Feels like we're just waiting to be punched.

hopefully lester picks the giants to really make things interesting.

I'm not feeling great about the potential trade partners being Theo Epstein/Jed Hower, Andrew Friedman/Zaidi and Ben Cherington.

ReadingPhilly wrote:hopefully lester picks the giants to really make things interesting.

That would be huge.

Fleece feels nice in winter

lethal wrote:I'm not feeling great about the potential trade partners being Theo Epstein/Jed Hower, Andrew Friedman/Zaidi and Ben Cherington.

Yeah, no doubt smarter people running Cubs, Red Sox and now Dodgers. I really wonder if Padres might be a dark horse especially if we throw some money their way. New GM, home town player and some solid prospects. I'd trade Hamels for a package something like Austin Hedges (best defensive catcher in minor leagues), Max Fried (young LHP that will miss half of 2015 with TJ) and one of their power hitting outfield prospects Hunter Renfroe or Rymer Liriano.

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logos wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:Scott Lauber is still alive?!

Yeah. He went from the Wilmington News Journal to the Boston Globe. You would have, too.

Boston Herald, but still a career move I'd make.

Ahhh... my bad. Thanks for the correction.

got my 2015 phillies calendar today in the mail

Sizemore is September....i had a sad

@M_Montemurro: Amaro was asked if #Phillies are wanting too much for their players. "That's a bunch of malarkey. ... We've done more listening than asking"

I hate Ruben Amaro less now that he successfully used malarkey in an interview. More points if he uses poppycock next.

Gillick:

“Ruben didn’t all of a sudden get dumb. People don’t want to hear this, but there were five years from 2007 to 2011 and the last year in 2011 we won 102 games. He didn’t all of a sudden get stupid the last three years. There were just a lot of factors to factor in there. And it isn’t what you’ve done in the past, it’s what are you doing for us now. And we haven’t done anything the last three years. But as far as him getting a brain cramp or something — it hasn’t happened. I have confidence in him. I’ve got his back.”

Squire wrote:Milb.com Says to Expect a Stack of Crap for Cole Hamels

SQUIRE

Philadelphia's preference for toolsy high-upside prospects.

The Phils explanation for said preference: "Let's keep tryin' until it finally works out!"

BigEd76 wrote:Gillick:

“Ruben didn’t all of a sudden get dumb. People don’t want to hear this, but there were five years from 2007 to 2011 and the last year in 2011 we won 102 games. He didn’t all of a sudden get stupid the last three years. There were just a lot of factors to factor in there. And it isn’t what you’ve done in the past, it’s what are you doing for us now. And we haven’t done anything the last three years. But as far as him getting a brain cramp or something — it hasn’t happened. I have confidence in him. I’ve got his back.”

Of course he didn't. You can't fall out of a basement window.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

Squire wrote:Milb.com Says to Expect a Stack of Crap for Cole Hamels

SQUIRE

Philadelphia's preference for toolsy high-upside prospects.

The Phils explanation for said preference: "Let's keep tryin' until it finally works out!"

I do feel like we've stopped doing this. I think we''re in a new era of vastly different mistakes and miscalculations.

BigEd76 wrote:Gillick:

“Ruben didn’t all of a sudden get dumb. People don’t want to hear this, but there were five years from 2007 to 2011 and the last year in 2011 we won 102 games. He didn’t all of a sudden get stupid the last three years. There were just a lot of factors to factor in there. And it isn’t what you’ve done in the past, it’s what are you doing for us now. And we haven’t done anything the last three years. But as far as him getting a brain cramp or something — it hasn’t happened. I have confidence in him. I’ve got his back.”

I'd be curious to hear the question that prompted this response. "Pat, Ruben's got a bit of a reputation as a simpleton. Is he slowly getting dumber or did he reach a plateau of stupid years ago?"

Of course its not rueben's fault. The players just have to play better.

Amaro- I broke this, let me fix it.

This is Pat's colorful way of saying Ruben's always been this stupid

(tentative) conclusion [details moved to war wars thread]: the fangraphs crowd really is wrong in thinking hamels isn't as good as scherzer (or lester), because they are wrong in assuming hamels can't consistently get groundballs when he needs them, and because they continue to have a mysterious preference for fip over xfip that is inconsistent with the fact that they were one of the first to start listing xfip.

MoBettle wrote:Of course its not rueben's fault. The players just have to play better.

I don't know what we expect Ruben to do about it.

Youseff wrote:I'd be curious to hear the question that prompted this response.

"Gillick was responding to a reporter’s question about whether Amaro, who is entering the final year of his contract in 2015, would survive the season. Why can Amaro survive? "Because I’ve got confidence in him"". Then the rest of it.

http://www.csnphilly.com/baseball-phila ... maros-back