Dam...this Phillies team is even better than I thought.
Dodgers played hard and they had a good season and hats off to them, but they just got beat by a very tough team that played well and got key hits at the right time.
Should be a heckuva World Series - Bring on those Yankees.
The Philly's are very good, but I did not like the comparing them to the "Big Red Machine" Reds of the 70's. Even if they go on to beat the Yankees, which is possible, they are not the 70's Reds.
<< <i>The Philly's are very good, but I did not like the comparing them to the "Big Red Machine" Reds of the 70's. Even if they go on to beat the Yankees, which is possible, they are not the 70's Reds. >>
No, this Phillies team isn't as good as those Reds teams...not yet anyway.
Phil Sheridan: The greatest Phila. team of all time
As the Phillies galloped and gamboled out of their dugout for the on-field celebration they are making downright routine, the thought came with the tears in your eyes.
We're looking at the best Philadelphia team of all time.
Not just the best major-league baseball team, mind you, but the greatest Philadelphia team of any era, in any sport.
Sounds like a wild claim, to be sure. And maybe the champagne from yet another clinching celebration (eight in three years, including division titles) finally soaked its way into the gray matter and warped it beyond the ability to reason.
Or maybe it sounds wild because we are just starting to get our arms around what these Phillies are doing right before our marveling eyes. Maybe the real trick is appreciating what is happening, in real time, before it slips-slides-away into the past.
They are going to the World Series. Again. They earned the right with a five-game domination of a very talented Los Angeles Dodgers team. Again. They have won by first-inning pounce and by last-inning gut check, by laugher and by squeaker, by flashy long ball and by gritty small ball.
10-4. Over and out.
Ryan Howard, the man who amasses hardware as prodigiously as home runs, added the National League Championship Series MVP trophy to a collection that includes Rookie of the Year and MVP and that World Series ring on his hand. He just tied a postseason RBI record held by Lou Gehrig.
He held up his newest trinket, smiled at the roaring crowd, and promised, "We've got one more step."
Greatness. We're seeing greatness.
The Phillies' record so far in two magical postseasons: 18 wins, 5 losses.
Fans who have assembled, red-clad and full-voiced, at Citizens Bank Park have witnessed 11 wins, one loss, one World Series celebration and now one pennant-clinching fiesta.
Hard to believe, Harry, but they have seen the greatest team in Philadelphia sports history.
But surely, comes the knee-jerk retort, there have been other, more accomplished teams. Heck, those 1980 Phillies had a couple of Hall of Famers and a lot of success, including a ring. The Flyers won two Stanley Cups. The Eagles had repeat champions and so did the Philadelphia Athletics. What about all of them?
Well, what about them?
The World Series champion Athletics of 1929 and 1930 were amazingly talented. Comparing eras never works, but the Athletics had just one postseason round each year - the World Series. There were no division series or league championship series, no wild-card teams that got hot in September.
Besides, like everything else in baseball before Jackie Robinson, the Athletics were the best all-white team around.
The Eagles of 1948 and '49? Great team, same deal: Regular season and then one game for the title. They had Steve Van Buren. In the wake of World War II, the NFL wasn't quite the monolith it is today. The 1960 Eagles were one title and done. So were the 1967 76ers.
The Flyers who brawled their way to consecutive Cups in the mid-1970s are strong contenders. Players from that team are still recognized and revered 35 years later.
You can make a case for the last great Phillies era: Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton, Larry Bowa and Bob Boone and Tug McGraw and Garry Maddox and, at the end, Pete Rose. They went to the playoffs every year and finally won the franchise's first World Series in 1980. Strong candidate.
The '83 Sixers were astonishing in their domination, but they vanished almost as quickly as they rose up behind Dr. J and Moses and Mo and Andrew.
There followed 25 years of drought, a biblical epoch in which the city's sports fans turned bitter and an all-new kind of media - mean-spirited, round-the-clock, on airwaves and cable TV and via your computer - churned that bitterness up and firehosed it back onto the players. With each passing year, the pressure to end that drought became progressively more intense and suffocating.
