The Garden of Eaton

Well...we have 5 men. For the first time since 2005 (Lidle, Myers, Lieber, Padilla and Wolf) we know what our opening day rotation is going to look like heading into the season. No more talks of Castro getting a nod, no more talks of Batista farting up the locker room. Adam Eaton is our man and he will win 20 games and probably be awarded with the Cy Young. Isn't that how most of the Phillies free agency signings end? Jokes aside, Eaton has some risk (injury, high homerun rate, rising ERA, never pitched 200 innings) but like they teach us in business 101...high risk better be accompanied with a high reward. And with Eaton, the Phillies have this. Twenty-nine is young, his injury last year isn't expected to hinder his '07 season, the contract is 3 years (compare that to the rest of the market), and his contract is around 8 million per year (also compare that to the rest of the market). For what the current free agency situation is, Pat Gillick made a decent choice to add a decent 5th man for our decent rotation. Basically look at it this way...Floyd has been replaced by Moyer and Madson replaced by Eaton. Also, much like the Wes Helms signing...we MUST NOT forget the underlying theme of signing Adam Eaton: HE IS NOT GAVIN FLOYD!!!

So let us jump for joy...


and do the happy dance...


because Mr. Sucky poo-poo pants...


will not be in our rotation...
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but oh no...


I forgot who our manager is...


Never the less, I'll take Eaton with a grain of salt and be happy that we aren't going into spring training with a starting job 'up for grabs.' He may fail and disapoint but if we don't put to many expectations on his head...we can't be that letdown.


Also, thanks to my buddies Jumping Pat, Dancing Drew and Homoqueer Me for the pics. And once again, I am awesome at editing pictures...I bet you really thought Floyd pooped his pants.