22
2011
K-Rod Was “Flippin” Mad After Blown Save
An article by Craig Lerner
Brewers fans are flipping out after seeing what they believe was Francisco Rodriguez flipping the bird to teammate and Brewers closer John Axford after he blew the save as the setup man in the eight inning.
In this photo by the Daily News, the FOX Sports TV cameras panned to K-Rod for his reaction after he blew the save in the eighth inning for the Brewers Wednesday night, and they caught him doing this:
Yes that’s K-Rod looking none too happy in his new digs, giving somebody the one-fingered salute. But to who?
K-Rod started the 8th with a 1-0 lead over the D-Backs, but after a single a walk and a two-run double, the Brewers were now down 2-1 and Rodriguez picked up a blown save, although the Brew Crew would comeback and win the game in extras.
“Wow, what the heck was he even thinking doing something like that’, said one Brewers fan. “It sure does look like that’s for Axford, and if it is, he needs to be dealt with and quickly.”
“I guess we’ll see how this plays out’, said another fan, “doesn’t look real good though does it. If he is in fact flipping off Axford, which it looks like to me, he should be traded for a third baseman or SS. But with this potentially ugly incident now public knowledge, they might not get what they want in return.”
Does anyone still miss K-Rod?
About the Author: Craig Lerner
I'm a data analyst and researcher for a leading news agency who loves life and is hooked on the Mets. I love following the Amateur Draft and have a particular fondness for the Mets Minor Leagues who I follow each day. Give me a cold beer, a summer day, and a Mets game, and I'm good to go.
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To answer your question, Yes I do miss him.
That photo looks like passive-aggressive behavior to me. If K-Rod can’t keep his temper under control, bad things will happen. The Mets know that all too well. K-Rod is the Brewers’ problem now.
and????
that’s basically what sandy alderson is doing to the fans, yet noone complains around here, just because he’s brainwash a lot of suckers..
You call it brainwash, we, the fans, call it headed in the right direction!
RIGHT direction????? really Kay?? please explain!!
not paying $17.5 million for a middle of the road closer based on what he did for another team.
anyone else here think that if K-Rod’s name was say, Mark Smith, or John Lucas, that Alex wouldn’t be defending him so vehemently?
nick, i was told not to bring any racial comments here, i suggest you do the same. i don’t care about krod hispanic backgroun, i care we gave up an all star closer for NOTHING to saved money and not use it AT ALL!!!
Alex,
Even up right now with a view to the next ten years. Who do you want at SS? Jose Reyes or Troy Tulowitzki? I’d take Tulo, how ’bout you?
jose reyes, overratedwitzki has missed almost the same amount of time in 4 years than reyes has in the last 6 years.. shocking isn’t it??
Alex68,
Who DO you like??
jose reyes, carlos beltran, krod and santana… seems like i’m running out of met players to like..
You are so predictable, my friend, Alex. But you really didn’t answer my question.
Troy
06 – he was called up in late August
07 – 155 games
08 – 101 games
09 – 151 games
10 – 122 games
11 – 94 games
total 623 games
Jose
07 – 160 games
08 – 159 games
09 – 36 games
10 – 133 games
11 – 83 games
total 571 games
The school I went to taught me that 623 is a bigger number then 571. Now I’ve never loved Math that much, maybe I’m wrong, oh wait……..
Do you want another chance at checking your facts before spewing more of this…….go ahead, I’ll wait.
Pssst – do you know what a fact is?
Kay, here’s a couple of other statistics:
Tulo birth date: October 10, 1984 (Age: 26)
Reyes birth date: June 11, 1983 (Age 28)
Advantage Tulo.
Coors field also helps Tulo a lot.
Home: .307 average
Away: .269 average
Home: 62 HR’s
Away: 48 HR’s
Home 237 RBI
Away: 165
To be clear – I’d pick Reyes over Tulo 100 times over, huge Reyes fan, but I am still a fan of facts first……..
Kay, are you like my wife? My wife knows the facts but never lets them get in the way of her views.
No Des, actually the opposite. I think our friend Alex is more like that. Has an opinion and rewrites history and pawns that off as fact.
Alex, at least but a big IMO everytime you assert they will not reallocate any of the K Rod savings into the team. I find it hard to believe they are going to cut payroll an additional 17mill over what the budget was already planned to be.
so heck no, they gave him up for 2 prospects (building depth), and a huge amount of payroll flexibility for nesxt year. 2 things they desperately needed.
