It's way too late to try putting that toothpaste back in the tube, Rube.

This is a man who knows absolutely nothing about things like rebuilding or actually making moves for value.

He inherited a title team and an open checkbook, did nothing with either except spend money on the biggest available names each deadline while making lots of terrible decisions and overrating the farm system while trading legit pieces for guys who never got past double-A.

I don't really care what he says anymore because deep down I know he's not really running things on the baseball side since Montgomery got sick and Gillick came back.

The Phillies likely aren't going to figure all this shit out until things settle amongst the ownership group, Gillick re-retreats and they go get a new guy to run baseball operations.

So for now if Ruben wants to step out there and take the bullets and give fans that still care enough to be angry a boogeyman to blame, so be it.