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  <title>Werth agrees to $10 million deal with Phillies</title>
  <published-at type="datetime">2009-01-21T12:40:05-05:00</published-at>
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        <created-at>2009-01-26T22:18:56-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Philly fans just need to realize that their team is not the hands-favorite in the NL East.  It's funny how Phillies fans came out of the woodwork these past few seasons.  It's odd not to hear Eagles chants at Citizens Bank Park in July.  Fairweather Johnsons!</body>
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          <body>Hahaha we have the world series, hahahaha your mets choke when its counts, out team picks up there play hahahaha. Mets can have the off season world series but when it comes to the field our Phillies have it.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-23T17:22:34-05:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>Hahaha we have the world series, hahahaha your mets choke when its counts, out team picks up there play hahahaha. Mets can have the off season world series but when it comes to the field our Phillies have it.</quoted-text>
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        <body>You win that argument hands down, Philly fan.  There is NO argument to a WS victory.  So, all the Mets fans can do for now is sit down, shut up, and hope for the best.  By the way, Mets fan, ALL teams have players that may have regressions (including the Mets) that's baseball.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-22T23:16:06-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>great signing for the phillies. hope werth holds up for the whole season.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-22T10:40:24-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>I never said the Mets didn't have holes to fill in their roster but so do the Phillies.  The Mets roster is incredibly comparable.  Sillies fans forget that their season was made by Brad Lidge.  The Mets lost a league-high 7 games when leading at the start of the 9th inning.  If we had a competent closer for an entire season the Sillies may not have won the division.  Putting &amp;quot;what ifs&amp;quot; aside, that stat shows just how evenly matched the Mets and Sillies are, so your argument that the Mets are a bad team is moot.</body>
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        <body>&amp;quot;Cole Hamels makes classless, unsportsman-like statements unprovoked.&amp;quot;

Yeah, he just came out and said the Mets were chokers.  He wasn't directly asked, twice, if he thought they were choke artists by a NY radio host or anything.</body>
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        <body>I love how mets fans never respond to the fact that their team is just not that good and they know that they cant win with that roster.</body>
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        <body>.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-22T08:49:10-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>.</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-22T08:39:52-05:00</created-at>
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        <body>Jimmy Rollins show-boats and celebrates after hitting homeruns.  Shane Victorino stands on homeplate and points to the sky after scoring.  Cole Hamels makes classless, unsportsman-like statements unprovoked.  The Sillies and their fans complain about the Mets but fail to recognize that their team does the SAME EXACT THINGS!!  The Sillies and their fans are hypocrites (and based on these posts, also fail to have a grasp on basic grammar).</body>
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          <created-at>2009-01-21T16:44:46-05:00</created-at>
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          <body>Too bad all of those players are likely to regress this season - haha the Sillies!</body>
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        <created-at>2009-01-22T08:37:06-05:00</created-at>
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        <quoted-text>Too bad all of those players are likely to regress this season - haha the Sillies!</quoted-text>
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        <body>yeah reyes and tatis both classless jerks, and a big reason why the mets will continue to fold. Watching the mets is like watching the cowgirls, they have stars and big names but no chemistry or knowledge of winning. They are not a good team, very talented but not a good team. Who is going to play left and right field for you guys and who is pitching besides santana and maine?</body>
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  <body>&lt;div class=&quot;photo_container image_right&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.fannation.com/upload/si_blog_post_images/20721/t1_werth121.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;T1_werth121&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;photo_attributes&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Jayson Werth was a key contributor on Philadelphia's &lt;br /&gt;World Series title team in 2008.&lt;br /&gt;Larry Goren/Icon SMI&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Outfielder &lt;strong&gt;Jayson Werth&lt;/strong&gt; agreed to a $10 million, two-year contract with the Phillies, SI.com has learned. The deal enables him to avoid arbitration this year and next.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Werth will receive $3 million in 2009 and $7 million in '10, plus performance bonuses.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The 29-year-old enjoyed his most productive season in 2008, batting .273 with 24 home runs, 67 RBIs and 73 runs in 134 games. On May 16 against Toronto, Werth belted home runs in his first three at-bats and tied a Phillies record with eight RBIs. He hit .309 during Philly's postseason title run, including .444 in the World Series.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MLB.com first mentioned that the two sides had come to an agreement. The deal comes two days after Philadelphia agreed to a three-year, $12 million extension with set-up man &lt;strong&gt;Ryan Madson&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</body>
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