We in Toronto are not surprised. We have known Doc for quite a while now. He was very classy when he left Toronto taking out a full page ad in the papers to thank the fans while he was here. I don’t keep a lot of trinkets but I do have one his bobbleheads commemorating his 03 Cy Young.
Even classier-—Halladay could have pulled down almost twice the money he got from the Phillies to go elsewhere, but he actually wanted to go to the Phillies if the Jays weren’t going to keep him. And jeez did he prove it bigtime! (I wish he’d gone to my Mets, his pitching style and repertoire would have been perfect in that new ballpark of theirs, he’s tough to hit straightaway and not too easy to pull, so he’d have been a perfect fit there . . . )