President Barack Obama threw out the first pitch, but it was the guy who threw 88 more after that for the Philadelphia Phillies that was most impressive. Phillies fans got their first look at new ace Roy Halladay and he didn’t disappoint.
Halladay gave up one run through seven complete innings, striking out nine and walking two in an 11-1 victory over the Washington Nationals. He gave up the run in the first inning and then settled down. That was very bad news for the Natties, who hardly touched Halladay after that first inning.
On the offensive side of the ball, the Phils let loose on an increasingly wild John Lannan. The Phils put the game away essentially in the fourth inning when they touched Lannan for five runs. Ryan Howard told the lefty what he thought of a pitch that hung in the zone, as he absolutely destroyed the ball over the right field wall.
Everyone on the Phils seemed to get in on the action with every starter getting a hit. Even Halladay had an RBI! And new 3B Placido Polanco chimed in with 6 RBI, including four on a grand slam.
The Phillies look to be well on their way to an undefeated season.
Go Philadelphia. But obama is destroying this beautiful country. I should know I escaped russia in the late 80’s
I live in SW DC about a half mile away from the stadium. The ratio of Phillies to Nats jerseys on the metro and on the sidewalks was easily 2-1.
Great start for “the Machine”…
Phils will not lose a game this season… 162-0 …. ..
McCain thought our economy was strong back in 2008. I guess we would have been better off with him, right?
@Horatio If you begin to look at pieces put in place by him, you see makings of gigantic machine. Maybe it is not intent or maybe it is, either way when the power rests in the hands of government, i.e. car companys, union laborers, banks, insurances, whatever, you will begin to see your needs and desires being met less and less. I know your type, you don’t fully understand. Is it by choice or by design? It is because you either don’t care, but trust me my friend, you will. This is not about who sits in chair at white house, but the ideology that comes from that person. This tea movement is led by those that know there history, this experiment does not end well for all. Make no mistake my friend, this is a very dark path. There is no such thing as free lunch
runtheball09: i see where you’re coming from regarding the government becoming too big. My objection is this has been happening for 8 years under Bush and for a long time under other presidents. I didn’t see the same people protesting spending nearly a trillion dollars in a war based on lies, and I didn’t see the same people protesting the invasions of our privacy that have become commonplace or the endless violations of our Constitution that Bush perpetrated. It seems very hypocritical that some of the people protesting Obama protest against using our money to save people, when a little while ago they were completely in favor of using that money to kill people who had nothing to do with 9/11 or our national security. I’m also worried about the apparent alignment between people like Sarah Palin and the “tea movement”. That woman lies every time her mouth is open and does not belong in a position with any authority.
you don’t know me then, i said same thing about bush
also sorry, i forgot, i did not say leaders of the tea movement (palin) … i meant how it originited. as in, it formed with people who know history. palin is to stupid to have started this movement. but i assure you it began with people who are educated. this tea movement is the complete oppossite of Bolshevik party. America is the greatest country ever to be fulfilled. i can only hope that everyone does not vote for people like obama. this conservatism party here is the party that stands in the face of tyranny and communism. don’t think you are safe here in US because i can tell you now, this president does not honor founding documents.
The words “tyranny” and “communism” are easy to say, but hard to take seriously. What has Obama done to warrant either label? In no way has Obama acted like a tyrant. If “communism” refers to the health care plan, then the two important things to know are you have to get health insurance, in much the same way you have to get auto insurance, in exchange for which the health insurance companies cannot drop you when you eventually need medical care. That doesn’t sound like any definition of communism that I’ve ever heard.
Kudos to you for sticking to your principles regarding Bush. Most of the people who now identify with the “tea party” were happy to trade their principles and a huge chunk of national debt for a tax cut.
Horatio you like most americans today do not get it.
The new healthcare bill now imposes a tax on people just for being alive
horato. i use communism because that is what was in russia. here it is dressed up as something else, i believe the word is marxism or progressivst. you are the man in germany who did not understand mein kempf. you were my grandfather who did not understand Bolshevik party. the ideology that comes from this president has roots in both ideas…… to power, to control, to deceive. do you think east germany knew what was upon them? do you think citizens wanted what happen to them. i can not make you understand my friend. it starts with a smile and wave. it goes to take over areas, it possess them for own. you begin to see it now. it moves across land. it does not know bounds. it becomes its own life. freedom is only antidote to tyranny or progressivsm or marxism. i see the driver of bus and i want off next stop. founding documents not held up. they go around. there is story that is told in russia, when a wolf sees light it will step away but give it more time and it will soon forget its fears. the only way to keep wolf out is to shoot it. it will not stop. it sounds much nicer in russian. think again about what you know. do not fall prey to internet tv radio. use what god give you.
i was not saying to shoot anybody do not misunderstand that look very bad. i see how some could take. i was telling you it must stop in tracks. ok
RegalEagle, it turns out everyone in this country was already paying taxes, both when alive and after dying. The only ones who don’t are too poor to afford taxes, and their healthcare will be covered by the government (ie the rest of us). I’m okay with that. It’s much better than most of the uses the government uses my money for.
RTB: I understood the allegory and was not going to jump on you for that. Mein Kampf, though? Seriously? Look, no one in Germany misunderstood what was happening. They were poor and crushed by both the defeat in WWI and the reparations imposed after the war. They needed someone to blame and – to simplify things greatly – they were happy to put the blame on the Jews. Are you comparing health care to the death camps? If not health care, then what has he done that’s tyranny?
The top tax rate in the US is currently 35%, and I guarantee no one in that bracket pays anything close to that much on their income. The top tax rate in the US for years after WWII was between 80% and 92%. That’s right. At the time the land of freedom was in a life or death struggle with communism, the US tax system was much closer to communism then it has been since.
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