http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ A Philadelphia Phillies Weblog en-us mark@stubbornlights.org 2005-05-19T21:36:59-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001915.html Man, what's wrong with Bobby Abreu? No home run today? Geez. Seriously, though, I don't have much to say about today's game because I was at the movies this afternoon, so I missed most of it. I have to admit,... 1915@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-05-19T21:36:59-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001911.html A few miscellaneous notes as the Phils begin what may be the defining stretch of the season for them -- 3 games each against St. Louis, Baltimore, Florida and Atlanta, who combined sport a .619 winning percentage. - The big... 1911@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-05-17T16:30:54-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001908.html OK, so, now does anyone want to argue that Bobby Abreu is overrated? Seriously, the guy's put together a monster week. Check out his numbers compared to the rest of the team over the past 7 games: AB R H... 1908@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-05-15T12:50:39-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001904.html OK, it's been a week since my last post. Sorry about that. So, what's been going on in Phillies-land recently? - Our offense sucks. In the last week, we've hit .211/.260/.360, good for 27th, 22nd and 20th in the majors,... 1904@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-05-10T16:01:16-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001899.html So, OK, last night -- other people have already discussed the game pretty in-depth, so I'll just quickly add my 3 cents: - Lifting Lieber last night after only 6 IP and 79 pitches was pretty stupid. - Bringing in... 1899@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-05-03T18:33:45-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001897.html Someone left a comment on yesterday's post that makes a good point about the fairness of the way I assigned PHILs: "Maybe you could figure out a percentage to make it more fair-I think Bell's stats are worse than Thome's-Thome... 1897@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-05-02T16:58:22-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001896.html Over the past couple days, I've been doing some thinking about what seems like biggest source of the Phillies' recent futility -- their inability to drive in runners on base (yeah, OK, let's pretend for a minute that today's 8-6... 1896@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-05-01T18:48:41-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001884.html OK, I know I said I'd update yesterday, but I was feeling pretty sick all day, so I never really got around to it. Sorry about that. So, with being sick and all, I've been doing a lot of reading... 1884@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-29T07:34:27-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001879.html OK, my girlfriend was up visiting for the weekend, so I sort of took the weekend off with regards to baseball. Unfortunately, it looks like the Phillies did the same thing, getting swept by the Braves pretty handily. Oh well,... 1879@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-25T20:35:16-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001876.html So, how about that Jon Lieber? Yesterday's line: IP H R ER BB K HR NP 8.0 9 3 3 0 1 1 99 OK, the 9 hits are a little troubling, but for the most part, he was pretty... 1876@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-22T15:00:07-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001873.html OK, last night was ugly. Suffice to say, we did not see Happy Vicente. Nor did we see a very good Gavin Floyd, although his performance was a bit more excusable (more on that in a sec). The two pitchers'... 1873@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-20T16:02:31-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001872.html In cased you hadn't noticed, I redesigned the site a bit. There's still some work left to be done (like the individual entry and archive pages), but the front page has been spiffed up a little. Also, if you're using... 1872@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-19T15:59:28-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001871.html Looks like I picked the wrong day to pick on Pat Burrell yesterday, huh? Last night he was 2-4 with a home run, a walk and two RBIs. Oops. Anyway, tonight Vicente Padilla returns from the DL and gets the... 1871@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-19T15:14:08-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001870.html We took 2 of 3 from the Braves this weekend, which is good, but I think the real story the past week has been the team's hitting struggles. Have a look: Opponents AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB... 1870@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-18T13:51:06-05:00 http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/archives/001868.html June 8th, 2004 and April 15th, 2005. What do these two dates have in common? Well, let's look at the starters' lines for each game: IP H R ER BB SO HR NP 6/8/04 0.2 6 6 6 1 0... 1868@http://mark.stubbornlights.org/phils/ 2005-04-16T15:01:01-05:00