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Philly Sport: U-S-A Chants at Citizens Bank Park as Phillies Fans Hear watch here

Halladay being Halladay

Braves' Derek Lowe arrested for DUI

So has William selected his Royal Mistress yet?

Ben Zobrist of Tampa Bay has 8 RBIs today. The record for RBIs in one game is 12 by Mark Whiten of the Cardinals on 9-07-1993. edit: Jim Bottomley also knocked in 12 runs for St. Louis on 9-16-1924 Whoa! Check this out.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_leaders_in_RBI_in_one_inning The Major League Baseball (MLB) leaders in runs batted in (RBI) in one inning are topped by record holder Fernando Tatís, then with the St. Louis Cardinals, who set the MLB record with eight RBI in a 1999 game in which he hit two grand slams in the third inning of a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Alex Rodriguez set the American League mark, with seven RBI in the sixth inning of the New York Yankees' final game of the 2009 season, played against the Tampa Bay Rays. Tatís accomplished his major league baseball record in a game played by the St. Louis Cardinals on April 23, 1999, against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. Dodger starting pitcher Chan Ho Park entered the game's third inning with a 2–0 lead, but would implode in that frame, giving up a total of 11 runs (six of them earned) on six hits, an error and 48 pitches in the inning before being relieved by Carlos Pérez who was able to get the third out of the inning on three pitches. With no outs, Park loaded the bases on two singles and a walk before Tatís hit a grand slam to deep left field on a 2–0 count. Three more runs scored before Tatís would again come to the plate with the bases loaded, belting his second grand slam with two outs and a full count, to give Tatís the MLB record for most RBI in an inning and becoming the only MLB player to have hit two grand slams in a single inning.[4]

GO FLYERS!!!

Food for thought Lester Bangs, the late, great early-rock critic, once said he dreamed of having a basement with every album ever released in it. That's a fantasy shared by many music fans—and, mutatis mutandis, film buffs as well. We all know the Internet has made available a lot of things that were previously hard to get. Recently, though, there are indications of something even more enticing, almost paradisiacal, something that might have made Bangs put down the cough syrup and sit up straight: that almost everything is available. A rarity might be less popular; it might be less interesting. But it's no longer less available the way it once was. If you have a decent Internet connection and a slight cast of amorality in your character, there's very little out there you might want that you can't find. Does the end of rarity change in any fundamental way, our understanding of, attraction to, or enjoyment of pop culture and high art? In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books, the poet Dan Chiasson wrote at length about Keith Richards' autobiography and made an interesting point near the end, about how scarcity and rarity, long ago, actually fueled artistic endeavor: [T]he experience of making and taking in culture is now, for the first time in human history, a condition of almost paralyzing overabundance. For millennia it was a condition of scarcity; and all the ways we regard things we want but cannot have, in those faraway days, stood between people and the art or music they needed to have: yearning, craving, imagining the absent object so fully that when the real thing appears in your hands, it almost doesn't match up. Nobody will ever again experience what Keith Richards and Mick Jagger experienced in Dartford, scrounging for blues records.

The Phillies pitching staff just threw their 5 shutout in 19 games. The last time that was done by any team was in 1913 by the Dodgers.

Ryan Howard is 0-8 lifetime vs. San Diego's Mat Latos with 8 strikeouts.

Cubs threw 1918 World Series?

