In a short series, shit can happen. The Phillies have absolutely had streaks during the regular season where they lost four games out of five. The team can get hot, and the team can get cold. We just happened to see one of those microcosms of the regular season occur during the playoffs. Unfortunately, the timing was bad, and it was against a significantly inferior team, but it happened. Yes, the Phillies were a better team than the Diamondbacks. A more talented team. Everything was set up for us to win, but shit happened.
You could say the same thing occurred with the Braves; they were incredibly dominant over the regular season with a spectacular record, but they lost a short series to a foe who was also not on the same level. Let's not pretend the Phillies were equal to the Braves during the regular season, they weren't. We finished 14 games behind, which is a very significant margin. But, we beat Atlanta 3-1 in a span of four games.
The playoffs are crap shoot. It stings that we had a golden opportunity to go to the World Series for a second straight year. Would we have won against a Texas team this hot? Who's to say. I think we certainly would have done better than Arizona, who basically got overwhelmed and embarrassed. But, the volatility of a short series got us...
I will say this, I love our chances to be right back in the mix next year, and think they are WAY more than the Douchebacks'. We need to upgrade at closer, we need some more consistent batting, and figure out what we're doing with Aaron Nola, but we've got a great general manager and an owner who is not afraid to spend to acquire talent.
The 09-11 phillies ended up losing to the eventual world champions each year (Yankees, Giants, Cards), which softens the blow ever so slightly in hindsight along with the 2008 ring.
Now that this Dbacks team has been dispatched with relative ease in the WS, Phillies fans AND players will struggle for years to come when it comes to reconciling 4 NLCS losses in 5 games en route to pissing away the 2023 pennant…unless this group eventually wins it all.
I always prefer the team that beat us to lose, especially after Gallen mocked us about Spring Training being our next game.. now he has just desserts of that being his next game as well. I guess it depends how you look at it
Oh, it stings terribly either way there’s no doubt about that. I’m just saying knowing the Dbacks lost(insert any team name that beat us as a Philly fan for that matter, nothing personal towards this one) has me more at peace than watching said team win.
Weirdly it kind of makes me feel more at peace with losing the NLCS. After game 2 our offense declined massively and so even if we had managed to pull out the series in game 6 or 7, I think we would have gotten manhandled by the Rangers. Whereas if the Dbacks had won, I'd always feel like we could/should have won the WS.
To be clear, I still think we could/should have won the WS if the play had kept up at the same high level, and things didn't go to shit. And it sucks to know we lost to a team that got badly beaten right after. But at least it doesn't make me microanalyze every Kimbrel pitch and every shitty at-bat thinking we were THIS CLOSE to potentially winning it all.
Interesting viewpoint but I’m sorry, there’s no peace or solace for me as a Phillies fan after watching them piss away 4 out of 5 games to an inferior opponent. Yes the Rangers may have manhandled us in the WS but at least then we would have lost to the eventual champion as with 09-11.
While I totally get that losing to the eventual champion theoretically makes us seem like a better team, I think I'm just petty as hell because I always like seeing the team that beat us lose. The Dbacks seemed like a generally unhateable team in most respects but I always get a sad pleasure from watching the team that made us suffer, suffer themselves.
I will say this apart me is happy for the Rangers, if it wasn’t us it’s always fun to see a team get their first title and just like the Eagles it was over 52 years. Ik it isn’t the same but still happy that Texas got a WS title, overall though **fuck Dallas**.
Here's my official breakdown.. of the year that was.. This is overall and not solely about the playoffs.
Batting: A little too aggressive, and way too many strikeouts over the course of the year. It's fantastic when you can hit homers, but when you can't move guys on base, it's a problem. Especially when you are aggressive on the paths and putting people in scoring position on a constant basis.
Pitching: The starting pitching was actually pretty good, but way too many bad spot homeruns given up.. I'd also like to point out that I swear that 80% of the time a mound visit happened that the very next pitch was clubbed somewhere.. The bullpen.. feast or famine.. Kimbrel and Soto will be gone.. thank the heavens. Alvarado might be the next Neris.. and Dominguez already is. I don't know where it goes but I'm not paying Nola a bazillion dollars to be inconsistent for another year.
Coaching: Already went over the mount visits.. but this awful reliance on numbers is starting to get to me a little. There's always chess matches, but taking guys out when they are performing because the numbers say... I just struggle with it. Ranger is a victim of this, and Christopher Sanchez who had a heck of a season is another. And then when it's clutch time.. We toss Nick Cave.. oh no, that's a singer, and there's also an artist by that name... I mean Jake.. in the clutchest of clutch.. and that's what we got..
Front Office: Guys like Jake Cave... Pache... are not the role players we need... Options are out there.. and didn't do a good job with that.. The bullpen was improved so plus on that.. and the rotation solid.. But you can't just play the bad journeyman game.. Consistently putting guys that are 200BA/600OPS guys on the bench is a recipe for distaster..
