time.) Barry Switzer would have called it Sooner Magic (think Keith Jackson making a circus catch with 30 seconds left to set up a game winning field goal against Nebraska in 1985). The Playmaker ran a simple 10 yard button hook, caught the ball cleanly and then hauled-ass down the center of the field the remaining 30 yards to score as time expired! 26-25, Packers!
Never has a World Series loss mattered so little as last night. When Your Kid scores the winning play, all is right in the world.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
That's Won One! (Version 3.0)
1. Cole Hamels + Great defense + Chase Utley + Brad Lidge = 3 games away from World Champions!
2. Uncle Charlie may as well move Ryan Howard to the nine hole, because he is totally guessing up at the plate. He has no idea what he's doing right now.
3. Nice to see some Tampa Bay fans leaving Crap Hole Field with two outs in the 9th inning.
4. The Rays could have had six outs in the last inning and there was no way they were going to touch Brad Lidge. That's the most dominating he's been since before the All-Star break.
5. Now off to bed. In less than seven hours, we will be educating young minds on the value of winning game one on the road.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
A one game World Series?!?
It says here that the World Series will be won or lost tonight. If Cole Hamels can get the W tonight, we think the Phillies will win in six games. If not, the Rays will win in five.
It will be interesting to see if the Phillies come out tonight with a hangover. It has been one full week since they last played. Notorious slow starters in April, will their bats be in an April-like funk?!? Uncle Charlie is keeping the team's DH a secret. With lefty Scott Kazmir on the mound tonight, lefties Matt Stairs and Greg Dobbs will most likely be on the bench. That leaves such stellar options as Chris Coste, So Taguchi and Eric Bruntlett. Hmm...
Football Update
The Packers improved to 6-2 with their 28-18 victory over the Lions last night. The Playmaker had four catches, including an end-to-end 40 yard TD, a 38 yard catch (before getting "tackled" on the two yard line) and a two point conversion.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Monday Randoms...
1. Well, we were pulling for the Red Sox to win game seven last night -- even though we felt the Phillies would have a better chance against the Rays. But, ironically, the Sox looked a bit like the Phillies with their lack of situational hitting. They had chances in the 7th, 8th and 9th innings, but could not get runners home. So, the World Series begins Wednesday with the Rays hosting the Phillies in Crap Hole Field. The Phillies are definitely the underdogs, BUT if Cole Hamels or Brett Myers can get us a split, we like the Phillies chances. If not, get ready to say, "Tampa Bay Rays -- World Series Champions!"
2. Despite statements to the contrary, we have to think Jerry Jones is dangerously close to canning his buffoon of a coach, Wade Phillips. And if Phillips survives the season but does not get Dallas into the Super Bowl, we think JJ will make a big push for Bill Cowher in the off-season. (Whether or not he is dumb enough to get into bed with Jones is a whole other matter.)
3. Just another reason why we love Coach Pete. His USC Trojans were ahead 41-zip on Hopeless Washington State. They had the ball inside WSU's 30 yard line with under two minutes to play in the second quarter. Yet, Coach Pete had his boys run out the clock. Ultimately, they won, 69-0. But he could have put a C-note on the board. Easily.
4. We finally got around to watching the 20/20 interview with Christie Brinkley's husband, Peter Cook. Wow, that guy is C-R-A-Z-Y! It's bad enough (REALLY BAD!) to do what he admitted doing. But to go on national television and discuss it with Barbara Walters?!? Loser!
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
So now what?!?
Yes, we wanted the Red Sox to win last night. But now that they are one game away from playing Our Philadelphia Phillies, we are in a quandary. We have concluded that the Phillies have a 50-50 shot to beat the Rays in the World Series. Their chances against the Sox? Um, not so good. We'd say something 25 percent.
Hmm...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Saturday Night Special (Update)
The Mrs. is off with two girl friends for a night of Diet Cokes and nachos at Chilis. (Damn -- we did NOT get invited!!!) The kids are in bed. The dog has been walked. And we have two orders of chicken wings to inhale while watching LSU-South Carolina, Missouri-Texas and the Red Sox-Rays.
1. LSU will win on the road. Lester's not going to lose to the Head Ball Coach on national TV. Certainly not with SC playing Party Boy Stephen Garcia at QB. LSU 24 SC 14.
2. Mizzou will put up some points, but not nearly enough. UT 40 UM 27
3. We really want the Red Sox to win. But Beckett clearly is not Becket. Rays 6 Red Sox 4.
Oh, yeah. Don't call, 'cause we're not picking up. (Shocker!)
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Saturday Morning Facts & Predictions
1. Team 708 got back to its winning ways this (cold) morning, 10-6. The Playmaker led the way with six (six!) goals. For the season, we are 5-1.
2. The Flag Football Packers won Thursday night, 16-6. The Playmaker had three catches, including one 2-point conversion. For the third week in a row, he shut down his receiver on defense -- giving up zero receptions. We are now 5-2 and all alone in first place.
