Quotes of 2006

[Elster88]

]"Those pitches just got away. That pitch wasn't really that far in, except [Jose Guillen] leans over," Martinez said. "I think he overreacted a little bit, especially going out there with the bat. I can understand it if you're frustrated or mad or something. You want to charge, you charge. But don't bring your bat out there. I wasn't scared anyway."

[Guest abogdan]

That Floyd quote reminds me of something. I saw James Brown at Lincoln Center a few years ago. Great show. Anyway, during the middle of it, the Reverend Al Sharpton comes on stage to say a few words. Of course, he gets, at best, a mixed reaction from the crowd. After he's off stage, James Brown goes off on the crowd, saying "You boo him, you boo yourself" repeatedly. Then he starts going off on how the world needs more love. He then gets the entire crowd to tell the people sitting next to them that they love them. "Now, turn to the person to your left and say 'I love you.' Now turn to your right and say 'I love you too.'" Then he broke into "I Feel Good." Amazing show.

[Elster88]

]Now, turn to the person to your left and say 'I love you.' Now turn to your right and say 'I love you too.'"

How did this work? If they all turned to the left at the same time they would be looking at the back of the next person's head.

[Guest abogdan]

You don't argue with the Godfather of Soul.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I had a conversation once with James Brown. I was so dumbfounded that he was the articulate one.

[A Boy Named Seo]

And on the 8th day, God doffed His cap. This one was kinda funny to me.

]"I just took my time. Like I said, in the beginning I didn't feel like doing it, but I just put myself in the situation of what God would have done in a situation like that. I'm a Christian and I know after being booed for the first two days and all of a sudden you come through and get a hit and all of a sudden they want you to come out and get a curtain call. I put myself right there, and I believe God would have gone out, and that's what I did." -Beltran on the curtain call thing

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Does God take on 3-0? Does he put the winning run on base to pitch to the next batter with the forceout in effect?

At last we have the means to get an answer. Also, if Beltran's God now, what does that make Julio Franco? St. Peter, maybe? And who would be booing God in the first place? Wouldn't God have won the MVP last year and made the whole question moot? How could God not be the MVP, anyway? "In a surprise vote, dark-horse candidate Satan was voted this season's MVP, upsetting God who had won the award the previous 2 billion millenia..."

Beltran is sounding more like a loony nutbar every day. I may start booing him for his religious beliefs now.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Petey v. Guillen

]Martinez, who earned the victory despite allowing five runs in six innings, said he isn't sure if the Nationals will retaliate or let the situation die. "I have no idea how they feel, I can't really tell, but in my heart I know I didn't mean to do anything like that. I don't have the need," said Martinez, who also stroked an RBI single. "If (Guillen) doesn't want to understand, or anybody doesn't want to understand, it's fine. There's nothing to linger, nothing special happened out there, except maybe my base hit."

[A Boy Named Seo]

]"The fans love it. Players hate it because it is too cold for that stuff right now. You like the added stuff that goes on, but you don't want it to the point where guys start to get hurt. You have retaliation. It doesn't mean when they say they are going to hit you that they are going to hit you in the arm or the leg. What if they hit you in the head? I've got family." -The quotable Cliff Floyd on the Pedro/Guillen tiff

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

That's just so wussy. "I have a family."

"I have a boo-boo."

"I have my period."

Tell you what, you pampered ("I have a load in my pampers") overprivileged whiny infant, if you value your family so much, take a fucking deskjob where there's very little chance of physical danger cropping up, and walk away from the multi-million dollar salary you're collecting, and PROTECT YOUR FUCKING FAMILY THAT WAY, okay?

One of the reasons you get paid like you do is that people are throwing baseballs in the vicinity of your head, and we still expect you to do your job anyway. Deal with that.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I agree, Bret. Loving your family and not wanting to get killed by a baseball to the head is so pussy! Why don't you line your gay, Cool-Flo helmet with some tampons, Cliff, you whiny, menstruating, infant.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Pitch one and shoulda-been-ball one for Reyes is out two.

[metirish]

Jeter talking to Lupica....

] "I keep telling everybody, the baseball season doesn't start until it starts here."

yeah right.

[Guest Iubitul]

metirish wrote: Jeter talking to Lupica.... ] "I keep telling everybody, the baseball season doesn't start until it starts here." yeah right.

Someone should notify that arrogant POS that the winds of change are blowing, and that there will soon be a new sherriff in town...

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Iubitul wrote: ="metirish"]Jeter talking to Lupica.... ] "I keep telling everybody, the baseball season doesn't start until it starts here." yeah right. Someone should notify that arrogant POS that the winds of change are blowing, and that there will soon be a new sherriff in town...

or maybe you should wait until the Mets actually win a badge or two before notifying? I mean, not to seem arrogant or anything.

[Elster88]

I hate this "sheriff in town" stuff. I don't want to compete with the Yankees, and I don't care which team attracts the most bandwagoners.

There are two teams in New York. When they are both good, they are both popular.


As much as I'm sure Larry's quote ("Now all the Met fans can go home and put their Yankees' stuff on") angered people, it had a lot to truth.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That was Rocker who said that, no?

[Elster88]

I was positive it was Larry. But I've been wrong before.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jones it was.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Edgy DC wrote: That was Rocker who said that, no?

Larry. Definitely.

Rocker wasn't that eloquent. He was busy giving Mets fans the finger from the mound during the playoffs.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Four pages in and the first quote in this thread is still the best.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

The quotes thread was a disaster last year too.

Let's try n' fill this thing with witty or funny or profound or meaningful remarks from or about the Mets, -- limiting it to that surrounded by quotation marks in a newspaper or other reputable journal and usually followed with 'he said.' Dates and subject and context ought to be added by way of explanation, for example:

"The quotes thread was a disaster last year too."
--Johnny Dickshot on the "Quotes 2006" thread, 4/12

[metirish]

] "You know what, I don't hold any grudges," Martinez said. "He's probably bitter still. But I'm just going to continue to pray for him and hopefully he'll get better, his temper will change."

Pedro on Guillen.

[Guest GYC]

]We have a certain swagger to us�We have a lot of confidence. We just have an attitude about us right now that we don't think we're going to lose�We�re not cocky, but we go out there every day and we expect to win, day in, day out� Is it going to happen? Probably not. But we're going to go out there and play good baseball and expect to win. That's what winning teams do, even before the game starts, they have a swagger to them that they think they're going to go out there and win�We want to jump on pitchers early and bury them� We smell the blood, and we want to go for the kill. We want to put the otherteam away early.

David Wright on the fast start.

[Elster88]

All the players are saying things like this. It's making me a little nervous. And I'm not superstitious..

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The axiom that you're never as good as you look when you're winning is certainly true, but nevertheless, it's nice to read that quote. David Wright is talking like an 86er.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm sure that's a recycled Ray Knight quote.

[Theoldmole]

Cliff Floyd: "Ain't nothing about this phony."

[Gwreck]

Eddie Coleman: "How much grief did you take when you got back to the dugout after your 2-run single?"

Darren Oliver: "No grief. These guys know, I can hit a little bit. Stats don't lie. Check the books."

[Guest Edgy DC]

And so I did: .228 / .264 / .292 // .556

Anderson Hernandez, eat your heart out.