Ankle bothered Phillies; Phillies bothered Reyes
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Ankle bothered Phillies; Phillies bothered Reyes
David Murphy, Daily News Staff Writer
My apologies for not blogging until now. Hope the coverage in the paper held you over. Jimmy Rollins just addressed the media for the first time since spring training and admitted that the ankle he sprained early in the season bothered him throughout the year, even into the playoffs.
"The ankle really probably didn't stop bothering me until December," Rollins said. "(I would) do a couple things, then you hear it pop a couple times, and you are like, 'Oooh,' But it was the scar tissue tearing, and it's something that needed to be happening. Coming into the playoffs, there were a couple of times that I was on first base and I was talking to Prince [Fielder] and I was like, 'Man it feels like my Achilles is going to go.' But it's going to have to blow for me to come out this game. It finally loosened up, so it feels good now.'"
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I'm sure by now you've read Jose Reyes' comments to New York reporters at Mets camp in Port St. Lucie. Specifically, he took umbrage with the Phillies' suggestion that Reyes "pimps" his home runs too much. Last year, some merry Phillie pranksters jokingly put Reyes' name above Victorino's locker after he hit a home run and pumped his fist.
"I heard that," Reyes said, as reported by the New York Post. "I don’t know why they said that because I’m not the only when I hit a home run that I ‘pimp’ it. A lot of people do that. A lot of people from Philadelphia too. They stand there for a couple seconds and nobody say nothing. I don’t know why the Phillies focus so much on the New York Mets. We just worry about us.
"I don’t know why they always focus on us. They are the ones to win the World Series. We don’t say nothing about them. We just say congratulations to the Phillies. They always say something about us and we don’t even focus on them. We focus on them when we play against them.
"We don’t worry about the Phillies – we focus about the New York Mets," Reyes said. "They have to be happy because they win the World Series. Why do they focus on us? What did we do to them? If they don’t like us, that’s OK."
They are all anoying. Since 2/3 of the Mets are Dominican why can't they hire a full time translator?— coach1456- i agree with mbm315. get over it already. and philadelphia should be the poster city for obnoxious fans. i hope every team who plays the phillies this year has one purpose in mind - to kill.— jockeygrrl
- jockey... I did a drum solo in Yankee stadium before a playoff game back in 1996... after i got done.. a NYer threw a beer at me for no reason at all. NY is the worst place ever.— stevo8drum
- Geez, seems like the Mets are always talking about the phillies. of course, they are "chokers" aren't they
Comment removed.- hey reyes why bother playing the season, everyone knows you will play strong at the start just to throw it all away and choke at the end of the season again, again, and again..— bleed green forever
- hey calabrese, how many MVPS does reyes have? rings? playoff wins? how many players on the mets come out and call reyes their leader? we want jimmy. now get off your computer i am sure you mom is almost done making your dinner.— bleed green forever
- Gary Carter— Sports4Life
- Reyes is all hype.. no substance.— Nezhy
- REYES IS A PUNK.— YIPO
- Maybe it has something to do with the fact that when the guy hits a home run they celebrate in the dug out as much as the Phils did after winning the World Series. I'm half expecting them to pull out champagne and start spraying each other after each run they score.....and it seems to rub off on their obnoxious fans too!— cujat13
- All of them big apple losers— Philadelphia Jerry
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- It is called motivation Reyes. The Phillies used the motivation to beat the Mets the last 2 years. So it worked. Hmmm, Reyes said the Mets do not do that and they have lost twice. So he wants to repeat the methods that have lost and laughs at the methods that win. Ooookay, that makes sense!— JonKap
- I hate the Mets yesterday, tomorrow and until the day I die!!! A bunch of high priced babies that can't get along and will never win anything!!!!!! Next time you're in our park take a peak inside our locker room and learn something you stink'en looooosers!!!!!!— Wheels716
