Ruben Amaro Allows Himself to be Overheard Talking About Future Plans

Justin Klugh — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:41:57 +0000

Here in the Phillies’ knowledge-sphere, we only know what Ruben Amaro allows us to know. Which is a shame, because he allows us to know so very little. And sometimes, the crumbs of information he’ll feed to us aren’t even legitimate crumbs. They’re just crumbs distracting us him the delicious suckling pig he’s serving at a later date.

So when he says anything, from “We have acquired Cliff Lee” to “Please leave me alone, it’s my daughter’s birthday,” we instinctively reach for our pens; or in the case of us bloggers, we reach for our… mothers’… basements? I guess? Am I making that joke right, every journalist whose terrified of the internet?

Well, it being January and all, Ruben decided to let a few more crumbs drop and Jim Bowden of ESPN jumped on them before anybody else. Now, we have a full fledged idea of not only what Ruben’s plans are for a Big Pieceless first base slot, but of a Domonic Brownless outfield.

None of them are shocking.

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Laynce Nix Probably Also Not Answer to Shortstop Issue

Justin Klugh — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 23:15:45 +0000

For a guy who wants to nail down a deal for a shortstop, namely Jimm Rollins, Ruben Amaro sure does keep signing backup outfielders. Whose names aren’t even Jimmy Rollins. So nobody knows what’s going on. Which is just how Ruben likes it. So, if we’re all completely clueless as to what is happening, then we should probably be excited, because that means whatever Ruben is doing is going exactly according to plan. (more…)

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Ruben Amaro Allows Himself to be Overheard Talking About Future Plans

Laynce Nix Probably Also Not Answer to Shortstop Issue