Perspective: For Bryce Harper, this wasn’t the way it was supposed to go, but it just might work
By Thomas Boswell Thomas Boswell Sports columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist February 28 at 6:26 PM Best wishes to Bryce Harper. I’m not sure he’ll need them. But he might.
Aren’t people supposed to have that option? Shouldn’t you be rewarded for that? Or at least be given several palatable choices? Doesn’t America cheer risk takers? [Barry Svrluga: Bryce Harper is a Phillie? Get used to it, Nats fans, ’cause you’ll be seeing a lot of him] One losing team wanted him for 10 years: the 89-loss San Francisco Giants, weighted with bad anchor contracts and aging stars. That’s winning the lottery? One great franchise he has always imagined himself playing for — the Dodgers — apparently offered Harper less than half the guaranteed money he’d already turned down in D.C. Well, you can’t save face that way.The Phillies have had a wonderful offseason, adding all-star catcher J.T.
Whether fair or not, this 118-day offseason circus, dubbed Harper’s Bazaar by agent Scott Boras when it began, probably will be remembered as Harper Bizarre. All along, cynics said, “Just watch: It’s all about the Benjamins.” Now, Harper has signed in the city whose most famous citizen is the face on that $100 bill.
Many will assume that Harper, with his no-trade clause in Philly, has made his last baseball stop and will either make more noise than the Liberty Bell or end up with a giant crack in his reputation. But stories as rich as Harper’s are seldom so simple. Washington, especially as a baseball town, was always just a little too quiet, maybe even a little too cerebral and sane for him.Harper wants to play from the gut and to the crowd.
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