Quotes of 2006

[stevejrogers]

Elster88 wrote: ]Especially against the Yankees with the hated rivalry we have. Weird. Many other players and coachs have insisted that there is no rivaly.

As stated, Lo Duca is a fan, fans think differently than players who grew up in different states, parts of states

Also think of it this way, the players (and coaches, managers and others) kind of lose their fandom somehow, somewhere along the way. Baseball became their job and "hatred" of other teams just doesn't mean as much. The Players Union and free agency (with players going from one team to another "frequently-er" than in the past) also have something to do with the fraternity of baseball players shattering team "rivals" and rendering guys like Bob Gibson, who never talked to an NL All Star teamate, obsolete

[A Boy Named Seo]

]"David should get Jose to throw to him... he'd win for sure." - Anonymous teammate suggesting Jose Lima should throw David Wright's BP at the All-Star Game's Home Run Derby, 7/8/06

Zinger.

[metirish]

That's a pretty cold qoute form a teammate, I hope he was joking.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Marty Noble supplied the quote in a Mets.com article today and said the quote was provided "in typical clubhouse sarcasm."

I agree Lima Time wouldn't find it as funny, though.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

]I was a Yankees fan as long as they were winning.

David Letterman, while interviewing David Wright; 7/12/06.

]It's something that I'm very concerned about. Obviously your tongue is important to you." David Wright, later in that interview, when asked whether he has ever bitten off the tip of his tongue.

[MFS62]

Jim "Quote Machine" Leyland, on how he gives a steal sign to the lumbering Chris "Junk in the Trunk" Shelton:

"His steal sign normally is if I jump up in the air and I never come down. I told him, 'If I jump up and never come down, you go.'"

Later

[MFS62]

More Leyland on needing experience in a pennant race:

"I don't think there's anything to that as far as, 'Well, this is their first time through it.' I don't buy that at all. Talent is talent. I'll take talent every time whether they've got experience or not."

Later

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

]It's something they're stuck with in that league, and thank goodness we don't have to watch it every day!

Gary Cohen, on the DH.

[metirish]

] "You work all year to get where you are, and then something like this happens. It's tough," Nady said. "I was out on the beach with my fianc�e when I saw I missed about seven calls on my cell. Then I talked to Omar. He thanked me and I thanked him for the opportunity."

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

]"I've always wanted to be a life-long Met," Wright said. "I made that clear. This is a big step in that direction."

I love that boy.

[metirish]

Wright's agent.

] "No pun intended, but it was the right move to [first negotiate] with Jose, and David understood that," said Seth Levinson, one of Wright's three agents. "As soon as David made the play [that ended Saturday's game], you hear the stadium erupt. You hear the offices erupted. We erupted, and the [Mets officials came into the room] trying to look somber, sober, serious. "My brother [sam] said to them, 'So guys, how'd the game end? How'd it turn out?' Everybody just busted out laughing."

[metirish]

What a life Pedro has.

] "We're trying to conserve his pitch counts and get him as much rest as we can," Mets pitching coach Rick Peterson said prior to last night's game. "After that, we can lie him on the trainer's table and feed him grapes."

[Elster88]

I'm warming up to Peterson these days.

[metirish]

John Sterling calling a Bobby Abreu high fly to left Saturday...thanks to Phil Mushnick....

] "It is high! It is far! It is gone! . . . I think."

It was a double off the wall.

[Guest Edgy DC]

An old one about Tom Seaver:

Reggie Jackson wrote: "Blind people come to the park just to listen to him pitch."

[MFS62]

Jim "Quote Machine" Leyland, holding a press conference after a particularly embarrassing loss to the lowly Devil Rays:

"Write this down. There was a manager, six coaches and 25 people in Tiger uniforms tonight. Thirty-two total. And we all stunk. That's all I got for you. Good night."

Later

[MFS62]

This was in yesterday's Daily News:

]"As for Perez's turnaround, GM Omar Minaya said: "I think it was a combination of mechanical and just clearing his head. We knew when we got him it was just going to take some time. Two years ago people talked about him the way they talked about Dontrelle (Willis), the way they talked about the guy in Tampa Bay. What's his name? (Scott) Kazmir. We felt we got a guy who potentially had some upside. We didn't know if we could get him back, but I'm pleased by the progress."

Whaddaya' wanna' bet that Omar really knew Kasmir's name without having to think twice?

Later

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

]Is that an MVP's candidates' debate going on at first base?

Gary Cohen, looking at Beltran on first base, talking to Albert Pujols.

[MFS62]

From an article about Shawn Green in today's Daily News.

When Delgado was asked if Shawn was any good at Salsa dancing at Carlos' wedding, Carlos said;
"Of course not. That's why we made him do it".

Later

[A Boy Named Seo]

"Nothing. I woke up."

-Julio Franco when asked what he wanted for his 48th birthday.

[Frayed Knot]

Steve Lyons doing color on FOX's Game of the Week (Yanx-Angels) after spotting Reggie Jackson in the stands:

"There's a guy who hustled during every pitch of every game he ever played"


That sound you just heard was Billy Martin rolling over in his grave.

[metirish]

I thought the same thing when Lyons said that, and he said a few times....idiot.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ozzie Guillen wrote: (St. Louis starter) Mark Mulder wouldn't even make my team. If we played National League teams, the Central Division, we might win 150 games."

[Centerfield]

Steve Lyons is like the annoying guy at work who knows nothing about baseball but always wants to talk about it anyway somehow finding himself a way to get on TV.

[Willets Point]

Huh? Is Steve Lyons related to this guy?

[Frayed Knot]

"It's good to have butterflies, but you need them to fly in formation" --
Rick Peterson on Oliver Perez's early troubles in his first Met start

[metirish]

Trax on his high ERA.

] �I had a couple bad games that inflated my E.R.A., and it�s hard to get it down,� Trachsel said. �I�d need to throw 25 scoreless innings or something. You kind of ignore it all and move on.�

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Hard to believe it, but Traxie chalked up a Quality Start last night! Plus a hit, a walk and 2 RS.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kazuo Matsui wrote: "It was all my fault. I didn't do well. I didn't have good results. It was all my fault."

Apparently his purse was in Colorado the whole time.

[metirish]

]"They've got an American League lineup," manager Bobby Cox said. "There are no easy outs any more."

Smoltz on the Mets.

Their offense is the best offense in baseball, I think, because of what every component can do

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