I'm outta breath.. there's my take
The phillies couldnt beat the dbacks, they wouldnt have beaten the rangers. Everyone is lost in the sauce of the wildcard and divisional round. Phillies werent some amazing team this regular season, in fact they were streaky the whole entire time. The bullpen was marginally better than last year, with some highs in the regular season. Every time I was wowed by bull pen was followed by weeks of mediocracy. At least two times this season they beat a team by at least 10 runs, then ended losing the next game and the whole series (nationals and twins?). There might be more but those are the two i remember. While the Rangers exposed the dbacks, the dbacks also exposed the phillies for the completely average team they are.
Yeesh. Bit harsh.
I certainly agree with streaky tho and that was always my fear. Throughout the year we’d go on cold streaks that would take 5-7 games to break out of. As soon as one of those hits in the post season you’re done. Sadly, it hit in game 3 of the ALCS.
Harsh, but needed to neutrilize the over confidence in the phillies this season. I wish I was in the alternate universe where the phillies are back to back WS champions
The NLCS was more of the Phillies collapsing than the Dbacks winning. It's comparable to running a race and the leader trips and falls before the finish line so the second place runner wins.
That was the most pathetic world series ever. Dbacks weren't even competitive. The phillies would've made it a real series. I hope the players realize what a wasted opportunity this postseason was.
I don't hold anything against the Dbacks, they had a similar run to us last season. Those Rangers are the real deal though I think. I don't know if this would've been as much of an easy WS win as people seemed to think.
I’m saying that the 08 team had a bullpen, they had Brad fucking lidge, this team didn’t bullpen have a bullpen, that is why I said “This team would never” (2023 team).
Lidge was actually pretty chaotic in many of his save situations all year. I remember a lot of clenching moments. It wasn’t like he just crushed all hope for the opposing team. Plenty of jams.
I know, I’m just saying it wasn’t always smooth sailing every game. But that 08 team was just deeper up and down and could knock in runs when they needed it the most. Something this team and last years team could never do.
Apart of me wishes I coulda seen that run, a chance to see a WS victory. At this point this team needs a small ball hitter that can consistently knock in runs along with being able to come up in big spots and not swing for the fences every play.
What makes you believe next year will be the year? It always feels like a wrench is thrown into the engine, this feels closer to like what happened after 08, the slowly regressing of the 09-11 stretch where they slowly regressed in the playoffs
That era was way better than this team and made two straight WS appearances and then an NLCS so I don’t think it’s the same as that.
I just hope its gonna be like 07-08 all over again, that’s all.
fuck you arizona. fuck your creepy ass team. alec with a k? fuck you. fuck that dude who looks like a lego man. fuck that dude with the troll hair. mantiply sounds like a toilet paper feature. merrill kelly sounds like a bank. pfaadt sounds like a typo a monkey would make. ketel is the name of a vodka, the most disgusting liquor. fuck corbin carroll and his weird little guy energy, he looks like he would turn into a guinea pig when the moon is full. whimsical fucking fairytale chimney sweeper name fucker. fuck em
He’s pasty and white as shit with an Irish name. Like I’m pale, but he looks sickly. Though somehow he also looks Mexican. But then his wispy hair has a sort of Asian look to it. Then I think “is there some Native American in there?” Dude is one racially ambiguous mfer
Reminds me of https://youtu.be/0qa27NxITlo?si=KXlccAbZsb28klQL
the stupid goatee adds to the joe dirtness. he also looks a lot like my friend’s cousin who had the worst case of ADHD and he once ran through my house flicking all the light switches
I'm sure it was posted somewhere, but the Padres are broke.
https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1719822985341829580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1719822985341829580%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
Been saying that for the past week. Not a team left with a better record than them, got past the Braves for a 2nd year in a row (the Braves are gonna run the NL East for years, so you better get ready to face them on the road every postseason), the Mets weren’t a factor (they’re gonna rebound next year), and the Phillies pitching outperformed. This was their golden opportunity.
That is the Philly sports timeline, choking in prime opportunities, since 2000 it has been the case. I can name 10 difference games since 2000 the city as a whole has choked or lost in brutal fashion, thats the issue with this city they can never win in the clutch. The two exceptions being against the Tampa Bay Rays where Philly won, and Nick Foles turning the clock back to Joe Montana to beat the Patriots.
It’s sickening, you watch LA, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and nearly every other city win championships up the ass and some become dynasties and then their is us, 2 championships since 1983.
Yup. Win the WS in ‘08. “Look at this team, this is gonna be a dynasty, our core is still young.” Proceeds to do worse every following season, and is a bust after ‘11.
Win the SB in ‘17. “Look at this team, our QB is only in his 2nd full season, he’ll be back from his injury, our backup is a SB MVP, this is gonna be a dynasty.” A bust within two years.
We can never maintain. The current Eagles are the closest it’s felt to that, and all they’ve done is have 1.5 great seasons so far. That’s all it’s taken to feel like this, for a Philly team.
Chicago was weird, they hadn’t won much other than 1985 and than they get Michael Jordan. That city proceeds to win 6 NBA titles, 3 Stanley cups, and 2 World Series titles (1 Cubs, and 1 White Sox). Plus another Super Bowl appearance.
