How Much Does Bryce Harper Hate Having To Wait Until Saturday To Announce He's Signing With The Phillies?
The Phillies are meeting with Bryce Harper in Vegas on Saturday.
Saturday also just happens to be the day that Bryce Harper will be announcing his free agency decision to coincide with the cover of MLB The Show being released, in which MLB The Show hinted at by tweeting out this video with a custom URL of /BrycePhanatic.
Then there’s this tweet from a guy whose profile picture is what appears to be a combination of Darth Maul and Shrek.
Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace was released May 19, 1999. Shrek was released on April 22, 2001. Those dates are 704 days apart. What does that mean? Well we don’t know just yet. But it seems too important for it to merely be a coincidence. So I’m going to just assume the man with Darth Maul x Shrek as his Twitter avatar has some well connected sources. Especially after MLB The Show tweeted this out.
Why bring up the number 76 in the first place when there are 75 days until the game is released? Are they alluding to the 76ers, who are the men’s professional basketball team that plays in Philadelphia. Or is the fact that they threw the apostrophe before the “76” alluding to a year? Perhaps by ’76, they mean 1776. Which just so happened to be the year that the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia.
Oh and there is also this.
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Granted, you can’t customize any Phillies shirt by using a player’s last name and his number. For reference, you can’t customize the shirt to say “Trout 27″ on the back of it either. But don’t let the facts get in the way of a great rumor.
This is just way too much smoke here for their not to be a fire. It is safe to assume that Bryce Harper will be a Philadelphia Phillie before the weekend is over, but I just feel terrible for the guy right now. Because imagine knowing this news in your heart right now but you have to wait an extra 36-48 hours to announce it just so the announcement coincides with the release of a video game cover. That has to be killing him right now. It’s like waking up on Christmas morning but your parents tell you that you can’t open any of your presents until after New Years. I bet he can’t wait to get out of Vegas and come start his new life in the City of Brotherly Love. Especially with the huge Birds game coming up on Sunday. Hell, he probably wishes he could hop on a plane with Mike Trout right now and head down to New Orleans for that game. But he can’t because he needs to stick around and keep this decision under wraps for a couple more days. It’s just a shame really. Only thing we can hope for now is that there’s another Eagles game for Bryce Harper to attend for the first time as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.
P.S. – It sucks because the Sixers also had a meeting with LeBron the same day he announced he was signing with the Lakers. Bryce is probably just using the Phillies right now as a way to get more money. That’s how it always works. But I don’t know. I think I still trust the Darth Maul x Shrek guy more than I trust conventional wisdom and rational thinking.