Quotes of 2013

[Edgy MD]

"Five days before I got traded I was with the owner of the Miami Marlins and he said he was never going to trade me." --- Jos� Reyes

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2013/baseball/mlb/wires/01/17/2010.ap.bba.blue.jays.reyes.0998/index.html#ixzz2IIAp9Zoh

[Guest The Second Spitter]

My sympathy for Jose: 0

[Edgy MD]

"There's been a lot of talk about our OF. I want fans to know I'm in serious discussions with several OFs I met on the internet." --- Sandy Alderson

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Ha, ha, Funny Guy. I bet the Coupons are laughing all the way to the banks they're filling with moneyfansgoodwillmylife. Why can't this joker take this leisure-activity as seriously as I do and get us Bourn and Halladay and GAH MY BRAIN STROKES AGAIN"

-Way more people than I'd ever care to imagine

[Edgy MD]

Yup.

Part of me thinks his jokes are his way of provoking the element apparently bordering on jumping ship/having a stroke/exploding to go ahead and do it. Call their humorless bluffs anyhow.

[Edgy MD]

Let's talk about that 50-game suspension, Marlon.

�It was Tamoxifen. Tamoxifen combats gynecomastia,� Byrd said Friday, referring to the ailment that involves enlarged breasts in males. �The way that it was written last year by everybody, everyone called it a steroid. It is a banned substance. It was something that I took, not knowing because of the name that I was taking, me not checking the [banned] list for the first time in my career. I�ve said it before: I think you have to be an idiot to test positive. And I was one of those idiots. It was something stupid. I was not trying to cheat. It was a banned substance. It was not a steroid. But, again, you take something on the banned list, you�re going to get caught.�

Oh, that's OK then.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: It was a banned substance. It was not a steroid. But, again, you take something on the banned list, you�re going to get caught.�

Being the one major leaguer who chose to work with the Victor Conte in the post-BALCO era tends to get you caught too, Marlon.

[ashie62]

This link is from an Anabolic Steroid website that explains how Tamoxifen manipuates estrogen to increase testosterone....I doubt Marlon was using it as a breast cancer preventative...

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread.php?462646-Tamoxifen-Citrate-Nolvadex-Profile

As far as Jose goes he bought the ticket and is taking the ride.. all the way to Canada and beyond.

[Edgy MD]

David Wright on why labeling him "our Jeter" was too kind.

�I got a chance to pick his brain a little bit. He was awesome. � It solidifies the reason that I kind of look up to him the way that I do, is the way that he treated me during the WBC.�

Don't eat the fruit in the basket, David! It'll make you... intangible!

[ashie62]

That fruit would be a Tan-gerine.

[Edgy MD]

�I'll never forget last year when I got booed on Opening Day. Jason Bay and I got booed on Opening Day, and I'm thinking, 'Man, this is what it's come to, I guess.' You're not human if it doesn't bother you." --- Mike Pelfrey

[Chad ochoseis]

Edgy MD wrote: �I'll never forget last year when I got booed on Opening Day. Jason Bay and I got booed on Opening Day, and I'm thinking, 'Man, this is what it's come to, I guess.' You're not human if it doesn't bother you." --- Mike Pelfrey

I remember that, and it really pissed me off; I made a point of giving both of them a nice hand. If you're gonna boo them, at least wait until they actually make an out/give up some runs.

[Edgy MD]

It's notable to me that they remember who else got booed. That's hard.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mets fans are the worst.

[MFS62]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Mets fans are the worst.

A quick reminder here that Philadelphia fans boo-ed Santa Claus.
Later

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Mets fans are the worst.

I think this started happening in earnest around the 05/06 season.....at least in my Mets fandom going back to only the late 90's this has been the worst.

There is an element that goes to the games just to boo it seems, the last game I was at with my son the bile coming from thugs around us was embarrassing, there was also plenty of fans in our section trying to drown out that nonsense.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember Opening Day 1987, the day the Mets raised their World Championship flag and gave out the World Series rings. A day that should have been full of nothing but good feelings. Roger McDowell got booed for having a bad spring training.

[Gwreck]

There was one year recently (2010?) where the entire medical/training staff got booed, resulting in a huge cheer for the first non-trainer person...which was Charlie Samuels.

[Edgy MD]

Way to represent, Mets fans!

[Edgy MD]

Adam Rubin wrote: PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- David Wright�s first session taking live batting practice since the World Baseball Classic went well Sunday, increasing optimism he will be ready for Opening Day. �It�s the next step,� Wright said. �Any time you get to the next step, it�s a significant step. It�s one step closer.�

That's the stuff of captains, right there. You can have your Brauns and your Kemps. My boy fills column inches like nobody's business. In midseason form, I'd say.

[Frayed Knot]

I think it was quotes like that which initially sprained his intercostal.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

[Edgy MD]

�I have more hits than last year at this time." --- a 4 for 27, but apparently unconcerned, Ike Davis

[MFS62]

Heard yesterday on WFAN.
Daniel Murphy: "John Buck is a 6 foot 4 monster".

Later

[TransMonk]

Jay Horwitz @Jay_HorwitzPR

Have the start of flu coming on. Stopped on the way to park to pick up some Medical Marijuana.It's legal here you know.Game should be fun.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Whatever it takes to get you through a tripleheader.

[TransMonk]

Someone should let Jay know that in Colorado you don't even have to fake the flu. He can remove the "medical" because it is unnecessary there.

[Edgy MD]

�No offense, but who in their right mind would let a player miss a game for a hockey game?� --- Jay Horwitz

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Terry 'Shecky' Collins, today:

On whether Zack Wheeler should follow Matt Harvey's lead: "You mean find him a supermodel?"

On Costas' comment: "All right - civilization's over. Let's rebuild."

[Edgy MD]

Really? Those are both pretty good.