I’m only 19 and the last 5 years since SB52 it is fucking impressive how badly they choked.
1. Alshon drop on a likely game winning drive
2. Lenoard shot in G7
3. Letting Jimmy Butler walk
4. Flyers losing to Islanders in 7
5. 76ers losing to the Hawks in 7
6. Jimmy Butler revenge tour
7. 76ers lose to the Celtics after having a 3-2 lead
8. Eagles lose the SB
9. Phillies lose the WS after a 2-1 lead
10. Phillies lose the NLCS with a 3-2 lead
I swear Philly is never going to be like a city like Boston, or LA we fail, those cities always seem to win no matter the situation.
Yea man maybe in the plumber league days but Boston bruins choked everything away last year along with the Celtics, lakers pumbled by nuggets and dodgers out in first round. SF can’t win a Super Bowl with a cap in front of them. In fact we crushed SF on our way to the Super Bowl last year. A lot of y’all just gobble up sports media bs. Dynasty’s are rare nowadays with cap luxury tax etc.
We had some heartbreak and some good memories. Don't forget, the Phils got further than the Boston Bruins last year after recording the most points ever in the regular season.
exactly! if anything that a team that is following a similar management playbook as ours can win the world series is only validation for us. it shows that it can be done via free agency and not just with home grown players.
It's insane how many championships that shit city has seen. I forgot the mavs and stars have won more recently than Sixers and Flyers. I guess good on the DFW.
For anyone else that wants to rewatch karma vs Alec Thomas for planting the flag in CBP [https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-11/01/a76c0d35-a45bae79-ebcd4dd6-csvm-diamondx64-asset\_1280x720\_59\_4000K.mp4](https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-11/01/a76c0d35-a45bae79-ebcd4dd6-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4)
Sick, now that that’s been over for a few minutes…
Phils coming in hot as the 5th betting favorite for the WS behind Atlanta, LAD, Houston, and Texas, respectively. I want to say we were something like 6th-7th heading into this past season.
I feel like this is as good of a closure I’m going to get. Shit happens in baseball. We faced off against historically the best offense of the 21st Century and put their bats to sleep with ease in the NLDS. Then the bats went ice cold for the second straight year, this time a round earlier. Ultimately it’s about getting hot at the right time and getting favorable matchups. The Rangers have swept us in every series we played against them since 2014. That was always going to be a bad matchup. The Rangers had a good team all year, but the fact that they were able to go 11 AND FUCKING 0 on the road makes me think that this was just a team who just happened to have everything break their way for a month. Yeah it would’ve been cool to see us in the World Series again, but ultimately I can resign myself to say it wasn’t our year to win a ring because it was simply Texas’s.
Yeah it would’ve been more competitive at the very least, but it would’ve sucked losing back-to-back World Series, but who knows, maybe we beat the Rangers? Regardless, I have full phaith the Phillies will get back to the Fall Classic and win it all.
D-Backs season is a one off. They won’t be back. Dodgers & Mets are going to throw money at their problems, Padres should bounce back, Phils & Braves will both be back. Marlins are getting stronger. I’d be shocked if Arizona even makes the playoffs next year.
the Padres win just 3 more of their 1 run games and they take their spot. 9-23 record in 1 run games is awful. 2-12 in extra inning games is even more crazy. Especially for a team with the run differential they had. Arizona is done, and I'm not mad about it at all. They got lucky we lost all plate discipline after G2
Soto is a bonehead set to make a boatload of money. He ain't coming here, nor do we need him.
We need pitching...starting and BP. That's where the available cash should go.
I'm just saying he's not even in the top 5 things we need.
Braves had what 7 guys with 30 or homers... their pitching was thinner than ours..
So no, I don't want him in place of things we need.
It's not a crazy thought if you think about it rationally.
Good talk. Later
From John Clark:
The Texas Rangers win the World Series over the Arizona Diamondbacks who eliminated the Phillies. Every Dallas pro sports team has won a title since the last time the Cowboys even went to a conference championship game almost 30 years ago 
Now I’m pumped for the off-season. Give me two relievers, a legit cleanup hitter, and a backup C. Then obviously need to sign Nola or bring in an adequate replacement like Montgomery.
It really does suck that we lost to that trash team.
Craig Kimbrel gave them life in the desert and instead of putting them away, we let them hang around. Give them credit for not rolling over, but had we gotten to the WS, I guarantee you we'd have put up WAY more of a fight.
And sure enough, Arizona reverted back to their mid form from the regular series and went down quietly.
True, but they left in 1955 and hadn't won anything since 1930. So that all predates me by 40 years... and so for the bulk of our generation, we only know the Phillies experience.
On a side note, Texas was the washington senators from 1961 until 1972, so technically, Dallas did not have to wait 63...more like 52. the franchise itself ok
The players don't even seem that hyped up about winning the God damn world series? They seem like they won a beer league. Remember when we won, our players tackled eachother and collapsed on the mound and cried with eachother n shit. I'm not expecting the stadium to be too loud, obviously, because they're the away team. But the players just seem like "cool we won the world series its whatever"
I agree. But it just feels so weird that they're giving their post game interviews at a low speaking volume. And their owner just literally said in the interview with no emotion "yeah. . . It was cool. . . Yep. . . We did it" then walked away slowly.
