2014 Quarry Unlimited - #19 Philadelphia Phillies Part 1

I am starting Week #7 (aka Christmas Week) a little late.  I have been a bit under the weather this weekend and it pretty much took out my Monday as well.  I am going to put up both parts of the Phillies in one day to get caught up.  I will put up part one in the AM and I will do my best to put up part two this evening.  Hopefully no one will miss anything by doing it that way.  Anyway, on with the show.

Last year the Phillies were by far the best team set in 2013 Quarry Unlimited with the voted on Card of the Set in Ryan Howard and my personal choice for Card of the Set in Ben Revere.  This year the Phils weren't the best in my opinion, but they do have a pretty strong showing, probably top 10.

The Phillies just seem like a team that is stuck in the past.  A lot of Internet commenters want teams to completely rebuild as soon as possible, but that is not me.  I like it when teams stick together even during a couple of down seasons.  However, the Phillies are a little past a couple of down seasons.  They were the second oldest team in the league behind the Yankees and they weren't really competitive.  To me, that sounds like the time to bust it up and start over.  To their credit, the Phillies have started tearing it down by trading Jimmy Rollins this offseason.  However, there is a lot more guys on the wrong side of thirty (Byrd, Sizemore, Howard, Utley, Hamels, Papelbon) that could (and should) be moved.  I will bet that if that doesn't happen this offseason, the Phillies will probably be in the market for a new GM and manager next offseason.  They may be in that market even with the rebuild.

PHILLIES TEAM TRIVIA

Total # of Phillies in 2014 - 49

# of new Phillies in 2014 - 22

Best score in 2014 - May 17 vs. Reds 12-1

Worst score in 2014 - April 18 at Rockies 12-1

Border color that worked best with this team - Blue

Border color that worked least with this team - Orange

Position on last year's list - #19 = SAME

Let's take a look at the first half of the 2014 Philadelphia Phillies with the manager's card leading the way.

PURPLE

GREEN

BLUE

I'll be back later tonight with Part 2.  As usual, your thoughts are always welcome and encouraged.

Thanx for reading.

2014 Quarry Unlimited - #18 St. Louis Cardinals Part 2

YELLOW

RED

ORANGE

ROOKIE PROSPECTS

My Top 5 Cardinals Cards
1. Allen Craig (blue)
2. Joe Kelly (yellow)
3. Daniel Descalso (orange)
4. Justin Masterson (blue)
5. Carlos Martinez (yellow)


I absolutely love the Allen Craig card.  The sliding catch with the flying dirt is all well and good, but the star of that card is definitely the shocked female fan in the background.  Great image.  The Joe Kelly card is just humorous.  I will never not like seeing odd things like cups or gloves atop the head of a baseball player.  What has to go through the mind of a person to stick a paper cup on their cap with bubble gum AND think that will help their team rally?  It's really much better if you don't think about it.  The Descalso card is one of those images that just doesn't seem to fit with baseball.  It's like seeing a baseball image in football weather.  Just a nice "fish out of water" photo.  On the Masterson, I have to agree with Dimebox Nick.  There are definitely not enough photos of pitchers doing something other than pitching and crossing the plate is near the top of that list.  Finally, I will close with the Carlos Martinez.  Part of me wanted to make this one much higher, perhaps even as high as #2, because it really was a nice capture by the photographer.  In the end I settled with #5 because I just liked the others a tad bit better.  I haven't done this yet, but I do have to give an honorable mention to the yellow Keith Butler card.  I'm sure a certain bird of the evening will really like that card.



Coming Monday - #19 Philadelphia Phillies

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