the only thing that might suck is that if the Phillies are ahead of the Mets and Marlins… and say the Braves put Ohman on waivers..the team with the worst records gets him.. maybe first place isn’t where we want to be right now..?? I’m joking about that of course, but it could come back to bite whoever is up by 0.5 games at the time

They have done a great job in the past 2 years of acuiring helpful pieces through waivers… I expect them to do that again this year. and if they do that, while not paying the high price they would have at the deadline.. we need to give them credit for being smary once again.. we shall see

it was a BAD year for FA’s, but i thought there were a few more guys open for trading…i know the phillies had no shot at santana so i wont even say it…

i wouldve accepted kyly loshe getting the 4 yeras he asked for. i didnt know hed be this good but i thought, tahts a fine guy to have in there. the fact they didnt get him led me to believe that theyd have probelms this year with their rotation. namely because adam eaton was still here..

Garcia sucked.. and his velocity was down, but he was a top-of-the-rotation, innings-eater, with post-season experience…

They took a shot, it went down in flames..

I just can’t stand that people continually bash this team, but then when you ask them what things they would have done differently.. there aren’t too many good answers…

As I have been saying all along.. they’ve imrpoved since Gillick got here..and to me, it looks as though they will keep improving for the next few years. If 3 years from now, that still hasn’t gotten you any closer to the goal.. a World Series title.. then you think about starting over.. but not now, not when you are getting to where you want to be

i am left wondering…were the trainers even allowed to look at him?

They were in talks with the Orioles about Bedard, but from all accounts, the Mariners gave up WAY too much to get him, and now regret it.. so the Orioles wouldn’t have given him up unless we mad an even better offer than the Mariners.. and we would have KILLED them for that!

I dont know what the hell happend on Garcia, but Im pretty sure that the trainers didn’t examine him … here is the article i just found on that, from the seattle times

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2003753226_seam19.html

“The Phillies, as is common practice, did not give Garcia an MRI before accepting him in a December trade with the White Sox for pitching prospects Gio Gonzalez and Gavin Floyd. They relied on White Sox medical staff reports. Nothing unusual showed up in Garcia’s spring-training physical, which also did not include an MRI.

Garcia missed his first two starts of the season with right biceps tendinitis. Exams after his start in Kansas City revealed labrum damage and rotator cuff fraying.”

the easiest place to start was to not insult kyle lohse with a weak offer. they insulted him so bad that he took a lesser offer just to spite them and so taht he can get a big money offer this year.

garland was available, bedard was available…you dont know they wouldnt have had better seasons here because its a different set of circumstances. bedard mght not even be injured right now, you dont know that.

since i didnt have a problem with the lidge move, im not going to offfer another closer. because i never said i disliked the lidge trade. i loved it. obviously..the problem i had was i KNEW that theyd pass it off the way they did, as, oh we dont need to go out and get a top flight guy. and i didnt like that at all. from the start, i knew it wasnt enough. now i obviously did NOT think that myers would be as bad as he was. i thought hed win 14 games and be solid. but i still felt theyd need to replace eaton.

they have bad trainers because they signed off on garcia without being thorough at all. they always seem to fail to recognize an injury until its painfully obvious on the field. they let tom gordon go out there and blow a few games before accepting that yes he is indeed injured.