Quotes of 2009

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jerry Manuel on Bobby Kielty:

�Every time, I used to think, Should I take him out? Leave him in? Mark Buehrle�s my best pitcher. And then here he comes, Big Kielty, Big Red, and he�d hit it out of the park. With that Minnesota team back in those days, he was an integral part in taking us down. I�ll tell you, he helped me lose my job, and now he wants me to give him a job? It don�t work like that.�

[metirish]

Manuel in mid season form , love him for those quotes.

[MFS62]

Sounds like he didn't agree with the signing.
Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sounds more like he's kidding around.

[MFS62]

Sounds like I was, too.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

"When you�re good, you can be in any hole."

-- Carlos Beltran

(Thanks, holychicken)

[soupcan]

"When you�re good, you can be in any hole."[/quote:28cx5m73]

That's true on so many levels.

[nymr83]

"It [amphetamine use] might be dangerous, but so is drinking and driving. And how many of us do it at least once a year? Pretty much everybody."
-Bronson "I'm a Fucking Idiot" Arroyo

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nicknames are so different these days.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"It [amphetamine use] might be dangerous, but so is drinking and driving. And how many of us do it at least once a year? Pretty much everybody."
-Bronson "I'm a Fucking Idiot" Arroyo

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Strikes me as probably closest to the truth I've ever heard on this topic. He's dead right about the mindset of the athlete.

[metirish]

Strikes me as probably closest to the truth I've ever heard on this topic. He's dead right about the mindset of the athlete.[/quote:2b2ewmd2]

yeah me too , refreshing I think to hear this from a player.

link

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/reds/2009-08-12-arroyo-cover-unconcerned_N.htm

[Guest Edgy DC]

"People can think what they want of me. I don't give a f�-."

Oh, I do.

[seawolf17]

Sure, it's "refreshing" to hear guys like Arroyo come out openly like this, but really, it underlines the whole problem. Professional athletes are mollycoddled their whole lives these days; they have access to the finest facilities, charter planes, luxury hotel suites, meal money, and groupies. Of course they feel a sense of entitlement that they don't have to play by the same rules as the rest of society, or even of their peers.

[Guest Edgy DC]

From Ken Davidoff's Blog:

Quote of the Week: Not really, but it was a convenient way to fit in a Mets story or two, and besides I cracked up when I read Jerry Manuel's thoughts here on Wilson Valdez: ""The more that he plays, the more that he appears to grow on you." I love the qualifying "It appears," as if Manuel will take it back when he wakes up this morning and reads this blog. Just imagine if Jerry Maguire had said to Dorothy Boyd, "You appear to complete me," and she responded, "You appear to have had me at hello." Perhaps not as impactful, eh?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

"It's like going to work everyday, and having a bad day."

Mike Pelfrey