For the sake of the pedants, by “bolted” I mean “forced a midseason trade”, which made the whole situation much more difficult to swallow.

Because the organization bent over backwards to please him so they didn’t have JD Drew 2.0, and after several good years and a team that was clearly starting to build around him, he bolted for St. Louis and then gushed in the media about how he was in “baseball heaven”. BIIIIIG middle finger to the Philly fans and…

True, but that wasn’t really the point of this article.

Accepted his QO, not arbitration.

I know this conversation is dead, but:

From a purely competitive standpoint, you are absolutely correct. Drafts are necessary to help leagues at least attempt to maintain competitive balance.

Rookies in professional sports don’t decide where they get to play.

::shrug:: Because it is a relatively tame way to deal with the emotions in such a tense game. Cabrera is allowed to celebrate, and Ramos is allowed to pout about it.

Stassi will likely see very little game action and almost certainly has a trip back to the minors in his future.

As a Phillies fan, I remember when adding Bourjos to our outfield via trade was going to cost too many of our own prospects. Then years later when we finally did add him to our outfield, wondering when we were getting Altherr back to form so we could nail him to the bench for the rest of the season.

I find this to be a curious way to frame this news - Bourjos couldn’t nail down a starting job with the Phillies last year, which is why he moved onto the White Sox this year as a free agent. When I read this news the headline in my head reads something like this:

“White Sox pull rabbit out of ass, get ANYTHING of…

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But...the actual homelessness rate doesn’t have anything at all to do with your original point. You just decided to call up a random fact and dare the other person to disagree with you.

That’s...not how any of this works.

I’m all for anything that pisses off Pens fans. Well done, Ho-Sang.

Only one way to find out if a guy deserves to be in the league. I was okay with not saddling the young guys with a handful of veterans on three-and-four-year deals that had no long-term future. RoCo, TLC (don’t love the nickname, but hell if I’m writing out the whole damn thing), and Richaun Holmes will be better for…

I also take issue with everyone who claims that Hinkie’s goal was to lose and maximize draft pick value. His goal at the start was to unload anyone of value that wouldn’t be a part of a championship core. The losing was an acceptable byproduct. You can come at me all day with “no one should ever accept losing” and I…

And furthermore, to illustrate how the logic applies to Paul George: hop in your time machine, go back to 2010 and call Indiana with an offer to swap their pick with Washington. Give them number 1, and tell me they still take Paul George over Wall, Cousins, or Favors. They settled on George, and he ended up being a…

Fair points, all of them. And I love the hell out of TEEEEEEJ, but we need another high caliber guard to jump into the 40-win pool, even with a healthy JoJo and Simmons.

If your best case scenario comes to pass, then yes, it will all have been a massive failure. But the real liquor in the Process is the eternal hope. Remember that this is Philly, and everything eventually will turn to shit. So forgive us for clinging to the hope.

As for when I need to see a decent season to confirm my…

That doesn’t quite track logically. “Half of all fatalities were unbelted” does not, in any way, logically imply that 100% of those unbelted fatalities would have been averted by the seatbelt. From what I understand, a highway crash at 70mph is going to be pretty final no matter what the seatbelt situation was.

So...cli…