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Monday, March 31, 2008

Opening Day pics in real time

Courtesy of Mike, who is in attendance at today's Phillies season opener against the Washington Nationals (who made a statement that they are nobody's doormat when they beat the Atlanta Braves, 3-2, in dramatic fashion last night with a 9th-inning walk-off home run by Ryan Zimmerman), we will be posting pics from the ballpark in real time or as close to that as I can (all times approximate).

12:30 p.m. - With a light rain falling, here is a shot of the field:



Updated 12:40 p.m. - So Taguchi:



And Mike reports that Werth is starting in right field.

More updates as they come in...

Updated 4:30 p.m. - I can only assume a combination of the rain and Brett Myers' 5th-inning meltdown has left Mike's phone inoperable as no updates have been forthcoming in the past four hours.

Updated after the final out - I'm looking forward to hearing from Mike (a) why the updates stopped, (b) when he left the game, and (c) if Tom Gordon looked as bad as he sounded on the radio.

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2 comments:

Mike Hillman said...

(a) I was concerned about the cost of sending picture messages.
(b) I stayed for the whole thing.
(c) Yes.

tmmullen said...

(a) You're a season ticket holder and a phillies blogger now, so spring for the unlimited text/pic messages package like I did. Kids these days...

(b) I told Bill I would have too...

(c) You know I wanted to post something here about the bullpen prior to the start of the season, but I wanted to stay positive and not be a debbie downer... but yesterday's performance will force me to find that e-mail I sent you after the Lidge trade and post it here (with edits of course)...

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