Quick Phillies Rant

Last year, the Phils traded Rheal Cormier for Justin Germano, a young pitcher with some potential. Today, in true Phillies fashion, we placed him on waivers, letting the Padres scoop him up. Now, he was no staff ace, no unhittable machine. And granted, I would rather have my grandmother running the team then Ed Wade, but we are becoming notorious for being on the wrong end of deals and it hasn't stopped with Pat Gillick. He didn't negotiate the Burrell deal that is currently crippling us, but he did give away Vicente Padilla, Cormier, and even Bobby Abreu for either prospects or minor leaguers who will not help the big league team. This is ridiculous for a team that is in contention for the playoffs and needs severe bullpen help. It just makes me sick that instead of trying a promising guy in a weak area for our team, we're content to just give them away and try to patch things up with has beens and never will bes.