Open thread and Ichthyomancy: Marlins at Phillies (9/11)

by mike42 on Sep 11, 2005 9:59 AM EDT in News and Rumors

An unusual 1:35 start time (although that's probably not too unusual to the Phillies). Valdez vs. Lieber. Big game (again today). The Fish need to take the game and the series.

It was a nice debut and a huge 2-inning outing for Josh Johnson last night. But he also threw 40 pitches in his two innings. And half of those were balls. He'll need to improve on that if the Fish are going to be able to count on him.

It's once again time for ichthyomancy. If you've been playing all season, please make your picks today. If you've never played before - start today. It doesn't cost anything, it's fun, and it's free.

Here's today's ichthyomancy pick table:

Person	Player	Attendance	AAB
Carolina
Colombo259
Craig	Castillo	34,127	Castillo: HR
Danielfred1235
Dex
Double B	SP
Fishfan24	Cabrera	24,024	SP: No hitter
Jsprt05
Seamusfurr
StrandedX02
Wiggins

Make your picks and discuss...

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Picks

JP
35,527
Team hits 3 HR.

Cause all we know is falling...

by StrandedX02 on Sep 11, 2005 10:48 AM EDT reply actions

Picks

Cabrera
36,374
Marlins hits = Valdez's Ks + BBs

Francouer who?

by Jsprtold on Sep 11, 2005 10:56 AM EDT reply actions

picks

player: cabrera

attendance: 35,986

AAB: Marlins runs= 2x Phillies runs

Jeremy Hermida: the only fashionable man-crush.

by colombo259 on Sep 11, 2005 11:51 AM EDT reply actions

Picks.

Sticking with Delgado.
40,456
Hammer his one out.

by wiggins on Sep 11, 2005 12:47 PM EDT reply actions

*Hits one out

not his one out.

by wiggins on Sep 11, 2005 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions

I probably won't be paying much attention

to the Marlins game, unfortunately. Redskins, baby!!!

Got my Darrell Green jersey ready to go.

by wiggins on Sep 11, 2005 12:50 PM EDT reply actions

Picks

Jacinto.

37,750.

Valdez goes 6.2 innings.

You can fool some of the people all the time... and those are the ones to concentrate on.

by danielfred1235 on Sep 11, 2005 1:04 PM EDT reply actions

picks

Cabrera
38,995
Nine total runs scored in the game.

by Carolina on Sep 11, 2005 1:10 PM EDT reply actions

pix

LoDuca
32,011
Charging fan makes it into the infield.

"I'm not as deep and complicated as people think." -Mike Tyson

by seamusfurr on Sep 11, 2005 1:13 PM EDT reply actions

Thank God

football is on today!!

Ismael Valdez just gave up 6 runs in the 3rd inning to the POS Phillies

Francouer who?

by Jsprtold on Sep 11, 2005 2:43 PM EDT reply actions

Yup

That sucks. At least the Phins are winning!

by fishfan24 on Sep 11, 2005 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions

The Dolphins are actually playing

decent...too many false starts tho

Francouer who?

by Jsprtold on Sep 11, 2005 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Ok

Championship teams do not get blown out as much as the Marlins do.

It seems like no ichthyomancy points have been awarded in any recent loss because the Marlins are always getting spanked if they dont win.

Francouer who?

by Jsprtold on Sep 11, 2005 2:56 PM EDT reply actions

Ugh.

Why did I bother to check in on the Marlins game?

by wiggins on Sep 11, 2005 3:36 PM EDT reply actions

i second that

Francouer who?

by Jsprtold on Sep 11, 2005 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Because...

... they had a comeback of mythical proportions yesterday and you figured there's still a decent chance of coming out of the Houston series with the WC lead (since the 'Stros are losing 4-0 currently too)? And since the Braves should be able to knock the Phils out of the WC race during the same 4 days?

You can fool some of the people all the time... and those are the ones to concentrate on.

by danielfred1235 on Sep 11, 2005 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah...

But that ain't gonna help today.

by wiggins on Sep 11, 2005 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions

This Is Why...

... we forget about this all and look ahead to tomorrow. ;-)

You can fool some of the people all the time... and those are the ones to concentrate on.

by danielfred1235 on Sep 11, 2005 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Points

Obviously, there will be no player points today. It was simply ugly.

The attendance point was about the only thing that was close tonight. Craig (under by 667) wins the attendance point from Stranded (733).

Today's loss has made me too sad to look at any of your AAB picks (or to update the pick table), so I'm just going to assume that no one earned any points.

by mike42 on Sep 11, 2005 5:38 PM EDT reply actions