Staff Blog
About Last Night – Matt Stairs
Tuesday is trash day in my neighborhood and outside my window an
elderly man, who looks a little too sane to be trash picking a mini Christmas
tree, has started talking to whoever walks by. ”I think I’m the only one who appreciates what’s
here,” he says happily, picking up what I can only assume is an, old, used set of
Stairs. ”I think that I can fix this,” he
opines to next passerby, perhaps looking at a broken multi-tool, guessing what it’s Werth. ”If you have a beer or a glass of wine you
probably wouldn’t even realize it had been broken and fixed” he says, smiling as he takes a deep breath of Eyre.
Now I’m confused, so I peer my head through the window. Could it be? It might be … it looks kinda like
… but no, my graduate hospital trash picker isn’t old Stand Pat Gillick - just a man
after his heart.
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| photo: Yong Kim via the Inqy |
The Game: The
Phillies won of the games you tell your grandkids about, the one where Shane
Victorino - he’ll be 6′7″ and 312 lbs by the time the story is done being told -
put the team on his back, just days after the Dodgers had hired that hitman to
try to break his legs. It’ll be the game
where Matt Stairs - 47, with a smoker’s cough, and a gut that stretched to jersey – hammered the Phillies past Manny
Ramirez and the hated Dodgers. Or at
least it will be if Hamels closes the door tomorrow night. All for naught if the Phils let the Dodgers
back in this, remember.
Zolecki’s recap HERE, Murphy’s HERE, Miller’s isn’t
HERE, Mandel’s is HERE, LA’s is HERE, and the AP’s is HERE, with video.
The Heroes: Shane and Stairs. And how.
The Race: The
Phillies are one win away from having Brad Lidge’s only loss of the season
count. Think back now …
Other Notes …
- Fox’s key to the game: “Food tastes better at home.” Thanks
McCarver - Clayton Kershaw was obviously tricked into announcing the
starters. That man has the camera
presence of a jilted kiss-cam participant - Derek “Chatterbox” Lowe can’t come up with a win. Can we revoke “big game” status? We tried to Chauncey, but that never worked out
- Hey now, McCarver with something I didn’t know – MLB rubs down all it’s new baseballs
with Blackburn’s Delaware Mud. For all the shit this announcing team has gotten
that is a fantastic tidbit. - Fabio Castro finally contributes on the big league level
- Broxton gave up zero home runs at home during the regular season.
No matter, that one to Stairs has to count for at least four or five. - The Phillies scored four or men runs in an inning for the 5th
time this postseason - Each team used nineteen players. Manager’s game this one was, and Charlie won the
duel.
Keys not to be forgotten:
1. Chase’s mad double play
2. Lidge turns off the lights, again
new take on trash talk here? likable.