City of Pain

i’ll admit, I was getting a little nervous in the fifth inning when they started talking about how dominant derek lowe had been to the point. he induced 11 ground ball outs out of 15 total outs last night through five. he had his sinker working. but then he didn’t. and utley and burrell hopped on pop and got us the lead. game over.

cole hamels was out of his mind again. madson and lidge were rock solid. it’s the reason why we can win the world series. good long outings. excellent relief pitching. and you’ve got to hope that durbin’s going to get back to normal with all this rest. it’s billingsley vs. myers tonight. for some reason, i remember stats that say power pitchers, like billingsley, are not good for this lineup. from his stats, he likes to drop the curveball when he’s ahead, another weakness of this team. hopefully, they don’t let him get ahead.

BELIEVE

“i’m gonna drop that puck on saturday you betcha. gonna see if i can riley cote to beat up levi for knocking up bristol. also. that marty beeron is sorta mavericky. i wonder if he’d my ambassador to all those frenchie canadians who don’t say eh? like i do. also. do you think they ever put moose in a cheesesteak? that would be delish.”

so the flyers season starts saturday night at home against the dreaded new york rangers and the even more dreaded (by some of us) sarah palin is dropping the puck as part of ed snider’s promotion to find amurica’s best hockey mom. although by the looks of things, he’s already found her and he can’t wait for all the secret service to go away so she come up to see the “69th floor” of the comcast building:

as far as, you know, the actual hockey season, i’m feeling like we’re going to easily make the playoffs and probably face off against pittsburgh again. and without hossa, we win. 

claude giroux for president!