It's pretty amusing that it's already Tuesday and people are still talking about whether Carlos Delgado disrespected the fans by refusing a curtain call last weekend. But hey, after an entire winter pointing fingers at cheating athletes and spending far too much time discussing whose bum was leaking from taking too many steroids, it's actually kind of refreshing to talk about something as mundane and harmless as proper athlete/fan etiquette. It's quaint.So far only Delgado has been the subject of the fans' wrath, but yesterday Chris Russo of New York's WFAN decided to do a little amateur lip-reading and make David Wright a target, too. From Filip Bondy of the New York Daily News:
Russo said you can tell, if you watched Wright's lips carefully, that the third baseman was urging Delgado to ignore the applause. "I guess there are some great lip readers," Wright said, after refusing to appear on "Mike and the Mad Dog" to explain his alleged stage directions. "It's not my place to suggest to him whether or not to accept a curtain call. It's upsetting to me. I've been kind of drawn into this."For the record, Wright denies having any thing to do with Delgado's decision. In fact, he said he probably would have given the fans what they want, but respects Delgado's opinion that a solo home run in the seventh inning was not a situation that called for celebration. Said Wright, "He's old school. It might be a generational thing. There are more handshakes and dancing around the dugout than when he came up."
With any luck this non-story will finally die down today, but I won't fault any reporters for squeezing everything they can out of it -- it sure tops being on the Mindy McCready/Roger Clemens beat.
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4-29-2008 @ 1:50PM
Mike Rath said...
Russo is a sorry individual...Egotistical(about what, I am not certain), annoying, and much too loud,
he is impossible to listen to...
Delgado is entitled to do what he feels is appropriate..Booed for weeks on end, he owes the Met "fans" a 100% effort on the field, nothing else...
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4-29-2008 @ 8:20PM
Bernie said...
M.Rath,
I totally agree, as a long time Mets fan I believe when people start expecting players to do anything other than play hard and perform on the field with all they endure from the media in NYC players will start drawing the line and that doesn't make many games very fun to watch with all the expectations they already have, lets keep it (our expectations)on the field people please.
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4-30-2008 @ 5:15PM
LEW said...
AS FAR AS DAVID WRIGHT TELLING DEL GADO NOT TO TAKE A BOW IS HIS RIGHT. IF ITS NOT TRUE IT DOESNT MATTER, MAD DOG IS AN IDIOT, HE HATES THE METS AND YANKEES SO HE LOOKS TO BAD MOUTH THEM ANY TIME HE CAN I PAY NO ATTTENTION TO HIM. HE IS AN FRUSTRATED S.F. GIANT FAN.. HE SHOUL ONLY GET A JOB THERE SO I DONT HAVE TO HEAR HIS ASSENINE COMMENTS. NOW TO DEL Gado. he is done hello mets trade him now for anyone. he is an overpaid done player. randolph can go with him... heilman is a piece of crap. get rid of him.. go get a left fielder. put anderson on first, anyone but del gado..
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4-30-2008 @ 5:54PM
LEW said...
JUST AS I SAID GIVING UP 7 RUNS IN THE SECOND INNING . GAME OVER THEY GIVE UP. THEY HAD 8MINNINGS TO FIGHTNBACK, BUT NO TAKE A DIVE AND QUIT, THE SAME GARBAGE AS LAst year only worse,THEY ARE A MEDIOCA TEAM AT BEST. I STILL SAY 4TH PLACE. THEY SUCK A BUNCH OG QUITTERS. IM ASHAMED TO BE A METS FAN,
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4-30-2008 @ 10:27PM
Robert Lewis said...
Country music star Mindy McCready of the Roger Clemens story: The other arrests, bankruptcy, federal tax lien, judgments and more
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