Jim Salisbury: Phillies’ Gillick not sweating about Lidge surgery | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/25/20

Pat Gillick didn’t get to be one of the best GMs in the game by being uninformed.

Moments after learning that his big off-season acquisition would require knee surgery and probably won’t be ready for opening day, Pat Gillick huddled in his office with Charley Kerfeld, one of his top lieutenants, yesterday afternoon.

The laptop computer was open, and Gillick was reading aloud when a reporter entered the room.

Scouting report?

Uh, not really.

Gillick was captivated by the story of a Michigan restaurant that had a 134-pound burger on its menu. Apparently, it took three men to flip the sucker.

“It’s in the Detroit Free Press,” the Phillies’ general manager said.