Most of us have a player we don’t like or care for on the roster. We complain about the guy, especially when he makes an out or commits an error but that’s typically as far as it goes. Well, as I’m sure you know, loyal reader TexasGus is anything but typical. Let’s just say that Gus is ready for Jose Reyes to be an ex-Met again.
Yes, this is a Reyes jersey and Gus is taking out his frustrations with Reyes and his .411 OPS.
Y – why indeed? I guess he’s not going to want to wear it 10 years from now when the memory of his play in 2018 is a distant memory.
Gus assures me that he’s going to clean up the loose threads. So he does plan to wear it again. Bet he tells everyone it was an Ed Kranepool jersey, though.
Thanks to Gus for sharing the pictures and allowing me to post here at the site!
silly . get a life . dance with your partner
I mean you come around here and make nasty comments time after time so who needs a life?
Pure Gus!
I think many of us can recall when we truly hated a player. When I was a kid, I hated Mickey Lolich. I couldn’t stand him. How could the Mets trade my favorite player Rusty Staub for fat Mickey Lolich.
Now, as an informed older fan, I look at his stays and with his only year with the Mets, he had a 3.22 ERA.
I still doesn’t change that feeling of hatred as a kid.
Oh, I also hated Bucky Dent too.
Maybe your hatred should not be at Reyes, maybe it should be at the moron GM who keeps him on the team.
The gm doesn’t keep him here, its the ownership that does cause some fans are nostalgic for ‘06, pathetic.
Mike, that was Monday night during the middle of the second game of the Atlanta day/nighter. Ironically, just a week or so ago, on this blog I asked posters to be less irritated by Reyes’ slow start as he isn’t a big cog in the wheel and he truly wants to be a Met so we should applaud that.
However, besides his shenanigans and all the things I’m not about, that night, when the infield came in to protect against another run scoring and he stayed back because “he isn’t comfortable at 3B”, I lost my last bit of patience. My mother would have played in and did her best, because that’s what the rest of your team is doing. Cohen and Hernandez were incredulous in the booth, even saying that if the hitter wanted to drop a bunt, the runner can walk home. In the chat I told Brian, as a former coach, I don’t tolerate individualism. It was at that moment that I knew that for the good of the team, he had to go, and I never wanted to wear his name again.
Tonight, against a lefty starter, they preferred to play a rookie lefty at 3B (who never played the position in his life before he came to the majors) over the switch hitting Reyes. I was proud of the coaches, and he better go when Frazier gets back.
So, Friday night was the home opener for the Copperheads, the summer collegiate baseball team that I work for. And what do I see from one of the fans in the stands? No lie – he was wearing a Jose Reyes jersey! I immediately thought that if Gus was there he would have calmly walked up to the guy and asked what was the matter with him.