OT: Philadelphia Phillies (MLB): The quest for 100 losses begins now.

[montreal]

Franco 0-4.

BUST

0-4 tonight, sounds like he'll fit in perfect

3 in a row. That's a winning streak folks.

Congrats to Elvis Araujo on his first major league win, the phils just sent down old man McGowan earlier today so I wonder if this means Araujo is here to stay. If so it would be the 2nd player to make the team right from AA without spending any time in AAA as Odubel Herrera and Araujo never played above AA before this year.

Also congrats to Luis Garcia on what I believe is his first major league save. To think this guy was working at a hair salon and now he's in the majors and doing well so far.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Garcia used to work out at this baseball facility I went to.

Here's a little video of Pinto. I know he was mentioned earlier in the thread:
http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/scouts-video-view-ricardo-pinto/

 

[Phileeguy]

For the GoT fans:

The Mountain desires a better weapon than this puny club!

 

[Jack Straw]

For the GoT fans:

The Mountain desires a better weapon than this puny club!

Is that for real?

 

[klutch]

Elvis looked pretty good tonight. consistent lefty in the bullpen is always a great asset.

DeFratus on the other hand...

 

[Phileeguy]

Is that for real?

Yes.

In this one I imagine he says "What is this strange green creature? Do I ride it or eat it?"

 

[flyguy]

Is he from Philly?

Edit: His name is Hafbor Julius Bjornsson. Pretty safe to say he's not from Philly....

 

[PALE PWNR]

^^^

I'm pretty sure hes from Iceland.

 

[flyguy]

Odd he would go to a Phillies game of all places.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Odd he would go to a Phillies game of all places.

He's promoting the PA Renaissance Fair, which he is at.

 

[Jack Straw]

He's promoting the PA Renaissance Fair, which he is at.

Hopefully not to demonstrate how to crush the skull of a human being.

 

[Jack Straw]

Yes.

In this one I imagine he says "What is this strange green creature? Do I ride it or eat it?"

I'd be more impressed if he did that to John Kruk. Which he could probably do pretty easily anyway.

 

[flyguy]

Hopefully not to demonstrate how to crush the skull of a human being.

Or slice off the head of a horse with one fell swoop.

 

[montreal]

phils get some good news on the farm, LHP Yoel Mecias is back from the DL, he was one of the phils top pitching prospects before the injury last year. Didn't hear too much about his injury this year but he's in Clearwater (A+) now so we'll see how it goes for him.

Speaking of Clearwater, Mark Leiter had another good outing last night, continues to put up good numbers along with another NCAA arm with major league bloodlines, Brandon Leibrandt. Going to be interesting to see who gets moved up in the next several weeks. A lot of the focus is on Crawford and Nola moving up but they have a few guys that they should challenge at a higher level.

 

[FLYguy3911]

I played against Leiter in college. He's old for the level, but I'm still surprised by what he's been doing.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Franco's first MLB triple.

 

[montreal]

I played against Leiter in college. He's old for the level, but I'm still surprised by what he's been doing.

well if he keeps this up he should be in Reading soon enough, he's 3rd in whip and 4th in era. I know he's not thought of too highly because he doesn't throw hard but it's interesting to see him having so much success and if he can carry that over to AA this year.

Franco's first MLB triple.

just missed a HR, he smashed that one.

 

[Tankadelphia]

Franco with a homer

 

[BleedOrange]

5 Gm winning streak

 

[Halladay]

This is not allowed to happen, they are winning too many games.

 

[whitstifier]

#Playoffs #callupNola

 

[montreal]

Phillies place Chad Billingsley on 15-day DL. hope this won't derail his comeback.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Severino Gonzalez's spot in the rotation lines up with Billingsley's. Wonder if they call him up again. Playing at Coors Field could get ugly for him though.

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Anyone else see this dick last night? I wasn't watching the Phillies game, and usually I like the perception and reputation of Philly fans being *******s...but come on, you don't rip the ball out of another Phillies fan's hand. Perhaps if she was a D-Bags fan, but even then.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/phillies-fan-rips-home-run-ball-away-from-old-lady-1705167416

 

[Rebels57]

Anyone else see this dick last night? I wasn't watching the Phillies game, and usually I like the perception and reputation of Philly fans being *******s...but come on, you don't rip the ball out of another Phillies fan's hand. Perhaps if she was a D-Bags fan, but even then.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/phillies-fan-rips-home-run-ball-away-from-old-lady-1705167416

Plenty of those macho *******s roaming around the city. Probably the same guy that takes up 2 parking spots or starts fights with fans from outside the city.