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Mike Frangione has engaged himself in the noble calling of sportswriting over the years (1991-1997, and again in 2007), enjoying two stints covering (stringing) High School sports for my local newspaper in South Jersey. That was a great learning experience and also a great deal of fun.More By Sj-hypocycloid
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From: Sj-friend
Subject: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-hypocycloid
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 9:41 AM
I agree with you totally that the Phillies' pitching has been pretty wretched this year. Chan Ho's pitching Friday was pathetic! I'd take Don Ho over that dude at this point.
From: Sj-hypocycloid
Subject: RE: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-friend
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 10:16 AM
Nice to see them winning some games now. And a winning April - that doesn't happen every year. Glad they managed to get that win over the Mets. A walk with the bases loaded. That's a demoralizing way to lose. Especially needed after that stupid loss. Ha! Take that, Mets! After last freaking year, splitting with the Mets would be a bonus. They're on their way at 1-1 LOL....
From: Sj-friend
Subject: RE: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-hypocycloid
Date: Monday, April 17, 2009, 11:36 AM
Yeah - 1-1. Way to go Phils! Who do they play tonight? The Cards? Man, that's tough. They're pretty good.
From: Sj-hypocycloid
Subject: RE: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-friend
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 11:49 AM
Yeah, the Cards are tough. But some people thought the Marlins were tough before the Phils swept 'em. And look at all the preseason prognosticators who picked the Mets, going on about their pitching, and forgetting that they were talking about Maine and Pelfrey! Who cares how good your bullpen is if you can't get to it!
Look at the Phillies - they're gonna wear that bullpen out by the All-Star break. They need to get someone to come in and eat up some innings. Not gonna be easy against the Cards, though. Pujols is having another monster year: .344, 9 homers, 29 ribbies, .460 OBP and .700 SLG. Can you say 'roids'? LOL
From: Sj-friend
Subject: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-hypocycloid
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 1:13 PM
Yeah, that dude's gotta be on roids! No way he could put up numbers like that without help. Or maybe he's just that good. Just like A-Rod - ha! what a freaking cheater that dude is. A-Fraud is more like it.
From: Sj-hypocycloid
Subject: RE: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-friend
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 10:21 PM
Dude, are you watching this? I'm so annoyed at comcast! They suck. All I can do is listen or keep checking espn.com. Holy crap! 6-1 and Pujols has been pretty quiet. 0-3 with a walk. That's exactly what you gotta do.
And look at freakin' Blanton! 6 innings, 4 hits, 2 walks and only one earned run??? What's up with that? Who cares? The Phils 'pen can certainly use more of that! Nice. Werth and Howard went deep. Howard's 4th of the season and a .293 batting average. If not for 'roid man Pujols, he'd be an MVP candidate! LOL way way too early for that kind of talk!
From: Sj-friend
Subject: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-hypocycloid
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 10:27 PM
Dude, you're such a tool. Pujols is great... even if he is on roids. I noticed that your MVP struck out again. He must be leading the league again in that... does he have 200 K's yet? LOL
And Blanton! Wow - I can't believe he didn't give up a homer! Hardly any Phils pitchers can say that. I think only Moyer has a start that he didn't yield a freakin' longball! Looks like the Phils might be closing this one out soon.
From: Sj-hypocycloid
Subject: RE: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-friend
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 10:40 PM
Hell yeah! Headin' to the 9th! up 6-1 and Eyre and Madson with scoreless innings! I don't know why they took Eyre out. he threw a scoreless inning, for Christ's sake! 11 pitches! WTF? He's a major league pitcher and he can't throw more than 11 pitches??? I mean, yeah - Madson threw seven to get his inning over and done with, but still... why not save Madson for another day? Too many pitching changes!
From: Sj-friend
Subject: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-hypocycloid
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 10:49 PM
Dude, you moan too much about the pitching. it's not the freakin' 1970s anymore. deal with it! LOL. If these guys even tried to throw 300+ innings, their arms would fall off! Just enjoy the game. oh yeah, you can't! ;-) well, enjoy listening.
And they're into the 9th... and freakin' Durbin is in now? WTF? Come on! What happened to Madson? Maybe you're right... LOL
From: Sj-hypocycloid
Subject: RE: freakin'phillies
To: Sj-friend
Date: Monday, May 4, 2009, 11:19 PM
Awesome! it's over - a 6-1 final! nice. And a mighty 12 pitch outing for Durbin. And the Mets beat Atlanta 6-4. Not sure if we should be happy about that or not. Too bad they can't both lose! Well, the result puts the Mets (11-13) in 3rd place and the Braves (11-14) in 4th, so all is well. Worst case scenario for the Phillies is that the Marlins win, and the Phils are 1/2 game out. the Marlins are in extra innings (the 13th - go Cincinnati!!!)
No homers, and only five men left on base (and 10 for the Cards! Nice to see a team other than the Phils doing that). All in all, not a bad night at all for the Phillies. Howard and Werth leading the way on offense - 4-for-7 combined with 6 ribbies. Gotta like it. And gotta hope that this pitching performance will start a trend!
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