BY SCOTT LAUBERLAS VEGAS -- Spent a couple of minutes with Mets GM Omar Minaya this morning, and he smiled at the suggestion that the Mets, after acquiring dual closers Francisco Rodriguez and J.J. Putz, are the "team to beat" in the NL East.
"No way," Minaya said with a grin. "We were never the team to beat. Forget about team to beat. We've got to work on just getting back to the playoffs."
OK, we get it. Minaya isn't willing to mimic Jimmy Rollins. But Cole Hamels doesn't mind throwing some more fuel on the Mets-Phillies fire.
During a radio interview today on WFAN in New York, Hamels called the Mets "choke artists" after their late-season collapses of the past two years.
"Last year and this year I think we did believe that [they were choke artists]," Hamels told WFAN. "Three years ago we didn't because they smoked everybody, and I think we all thought they were going to win it all. Unfortunately that didn't happen. ... But, yeah, that's kind of what we believed, and I think we're always going to believe that until they prove us wrong. For the past two years they've been choke artists."
Wow.
1 comment:
Cole Hamels is The Man.
Why should he be humble?
He was the MVP of the NLCS and the World Series. And he's the ace of the World Effing Champions!
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