On Monday afternoon, many Phillies fans went into a tailspin after a pathetic 11-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. You couldn’t go on Twitter or read The Good Phight’s comment section without seeing calls for Dave Dombrowski to start a second rebuild. Our Supreme Blog Lord, Ethan Witte, wrote a very level-headed piece where he acknowledged that entering another rebuild phase, or at least retooling for 2022, was a legitimate possibility.
However, there was a third option that Ethan wrote about, and it is that one for which I am here to offer a passionate defense: staying the course and waiting for reinforcements.