If i were Reuben Amarro Jr....

Allow me to go over the last calender's year worth of phils moves.

1.) Trade for Cliff Lee. watch him tear up the postseason and win the heart of EVERY SINGLE philadelphia fan when he made that blasee catch on the mound in the first game against the Yanks.

2.) Trade Cliff lee to Seattle, loose Kyle Drabeck (the phils future) in a trade to Toronto to acquire Roy Halladay (The present)

3.) Watch Cliff Lee get traded to the Rangers, trade away J.A. Happ (Our present future) for Roy Oswalt (A Glorified Jamie Moyer)

4.) Watch Joe Blanton and Kyle Kendrick consistently be inconsistent and not quite be sure who Roy Oswalt really is.

We could have gone into the postseason with a rotation that looked like: Halladay, Lee, Hamels, Happ, Blanton/Kendrick. but thats pretty pie in the sky. i could have lived with Halladay, Hamels, Happ, Blanton, Kendrick. but i hate the idea of Halladay, Hamels, Oswalt, Blanton, Kendrick. Two almost guarenteed losses, two who knows what, and one almost guarenteed win. i don't like those odds, especially since we have to rely on a bullpen that is as inconsistent as the second half of the rotation.

Now some people would bore you with everything that everyone is already saying. who should have been kept, who should have been moved where, when Blanton and Kendrick would play russian roulette... but here's an idea for this post season and even next year.

Lets say and pray Jamie Moyer comes back, and comes back to form for the playoffs, bam, one guarenteed loss changed to a maybe. sign pedro, see sentace above. next year sign Jamie and Pedro to half year contracts. Jamie is lights out up until the all star beak then he tends to fall off and kill his stats. Pedro gets attled before the july classic then as the pressure mounts starts to mow down batters like a freak (until he hits 100 pitches). why not just let both of them pitch in their ideal half of the season and have some fun with the post season rotation. i know a bunch of people will consider me moderatly retarded for saying these things but... lets be honest, it'd work.