3. Regarding Tommy Bowden, there seems to be this feeling nationally that he got a raw deal being forced to resign last week. Huh?!? Say what?!? Not to be rude, but the man was a TERRIBLE coach during his Clemson tenure. His teams were never ready to play. And, as we have stated for years, if his name was Tommy Smith, he would have been canned two seasons ago.
4. Mizzou has NO CHANCE tonight at Texas. The Horns will roll, 42-24. Regarding Chase Daniel, he looks like the frat boy in college we all knew (and loved). You know -- the kid who seemingly never had class and did nothing but eat fast food and drink beer every day. Seriously, Chaser, mix in a salad and a bottle of H2O!
5. Lee Corso, trying to make enemies every week, sat in Austin two hours ago and said Penn State, not Texas, is the best team in the land. Um, coach?!? They play in the Crap 10, which means they have, like, no hard games the whole year. Wisconsin stinks and Ohio State (which hosts PSU next week) is a semi-decent team (at best). If Texas or Oklahoma battled the Nittany Lions, both would cruise to double digit wins.
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Rotisserie
While drinking dining with Coach/Captain Ray last Sunday, he showed us what we had been doing wrong on our Weber Rotisserie. It's all about proper distribution of the anchor weight. Anyway, one day later we tried it out. Here are the results:
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Wow...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
Phillies advance to World Series!
1. We did not know if we would ever get the chance to type that!
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Three and out...
1. Cole Hamels and the Phillies go for the clincher in LA tonight. While it would be splendid to clinch the series in front of the Philly fans at The Bank, we would just assume Cole end it tonight. The Dodgers are "pesky" and the Phillies are still prone to offensive droughts. Hopefully we win tonight and the Red Sox extend the Rays to game 6 (at least).
2. Nice to see the Eagles cut bait with running back Tony Hunt. Nothing like having a running game that blows and your former third round pick can't help out, let alone stay in the league more than a year and a half. Yet another example of how pointless it is to let Andy Reid run the draft. And it's only a matter of time before 2006 second round pick Winston Justice is unemployed, too. So...the owner (Jeff Laurie -- the guy whose mom bought him the team) is cheap and the coach is clueless as a talent evaluator. Oh, and his 1980s Bill Walsh offense no longer works in the NFL.
3. The Packers won their second straight game last night in flag football, defeating the Bears 27-18. The Playmaker had three catches. One was a 30-yard touchdown (taking a 6-yard button hook and running the other 24 yards to the house.) Another catch was for our first two-point conversion of the season. Our record is now 4-2.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Phillies Franks Links...
NY Post: "The Phillies' late-August trade with the Blue Jays for Matt Stairs won't go down as one of the season's blockbuster acquisitions."
NY Post: "The Yanks will look at a lot of free agents this offseason. [Pat] Gillick might be the most important."
NY Daily News: "September, October, it doesn't seem to matter to the Phillies. They keep finding ways to win, this time in stunning comeback fashion. And now they look like practically a lock to make it to the World Series."
Jayson Stark: "So who wrote this script? Who predicted this finish? Who can explain the unbelievable chain of events that have led the Phillies to the brink of their first World Series journey in 15 years? A game-winning, pinch-hit home run by a 40-year-old guy who hadn't gotten a hit all month? A game-losing, series-altering gopher ball by a pitcher who hadn't served up a home run in his home ballpark in so long, the Dow has dropped about 5,000 points since then? A game-tying homer by the biggest villain in town, a fellow who is about as popular in Los Angeles these days as gas prices? A heart-pumping, four-out save by a closer who hadn't gotten a four-out save since July 26, 2006?"
Phil Sheridan: "He [Shane Victorino] is the unlikeliest of villains, this most likable of Phillies."
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Monday, October 13, 2008
We cheer for LOSERS
Ugh. First Our Sooners lost on Saturday. (And the Red Sox, too.) Yesterday, we were officially kicked out of Last Man Standing (and the $1k winning prize). Our transgression? Thinking that somehow the Washington Redskins would be able to defeat (at home, no less) the hapless (and winless) St. Louis Rams. Rams 19 Redskins 17. Seriously, like, why are we not even the least bit surprised?!? k
On top of that, the Phillies got the oh-so-predictable-up-two-love-kick-to-the-groin in game three against the Dodgers. And then we had to watch as effing A-hole Manny pretended he wanted to fight the entire Phillies team. Memo to Manny: You are a wussy who knows nothing about anything in life, other than how to hit a ball. Fifteen years ago, Pete Incaviglia and Dave Hollins would have tag-teamed Manny until he was unconscious. And if that didn't work, Mitch Williams and Dutch Daulton would have tried to shoot him with guns after the game. (Memo to Uncle Charlie: We know it would have resulted in ejections and maybe even a one game suspension, but we would have wasted someone like Clay Condrey or Scott Eyre and had them throw at Manny's head after last night's brawl.)
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And to top it off, the Patriots continued their mediocre play, getting slapped around 30-10 to the Chargers.
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Ugh.
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