By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Sports Columnist Win the Stanley Cup, Flyers coach Fred Shero famously wrote on the locker room blackboard, "and we walk together forever." Win the World Series, and Phillies general manager Pat Gillick just plans to walk away forever. It has been a strange fit from the beginning, the patrician and eccentric GM and this hot-blooded sports town. And it will end every bit as strangely, with the 71-year-old Gillick retiring at the peak of his success here. In a city where winning a championship can mean decades of job security - Bob Clarke, Dallas Green, Larry Bowa - Gillick is planning to stick around for a matter of days when this postseason ends. Game 7 of the World Series, whether the Phillies are in it or not, is scheduled for Oct. 30. Gillick's contract expires the next day. No matter what happens...
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