Gillick to Phillies
DMZ · November 1, 2005 at 6:16 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Word on ESPN and elsewhere is that our own Pat Gillick has been hired as the new Phillies GM.
Also, HOLY CRAP do I hate ESPN auto-launching loud ESPN Motion video every time I hit a major page.
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Out with the new and in with the old.
ESPN’s headline made me laugh: “Phillies settle on Gillick for GM post.”
1 – more like out with the old and in with the old, bleh. I hope the Phillies get to the Series in 2006 or 2007 before they suffer a collapse of Gillicksian proportions. Plus, I can’t imagine Gillick’s too well-liked around Philly, given he was GM of the Jays when they beat the Phillies in the ’93 series.
Of course, there’s a lot of money and contracts they’re tied up with for a few years, so maybe “Stand Pat” will have to do just that for the most part.
it’ll be interesting to see if he can turn Thome into gold….
Knowing Gillick, he’ll try to turn Thome into Olerud…
Well, since I don’t know what a “special consultant” does, I’m not sure that I’ll notice a sudden lack of Pat. Rarely have I heard, ‘thank God for our special consultant!’, or ‘OUR special consultants so out-consulted theirs, that’s why we lead the division!’.
BTW, if you can stand the Mariners Official website, go there and vote Neihaus into Cooperstown. That man has watched, and called, a lot of really bad Baseball, only recently has there been any hope at all. Plus he’s the voice of summer.
On another blog someone commented that he’ll turn the team into a winner via FA by depleting the farm system then leave to retire or go to another team. Pretty funny I thought.
So how much of his influence goes with him?
I concur, pop-ups that make noise are evil. If they want to mess with what’s on the page, okay, I don’t like it, but I’ll deal with it. Shoving loud audio in my face with no warning is just plain rude, though.
This is hardly a surprise, if true. Philly is very close to Toronto, and that’s the bottom line for Pat these days.
Have the Philies signed Pat Borders yet?
So much for the Phillies farm system. Or the Phillies draft.
What? No joy at a D. Bell/Pat Gillick reunion? Y’know, Bell has been one of my favorite players since we picked him up from Cleveland. Maybe not the most impressive offensive numbers (although he had a monster 2004), but I recall he knew how to lay down a bunt rather nicely. M’s coulda used that this year, what with Dan’s bunting prowess out of the line up. And one has to love the way he slid respectably over to 3rd, with plenty of arm! The fact that he landed with my beloved Phillies certainly didn’t hurt him, but I followed him even when he was with SF.
Maybe not the most impressive offensive numbers (although he had a monster 2004)
If by “monster” you mean he had an inflated batting average and not much else in an extreme hitter’s park, then yeah, you’re right. 🙂
M’s coulda used that this year, what with Dan’s bunting prowess out of the line up.
Yeah, teams that are near the bottom of the league in almost every offensive capactiy suuuuuuure need bunting prowess.
That, and “productive outs”.
13 – I think all of Bell’s numbers for ’04 were up, not just the overrated BA. No, Mike Schmidt he’s not, but he can hit a little. And, 14, just think of every time we were forced to watch El Ignitor pop a bunt up into the air. Would bunting solve all our offensive woes and lastness in each category? Well of course not, but it ought to be a way that teams who are hurting offensively can help themselves.
Having said all that, yeah, life’s pretty bad when D. Bell (love him though I do) looks like a major offensive contributor relative to the home 9.
People forget Gillick took this team from that just lost Griffey one year, and arod the next year and got them very close to a world series and 116 wins. If he did not resign (we would not have bill bavasi, yea yea) and we would still be a winning franchise.
Wasnt that Gillick left us in poor shape (after each season gillick was here we were in poor shape in the off season) it was Bill Bavasi poor decision making that turned us from a winning franchise to the 62 mets in 2 years.
If he did not resign (we would not have bill bavasi, yea yea) and we would still be a winning franchise.
Or we could be sucking wind. Note that every franchise he’s left has cratered (Toronto, Baltimore, Seattle). He knows how to step out of the way of the train, it would seem. Philly should worry if he restires in 3-5 years- “Apres moi, le deluge.”
And let’s see- Boone and Olerud’s contracts? Made on Gillick’s watch. Cirillo? Gillick’s watch. Lack of productivity from the farm system? Gillick’s watch. The excuse that Gillick’s an innocent bystander won’t fly.
just think of every time we were forced to watch El Ignitor pop a bunt up into the air. Would bunting solve all our offensive woes and lastness in each category? Well of course not, but it ought to be a way that teams who are hurting offensively can help themselves.
Bunting almost never helps you much offensively, unless you can bunt for a base hit. Good offense has very, very little to do with the ability to bunt.
Yeah, there are some marginal effects where if you HAVE to score a particular run, you might want to give up the outs for it. But in general, when you give up outs by bunting, you give up the ability to score runs.