TML fan said:
The Reds CERTAINLY know more about their financial situation than Phillips does so who is giving who the benefit of the doubt?
Still you. Phillips is 100% correct that if they said they
couldn't pay him more they were lying. To me the Votto contract makes it painstakingly clear that their decision with regards to Phillips salary was just a matter of priorities. That's what Phillips didn't like. The only one giving anyone the benefit of the doubt is your choosing to believe the Reds clearly bogus protestations of poverty in your weird interest in twisting the facts to make Phillips sound like he's saying things he isn't.
TML fan said:
You also accept him at his word because he speaks his mind, but what's coming out of his mouth isn't necessarily honest. If you want to be swayed by his charisma, that's your choice. Stop trying to make it mine or anyone else's.
The only thing I accept at his word is how he feels because there's no reason for him to lie about how he feels. I'm just not judging him for it. Other than that it's just clear common sense. The Reds gave Votto a ton of money. They could have negotiated with Votto to give him less and Phillips more. They didn't. That reveals priorities. Whether those are the right priorities or not isn't for me to say but it doesn't change the sort of basic human truths that people can feel slighted and lied to even if they're millionaires.
TML fan said:
And I haven't abandoned anything. It's about money and its about him not getting everything he wants and opinion that makes him a hypocrite for trying to profess otherwise.
Except all of the evidence points away from that. You yourself have said that he could have gone elsewhere if it were about money. He didn't like how he was treated. People feel that way.
And now you're just straight up using hypocrite as a synonym for liar which...yeah.