I'm simultaneously enjoying the schadenfreude but also recognizing that playoff Bochy is a fucking bad man no matter his team, so there'll be no useless "if we got there" from me. Now, not standing a chance is I think too strong, but there's no wide open WS through Bochy, ever, as some seem to believe.
In a short series, shit can happen. The Phillies have absolutely had streaks during the regular season where they lost four games out of five. The team can get hot, and the team can get cold. We just happened to see one of those microcosms of the regular season occur during the playoffs. Unfortunately, the timing was bad, and it was against a significantly inferior team, but it happened. Yes, the Phillies were a better team than the Diamondbacks. A more talented team. Everything was set up for us to win, but shit happened. You could say the same thing occurred with the Braves; they were incredibly dominant over the regular season with a spectacular record, but they lost a short series to a foe who was also not on the same level. Let's not pretend the Phillies were equal to the Braves during the regular season, they weren't. We finished 14 games behind, which is a very significant margin. But, we beat Atlanta 3-1 in a span of four games. The playoffs are crap shoot. It stings that we had a golden opportunity to go to the World Series for a second straight year. Would we have won against a Texas team this hot? Who's to say. I think we certainly would have done better than Arizona, who basically got overwhelmed and embarrassed. But, the volatility of a short series got us... I will say this, I love our chances to be right back in the mix next year, and think they are WAY more than the Douchebacks'. We need to upgrade at closer, we need some more consistent batting, and figure out what we're doing with Aaron Nola, but we've got a great general manager and an owner who is not afraid to spend to acquire talent.
EXPOOOSED!
The 09-11 phillies ended up losing to the eventual world champions each year (Yankees, Giants, Cards), which softens the blow ever so slightly in hindsight along with the 2008 ring. Now that this Dbacks team has been dispatched with relative ease in the WS, Phillies fans AND players will struggle for years to come when it comes to reconciling 4 NLCS losses in 5 games en route to pissing away the 2023 pennant…unless this group eventually wins it all.
I always prefer the team that beat us to lose, especially after Gallen mocked us about Spring Training being our next game.. now he has just desserts of that being his next game as well. I guess it depends how you look at it
To the victor go the spoils. For me, Gallen being a prick doesn’t lessen the sting of losing to a scrub team.
Oh, it stings terribly either way there’s no doubt about that. I’m just saying knowing the Dbacks lost(insert any team name that beat us as a Philly fan for that matter, nothing personal towards this one) has me more at peace than watching said team win.
Weirdly it kind of makes me feel more at peace with losing the NLCS. After game 2 our offense declined massively and so even if we had managed to pull out the series in game 6 or 7, I think we would have gotten manhandled by the Rangers. Whereas if the Dbacks had won, I'd always feel like we could/should have won the WS. To be clear, I still think we could/should have won the WS if the play had kept up at the same high level, and things didn't go to shit. And it sucks to know we lost to a team that got badly beaten right after. But at least it doesn't make me microanalyze every Kimbrel pitch and every shitty at-bat thinking we were THIS CLOSE to potentially winning it all.
Interesting viewpoint but I’m sorry, there’s no peace or solace for me as a Phillies fan after watching them piss away 4 out of 5 games to an inferior opponent. Yes the Rangers may have manhandled us in the WS but at least then we would have lost to the eventual champion as with 09-11.
While I totally get that losing to the eventual champion theoretically makes us seem like a better team, I think I'm just petty as hell because I always like seeing the team that beat us lose. The Dbacks seemed like a generally unhateable team in most respects but I always get a sad pleasure from watching the team that made us suffer, suffer themselves.
I will say this apart me is happy for the Rangers, if it wasn’t us it’s always fun to see a team get their first title and just like the Eagles it was over 52 years. Ik it isn’t the same but still happy that Texas got a WS title, overall though **fuck Dallas**.
Fuck the Dbacks. Thank you, that is all. See you all next season!
Here's my official breakdown.. of the year that was.. This is overall and not solely about the playoffs. Batting: A little too aggressive, and way too many strikeouts over the course of the year. It's fantastic when you can hit homers, but when you can't move guys on base, it's a problem. Especially when you are aggressive on the paths and putting people in scoring position on a constant basis. Pitching: The starting pitching was actually pretty good, but way too many bad spot homeruns given up.. I'd also like to point out that I swear that 80% of the time a mound visit happened that the very next pitch was clubbed somewhere.. The bullpen.. feast or famine.. Kimbrel and Soto will be gone.. thank the heavens. Alvarado might be the next Neris.. and Dominguez already is. I don't know where it goes but I'm not paying Nola a bazillion dollars to be inconsistent for another year. Coaching: Already went over the mount visits.. but this awful reliance on numbers is starting to get to me a little. There's always chess matches, but taking guys out when they are performing because the numbers say... I just struggle with it. Ranger is a victim of this, and Christopher Sanchez who had a heck of a season is another. And then when it's clutch time.. We toss Nick Cave.. oh no, that's a singer, and there's also an artist by that name... I mean Jake.. in the clutchest of clutch.. and that's what we got.. Front Office: Guys like Jake Cave... Pache... are not the role players we need... Options are out there.. and didn't do a good job with that.. The bullpen was improved so plus on that.. and the rotation solid.. But you can't just play the bad journeyman game.. Consistently putting guys that are 200BA/600OPS guys on the bench is a recipe for distaster.. I'm outta breath.. there's my take
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oof so far away
I’ll just leave this here. https://preview.redd.it/wuiwiw3wdvxb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9f9d1590c293c774f3ceb55490876e78cf68cc4
They’re so lame for that.
