BY SCOTT LAUBERCLEARWATER, Fla. -- And the insults from Port St. Lucie keep on comin'. Here's what Jose Reyes said today about the Phillies.
"We don't worry about Philly. I don't know why they worry so much about the New York Mets. They can talk about whatever they want to, because we worry about us. They are the one to win the World Series, not us, and we don't say nothing about them. We just say congratulations to the Phillies. We focus on them when we play them, but they always seem like they're talking something about us, and I don't know why.
"We worry about the New York Mets, not other teams. They have to be happy because they won the World Series -- why do they focus on us? What did I do to them? If we win the World Series, everybody is going to be happy and not worry about other teams."
Interestingly, there has been absolutely NO talk about the Mets from Phillies camp, although Jimmy Rollins did say the Phillies will win games against the Mets when Cole Hamels pitches. Asked today about the Mets and their insistence on using and re-using the "team to beat" line in reference to their rivalry with the Phillies, Rollins said, "It has been pretty funny and see it going on and on and on. I sit here and laugh and say, 'Really, this is still going on?' But every time a team is going to be good and facing another team that's going to be good, someone is going to have something to prove. We're going to win, but it's going to be fun to watch. If that's the term they want to use to state their claim, then so be it." Asked if he considers himself a "trend-setter" for using the "team to beat" line first in 2007, Rollins said with a wink, "No, not at all."
Reyes also said he heard about Phillies players taunting Shane Victorino during the NL Division Series for putting his finger in the air as he rounded first base after hitting his grand slam against CC Sabathia.
"I don't know why they say that, because I'm not the only one pimpin' when I hit a home run," Reyes said. "A lot of people do that. People from Philadelphia, too. They stand for a couple of seconds at home plate [after a homer] and nobody say nothing. So like I said, I don't know why they're so focused on us. We just worry about us."
The first Phillies-Mets game is May 1 at Citizens Bank Park.
4 comments:
How many times have the Mets said the Phillies won't stop talking about them, compared to the number of times the Phillies actually talked about them? I count Reyes, Beltran, Church, and KRod twice. The only thing the Phillies have said about the Mets was JRoll said the Phillies were the team to beat two years ago which apparently counts as talking about the Mets for some reason, and Cole Hamels talked about the Mets on New York radio. Oh, and Harry Kalas naming the Mets, Brewers, Dodgers, and Rays as teams the Phillies beat. It's amazing how the story is about the Phillies being unable to stop talking about the Mets, when it's really about the Mets accusing the Phillies of talking about them.
Whatever Jose. He and the other mutts sure do have a lot to say with very little credibility (you know having two straight epic choke jobs). Meanwhile the phils are just sitting back looking pretty nice as the defending WFC.
I guess hes never watched Delgado take thirty years rounding the bases whenever he hits a homer, 29 of which account for his ass trying to get out of the batters box.
Why is it EVERY New York team is automatically "annointed" the champions? How dare anyone say that they are better than a NY team? What started this whole thing was J-Roll saying the Phils were the team to beat. As I recall it, at no time did he ever say anything about the Mets. He said, she said. All I know is that the Phillies have won the East two years in a row, and are the reigning world champs. I think that makes us the team to beat!!!!
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