I 100% feel that the team, overall, is going to be better without K Rod next year thanks to what they will be able to do with that money.
and that does not even take into account that he has been looking shaky for a while (tons of baserunners, loss of velocity on the FB, etc.)
You think the mets lost a stud closer for next year. Just as possible, they got out from under a bad potential situation (it sucks to have a closer that stinks, but it is vastly worse when he is getting 15-20% of total payroll!)
wright, santana and bay.. good luck next year with the eamuses, pridies and hu’s sandy will surround the team with.. you ppl are caught up on nothing, this man was out of baseball for 4 years, comes back to shed money, save wilpon’s the cash, and to create a small market team that demands big time pay.. go figure..
is your name KAY?? second of all, forget about the money, is not yours, you may look at it that way, i look at it this way, mr alderson will get rid of an all star closer and an all star OF, how is that improving the team?? by the way, this contract will expire next season:
ollie, castillo, krod, beltran and reyes.. combine salary saved: 64.5 million, now, does that mean we have 64.5 million to spend, or that we sjust shedding cash?? he WILL not sign reyes based on that, again, he came in here to save money, he will not add payroll ppl, WAKE UP!!!
stop complaining about krod’s 17.5 million he shedded, he will not use that money to add players!!!!! we will get a bunch of “low risk/high rewards” players, then he will shuffle them as soon as they stop producing, ala hu and eamus, then the suckers will say “well, at least he pulls the plug quicker than omar”.. you ppl are blind man, this man is here to save cash, no put a championship caliber team on the field..
Thank you for predicting the future Nostradamus of the zero thought baseball talk. Just because Alderson isn’t going to spend all the money coming off the books doesn’t mean he’s not bringing people in. You do know GMs work to get the team the best talent with the best contract for the team, unlike Minaya who presented everyone with a blank check. And when was the last time K-Rod was an all-star? Yeah… your argument sucks.
And when was the last time K-Rod was an all-star? the last time your idol david wright was an all star..
David Wright is a member of the Mets. K-Rod is a member of the Brewers. Why is Alex trying to score points for a Brewers player?
Take a guess.
“second of all, forget about the money, is not yours, you may look at it that way,”
and where does the money come from? Ticket, concession, and merchandise sales and TV revenue. Not to mention how stadiums are paid for.
“i look at it this way, mr alderson will get rid of an all star closer and an all star OF, how is that improving the team?? by the way, this contract will expire next season:”
Ya, so we’d have to pay him that next year. How is paying a middle of the road closer more money than most #1 starters make plus just letting that star OF go for nothing helping the team?
” ollie, castillo, krod, beltran and reyes.. combine salary saved: 64.5 million, now, does that mean we have 64.5 million to spend, or that we sjust shedding cash?”
Some of it will be reinvested (hopefully on Reyes), some of it will not. Stop being hung up on payroll. We played checkbook baseball and failed at it. Miserably. Plenty of teams are successful without having a top 5 payroll.
“he WILL not sign reyes based on that,”
Says you
“he came in here to save money, he will not add payroll ppl, WAKE UP!!!”
You just caught on to that? Everyone else knew Alderson was here because of the financial problems and the over spending.
How has writing big checks every year worked out so far? Have we got our money’s worth?
Maybe it’s time to focus on the quality of the dollars than the quantity of them
“stop complaining about krod’s 17.5 million he shedded,”
You’re the one complaining. We’re all glad it was shed.
“we will get a bunch of “low risk/high rewards” players,”
And that is worse than big money, small return players we’ve been getting?
“then he will shuffle them as soon as they stop producing,”
Which is better than giving them $12 million a year
“ala hu and eamus, then the suckers will say “well, at least he pulls the plug quicker than omar””
Hu and Emaus were role players. Get over them already.
“you ppl are blind man, this man is here to save cash, no put a championship caliber team on the field..”
He is here to build a sustainable winner. That will call for some alrge checks to be cut, but it will not be the go to move.
He was sent here at Selig’s behest. Do you really think Selig wants the NL team in the biggest market in the world to be lousy? Don’t you think it is in baseball’s best interest for the Mets to be a contending team?
Why bother replying you know all the answers.
By the way you keep bring up Hu, and Emaus’s name, have you forgotten the dozens and dozens and dozens of VERY POOR role players the previous administration brought in here? Difference they fail now, they are gone, not resigned.