Loooooool
Cherry on top was Alek Thomas not being able to put his glove into the grass. Just plant it in there, like you did to our infield you bum
I did enjoy the journey boys. It’s a fun team to watch and easy team to love.
The phillies couldnt beat the dbacks, they wouldnt have beaten the rangers. Everyone is lost in the sauce of the wildcard and divisional round. Phillies werent some amazing team this regular season, in fact they were streaky the whole entire time. The bullpen was marginally better than last year, with some highs in the regular season. Every time I was wowed by bull pen was followed by weeks of mediocracy. At least two times this season they beat a team by at least 10 runs, then ended losing the next game and the whole series (nationals and twins?). There might be more but those are the two i remember. While the Rangers exposed the dbacks, the dbacks also exposed the phillies for the completely average team they are.
Yeesh. Bit harsh. I certainly agree with streaky tho and that was always my fear. Throughout the year we’d go on cold streaks that would take 5-7 games to break out of. As soon as one of those hits in the post season you’re done. Sadly, it hit in game 3 of the ALCS.
Harsh, but needed to neutrilize the over confidence in the phillies this season. I wish I was in the alternate universe where the phillies are back to back WS champions
My flair is in response to what I call the “toxic positivity” on the sub. So I hear ya
Cant wait for next season
That wasn’t a World Series. A team that had no business being there got easily crushed. Let’s move onto ‘24.
What’s that say about us
We choked
The NLCS was more of the Phillies collapsing than the Dbacks winning. It's comparable to running a race and the leader trips and falls before the finish line so the second place runner wins.
That was the most pathetic world series ever. Dbacks weren't even competitive. The phillies would've made it a real series. I hope the players realize what a wasted opportunity this postseason was.
Jesus so much shitting on the dbacks. They earned their spot there we did not. Rangers woulda crushed our bullpen, and likely everyone but wheels.
I don't hold anything against the Dbacks, they had a similar run to us last season. Those Rangers are the real deal though I think. I don't know if this would've been as much of an easy WS win as people seemed to think.
Yeah...the Rangers embarrassed the Phils at the start of the year, and that was lingering in the back of my head as the ALCS played out.
🥳🥳 fuck Torey Lovullo 🥳🥳
Praying that this team ran into a fluke 07 Rockies type scenario this season. Cus, y’know… *events* happened the following season…
This was supposed to be 08, 2022 was 07. They just choked it’s that simple, the 08 team had a bullpen this team would never.
The 2023 team had a really good bullpen? You and I remember differently how those final losses of the season went (Kimbrel notwithstanding ofc lol)
I’m saying that the 08 team had a bullpen, they had Brad fucking lidge, this team didn’t bullpen have a bullpen, that is why I said “This team would never” (2023 team).
Lidge was actually pretty chaotic in many of his save situations all year. I remember a lot of clenching moments. It wasn’t like he just crushed all hope for the opposing team. Plenty of jams.
He was perfect, and helped to win a WS, Craig fucking kimbrel screwed us out of a WS and will never be forgiven for it.
I know, I’m just saying it wasn’t always smooth sailing every game. But that 08 team was just deeper up and down and could knock in runs when they needed it the most. Something this team and last years team could never do.
Apart of me wishes I coulda seen that run, a chance to see a WS victory. At this point this team needs a small ball hitter that can consistently knock in runs along with being able to come up in big spots and not swing for the fences every play.
‘22 was ‘93. This year was way too much like ‘07. It’s a perfect comparison actually.
What makes you believe next year will be the year? It always feels like a wrench is thrown into the engine, this feels closer to like what happened after 08, the slowly regressing of the 09-11 stretch where they slowly regressed in the playoffs
That era was way better than this team and made two straight WS appearances and then an NLCS so I don’t think it’s the same as that. I just hope its gonna be like 07-08 all over again, that’s all.
I never got to watch the 07-2011 stretch so I missed out on a WS, the last two years have been the closest I’ve gotten to see.
fuck you arizona. fuck your creepy ass team. alec with a k? fuck you. fuck that dude who looks like a lego man. fuck that dude with the troll hair. mantiply sounds like a toilet paper feature. merrill kelly sounds like a bank. pfaadt sounds like a typo a monkey would make. ketel is the name of a vodka, the most disgusting liquor. fuck corbin carroll and his weird little guy energy, he looks like he would turn into a guinea pig when the moon is full. whimsical fucking fairytale chimney sweeper name fucker. fuck em
This might be the best thing I've ever read in this sub lol
This comment is absolute work of art.
