The Rain Gods Like Us Better

It's Trash Talk Tuesday here at the Level, Phillies Postseason Style... Our target? The Colorado Rockies, the Phillies' opening round opponent. You may remember the Rockies from such well-documented moments as the time they ran and hid while the Phillies played the hero's role at Colorado. We saw who the men were then, and we'll see it again. 14 wins in 15 games? Yeah they better hope it doesn't rain and melt their pretty purple uniforms.

The floor is yours, Philly fans... Possible topics:
•Holliday needed extra innings and an extra game to beat Howard's RBI total.
•He was out.
•The dirty Mets cheated and still lost (yes, they're still open game)

Comments

[Tartan69]

How bad have the Padres been screwed by the umps this season? First they take out Milton Bradley, then they hand the Wild Card to the Rockies. MLB should issue an apology or something.

That being said, HOF closers do not blow games like that.

[Frank]

I think he was out...and the Padres did get screwed...but they were going to lose that game. Hoffman didn't look like he had it last night...They saved him for all game and then ... he blows it.

[gootman]

Francis, Cook, and Fogg... this is probably the one team in baseball where the Phils pitching staff matches up better.

Holliday should have a asterisk next to his batting title and RBI for winning them in an extra game... and he should be tested for HGH... cheater.

Eaton may not be able to pitch but he can sure handle a tarp. They should move him to the grounds crew next year, at least can earn a part of his salary.

[jon]

PEOPLE TALK ABOUT HOLLIDAY BEING MVP - WHERE IS HOLLIDAY IN THIS VIDEO ??? JROLL IS UP IN THERE... JROLL = MVP, HOLLIDAY = COWARD!!! LOLZ

[jon]

PS THEY GOT TREVOR HOFFMAN WARMING UP A LOT SO THAT COULD HAVE TIRED HIM A LITTLE BIT. LEARN BASEBALL

[enrico]

Jon, could you tone down the comments a little?

Thanks buddy. Did you find this site via AOL by any chance?

[Richmond Rick]

I think we are better off facing the Rockies. I was a little nervous if we had to face the likes of Maddux, Young, Peavy, and Hoffman. Incidentally I went to college with Hoffman. He was a good guy then, and now I like him even more. He never pitched in college. He was a shortstop. He was teammates with Kenny Lofton, Scott Erickson, and JT Snow

[ryan]

I for one am just thrilled to see that this post is tagged with the site's newest category: '2007 Phillies Playoffs'.

Oh yeah, Rockies Suck and I can't wait to see how far Ryan Howard can hit the ball in the thin atmosphere the one game they'll play in Colorado.

[Brian]

Talk about ultimate karma. The phillies need to play this at every game of this series so that the Rockies are reminded which team is classier. I also think comcast or somebody else should be interviewing the Rockies grounds crew right now. I am sure there would be some choice sound bites from them about their pri madonna players.

[Gaze]

Smack talk... how about those pathetic Rockies fans? I swear to god I saw more abercrombie&fitch shirts than I saw Rockies gear! In extra innings, one of the camera men would freqnetly focus in on a guy with a fishing hat and a "Wrigley Field" t-shirt. Give me a break with that bunch of losers...

[bigmyc04]

It's funny, writers talk about the Rockies being a team of destiny, and they have played that way, but this team of destiny might just be one of fate when they match up with our Fightins....Holliday never touched the plate and looked bad trying to field Giles' hit. All JR has done all year is play Gold Glove defense.

I'd like to see our offense simply paste their starters....that should set this destiny thing down.

The Rockies, in their 13 of 14 game frenzy, didn't play a team like these Phillies.

It should be a good match up.

[Dan]

Cook is on the 60 day DL...looks like we would get Francis, Jiminez, Morales and Fogg. Don't know much about the latinos but they both beat the Phils and both throw gas...like 100 MPH gas...i would have preferred the Padres but it is what it is

i will be playing hooky from my job in NYC to be there for the game...GO PHILS!

[gootman]

Shows how much I've been paying attention to the Rockies. I just looked at who had the most starts. Still like this match-up better, the Phils lineup is better suited to play at CBP and Coors than Petco.

[PoorSports]

I have to agree with Gaze on this one. The Rockies fans looked like the lunch crowd at Applebee's. I saw more button down shirts than Rockies gear.

At a play-in game for the playoffs, you'd think the real fans would come out to the stadium, and judging by the crowd noise, they did. I literally saw one or two pieces of clothing with the Rockies on them anywhere. This includes hats, shirts, jerseys, headbands, towels, underwear, socks and shoes.

How can a team with fans like that stand a chance against the fans that packed Citizen's Bank for the final 6 home games? For every one person dressed without Phillies gear, there were 42,000 others who wore jersey's and shirts or at least a hat.

The Rockies fans couldn't even wear their teams colors. If that has anything to do with winning playoff baseball, then we've got it in the bag.

Unfortunately for us, it does not.

[Ron]

Adam Eaton just got left off the NLDS roster. This week just gets better and better. wooooo

[Walklett]

Can anyone blame the fans? I wouldn't wear that shitty purple garb either. Barney laughs at these uni's. Man, I just thought about the Mother's Day games when these cock gobblers are wearing purple and pink. Ha, losers.

Yeah, by the way, nice face plant there Holliday. Way to not touch the plate. That couldn't have ended any better. Half the team didn't know whether to celebrate cause Ol' Dirt Face McGee was on his hands and knees whining like a girl.

[jim]

"Talk about ultimate karma. The phillies need to play this at every game of this series so that the Rockies are reminded which team is classier. I also think comcast or somebody else should be interviewing the Rockies grounds crew right now."

at saturday's game we had a huge sign that we wanted to hang over the edge of section 434 since we were in the 1st row that said "tarp karma 7/8/07 never forget" with hopes that fox (always in the mood for a good video flashback) would notice it and show the clip thus cementing us into philly lore.

at first the ushers around us just wanted to know what it said so it wasn't vulgar and they liked the idea and let us hang it then some asshole in white, not the normal usher in blue, who thought his job was the most important job on the face of the earth told us we had to take it down.

We asked why and his answer was "until i come up with a better reason, it's because i said so, that's why" then we see signs spring up all over the stadium and of course the guy never stepped foot in our section for the duration of the game. Had he, I would've forced him onto his walkie-talkie and made every usher tell everyone to take their signs down if he cared about the "rules" so much.

The usher in our section then told us that the guy is a complete asshole and if he didn't outrank her, she'd let us hang our sign. I then spotted her giving him a talking to.

I'd just like to make it known that my friends and i have been all about tarp karma and want word spread on how a great group of guys like this deserve all the positive force in the world behind them.

[Doug]

The Phillies were 43-44 before the tarp game. So, 46-29 afterwards. Definitely seems like it was a rallying point for the team. Up and down before that, really good afterwards.

[David Karaszkiewicz]

Look all this MVP talk can be finished with 1 line...

11 > 5

Look it up, its true.

Also, if someone has tickets to the games on Wed or Thurs PLEASE make the 11 > 5 sign... its poetic, deep and just plain amazing.

Not the Rockies in 4 baby. (I refuse to say their name)

[brian]

How did the person in charge of video at the stadium not play clips from this incident at all yesterday. Yet they insisted on playing the same overplayed videos that litter the sixers games. If they want to work the crowd into a frenzy and force the rockies to feel like the worthless prima donna's they are play these clips. This is playoff baseball not amateur hour at the jumbotron controls.