Yardwork: The Phillies Have That Whole Mojo Thing Goin’ On
Baseball July 22nd. 2009, 11:00am
Phils 4, Cubs 1: Jayson Werth hit a three-run shot in the bottom the 13th to win it, and then managed to rile up the home crowd even further by challenging Christian to a ladder match. That’s 10 in a row for the Phils. Standard procedure.
Indians 2, Blue Jays 1: In two starts since the break, Cliff Lee has pitched two complete games and given up a total of two runs. Watch Boston come out of nowhere to swoop him up. And since we’re here, Ricciardi said, “At this point, it’s probably unlikely that we’ll trade Doc.€ That obviously means a deal is just hours from completion.
Nats 4, Mets 0: The Mets were blanked for the fifth time in 13 games. Last night’s shutout special took place in 2 hours, 9 minutes. Baseball is alive in Queens.
Rangers 4, Red Sox 2: Rangers starter Tommy Hunter was impressive, holding the Sox to one run on four hits over six innings. It’s been awhile since we’ve checked in on Big Papi — he’s batting a blistering .224.
Rays 3, White Sox 2: Patty Burrell walked with the bases juiced in the ninth to tie things up, and Carlos Peña hit a sac fly for the go-ahead run. Bobby Jenks was awful. In four of his last five appearances he’s given up at least a run.
Angels 10, Royals 2: Erick Aybar was 4-for-5 with 3 RBIs, but that still doesn’t excuse him for spelling his name like an indecisive freak.
Angels 8, Royals 5: Ervin Santana was back to being awful, but it’s the Royals, he still got the win.
Brewers 2, Pirates 0: Braden Looper, the Brewers version of Joel Piñeiro, pitched seven scoreless innings to pick up his ninth win. To steal a page from the Indians grounds crew, he’s still shitty. And he reminds me of Wallace.
Tigers 9, Mariners 7: Seattle starter Garrett Olson went 1 1/3 innings and allowed seven runs. Quite a showing.
It’s acceptable to hum along to this soothing symphony:
This, on the other hand, sounds like a jingle used for a painful interoffice orientation video:
51 Responses to “Yardwork: The Phillies Have That Whole Mojo Thing Goin’ On”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.


July 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 am
Buttfuckingham Palace. Well played.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 am
Patty Burrell walked with the bases juiced in the ninth to tie things up
Have to love free runs. Rays led that category last year. They have 14 so far this year(tied for 4th). Jeff Niemann pitched a good game
Patty 0-2 w/ 2 walks
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Don’t want to jinx the [censored]. I like your style, hernia.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Hernia,
I saw this headline on profootballtalk.com this morning and thought of you:
TRAVIS JOHNSON HAS SURGERY FOR SPORTS HERNIA
What, is he giving you a kidney or something?
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
Garret Olson is fucking terrible. Even if McPhail swapped him for Felix Pie’s worthless corpse, I still support the move.
Seattle fans have to really hate McPhail and the Orioles by now.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
Ummmm, yeah. Apparently.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:23 am
I like the Rangers to be the AL Wild Card this year. Boston, NY, and TB will beat the shit out of each other and could possibly ruin the chances of another team from the division making the cut.
The Rangers schedule should either expose them in the next couple months, or prove them to be for real. They play the entire AL East over the next 2 months, with DET, MN, and Cle thrown in the mix as well. If they win at least half of the out of division schedule, they are in. Hamilton is back now and the Pitching staff appears to be stable enough to hold them.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
Richard outptiches Niemann (2-1 going into the 9th) and then Jenks goes ballistic – hit, HBP, hit, walk, sac fly DP, K. I damn near had to buy a new TV due to remote control projectiles.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 am
@ben- Richard pitched a good game. Yesterday i said he was going to get lit up. didn’t happen. It looked like AJ and Jenks had some words in the 9th
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
Hopefully the dialogue was along the lines of “Hey Jenks, stop sucking ass.” “Yes sir.”
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:45 am
Rangers as wild card = not going to happen. At least 2 of Yanks, Sawx, and Rays are winning more than 90 games, Texas is not.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:48 am
Adam LaRoche trade close?
PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE let it happen. And oh boy let it be the Mets.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:50 am
The double play Rollins turned in the 9th off Lidge’s foot is proof that when you’re on, you’re on.
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 am
Are the Phillies 10 games out of first place yet?
