What an impossibly ignorant, insensitive viewpoint to take on such a broad matter.  You hardly seem like yourself when you’re like this.  And I’ll have you know the minor leagues are a bastion of future glory, where dreams go to thrive, or simmer.  Or explode or die or be smeared over the course of a decade.  It’s a wild place!  And you’re boring and unfulfilled.  No wonder you hate it.

Well, the Phillies’ own Lehigh Valley IronPigs have brought two old favorites back into the pack–OF Rich Thompson and OF Michael Spidale.

“…and it appears neither are willing to leave the nest,” writes Jeff Schuler, apparently implying that IronPigs are a rarely seen tree-dwelling species of the barnyard animal. (more…)