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Found August 01, 2008 on Broad St. Bias:
PLAYERS: Ron Mahay,  Ivan Rodriguez,  Manny Ramirez,  Carlos Carrasco,  Jason Donald
TEAMS: Philadelphia Phillies,  New York Yankees,  Detroit Tigers,  Kansas City Royals,  Los Angeles Dodgers,  Boston Red Sox

To everyone who thinks the Phils aren't about winning, blame it on the ownership not the management. If you think for one second that Pat Gillick wasn't doing everything he could to improve the team today your just foolish, and you know nothing about how the game works. All that garbage about how he's a lame duck GM is nonsense, if that were the case why would he care about trading away our top prospects? Sometimes yes you have to make sacrifices , you have to trade away some young talent, or prospects to get a piece your missing.
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