Now I’m not going to lecture and I’ll try not to rant.
Seriously philly…. you live in philly right?
you break it you bought it.
taxes are a bitch…
Philadelphia… We’re Prepared!
City workers have greased poles along South Broad Street in an effort to deter revellers from climbing them during any wild celebrations that might follow a possible Phillies victory tonight.
Street lights, signs, bus shelters and even trees have been coated by a yellowish goo that bears a resemblance to petroleum jelly.
Temporary “No Stopping” signs also have been posted along the thoroughfare warning motorists they could be cited for a violation for stopping between 5:30 p.m and midnight.
Hoping to prevent the damage and looting that followed last year’s World Series victory, police are expected to be out in force tonight if the Phillies clinch the National League title.
At Robinson Luggage, which was looted last year, manager Kevin Roemer said Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey had assured Broad Street merchants there would be a stepped up police presence.
“We’re feeling confident about what the police are going to do,” said Roemer, adding the store was taking no special precautions.
“I’m a big Phillies fan,” said Roemer, who, like much of the region has a touch of Phillies fever. “I want to see a repeat. It would be great for the city.”
“If we beat the Yankees [in the World Series] I have no idea what the celebration would be like,” he added, imagining what is not yet a certainty.
RIP Harry Kalas
Phillies broadcaster Harry Kalas passed out in a press box at Nationals Park today and was pronounced dead at GW Hospital. He was 73.
“We lost our voice today,” team president David Montgomery said, his voice cracking. “He has loved our game and made just a tremendous contribution to our sport and certainly to our organization.”
Nats acting GM Mike Rizzo talked to Montgomery after Kalas’ collapse but there was never really a thought of canceling the game; Montgomery told Rizzo that Kalas would have wanted them to play. There will be a moment for silence for both Nick Adenhart of Hagerstown and for Kalas.
Montgomery said that Kalas was found unconscious in a broadcast booth, where he was preparing to work Monday’s game against the Nationals. He was found by the Phillies director of broadcasting at about 12:30 p.m.
Montgomery called his condition serious at that time, and the Phillies closed the visitors’ clubhouse to the media.
Kalas missed most of spring training after undergoing surgery in February. The team declined to reveal details of the surgery, saying it was a “minor medical procedure.”
Kalas, who has broadcast Phillies games since 1971, was known for his distinctive “Outta here!” home run call. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame after receiving the Ford C. Frick Award in 2002. He was in the final year of a three-year contract with the Phillies. Kalas also did commercial voice-overs and narrated for NFL Films.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2009/04/kalas_found_passed_out.html?hpid=topnews
MVP Cole Hamels and the $20.5 Deal With The Phillies
Well, well! The Phillies’ went ahead and signed World Series MVP Cole Hamels to a 3-year, $20.5 million deal, immediately making everyone remember that they signed Adam Eaton to a 3-year, $24.5 million deal a few years ago.
The Phils had control of Hamels for the next three seasons anyway, hence the cheaper deal for Hamels than the well-known Adam Eaton disaster. But the Phillies avoid arbitration with Hamels this year and the next two, making this a good sign all around. He’ll be a free agent in 2012, and the Phillies will have to pay big for him then — but his next three years could be incredible, at under $7 million a year.
More Info: http://willdo.pwblogs.com/2009/01/17/cole-hamels-plants-his-flag-in-philly/
Taking Orders NOW!
Andrew Jeffrey Wright, of Space 1026, is now taking orders for a limited, second run of his amazing Barack Obama/Philadelphia Phillies tee. The first batch is all but sold out and he will only be printing what is requested! Shirts are $15 on natural tees, instead of white, and will be printed on Monday the 19th, so place your order before then!
Email AJW with your desired size and quantity if you’re interested.
CUTE OVERLOAD. (Philly Edition)
Excuse me while I go kidnap a baby and play “so big” until it cries. (Props to my mom for the awesome link…again.)