This past weekend... Dark - Round the Edges(Akarma,RE) Power of Zeus - The Gospel According to Zeus (Rare Earth,RE) Bardo Pond - S/t (Fire Records) Zomes - Earth Grind (Thrill Jockey) Marijata - This is Marijata (Voodoo Funk/Academy,RE) Orlando Julius and the Afro Sounders - s/t (Voodoo Funk/Academy,RE) Kohoutek - s/t (private press) Stonewall - s/t (Tiger Lily,RE)

Cliff Lee was once sent down after being a starter for 3 full seasons and at an older age than Hughes. And when he came back he was CLIFF LEE. While there's no guarantee he'll have that kind of a dramatic improvement it's obviously a necessary move, and who knows, maybe it'll straighten him out. But there was a huge difference in the reasons why each were sent down. Lee was sent down because of location issues. He never had a problem w/ his velocity. Good point. It's just our Yankee fans here fret so much I was just trying to make them feel optimistic for a change. Whew, the Red Sox are playing mighty earlier this morning if you live on the west coast. I feel like such a slacker. Yeah what time did that game start here? They were in the 2nd inning around 11:40(EDT) Actually there is some reason to hope for Hughes. The year after the Phillies won the WS Cole Hamels had a horrible year. His velocity was way down. He was out of shape from partying all Winter and his arm strength never got to were it should have been. Last Spring, after upping his off season workout regimen his velocity came back but he struggled w/ his location. Part of the location issues was that he was learning how to throw a cutter, which apparently is a hard pitch to master. Anyway, he finally got it together right after the all star break and he was pretty darn good the 2nd half of the season. He would have had 6 or 7 more wins easy if he had any run support. Besides one outing vs. the Mets when the ump was SQUEEZING him he's been outstanding again thus far this season. So yeah I think an off season conditioning program will benefit Hughes. I'm not sure what a stint in the minors will do for him right now other than give him a mental break from the NYC sports microscope.

Cliff Lee was once sent down after being a starter for 3 full seasons and at an older age than Hughes. And when he came back he was CLIFF LEE. While there's no guarantee he'll have that kind of a dramatic improvement it's obviously a necessary move, and who knows, maybe it'll straighten him out. But there was a huge difference in the reasons why each were sent down. Lee was sent down because of location issues. He never had a problem w/ his velocity.

You'll be busy keeping up with Point Guard U! Jrue in Philly, Westbrook with the Thunder. The '6ers played the Heat well for a quarter and change. The end was closer than the final score would indicate. The Sixers cut the Heat's lead to one point w/ 90 seconds to go in the game. Check this out - Miami had 39 foul shot attempts to the Sixers' 15!! WTF??

I don't think this has been posted before now. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

The Phillies just got a complete game shut out from Cliff Lee. 12 strike outs including fanning Jayson Werth 2x. That makes consecutive complete game victories for the Fightin's. Oswalt pitches tomorrow Good times. Oh and Neal that Zimmerman kid was pitching a great game there until he made that mistake to Ruiz to lead off the 7th. Color me impressed.

Just as I fucking predicted, except both teams scored one more run. This however is wrong. THEIR HOLE IS MORE THAN DEEP ENOUGH ALREADY. From 2002 to 2010, there have been 39 teams that have won three or fewer of their first ten games. One of those teams managed to win 90 games or more. Two others made the playoffs with fewer than 90 games - in the parity stricken National League. http://www.actasports.com/stats_detail/?StatId=286 Is there any possible reason to imagine that if this study were extended to the entire wild-card era the results would be any different? Is there any possible way to imagine that 90 wins would make the playoffs in the American League in 2011? STICK A FORK IN THEM THEY ARE DONE. 2-9 - that's bad but let's put it in perspective. 11 games is approximately 1/16 of the baseball season which is equivalent to one week in the NFL. So if the Patriots got blown out on the first week of the season would you write off their Super Bowl hopes? Of course not. Look there's no way Crawford is gonna bat .152 for the entire season. Ditto for Youkilis at .172. They have the best line up in baseball - bar none - and it's going to start producing soon and when it does LOOK OUT!

Good call.

Ha.

Now that's a cut of death!

That's too bad you missed him. I only saw BB perform one time and it was w/ Kahil El'Zabar in 2006. He was great. Alas, he was a no show in 2007 w/ Barry Altschul and Joe Fonda, which turned into a great duo performance, IIRC.

The Rays scored 16 runs last night?? I guess they were due.