Staff Blog
Morning Rounds, September 29th
The Phillies are headed to the playoffs, the Mets are not, and the Eagles showed just how much they miss Brian Westbrook. Lets get to the week.
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“It feels like a wasted season.” - David Wright
Three lines on their world:
- The Playoffs are (almost) all set
- The Metros are on the outside looking in
- and Brett Favre did something he’s never done before
Three lines on ours:
- The Phillies, rested and ready, head into October
- The Westbrook-less Eagles can’t hold off the Bears
- and Aaron McKie is back
Phillies, Birds, Sixers, Flyers and what everybody is talking about after the jump
PHILLIES
Phil Sheridan expects victory, and breaks down what he thinks are the key differences between the 2007 and 2008 Philadelphia Phillies. SKIP
John Gonzalez goes drinking with vanquished enemies, and puts the playoffs on Jimmy. READ
Paul Hagen looks at Pat Gillick’s tenure and future. SKIP
Frank Seravelli gives you 15 random facts about the Brewers season. It comes off exactly as lazy as it sounds. SKIP
Kate Fagan reports back from New York and a defeated Mets team. SKIP
Frank Fitzpatrick gushes over CC. SKIP
Zolecki’s notes include a guess at the postseason roster. READ
David Murphy looks at the Phillies’ playoff experience and differences between the 2007 Rockies and the 2008 Brewers. SKIP
Paul Hagen gets a Q&A in with Phillies President David Montgomery, which includes hard-hitting questions like:
The Phillies have finished first in back-to-back years for the first time since 1977-78.
Can you put that in perspective?
SKIP
David Murphy starts his notes with a look at Lou Marson’s future, then gets to Shane Victorino’s shin and the playoff roster. SKIP
Jim Salisbury hands out MLB awards. I’ll spoil it: he picks Ryan over Jose Alberto. SKIP
1Chair puts The Doubleplay in persective. READ
EAGLES
The Eagles were without their best offensive player, on the road, in a trap game, and should have won. I know the message boarders are practically crawling over themselves to assign blame for this one, but this loss really isn’t the end of the world.
Paul Domowitch tries to point out that Andy Reid doesn’t trust Correll Buckhalter’s ability to win him a ballgame, which might be an interesting point, if the main reason the Birds lost wasn’t Andy Reid’s overconfidence in Correll Buckhalter’s ability to win him a ballgame. Sure, this one was obviously written in-game and turned out to be a casualty of a night game deadline, but wow. SKIP
Rich Hofmann says that the Birds are a different team without all-world tailback Brian Westbrook, which is kinda like pointing out that chess is harder without your queens, or that The Police aren’t the same band without that Sting guy. SKIP
Ray Parrillo breaks down DeSean Jackson’s rookie game. READ
Bob Ford opens with the line, “And on the fourth game, they stunk,” which leads me to believe he’s taking himself a bit too seriously. SKIP
Sam Donnellon is worried about the secondary, a worry which worries him. READ
Paul Domowitch grades the Eagles. SKIP
Bob Cooney and Paul Vigna look back through the numbers. READ
Bob Brookover’s notes look at the injuries, Buck’s TD and Obama’s up/down. READ
Paul Domowitch with five quick hits. READ
Don McKee live-blogs the game… in retrospect… and in print. SKIP
Reuben Frank approximates ‘About Last Night’. READ
SIXERS
Phil Jasner reports that Aaron McKie is officially joining the Sixers’ coaching staff. READ
Phil Jasner reports that the Sixers are headed to Penn State for training camp. SKIP
Tom Moore says Mo Cheeks says Elton Brand isn’t as super as Moses Malone. The actual article is way less middle-school-girl-y than that though. READ
FLYERS
Ed Moran says that the Flyers‘ day in the Spectrum was special. READ
Wayne Fish says that the pressure is on Scottie Upshall. READ
TODAY and MORE
We’ll be looking back at the Eagles and ahead to the Phils. As always, feel free to email with any questions, suggestions, comments or complaints.
Speaking of Aaron McKie, where is George Lynch these days?
So does this mean that we can trade Aaron for a yet to be named Memphis Grizzly this year? I vote Kyle Lowry.
Oh, and welcome back Aaron!
Man “The Double Play” was sweet! That game was too much drama for us rats.
Hey Complex - in ‘07 the Phil’s playoffs turned out to be a SKIP - here’s believin ‘08 brings us a READ.