Staff Blog
Morning Rounds, November 4th
Some days it’s easier to not pay attention to sports than others - when the Phillies were in the midst of their World Series run I don’t think I returned a phone call or met with a friend for something not based around the games once. Today is not one of those days. There is plenty of interesting sports stories - AI to Detroit means a lot for the NBA of today and tomorrow, Thaddeus Young is developing into a star, this man is starting NFL quarterback, etc. etc. etc. - but I still keep wondering off to election news, checking polls, and reading endless commentary.
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“We vote as many, but we pray as one.” - Adlai Stevenson
and as a special double feature …
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Churchill
Three lines on their world:
Three lines on ours:
- The Sixers waxed the Kings
- Ruben Amaro officially took over
- and the Flyers have reached out to Brendan Shanahan
Phillies, Birds, Sixers, Flyers and what everybody is talking about after the jump
PHILLIES
In an extraordinarily poorly placed but otherwise interesting article, Sam Donnellon guesses at Ruben Amaro’s relationship with the ownership group. READ
Mike Jenson looks at Amaro’s baseball family. SKIP
Mike Jenson gets Ruben Amaro to talk 2009 plans. SKIP
*if you can only read one After a quick dance, Bob Ford talks about what made Pat Gillick great. READ
Paul Hagen explains what is next for Mike Arbuckle. READ
David Murphy lists the five most pressing issues facing the Phillies. READ
David Murphy talks with Ed Wade and Jim Fregosi, who praise the Phillies’ new GM. READ
Elmer Smith doesn’t really say much about Chase Fucking Utley. SKIP
Randy Miller explains Pat Gillick’s new job. READ
Mike Sielski eulogizes Pat Gillick. READ
EAGLES
Les Bowen takes a look at the Birds defense (acceptable) and offense (there are some problems). READ
Ed Barkowitz gets Andy Reid’s reaction to the Brent Celek controversy, and more. SKIP
Marc Narducci’s notes quote Jim Johnson hyping up the Giants, get the reaction to Todd Herremans catch, and more. SKIP
Brookover’s under the microscope column is interesting as always. This week he looks at Brent Celek, ToddHerremans, and Trent Cole. READ
Reuben Frank looks at a revived Darren Howard. READ
SIXERS
Kate Fagan gets the Sixers’ reaction to the AI trade. SKIP
Don McKee loves himself the AI trade (fun fact: someone distracted me as I was writing this headline and I accidentally typed ‘election’ instead of ‘AI trade’. SKIP
Bob Cooney talks to Jason Thompson about the 500+ people who where there to support him last night. READ
Tom Moore says that last night’s win was fun. READ
FLYERS
Sam Cardichi reports that the Flyers are in talks with Brendan Shanahan. READ
Ed Moran reports that the NHL has awarded Simon Gagne it’s third Star of the Week. SKIP
Wayne Fish says Briere is coming back to practice. SKIP
TODAY and MORE
Like every fake political junkie I try not to show it often, but I’m totally a fake political junkie. Even this election season when I “swore off” politics, I read the papers, the Plank, the Corner, Drum, Sullivan, Ygleias, and RCP, pretty much every day, and check out all the rest at least once a week. All of which goes to say: today is pretty interesting to me (even if nothing happens until tonight). I’ll be here all day and be posting whatever snarky observations I can, but like one of Robert Jarvik’s patients, my heart won’t really be in it.
As always, feel free to email with any questions, suggestions, comments or complaints.
