The Washington Nationals and agent Scott Boras pushed it right to the deadline, but there’s no way Bryce Harper’s deal wasn’t going to get done. Both sides had way too much to lose. The Nats couldn’t afford the PR nightmare of letting the alleged next Mickey Mantle get away. And there was no way Harper drops out of high school, and plays juco ball to take that shortcut to the bigs only to return for another season of juco ball. No brainer. The only question to still be answered regards the eye black; as in, what is that? Harper does know he just signed with the Nationals and not KISS, right? That at one point, even Gene Simmons took off his makeup.
Hopefully the Nats chipped him off a bar of lava with that ten mill. Because not only is that a bad look, it’s a reason to go look. I understand that everyone is looking to brand themselves now. But baseball players aren’t like basketball players. It’s not an in your face sport. Go ask Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips. Mlb’ers don’t like being shown up. They’re funny like that. You can’t just start calling yourself the king…unless you want one in the ear hole. So Harper best not dig in against Kyle Farnsworth or Chris Carpenter as the crow; no matter how hard he mashes.. LeBron James’ chalk toss thinks Harper’s face paint says look at me, how awesome am I and in baseball, they police their own and look at me doesn’t play in the clubhouse. Not in the other guy’s and not in your own.
