Quotes of 05 (cont.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Would he be rejected?

--Keith Hernandez, insulting a bald fan wearing a Keith Hernandez replica jersey at Shea.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Would he be rejected?

--Keith Hernandez, insulting a bald fan wearing a Keith Hernandez replica jersey at Shea, with reference to his Just for Men ad.

[Guest metirish]

Pedro looking forward to the All-Star game....

]"I'm pretty sure Omar will consider that knowing he wanted to make a statement when he brought Carlos and me over here,It would be a great to deal for the Mets to have us in the All-Star Game."

[Guest metirish]

So much for my last quote, Piazza today on the base running..

]"We can kill a rally faster than anybody," Piazza said, laughing, after the game. "We've got some real Clydesdales out there sometimes."

[Guest Elster88]

I'm not sure who Piazza is referring to, other than himself. Maybe Minky?

[Guest metirish]

USA manager George Brett talking to Lastings Milledge during the Futures game last night....

]"You want some pine tar on that bat?"

Milledge in reply..

]"No, you're going to get me thrown out like you did,"

Brett of course went on to rave about LM.

[Guest Benjamin Grimm]

A ballplayer who knows about events that took place before he was born?

That's pretty rare.

[Guest MFS62]

Scouts called Darryl Strawberry "the Black Ted Williams".
When told about it, Darryl asked "Who was Ted Williams?"

Yes, Lastings' comment was very refreshing.

Later

[Guest metirish]

Frank Robinson was on "Costas Now" on HBO Friday night, Costas asked FR if his players know what he accomplished in the game, Robinson said some do , the he laughed and said...

]2 or 3 players on this team asked me if I ever played the game

..

[Guest metirish]

It's all about Pedro..

]"Pedro touched 85 (mph) three or four times," Cox said. "You say, 'Let's adjust,' but he makes his pitches so perfectly placed, you still can't adjust."

]"I had an easy day and I deserved it, didn't I?" Martinez said. "It was an easy day at the office."

]"When I'm pitching, the defense is always on its toes, in the right place at the right time,It comes from tempo. I work fast and I throw strikes. I don't waste any time."

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

]"When I'm pitching, the defense is always on its toes, in the right place at the right time,It comes from tempo. I work fast and I throw strikes. I don't waste any time."

Pedro - The Anti-Trax.

[Guest Edgy DC]

MFS62 wrote: Darryl asked "Who was Ted Williams?"

Is there a source for that?

[Guest metirish]

Leiter on his fall from grace with the Marlins..

]"First it was mental, then it was mechanical, then it all snowballed,maybe it was leaving the Mets, maybe it was being away from my family. I don't know."

[Guest Edgy DC]

]After Leiter gave up a two-out single to Manny Ramirez in the sixth, Mel Stottlemyre went to check on him. He asked him if his pitch count had been that high anytime this year. "My last start," Leiter said, "except it was in the third inning."

[Guest Edgy DC]

]"Maybe Pedro simply put his hands up and made it stop." -- Ed Coleman on a rain storm that threatened to interrupt a Met game while Pedro Martinez was pitching shutout ball.

[Guest metirish]

Good ones above.

Kenny Rogers turned himself in yesterday...this following is an exchange between Rogers and a camera man covering the procedure.

WFAA reported on its Web site Monday that photographer Mike Zukerman was videotaping the procedure when Rogers turned to him and said,

]"You're getting really close; you know that? Do you hear me?"

A few seconds later, Rogers again turned to the camera, saying,

]"You must be pretty proud of yourself, too."

After Zukerman replied,

]"It's just my job, Kenny,"

Rogers responded:

]"Yeah. Your job. That's just your excuse."

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

] "In my next life, I'm going to come back with the ability that Jose Reyes has. I might become a shortstop. "I can tell you I'll pay more than $50, more than $100 to see him play. I'll get the best seats in the stadium to see him play. It doesn't matter how much it is. I'll pay that price."

--Pedro Martinez on Jose Reyes, 7/23

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: ] "In my next life, I'm going to come back with the ability that Jose Reyes has. I might become a shortstop. "I can tell you I'll pay more than $50, more than $100 to see him play. I'll get the best seats in the stadium to see him play. It doesn't matter how much it is. I'll pay that price." --Pedro Martinez on Jose Reyes, 7/23

"A hundred bucks? I tip more than that in the shithouse"--

Leo Durocher, ca. 1946

[Guest metirish]

Heard on the Radio yesterday from Howie Rose...

]later tonight the Yankees play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,and here the Mets are playing the Brooklyn Dodgers of Los Angeles

[Guest Elster88]

]"The sun has been there for 500, 600 years . . ." Cameron said, proving himself no great astronomer.

[Guest metirish]

Omar...

[Guest Elster88]

From Bill Simmons Quote of the Day:

"You're not going to play for me if you don't put out." -- Mets manager Willie Randolph

[Guest Willets Point]

File that under too much information.

[Guest metirish]

]"I can't even take it. I thought I can handle it. I can't."

Mike Cameron reacting to a week's worth of trade rumors.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

"I haven't heard booing like that since Roger Cedeno was in New York City."
--Cliff Floyd on the reception Beltran got in Houston, 7/31

[Guest metirish]

Cliff on Reyes..

]"He was singing on the bus the other day when we were going to the airport, just kicking back and singing in Spanish," left fielder Cliff Floyd said. "The kid thinks he owns the place. But we love him."

Garner on Reyes..

]"If he gets on base, he's scoring," Houston manager Phil Garner said. "Reyes scares you because he takes advantage of any mistake you make against him in the field. When we talked about them before the series, he was the player we spent the most time on."

[Guest MFS62]

Johnny, I heard Cliff say that and was going to post it.
Great line.

Later

[Guest TheOldMole]

"That's why we're not called the New York Mientkiewiczes."

-- Doug M.


Can you imagine if they were?

[Guest metirish]

]"That's a hard night," Piazza said, tongue in cheek. "I'm exhausted."

[Guest SwitchHitter]

About steroids, George Kell says, "Most Hall of Famers don't like it when their records are broken by people who cheat."