JOHN MIDDLETON gives Phillies Fans the Finger

JOHN MIDDLETON June 29, 2015

I've waited a long time for this day. Finally the curtain lifted and the Wizard of Oz appeared in public for the first time as owner of the Phillies. He cleared up a lot too. There are no more questions or mysteries for anyone in the media - Philly or national MLB - to hide behind either.

Buster Olney, Jayson Stark, Jerry Crasnick, Ken Rosenthal and all those clowns in Philly pointing fingers at the crash dummies like Ed Wade, Ruben Amaro and so many hapless, helpless Phillies managers.

Now we KNOW.

As I've stated over and over again all along. It wasn't the crash dummies. The owners were not sleeping. They were not golfing. They were not out of touch. Everything the crash dummies were blamed for was the work of the guy pictured above, the guy who didn't think an 8,000 square foot mansion in Palm Beach was big enough for him so he bulldozed it and years later is still building his 17,000 plus square foot castle on that beach front lot.

So what does John Middleton have for us?

BULLSHIT

This is what todays press conference was. A mountain full of it.

John Middleton, Andy MacPhail, Pat Gallic June 29, 2015 Phillies

The first two, the Phillies owner and his new Phillies President Andy MacPhail proved themselves to be master bullshit artists. I won't wast six words transcribing any of that stink pile, but I will pass on the meaning of it.

Matt Wieters, Justin Upton, Zack Greinke and David Price. They sure would look good in Phillies uniforms in 2016 wouldn't they? The Phillies have Cole Hamels and Aaron Nola is ready to come up now. Add another Harang guy and they have a five man rotation of a playoff contender with some backups on the farm. Giles and Papelbon have the eighth and ninth innings. Wieters and Upton with Maikel Franco and J.P. Crawford ready to debut at short stop. It's probably not a division winner, but it is a winning team and it could be turned into a division winner before the 2017 season.

Where's the problem? Well, look at the pictures above from the press conference. John Middleton kept saying that MacPhail would have all the resources necessary to make the Phillies a winner, but upon further questioning he then ruled out any big free agent acquisitions, actually placing a limit of two when in fact four will be available.

That's really disturbing. That answer by John Middleton told us that he is in no way a George Steinbrenner. George - if the Yankees were in the Phillies position - would definitely sign all four pictured above and would probably do several significant smaller moves as well given the Phillies situation.

This brings me back to Scott Rolen's press conference long ago when Rolen said the Phillies owners had "No commitment to win"

No Commitment to Win

John Middleton made that abundantly clear to me today. He is prepared to let the Phillies rack up many more 100 plus loss seasons so he can gather all the free players he needs to win ten years or more from today in the MLB draft.

This means that the Phillies next MVP or Cy Young Award winner may right now as you are reading this still be in elementary school.

So even watching a Hall of Fame player who rode busses in the minors for years to get an opportunity to manage in MLB resign because he couldn't take facing this roster of mostly Camden Riversharks, with the memories of Scott Rolen still in mind, John Middleton let us know that he would not spend the Phillies insanely large revenues for stud players who would lift the Phillies from the ultimate cellar of worst team in MLB to respectability again.

Look over my blog and gaze upon John Middleton's Xanadu castle in Palm Beach. Follow the crazed, arrogant antics of his son @johnmiddleton on Twitter as he purchases more mansions and film production companies in Los Angeles with the money that Phillies fans have given to him to buy players such as I have pictured above.

Where is the FBI? Probably trying to figure out how to lock me up. John Middleton has permission to steal the world.


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Ryne Sandberg says "No Mas!"

Ryne Sandberg Resigns as manager of Phillies

It had to happen. Those of us with a three digit IQ knew it was coming the day Sandberg was hired. He seemed to be the only guy who didn't know what he was getting into. Charlie Manuel let everyone know what was wrong in his 2010 post game press conferences as the Phillies lost to the Giants. Charlie Manuel continued to let the truth out about the declining state of the Phillies while the media in Philadelphia and elsewhere ignored everything that was wrong with the franchise at the big league level and on their barren farm.

Look at those three on the podium. The guy in the middle looks like he died ten years ago and someone forgot to bury him. Pat Gillick expressed no emotion, said nothing until he was finally asked one question and his reply was "I can't comment on that".

Ruben Amaro sniffed an onion before going out on the podium and brought up tears. That or he realized that when the second manager under you is gone that means you are next. That said there is little chance of Amaro being removed from the Phillies Mafia. If he is it will be cosmetic and Amaro will appear elsewhere and continue to collect a large paycheck.

Ed Wade

Remember Ed Wade? He was never unemployed, still isn't. He's been back with the Phillies since a few days after being canned as GM of the Astros.

Have you ever read a tell-all book by a former MLB GM? They're a part of the MLB Mafia and it has to be said that unlike other sports or show business, there is no media market for the tell-all rubbed the wrong way guy. Jose Canseco is nowhere to be found on ESPN Baseball Tonight. Canseco doesn't even show up on podcasts like Buster Olney.

So those mental defectives screaming for the firing of Amaro may well get Ed Wade as his replacement and everyone of them hating on Ruben Amaro was screaming for the firing of Ed Wade.

They're the same guy. It's like the guy inside the Phanatic suit, that's not the guy who was originally inside, he's been gone for a decade or more.

Where is this guy:

John S. Middleton

Why wasn't John S. Middleton up on the podium? Why is he nowhere to be seen, ever? The media tell us he is so passionate about the Phillies and John Middleton wants the Phillies to win. Yeah?

SHOW ME.
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What is John Middleton Building?

The only name ever mentioned as an owner of the Phillies is that of John Middleton. The nick given for the those who own the Phillies is "Mysterious Owners, who of course are only mysterious because the media in Philadelphia and the national MLB media refuse to discuss them by name.

Here is John S. Middleton's little bungalow in Palm Beach, Florida. Those aren't a little kids toy trucks, those are the real kind. Mister Middleton is no fan of huge signing bonuses - Miakel Franco only received one hundred thousand dollars to sign - or big time free agent contracts - five million for Aaron Harang - but mansions that John Middleton is going to spend some time in, that's a completely different story.

Here's another view of the 17,000 plus square foot bungalow that John Middleton is building in Palm Beach. It may not be finished yet even though it has been under construction for about four years. It's bigger than all his neighbors.

If you scroll the picture to the left you can see two little people - like us - wearing white hard hats working diligently to get the smallest detail down to the exact specification desired by John S. Middleton.

I have an attic vent in my house that's corrugated metal.

I wasn't born a Middleton so that's all I deserve. That and my baseball team being turned into one of the worst teams in the history of Major League Baseball.

Here's yet another view. Don't forget to scroll to the left. Google did not design their blogging code to accomadate castles big enough to satisfy John S. Middleton.

Here is a rare interior shot. Don't mind all the wood, metal and wires. It will all be covered in Italian marble and trimmed in gold before John S. Middleton sees it.

It's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.

In case you were wondering where the $6 Billion in Comcast TV dollars was going or all those billions from Citizens Bank Park sellouts and concession sales, and the $50 million every year that MLB distributes to every team for the national TV contracts with ESPN, FOX Sports and TBS, or the $25 million plus for MLB dot com and the $20 million plus for MLB merchandising.

That's one of the swimming pools, this one is in back overlooking the ocean. If you have an ocean to swim in what do you need?

Look closely.

Can you see all the little people wearing white hard hats working diligently among the concrete and rebar to get everything just right, the way Mister Middleton expects it to be?

I don't know what this is, but it's bigger than my house and looks like it is designed to keep out an invading viking army, but I'm sure it's you and me that Mister Middleton wants to keep far away.
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