The Phillies May Go the Way of the Philadelphia Athletics: to Kansas City

We know Philly is the city of Brotherly Love.  We did not know that they loved the Mendoza Line, which also comes from PA, albeit, Pittsburg.  What is the Mendoza line?  It is the disgustingly low batting average set by Mario Mendoza in the last century.  Anybody hitting below this line - generally considered to be around 220 - is usually sent back to Little League, as a groundskeeper.  AND yet the Philadelphia Phillies just gave a 330 MILLION DOLLAR DEAL TO A MENDOZA LINE PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It's the most expensive contract in baseball history. It's unthinkable. Bryce Harper who hit a Mendoza-ish .249 last season is being given 330 million and all of the money is guaranteed! The 26 year old will be paid at the rate of 26 mil a year for 9 years, then 22 mill for 4 years PLUS a signing bonus of 20 million.  To be fair, he hit 330 in 2015 and he did hit 34 rockets in the 2018 season, despite the tiny batting average.  Sadly this is what baseball wants today....crappy hitters who rarely hit, but when they do, they hit for power.  They strike out far more times than they make contact.   The deal was struck on the last day of February, 2019. It is perhaps just a co-incidence that this bloated contract comes 100 years after the Black Sox Scandal. I hope it doesn't happen; but this contract could make the Philadelphia Phillies suffer the same fate as the once great Philadelphia Athletics, the toast of the American League.  They became 'toast' after running out of money. They had to flee to Kansas City, You could look it up.