Now a city of fans that grew up, had kids, got old, and died - wondering whether they'd ever see a championship parade - finds itself contemplating a second. These Phillies made that happen. By clinching a second pennant, they have staked their claim.
It becomes harder all the time to repeat in professional sports - free agency, big money, bigger egos, injuries, human nature, the expansion of the postseason - and they have overcome all of that to return to the World Series.
Howard ties Gehrig with RBIs in eight consecutive games. Rollins turns a tie series into a commanding 3-1 lead with a big hit. Jayson Werth delivers big hits. Cliff Lee pitches like there's no one in the batter's box. Lidge has found his '08 groove.
If you aren't persuaded that this is the city's greatest team, consider one last thing.
<< <i>Wow...Phillies - Yankees World Series coming up...I almost can't believe it. >>
John Gonzalez in today's Philly Inquirer debunks a NY Times article stating "what Major League Baseball needs is a great World Series, a Series for the ages. And with all due respect. . . it's a Yankees-Dodgers World Series that could take the game back to its roots at a time when baseball desperately needs to recover a portion of the trust, if not the innocence, that it has lost in the steroid era."
In addition to pointing out the steroid scandals on both teams (NYY and LA) Gonzalez talks about "the added benefit of knowing a Phils-Yanks Fall Classic is sure to make Mets fans projectile vomit all over their plastic-covered couches. Everyone wins this way."
<< <i> In addition to pointing out the steroid scandals on both teams (NYY and LA) Gonzalez talks about "the added benefit of knowing a Phils-Yanks Fall Classic is sure to make Mets fans projectile vomit all over their plastic-covered couches. Everyone wins this way."
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Hey, we don't have plastic over our couches LOL
Funny thing though. Tonya and I were just talking about plastic for the couch and chair to keep the dam cats from clawing them up. They would rather do their clawing thing (whatever it's called) on the furniture rather than on the $200.00 carpet coverved cat condo. Bastiges!! They're going to have a nice, untouched cat perch while we are sitting on a pulled out threads, torn up couch.
After having cats all of my life, I never thought I would do it but I have mine declawed now, when they are young. Decided to do it after they destroyed a leather couch and love seat. Mine don't know the difference and are not outside cats.
As for the plastic slipcovers. I think they're referring to the old tradition up north. I grew up with it and remember TV commercials. God I used to hate sitting on those sofas at my relatives houses.
"In the days before home air conditioning was available, it was common to put slipcovers on upholstered furniture in the hotter months of the year to protect the upholstery fabric from sweat, and slipcover tailors offered clear vinyl, or plastic, slipcovers. These clear plastic slipcovers were available in large department stores such as Jordan Marsh or were custom made by artisans.
In some cities in the northeast U.S., slipcover tailors were sometimes given the nickname "summertime millionaires" as their busy season was in the spring and summer.[citation needed] Custom slipcovering was done then, each one cut and sewn to order.
In the 1960s, technology and production techniques made it possible to manufacture furniture that could be sold at prices at or below the price of a custom-made slipcover, and the practice of custom slipcovering for a time declined.
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in custom slipcovering driven by the interior design industry and the popularity of the very casual shabby chic design style."
As if life isn't bizarre enough, here's an excerpt from baseball's favorite squeeze Alyssa Milano's book. For some reason I find mixing her with baseball and plastics oddly exciting.
"We lived in a simple house in Staten Island. We didn’t have a pool in the backyard or anything extravagant. Our only refuge from the hot humid summers was a fire hydrant on the corner that the locals would open so the kids in the neighborhood could run barefoot through the cascading water and look at the rainbows the water made. (Yes, that idyllic New York City summer image really did happen.) My family didn’t have a dishwasher or a rose garden or any luxuries that defined “success.” What we had was love and each other. My dad’s mom, Nanny Connie, lived downstairs in the apartment that was attached to the humble house. She had plastic slipcovers on her furniture and those thick plastic runners over all the carpet that made funny noises when you dragged your feet on them in that specific way. Nanny Connie would stand me up on a chair and let me knead the dough of whatever Italian pastries she was cooking up from memory, and for dinner she would cook me pastina, which was my favorite food."
