The Mets...how ugly can things get within a baseball club?
by blazon on Sep 9, 2010 11:46 AM EDT
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/sports/baseball/09mets.html?scp=1&sq=Mets%20Walter%20Reed%20visit&st=cse
some of us thought Escobar an embarrassment for example, someone who 'let the club down' with their behavior, their attitudes...well, check out what happened this week in Metland when they were in D.C, playing the Nationals...
there had been an established tradition that on one of those visits each year the players visited Walter Reed Hospital to say thank you, for obvious reasons...fine idea, noble, and good P.R. for them and for baseball if you want to be cynical - but who does for something like this..
their visit this week backfired big time...3 players, all in the doghouse already with two on the bench, did not show...Beltran(I went Last Year), Castillo(I'm too squeamish), Perez who had nothing to say...some of the other players were obviously angered - check out Dickey's statements for examples, good for him...how does all this make a Met fan feel today- a baseball fan for that matter?
Go Braves! wash that taste away.
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Manager Jerry Manuel said he had not asked Beltran, Castillo and Perez about why they did not go to Walter Reed and did not expect an explanation from them.
“That’s an individual thing," he said. "I don’t get involved in that. That’s a man’s choice."
Translation
My wife has been holding on to my balls for me ever since our wedding. She says that if I ever need them, they’ll either be in her purse or in the refrigerator.
I can’t believe that they call this guy “The Sage.” Given all the fractures that develop in that clubhouse and are left to fester for season upon season, it is no wonder to me why they haven’t been able to compete in recent memory.
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw
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My wifeMinaya has been holding on to my balls for me ever since our wedding. She says that if I ever need them, they’ll either be in her purse or in the refrigerator.
"If I have asthma, they won't let me scuba. And if I can’t scuba, then what’s this all been about?? What am I working toward??"
"You look like you should be married to one of the San Diego Padres."
I hate to be the one to point this out but all three of those players have 1 thing in common. None of them were born in the United States. They probably don’t have the same attachment to our armed forces as someone like Dickey or Pelfrey do. I don’t hold it against them their only here making lots of money.
You play in America, make American dollars, show a little gratitude.
What if there was a American soldier of Puerto Rican heritage recovering from some horrible wounds at Walter Reed, and his favorite baseball player was Carlos Beltran? Man, sucks to be him, because Beltran feels no obligation to the country he’s residing in, and making millions of dollars to play a kids game in. This has nothing to do with attachment to the armed forces, but reflection of people doing something nice for others, and apparently Beltran, Castillo, and Perez continue to show just how capable it is to find failure in what are supposed to be no-lose scenarios.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
I'm with Royhobbs, that's a lame excuse if that's their reasoning. Its not even about the Armed Forces.
With Manuel’s lame attitude, I don’t see the Mutts winning anytime soon.
How about doing it for the team, at least?
I mean, shouldn’t they at least care about the morale of the team? I’d be pissed if I went and they didn’t.
"If I have asthma, they won't let me scuba. And if I can’t scuba, then what’s this all been about?? What am I working toward??"
"You look like you should be married to one of the San Diego Padres."
Pelfrey apparently tried
He said it was mandatory, but I guess nobody listens to one of the top pitchers on the squad when the manager is more or less indifferent about it.
No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.
Now that I've had some time to think
I have no problem with this.
I mean, imagine you are an injured Iraq/Afghanistan vet. Imagine you’re laying in a hospital bed. Do you really want these three guys dropping by?
Hell, I’m not even trying to be glib. There are a dozen or more players on the Mets that I would rather meet than these three.
"If I have asthma, they won't let me scuba. And if I can’t scuba, then what’s this all been about?? What am I working toward??"
"You look like you should be married to one of the San Diego Padres."
A. being an Iraq/Afghanistan vet is completely irrelevant with this topic
2. Yes, I would want these guys “dropping by.” It’s not like if i was in the hospital and it was my old neighbor that comes and bothers me 4 times a week. It’s a professional sports team in from the land i fought for. It wouldn’t matter if it was a AFL football team. These people fought for our country, and because so, in Walter Reed because the need a medical support. I can’t imagine what that must be like. They can’t have much to look forward to. So that’s pretty fucking cool. And respectful of the Mets. If you were a injured vet there, you would wake up every morning saying what? another day in this bed? But that day you can say “The Mets are coming” That would be a pretty big deal if you were in those shoes.
Finally. It’s not about what players come or who is your favorite or what autographs you get. No matter if we like the team/player or not, we kind of look up to every player in major league baseball. a good majority of us would give up a ton to be them, even for a day. We look up so much shit on the interworld we know more about them than they know themselves. The fact is, if i was a injured vet, it would mean the world to me to have ANY player, spend time thanking me, when I could just as easily be thanking them for playing the sport we all love.
Following the infamous "astroglide" comment and the challenge for use of word:
no way the Astros glide into the playoffs.
by BrockSamson on Aug 29, 2010 3:26 PM PDT
Sam Page from Amazin Avenue
had an interesting take on this:
http://www.amazinavenue.com/2010/9/10/1680109/the-hypocrisy-of-the-walter-reed
by Andy Braves Fan on Sep 10, 2010 12:18 PM EDT reply actions
if those facts are true… i have to say Beltran gets a pass…obviously it would have been the right thing for him to make it to Walter Reed, but if he was doing some other type of philanthropy we can’t act like he is an impotent jerk…he was doing something that is extremely important.
Castillo has gone before and is obviously just being a littler girl…. and Perez is a well-known douche
"No. Lonely people mixing with one another? Breeding? Creating an even lonelier generation? You're not even allowing natural selection do its work. Pssh. You're like the guy who invented the seat belt."
Dwight Schrute
I would generally agree
He couldn’t not be there for a charity event with his name on it. But I think the key point is the diatribe about the NY media, and it is really endemic of the current news media in general. That is, 22 guys did a really great thing, but all we hear about is the 3 guys who, for whatever reason, didn’t.
by Andy Braves Fan on Sep 13, 2010 10:42 AM EDT up reply actions
Umm..
As a Soldier myself, I know I would be pretty damn happy to be able to see some professional baseball players. Just saying…
"The cake is a lie"
And we all hate Victorino because he wears MMA shirts…
This guy wants to suck all the cubs dick can he not have an unbias some what partition reguards
by RWH2 on Apr 5, 2010 10:20 AM CDT
by justincredubil02 on Sep 12, 2010 5:22 AM EDT reply actions
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