The Phillies, for better or worse, and their history holds much more of the latter, turn the course of this ship deliberately if at all, one degree at a time, two only if a full gale is blowing. That was the way of the Carpenter family and it has remained so under the patrician stewardship of both Bill Giles and David Montgomery. People keep their jobs, loyalty is rewarded, family is paramount. For the most part, that steady ride has always been fine with a well-feathered ownership group that dozed chin on chest in the library, the standings page lying forgotten on the floor.