<< <i>After having cats all of my life, I never thought I would do it but I have mine declawed now, when they are young. Decided to do it after they destroyed a leather couch and love seat. Mine don't know the difference and are not outside cats. >>
Yeah Keith, that is the way to go. In fact, we had a cat that was about 6 months old. He was bad. He would claw evrything up. He even would claw up the new carpet in the kids room trying to dig under the door to get out LOL
About 3 months ago we spent a bunch of money(I think it was $350.00) to have him de-clawed. It was great! No more cutting pulled up carpet pieces for me!
About two weeks after he was declawed, he ate a small toy from one of the kid's rooms. After another $200 for tests and an x-ray, we had to have him put down because $2000.00 for surgery was out of the question.
Sorry to hear that. Hope the kids took it OK. Getting another or having more than one helps.
One of my two cats is 15 years old. Still going strong but the end will come sooner rather than later. Not looking forward to that. The vet says she looks half her age, but I expect to come home one day and find a stiff kitty. Just have this feeling that's the way she'll check out. Hopefully I won't be on the road rather than have the wife deal with it alone.
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Buh-bye!
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<< <i>And there goes the Dodgers season. Thanks for playing.
Buh-bye! >>
i second that!!! yayerness!!!
looking for low grade t205's psa 1-2
Dodgers played hard and they had a good season and hats off to them, but they just got beat by a very tough team that played well and got key hits at the right time.
Should be a heckuva World Series - Bring on those Yankees.
deja vu?
<< <i>3-1 and then 4-1
deja vu? >>
Knowing it ain't gonna happen, I'd love to see the Phillies sweep the Yanks 4 zip as payback for the 1950 World Series.
<< <i>The Philly's are very good, but I did not like the comparing them to the "Big Red Machine" Reds of the 70's. Even if they go on to beat the Yankees, which is possible, they are not the 70's Reds. >>
No, this Phillies team isn't as good as those Reds teams...not yet anyway.
<< <i>
No, this Phillies team isn't as good as those Reds teams...not yet anyway. >>
Yet on paper they look better then the 70's Athletics who won 3 straight with a bunch
of good ballplayers with a big stick in the #3 spot.
Loved the "Won't Get Fooled Again" track to begin the celebration.
All we needed was Cholly doing a David Caruso "CSI Miami like" intro.
"Well, Mary Hart can cancel her limo to Chavez Ravine."
Meet the new boss!!! Same as the old boss!!!!!!
Phils Celebration
If You're Going To Climb A Tree During A Phillies Celebration, Wear Your Fireproof Suit
Of Course The Fox NY Affiliate Says "We Don't Do That Here." No They Just Riot When The Power Goes Out Or Someone Get Shot.
As the Phillies galloped and gamboled out of their dugout for the on-field celebration they are making downright routine, the thought came with the tears in your eyes.
We're looking at the best Philadelphia team of all time.
Not just the best major-league baseball team, mind you, but the greatest Philadelphia team of any era, in any sport.
Sounds like a wild claim, to be sure. And maybe the champagne from yet another clinching celebration (eight in three years, including division titles) finally soaked its way into the gray matter and warped it beyond the ability to reason.
Or maybe it sounds wild because we are just starting to get our arms around what these Phillies are doing right before our marveling eyes. Maybe the real trick is appreciating what is happening, in real time, before it slips-slides-away into the past.
They are going to the World Series. Again. They earned the right with a five-game domination of a very talented Los Angeles Dodgers team. Again. They have won by first-inning pounce and by last-inning gut check, by laugher and by squeaker, by flashy long ball and by gritty small ball.
