Cole Hamels had some choice words about the Mets yesterday. If you’re in a good mood, stop reading NOW:
On our two September slides: “Last year and this year, I think we did believe that. Three years ago, we didn’t, because they smoked everybody. I really thought that was the year they were going to the World Series. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen. That’s kind of what we believe. … I think we’re always going to believe it ’til they prove us wrong. Yeah, for the past two years, they’ve been choke artists.”
On Jose Reyes: “I’m hoping I don’t hurt too many people right here with this. … When Jose Reyes hits home runs, he points his finger up like he won the game. And he might have hit it only in the first inning or the third inning. Well, when Shane did it, he did the same exact thing. So we were [saying], ‘Hey, Shane, this doesn’t win the game. We still have a lot of game to play. Ya know, why are you trying to be like Jose Reyes?’ “
Hamels went on to call this “pimping” after he homers. He also said the Phillies hung a piece of paper over Shane Victorino’s locker that said “J. Reyes.”
Okay….I’m tired of being a good loser here.
We’re licking the wounds; we’ve got K-Rod, we’ve got Putz. When we’re up, the Phillies like to bring us down. When we’re down, the Phillies like to bring us into the abyss. It’s pretty obvious that the Phillies get their ultimate high not from a World Series ring, but from bringing down the Mets.
This isn’t the first time that Reyes’s on-field celebration has been criticized either. One unnamed veteran even said that the Mets “tick off every opponent they play.” The Mets have let Reyes be himself because-let’s face it-he’s the most exciting player in baseball.
We’ve tried to be classy, be nice and congratulate them about their World Series win. But I’m tired of being classy. If the Phillies aren’t being classy, then why should we? I hope Jose Reyes does back flips and cartwheels at Citizens Bank Park next year. I hope the Mets annhilate Cole Hamels in his first start at Citi Field.
To the Phillies: THE METS ARE THE TEAM TO BEAT!!!!!!
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i guess posing at the plate when you hit a homerun isn’t pimping…ryan howard anyone? it’s really amazing to me that they just won the world series, beat the mets 2 years in a row, and are the early favorite to win the east again…yet all they can talk about is the mets. they mentioned jose reyes at the freakin parade of all places! hopefully the mets respond this year…
Hamels is a punk, and we beat his ass to a pulp in the games he pitched against us last season.
That said, I think we neet a new Mets attitude that takes their job seriously from beginning to end. It’s great to be cocky like the 86 Mets when you win 108 games, but the Mets have been too cocky for a team that hasn’t done anything and choked twice.
Its bad enough wfan put this guy on the air knowing he was gonna bash our team. Let’s stop giving them a forum to rub it in. We have no one to blame but ourselves. When you collapse 2 years in a row, that qualifies as “choking”. The Mets need to be respond with their bats and nothing else.
Maybe it’s just me, but when someone says that a team “choked”, it sounds to me like they are saying that they (phillies) didn’t beat that team (mets) for the division, but rather that team (mets) should have won but beat themselves.
I hate to break it to you guys, but they did better then the Mets last season, they’re a better all around team and it’s okay for you to bash their players all season but once they bash the Met’s players, you start bitching?
Ask yourself why the members of the World Champ. Baseball Team feel the need to make Jr. High school girl comments regading to the Mets. ???
Who are these comments directed at? fans? press? or perhaps themself. It’s almost as if the Phillie players need to convince themself that they can beat the Mets. Just play.
How many people celebrate after hitting home runs and some do more than Jose Reyes.
I remember I used to watch games where Ozzie Smith would do backflips and all kinds of stuff after some good plays.
They just need to toughen up. He can talk all he wants and to be honest I think it will only help us to play that much more aggressive.
Hamels can say whatever he wants–Basically, cause in some ways, he is right. Look, I love the Mets but the fact is that our Mets lost the pennant race on the LAST DAY OF THE YEAR—AT HOME—FOR TWO STRAIGHT SEASONS. Never before in the history of baseball has that happened and so, if that doesnt constitute a choke, what does?
