Well, lookey here! The Phillies have signed another player (via The Zo Zone):
The Phillies have found the last player for their bench.
Word spread late tonight at the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis that the Phillies had signed free agent outfielder Ross Gload. A baseball source said it was a two-year contract.
HOWEVER, if you’re an avid reader of The Fightins, you obviously knew this already. A commenter named ‘JA Happs Privates’ — someone who is surely “in the know” — left this nugget in a Cole Hamels/Modern Warfare 2 post back on November 18th:
Phillies sign Ross Gload.
WHOOOOA! Mind. Blown.
Sure it was nondescript and borderline creepy, but I’ll be damned if JA Happs Privates doesn’t have the finest baseball insider information in the area.
Phillies Sign Gload | The Zo Zone
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December 9th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Not the move I was expecting.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Still wish we could have found that ever elusive RH power bat off the bench…
Ross Gload is a good bench player though–not exactly a glamorous name, but he should do fine.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:34 am
I blew one when I woke up to that text
December 9th, 2009 at 10:43 am
AWW MAN GONNA BLOW MY GLOAD.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:47 am
From Urban Dictionary:
Gload
A: To gargle ones load.
Christina took me balls deep and then lovingly gloaded my chowder for 5 whole minutes.
December 9th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Tug, that’s really touching and quite romantic, just like the title of this post.
Does this mean Stairs is definitely out?
December 9th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Can this team get a legitimate RIGHTHANDED bat for the bench? Please?
December 9th, 2009 at 11:13 am
in case of emergency, use gload?
December 9th, 2009 at 11:27 am
hope he doesnt blow it.
MONSTER GLOAD
December 9th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Isn’t a legitimate right handed bat for the bench what Francisco is?
December 9th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Ed R.: Yes, yes he is. I know the bench was terrible last year but it’s half-decent now if a little overpriced. Jeez Sefcik, there is bigger shit to worry about.
December 9th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Dobbs is the key to the bench IMO. If he can regain some semblance of 2008, the bench will improve just by that alone. The bench was just truly pathetic 2009.
December 9th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Phylan: I don’t think Kevin Sefcik was so much mad at the Phillies as he was just begging for another job.
Face it — it’s OVER, Kevin. You haven’t played in nearly a decade.
December 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am
wooooooooooooosh
my bad
December 9th, 2009 at 11:59 am
They say puns are the lowest form of humor, but dirty puns must be lower on the list. That said, I’ve hit the refresh button at least 15 times since this thread opened.
Phils bench is now a GLOADING ZONE. Don’t gload up on bread.
Gload could definitely give em hell at the Olive Gardens unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks night, know what I mean? (I don’t know what I mean)
December 9th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
So if he gets himself a fan group, it’ll be “Gload’s loads”? If so, how disgusting will the costumes be?
December 9th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
maxL, just dress in white.
December 9th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
From wikipedia:
“Gload’s batting entrance song is ‘Harvester of Sorrow’ by Metallica.”
HELL YEAH! I like this guy already!
December 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
ahhhhh dropping fucking gloads all over your WET fields
December 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
hahahahahaha
Im already down for GLOADS LOADS
December 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Is it just me or is it laughable that I see the following headline: Brewers Land Ace and it’s an article about them overpaying for Randy Wolf? Because I find that to be HILARIOUS!
December 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
After I fucked that chick from Chernobyl my dick GLOAD in the dark
December 9th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Jdash wins this thread. Again.
December 9th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I don’t know why, but I like this maxL fellow.
December 9th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Gload’s Loads was his fan group when he was on the White Sox. Maybe we can get some guys to get Greenman suits, but in white of course, and become Gload’s Loads…
December 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Equally questionable in the taste department, Gload’s Loads could wear brown.
December 9th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I’ll let you all handle the Gload fan group…I’m going to introduce a new version of Polanco’s Broncos that involves everyone wearing BDawk Broncos jerseys.
December 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Can I get a shoutout for predicting the Polanco signing by asking where I could get his phillies jersey in the Biggest Loser Jeter post?
December 9th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
@ Polanco
Calling that is just a solid educated guess or picking a name out of a hat full of about 5 names.
JA Happs Privates was ridiculously prophetic or like picking a name out out of a hat of about 200 names. Or its a cover used by Amaro Jr
December 9th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I am actually the person who predicted the Ross Gload signing. I called myself JA Happs Privates because that was the day the NL ROY award came out and Happ didn’t win.
I must admit, hearing on WIP this morning that Ross Gload did indeed sign with the Phillies made me almost shit. I do recall a poster after me said to never rely on info from someone naming themselves JA Happs Privates. While true, I appreciate the shout out to my 11/18 post. I’ll take that as an apology.
Regards,
Mike – AKA – JA Happs Privates – AKA – Wes Chamber-Maid – AKA – Dirty Charlie Manuel
(I use quite a few alias’es on here, sorry guys).
December 9th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Aww yeaaahhhhh, gonna be needing some fresh kleenex for this news. Gload is gonna give them there Mets a nice paintjob next season!
Ross Gload is clearly the best guy the Phillies have signed this offseason, just for his name alone!
Not to mention that apparently this sonovabitch can apparently pitch a little bit as well, and you can’t get much more multi-purpose than that.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
If he would grow a nice Bruntlett beard he would really be the full “package”
December 9th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Yeah, a Bruntlett beard is a must…but let me take it a step further and say ALL Phillies players need Bruntlett beards, if only so we will look even more like the Anti-Yankees!
December 10th, 2009 at 12:36 am
A team of Bruntlett Beards would be way better than that weird mustache thing the Cards had going on last year. That was just upsetting.
December 10th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Hey, how about a team of ZZ Top beards for even more awesome? I can’t help but break down into a fit of giggles, just imagining Utley with a beard like that!
December 10th, 2009 at 7:54 am
I thought that the Cards were just trying to get some free Natty Bo with those beards.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Busta, I hereby nominate Jayson Werth as the Phillie Most Likely to Show Up to Spring Training Rocking a ZZ Top Beard.
December 10th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Gload to be here.
Phylan thinks this guy is going to have trouble carrying the bat to home plate. Nothing this off-season indicates that he can even see straight, and Amaro has no way of making sure that it’s true. Also, his PMORJ says that he is likely to have a bad season if El Nino is going to linger. This was a bad, bad move.
We should have picked up Pujols instead.
December 10th, 2009 at 11:54 am
HAHAHA, picking up Pujols? As awesome as the thought of it is, I doubt we will ever see him in a Phillies uniform, unless it’s after he’s over the hill lol
December 10th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Nick Manning supports this signing, and this post title.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Oh hey this thread again
Eric that is retarded. You are retarded.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
No. I’m hilarious. Seriously, we’re all waiting with baited breath to see what your statistical analysis of this move is. Please enlighten us!
December 10th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
On what? Gload? It’s fine I guess, nothing much to speak of. Career .328 OBP, I’ll take a .750ish OPS off the bench, sure. He’s generally been around a replacement level player, so he’s automatically better than Bruntlett.
December 10th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I doubt the Phillies could have landed better within the same price range, and plus Gload is a pretty versatile guy, and not in the “i’ll play anywhere, and but i’m still pretty lame” way that Bruntlett is. Not to mention, Gload is actually a pretty okay hitter, which is more than could be said for his beardedness, or even the ‘09 Stairs.
December 11th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Didn’t know Meech.one was a Stern show, and a fan of me.
December 14th, 2009 at 10:35 am
I must admit that I doubted the power of JA Happ’s privates when they first reported the news
December 16th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
you guys are pretty funny.