/April TBL’d
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:54 am
I asked in these parts yesterday if TBL acconpanying me to the Phils game last nite would jinx the winning streak. The answer: yes and no. True, the Phils won…but not until TBL bolted after the 11th
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:59 am
fixed
I hope the Rangers make it over one of the AL East teams. I think they have a better chance beating out the Angels for first place than making it as a wild card.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Jay V, but maybe it’s luck to have a Yankee fan in attendance, Nicholson was there the night before after all. Maybe he left early too.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Uh no, not fixed, because Adam LaRoche is not good, he’s garbage.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Adam LaRoche traded to Boston
Anything more than a low level prospect and the Buccos win this trade. What a sack of shit that guy was.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Could just be a straight salary dump. Whatever, opens up first for Jones and a corner for Lastings.
See you in hell Bert, you strikeout machine cocksucker.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:24 pm
HA!
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 pm
The Red Sox traded for a white guy? That’s surprising.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
The Red Sox traded for a white guy? That’s surprising.
Tony LaRussa approves.
/Ron Gant
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
+1 to hernia for the Wallace & Grommit pic.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Howard Bryant with a story about Red Sox and racism.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
@Hernia – You must have ESP. MLBTR says Theo is on the phone and has been all day with Mark Shapiro.
Lee is probably gonna be a Red Sock along with some bat from that squad. Maybe a Ben Francisco or something.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:09 pm
i think victor is more likely to be traded. hopefully theo has his eyes on peralta or garko
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Jack Wilson might be included in the trade, and LaRoche is still in the dugout at today’s game.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
That’s too bad because what you like has 0.00000001% chance of happening.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Can’t say that I get the joke in regards to Christian and the ladder match, and I’m a huge wrestling fan. Speaking of which, that’s Edge in the accompanying photo, not his former tag team partner, Christian. Fixed.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Adam LaRoche traded to Boston
The Red Sox traded for a white guy? That’s surprising.
Nothing says “integration” more than the signings of homeboys Teixeira and Burnett.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Just Google image searched Mr. Werth, and I totally get it now. Well played, my friend. Keep the wrestling references coming!
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:22 pm
What I like is knowing the race of my MLB superstars!
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Correct. Jayson Werth looks like Edge, that’s why I mentioned him and that’s why Edge is the featured pic.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Oops, my bad, should have read your follow-up comment first.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
the pirates should just put their strategy online. because i wont believe whatever they’re saying
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Buccos get Hunter Strickland and Argenis Diaz for LaRoche. No idea who they are, but they got something, so they win the trade.
Also, Websters Dictionary defines ‘unstoppable’ as: GARRETT FUCKING JONES!
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
You going to do another ‘contract the Pirates’ post even though he’s having the worst year since his rookie season and is making an absurd amount of money for how shitty he is? And that he’s a dick?
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
You conveniently left out the part where they passed on Johan so they could sign the premier African-American pitcher of his generation.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Now the only chance for LaRoche to fight Carlos Beltran will be in the World Series. Or was that his brother, Petie LaRoche?
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Agree with mole this was a very smart trade.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
For what it’s worth….
There are rumors that the Cards had agreed to trade Duncan to Boston in exchange for Lugo last night. TLR and Duncan’s pop threatened to quit and the deal was called off. Duncan was just optioned to AAA.
It could be an interesting couple of days in STL.
July 22nd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
You conveniently left out the part where they passed on Johan so they could sign the premier African-American pitcher of his generation.
when the competition for that title is the D-Train, not a hard title to win. Kinda like being Heavyweight champ 10 years ago (Foreman years), or golfer other than Tiger.
/nice try, though
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Simmons on Laroche deal on twitter:
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
You conveniently left out the part where they passed on Johan so they could sign the premier African-American pitcher of his generation.
when the competition for that title is the D-Train, not a hard title to win. Kinda like being Heavyweight champ 10 years ago (Foreman years), or golfer other than Tiger.
/you still crushed my comment, though
Fixed.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Yeah! Youre not a real black person if youre Latino! Get with it!
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
BetBot:
The Yankees passed on Johan because they foolishly thought lily white Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes were major league pitchers. that’s the only reason they didn’t sign Johan.
Yeah! Youre not a real black person if youre Latino! Get with it!
crackerjack: I forgot where I stand in the pecking order. My bad
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
@jpq: I understand the history of the Santana trade, just not sure what you were getting at with the comment about Burnett, Texeira, and integration.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Hughes has been terrible lately. Good call.
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Hughes has been terrible lately. Good call.
yeah, you wouldn’t want to look at the trade from the start of last season, when it would have been made or anything. No reason you’d want to have had Santana in pinstripes for 1.5 seasons when you had Hughes lighting it up last year in Scranton and has been good with the Stankees for 6 weeks.
/small sample sized
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Bum knee, throws the bats under the bus. Don’t want.