Introductions and Elections (Chinatown Bus)
Looks like we’ve got one more aboard the Chinatown Bus…
So just to get things off the ground, I’m Nick, the newest contributor to McJawn. Due to an inexplicable yet unyielding crush that I have on co-founder Wen, I’ll be her bitch and your loyal liaison to the streets of New York City for the foreseeable future. I was born and raised on these mean streets (okay, the Upper West Side isn’t so mean) but I know the city inside and out. I’ll be doing my best to bring you all the dirt, deals, and observations I can about the city that never sleeps.
Great so now that that’s over, let’s get to something real. In case you just awoke from a coma, Barack Obama (aka “Barry Hussein”) was elected as the President of the United States of America two days ago. Yes, I know I’m a little late, but I just recovered from the past two nights so please give me a break. No rational human being in America really thought McCain had a chance (“You can’t beat a Kenyan in a race!”), but to see “President-Elect Obama” was amazing. Everyone is talking about it, and rightfully so. If you were in NYC and you weren’t in Times Square the night of his election, chances are you’re an idiot. I’ve seen World Series and Superbowl celebrations, I’ve seen massive concerts, I’ve seen New Year’s Eve celebrations (from T.V. because they are stupid and overrated), this topped all of them combined. I’ve never seen so many people happy about politics in my entire life. It looked like we just elected Jesus for President. People were busting down the avenues, honking and shouting. Buses and fire trucks were honking to the beat of the inspirational mantra, “Yes we can!” Perfect strangers were hugging and celebrating together. It was a truly remarkable sight.
The most memorable moment from this whole event had to be when I was standing on the corner of 43rd street behind a barricade, looking up at a massive screen fit for Method Man’s crib with the face of the President-Elect on it. With the deafening sound of thousands of cheering Americans in my ears, I witnessed something truly spectacular. A man drove down the avenue waving an American flag out of the window, and people cheered. For the first time since 9/11, I saw people proud to be a member of this country. “American” has been a dirty word to people all around the world for years now. Not anymore, thanks to President and Vice President-Elect Barack Obama and Joe Biden (or, for convenience, President O’Biden). I saw a country united, not under fear and sadness like the day the towers fell, but under a banner of hope and a bright new future. Seeing that flag being waved and hearing the cheers that followed almost brought a tear to my eye. So live it up, and be proud to be an American for as long as we have something to be proud of.Thailand Fundraiser on 52nd Street this Saturday. 10 bucks for unlimited beer and 2 dollar shots all night long. Can we get wasted? YES WE CAN!
Credit(s): By Nick Nunez, Photographs Provided By lastnightsparty.com
Vice Magazine: PHILADELPHIA – VINTAGE VIOLENCE
Vice Magazine decided to blog about our crazy ways…
“Well, looks like my boys The Philadelphia Phillies took the World Series this year. Why, you ask, does it look like this? Because people are burning the city down. After 28 years of fruitless labor, The Phightin’ Phils put an enormous foot into the ass of The Tampa Bay Rays (who sealed their fate by caving to Baptist pressure and breaking their ties with Satan), winning the series 4 games to 1 and breaking the Curse Of Billy Penn. It’s good to see my fellow brethren of hate are letting people know just who the fuck is really in charge.“ (Vice Magazine)
More Info: http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2008/10/philadelphia–.html
Piñata Day !?
So we started today feeling rad! You know why? because we were about to be some of the lucky few to see a wrecking ball smash a flamboyant donkey.
So we waited happily.
And then we got uber siked cause some guy started throwing candy at us.
When the kids ate the candy they started doing weird things.
After waiting for three hours we found out that the event was canceled.
This Made People Angry!
This turn of events left us bummed.
The Giant Pinata That Never Was.
Ok, so did the people at Carnival cruises not watch the news before they filled our hearts with broken dreams and false hope of 4 tons of candy? Did they not know that we burn shit and flip cars…and that’s just when we’re happy. Did they enjoy the look on our faces when it was announced that they would in fact NOT be using a freaking wrecking ball to destroy a four-story pinata. (six story my ass. As if we wouldn’t notice you gypped us two stories of confection.) Or did they think they could hold us off with a couple of bins of second-rate fruit chews while they got enough footage to CGI the whole non-event together? Bastards.
