Howard makes history with 200th career homer
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With his sixth-inning homer, Ryan Howard became the fastest player in history to reach the 200-HR plateau.
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<< <i>I bet he does not make it to 400. >>
Homers or pounds? I'll take the latter...
<< <i>I am constantly amazed that with all the Phillie noise on these boards-- and there is plenty-- there has, to the best of my knowledge, never been a single thread originated by a Phillie slappy that was dedicated to the best player on their team. Does any other legion of fans so consistently and utterly disregard their best player? Do Pens fans sit around all day and extol the virtues of Brooks Orpik? Do Marlins fans post nothing but dreamy thoughts on Ricky Nolasco when they congregate on the 'net? >>
Home run hitters have usually garnered the most attention from baseball fans.
Kevin
PS Oh and Moyer STILL owns the fish!
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<< <i>I am constantly amazed that with all the Phillie noise on these boards-- and there is plenty-- there has, to the best of my knowledge, never been a single thread originated by a Phillie slappy that was dedicated to the best player on their team. Does any other legion of fans so consistently and utterly disregard their best player? Do Pens fans sit around all day and extol the virtues of Brooks Orpik? Do Marlins fans post nothing but dreamy thoughts on Ricky Nolasco when they congregate on the 'net? >>
Home run hitters have usually garnered the most attention from baseball fans. >>
Silly me-- and all this time I thought a second basemen who you could pencil in for .300/30/105 would raise a few eyebrows. Always nice to see that the 'smartest fans in sports' (isn't that what you called the Philly faithful?) know who butters their bread.
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<< <i>I am constantly amazed that with all the Phillie noise on these boards-- and there is plenty-- there has, to the best of my knowledge, never been a single thread originated by a Phillie slappy that was dedicated to the best player on their team. Does any other legion of fans so consistently and utterly disregard their best player? Do Pens fans sit around all day and extol the virtues of Brooks Orpik? Do Marlins fans post nothing but dreamy thoughts on Ricky Nolasco when they congregate on the 'net? >>
Home run hitters have usually garnered the most attention from baseball fans. >>
Silly me-- and all this time I thought a second basemen who you could pencil in for .300/30/105 would raise a few eyebrows. Always nice to see that the 'smartest fans in sports' (isn't that what you called the Philly faithful?) know who butters their bread. >>
Utley has a shot, a good shot, at eventually being known as one of the top ten second basemen of all time.
But who the heck wants to talk about second basemen?
<< <i>Yeah, but he is still Ryan Howard. He turns 30 this year. Lots of guys hit 200 by age 30. I bet he does not make it to 400. >>
If he stays @ citizen ballpark, Ill take that bet...
Boo I guess you missed Stalin's Utley is the new Ted Williams thread.
Steve
<< <i>never been a single thread originated by a Phillie slappy that was dedicated to the best player on their team
Boo I guess you missed Stalin's Utley is the new Ted Williams thread.
Steve >>
Every time I see Utley play I think of that thread title and have a good laugh. Utley is a fine player, but a new Ted Williams? Please!
<< <i>never been a single thread originated by a Phillie slappy that was dedicated to the best player on their team
Boo I guess you missed Stalin's Utley is the new Ted Williams thread.
Steve >>
Boo missed it because he was probably busy posting in the "Everybody loves Economists" forum in which there are five members, one of whom has three alt-Id's.
Enjoy the HR while he still can hit them, and still be good. He will still hit them in the future, but his other at bats will continue to be more costly and costly with lots of key outs and rally killing at bats, until he officially turns into the Richie Sexson of '07/'08.
It is quite amazing that Utley gets such little respect(except from Stalin of course), while Howard gets an INAPPROPRIATE share of credit(which is mostly my reason for posting all the Howard stuff). As Billy Jean said, "Fair is Fair."
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<< <i>never been a single thread originated by a Phillie slappy that was dedicated to the best player on their team
Boo I guess you missed Stalin's Utley is the new Ted Williams thread.
Steve >>
Boo missed it because he was probably busy posting in the "Everybody loves Economists" forum in which there are five members, one of whom has three alt-Id's.
My bad. Our resident Flannery O'Conner freak has reached out and acknowledged Utley, and in all the surface noise I forgot about that.
I now return you to the ceaseless adoration of the Phillies' clinically obese 1st baseman.
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<< <i>never been a single thread originated by a Phillie slappy that was dedicated to the best player on their team
Boo I guess you missed Stalin's Utley is the new Ted Williams thread.
Steve >>
Boo missed it because he was probably busy posting in the "Everybody loves Economists" forum in which there are five members, one of whom has three alt-Id's.
My bad. Our resident Flannery O'Conner freak has reached out and acknowledged Utley, and in all the surface noise I forgot about that.
I now return you to the ceaseless adoration of the Phillies' clinically obese 1st baseman. >>
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I might be miffed if I had any idea what that meant. LOL
Like most economists, ya can't understand 'em because they really have no discernible clue as to the accuracy of their forecasts...but they talk a good game to make ya think they know what they're doing...possibly a small step up from an astrologer.
Boo...I honestly thought you knew better than to begin chanting like the kid Hoopster...Do you really believe that Philadelphia fans don't know how valuable and important Utley is to our team? Just because his name isn't brought up here often with smack talk, has no correlation whatsoever with how he is admired and appreciated by all Phillies fans. Did I really have to explain this to you? I guess I did.
Post #1: Chase Utley is really good and is the best 2nd baseman in the game.
Post #2: I agree, he also might be one of the best 2nd baseman of all time
Post #3: I agree with both of you.
Post #4: IWTDMBIT
Post #5: Seven Dust.
Thread total posts: 5
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I now return you to the ceaseless adoration of the Phillies' clinically obese 1st baseman. >>
obsese? have you seen him this year? he friggin SVELTE and playing good defense (aside from his throws which are sketchy)....