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JohnU
Aristocratic Hoosier
Did anyone else hear the stories of how pissy Brandon Phillips was when he came to GABP as a Braves players? He was mad beause they assigned his number 4 to Scooter Gennett. Wasn't anything to do with Scooter, just that the Reds didn't retire his number. Any thoughts on that subject?
The freaky season Scooter has had modifies the notion that the Reds probably DID intend to honor Phillips at some point. He may have hit himself in the thumb with his own hammer when he bitched about his contract years back whenever Votto signed and I know he annoyed the FO by pissing around with his no-trade clause a year ago.
I think the fans would have been happy with BP had he not done those two things and I really think they'd have not given away No. 4 to Scooter on other terms. Meaning, he pissed off the FO and that's how they handled it. Childish? Perhaps, but understandable. it wasn't like Gennett asked for that number.
Phillips may eventually be forgiven.
In the end, Phillips was a very good 2B in an era when it became easy to laud a guy by simply showing a peculiar highlight of a play he made. He plays in an era when flashy ballplayers became the norm.
If they retired his jersey, I'd be OK with that. But I think now, it belongs to Scooter who made this summer quite exciting.