steve phillips Stories - Amazin' Avenue
Who Let Bobby Bonilla Return to the Mets in 1998?
The New York Mets are not drumming up a lot of meaningful news these days, which means it's only a matter of time before some hack writer drums up Bobby Bonilla's deferred contract payments for "original" content on a slow news day. We all know about how the story ends with $1,193,248.20 due to...
The Case for Bobby V
The Red Sox' offseason has been a turbulent one, as befits a team that committed one of the worst regular season collapses in baseball history. (Nearly as bad as...well, never mind.) Their curiously torturous managerial search is the latest example. You'd think there'd be no shortage of candidates...
Let's Go to the Archives: Izzy's Last Win
Yesterday's 9-8 win over the Pirates contained two significant milestones for the Mets. The most obvious is that they overcame a 7-0 deficit, their second largest comeback in franchise history, and their biggest since the raucous, cathartic win of June 30, 2000, when they scored 10 runs in the...
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Nine
Old friends Steve Phillips and Omar Minaya play a role in "Chapter Nine: The Trading Desk". Much of the chapter is devoted to Billy Beane's quest to improve the A's at the 2002 trade deadline. Interactions with other GMs like Phillips, Minaya (then with the Expos), Brian Sabean and Mark Shapiro are...
Steve Phillips Wheel-Of-Ineptness
Just a little poll. More on the affair here. Yes, she's not very attractive. Yes, she's mentally and emotional unstable. No, none of this is surprising given Phillips's well-documented and overwhelmingly maladroit past decision-making.
An Open Letter To ESPN
To whom it may concern: Please remove Steve Phillips from all of your baseball broadcasts. During Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter, Phillips has been a relatively unspectacular commentator. Allowing Phillips to speak outside of these timed, mostly scripted intervals, however, has proven to be like...
ESPN's Phillips: Dombrowski Still One of the Best GMs
On the DL interviewed ESPN analyst Steve Phillips yesterday for a wide-ranging discussion covering his current work as a broadcaster and former career as a general manager with the New York Mets. Phillips lends some insight into the various duties that come with a front office job, and also talks...
The Top 50 Mets of All Time: #34 Bobby Bonilla
In the seven years from 1984 through 1990, the Mets had an incredible run of success during which they averaged better than 95 wins per season. Manager Davey Johnson had been dispatched a quarter of the way through the 1990 season, and his replacement, Bud Harrelson, was similarly replaced midway...
Morneau wins Derby, Hamilton makes history
via d.yimg.com Justin Morneau won the 2008 Home Run Derby, making me a genius or a wizard, but no one will remember that. The man he out-donged in the final round, Josh Hamilton, was the story. If you missed it, find his first round performance on the internet ASAP. Just amazing stuff. 28 home...
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