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The Phillies scored a run!! The Phillies scored a run!! 6-1 in the top of the 7th. Holy crap! They just got two more runs! 6-3 top of the 7th. One more and they'll equal last week's total.

Man, the Phillies are in a BAD hitting funk right now. The Flyers scored more goals(5) then the Phillies scored runs last week. Since last Sunday they have scored 4 runs and have been shut out 5 times. It would not surprise me at all to see them swept by Atlanta and not score a run this series.

Exactly. I watched the game and there were a few borderline pitches that could have gone either way but that's baseball. Sometimes you get the call and sometimes you don't. I'll say this again - for a perfect or no-no game you need great pitching, great defense, and for a couple of calls to go your way. Saturday night was just one of those nights when it all came together.

Actually, Tim Kurkjian and Dave Winfield made the same observation on ESPN about elastic strikes from Halladay too. Sigh. Did you watch the game? No. Look, any time someone pitches a no-no or perfect game the strike zone is going to be more favorable to the pitcher than the hitter. You need great pitching, great defense, and a favorable call or two from the umps. That's just the way it is. And if Olney, Kurkjian, and Winfield want to pretend that the other 19 guys who have thrown perfect games didn't benefit from a favorable strike zone at some point during the game they're full of shit. But let's suppose for a minute that the ump did have an "elastic strike zone" on Saturday night. Well the hitters need to adjust to it just like pitchers have to adjust when an ump has a tight strike zone. It works both ways. If the hitters notice early on that the ump is giving the pitcher the strike on the outside of the plate then they need to make a mental and/or physical adjustment.

Buster Olney is a turd.

Here's a weird factoid: Halladay's perfect game was 6th 1-0 perfect game in MLB history. In all 6 the only run has been unearned.

ROY HALLADAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20th pitcher in MLB history to throw a perfect game. And he did it for the best team in the National League East - the Philadelphia Phillies!! :party: :party: :party:

Man, so many memorable performances! Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, Blue Velvet,... http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37414779/ns/today-entertainment/

Jesus H. Christ. Shutout 3 times IN A ROW by the Mets. How could it get any worse??

Honesty, I really dislike ol' Country Joe, but those were both arguably balks. Granted , he has pitched that way his whole career...still.... "Country Joe"??? You mean "Cowboy Joe". He should have been fired YEARS ago.

The first T was justified for the elbow but I'm at a loss on why he got the 2nd T.

How great would it be if Orlando comes back and wins the series after being down 3-0??? 93 NBA teams before them have been in the same situation and all of them came up short. Can you imagine the teeth gnashing that will take place if both the Bruins and the Celtics choke 3-0 leads in the same season??

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The Phillies have been on vacation the past 9 games. Split 2 game series at home vs. the Pirates and the Cubs. If that wasn't bad enough they came within a whisker of getting no-noed at home against a pitcher who came into the game w/ an ERA north of 7.00. Then they lost the next night to a guy who hadn't won a game since last July. But wait it gets better. They've been shut out by the Mets two games IN A ROW. The Mets. And then this little nugget just got tweeted.... LA Times says Dodgers have inquired on Cliff Lee. FISH STICKS!!

Saw the Sun Ra Arkestra last night. It was Marshall Allen's 86th birthday celebration. Fantastic. They did a great version of this song.

The Flyers are going to the Finals! :party:

You know I couldn't quite place his name until I read all of the posts in that link about his book,“The Annotated Alice”. I read it back in college right around the time I decided to major in philosophy. I don't know whether to praise him or blame him for influencing that career choice. Anyway, it's an excellent book.

Yeah, it's going to be hard to hear the music that he premiered at the PMA otherwise.

Truth be told shutting down the Phillies for 8 innings in Citizens Bank Park is pretty amazing.

And Juan Castro breaks up the no hitter in the bottom of the 8th w/ 2 outs. Phew.

Dice-K has a no-no going through 7 in Philly. He's thrown 93 pitches so far.

From ESPN... The Canadiens' one shot in the second period matched a playoff franchise low done twice before, most recently in a 5-2 win over Boston in April 1994. The Penguins were the last team to do it, during their Game 7 win over Detroit in last year's Stanley Cup finals, according to STATS LLC. ESPN... Leighton became the 13th NHL goalie to have three shutouts in one series, and the first since Toronto's Ed Belfour and Tampa Bay's Nikolai Khabibulin did it in the first round of the 2004 postseason.

WOO HOO!! Flyers shutout the Habs for the 3rd time this series!!

The Flyers played one of their better periods this playoffs in the 2nd today. They out shot the Habs 11-1 and scored two goals.

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