PhilliesLongDrive.com » Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:25:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Let’s Catch Up http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-catch-up/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-catch-up/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:25:48 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-catch-up/ Today the Phillies signed Jonathan Papelbon to a 4 year $50,000,058 contract. Yes, there apparently was an extra $58 thrown on for the hell of it. This all but guarantees Ryan Madson will not be back, even after hearing the Phils and Madson agreed to a 4 year $44M contract

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]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-catch-up/feed/ 0 Some People Are Pretty Excited About Ryan Madson’s Free Agency http://phillieslongdrive.com/some-people-are-pretty-excited-about-ryan-madson%e2%80%99s-free-agency/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/some-people-are-pretty-excited-about-ryan-madson%e2%80%99s-free-agency/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:24:18 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/some-people-are-pretty-excited-about-ryan-madson%e2%80%99s-free-agency/ Dinner is served in the Madson household.  Mozart’s ‘Serenade in G’ plays soothingly in the background.  The decor features several exotic mounted animal heads; a rare painting or two; and in the next room we can see the music is not coming from a stereo system, but an actual man dressed up as Mozart, exhausted, but still playing

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]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/leave-shane-victorino-alone-goons/feed/ 0 2011 Phillies Detention Lecture at Big League Stew http://phillieslongdrive.com/2011-phillies-detention-lecture-at-big-league-stew/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/2011-phillies-detention-lecture-at-big-league-stew/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:50:56 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/2011-phillies-detention-lecture-at-big-league-stew/ I was asked to write an end of the season Detention Lecture for the 2011 Philadelphia Phillies over at my favorite baseball blog, Big League Stew. So I did.

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2011 Phillies Detention Lecture at Big League Stew

]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/2011-phillies-detention-lecture-at-big-league-stew/feed/ 0 Ryan Howard riding around Whole Foods Market on a Rascal http://phillieslongdrive.com/ryan-howard-riding-around-whole-foods-market-on-a-rascal/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/ryan-howard-riding-around-whole-foods-market-on-a-rascal/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:11:36 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/ryan-howard-riding-around-whole-foods-market-on-a-rascal/ This is perhaps the greatest photograph ever taken with a cell phone: (Special thank you to @Hadji484 for taking the pic and Dan Gross for RTing it)

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]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/ryan-howard-riding-around-whole-foods-market-on-a-rascal/feed/ 0 Let’s All Have Our Reactions to the Phillies’ NLDS Loss http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-all-have-our-reactions-to-the-phillies%e2%80%99-nlds-loss/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-all-have-our-reactions-to-the-phillies%e2%80%99-nlds-loss/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:43:18 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-all-have-our-reactions-to-the-phillies%e2%80%99-nlds-loss/ 1.  Be Depressed Look, it makes sense to be depressed after a loss like this.  Don’t stifle yourself by pretending to be an adult!  Let those tears flow, like the self-entitled child you are! But the important thing to remember is that you are not actually a child, and you can do things that children can’t, like drink.

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]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/let%e2%80%99s-all-have-our-reactions-to-the-phillies%e2%80%99-nlds-loss/feed/ 0 Pain In My Head. Oh, I’d Rather Be Dead. http://phillieslongdrive.com/pain-in-my-head-oh-i%e2%80%99d-rather-be-dead/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/pain-in-my-head-oh-i%e2%80%99d-rather-be-dead/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:35:33 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/pain-in-my-head-oh-i%e2%80%99d-rather-be-dead/ If anyone needs me this week, I’ll be at the beach singing my heart out to the ocean. Feel free to join me, especially if you have a very deep voice and a cane.

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]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/pain-in-my-head-oh-i%e2%80%99d-rather-be-dead/feed/ 0 NLDS Game 5: Phillies vs Cardinals http://phillieslongdrive.com/nlds-game-5-phillies-vs-cardinals/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/nlds-game-5-phillies-vs-cardinals/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:03:15 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/nlds-game-5-phillies-vs-cardinals/ Listen. I don’t care who the Phillies are playing tonight, or who is pitching for them. They have to face ROY HALLADAY . The best pitcher in baseball.

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]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/nlds-game-5-phillies-vs-cardinals/feed/ 0 Ace on Fire http://phillieslongdrive.com/ace-on-fire/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/ace-on-fire/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:59:09 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/ace-on-fire/ Deep within Citizens Bank Park, Chase Utley sits in a darkened video room, intently studying Chris Carpenter. He shifts his hips back and forth and flicks his wrists, simulating his swing.

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]]> http://phillieslongdrive.com/ace-on-fire/feed/ 1 Watch Shane Victorino Trip on a Shadow http://phillieslongdrive.com/watch-shane-victorino-trip-on-a-shadow/ http://phillieslongdrive.com/watch-shane-victorino-trip-on-a-shadow/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:42:04 +0000 Chris http://phillieslongdrive.com/watch-shane-victorino-trip-on-a-shadow/ Those pesky shadows at Busch Stadium are causing havoc for everybody, including center fielder Shane Victorino who evidently tripped and fell on this one. Props to @dhm for the cap. See it in slow-mo and more after the jump, yo

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