A Cliff Lee Poll

Not only does he stay away from both the Yankees and Rangers, he gets to torment them should either ever make a WS against the Phillies.

This is why I tend to not respond to polls =(. My answer should be Phillies.

Although I’ll pretend like I meant my answer and justify it thusly:

Definitely Texas. For one, Fuck Cliff Lee. He was a Mariner for 2 months. For two, the longer he’s on the contract the more likely he gets injured. We’re not competing this year, I don’t mind him being good next year, and hopefully he’ll collapse Texas’s payroll afterward. He probably won’t be as good in Texas anyway since his pitching style involves more contact. Also, it would be nice to have the Yankees not get what they want and I hate Philadelphia.

Yep, let’s say that’s my reasoning. Woo reasoning!

Because he’ll never play against us again, so we can root for him unashamedly while holy s*** he turned Tyson Gillies into Justin Smoak!!!

I can imagine trading away one ace for another. “We’re going a different direction with the top of our rotation.”

But to give him away for 3 prospects with pulses, give up his last cost controlled year, and then decide that you want him enough to back up dump truck of Sacajawea dollar coins to his house, that’s pretty stupid.

Now we have to listen to Yankee fans get bent out of shape for the next 5 years.

Cliff Lee is a jerk
We don’t want him anyway
We weren’t wiling to bow to his extortionist demands

It’s gonna be awesome. They might be ready to start now on ESPN if they could stop blowing Brett Favre for five minutes.

I won’t see him as much any more.

We don’t have Maikel Cleto anymore. Maybe Josh Fields, Rich Poythress, and the recently DFAed Rob Johnson for good measure?

Shouldn’t the ridiculous American League be a selling point to get great free agents in the NL, at least in the short term?

You can tell the guy, look, you can go sign for a ton of money with Texas, Anaheim, New York or Boston. Great, you’ll never get to a World Series though, because in order to do so you’ll have to go through three of: Texas, Anaheim, New York and Boston. Or you could come join us, coast to the World Series and only have to face one of them. Your choice.

I’ll be impressed with the Phils when they acquire Greinke to round out the back end of the rotation.

Now I can continue to root for Cliff Lee!

Yes, No, Maybe?

Word is they’re looking to ship him off on the cheap to make room for Lee.

weird.

Here’s a great takedown Matt Taibbi did on Yankee fans/Cliff Lee after the World Series ended. All the more enjoyable now that they got deservedly and richly screwed like the losers they are.

YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

This turned out way better than I thought it was going to.

Apparently Philly woke up the morning after the Cliff Lee trade and realized “Hey…we could have more than one awesome starter at the same time.”

I think I will worship Cliff Lee forever. I already did because of his pitching. But now… he fucked the Yankees big-time! What an awesome human being!