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Frank Francisco Coming Out With Fighting Words For The Yankees, Calling Them “Chickens”
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Frank Francisco has never been of a soft-spoken ilk, and last night he continued that trend, calling out the New York Yankees following the Mets 4-3 win over the Orioles in which Francisco walked in a run and nearly blew the game. Here’s the quote from Mike Puma’s column today from this morning’s New York Post:
“I can’t wait to face those chickens,” Mets closer Frank Francisco told The Post when asked about playing the Yankees in this weekend’s Subway Series at Citi Field. “I want to strike out the side against them. I’ve done it before.”
“I think I’ve said too much already,” he said.
Francisco did strike out three Bronx Bombers in order once prior, in 2004 as a reliever for the Texas Rangers, punching out Jeter, A-Rod and Giambi in the seventh inning of a game in which Buck Showalter’s Rangers beat the Yankees 9-7.
I liked seeing some fire out of a Met player for once through the media. We really haven’t seen this since Johan Santana proclaimed he was the “beast of the NL East” prior to the 2010 season. However, I do agree with Terry Collins when he stated said that he is putting added pressure on himself in this series; and I’m not so sure Francisco minds that, but he better put his $12 million dollars where his mouth is.
It should be interesting to see how this plays out and if Francisco tosses up a 3-K goose egg, or ends up with yolk all over his face.
Punching out the side nine pitches anyone? Hey. I can dream can’t I?
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What promoted this from FF?
I like to see the team confident going into this series as much as any fan but can’t help thinking there’s some history here between FF and the Yankees or some story I’m not aware of.
Anyone know anything about that?
Franky said the reason he called them chickens were because they complain too much
Ah……better description would have been whiners or cry babies. Chickens implies something else entirely.
Well when you hear him speak it’s obvious English isn’t exactly his first language! LOL
I wonder if this is something to do with their meeting in the 2010 ALCS.
I can’t find anything but perhaps there was some complaining about the calls in that game he was referring to…
Otherwise it would appear to be something that just came out of the blue like he was trying to be tough but didn’t have the right words to express it! LOL
Turns out he is a better comedian than a closer
Considering the source for this story (Mike Puma) I am not surprised parts of the story have been left out. apparently on WFAN just before rain delay it was said that FF was asked what is it that people don’t like about the Yankees and he said the complain a lot like babies but not wanting to call them babies he was trying to come up with another word and uttered chickens but then said “I think I’ve said too much already,” and decided to stop talking.
Give it up for Puma the man knows how to make a story seem more than it is. Seems he is good for at least 1 a year.
Did you see what he said to presumably Puma today? Take a look at Rubin’s column:
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/49180/frankies-chicken-talk-gets-closer-skewered
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Fast Eddie — You are printing garbage, and it will remain garbage, until you have sources which corroborate your views. So you’ve had your 15 minutes of fame. Time for you to move on.