Comments on: Ryan Howard’s ability to hit lefties is not a matter of opinion

By: phillyphannn83

phillyphannn83 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:21:58 +0000

Welcome to the party and no it wont stop. Craig gets his jollies from the meaningless support of the irrelevant people that post here to support him. He is a Braves fan with a blog, what do you expect. Were the only team thats been able to unseat his team and did it 5 years in a row. Now the Nats have done it and look like they can do it for 5 years also but trolling their fans is pointless because last time I checked, there are high school teams that draw more fans than the Nats. Plus theyre not passionate enough to even show up here to defend their team.

But dont stop coming here because every now and then, Gleeman puts up a REAL Phillies post. Plus, youd miss out on the enjoyment we get from seeing Craig continuously make posts like this and then whine and cry about other REAL writers who have a hall-of-fame vote and wonder why he doesnt and never will. Its sad bt maybe he’ll actually grow up and act like an adukt since he’s turning 40, hes only 20 years late.

By: phillyphannn83

phillyphannn83 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:07:33 +0000

Of course were learning now that Brauns success is due to his PED use, but that has nothing to to with anything, does it. smh

By: wonderkt

wonderkt — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:36:14 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to inform all of us that you will be going elsewhere, I’ll sleep better knowing what happened to you.

By: hammyofdoom

hammyofdoom — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:38:10 +0000

… Sarcasm? Or are you really saying something along the lines of “Craig’s bias is the reason be is mentioning that Ryan Howard cant hit lefties”? Cause if its the second one, that’s friggin’ HILARIOUS

By: mojosmagic

mojosmagic — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:52:56 +0000

Some are naive enough to believe that a writer should be unbiased in his opinions. How the hell does an obvious Braves homer with writing skills as inept as Craig’s even have a job? Not like this blog will get you into the Baseball Writers Hall of Fame or anything.

By: ermur22

ermur22 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 12:54:50 +0000

Philly fans are such fucking crybabies!!

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:19:46 +0000

Cur, I guess I’d like to know who you think planned for us to be where we are today and how that plan worked. And, how do you think we got freedom of the press and democracy?

By: dprat

dprat — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:39:13 +0000

darthsat = biceps
This argument that “[t]he Phillies organization paid for Howard’s past production” was a favorite of biceps, and was iconic of his style, i.e., using batshit crazy arguments to bolster batshit crazy notions.

By: garryjercia

garryjercia — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:05:48 +0000

That’s kind of how I feel about religion

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:56:35 +0000

Picky picky.

By: 4cornersfan

4cornersfan — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:58:47 +0000

You are all morond tragically lost in your own bankrupt belief system. “After the Gold Rush” is the greatest Neil Young song. Where else can you hear a flugelhorn solo?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:33:30 +0000

You just prefer a system set up w/ one particular set of standards over others. That doesn’t make it better. It just makes it the one you prefer. If you changed your standards, you’d change your assessment. You and I just have different views on that and make our assessments accordingly.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:30:41 +0000

That is how democracy doesn’t work.

By: Tim OShenko

Tim OShenko — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:23:58 +0000

It definitely features the best backing band.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:51:01 +0000

Sorry about annoying you with BS…but I will definitely up my waxing poetic about the Tigers, if you’d like.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:49:25 +0000

That’s how democracy works, no?

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:48:17 +0000

I really wish baseball would start….all of these PED posts and other BS almost make me long for the days of daily bicepts waxing poetic about the phillies winning the WS every day.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:45:45 +0000

Because both opinions are weighted equally when making policy….then you wind up with travesties like the fiasco that is the Texas “educational” system, working hard to teach bullshit to the next generation. I don’t have kids, I suppose I shouldn’t care how badly people choose to fuck the place up….I just have this thing about facts, the truth, and liars.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:39:33 +0000

What difference does it make if I’m ignorant about global warming or evolution?

By: paperlions

paperlions — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:36:49 +0000

For example, joe blow’s ignorance with respect tn evolution or global warming is not better than my knowledge and is not sufficient to form a valid opinion. Today’s politics and policy are rife with examples of opinions masquerading as equally valid as facts. Even esteemed (harhar) media outlets insist on “equal time” to “both sides of an argument”….ignoring the fact that all experts on the topic are on one side of that “argument”. You know when scientists stopped arguing about whether or not evolution was fact? In the 1860s. Since then the discussion has been about how it works. You know when the scientific community stopped arguing about whether or not anthropogenic activities were affecting climate? In the 1970s. Since then the discussion has been about how bad it is and will get and what can be done about it….yet both topics are portrayed as active scientific discussions.

By: mplsjoe

mplsjoe — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:23:26 +0000

Craig, you ignorant slut. “Mirror Ball” is Neil Young’s best album.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:12:51 +0000

How do you determine that your knowledge is better than my ignorance? How is that assessment democratic? Is this wisdom available in paperback?

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:40:49 +0000

I agree: its not a t all a new thing. But its rather new that such stupid decisions are being made at the highest levels of your government based on it.
As for the rest: your country didn’t arrive where it is by accident, either for better or worse. Decisions were made, some good (and yes, some bad), that brought about the place that America now holds. Among them a free press; Separation of church and state; relatively uncorrupted civil police force; The idea and general enforcement that laws apply equally to all; democracy. These were all good sound ideas that were acted upon and improved over time. Some of these ideas were so good that they changed the way other, older countries operated. Just the fact that you and I can even be having this discussion is evidence of that.

By: irishphilly87

irishphilly87 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:12:13 +0000

Lee did perform poorly. He had a good ERA by year’s end but if you actually watched the games you’d ha e seen he got knocked around in a good amount of games. Lee might be the biggest disappointment on the team to me. He gets paid $25 mil a year and we were up 4-0 in game 2 against St Louis 2 years ago and he ga e up a 4 run lead. Doc won game 1 Cole won game 3. Lee cost us that series and St Louis went on to win the world series. Dont tell me i dont know what im talkin about i watch every Phillies game.

By: IdahoMariner

IdahoMariner — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:47:03 +0000

and that was sincerely directed at ryanrockzzz, not sarcastically directed at irishphilly.

although i guess it would work either way.

By: IdahoMariner

IdahoMariner — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:44:57 +0000

kudos on your balanced, non-hysterical analysis.

By: IdahoMariner

IdahoMariner — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:41:59 +0000

if one could possibly ignore the typical phillie-fan misguided overreaction to something NOT said in a post (he just said he can’t hit lefties, man)….
….you lost any shred of credibility when you demonstrated that you know nothing about valuing a pitcher’s performance by stating, at least implicitly, that Lee performed poorly last year.

By: djpostl

djpostl — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:30:00 +0000

This is the world we live in, one where a bunch of people who have less mental ability than a lobotomized monkey banging on a keyboard think quantifiable things are open to “debate”.

Where’s Slick Willy and his “arithmetic” speech when we need him?

By: derklempner

derklempner — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:26:04 +0000

Your comment makes you sound like a Philly ass. Hater.

By: dlf9

dlf9 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:40:10 +0000

“Were I to use the wits the good spirits have given me, I would say this woman cannot exist. For what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. And yet, rather would I not be sane and lend belief to these charmed, enchanted eyes.” — Isaac Asimov

Yeah, it has nothing to do with anything, but my ex liked the line.