Ryan Howard – Saturday?
On the record the Phillies say that first baseman Ryan Howard, still recovering from his brutal Achilles injury on the last play of the team’s 2011 season, will be attempting to play back-to-back rehab games for the first time tonight and tomorrow.
Off the record (in what is admittedly perhaps the least impressive advancement of a story ever) a Phillies’ source told me tonight here at Citifield that the hope is to activate the slugger in time to play Saturday in a nationally televised game against the Braves in Philly.
Phils’ General Manager Ruben Amaro tonight said of Howard to reporters “he’s getting close” but wouldn’t even go as far as the source as identifying Saturday as the soft target for the return. In his rehab work at Lakewood (Class A) and Lehigh Valley (Class AAA) Howard had gotten 8 hits in seventeen at bats with two doubles, one home run, and nine Runs Batted In through Wednesday night. As of this posting Howard is 2-for-3 tonight (both singles) with another RBI, all off Adam Warren, who a week ago tomorrow was making his big league debut for the Yankees against the White Sox.
The Phillies’ source said overall Howard seemed to be at 85 percent but was still significantly limited in his running – but with all other aspects of his game looking surprisingly up to speed.
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The Phillies improved their W/L record in each of the last five seasons, which I think is unprecedented for a team which was over .500 to begin with. In other words, they were playing with the house’s money for quite some time. When the injuries started to pile up, the Phils hit the wall instantly.
This kind of makes me wonder who is making the decisions concerning the players health. Is it management (coaches) or their MDs? The Achillies injury is nothing to take lightly. Is it something to do with Howard being sent down and showing his talent? Or do they really need him to show up.. So far the Phils are up 5-4. we can see where it goes tonight but they really should make sure Howard is solid 100% before risking a perpetual injury.
No wonder I didn’t recognize that guy! He was a new Yankee! Let Ryan Howard take it easy. They could play Ron Howard.
Thanks again for your great article and again sorry that you got abused by Current and that you have people that call themselves fans but never give you the respect you need and thenk that when you are recovering from illness which you are still working with you are showing that you are not a professional, when it reality that shows that you are more of a professional then Current mangement. I want all those so called fans to work while they have broncahtis, asthma, lygntis and whatever you had surgery on and then tell me that you are not a professional, they show that they have no idea what being human means. Keep showing why you are this generations Murrow and that you will be back better than ever. AS long as you are yourself you will always have a fan in me and you will always be on my wall, ipod and ipad and life, and always love and trust. Love you faults and all.
It will be good to see Howard back– but he’ll be facing tougher pitching than ex-Met John Maine! And how ’bout those Phightin’ Mets?! Fun to see them win, and beat Papelbon– again.
85% of 250 lbs…
Could 2012 be the alternate universe for 1964?
“The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies held a six and a half game lead in an exceptionally strong National League with 12 games to play. They then lost ten straight games (the first seven played at home) and fell into a second place tie. The skein started with Chico Ruiz stealing home, with Frank Robinson at bat, for the game’s only run. Dick Allen said of the play: “The play broke our humps.”[3] The crucial series came when the now second-place Phillies traveled to St. Louis to play the Cardinals after their losing home stand. They dropped the first game of the series to Bob Gibson by a 5–1 score, their eighth loss in a row, dropping them to third place. The Cardinals would sweep the three-game set and assume first place for good. The “Phold,” as it is known, is one of the most notable collapses in sports history.”
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Actually, Howard played Friday night and got a 2B in his first at-bat…
Good to have Howard back (even though I’m a Nats fan), but some of the reports from Friday indicate he still had trouble running. Hope for his sake he didn’t come back too soon.
I used to like Keith Olbermann when he was with ESPN. That was before he turned into an arrogant liberal celebrity who things he’s smarter than everyone on the planet. Now, I don’t even respect his position on sports related activities. Let me know when you’re ready to go “on the record” Keith, and keep your “off the record” comments for your lawyer. Wait, maybe I should take that back.
