Costly Decisions: Taking a Deep Dive Into the Phillies Head-Scratching Pitcher Usage in Loss to Marlins

Before Friday night's game, Rob Thomson was his typical droll self. While sitting in the dugout, before answering real questions, Thomson was giving writers a lesson in Canadian etymology. The story, as he puts it, is that the term “hoser,” a mildly derogatory term used more frequently north of the border that was popularized in the mid-80s comic flick Strange Brew , often used by Canadian teens to identify someone who is deemed a “loser,” was born from backyard hockey games in the winter. Because you would need to water the skating surface – to have new ice form over the patches where the ice skates would cut grooves into the ice – the makeshift rinks would have to be flooded frequently. It