You can credit Phillies pitcher Brett Myers with pulling this one off. Myers devised the entire plan to convince teammate Kyle Kendrick that he'd been traded to a Japanese team. The entire Phillies clubhouse was in on it, including the media, and the team even went as far as creating a fake itinerary, a fake press release, and fake trade papers to fool Kendrick.
Now if only Myers can fool Pat Gillick into giving Ryan Howard the contract extension he deserves.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 3)
1. He should've at least been able to convince his wife he was only swatting the bugs away from her face that day outside Fenway Park ....
Posted at 11:48PM on Feb 16th 2008 by Dac
2. that was to funny you can see his face when they told him was LIKE WHAT THE F--K !!! JAPAN LMAO
Posted at 4:19PM on Feb 18th 2008 by ken
3. Good to see Brett developing new hobbies. I guess beating up his wife got boring. Kudos to Brett, a real funny "man"
Posted at 5:55PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Todd
4. That was really funny. He was a good sport especially when it came to signing the papers.
I wish my husband was that dumb.
Posted at 5:56PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Debra
5. It was a bit funny but it was not a nice thing to do to someone. I thought he handled it well BUT, how would you like it if someone told you that you were traded to a foreign team and there was nothing you could do about it. I just think it was unfair to do that to a team member.
Posted at 6:07PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Dale N
6. What a great guy!!! I just became a Kyle Kendrick fan. He was the butt of a joke (a very good one) and handled it beautifully and without and anger or need for retribution. I wish he had been traded to the Padres!!!
Posted at 6:08PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Gerry
7. A sense of humor is one thing. Messing with someone's head and making him look like a fool in front of many people is totally different. Call me thinned skinned, but I would have had a big problem with Myers.
Posted at 6:11PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Mike
8. What a guy! He took that really well.
Posted at 6:17PM on Feb 18th 2008 by REBECCA COUCHMAN
9. He showed remarkable poise and control. What a cool guy!
Posted at 6:18PM on Feb 18th 2008 by mike smith
10. Hello, what does this have to do with Rob Hagen, aka Rk Hagen and his poetry?... hello people!
Posted at 6:18PM on Feb 18th 2008 by rodney
11. lol
Posted at 6:45PM on Feb 18th 2008 by SteakNchop
12. None of you people have obviously played baseball at a higher level. This is what teams and teammates do to one another. I thought it was a well planned and executed prank. Don't worry about Kyle's feelings and such, I guarantee he's already planning revenge! And to Dale N..."BUT, how would you like it if someone told you that you were traded to a foreign team and there was nothing you could do about it." This is professional sports, it does happen and if they didn't think it could happen they wouldn't play.
Posted at 6:49PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Darren
13. Hotdog eater! lol
Posted at 6:55PM on Feb 18th 2008 by lol
14. TO DALE N: YOU HAVE THE SENSE OF HUMOR OF A NEWSPAPER... THEY ALWAYS HAVE FUN WITH THE ROOKIES, THEY MADE THE YANKEES ROOKIES DRESS UP LIKE THE CHARACTERS OF THE WIZARD OF OZ.. SO WHAT?? ITS ALL GOOD FUN... AS LONG AS THEY DON TELL HIM SOMETHING LIKE YOUR MOTHER DIED, ITS ALL GOOD.. LOOSEN UP, DALE LIFE IS TO SHORT..
Posted at 7:00PM on Feb 18th 2008 by jose
15. haha...this is why I love being a phillies fan!!! It's great to see such good humor in the locker room and to see a 2nd year rookie take it in stride!
Posted at 7:03PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Lindsey
16. I just became a Big Kyle Kendrick fan. What a cool guy he is. Way to go kyle
Posted at 7:19PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Lynn
17. To all you people out there ready to hang Myers, this wasn't his idea, I love Brett, but it wasn't his idea. The real mastermind was the great Larry Andersen, he even did this a couple years ago to Gomes. This wasn't Myers, so stop with the stupid jokes about Myers.
Posted at 7:24PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Mike
18. To #10 It seems you have the wrong comment site.
This story was about Kyle Kendrick, & the prank that Brett Myers & the team pulled on him!
Pretty good sport about it, esp since if it was real, it would have been life altering!!!!
Posted at 7:26PM on Feb 18th 2008 by momma
19. i have a question. is anyone who was part of that joke, from the management down to the media, proud of themselves. do they feel that this was a harmless prank. obviously, kyle's mind was messed with in a cruel and careless way. must we all dumb down to the level of a thoughtless idiot. wake up! change this line of thinking. question what is right and wrong.......please!
Posted at 7:30PM on Feb 18th 2008 by andrew
20. Brett Myers is quite the prankster! I'll bet he laughed this hard when he "punked his wife outside of that bar in Boston more than a year ago. Such a comic he is!
Posted at 7:31PM on Feb 18th 2008 by Bob