You show that you never liked KO, nobody who was a fan would be making up lies like saying that his lawyer writes everything for him, without showing any proof, so because he liberal and calls out people that means that he argonant and thinks that he smatter than everyone on the planet. Wow The DudesAbides when has KO gone on the record. Current come out that has been making up stories about him, ones like the driver one that turned out to be false. All KO has done is write a letter saying that he was wrongfully fired and put out a lawsuit to basically get the money that is owed him, so how is that KO going on or off the record. That comment does not make any sense. So you want to keep lying and showing that you have no idea who KO is and that you would rather bash him than listen to the truth. I want you explain to me how going on a talk show is not promoting a show, I want you to explain how not being happy with a joke makes you arrogant. I want you to explain how does We’ll get back to you meaning that you are being polite to a guest on the air, how does that all os sudden means that you wanted that person at Current and that you liked that person. How are emails showing how frustrated KO was with things falling apart show that he was threatening and temper, those emails show what a imcomtent whine people that he had on his staff, who did not want to take responsiblity for the problems on the set and fix, them just like Current going on about how much a set cost and size, and who chose the studio they do not deny that they were the ones that bought the faulty equipment. Wow that really a responsible company there. Keep lying about who KO is and showing that you were never one of KO’s fans, and all you care about is bashing him.
Off the record, a source closer to Olbermann tells me that Keith Olbermann doesn’t write his own blogs. Obermann’s “veteran litigator”, Patty Glaser, does all of his work for him. She probably knows more about baseball then Olbermann does anyways.
Get outta here. Go work on spelling. Hugs not drugs.
So The DudesAides
How do you know that KO lawyer writes everything for him, are in meetings when he and his lawyer talk, so you live with him. I guess that lawyer was also the one that wrote the baseball book about the mangers for a fourteen year old Olbermann, Wow I did not know that KO and patrica Glasser were childhood best friends, that is how made up this post is. Everyone in the baseball world be laughing at your post even Patrick who has know KO since they did the Big show would be laughing because they know that KO has always wrote his own stuff. He and Patrick have even said in the Big Show book that they encourage others to write thier own material because that is what helps stand you out. KO even tells how he started writing his first specail comment and he was alone on a airplane when it happened. Tell the truth you hate KO because KO has never done what you wanted and that is to tell you what you want to hear. You want the truth KO was screwed over at Current, I want you to explain why was Current making KO give up his principles so they could have a coporations sponser him and he do a commerial aka AT&T that is what sabtoged looks like. Not some story that from the start had Current air the dirty laudery and even say that lawyers were involved, while KO was defending them in the Press and on twitter,only correcting the others about his past. So explain how KO is the bad guy, or yeah he is not. Keep showing how Current abused KO and how they broke his contract and why KO is this generations Murrow and that Current is everything that they want KO to be. KO keep being yourself and you will always have a viewer in me love you faults and all.
Off the record a source tells me that TheDudesAides
was never a fan of KO and thinks that it okay for companies to abuse employees and wants to put blame on KO for all the on record crap that Current has put out there, because KO has to the bad guy. This is how made up your post have been. Keep showing that you were never a fan.
How do you know that KO lawyer writes everything for him, are in meetings when he and his lawyer talk, so you live with him. I guess that lawyer was also the one that wrote the baseball book about the mangers for a fourteen year old Olbermann, phd research proposal
Thanks for that, moon5655
What dude said there, was probably one of the most stupidiest things that I have read in my entire life. I wish people would understand that even people inside the industry that he worked in for 33 years and counting, have said what a great writer he is. King just told KO that in a inteview that he did with KO.
KO I want to also say that you have been someone that never disappoints me, I say that because you are someone that likes to show how human you are and not afraid to show faults and strengths, but also someone that does not afraid to stand up for what you believe in. Again keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. Keep showing why you are this genrations Murrow and why you be around for years to come. Sorry you got a abused at Current and was unjustily fired there. Keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me, love you faults and all.
KO I also want to say again that you never disappoint me because you stand by your ehtics and morals and not juts what you believe in. Again I sorry that even MSNBC treated you like dirt aka mangement, and love to show how hypocrotical they can be, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been placed on indefinite suspension without pay in the wake of a Politico report (11/5/10) that revealed Olbermann had donated $7,200 to three Democratic candidates, in violation of NBC’s standards barring employees from making political contributions.
