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After watching the Flyers and 76ers sputter to about 8 wins combined in the 2007 season and the Eagles fall just short of, uh, the NFC Championship Game, baseball is finally here.
The Phillies take on the Braves today on CBS 3 at 1 p.m. in the season and home opener for the local nine. There are high expectations for the Phillies this year — playoffs, at the very least — which makes sense, since the team returns MVP Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, etc.
Heck, people are so excited about the Phillies this year the Inquirer unfroze Bill Lyon yesterday to write about the team. (He, like me, thinks they’re going to break your heart again. But isn’t that part of the fun — finding how just how the Phillies will break your heart this time?)
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dmac | 9:00 AM | 1 Comment
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Feb
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Yesterday, the Phillies signed up their fattest, wife-beatinest pitcher who went 12-7 last year to a three year deal worth $25.7 million. Yep, Brett “The Incredible Hulk” Myers has been locked up.
No, no, not by the police. (Rimshot.) The Phillies have signed him to a three-year deal covering his final two years of arbitration and his first year of free agency. (If you don’t know what those terms mean, arbitration would have been a one-year contract with the Phillies, whereas in free agency Myers could have signed anywhere. Capice?)
Myers, as you may remember, was arrested over the summer for allegedly punching his wife on a Boston street corner. The charges were later dropped, and after starting the next day for the Phillies, he then went on a leave of absence in which the Phillies also missed his pitching skills.
So, perhaps this contract means Myers has his act together off the field. (It hopefully does.) But, since it’s Philadelphia, expect Brett Myers to go 7-15 with a 5.25 ERA next season on the field.
Myers reaches agreement on $25.7 million, 3-year deal [Daily News]
Archives: Brett Myers
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dmac | 9:12 AM | 0 Comments
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Oct
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Brett Myers was in Boston court today regarding charges he beat his wife on a Boston street corner back in June.
Myers’ wife, Kim, wants the charges dropped, but prosecutors want Myers to serve two years of probation, enter a program for spousal abusers and undergo alcohol abuse evaluation. Seems pretty reasonable, but nothing’s set in stone yet. Myers, though, was the hot item in court today:
Myers, an ace of the Phillies staff, finished the season 12-7 with a 3.91 ERA. He was treated as a celebrity Thursday by court officers, who shook his hand. One told him, “Good luck, it will be all right” while another said, “Nice seeing you again.”
If we see some Brett Myers autographed court dockets on eBay tomorrow, you’ll know where they came from.
Update, 2:48 p.m.: The charges against Myers have been dropped, dude to his wife’s wishes. And they lived happily ever after.
Wife of Phillies’ Myers wants case dropped [AP/Philly.com]
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dmac | 1:21 PM | 0 Comments
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Jul
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Okay, let’s tread slowly into this one, shall we? Bill Giles has an interview in the Inquirer today with Todd Zolecki where he, uhm, speaks about the Phillies and shows why he should probably keep his mouth shut.
Here are the opening questions, and the money quotes:
Q: What did you hear [about the Myers incident]?
A: “I don’t know that I’m privileged to say. I’m not the spokesman for the Phillies. I do know what really happened was a lot less than what the public thinks happened and that’s the sad part because some bystander saw something that really didn’t happen. Brett was trying to help his wife.” [...]
Q: But witnesses saw it.
A: “One of our employees [marketing manager Debbie Nocito] saw the whole thing. She said, ‘He did not hit her at all, and he didn’t grab her hair or anything.’ So all the reports were untrue, from what I understand.”
After the jump, some more Giles quotes, some analysis and some good old-fashioned bashing of WIP.
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dmac | 2:18 PM | 5 Comments
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Jun
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You might think that former president and noted womanizer Bill Clinton doesn’t have much to do with Brett Myers’ arrest. Then again, you might not be obsessed with him.
Writing in today’s Evening Bulletin, Michael P. Tremoglie accuses Bill Clinton of beating up a woman, too, and whines that Clinton was allowed to make his next scheduled start in the rotation without any condemnation:
The reaction by feminists to the alleged spousal abuse by Phillies’ pitcher Brett Myers is an excellent example of vile hypocrisy. It would even be amusing if it were not so pathetic. The condemnations of Myers by feminists (and holier-than-thou hypocritical journalists) were swift, certain and loud. [...]
Contrast NOW’s reaction to a baseball player’s alleged spousal assault to their statements regarding similar allegations of assault against a female (albeit not his wife) by a President of the United States, Bill Clinton. NOW made this tepid 1998 statement about the alleged assault of Kathleen Willey, “If the chief executive of the United States uses that position of power in the way that’s been alleged, it has a very serious impact on women in the workplace.”
We will never know the truth about Broaddrick’s accusation of sexual assault by Clinton? Why? Because it was twenty years old? Or because he was a Democrat president who favored abortion? [...]
The only people who believe them are liberals - and to paraphrase Ronald Reagan - it is not that liberals do not know anything, it is that so much of what they know is not true.
If anyone comes up with a phrase that’s roughly 10 times stronger than “holier than thou,” let me know, because I’d like to apply it to Tremoglie. If this column weren’t so pathetic — aren’t columns supposed to convince someone of something rather than just preach to the choir? — it’d be amusing. Oh, wait. It is amusing.
A Tale of Two Abusers [Evening Bulletin]
If you’re wondering, yes, that headline says both men are guilty. I dunno.
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dmac | 3:16 PM | 2 Comments
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Jun
29
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Today’s Daily News reports on, uh, a blog postthat was taken down after people got upset.
The blog post in question was by phillyBurbs.com’s Dave Ralis, who started selling wife beater — if the only media you’ve ever seen is this site, a wife beater is a tank top undershirt — t-shirts with Brett Myers’ number on them. (Not the one at right: that’s from The Illadelph, although nothing was being sold there.)
I saw the wife beater post and Cafepress store yesterday, and I decided not to write about it because, uhm, it’s the stupidest, easiest joke in the history of the world. Want to know how stupid and easy it was? I didn’t even make it.
Naturally, however, the Phillies are upset:
“It makes me sick,” one Phillie told the People Paper’s Marcus Hayes when the player learned of the site’s offering.
“The Phillies find it extremely offensive that any person or business would make fun of the very serious issue of domestic abuse much less attempt to make money from it,” the team said in a statement on its Web site.
Ahh, yes. Some dude on a blog making fun of Myers with a tasteless joke is way worse than sending Myers out to pitch the day after he was arrested for beating his wife because he’s your best pitcher.
Personally, I think the Phillies are just pissed they didn’t think of the idea first and weren’t getting a cut of the sales.
Update: phillyBurbs.com has posted an apology. I’ll throw it after the jump.
Dave Ralis’ Home Turf [phillyBurbs.com]
Phillies tire of alienating their few remaining fans; make belated effort to save face [The Illadelph]
Dan Gross | Newspapers’ ‘wife beater’ clothing sparks outrage [Daily News]
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dmac | 11:03 AM | 0 Comments
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