Was everyone as much of a spoiled, petulant brat as I after the first quarter of yesterday's Eagle game? I guess that's what a Phillies' championship breeds high expectations. I guess it's what Ben Franklin felt after he spent multiple years balling chicks in Paris only to return home to the piousass Quaker chicks of the Illadelph. That was me; I went from getting it all, to getting none."I said yesterday that an agreement could be reached if there was a shared commitment on both sides. And I was disappointed and I think all of us were disappointed that at the very time that we were face to face with the union and with its executive committee, they had already made the decision to decertify their union. We were meeting with them after 4 o'clock this afternoon to talk about the offer that we tendered them.

Founder and CEO Charles Long has purchased two adjacent buildings in the Glenwood South area over the past two weeks. One of them, a 26,000squarefoot building at