A journalist donating money to a political candidate raises obvious conflict of interest questions; at a minimum, such contributions should be disclosed on air. But if supporting politicians with money is a threat to journalistic independence, what are the standards for Olbermann’s bosses at NBC, and at NBC’s parent company General Electric?
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, GE made over $2 million in political contributions in the 2010 election cycle (most coming from the company’s political action committee). The top recipient was Republican Senate candidate Rob Portman from Ohio. The company has also spent $32 million on lobbying this year, and contributed over $1 million to the successful “No on 24″ campaign against a California ballot initiative aimed at eliminating tax loopholes for major corporations (New York Times, 11/1/10).
Comcast, the cable company currently looking to buy NBC, has dramatically increased its political giving, much of it to lawmakers who support the proposed merger (Bloomberg, 10/19/10). And while Fox News parent News Corp’s $1 million donation to the Republican Governors Association caused a stir, GE had “given $245,000 to the Democratic governors and $205,000 to the Republican governors since last year,” reported the Washington Post (8/18/10).
Olbermann’s donations are in some ways comparable to fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough’s $4,200 contribution to Republican candidate Derrick Kitts in 2006 (MSNBC.com, 7/15/07). When that was uncovered, though, NBC dismissed this as a problem, since Scarborough “hosts an opinion program and is not a news reporter.” Olbermann, of course, is also an opinion journalist–but MSNBC seems to hold him to a different standard.
Two years earlier, the Washington Post reported (1/18/04):
NBC chief executive Robert Wright has contributed $8,000 since 1999, including $3,500 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and $1,000 to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Andrew Lack, a former NBC News chief, gave $1,000 to Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) while NBC president, and Wright contributed $1,500–after the House committee Tauzin chairs held hearings on the networks’ election night failures. NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said the network allows its executives to make contributions and that Wright “does not make any decisions specific to news coverage.”
Wright, however, was reported in a recent New York magazine piece (10/3/10) to have told then-NBC News chief Neal Shapiro to move to the right of Fox News in response to the September 11 attacks: “We have to be more conservative then they are,” the magazine quoted Wright.
MSNBC’s treatment of Olbermann is also in sharp contrast to Fox News’ handling of Sean Hannity, who was revealed by Salon (9/23/10) to have given $5,000 to the campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.), a Tea Party favorite–without Fox expressing any public disapproval. Hannity has allowed Republican candidates to use his Fox program for fundraising (Mediaite, 10/17/10); as Salon noted, Hannity was this year’s keynote speaker at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner.
If the concern is about how giving money to politicians threatens journalistic independence, then companies like NBC should explain why their parent companies can lavish so much money on political candidates or causes with no concern about conflicts of interest or the need to disclose these donations to viewers. The lesson here would seem to be that some of the workers shouldn’t make political donations, but the bosses are free to give as much as they’d like. Anyone who watches Olbermann’s show knows what his political views are. So what do the far larger contributions from GE tell us?
ACTION:
Ask NBC and MSNBC to explain their inconsistent standards regarding political donations.
You show that you know more about ethics and morals and always will comapred to mangement, sorry again you were unjuistily fired from Current keep being yourself and you will always have a fan in me. Why did you give money to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two other Democrats when you knew there was a rule against it? People say, “Why did you think you could get away with donating to Democrats?” Nobody ever asks me why I donated to those three Democrats. I discovered from a friend of mine who knows Arizona politics really well that all three had spent a lot of money, and I mean a lot of money, protecting themselves from assassination threats. To me, as a small-d democrat, as a member of a democracy, it pissed me off. I thought, “I’m going to help defray their expenses.” That’s all it wa
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/keith-olbermann-on-why-he-left-msnbc-and-how-he-plans-to-get-even-20110607#ixzz2Bdv2GaXH, again stuff like this KO are the reason why you never disappoint me and why you will always have a fan in me.