Philadelphia Phillies-What's Really Wrong With Chan Ho Park
On Saturday the Phillies won a double-header in route to a series sweep, and a filly ran the Preakness in route to a sweep of the field. What’s the difference? Nothing really, until you look at the failure of Chan Ho Park. Something has to be true about Chan Ho: he has to have something that comes close to resembling an intangible phenomenon called “talent.” The MLB didn’t go all the way to South Korea to get a pitching prospect because we lack talent right here in the US. Something had to catch someone’s eye and I’m sure it wasn’t because they had money burning a hole in their pocket. Even Charlie Manuel doesn’t look at a prospect and say, “Does he wanna make a load of dough?” No. He says, “Does he have talent?” Because Charlie says, “If you don’t, it’ll be an uphill battle,” (only he won’t say it clearly and he’ll stutter a bit, but you get my point). So what’s up with Chan Ho Park? Well, we’ve established it can’t be lack of talent. The population of the United States is 306.5 mi...