SNEAK PREVIEW: Phils admit they're wrong

Here's a taste of the Phillies notebook that will be in Saturday's News Journal. If you ask me, it's some interesting stuff.

But I'm looking for more feedback. Let me know what you think of how the Phils have handled this matter.

By SCOTT LAUBER
The News Journal
TORONTO – After a week of being vilified, criticized and accused of blatant insensitivity to the seriousness of domestic violence, Phillies president David Montgomery and general manager Pat Gillick offered this admission.
They were wrong.
Montgomery, reached by telephone Friday, said the Phillies never should’ve allowed troubled right-hander Brett Myers to start in Fenway Park last Saturday, 36 hours after being arrested and charged with hitting his wife, Kim, on a Boston street corner.
“It was wrong because we sent an unintended message that we don’t understand the problem of domestic abuse,” he said.
Gillick, who met the Phillies here for a three-game inter-league series against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, said the organization had wide-ranging discussions last Friday about whether to let Myers pitch.
Ultimately, Gillick told reporters that Myers was the slumping Phillies’ “best pitcher” and “it was in our best interests of the club” that he pitch.
Does he regret those words?
“Looking back, it was possibly the wrong decision to make,” Gillick said before Friday’s game. “That’s hindsight. It definitely wasn’t a spur of the moment decision.”