07 October 2011 ~ 8 Comments

Argghh

I was moaning to Amato this afternoon that I just knew Ryan Howard would lose tonight’s game for us, I just knew it. He said nah, you got Halladay, the Phillies will be fine.

But as a lifelong Philadelphian, I have a finely-calibrated nose for the stench of collapse. Oh well!

8 Responses to “Argghh”

  1. astroworf 8 October 2011 at 12:35 am Permalink

    Don’t be so hard on Howard. His ground-out was only one of 27 outs Chris Carpenter tallied without allowing a run to score. As disappointing as it is, it was just one of those games where the pitcher would not be denied.

  2. Tom 8 October 2011 at 7:16 am Permalink

    It’s just sports – a pasttime to distract you from how awful things really are. There are far more important things to be upset about, but i understand.

  3. leoinaugust 8 October 2011 at 8:02 am Permalink

    Football !! Hockey !!! Once more unto the breech, dear friends, once more.

  4. jawbone 8 October 2011 at 9:06 am Permalink

    I’m sorry for your Phillies’ loss. So close….

  5. dandy 8 October 2011 at 9:57 am Permalink

    Hey Suze, you wanna talk about STENCH???? Did anyone notice what happened to the Braves here in The ATL……………………..AAAArrrrgh!

  6. JJ 8 October 2011 at 10:18 am Permalink

    My first thought was that a disgruntled Phillies fan had shot the scapegoat.

  7. mjames 8 October 2011 at 10:33 am Permalink

    Good pitching generally beats good hitting. And RH was the perfect one to end the game, seeing as how he couldn’t buy a hit against any pitching. Halladay was great; Carpenter was a bit better.

    I thought the World Series would be the Yanks against the Phillies. I bet the Yanks and the Phillies thought the same. (I’ve been a Yankee fan for some 60+ years, since I was a little kid growing up on Long Island, so I do empathize.)

    IMO, the teams with the fire in their bellies won. What next? The Rangers better watch out. They are not a sure thing, not the way things have been going.

  8. Izquierdo 8 October 2011 at 11:57 am Permalink

    They never shoulda played on Yom Kippur.