Umm, The World Series.

Please don’t pretend that your dumber than a rock.

That must be Sabermetric years or something!

And that was preceeded by 7 losing seasons!

Eleven straight seasons, one losing one, five straight Division titles, two World Series, one World Championship and people are disparaging them.

LOL.

You can’t make this **** up.

And all with players either half of teams or every team could have acquired.

Jeez.

I just stated what they did. I think they did the right thing. Try to keep it going. After all they did have a solid team.

Everyone with a functioning brain cell knows baseball is anything but a sure thing. They’ve won 5 consecutive NL East titles. We’ve won 7 in 50 years

http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/share.cgi?id=zK6qR

Disparage their success all you want, it’s not going to put a trophy in our museum.

You were applauding the Phillies before the season started and most of the time during.

Today was the first time this season you even hinted they were making mistakes by trading for all those guys you HAD BEEN claiming was the way to get those guys because they were smart!

And you know why we have never built up?

Look at how long any GM has lasted here!

Because we are not a ONE TEAM town like Philadelphia and Atlanta!

They can lose for more than a decade and still draw fans because there is no place else to go to see baseball where they play!

Here they go see the Yankees!

It took the Phillies 12 years to build what they did!
Took Atlanta even longer than that!

We were on the verge of doing that but then the guys who seem to have a problem with Omar buying players (mind you buying not trading and mortgaging youth for them) and you were all happy with that until a few guys got hurt and wanted heads to rioll REGARDLESS of how well they were actually doing by BUYING to be competitive while building the Minors so at some point they wouldn’t have to buy as much!

All the kids that just came up and the few still on the verge are all timing out at just about the time all those Signings you hate expired INCLUDING Wright and Reyes’ contracts!

So far Sandy has done NOTHING to help us within the next 5 years unless you count Wheeler!
His top overall pick is 18 years old, never played organized baseball and will not be ready for at least 3-4 years!

And by then we will have lost a few more seasons (especially if we play it your way and forsake the MLB squad for the Minors) and then you know who will be the one who sucked and didn’t do it the right way?

It will be Sandy!

It may not be fair but patience only goes so far!
Omar took a truly DECIMATED MiL system and made it MUCH better!
And while doing so also managed to make Three runs at the playoffs!

And as unfair as it would be to expect Sandy to repeat that feat, You argument about how WRONG Omar was will fall flat!
Beacause he didn’t have SUB .500 seasons until players got hurt!

Not because he didn’t build his team correctly because how the hell much can you build with only 3 years under your belt?

Phillies sure couldn’t do it and neither did the Braves!
But you seem to only count their SUCCESS not the 15-20 years of suck they had to GET all those players you think they were smart to take!

While WE were the team competing they were drafting and doing well because they picked on the opposite end of the round than we did!

It does make sense to do things the way they did though. Six everyday regulars in their prime plus an ace to go and add pieces.

We did that with two guys and no ace and where did it get us?

Eleven straight years with only one sub .500 season and even that was just one game under (80-81)

Slough it off all you want, we’ve never gone 11 straight years with just one sub .500 season.

You cannot make our current situation any more palatable by disparaging other teams accomplishments.

Phillies gave away far more in their quest to get pitching!
Even gave away two picks for some guy who isn’t even with them anymore he was that bad!

Which is precisely what Omar was doing!
He didn’t mortgage his Minors to WIN NOW!
He didn’t ship off all his GENIUS picks like the Phillies to get the pitching they FAILED to develop!

He went and bought talent to hold him while he also was drafting the Davis’ and Murphy’s, Turner’s and Tejadas, Harvey’s and Familias!

And made a competitive team in his SECOND year that was competitive for two more years WHILE he was WINNING and picking low in the draft he still managed to draft all the guys who showed great promise this year and not have to trade them away like the Phillies did!

Omar WAS doing BOTH!
But you seem to harp on that SINGLE 27th overall pick and the sandwich one for Wagner when he did what you applaud the Phillies for doing when THEY needed pitching to try and win a series!