the only thing better than "this" being FINALLY all done, is (thank everything that one might choose to call holy)...is...that he is gone from this team. he wasn't worth the contract he was playing at, and, again, NO WAY is he worth the contract that he signed for. in the end, I truly believe that it means something that this team--with all of its talent--never made it past the first round of the playoffs.
had he signed with L.A., I would have been slightly interested, and I would have slightly cared, as I have always liked the Dodgers, but, they weren't stupid enough to kill the organisation to sign him for more than the couple of years, so here's to the Phillies, and to the weight hanging around their neck, that will suffocate them in the end...