High praise for Reyes from Vin Scully

[stevejrogers]

Caught this from Bob Raissman's column in today's Daily News

]Scully knows Jack about Reyes Ch. 11's Sal Marchiano, on his Wednesday cast, picked up (it was a great catch) on an amazing comparison voiced by Vin Scully. The Hall of Famer was working Mets-Dodgers on Ch. 9 in Los Angeles. Marchiano gave viewers full sound of Scully marveling at Jose Reyes' ability to manufacture a run. Reyes beat out an infield hit, stole second and third. Then he induced the pitcher to throw a wild pitch. "That run belongs to Reyes," Scully reported. "He reminds me of Jackie Robinson." Wow! For Reyes, this is the highest of praise. And it comes from a voice who not only knows what he is talking about, but resides on top of the baseball broadcasting mountain.

I can see that, Reyes certaintly is the same kind of disturber that Jackie was. But Reyes has quite a different demeanor than Jackie Robinson had. Probably more of a Rickey Henderson personaility than the Robinson/Rose/Cobb type.

[nymr83]

Cobb?? you want to put COBB'S demeanor with Robinson's instead of with Rickey's??

[stevejrogers]

Nymr83 wrote: Cobb?? you want to put COBB'S demeanor with Robinson's instead of with Rickey's??

Well, not in terms of off the field opinions of their fellow human beings and life in general, and certaintly Jackie Robinson would never go to the level Ty Cobb did when it came to spiking and such, but the mean "I'm just out here to do whatever the hell I can to beat you" attitude, fire and detirmination was very much the same.

[nymr83]

so then you're saying Reyes is a slacker like Henderson? someone who goes into a homerun trot on a ball that ain't over the wall?

[stevejrogers]

Nymr83 wrote: so then you're saying Reyes is a slacker like Henderson? someone who goes into a homerun trot on a ball that ain't over the wall?

No, like the Cobb/Robinson, I'm more talking about the general sense, not specific. Rickey looked like he enjoyed playing, so does Reyes. Robinson, like Cobb, was deadly serious on the field.

[Elster88]

Don't bother trying, Nymr.

[metirish]

Coming from Scully that's high praise.

[stevejrogers]

Elster88 wrote: Don't bother trying, Nymr.

Whats so off base about the Cobb-Robinson comparison and the Reyes-Henderson comparision? Cobb and Robinson played as if they hated the opposition (both probably did) Reyes does not, Henderson did not. I'm just talking about the way they played the game in general terms, nothing to do with specifics about the way they played, ie Henderson's hotdogging and Cobb's intent to injure an infielder.