Apparently, the cops were worried that children were going to be stampeded by crazed Philadelphians jacked-up on crappy candy (and oh, how crappy it was), clawing their way for more. It was a anti-climactic end to an epic week in this city.
Photos of the tragedy to come…
Dope Local Greg Adomaitis
Check out Greg’s photo journalism at http://situationalism.blogspot.com/. Mean while check out these dude pissing to celebrate the Phillies World Series Win.
PHILLIES WON!
Woot woot!! Philly’s won last night! Right after the game, people flooded Broad Street to party and cause some mayhem. Check out the photos on Shoot Em’ Up
World Series Parade
76 arrests, no injuries, 10 broken store windows. Can we not destroy our own city while celebrating? …savages.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says a parade will be held Friday in honor of the Phillies’ World Series championship. It is to begin at noon, Friday at 20th and Market Streets and travel south down Broad Street ending at the sports complex.
Phillies riot!
Now I’m not going to lecture and I’ll try not to rant.
Seriously philly…. you live in philly right?
you break it you bought it.
Riot in Philadelphia After the Phillies Win World Series
With two overturned cars, numerous bonfires, tear-gas canisters, and a busload of riot cops, last night proved to be one of the most wild and out-of-control celebrations of any championship that this writer has ever observed. When the Phillies won the World Series a crowd converged on City Hall, a mob that quickly went from festive and joyous, to riotous and destructive. Like a war-torn path of destruction, South Broad Street stood desolate after riot cops secured the area by pushing thousands down Walnut and Chestnut sts., past an overturned and burned out car towards a blackened dumpster, where someone had lit a blazing fire. The trash accumulating steadily on the street was fuel for several large bonfires beside which people warmed their hands and danced until they were pushed away by Philadelphia police, who stamped the fires out and contained the flames. As the night wore on and sales at the beer shops skyrocketed, fights broke out on the block just south of City Hall, where riot police fought off aggressive Phillies fans. A large fire swelled up on Chestnut Street, a fire that turned out to be an overturned red sedan with a smashed windshield. Phillies fans torched the vehicle as riot police attempted to contain the crowd on Walnut and Chestnut sts. Another overturned car stood on its side on a side street closer to City Hall, its windshield also smashed. Riot police arrived in a yellow school-bus, quickly forming a line in amongst the thousands of energized Phillies fans, who quickly turned from celebrators into violent rioters, sparking fires, throwing beer cans, and yelling obscenities at police officers, bike police, and riot police. Tear gas canisters went off, sending hundreds rushing down South Broad Street. A photographer’s camera was smashed by an angry rioter, as bike police and riot police swarmed upon the fight, securing the perimeter from any more assaults. A SEPTA transit stop was mangled and destroyed, the metal twisted and broken and the framework of what had once been a transit shelter lying on the street in front of Philadelphia police, who stood with batons in hand, demanding that all bystanders move along. Walking back from the riot, one man yelled “I hate the police,” at which point another turned to him and said, “I’d be careful if I were you.”
GAME 5 Continued…
The bottom of the sixth inning is set to resume TONIGHT, approximately 46 hours after Shane Victorino squinted through the raindrops and squeezed Evan Longoria’s wind-blown fly ball to end the top half.
Major League Baseball announced that Game 5 of the 2008 World Series between the Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies will resume at Citizens Bank Park, with the first pitch scheduled for 8:37 p.m. ET.
The Phillies will be coming to bat to start the bottom of the sixth inning with the score tied, 2-2. Grant Balfour is the pitcher in the game for Tampa Bay, while Cole Hamels, Jimmy Rollins and Jayson Werth are due up for Philadelphia.
Thus, Phillies manager Charlie Manuel will have had two full days to consider a pinch-hitter for his pitcher, who limited the Rays to two runs over six innings when Game 5 began on Monday. A victory for the Phillies would clinch their first championship since the 1980 season.
“That’s all that’s important to us, that’s all that we think about,” Manuel said. “We’ve got 3 1/2 innings of baseball — we get to bat four times, they get to bat three. We get 12 outs, they get nine. We’re definitely coming with the mindset that we’re going to win that game.”
