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  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Darin said:
    I wasn’t watching the early innings but the box score says Harper stole home

    On a double steal, Harper slammed into the catcher as the ball went by.

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:

    @Darin said:
    I wasn’t watching the early innings but the box score says Harper stole home

    On a double steal, Harper slammed into the catcher as the ball went by.

    Thanks Steven,
    I wish I was watching when that happened.

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice win tonight for the Fightin’ Phillies.

    Now coming back home, and only need to win one out of two. I’ll take those odds.

    I’m counting another chicken. Do I hear an egg cracking with a 4th chicken about to come out? 🐔🐔🐔 🥚

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Darin said:
    I wasn’t watching the early innings but the box score says Harper stole home
    Details anyone? Was it during the pitch? Was the pitcher walking around not paying attention?

  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:

    @Darin said:
    I wasn’t watching the early innings but the box score says Harper stole home
    Details anyone? Was it during the pitch? Was the pitcher walking around not paying attention?

    Thanks Steve nice hustle play. Great win this evening. 👍

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats to the Phillies tonight!

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,108 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After Harper leveled the catcher he made sure he touched home plate first.Then hung around out of concern for the catchers well being. Thought that was considerate of Harper. At least that's the impression I got.

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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,108 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:
    Very nice win tonight for the Fightin’ Phillies.

    Now coming back home, and only need to win one out of two. I’ll take those odds.

    I’m counting another chicken. Do I hear an egg cracking with a 4th chicken about to come out? 🐔🐔🐔 🥚

    You just have to hope Arizona does not "scramble" those eggs. :)

    Successful transactions:Tookybandit. "Everyone is equal, some are more equal than others".
  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ug - not going very well so far.

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like it's on to game 7.

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Phillies must have been resting up tonight.

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:
    Phillies must have been resting up tonight.

    Very disappointing performance.

    Hopefully game 7 will have a different result.

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was hoping i wouldn't have to bring out the heavy artillery unless it was game 7 of the World Series. But gotta do it now, or we may not get to the big show:

    (not my card - wish it was - LOL)

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a long time Fillies fan, I have become a Futile Fillies Fatalist. Unfortunately I remember 1964 all too well.

    Even if they don’t make it, it was a fun run for second year in a row … until it’s over. :/

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    As a long time Fillies fan, I have become a Futile Fillies Fatalist. Unfortunately I remember 1964 all too well.

    Even if they don’t make it, it was a fun run for second year in a row … until it’s over. :/

    Yes, as you know, they still to this day talk about that 1964 collapse, and not just in Philly. It's discussed almost everywhere as one of the worst of all time.

    The WOAT? 😕

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Phillies in the off season should study the meaning of getting a clutch hit.

    These past two games have been pathetic. 😒

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Put some Adderall in the Phillies water bottles and wake-up these hitters for crying out loud. 😒

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thought I was watching the Cleveland Guardians with their "no hits when needed" offense.

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:
    Thought I was watching the Cleveland Guardians with their "no hits when needed" offense.

    I'm not sure what the yell is going on out there. 😒

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I finally noticed it, the D-back pitchers are throwing ping pong balls. 😒

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Phillies bats laying down like lambs. 😒

  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well the Phillies made an interesting run, but couldn’t close the deal. Coming back home and losing two straight, not exactly a 1964 type debacle, but this sure wasn't good.

    Anyway, congrats to the Diamondbacks.

    This thread is now officially abandoned.

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 24, 2023 7:33PM

    Game, set, match Arizona is going to the World Series

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,569 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry, Phillies fans.

    Congratulations, Diamondbacks fans.

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,634 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry Steve.

    I liked Philly to win it

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,978 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 25, 2023 5:47AM

    Usual futile fillie outcome. We are used to it. Too many runs wasted in the first two games. Then the bats went to sleep at the end of the series.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • stevekstevek Posts: 28,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    MLB team playrolls in 2023
    N.Y. Mets, $353,546,854
    N.Y. Yankees, $276,999,872
    San Diego, $248,995,932
    Philadelphia, $243,009,439
    L.A. Dodgers, $222,717,834
    L.A. Angels, $212,228,096
    Toronto, $ 209,938,983
    Atlanta, $203,077,500
    Texas, $195,869,490
    Houston, $192,667,233
    San Francisco, $187,932,500
    Chicago Cubs, $184,219,250
    Boston, $181,207,484
    Chicago White Sox, $181,158,666
    St. Louis, $175,637,308
    Colorado, $171,108,778
    Minnesota, $153,588,740
    Seattle, $137,119,947
    Detroit, $122,235,500
    Milwaukee, $118,761,987
    Arizona, $116,471,292
    Washington, $ 101,190,153
    Kansas City, $92,468,100
    Miami, $91,700,000
    Cleveland, 89,424,629
    Cincinnati, $83,610,000
    Pittsburgh, $73,277,500
    Tampa Bay, $73,184,811
    Baltimore, $60,722,300
    Oakland, $56,895,000

    I gotta wonder if MLB making all these top players gazillionaires, breeds too much complacency.

    Yes, players have been making "big money" for a long time now, but many of these contracts of today put players in the oil sheik category.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am surprised to see the Dodgers at #5 on the list. I would have thought that they would have been higher.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • ApplejacksApplejacks Posts: 384 ✭✭✭

    Wanted the Phillies for a nice red white and blue World Series.

  • clarke442clarke442 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Condolences . . . from a Red Sox fan

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,978 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @clarke442 said:
    Condolences . . . from a Red Sox fan

    I’m also a Red Sox fan. I know what you mean. “The curse of the Bambino” extended from 1918 to 2007.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
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