10-4. Over and out.
Ryan Howard, the man who amasses hardware as prodigiously as home runs, added the National League Championship Series MVP trophy to a collection that includes Rookie of the Year and MVP and that World Series ring on his hand. He just tied a postseason RBI record held by Lou Gehrig.
He held up his newest trinket, smiled at the roaring crowd, and promised, "We've got one more step."
Greatness. We're seeing greatness.
The Phillies' record so far in two magical postseasons: 18 wins, 5 losses.
Fans who have assembled, red-clad and full-voiced, at Citizens Bank Park have witnessed 11 wins, one loss, one World Series celebration and now one pennant-clinching fiesta.
Hard to believe, Harry, but they have seen the greatest team in Philadelphia sports history.
But surely, comes the knee-jerk retort, there have been other, more accomplished teams. Heck, those 1980 Phillies had a couple of Hall of Famers and a lot of success, including a ring. The Flyers won two Stanley Cups. The Eagles had repeat champions and so did the Philadelphia Athletics. What about all of them?
Well, what about them?
The World Series champion Athletics of 1929 and 1930 were amazingly talented. Comparing eras never works, but the Athletics had just one postseason round each year - the World Series. There were no division series or league championship series, no wild-card teams that got hot in September.
Besides, like everything else in baseball before Jackie Robinson, the Athletics were the best all-white team around.
The Eagles of 1948 and '49? Great team, same deal: Regular season and then one game for the title. They had Steve Van Buren. In the wake of World War II, the NFL wasn't quite the monolith it is today. The 1960 Eagles were one title and done. So were the 1967 76ers.
The Flyers who brawled their way to consecutive Cups in the mid-1970s are strong contenders. Players from that team are still recognized and revered 35 years later.
You can make a case for the last great Phillies era: Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton, Larry Bowa and Bob Boone and Tug McGraw and Garry Maddox and, at the end, Pete Rose. They went to the playoffs every year and finally won the franchise's first World Series in 1980. Strong candidate.
The '83 Sixers were astonishing in their domination, but they vanished almost as quickly as they rose up behind Dr. J and Moses and Mo and Andrew.
There followed 25 years of drought, a biblical epoch in which the city's sports fans turned bitter and an all-new kind of media - mean-spirited, round-the-clock, on airwaves and cable TV and via your computer - churned that bitterness up and firehosed it back onto the players. With each passing year, the pressure to end that drought became progressively more intense and suffocating.
Now a city of fans that grew up, had kids, got old, and died - wondering whether they'd ever see a championship parade - finds itself contemplating a second. These Phillies made that happen. By clinching a second pennant, they have staked their claim.
It becomes harder all the time to repeat in professional sports - free agency, big money, bigger egos, injuries, human nature, the expansion of the postseason - and they have overcome all of that to return to the World Series.
Howard ties Gehrig with RBIs in eight consecutive games. Rollins turns a tie series into a commanding 3-1 lead with a big hit. Jayson Werth delivers big hits. Cliff Lee pitches like there's no one in the batter's box. Lidge has found his '08 groove.
If you aren't persuaded that this is the city's greatest team, consider one last thing.
The Phillies aren't finished yet.
<< <i>Steve I hope you used washable marker.
I had 'em tattooed.
<< <i>Wow...Phillies - Yankees World Series coming up...I almost can't believe it. >>
John Gonzalez in today's Philly Inquirer debunks a NY Times article stating "what Major League Baseball needs is a great World Series, a Series for the ages. And with all due respect. . . it's a Yankees-Dodgers World Series that could take the game back to its roots at a time when baseball desperately needs to recover a portion of the trust, if not the innocence, that it has lost in the steroid era."
In addition to pointing out the steroid scandals on both teams (NYY and LA) Gonzalez talks about "the added benefit of knowing a Phils-Yanks Fall Classic is sure to make Mets fans projectile vomit all over their plastic-covered couches. Everyone wins this way."