The Phillies can do and say whatever they want. Sadly, they were the division in 07 and everything in 2008. They have talked thet talk AND walked the walk.
We have not and until we can do something the prove them wrong, we have to put up with their comments.
This team (the Mets) needs to catch fire and do something.
We all wanna shut up the Phillies once and for all, right? Then lets win something–and THEN we can trash talk.
These people need to grow up. The Phillies should see my school’s volleyball team. They’d be crying ther eyes out in the locker room for hours. Frankly, if they don’t want to see the celebrations, then they shoudn’t let it happen. Anyway, why is he on WFAN? That’s a NY channel, we don’t want to hear that you-know-what.
Btw, he only put his finger in the air once, and that was in the SIXTH(or seventh) inning, a tiebreaking one that put them up by three and would let them share the division lead.
I am so sick of hearing about Jose Reyes and his antics – he does the same thing MANY do but takes the brunt of it all. Have these peole complaining ever watch a football game?
He did that finger in the air ONCE, and it wasn’t int he 1st inning.
I’m so sick of the Phillies and their obsession with the Mets.
I really hope they see some Chin Music in 09.
For winners, they sure are losers!
I will say it before and I will say it again. Philly is jealous of us because we are the biggest media market and they will never be bigger than us. Call us choke artists Cole because your jealous. It took years of choking before Philly became a success. Let Jose Reyes cheer because thats who he is. You do not see our announcers wanting to hit their player after a HR. Larry Anderson had no problem saying what he said. Forget Philly because they are nobodies. They are like the last kid being picked in dodgeball since they are the worst player. Let’s go Mets!!
And shut-up W8 wat because who are you. When we won the division in 06 we did not talk smack on anyone and when we win the whole thing in 09 we will not be talking smack either.
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jimmy rollins opened his mouth and backed it up……carlos beltran opened his mouth but unfortunately the same didnt happen……now cole opens his mouth……lets see wat happens……personally i feel like david wright, jose reyes or carlos delgado needs to open their mouth next and send a message to philadelphia…..and this time back it up in the field……i have a strong feeling that when these two teams face each other in the reg season there are going to be conflicts or some sort of fight…idk between who (reyes-hamels????) but this is only the beginnig of a long rivalry
Did any Mets fans actually listen to the interview in its entirety?
http://www.wfan.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=3192288
I think Mets fans have a right to be upset with “choke artist” talk but that host totally bated Hamels into that. He asked him if he thought they were choke artists. Straight up. And then asked him to specifically say “the Mets are choke artisits”. Even Seth Everett, a New York sportswriter, said that Hamels didn’t do anything wrong and that he was bated. Lets not act like Hamels was just busting at the seams to talk about it and that he brought it up on his own. Furthermore lets not pretend like us Phillies are so self conscious that we need to bring up at all times. Its your hosts that kept at it.
Though i’ll agree on the showboating. It makes my blood boil when Reyes and Delgado do that gay dance BUT I know Victorino and Rollins gloat as much as anybody….
trolling on another teams message board to call out their fans….nope…not self conscious at all….
I say this all the time….
The 1986 Mets were the most hated and most
“classless” team in baseball. Look what they did.
Lets piss off the opponents to the point where they start throwing at our heads and get themselves ejected from games.
Fuck the Phillies. They are so full of class that they decided to disrespect the Mets by putting them down at their own World Series celebration.
I am sensing chin music for Hamels and Rollins next year.
It’s time for the Mets to step up. The Phillies know this team is soft. They are a bunch of satisfied millionaires. They have no heart. They don’t head hunt. Reyes should not let another team dictate how he acts on the field.
The New York Mets NEED TO ADDRESS THIS.
I remember that 86 team. I remember when Ray Knight punched Eric Davis in the face and it led to an all out war.
We need to rumble with the Phillies.
Someone needs to put one in Rollins gapped teeth, and another one upside Hammels head or better yet….his left hand.
And another thing….the Mets need to get rid of that new announcer on the radio. I think he came from Philly. He unmercifully criticizes the Mets. Even when they win he always found something negative to say. He’s horrible. He needs to go.