Staff Blog
Morning Rounds, September 24th
Listen up Little Chicken, the sky ain’t falling yet.
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“I wasn’t worried at all. I knew we had time. I checked the other clubs. I did some mathematical things, figured out how many games we were going to win.”
- Charlie Manuel, on being down 3.5 games to the Mets two weeks ago
Three lines on their world:
- The Yankees are officially an also-ran
- The Mets locked up Omar Minaya for four more years, and unless they take him money away and make him run that team like the old Expos, that doesn’t bother me one bit.
- The Boston Red Sox won the right to defend their crown
Three lines on ours:
- Phils lost
- Mets won
- and somehow I completely missed the fact that there even was a Philadelphia distance run
Phillies, Birds, Sixers, Flyers and me, mailing it in after the jump
PHILLIES
I don’t know if I should blame Jim Cohen, John Gonzalez, or who, but if somebody needs to stop these nonsensical Gonz/Sheridan/Ford email exchanges. I don’t know the solution – is it that unreasonable to have Gonzalez write more than three thousand-word columns a week (or whatever he’s up to)? Are you so cheap/is Daulerio so big of a diva that you guys can’t close that weekly? I demand answers. SKIP (if only there was someone with local ties and no non-compete …)
Sheridan points out that we’re kinda expecting the Phillies to win these days, which is weird. I’m with him, but a couple of the message boards aren’t. READ
John Gonzalez proves Sheridan’s point by not panicking. Plus he shines some light on a brilliant Charlie line (maybe his second best of the season). READ
Jim Salisbury just kicks ass with the daily notes, which is a hard thing to do. READ
Unlike Paul Hagen, who looks to the offseason. For the record, that yesterday was the postseason and today the winter for Paul. SKIP
Sam Donnellon looks at the ace’s workload and gets all finicky. SKIP
John Shabe big-ups The Fightins’ over at at the Star Ledger. SKIP
EAGLES
Bob Brookover struggles with sarcasm. SKIP
Either Marcus Hayes just really dramatized asthma or that is way more serious than I knew. Either way, Birds’ fans, thank your lucky stars that HB3 is alive and kicking. SKIP
Paul Domowitch looks at the Birds’ run D. READ
Reuben Frank with your injury update. READ
SIXERS
nothing
FLYERS
Wayne Fish gives the inside on Ossi Vaananen. READ
TODAY and MORE
I’m on the wrong end of an all-nighter with work ahead, don’t look for much today. As always, feel free
to email with any questions, suggestions, comments or complaints though, I might not post anything but I’ll be sure to get back with some sort of snarky reply.
