which is...good?
he's not from philadelphia and the second he blows out his knee or something, any fan is going to turn on him. he gives enough of a **** to sign there and try to win. that should be enough.
I don't care if he cares about Philly or not. But that said, it is not like he is taking his laptop to work to crunch numbers for Big Corporation Inc., he's a performer in the entertainment industry. The great, truly beloved performers certainly cared more about their fans and the reception of their work than a regular employee.
There's a tendency nowadays both on the team owner/management side and the player side to take the 3rd party, the fans, for granted. I think it's a brutal mistake. In the grand scheme of history, baseball's popularity is nothing but a blip. Heck, attendance sports are a blip. It's far from a given that it's just always going to continue and everyone's just going to get richer.