Gregg Doyel of CBSSportsline.com may just be a closet OTR reader. He penned this article calling Philly fans babies for not being able take Rollins’ criticism. This whole issue has sparked a huge debate/argument so let’s keep it going.

He leads with:

“Tough? My ass. Philly fans aren’t tough. Philly fans are exactly what Jimmy Rollins said they are. They’re front-runners.

Which means they’re soft.

All front-runners are, by definition, soft. A front-runner is gutless. A front-runner gets behind a winner, sure, but only gets on a loser. A front-runner takes the easy road. That’s what a front-runner does.

And so this is what Philly fans did Tuesday night when the Phillies returned to town for the first time since Rollins made his front-runner remark a week earlier. They showed their soft side.

They booed him.

You babies.

Look, Philly fans, you can’t have it both ways. If you’re going to dish it, you have to be able to take it. Flick a player in the nose all you want, but when one of them flicks you back, you have to smirk and let him know it didn’t hurt. Otherwise, you’re nothing but a schoolyard bully — strong because you have all that size, but weak as soon as someone fights back.

Rollins fought back, and Philly, the tough town that it is, cried its eyes out.”

While I agree with a lot of this, I do admit that when an outsider criticizes us, it’s 10x more annoying.