Morning Roundup: “We wish Jay well and will miss him — not personally, of course — but
in the sense of noticing he is no longer here, at least for a few days” – From the Chicago Sun-Times official response to Jay Mariotti’s resignation

David Wright, celebrating

Three lines on their world:

1. Boston
   takes care of the Yankees, again (what a clown rivalry that is)
2. The U.S. Open trudges forward
3. Monta Ellis gets three months to chill

Three lines on ours:

1. After several glorious hours the Mets have retaken first place
2. The Phils made a roster move to add another arm to the bullpen
3. and the Eagles take for field for their final preseason game
   tonight

Phillies, Birds, Sixers, Flyers and more from the odd world of pre-September call-up roster madness, after the jump

PHILLIES

The Phillies most recent time in front of the NL East is
over just hours after it began as they dropped the back end of the two-game set
against Carlos Delgado and the Mets.

Kyle Kendrick actually pitched Johan Santana to a virtual
draw, leaving one inning before the former Cy Young winner but allowed one run
less.  In the end, the combination of a
mediocre showing from the Phils’ offense and an expected outing from their
depleted bullpen was too much for them to overcome.

The Phils were done scoring in the second inning – their
entire offense came on a two-run shot from Ryan Howard and a solo long ball
from Jayson Werth - and a four-run 8^th inning from the Mets was
enough for the win.

The goat was Rudy Seanez, who allowed two runs on two hits
after retiring the first two batters in the top of the 8^th. 

The team heads out for an important three-city set, starting
tonight in Chicago.

Other Notes

• Carlos Delgado had his 5^th multi-homer game of the
  year, which ties him for the major league lead
• Citizens’ Bank
  Park was sold out for the
  45^th time this year (in 68 games), which breaks the previous club
  record
• Jayson Werth’s 12^th home run against left-handed
  pitching ties him for first in the major leagues this year
• Scott Eyre still has yet to give up a run as a
  Phillies.  He has allowed just 2 hits in
  23 ABs against him
• The Phillies ended their homestand 7-2
• Andrew Carpenter made his major league debut in the 9^th,
  pitching a scoreless inning
• The Phillies have six guys with double-digit home runs (Howard, Utley, Burrell, Werth, Feliz, Victorino), and
  three more (Jenkins, Coste, and JRoll) with nine each

Now, who said what …

Randy Miller introduces you to Andrew Carpenter. READ

Rich Hofmann sizes up the Phils and the Mets and points out
the latest perceived slight.  I don’t
care what anyone says, if the Phils are getting pissed over anything Fernando Tatis does this is absolutely a real rivalry. READ

And normally I don’t link to the sportswriters’ blogs here,
but I do love Hofmann’s analysis of the
difference between sportswriters and athletes.  I love you Rich, but I’m pretty sure you
missed a couple ways the writers aren’t the like the guys on the field. READ

Paul Hagen’s notes point out that the Cubs have a good
record (thanks), looks at how Andrew Carpenter got to the bigs, and more. SKIP

Todd Zolecki’s notes look at Carpenter’s rise to the bigs
(Zolecki keeps calling him Drew, which is weird not only because no one else in the media does, and
because I’m pretty sure he clarified that he’s been “Andrew since [he] was six”
yesterday), Chooch’s time at third and more. SKIP

If I wrote this, I’d take my byline off it too. SKIP

Jim Salisbury puts you in the room where home runs will soon
be reversed. READ

John Gonzales says that that 13^th inning warmup
didn’t affect Kyle Kendrick’s outing. SKIP

EAGLES

Ashley Fox continues to break down the Eagles’ typical
workweek – today is Thursday (shocker).  Media isn’t allowed to watch,
so the picture she paints is actually pretty impressive. READ

Ashley Fox tackles a good subject (what happens inside the
huddle), poorly. SKIP

Bob Cooney says that the Eagles’ young starting linebackers
are sharp as a tack. READ

And Rueben Frank says the their backup could be a playmaker
in his own right. READ

Ed Barkowitz points out that a former Philadelphia Soul receiver
will be in Philly tonight as Larry Brackins tries to make the Jets. SKIP

Bob Brookover writes that the Tony Hunt: fullback (/astronaut)
experiment continues tonight. SKIP

Ashley Fox reports that Andy Reid is boring, which at this point is like reporting that winter is cold. SKIP

SIXERS

Giving Andre Iguodala $80 mil has apparently sucked the life out of every writer’s will to write about the Sixers

FLYERS

Chuck Bausman reports that the Flyers might move another
preseason game to the Spectrum.  They’d
totally be playing themselves if they did it though. SKIP

Randy Jones teaches the youth hockey. READ

TODAY and MORE

John Smallwood remembers a great, historic, impressively random
Philadelphia Champion

The Eagles game is actually tonight (not yesterday, which I
think I wrote several times yesterday) so I’ll copy and paste the two sentences
I wrote about that right before I excitedly predict that the Phillies defeat
the Cubs, so you definitely have that to look forward to.  Other than that I’ve got a decent Myers/Kendrick
anecdote that I’ll write up later and we’ll try our best to keep track of what
is going on in this crazy city of ours.

As always, feel free to email with
any questions, suggestions, comments or complaints.  

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