Everyone Loves Philadelphia
Posted by BMT on December 17th, 2009
In today’s Inquirer, Bob Ford makes one of the silliest but well-intentioned stretches in recent memory. In feeling an irrepressible urge to make way more out of the Roy Halladay signing than is actually there, Ford writes that Roy Halladay’s stated desire to be a Phillie is evidence of the fact that “the best players in baseball want to be here.”
The article seems to be about how Halladay never entertained the idea of playing anywhere else and that he chose not to go with the money, but with the team that all players want to play for. Never mind that Ford never mentions any other player who “wants” to play in Philly; it’s enough that Amaro inked Halladay for us to now know that every ballplayer has Philly in his heart.
Isn’t the manic phase of Philly’s bizarre obsession with its sports teams fun?