This Is The Kind Of Stupidity You Get With The Philadelphia Sports Media

Here are Mandy Housenick and Marcus Hayes talking about the Phillies with some very fun splicing done by @tonyisdynamic. Tony's splicing is fantastic. The idiotic comments by Housenick and Hayes are not.

Roy Halladay Is Awesome

There are several reasons why I like Roy Halladay other than the fact that he is an amazing pitcher. For starters, he is as hard a worker as any pitcher out there. Also, he is a humble guy and a class act the likes of which you do not find every day in major American professional sports. Case and point, Roy Halladay has decided to thank all of his teammates who helped make the perfect game on May 29, 2010 possible. From the Twitter account of Delaware County Times beat writer Ryan Lawrence.

That is simply awesome. I just hope he remembers to send one to Juan Castro.....

Update: Per Ryan Lawrence, Juan Castro will get a watch, as will essentially everyone was a part of the Phillies team that day, whether they physically played in the game or not (i.e. bullpen pitchers and bench players are getting watches as well). Also, per Matt Gelb, Milt Thompson is receiving one as well. For a little more about Roy's presenting of the watches, here is an article from Gelb's blog, The Phillies Zone

The righthander purchased around 60 Baume & Mercier watches to commemorate his perfect game May 29. He gave out the watches as gifts to everyone in the clubhouse — all of the players who were on the active roster then, the entire coaching staff, all clubhouse personnel (including bat boy Rob DiClementi), training and video staff as well as public relations officials.

The watches were enclosed in brown boxes with an inscription on the front: “We did it together. Thanks, Roy Halladay.”

“Unbelievable,” Raul Ibanez said as he opened his. “Wow.”

It’s not unusual for a pitcher to reward his teammates for a milestone like a perfect game. Halladay went beyond that.

Each watch was engraved on the back with the date of the game and the linescore. Every watch was personalized, the person’s name engraved on the back of their watch.

“That’s awesome,” Ryan Howard said, as he inspected the thick instruction manual that came with every watch.

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A little more than an hour before first pitch, the players sat at their lockers, finagling with the watches. Halladay, from the corner of the room, watched and smiled.

Brad Lidge shook his head in disbelief. He wasn’t even in Miami the night Halladay threw the perfect game. Instead, he was pitching in a rehab game 100 miles north in Port St. Luice, Fla.

Like I said above, simply awesome.

Party Like It's The 2008 NLDS!

At the start of the season, when asked if Roy Halladay was the best pitcher in the NL East, Johan alluded that he was the top dog in said division. Well, one day after Halladay pitched a complete game 3-hit shutout, Johan had his chance to prove his case. Unfortunately for him, the Phillies made sure that tonight would be the worst start in Johan's career.

The climax of Johan's disaster was in the midst of what would be an 8-run 4th inning against the Mets true ace. It started innocently enough with a run and a few men getting on base. But then there were bases loaded on with 2 out. And Jamie Moyer was at the plate. At which point, a sequel of the 2008 NLDS was instantly shot. I give you your cast:

Johan Santana as CC Sabathia
Jamie Moyer as Brett Myers
Shane Victorino as himself

Because MLB is the absolute worst when it comes to pulling videos from YouTube (I get that it's illegal, but really MLB, embrace the free publicity like the NHL does), I am just putting links up to the highlights at MLB.com

Jamie Moyer draws a bases loaded walk

Next at-bat: Shane Victorino launches a grand slam

Utley puts the exclamation point on the worst day in Johan Santana's career with a 2-run bomb that is still flying somewhere

Now if only the Phillies could hit all of the 5th starters and/or other schmucks they face, this team would be unbeatable, in spite of the iffy starting pitching!

And You Thought The Winter Classic At Fenway Was The Only Time Baseball Would Meet Hockey This Year

To all those that thought the Philadelphia Flyers were playing the Bruins in the Conference Semifinals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, all I can says is what on earth were you thinking? Clearly you did not get the memo. Meet the Bruins real opponent per everybody's favorite prop betting site, bodog.com.

Roy Halladay will be manning the pipes, while Chase Utley and Jayson Werth lead a dangerous and powerful offensive attack with Ryan Howard the power forward getting in front of the net and snapping goals in from the point left and right. Cole Hamels and Joe Blanton are flatout beasts in the defensive zone.

The Bruins ain't got nothing on these Phillies. They've already won a World Series and now they are bound and determined to win the Stanley Cup!

Wait....what? This is just a bodog typo????? You mean Howard, Utley, Rollins, and Hamels are not seeking to add a Stanley Cup in addition to their World Series rings? Oh damn.

(Hat tip to Broad Street Hockey)