I'm not going to lie, it seems like Adam Jones came on a little strong there. I don't know how ugly his mentions could have possibly gotten, considering he made a choice that's as rare as it is endearing in sticking by his team and going down with the ship. However, his response to them reads like someone who is following in the footsteps of the Civil Rights Movement, as opposed to referring to some collective bargained clause in his contract that allows him to ride out the remainder of a wasted season in the city he's called home for the last 11 years. I definitely appreciate the passion, but it does seem a bit disproportional to what I would imagine was a limited amount of skeptics. The truth is, had he just come forward and said "moving sucks and I only want to do it at my own goddamn convenience" then I think we'd be looking at a unanimous showing of support for a player who, at the very least, loves the city of Baltimore more than enough to not want to go through the hassle of abruptly leaving it. Of course, continuing to ingratiate himself to all Orioles' fans wouldn't have afforded him the opportunity to tell a few of the more hypocritical variety to either pay his bills or shut the hell up, but it sure would have made his decision to actively avoid being part of a playoff run a whole lot less questionable. After all, there might have only been a couple dozen fans who would have tossed in their actual heart and soul if the return was as much as a mid-tier prospect, but there's even less people that can't relate to how excruciating an endeavor it is to pack up a bunch of your crap and find somewhere else to live at the drop of a hat.
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