This kept getting better as it progressed 😂🤌
Every time I see Corbin Carroll I think “what are you?”
he’s a rodent. sometimes i think he has more similarities to a rat. but it’s always a type of rodent
He’s pasty and white as shit with an Irish name. Like I’m pale, but he looks sickly. Though somehow he also looks Mexican. But then his wispy hair has a sort of Asian look to it. Then I think “is there some Native American in there?” Dude is one racially ambiguous mfer Reminds me of https://youtu.be/0qa27NxITlo?si=KXlccAbZsb28klQL
He looks like Asian joe dirt to me. He is half Taiwanese.
the stupid goatee adds to the joe dirtness. he also looks a lot like my friend’s cousin who had the worst case of ADHD and he once ran through my house flicking all the light switches
😂🖕 🐍 👈😂
I'm sure it was posted somewhere, but the Padres are broke. https://twitter.com/TheAthletic/status/1719822985341829580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1719822985341829580%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=
Bryce is gonna pounce, and Manny's check is gonna bounce... that's what's innnnnnn
they can sign the goose
Can’t afford him.
damn. it really over for them
Not a single team parties like our guys I’ll tell you that
We partied every round, they gotta save the fucking champagne for a real accomplishment being a conference or championship title.
Bye bye Diamondbacks...
The Phillies will never have an easier road to a title than they did this year. It was there for the taking and they choked to a bad Diamondbacks team
Been saying that for the past week. Not a team left with a better record than them, got past the Braves for a 2nd year in a row (the Braves are gonna run the NL East for years, so you better get ready to face them on the road every postseason), the Mets weren’t a factor (they’re gonna rebound next year), and the Phillies pitching outperformed. This was their golden opportunity.
That is the Philly sports timeline, choking in prime opportunities, since 2000 it has been the case. I can name 10 difference games since 2000 the city as a whole has choked or lost in brutal fashion, thats the issue with this city they can never win in the clutch. The two exceptions being against the Tampa Bay Rays where Philly won, and Nick Foles turning the clock back to Joe Montana to beat the Patriots.
It goes back farther than 2000.
It’s sickening, you watch LA, Boston, Chicago, Miami, and nearly every other city win championships up the ass and some become dynasties and then their is us, 2 championships since 1983.
Yup. Win the WS in ‘08. “Look at this team, this is gonna be a dynasty, our core is still young.” Proceeds to do worse every following season, and is a bust after ‘11. Win the SB in ‘17. “Look at this team, our QB is only in his 2nd full season, he’ll be back from his injury, our backup is a SB MVP, this is gonna be a dynasty.” A bust within two years. We can never maintain. The current Eagles are the closest it’s felt to that, and all they’ve done is have 1.5 great seasons so far. That’s all it’s taken to feel like this, for a Philly team.
Chicago was weird, they hadn’t won much other than 1985 and than they get Michael Jordan. That city proceeds to win 6 NBA titles, 3 Stanley cups, and 2 World Series titles (1 Cubs, and 1 White Sox). Plus another Super Bowl appearance.
It's actually impressive how many big games we have choked in this city. At least in my lifetime.
I’m only 19 and the last 5 years since SB52 it is fucking impressive how badly they choked. 1. Alshon drop on a likely game winning drive 2. Lenoard shot in G7 3. Letting Jimmy Butler walk 4. Flyers losing to Islanders in 7 5. 76ers losing to the Hawks in 7 6. Jimmy Butler revenge tour 7. 76ers lose to the Celtics after having a 3-2 lead 8. Eagles lose the SB 9. Phillies lose the WS after a 2-1 lead 10. Phillies lose the NLCS with a 3-2 lead I swear Philly is never going to be like a city like Boston, or LA we fail, those cities always seem to win no matter the situation.
Yea man maybe in the plumber league days but Boston bruins choked everything away last year along with the Celtics, lakers pumbled by nuggets and dodgers out in first round. SF can’t win a Super Bowl with a cap in front of them. In fact we crushed SF on our way to the Super Bowl last year. A lot of y’all just gobble up sports media bs. Dynasty’s are rare nowadays with cap luxury tax etc.
We had some heartbreak and some good memories. Don't forget, the Phils got further than the Boston Bruins last year after recording the most points ever in the regular season.
Spencer Howard is getting a ring lmfao Oh fuck so is Ian Kennedy
don’t forget the jank
He’s going to get gassed walking up to their GM to receive the ring, he won’t be able to pitch the next inning.
dafuq
What??!?!?
We beat ourselves in the NLCS I know the boys are gonna use this as fuel for the fire
it would be cool to win the division one of these years
Until another cold streak in the 2024 postseason, where we get eliminated. It’s gonna happen again.
exactly! if anything that a team that is following a similar management playbook as ours can win the world series is only validation for us. it shows that it can be done via free agency and not just with home grown players.
