SHAME ON THE PHILLIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHAME ON THE PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Charlie  Manuel deserved a better fate than the one he received, the door.  Ruben Amaro should have been fired because it was he who destroyed the Phillies.  He single-handed took the soul of this team when he decided to trade Cliff Lee in the 2009 off-season.

Since that fateful trade the Phillies have not been the same.  He destroyed the morale of this team when he replaced Cliff Lee with Halladay, a man with great expectations for the future of the Phillies.  Mr. Halladay and his large contract failed the Phillies and Philadelphia because he did not deliver a World Series.  Great expectations turned into despair because his talent never came to fruition in a Phillies uniform.  It goes to show that a name tag alone does not guarantee success. 

Halladay was a clear disappointment and Amaro was fully responsible for it.  He wanted a name and he got just what he deserved, a name with no substance to back up the reputation.  By the time Amaro realized his mistake and resigned Cliff Lee, it was too late.   The damage had been done because the Phillies never recovered after that fateful 2009 trade that sent Lee to Seattle.

Yes, Manuel did all that he could with the tools he was given.  Amaro is the sole culprit in this Phillies' breakdown and to fire Manuel is a clear case of stupidity from a front office that doesn’t recognize a head from a tail.  Shame on the Phillies for firing Charlie Manuel, because Charlie is and remains, a class act, something the Phillies are not.

A dark, dark day in Phillies’ history !!!!!