Its kinda funny that when I was mulling over ideas to use
for my blog today, I thought about comparing rooting for the 2012 Phillies to
going to work. You go to work to you HAVE to and in many respects if you’re
still watching and rooting for the 2012 Phillies its because you HAVE to
because you’re a “lifer.”
JRoll’s AB in the second inning was like the Phillies season
in a nutshell. He hit a pop-up which went foul that David Wright could have
caught. Then he hits a pop-up to the first base side foul that Daniel Murphy
should have had. Then he hit a pop-up to very shallow center.
Not much has gone right this year, and there’s not much to
look forward to. One of the few bright sports had been Chooch but he’s hurt. Or
Galvis but his 50 game suspension for PED’s took away any excitement I had
about the kids future. It looked like the most likely September call ups would
be mostly ho-hum names like Valle, Gilles, Hernandez and not who everyone wants
to see as in Darin Ruf AKA Babe Ruf or Tyler Cloyd.
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| Ruf after he tied Howard's single season HR record for Reading |
Ruf has dropped more bombs than a Real Housewives reunion
show. (What up, Hood?) He’s 26 and still
only in AA but fuck it 37 homers is 37 homers. Cloyd is 15-1 with an ERA of
2.26 overall this year with the majority of the work in AAA. The big knock on
the kid is he has “no stuff” but fuck it Vincente Padilla had the best stuff on
the Phillies staff for 6 years. He was never more than 3 games over .500. I’ll
take intestinal fortitude over “stuff” any day.
Which reminds me, speaking of work, Hamels called out sick
today. Cloyd got the call and will be on the bump tonight. I got to see him pitch
a few weeks ago in
Tonight, will be like casual Fridays. Yeah its still work
just a little less dreadful.
See ya at the Ballpark!
Jay Wrizight
jaywrizight@yahoo.com 
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