Another Halladay for the Phillies Bullpen

The Phillies closer situation is in flux.

Ryan Madson broke his toe in a temper tantrum and will be replaced by Brad Lidge, who had arguably the worst season for any closer on a team that went to the World Series.

(Yes, I am including Calvin Schraldi in that assessment.)

One solution?
Have Roy Halladay throw a complete game every 5 days.

It's not a bad strategy. And with yesterday's complete game shutout against the Mets, he is serving notice that he is not conceding the Cy Young to Lincecum, Jimenez or anyone else.

He also showed Mike Pelfrey that contending for a Cy Young is a little harder than having a damn good April.

The Mets got creamed today. It is safe to say Jaime Fallon forgot to chant today!

What is it about closing in Philadelphia?

Now Ryan Madson is blowing leads?

Maybe I was wrong. Maybe the Devil didn't make a deal with Brad Lidge...

Maybe a curse was placed upon the entire bullpen in Philadelphia.

You would think that the MLB Network would have seen some sort of hex when they did their Phillies bullpen show.

Either way, having an entire bullpen of arsonists instead of firemen is no way to repeat as Champs.

LET'S JUST GET OCTOBER STARTED!!!!

Was this the changing of the guard?

I guess Charlie Manuel thought the Washington Nationals would be an easy team for Brad Lidge to record an ego boosting save.

Whoops!

Staked to a 5-3 lead, his control went awry against the Nationals mighty lineup and Ryan Madson had to come in to close.

He showed up with the bases loaded, one out and had to get Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn.
THANKS LIDGE!

He got out of it and for the Phillies' sake I hope has been installed permanently.

There's no way Lidge can be anything other than a mop up man in post season.

He didn't do it AGAIN did he?

I saw the Pirates scored a run in the bottom of the 9th to tie the game against the Phillies.

I thought "Oh Dear God! LIDGE!!!!"

I checked the game and nope... it wasn't Lidge. It was Ryan Madson.

Just as I advised Charlie Manuel to do.

Man! Repeating is TOUGH, isn't it?