If +Metropolitan Phillip gets mad at Holy Cross, where is he going to send his seminarians?
I've heard the Serbs and Carpatho-Rusyns have their own seminaries.
Or if he really wants them to learn the Syro-Byzantine ways of things, why not Damascus?

My half-penny:
In this country of the USA, all citizens are allowed the right to free speech. As a citizen, Mark Stokoe has that right. I'm assuming that Met. PHILIP is also a citizen and therefore has that same right of free speech.
Now, all across the internet we occasionally find the loony people who are extremely anti-Orthodox. The sorts that say things like a bishop's liturgical staff (the one with the snakes) are some sort of demonic witchcrafty thing when in reality there is greater biblical basis for said staff than not. There are also those who all across the entire world of blogs, forums and other virtual soapboxes condemn and belittle entire jurisdictions and the bishops of said jurisdictions.
Then there are those who look into things, find something interesting and make some sort of 'call to action' type of dictate. In the early 20th century we called them "muckrakers". Sometimes they are correct, sometimes they are not. Most of the time they make us think.
The way I see it is this: This entire thing is little more than jurisdictionalism and avoidance of accountability. There have been calls within the Antiochian Archdiocese for a financial audit and from what I gather there is a feeling of dissent towards various bishops for who knows what reasons exactly. Given the avoidance of an audit and the squashing of anti-PHILIP opinion at the Antiochian Convention, then there must be something to hide. If there was nothing to hide, than there would be an independant audit within the Antiochian Archidiocese as we speak (or type). After all, why avoid looking at the books if the books are clean?
Now what does this have to do with OCANews, Stokoe and the seminarians? Stokoe must think of himself as a muckraker. Afterall, with OCANews he kept Orthodox Christians informed of the OCA Scandal of the past year. Things were exposed, accusations made and in the end a metropolitan retired, a new one elected and the air has been made clean and clear within the OCA.
With that in mind, Met. PHILIP seems to be trying to flex what little muscle he can to silence Stokoe by pulling two seminarians out of the two OCA seminaries Why? Seminary's cost money to go to and without enough 'fresh blood' than the school closes and I would bet that if Stokoe were within GOARCH, than Met. PHILIP would pull seminarians out of Holy Cross and send them to St. Vlad's or St. Tikhon's instead. Unfortunately, Stokoe has the right to free speech and is the webmaster of OCANews and therefore can really publish whatever he wishes. If that website scares Met. PHILIP enough to want the cord pulled, than there must be something to hide. Or at least something to be looked into.
I just hope I am wrong. Orthodoxy in North America has seen enough scandal and controversy in the past two decades and we don't need another one.