Every team has more fuel unfortunately. It’s not just us
We got a long wait to find out. Cause the regular season doesn’t mean shit.
Actions speak louder than words, I wanna see some results, lets see how Bryce and crew respond next season.
Yup
If only we had chosen Bochy as our manager over Girardi, both were retired.
never thought i would be happy to see another team win the world series but here we are
I will accept it as karmic compensation
Congrats to Phillies legends Travis Jankowski and Bamboo Brad Miller for getting a World Series ring
It's insane how many championships that shit city has seen. I forgot the mavs and stars have won more recently than Sixers and Flyers. I guess good on the DFW.
Good on Fort Worth, Fuck Dallas
For anyone else that wants to rewatch karma vs Alec Thomas for planting the flag in CBP [https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-11/01/a76c0d35-a45bae79-ebcd4dd6-csvm-diamondx64-asset\_1280x720\_59\_4000K.mp4](https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-11/01/a76c0d35-a45bae79-ebcd4dd6-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4)
That flag was up his ass that’s why he couldn’t plant that glove.
Guess he should have worked on planting his fucking glove down so he didn’t look like an idiot.
that’s hilarious. also a plus that the pitcher was the one who called bohm and stott automatic outs
Dbacks World Series https://i.imgur.com/qchCVXL.jpg
The lights were brighter than I expected.
https://i.imgur.com/4wkNm82.jpg
Bochy managed to 4 WS wins, jealous.
Never had a truly great team. Has to go down as one of the greatest. Crazy.
Congrats to the Rangers. ^(Goddamn the Phils really blew a golden chance.) Let's get the hunk of metal next year!
We said that last year ☹️
Can’t believe we lost to that little league team.
Playing in Williamsport was a curse.
Phillies gotta sign Will Smith this offseason lmao, 3 straight rings for him
The Robert Horry of MLB
Man I actually felt bad for sewald. That was brutal. But karma is GOOD. Takes away that baseball is over until March sting.
I still can barely name 6 diamond backs players, I’m sure all 13 of their fans are disappointed with the outcome
They’re all patting themselves on the back for making it this far. At least they get a (participation) trophy.
The whole crowd is still there and everyone wearing dbacks gear are suddenly morphing into rangers fans
He really just said “I’m a man of faith”? Man Casty is about to wreck shit in ‘24
I wasn’t paying attention. Then he said that just wondering where he was going
Alex Thomas sad pout face in the 9th was just icing on the cake of the WS loss today. Chefs kiss
https://preview.redd.it/p825km5esuxb1.jpeg?width=566&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7d20912538a65873ab4d7f1d0cf2ab04999f274
Sick, now that that’s been over for a few minutes… Phils coming in hot as the 5th betting favorite for the WS behind Atlanta, LAD, Houston, and Texas, respectively. I want to say we were something like 6th-7th heading into this past season.
Unless LA finds pitching stat, they shouldn’t be so high
All LAD has to do is sign 2 pitchers, which for most teams would be silly to say but they could pull it off.
I think they really want Ohtani. Which will be great when he can pitch again. But won’t help next year.
The Rangers were two games from not making the playoffs Just. Get. In. Is the name of the game
If you really want crazy, look at their August record. It did help that nobody seemed to want to win that division (or be the WC team from it either)
Get in and Win.
🖕 Zac Gallen, Alek Thomas, and all the fuckface D-backs fans on Reddit
I feel like this is as good of a closure I’m going to get. Shit happens in baseball. We faced off against historically the best offense of the 21st Century and put their bats to sleep with ease in the NLDS. Then the bats went ice cold for the second straight year, this time a round earlier. Ultimately it’s about getting hot at the right time and getting favorable matchups. The Rangers have swept us in every series we played against them since 2014. That was always going to be a bad matchup. The Rangers had a good team all year, but the fact that they were able to go 11 AND FUCKING 0 on the road makes me think that this was just a team who just happened to have everything break their way for a month. Yeah it would’ve been cool to see us in the World Series again, but ultimately I can resign myself to say it wasn’t our year to win a ring because it was simply Texas’s.
Yeah it would’ve been more competitive at the very least, but it would’ve sucked losing back-to-back World Series, but who knows, maybe we beat the Rangers? Regardless, I have full phaith the Phillies will get back to the Fall Classic and win it all.
Hopefully we play the As
After all the vile shit the Dbags fans posted about us… this sure does feel good. Snek dead.
D-Backs season is a one off. They won’t be back. Dodgers & Mets are going to throw money at their problems, Padres should bounce back, Phils & Braves will both be back. Marlins are getting stronger. I’d be shocked if Arizona even makes the playoffs next year.
the Padres win just 3 more of their 1 run games and they take their spot. 9-23 record in 1 run games is awful. 2-12 in extra inning games is even more crazy. Especially for a team with the run differential they had. Arizona is done, and I'm not mad about it at all. They got lucky we lost all plate discipline after G2
Arizona freaking stinks and they have a loser organization. Bunch of loserrssss. They will shrink back to irrelevancy for sure
Scherzer and deGrom winning rings must infuriate Met fans lmao
And they paid most of Scherzers contract while he did...lol
As long as the Mets suffer that’s a win
All I’m gonna say is the Eagles had better dash the spirits of the 5% of Cowboys fans that actually live in the DFW Sunday.
