Phillies Nation

I will borrow from a classic, “Major League”, to respond to K-Rod:

“I guess there’s only one thing left to do…win the whole damn thing!”

PS – You’re not the best closer in the division. Record setting season in likely the worst (or 2nd worst) division this past season.

i think K-Rod meant, “We are too the beat team!” – because that makes way more sense, they are so beat.

I can’t wait til we can brand him “choKe Rod”. Shouldnt take too long.

I am thinking after he blows 2 or 3 saves vs the Phillies the fans will start chanting “slay rod” because that is what we will do. I can’t wait to see him throw a fastball for like his 20th pitch of the inning and his arm literally falls off.

k-rod actually never said the mets are the team to beat…the reporter asked him who he thinks will win the nl east this year..so he said the mets….i doubt hed answer with another team

Chan Ho Park announced his signing with the Phillies in Korea to the press, saying it’s a 1 year 2.5 million with 5 mill in incentives. He’s probably Ryan Franklin revisited, they’ll give him a shot to compete for a starter spot but if he’s beaten out for a job in the rotation he’ll be a reliever. Don’t know how thrilled that really makes me.

wow so that means hes going to be a starter well i guess we could forget lowe i really think the mets will get him…i really miss pat gillick this guy makes me throw up!!

they signed chan ho park so they can package him with brett myers in a deal to the reds for aaron harang.

“I was a little worried about the Citizens Bank Park, the home of the Phillies, which is hitter-friendly,” he said. “But as they considered me a starter, I signed with Philadelphia.”

I DO NOT WANT THIS GUY AS A STARTER…. I much rather see Kendrick. It just FEELS like a bad move.

but like i said —- park and myers for harang. done deal.

Anyone that really ever thought Derek Lowe was going to come here instead of Boston, NY, or LA was, and is dreaming..

Park isn’t the world’s best pitcher, but he throws hard, I think he throws a sinker or a splitter.. and will be something like Chad Durbin last year… they’ll give him a shot to make the rotation, if he does, its because he out-pitched other guys.. and if not, then maybe they put him in the bullpen.

Its about signing players you think can help you, and giving yourself lots of options… they aren’t signing him to try to impress people, or scare the Mets or anything.. they are just addings players and then they’ll have more options when it comes time to name the 25-man roster. Can’t say I love the move to add him, but the more pitchers we have, the better

Hopefully if teams are backing off his price will lower so we can sign him for less than what he’s asking for.

Aaron Harang was TERRIBLE last year… even when he came back and was “healthy” ….he was absolutely TERRIBLE.

Park will only be a starter if he earns it.. .and he would have to rock like a sub 3.00 ERA in the Spring and have everyone else be bad to make that happen.. He’ll be a long-man in the pen, and give them options to spot-start for a day-night doubleheader or something like that.. lets see what he’s got in the spring before we call this a bad move

Why would we sign Park to trade him? Why wouldn’t the Reds just sign him themselves and trade Harang for Myers straight up? I would prefer to keep Myers over Harang but if they did make that trade I wouldn’t have a problem with it. Lowe is ABSOLUTELY obtainable and if the Phils don’t sign him I will consider it the single biggest mistake they made this off season. I would rather they had signed So Taguchi again to play Left and brought in Lowe than signed Burrell who I loved and then Chan Ho to be the 4th or 5th starter. Hamels, Myers, Blanton, Lowe and whoever would be a pretty awesome rotation. Hamels, Myers, Blanton, possible Moyer and whoever is not as scarey to me.

Don M… we clearly value Lowe WAY DIFFERENTLY… I think that getting him from free agency for 3 years, 45M is a very good deal for our No.2 guy. So there’s no reason to argue any further. I’d be very dissapointed if the Phillies don’t make an offer at least equal to that amount.

well, Park is more versatile than Rudy Seanez. Hopefully Park becomes the 12th man in the pen. At least it’s a one-year deal. I think the Phils will re-sign Moyer and expect that to be enough.

especially because you KNOW the phillies wont overpay for lowe, so if they do sign him itll be for what they think is cheap…i agree that even 13-15mm for lowe for3 years is highly overpaying…if minaya takes the bait and offers more money and years than that then let him have it. he got suckered into offering more money and the mets will have more money committed than if they signed garland or traded for marquis like they tried to do last week..

free agency now should settle down once the big pitchers have gotten deals..lowe is the last and if he gets an insane deal then even people like garland will end up getting 12mm a year, which i ludicrous…

id rather see the phillies trade for a solid starter…these free agents are too expensive.. park is a borderline 5th starter/middle reliever, and he got 2.5mm.

overpaying in years and money for lowe is exactly the type of mistake that a first year GM has to avoid…thats the obvious trap move…no way lowe stays this healthy forever…anyone remember job liebeR?

let them get burrell…who cares..itll take the mets a season or two to realize hes going to be a first baseban from here on out.

i agree…i know taht the phillies will make an offer, most liekly, at what they think is his value..but if/when he doesnt take it and takes an offer worth more money than people will FLIP out on here and talk about how theyre going to miss the playoffs again and etc etc when the rotation is already better than it was ,last year…

All right this team to beat nonsense is getting ridiculous. If there is one team to beat it is the Philadelphia Phillies. They are the world series champs, period. Every team in the N.L will be gunning for you. The Braves have improved. The Mets have certainly improved. The Marlins are the same as are the Nationals. The Phillies have not improved maybe because there is no need for improvement? I don’t know. You guys already have a good team. Did they overachieve in 2008? I believe so, but it still doesn’t take away from the fact the the Phillies are world series champs. In a few years you won’t be the same team. Jimmy Rollins will sign a big contract with another team. Ryan Howard is destined to be a Yankee. Cole Hamels and Ryan Madsen will both be Mets, and Chase Utley will most likely be traded as the Phillies try to rebuild. Sorry but when your team is cheap this is what happens. So, enjoy the ride and hope you guys can win another world series in 2 years. After that the Phillies WILL be a different team.

1 year, 2.5 mil spells 5th starter, middle reliever to me. Lowe front has been quiet lately, he would make great 2

ahaha…chase utley is signed for a while there champ, and jimmmy rollins is signed for 3 more years..

also..do you really think that cole hamels will be allowed to leave? theyre not THAT cheap..they know a staff ace when they see one and he wont be allowed to even sniff free agency…

ryan madson will NOT sign for the mets, because boras will market him as a closer because teams will need closers next year..the mets HAVE a closer, two actually, so madson has NO place there..thats so unrealistic…

thats the equivalent of saying the phillies will sign david wright next year even though hes not a free agent…come on man…thats weak

Ok my mistake. 3 years

I would still risk it, draft picks are never for sures. But that is me.