I made it to YouTube!

I can be seen in this video.

5/6: Diamondbacks 6, Phils 4

I want to believe in Adam Eaton. I really do. I'm rooting for him. I want to believe that 2007 was just extra horrible, that he's, while not an ace or an all-star, a perfectly serviceable fifth or even fourth starter who can help this team. And so far this season he was unspectacular, but not terrible either. He was keeping us in games. But after last night, I don't know what to think. I just don't know if I can take a pitcher seriously if he walks Randy Johnson - Randy Johnson! - on four pitches - four! - with the bases loaded - bases loaded! - and a one run lead. Randy Johnson! He's a pitcher! And not a very good hitting pitcher either! Plus, Randy Johnson is 6'10". He's like the tallest player in the history of baseball. He therefore probably has the largest strike zone in history. Adam, seriously, it's a gargantuan strike zone! It's this enormous rectangle! Just throw strikes through it! What, Randy Johnson's going to hit one of them? So what? You've got good fielders behind you. Maybe it'll even be a double play. But don't, for the love of god, just walk him one four pitches. Randy Johnson! Bases loaded! Pitches! Bases! Randy! Adam Eaton! That was only Johnson's 15th walk in his 21 year career. I'm flabbergasted, is what I am.

Jayson Werth's missed catch a few batters before that didn't help, either. But you just literally can't do what Eaton did there. It was the absolute last thing we needed. No good. I'm just, yeah, I don't like it. I need to think about something else for a while.

Sort of a Flyers preview (actually, just something I feel like mentioning)

My Bar Mitzvah theme was "penguins". That's it. I'm not sure why. Penguins were my favorite animal growing up, but I can't recall why I thought they would make a good Bar Mitzvah theme. Was I so bereft of a personality that I just picked my favorite animal as a theme? That's kind of stupid, now that I think about it. I mean, couldn't I have used something I was actually really into? Like Star Wars? Baseball cards? Books? Lego? Lego, that would have been really cool. Anything but penguins. What a weird kid I must have been.

Anyway, I bring this up because I have a history of liking penguins but I do not like, especially this week of all week, the Pittsburgh Penguins. I don't have a healthy hatred of them like I do for the Rangers and Devils, but I'm a fast learner.

So this week, we hate penguins, the little flightless bastards. I certainly don't advocate cruelty to animals (except for the fact that I eat meat, because it's friggin' delicious), but, well, I'm just saying, the Philadelphia Zoo has plenty of penguins. If they were missing one - one measly little penguin - because a hockey team had kidnapped it and kept it imprisoned in a cage in their arena during a playoff game, who would notice?

Yes, now I am officially babbling, so I'll cut it short. Just remember to boo this guy!

4/9: Mets 8, Phils 2

Well, we knew they'd lose one to NY eventually. I'm less concerned about the loss than I am about two things: ONE, Kendrick looked awful. I mean, really awful. The kind of awful that Gavin Floyd was pretty consistently and made us give up on him. I'm not ready to give up on Kyle, but... for cryin' loud, that was ugly. But not quite as ugly as TWO, all the errors! We actually lead the league in errors! Knock it off with the errors!

So, I have to admit I pulled an Irv when the Mets went up 5-1. I was really more watching the Sixers, and, well, you know how it is. It's April, they'll be fine.

Next: Rubber game, baby!

4/3 Phils 8, Nats 7 (10 innings (10 sloppy, gutwrenching innings))

What happened: While I was at work, the Phils were showing us that it's going to be one of THOSE seasons.

Just quickly, because I have to go grocery shopping and then cook dinner: I followed most of this game from work, learning to my horror that Moyer decided to be terrible and the team committed four (4) errors (??!) in the early goings... and then just when I had decided to give up on them, they rallied, blew it, and then rallied again and won. Proving once again, you never give up on your team. Even when they commit four (4) errors (?!?!?).

I didn't actually see any of it so I will leave my commentary at that.

Next: Total sports overload tonight!!! Flyers in a huge game, Sixers in a pretty huge game, and Phils out in Cincy. Let's go for the Philly sweep.