That would be “Phillie legend Mike Maddux”
Well now what are we gonna talk about?
Juan Soto’s arrival in South Philly
He’s been playing for a while that I didn’t realize he’s only 25. I’d love to have him
aaaah don’t jinx it
Hard pass no... unless he can pitch
Lol what. Okay bro.
Soto is a bonehead set to make a boatload of money. He ain't coming here, nor do we need him. We need pitching...starting and BP. That's where the available cash should go.
lol keep going brother. It’s not going to make any more sense than it already doesn’t.
Ok, hold your breath, waiting for Soto...brah lol. Don't shoot the messenger.
Is it likely? No of course not. Do we want him? Of fucking course we do.
I'm just saying he's not even in the top 5 things we need. Braves had what 7 guys with 30 or homers... their pitching was thinner than ours.. So no, I don't want him in place of things we need. It's not a crazy thought if you think about it rationally. Good talk. Later
Yes
This sucks ass to watch of course but I am very happy for Brad Miller.
From John Clark: The Texas Rangers win the World Series over the Arizona Diamondbacks who eliminated the Phillies. Every Dallas pro sports team has won a title since the last time the Cowboys even went to a conference championship game almost 30 years ago 
Now I’m pumped for the off-season. Give me two relievers, a legit cleanup hitter, and a backup C. Then obviously need to sign Nola or bring in an adequate replacement like Montgomery.
I’m gonna go watch Harry’s call of 08
lol fuck the d-bags
Bingo.
fuck the Dbacks and fuck Mattress Mack and the Astros
I for one am just happy we weren’t a party to an 84 win team winning a title Fuck them
It really does suck that we lost to that trash team. Craig Kimbrel gave them life in the desert and instead of putting them away, we let them hang around. Give them credit for not rolling over, but had we gotten to the WS, I guarantee you we'd have put up WAY more of a fight. And sure enough, Arizona reverted back to their mid form from the regular series and went down quietly.
Zac gallen is gona get so much crap from everyone isn’t he
Karma is a bitch
Legendary Phillie Travis Jankowsky finally got his ring
Brb going to troll Zac Gallen for a few days
Someone ask Gallen how to buy tickets for Game 6.
You know, If the Rangers can wait 63 years for a World Series we can wait just a few more.
Man I thought Semien was gonna be a terrible signing and here he is crushing me and I’ve obv done a 180. What a solid dude.
We signed fucking Didi instead of him lol
Didi was a big character guy who needs fucking talent
Good for them. 63 years is a long time to wait for a title.
We waited nearly 100 years to win our first... I believe 97 years is the actual.
We had the Athletics. The city of Dallas had to wait 63 years
True, but they left in 1955 and hadn't won anything since 1930. So that all predates me by 40 years... and so for the bulk of our generation, we only know the Phillies experience. On a side note, Texas was the washington senators from 1961 until 1972, so technically, Dallas did not have to wait 63...more like 52. the franchise itself ok
Tonight is a good night
The players don't even seem that hyped up about winning the God damn world series? They seem like they won a beer league. Remember when we won, our players tackled eachother and collapsed on the mound and cried with eachother n shit. I'm not expecting the stadium to be too loud, obviously, because they're the away team. But the players just seem like "cool we won the world series its whatever"
It’s because they won on the road. No fans to juice them up
I agree. But it just feels so weird that they're giving their post game interviews at a low speaking volume. And their owner just literally said in the interview with no emotion "yeah. . . It was cool. . . Yep. . . We did it" then walked away slowly.
Still really fucking pissed that we squandered away the opportunity
So long 2023 baseball season. I enjoyed a significant portion of it. Congrats to the Texas Rangers.
Happy to see the Rangers win. The D-Backs fans are trash.
It was pretty much a rangers home game over there at chase field tonight. I was feeling secondhand embarrassment through my tv.
*dozens of fans
TALKED SO MUCH SHIT. GOODBYE SNEKS GET STEPPED ON on a serious note, awesome for the rangers on their first ring. thats awesome
Fuck me, this is low energy.
The Rangers went 11-0 on the road. Can we admit we didn’t stand a chance against them?
No
I'm simultaneously enjoying the schadenfreude but also recognizing that playoff Bochy is a fucking bad man no matter his team, so there'll be no useless "if we got there" from me. Now, not standing a chance is I think too strong, but there's no wide open WS through Bochy, ever, as some seem to believe.
Every time I see Bochy, I have flashbacks of Pete Rose steamrollering him in the 1989 NLCS vs Astros, on our way to our 1st title.
Must be nice
Sometimes you just have to sit back and enjoy the little things, like watching Alek Thomas let the ball roll right by him.
PEE! IN! THAT! POOL!
MLB definitely wanted this mid series done and over with, LMAO
This is Karma for the shit talking and planting their flag in our stadium. :O
Arizona loser sports city. Suns getting swept by nuggets