Diamondbags Preview: Mad Libs

Note: This preview has not been edited at all. I just typed it and posted it. Sorry

As I said in my Nationals preview, I am in California right now, making it difficult for me to provide a proper update to the blog. Little known fact: It takes me a good two hours to post something on here, and it usually involves having about 10 different tabs and multiple windows open on my Google Chrome. Due to the fact that I am on vacation, I'm not going to spend 2 hours ignoring my old roommates and updating this by looking at old box scores, linking to different websites, and analyzing pitching matchups and things like that. Instead, I'm going to let you do most of the work by doing this preview in Mad Lib form. If you don't know what Mad Libs are, your childhood was very sad. I am going to provide you with a list of "categories" I guess you could say, and then you just fill in with a word that fits in said category (usually a part of speech). You do that without looking at the actual story, and then read it for the first time filling in your own words. So, here's my short and sweet Mad Lib Diamondbags preview. (If you forget why I call them the Diamondbags, it's because you can abbreviate that to D'Bags, which is hilarious. It's all in the preview of our first series with them)

___1___: adjective
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___3___: verb
___4___: verb
___5___: adjective
___6___: Phillies player
___7___: Phillies player
___8___: Phillies pitcher
___9___: adjective
___10___: adjective
___11___: verb ending in -ing
___12___: Phillies pitcher
___13___: Diamondbags pitcher
___14___: exclamation
___15___: adjective
___16___: adverb
___17___: verb
___18___: verb
___19___: Diamondbags player
___20___: adjective
___21___: number
___22___: number
___23___: body part
___24___: noun
___25___: Phillies pitcher
___26___: Diamondbags pitcher
___27___: adjective
___28___: Phillies player
___29___: number
___30___: number
___31___: verb
___32___: adjective
___33___: adjective
___34___: number
___35___: number
___36___: body part
___37___: Phillies pitcher
___38___: Diamondbags pitcher
___39___: adjective
___40___: plural noun
___41___: Phillies player
___42___: Phillies pitcher
___43___: verb ending in -ing
___44___: verb
___45___: number
___46___: number
___47___: body part
___48___: way to get on base
___49___: Phillies player
___50___: verb

After a ___1___ series with the Nationals, we are ready to host the Diamondbags. They have been playing very ___2___ recently, but I would expect us to ___3____ and ___4___ much better than them, seeing as how we are so much more ___5___ than them.

In our last series, we saw great play from ___6___ and ___7___, and hopefully that can continue. The pitching of ___8___ continued to ___9___, so one might think that that could really affect the way things turn out in this series as well.

Because of how obviously ___10___ this series will be, I want to jump right into ___11___ each game.

Game 1: ___12___ vs. ___13___
___14___! What a matchup! These two pitchers could not be more ___15___. ___16___ for the Phillies, we have always ___17___ very well against this pitcher. If you look at his last few, it's easy to see that the Phillies should ___18___ this game. Nothing will come easy in this series, especially with us having to face ___19___ at the plate. He has been ___20___ lately, so that's something to look out for.
Prediction: Phillies ___21___ Diamondbags ___22___
Keep an ___23___ out for: Charlie Manuel throwing a ___24___ at the umpire. Things could get pretty crazy in a matchup like this!

Game 2: ___25___ vs. ___26___
This should be another ___27___ game. ___28___ comes in swinging a hot bat, and he has ___29___ career at bats against this pitcher with ___30___ home runs. Will he ___31___ another in this game? I guess only time will tell. Our pitcher should be very ___32___ coming into this game because he has a ___33___ record against the Diamondbags in his career.
Prediciton: Phillies ___34___ Diamondbags ___35___
Keep an ___36___ out for:

Game 3: ___37___ vs. ___38___
This game will probably decide who wins the series since we had such ___39___ matchups in the first two ___40___. Hopefully ___41___ can get his act together and get a few hits. ___42___ has been ___43___ a lot of batters lately, so that is definitely something to look out for. If he is in control, though, the Phillies will definitely ___44___.
Prediction: Phillies ___45___ Diamondbags ___46___
Keep an ___47___ out for: a walk-off ___48___ by ___49___!

Although this post was crazy and uninformative, I'm glad you still ___50___ my blog as much as you do.