Love it.
NY Times Writer Gets Schooled After Analyzing Potential Phils/Yanks Match Up - Check The Comments
<< <i>
In addition to pointing out the steroid scandals on both teams (NYY and LA) Gonzalez talks about "the added benefit of knowing a Phils-Yanks Fall Classic is sure to make Mets fans projectile vomit all over their plastic-covered couches. Everyone wins this way."
>>
Hey, we don't have plastic over our couches LOL
Funny thing though. Tonya and I were just talking about plastic for the couch and chair to keep the dam cats from clawing them up. They would rather do their clawing thing (whatever it's called) on the furniture rather than on the $200.00 carpet coverved cat condo. Bastiges!! They're going to have a nice, untouched cat perch while we are sitting on a pulled out threads, torn up couch.
I am really beginning to hate cats.
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After having cats all of my life, I never thought I would do it but I have mine declawed now, when they are young. Decided to do it after they destroyed a leather couch and love seat. Mine don't know the difference and are not outside cats.
As for the plastic slipcovers. I think they're referring to the old tradition up north. I grew up with it and remember TV commercials. God I used to hate sitting on those sofas at my relatives houses.
"In the days before home air conditioning was available, it was common to put slipcovers on upholstered furniture in the hotter months of the year to protect the upholstery fabric from sweat, and slipcover tailors offered clear vinyl, or plastic, slipcovers. These clear plastic slipcovers were available in large department stores such as Jordan Marsh or were custom made by artisans.
In some cities in the northeast U.S., slipcover tailors were sometimes given the nickname "summertime millionaires" as their busy season was in the spring and summer.[citation needed] Custom slipcovering was done then, each one cut and sewn to order.
In the 1960s, technology and production techniques made it possible to manufacture furniture that could be sold at prices at or below the price of a custom-made slipcover, and the practice of custom slipcovering for a time declined.
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in custom slipcovering driven by the interior design industry and the popularity of the very casual shabby chic design style."
"We lived in a simple house in Staten Island. We didn’t have a pool in the backyard or anything extravagant. Our only refuge from the hot humid summers was a fire hydrant on the corner that the locals would open so the kids in the neighborhood could run barefoot through the cascading water and look at the rainbows the water made. (Yes, that idyllic New York City summer image really did happen.) My family didn’t have a dishwasher or a rose garden or any luxuries that defined “success.” What we had was love and each other. My dad’s mom, Nanny Connie, lived downstairs in the apartment that was attached to the humble house. She had plastic slipcovers on her furniture and those thick plastic runners over all the carpet that made funny noises when you dragged your feet on them in that specific way. Nanny Connie would stand me up on a chair and let me knead the dough of whatever Italian pastries she was cooking up from memory, and for dinner she would cook me pastina, which was my favorite food."
<< <i>After having cats all of my life, I never thought I would do it but I have mine declawed now, when they are young. Decided to do it after they destroyed a leather couch and love seat. Mine don't know the difference and are not outside cats. >>
Yeah Keith, that is the way to go. In fact, we had a cat that was about 6 months old. He was bad. He would claw evrything up. He even would claw up the new carpet in the kids room trying to dig under the door to get out LOL
About 3 months ago we spent a bunch of money(I think it was $350.00) to have him de-clawed. It was great! No more cutting pulled up carpet pieces for me!
About two weeks after he was declawed, he ate a small toy from one of the kid's rooms. After another $200 for tests and an x-ray, we had to have him put down because $2000.00 for surgery was out of the question.
What a freaking waste of money that was
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
Sorry to hear that. Hope the kids took it OK. Getting another or having more than one helps.
One of my two cats is 15 years old. Still going strong but the end will come sooner rather than later. Not looking forward to that. The vet says she looks half her age, but I expect to come home one day and find a stiff kitty. Just have this feeling that's the way she'll check out. Hopefully I won't be on the road rather than have the wife deal with it alone.