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To: BluesDuke
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

And that might be the most astonishing part of all. I never thought I'd see the day that would happen.

16 posted on 10/07/2010 5:45:48 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: NittanyLion
And that might be the most astonishing part of all. I never thought I'd see the day that would happen.
Indeed. Once upon a time, players receiving contract offers from the Phillies or the Indians or certain other clubs---or being traded to those clubs---reacted as did Leon (Daddy Wags) Wagner, when the old Los Angeles Angels swapped him to the Cleveland Indians: What did I do to deserve this?!?

Of course, during the 1980s, when George Steinbrenner's (RIP) act really got out of whack, players involved in trades or trade rumours sending them to the Yankees often asked the same question . . .

17 posted on 10/07/2010 6:28:16 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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