Boy, I remember Josue Perez and how!!! Josue Perez led me to post my first thread on what was then the old PhilliesPhans site and it was entitled Whither Arbuckle? It was actually on top or on the first page for the longest time because I dealt with Josue Perez...and Mike Arbuckle. It was Arbuckle, then not nearly as well known as he is today, who pushed for the signing of Perez and I wrote that I considered it a brilliant move, not so much because Perez was necessarily going to be a star, but because it was un-Phillie like and very un-Ed Wade like [he was the GM then.]
I wrote about "whither Arbuckle" if he didn't get the Phillie GM job soon since I felt he was a rising star and someone the Phils should promote. I felt he would leave if not promoted and in fact, he eventually did.
But Josue Perez will always have a soft spot in my Phillie heart because of that long ago, and long lasting thread....Whither Arbuckle? Wonder if anyone can go back into the archives from the early 2000's and find it, would be fun to read, it lasted forever on the board.