The game was tied in the top half of the sixth inning when, with conditions growing increasingly sloppy, B.J. Upton legged out a two-out infield single to Rollins at shortstop, stole second base on the muddy infield, and scored when Carlos Pena singled to left field.
Throwing only fastballs, Hamels got Longoria to fly out for the final out of the top of the sixth before the tarpaulin was dragged across the field at 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday. The game was officially suspended 30 minutes later.
“Our players were thinking about going nine innings, and when the rain started, they were still thinking about going nine innings,” Manuel said.
Weather.com, the Web site of The Weather Channel, is forecasting considerable clouds this evening, with a low of 31 degrees and winds from the west at 10 to 20 mph. According to them, it would be mostly cloudy and 39 degrees at 8 p.m., with a 20 percent chance of precipitation.
Weatherbug, which provides weather updates to MLB, said that there is a 14 percent chance of precipitation at 8 p.m., dropping to 5 percent at 9 p.m., with temperatures in the low-40s and high-30s.
The National Weather Service is calling for mostly cloudy skies with a low around 35 degrees, and a west wind between 6 and 9 mph.
Accuweather predicts partly cloudy skies and 42 degrees at 8 p.m., with a 50 percent probability of precipitation between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. After 9 p.m., the probability of precipitation drops to 31 percent.
Ultimately, the decision on when and whether to play remains in the hands of Commissioner Bud Selig. During the regular season, pregame postponements are controlled by the home club, and then after a game begins, by the umpires.
Up to this point, there had never been a rain-shortened game in Series history, and this was the first suspension.
Game 3 of the World Series, played Saturday evening, was delayed one hour and 31 minutes by rain. The Phillies and Rays played uninterrupted after the delay, with Philadelphia winning, 5-4, in the bottom of the ninth on Carlos Ruiz’s bases-loaded infield hit.
The field at Citizens Bank Park is playable in a steady rain. The system in place allows the grass to drain and a sand-like substance is used to keep the dirt portion of the infield from saturating. As a backup, the system is equipped with a vacuum that pumps tons of water out of the drainage pipes.
Games 6 and 7, if necessary, would take place in the domed confines of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg on Thursday and Friday.
GO PHILLIES!
6 Story Piñata on Broad & Washington on Sunday!
Despite its wish not to jinx the Phillies by prematurely planning a World Series victory parade, the City of Philadelphia tipped its hand on Tuesday in the most unlikely of ways; by disrespecting the world’s largest piñata.
It seems that Carnival Cruise Lines has spent months planning a huge event in downtown Philadelphia set for Sunday; in which an enormous, six-story piñata was scheduled to be suspended above 20th and Market and then broken apart to shower the good citizens of Philly with 8000 pounds of delicious candy (I see no way this can go wrong).
But on Tuesday, the city sent out a news release revealing that the site of the piñata demolition would be moved. The release, via Philly Edge:
Due to the exciting World Series run by the Philadelphia Phillies, the city has requested that the location for this event be changed. It will now be held in South Philadelphia, at South Broad Street and Washington Avenue, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The piñata will be destroyed at approximately 1:30 p.m.
Obviously the city is looking ahead to a possible victory parade, and doesn’t want the Phillie motorcade to butt up against piñata pandemonium at this key downtown intersection. Also, releasing Joe Blanton amongst 8000 pounds of candy cannot be considered a good idea.
By the way, last Sunday Carnival Cruise unleashed a giant beach ball that horribly crushed delighted hundreds in downtown Dallas. I’m really looking forward to seeing the six-story sexual aid in San Francisco in December.
This is so retardedly awesome. Also, they are destroying the piñata with a wrecking ball 
Phillies Phever!
There will be a huge rally TOMORROW, 12PM at City Hall to support the Phillies before they kick off the World Series. It is sponsored by Citizens Bank. Mayor Nutter, the Philly Phanatic and some ball girls will be at the pep rally, according to a release from Citizens Bank. But the team will be in Tampa.
