Chase Utley was going to be traded this season. We could all feel it. Chase could probably feel it. And that morning I woke up from a nightmare about various Philadelphia landmarks crumbling and falling onto a horrified public, I knew the day had likely arrived.
Indeed it had, and Utley went to L.A. where he eventually got himself a reputation as a heartless bone-breaker, rather than the bone-filled heart-breaker he was known to be in these parts. What many people failed to realize at the time was that Utley had gone to the Dodgers in a trade, and that we would be getting a player in return for him.