Everybody be cool, Manny Machado is looking

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesAll right, Philadelphia. We can do this.

We’ve done it before. Remember when we surrounded Jim Thome with an electricians union and he felt so welcomed that he played here for three years? And Cliff Lee; remember how he found us so appealing that he left the Yankees standing there with money in their hands, crying out to him, an image embroidered on the tapestries of our city’s holy sites?

Well, once again, a big name free agent is visiting Philadelphia, and this time, his name is Manny Machado. He has close to no history with or attachment to this city, and it’s widely accepted that he’d rather play in New York. But he met with the Yankees yesterday, and the…