You keep ignoring the money factor and ASSume it’s JUST to save and not spend wisely because there is a difference, and you can just continue to be miserable, and I’ll continue to watch things get better, with money well spent.
aLEX, i’M NOT SURE WHAT YOUR RECOMMENDATION WOYULD BE AFTER INJURIES BASICLY DERAILED ANY SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OUR TWO BIGGEST FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS(43M) SINCE 2009. BELTRAN,SANTANA? FORTUBATELY WE’RE ANBOUT TO ESCAPE FROM THE LESSER TOO LONG INVESTMENT RECOUPING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE THANKS TO BELTRAN’S “OVER-THE-TOP” CONTRIBUTIONS THIS YEAR. CARLOS STATED MATTER OF FACTLY YESTERDAY THAT HIS CONTRCT BASICLY WAS DESIGNED TO MAKE DEALING HIM THE ONLY MEASURE BY WHICH TO EXTRACT ANY VALUE FROM HIS DEPARTURE, HIS HERCULEAN CONTRIBUTIONS/STATISTICS THUS FAR ARE AT LEAST AN ATTEMPT TO REPAY HOW MUCH WE’VE PAID HIM FOR SO LITTLE SINCE THE CLOSE OF THE ’09 SEASON.
ALEX, PERSONALLY, I SEE MUCH MORE REASON FOR HOPE THAN BEING DISRAUGHT FOR OUR 2013 RESURGANCE AS REYES,WRIGHT, DAVIS ARE THE “NEW” CORE AROUND WHICH THE LIKES OF NIUENHUIS(SP?), HAVENS, FLORES, ARE CONSTRUCTED AROUND A STAFF CREASTED FROM THE BEST OF:
GEE(27),HIESE(27),MEJIA(24),FAMILIA(24),HARVEY(24),GORSKI(26)URBINA(20)TAPIA(22),RODRIGUEZ(25),MORRIS(21)HOLT(27)
BTW (AGES PROJECTED TO REFLECT 2013 ACTUALS) FORTUNATELY UNLIKE HIS PREDECESSORS PHILLIPS,DUQUETTE,MINAYA SANDY ALDERSON IS NOT REPUTED TO BE INCLINED TO DEAL AWAY FUTURE VALUE FOR LIMITED CURRENT CONTRIBUTION. HOW CAN U FAIL TO BE ENTHUSED BY THE CONCEPT OF INVESTING POSITIVE CURRENT GOOD FORTUNE(LUCK) FOR FUTUTRE HIGHLY TALENTED CONTRIBUTORS?
WHILE IT’S CERTAINLY NOT AS SEXY TO COLLECT THE MUD,STRAW & SAND USED TO DIRTY YOUR HANDS MOLDING THE INGREDIANTS INTO RECTANGULAR CUBES, THEN WAITING UNTIL THE BRICKS ARE HARDENED THAN IT IS TO SHOP FOR ALREADY FINISHED BRICKS & MORTAR THE RESULTING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT HISTORICALLY FAVORS THE STRUCTURES THAT USED THE PAINSTAKINGLY LONGER METHODS JYUST AS THE BRIDGES CONSTRUVTED DURING THE BOOM OF THE 50s ARE SLOWLY DISINTEGRATING WHILE MANY A ROMAN ARCHWAY/BRIDGE STILL STANDS IN USE THROUGHOUT EUROPE TODAY.
ALEX, JUST AS U CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH PITCHING IN BASEBALL, YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH OVERALL TYOUNG TALENT TO CONSTRUCT YOUR CONTENDER FROM. IF BELTRAN’S EXIT CAN BE CONVERTED INTO A COMPETITIVE FUTURE STALWART. THERE UIS NO REASON FOR DISSATISFACTION OR NAYSAYING OVER LOST SHORT TERM PRODUCTION TOWARDS NOWHERE GARNERED FROM BORROWED TIME OUT OF BROKEN KNEES.
This is what happens when you are 1500 miles away from the watchful eye of your probation officer.
Man, people really are clueless. He’s not flipping the bird. He’s pushing back his glasses using his middle finger. People do that all the time, and do not intend it to be an insult.
But, of course, this is K-Rod, so the mindless fans automatically think it’s a jerk move. The ones being the jerks are those who are so clueless that they think this means anything other than the fact he was adjusting his glasses.
That’s what I thought when I first saw the picture. Hack writers need to justify their existence.
I was going to post the same thing.
Snap a picture at the right time and anyone can look like their doing anything. Sports news have become like tabloids.
What idiocy!
Please do not feed the trolls. Ignore them.
I fix my glasses using my middle finger. It doesn’t mean I’m flipping anybody. I hope this doesn’t turn into anything.
However, something to note, is that sometimes we do make that movement subconsciously…Either way, I don’t think he flipped him on purpose, I’ll vouch for him.
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