Utley among baseball's meanest, players say
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Utley among baseball's meanest, players say
Daily News staff
Chase Utley as mean?
That's what many of his fellow major leaguers say in this week's Sports Illustrated players' poll.
Utley finished second with 13 percent of the vote when 215 players were asked who is the meanest player in baseball.
White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski was the runaway winner with 29 percent of the vote.
Milton Bradley (11 percent), Carlos Zambrano (five percent) and former Phillies pitcher Vicente Padilla (four percent) rounded out the top 5.
Hard to imagine this goes back to his declaration about the World F. Champions in 2008. Our guess is this might be the baseball definition of "dirtiest" or it might be a reflection of Utley's hard-nosed style.
What do you think? Surprised at what other players think of Utley?
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Try getting an autograph...you will quickly see what they are talking about— mbutley
buckdarma, I agree the fans love him, not so sure about his teammates but I'm in no position to speak on that and neither are you.
As I said in my post I think he's a great player. If they win another WS Utley, Howard, Rollins, Ruiz and Hamels will be forever remembered as the foundation of the greatest run in Philly sports history.
My original post was directed at the Utley man crushers who are so in love with him they attack the survey results. These are the opinions of guys who come in contact with him in real life in their fantasies. Ironically everyone agrees with the others on the list but somehow they're wrong about Chase. Hilarious— mtairy1- ...in real life NOT in their fantasies.— mtairy1
- Definitely mean in real life— mvw105
- If thats all the information David Murphy has on this topic... no quotes from any players that don't like him, no elaboration at all, then I dont see the point in writing this little article. Kind of a waste of space in this paper.— philliekev04
- I have heard this said before.— dmn
- He is one mean SOB!— Fritz and Alice
