I thought this was appropriate to call attention to, considering the recent (and, in the latter two cases, ongoing) contract-related tribulations involving Jimmy Rollins, Cole Hamels, and Shane Victorino. This PR war has the same sort of feel as the one present throughout the Rollins negotiations, except it's more public, less intelligent, and less respectful. Rube and Young James, to their credit, mostly refrained from negotiating in public, though the WIP crowd certainly had their say.