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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · Nov 17

Can You name these teams based upon the starting lineups?

If you can then you will enjoy our new Game "Starting9"

I plan on introducing new sets of 9 puzzles weekly. This week we have our 14th Series "Niekro".

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to do when a team only wins one game.

Bob Vetrone Jr. @boopstats.bsky.social · 1h

Postseason Series Lost by Phillies Despite Outscoring Their Opponent:

2010 Giants (20-19)
2011 Cardinals (21-19)
2023 D-backs (30-21)
2025 Dodgers (15-13)

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Todd Radom @toddradom.bsky.social · 1h

DRINK!

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1h

And conversely The Dodgers made the big play on Stotts bunt in... I forget - game 2 I think.

Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 1h

The difference in this series (aside from the umps, who should be tried in The Hague and then hung by the neck until dead) was not making the plays on two infield dribblers.

Can't make this shit up.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1h

At least the Phillies aren't going to ruin another Saturday night for me.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1h

Jesus Luzardo has meant more to the 2025 Phillies than Bryce Harper

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 1h

Good Lord a drop into center scores the runner.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

Who plays OF?

Rob Hanna @robhanna.bsky.social · 2h

Don't like this PH.

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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 2h

Every game is like a Game 7 this time of year.

Incredible to see Rob Thomson use his 4 most trusted starters in 2 games over 24 hours.

Amazing October theater in L.A.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah tomorrow AM will be the no economic activity window.

AmblerRick 🇺🇸 @amblerrick.bsky.social · 2h

Bars

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

Free Baseball!

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

Series MVP

Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 2h

Man, Roki Sasaki has looked great as a reliever. 2 hits, 8 K and 0 BB in 6 innings

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 12h

You can tell Chicago is the most dangerous city in the country by the incredibly low low prices of postseason tickets.

You can even see the active FIRES by the Foul Poles.

All that being said, the $313 "Amazing" seats look appropriately described to me.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 2h

What ad is LA getting on repeat instead of the "Keep on scratching" ads airing in Philadelphia?

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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 2h

Jhoan Duran has faced 90 hitters since he joined the Phillies.

He has unintentionally walked 4 of them.

They're all Dodgers.

The 4th just came on a 3-2 pitch to Mookie - and tied this game, 1-1, as it heads to the 8th.

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 3h

Get out of this mess and score in T7.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 3h

My starting9 Stats:
Oct06 W-L: 9-0
HR:⚾
AVG/SLG: .563/.875
Career: 66-6 HR:16 .660/1.390

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 5h

Team Phungo is ready for some Happy Hour Baseball

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

Yayyy Boyertown

NO BRAKES NO QUIT @lesleynope.bsky.social · 8h

Complimented the guy in the Yesavage jersey on the subway!

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

I go with Top 3 in any of Hits/AVG/TB/RBI over IBB as the noteworthy stat

www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gr...

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

In an alternate universe without -Roids a potential MVP

www.baseball-reference.com/awards/award...

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 8h

Rookie cup winner

#cardsky

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 9h

The alternate HalfTime is not a new idea.

Did "In Living Color" do it back in the 1990s?

And I am sure the PuppyBowl has highlights ready for half?

It would be a great time for some other network to run Trailers and/or some sort of lottery contest.

Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 9h

how many had screenplay pre-Nobel?

Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 9h

Here's the (clearly incomplete) list credited with screenplays per Wikipedia's Nobel laureates in Literature page:

• Hemingway
• Steinbeck
• Sartre
• García Márquez
• Soyinka
• Pinter
• Pamuk
• Modiano
• Ishiguro
• Tokarczuk
• Handke

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Keith O’Brien @keithob.bsky.social · 9h

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Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 10h

egads, I have totally erased the two latter games from my memory.

probably for the best.

Bob Vetrone Jr. @boopstats.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. They are 0-3 since:

1981 Expos
2011 Cards
2023 Dbacks