Quotes of 2017

[Edgy MD]

Asdrubal Cabrera hits for the cycle with this fantastic jeremiad against being left off of Venezuela's WBC roster, indicting Team Venezuela GM (and "[person]") Carlos Guillen while mostly giving a pass to the team's manager, Omar Vizquel

“I will not participate in the World Baseball Classic because Carlos Guillen is the least serious and most deceitful [person] that may exist,” Cabrera said, according to a rough translation of remarks reported by ESPN. “What a shame that Omar Vizquel, with all the respect he deserves, is accepting all this scoundrel-ness.” http://nypost.com/2017/02/09/asdrubal-cabrera-is-furious-over-double-cross/

While those words may seem inadvisably impolitic, New York Post scribe Jonathan Lehman reports, that Cabrera was warned. He was given an explanation. Nevertheless, he persisted.

[Benjamin Grimm]

We really can't start accepting scoundrelness.

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: We really can't start accepting scoundrelness.

I wonder how that is translated to/ from Spanish. I'm guessing he used some different choice words.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Manager Terry Collins on the Mets’ injuries: “We came into [last] season, Sports Illustrated had those five guys on the cover. I don’t even know where they all are right now.”

[Edgy MD]

Looking back at the quote at the top of this thread, we kind of get a foreshadowing of the drama of last week, recalling that Asdrubal Cabrera has a history of going to the media with sizzling quotes when his pride is crossed.

Asdrubal Cabrera hits for the cycle with this fantastic jeremiad against being left off of Venezuela's WBC roster, indicting Team Venezuela GM (and "[person]") Carlos Guillen while mostly giving a pass to the team's manager, Omar Vizquel “I will not participate in the World Baseball Classic because Carlos Guillen is the least serious and most deceitful [person] that may exist,” Cabrera said, according to a rough translation of remarks reported by ESPN. “What a shame that Omar Vizquel, with all the respect he deserves, is accepting all this scoundrel-ness.” http://nypost.com/2017/02/09/asdrubal-cabrera-is-furious-over-double-cross/ While those words may seem inadvisably impolitic, New York Post scribe Jonathan Lehman reports, that Cabrera was warned. He was given an explanation. Nevertheless, he persisted.