Roman?affable omega sickness …

Keep drinking the Gillick kool-aid. Let me guess, you believe hustle, grit and hard work are just as important as numbers? It seems like you don’t even have the facts straight, so let me inform you on some things….

Dobbs — A spring training invitee who had a good camp and made the team… aka a lucky find. He’s a good bench player, not an all-star. (There is a reason Bruntlett and Feliz are starting over him.)

Moyer — he is a decent #4 starter who didn’t cost a lot. Again, a nice find but nothing spectacular.

Kendrick — Is this a joke? He wasn’t even a top prospect of the Phillies when he was called up last year and is having an average to below average season this year.

Lidge — Okay, good trade, I’ll give Pat this one.

Feliz — Again, is this a joke? Feliz is TERRIBLE. Yeah, great signing Pat! You managed to sign a player in the bottom 3 of OBP in 2007. Keep working that magic Pat. Thank goodness he can field otherwise he would be burned at the stake.

Coste — Let’s make sure we have our facts straight. Gillick was very against bring Coste to the majors. As a matter of fact, he signed someone by the name of Rod Barajas because of this. I guess you forgot about that.

Werth- Before signing with the Phillies, Jason was constantly injured. The phillies took a chance with him and it turned out well.

Now, lets look at the other “studs” pat signed:

Rod Barajas — No explanation needed

Wes Helms — No explanation needed

Adam Eaton — Pat threw a lot of money at this ace

Freddy Garcia — Pat decided to take the White Sox word that Garcia was healthy and bypass a physical by the Phillies doctors. Guess he had a gut feeling.

Geoff Jenkins — Another horrible signing. If Gillick was so confident in Werth, why would he offer Jenkins starters money? Jenkins struggles even though he only faces righties.

Also, I have really no idea what you are even talking about regarding Victorino. The phillies were going to make that trade with Colorado but the Rockies pulled out. (according to my sources, which I’m sure you lack) Gillick doesn’t even understand how good Victorino is.

Victorino has only gotten signifcant playing time since Gillick got here.. he got lucky by turning down the trade offers for Victorino.. he got LUCKY in determining that he wanted to keep Victorino (he probably flipped a coin or something).. When he ditched Thome and brought it Aaron Rowand for two years…. LUCK… guy must wear four-leaf clover boxers or something with how lucky he gets

Now, it is hard to critique his performance because drafting is the most important job of a GM. But based solely off of his moves, he has been terrible!

I also found the Victorino/Haap/Carasco for Holiday/Fuentes deal laughable. THANK GOD the Phillies did not make that trade. Look at Holiday’s splits; he is a factor of Coors. Is he good, sure. But definitely not worth giving up Victorino (unbelievable range and definitely one of the most underrated players in the league) and two really good pitching prospects.

This is why the Phillies (and our other sports teams) lose each year. We give up prospects and/or draft picks for medicore players.

he just needs to get his head out of his ass and keep his FB and Change down in the zone.

chone figgins is an awesome leadoff man i think though, hes a 3B but thats THE only exception i think.

I don’t think Vic fits that build either. I really think Vic belongs in the same spot that Rowand thrived in batting behind Burrell. The same spot he was in last night. He’s a good #6.

As for a leadoff hitter position. That really leaves center or right-field because it’s not going to come from catcher or third base. I’ll love to get someone like Reggie Willits or Willy Tavares in there.

I actually do like Victorino in the 6-hole though. He gives the Phillies a productive hitter after the big bats of Howard and Burrell. Let’s face it, the 7 and 8 spots just aren’t going to get much done. They’ll get their occasional rbi but that’s about it. Jenkins & Ruiz != clutch

Re-signing Burrell in this market is a no-brainer, a set-up man should be coming from within but we continue to develop starters with back of the rotation stuff instead of getting those live arms and a terrible mistake was made with Outman who could have had a lot of success handled the right way. There’s Savery and Maitheson who need to be brought on like Madson, we keep bringing in veteran guys for the pen and paying a premium to re-sign because we aren’t developing pitchers to succeed the older or overpriced arms. With starting pitching we have our hands tied with Cole leading off and the two back spots set with two very well placed guys to round out the rotation. We have our hands tied with the contracts of Myers and Eaton and yes we need to go out and slot in a legit soft ace behind Cole but what about Carrasco? What if Myers can reclaim his form? With Moyer staying around can you afford to have Moyer/Kendrick and Blanton in the same rotation? We really do need to build from within here and be more aggressive in getting some bluechips into the system rather than the half baked projects.

sure, its ok to keep rollins, but that means the ownership has to open up the wallet and pay for elite starting pitching. they ALREADY are telling us that burrell wont come back through surrogates. they need to replace him, get a setupman, get elite starting pitching, among other things.

wheres all that money going to come from?

quite simply, if they follow the previous trends, theyre just NOT going to do it and theyre going to lie to you and make up a fake reason. and we all going to take that shit AGAIN from this franchise?