Your Monday Morning Roundup
pic via (@CRosselloPhils)
Hey, the Phillies won a couple games this weekend.
Let’s hit it!
But first, a word from our sponsors:
T-shirts. We’re selling Sidney Head Bleed anyway. Get one.
Doc. Meet Roy Halladay at Sports Vault this September. Details and tickets here.
Bringin’ Hexy Back. Philly Phaithful’s oh-so-fitting jam.
Eagles tickets. Great deals on Crossing Broad Tickets. Got club level for $150 a piece last week.
The roundup:
“I think we’ve seen glimpses of it,” Phillies third baseman Cody Asche said about the team’s offensive potential. “I think you just saw in the last two days what can happen when we put together all three phases of the game, pitching and defense and our offense. We have been missing a piece or two here or there a couple games, and dropped a couple tough ones. But I think you saw the potential of the team, not just the offense.”
Potential is an intangible thing. Home runs are tangible. The Phillies finally showed some power this weekend. They hit just three home runs in that 10-game span, in which they went 2-8 and scored just 26 runs.
They hit six homers and scored 20 runs the last two days and won both games.
It is not a coincidence.
“Potentially, with some warmer weather,” Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said, when asked if his team can hit for more power. “But we have potential up and down the lineup with guys getting hot, and hopefully that continues.”
Charlie Manuel would’ve called that hittin’ season.
Since there’s nothing else going on in Flyer-land, Ed Snider partook in a conference call with reporters to talk about the 40th anniversary of the Flyers’ first Stanley Cup:
Q: Every May 19, do you think of this? Do you celebrate?
A: No. It’s ancient history. I have wonderful memories, but that celebration is long gone. I want to celebrate again someday.
Do you celebrate? Love that. I don’t know who asked it, and I’m not sure if it was meant to mock Snider, but something tells me Mike Sielski enjoyed it. Oddly, next year, Snider can hold a conference call to celebrate the Flyers’ last Stanley Cup.
The Phils looked better this weekend, but not quite sure the excitement is back at CBP:
California Chrome was pumped up for the race on Saturday:
This whole thing about the nasal strips is out of control. Like, I can’t believe that, as a people, we’re having a serious conversation about whether a horse should be allowed to wear Breathe Right strips when he runs around a track. Somewhere, a terrorist actually feels bad for us.
There’s a battle between the Carlyle Group and Monsanto taking place in Philly over corn and oil. Conspiracy theorists eat your hearts out.
Joe Banner talks to Jeff McLane Zach Berman about Jeffrey Lurie. So many J’s in that sentence:
“We accomplished a lot of great things together, have some incredible memories with each other,” Banner said. “I do think there was a little roughness as I exited, but almost 19 years we had together was amongst the longest partnerships of that nature in professional sports. It was a great run, in my mind.”
When asked about their relationship, Lurie said “we are totally cordial on a personal basis.”
I read this whole thing as: Hey, you hiring?
Researchers are tracking a great white shark making her way from Martha’s Vineyard to Ft. Lauderdale. She even has her own Twitter account (@Shark_Katherine) where she tweets fun and quirky messages like: Are you serving seal? #berightover. That’s cool and all, but how are we going to deal with it when she Tweets: Just ate a small child off the coast of Cape Canaveral. Delish! #younextmiami
In the wild:
pic via (@Fazed_N_Confused)
Alex Ovechkin’s leg: Not looking good! I’m sure teams are thrilled about their players playing in the meaningless World Championships.
Clammy Sosa eats an umpire at Phanatic’s birthday.
Michael Jackson as a moonwalking hologram.
The NFL Draft will likely leave New York in 2015.
Wardrobe malfunctions are a thing of the past. Now stars just try to pull their breasts out. I am not against this.
The foul ball switcheroo is the best thing of the weekend… unless the kid had gotten two foul balls and merely gave the girl one.
CBGA Tour
The first event is at Westover and you may play your round anytime between now and June 1. THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO SIGN UP. All the details are here. It costs $15. Those of you who have already signed up (over 60 people) should have received, or will be receiving, an email to pay your $15. The deadline to sign up and pay is the end of the first event, on June 1.
