Opinion: Bryce Harper embraces spotlight, but is he ready for Philadelphia and $330 million expectations?

So why is everybody out here today?"Well, when a guy who has been the most-hyped free agent in history, shows up on the first day on the job, earning $330 million, it has a way of grabbing attention.“You see him walk in,’’ said Phillies starter Nick Pivetta, who met Harper for the first time, “and it’s like Holy [Bleep]. It’s going to take my family some time.“I’ll let you know in November how I feel."He couldn’t help but laugh when his wife, Kayla, told him after Saturday’s press conference that he slipped up on the final question, and said, he wants “to bring a title back to D.C."“I was like, 'Oh, man,'" Harper said. He chops up seats in the grandstands.’’You know the kind of respect he generates when 75-year-old Charlie Manuel, the Phillies’ last World Series manager, immediately apologizes when he sees Harper.“I told him,’’ Manuel said, “that I didn’t tell (Cole) Hamels to hit him."It happened May 6, 2012, when Hamels deliberately hit Harper in the back in just the eighth game of his career.They talked. When things go bad, he’ll be the guy."Harper surely will receive the greatest, thunderous ovation when he’s introduced on opening day, but the over-under on when Harper hears his first boos from that passionate fanbase?“Is he going to hit with the bases loaded,"  Bowa said, “on opening day?"Harper insists he has already embraced himself for the city of Brotherly Love, and if they want to boo him, really, he’s all ears.“The one thing I know," Harper told his agent, Scott Boras,  "if I get booed, it’s going to be great. I need those kinds of fans help me become a better player."Welcome to Philly.“It’s going to be new, it’s going to be different,’’ said Harper.