Random Weekend Thoughts

· Code Red for Lt. Kendrick. Big-time win for the LT yesterday in maybe saving the season. A 4 game sweep by the Mets would have been disastrous. Maybe Kendrick can counsel JA Happ, who clearly suffered from stage fright in the Fox national game of the week Saturday. Fortunately, once out of the 1^st inning, he seemed to calm down…a little.

· McCarver really seemed upset/angry in recounting the 1977 Game 3 LCS debacle vs. the Dodgers. He called it the “worst” or “most crushing” loss in Phillies history, which is really saying something. I needed to hear that like a kick in the nuts. Making it worse, I actually attended that game at the Vet back in ’77.

· Ryan Howard’s bomb. Distance calculations really should not figure from where it lands in the seats, but where it would have landed had it not hit the bleachers. Howard’s HR nearly landed in the third deck. It would have traveled a lot farther than 450 ft had it been allowed to come down.

· Speaking of Howard’s homers, how does Fox – in this day and age- not have video to show of Howards’ 505 foot shot earlier in the week that would have been perfect to run immediately after this homer Saturday?

· How/why did Comcast relent and allow some home Phillies games to be shown on the MLB package? My neighbor suspects the other teams got on the Phillies for collecting 1/30^th of the revenues, but not providing 1/30 of game contributions. Anyway you cut it, though, it’s nice to be able to hear/see Harry the K.

· Good FA signings by the Flyers. But I still can’t escape the nagging feeling that Holmgren wants Dave Schultz and Bob Hounddog Kelly players who take the body, when that game is no longer played in the NHL.

· Speaking of NHL, a 3^rd generation Sutter was picked in the NHL amateur draft. Just what the league needs, another 15 goal body checker.